Iron Dynasty

PS: There are some things today, only three chapters, old rules, make up for it tomorrow.

Helium balloon?

Xiao Ming, who was thinking about farming and animal husbandry construction, almost spit out the tea in his mouth.

Seeing this, Aster pursed her lips and smiled. She said, Your Highness, what is this hydrogen balloon? It makes you so excited.

Hey, this hydrogen balloon is a good thing, much more practical than a hot air balloon. Xiao Ming said.

Thinking about going to Chang'an soon, Xiao Ming was worried about the hot air balloon.

The hot air balloon in this war can be said to be brilliant, and Luo Quan is also greedy. Before returning to Chang'an, Luo Quan asked him to give him one, but he did not agree at that time.

However, he understood that he couldn't keep tucked away all the time. This time he went to Chang'an, and he must bring hot air balloons and muskets.

This musket, Xiao Ming naturally would not send the flintlock gun. Strictly controlling the distribution of weapons and selling big arms is his basic principle now.

Therefore, he was going to bring the arquebus to him. With Xiao Wenxuan's character, he now has a firearms battalion, and it is impossible to establish another arquebusier battalion to shock Xiaoxiao.

But the problem is that it is no problem to fool the musket with the arquebus, but the hot air balloon has become the object of his worries, but he did not expect that Lin Wentao would actually come up with a hydrogen balloon at such a critical moment.

Compared with hot air balloons, this hydrogen balloon flies higher, which is naturally a generation difference than that of hot air balloons.

Once the hydrogen balloon appears, this hot air balloon will be eliminated. In this case, it is better to sell it to Xiao Wenxuan to increase his status in Xiao Wenxuan's heart.

After all, Xiao Wenxuan will definitely ask for these things from himself, it is better to take the initiative to give them to him instead of letting him ask for them.

Anyway, these backward things are of little use in his hands, so why not sell them to the banned army for money.

Moreover, the more arms he sold to the banned army, the tighter the curse he put on Xiao Wenxuan. Once the courtier attacked him, Xiao Wenxuan had to weigh the arms issue of the banned army before he could handle it as appropriate.

Because without his cooperation, the artillery and muskets of the forbidden army would become a pile of scrap metal without ammunition supply.

Therefore, as long as he doesn't rebel, he can walk sideways in Chang'an. Because of this, he can't hide the musket and hot air balloon. Using this as an excuse, it is estimated that many bad-minded people will make a fuss about this.

Now that I have sent it on my own initiative, it is enough to block Yoyo's mouth.

Stop thinking about these messy things. After learning that Lin Wentao had created a hot air balloon, Xiao Ming suddenly came to his senses. He asked Aster to come to Bowen College.

Bowen College played a very important role in this campaign to expel the barbarians. One was the hot air balloon, and the other was Lu Tong's lime bomb.

When Niu Ben was in Shanhaiguan, he highly praised the lime bombs. Once the shells exploded, they could instantly incapacitate a large area of ​​the enemy, which was much more powerful than a simple powder can.

After this war, it is further proved that technology is the magic weapon for winning the war.

When he arrived at Bowen College, Xiao Ming saw a brand new hot air balloon parked in the small square in front of the Bowen College. Lin Wentao and others were discussing something in the square.

Liang Yubin and He Cheng have returned to the academy, and now they are with Lin Wentao.

Seeing Xiao Ming coming, a group of students gathered around, Lin Wentao said, Your Highness, this is a hydrogen balloon.

Xiao Ming raised his head, a balloon the size of a hot air balloon was hovering in the air, and four ropes were tied to the balloon in four directions.

How did you make hydrogen? Xiao Ming paid the most attention to this question.

In fact, the difference between a hot air balloon and a hydrogen balloon is whether the gas in the balloon is ordinary air or hydrogen.

If it is a hydrogen balloon, it will have a certain lift even if the balloon is not heated, and this is destined to be more efficient and safer than a hot air balloon.

When he mentioned this, Lin Wentao immediately became elated. He said to Xiao Ming, This is thanks to the students of the School of Chemistry. They made hydrogen, otherwise this hydrogen balloon would not have appeared.

Then Lin Wenyao pointed to the pottery pot behind him that looked like a gourd and said, Your Highness, this is where the hydrogen gas comes out and fills the air bag.

Xiao Ming has noticed this.

Just by looking at the materials around this thing, he knew how this hydrogen was produced.

Prodigal son, how much sulfuric acid and scrap iron do you need? Xiao Ming shook his head helplessly, but since he let them do it, he couldn't blame him too much, so he only complained and asked the one who was standing on the side. students.

This student is from the School of Chemistry. As he guessed, they really used the hydrogen obtained from the reaction of sulfuric acid and scrap iron, and then let the hydrogen fill the air bag through this instrument.

Looking at the excited faces of the students, Xiao Ming didn't want to disappoint. Although the method was a little primitive, the production of hydrogen was achieved step by step.

He said to Lin Wentao: Yes, the hot air balloon has played a miraculous effect in this war. In order to recognize your king, I have prepared a title reward for you, but this will have to wait for the generals of the Qingzhou Army to come back and award them together.

Thank you, Your Highness!

Lin Wentao and the other students beamed with joy. After all, they were rewarded handsomely for tearing off the hot air balloon so desperately.

Xiao Ming smiled, and it was time to award some titles to stimulate the students of Bowen College.

At present, the technological level of Qingzhou is not even a little bit worse than that of Europe, which requires Bowen College to catch up until it surpasses it in an all-round way.

After learning about the birth process of the first hydrogen balloon in Qingzhou, Xiao Ming asked Liang Yubin and He Cheng to control the hydrogen balloon to lift off. He wanted to see how much the difference in height between the hot air balloon and the hydrogen balloon was.

Liang Yubin and He Cheng also looked excited. Now they are a little obsessed with the driving of the heater, and now the hydrogen balloon makes them even more addicted.

The two boarded the hydrogen balloon, and the people below also loosened the rope, and the hydrogen balloon lost its restraint and flew higher and higher.

His Royal Highness, let's go. Liang Yubin and He Cheng looked excited, and their figures became more and more blurred in everyone's field of vision, until they turned into a small black spot.

This is too high. Lin Wentao didn't believe that a hydrogen balloon could fly to such a high place.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, Hot air balloons are only a few hundred meters high, but hydrogen balloons can fly thousands of meters high.

However, Xiao Ming, who was looking farther and farther away, was a little worried.

The current hydrogen balloon technology is not complete. He didn't want the two of them to have an accident, but his worries were unnecessary. It didn't take long for the two to lower the height and quickly returned to Bowen College.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Now he can take the hot air balloon to Chang'an with peace of mind, hoping that he can sell it for a good price by then.