The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 437 The Unexpected Product

When you are unlucky, it may be even more unlucky, and when you are lucky, good things often happen again and again.

When the military-business joint office and the military-industrial joint office urged merchants to open flint mines in Hunan, thick black smoke billowed from the chimney "jungle" of the Tianjin chemical plant.

Ever since Miyun District established its own technical department, which played an important role in its own industry and was affirmed by Zhu Gaochi, this model began to emerge in the large factory area.

As a chemical industrial zone, Tianjin Chemical Plant has naturally established its own technical department.

In Jinzhou across the sea, doctors organized a long-term exchange meeting, and there was a famous science and technology conference in Beiping.

Tianjin is not to be outdone, but the chemical plant is a latecomer after all, and it is really easy for technicians to gather together.

Someone came up with an idea to name all the existing things. Just like the medical encyclopedia to be compiled by Jinzhou, they also made a encyclopedia of elements.

"I don't expect any real results, but this proposal is very good. We don't say that we are better than others, at least we have to have something."

The person in charge of the chemical plant area said supportively.

This is a prestige project for the sake of political achievements. Originally, he just wanted to launch a book to compare with the golden state's medical book.

But the progress of science is always full of various accidents.

Such as the invention of the railway.

It's just that the coal bosses make the best use of it.

For example, steam locomotives for passenger transport.

It's just that businessmen built a circular railway for people to ride in order to make money. At first, it was just for entertainment.

Before modern times.

In many such cases, many major inventions were not researched by scientists defined by later generations over the years.

It is more an idea born from the mind of ordinary people, but it has a historic breakthrough in the advancement of science and technology, and it also shows that the technical difficulty is not advanced.

Just as when people first started taking passenger trains as entertainment, no one thought how important the significance of this invention was.

In ancient Greece before 400 BC, philosophers proposed water, earth, fire, and air.

It is called by Western scholars that ancient Greece already had the concept of elements.

If this can be concluded, then the Western Zhou Dynasty in China had the concept of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth earlier than ancient Greece.

In fact, they are all acts of subsidizing money for the ancestors.

But as the saying goes.

The face of a young child depends on the father, and the face of the elderly depends on the child.

Later, the West developed by leaps and bounds, while China was regressing, and was finally semi-colonized by others. In order to catch up, the only way to fully learn the knowledge system after the great development of the West.

The things of the ancestors of the West were developed by the descendants of the West, and the development of the things of the ancestors of China was delayed by the descendants of China, and they remained at the ancient level forever.

This is the fundamental reason why Chinese descendants learn from the Western knowledge system developed by Western descendants.

Some people say that China has been backward since ancient times, which is tantamount to pushing its own reasons to the ancestors.

Things are not static in themselves.

Things change.

Development or retrogression requires the efforts of each generation. Only continuous progress can we have continuous development.

all in all.

It is ten thousand times easier to destroy civilization than to build it.

During the restoration of civilization in the Ming Dynasty, nearly a hundred years of faults, many knowledge and social customs have been wiped out.

For example, the sickle carts and other technologies of the Song Dynasty were not restored in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the foundation of this period was not as good as that of the West.

After all, Western Europe has not been fully conquered, and its own culture has not been broken.

It's different now.

In the process of promoting the development of social productive forces, Zhu Gaochi also vigorously restored Chinese civilization.After six years of cultivation, many technologies have suddenly come out.

The technicians in the chemical plant area, holding hard pens, wrote on the paper what they could think of.

On the quiet conference table, there was only rustling of pens.

These technicians with good living conditions and loose time, no one thought how great they were doing.

Some of them were still thinking about finishing their errands early so that they could go home early. It was getting late, and they were worried about delaying their get off work.

"iron."

"copper."

"gold."

"silver."

"sand."

"Rin horn."

"mercury."

"Dan."

"yellow."

"Water sulfur."

……

The technicians also divided into categories, and set up a gold line, wood line, water line, fire line, and soil line, and arranged the list according to each category.

Before the Golden State Medical Collection came out, it was first published in the technical newspaper.

Technical newspaper.

Through the postman at the new post station in Beiping, he received an article titled "General List of Five Elements" published in the name of the Tianjin Chemical Plant.

"What is this?"

The young editor couldn't understand it, and felt that he was very tall. He suspected that his level was limited, so he hurriedly asked the editor-in-chief for advice.

In the office, the editor-in-chief picked it up curiously, and couldn't help laughing just by looking at it.

"They made this thing to put gold on their faces."

"Why?" The editor was puzzled.

"Others are publishing various results, and those large factories that have not made any movement are of course in trouble."

"Isn't this a waste of time?" The editor said angrily, "Forget this manuscript."

The editor-in-chief shook his head.

"After all, it's something from the big factory area. Give them a face, post it in the next issue, and find a small corner."

"Since I want to post it, but post it in a small corner, will it make others feel dissatisfied after doing something?" The editor still understands the world.

