The shortage of saltpeter has eased. The peat day of the snow month of the Republican calendar (the republic calendar and the usual calendar month do not correspond one by one. The number of days per month in its month is somewhat similar to the Chinese lunar calendar, so that the twelve months are only 360 days, and the extra five days are used as national celebrations. Moreover, the starting time of each month is different from the usual calendar.) That is, the day, a large amount of nitrite soil was found in the Dulan area of ​​France.

It is actually not accurate to say that it is discovered. Dulan has a nitro soil, but when France was still a kingdom, someone already knew about it and it was recorded. It was just that the French did not regard it as a big resource at that time.

Compared with saltpeter from India or Turkey, the quality of Dulan's nitrate soil is very average. The saltpeter from India and Turkey only needs a little purification to be used. Even if it is just used to make brown powder for firing bullets and shells, it can be used without purification. However, if it is used to use the saltpeter in Dulan, it requires a lot of purification work. This greatly increases the production cost. Therefore, in the Kingdom era, when there was supply of saltpeter from long-term allies, the French were dug to dig the saltpeter in Dulan. After a long time, they simply forgot that Dulan had this thing.

It was not until recently that someone finally rediscovered the nitrite soil of Dulan when collecting Dulan's wine.

Nowadays, let alone ready-made nitroso ore, the "National Saving Committee" that cannot be spared even in toilet pigpens will certainly not dislike the bad taste of nitroso ore and the high cost of mining and refining. Moreover, the Dulan area is convenient for transportation and transportation is not difficult, so the National Saving Committee has set aside twenty-eight areas in Paris in one breath to build a nitroso refining factory.

But even so, it is not enough to rely on Dulan's nitrite soil alone to equip the millions of French troops with a large number of "little melons". Moreover, because of their rush to produce, various accidents are constantly occurring in Dulan's mines and Paris' refineries. As a result, the increase in output has been slowed down.

"With the nitrile mine, this is good news! But the bad news is that our enemies are gradually reorganizing, and our production speed is still not fast enough. Moreover, if there is not enough caustic, the explosives of the Republic One cannot be produced in large quantities." Kano said to Joseph, who was reporting to himself, "Joseph, do you know how to build ships?"

"What?" Joseph was surprised. "Lazal, I was born by the sea, but I really haven't done anything about shipbuilding."

"I understand, I'm just trying to seek medical treatment in a hurry. Well, I have this idea because you published an article about how to use mathematical methods to calculate fluid resistance, right?"

"Yes, but that's all a year ago," said Joseph.

"Is there any new progress in this research?"

"No, this research has been put on hold long ago. First, it was fighting wars, then it was explosives. How could I care about such purely academic things?"

"Hell!" said Kano. "Now our caustic is still available through smuggling. Foreign smugglers are too expensive, and we smuggle ourselves, which is not cheap, because it is easy to catch even people and ships. So we need a kind of fast ship, which is better to be faster than any ship of the British and Spanish! Well... huh? What can you do now? Hell! Isn't Lavoisier in charge of explosives? Well, you find some people and take a head to see if you can get a faster ship out. As long as you speed, other performance can be sacrificed!"

"Well, Lazar, I understand what you mean." Joseph nodded, "Tomorrow I will give you a list of people and supplies you need."

"It's easy to talk about the staff, supplies..." Kano said, "Save as much as possible."

In Joseph's memory, there was a kind of ship that was relatively suitable for Kano's requirement, that was the last sailing transport ship. In his previous life, Joseph had accompanied his son to make a model of a fly-scissor, so he still had some understanding of the type of ship that had competed with early steam-powered cargo ships in the Atlantic Ocean.

Joseph stood up and was about to say goodbye and leave. But suddenly he remembered something: "Ah, Kano, is there enough wood for shipbuilding? I stared at it, but others used them to do something else."

"You can get the list out first!" Kano said angrily.

