Song Beiyun

"Why are you so tired." Qiaoyun sent soap to Song Beiyun who was taking a bath: "You have been haggard these days."

"Tired but very happy." Song Beiyun smiled and said, "The sense of self-movement and greatness is really great. No wonder others say that after material satisfaction, spiritual pursuit becomes the greatest need."

Song Beiyun stretched his waist: "If I can enlighten an era, it would be such a great thing..."

Chapter 673, June 6, Six Years

If there is anything in the world that is most exciting, it must be seeing the seeds you sow gradually begin to sprout, because even the tender sprouts represent hope.

The workshop that accumulated a lot of money and time finally began to show its true strength.

make money?What is it to make money? The three major workshops have spent nearly five years cultivating almost [-] young people with advanced knowledge. These talents are the most precious wealth.

From enlightenment to gradual deepening, and then to unconstrained ideas gradually emerged in their hands, and it was because of them that natural science began to take root in this land for the first time.

The heliocentric theory that has not been suppressed, the chemistry that will not be judged as a witch, and the mathematics that can explain everything, their results have sprung up like mushrooms in this hot summer.

The study of buoyancy has made shipbuilding advance by leaps and bounds. The design drawing of the first heavy-duty sailing ocean-going ship weighed 140 catties, and for the first time iron frame components appeared on the design drawing.

Ballistics based on physics has allowed artillery shells to reach an unprecedented range, and they are also beginning to try to use sugar and phosphorus to make technology that can send explosives ten miles away on a chemical basis.

Those seemingly unreal things actually appeared in front of Song Beiyun's eyes, which made him have to lament that human beings are indeed magical creatures, and thoughts are the greatest sails. As long as they are given time and leisure, these people will do everything they can. Be able to practice your own ideas, even if this idea is just a childhood dream.

Just like a handsome boy in Jinling Institute of Physics, only 20 years old this year, he made the first glider that can carry people, and all this is because he dreamed of flying in the sky with birds when he was six years old.

Song Beiyun didn't do anything these days, except to take care of the pregnant woman at home, just trying to sort out the achievements of various disciplines, and the more he sorted out, the more he discovered that it didn't take too many twists and turns to achieve greatness from scratch. There is no shortage of smart people and geniuses in the era, after all, they have a way to gradually construct the world described by Song Beiyun.

He didn't know how many times he had tears in his eyes. Even though he himself felt a little hypocritical, he couldn't help it. Seeing the enthusiasm of countless people running towards his ideal is really hard to explain to outsiders. .

Although the full spread of science and engineering is like a beast swallowing gold, its achievements are really enough to comfort Song Beiyun's anxiety.

"Let's rest earlier." Qiaoyun walked in with a brand new kerosene lamp: "This thing is really useful, it can be bright. It's not afraid of the wind, but it's much easier to use than a torch."

Song Beiyun put down his pen and sighed softly, "I think we'll see lighting in a few years."

Of course, he is not overly optimistic. The current industrial level is still relatively low. Most of their theories are still on paper and cannot be implemented. To realize the scene of his dreams, the industrial level needs to make great strides forward.

This requires the joint efforts of the whole country, and even the whole of Asia. It is impossible to quickly improve to that level by relying on only one workshop.

So at this point, if it is in the novel, it is probably the time to unlock the second seal, the technical output.

That is to say, except for the technology in the core field, everything in other fields will be used by civilians, and the light brought by industry will be spread to every corner as much as possible, so that people will gradually get used to and accept these newer and better things.

In this stack of materials, Song Beiyun accidentally discovered silver bromide, mainly in the column of geology, where someone discovered two rare ores in silver mines.

Song Beiyun immediately discovered from its description that it was bromide-silver ore and iodine-silver ore. This discovery made him surprisingly excited.

"Baby sister, you rest first, I still have some important information to sort out here."

Qiaoyun responded, but didn't go to rest. She just sat beside Song Beiyun in light pajamas and watched him quietly.

But Song Beiyun didn't pay much attention to these, he just carefully wrote down the characteristics of these two ores in his notes, and then drew a big circle on the silver iodine ore.

As a chemical student, Xiao Song knows that these two ores are definitely not just used to extract silver. For example, silver bromide is a photosensitive material, and the film of the camera is made based on its photosensitive principle.

In addition to taking pictures, silver iodide and silver bromide also have a more important role, that is, as a colloidal material for artificial rainfall.

