Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 125 Resources Are the Key
The second hurricane on the coast of Mingzhou in the first year of Hongwu arrived at night on the second day of June, and once again pressed the pause button on everything.

Although it has come to an end, it is still the season of large yellow croaker after all.

If such a hurricane lasts for one day, 100 loads of fish, or [-] million catties, will be lost.However, there is no way, even after hundreds of years, hurricanes cannot be resisted by manpower.Moreover, in this era, it is not known how strong the wind is and how far it has swept.Zhu Yuan only hoped that Mingzhou could pass through safely like last time.

There is also the food fleet that set off before.

The third batch of grain transport fleet set off on May [-]th. Liu Laoqi, who is sensitive to the weather, had a premonition two days later, but he couldn't recall it anymore. Because of the favorable wind, the fleet had already left the outermost part of the Zhoushan Islands in two days. Shengsi Archipelago area, sailing into the ocean.

Zhu Yuan was not too worried.

From May [-]th to June [-]nd, in seven days, calculated according to latitude, the fleet should have reached the sea off Yancheng, seven or eight hundred miles away.

Such a distance may be swept away by the periphery of the hurricane, but it should not have too much impact. What's more, the food fleet also has strict evacuation regulations. If the meteorological team on board observes signs of a hurricane, it must immediately turn to the shore .

Speaking of which, even if there is no satellite, no radar, even if Liu Laoqi has not been recruited before, Zhu Yuan still has considerable confidence in the navigation of this era.

This confidence comes from Zheng He's seven voyages to the West.

The three-treasure eunuch made seven voyages, each of which took a year or two. However, in history, there is no record that the fleet suffered a major loss.

The huge fleet has been floating on the sea for one or two years. Could it be that Zheng He's fleet is so lucky that it doesn't even encounter a hurricane every time?

impossible.

So, why every long voyage can go back and forth quite safely?
The answer can be imagined.

In this era, even without all kinds of high technology, the sailing experience accumulated by these people on this land for thousands of years is enough to provide a fairly reliable security guarantee for Zheng He's team.

Standing at the top of civilization for thousands of years, the biggest regret of this land is that it failed to find a way to break through the traditional farming era.

Zhu Yuan intends to give this direction.

The inner house of Yinghaisi Mansion.

In rainy weather, if you can't go out, you just study.

I plan to write a book of "Chemistry" in the next few days, and count all kinds of chemical knowledge that I can still remember.

The first is the periodic table of elements.

Hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron, carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon, sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorus, sulfur chloride argon potassium calcium.

Unfortunately.

Zhu Yuan memorized the first twenty very slickly, and after that, because there were a few uncommon words, elements 21 to 25, I couldn’t remember them, but elements 26 to 30, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, and zinc, were connected again. Got a few.

However, I also know that the elements 21 to 25, which I can't remember clearly, are very important.

Among them, there must be titanium, which is the most important high-strength and lightweight metal material hundreds of years later, and is widely used in various cutting-edge fields such as aerospace.

Then, manganese should too.

As the metal that most often appears as an alloy with iron, Zhu Yuan feels that manganese is probably No. 26 next to No. 25 iron. I really don’t remember the remaining three. However, referring to "manganese", Zhu Yuan I think it should also be some elements suitable for alloying with iron.

Although he can't remember more, Zhu Yuan feels that the more than 20 elements he still remembers are enough.

It will be interesting to discover new elements in the future. Perhaps, there will be a new element called 'Yuan' in the future.No, there seems to be no element next to the word earth, um, it’s not a problem, just let it have it this time!
I drew the form, filled in some elements I remembered, and then another very important point, the element symbol.

Zhu Yuan didn't intend to refer to his past memories, this time, he did it according to pinyin.

Hydrogen is Q; iron is Te; carbon is T, copper is Tg... and so on.

Take the first letter of pinyin, or, if there is repetition, add a final letter of pinyin.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan thought of a very "explosive" formula, 2JDY3+T+L═J2L+2DY2↑+TY2↑, and planned to study and research carefully after the storm stopped to make the most scientific black powder.

This brings up another very important point.

relative atomic mass.

Carbon (T) is 12. Of course, there seems to be a carbon 14 isotope. Leaving aside, oxygen (Y) is 16, sulfur (L) is 32, and so on. Zhu Yuan is fortunate that at least a certain explosion formula, he has I remember more clearly.

