Chapter 376: Money Is Not Enough

"Let's talk about it later, first help Sun Aiqing to go down to rest and recuperate, and immediately send the imperial doctor to show him, and directly use the gold sore medicine from the imperial dining room!"

Zhu Youzhen said and turned to look at Sun Heding:

"I only know one thing about how to surrender this glycerin trinitrate, and it is also taught by Taizu Meng, it is called the warm method, and I don't know how to use the heating method, you can think about it slowly, don't worry, now the main task of your Gunpowder Bureau is the production of cotton wool. Books.com

Zhu Youzhen really did not know the method of making high explosives trinitrotoluene by the warm method, after all, he was not Nobel himself, but he only knew that the textbook mentioned that Nobel successfully made trinitrotoluene by the warm method, and later continued to improve the skills of gunpowder, until he was finally hailed as the "father of explosives".

As for the method of warmth, he is not a chemistry major, and the manufacture of explosives in later generations is also a very sensitive matter, so he naturally cannot know its secrets.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen can expect that although Sun Heding produced nitroglycerin, it does not mean that the time for Daming to be on the market of yellow high explosives will be shortened, and there is still a long way to go.

However, Zhu Youzhen hoped that Sun Heding and others from the Gunpowder Bureau of the Ming Ordnance Institute could explore.

However, the development of high explosives is a very dangerous work, and it is not destined to be a simple accident from the beginning, Sun Heding can be shocked to a little deaf and relatively light, as far as Zhu Youzhen knows, Nobel also lost the lives of his family members in researching explosives.

But no matter how dangerous it is, someone has to try it, if the gunpowder is not improved, the hot weapon cannot completely crush the cold weapon, and the cavalry will still not be eliminated.

After all, black powder is still an important factor affecting the development of firearms, and the phenomenon of blocking the barrel and leaving residue still exists.

"Protect the scene, from now on, no one is allowed to approach within a radius of 100 steps here, send soldiers to guard day and night, and when Sun Heding recovers, he will clean it up by himself, and then send one of his most powerful and trusted students to accompany him, and order Sun Heding, saying that it is my will, and he will pass on all the data and experimental records for making nitroglycerin to his most trusted students!"

Zhu Youzhen protected the scene and asked Sun Heding to hand over the data to his most trusted students, so naturally he wanted Sun Heding to clearly record the data of the explosion and pass it on to others, so as to prevent him from blowing himself up one day.

And Sun Heding couldn't blow it up by himself, and the process of developing high explosives in the Ming Dynasty was also blocked.

As for the fire cotton, it is nitrocellulose, and it is also a material obtained by Sun Heding after washing the cotton with sulfuric acid and nitric acid, which is also a substance that can explode violently, and as long as it is impacted, it will explode, and more importantly, it will not leave residue after the explosion, which is different from black powder.

Because of this, this nitrocell fiber is very suitable for propellants, and it is precisely because of its appearance that Bi Maokang was able to manufacture the rear-loading Chongzhen 21 flintlock pistol.

Although the Chongzhen 19 type flintlock pistol is still front-loaded, the use of nitrocellulose as propellant can also save the process of cleaning the chamber after a round, saving a lot of time for the battle.

However, in Daming, the output of nitrocellulose is still not high, mainly because nitrified fiber needs nitric acid and sulfuric acid.

The production of nitric acid and sulfuric acid in Daming is limited, which also makes the current production of nitrocellulose in Daming not high, which is why the Chongzhen 17-style flintlock pistol has not been completely eliminated.

The chemical industry is based on three acids and two alkalis, namely nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, caustic soda and soda.

Now Daming has established a number of such workshops in Jiangning Town, which are in charge of Wang Gong Factory, but the output is still not high, and it also needs to be further improved by technicians.

But no matter what, the emergence of nitrocellulose still makes Daming's chemical industry completely lead the world.

Because he brought not only the change of the firearm propellant but also the change of the way the gun was loaded and fired, in addition, the firing power of weapons such as earthquake thunder and mines can also be enhanced, but the nitrified fiber detonation speed is too fast, generally speaking, now the Ming Dynasty will be made into propellant after it is treated with ethanol and petroleum ether.

But this also means that the output of nitrocellulose will be lower, the cost will be higher, no matter how generous Zhu Youzhen is, he can't afford to let hundreds of thousands of troops use nitrocellulose as explosives for a while, and he can only meet the use of the propellant of Chongzhen's nineteen-style flintlock pistol.

Before leaving the Ordnance Institute, Zhu Youzhen summoned all the academicians, supervisors, students, craftsmen, and workers of the entire Daming Ordnance Institute to the square, and made an impassioned speech.

In the eyes of the outside world, this place is just a habit of His Majesty the Emperor, which has made hundreds of thousands of people gather here to live here, making all kinds of tricks and tricks.

But only Zhu Youzhen knows that this is the biggest reason for him to change the empire and control the empire, every new thing that appears here is enough to change the way of life in this world, this is the farthest place to see in the entire Ming Dynasty and even the world, and the people here are also the most important talents in the Ming Dynasty and even the world.

Zhu Youjian's Daming Ordnance Institute as the military base of the Ming Dynasty is not only because of the technological research and development and theoretical knowledge beyond this era, but also because the cultivation and management of talents is also unprecedented.

But in the military industrial base of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen was directly led by him, the emperor, to determine the official status of scientific researchers, so that they can carry out this work full-time, and also opened the patent application and protection system, especially the establishment of the subject application system, as long as the scientific researchers or teams have any ideas, they can apply to the imperial court for project funds, and the imperial court funds are directly provided with economic support, and sometimes political support is provided.

This is also why Sun Heding is anxious to find Zhu Youzhen to apply for project funding, and sometimes Zhu Youzhen will also propose some scientific research plans by the imperial court, such as what research topics are needed, there will be a special scientific research team to apply to undertake this project.

Basically, scientific research talents can know that they can earn rich wealth by engaging in these skills, and they will also get official status.

Zhu Youzhen even directly said that from Chongzhen 20 years ago, the annual royal gold and silver medals and bronze awards will be selected at the end of each year to reward those who have made outstanding contributions in the field of scientific research this year, and the bonuses will range from 100,000 silver dollars to 10,000 silver dollars.

These scientific research talents present were naturally excited when they heard this, and although Zhu Youzhen was also laughing, he was also thinking that he was throwing money into science and technology and education so crazy, and he didn't know what the Ming Empire could afford, after all, the empire at this time had to face two wars at the same time.

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