"The Empire is ushering in an era of war! And what did we worship for the war? No! The gunpowder that His Majesty the Emperor wanted, we have worked hard for more than ten years, and now there is no whereabouts! This is our shame! It's my shame, and it's everyone's shame! If we can complete this research, the Empire will be invincible! Not...... The empire is invincible, but we can make the sacrifice of the imperial team greatly reduced, but look at us, what have we done in the past ten years? ”

The wars in the West, Tianzhu and the Western Regions boiled the hearts of a country and made the British and Chinese warriors raise their eyebrows, but in the hall of the Institute of Chemistry of the Tiandao Academy in Luofu Mountain, Nanjing, everyone was full of sadness, listening to their mountain chief reprimand in a strange Chinese voice.

"For more than 10 years, we have become small traders and hawkers! Soap, matches, lamp oil, we, noble alchemists, are spinning around the butts of the little citizens! Oh, and it's not just ass, our venerable gentleman has spent three years researching how to make a hybrid out of rubber......"

The mountain chief is blonde and blue-eyed, and he is actually a foreigner, this person is the French chemist Lu Shengdi, who came to Yinghua twelve years ago. Over the past ten years, Lu Shengdi has won the recognition of the upper echelons and colleagues with Europa's systematic and meticulous analysis methods, and while introducing the Europa scientific analysis system into Yinghua, he has also obtained rich returns from Yinghua.

The people of Luofu Mountain are accustomed to Lu Shengdi's wild spray, and when it comes to the indissoluble relationship between the mixed element set and rubber, everyone also let out an ambiguous and sighing chuckle. It was the researcher who was full of color and used his brain on rubber, and God also sent luck to make him "accidentally" throw the rubber mixed element blank in the test into the sulfur fumigation furnace, and it was found that the rubber fumigated by sulfur gas had a significant increase in hardness and elongation, so the scope of application of rubber was also greatly expanded. The researcher not only won the "Heavenly Dao Award" that year, but also got the preferential treatment of the hybrid set production factory: the mixed element set was provided free of charge for life.

The use of rubber in hybrid sleeves is only a trivial matter, and countless fields such as wheels and mechanical valves have been completely innovated due to the improvement of rubber. The application of various types of rubber pipes in medical treatment, people's livelihood, industry and military has become ubiquitous, and the area of Nanyang rubber tree plantations is doubling every year. Just like the improvement of rubber, many of the achievements of the Institute of Chemistry were achieved by accident, and most of them were used to benefit ordinary social life.

Lu Shengdi's wild spray almost wiped out the contribution of the Institute of Chemistry to the scientific and technological take-off of Yinghua in the past ten years. In addition to scientific analysis methods, the Institute of Chemistry has discovered a large number of new compounds, and has also perfected the preparation process of chemical basics such as nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, and soda ash. At the same time, the use of acid and alkali compounds has improved the process of metal smelting, papermaking, printing and dyeing, printing and other industries. Not long ago, the research institute has just completed the research on nickel smelting, and together with the Iron and Steel Research Institute, it has begun to study the process of nickel-copper alloy smelting, and is preparing to use nickel-copper alloy to mint small coins. Replace traditional copper coins.

These achievements of the Institute of Chemistry have never been overlooked, and the emperor has been paying attention to and affirming the work of the institute through the central court and the state through the general supervisor. The large amount of research funds and high project bonuses every year also stimulate the institute to constantly innovate and study the so-called "small businessmen and hawkers" technology in Lu Shengdi's mouth.

But Lu Shengdi sprayed correctly, the institute has always felt guilty, and the subject handed over by the emperor: stable and reliable gunpowder has not been available. And more distant research, gunpowder that is more powerful than black powder. In addition to some signs of signs, it is also difficult to enter the practical research stage. ..., twenty years of the Holy Way will pass, as Lu Shengdi said. The empire is in an all-out war, and if the institute cannot prove itself in the war, the emperor and the empire may consider reforming the current scientific research model, for example, allowing those folk chemical factories that already have a considerable scale, as well as the chemistry departments of various colleges to participate in national projects, which is really heavy as Mount Tai's pressure for the research institute that has always been free of food and clothing.

