Chapter 373 Hydrogen Application

Under the bright sunshine, the hydrogen balloon slowly descended from the sky, and at the same time, a burst of cheers suddenly sounded.

The students who participated in the hydrogen balloon experiment in Bowen College looked excited one by one. In their opinion, this was another technological advancement.

Those of them who were once called useless are now able to create great things with their knowledge and hands.

And most importantly, their achievements were recognized by King Qi, for which they would even be knighted.

It is a recognition for them, as well as an incentive and an honor.

In the past, they studied hard so that one day they could rise to the top, but now they can get the same thing through the use of knowledge. In this case, why should they waste their whole life on imperial examinations?

And the most important point is that they love their hometown more and more, and they are willing to spend their whole life to transform their hometown into an ideal world.

"Okay!" Xiao Ming also applauded.

His eyes drifted over the students. From the eyes of these students, he saw a passion for science and a yearning for the future.

For this, he was very satisfied. It seems that the ideological courses in the academy still have an impact on these students.

This ideological education course he specially joined mainly focuses on the ideological issues of the students, emphasizing the ideas of loving the homeland, serving the country faithfully, and striving for the rise of the six states.

Of course, the country reported here is naturally Xiao Ming's fief, and this loyalty is only for Xiao Ming, not Xiao Wenxuan.

In fact, due to the weak relationship between the vassal state and the imperial court, the people of the fief only recognized the vassal king who ruled them.

Especially his fief, the people only see him and not the court.

The reason is very simple, they did not get any substantial benefits from the court.

"His Royal Highness, it seems that the officer is late."

As soon as the hot air balloon landed, Lu Tong ran over out of breath.

Xiao Ming smiled and said: "It's a little late, but it turns out that your hydrogen balloon was successful, but this time your biggest contribution is not the hydrogen balloon."

Lin Wentao, who was on the side, immediately laughed when he heard the words, and he said to Lu Tong, "Brother Lu, you are really right. Since His Highness said so, this hydrogen gas must be more powerful than a hydrogen balloon. This time, the credit lies in your School of Chemistry. But don't be complacent, the students of our School of Physics are all holding back their energy now, and they will definitely surpass you."

Lu Tong laughed when he heard the words. He said, "I don't have much credit. All the credit is written in the textbooks. The people in your physics school just need to study more books."

After a pause, Lu Tong turned to Xiao Ming and said, "Hydrogen can be burned, and it can also be used to extract metals. Is your Highness going to use hydrogen to extract tungsten?"

"Well, you are right this time. There are too many impurities caused by tungsten gold extraction from charcoal. Using hydrogen, you can get pure tungsten powder." Xiao Ming said: "And this king intends to separate the metal smelting industry and establish a special Not only tungsten powder, but also some rare metals will be smelted in the smelter in the future, and this person from your chemistry school needs to cooperate."

With the development of industry, the demand for various metals will continue to increase. Now it is necessary to establish a primary metal smelter with the current technical level. Whether it is gold, silver, copper or other metals, smelting is a difficult problem in this era.

And his goal is to search for minerals all over the world. At this time, a mature smelting system is very important. What he wants is not a pile of ores.

Hearing this, Lu Tong nodded and said, "Yes, Your Highness, it's just that there are not enough staff in the School of Chemistry now. Would you like to consider recruiting a new batch of students this year?"

"We physicists also need it." Lin Wentao refused to lag behind.

Xiao Ming frowned. Lu Tong and Lin Wentao were both the earliest students of Bowen Academy, and they were taught by him.

For two years, they only studied one major. Now they can be said to be proficient in junior high school chemistry and physics, and even have a high school level of related knowledge.

The reason why a large number of textbooks have not been realized is still due to the material and the poor industrial base.

Now with the refinement of industrial classification, the students in the college are also involved in the specific construction. Because of this, the current students have a tendency to be insufficient.

"In this case, you can recruit students individually. Now you are no longer the ones who didn't know anything before. You can make your own decisions about these things, but you still have to report to the government and let me know."

Xiao Ming pondered for a while and said to the two.

Lu Tong and Lin Wentao nodded, this is King Qi's further delegation of power to them, they do their own things, they only need to give King Qi a satisfactory answer.

After talking about this, Xiao Ming instructed Lu Tong and the craftsmen of the Equipment Division to work out the process of refining tungsten from hydrogen, and then create a set of refining processes.

After that, he praised the students who participated in the project before leaving.

At the same time, he also greeted Liang Yubin and He Cheng and asked them to prepare for Chang'an.

On the way back, Xiao Ming felt that he was on the right path this time, and now he wants to compile the knowledge he has mastered into teaching materials for these students to realize one by one.

However, there are still very few textbooks he has compiled. He has to continue to work hard on this point. In the next step, he will gradually improve the industrial system of Qingzhou.

Because of the tossing about hydrogen and hydrogen for an afternoon, Xiao Mingcai went to the Chamber of Commerce the next day to receive the merchants who provided supplies for the Northern Expedition this time.

"His Royal Highness, this is the details of the supplies provided by the merchants."

In the office of the president of the chamber of commerce, Li Kaiyuan handed an account book to Xiao Ming.

Opening the account book, Xiao Ming carefully reviewed it. This time, only Cao Zhengyang provided him with supplies of 100,000 taels of silver.

These materials include grain, silver, ores and other items.

In addition to Cao Zhengyang, the local merchants in Qingzhou are the bulk of them. Although Qingzhou merchants are not as rich as Cao Zhengyang, there are many people participating in the support.

Each person is 5,000, 10,000, which adds up to more than 500,000 taels.

According to Pang Yukun this time, the Northern Expedition consumed about 500,000 taels of silver. Not only did he not suffer, he actually made a profit of 100,000 taels.

Smiling, Xiao Ming looked at the one hundred and three businessmen who were sitting together, and then he suddenly unfolded a large map on the table.

This map is the map of Youzhou.

Then he said to a group of merchants: "This king speaks a lot. Now is the time for you to reap the rewards. This king wants everyone in the world to know that if you follow this king, you will have meat to eat."