But all those who engage in scientific research, whether ancient or modern, have a crazy desire to explore unknown things, and people talk with relish, how can Song Yingxing be willing to listen?

If someone else interrupted Li Hongfei's pretence, then Li Hongfei would have jumped up and slammed back, but who is Song Yingxing, that is a famous scientist. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Li Hongfei's views are advanced, many principles are only known but not the reason, such as this thunder mercury, Li Hongfei knows that there is such a thing, but he does not know that it is a mercury (mercury) compound, and he does not know that it is the primer of the bullet.

"Lord Song's words are out of sight, you are a knowledgeable sage, and it is an honor for you to speak and give advice." Li Hongfei said modestly.

"There is no order to learn, the master is the teacher, Master Li's knowledge is also profound, and the old man has already resigned, if the adult does not dislike it, the old man will be cheeky and ask for an errand under the command of the adult, so as to support his family." Song Yingxing said.

Song Yingxing is not a sycophant, but he has been standing aside and listening for a long time, and he has already affirmed the knowledge of the two people present, otherwise with his temper and self-cultivation, he will never interrupt others chatting at will.

The efficiency of the ancient people is still very high, many talented people, most of them like to recommend themselves, and the ancient people are also very arrogant, if you don't recognize you in your heart, even if you are the king of heaven, it is difficult to invite the other party.

The so-called twisted melon is not sweet, blindly forced, even if you are forced to succumb to obscenity, you will not get the sincere assistance of the other party in the end, especially this kind of scientist, you can play to death if you don't know the routine.

Song Yingxing's initial compulsion, to his curiosity later, and his initiative to take refuge now, are entirely because he saw the hope of the rise of the Ming Dynasty in Li Hongfei.

"Mr. Song doesn't dislike the boy, this temple is small, how dare the kid refuse? From now on, Mr. Song will be treated the same as Mr. Bi, both as Professor Congliupin, director of the Research Department of Suzhou Heavy Industry, I believe that Daming Military Industry will be able to create brilliance with the two of you joining! Li Hongfei hurriedly settled the matter.

"Old Song, the mercury smelt you just mentioned can really be made into the primer of firearms?" Bi Maokang asked.

Just now, Li Hongfei was greeting Song Yingxing, but Bi Maokang on the side had been thinking about mercury smelting, and when the two of them negotiated the conditions, they couldn't wait to ask.

"In fact, Lao Yu has been interested in the study of mercury for a long time, and accidentally obtained a method of extracting saltpeter acid (nitric acid) from an Arab alchemist, and then Lao Yu fused mercury and saltpeter acid many times, and found that after mixing with distilled and purified liquor (alcohol, ethanol), it can obtain a brown powder, and this powder is extremely sensitive to vibration, impact and friction, and it will ignite at least and explode at worst, and its effect is very similar to the primer that Master Li just said. It's just that this kind of gunpowder is extremely difficult to transport and store, and it will explode if you are not careful when making it, so I thought that after finding an improved method, I would write it into the "Heavenly Creation", but I didn't expect that the Westerners would also master this kind of gunpowder. Song Yingxing explained.

This Nima is simply a demon beast!

Thundermercury was discovered by the British in 1779, but Song Yingxing had already discovered it and synthesized the finished product, which was more than 150 years earlier than the British!

However, this is not unusual, since ancient times China is not lacking in talent, the four major inventions can be hundreds of years earlier than Western countries, the Ming Dynasty's firearms and gunpowder technology, even ahead of the Western world for a hundred years, if it were not for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to close the country, suppress civilian scientists, so that the Chinese firearms technology regressed more than 100 years, China's scientific and technological level, will definitely not be so backward as later generations.

The two simplest examples, one of which is that the Ming Dynasty had already appeared flintlock pistols, but two hundred years later, the Qing army fought against the British colonists, using extremely backward arquebuses.

For hundreds of years, weapons have not only made no progress, but are still regressing.

The second example is even more shocking, because even such a magnificent book as "Heavenly Creations" was banned and burned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After the first edition of the book "Heavenly Creation" was released in the tenth year of Chongzhen, it quickly attracted the attention of the academic community and the book engraving circle.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Yizhi's "Physics Knowledge" quoted the relevant exposition of "Tiangong Kaiwu" earlier, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, someone carved the second edition and prepared to publish it.

Due to the change of dynasties, "Heavenly Creations" was not released in the Qing Dynasty for political reasons, and soon disappeared in China.

It wasn't until more than 300 years later in the early years of the Republic of China that someone went to check the "Yunnan Tongzhi" and found that it contained a description of copper smelting, citing a book called "Tiangong Kaiwu", so this person wanted to see the whole picture of this book, so he went to various large libraries in Beijing to search for this book, but he didn't find any of them, and he asked various bibliophiles, and no one knew about this book, that is to say, after nearly 300 years of rule by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this book has almost disappeared in China, and there are almost no people who know this book!

Later, this person happened to find the Japanese version of this book at a Japanese friend's house, so he went to the Japanese library to check, this check does not matter, and found that the book is actually translated in Britain, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, and France, and there is a full translation in France, and later he found the original original engraving of "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the Ming Dynasty in the national library of France, and this original engraving is the most beautifully printed of all editions.

I have to say that this is a huge irony, the books written by scientists in the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of years later, became a model for scientists from all over the world to learn the truth, but in China at that time, there was not even a manuscript to be found.

The Qing Dynasty can be said to be the culprit of hundreds of years of humiliation in later generations of China.

Since Li Hongfei came to the Ming Dynasty and found these two great scientists at the same time, then he must rely on his own efforts to change this era, and don't let the humiliating history of another space happen again in this time and space!

And Song Yingxing's writings, hundreds of years later, have become a model for scientists from all over the world to study, which is enough to prove his ability.

If you talk about building an atomic bomb, TNT and the like, it may be a bit shocking, but a small thunder mercury is really not a monster, and people do have the ability to do this.

Moreover, Song Yingxing also said that he found that this gunpowder was extremely unstable and semi-product, and it was difficult to apply it to the military, so it was not published in the book "Heavenly Creation".

This made the British a hundred and fifty years later pick up a big bargain.

Now, with a person like Li Hongfei who thinks ahead, plus an expert in the application of firearms like Bi Maokang, and a chemical genius like Song Yingxing, it is only a matter of time before he wants to research a military product that is one or two hundred years ahead of the world.

As a result, the celebration banquet of Suzhou Heavy Industry's first flintlock pistol turned into an academic symposium for three people.

Li Hongfei is also a human spirit, he does not participate in the discussion of specific technical issues, but only puts forward his views on various new things, as well as the prospects for the development of firearms, which is equivalent to drawing a general outline for the future development direction of weapons, such as rifled guns, such as metal cartridge cases, such as conical warheads, such as infantry group killer grenades, mines, explosive packs, and so on...........

As for how to turn these ideas into reality, that is the matter of these two scientists in front of them.

The matter of breech gun primer has an eyebrow, but the specific improvement, as well as the practical operation, is not overnight, so the flintlock pistol still has to be produced as usual, and even in order to cope with the war that may occur at any time, the production speed of the flintlock pistol has to be accelerated.

To this end, Li Hongfei divided the recruited craftsmen into three teams, implemented a 24-hour three-shift system, and introduced the assembly line operation into the Ordnance Bureau, so that each craftsman was specifically responsible for the manufacture and polishing of a component.

In this way, the craftsmen can not only quickly manufacture flintlock pistols, but also greatly improve the pass rate of each part and effectively reduce the loss of materials.

Such an effective working method made Zhou Furen call it wonderful, and even directly made the family's major business workshops follow Li Hongfei's assembly line operation.......