Chapter 697
The Eve of the Chaos
Chapter 697 The Eve of the Chaos ([-])
When the alchemist said this, his face was already pale, and he continued: "Afterwards, I ruled out the other types, and finally deduced that gunpowder is actually just three things that can be made from charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter."
"As for the proportion, that's easy to say. I just need to separate saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur with water, and then I can know."
"Theory of Qi Yihehe" written by the Mohist thinks that gas also has weight. When water turns into gas, it can lift the lid. From this, we can know that the so-called gunpowder should not solidify into gas and push the projectile to fly out. I think, if there is divine power It’s actually the same if you put the top on the gun barrel and blow it fiercely. It’s the same reason for the Bashu Yidi to use the blower.”
"In the "On Combustion" written by the Mohists, experiments have been done. There is something in the gas that can make the charcoal burn, but if the gas is gone, the charcoal will not burn. And the gas can be measured, only one-fifth , called Yang Qi.”
"Gunpowder can burn without gas, so I thought, it is very likely that saltpeter provides carbon and sulfur with the yang energy that allows them to burn."
"In order to make sure that my guess is correct, I calcined the salt in the furnace for a long time without increasing or decreasing. However, the saltpeter was calcined in a separate atmosphere according to the method used to refine 'Zhu Rongxue' at that time, and a kind of gas could be obtained. This kind of qi...can make the charcoal bloom inside like the scorching sun. It is probably yang qi."
"So I am more sure that there is no salt or Glauber's salt in gunpowder, only saltpeter. So gunpowder is nothing but the yang energy hidden in saltpeter, which turns into gas after burning with charcoal and sulfur, and pushes the projectile out like a Bashu blower .”
When the alchemist said this, he pointed to the pile of gunpowder below and said, "Everyone can try it, or compare it with the one bought from the Mohist."
Sheng Chuo got up, worshiped again and again, and said in admiration: "There is no need to try. You have already obtained the essence of "An Explanation of Thirty Questions". You are so wise, you have already used the heart of gunpowder!"
Qin Jun also laughed and said: "As you said, since the passing of the Gongshu class, no one in the world can surpass Mo Di with the ingenuity of mechanical carpenters. Twenty years ago, Mo Di invited the disciples of the Gongshu class to join him with the belt given by the Gongshu class. On Sishang, the Mohist guards the city with large crossbows such as revolving shotguns and bed crossbows.
"I may not understand the so-called will and evolution of the Mohists, but I do understand people's hearts. The Sishang Mohists can make the best crossbows but use gunpowder. This is the best proof."
"The human heart is not the will of heaven as the Mohist said, but it can also know many truths."
Wu Qi and the others all bowed down, either happy or convinced.
Qin Jun said again: "In addition to this, there is one more thing that can strengthen your determination to use muskets."
After that, he pointed to the copper hook on the ground and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
This copper hook looks very simple, one finger long, and not even as delicate as the trigger of a crossbow. The people present did not know what it was, let alone why this very ordinary-looking utensil could make the king feel This thing can strengthen everyone's heart with guns.
Qin Jun smiled and said: "After Mo Di passed away, Kai Zhishi compiled "Lu Wen", "Shi Wen" and other books recording Mo Di's words and deeds. There is an article in it, which says that when he was guarding the city in Shangqiu, Shi Shi talked about the future There is one thing that can replace the revolving machine, the bed crossbow, and the bow."
"After the musket came out, Kai Zhishi once said that flint can ignite vinegar, so it can also ignite gunpowder. It only needs to be carefully stored. He said he had seen it at the two gentlemen. But Fan Jiazhi said he had seen it before. Have you ever heard him speak lies?"
"A few years ago, the Mo family asked the world's skilled craftsmen to make one thing with a hundred gold... This thing is very simple, just need to be able to store energy. Don't ask for the shape, just ask for this thing, and give a hundred gold when it is made..."
