When I returned to Beijing today, some readers asked about the ingredients and purification of steam machines and fire yao. In fact, this answer is easy to find and is easy to find on the Internet.

Fire yao was invented by ancient Chinese alchemists in the process of making elixirs in the 7th century AD. After the invention of Fire yao, it was first used by ancient military strategists to create fire yao weapons for war. The "Martial Jing Zongyao" records the fire yao formula and fire yao weapons. The main ingredients of fire yao are saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, which is the earliest military fire yao formula known in the world. According to records, in the first year of Tianyou of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang Dynasty (904), Zheng Fan attacked Yuzhang (now Nanchang, Jiangxi).

At that time, flying fire was used to attack the city, which is the earliest record of the use of fire weapons in my country. Flying fire is a rocket launched with a bow. A fire ball was tied to the shaft, ignited the lead, and fired with a bow to burn the enemy. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, people used the tighter the binding force of fire, the stronger the explosive force, to make explosive firearms, such as thunderbolt fireballs, fire caltrops, and thunder. This type of firearm is made of pig iron or pottery as a shell and is filled with fire. After ignition, it can emit extremely strong explosive force.

Monogenic sulfide and three charcoal are only roughly proportional. In modern military use of black fire yao is: 75% *, 10% sulfur, and 15% charcoal. In the early Ming Dynasty, Jiao Yu wrote the "Fire Dragon Artifact Formation", which records more than a dozen 3-component fire yao formulas, which can be prepared according to different uses such as ignition, launch, explosion, and fire spitting. Some of the ingredients are very close to the standard ratio of modern black fire yao (75% nitride, 10% sulfur, and 15% charcoal). During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Shizhen recorded in the "Divine Artifact Score" how to purify the nitride with radish and egg white when making fire yao, emphasizing that the particles of fire yao should be fine and uniform. "The ones that are thick at the top are not used, the ones that are thin at the bottom are not used, and the ones that are thin at the bottom are not used, and only those that are like corn are taken into the gun", and realized the close relationship between the burning speed of fire yao and the size of fire yao particles.

In ancient my country, the research on fire and firearms was still very thorough, especially in the early Ming Dynasty, in order to fight against the Mongols, firearms became the standard configuration of the Ming army. Recently, the Ming Dynasty artillery unearthed in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia actually used flowering bullets (hollow can explode shells). It can be seen that technological progress is not ordinary. Unfortunately, by the Qing Dynasty, we returned to the stage of big sword spears.

In the novels of Drunkard, many inventions are indeed masterpieces of ancient Chinese people, so they dare not put them on Wu'anguo. Drunkard has always believed that technological progress will have a butterfly effect, and one aspect of progress will have a chain reaction, leading to a series of flying over. The question is, when will the butterflies flap their wings for the first time?

China's firearms became a specialist in the government in the Ming Dynasty, while in the Qing Dynasty, the manufacturing of firearms was strictly controlled. During the Kangxi period, artillery was divided into imperial, factory and bureau systems. The best gun and cannon manufacturing factory was located in the palace and the emperor directly controlled it. The excellent firearms were used by the royal family and the Eight Banners of Manchuria. The Han army in the capital could only use the worst-quality bureau-made firearms, and the use of excellent firearms was not allowed in other places. Therefore, China's firearms could only get worse, worse than cold weapons, and so bad that they returned from flowering bullets to solid bullets.

The most ridiculous thing is that the one who was praised by some historical blind or slaughter-like crazy people, who was holding a stinky poem and forced to applaud the bullshit Emperor Qianlong. On his 80th birthday, British envoy Macarney visited China with the latest achievements of Western military reform, including new celestial globes, globes, tap muskets, ship models and telescopes, and 29 gifts with high technological content and military value, which he only regarded as "tribute" and "play well". Macarney invited Qing army general Fu Kangan to watch the British envoy guards practice new weapons. Fu Kangan refused to say: "It's okay to see it, it's okay not to see it. There's nothing strange about this firearm operation."

Sometimes, when the drunkard listens to the works that praise these bullshit emperors, he can't help but want to jump up and ask the famous writers and directors, "Since the emperor is so wise, why did the warships hit the doorstep so quickly?"

There are still many applications of firearms in this book, but considering the scientific and technological situation at that time, China did not have a theoretical method of precise quantity concepts and no preliminary chemical theory, so it was not dared to arrange the invention of nitro cotton so quickly.

Similarly, before the era of large-scale industrial production, we did not dare to let the people in the story invent the steam machine. It was useless to invent it, because the factory did not need it, so the steam machine could not form a production scale. Ancient Chinese merchants rarely did money-loss, except for refining immortal medicine. Moreover, how to control pressure, how to produce related temperature and pressure measuring instruments, how to define the temperature of water, how to control the speed, and how to weld large parts. In short, there are too many problems involved.

Although the drunkard made Wu Anguo improve the musket in the novel, he followed the improvement of steel quality and casting technology, and promoted the development of the steel pipe casting industry through the large-scale application of water supply and drainage pipes. Due to the need for large-scale processing, lathes were invented, and through lathes, the mass production of precision originals was promoted, and then the breech gun was born. This was a gradual process. If the steam machine was rashly allowed to appear, it would be difficult for the drunkard to arrange the intermediate process, so although readers repeatedly reminded that the drunkard did not dare to write this.

In the next chapter, Wu'an State will have a free time. During this period, he will follow Zhou Wuyou's advice and make a statement, that is, to organize a set of introductory information on science and technology, so as to gradually popularize technology. With the pace of navigators, cultures between the East and the West began to exchange, ancient Western science and some inventions will gradually dissolve into the society of the Ming Dynasty, and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty will further develop.

Recently, alcoholics have been on business trips, so they will be very slow to update. Drunkards are engaged in power equipment debugging. If you look at how much electricity is missing around you, you can think of how much work the alcoholics work in the company, and understand why the alcoholics have no time to update. In short, thank you to those who follow this book, respect the person who makes suggestions, and apologize to the urging person.
Chapter completed!