Fu Qin starts with a plan

Chapter 238 Don't Say It Out
Because the Li family was dealt with, all the major families in Pinyang cooperated with Chen Ping's work very much.

Zhao Kun's trick of "killing chickens to scare monkeys" also achieved the expected effect.

However, there is still a long way to go to win the world.

And the most important way is the development of new weapons.

The so-called political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Since ancient times, there has been no action to seize power that does not require force.

With the experience of making explosives and fuel bombs, the military factory's research on thermal weapons is officially on the right track.

Because Han Xin is in charge of the military factory, Zhao Kun only brought Han Xin to inspect the military factory this time.

On the way to the military factory, the carriage bumped so badly that Zhao Kun felt that his bones were about to fall apart.

This shows that the location of the military factory is very secretive, and it is difficult to be found without someone to guide it.

After all, it is a rugged mountain road.

After walking for more than an hour, Zhao Kun's carriage stopped in front of a tower, and the surrounding security was very strict.

But when they saw Han Xin, they were very respectful.

After entering the military factory, Zhao Kun discovered that the so-called military factory is actually similar to a weapon workshop. Except for the architectural style of concrete and masonry, there are very few workers.

However, there is no way around this. Most of the craftsmen are concentrated in the central military building of the Qin State. Most of the craftsmen here are trained by villagers, blacksmiths, and carpenters of Qiankou Village.

Fortunately, although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs. In the entire military factory workshop, the division of labor is very clear.

Each weapon is forged in a different area, and the forging process is becoming more and more mature.

Mold making, pouring, cooling, and polishing are all assembly line operations, without any chaos and order.

Zhao Kun looked at everything in front of him without saying a word. This was his first and last visit to the military factory before leaving Pinyang, so he looked at it very seriously.

After seeing the entire military factory, Gong Shuchou walked over with a smile.

"My lord is coming, I'm sorry to welcome you!"

"Sir, are you still used to being here?" Zhao Kun took a step forward, falsely supporting Gong Shuqiu who was about to salute.

"Thank you for taking me in, young master, for giving the villain the opportunity to study, but unfortunately I don't have time to make alchemy for young master, I am really ashamed."

Gongshuchou stood up straight and said with some shame.

Zhao Kun rolled his eyes in his heart, but said with a smile on his mouth: "Mr. is a great talent, you must know that alchemy is only a way, and science is the way."

"Science Avenue?"

Gongshuchou stroked his beard, murmured thoughtfully in his heart.

At this time, Han Xin suddenly interjected: "Mr. Gongshu is refining kerosene, is your son free to go and have a look?"

"kerosene?"

Zhao Kun was taken aback for a moment, and immediately remembered something, and said to the public: "Sir, you have mastered the method of refining kerosene?"

"Thanks to my son's advice, the villain discovered the new term boiling point!"

Gongshuchou smiled, nodded and said, "The villain pours fierce oil into the pot and heats it up. Different boiling points produce different oils."

"Oh?" Zhao Kun looked surprised, and then he was overjoyed: "Sir, you are really a genius, you have mastered the method so quickly, take me to see it."

When making fuel bombs, Zhao Kun used fierce kerosene, which is crude oil.

Although there is no crude oil mine in Pinyang, Qin State has a crude oil mining department, which is Shaofu.

As the first emperor's pocketbook, the Shaofu is in charge of land taxes for mountains, rivers, and land. As long as things in the mountains and fields can make money, they will be involved.

Crude oil is one of them.

It's just that the Qin people used crude oil in a very simple way, that is, to burn it directly.

Zhao Kun was able to get the crude oil thanks to that Shaojian Su. If he hadn't wanted to curry favor with him, the crude oil would definitely not have been sold to Zhao Kun. After all, it was a military supply.

With the processing of crude oil, half of the chemical issues are basically solved. As for various additives, we will not consider it for the time being.

This is also impossible, as it was the condition in ancient times.

When the three of Zhao Kun came to the backyard of the military factory, the fire was already burning.

The billowing smoke makes people around frown frequently, and the process of refining crude oil will always emit some unpleasant smells.

Workers close to the boiler can only wrap sackcloth around their mouths and noses to prevent toxic substances from being inhaled into the lung cavity.

It was only at this time that Zhao Kun discovered that when he came to this world, he did not mean that if he wanted to develop industry, he would be able to develop industry.

It's like a gas mask, without rubber, it can't do anything at all.

Even if there is a method for making rubber in the encyclopedia, the conditions for making rubber cannot be met at all.

Looking at the workers who were coughing and suffering from the smoke, Zhao Kun began to retreat a little bit.