Before he finished speaking, Wu Qi pointed to the simple-looking copper hook on the ground and said, "This...is this the so-called 'leaf spring' in flintlock guns?"
Everyone present knew the name of the leaf spring.
What exactly, no one knows.
But the principle has long been given by Mohists in some books: the function of matchlock is only to ignite fire, and flint can also ignite fire.It only needs to make a leaf spring that can store power, and then the flint can be fired directly to ignite the gunpowder.
What kind of leaf spring do you need?
For everyone present, it doesn't matter.
As long as the leaf springs can be produced, the craftsmen can easily design the machine, the principle is clear, even if it is not based on the diagram, it is almost the same.
Craftsmen who can make bronze crossbows can make uncomplicated flint-fired mechanical devices as long as they know the principle and direction, and give them a high-quality reed.
The principle of levers, exerting force with fingers, accumulating force with leaf spring, maintaining the crossbow, hooking the crossbow, rebounding the leaf spring, pulling the flint, and igniting the fire.
The way of accumulating power is very similar to the common principle of using a ruler to store power to play balls of paper in later generations of schools.
This thing is very important, especially for those present who are debating whether the Great Qin Army will use crossbows or muskets in the future, it is impossible not to know this thing.
In the Mohist book "Discussing Future Battles by Talking about Knowing Skills", there is such a saying:
Due to the existence of matchlock guns, people cannot get too close to each other, so the power of salvo is not as good.
If flint can be used to replace the victory, then the phalanx of one company can be lined up with two companies, and one volley is the firepower of the original two companies.
Moreover, the role of the spearman is only to cover the matchlock gun. If the spearman and the matchlock gun can be integrated, then from then on, there will only be one kind of infantry in Zhuxia.
In addition, after the Mohists captured Tengcheng in the First Battle of Lishui, the book titled "The Victory of Rational Will——On Pythagorean and Siege Techniques" explained: Why did Zi Mozi defend the city? Row walls are built to increase width.
The increase in width is for the advantage of projection.If the projection can be increased while keeping the width constant, the effect is the same.
These books written by the Mohists in the past 20 years have now been circulated, and the 20-year silence is not that no one has noticed except Sishang, but that they are slowly digesting.
The seeds are sprinkled.
Within Kyushu, flowers are blooming everywhere.
However, this flower bloomed in a strange way.
Sheng Chuo looked at the copper hook, shook his head and said, "I heard that the Mo family has been making this thing. However, they use iron, and they have already made it, but the power is not enough, and the fire is too low. , so it is not necessary.”
"However, Kai Zhishi said that what he saw from those two gentlemen was iron...how could it be copper?"
He bent down to pick up the leaf spring, and pulled it hard. Sure enough, it needed strength. After letting go, it immediately bounced straight.
The alchemist said: "It doesn't matter whether it's copper or iron, what's needed is the ability to store power. Don't talk about copper and iron, even if you use a small crossbow on it and use the strength of the crossbow arm to pull the hook to rub the flint, isn't that the same reason?"
Sheng Chuo was puzzled and said: "But...the blacksmiths all over the world are trying to use various quenching methods to get the hundred gold..."
"Can copper also store energy as a spring?"
Fang Shi said: "Sir, I don't know something. To the south of Bashu, there are Yelang Kingdom and Qilan Kingdom, both of which are Yidi. However, there are also bronze wares there, and there have been exchanges. I have seen a delicate thing, which is also copper." , is accumulating strength.”
The principle of the flintlock is not so esoteric, all that is missing is a suitable, elastic leaf spring.
As for the ignition method, if chemistry is advancing rapidly, it can be used to hit thunder mercury with the force of a spring; it is the same to rub flint.
There have been primitive flintlock guns in Sishang for a long time, but the reason why they are not popularized in the army is that the firing rate is too low.The reason why the ignition rate is too low is that the material is not good enough.
This era belongs to craftsmen, and is something that craftsmen can knock out.
Material is the fundamental reason that restricts the manufacture of many exquisite instruments today.