As long as the rocket can successfully dry into the cloud and explode, and then sprinkle some chemical materials on it, it will form rainfall and alleviate the upcoming drought.

"Okay!" Song Beiyun patted the table: "There is God's will in the dark!"

This sound startled Qiao Yun who was distracted by the side, he quickly turned his head and rubbed Qiao Yun's head and said, "Qiao Yun, I might be worshiped as a god."

Qiao Yun tilted her head and looked at him: "???"

"I'll tell you when I get results." Song Beiyun put down his pen and said, "Sleep!"

Qiaoyun opened his mouth, as if he had something to say, but Song Beiyun laughed when he saw her eyes: "Do you really want a child?"

"Hmm..." Qiao Yun bit her lip, "I..."

"Then fix it!"

Song Beiyun almost couldn't get up the next day, but even with the severe backache, he rushed to the workshop, took his notes to find the person in charge of the prospecting team, and brought up his needs.

And it happened that this batch of silver ore actually had some of this new type of ore. After the person in charge brought it to Song Beiyun, he immediately started working.

Although the conditions are simple, chemistry is originally a magic touch technique that is almost miraculous, at least in the eyes of most people in this era, this is the touch technique.

Song Beiyun has fallen into the hands of these mines in the past few days. He has completely entered his own field, and he doesn't know what's going on outside. Wrapped in cloth, only a few pieces of fluorite are used as lighting tools.

In this way, he got out the first batch of silver bromide solution, and then he began to assemble a small box by himself, and then coated a thin layer of gelatin containing fine silver bromide on the paper, so that it can be used when taking pictures. When the light of different intensity hits the negative film, it will cause different degrees of decomposition products of silver bromide on the negative film. Bromine and gelatin compounded silver will become very small silver nuclei and precipitate on the negative film. The more photosensitive silver bromide will be decomposed. Parts are darker.

After he made this thing, the first thing he did was to call the people in the laboratory over. He tried to take a few photos, but in the end the images were not obvious, so he made repeated revisions and arrangements.

"Come, come, No.30, it's the second time." Song Beiyun asked the group of young people to stand together. Everyone didn't know what expression to put on their faces, so they all had stiff faces.

But this time he was smarter. In order to solve the problem of sensitivity, he arranged a lot of gunpowder around those people. When he pulled the shutter, he stepped on the path of the acid battery under his feet, and the electric spark ignited the gunpowder to produce bright light. .

With a stabbing sound, Song Beiyun got out of the black cloth with the simple camera in his arms, and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll take pictures later."

He went into the darkroom again, and this time he was not disappointed. The image on the bottom plate was very clear, and after the image was formed in the darkroom with sulfuric acid, nitric acid, benzene, methanol, silver halide, boric acid, hydroquinone, etc. Just wait for that base plate to dry.

In this way, the first photo in human history was born in his hands. When he walked out with the stereotyped photo, he was extremely proud.And the people in the laboratory came over one by one to see what happened. Although it was just a black and white silhouette-like photo that was not very clear, and they could only see a general idea, it was still amazing.

"This is me!" A young man excitedly pointed at the image above and shouted: "My face is the clearest!"

"It's not because I'm big." A girl next to me laughed and said, "I'm so good-looking..."

Seeing a group of young people happily circulating this photo, Song Beiyun folded his arms and showed a gratified smile.

He hopes that this photo will be passed down through the ages, so that people will still know what these sages who have made outstanding contributions to the difficulty of the exams for future generations will look like after a hundred or a thousand years.

"Everyone, stop." Song Beiyun clapped his hands, just like his mentor did when he had a new project: "There is still room for improvement in this follow-up. In theory, we can shoot the moon, the sun or even any star in the sky. Its The clarity can exceed your imagination, and this is just the beginning. Alright, is everyone's excitement over?"

This is the female researcher leaning forward: "Sir, can you take a picture for me alone?"

"Don't worry, you'll take pictures in the future." Song Beiyun clapped his hands again: "Now, we have a new project, and those who click on the name will follow me."

He called the names of about ten people, and then pulled them together and began to describe the artificial rainfall.

"Then aren't we becoming the Dragon King?" A young student said with a smile, "Then my village will just worship me from now on, what Dragon King do we still worship?"

"Hahahaha, you are not afraid that your father will kill you."

