Chapter 45 New Learning and Chemical Industry
Qin Kai didn't expect Zhang Peilun to be so anxious, and when he received the famous assassin sent by Master Zeng personally, he immediately got into the carriage and came alone to meet the new governor of Fujian.
The inner hall of the governor's yamen, which is a side hall for private receptions, is not a big place, but it focuses on quiet. Qin Kai glanced too high at Zhang Peilun, who was sitting at the top, the famous Qingliu general in later generations, who was originally infamous for the defeat of the Mawei army. History is so interesting, he came to this era, but this adult still sat in the position of influencing the situation of the Mawei war.
He arched his hand and asked with a smile: "Your Excellency the Governor, Xia Guan has learned a little shallow foolish opinion on weekdays, and this time I heard that the famous Bachelor Zhang came to Fujian, so he took the liberty to ask for advice, and please forgive me!" ”
Zhang Peilun was not surprised by Qin Qinkai's youth, he was only in his early thirties, and he was already in the position of superintendent at the top of the Qing Dynasty. However, seeing that Qin Kai was still polite, he smiled coldly.
"Lord Qin, if you talk about knowledge, you are indeed outstanding, but I don't know one thing? What would you explain to the raw materials for this toothpaste sold by your artillery bureau? Do you know that this abuse of power for personal gain and competing with the people for profit is the most unaccustomed official behavior that I am most accustomed to! ”
Qin Kai had a black line on his face, he originally thought that the plagiarism masterpiece he wrote after a few days of writing a book and staying up for a few days could immediately thunder this big brother, but he didn't think about it, at least he would be treated as a national soldier after he came, and that should be done! I didn't expect that I was selling toothpaste, and this person still had time to hold on.
But this P-point big thing, how can it be rare for us to pass through people! Qin Kai arched his hand, his face turned straight, and he said loudly: "I don't know if the adults think that someone Qin has adulterated this toothpaste raw material?" Or did it afflict the people? My lord, do you know how complicated the development of this toothpaste raw material is, the Taixi countries, the ships are strong, and there are countless factories here, can you see that they have developed toothpaste? ”
Qin Kai stared at Zhang Peilun, Master Zhang was stunned, and smiled, "That's not all!" ”
"The study of this change began in my dignified China, 800 years ago, gunpowder prevailed in our country, and the method of frying steel was used in the people, but 800 years later, why is it not my China, but a small island country in Taixi?"
"......" Bachelor Zhang still knows a little about the history of gunpowder, and this method of frying and filling steel is unheard of, so he has to keep his head silent.
"I am a beautiful China, 5,000 years of civilization, counting the great powers of the world, who has such a broad and profound origin, why do we have to look at the English face and the French face of the country of projectiles now, there is only one reason, we are not hard enough, not strong enough, and the skills handed down by our ancestors have been abandoned by our descendants!"
"......" Bachelor Zhang's face turned a little pale.
"The so-called geometry of Western learning, the Pythagorean law of arithmetic in nine chapters, the so-called Western medicine surgery in Western learning, Hua Tuo's bone scraping to cure poison, and the wonder of hemp boiling, there were applications two thousand years ago, the so-called chemistry of Western learning, from gunpowder to alchemy, abound are the footprints of the ancestors, and the so-called physical machinery of Western learning, this is the wonder of the public loss class, how can Westerners care!"
Qin Kai said excitedly, and the person also came out, and he was stunned for a moment when he heard this, this Qin supervisor was erudite and wise, but this ancient grammar was too chaotic, and it seemed that the other party was still very sincere in asking for advice. Moreover, what Qin Kai said, Master Zhang also knew, but he never expected that Western studies and the knowledge left by the ancestors turned out to be one.
He gave Qin Kai this refutation, and Qin Kai quoted scriptures, all of which were irrefutable, but they were all recorded in black and white in the history books, he didn't know that some of the books that Qin Kai had read in later generations had already sorted out the things in these old paper piles, which books were nothing more than to illustrate the brilliance of ancient civilization, but obviously, on the other hand, it contrasted with the gloom of modern civilization.
Zhang Peilun was stunned, but he also had to admire Qin Kai's lofty remarks, and arched his hand to apologize, and said, "Supervisor Qin, you are really knowledgeable, I have only seen a person as knowledgeable as you in the world!" He seemed to have forgotten that he had just asked about competing with the people for profit, but Qin Kai shifted the topic to Western studies and ancestral studies.
