Chapter 56: Nitric Acid and Picric Acid
Hearing Xu Shouchang's affirmative reply, Fang Xiaoyu stood up with a smile and said, "Since you have all decided to return to the Lanfang Empire with me to develop your own careers, then let's have a toast here first, and wish everyone all smooth sailing and do the next great cause in their respective fields that will be admired by future generations." They all stood up, raised their glasses, and blessed each other loudly.
Xu Shouchang moved very quickly, he said goodbye to his mentor Dietman the next day, resigned from his job at the Naval Design Institute, packed up and followed Fang Xiaoyu. The area of the Western Continent is not large, Fang Xiaoyu estimated that as long as he was in the Mediterranean, his own scan could cover most of the territory of the Western Continent, so Fang Xiaoyu no longer traveled to other countries, but chose to return to China.
Fang Xiaoyu has been traveling for a long time, and he must go back to China to prepare. There are still many things to do in the country, not only do he have to carry out commercial cooperation between the counties of the East China Sea and Lanting Villa, but also take over twelve shipyards, and he also has to secretly immigrate to the wild continent in order to develop there as soon as possible, and at the same time, the establishment of the Ocean Company is also on the agenda.
Fang Xiaoyu's supply ship bypassed the Tbilisi Peninsula where the Kingdom of Sero and the Grand Duchy of Rees were located and began to enter the Mediterranean, and after entering the Mediterranean, the exuberant energy of the four Teslas finally ended due to seasickness. Fang Xiaoyu, who had been pestered by the four of them to ask questions, finally breathed a sigh of relief, he finally had time to enjoy the humid sea breeze and warm sunbathing of the Mediterranean.
The practice of Bajiquan has not fallen, and Fang Xiaoyu will take the members of the Iron Blood Guard to practice for an hour every day. After a punch, Fang Xiaoyu, who was already drenched in sweat, leaned lazily on the recliner, seemingly asleep, but in fact he was communicating with Xiaofeng. Ever since he had used the gold of the Barren Hill Dwarves on the Savage Continent to raise Xiao Feng to level three, he hadn't asked about Xiao Feng's changes, and he hadn't used anything other than that scan with a radius of six thousand kilometers.
"Xiaofeng, after the chip is upgraded to level three, what changes have been made in terms of function?" Fang Xiaoyu asked. "Research capacity increased by 1,300%, equipment library area increased by 10,000%, scanning radius increased by 1,000%, and new features were unlocked."
"Got a new feature? What is that? Fang Xiaoyu was a little surprised, this was a bit unexpected for him. Xiao Feng said: "Basically, every new level will be opened, the first few levels are to open the device library, and the later levels are some practical functions. Fang Xiaoyu said excitedly: "What is the new feature?" Xiaofeng said: "The chip adds a remote link function. ”
"Explain to me what this feature is for." Xiaofeng explains: "The remote link function is to link the device library to any place, and in the absence of the owner, let the person designated by the owner take out a specific thing from the link point. ”
Listening to Xiao Feng's explanation made Fang Xiaoyu excited, this function is really practical, Fang Xiaoyu is worried about developing the Wild Continent, after all, if agriculture is developed there, it will be too troublesome for the seeds to be transported from himself, if the Wild Continent needs to be developed on a large scale, the seeds used are not a little bit.
Another convenient condition is like this trip to the Western Continent, in order not to delay the production of the villa, Fang Xiaoyu stored a large number of seeds and secret ingredients for fast food restaurants in the warehouse at one time, if there is this function, Fang Xiaoyu can not have to be so troublesome, he can replenish the required items for the villa at any time, and can even directly provide goods for Wu Yu who operates in the Western Continent from Lanting Villa, and there is no lag in time.