He wondered if he was too impatient?

Industry is a huge system, without corresponding development, how can such reckless work work?

Just when Zhao Kun was frowning, the first pot of fierce fire oil had been refined.

Immediately afterwards, the second altar and the third altar were also refined one after another.

The workers around watched Gong Shuchou extract a few things like a magic trick, and they all showed surprised expressions.

Gong Shuchou didn't bother to talk to them, and didn't stop refining until there was only sticky asphalt left in the pot.

"My lord, look quickly, the kerosene has been refined!" Han Xin reminded excitedly beside Zhao Kun.

"Have you refined it?"

Zhao Kun came back to his senses, put down his hand covering his mouth, walked over to check, and found that the oil in the jar was yellow and white smoke was rising.

"This……"

Zhao Kun hesitated for a moment, then tore off the corner of his clothes casually, stirred it in the jar, took it to his nose and smelled it, and said with a smile: "It really is kerosene!"

"Counting today's jars, we have refined more than 20 jars of kerosene!"

Gong Shuchou, with his messy hair and black forehead, walked over with a smile.

Looking at his appearance, Zhao Kun couldn't help laughing, but also felt admiration. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "There are more than 20 altars that are enough, and there is no need to refine them for now!"

"Ah? Why is that?"

The smile on Gongshuchou's face suddenly faded, and he looked at Zhao Kun with some puzzlement.

Han Xin also looked sideways at Zhao Kun, and said, "My lord, are you worried about the source of crude oil?"

"No."

Zhao Kun shook his head and said, "I'm worried about the hazards of refining crude oil. You have also seen it just now. When refining crude oil, thick smoke billows and is often inhaled, which is harmful to the body!"

"Before there are no protective measures, crude oil refining should be temporarily put on hold and research on firearms is the right way."

"This……"

Gongshuchou and Han Xin looked at each other, looking at each other in blank dismay.

Zhao Kun looked at them and grinned: "Now that kerosene is out, it seems that lighters can also be made for fun!"

"lighter?"

Han Xin and Gong Shuchou looked at Zhao Kun curiously.

Zhao Kun threw away the cloth strip in his hand and asked, "Do you still have the catkins we made last time?"

"some."

Gongshuchou nodded and said, "There are still a lot of them in the warehouse."

"Okay, then I'll make you a lighter."

Zhao Kun walked into the ironware workshop eager to try.

Then direct the blacksmith to build the lighter body, and cut the flint by the way.

When the catkins arrived, he asked Han Xin to crush the catkins into pieces to absorb kerosene.

Immediately afterwards, he taught Gong Shuchou to make an ignition device.

The most critical part of this ignition device is the grinding wheel, which can only be ground by hand due to limited conditions.

When all the accessories were finished, Zhao Kun started to assemble them in front of everyone.

As the kerosene soaked into the catkins and gradually merged with the wick, Zhao Kun flicked the grinding wheel, and suddenly a cluster of flames ignited.

Seeing Han Xin and others was taken aback.

"My lord, is this the lighter you mentioned?" Gong Shuchou came to check first.

The rest of the people also scrambled to surround them.

Zhao Kun smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, this is a lighter."

"Hey, this is much more convenient than flint and steel!" A worker looked at the flame of the lighter and smiled in surprise.

Another worker also echoed: "Yes, yes, much better than flint and steel!"

Seeing that everyone was very interested in lighters, Zhao Kun looked around and said, "If you like it, you can make it yourself. I will give you the drawings and production methods."

"But don't let it out!"

"Really? That's great! Don't worry, my lord, we will never leak it!"

"Hahaha, thank you son! Master Wanfu!"

"Okay, okay, let's go to work!"

Zhao Kun waved his hand, and the workers happily retreated.

Han Xin looked at the lighter in Zhao Kun's hand, hesitant to speak.Unlike those workers, he can make things he likes, so he can only look at Zhao Kun helplessly.

Zhao Kun shook his head amusedly, and threw the lighter to him casually: "Here, this is Daqin's first lighter."

"Hey, thank you, young master." Han Xin chuckled, carefully took the lighter, and couldn't put it down.

Gong Shuchou looked at him enviously, and then asked Zhao Kun, "Master, are these 20 jars of kerosene used to make lighters?"

"Um……"

Zhao Kun thought for a while and said, "Use a few jars to make lighters, and use the rest to make fuel bombs, but store them carefully. This kerosene is easier to catch fire than kerosene."

"And it's more likely to explode."

