Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 189 Chapter 196
It was night, Zuo Ming abandoned a group of beautiful wives, and talked with Li Jingxuan in the study all night.

Through this conversation, Zuo Ming discovered that Li Jingxuan and the others did not know why they made this simple battery, and the concept of electricity had not yet entered their world.

To put it bluntly, their battery is the most common copper-zinc primary battery in later generations, but there are some personal innovations in it, but the voltage of this battery is not stable, so it is only suitable for short-term use.But that's all, and it's an extremely remarkable invention.

With the battery, the first thing Zuo Ming thought of was naturally the electric light.The candlelight of the Tang Dynasty was too dazzling, and the brightness was limited. With these things, he couldn't live the nightlife of his dreams.

The biggest difficulty in the production of electric lamps is the wick. Later generations of Edison tried countless materials before finally choosing tungsten wire. Of course, this is also cheaper.

Standing on countless shoulders, it is really not difficult for him to make things like electric lights!
Of course, first he had to find a way to get tungsten ore.

After consulting a series of related books, Zuo Ming finally determined that something called "heavy stone" was the wolframite he needed.This is also thanks to Li Shimin, who spared no effort to collect information on various strange ores from all over the country.

With ore, it is not difficult to get pure metal.The easiest way is to reduce tungsten oxide with carbon.

Of course, after the materials are complete, it does not mean that the light bulb can be made immediately. The thickness of the tungsten wire and the voltage that can withstand are also a big problem, which needs to be overcome by the Forbidden Garden and the academy.

Zuo Ming just gave them a general direction and then turned their attention to another aspect, which is the development of electricity!
Although the battery is easy to use, it is difficult to popularize after all.

The best way to obtain huge electric energy is undoubtedly to build a dam, but it is really difficult to complete a too large dam with his ability.

As for Gezhouba in later generations, it was completed only after gathering countless experts.His Gewu Academy is just in its infancy now, what those people know are all from his memory, how can it catch up with those experts and scholars?
In desperation, Zuo Ming had no choice but to build a small wheeled cart by the Wei River and start experimenting.

The so-called hydroelectric power generation is just to use water energy to drive the turbine to rotate, and then drive the rotating shaft inside to cut the magnetic induction line, so as to obtain electric energy. Zuo Ming also made a smaller model at home before.

It's just that the generator in reality is obviously not comparable to a model. On the first day, Zuo Ming set fire to ten Loud Dukes.

The power of his water conservancy generator is too high, and there is no transformer, how could Li Jingxuan's loud guys withstand such a strong voltage.

There was no other way, Zuo Ming had no choice but to try to build a transformer.But this thing is really difficult to grasp, and he doesn't have a device to test the voltage in his hand. Even if he succeeds, he doesn't know how much the voltage will be after the change.

After more than a dozen consecutive failures, Zuo Ming threw it to the academy irresponsibly, while he himself played the trick of electric fishing.

It was an afternoon in June, Zuo Ming was wearing a pair of beach shorts and a straw hat, and went out coquettishly with a pipe in his mouth.Accompanying them are naturally Shen Ding and Li Zhi, who have always had a lot of experience in catching fish and shrimp.

Their goal is not anywhere else, but the bend upstream of the Yong'an County Wharf.

The electric fork used by Zuo Ming was refitted from two rakes. Except for the head, the rest of the fork was covered with a thick layer of rubber.

It is worth mentioning that after more than two years of hard work, Jinyuan has successfully developed a chemical method for elastic rubber, and now rubber can be produced in large quantities.

Behind the electric fork is naturally a long black plastic wire. This wire is extremely long, and it is directly connected to a small house in the east of the wharf in Yong'an County.And that's where Zuoming's water truck is located.

After driving the boat to the middle of the river, Zuo Ming inserted the two electric forks into the water with a smirk, and then greeted Wu Dazhu on the shore.

Seeing Zuo Ming's signal, Wu Dazhu immediately connected the power supply.

However, the expected big scene did not come, and Li Zhi and Shen Ding immediately expressed doubts.

"Brother! Can this thing work! I have to help Wu Zhao polish diamonds, but I don't have time to watch you play tricks!"

"That's right! My lord, what are you doing so silently! Shen Ding really can't understand!"

Being questioned by these two people, Zuo Ming felt very humiliated, but he really didn't know what was going on, so he blushed and said over and over again, "It doesn't make sense! Why is there no fish?"

Hearing Zuo Ming muttering there, Li Zhi's suspicions deepened, and they were about to say something, but they suddenly heard countless exclamations from a distance.

"Fish! Fish! Lots of fish!"

