Chapter Ninety-Nine: Crazy Point Tech Tree
A great man said that technology is productivity, and Ma Qiang wants to add a sentence at the end, science and technology are money.
The development and rise of any economy is inseparable from the progress of science and technology, and all the industrial revolutions have told the world that if you want to get rich, you should climb the tree of science and technology!
Ma Qiang locked himself in the laboratory and began to write and draw.
After checking the ledger, Ma Qiang, who was about to go bankrupt, was ready to launch several projects at the same time, as for what project... Of course, it's an old routine that traverses the crowd!
"Glass... Chinaware... Shochu... Woollen cloth: What else can be done? ”
The above four are all things that have been written rotten in various travel novels in later generations, but it is really easy to use when it is written, not to mention that glass is originally in demand by Ma Qiang, without glass, all kinds of chemical reactions cannot be done, and glass can be said to be an extremely important part of the science and technology tree.
"Why don't you make some medicine, this time the hemorrhagic fever is too dangerous... I remember that most of the celebrities of the Three Kingdoms died from various diseases, and now there are still a lot of plagues in the Central Plains, and I am a little famous now, why don't I make a sulfonamide out? ”
Ma Qiang is now crazy about money, and even has the idea of using some dangerous plant as an ingredient to open a restaurant on his paper.
As for penicillin, Ma Qiang has no idea, penicillin is not something he can do now, not that he doesn't know how to do it, but the penicillin strains in later generations are mutagenic, so the yield is so high, if penicillin is made by the soil method, the yield... Probably not the big names who can appear in the history books are not qualified to use it.
Instead of penicillin, which has a low yield, it is better to use sulfonamides, which are antibacterial drugs anyway.
Thinking of the war that was about to start, Ma Qiang became even more determined to be a drug tycoon, which could make money... No, it's how many people can be saved, immeasurable merit!
"That's it! First of all, the first step is to find materials! ”
There is no difficulty in soju, that is, distillation, and people in this era are used to low-alcohol liquor, even distilling more than 30 degrees of liquor is enough.
The names of the soju are all ready-made, produced by the Red Star Battalion, of course, it must be called the Red Star Erguotou.
If you take Niuti Ridge, do you want to go out of Niulan Mountain...
There are no technical difficulties in porcelain manufacturing, porcelain is actually technically to increase the temperature of the kiln, and now the bottom line requirement for kiln temperature is 900 degrees for fired pottery, and the temperature requirement for porcelain is more than 1,300 degrees.
Don't underestimate these 400 degrees, these 400 degrees have stubbornly stopped the progress of countless nations, because the melting point of smelting pig iron is also about 1,150 degrees, if you want to make a kiln that can burn porcelain, then it means that the smelting technology of this nation has developed to a very high level.
The Han Dynasty, who had already popularized ironware, happened to have such a mature technology.
The problem of porcelain lies in the material, the best material to make porcelain is porcelain stone, as the name suggests, this stone is natural porcelain, mainly composed of quartz, sericite, kaolin and other materials, he can directly burn porcelain, the key is that this stone is only available in southern China, which is why the West has not been able to make porcelain in ancient times.
Therefore, if you don't use porcelain stone, you can only use kaolin, congratulations, kaolin to make porcelain, your kiln has to rise to 1,500 degrees... The melting point of pure iron is 1,500 degrees, and such a high-temperature kiln can make countless craftsmen cry to death in front of the kiln.
But for Ma Qiang, this is not a problem, because Ma Qiang knows how to reduce this temperature requirement, that is, to turn kaolin into porcelain stone, and add feldspar and other materials on the basis of kaolin, then the kiln temperature requirement for porcelain will be reduced to 1,300 degrees.
These materials are not hard to find in the north.
The key is glass and wool cloth...
The glass to be used is quartz ore, anyway, it is not to do flat glass, tempered glass or anything, it is really not good, you can also use river sand to replace, but river sand is not as convenient as quartz ore in terms of output and purity.
And if there is glass, wouldn't it be a waste not to make a mirror... There has to be a mirror workshop.
The key to wool cloth is to use a large amount of alkaline water to wash the grease on the wool.
This is also the reason why Ma Qiang has not moved the wool until now.
Now it is the limit to make soap by using the method of making alkali from plant ash, and the grass around the Red Star Camp has long been cut, and now cutting the grass and selling it to the Red Star Camp has become an important business work for the people of Changping.
We have to find a way to make alkali industrially.
We also have to build an alkali workshop.
There are many industrial manufacturing methods of alkali, the most famous is the Hou's alkali method, which is the pride of the Chinese.
It's a pity that Ma Qiang can't use it directly, so he chose the Lubran method, that is, using miscanthus with limestone and coal to make alkali.
Sulfonamide is going to be launched, and this medicine can be charged with the same weight of gold in the future.
But the conditions are not yet ripe... The materials required for sulfonamides are chlorosulfonic acid, ammonia, aniline, baking soda and anhydrous acetic acid, and the most difficult of these things is chlorsulfonamide, which requires hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid.
To put it bluntly, three acids and two bases are the basis of chemical industry in later generations.
Take your time and make a soda ash plant first.
In this way, there are a lot of workshops that need to be built, and I also have to find all kinds of ores, and I hope they can be found near Guangyang County.
In terms of the transportation conditions at the end of the Han Dynasty, if the materials you want are not within a radius of 100 miles, then you can basically give up production, and the transportation cost can make people desperate.
By the way, if there is too much alkali, then the oil is not enough, and now all the lard is used, and it has to be replaced with cheap vegetable oil.
If you want to talk about vegetable oil, the cheapest in later generations is palm oil, but unfortunately this thing grows in the tropics, so the second choice is soybean oil, just after the preparation of horses, the soybean cake that has been squeezed is a good thing to raise horses.
After determining the key points, Ma Qiang slammed the door open.
"Brother Xianyu, call me all the ones with stars on the red ribbon to the conference room... No, let's go to the trapezoidal classroom, and the meeting will start in an hour! Ma Qiang waved his hand and shouted to Xian Yuyin who was guarding the door.
Xian Yuyin answered, Ma Qiang closed the door again, he looked at the half-finished generator on the table, he hadn't had time to make this generator since he came back.
Anyway, there is still an hour, it should be enough!
As long as you know the principle of the hand-cranked generator, the most annoying thing is to wrap the copper wire.
His phone doesn't have a removable battery, and he doesn't have a charging cable.
Do you want to disassemble the phone first...
And although it is not high-voltage, it is not the required voltage and current after all, and it is unstable...
Forget it, anyway, the phone is still charged, so don't worry.
I just have this one mobile phone, once it is damaged, there is no place to cry.
You'll have to make a bigger generator later.
And with glass, you have to make an electric light, otherwise it won't be wasted...
In Ma Qiang's eyes, electric lights are much more useful than mirrors.
After packing up his things, Ma Qiang is ready to go to the trapezoidal classroom, and Ma Qiang is still a little excited to get so many things on the horse this time.
It's time to go crazy with the pace of the tech tree!