Originally, after returning to Chengdu this time and coming to the Fifty-One Pavilion, Deng Ming wanted to drum out the steam engine, although he didn't know how the steam engine should be made, but Deng Ming knew that steam could drive machinery, just like knowing that cutting magnetic field lines could produce electricity, Deng Ming knew that thermal power could be converted.

However, after tossing for a long time, Deng Ming found that the steam engine was far more troublesome than the generator. After much deliberation, I finally found a very simple way to use steam, which is to heat water and push a cylinder into the air, and when the temperature drops, let it fall back due to gravity to do work. However, it is such an idea, Deng Ming found that it is also difficult to achieve, the sealing and pressure resistance of the cylinder, as well as the transmission and utilization of kinetic energy through machinery, are one technical difficulty after another along the way. Without solving many technical problems, the machine would be inefficient, and it would not be possible to make a steam engine with acceptable efficiency for decades.

On the contrary, the process requirements for power generation and utilization are much lower, and the biggest problem is theoretical. Although the transfer of mechanical energy is complex, it does not require much theory, and every step is visible to the naked eye, so it is also easy to understand; However, electricity is invisible to the naked eye, and when two stationary metal wires are seen, it is impossible for a person who is not familiar with electricity to understand why they can carry the power that drives the machinery through them. After accepting the concepts of electric current and magnetic field lines, the people of Fifty-One Pavilion actually deduced DC and alternating current by themselves, and also created experiments to verify the theory.

In the name of the gods and Buddhas, Deng Ming made the same agreement with Chen Siyuan as the other two people, turning all kinds of junior high school electricity and chemistry that he could recall into theoretical manuals. Around the New Year, Chen Siyuan, the Elder Master of Electricity in the Fifty-One Pavilion, publicly put forward the "Theory of Yuan Qi", assuming that the Yuan Qi in this world is certain and cannot be created or destroyed (here Deng Ming is borrowing the concept of energy), and Yuan Qi can exist in different forms such as electricity, motion, heat, and light. This hypothesis even extends to the alchemy of the fledgling Fifty-One Pavilion, which believes that combustion is a process in which the vitality is transformed from the Dan Yuan Qi into the heat Yuan Qi, and after the heat is generated, a new Dan component is formed, and as long as the Yuan Qi is replenished, such as electrifying the Dan solution, the earlier Dan components can be restored, and the Dan Yuan Qi can be burned and exothermic again after regaining the Dan Yuan Qi......

These theories were so well heard that he felt that it was more difficult to understand than the legend of the fox spirit. However, Zhou Kaihuang was very interested in this, because for him, a young man, what the people of Fifty-One Pavilion said were completely different from what he knew before. What surprised Zhou Kaihuang the most was that he saw that Deng Ming seemed to understand what these alchemists and archmages were talking about, and often had heated discussions with them, but at this time, Zhou Kaihuang couldn't interject at all.

After Zhou Kaihuang memorized the concept of Yuan Qi alive, he discovered that these crazy mages and warlocks actually wanted to set a unit of measurement for such an ethereal thing: one of the propositions was to set the standard unit of Yuan Qi that could electrolyze a penny of copper. When Zhou Kaihuang saw that copper was produced from a liquid, and that connecting metal wires could make a machine start turning, Zhou Kaihuang was convinced that this was a real spell and not a trick. He was very eager to learn about these strange principles and how to use them—wouldn't it be good to make some gold and silver out of the water for himself if he could master it?

At present, the ration of 51 pavilions is equivalent to 10,000 troops, which means that even if other construction investments are not counted, the daily maintenance expenses alone exceed the expenses of the standing army in the entire western Sichuan region. Moreover, the rumors of the Fifty-One Pavilion have also spread somewhat, and many businessmen are talking about this mysterious area. After the arrival of the last emigrant, the government carried out a strict screening activity for all the craftsmen, among which the craftsmen with the best skills, the safest and most reliable were taken directly and sent to the 51 Pavilion together with their families; As long as it is a glass worker, it is a non-landing and all of them are taken away, leaving no one for the firm to employ.

When the people of the Faben Alchemy Research Society were having lunch, several warlocks from the Faben Alchemy Furnace (laboratory) sat at the same table with Deng Ming and Zhou Kaihuang to eat. Zhou Kaihuang noticed that Deng Ming was very casual and discussed the issue of alchemy with these warlocks while eating. Zhou Kaihuang thinks it's easy to understand this, who doesn't want to peek into the heavenly opportunity of immortality? Doesn't he himself want to steal some knowledge so that he can refine some gold in private?

In Deng Ming's impression, in his previous life, alternating current was widely used, but for some reason, the Fifty-One Pavilion here favored direct current. The electricity department was talking about how to control the rotational speed to keep the current stable, and they had begun to realize that the current could be quantified, but it was just as frustrating as how to set a unit of measurement for the energy.

And here in the Alchemy Research Society, the warlocks' interest in electrical energy is also increasing. As they learned more about this unseen, every mage and warlock in the Fifty-One Pavilion had the same feeling that they were piercing through the layers of paper on the windows of the gods and Buddhas, and that they were seeing the hidden world that humans could not see with the naked eye—coming into contact with the great power that moved the world around. Therefore, these young alchemists read the theoretical hypotheses voraciously, and boldly put forward their own hypotheses when they could not be satisfied.