"They will be happier if it is posted in a small corner and unobtrusive."

The editor-in-chief is the editor-in-chief after all.

The editor only saw the first layer, while the editor-in-chief has already seen the second layer.

The editor is full of admiration.

In this way, the face project of the chemical factory area, the "General Table of the Five Elements" was published in a small corner of the technical newspaper.

Each issue of the newspaper is sent to the Prince's Mansion.

Zhu Gaochi got up in the morning, dressed and washed, and had dinner with the pregnant Guo Cailian.

Breakfast is very rich.

One dish of eggs, one dish of Beiping Zhouji pickles, one dish of beef sauce, one dish of green vegetables, one bowl of millet porridge, and one bowl of sweet tofu nao.

The newspapers have been neatly placed on the table, with the technical newspaper on top.

After Zhu Gaochi sat down, he first picked up the technical newspaper, glanced roughly, and was about to read the social newspaper, but when he was about to put it down, he suddenly stopped.

Picking up the technical newspaper again, Zhu Gaochi looked at the "General Table of Five Elements".

Metal he knows.

Gold, silver, copper and iron are obvious at a glance, and mercury is also known, it is mercury.

But what is sand?
Zhu Gaochi looked at the description in detail, and the more he looked, the more he looked like zinc.

There are also rare.

It turned out to be selenium.

Selenium in the Tang Dynasty was called Linjiao.

Dan is lead, and it is called Dan because of alchemy.

Yellow refers to sulfur.

Water sulfur refers to silicon.

Zhu Gaochi identified them one by one, some of them were recognized, some were not.

"It's so mesmerizing."

Seeing that Zhu Gaochi had been reading the newspaper without moving his chopsticks, Guo Cailian asked curiously.

"It's not a big deal. Although it's a prestige project in the chemical factory area, it turned out to be a big thing by mistake." Zhu Gaochi laughed.

Of course he saw the purpose of this article.

He also knows that the chemical factory area does not really form the concept of later elements, but things themselves develop.

As long as it continues to develop, many things will be used naturally, and finally reach the level of future generations.

Like the invention of phosphorus.

The alchemists in ancient China wanted to refine the elixir of longevity, but they developed various substances.

The same is true in the West.

Alchemists want to refine gold.

In the [-]th and [-]th centuries, a bankrupt businessman in Germany taught himself the alchemy that claimed to be able to refine gold. He wanted to refine gold to save himself from bankruptcy, but he practiced it with various materials, but in the end he did not practice anything. come out.

The bankrupt businessman who had nowhere to go had a whimsy. Gold is yellow, and urine is also yellow, so he used urine as a material.

In fact, he has no money to buy other materials, so he can only use free urine.

In the end, the gold was not refined, but something emitting blue light was refined.
Alchemy is actually very simple.

Just boil.

Boil things all the way down to the last remaining substance.

Merchants rely on this magical material to sell money everywhere, and nobles are willing to spend money to buy it as a rare item.

People who are also alchemists saw the things of the bankrupt businessman, envied his money, and learned that this man relied on urine, so he also tried alchemy.

Isn't it just "making soup", so he quickly refined this substance.

future chemists.

The substance that the predecessors used to "boil soup" with urine is called phosphorus, and the corresponding chemical formula is given, (4NaPO3 + 2SiO2 + 10C→2Na2SiO3 + 10CO + P4). This method is called the method of extracting phosphorus from urine.

But what does that have to do with the original thing.

Just like the technical report in Zhu Gaochi's hand, the current technicians in the chemical plant area have not formed the concept of elements.

But as long as it continues to develop and inherit the wealth of the ancestors' civilization, future generations will naturally wear the crown of science for them.

Including the inventors of Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties.

Columbine carts, pressurized wells, bellows, Jiuzhang arithmetic, circle cutting...

It will also appear in textbooks, and in textbooks of other countries, it will become the object of worship of others.

Just like Zhang Heng.

A representative of the theory of the sky, astronomers, mathematicians, inventors, geographers, and writers in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was posthumously named West Obo.

Because in the Northern Song Dynasty, the ancestors of this period believed that the achievements of their ancestors were great and admired Zhang Heng's great achievements, so they were named Xi'ebo.

Under the vicious pursuit of the chemical plant area, the golden state medical book came out ahead of schedule.

Inhaled anesthetics.

Vaccinia technology.

Effective medicine for dysentery.

Various suture techniques.

……

Jinzhou's medical collection was quickly sold out, and even the doctors in Yingtianfu began to purchase a large number of them, basically everyone had a copy.

Subsequently.

The Military Household Economic Cooperative in Senan Province published the "Lifestock Breeding Collection".

"Mining Industry Identification Collection".

The Book of Distillation.

……

All of a sudden, this kind of encyclopedia-style industry books became the hottest trend in technology newspapers.

(End of this chapter)