"Expand the scope of sulfide research, and the sulfur route will surely win!"

"The yellow phosphorus route can be further improved! This is the most promising direction at the moment! ”

"The Thundermercury route is correct! It's just that the purity issue needs to be addressed. We must find a way to further purification! ”

Lu Shengdi revealed the scars of the institute, and the three branch research groups jumped up and declared their justice.

Lu Shengdi was not a genius, he was just an ordinary chemist in France, and his expertise was still in scientific analysis methods and laboratory systems. After he brought these two sets of things to Yinghua, the chemists trained in Yinghua were the ones who really picked up apples.

Their emperor was known for three hundred years. Even more than three hundred years later chemical blindness, not only casually said the term "thunder mercury", but even knew that the reaction of nitric acid with mercury to obtain mercury nitrate, and then with anhydrous alcohol to synthesize mercury thunderate, that is, mercury thunder.

From nitric acid to anhydrous alcohol, it is still a laboratory product, and the industrialization of raw materials must be solved before we can talk about the industrialization of thundermercury. At the same time, the mercury obtained from this process is still gray thunder, and in order to ensure the reliability of the military level, it is necessary to purify it again to obtain white thunder mercury, which is not known to the emperor.

Therefore, although the emperor came up with this concept more than ten years ago, the Institute of Chemistry still failed to turn it into an industrial product, and encountered a series of setbacks in the research, and the institute had to carry out several routes of research at the same time.

"We need to see results as soon as possible, we can't do it anymore, and since the only thing left is purification, the institute should devote all its resources to this route. Gentlemen! This is a time of solidarity and we can no longer think only about personal honor and interests! ”

Lu Shengdi is going to fight, and the chemists of the institute are also working together, and it will not work if they don't fight, Lu Shengdi's plan has been unanimously recognized by the institute, and the law that war is the first driving force of science and technology has been verified again.

The reason for Lu Shengdi's life is not only the war, but also the sense of belonging.

He is facing "political censorship" by the head of the prison, Tian Daiyu, because the French are playing a dishonorable role in Tianzhu, and he must show practical results to dispel Tian Dayu's suspicions of the French.

"Fleury's stupid pig must have been fooled by the Britannies!"

Thinking of his situation, Lu Shengdi was full of anger and slandered French Prime Minister Fleury all day long.

This stems from the conclusion of the Third Battle of Ceylon, in which the British were defeated. Having withdrawn from the Indian Ocean, it is estimated that in the foreseeable future, it will no longer have the strength to compete with the British and Chinese for India. Even if the Britons go mad and send half of their battleships to the Indian Ocean. In the face of the Anglo-Chinese Navy of comparable size, there is no chance of victory.

The British government was so shocked by this defeat that it had no time to respond to the British and Chinese except to oust Walpole from power. But the British East India Company, having lost its foothold, reacted swiftly and did something immoral, or rather prepared for it, by selling the French......

The British East India Company through the personal channels of the company's envoy Popper. The Anglo-Chinese government was informed of the informal contract between the British government and the French government, and the British East India Company and the French East India Company had a formal cooperation agreement, that is, the two sides would work together to resist the Anglo-Chinese "aggression" against India, and on this basis, the two sides would divide India. ..., I don't know if the Britons were too skilled in fooling around, or the French were anxious about the war for the Polish throne at the time and wanted to maintain a certain state of peace with the British, or the French Prime Minister Fleury was dissatisfied with the Anglo-Chinese religious policy of never opening up Roman Catholicism. If the Anglo-Chinese gain access to the whole of India, the spread of the Gospel will take a big step back in Asia, and the Holy See will exert more pressure on Fleury, who is a cardinal. In a word...... The French, in spite of the many years of friendly relations with the British and Chinese, and the fact that a partition agreement had been reached in India, brazenly prepared to expel the British and Chinese together with the British.