This time, the Sishang Mo family is not hiding something like gunpowder, but because the leaf spring of the flintlock that Shi said he saw from the "two hermit gentlemen" is really steel, and he didn't add any copper parts at all. to think about.
Copper can be used as a leaf spring for energy storage, but I don't know if it is suitable.
The people of Qin didn't know either, but they knew that the required characteristic of a leaf spring is that it should have enough elasticity and be able to store energy.
As for the size, lightness, and power storage, they can all be adjusted. If the fire rate cannot reach 100%, it may not be unusable if it reaches half of it;
There are many coincidences and many inevitability in this.
Ying Shichao has been in exile since he was a child, and experienced a coup, expulsion, and exile; he watched the rise of Wei State, took away Xihe, and reformed; The rise of the Mohists; beside him, there are rebels like Shengchao...
All of this makes Ying Shicha attach great importance to the word "change" in his heart, and it is precisely because of this that he is good at absorbing useful things from the experience of various schools.
Just like gunpowder, he has been staring at it, and infers from people's hearts that the Mo family can make the best crossbow in the world, but they still want to use muskets, which shows that the future must be the era of gunpowder.
And the tactics and battle formations depicted by the leaf-spring flint-fired guns are what he values most—it will be more suitable for the reform of the Qin State that opened fields and destroyed well fields. The recruited soldiers only need to learn the use of one weapon, instead of Need to be divided into many different pawns.
This is the premise.
The "Yelang, Qilan" and other small states mentioned by the alchemists are in the south of Bashu, and the Qin State has been fighting with the Shu State around Hanzhong for decades, and has a lot of exchanges with Bashu.
Countries such as Yelang and Qilan are just names for the small states in the Yunnan-Guizhou area at this time, and they are all Baipu.
Anyway, when King Wu defeated Zhou, Baipu was also a state that participated in the oath of alliance.
Before the emergence of Sishang Mohists, this was the Bronze Age, and no state would be possible without copper.
There is already a bronze civilization there.
One hundred and fifty years later, Zhuang Qiang, who was known as the "Rooted Zhi Zhuang Xi Liu", invaded Yunnan and Guizhou and established himself as the Dian Kingdom. The place where the capital was located was the center of copper smelting in these Yunnan-Guizhou states at this time.
The vicinity of Dianchi Lake is the quintessence of the state civilization in the Yunnan-Guizhou region. Bronze smelting is naturally found here, and besides tin-lead bronze, there are also some phosphor bronze here.
Because the vicinity of Dianchi Lake is the largest phosphate ore producing area in Zhuxia in later generations.
In the process of smelting the bronze wares here, Bangguo should have inadvertently mastered the skills of refining phosphor bronze, and gradually formed the spread of knowing what it is but not knowing why.
Through the exchanges between Bashu and Qin, many bronze wares from the Yunnan-Guizhou area flowed into the Qin State, and the particularity of phosphor bronze made it possible to make some exquisite copper objects.
The exchange of civilizations is more miraculous than the imagination of later generations.
More than three hundred years later, when Zhang Qian was on a mission to the Western Regions, he was shocked when he saw the cloth from the Shu Kingdom in Daxia.Said: From the southeast of the poisonous country, you can travel thousands of miles to get the city of Jiaren in Shu.Zhang Qian was very itchy. After hollowing out the Western Regions, he planned to open a trade route from Bashu to India.
Nowadays, there are already many exchanges between these states and the countries of the Central Plains, and the development of various trades has already begun, especially as the Mohists spread technology in the Bashu area.
This kind of bronze is exactly one of the utensils for trade and exchanges with countries in the Central Plains, and it has been circulated precisely because of its special nature.
The finished phosphor bronze needs to be tempered and quenched to have good elasticity. The ancestors there mastered this method. Perhaps it is also the reason why the later Chu State sent Zhuang Qiang to Dianchi Lake.
The will of the king of a country can transcend thousands of rivers and mountains.