The most suitable ratio can be calculated by adding the relative atomic mass and combining the formula, instead of the traditional simple formula of 'one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal'.

However, there is another problem.

The optimal ratio, in this age, may not be easy to achieve, it is very simple, because of the purification problem.

Such as charcoal.

Even if it is the best white charcoal fired in this era, it cannot be all pure carbon, and there must be quite a lot of impurities.

The same goes for sulfur.

Because potassium nitrate is soluble in water, it is currently the one that can be purified.

In short, there are so many things, and it is definitely not a simple formula that can make people enter a new era.

It has been more than half a year in this era, and Zhu Yuan is very clear that the core that restricts the development of this era is resources.As small as gunpowder, the formula is not important, the formula is not important, the key is, charcoal is okay, but where do you get so much sulfur and nitrate that are enough to turn the army from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons?
Based on the memories Zhu Yuan brought back from later generations, like petroleum, the reserves of sulfur and nitrate on this land are relatively poor.

Perhaps, in the initial stage of the change of the times, some corresponding small mines, in this regard, look carefully, after all, the land is large enough, you should be able to find some, but if you want to make it bigger, bigger, in the short term Under the premise that industrial means of production cannot be realized, we can only find natural mineral deposits with large enough reserves.

Resources are the problem.

Just like the other two things that Zhu Yuan thought of during the divergence process, glass and cement.

Glass, the traveler's favorite.

The problem is that most traversers don't seem to understand a problem. The key to glass is soda ash, and the demand ratio is quite large. It takes [-] kilograms of soda ash to burn one ton of glass.

Where does soda ash come from?
Extracting potassium carbonate from plant ash is doomed to be a trivial matter. Therefore, if you want to burn glass, you must first find alkali ore, which is the key.

And cement.

Travelers also like to burn cement.

The problem is coming again.

What is most needed for cement firing?
energy!

Zhu Yuan happened to know a number, but forgot to read it casually in a newspaper. In a coastal province, only cement production accounted for 11% of the province's energy consumption.

Just [-]%, how much?

Not much?
Just produce a cement!

Then, cement production, what is the most important thing?
Not fired.

It's smash!
Just crushing all kinds of stones into fine powder accounts for [-] to [-] percent of the energy consumed in the entire cement production process.

Zhu Yuan can boldly make a guess, just a few hundred years later, 11% of the energy in a developed coastal province will be more than the energy consumed by burning wood, coal, charcoal, etc. in the entire Ming Dynasty in this era .

Therefore, before breaking through the shackles of the farming era, burning cement, considering the consumption of manpower and energy, is far less cost-effective than using glutinous rice pulp.

Glutinous rice milk is not bad at all.

If you don’t believe me, look at the Nanjing City Wall that remains hundreds of years later, and the long city in the north.

In the study room of the inner house.

Zhu Yuan's thinking is very divergent, and he writes whatever comes to mind, regardless of whether it is right or wrong for the time being, anyway, it will definitely have to be proofread later.

Several girls from Xieyi accompanied her as usual.

Seeing my petty official is like writing a heavenly book, one page in a blink of an eye, another page in a blink of an eye, what copper sulfate is insoluble in water, what tungsten metal has a melting point above [-] degrees, what flame reaction of different metal elements, all of which cannot be seen. Understand.

Or, if you can understand the text, you can't understand it.

And, it's hard to believe.

Amidst the rushing wind and rain, after a busy morning, Qing Niang came over and said that lunch was ready. Zhu Yuan, who had finished writing another page with different colors of metal compound solvents, raised his head, and suddenly felt a little dizzy.

Excessive use of the brain.

Liu Bai first sensed something was wrong, seeing Zhu Yuan's face was flushed, he hurried over, and while supporting his little official, he stretched out his hand and tried Zhu Yuan's forehead, it seemed a little hot.

Immediately anxious.

He took his little officials to the bedroom in the east room, took off his clothes and covered the quilt, surrounded by several girls, and brought lunch.

After eating something, he vaguely heard Liu Bai asking if he wanted to call Mr. Dai over, but Zhu Yuan refused and fell into a deep sleep.

Fortunately, I was just tired.

When I woke up from sleep, I felt fine.

The wind and rain continued.

The next day, the women stopped letting Zhu Yuan into the study, and they always wanted to find something to do. Just as Zhu Yuan ordered, Cui Shen quickly sent a new-style two-person mound machine over and placed it in the south. house warehouse.

Going to do it manually.