"The kid is just talking wildly, how dare he speak lightly in front of the scholars," Qin Kai saw that Zhang Peilun couldn't find the north because of his crazy arguments, and immediately snorted, arched his hand and said: "The humble article of the lower official, has Lord Zhang ever read it?" I also need to ask the bachelor for advice! ”,
"Supervisor Qin writes very well, the words and arguments in it are the only ones I have seen in my life, and the history of the Taixi powers, this official is also deeply touched by it," Zhang Peilun lost his edge, and his words were casual and polite, he was a free and easy person, "Please ask Supervisor Qin to come today, or do you want to ask your high opinions?" ”
Qin Kai saw that this old Zhang was a gentleman, and he smiled secretly in his heart, this gentleman is still easy to deal with, and the villain is difficult to beware of, so he arched his hand and asked: "Lord Zhang, the kid is crazy, don't be surprised!" ”
"But it doesn't matter, there are no outsiders here," Zhang Peilun glanced at Qin Kai with a complicated expression, he only figured out the taste at this moment, and asked this guy's question, but this guy didn't answer it positively.
"I don't know if the adults are supervising one side, but can you ask for something?"
Zhang Peilun smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, "Supervisor Qin, you must have an answer to this question!" Let's hear it! ”
Qin Kai smiled slightly, "I asked Governor Lord Ding about this question, and Lord Ding said that he has been an official for five years, and he is ashamed that he cannot strengthen the country and the army and benefit one party!" ”
Hearing this, Zhang Peilun was also moved in his heart, this is not the thought in his heart, the cadres of the two parties of the DPRK and China, who have always attacked each other, actually have the same idea, which makes him feel a lot, he nodded slightly, "Supervisor Qin, you ask this, naturally there is another deep meaning, but it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”
Qin Kai pondered for a while, the foreshadowing and introduction he should have said were all in place, he smiled, took out a fold from his arms, and said: "Xiaguan has an excerpt here, please take a look at it, and implore the lord to open a new school in Fuzhou!" This is more beneficial than the toothpaste industry! ”
"New learning?" Zhang Peilun muttered a sentence in his mouth, took the fold and looked at it carefully, while Qin Kai slowly tasted tea.
The content of the excerpt is sprinkled, there are thousands of words, from the scale of the new school and the content of the new school, to the source of the students and the training of teachers have a detailed explanation, this is obviously not a school created for the imperial examination, except for a national study, the rest are the content of Western studies, but ...... Zhang Peilun's first reaction now is that these are actually the learning of the ancestors, but these unscrupulous descendants have not passed him on, so that they are now lagging behind the Taixi powers.
"Supervisor Qin, this matter is very good, wait for me to discuss it with Xuezheng," Zhang Peilun obviously had to take a closer look at such a large article, and he still had some concerns about this matter, and the two chatted about the content of the new school, and Qin Kai got up and left.
To the north of the Mawei Artillery Bureau, along the banks of the Min River, a large piece of land has been fenced, and now it is the season of agricultural slack, and the idle laborers of the neighboring towns have been recruited, and the area of this land has reached an astonishing 1,000 acres, and the farmers who are busy leveling the land are talking while working.
"It seems that the Mawei Ship Master is going to start recruiting people again, this time you have to let me add a baby to learn skills!" A sturdy old man muttered.
"Cut, old man Ma, what else can that kid of your family do besides digging birds' nests and catching pheasants, I heard what the kid from the Mawei security group in our village said, the management over there is strict!"
The old man was not happy when he heard it, so he turned over the gun at that time, "Hu Ergou, your family has a litter of female babies, and you can't enter the shipyard, and you still want to let our kid enter, tell you, I will definitely let my kid sign up this year!" ”
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The surrounding peasants heard the two noisy, and they also laughed for a while, there are not a few people who want to come to this calculation, this Mawei shipyard is now famous in the countryside around Fuzhou Prefecture, and the security team members recruited from various villages are live advertisements.
Qin Kai was standing on a small dirt hill not far away at this time, and He Xing, Wu Yun, Chen Tongpu, and Lin Deping were discussing a large-format design drawing.