The Mohists can send Suo Lucan to travel thousands of miles westward to reach the extreme west; Qin Jun can also send people to Qilan and other countries to find this flexible bronze smelting technique.
With the early completion of Dujiangyan, as the Mohists operated industries such as boiling salt and smelting mercury in Shu, there were more and more exchanges between Bashu and the surrounding mountains and forests.
The alchemist who mastered scientific methods to figure out the formula of gunpowder did not know why the copper was elastic, but vaguely knew that the elasticity of copper was related to phosphorus.
Phosphorus, also known as Zhu Rongxue at this time, this alchemist tried to refine according to the contents of the book, and succeeded.
And this alchemist also thought of something. It is rumored that when Ou Yezi and general Mo Xie forged swords in the past, they often used human sacrifices as sacrifices, and the swords frightened the gods.
In the appropriate year, bones were used to refine "Zhu Rongxue" in Surabaya, and he had many associations faintly.
…………
PS: Well, even if the old Qin people used muskets, they still had to use copper parts.The matter of bronze wares in the state of Yunnan and Guizhou is half true and half false, so let’s add it for the time being.Jinning, near Dianchi Lake and later moved to the capital by the grandson of Zhuang Qi, is indeed the largest phosphate mining area.It is true that the ancient Dian bronzes were rich in phosphorus.Of course, whether there are small springy copper devices, that's a story.There is still a big difference between usable and easy to use.In addition, Languo and Yelangguo were all destroyed by Zhuang Qiang. When King Wu defeated Zhou, the ancient Baipu had already participated in the alliance to destroy the Chamber of Commerce, so the bronze smelting technology naturally existed.In addition, the civilization exchanges in the Bronze Age were not as closed as imagined. The Bashu people had long passed through the Yunnan-Guizhou region and traded with India; the alliance of princes and extermination of merchants, the Yunnan-Guizhou Bashu region can participate in the alliance, which shows that the Shang Dynasty can also arrest people there. Dry it and give it to the Emperor of Heaven as a sacrifice.What Zhang Qian saw later in Daxia was really normal.
(End of this chapter)
When the alchemist said this, his face was already pale, and he continued: "Afterwards, I ruled out the other types, and finally deduced that gunpowder is actually just three things that can be made from charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter."
"As for the proportion, that's easy to say. I just need to separate saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur with water, and then I can know."
"Theory of Qi Yihehe" written by the Mohist thinks that gas also has weight. When water turns into gas, it can lift the lid. From this, we can know that the so-called gunpowder should not solidify into gas and push the projectile to fly out. I think, if there is divine power It’s actually the same if you put the top on the gun barrel and blow it fiercely. It’s the same reason for the Bashu Yidi to use the blower.”
"In the "On Combustion" written by the Mohists, experiments have been done. There is something in the gas that can make the charcoal burn, but if the gas is gone, the charcoal will not burn. And the gas can be measured, only one-fifth , called Yang Qi.”
"Gunpowder can burn without gas, so I thought, it is very likely that saltpeter provides carbon and sulfur with the yang energy that allows them to burn."
"In order to make sure that my guess is correct, I calcined the salt in the furnace for a long time without increasing or decreasing. However, the saltpeter was calcined in a separate atmosphere according to the method used to refine 'Zhu Rongxue' at that time, and a kind of gas could be obtained. This kind of qi...can make the charcoal bloom inside like the scorching sun. It is probably yang qi."
"So I am more sure that there is no salt or Glauber's salt in gunpowder, only saltpeter. So gunpowder is nothing but the yang energy hidden in saltpeter, which turns into gas after burning with charcoal and sulfur, and pushes the projectile out like a Bashu blower .”
When the alchemist said this, he pointed to the pile of gunpowder below and said, "Everyone can try it, or compare it with the one bought from the Mohist."
Sheng Chuo got up, worshiped again and again, and said in admiration: "There is no need to try. You have already obtained the essence of "An Explanation of Thirty Questions". You are so wise, you have already used the heart of gunpowder!"