Unfortunately, the Britons failed so completely that the French were sold by the Britons before they could carry out the betrayal.

After the Third Battle of Ceylon, the French were desperate to "recover" Madras and Fort Saint-David, but were stopped by the blood-red twin dragon banner hanging there. At that time, Jia Hao and others did not know about the conspiracy between the French and the British, but they acted purely on the rule of "who pays, who gets". And when the French severely accused the British and Chinese of breaking the contract, the Western Protectorate received information from the British. Hu Hanshan, who was furious, led 20 battleships and two battalions of Fubo troops to force the French in Puducherry in India, and asked the French to "give an explanation", and the French panicked.

There is a Battle of Pondicherry in the French history books, boasting that the Indian Ocean Fleet was outnumbered by Seris. However, in Anglo-Chinese historical sources, the battle that took place in the waters of Puducherry was nothing more than a small "conflict". Six French battleships tried to seize the harbor and fled, but one was destroyed by the Anglo-Chinese battleships, and the rest did not dare to move again.

The conflict in the Indian Ocean soon spilled over into the political and economic spheres, with the French in China being closely monitored and required to undergo regular scrutiny.

This was the source of Lu Shengdi's troubles, so he began to seriously consider whether he should exchange his French nationality for Serisian nationality.

"But I am French after all, I love my country, I love my nation, how can I change my nationality?"

At night, Lu Shengdi hesitated to write, he was about to write the application, but such a thought flashed in his mind, and the originally light quill was as heavy as a lead bar.

Human beings have national boundaries, science has no national borders, and besides, no matter how much nationality changes, it cannot change the fact that it belongs to the French nation......

"For science! For all mankind! ”

Lu Shengdi's thinking didn't last long, and then he resolutely put pen to paper, and his eyes still flashed with tears of self-touching.

The Frenchman Lu Shengdi is not entangled in his nationality, and in the north, in the Forbidden City in the cold winter of December, a tangled debate is going on.

"Agriculture-oriented is the ancestral training of the Chinese dynasties, and it is also the foundation of my Qing Dynasty, blood can be shed, heads can be broken, and the law of the ancestors is immutable!"

"If the law is not changed, even the place for the ancestral tablet will be gone!"

"How is it possible to read the books of the sages and do bestial things at the same time? How should the hearts of the Chinese people be handled!? ”

"What do you do when you think about the hearts of the people? You just need to consider the full ...... No, the heart of the pillars! Han etiquette is just something that we Manchus use to whitewash a country, how can you talk about it, and even believe it yourself? ”

In the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, the ten-year-old Emperor Jiaqing sat timidly on the dragon chair, watching the princes and ministers in the palace quarrel endlessly, and when the quarrel was inextricable, the little emperor subconsciously turned his head to look behind him. Two beaded curtains hung high behind him, each covering a figure.

In the left bead curtain, the Empress Dowager Cichun has not spoken.

She had expected this controversy to erupt. The Qing Dynasty turned to a comprehensive turn, established the country with industry and commerce, and clinged to Yinghua industry and commerce in order to protect itself, which was not something she could accomplish with a word. The conservatives in the country continued to jump out to oppose it, and even in the court, they began to gather a force of the Qing school, using Taoism and rituals and the orthodoxy of sages to resist the turn of the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, Ru Xi tasted the feeling of grasping the authority of a country, and it was difficult to sleep and eat, but he also knew the taste of the marrow, just like the blessing of longevity, which made it difficult for people to give up.

Seeing that the noise in the hall had turned into a fight, Ru Xi coughed, although it was as low as a mosquito and a fly, the whole hall was instantly silent.

Ru Xi said leisurely: "The national policy must keep pace with the times, and the righteousness must also innovate ......" (to be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )