Chapter 1110: Lin's Gunpowder

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After Russia and the United States mediated, Emperor Meiji convened an imperial council the next day. The pen ~ fun ~ cabinet www.biquge.info meeting decided that friendly relations should be maintained with the two countries, and it is absolutely not the best policy to establish a new enemy country. However, Jin Yujun saw that Japanese society at that time seemed to be attacked by a kind of political panic, and in addition to being stunned, he fell into depression and worried, as if the important place that had reached Japan was about to be lost, and there was no one who talked about how to save the current crisis. Kim Ok-gyun then went to Tokyo to meet with Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi with several Japanese hard-line figures, and when talking about the Hawaii incident, Ito Hirobumi said: "It is better to listen to Takami now, than to discuss with the warship artillery!" Jin Yujun saw that their sarcastic reply was no longer as eloquent as usual, and they did not dare to resist with a word, and at the same time, they failed to say what they planned in their chests. These characters are still like this, let alone the average Japanese people? People's hearts are in fear all day long, but silent prayer can be eliminated as soon as possible. After more than 10 days in this way, Japan was finally forced to express to Russia, the United States, and other countries that it recognized the status of the Qianguo people in Hawaii as a "Juche nation." By this time, the Japanese people knew that there was no danger of a sudden outbreak of incidents, and they gradually began to worry about the past. However, at this time, the grievances and dissatisfaction that had accumulated in their hearts also broke out for a while. Born with the feeling of being too proud yesterday, but today being ashamed and humiliated. Everyone was very unhappy because of the frustration of their pride. That dissatisfaction and this unhappiness, sooner or later, you can't help but vent to somewhere to *** This is also human nature. Seeing this trend in society, the parties that usually oppose the government also see an opportunity to take advantage of it, so they blame all the humiliation and all mistakes on the government's improper measures, and criticize the government's diplomacy, and the voices of attack are heard from all directions.

And Kim Ok-kyun and many other people in Japan do not know that in fact, Japan has been preparing for future wars.

Qianguo, Shanghai, Japan-dry Trade Research Institute.

Arao Sei has always wondered why the stinking earthen toilets that are ubiquitous in the cities of Qianguo have disappeared in recent years.

Westerners who have traveled to various parts of the country in this century describe the living conditions there as "terrible": "The drainage system has always been dilapidated, consisting of only a few huge ditches that run through the city and dump garbage. All the ditches were clogged up, and although the daily tides rose and flowed, and a disgusting smell permeated the city, it was to the Christian's nose, and the locals seemed unaware of it. ”

A Chicago News writer reported in 9082 that he wrote: "A tourist who has recently returned from the capital has reported that the smell of the city is strong, and that there are very few places to see it...... The houses are small and dilapidated, the roads are completely unpaved and dusty, and the lack *****of sewers and sumps makes the city unspeakably filthy. ”

In general, humans have always been conformist and unmotivated when it comes to handling manure. Roman sweepers clean up excrement inside and outside the city in the darkness of night. The same cleaning method continued in Europe for centuries until the advent of sewer systems. The same is true in Qianguo, where dung diggers are responsible for cleaning the streets and manure pits. A British journalist said: "As soon as I entered the town of Shanghai, I was greeted by a man carrying an open wooden barrel on a flat pole. They are manure porters who follow a fixed route through the city. If you follow the dung diggers, you will find that they go to the sides of the nearby ditches and pour the filth from the wooden pokes into the barges or another kind of boat, and when the dirt is full, the boats are towed to the rice fields in the countryside. Waste is dumped indiscriminately into the water. The ditches rarely flow, at least not enough to remove the green silt and change the turbid, yellow, filthy water. But right next to the boat, people are scooping water for drinking and cooking......"

A typical Qianguo household has wooden barrels of various sizes for hygiene purposes. Each room has a large wooden barrel with a small basket in it, and the mouth of the barrel is tightly covered to reduce the smell. Bamboo strips can be used to stir in the barrel, and the necessity of stirring is not mentioned. The daily cleaning process of the barrel is to scrub the walls of the barrel with the shell and dry it.

The "manhole pits" in the East are slightly different from the Western ones. The dry manure pit is a large pottery jar sunken in the backyard of the house. In front of the jar is placed a small wooden partition. The small partition was not enough to block the curious eyes, and only partially obscured the sight of defecation. The burnt soil around the "manure pit" prevents manure from seeping into the nearby ground and water system. People also sprinkle ash on the bottom layer of the feces to absorb the stench.

The southern women of Qianguo still use the wooden barrels in their bedrooms. The men all went to the roadside toilets to solve the problem. The public toilet is nothing more than a deep trench dug in the corner, with two 6-foot-long and 4-foot-wide wooden blocks on either side of the ditch. With the help of wooden blocks, the user staggered and crouched above the stream. Wooden partitions surround the toilets so that the squatters are not visible. As long as the stream flows through the ditch and through the toilet, everything will be fine.

The current Qianguo is going all out to carry out its modernization process, and toilets are no exception. The capital once held a public toilet design competition. The officer in charge received the entries of more than 340 entrants. A young woman won the contest with a Qianguo-style architectural idea with a newspaper bar and outdoor seating. The "Declaration" described the event as "a public toilet revolution". Subsequently, the Qianguo government built 30 such public toilets in the capital.

In Qianguo, many public toilets are charged, and some of them are toilet paper fees. Half of the fee is charged at the time of the special price. In order to reflect the cultural customs of the Qianguo people respecting the elderly, the elderly over 70 years old and the disabled do not need to pay the full fee when using public toilets. Military personnel are also included in this special group.

The Qianguo government had faced great resistance in promoting this initiative aimed at improving the city's sanitary environment and image, and as late as 9085, a Westerner who traveled to Guangzhou recorded that "large sunken vats were placed on the ground along the road for the use of tourists." Until modern times, clay pots were still used by the Qianguo people in remote areas, and even in large cities, the standing urinals in men's lounges were nine times out of ten clay pots. The Qianguo people call a rectangular toilet a urinal kettle, and Westerners use it to refer to the night pot. However, the elongated shape of the urinal makes it the size of two pillows. Given that pillows are not much different from wooden blocks, a decorative urinal of the same size can be of great help late at night. "But at this time, because of these clay pots, the sanitary environment of Qianguo City has been greatly improved.

The Qianguo government has been trying to build new public toilets in the city, but a huge problem is that after the demolition of the old toilets, the large amount of toilet soil produced cannot be treated, but in recent years, this problem seems to have been effectively solved, because Arao Seiki found that these toilets were purchased by the Qianguo government, and he did not know where they went.

As an intelligence officer who has been in Qianguo for nearly 10 years, he has been working hard to collect information about Qianguo from all quarters, and he did not pay attention to the toilet problem in Qianguo, but he only mentioned it as a joke in some reports on the urban development of Qianguo, but he did not expect that not long ago, Tokyo sent instructions asking him to try to find out the whereabouts of a large amount of stale toilet soil produced in the "toilet revolution" in Qianguo, and pointed out to him a direction of investigation, that is, to determine whether these stale toilet clay was used to make gunpowder.

Arao Seiki couldn't figure out what the toilet had to do with the manufacture of gunpowder, he thought that someone in the intelligence department had a nervous attack, and gave him this order, and specially sent a secret telegram to ask "whether the instructions were wrong", probably to understand his doubts, the intelligence department did not give him a reply, but contacted the chemical engineer, the great technical supervisor Harada Sosuke went to Qianguo, and gave him a special science popularization, and he only then knew that the toilet old soil could be used to extract nitrate for the manufacture of black powder [urine contains urea CO (NH2) 2. The main nitrogenous substance in human and animal urine is a metabolite of protein. In livestock and poultry manure and human manure, it contains about 0.05-0.2% urea. And where urea exists, there is urease that breaks down urea at the same time. Under the action of urease, urea decomposes NH+4 ions, which can also be converted into nitrate (NO-3) ions by nitrifying microorganisms. Hundreds of years ago, it was known that nitrate was taken from toilets or walls where urine could accumulate to make black powder. Author's Note].

Sosuke Harada also told Arao Seiki that, according to his understanding, the Qianguo army had begun to replace black powder with a kind of "Lin's gunpowder" as a shell charge for the navy and army.

And the formula of "Lin's gunpowder" was made by Lin Yiqing, so this gunpowder is called "Lin's gunpowder".

Sosuke Harada believed that the Qianguo government's purchase of a large amount of stale toilet soil must have been used to make "Lin's gunpowder"!

Hearing Sosuke Harada's account, Arao Seiki couldn't help but be very nervous, and he was worried that Japan would lose the future war with Qianguo because of gunpowder. Sosuke Harada told him that Japan had now succeeded in developing a new type of gunpowder with "great power" and had secretly equipped it with the Japanese Navy.

Sosuke Harada, on the other hand, was anxious to understand the recipe of the "Hayashi gunpowder" in the Qianguo Kingdom in order to test its power and how it compared with the new gunpowder in Japan.

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