Qin Jun also laughed and said: "As you said, since the passing of the Gongshu class, no one in the world can surpass Mo Di with the ingenuity of mechanical carpenters. Twenty years ago, Mo Di invited the disciples of the Gongshu class to join him with the belt given by the Gongshu class. On Sishang, the Mohist guards the city with large crossbows such as revolving shotguns and bed crossbows.
"I may not understand the so-called will and evolution of the Mohists, but I do understand people's hearts. The Sishang Mohists can make the best crossbows but use gunpowder. This is the best proof."
"The human heart is not the will of heaven as the Mohist said, but it can also know many truths."
Wu Qi and the others all bowed down, either happy or convinced.
Qin Jun said again: "In addition to this, there is one more thing that can strengthen your determination to use muskets."
After that, he pointed to the copper hook on the ground and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
This copper hook looks very simple, one finger long, and not even as delicate as the trigger of a crossbow. The people present did not know what it was, let alone why this very ordinary-looking utensil could make the king feel This thing can strengthen everyone's heart with guns.
Qin Jun smiled and said: "After Mo Di passed away, Kai Zhishi compiled "Lu Wen", "Shi Wen" and other books recording Mo Di's words and deeds. There is an article in it, which says that when he was guarding the city in Shangqiu, Shi Shi talked about the future There is one thing that can replace the revolving machine, the bed crossbow, and the bow."
"After the musket came out, Kai Zhishi once said that flint can ignite vinegar, so it can also ignite gunpowder. It only needs to be carefully stored. He said he had seen it at the two gentlemen. But Fan Jiazhi said he had seen it before. Have you ever heard him speak lies?"
"A few years ago, the Mo family asked the world's skilled craftsmen to make one thing with a hundred gold... This thing is very simple, just need to be able to store energy. Don't ask for the shape, just ask for this thing, and give a hundred gold when it is made..."
Before he finished speaking, Wu Qi pointed to the simple-looking copper hook on the ground and said, "This...is this the so-called 'leaf spring' in flintlock guns?"
Everyone present knew the name of the leaf spring.
What exactly, no one knows.
But the principle has long been given by Mohists in some books: the function of matchlock is only to ignite fire, and flint can also ignite fire.It only needs to make a leaf spring that can store power, and then the flint can be fired directly to ignite the gunpowder.
What kind of leaf spring do you need?
For everyone present, it doesn't matter.
As long as the leaf springs can be produced, the craftsmen can easily design the machine, the principle is clear, even if it is not based on the diagram, it is almost the same.
Craftsmen who can make bronze crossbows can make uncomplicated flint-fired mechanical devices as long as they know the principle and direction, and give them a high-quality reed.
The principle of levers, exerting force with fingers, accumulating force with leaf spring, maintaining the crossbow, hooking the crossbow, rebounding the leaf spring, pulling the flint, and igniting the fire.
The way of accumulating power is very similar to the common principle of using a ruler to store power to play balls of paper in later generations of schools.
This thing is very important, especially for those present who are debating whether the Great Qin Army will use crossbows or muskets in the future, it is impossible not to know this thing.
In the Mohist book "Discussing Future Battles by Talking about Knowing Skills", there is such a saying:
Due to the existence of matchlock guns, people cannot get too close to each other, so the power of salvo is not as good.
If flint can be used to replace the victory, then the phalanx of one company can be lined up with two companies, and one volley is the firepower of the original two companies.
Moreover, the role of the spearman is only to cover the matchlock gun. If the spearman and the matchlock gun can be integrated, then from then on, there will only be one kind of infantry in Zhuxia.
In addition, after the Mohists captured Tengcheng in the First Battle of Lishui, the book titled "The Victory of Rational Will——On Pythagorean and Siege Techniques" explained: Why did Zi Mozi defend the city? Row walls are built to increase width.
The increase in width is for the advantage of projection.If the projection can be increased while keeping the width constant, the effect is the same.
