Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 118 Mo Qiaosi
Ren Ziyuan came from a humble background. When he was young, he was forced to become a monk and went to Maoshan to make a living. He studied Taoism at Yuanfu Wanning Palace.

He had a predestined relationship with Taoism since he was a child. He read the Six Classics thoroughly and studied deeply. After becoming a monk and meditating, he understood the purpose of Xuanjiao and became proficient in Tai Chi. He started practicing Taoism in Maoshan in the 16th year of Hongwu, and practiced it together in the 31st year of Hongwu last year. In 15 years, his reputation gradually grew.

In April this year, after Zhu Gaoxu learned Ren Ziyuan's name, he sent someone to recruit him as Mo Qiaosi's agent Sizheng. Unexpectedly, Ren Ziyuan made soap after Zhu Gaoxu's simple guidance a few days ago.

So Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Di to formally appoint Ren Ziyuan as the chief minister of Mo Qiaosi.

Ren Ziyuan stood up and said respectfully: "Your Highness is kind."

Then, Zhu Gaoxu ordered the two attendants who were kneeling behind Ren Ziyuan, holding soft armor and helmets in their hands: "Quickly put on the armor for the Taoist Priest."

After hearing Zhu Gaoxu's order, the two men stood up and helped Ren Ziyuan put on his soft armor and helmet.

"Last time, the transparency of the colored glaze refined by the No. 15 laboratory under the No. 13 laboratory has reached the standard I want. You will mark the work of the craftsmen in this laboratory and give each of them five taels of silver. The job level was upgraded one level and they were asked to make three copies of the experimental data."

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly remembered something and immediately gave instructions: "In addition, give them a three-day holiday so that they can have a good rest."

"Pindao, please tell me the prince, what is the next research and development direction of the NO.15 laboratory?"

Ren Ziyuan asked respectfully.

According to Mo Qiaosi's daily experiment management regulations, once one of the laboratories succeeds in a test, the other laboratories responsible for the same experiment will stop working, and new experiments can only be carried out after receiving instructions from superiors.

Before receiving new instructions, all other lab members rested and studied the data on successful experiments.

"The research and development direction is to create a 'telescope'. As for the research and development ideas, I will let the students from the Jinling Regular Science College specializing in the optical mirror physics experimental group provide them,"

Zhu Gaoxu said without hesitation: "What this laboratory needs to do is to provide experimental data to the light microscope experimental team of Jinling Academy, and cooperate with the light microscope experimental team to strive to develop a 'telescope' before the end of the year."

"I obey," Ren Ziyuan said with a bow.

"Ren Sizheng, can nitric acid and sulfuric acid reagents be developed?"

Zhu Gaoxu slowly walked toward the forbidden courtyard and asked as he walked.

"According to the directions given by His Highness, Laboratory No. 20 under the NO.[-] Research Laboratory refined these two reagents not long ago, but there were too many impurities. Pindao has ordered other laboratories to learn from the success of Laboratory No. [-] experience, and began to conduct purification experiments on the two reagents.”

Ren Ziyuan replied respectfully.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: "Very good, take me to see those two reagents."

"His Royal Highness, this way please."

Ren Ziyuan made a gesture of invitation and said.

The reason why Zhu Gaoxu asked people to study chemical reagents such as nitric acid and sulfuric acid was originally for two core purposes. One was to develop mercury fulminate, and the other was to develop wet batteries.

He remembered that later generations of encyclopedias said that the first people in the world to discover sulfuric acid and nitric acid were alchemists who distilled green vitriol and saltpeter in order to make gold.

Therefore, he gave the Taoist priests recruited by Ren Ziyuan to refine Waidan the direction of distilling green vitriol and saltpeter in order to develop sulfuric acid and nitric acid.

Saltpeter is listed as an important medicinal material in the Han Dynasty Pharmacopoeia "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" and is used in alchemy.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu has reason to believe that it is not too difficult for Taoist priests who can refine even mercury (mercury) with alchemy techniques to use green vitriol and saltpeter to distill sulfuric acid and nitric acid. Sooner or later they will be able to accomplish.

No, after dozens of laboratories and thousands of dry distillation experiments, two reagents, nitric acid and sulfuric acid, were finally extracted.

If nitric acid is available, producing mercury fulminate will no longer be a fantasy.

Use mercury fulminate to make a projectile primer, and you can successfully create a firing gun.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered that when he was in high school in his previous life, his chemistry teacher said that mercury fulminate is a very unstable and explosive mixture that can only be made into very small crystals. It can be made using high school chemistry laboratory equipment. Manufactured dangerous goods.