"Okay, I will let people handle it carefully." Gongshuchou nodded, and said as if remembering something: "The test product of the artillery has been made, do you want to go and have a look?"

"Okay, let's go!"

Zhao Kun casually agreed, and went to the artillery experiment field with Gong Shuchou.

Artillery is an indispensable unit of equipment in future wars, and has the reputation of "God of War" on the battlefield.

If the artillery can be successfully developed, the conventional war has already been won before it starts.

Therefore, the development of artillery is very important, even more important than muskets.

Gongshuchou's cannon was made of iron, and it exploded after just two test shots.

Later, it was switched to a bronze barrel, and after a few test shots, it exploded again.

Although they all failed, failure is success, as long as you experiment more, you will always succeed.

The advantage of a feudal society is that as long as you have power in your hands, you can order others to do anything without worrying about it.

Zhao Kun felt a little funny when he thought of the expression on Gongshuchou's self-blaming expression when he left.

In fact, he is already very powerful, but he has higher demands on himself.

But there is no rush to make artillery, after all, it is a process from scratch.

.........

After returning from the inspection of the military factory, it was already past the meal time, but the cook in the mansion did not stop cooking for Zhao Kun because it was past the meal time.

But before the meal was eaten, the maids in the mansion froze again.Zhao Kun had no choice but to go to the backyard first.

As soon as I arrived in the backyard, I saw a crying one.

"What's going on here? Who bullied you?" Zhao Kun was confused and asked several maidservants.

"My lord, you have to be the master of the maidservants!"

When a servant girl saw Zhao Kun, she knelt down with a 'plop', sobbing until she was crying, and said, "Since we came back after the Chinese New Year, this mansion has lost the king's law. The servant girls are really miserable. !"

"Woooooo-"

Hearing this, Zhao Kun almost laughed out loud, but he held back no matter how funny it was, so he said with a straight face: "What's going on, let's tell the truth."

"It's Peach Blossom." The sobbing servant girl raised her head and said, "Young Master is not here, Peach Blossom is lawless."

"Peach blossom?"

Zhao Kun blinked, suddenly thought of something, sat down and asked, "You mean, Taohua bullied you when I was away?"

"The servants came to the mansion before her, but relying on her martial arts skills, she always pointed fingers at the servants and beat them if they disagreed with each other."

"That's right, this young master's room was cleaned by servants in the past, but when the peach blossoms came, the servants were not allowed to enter the young master's room." Another maid couldn't help but complained.

"The peach blossoms are so beautiful, the size of a punching sandbag, the maidservants are no match for her, they are really bullying."

"Look, my lord." One of the maids rolled up her sleeves to show Zhao Kun: "There are several bruises here, some were pinched by peach blossoms, and some were pushed and fell by her."

Zhao Kun took a closer look and found that there were a few bruises, thinking that this peach blossom was going crazy.

Although he kept her in the mansion, the maids in the mansion were all "senior" who came before her, how could they beat others at will?This is really the "Palace of Compassion and Peace"!

"It's still light." The maid who rolled up her sleeves saw that Zhao Kun's face was not good, and said with infinite grievances: "Some sisters were almost bald because their hair was pulled by Taohua."

Hearing the word "bald", it seemed that it hurt the heart of the other maids who couldn't get married, and they all cried harder than before.

Especially the servant girl who was kneeling on the ground, covered her face with her handkerchief, and said inarticulately: "Taohua's atrocities to the maidservants, the maidservants have endured before, now that the young master is back, I hope the young master will be the master for us. "

As soon as these words came out, all the maids knelt down and cried, as if they had been treated inhumanly.

At first, Zhao Kun thought they were united to deal with the new peach blossoms, but seeing them crying and posing in different ways, Zhao Kun couldn't help but convince Zhao Kun.

After pondering for a moment, Zhao Kun immediately restrained his smile, and shouted with a serious face: "How courageous!"

As soon as the words fell, the maids looked up at Zhao Kun with tears in their eyes.

Those eyes seemed to be looking at Master Qingtian.

Zhao Kun coughed lightly, frowned and said, "Bring the peach blossoms, I will uphold justice for you today."

"Thank you, son!"

When the maids heard Zhao Kun's words, they got up happily and saluted, and then ran to find Peach Blossom.

Looking at the backs of the maids, Zhao Kun was thoughtful, and always felt that this matter was a bit strange.

Well done, why doesn't Taohua let the maids into her house?Could it be that there is something shady in the house?

Or, what secret did Taohua discover?
Thinking of this, Zhao Kun narrowed his eyes slightly, turned and entered the room.

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(End of this chapter)