Chapter 305 Chemical Breakthrough

7days ago Xuanhuan Novels 9
The witch and the First Army have set out for four days. According to the plan, they should arrive outside Silver Light City tomorrow afternoon.

After being equipped with a honey flight messenger, Roland could receive letters sent by the team every day, including the Iron Axe, Anna, and Nightingale. Although it was not as fast as a mobile phone, it was basically similar to the wireless telegraph.

If there are more than a few times more flight messengers on this route, and birds travel between the two places at all times, it might be able to simulate the effect of text messages and chats.

During the days when the Nightingale was gone, the Chief Knight took over the task of defending the castle.

But what puzzled Roland was that Carter always looked happy these days, and seemed to have encountered something particularly happy.

Is it so worth being happy to return to your job and be responsible for personal protection?

He shook his head and focused on the report of Construction Minister Carl Vanbert.

With the assistance of the Sleeping Island Witch, the construction project of Bianfeng Town has been progressing rapidly in the past month.

First of all, the steel bridge on the Chishui River was successfully completed. Compared with the traditional stone bridge and wooden bridge, the steel bridge body can be prefabricated and then fully hoisted. In addition, the two floating islands raised by the lotus in the river channel further simplified its difficulty of setting up, shortening the construction period of the main bridge to an astonishing month.

Although from the perspective of later generations, it is short and narrow, with a structure that is too simple, and has a very low load, and is a waste of materials. In this era, it can be regarded as a magnificent super bridge with a total length of more than 100 meters. The bridge is straight and can be used side by side for two carriages. The lower part can also meet the passage of inland sailboats. No matter what, it is not something that a bulky stone bridge can do.

Secondly, Lian's new city wall was also closed.

This pure soil wall has doubled the area of ​​the town. If the city is built in the future, the original town will become a veritable inner city area.

However, Roland prefers the first and second rings of the world. Perhaps one day in the future, this place can be expanded into a giant city with the seventh ring, and officially crowned the imperial capital.

Finally, there was the construction of Kingdom Avenue. Some of the mountain peaks that spread along the desperate mountain range were lowered to flat ground by lotus, allowing the road to pass straight, greatly reducing the total construction period.

Your Highness, what is your next construction plan for Lian?Carl asked after reporting on all the progress.

It can be seen that he was full of envy of his ability to transform the terrain, and he almost made a request to include her in the Ministry of Construction and appoint her as a deputy minister.

Well... Roland is also thinking about this issue, and he has three major renovation projects to be implemented next.

The first is the estuary project: find a low gap in the southern mountainous area, and then settle into a road where you can enter and exit the shallows. This must be achieved by relying on the ability of the lotus.

Once the transformation is completed, the Western Frontier will have a harbor facing the sea.

The second is residential expansion: Although the city hall has invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to speed up the construction of residential communities, when winter comes, nearly 3,000 people may still be unable to live in warm brick houses.

The wooden sheds and simple residences built now cannot meet the needs of keeping cold, so he needs a group of cave chambers with thick walls and a fire kang to solve this problem.

The last point is to set up a dock: if you want to produce shallow water heavy gunboats, you must first set up a spacious dock, and it cannot affect the passage of the Chishui River.

Roland plans to lower the height of a river embankment at the west end of the town to form a dry dock, and install lifting gates on the side close to the Chishui River to control water barriers and water release.

The project's earthwork is huge and must be completed by the ability of lotus.

After thinking for a while, he finally decided to put the expansion of the residential building first. Since he brought the fugitives in the east to the border town, he had to be responsible for their food, clothing, housing and transportation.

If you freeze to death and starve to death, it will not only cause losses to the Western Frontier, but also reduce the sense of belonging to the people here.

So where is this temporary residence built?Carl continued to ask.

Just land in the current serf shanty town, Roland glanced at the map and said, "Far away from the city walls and defense lines, there are desperate mountains to shelter the wind."

After the Minister of Construction left, he was about to lean on his chair and take a nap when Kemostri comes to him again.

Your Highness, I have successfully developed the large-scale acid production method you requested.

This sentence immediately dispelled Roland's tiredness. He stood up from the table in surprise and said: Really?Take me to see it quickly.

The group came to the laboratory by the Chishui River and saw several gray-white jars and a furnace kiln set up next to Laboratory No. 5. Each jar was about two people tall, and there were pipes connected on the top. The regular and smooth appearance was obviously cut by Anna.

Salute to you, Your Highness, a very young man bowed to Roland.

You're Chames, right?Although he had known that Kaimo had dug up a group of alchemy apprentices from Chishui City and attracted an outstanding alchemist, it was the first time he had seen the other party look like today.

You actually remember my name, Chames said in surprise.

Mr. Kemo mentioned you many times, and Roland patted him on the shoulder to show encouragement and do it well.Then he looked at the chief alchemist, how did this thing make acid?

Kaimo smiled, touching his beard and saying that it was able to develop successfully, which was derived completely based on the reaction formula in "Elementary Chemistry".Look at the furnace kiln, the purified sulfur will be burned in the kiln, and the generated gas will be sent into the lead tank after further heating.

All these devices are made of lead?

Yes, only lead can resist the corrosion of acid.Kaimo nodded, and the lead tube at the top of the jar was constantly sprinkled with nitrified sulfuric acid. Under the scorching sulfur dioxide gas, nitric acid was heated and decomposed into nitrogen oxides, and finally formed a sulfuric acid solution with water and sulfur dioxide. The trick of this reaction is that nitrogen oxides only play the role of oxygen transfer and have no consumption, so the amount of nitric acid is not large. Once the reaction begins, the energy source will continue to proceed!

How is its output?Roland asked excitedly, slapped the lead can.

Large-scale acid production is the prerequisite for mass production of smokeless gunpowder. If this problem can be solved, there will be hope for the new generation of ammunition for fired guns and artillery.

This is the fourth device I tried to make, and the output of a day is probably equivalent to the amount of a week in the laboratory dry distillation method.The chief alchemist said proudly that because of the experimental factors, it is not large.If larger capacity lead tanks can be built, the output can be further improved.

This is really good news, Roland smiled, and when Miss Anna returns, you should immediately start building a larger acid-making device.In addition, if the lead is not enough, iron can be used instead. Miss Soloya's coating can prevent the iron from corrosion from acid.

Kaimo nodded, but his next sentence made the prince's smile froze on his face.

Now that large-scale acid production methods have achieved results, all five laboratories are filled with apprentices. Your Highness, can you reward me with the "Second Chemistry" you promised?