Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 357
"Teacher, you came just in time. The student has made a discovery."

Zhang Qingfeng took Wang Fenggang into a test product, and a young man said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"What discovery?" Zhang Qingfeng asked in surprise.

"Teacher, come with me." The young man said to Zhang Qingfeng.

Afterwards, Zhang Qingfeng followed the young man to the place where he was conducting experiments.

"Teacher, you are optimistic." As the young man spoke, he began to do experiments.

Zhang Qingfeng stood aside and watched, from the young man's series of experimental actions and his own experimental equipment, Zhang Qingfeng guessed that the young man should be purifying alcohol, because he smelled a smell of alcohol.

As the youth's experiments continued, Zhang Qingfeng finally determined that this boy was using wine to purify alcohol.

"Are you purifying alcohol?" Zhang Qingfeng asked the young man.

"Alcohol?" Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, the young man was taken aback.

"It's very high-purity wine, which I call alcohol." Zhang Qingfeng explained.

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's explanation, the young man nodded, and then said: "Teacher, didn't you say that water can boil and evaporate, and then condense into water? So the students wondered, can wine also boil and evaporate, and then condense into wine, so The students did experiments and found that it really works.”

"Teacher, look, these are ordinary wines with many impurities in them, but after such an experiment, the wines become as clear as water, and even better."

After a pause, the young man finally said: "I think, if this kind of wine is used to sell it on the street, it will definitely fetch a good price."

Hearing the young man's words, Zhang Qingfeng suddenly felt dumbfounded.

He thought for a while, and said to the young man, "Have you noticed that the boiling temperature of this wine is different from the boiling temperature of water?"

"Different boiling temperatures?"

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's question, the young man thought for a while and said, "It seems that the boiling temperature of wine is lower. When the students were doing experiments, they found that wine boils easily when heated, and evaporates very quickly, while water takes half a day. "

"Then if the wine is only heated to the temperature at which wine can evaporate, but not to the temperature at which water evaporates, will the collected alcohol be purer?" Zhang Qingfeng asked.

"I understand." Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, the young man's eyes lit up.

Zhang Qingfeng was about to call the young man, and he said to the young man: "When I was in the library, I saw a book of medical techniques. It said that a man was injured by a machete. The wound festered and all kinds of treatment methods were useless. , A doctor poured a bottle of wine on this man's wound, unexpectedly this man recovered."

"So I wondered if wine could heal wound ulcers. Later, I did an experiment and found that it didn't seem to work."

Zhang Qingfeng said: "I always thought this case was fake, and the treatment of wound ulcers has nothing to do with alcohol."

"Now that I see your purified alcohol, I wonder if it has something to do with the purity of the wine. Maybe only very pure wine can heal the festering wound?"

Without waiting for the young man to speak, Zhang Qingfeng said to the young man: "How about this, you do this experiment to see if high-purity wine can heal or prevent wounds from festering."

"Okay, then the student must complete the experiment as soon as possible." Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, the young man immediately nodded and agreed.

"This is my new student, named Wang Feng. He is also from the University of Science and Technology. He is considered your junior brother. I will ask him to do experiments with you. If you need anything, such as experimental equipment or experimental funds, just go to him and ask him Come to me, and then I will solve it for you." Zhang Qingfeng said to the young man.

Time entered February 1609, when a news spread to the capital, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked.

In mid-January, Henan thief Chen Ziguan led people to rob Daming Royal Bank and Kaifeng branch bank vaults, killed more than 20 bank employees and security personnel, and left calmly after the robbery.

At present, more than 30 taels of silver in the Kaifeng branch bank have all disappeared, and the thief Chen Ziguan has also disappeared.

When Emperor Wanli heard the news, he was furious immediately, and directly decreed to dismiss all officials, including the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture and the general judge, and asked the governor of Helan to investigate the matter thoroughly, and must recover the robbed silver.

When Zhang Qingfeng heard the news, he was shocked at first, but it was nothing compared to the various natural disasters and peasant uprisings that occurred in the late Ming Dynasty in history.

30 taels of silver is equivalent to [-] million copper coins. This is an astronomical sum for ordinary people, but it is the same for Zhang Qingfeng.

The occurrence of this incident also gave Zhang Qingfeng an opportunity.

After the incident happened, Zhang Qingfeng immediately reported to Emperor Wanli, asking for another 5000 security force to protect the safety of branches in various places.

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's request, Emperor Wanli approved it without saying a word.

30 taels of silver were robbed, which made Emperor Wanli very angry. This could give an army of more than 1 taels a year's supply.

After Emperor Wanli agreed to Zhang Qingfeng's request, Zhang Qingfeng immediately started recruiting troops.He mobilized hundreds of security personnel with military training, and then sent them to the countryside to recruit troops in the countryside.

He promised that as long as he can serve as a security guard for the bank, he can get three taels of silver a month's wages every month, which is more than enough to support a family and is much more cost-effective than farming.

And as long as the selection is successful, five taels of silver will be given as a settling allowance immediately.

The wages of three taels of silver and the settling allowance of five taels of silver are higher than the salary of soldiers in the frontier, which immediately attracted many young people.

However, Zhang Qingfeng's selection requirements are very high, and most people can't be selected at all.

Zhang Qingfeng stipulated that only honest peasants between the ages of [-], [-] and [-] should be accepted, not idle ruffians.

It took two months for Zhang Qingfeng to select 5000 people.

After that, he found a remote suburb to build a barracks, and then had people start training these young people.

The content of the training is very simple, including obedience, fighting ability, musket shooting, battle formation drills, etc.

Zhang Qingfeng had very high demands on these people. They had to train every day. Within three months, they had to learn to obey, learn to shoot muskets, and learn to understand the orders of the battle formation.

In addition, some people still need to learn to operate artillery.

That's right, it was artillery. Zhang Qingfeng had already manufactured Napoleon cannons, but he did not put these cannons into use, nor did he equip them with the imperial army, and they were built and placed in the warehouse.

Zhang Qingfeng believes that the current imperial army is basically in ruins, and even equipping them with the best weapons will not help.

When he is able to take power one day, he will be the first to strike at the army.

In his opinion, the Ming Dynasty spent more than 500 million taels of silver to support the army every year. If this silver was used to equip a pure firearms army of 20 people, it would be countless times stronger than a million-dollar army of waste.

At that time, more than half of the millions of troops will be abolished, and tens of millions of taels of silver will be saved for the court every year. At that time, all the abolished soldiers will be sent overseas to open up wasteland, so why not do it.

(End of this chapter)