Aztec Eternals

The night was deep, and the mountains in the distance were like beasts crouching on the ground, hidden under the pitch-black sky. The moonlight is dim, and the nearby mine is like a journey of no return, connecting to the dark depths of the earth. The age of myth remains in people's hearts, making all natural scenes full of unknown divinity.

The mountains of Chingambat under the night moon are full of darkness, except for a bonfire swaying in the main mine. Loyal warriors patrolled all night, clenching their weapons sternly, guarding the safety of the king. At the center, heavily guarded by the samurai, is the only modest stone house in the mine. Seen from a distance, the light of fire was faintly visible in the house.

The bonfire was raging, the old charcoal was lit with green smoke, but the new coke was indifferent. The samurai captain held his breath and fell asleep, guarding the king's side. There was silence in the stone house, only the rustling of the pen tip on the paper.

Seirot knelt in the room and wrote on the paper with a slender quill. After a long while, he stopped the pen in his hand, looked at the burning fire, and smiled comfortably.

"This charcoal is of good quality, has few impurities, and has a lot of firepower. It's a pity to use it as firewood."

Bertard opened his eyes, saw His Highness's smile from the heart, and asked with a smile.

"His Royal Highness, what "Industrial Science and Technology Planning Book" are you talking about, have you finished writing it?"

"Well! The general framework is here."

Shirot nodded with a smile. During these days in the mining area, he has been thinking about the follow-up planning. Many long-standing memories are becoming blurred, requiring careful writing to recall and calculate. He also took this opportunity to put the idea of ​​industrial technology development on paper as a long-term blueprint for the construction of the future kingdom.

"Bottard, come and watch it together!"

The king beckoned, and the samurai captain approached and sat down on his knees, listening intently.

"The eagle's eyes look at thousands of miles, and the root system of the divine tree grows for thousands of years. All important events must be planned from the beginning, in order to fly to the height of the eagle and support the stability of the divine tree!"

"Bottard, you are my most trusted confidant and have followed me all the way for many years. Only you can roughly understand this plan, and it will also be helpful to your future responsibilities. I told you before that I intend to ask you to let you Stand alone..."

"You have to go to the far eastern Great Lake for me, master the long snake island in the lake, and establish a foothold there... That island will have very rich mineral deposits, and it will be easy to mine in the open. There is the Lord God who gave us Mexico The gift of adding people is also the key to guarding the world... What you need to do will be a lot and will be difficult, and there will always be danger to your life!"

"His Royal Highness, even if the storm is dangerous and it is thousands of miles away, I am willing to die for you! I will definitely stop... capture...kill for you!..."

Bertard's face was chilling, and he nodded solemnly. Although His Highness's prophecy was only a few sentences, it remained in his heart.

"Okay! Bertard, don't worry. The first few batches of aliens were only a few hundred people. They came from thousands of miles, and they had no foundation, so it's not a cause for concern..."

Shirot smiled with relief, patted the shoulder of the samurai commander, and warned carefully.

"...Your most important task in the future is to integrate the various ministries on the island, the second is to guard against terrifying epidemics, the third is to build an artillery fortress, and the fourth is to make iron and steel!"

Bertademo memorized every sentence, and then asked inexplicably.

"Making iron and making steel? I remember Mayan merchants brought you iron and stone. What about steel?"

"From iron ore, iron can be smelted, and when iron is properly treated, it becomes steel! Steel is extremely hard and can make the best weapons and the strongest armor. More importantly, steel is The door to industrialization! And blast furnace coke iron smelting is the most important step under the door!  …”

While talking, Shirlot stretched out his hand and pointed to the wide paper roll spread out on the table.

On the top of the scroll are words circled in boxes, separated by columns, representing different fields of technology. Under the vocabulary are notes of a mix of numbers, letters, equations, and words. In the vocabulary technology, there are arrows linked together in one direction, indicating that the technology is pre-positioned.

Bertard looked at the first column and saw "fuel". After "fuel", there is a strange "C", followed by "wood", "coal", "petroleum", three confusing names. And under these names, there are small arrows, morphological descriptions of different fuels, possible locations of discovery, and some celestial symbols.

He looked past the difficult words and looked directly at the location. After the coal is marked Chingambat, a small amount; two thousand miles north, a huge amount. After the oil, it is noted that north to east, two thousand miles to three thousand miles.

Seeing this oracle-like description, awe once again appeared in the eyes of the samurai chief.

"Your Highness, is this?"

"These are burning materials! Fuel is the cornerstone of technology and the food and blood of industry."

Shilott smiled. He didn't ask Bertard if he could understand it, he just explained it in detail, while sorting out the context in his heart.

