Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 95 The development of military industry cannot be slow

After explaining his views on the imperial examination and arranging Chen Que, Lu Mou turned his attention to Bi Maokang.

He took out a batch of drawings from under the table and unfolded them towards him.

"During this period, I have to go to Zijingguan for inspection. I don't have any extra time. The autumn harvest is coming. According to my prediction, after the autumn harvest, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will stop negotiating with us. While the autumn is high and the horses are fat, our harvest is over. Entered the imperial capital again.

First, to attack us and force our father and son to sign a humiliating alliance with them; second, to continue to implement Huang Taiji's national policy and consume our national power; third, to plunder our supplies and continue to strengthen them. Therefore, time is urgent, and we must seize the time for some things. "

On this point, all three expressed their certainty.

In fact, if historical development habits are followed, even if Li Zicheng does not attack the city, the Manchu Qing's sixth invasion to consume the Ming's national power may not happen this year.

However, Lu Mou's peace talks with the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty, just in case, to gain time to deal with the rogue bandits, turned out to be the idea and determination to attract the Manchus to invade again.

This is not a case of cleverness but a misunderstanding of cleverness, because it is uncertain whether the Manchus will join the invaders. The Manchus were Schrödinger's cat. Lu Mou had to plan and arrange things according to whether the Manchus would invade.

"So, it is urgent to arm our army and make them stronger. Therefore, I drew a few drawings and I need the old man to follow them first."

Bi Maokang put on reading glasses (reading glasses already existed in the Ming Dynasty, but they were made of polished crystal. They were outrageously expensive and could not be popularized)

"This is my new type of smelting blast furnace. With this blast furnace, steel can be produced directly."

Upon hearing what King Ding said, several people became interested.

Steel needs to be tempered over and over again, which is labor-intensive and has low yields, so it cannot be used on a large scale. Therefore, owning a pure steel sword is a rare thing. Therefore, good steel can only be used on the blade, and you cannot afford too much.

If steel could be produced directly through a blast furnace, then to Bi Maokang, our young prince would no longer be a human being - but a braggart.

But the prince’s arrangement must have deep meaning.

Bi Maokang carefully looked at the drawings of the new blast furnace.

It's nothing new. It's just an air outlet and a furnace installed on the basis of the old blast furnace.

But this small change made Bi Maokang, a true expert, like a god. At that time, he admired Lu Mou so much.

There are two reasons why it was not possible to practice steel directly in ancient times.

The first is the problem of furnace temperature. It cannot reach the temperature for making steel. This has become a bottleneck of technology and there is no way to break through it.

If we want to break through this bottleneck, we can only use coal as fuel.

This is the second question. To make steel, you cannot use coal to make iron directly, because coal contains sulfur. If coal is used to make steel, although the furnace temperature will increase, it will make the steel brittle. Any instrument you build will break and become scrap metal.

Therefore, ancient people could only use charcoal in a stupid way. As a result, the temperature of the charcoal just wouldn't rise.

But looking at the design in front of us, it suddenly solves the problem of the furnace temperature not being able to rise.

That's because blowing air into the furnace will blow in cold air, which will cause the temperature of the furnace to drop rapidly. It's really like the flames are jumping and the temperature is dropping. It's simply counterproductive.

Lu Mou added a device to heat the cold air on the air supply duct, which turned the cold air sent into the blast furnace into hot air.

Don't underestimate this simple device, it can fundamentally solve big problems.

The history of technology is often like this. When it develops to a certain level, a bottleneck will appear and it will be difficult to improve.

The real leap is often made inadvertently by a small change, which immediately allows the technology to break through the bottleneck and soar. In fact, people who travel through time do not need to use any new tricks.

Because it is very difficult to succeed in new tricks.

For example, if the reading glasses worn by Bi Maokang were made of glass, the cost would be horribly cheap.

But is glass so easy to make?

People who have traveled through time make huge profits by making glass golden fingers. In Lu Mou's view, this is simply obscene.

If you want to make glass, you must have pure quartz sand. Okay, then in order to extract pure quartz sand after screening, you must first build a concentrator. In order to build this concentrator, you must have steel that can produce large concentrators, and in order to get these steels, you must have an advanced steel plant, and you have a large steel plant - wait, You can have a large steel-making factory and make guns and cannons to conquer the world, but why are you still making a small piece of glass? What a joke.

Therefore, in Lu Mou's view, in this era of backward basic technology, the golden finger of a time traveler is used to puncture the window paper.

Of course, the golden finger didn't puncture the window paper just to peek at the girl taking a shower. It is to pierce the development of science and technology, and the last layer of window paper is used.

Travelers should be lighthouses, not all-around craftsmen.

Therefore, Lu Mou poked open the last layer of window paper between blast furnace ironmaking and steelmaking. For this reason, Bi Maokang, a real ancient scientist, was left messy in the wind, like the village head Wu Laoer, who trembled with excitement every time he looked at Lu Mou.

There is no need for Lu Mou to talk about the rest, because the superimposed carburization method has been used by ancient people to obtain steel for a long time.

Then, he took out another drawing and called Li Yan over: "The Ministry of Industry will build this kind of artifact according to my drawing, and then equip it with the Fourth Army stationed in Zunhua, Sanhe, and Tongzhou to guard against the Manchu invasion again. "

When they saw this artifact, all three of them covered their faces.

We all know that the prince is poor, but the prince will not solve the problem of poverty in this way.

Li Yan faced Lu Mou angrily: "My lord, are you so poor that you want all the soldiers of the Fourth Army to serve as captains of gold and rob ancient tombs for you?"

Chen Que also advised: "Your Majesty, it has been clearly stated in all dynasties that robbing other people's ancient tombs is a capital crime. Your Majesty, please cherish your feathers."

Bi Maokang raised his neck and said: "Your Majesty, I will never help the tyrants to do evil, and create such an evil thing for you, don't even think about it."

The reason why everyone is so sad is because this artifact is a slightly enlarged Luoyang shovel.

The world knows the role of the Luoyang shovel. Its only role is to explore ancient tombs and then rob them.

The young prince actually wants to turn the entire Fourth Army into tomb robbers. What kind of distortion of human nature and moral decay is this.

This must be stopped, this must be stopped with all one's strength.

If the young prince is allowed to develop like this, the young prince will be useless.

Lu Mou was unmoved: "Don't worry, I won't use him to rob tombs. I will use him to deal with the Manchu cavalry. I now issue an order that when I come back, I must see the entire Fourth Army." The army is 30,000, 10,000 are equipped with Luoyang City, 10,000 are quickly acquired, and 10,000 are equipped with five-eyed machine."

The three of them had a look on their face, we believe you give it to the devil.

When Lu Mou saw it, he immediately looked ferocious: "If I don't see the result I want, I will kill you, you - I will die in front of you."

Threats, second-guessing threats.

The three of them were unmoved. We are all loyal ministers and we will resolutely resist your perverse behavior. We are afraid of you.

(End of this chapter)