Steel Dynasty - Chapter 317

[Chapter 317 Lu Tong’s masterpiece]

“Yes, Governor!”

Qi Guangyi said loudly.

Xiao Ming and Niu Ben looked at each other, and then he started talking about the hollow square array in the musket array.

This musket formation was a powerful weapon for restraining cavalry in later generations, and was a formation based on experience gained from countless battles.

By setting up a hollow phalanx on the grassland and relying on 360-degree shooting with no blind spots, the barbarians would be restrained by the hollow phalanx whether they were outflanking, attacking from the front, or taking the rear route.

Holding the wooden carving of the musketeer, Xiao Ming laid out the hollow phalanx formation on the sand table. At the same time, he taught Niu Ben’s generals one by one the formation methods of the master regiment’s hollow phalanx and the coordinated small hollow phalanx.

As for the cavalry, he only told Qi Guangyi one sentence, that is, no matter what the situation, the cavalry can arrange themselves into a dense formation to charge.

Xiao Ming spent the whole morning talking about the use of the musket formation. At the same time, he and Niu Ben and other generals played a small battle simulation as the barbarians and the musketeers to test their use of the musket formation.

Finally, he talked in class about some emergencies that may occur on the battlefield, such as using oilcloth to cover the gun part when it rains.

After talking all morning, Xiao Ming felt a little dry.

It was really tiring to have no choice, because these days he not only had to give lectures to Niu Ben, but he also had to participate in chemistry, physics, mathematics and other courses.

“Your Highness, we are going back.”

At the end of the course, Niu Ben led a group of generals to leave. They would continue to review these contents in the military camp.

“Wait a minute, take this textbook back. The king who teaches you every day is not here. This textbook was written by me. You can take it back and study by yourself. If you don’t know how to put it together into questions to ask, this teaching is part of it, and you must learn it. Self-study is the way to go,” Xiao Ming said with a smile.

The reason for this is not that Xiao Ming is lazy, but to give full play to one’s subjective initiative.

There are many people who are self-taught in modern times. There is no need for them to use modern cramming teaching. Only when they understand and master it themselves can they be truly capable.

Therefore, whether it is chemistry, physics or mathematics, Xiao Ming tried his best to ask them to learn by themselves. If they did not understand the problems, he would choose a class to explain them.

This Bowen College is equivalent to a comprehensive school. If Xiao Ming were to take care of everything by himself, wouldn’t he be exhausted to death?

After seeing off Niu Ben and others, Xiao Ming did not return to the palace, but wandered around Bowen College.

Bowen College is now divided into eight departments: School of Government Affairs, School of Mathematics, School of Chemistry, School of Physics, School of Mineralogy, School of Medicine, Naval Academy, and Army Academy.

Among them, the School of Mathematics has one school of students, the School of Chemistry has two schools, Physics has two schools, Minerals has one school, the Medical School has three schools, one in the Navy, two in the Army, including infantry and artillery.

There are a total of 3,000 people in the entire academy, which is equivalent to the size of a middle school. There are also students who are not permanent residents, such as generals like Niu Ben.

At the same time, the college sometimes offers some temporary courses, such as agricultural knowledge, engineering knowledge, and water conservancy knowledge. Sometimes newspapers also need some courses.

There are quite a few courses in total.

However, since Xiao Ming was able to organize and distribute the teaching materials for each department, he felt a lot more relaxed, and the students in the college gradually formed an atmosphere of self-study and discussion.

Walking on the cement road of Bowen College, students coming towards me holding textbooks greeted Xiao Ming from time to time.

Xiao Ming returned the favor one by one. Here, he is the dean of the college.

Looking at the antique school building, Xiao Ming smiled and felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart. Now that the construction of Bowen College has been completed, the entire college is huge.

Now, many schools are vacant. These schools are prepared to cultivate more talents.

As long as the three thousand people in the college successfully graduate, they will become the backbone of Bowen College and be responsible for cultivating generations of scientific talents.

After walking inside for a while, Xiao Ming arrived at the cafeteria of Bowen College.

Similar to the cafeteria of modern colleges, this era was very large, with long tables and benches inside, and many students were eating inside at this time.

In order to allow students to study with peace of mind, food and accommodation in Bowen College are free. However, because the fiefdom is not rich now, the food they eat is just meager food.

But even so, many poor students are also barbarians. After all, Xiao Ming’s simple meal is white steamed buns and rice.

“Boom!”

The cafeteria was very lively during lunch time. Xiao Ming was hesitating whether to go in and join in the fun when a sudden explosion sounded.

“Hahaha… I don’t know what these people from the School of Chemistry are doing again. This laboratory exploded again.”

Many students in the cafeteria looked in the direction of the chemistry laboratory, shook their heads and continued eating. It seems very common.

Xiao Ming looked in the direction of the chemistry laboratory. Ever since he asked Lu Tong and others to use the knowledge they had learned to establish a rudimentary chemical industry, Lu Tong and others had been trying to complete the most basic three acids and two bases.

Now that the two bases have been prepared and sulfuric acid is available, only nitric acid and hydrochloric acid remain.

He didn’t know what was going on when there was such a big commotion in the laboratory. He took back his steps towards the cafeteria and headed towards the laboratory.

When he arrived at the entrance of the laboratory, Xiao Ming saw Lu Tong and others standing outside, each holding a wet towel and covering their noses.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming asked: “What’s wrong with you?”

At this time, Lu Tong hurriedly ran over to stop Xiao Ming from approaching the chemical laboratory. He said, “Your Highness, don’t go in, it’s poisonous!”

“Poisonous? What are you doing!” Xiao Ming looked funny.

At this time, Lu Tong said: “Your Highness, we have prepared white phosphorus, but a student accidentally mixed a little sulfur powder into the white phosphorus and the test tube exploded.”

Xiao Ming was startled when he heard this and said in surprise: “Have you prepared white phosphorus? “

Yes, Your Highness, you see, my whole body smells like urine. We have been dealing with urine these days to prepare white phosphorus,”

Xiao Ming laughed loudly and did not care about the explosion. : “Tell me, how did you prepare it?”

Lu Tong said: “Your Highness, this is the method in your textbook. We collected a lot of urine, evaporated the urine into urine residue, and then put the urine residue into Mix and heat it with sand, charcoal, and rice, and pass the burned gas into cold water, and the white phosphorus will come out.”

After a pause, Lu Tong said, “Originally, we were planning to heat the white phosphorus to obtain red phosphorus, but we didn’t expect it to happen. Explosion.”

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction and patted Lu Tong on the shoulder. He said, “Lu Tong, you did a good job. I saw you right.”

(End of this chapter)