A common children's toy in later generations is the cannon, which is a small gadget that is thrown to the ground and explodes upon impact. It contains a small amount of mercury fulminate.

Therefore, he wears soft armor and a steel helmet when he inspects the No. 20 Research Laboratory.Just in case, Zhu Gaoxu will ask all experiments in the NO. 20 laboratory to stop before entering the laboratory for inspection.

After Mo Qiaosi's Si Zheng has led people to inspect all the laboratories and make sure they are safe, he will enter them and check the experimental results and experimental reports.

If Zhu Gaoxu remembers correctly, mercury and nitric acid... (a few words are omitted here), the final product is mercury fulminate.

However, he could no longer remember the relative proportions of the various reagents during the reaction. He could only rely on the constant experiments of the alchemy priests (craftsmen) who specialized in this technique.

As for the reason why he asked people to study wet batteries, it was to create a spark transmitter.

Because the structure of this most primitive wireless telegraph is very simple, it does not use transistors or any electronic components beyond the current level of technology.

A spark transmitter can be assembled with only seven accessories: keys, batteries, boost coils, capacitors, spark gaps, antennas, and ground wires.

To study radio, we cannot avoid electromagnetic induction, and to study electromagnetic induction, we must first study electricity and magnetism.

The research room No. [-] of Mo Qiaosi Imperial Academy studies electricity and magnetism.

With the foresight of time traveler Zhu Gaoxu to guide the direction of research, the craftsmen responsible for research and development can avoid many detours.

Zhu Gaoxu believes that Mo Qiaosi can try to skip wired telegraphy and directly develop simple wireless telegraphy.

Although wired electricity is simpler, easier to operate, and easier to implement than radio, its long-distance transmission involves too many problems.

With the current technological level of Ming Dynasty, manufacturing iron wire and copper wire has become a reality, and refining Eucommia gum is not too difficult.

But the cables were wrapped in copper. It was possible that the cables had just been set up during the day and then stolen at night.

Of course, it is not difficult to solve this problem. The imperial court will legislate to strictly prohibit theft of cables and send troops to station along the line.

Although erecting telephone poles will involve land acquisition, there are still solutions.

But in the future, once foreign scholars come to the Ming Dynasty and discover the telegraph poles erected on both sides of the road, they will eventually discover the secret of long-distance communication in China.

Compared with wired radios, radio stations are small and relatively easier to carry and hide.

Zhu Gaoxu believes that with the strict confidentiality regulations of the imperial court and the investigative capabilities of the Jinyiwei spies, it will not be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to achieve long-term confidentiality of radio technology in the future.

As long as it can continue to lead the Western countries for hundreds of years, Zhu Gaoxu believes that the Ming Dynasty in the future will be even more powerful than it is now.

By then, the gap in combat effectiveness between the Ming Dynasty and the European and American countries will definitely become larger and larger, and they will even leave their competitors far behind forever.

Historically, after the industrial revolution, the development of productivity showed hierarchical characteristics, and every technological breakthrough led to a "step" improvement in productivity.

This situation is reflected in the military field, which leads to the generation-by-generation development of combat ships, firearms and other weapons, making the "generational gap" between advanced combat effectiveness and backward combat effectiveness more obvious.

If there is a generational gap in the combat effectiveness of the two countries, then advantages such as the right time, location, and people will no longer be able to turn the tide of the war.

Just like the invasion of the Qing Dynasty by foreign powers in history, the latter had no power to fight back and could only be slaughtered by others.

All inventions and creations in the world that will lead to differences in combat effectiveness between countries will sooner or later be reverse-engineered by competitors to achieve technological replication after they are truly put into large-scale practical applications.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to have an overwhelming combat power gap over the European and Western countries for a long time, the only way to go is to continuously climb the technology tree.

Mo Qiaosi, which can accommodate thousands of people to conduct classification experiments at the same time, is the best ladder for Zhu Gaoxu to gather the efforts of everyone and climb up the technology tree.

After all, when it comes to improving the level of science and technology, what the ancient Chinese lacked was never wisdom, but direction and motivation, that is, the policy guidance of the current rulers.

Zhu Gaoxu believes that by gathering the wisdom of everyone and guided by his general direction, after ten, 20, 30, or even 40, 50, or 60 years, he will combine theory with practice and achieve thousands of successes. After [-], [-] or even millions of various experiments, Ming technology should be able to be pushed to the level of Britain.

In the future, Ming Dynasty will become an empire on which the sun never sets, which will definitely become a reality!
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