These books written by the Mohists in the past 20 years have now been circulated, and the 20-year silence is not that no one has noticed except Sishang, but that they are slowly digesting.
The seeds are sprinkled.
Within Kyushu, flowers are blooming everywhere.
However, this flower bloomed in a strange way.
Sheng Chuo looked at the copper hook, shook his head and said, "I heard that the Mo family has been making this thing. However, they use iron, and they have already made it, but the power is not enough, and the fire is too low. , so it is not necessary.”
"However, Kai Zhishi said that what he saw from those two gentlemen was iron...how could it be copper?"
He bent down to pick up the leaf spring, and pulled it hard. Sure enough, it needed strength. After letting go, it immediately bounced straight.
The alchemist said: "It doesn't matter whether it's copper or iron, what's needed is the ability to store power. Don't talk about copper and iron, even if you use a small crossbow on it and use the strength of the crossbow arm to pull the hook to rub the flint, isn't that the same reason?"
Sheng Chuo was puzzled and said: "But...the blacksmiths all over the world are trying to use various quenching methods to get the hundred gold..."
"Can copper also store energy as a spring?"
Fang Shi said: "Sir, I don't know something. To the south of Bashu, there are Yelang Kingdom and Qilan Kingdom, both of which are Yidi. However, there are also bronze wares there, and there have been exchanges. I have seen a delicate thing, which is also copper." , is accumulating strength.”
The principle of the flintlock is not so esoteric, all that is missing is a suitable, elastic leaf spring.
As for the ignition method, if chemistry is advancing rapidly, it can be used to hit thunder mercury with the force of a spring; it is the same to rub flint.
There have been primitive flintlock guns in Sishang for a long time, but the reason why they are not popularized in the army is that the firing rate is too low.The reason why the ignition rate is too low is that the material is not good enough.
This era belongs to craftsmen, and is something that craftsmen can knock out.
Material is the fundamental reason that restricts the manufacture of many exquisite instruments today.
This time, the Sishang Mo family is not hiding something like gunpowder, but because the leaf spring of the flintlock that Shi said he saw from the "two hermit gentlemen" is really steel, and he didn't add any copper parts at all. to think about.
Copper can be used as a leaf spring for energy storage, but I don't know if it is suitable.
The people of Qin didn't know either, but they knew that the required characteristic of a leaf spring is that it should have enough elasticity and be able to store energy.
As for the size, lightness, and power storage, they can all be adjusted. If the fire rate cannot reach 100%, it may not be unusable if it reaches half of it;
There are many coincidences and many inevitability in this.
Ying Shichao has been in exile since he was a child, and experienced a coup, expulsion, and exile; he watched the rise of Wei State, took away Xihe, and reformed; The rise of the Mohists; beside him, there are rebels like Shengchao...
All of this makes Ying Shicha attach great importance to the word "change" in his heart, and it is precisely because of this that he is good at absorbing useful things from the experience of various schools.
Just like gunpowder, he has been staring at it, and infers from people's hearts that the Mo family can make the best crossbow in the world, but they still want to use muskets, which shows that the future must be the era of gunpowder.
And the tactics and battle formations depicted by the leaf-spring flint-fired guns are what he values most—it will be more suitable for the reform of the Qin State that opened fields and destroyed well fields. The recruited soldiers only need to learn the use of one weapon, instead of Need to be divided into many different pawns.
This is the premise.
The "Yelang, Qilan" and other small states mentioned by the alchemists are in the south of Bashu, and the Qin State has been fighting with the Shu State around Hanzhong for decades, and has a lot of exchanges with Bashu.
Countries such as Yelang and Qilan are just names for the small states in the Yunnan-Guizhou area at this time, and they are all Baipu.
Anyway, when King Wu defeated Zhou, Baipu was also a state that participated in the oath of alliance.
Before the emergence of Sishang Mohists, this was the Bronze Age, and no state would be possible without copper.
There is already a bronze civilization there.