"With a kiln, we can burn wood into charcoal, and coal into coke. The coke has removed sulfur-containing impurities, has a higher calorific value, and is more suitable for smelting metals. In the process of coal coking, a large amount of by-products can be produced. The product, this is the most primitive coal chemical industry... and in the processing of petroleum, more high-value products can be obtained. This is a petrochemical industry, but unfortunately I will probably never see it in this life..."

Shilot moved his fingers and stayed on the "coking", recalling the smell he smelled during the day.

"Ammonia gas is produced during the coking process. Ammonia gas can be made into an important fertilizer, but it needs acid to absorb it."

The samurai captain looked at the "acid" column in the corner, and saw "hydrochloric acid", "sulfuric acid" and "nitric acid" written below it. He knew every word on it, but when he put it together, he was completely at a loss.

"The easiest acid to get is sulphuric acid. If you find sulphuric salts, such as green alum and cholic alum, you can simply dry distillation in a clay pot. If you can't find it, you can also use the lead chamber method. We already have sulfur and saltpeter, two It burns to produce mixed gas, which is oxidized to obtain sulfuric acid through the corrosion-resistant lead chamber... Well, it should be roughly the same principle. Lead-zinc ore is also available here, and lead smelting is very easy. If you don't pay attention to purity and efficiency, you can use the local method. Try it out..."

Shilot thought for a moment, before pointing to the word "fertilizer" again.

Bertard looked closely and saw "N, P, K" after the fertilizer, a group of mysterious symbols. Then there is a note of "struvite", which is located "at the end of the Leman River into the Great Western Lake, two thousand miles to the north, on an arid seabird island".

"By passing ammonia gas into sulfuric acid, you can get ammonium sulfate fertilizer, which can effectively increase the output of fields. This is the easiest nitrogen-containing fertilizer to artificially manufacture. Ammonium nitrate is not only a fertilizer, but also an extremely powerful explosive... Of course, with the difficulty of manufacturing nitric acid, in my lifetime..."

Shilot shook his head and looked at the "Explosives" column next to him. The top is naturally "black powder", then "nitrified explosive", and then "TNT". The last two names have question marks, and the production process is unknown, but there is a small note: "God said that the more nitro, the higher the difficulty and the greater the power!"

The king smiled lightly and continued to get down to business.

"Bottard, look here."

Hearing the words, the samurai chief looked and saw that there was a column of "Metallurgy" in the most striking position in the middle, followed by "Bronze making", "Iron making", "Steel making", and "Cu, Sn, Mysterious symbols like Fe, C".

"The metallurgy of Fengguo starts with bronze, because the alliance has two kinds of minerals, copper and tin. However, bronze is inherently defective in toughness, and the cost of mining and smelting is also high."

Xiuluo paused for a while, and put his finger on "Iron Smelting". The samurai captain continued to go back and saw three locations marked "Colima, Southwest Mountains", "Cuba, in the Oriental Lake, the eastern end of the Serpentine Long Island", "North America, thousands of miles to the north", and suddenly felt a little bit. comprehend.

"The scale of copper mining farms will expand exponentially, and coke will also be used for bronze smelting in the capital. The kingdom's bronze production will soon increase significantly. After the development of bronze smelting, the next step is iron smelting."

"It is iron that can really be popularized on a large scale and completely change the world! With coke, a blast furnace is built, and air is blown in, and the iron can be melted at a high enough temperature. The technology for large-scale ironmaking is already mature. It's just that this world In the meantime, iron ore is hard to find. I have been trying to find the source of iron ore.”

Shiloh sighed softly. The iron mines of Colima are deep, and the iron mines of North America are far away. Cuban iron ore requires sailing. Among the three, the Cuban Iron Mine is an open-pit bonanza, and its location can be clearly identified.

"There are two types of smelted iron, raw and cooked, corresponding to the level of carbon content... The carbon content is... well, the vitality contained in iron is somewhat similar to bronze containing tin. The high content is brittle, and the low content is soft. ... But the special thing is that if the carbon content is just right, it will be both hard and tough, call it steel!"

Xiulott's fingers slid down "steel making", and there were four groups of "forging steel", "steel filling", "fried steel", "pig iron steel making", and then marked with different words such as carburizing and decarburization. .

"Blast furnace coke smelts iron ore, and it will make pig iron. If you smelt pig iron again, and control the temperature and oxygen, you can directly get steel, which is called pig iron steelmaking... Of course, this method seems to be the easiest, but it is actually difficult. Too big to count on for decades.”

Shilot smiled helplessly, his thoughts flew back from the distant industrialized future, back to the beginning where everything was zero at this moment.

