Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

The players who were discussing how to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the forum were poured cold water by the historian Fang Guoshou.

"Mid-Autumn Festival means reunion, and it became a legal holiday in the Song Dynasty."

"The Mid-Autumn Festival in the Tang Dynasty was called the Moon Worship Festival. It was just a small festival, not a legal festival of the Tang Dynasty."

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Datang's Mid-Autumn Festival is not a holiday! ?

For those players who have positions, this is simply a nightmare.

[Officials] Players have to complete work and attendance to get experience points. If the Mid-Autumn Festival is not a holiday, what kind of celebrations are there!
In Shazhou, Cui Ruoyun's laboratory.

Since her best friend Jian Xia and Jiang Lun established a relationship, Jian Xia was transferred to Shazhou City and set up a laboratory next door to Cui Ruoyun.

The dividends from many iron workshops in Guazhou Iron Works made Jian Xia a rich woman.

Even Cui Ruoyun often rubbed against her experimental equipment.

In Cui Ruoyun's experiment, Jian Xia's anger is accumulating.

"Ruoyun, what do you mean by that kid? He's going on a business trip for the Mid-Autumn Goddess Festival?"

Jian Xia was angrily gnawing on a steamed stuffed bun, and angrily said to Cui Ruoyun who was doing the experiment.

Putting down the test tube, Cui Ruoyun sighed.

Ever since Jian Xia moved to Shazhou and officially started dating Jiang Lun, she has lived a miserable life.

Cui Ruoyun ate dog food when the two were mixing oil with honey.

As soon as the two quarreled, Jian Xia rushed to Cui Ruoyun's laboratory to complain.

When they fall in love together, the one who gets hurt is themselves.

Cui Ruoyun asked: "Isn't there no holiday for Mid-Autumn Festival? Why has it become Goddess Festival again?"

Jian Xia immediately said: "Didn't Mr. Fang say that? Tang Mid-Autumn Festival is not a reunion festival, but it is also a festival."

"The current Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Moon Worship Festival, Chang'e Festival, which is a festival for women to worship the moon god."

"So it's not wrong to say that it's the Mid-Autumn Festival for Goddesses!"

Cui Ruoyun nodded, it was true that August [-]th in the Tang Dynasty was not a legal holiday for later generations.

But when the moon is bright during the Mid-Autumn Festival, women will participate in activities to worship Chang'e, the moon god in the sky.

Scholars who are interested in elegance will also gather together to enjoy the moon and drink.

That is to say, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Tang Dynasty is a folk festival with no holidays.

Jian Xia said: "Since it is a women's festival, the forum now proposes that the Mid-Autumn Festival be celebrated as a goddess's festival! Every player store has prepared promotional activities for female customers! Shazhou City will be very lively then!"

Cui Ruoyun usually doesn't like to visit forums, and she rolled her eyes after hearing this.

The elegant festival of worshiping the moon god and admiring the moon and drinking wine was unexpectedly turned into a women's shopping festival by these consumerist-minded players.

But that's good too, after two battles, Longyou also needs a carnival to celebrate.

Jian Xia said again: "That fellow Jiang Lun is going on a business trip, Ruoyun, please accompany me for the holidays!"

Cui Ruoyun glanced at Jian Xia and said, "Don't you have any experiments to do?"

Jian Xia said: "The ratio of the iron-manganese alloy is still being adjusted. This requires repeated experiments to get the data. I have asked my assistant to do it."

Cui Ruoyun snorted coldly, and continued to pick up the test tube in her hand.

Jian Xia came over and said, "What experiment are you still doing?"

"Nitrocellulose."

"Didn't it be done last time? Have you tried firing the cannon?"

After making nitrocellulose last time, Cui Ruoyun has already made smokeless gunpowder, and also held an experimental shooting at the artillery field near Shazhou.

King Jianning came to the artillery field in person to observe the test firing of the cannon, and then awarded a large sum of money to Cui Ruoyun's laboratory.

"Earlier, the process of large-scale manufacturing, the process of safe production, and the method of long-distance transportation all take time."

"Can't this be copied?"

"The specifications of future factories are all based on automated production. How do we copy them now?"

Jian Xia sighed helplessly and said: "Yeah, don't talk about computers, it would be nice to be able to make a steam engine."

"It is said that many players are already working on it, but the progress is still very slow."

Cui Ruoyun asked: "Is it because there is no rubber?"

Jian Xia said: "What rubber is not rubber? You don't really think that the piston of the steam engine will be sealed with rubber, right? Isn't it worn out after a few times of use? Besides, the steam engine does not need to be completely sealed, and rubber is not used to make steam engines. necessary materials."

"Huh? I thought the steam engine didn't make any progress because there was no rubber?"

Jian Xia shook her head and said, "The earliest models of steam engines didn't have rubber, including some early steam trains and steam ships, and they didn't use rubber seals either."

"Then why can't it be made?"

Jian Xia sighed: "It's still craftsmanship and materials."

"Let's not talk about craftsmanship. There is no lathe now, and parts that meet the standards must be made by hand."