"It's not good! It's not good! The Dragon King is angry! A lot of fish died!"

"This is a sign of a flood!"

"Yes! It's a bad omen!"

Following the prestige, Li Zhi and Shen Ding were stunned.At this time, a large number of dead fish appeared downstream of them!

Compared to their shock, Zuo Ming was much calmer, and immediately yelled with a small loud male.

"What are you yelling about! This is not the Dragon King being angry, it's me fishing! Don't talk nonsense if you guys don't understand, if you dare to disturb people's hearts, I will slap you to death! Hurry up and get those fish ashore, whoever gets it who!"

Hearing that the king of Tang was fishing here, everyone was suddenly stunned.In fact, they didn't know what happened at all, but they would not pursue it, because many of the strange things that happened to King Tang could not be answered by their pursuit, which has been confirmed a long time ago.

For a time, the common people started to pick up fish happily.

"See it! This is the power of electricity!"

After showing the power of electricity to Li Zhi and Shen Ding, Zuo Ming smiled triumphantly, then picked up two electric forks and bumped them into each other.

Immediately, a burst of frenzied lightning flashed in front of everyone's eyes, scaring everyone into a cold sweat.

"Thunder God! King Tang has conjured up lightning!!"

"It's really thunder and lightning! I saw it too! King Tang can actually control thunder and lightning!"

"It turns out that the legend is true. King Tang is not a human being, but a god who descended from the sky!"

"Yeah! How can people use lightning!"

Immediately, the common people began to discuss curiously and excitedly.

"Brother! You can't really be a fairy in the sky!"

This scene had the biggest impact on Li Zhi who was so close, and it was incredible at the moment.

"What kind of god is not a god! If I were really a god, would I be sent to Haiti by that bastard Xiaoyaozi? This thing is knowledge after advanced physics, and there is no mention of mechanics in the textbooks of Gewu College for the time being. After passing the test, I will also make up the electrical stuff."

Talking crookedly, Zuo Ming inserted the two electric forks into the water again.At that time, the Weishui River was still quite clear, so there were a lot of fish and shrimps in it. After a while, a large piece of the entire river surface floated up.

After playing for a while, Zuo Ming put away the electric fork and went home.

It's just that his deed of fishing with electricity was still spread by the gods, and then, a person that he didn't expect came directly in front of him.

This person is none other than Li Jing, the Grand Marshal of the Dynasty, Duke of Wei.

And he came here not for anything else, but to ask Zuo Ming whether this kind of lightning weapon can be used in war.

Seeing that these guys from the military wanted to use electricity for the military, Zuo Ming was quite speechless, but this also gave Zuo Ming a reminder.

Most of the current wars are based on cold weapons, and limbs are cut off at every turn, which is not only bloody, but also cruel.If electricity can really be used in the military, it would be a way to reduce war killings.After all, things like electricity are not too difficult to control. Under normal circumstances, clicking can disintegrate a person's combat effectiveness, but it is very difficult to injure a person's life.

"It's not impossible! I heard that there are still some resistance forces in Dongpu who are making the final struggle, so you can try the power of the king's thunder and lightning!"

After pondering for a while, Zuo Ming smiled evilly and said, "Looking back, I will ask the academy to modify the batteries to make them more effective. When used with dual knives, the power must be extraordinary. However, although that kind of power can be used in It is not easy to control a person in a short period of time, but it is not easy to kill a person. And it is very likely to cause accidental injury, so we must take protective measures."

"Which killing equipment in this world is absolutely safe? The prince just asks the people of the academy to make it. With this thing, we may even save gunpowder!"

Hearing that it could be used for war, Li Jing was immediately overjoyed. A few days ago, he fought a tough battle with Dongpu. Both the navy and the army suffered heavy losses. His heart ached long ago.Although the artillery is powerful, it can only bombard it from a long distance after all, and it is inconvenient to aim and move. It is better to have this electric power.

With this kind of charged weapon, his soldiers don't even need to cut the enemy, just touch it lightly, and the enemy soldiers covered in metal will convulse and fall to the ground immediately?

However, what Zuo Ming said was simple, Li Jing also looked relaxed, but the Gewu Academy, which actually did this, became distressed.

This is the military order of the Ministry of War. The teachers and students of Gewu College, as well as the scholars of Forbidden Garden, naturally regard it as the top priority.

It's just that, although there is Zuo Ming's newly compiled electricity textbook and some chemical materials, it is not an easy matter to really make a fishing battery for later generations.

In the end, it was a girl named Lan Ruodie who proposed the method of converting DC to AC and finally made the world's first battery come out.

(End of this chapter)