On the fifth day of the fourth month, in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, looked at the Tang newspaper from Henan and was speechless. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 160,000-strong army was defeated by the thieves, and the body of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three provinces, was gone.

Zhu Youzhen took a breath, and his face turned a little pale. He stood up with the handrail, walked a few steps in the Qianqing Palace, and took a few breaths hard.

The 160,000 army that encircled and suppressed the thieves can be said to be the most important border army force of the Ming Dynasty. This army of soldiers and horses was destroyed, and Zhu Youjian had no soldiers and horses to mobilize except for the Beijing camp.

Shaking his head, Zhu You sighed: "The society is in danger. ”

Now all 60,000 Shaanxi troops have been wiped out in Henan, and Shaanxi has become an open area with no soldiers available. Li Ziyuan was originally going to attack Shaanxi, so naturally he would not let go of such a good opportunity, and he would definitely attack Shaanxi.

Li Zicheng is so popular in Henan that the news of the "Juntian exemption" must have also reached Shaanxi, which shows how welcoming the thieves will be to the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi. It is estimated that in less than three months, the whole of Shaanxi will be full of banners.

Henan and Shaanxi are connected, so how far will Li Zicheng's power swell? If the thieves break through Xi'an and bring the people of Henan and Shaanxi to besiege Shanxi, then can the generals of the Ming Dynasty defend Shanxi.

Zhu Youzhen had a feeling that the society was in danger.

In fact, in the original history, the fall of Sun Chuanting sounded the death knell of the Ming Dynasty. In the original history, after the fall of Sun Chuanting, Li Zicheng was unstoppable, and within two years he swept through Shaanxi, Shanxi and Northern Zhili, and destroyed the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

The so-called "death of the court, death of the Ming Dynasty" is nothing more than that.

Of course, because of Li Zhi's crossing, the situation is different now. First of all, it is now 20 years of Chongzhen. In other words, because of Li Zhi's southern expedition and northern war, the Ming Dynasty was still strong until the twenty years of Chongzhen. Secondly, because of the emergence of Li Zhi, Zhu Youzhen's financial resources were also better than before, and he purchased a new army of 80,000 people.

With this new army, Zhu Youzhen will not be helpless after Sun Chuanting's defeat.

Zhu Youzhen walked back and forth in the Qianqing Palace for more than a dozen rounds before he stood still with difficulty and sighed at the palace gate of the Qianqing Palace.

"Now the plan is only for the Tiger Ben Army of the Duke of Tiaojin to level the thieves."

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Wang Chengen arched his hand and said, "Emperor, I can't help it." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen and did not speak.

Wang Chengen said: "Shengshang Mingjian, when the Duke of Jinguo attacked and destroyed the Tartars, he could already be crowned king according to his merits. Now, if the Tiger Ben army is transferred to destroy the thieves, after the matter is completed, the Duke of Jinguo will be added to the official and become a knight, and this prince will be sealed anyway. Then I am Ming, and there will really be a living king with a different surname. ”

"The Duke of Jin is actually a feudal prince in Tianjin, and if you add a prince, the people of the world don't know what they will think. If the Duke of Jin Guo has a different heart at that time, I am afraid that the saint will not be able to restrain it! ”

Zhu Youzhen sighed, and looked at the palace outside the Qianqing Palace again, as if he was pondering Wang Chengen's words.

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "However, at this time, if it is not Li Zhi, he can't pacify the thief. The Jiangbei Army completely refused to listen to my orders and seized Jiangnan. The Forces nouvelles are the key to deterring forces from all sides and should not be used lightly. If the new army is transferred out and the thieves are defeated, then the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji will really be in jeopardy. ”

"So at this moment, only Li Zhi's Tiger Army is available."

Wang Chengen was stunned and asked, "Then if the Duke of Ruojin Guo wins, he will really be crowned the king of the county?" ”

Zhu Youzhen sighed again and said, "I'd rather see the Duke of Jinguo be crowned the king and call it lonely than let the thieves attack the city of the capital and shake the country." ”

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Li Zhi stood in the "power factory" and watched the busy craftsmen tinkering with the huge power equipment.

There is a loud sound of the power coil turning in the factory, and you can only hear it when you speak. Qi Wenjian, the chief manager of the power factory, stood beside Li Zhi and said loudly: "Grandpa Guo, we use this new type of generator to send out a one-way direct current, which is used to electrolyze compounds to get twice the result with half the effort. ”

Li Zhi nodded and looked at the large generator he had designed.

Different from the original alternating current engine, the new generator turns the alternating electromotive force induced in the armature coil into a DC electromotive force when it is drawn out of the brush end by the commutator and the commutation action of the brush. Because the electromotive force drawn by the brush A through the commutator is always the electromotive force in the coil edge of the magnetic field line at the N pole. So brush A always has a positive polarity, and in the same way, brush B always has a negative polarity.

To put it simply, it is to change the contact point of the wire through a commutator that continuously changes the contact point of the wire, turning the alternating current into direct current. Therefore, such a generator can emit direct current that fluctuates in the magnitude of the current, but does not change the direction.

With such a generator, Li Zhi can electrolyze to produce more complex products.

The first thing Li Zhi tried was electrolytic aluminum.

Electrolytic aluminum is an industrial product with simple technology, which is regarded as a typical industry with high energy consumption, high pollution and low technology content in later generations. But for Li Zhi, who has been in Chongzhen for 20 years, it is definitely a good way to try to produce metal aluminum in large quantities with this method.

The current produced by the generator is transmitted to the electrolysis plant via bare brass wires. Li Zhi, under the leadership of Qi Wenjian, walked to the electrolytic aluminum production workshop next door, and immediately felt a heat wave rushing towards him.

In a huge self-baking tank, the molten cryolite bauxite is in a liquid state at high temperatures. The main component of bauxite is alumina, and the melting point drops to more than 900 degrees in melted cryolite. The metals in the mixed solution are in a liquid state, which makes electrolytic reactions possible.

Huge graphitic carbon rods connect brass wires, directing an electric current into the molten cryolite and bauxite.

Li Zhi wiped the sweat from his head and looked into the hot electrolyzer.

As soon as the electrode changes, countless bubbles rise in large quantities, apparently carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide produced by this reaction, and of course some harmful gases such as hydrogen fluoride. On the other side of the electrode, a viscous liquid accumulates more and more next to the graphite rod, apparently molten aluminum.

Li Zhi nodded, and walked to the warehouse with Qi Wenjian.

The warehouse is already full of aluminum, a metal produced by electrolysis. The metal aluminum is silvery-white, and it sparkles in the light of the window glass, which is brighter than silver, and it looks very beautiful.

Qi Wenjian asked curiously, "Grandpa Guo, what are these aluminum used for?" ”

Li Zhi looked at Qi Wenjian and said with a smile: "This metal is very useful. Used to make aluminum alloys, it is light and strong, and its strength is higher than that of our crucible steel. Moreover, aluminum is not easy to corrode and can be used in hydrophilic environments. ”

"Aluminum powder burns with great brightness and can be used as flares."

"Of course, the simplest use at the moment is to produce large amounts of money. This material is something that only we can produce, and it is used to produce a currency of ten taels of denominations, which no one can imitate. ”