"We mechanical dogs are nothing without CAD and automated machine tools. Do you know how long it takes to polish a cylinder by hand?!"

"The rudimentary machine that can draw water has been built, but it will take a lot of time to provide the power to drive a factory, or the steam engine that propels trains and ships."

Jian Xia nodded and said, "It's the same as I do chemical experiments. The results of the experiments are known, but the process of quantitative analysis is the most difficult. There is no way around it."

Jian Xia nodded: "I also hope that the steam engine can be built as soon as possible. Water hammering is too inefficient. If there is a steam engine, the work efficiency of the steel factory can be increased by three times!"

Not just the two of them, everyone in Longyou was looking forward to the steam engine.

The heart of this industrial age is the most terrifying behemoth. The emergence of steam power is the beginning of the first industrial revolution.

Li Yan is also always paying attention to the development of steam engines. Unfortunately, due to the shackles of the overall industrial level, steam engines that can provide powerful power have not yet appeared.

A puff of thick smoke floated up from the test tube, Cui Ruoyun put down the test tube calmly, and said to Jian Xia: "It's about to explode, let's go out and talk about it."

Jian Xia ran out of the laboratory quickly in fright, but Cui Ruoyun walked out unhurriedly, and indeed heard a slight explosion.

"The experiment failed again?" Jian Xia asked with lingering fear.

Cui Ruoyun nodded: "It failed, the nitrocellulose is still not stable enough."

Seeing Cui Ruoyun so calmly, Jian Xia asked, "Is the explosion all right?"

"It's okay, it's just a small explosion. I can encounter it more than a dozen times a month."

Jian Xia was speechless for a while, as expected, these chemistry guys were too perverted.

The experiment cannot be done for the time being, Cui Ruoyun asked: "Do you know where there is a coal mine in Longyou?"

"Coal mines? Yes, there are no coal mines. Those players in the exploration team are crazy. They keep digging mines on the map for experience. There are several small coal mines near Shazhou."

Only then did Cui Ruoyun recall that some of the Baigong players who had been transferred to [Gatemologist], their job was to discover mineral deposits and gain experience.

Geologists have set up a General Exploration Bureau, which is hung under the Salt and Iron Taxation Bureau. Every day when they log in to the game, they go to the mountains and forests to search for mineral deposits all over the mountains.

These crazy exploration players have already explored all the large and small deposits near Shazhou.

"Why are you looking for coal mines? The mining costs of these small coal mines are not low. It's better to burn charcoal directly."

Cui Ruoyun sighed and said, "It's not my unlucky brother who has been pestering me every day these days, saying that he wants to build a fertilizer base in Zhangye."

"Fertilizers? Can the current technology be used for fertilizers? We can't even synthesize ammonia, right?"

Cui Ruoyun said: "What you are talking about is ammonia fertilizer and compound fertilizer. Of course we can't do that. But ammonium sulfate can still be done."

"Ammonium sulfate?"

Cui Ruoyun nodded and said: "Ammonium sulfate is the earliest chemically synthesized fertilizer. Although this fertilizer has many shortcomings, it can indeed effectively increase agricultural output."

"Can this ammonium sulfate be made now?"

Cui Ruoyun nodded and said, "It is theoretically possible. As long as coke oven gas is produced from coal mines, ammonium sulfate can be obtained by reacting coke oven gas with sulfuric acid."

"However, how efficient the output is, still needs specific experiments to determine."

Jian Xia shouted: "This is a synthetic fertilizer! If it can be manufactured, wouldn't the agricultural output be doubled! I will go to the Bureau of Salt and Iron to check the information and see if there are any suitable coal mines near Shazhou!"

Cui Ruoyun shook her head and said: "Coal chemical industry is a particularly complicated chemical industry, involving many processes, how can it be so easy."

Jian Xia said: "That's true, but the effect of coal is really great."

"Yes, coal mines have always been an important fuel and chemical raw material before the emergence of petrochemical industry. Even petroleum cannot completely replace coal's status."

Cui Ruoyun looked at the blue sky in Shazhou and said:

"But once the coal mining industry starts, it may be difficult to see such a beautiful sky again."

Jian Xia also nodded and said: "This is inevitable. When I was in Guazhou, I already asked everyone to pay attention to the pollution problem, but the Dashui Gorge was still polluted. The giant industry is accompanied by pus and poisonous gas. "

Cui Ruoyun also nodded, she naturally knew that with the current level of chemical industry, some waste gas and waste liquid must be discharged.

Moreover, dealing with pollutants requires cost. Even if it is a player's workshop, profits must be calculated.

Once the behemoth of the coal mining industry is unleashed, pollution is inevitable.

Cui Ruoyun just wanted to perfect the process as much as possible and make full use of the waste gas and residue.

With the current speed of the Longyou workshop being opened, it would definitely not work to always cut down trees and burn charcoal.

At the same time, the Dashuixia Iron Works area.

In a small blacksmith shop, a machine was slowly turning, and then a burst of white steam was ejected from the machine, and the machine let out a miserable howl.

"Hey! Failed again!"

After the steam dissipated, a player walked out, looking at the completely scrapped steam engine, the player sent a friendly greeting.