Chapter 45: The Theory of Steelmaking

"Why is Immortal Zhao alive and dead?"

Faced with Mrs. Huayang's words, Zhao Qi really didn't know how to answer, why was life and death? Isn't it just a chest compression? It's just a temporary suffocation, so you can't bury it as a dead man, right?

"Back to my mother's words, in fact, this matter is not as mysterious as rumored, and everyone has a misunderstanding about soot poisoning." Zhao Qigong said.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" This topic is interesting, Mrs. Huayang sat up straight and looked at Zhao Qi with interest, ready to listen to how he explained.

Zhao Qi smiled, moved his sore knees, lowered his head and said: "Niangniang, in fact, soot poisoning is also to a degree, just like a person infected with wind and cold, if it is not treated in time, it is difficult for the gods to return to their souls, and soot poisoning is also the same reason, there is a kind of soot that we usually can't see called carbon monoxide, which is what the kid originally told Niangniang about in chemistry."

This carbon oxide is mixed in the soot, people are to inhale the air, the soot will naturally follow the air into the human body, the human body is not as simple as the surface, that the human body has many cells, including the cells that regulate respiration, the kid called it hemoglobin, the carbon monoxide in the soot and hemoglobin together changed its original role.

How can a destroyed hemoglobin breathe for a person? Nature cannot, so people can't inhale the beneficial parts of the air, which can cause suffocation of the tissues of the human body, which can lead to death. ”

"You talked so much to this palace, and you still didn't tell this palace how you saved the dead people, didn't you want to divert the topic?" Mrs. Huayang was a little impatient, what Zhao Qi said was too informative for her, a person who had never been exposed to these at all, she was just curious about how Zhao Qi saved the dead.

Zhao Qi shook his head, pretended to smile mysteriously, and continued: "Don't worry about Niangniang, the reason why I told Niangniang about this is naturally reasonable, the dead person in Niangniang's mouth is actually not a dead person, don't you think about it, if we are covered by someone, will we die at that time?"

"What do you mean...... That person is like a living person who has been blindfolded, but he is not breathing, but he is still alive? Mrs. Huayang suddenly realized, and stared at Zhao Qi with wide eyes.

Zhao Qiqi nodded, Huayang is worthy of Huayang, this intelligence is no worse than Da Qin's so-called talent, seeing that she understood, Zhao Qi continued: "That's right, this soot poisoning also has priorities, if the poisoning time is not long, we only need manpower to drive the broken hemoglobin out of the body, and the longer ones will take the corresponding drugs to recuperate, and then the gods will also lack skills, and the people that Niangniang has heard are between a relatively short period of time, plus this person's previous duty is a fisherman, and his physical fitness is good." , so it can be easily saved. ”

"I see." Huayang smiled on her face, and her brows began to stretch, she was a smart woman, and what she said to Zhao Qi was easy to understand, but she was also a very curious woman, and she felt that the knowledge involved in this was very magical, so she asked Zhao Qi, "You just said that chemistry is involved, and now you tell this palace, what is so strange about this chemistry?" ”

For this Zhao Qi naturally had already prepared, he had already thought about how to say it when he was ready to talk to Huayang, the soft couch in this palace was really uncomfortable, and he moved his knees again, and then said: "Since the mother wants to hear it, the kid will talk about it."

"This chemistry is actually similar to the physics that the kid said before, one of the two is macroscopic, the other is microscopic, the biggest difference is whether there is a new substance after combustion or heating, the kid just said that in the case of soot poisoning, carbon monoxide was mentioned, which is the conclusion that the kid has studied for a long time, and the kid found that the air we breathe is actually composed of multiple substances."

Mrs. Huayang's eyes lit up, and she held her arms with great interest, Zhao Qi was very satisfied with this, and continued: "The kid found that there was carbon monoxide in the substance produced after we burned coal or firewood, so the kid speculated that this was the original substance in the air and the new substance produced after the burning of the tissue in the wood, and its role changed, and the originally harmless and beneficial things became poisons after becoming this, which is chemistry.

Of course, if you only define chemistry in this way, there are still some flaws, this is just what we can't see, and there are a lot of things that can be seen, a while ago, the kid used high temperature to melt the molten iron and added the composition of charcoal, and found that the hardness increased a lot after cooling, that is to say, the two changes also produced new substances, this thing I believe Niangniang has also seen, that is-steel. ”

Zhao Qi's words completely made Huayang unable to sit still, how could she not know about steel? Qin still has steel knives bought from other countries, which are indeed extremely hard, and they are sharper than bronze knives, but if they are not carefully maintained, their life is slightly shorter, but it doesn't matter, there are still a lot of iron ore in Daqin, and the price is relatively low, if it can be used in the military, it will be a huge wealth.

Mrs. Huayang stood up, instructed the palace maid to take a bright short knife, handed it to Zhao Qi and said, "The steel in your mouth is of the same material as this steel knife?"