This is the construction site of the Mawei Chemical Plant, which is under construction, and in the past few months, Mawei Chemical has made amazing progress in research, but Chen Tongpu knows the key best, whenever the test and progress are stuck in key places, the supervision will appear like a savior, and the general small problems are solved in a few words.
Even if it is a huge and difficult problem of engineering, the supervisor can also say that he is ugly, with Lord Qin beside him, several students studying in the United States are definitely full of confidence, and they quickly tackled the industrial problems of electrolytic metal production, and as for chemical dyes and toothpaste raw materials, it is not a problem. ,
During his previous studies in the United States, teachers thought it was difficult to achieve experiments, but from Master Qin, some very ingenious solutions were easily realized, and from Lord Qin, he learned a series of new knowledge of chemical elements and chemical reaction equations.
What's even more incredible is that Qin Kai showed the role of a series of chemical catalysts, so that these children who are quite confident in themselves have been completely hit, this era, catalysts have been recognized by Western chemists, but the entire Western chemical community found only three or four catalysts, and because of the importance of catalysts in chemical production, these catalysts are in the highest state of top secret in the production process, and all countries regard catalysts as secrets.
I remember that when Lord Qin listened to the catalyst question at that time, his expression was also a little strange, he naturally didn't know, Qin Kai immediately began to search for the catalyst information in the light brain, and the results he got made him smack his tongue, it turned out that he had such an amazing wealth seed in his hands, and he used the tenacity and perseverance to apply for a job in the Security Bureau back then, so that he maintained a strange face instead of laughing.
Qin Kai walked to the side of the design drawing, looking at the excited backbones on the side, in this era, the chemical industry is almost a gold nugget industry, and it is directly related to the improvement of military technology, he pointed to the upper left corner of the map, "Tongpu, this is the place for you to operate the 'soda ash chemical system', and the national side will fully assist you in making zuò reactors, pipelines and absorption towers!" How long does it take to build production capacity? ”
Chen Tongpu listened excitedly, and when he saw Lord Qin asking about production capacity, he thought for a while and said, "Supervisor, you lend Sun Xiang to me, and then allocate 30 people from the batch of students in the institute for three months...... No, at most two and a half months, to ensure production, I have completed the entire test process in the real room, supervise the reaction process designed by you personally, no problem! ”
Qin Kai is now thick-skinned to resist Mauser bullets, and smiled slightly, the so-called "soda ash chemical system" is naturally copied from the improved production line of "Lu Bulan soda ash", which is an important milestone in the history of chemical industry, the first time through guò soda ash production, and at the same time the waste gas produced is recycled and reproduced to obtain a series of by-products such as sulfur and hydrochloric acid, it is this large-scale series of chemical reactions that has promoted the rapid development of the chemical industry.
When it came to Sun Xiang, his student had finally found a direction for growth, and Qin Kai was naturally quite happy, and readily agreed to Chen Fatzi's request.
He remembered that he hadn't seen these two boys for a while, Sun Xiang had been studying chemistry with Chen Fatzi all day long since Chen Tongpu entered the research institute, don't look at Sun Xiang's words on weekdays, he learned machine qì drawing with Qin Kai for half a year, and he couldn't learn Xu Guofang's several things. But after following Fat Chen, his hands-on ability in chemistry is outstanding, and Fat Chen also likes it.
Huang Xing's kid ran to follow Lin Deping to tinker with gunpowder all day long, which scared his old son Huang Dang half to death, that thing has been a soldier but everyone knows that what is most afraid of being a cannon is not to bombard with people, how can the shells of that era be accurate, far away, it is simply flying randomly, I am afraid that this bomb and gunpowder will explode by itself, and if it is not good, even the cannon will be reimbursed together.
When the Hunan army was attacking Tianjing, Zuo Dashuai transferred more than 100 Western cannons to bombard the Tianjing city wall. And the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also bombarded with cannons, Huang Xing was patrolling the front camp for a while, but he didn't see the tragedy caused by the explosion of artillery and explosives, and the broken corpses, broken legs, and broken hands in that place, and now his son ran to play with this thing, and he lost sleep the day he heard it......
Later, under Qin Kai's strong intervention, Lin Deping reluctantly asked Huang Xing's kid to learn how to make cannons with his master Wu Yun, and Huang Dang slept peacefully.
