The atmosphere in the mansion suddenly became fanatical because of Xiao Ming's decision. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In addition to Pang Yukun, other officials also heard the news, and they had a happy smile on their faces, and their mood was also a little depressed during this time.

After all, for them, Xiao Ming is the emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom, and now they are being crushed by King Zhao, and now that Xiao Ming has decided to restore orthodoxy, how can they not be happy?

"Yes, Your Highness, the lower official will go and prepare now." Pang Yukun said.

"Wait, there's one more thing." Xiao Ming's gaze was far-reaching, "You can also prepare about the matter of King Huainan." ”

Pang Yukun was overjoyed when he heard this, and he said, "Your Highness has finally figured it out? ”

Xiao Ming groaned and nodded slightly.

The two were talking, at this time, a person suddenly rushed into the mansion, and when he saw the people Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun, he was stunned, he looked at the person and said; "Lu Tong, what's wrong with you?"

At this time, Lu Tong's eyes were red and swollen, but with a nervous smile on his face, he said to Xiao Ming; "Your Highness, Your Majesty has solved the problem of passivation of nitrocellulose, and also manufactured smokeless gunpowder in addition to particles."

"Granule smokeless gunpowder?" Xiao Ming was a little shocked, he said; "You replaced nitroglycerin with camphor in smokeless gunpowder??"

"Exactly." Lu Tong explained to Xiao Ming.

Since the failure of smokeless gunpowder last time, he has been leading the students of the School of Chemistry day and night to study the passivation problem of smokeless gunpowder, and now he has finally solved this problem by soaking smokeless gunpowder in ether ethanol solution.

Moreover, after studying the technical books of gunpowder, he mixed the glycerin treated with concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid into smokeless gunpowder to obtain granular smokeless gunpowder.

These gunpowders could completely replace black powder as a new generation of muskets and artillery propellants.

As for ether, he mixed alcohol and concentrated sulfuric acid to heat 140 degrees to make ether. In this method, after cooling, water is added and the liquid is allowed to stand. Alcohol and sulfuric acid are soluble in water, and ether is insoluble in water. Ether can be extracted.

"Lu Tong, you have brought a surprise to this king this time, granular smokeless gunpowder will greatly increase the range of flintlock pistols and artillery, plus the improvement of the quality of steel, it seems that the weapons of the army of the feudal country can be updated again." Xiao Ming laughed.

Lu Tong also laughed when he heard this, but he smiled, his eyes suddenly closed, and his body shook and fell to the ground.

Xiao Ming was startled when he saw this, and immediately stepped forward to support Lu Tong, but when he looked carefully, he found that Lu Tong's mouth was snoring softly, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed that this guy was too sleepy for this smokeless gunpowder.

Pang Yukun naturally didn't know anything about granular smokeless gunpowder, but seeing the appearance of Xiao Ming and Lu Tong, he also knew that this was a very powerful thing.

He asked; "Your Highness, is there any use for this smokeless gunpowder?"

"It's very useful, and now the army of the feudal country should catch up with and surpass the West in terms of gunpowder." Xiao Ming muttered that granular smokeless gunpowder was a product of the nineteenth century.

Even if this era was fifty years ahead of the present day, the hope of this smokeless powder would not have appeared until a hundred years later, and until then it had been hoped that black powder would have been used.

However, although Lutong has produced granular smokeless gunpowder, it is estimated that it will take a while for mass production, but a small amount of equipment should be no problem.

At least a rifled gun with granular smokeless powder, his rifled gun will really reach the level of a Migne rifle, and the firing range will reach the terrible value of nine hundred meters.

Pang Yukun smiled when he heard this, the West was still just a concept in his eyes, but Xiao Ming said that gunpowder surpassed the West after all, it was always worth being happy.

He said; "Your Highness, this Lu Tong deserves to be rewarded, just as His Highness is about to hold an enthronement ceremony, he sent a heavy gift to His Highness."

"Well, you're right, you ask the official in charge of this matter to draw up a list, and all the trainees who participated in the development of granular smokeless gunpowder will be rewarded." Xiao Ming said.

Nowadays, there are a lot of incentives that make the students of the University of Liberal Arts more and more motivated, not only do they have public laboratories, but some students have even co-founded private laboratories to conduct related research.

Of course, these private laboratories are under the supervision of secret guards to prevent technology leaks.

As for the technology of private laboratories, Xiao Ming adopts an acquisition strategy, as long as it is mature technology and other products, he will provide financial support.

In this way, Qingzhou's fanatical atmosphere of science and technology will further infect the people, so that the people will pay more attention to the development and application of various technologies.

Let the guards call a carriage to send Lu Tong back, Xiao Ming called another carriage to go to the military workshop, and now that the granular smokeless gunpowder is available, it is time for him to form an army equipped with Migne rifles.

Different from the past, this time Xiao Ming arrived at the military workshop to hear the sound of the steam engine "rumbling", since the steam engine was put into production more than half a year ago, in the half year of the truce, Lin Wentao provided five steam engines to the military workshop.

The advent of steam power significantly accelerated the production of rifled guns.

When Xiao Ming arrived, Song Changping quickly came out of the workshop, "Your Highness hasn't come to the military workshop for a long time." ”

"This king doesn't want to disturb your production, but this time this king came here to do business, eight months ago this king asked you to stock up on rifled guns and conical bullets, how are you preparing now?"

Song Changping saw Xiao Ming's serious expression, put away his smile, and said; "Your Highness, it's much easier to have a steam engine rifling now, Xia Guan has already stockpiled six thousand rifled guns, and this conical bullet has also produced 120,000 rounds, I don't know if it's enough?"

"Guns are sufficient, but there are still too few bullets, so that on average there are only 20 rounds per gun." Xiao Ming said: "There is no need for rifled guns for the time being, you transfer this part of the craftsmen to produce bullets, in addition, these 6,000 rifled flintlock pistols are all sent to the Yunzhou camp, the war is approaching, this time this king can be of great use." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Song Changping said.

This time, the Three Kings tried to attack him with an alliance, and the reason behind his categorical refusal to compromise was also because of his confidence in his own strength, and this confidence came from these 6,000 rifled flintlock pistols.

Because even without smokeless gunpowder, these guns could shoot about 400 meters, and now with smokeless gunpowder, the range of these guns is enough to take out the opponent's artillery.

In modern times, it is precisely because of the threat of the Minie rifle to artillery that the artillery will be upgraded again to improve the survival rate on the battlefield.

After explaining Song Changping's matter, Xiao Ming was about to go back, at this time, Chen Qi suddenly came out of the small cannon from the workshop excitedly, and he said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, now the steel produced by the steel workshop can completely replace bronze, and the cost and production speed of field artillery will be much faster." ”