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Chapter 4 Sugar and Gunpowder
Chapter 4 Sugar and Gunpowder
Since exchanged for the secret recipe of sweet gunpowder and bleached sugar, Zheng Kezang felt that he was about to take off.
Because among these two secret recipes, sugar and sulfur are most needed.
Little Yizhou Island lacks everything, except sulfur and sugar.
Yizhou Island is one of the main sugar producing areas in my country and has a long history of planting cane. Therefore, Yizhou Island is known as the "Kingdom of Sugarcane" and "Oriental Sweet Island".
Compared with Fujian on the other side, Yizhou Island has a warmer climate and more rainfall. Both plains and hills are suitable for sugarcane growth.
Therefore, the sugar cane in Yizhou Island grows thick and tall, which brings high additional income, and soon spreads to Quanyizhou Island.
On the other hand, Yizhou Island is at the extinction boundary of the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate, where there are many volcanoes, earthquakes, frequent crustal activities, and geological instability.
When a volcano erupts, it will release a large amount of gas, dust and water vapor, which contains a large amount of sulfur dioxide, which will form sulfur after long-term accumulation.
Sulfur is not only the main raw material of gunpowder, but also can form sulfur dioxide through combustion, and the main function of sulfur dioxide is bleaching.
After the sucrose is fumigated with sulfur, a particularly pure white sugar can be obtained.
Sugar is an important fuel additive because of its high density of energy and high calories.
In the supermarkets of many countries in later generations, there is a limit to the quantity of white sugar purchased, because buying a large amount of white sugar may be used to make bombs and rockets.
Just mix some sugar in the black powder, and the explosive power will be multiplied.
White sugar, which seems harmless to humans and animals, can actually be made into an explosive that is as powerful as a nuclear bomb under certain circumstances.
On the Middle East battlefield in later generations, there was a bomb master named Sheik Omar. He once mentioned to reporters that the bombs he made could make ordinary grenades according to the different dosages of sugar.
It is also possible to make rockets with a range of more than 12 kilometers. When this kind of bomb encounters high temperature or strong vibration, it will produce the effect of burning and exploding.
With sweet gunpowder, his homemade improvised grenade also has a role to play.
recent.
Eunuch Li received a secret mission from His Royal Highness Jian Guo: to purchase a Tangliao (ancient sugar factory), and select a few loyal house slaves to take care of the Tangliao. He will be of great use.
Hearing this, Eunuch Li knew that Jian Guo wanted to do business, can this work?
Of course, how did the Zheng family get rich?Cough cough, this may start with the zero-yuan purchase of East Asian sea surface, it’s too long, so I won’t talk about it.
In short, Eunuch Li immediately arranged for small matters.
Brothers Zheng Jin and Zheng Yin looked at the white sugar in Zheng Kezang's hands with big eyes and small eyes. They swore that they had never seen such white sugar in their age.
"Zheng Jin, Zheng Yin listened to the order. From today onwards, I will appoint you as the stewards of Tangliao. There can be no mistakes here, otherwise I will ask you."
"Yes, Your Highness Jian Guo!" The two elders were full of arrogance, they were slaves of the Yanping Palace, God is sorry, they finally made it through!
From now on, this precious sugar house will be their lifeblood.
"Also, the key step of whitening sugar, you must arrange trustworthy small workers to work, don't let this secret leak out and work hard, when the time comes, the country will reward you a lot." Zheng Kezang patted the two brothers old-fashionedly shoulders.
Eunuch Li next to him was amazed that the 15-year-old Zheng Jianguo, who had only read sage books since he was a child, knew how to make sugar.
"Your Highness, do you need me to buy more sugar houses?" Eunuch Li said excitedly.
"Not for the time being, Lao Li, I will give you a new task now. You go to recruit artisans around Dongning Mansion. It is enough to recruit about 200 people. It is priority to understand gunpowder and firecrackers, and then buy a small workshop and a Batch gunpowder, bring this snow sugar, I will be of great use." Zheng Kezang mused.
"I'll do it now." After the snow sugar incident, the old eunuch Li Zhongjie was convinced by Zheng Kezang, and when he heard that it was useful, he felt that there was another novelty.
Just after giving the order, Zheng Kezang suddenly remembered that he had been busy with infantry drills and sugar during this period of time, and forgot one most important thing!
That is, the construction of his hero monument has already started, and he hasn't had time to see the construction status. Spectacles are the main responsibility and main business!
The first task given by the system is actually very friendly. Generally speaking, the monument is not a huge project and does not occupy a large area. The main difficulty is that it requires a large amount of high-quality marble and professional engravers.
Fortunately, although the population of Yizhou Island is small, there are still a few master sculptors who can do it. Otherwise, Zheng Kezang would really have nowhere to go.
The construction site on the outskirts of Dongning Prefecture was in full swing. Some peasants worked hard to move bricks, and some pushed small wooden wheelbarrows to transport soil.