Kano had no choice, because Robespierre and others forced the French sailors to smuggle. Kano felt that the large amount of losses of sailors was really heartbreaking. Because sailors were not those infantrymen, they could just spend a few Rifts to pull one out of the countryside.

But Robespierre said that unless Kano has any new ways, if Kano wants money, he will really have no money.

Joseph returned to the institute and spent two days coming up with a plan, then came to Kano's office again.

After closing the doors and windows, Joseph handed his plan to Kano.

"Lazar, look, this is the basic plan," said Joseph.

"Ah, let's take a look..." Kano looked at it seriously.

Joseph turned around and said, "Lazar, where is your coffee here?"

"No more, the supply of materials is tight." Kano said without raising his head.

"Oh. I'm going to go back from you."

"There are already a lot of rations for you... Nowadays, except for scientific researchers, there is no coffee ration."

"Damn it, let Lavoisier go all the way. I thought I could recover some of the losses from you..."

"Okay, drink water by myself, I'm busy!"

After a while, Kano put down the documents in his hand.

"How about it?"

"The idea is OK... But Joseph, we are friends... Don't you think you want too much money in your idea?"

"What? I want a lot of money. Lazar, we have to talk with our conscience." Joseph immediately widened his eyes and retorted directly, "Look, which of our plans is unnecessary? Which thing is not calculated based on the best cost-effectiveness? Well... the relevant calculations are in the attachment. Have you read it?"

"I've seen it, of course."

"Then is there any problem with my calculations? Could it be that I have miscalculated such a simple math problem?"

"Of course, but..."

"Since that's right, what's the problem?"

"The only problem is...we can't afford that much money," Kano said.

"So can we relax the progress requirements?"

"This...how is this possible? Joseph, can you not bargain?"

"Tsk tsk... Lazar, you want horses to run and not eat grass! We are people who study science and have to talk about science! You can't expect me to say that there is a new technology, and there will be a new technology. I am not God! Technology depends on time and money. Do you understand, Lazar?!"

"Okay okay..." Kano looked like he retreated, but said this again, "But Joseph, when we talk about science, we should also know how much an excellent scientist can play in scientific research. They can greatly reduce the time required for scientific progress and save a lot of money. Joseph, I think you are such an outstanding person, and you may even be a great scientist in the future. But look at your plan, you completely treat yourself as an ordinary researcher. This is not possible. I think with your ability, progress and expenses, you should at least get a 50% discount!"

"Do you understand science?" Joseph immediately became anxious, "Scientific things are sometimes hard to explain. There are many and many luck elements in it. Just like Archimedes, if the servant who gave him the bath water did not put too much water, how long would it take for him to discover the law of buoyancy? How could you say something like a 50% discount? If Robespierre and others believed your nonsense, then my luck was not good enough, and I had spent all my money and had not been able to come up with the technology, you said, how many people would accuse me of slacking off work or even deliberately destroying it?"

"Ah...ah...I understand..." Kano laughed, "Joseph, you are...you are so stable, hahaha... well, don't worry, if you are not lucky, I will help you."

"Bad! You are holding on to everything. Who do you think you are? Atlas? (The Titan God who supports the sky in Greek mythology) Do you need to hold on to this kind of thing?" Joseph said with disdain, "Just throw this plan to them and give them the pressure first!"

"Then they will definitely back down. Because they really don't have that much money."

"At that time, you said that this plan can be staged, first verify the most critical and most likely successful plan. If it is successful, then you can get a 50% discount. If it is not successful... They have read, discussed and approved the plan, and we have no responsibility, do you understand!"

Kano was stunned. After a while, he nodded and said, "This is not bad, just do it like this! Well, where do you think the new shipyard is better?"

"It's better to put it in the Mediterranean. Anyway, Spain is also one of our targets for smuggling. Moreover, the ships we envision highlight their speed, and other performances will definitely be affected, including some of the navigational performance. First of all, using these things in the Mediterranean is relatively safer."

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Chapter completed!