Chapter 586: Failed collodion

PS: Sorry, the resignation has delayed the update. Today, the salary was settled with the intervention of the Labor Bureau, and the snail was completely liberated. Then the snail continued to explode to compensate everyone.
The candle in the sleeping hall flickered, and the night outside was pitch black.
Xiao Ming pondered for a while and said, "This king already has caress in his mind, but now someone in the women's academy mentions that you should also guide you appropriately, and you must not let some disregarding remarks spread among the students."
"Yes, Your Highness." Fei Yue'er said softly.
Xiao Ming nodded. Disrupting the country's internal affairs has always been a Western specialty. He doesn't want Great Chongqing to fall into civil strife before it is rejuvenated. When he builds Great Chongqing enough to be strong and prosperous, it will not be too late to try political reform.
And even if this trend of thought is spreading among students, most of the people still don’t understand it. If political reforms take place at this time, these students and businessmen will still have vested interests, and the people will not take advantage. Why be impatient, after all, for him, the basis of his rule is the people.
The two chatted for a while and then fell asleep in their clothes. The next day Xiao Ming went to the government office. Yesterday Li Kaiyuan had delivered the sweet potatoes, because it was too late and neither Pang Yukun nor Fiji saw them.
When he arrived here, Pang Yukun and Fiji were eating roasted sweet potatoes, and the room was full of roasted sweet potatoes.
"His Royal Highness, this sweet potato tastes really good." Pang Yukun's mouth was full of sweet potatoes, and Fiji kept eating.
Xiao Ming smiled and said: "You have eaten this sweet potato, and the following is the cultivation of sweet potato seedlings. For this matter, you go to Kuiwu. After learning for so long at Bowen College, he knows how to cultivate sweet potato seedlings."
"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun filled the last bit of sweet potato into his stomach.
After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "By the way, this will be the autumn harvest soon. You must ask the state government to organize militias to strengthen patrols on the fields to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to burn food."
Pang Yukun's expression became serious. The events of three years ago seemed to be vividly remembered. At that time, the wealthy family burned wheat fields in order to destroy the battle of Cangzhou, and Xiao Ming was almost killed at that time.
Now there is a direct confrontation between Qi Di and Wei Di, and similar things may not happen again. It is for this reason that Xiao Ming reminds them.
Pang Yukun nodded, "I will send someone to inform the prefectural government after the next meeting. Now there are militias in every village, it should be better this time."
Fiji has always had a complicated sense of the militia in the village, because in his opinion, it is too late for the government to collect civilian weapons. This Qingzhou is actually organizing the people's own armed forces.
However, after slowly understanding, he gradually understood that the reason for this was based on the people's support for Xiao Ming and the recognition of the state.
The three of them were talking about sweet potatoes and the autumn harvest when an explosion sounded from the direction of Bowen Academy.
Pang Yukun said: "This Bowen Academy hasn't experienced a laboratory explosion for a long time. What's wrong this time?"
Xiao Ming was also a little puzzled. Lu Tong didn't seem to have done any dangerous experiments during this period, but since this has caused a stir, he has to go, so he said: "You are dealing with government affairs, this king will go and see."
After all, he took Zhao Long and Zhao Hu to Bowen College. As soon as he entered the gate of the college, he saw smoke rising from the direction of the Chemistry Laboratory.
He walked a few steps quickly and hurried over.
"what happened?"
Lu Tong was also outside the laboratory, and Xiao Ming asked directly.
Seeing Xiao Ming coming over, Lu Tong looked sad. He said, "His Royal Highness, a student touched a bottle of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. In a panic, this kid took off his clothes to wipe them, and then dried the clothes with fire. , Don’t want this clothes to burn to ashes in an instant and ignite the laboratory and explode.

Xiao Ming looked weird. He asked: "Don't he know that clothes soaked in a mixture of sulfuric acid and nitric acid have become smokeless gunpowder?"
Lu Tong said: "This kid is a student who has just enrolled in school. He is just playing in the laboratory. He has no idea what smokeless gunpowder is."
When talking about smokeless gunpowder, Lu Tong suddenly heard something. He said: "His Royal Highness, the laboratory is developing smokeless gunpowder these days, but this smokeless gunpowder is very unstable. This problem has not been overcome, so the officials did not report to His Highness. ."
"This is nothing, how is that student?" Xiao Ming said.
Lu Tong felt relieved. He said, "I was burned, but the problem is not big."
Xiao Ming nodded. In fact, the principle of smokeless gunpowder is very simple, that is, soak cotton in a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid for ten minutes and take it out to dry in the shade.
However, the gunpowder produced in this way is very unstable. It needs to be treated with camphor, graphite, alcohol-ether mixed solvent and rolled into a shape, otherwise the gunpowder will easily explode before it is launched.
The problem that Lu Tong is facing now is the alcohol-ether mixed solvent problem. If this problem is solved, the smokeless gunpowder will be used as an upgraded version of the black powder to become the propellant of the gun, and this will make the range of the bullets and shells equal Be improved.
Originally, Xiao Ming had always been indifferent to the development of collodion, but now he had to ask about it. As he guessed, the problem Lu Tong faced was indeed the stability problem of collodion.
Xiao Ming currently has no choice but to let the laboratory try to synthesize. After all, this kind of gunpowder has not been said to have exceeded the technology of the country for many years, even more than a hundred years in the West. It is not so easy. Made it out.
But Lu Tong now dares to develop collodion ~EbookFREE.me~ shows that he still has confidence in smokeless gunpowder. After all, as long as ethylene glycol and propylene glycol are synthesized, alcohol ether solvents are basically no problem.
Of course, Xiao Ming will also think of a way for Lu Tong on this issue. After all, no matter how Lu Tong learns it, it is impossible for him to have as many ideas in his mind, but Lu Tong is still a little impatient about this matter. The level of technology has surpassed the West for a century, and it is not so easy to achieve it in one step.
"Don’t rush for quick success in this matter. Even if you synthesize ethylene glycol and propylene glycol, you cannot mass-produce collodion with the current output of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. Therefore, your most important task now is to realize the industrial production of synthetic chemicals. It's time for the acid and alkali to be industrialized and mass-produced, otherwise the chemical industry will remain stagnant." Xiao Ming said solemnly.
Lu Tong was a little ashamed when he heard this. He admitted that he was a bit too ambitious during this period of time, because the steam engine of the School of Physics stimulated him.
"His Royal Highness, the next official knows it was wrong." Lu Tong looked embarrassed.
With a smile, Xiao Ming said, "You have to be down-to-earth to learn and engage in production. You have to go step by step."