"The steel in the boy's mouth is no different from this, but the boy thinks that as long as the kid studies chemistry more deeply, he can even make a steel knife that is harder and sharper than this, ten times, or even a hundred times!" Zhao Qi lowered his head, seemingly humble, but his tone was extremely arrogant.

It is no exaggeration to say that the material of the steel knife in Mrs. Huayang's hand, he is too lazy to plow the land in the future, there are too many impurities, Zhao Qi is very confident, he also has an understanding of frying steel, and he dare not say that he can make such pure steel products in later generations, but compared to this, he feels that it is not difficult to exceed ten times and a hundred times.

"Is that true?" Seeing that Zhao Qi was full of confidence, Mrs. Huayang was also a little excited, now Daqin's military strength is still comparable to other countries, mainly because Daqin's weapons and equipment are too backward, if Zhao Qi can really figure out the method of steelmaking as he said, the rise of Daqin is just around the corner!

Zhao Qi smiled, he knew that Huayang would suspect that it was a fool's dream to say to him in this backward era, but Zhao Qi also had his own methods, so he said: "Niangniang, have you ever seen when the kid lied to you?" The kid said that he wanted to make salt, the poor people of Daqin had already eaten refined salt, the kid said that he wanted to make paper, and paper had become an indispensable thing on the case of the literati of Daqin, the kid said that he wanted to build a villa, and now it is in the courtyard of the Zhao Mansion, and the kid said that he would let the soldiers of Daqin dominate the world, and the method of training the body has had a significant effect on the Mengjiajun. ”

This was extremely arrogant, but it was said in Mrs. Huayang's heart, she didn't think that Zhao Qi had made so many contributions to Daqin, she stared at the thin person kneeling on the soft couch in front of her in a daze, and felt more pity in her heart, she knew that Zhao Qi was dissatisfied, and it had already changed the lives of the commoners of Daqin in less than a year after coming to Daqin, and the king did not give him a reward for application.

Mrs. Huayang walked up to Zhao Qi, knelt down face to face with him, rubbed Zhao Qi's head and said, "Qi'er, this palace knows that you have made a contribution, and you are dissatisfied that the king did not give you the reward you deserve, do you know why the king did this?" Since the founding of Great Qin, you are the only one who has been knighted under the age of ten, if you give it high, it will definitely cause other nobles to be dissatisfied, and another reason is that the king does not want you to become arrogant and lascivious because of this, and it is a great sin for my Great Qin to ruin the future. ”

"Why did the mother say this? The kid is not dissatisfied, but he can't contribute to Daqin, Daqin at this time is not the Daqin that the kid imagines, the kid can't wait to make it immediately become the big Qin that the country is rich and the people are strong in the kid's imagination, I haven't come to see the elders for a while, and they are also studying all kinds of new things that are beneficial to Daqin at home, as for the official or something, the kid doesn't care, the kid only hopes to get the support of my king when he takes action. Zhao Qi didn't understand why Huayang thought like this, but what should be said still had to be said, of course, the support in his mouth was naturally mainly economic.

"Very good, very good, when I meet this son, my Great Qin is not prosperous, and heaven is intolerable." Mrs. Huayang was very satisfied with Zhao Qi's answer, she patted Zhao Qi's shoulder and said, "At this time, I will explain to the king, you want people, the king will give it to you, if the money is not enough, you can be enlightened, this palace will give it to you!" ”

"Xie Niangniang!" Zhao Qi kowtowed and bowed.

When the goal was achieved, there was no need to stay any longer, and after a few words of greeting with Huayang, he saw that Huayang was a little tired, so he gave up and retreated.

The first thing I met when I went out was Ying Zheng and Zhang Han, Zhang Han has now completely become Ying Zheng's personal guard, the last time I said goodbye to the drunken Xiang Building, I never saw Zhang Han again, he was called into the palace to protect Ying Zheng, now Ying Zheng's etiquette learning is basically completed, travel freely, Zhang Han naturally has to be by his side at all times to protect his safety.

Zhao Qi was very happy in his heart, even Zhang Han was a lot pleasing to the eye, kneeling on the soft couch for a long time, his legs were numb, he moved his body, and said goodbye to Ying Zheng and left the palace, he couldn't stay here for a long time, he talked a lot to Huayang, it was almost afternoon, and he planned to go to the other elders' houses to sit down, I haven't seen him for so long, and a reprimand is indispensable.

In the Huayang dormitory, the curtain behind the desk was lifted, and a middle-aged man with gray hair was lying on the side of the soft couch, the man was half-squinted, about forty years old, wearing a purple and gold crown, and the blue robe was embroidered with yellow dragon patterns.

Mrs. Huayang sat down in front of the couch with a smile, gently put her hands on the middle-aged man's temples, rubbed his temples and asked softly, "What does the king think about this?"

"Very good, very good." Ying Zhu slowly opened his eyes and said, "It's very much in line with the heart of the lonely king!" ”