Chapter 755: Alchemy
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After a while, the chaos in the camp gradually stopped, and Mo Yunfeng came into the account to report:
"Emperor Qi, all the armies have been controlled, and all the soldiers and horses of the Holy Orders have been unarmed."
"Well, you came over to see Bai Liyan, the deputy marshal of the Xian Army."
"Hiss......" Mo Yunfeng was taken aback, and looked at Baili Yan with the difference in his heart: "Your Excellency is Bai Li Yan of the barbarians who fought in the south back then!" β
"General Mo also knows this commander?"
"Your Excellency's name is like thunder, who can not know. Under is the people of Xu State, a part of the Xu State was rescued by Your Excellency when a captured person went south, and a small number of people were able to survive and return to the north, all of which are known below. β
"Oh...... But there are many people from Xu who returned to the Central Plains alive, and some of them are settled in Xianguo, and you are very well informed. β
"It's no secret, during the war between the Central Plains Coalition Army and the Jinxuedi people, our army sent a lot of secret agents, and some were unfortunately captured and went south, and there were not many survivors of the rebellion."
"I see."
In order to understand the battle situation in the south in real time, the Black Turban Army sent a large number of small soldiers to blend in with the coalition army, so as to facilitate the transmission of news, so the Northern Expedition of the Jinxuedi people was the golden period of rebel expansion.
A considerable part of them died in the war, some were captured, and only a small number of more than 300,000 people who went south were rescued by Bailiyan, and the rebels who finally returned to the Central Plains alive were very rare, and the Black Turban Army was able to know some of the situation in the south.
Mo Yunfeng said something inconsequential, and then left to strengthen the security of the Chinese army, Bai Liyan did not dare to hand over Wang Tianshi and others to Mo Yunfeng, and continued to let Tian Peng take custody and wait for Huang Che to drive the boat to the shore of the Chinese army.
After Mo Yunfeng left, Bailiyan and Gongsun Yue continued to talk. In view of the situation, Bailiyan still calls him the King of Seal.
"Yin Heavenly King, why did you sit on the Heavenly King and bring up troops."
"It's a long story, I'll talk to you later. There are two things I have to ask you first. β
"King Yintian, please speak."
"The deputy envoy of the Holy Order Division of Napei City is from Xianguo, do you know?"
"Shhh...... How did I hear that Zhao Ning, the main envoy, is a native of Xianguo, so to speak, the deputy envoy is also a native of Xianguo. β
"Looks like it's all over." Gongsun Yue affirmed.
"Why did the Heavenly King ask about this?"
"Because the name of the envoy is always familiar, it seems that I have heard you mention it, but I can't remember when or where I said it."
"Oh, it's all about that. What is that man's name? β
"The man called himself Gao Heng."
"Gao Heng? Hiss...... How do you feel so familiar, it's not generally familiar, if it's a Xianguo person, it must have been photographed. But I can't remember where I've seen this man, but I've certainly seen it, and it must have something to do with it. And what about the second thing? β
"Are you ready?"
"Please rest assured, there is plenty of food and grass, as long as you rush to the south bank of Xuandi, you can have food."
"So there was no fire in the granary of Cindy."
"It's not all, when the Peicheng Holy Orders learned that the Xuandi guards tried to vote for me, they teamed up with Lin Tao Shengxun and his defenders to take the lead in killing the guards and seizing the grain and grass, and transported away 150,000 stone grain, our army came late, they saw that the situation was not good, so they set fire to the grain, and when they came down, they burned more than one million stone grains, if it wasn't for the timely rescue, Xuandi Cang would definitely be finished."
"According to this, there are still some bright halls in this Peicheng Holy Order." Gongsun Yue guessed.
"I also judged that the Holy Lord of Peicheng had a clue, and I wanted to send troops to fight him, but after thinking about it, if I went to ask him, there would be no one to put out the fire in the granary, so I had to postpone the attack on Peicheng. At present, the top priority is to send 200,000 horses to the south bank of the Biqing River for supplies, and then take Peicheng and Lintao. β
"I have sent people to garrison Peicheng, and it will not be in the hands of our army in a few days."
"But in case Zhao Ning of the Holy Order Division changes again, I am afraid that he will be lost again." Bai Liyan said worriedly.
"Yongxing Hou can rest assured, Bao Rui, who led the troops to Peicheng this time, is very talented, and most of them will not fail, and Bao Rui is still from your country."
"Oh, this man is a Stranger. With such talent, why did it fall into the hands of the Black Turban Army? β
"Alas...... It's a long story. Before the Black Turban Army, a large number of capable people were found, Bao Rui's father, Bao Jun, was the first to follow the Xiong Dao of the Qi Kingdom, after Bao Jun died in battle six years ago, his subordinates supported Bao Rui to succeed him as the commander of Wanfu. Don't look at his young age, but he is a person who can fight habitually, if it weren't for the weaker soldiers under his command, this person must also be a powerful person. β
"If this person is so powerful, how can the Western Front transfer him to fight on the Eastern Front?"
"Marquis Yongxing should already know that the high priest Dai Ping was killed in the mutiny."
"Got it, Zhu Youchen has already mentioned it. Prior to this, I had a vague premonition that the Western Front was making peace with the Patriotic Nation, and now it seems that the transfer of troops to the east is to open up territory for the Patriotic Nation, and it is undoubted. β
"And that's just one of them. There is one thing that Yongxing Hou probably doesn't know, the black scarf god is Fang Ting, and he has accumulated countless gold, silver and jewelry, and the root of the curse comes from here. β
"Shhh...... It is reported that the financial resources of the black scarves have long been exhausted, so why is there a large amount of gold and silver? β
"Yongxing Hou knows alchemy."
