Steel Dynasty - Chapter 373

[Chapter 373 Hydrogen Application]

The hydrogen balloon slowly fell from the sky under the bright sunshine, and at the same time a burst of cheers suddenly sounded.

The students who participated in the hydrogen balloon experiment at Bowen College all looked excited. In their view, this was another technological advancement.

These people who were once called useless are now able to create great things with their knowledge and hands.

And most importantly, their achievements have been recognized by the King of Qi, and they will even be knighted for this.

This is a recognition for them, as well as an encouragement and honor.

In the past, they studied hard in order to rise to the top one day, but now they can get the same thing by applying knowledge. In this case, why should they waste their whole life on the imperial examination.

And the most important thing is that they love their hometown more and more, and they are willing to spend their whole life transforming their hometown into an ideal world.

“Okay!” Xiao Ming also clapped and cheered.

His eyes drifted over the students, and he saw the passion for science in their eyes, and in addition, there was a yearning for the future.

For this reason, he is very satisfied. It seems that the ideological courses in the college still have an impact on these students.

This ideological education course he specially added mainly focuses on the ideological issues of the students, emphasizing the ideas of loving the homeland, serving the country loyally, and striving for the rise of the six states.

Of course, the country he was reporting to was naturally Xiao Ming’s fiefdom, and his loyalty was only to Xiao Ming, not Xiao Wenxuan.

In fact, because of the weak relationship between the vassal state and the court, the people in the fiefdom only recognized the vassal king who ruled them.

Especially in his fiefdom, the people only saw him and not the court.

The reason is simple, they did not get any substantial benefits from the court.

“Your Highness, I seem to be late.”

As soon as the hot air balloon landed, Lu Tong ran over out of breath.

Xiao Ming smiled and said: “It’s a little late, but it turns out that your hydrogen balloon was successful, but your biggest contribution this time is not the hydrogen balloon.”

Lin Wentao on the side suddenly laughed when he heard this, and he said to Lu Tong: “Lu Tong Brother, you are really right. Since His Highness said so, this hydrogen gas must be more powerful than the hydrogen balloon. The credit this time still falls on your School of Chemistry, but don’t be complacent. The students in our School of Physics are now all If you hold back your energy, you will definitely surpass you.”

Lu Tong laughed loudly when he heard this, and said: “I don’t have any merit, the credit is all written in the textbooks, you people in the School of Physics can just study the books.”

After a pause, he said. Lu Tong turned to Xiao Ming and said, “Hydrogen can burn, and it can also refine metals. Are you planning to use hydrogen to refine tungsten?”

“Well, you are right this time. There are too many impurities in charcoal to refine tungsten. Pure tungsten powder can be obtained by using hydrogen,” Xiao Ming said: “And I am planning to separate the metal smelting industry and establish a special smelting plant. Not only tungsten powder, but also some rare metals will be smelted in the smelting plant. This is yours. People from the School of Chemistry need to cooperate. “

With the development of industry, the demand for various metals will continue to increase. Now it is very necessary to use the current technical level to establish primary metal smelting plants, whether it is gold, silver, copper or other metals. Smelting is a difficult problem in this era.

Moreover, his goal is to search for minerals all over the world. At this time, a mature smelting system is very important. What he wants is not just a pile of ores.

Lu Tong nodded and said, “Yes, Your Highness, it’s just that the School of Chemistry is a little short of manpower right now. Should we consider recruiting a new group of students this year?”

“We physics students also need it.” Lin Wentao refused to lag behind.

Xiao Ming frowned. Lu Tong and Lin Wentao were both the earliest students of Bowen Academy, and they were also taught by himself.

For two years, they only studied one major. Now they are proficient in junior high school chemistry and physics, and even have knowledge of related knowledge at the high school level.

The reason why things in a large number of textbooks have not been implemented now lies in the materials and poor industrial base.

Now with the refinement of industrial classification, students in the college have also participated in the specific construction. Because of this, there is a tendency that there are not enough students now.

“In this case, you can each recruit students. Now you are no longer the people who didn’t know anything before. You can make your own decisions on these matters. However, you still have to report to the government office and let me know.”

Xiao Ming pondered. He said to the two of them after a moment.

Lu Tong and Lin Wentao nodded. This was King Qi’s further delegation of power to them. They could do their own thing. They only needed to give King Qi a satisfactory answer.

After talking about this, Xiao Ming ordered Lu Tong to work with the craftsmen from the Equipment Department to determine the process of refining tungsten with hydrogen, and then create a set of refining processes.

Afterwards, he praised the students who participated in the project before leaving.

At the same time, he also greeted Liang Yubin and He Cheng and asked them to prepare for Chang’an.

On the way back, Xiao Ming felt that he was on the right path this time. Now he wanted to compile the knowledge he had mastered into teaching materials for these students to realize one by one.

However, there are still very few teaching materials he has written, and he must continue to work hard on this. The next step is to gradually improve Qingzhou’s industrial system.

After struggling all afternoon about hydrogen and hydrogen, Xiao Mingcai went to the Chamber of Commerce the next day to receive the merchants who provided supplies for the Northern Expedition.

“Your Highness, this is the details of the supplies provided by the merchants.”

In the chamber of commerce’s president’s office, Li Kaiyuan handed an account book to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming opened the account book and examined it carefully. During this Northern Expedition, Cao Zhengyang alone provided him with supplies worth one hundred thousand taels.

These supplies include grain, silver, ore and other items.

In addition to Cao Zhengyang, the local businessmen in Qingzhou are the bulk of them. Although the Qingzhou businessmen are not as rich as Cao Zhengyang, there are many people participating in the support.

Each person has 5,000 or 10,000 taels, which adds up to more than 500,000 taels.

This time, according to Pang Yukun, the Northern Expedition consumed a total of about 500,000 taels of supplies. Not only did he not suffer a loss, he actually made a profit of 100,000 taels.

With a smile, Xiao Ming looked at the one hundred and three businessmen sitting together, and then he suddenly unfolded a large map on the table.

This map is exactly the map of Youzhou.

Then he said to a group of businessmen: “I have kept my word. Now is the time for you to reap the rewards. I want everyone in the world to know that if you follow me, you will have meat to eat.”

(End of Chapter)