"Forging steel is carburizing of wrought iron. The process is complicated, time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is also called forging into steel. Filling steel means putting pig iron and wrought iron together, first melting the pig iron, and soaking it in the wrought iron. , and then smelting and hammering into one. Stir-fried steel is when the pig iron is smelted in the blast furnace, the molten molten iron flows out, and it is exposed to the air to keep stirring, and at the same time, it is heated and decarburized, and finally it is directly made into steel.

"Actually, it's still too difficult to fry steel directly. Well, it's better to fry pig iron to mature iron, and then use the method of forging steel or pouring steel to obtain steel in a time-consuming but stable way!"

Thinking of this, Shulot was fascinated. Although these processes have only general ideas, as long as you continue to invest manpower and material resources to try, you will be successful step by step and steadily.

"The biggest advantage of the traversers is not the specific craftsmanship level, but pointing out a correct direction in the vast darkness!"

The king whispered softly, his incomparable confidence surging in his chest.

Bertard bowed his head in admiration, looking down at Metallurgy. The words "metal processing" were written there, followed by an incomprehensible row of words: "turning, milling, planing, grinding, boring, drilling, threading". There is no explanation after these words, but a "hydraulic forging hammer" is added.

"Your Highness, what do these mean?"

Shirot's face froze. He only remembered this formula roughly, as for the specific metal processing machinery, it was naturally impossible to remember. The king just pointed to the last and explained.

"Build a water wheel by the river, and then connect it with a forging hammer, which can be used to make metal armor or rough armor. In addition, the water can also be used to process food. Oh, yes, there is also a windmill..."

He added "windmill" under "simple machinery" next to him. Many jumping words have been written in this column, including "loom", "spinning machine", "cotton gin", " Arm plate signal tower"... Of course, in the mind of the king, these machines are just a noun, just know the general function. With one exception..."steam engine"!

Shilot's eyes stayed on the "steam engine" for a long time. An arrow is drawn from "metallurgy" and "metal processing", silently describing the pre-difficulty of this technology. However, the word steam engine, as if it had a unique magic power, always aroused his thoughts.

"The dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the steam engine..."

Sherlot whispered to himself, trying hard to recall the textbook that was about to be forgotten. Illustrations that were once crystal clear are now only abstract and fuzzy shapes.

"Cylinders, pistons, valve opening and closing, cold water condensation, power transmission of tie rods..."

Fuzzy shapes, clear principles, and changing combinations in the mind of the king at the same time, but unfortunately they did not combine a "complex" Watt steam engine. After a long time, Shiloh sighed softly. He picked up a pen and drew a simple "Miner's Friend", Savery's steam pump.

"Although bronze can be used for cylinders and vulcanized rubber for seals...but before metallurgical technology and metal processing technology are sufficiently advanced, practical cheap steam engines are just delusions, and this is still the expectation of a lifetime!"

Soon, Shilot recognized the reality and laughed at himself. It is worth mentioning that when the traveler sealed the steam engine, the rarest vulcanized rubber was readily available to him in the Americas.

Rubber originated in the Americas and has been widely used in the world. The original vulcanized rubber was invented in the ancient Olmec period, and the Olmec people were called glue men for this reason. They combined the boiled juice of the rubber tree with the sap of the American grape vine to vulcanize the rubber in its most primitive form and make it into a waterproof rain suit. This rain suit has a unique religious significance and is often worn for ceremonial ball games, as well as the sacrifice of losers.

Shilot shook his head slightly, raised his hand and wrote the word "vulcanized rubber" in the "Uncategorized" column at the bottom. Vulcanized rubber can also be obtained by fumigation with sulfur. It is resistant to temperature and water, is not easy to become sticky and deformed, and is resistant to oxygen and wear. It can be used to make many practical appliances, such as important car tires, convenient rubber shoes and raincoats.

In this column, there is also "fired glass". The glass research of Lozano, the chief mason, lasted for two years with little progress. Now with coke and blast furnaces, the difficulty of melting glass can be greatly reduced.

"Glass beads are the cheapest monopoly trade..."

Shirot smiled faintly~www.readwn.com~ The wide paper roll is almost at the end. Bertard looked down again, where there was the last column, "Future." There are some incomprehensible words cluttered inside, including "electricity", "telegraph", "combustion engine"...

"Your Highness, what are these?"

The king paused slightly and said seriously.

"These are the ultimate guidance of the Lord God, and also the future after my death."

Hearing this, Bertard was silent for a moment. His eyes flickered, and it took a long time before he spoke in a low voice.

"Your Highness, this scroll is so important that it should be given a more appropriate name."

"Oh?"

Shirot is very interesting, with a smile in his eyes.

"what name?"

"God's book!"