"Electricity comes out of copper to prove Master Chen's hypothesis, there is also an electric current passing through the water, and the metal elements are burned to emit heat energy, and they bring yang ......electricity," the alchemist sitting opposite Deng Ming said that when he said about the rise, he simply put down the dishes and chopsticks and drew a drawing: "The copper wire made of copper from the electricity is much slower when it is overpowered, and Master Chen said that this heat energy is also transferred from the electric energy; The copper that comes out of the electricity is purer than the copper dug out of the mine, so I have a hypothesis, that is, the copper wire is like a riverbed, the purer the copper in it, the smoother the riverbed, when the copper wire is completely pure copper, the electric element will not heat up when the air flow passes, and all the electric energy may become kinetic energy, or use it to generate copper ......"

The warlocks next to him heard this, some agreed and some opposed, and soon quarreled, and Deng Ming joined in, and asked the warlocks if the smoothness of this riverbed could be measured. Then some people said that they could measure it and some people said it couldn't, and those who said it could even propose that a pot of water could be put on the copper wire and calculate the boiling time to measure the smoothness of the electric energy riverbed.

When he heard about copper smelting, Zhou Kaihuang pricked up his ears, but he didn't hear what he was interested in and wanted to know the most, and everyone's discussion only stayed at the stage of copper smelting, and did not further discuss how gold was smelted.

Seeing that the topic was getting farther and farther away, Zhou Kaihuang was greatly disappointed. Later, he came to his senses and felt that alchemy and silver refining should be the biggest secret of the Fifty-One Pavilion, and the capital government was likely to rely on this secret to prepare military expenses - if it wasn't for this purpose, why would Deng Ming spend a lot of money to support this region? Now Zhou Kaihuang somewhat understands why Deng Ming stayed in this place and delayed returning to Chengdu.

But the next topic surprised Zhou Kaihuang again, that is, Deng Ming asked the alchemists present when they thought they could promote the two courses of spells and alchemy in the academy.

"If everyone knows how to spell and can refine gold, then isn't gold worthless?" Zhou Kaihuang was anxious, but he didn't say it. He felt that Deng Ming should think about this, and he was not willing to question the chief's decision in public.

What made Zhou Kaihuang even more unexpected was that everyone present thought that in half a year at the latest, they would be able to compile teaching materials on spells and alchemy and spread them through the education system in western Sichuan. Most of the people only came into contact with the knowledge of magic and alchemy after arriving in Area 51, but after seeing the experiment repeated again and again, all of them were convinced of the correctness of the hypothesis theory.

In addition to spells and alchemy, there are many people who believe that more glaze workers are needed. At present, many units in District 51 need glass products, especially the various alchemy furnaces are in the greatest demand. In addition to glass, Area 51 also consumes a lot of alcohol. Deng Ming didn't know why he used an alcohol furnace in his junior high school chemistry experiments, but he felt that there was nothing wrong with painting a cat and a tiger, so the experimental heating device recommended to each alchemy furnace was also an alcohol furnace.

In addition to the theory, many people also clamored that there should be additional courses in glass manufacturing, metal processing, lacquer work, and carpentry in the academy, and that in addition to these traditional crafts, the newly emerging pulley and gear manufacturing in District 51 should also be included in the education system of western Sichuan, and as for the manufacture of caustic soda and acid that is being studied, as long as the patent law can ensure that the alchemy industry does not suffer losses, it seems that spreading it will also help to improve the process.

Zhou Kaihuang was still noncommittal, but he felt that if he put spells and alchemy into the academy, it was estimated that Chen Zuocai would definitely blow up, and Gong Yan and Meng Zhengfa, who were originally like Kou Qiu, might unite to oppose it. However, Deng Ming did not seem to realize this, and he told the warlocks that theory is easy to do, and can be taught to enlightened students over the age of ten, but all kinds of processing skills should not be put together with theoretical learning, and the education object of these techniques is still adults. However, Deng Ming said that the current teachers of the academy were not up to the task, and that he might need the mages and warlocks of the Fifty-One Pavilion to write teaching materials and explain their hypotheses to the students himself.

At this time, Zhou Kaihuang finally understood that Deng Ming and these warlocks were just going to train alchemy apprentices, at most teach them how to smelt copper, or let them make bigger and better alchemy furnaces, and the core secrets of alchemy and silver refining were of course still in the hands of a few warlocks.

After taking Zhou Kaihuang around the 51st District, Deng Ming also gave Zhou Kaihuang a small wine jug. Zhou Kaihuang checked it, and felt that this wine jug was very light, but very strong, better than any iron product he had ever seen.

"This thing doesn't rust yet." Deng Ming had already decided to return to Chengdu with Zhou Kaihuang, and he didn't take the factional quarrels in the academy to heart, but Zhou Kaihuang's other remarks that he didn't take too seriously made Deng Ming a little worried and needed to deal with it. And this small kettle represents the current highest level of science and technology in District 51, and it was given to Zhou Kaihuang as a commemoration.

"So good?" Zhou Kaihuang fiddled: "What kind of fine iron is this?" ”

"It's called aluminum, it's good for anything, and it can even be used to make powerful offensive weapons, but it's a pity that it's too expensive." ——

The author pressed, on the 18th, and began to think about which day was set as this month's holiday. The 25th seems to be a hot candidate.