Qin Kai nodded in a nest in the lower left corner of the blueprint, and turned to talk to Lin Deping about the production of this gunpowder.
Lin Deping is also the director of the artillery factory now, he is the most touched by Qin Kai's kindness, he never thought that he could sit in his current position, although in terms of position, this is just a small official who does not enter the grade, but these backbones who have come into contact with the core secrets of the shipyard, everyone has guessed that the positions and wealth that this adult can achieve in the future are unlimited. ,
In order to carry out the research and development of this gunpowder, the shipmaster made a bloody investment, Lin Deping was also risked his life, he personally went to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to bring several technical workers from the Explosives Bureau, Qin Kai personally participated in the formulation of the explosives formula and the actual process, strictly stipulated the detailed rules of each step of the operation, and technically ensured the safety of the explosives.
The first phase of gunpowder development is smokeless flame nitrocellulose, at the beginning of the smokeless gunpowder proposed by the Qin supervisor, these old craftsmen were very surprised, they have produced more than ten or twenty years of black powder and maroon explosives, if the gunpowder that day and then there is no thick black smoke, they will naturally feel incredible, Lin Deping is also beating the drum in his heart.
But soon, according to the research and development approach designed by Qin Kai, the research team successfully made the first single-base gunpowder nitrocellulose, in the test, this gunpowder is several times more powerful than black gunpowder, and there is only a slight white smoke after the explosion, which is not a revolutionary change for firearms and artillery.
At present, the development of the second phase of the dual-base propellant is underway, and the first phase of smokeless gunpowder, because the raw materials required for the production of zuò need to be purchased separately, is still in the stage of the real room, and can only be produced in small batches, which is used in the production of new copper-shelled cones and round-headed bullets.
The place on the design is the location of the future horsetail bomb bureau, and the gunpowder workshop is arranged in a mountain col, after all, this still needs to be prepared just in case, Lin Deping's primary goal is to do his best to industrialize the production of smokeless gunpowder, and Lin Deping is also full of confidence in this.
The other two huge open spaces, Qin Kai did not specifically explain the purpose to the two backbones, this is also a problem he has been depressed about, now chemical talents are scarce, and people who can independently preside over the chemical industry are even rarer, just the operation of this "soda ash chemical production line" has exhausted almost all the human resources on his hands, and he also needs to be equipped with manpower for smokeless gunpowder.
He was secretly depressed, although Mawei Shipmaster has a school that specializes in training skilled workers, but it is a mechanic-based technician, and it seems that the scale of the school still needs to be expanded, but in the short term, his planned coal chemical industry and synthetic ammonia industry can only be postponed.
However, the synthetic ammonia and coal chemical industry is the top priority of the chemical industry, and the synthetic ammonia industry is an important pass to industrialize the production of nitric acid, sulfuric acid and ammonium salt, and as we all know, these raw materials are closely related to nitro explosives.
However, the coal chemical industry is an important technology that emerged in the 22nd century, and the coal chemical industry before the 21st century is in the stage of exploration.
Two days later, at the backbone meeting of the Mawei Shipyard, Qin Kai put forward the requirement of expanding the enrollment of the art garden, the teachers in the original art garden are British and French teachers, these people are not proficient in chemistry, the class of the newly recruited chemical technicians is changed to Chen Tongpu, a classmate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chen Qiang, who is responsible for training, and the German chemical technicians teach, and the planned training cycle is one year, and the first batch of students are selected from the current students of the art garden, and immediately began to implement.
After the non-stop layout of the chemical industry, Qin Kai took Wu Yun and Lin Deping straight to the Artillery Bureau, the firearms research workshop here has been on the horse for more than a month, the workers are all good hands dug by Wu Yun from the Jiangnan Bureau, the number is not many, but the technology is absolutely excellent, the Jiangnan Bureau is now imitating the Mauser 11mm breech gun The technology is very proficient, which is good news for Qin Kai.
He did not intend to continue to produce 11mm rifles, the larger the caliber means that the soldier carries fewer bullets, and the amount of ammunition is definitely an important part of modern warfare, so the first imitation rifle, he chose the 7.9mm German 88 Commission rifle and the Mauser K98 rifle two drawings.
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