Bai Liyan was stunned when he heard the news, of course he wouldn't believe in any alchemy.
"You say fake gold!"
"No, it's real gold."
"Shhh...... How is this possible, there is no alchemy in the world, if there is, I would have refined it a long time ago. β
"I don't know if there is one, but Dai Ping knows this method. Every time he made gold, he used a kind of golden divine water, and then put copper into it, and then gold appeared. Originally, the financial resources had been exhausted, but Dai Ping held this method, but he took it for himself, and the gold and silver obtained before and after were hundreds of thousands. β
"What, so much!"
Bai Liyan was taken aback, it is not impossible to say that alchemy is crooked, and it is impossible to refine gold through associated minerals, but it is impossible to say that it is impossible to refine hundreds of thousands of gold and silver.
From the details of Gongsun Yue's expression, it is not difficult to find that most of them are some kind of exchange method that replaces inert elements with lively elements.
More than 10 years ago, the rebels used saltpeter dry distillation to refine nitric acid, and used nitric acid to melt silver elements, so as to deceive the world.
To exchange silver from nitric acid liquids, other chemically reactive metals such as copper and iron need to be used to react with silver nitrate.
In the same way, it is also possible to replace gold elements from unknown liquids.
But gold is the least active element in the periodic table, and there are only two possibilities to get a liquid compound of gold, one is aqua regia, and the other is the super acid "perchloric acid".
The latter cannot be prepared under current conditions, while the former is contingent. As with nitric acid, simple probabilities can be found.
Aqua regia is very simple to prepare, requiring only hydrochloric acid and nitric acid.
The simplest way is to produce gas by burning sulfur to produce dilute sulfuric acid, and then put salt into sulfuric acid to produce hydrochloric acid gas, and finally collect hydrochloric acid gas into water to generate dilute hydrochloric acid.
Hydrochloric acid and nitric acid are mixed in a ratio of three to one to prepare aqua regia.
Aqua regia is one of the few acidic substances that can dissolve gold, and although it has a golden color spectrum, aqua regia itself does not contain gold. However, it is possible to obtain acid compounds containing gold by corroding gold, and then obtain gold through element replacement.
The whole process can be made under the current local conditions, the process is extremely simple, there is no complex advanced equipment, and even the clay pot and ordinary distillation kettle can be obtained, but it is full of accidents.
There must be multiple fortuitous factors acting at the same time to have such a correct unexpected result. Otherwise, it is difficult to believe that the Black Turban Army has a basic chemical system, but Bailiyan would rather believe that it is an accident.
After all, the rise of alchemy in early Europe did lead to the emergence of aqua regia, and it also directly stimulated the emergence of chemistry, and it cannot be ruled out that there is also such a possibility at present.
Then it is not difficult to prepare sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and hydrochloric acid, and it is now popular to drink distilled rice wine and rice wine, and it is very possible to obtain three acids through distillation utensils, and it is completely possible to distill with customized ceramics and clay utensils.
If the assumption is true, it means that the Black Turban Army has used aqua regia and nitric acid to obtain a huge amount of gold and silver for more than ten years, but all the gold and silver of financial income have been passed through nitric acid and aqua regia, and under the corrosive action of acid, a layer of skin has been quietly and evenly peeled off.
In the past fifteen years, the flow of gold and silver funds that can be exploited is millions, not counting the flow of gold and silver cash obtained through trade, to say that the private collection of gold and silver worth hundreds of thousands of dollars may be a bit exaggerated, but it is still possible to get a hundred thousand and hundreds of thousands.
Thinking through this layer, Bai Liyan suddenly felt that the situation was tricky, if this technology fell into the hands of the vassal states, it would be equivalent to a large amount of precious metals being stripped away by God in every transaction, and the coup d'Γ©tat of the Black Turban Army was very likely to be a bloody case caused by alchemy.
After thinking about brewing for a long time, Bai Liyan continued to ask Gongsun Yue:
"After the coup d'Γ©tat, who did this alchemy fall into?"
"You also know that after the war in the south ended, the countries stepped up their spying, and Wei Guo was the first to learn the news, and then Liang State, so the Foolish Critics secretly made a deal with Wei Guo and Liang State. And Xiong Yandao has a vendetta with Weiguo, so he can't trade with Weiguo, so there is only one way to retreat eastward.
The final result of the discussion between the Foolish Sect and the Wei Guo and the Liang State was to exchange the alchemy method for the retreat of the Foolish Sect, and at the same time, the Liang State annexed the four counties, and the Wei State annexed all the counties except the first county of the Sun State. β
"What, annexing all the counties of Sun Kingdom, he is crazy to defend the country! Antaihou personally promised the land of the four counties of my king, but now Wei Guo said that he would swallow it, twenty-seven counties, why didn't he go and rob it! β
Baili Yan jumped like thunder, and categorically did not expect that Liang Tianzi would be a two-faced and three-faced guy, promising the land of the vassal states on the one hand, and on the other hand, he partnered with the Weiguo to embezzle all the land of the Sun Kingdom, so that the territory of the Weiguo instantly increased by eighty percent, and the effective ruling area of the land increased to at least eight million square kilometers.
At that time, with the power of defending the country, the three kingdoms of Xian, Zhi, and Jin were balanced, and Liang took the opportunity to use the time to defend the country and fight for hegemony, digest the four counties that were eaten, and leap from the country of three counties to the country of seven counties, and the four counties annexed by Liang were all big counties, and then continued to provoke the princes to go to war and seek land interests from China. I want to chat about "Empire Travel" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~