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When the director of the hero pharmaceutical factory came from Germany, Hans. Schmidt, and Will Will, the security director of Jishi Holdings. When Hemming arrived at Zhu Jishi's office, he saw him lying on the table writing something. Zhu Jishi was neatly dressed, his eyebrows were tightly wrinkled, and his mind was all on the paper in front of him that was full of English words and square words.

The two of them didn't dare to disturb him, and at the same time they were a little curious, this great scientist who was already famous in Europe, Sir Zhu Jishi, didn't know what important scientific papers he was concocting. Seeing Zhu Jishi burying his head in writing there, and slamming his fist on the table when he was excited, both of them were startled. Only then did Zhu Jishi find out that the two of them had arrived, and smiled awkwardly: "Two, please take a seat." ”

Hans. Schmidt is a German engineer who is a little older, and he also has a lot of research on chemistry, and he admires Zhu Jishi's method of synthesizing morphine hydrochloride, diethyl X morphine and berberine hydrochloride, so he also respects this Chinese scientist who is more than ten years younger than him, and when he heard Zhu Jishi's instructions, he bowed slightly before sitting down. Will. Hai Ming had already been familiar with Zhu Jishi for a long time, so he sat down with a smile, pointed to the pile of papers on the table and asked, "Jason, what are you preparing again?" ”

"What a great work, it is the translation of the manuscript sent by Friedrich, which is about European military and politics. By the way, Will, when will your manuscript be delivered? ”

Hans on the side. Schmidt listened to the conversation between the two of them and became interested, and interjected: "Sir, what are you talking about?" Need my help? ”

"By the way, Hans, don't you say that I forgot, but you are an expert in the military industry, so you might as well write a book about the development of weapons and the manufacture of gunpowder in Europe."

"Sir, such books can be bought from a bookstore......" Hans. Schmidt reminded in a low voice.

"No, no, I'm not going to buy a jishu book, but a book that will introduce European weapons and equipment to the Orientals." He looked at Will again. Hemming, "Will, why don't you split the work with Hans, and you will be responsible for writing the army's weapons and the conduct of the various arms." ”

Zhu Jishi picked up the pen and wrote down a total of nine Chinese characters on the paper, including "Taixi Sharp Weapon" and "Taixi Training Minutes", all of which are traditional characters. His traditional Chinese character skills are not very haode, but Bai Siwen, who works as a cook in his family, is literate, and it is said that he went to the Xiucai exam when he was young, but unfortunately he did not pass the exam. So during this time, Zhu Jishi often asked Bai Siwen for advice on traditional characters, and now he can basically write traditional characters.

"Okay, I'm familiar with the use of weapons in the army and the drills of various arms, so leave it to me." Will. Heming said, "Jason, is this what you asked me and Hans to come over today?" ”

"Of course not." Zhu Jishi shook his head, cleaned up the manuscript on the desk, and took out a brown paper package from the office drawer, on which were written "mercury thunderate" and "ammonium nitrate" in English.

Hans. Schmidt and Will. Hemming glanced at each other, and Hans. Schmidt asked, "Sir ...... Can these two chemicals be used in pharmaceuticals? ”

Zhu Jishi waved his hand and said, "Hans, it's okay to call me Jason in the future." He paused, pointed to two packets of chemicals, and said, "These two things can be used to make explosives." ”

"Fried ...... Medicine? "Hans. Schmidt was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "Jason, what are you going to do?" As far as I know, the properties of mercury thunderate are extremely unstable and very easy to detonate...... Now there is a fire cap made of mercury thunderate that is used to fire muskets, but it is probably impossible to use it to make explosives, right? As for ammonium nitrate, this chemical will explode? I haven't heard of it. ”

Zhu Jishi smiled slightly and looked at Hans. Schmidt, "Hans, but I have a way to make ammonium nitrate explode, and the power of ammonium nitrate explosion is about 10 times that of black powder!" “

"10 times the power of black powder!" Hans. Schmidt didn't do much, Will. Hemming jumped up first and shouted, "God, Jason, you're not kidding, are you?" 10 times more powerful than black powder? This will change the pattern of war! If you use it to fill the flowering bombs......"

Hans on the side. Schmidt shook his head and asked a very professional question, "But how do we detonate picric acid and ammonium nitrate?" These two chemicals may be explosive under certain conditions, but if the conditions are too difficult to achieve, they are unlikely to be used in military use. ”

Zhu Jishi nodded appreciatively, "Hans, you're right, picric acids are indeed not easy to detonate, I don't know how to detonate them...... However, it may not be realistic to use them to produce flowering shells, unless there are more advanced cannons, and the current flowering shells do not seem to be very safe. If the explosion is 10 times more powerful, it will be too dangerous for your own people. ”

In fact, he also knew two more powerful explosives, one was picric acid! It has long been invented as a dye, but no one has discovered that it can explode; The other is **, that is, the main ingredient of TNT explosives, which has not yet been invented, and Zhu Jishi is going to "invent" it, but he does not want to use it for the military, but is going to use it to make ** tablets for the treatment of angina.

As for the idea of using these two "fierce explosives" to make weapons, Zhu Jishi certainly did not have them at this time, because he considered himself a pacifist and could not make weapons for imperialism to use in war...... Second, there are ammonium nitrate explosives that can cheat money, so why bother to launch more powerful explosives? This is the same reason that Zhu Jishi is preparing to use berberine to treat cholera and tuberculosis.

"Jason, how are you going to detonate them?" Hans. Schmidt asked with interest.

"With the heating method, the explosion point of ammonium nitrate is 300 degrees Celsius, and if it is mixed with a small amount of kerosene, it will be easy to detonate. Hans, Will, you know more about weapons than I do, can you help me design this? ”

"It's just to make an explosive out of mercury thunderate, right?" Hans. Schmidt thought for a while and said, "It's not difficult, but the question is how to detonate this ...... **?" ”

"You can ignite it with a lead, will that work?" Will. Hemming Road.

"Mercury thunderate is very explosive, it can explode when it is hit or shaken in a dry situation, and sparks and flames can also detonate. The point of its explosion was only 170 degrees Celsius. "Hans. Schmidt was well aware of the properties of mercury thunderate, and after thinking for a while, he said: "I think you can make a grenade from ammonium nitrate and detonate it with mercury thunderate...... Such a grenade would certainly be smaller in size than a grenade filled with black powder, and 10 times the explosion would have been enough to inflict heavy casualties on the infantry in a dense formation. I think if ammonium nitrate can really be detonated with mercury thunderate, we should start an arsenal specializing in bombs! ”

Zhu Jishi nodded heavily, "That's what I plan." Hans, Will, if the deal goes through, you will be in charge of running the Arsenal, and each of you will receive a 5% stake in the Arsenal and a one-off reward of £800. ”

The emperor is not a hungry soldier, Zhu Jishi is not an emperor, just a baron, of course he can't let his subordinates work in vain. Not to mention the 5% stake in the arsenal, even the 800 pounds is not a small amount of money in this era. Motivated by this heavy reward, in less than three weeks, Hans. Schmidt and Will. Haiming put a very primitive and extremely unsafe ** that was detonated by ignition on Zhu Jishi's desk.