One hundred and fifty years later, Zhuang Qiang, who was known as the "Rooted Zhi Zhuang Xi Liu", invaded Yunnan and Guizhou and established himself as the Dian Kingdom. The place where the capital was located was the center of copper smelting in these Yunnan-Guizhou states at this time.
The vicinity of Dianchi Lake is the quintessence of the state civilization in the Yunnan-Guizhou region. Bronze smelting is naturally found here, and besides tin-lead bronze, there are also some phosphor bronze here.
Because the vicinity of Dianchi Lake is the largest phosphate ore producing area in Zhuxia in later generations.
In the process of smelting the bronze wares here, Bangguo should have inadvertently mastered the skills of refining phosphor bronze, and gradually formed the spread of knowing what it is but not knowing why.
Through the exchanges between Bashu and Qin, many bronze wares from the Yunnan-Guizhou area flowed into the Qin State, and the particularity of phosphor bronze made it possible to make some exquisite copper objects.
The exchange of civilizations is more miraculous than the imagination of later generations.
More than three hundred years later, when Zhang Qian was on a mission to the Western Regions, he was shocked when he saw the cloth from the Shu Kingdom in Daxia.Said: From the southeast of the poisonous country, you can travel thousands of miles to get the city of Jiaren in Shu.Zhang Qian was very itchy. After hollowing out the Western Regions, he planned to open a trade route from Bashu to India.
Nowadays, there are already many exchanges between these states and the countries of the Central Plains, and the development of various trades has already begun, especially as the Mohists spread technology in the Bashu area.
This kind of bronze is exactly one of the utensils for trade and exchanges with countries in the Central Plains, and it has been circulated precisely because of its special nature.
The finished phosphor bronze needs to be tempered and quenched to have good elasticity. The ancestors there mastered this method. Perhaps it is also the reason why the later Chu State sent Zhuang Qiang to Dianchi Lake.
The will of the king of a country can transcend thousands of rivers and mountains.
The Mohists can send Suo Lucan to travel thousands of miles westward to reach the extreme west; Qin Jun can also send people to Qilan and other countries to find this flexible bronze smelting technique.
With the early completion of Dujiangyan, as the Mohists operated industries such as boiling salt and smelting mercury in Shu, there were more and more exchanges between Bashu and the surrounding mountains and forests.
The alchemist who mastered scientific methods to figure out the formula of gunpowder did not know why the copper was elastic, but vaguely knew that the elasticity of copper was related to phosphorus.
Phosphorus, also known as Zhu Rongxue at this time, this alchemist tried to refine according to the contents of the book, and succeeded.
And this alchemist also thought of something. It is rumored that when Ou Yezi and general Mo Xie forged swords in the past, they often used human sacrifices as sacrifices, and the swords frightened the gods.
In the appropriate year, bones were used to refine "Zhu Rongxue" in Surabaya, and he had many associations faintly.
…………
PS: Well, even if the old Qin people used muskets, they still had to use copper parts.The matter of bronze wares in the state of Yunnan and Guizhou is half true and half false, so let’s add it for the time being.Jinning, near Dianchi Lake and later moved to the capital by the grandson of Zhuang Qi, is indeed the largest phosphate mining area.It is true that the ancient Dian bronzes were rich in phosphorus.Of course, whether there are small springy copper devices, that's a story.There is still a big difference between usable and easy to use.In addition, Languo and Yelangguo were all destroyed by Zhuang Qiang. When King Wu defeated Zhou, the ancient Baipu had already participated in the alliance to destroy the Chamber of Commerce, so the bronze smelting technology naturally existed.In addition, the civilization exchanges in the Bronze Age were not as closed as imagined. The Bashu people had long passed through the Yunnan-Guizhou region and traded with India; the alliance of princes and extermination of merchants, the Yunnan-Guizhou Bashu region can participate in the alliance, which shows that the Shang Dynasty can also arrest people there. Dry it and give it to the Emperor of Heaven as a sacrifice.What Zhang Qian saw later in Daxia was really normal.
(End of this chapter)