It has to be said that the wisdom of the working people is infinite. The earliest unicycles can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, and the structure of the unicycles in the south in the Ming Dynasty was basically the same as that of modern times.
Song Yingxing of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Tiangong Kaiwu": In the north of the unicycle, people push it behind, and the donkey drags it in front, while in the south of the unicycle, it only depends on the strength of one person.
If he could get natural rubber, Zheng Kezang would immediately improve the tires of his unicycle. After all, he probably would have had to deal with this stuff all his life.
As the saying goes, if forewarned, there will be nothing. Zheng Kezang made a profound self-criticism. These days, he has no time to worry about the spectacle project. As a result, today, he saw that the folks had already started laying the foundation.
Next, he plans to memorize the knowledge of civil engineering in his previous life, maybe it will be useful someday.
There was no cement in the Ming Dynasty, but it has been relatively advanced, using masonry for foundation treatment, but this time, the foundation of the monument still uses a composite foundation of wooden piles.
Because the soil of Yizhou Island is soft, it is more suitable for the site of wooden piles. Yingtianfu, which is the Ming Palace in Nanjing, uses this foundation structure.
Thinking of the Nanjing Forbidden City that has almost disappeared in later generations, Zheng Kezang clenched his fists and looked in the direction of Ying Tianfu.
He had been to Nanjing once before crossing that time. Looking at the remaining ruins at that time, Zheng Kezang was filled with regret.
Why is it also the Forbidden City, and how is Ying Tianfu's ruined?
It turns out that the Yingtianfu Palace Museum has been harassed by war many times, and the damage was the most serious twice. The first time was when the Qing army entered the pass, and the greedy Eight Banners soldiers were horrified by the majesty of the palace.
Immediately carried out a devastating transformation on it, they demolished the main hall, and converted it into a government office, military barracks or private houses, as the place where bannermen lived.
In 1699 AD, Kangxi ordered that the well-preserved palace part of Yingtianfu Imperial Palace be dismantled and transported to Fayu Temple in Putuo Mountain, Zhejiang Province to build Jiulong Guanyin Hall.
The algae well on the top of this magnificent hall is engraved with the pattern of nine dragons coiling and fighting for the pearl. It is the original structure of the Nine Dragons Hall of the Ming Palace. It is deliberately placed in the Guanyin Hall to show the respected status of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
However, this kind of respect is manifested by the relics of the Ming emperor's palace, which again shows a certain contempt for the Han emperor by the rulers of other races.
Fortunately, he still has time, Yingtianfu Forbidden City can still be rescued!
(End of this chapter)
Since exchanged for the secret recipe of sweet gunpowder and bleached sugar, Zheng Kezang felt that he was about to take off.
Because among these two secret recipes, sugar and sulfur are most needed.
Little Yizhou Island lacks everything, except sulfur and sugar.
Yizhou Island is one of the main sugar producing areas in my country and has a long history of planting cane. Therefore, Yizhou Island is known as the "Kingdom of Sugarcane" and "Oriental Sweet Island".
Compared with Fujian on the other side, Yizhou Island has a warmer climate and more rainfall. Both plains and hills are suitable for sugarcane growth.
Therefore, the sugar cane in Yizhou Island grows thick and tall, which brings high additional income, and soon spreads to Quanyizhou Island.
On the other hand, Yizhou Island is at the extinction boundary of the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate, where there are many volcanoes, earthquakes, frequent crustal activities, and geological instability.
When a volcano erupts, it will release a large amount of gas, dust and water vapor, which contains a large amount of sulfur dioxide, which will form sulfur after long-term accumulation.
Sulfur is not only the main raw material of gunpowder, but also can form sulfur dioxide through combustion, and the main function of sulfur dioxide is bleaching.
After the sucrose is fumigated with sulfur, a particularly pure white sugar can be obtained.
Sugar is an important fuel additive because of its high density of energy and high calories.
In the supermarkets of many countries in later generations, there is a limit to the quantity of white sugar purchased, because buying a large amount of white sugar may be used to make bombs and rockets.
Just mix some sugar in the black powder, and the explosive power will be multiplied.
White sugar, which seems harmless to humans and animals, can actually be made into an explosive that is as powerful as a nuclear bomb under certain circumstances.
On the Middle East battlefield in later generations, there was a bomb master named Sheik Omar. He once mentioned to reporters that the bombs he made could make ordinary grenades according to the different dosages of sugar.
It is also possible to make rockets with a range of more than 12 kilometers. When this kind of bomb encounters high temperature or strong vibration, it will produce the effect of burning and exploding.
With sweet gunpowder, his homemade improvised grenade also has a role to play.
recent.
Eunuch Li received a secret mission from His Royal Highness Jian Guo: to purchase a Tangliao (ancient sugar factory), and select a few loyal house slaves to take care of the Tangliao. He will be of great use.
Hearing this, Eunuch Li knew that Jian Guo wanted to do business, can this work?
