The Chinese Empire, the Shengjing Imperial Palace, the apse wing of the Wenhua Palace.

Zeng Guanlan, vice premier of the cabinet, Luo Xuan, minister of the navy, Zuo Zongtang, chief of the General Staff, and Xu Shou, director of the Military Science Division of the General Staff and director of the Department of Petroleum and Fertilizer, sat aside, and in the center was Feng Yunshan, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, who was a little excited on his face.

No wonder he's excited.

First of all, the Admiralty claimed that the Admiralty had mobilized a large amount of resources, and that the Dengzhou Shipping Bureau had developed a new type of secret naval heavy weapon, which was specially designed to deal with the enemy's killer weapon -- submarines. Later, Zuo Zongtang, chief of the General Staff, and Xu Shou, director of the Military Science Division, jointly played a concert, and the Military Science Department, together with the Shengjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, was "invited" from Europe by the Swede young man Nobel to preside over the gunpowder development of the Shengjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and two new types of gunpowder have been successfully developed, especially the explosives that Feng Yunshan once mentioned and named TNT, which has been tested to be several times more powerful than black powder.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan simply summoned them all over and asked them in detail, just in person, the war in the Indian Ocean has always surrounded his heart, which made him worried, although he knew that this was a strategy of the Admiralty, but he was still worried, and he could ask about the situation again.

"Xu Aiqing, let's talk about the gunpowder developed by Mr. Nobel first, what is the situation!" Feng Yunshan asked directly, he was a little eager to know the specific situation.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Nobel is a genius in gunpowder! He had been working on nitroglycerin explosives since he was in Europe, but he had been troubled by the fact that nitroglycerin itself was an explosive but extremely unstable, and would explode under a slightly larger shake.

And when I told him what Your Majesty had told him about mixing some diatomaceous earth, he was overjoyed, and it didn't take long to discover the best recipe, with three parts nitroglycerin and one part diatomaceous earth, plus a little sodium carbonate, to stabilize the explosives thoroughly and facilitate transportation and storage. This explosive is already very safe, because it takes a small explosion to detonate this new nitroglycerin explosive, so he invented a detonator specially designed to detonate a strong explosion of nitroglycerin explosive.

With this detonator and a new type of nitroglycerin explosive, the power is 6-7 times more powerful than the best black powder. It's just that the preparation of this nitroglycerin explosive, although Mr. Nobel has found that it can be industrialized and mass-produced, is still a bit expensive. On the contrary, there is another kind of explosive named TNT mentioned by His Majesty, this light yellow explosive composed of trinitrotoluene, which is stable in nature and very safe, needs to be detonated by a detonator to explode, and the power of the explosion is not small, about 4-5 times the power of black powder. But Mr. Nobel and I both believe that the Chinese Empire has given priority to the development of this yellow explosive, and as for nitroglycerin explosives, it can also be developed at the same time, but it is mainly produced as a backup in special circumstances. ”

"Oh? Aiqing said, why not mainly produce the more powerful nitroglycerin explosives, and use this less powerful yellow TNT explosives? Feng Yunshan asked curiously, and the rest of the people also looked at Xu Shou.

"Your Majesty, the main thing is that when this nitroglycerin explosive is produced, especially when producing the main raw material, nitroglycerin, there are still a lot of dangers, and if you are not careful, it is very easy to have an explosion accident, and the production cost is high, and the output is difficult to increase." Xu Shou explained: "And this yellow explosive, TNT, although its power is slightly lower than that of nitroglycerin explosives, is actually very large. Its performance is very stable, and there will be no danger of explosion in all aspects of production. Moreover, the most important thing is that the main ingredient in the production of this TNT explosive is trinitrotoluene, and the main raw material for the preparation of trinitrotoluene is a kind of thing called toluene, Mr. Nobel and I have found that there is actually toluene in the waste left over from the production of coke plants, after purification, it is relatively pure toluene, this output is very huge, and it was originally a waste that was directly discarded, basically no cost, the main cost is the purification of mixed toluene, which is very cost-effective. And this one can be produced in large quantities! The cost is only slightly higher than that of black powder, or even about the same, and it is more than 10 times less than the cost of producing nitroglycerin explosives. ”

Feng Yunshan is really not very clear about this part, he studied chemical engineering, but he knew that some aromatic hydrocarbons or ethylene devices in the petrochemical process in later generations could produce chemical products such as toluene, but he did not expect that there would be such by-products in the coke production process. In this way, it is possible to solve the problem of yield perfectly.

He hurriedly asked, "Does Aiqing know how much toluene is produced in the coke factory?" ”

Xu Shou said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the output of toluene is mainly related to the nature of raw coal and the degree of coking, judging from the data of the coke plant of the Shengjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau and another industrial coke plant in Shengjing, about 1 ton of coke can be produced as a by-product of about 1 kilogram of toluene. Although this proportion is very low, because of the huge output of coke plants, the production of toluene is not a lot. Moreover, there are not a few dozens of coke plants in the country, so that the production and supply of toluene are guaranteed! ”

Feng Yunshan smiled: "Great! Aiqing has worked hard! In this case, I agreed to Aiqing and Nobel's proposal, and mainly used TNT yellow explosives as the main military gunpowder of the empire, and vigorously developed production! In addition, once the yellow explosive is to replace the black gunpowder, the amount of toluene required must be huge. Guanlan issued an order for the Ministry of Public Works to vigorously develop coke plants in various places, and all by-product toluene must be nationalized and not allowed to flow out. Xu Aiqing, you gang must keep the formula of this yellow explosive secret, from today onwards, the Shengjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau will send another batch of manpower to improve the defense level, and at the same time, all the guards will be rotated once a year to avoid being taken advantage of by the spies. ”

Feng Yunshan attaches great importance to this kind of TNT explosives that appeared in advance, which is the number one killer weapon of the Chinese Empire to dominate the world in the future, with this kind of yellow explosives, whether it is muskets or artillery, whether it is land or naval battles, the power of weapons has been greatly increased. In particular, the current British expeditionary force has once again set out to recover India, and the Chinese Empire, because of its insufficient naval strength, did not rashly engage in war with it, but adopted the method of delaying and attrition in coastal defense in various places to gain time, mobilize and gather naval forces, and wait for the right time to conduct a decisive battle. And now, with the advent of this powerful new gunpowder, the time has come.

When he learned that Nobel was invited to Shengjing, he had such an idea, but at that time he wanted Nobel to produce nitroglycerin explosives that he was about to invent, but he didn't expect that the dynamite cow man was the dynamite cowman.

Zeng Guanlan, Zuo Zongtang, and Xu Shou all got up and saluted to obey the order.

Feng Yunshan continued: "Xu Aiqing, how much of this yellow gunpowder can be prepared now, can it be immediately used on the battlefield in the Indian Ocean and the South Sea?" ”

Xu Shouyu reported: "Your Majesty, there are already dozens of tons of stock. Barely able to fight. Now Wechen has informed the Shengjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau and asked it to dispatch manpower to speed up production and preparation. At the same time, the by-products of coke plants are collected from all over the world. This TNT yellow explosive will be produced in the future. ”

Feng Yunshan smiled and nodded. The joy in his heart was not what it was on his face.

In the Sino-Japanese War in later generations, one of the very important reasons why little Japan won was the gunpowder problem, the artillery on the Japanese warships used a yellow explosive called Shimose gunpowder that evolved from picric acid, and after this powerful gunpowder, little Japan would be ambitious to dominate the world with this Shimose gunpowder.

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