Steel Dynasty - Chapter 372

[Chapter 372 Hydrogen Balloon]

PS: I have something to do today. There are only three chapters. As per the old rules, I will make up for it tomorrow.

“Hydrogen balloon?”

Xiao Ming, who was thinking about agricultural and animal husbandry construction, almost spit out the tea in his mouth.

When Zi Yuan saw this, she pursed her lips and smiled. She said, “Your Highness, what is this hydrogen balloon? It makes you so excited.”

“Hey, this hydrogen balloon is a good thing. It is much more practical than a hot air balloon.” Xiao Ming said.

Thinking of rushing to Chang’an soon, Xiao Ming was worried about the hot air balloon.

The hot air balloons in this war were so brilliant that Luo Quan was so envious of them. Before returning to Chang’an, Luo Quan shamelessly asked him to give one away, but he didn’t agree at the time.

However, he understood that he could not hide it forever. This time he went to Chang’an, and he would definitely bring a hot air balloon and a musket.

Naturally, Xiao Ming would not send this musket to the flintlock. Strictly controlling the distribution of weapons and selling large amounts of arms was his current basic principle.

Therefore, he planned to bring the matchlock gun with him. With Xiao Wenxuan’s character, now that he had a firearms camp, he had no choice but to build another musketry camp to intimidate Xiao Xiao.

But the problem was that it was no problem for the musket to use the matchlock to fool him, but the hot air balloon became the object of his worries. He just didn’t expect that Lin Wentao would take out the hydrogen balloon at such a critical moment.

Compared to the hot air balloon, the hydrogen balloon flies higher, which is naturally a generation difference higher than the hot air balloon.

Once the hydrogen balloon appears, the hot air balloon will be eliminated. In this case, it is better to give it to Xiao Wenxuan and sell it to increase his status in Xiao Wenxuan’s heart.

After all, Xiao Wenxuan will definitely ask for these things from him. Rather than letting him ask for them, it is better to give them to him.

Anyway, these backward things are of little use in his hands, why not sell them to the Forbidden Army for money.

Moreover, the more arms he sells to the Forbidden Army, the tighter the spell he puts on Xiao Wenxuan. Once the courtiers attack him, Xiao Wenxuan has to weigh the arms problem of the Forbidden Army before he can deal with it as appropriate.

Because without his cooperation, the artillery and muskets of the Forbidden Army would be without ammunition supplies and become a pile of scrap metal.

Therefore, as long as he does not rebel, he can walk sideways in Chang’an. Because of this, he cannot hide the muskets and hot air balloons. Using this as an excuse, it is estimated that many evil-minded people will make a fuss about this.

Now that I have taken the initiative to send it, it is enough to stop Youyou’s mouth.

No longer thinking about these messy things, Xiao Ming immediately became energetic after learning that Lin Wentao had created a hot air balloon. He asked Zi Wan to prepare his horse and come to Bowen College.

Bowen College played a very important role in this battle to expel the barbarians. One was a hot air balloon, and the other was Lu Tong’s lime bombs.

When Niu Ben was in Shanhaiguan, he praised the lime bombs. Once these shells explode, they can instantly deprive a large area of the enemy of their combat effectiveness. This is much more powerful than a simple gunpowder can.

After this war, it is further proved that technology is the magic weapon for winning war.

When he arrived at Bowen College, Xiao Ming saw a brand new hot air balloon parked in the small square in front of Bowen College. Lin Wentao and others were discussing something in the square.

Liang Yubin and He Cheng have returned to the academy, and now they are with Lin Wentao.

Seeing Xiao Ming coming, a group of students gathered around. Lin Wentao said: “Your Highness, this is a hydrogen balloon.”

Xiao Ming raised his head, and a balloon as big as a hot-air balloon was hovering in the air. Four ropes were tied to the balloon. four directions.

“How do you make hydrogen?” This is the question that Xiao Ming attaches most importance to.

In fact, the difference between a hot air balloon and a hydrogen balloon is whether the gas in the balloon is ordinary air or hydrogen.

If it is a hydrogen balloon, it will have a certain lift even if it is not heated, and this is destined to be more efficient and safer than a hot air balloon.

When Lin Wentao mentioned this, he immediately became excited. He said to Xiao Ming: “This is thanks to the students of the School of Chemistry. They created the hydrogen, otherwise this hydrogen balloon would not have appeared.”

Then Lin Wenyao pointed behind him and The gourd-like clay pot said: “Your Highness, this is where the hydrogen comes out and is filled into the air bag.”

Xiao Ming had already noticed this thing.

Just by looking at the materials around this thing, he knew how the hydrogen was produced.

“Prodigal son, how much sulfuric acid and scrap iron are needed for this?” Xiao Ming shook his head helplessly, but since he let them do it, he couldn’t criticize too much, so he just complained and asked about the person standing on the side. students.

This student was from the School of Chemistry. Just as he guessed, they used the hydrogen gas obtained from the reaction of sulfuric acid and scrap iron, and then filled the air bag with the hydrogen gas through this instrument.

Looking at the excited faces of the students, Xiao Ming didn’t want to spoil the fun. Although the method was a bit primitive, the production of hydrogen was achieved step by step in this way.

He said to Lin Wentao: “Yes, the hot air balloon has played a miraculous role in this war. In order to commend you, the king has prepared a title award for you, but this will have to wait until the generals of the Qingzhou Army come back to award the award together.”

“Thank you, Your Highness!”

Lin Wentao and others All the students were beaming with joy. They worked so hard to break up the hot air balloon and finally got a generous reward.

Xiao Ming was smiling, it was time to award some titles to stimulate the students of Bowen College.

Qingzhou’s current technological level is not even the slightest bit behind Europe’s, which requires Bowen College to catch up until it completely surpasses it.

After understanding the birth process of Qingzhou’s first hydrogen balloon, Xiao Ming asked Liang Yubin and He Cheng to control the hydrogen balloon into the sky. He wanted to see the difference in height between the hot air balloon and the hydrogen balloon.

Liang Yubin and He Cheng also looked excited. Now they are a little obsessed with driving the heater, and now they can’t put it down even more with the hydrogen balloon.

The two boarded the hydrogen balloon. At this time, the people below also loosened the rope, and the hydrogen balloon suddenly lost its restraint and flew higher and higher.

“Your Highness, let’s go.” Liang Yubin and He Cheng looked excited, and their figures became increasingly blurred in everyone’s field of vision until they turned into a small black dot.

“This is too high.” Lin Wentao himself didn’t believe that a hydrogen balloon could fly to such a high place.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, “The hot air balloon only reaches a height of a few hundred meters, while the hydrogen balloon can fly thousands of meters high.”

However, Xiao Ming became a little worried as he looked at the two people getting further and further away.

The current hydrogen balloon technology was not yet complete, and he didn’t want anything to happen to the two of them, but his worries were unnecessary. It didn’t take long for the two of them to lower their altitude and quickly returned to Bowen College.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Now he could take the hot air balloon to Chang’an with peace of mind. He hoped that he could sell it at a good price by then.

(End of chapter)