In such weather, it is also a good thing to do handicrafts and have fun.

By the way, I also exercised my body.

The South Room has little space.

The main room was also not suitable, so the rear photo room was moved.

Only then did Zhu Yuan realize that it was his first time here.

At any rate, I have been to the front yard once.

The canary-like women living here were even more surprised and delighted. They all dressed up carefully and came to the hall in the middle of the first floor of the Zhaofang to entertain with their little officials.

The two-person mound machine requires four people to operate.

Zhu Yuan must not be able to go up and pedal. Without that strength, it is impossible to call the boys outside, even if He Xuan is a few, it is not suitable.

Just let the girls come.

So, here comes the problem again, for the clothes of this era, just imagine, hundreds of years later, a girl in a gorgeous Hanfu, riding a bicycle... I dare not imagine the picture.

Zhu Yuan has always been good at solving problems.

Very simple.

Let Xieyi find some cheesecloth, which happens to be blue.

Make jeans.

Complete jeans are too slow to sew, so hot pants, anyway, it is summer, even if it is windy and rainy outside, the temperature is not low, so it is the right time for a girl to wear hot pants.

The hot pants came out, and a small T-shirt was matched.

Of course you have to show your navel.

This time it will be muslin.

Moreover, the top is okay, but the bottom can't just wear hot pants, and a set of small bottoms is also sewn.

Surrounded by a group of people, big and small, maybe others can't do it, there's nothing to say about needlework.

The finished product is finished quickly.

Zhu Yuan wanted Liu Bai to be the first to try.

Compared with other girls, freehand and blank are the most suitable, the age is right, the figure... is also suitable.After all, what T-shirts and hot pants need is a youthful vigor, too big, too small, too S, but less charm.

Stay blank and resolutely refuse to follow.

If it's a bedroom at night, it's fine, there are people around here, Liu Bai didn't intend to wear these weird clothes, and he just dragged Xie Yi to leave together, he didn't even want to look at it.

It's so indecent.

And I also understand that, anyway, there must be people who are willing in every possible way in this yard full of prodigal hooves.

Of course there are.

So the first one to try it on became Cheng Shanshan. With the mountains and mountains, the water and water are also matched.According to the standards of hundreds of years later, the two girls are still at the age of studying, and their clothes are not bad.

The jewelry on the head was also removed, and a ponytail was tied.

Gee!
After wearing it, start kicking.

By the way, I also asked the idle girl to make complete jeans, and planned to let Luoshui's waist wear it, it must look good.

Now that these are all out, I simply went to find all kinds of fabrics.

There is silk.

Didn't say, make stockings.

Pair it with a tight skirt, and a blouse.

Take the time to let Qing Niang wear it for yourself.

During the period, Liu Bai came back again, saw the sketch of the OL suit drawn by Zhu Yuan, spat, and ran away again.

Little girl, you have no mood!
The sack is the best. No matter what the little officials do, they always look on with a pair of bright eyes and a smile, and there is a little expectation in their expressions.

The sack girl loves pretty clothes.

If she doesn't think she's pretty, and her petty official thinks it's pretty, she'll think it's pretty too.However, under the influence of Sister Liu Bai and the others, Lin Xiaoyu just watched it and didn't want to try it on in public. She didn't want to be scolded by Sister Liu Bai as a slut.

Seeing Zhu Yuan, of course he couldn't be ignored.

Then quietly ordered, let the girls get out the BRA too.

The girl is young and invincible at the moment, it's okay, just wear a bag, but since she thinks about it, it is still necessary to protect her in advance.

After finishing the clothes, they started cutting crystal plates for a group of girls.

In addition to a two-person mound machine, two large baskets full of various colored crystals were sent over.

Zhu Yuan did it himself and cut a few pieces, but he was inspired again.

Perhaps, these crystals could be used as buttons.

In the past, before the emergence of two-person mound machines and grinding wheel slicing, it was not realistic to use crystals as buttons, at least to mass-produce them.

Right now it's fine.

Zhu Yuan has never forgotten the matter of creating a 'luxury brand' in this era. However, because of the busy affairs in Mingzhou at the moment, he can't make a move, so he can only wait until he returns to Jinling.

However, many things can also be planned in advance.

Just say crystal buttons, various colors, various shapes, are just right, and there are enough sources of materials. In this era, they can be regarded as high-end, and can be used as a symbol of the home-made "luxury brand" in the future.

(End of this chapter)