Just as Fang Xiaoyu and Xiaofeng were discussing how to apply the new function and study how to distribute the points, Fang Xiaoyu felt that someone was pushing him. Exiting the chip, Fang Xiaoyu opened his eyes and found that Elena, who was dressed in a white dress, was bent down and pushed Fang Xiaoyu's shoulder and whispered, "Young Master has eaten." ”
As soon as Fang Xiaoyu opened his eyes, he happened to see the V-shaped cleavage in Elena's open neckline, which had begun to take shape, and the white flowers shook Fang Xiaoyu's eyes straight. Seeing Fang Xiaoyu's dull gaze and drooling pig brother, Elena looked in the direction of his eyes and found that she was gone. She straightened up with an "ah" and covered her neckline with her hands, her face flushed. Fang Xiaoyu scratched his head in embarrassment, and changed the topic with Ha Luha: "Huh? Elena, this dress of yours seems to have been bought in the Fang family's ready-to-wear shop. ”
Elena was really distracted, and she was surprised: "How do you know the way?" Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Almost all the styles of clothes in the Fang family's ready-to-wear shop are designed by me, of course I know the way." Elena was surprised: "Really? Every time a new style is made in that garment shop, Miss Xia Tingwei will buy it, and this one of mine is given to me by Miss Xia Tingwei. ”
Fang Xiaoyu regretted it when he heard it, he had designed some low-cut outfits when he knew that Lu Dao was so eye-catching, but Elena was only sixteen years old and had such a scale, and the development prospects were very impressive. Thinking about the future sexual well-being life all the way, Fang Xiaoyu followed Elena to the restaurant, where Tesla and the other four were already eating with Liu Junxi.
The chef that Fang Xiaoyu brought on the boat was personally trained by him, and the dishes he cooked were definitely delicious that Tesla and others had never eaten, so although they were a little seasick, they definitely didn't miss this meal. At this time, Holland, who was still a little pale due to seasickness, was concentrating on dealing with the garlic chicken wings and braised pork on his plate.
Fang Xiaoyu glanced at him and said, "Huo Lan, I really doubt that you are really seasick and can actually eat such a greasy dish." Huo Lan's mouth was already stuffed, and he couldn't speak, he just rolled his eyes at Fang Xiaoyu in protest. Xu Shouchang next to him said with a smile: "He won't eat less even if he vomits after eating, in fact, I'm the same, I really don't know which big restaurant hired your chef, and he actually has such a good craft, why haven't I heard of it when I was in the Lanfang Empire." ”
Liu Junxi next to him said: "This chef was trained by the young master, and these dishes and the seasonings used are all from the young master's hands. Benz said, "Is this true?" Dear Fang Zhen, I don't know what else you won't do. ”
Fang Xiaoyu picked up a piece of roasted eggplant with chopsticks and said, "Someone has asked me this before, but apart from giving birth, I really can't think of anything I can't do." It's a pity that all of them mean that none of them are proficient, so I need experts like you who are proficient in one subject to do specific research. ”
At this time, Huo Lan finally swallowed the meat in his mouth, he took a sip of wine to moisten his throat and said, "Dear Fang, I think you can conquer the world as long as you use your cooking skills. For Holland's words, everyone here agreed with them. Tesla, who had already finished eating, wiped his mouth with a napkin and suddenly asked, "Dear Fang, what are those vats of liquid that you bought?" Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "It's nothing, it's just some nitric acid and picric acid in that bucket." ”
As soon as Fang Xiaoyu finished speaking, Benz on the side raised his head strangely and said, "Bitter sour? Do you want to dye cloth or clothes? Why do you buy so much yellow dye? Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile; I'm not in the mood to dye cloth, I just want to turn them into exploding shells. Tesla said, "Is this also your discovery?" Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Even if it's it, anyway, I haven't heard of anyone else doing this before." ”
In the current world, whether it is the Eastern Continent or the Western Continent, there is only black powder, which is too powerful as a cannonball charge, too much smoke as a propellant, and a lot of residue, so that the cannon must be cleaned up after each launch. Even Fang Xiaoyu's lever-operated rifle will have to clean the chamber after a while because of too much debris, which greatly affects the rate of fire of the rifle.
In the past, Fang Xiaoyu wanted to find alternative products. It's a pity that his knowledge of chemistry is only at the level of high school, and Xiao Feng's research starts from a very basic aspect, which is useless for a while, and there is almost no chemical industry in the Eastern Continent, so Fang Xiaoyu has nowhere to start.
This time, when he was shopping in the Western Continent, he suddenly discovered that a local yellow dye was actually picric acid. This picric acid is trinitrophenol, although the explosive power of this explosive is not strong, it can produce thousands of degrees of flame accompanied by yellow toxic smoke, so Fang Xiaoyu bought a lot of yellow dye in the name of dye and moved it to the ship, planning to go back and make it into an incendiary bomb.
Nitric acid is also very useful, Fang Xiaoyu remembered that he had read in a book that cotton stained with nitric acid is nitrocellulose, that is, smokeless gunpowder, and then adding passivating agent can replace black powder as propellant. Smokeless gunpowder not only burns quickly and has little residue, but the most important thing is that it does not produce thick smoke like black powder, so as not to affect the line of sight after firing a few shots.