Of course, how did the Zheng family get rich?Cough cough, this may start with the zero-yuan purchase of East Asian sea surface, it’s too long, so I won’t talk about it.
In short, Eunuch Li immediately arranged for small matters.
Brothers Zheng Jin and Zheng Yin looked at the white sugar in Zheng Kezang's hands with big eyes and small eyes. They swore that they had never seen such white sugar in their age.
"Zheng Jin, Zheng Yin listened to the order. From today onwards, I will appoint you as the stewards of Tangliao. There can be no mistakes here, otherwise I will ask you."
"Yes, Your Highness Jian Guo!" The two elders were full of arrogance, they were slaves of the Yanping Palace, God is sorry, they finally made it through!
From now on, this precious sugar house will be their lifeblood.
"Also, the key step of whitening sugar, you must arrange trustworthy small workers to work, don't let this secret leak out and work hard, when the time comes, the country will reward you a lot." Zheng Kezang patted the two brothers old-fashionedly shoulders.
Eunuch Li next to him was amazed that the 15-year-old Zheng Jianguo, who had only read sage books since he was a child, knew how to make sugar.
"Your Highness, do you need me to buy more sugar houses?" Eunuch Li said excitedly.
"Not for the time being, Lao Li, I will give you a new task now. You go to recruit artisans around Dongning Mansion. It is enough to recruit about 200 people. It is priority to understand gunpowder and firecrackers, and then buy a small workshop and a Batch gunpowder, bring this snow sugar, I will be of great use." Zheng Kezang mused.
"I'll do it now." After the snow sugar incident, the old eunuch Li Zhongjie was convinced by Zheng Kezang, and when he heard that it was useful, he felt that there was another novelty.
Just after giving the order, Zheng Kezang suddenly remembered that he had been busy with infantry drills and sugar during this period of time, and forgot one most important thing!
That is, the construction of his hero monument has already started, and he hasn't had time to see the construction status. Spectacles are the main responsibility and main business!
The first task given by the system is actually very friendly. Generally speaking, the monument is not a huge project and does not occupy a large area. The main difficulty is that it requires a large amount of high-quality marble and professional engravers.
Fortunately, although the population of Yizhou Island is small, there are still a few master sculptors who can do it. Otherwise, Zheng Kezang would really have nowhere to go.
The construction site on the outskirts of Dongning Prefecture was in full swing. Some peasants worked hard to move bricks, and some pushed small wooden wheelbarrows to transport soil.
It has to be said that the wisdom of the working people is infinite. The earliest unicycles can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, and the structure of the unicycles in the south in the Ming Dynasty was basically the same as that of modern times.
Song Yingxing of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Tiangong Kaiwu": In the north of the unicycle, people push it behind, and the donkey drags it in front, while in the south of the unicycle, it only depends on the strength of one person.
If he could get natural rubber, Zheng Kezang would immediately improve the tires of his unicycle. After all, he probably would have had to deal with this stuff all his life.
As the saying goes, if forewarned, there will be nothing. Zheng Kezang made a profound self-criticism. These days, he has no time to worry about the spectacle project. As a result, today, he saw that the folks had already started laying the foundation.
Next, he plans to memorize the knowledge of civil engineering in his previous life, maybe it will be useful someday.
There was no cement in the Ming Dynasty, but it has been relatively advanced, using masonry for foundation treatment, but this time, the foundation of the monument still uses a composite foundation of wooden piles.
Because the soil of Yizhou Island is soft, it is more suitable for the site of wooden piles. Yingtianfu, which is the Ming Palace in Nanjing, uses this foundation structure.
Thinking of the Nanjing Forbidden City that has almost disappeared in later generations, Zheng Kezang clenched his fists and looked in the direction of Ying Tianfu.
He had been to Nanjing once before crossing that time. Looking at the remaining ruins at that time, Zheng Kezang was filled with regret.
Why is it also the Forbidden City, and how is Ying Tianfu's ruined?
It turns out that the Yingtianfu Palace Museum has been harassed by war many times, and the damage was the most serious twice. The first time was when the Qing army entered the pass, and the greedy Eight Banners soldiers were horrified by the majesty of the palace.
Immediately carried out a devastating transformation on it, they demolished the main hall, and converted it into a government office, military barracks or private houses, as the place where bannermen lived.
In 1699 AD, Kangxi ordered that the well-preserved palace part of Yingtianfu Imperial Palace be dismantled and transported to Fayu Temple in Putuo Mountain, Zhejiang Province to build Jiulong Guanyin Hall.
The algae well on the top of this magnificent hall is engraved with the pattern of nine dragons coiling and fighting for the pearl. It is the original structure of the Nine Dragons Hall of the Ming Palace. It is deliberately placed in the Guanyin Hall to show the respected status of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
However, this kind of respect is manifested by the relics of the Ming emperor's palace, which again shows a certain contempt for the Han emperor by the rulers of other races.
Fortunately, he still has time, Yingtianfu Forbidden City can still be rescued!
(End of this chapter)
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