Song Beiyun didn't care when he heard their gags. He just laid out a few pieces of paper and described to them what they needed to do.

"We have to let something go into the clouds and explode, and spread these things inside to form the rain core." Song Beiyun put one leg on the stool and said loudly: "The medicine is not a big problem now, but send the medicine up what to do."

"Sky-Changing Monkey." A student said, "Can a big Sky-Changing Monkey do it?"

"Okay." Song Beiyun nodded: "But you have to find a way to move the Sky-piercing Monkey five miles up. This is still relatively close, and it can be as far as forty miles, but that kind of situation is rare."

"This……"

This is of course a difficult problem. The current technology is far from reaching the rocket that can fly into the clouds, but it is difficult to return to it, and we still have to do it.And their time is running out.

There is not even time for demonstrations, and the recruiters start working, and this is not something they can do alone, and the rest of the departments need to work together.The first thing to do is to calculate the altitude, which can be done with a hot air balloon.Then there is the calculation of the amount of charge and the size of the rocket. This thing is not a joke, it will explode and kill people.

So the high-tech department of the entire workshop quickly dispatched people to the Daxiangguo Temple for closed development.

Why is it Daxiangguo Temple, because it is far away from the crowd, and because the venue is so large that no one will trespass, so it is best to use it as a testing ground.

During the experiment, news of droughts in various places came one after another. Several inland lakes entered the dry season ahead of time, and some small rivers had already stopped flowing.

Just as Song Beiyun predicted, the drought came.

But now there is no time to deal with political planning. His current plan is two, one is to let the actuaries calculate the grain distribution in the warehouse of the Tuntian Division, and the other is to use the fastest speed to give the artificial rainfall to the government. Done.

"You don't look like a person these days." Zuo Rou lay on the chair and looked lazily at Song Beiyun: "You're tanned like a monkey."

Song Beiyun glanced at her: "What can I do?"

After he finished speaking, he began to put more force into his mouth to eat. As soon as he put down the bowl, he got up and was ready to go out.

"Are you in such a hurry? Let's take a rest?" Qiaoyun approached the door and said to him, "You've lost weight."

"No, it's too late." Song Beiyun waved his hand and said, "This is a race against time, and there will be no way to test it in July."

It wasn't just Song Beiyun who became a monkey, the whole team had that kind of virtue, no matter how noble and wealthy they were from, they were all ashamed and sweaty all day long.

But what's interesting is that no one has ever cried out, completely immersed in this field they have never been in contact with. Although there are difficulties, they enjoy the joy of unraveling and unlocking difficult problems. People are addicted.

"So now it's key to let it spray out steadily."

Because the fuel cannot be compressed, the pipe can be said to be quite bloated, and such bloat is the result of uneven combustion, and it explodes when it jumps up.

Now they are all sitting in the shade, looking at the pile of tatters in front of them, dejected.They didn't know how many times they had failed in the past few days, and every time they failed, their hearts felt like they were cut by a knife.

"It's all right, why did something go wrong at the critical moment." Song Beiyun fiddled with the wreckage with a stick: "Is it too big?"

"Then why..."

The feeling of thinking hard but not knowing what to do made everyone in the group a little irritable, and the weather was gradually getting hotter, making them even more agitated.

"Then tell me..."

At this time, a student suddenly brought a honeycomb and placed it in front of everyone. He pointed to these honeycombs and said, "If we put the launching part in a container like this and reduce the individual volume, will it be easier to control? Then we just have to control the timing of the detonation of the fuze, test how long it takes to enter the cloud, and then delay it."

Song Beiyun looked at the beehive and frowned: "Isn't this Katyusha... No matter, try it!"

And just as they forgot to eat and sleep here, more and more places began to panic. Not only Song Dynasty, but almost all surrounding countries were affected by the abnormal weather. Even the four-nation meeting in Chang'an had to be suspended.Drought is a more terrible disaster than flood, because once it occurs, it means that there will be no harvest wherever it goes.

The result of a lack of harvest is famine, it is war, and it is mass death.

This is the result that no one wants to see. The court has also started to make King Fu plan to pray for rain, and even tried to make Zhao Xing issue a sinful edict...

Chapter 674: Sunny September 7, Six Years

"Guilty edict?"

When they heard the news, the people of Song Beiyun were dumbfounded. Doesn't the sin against oneself at this time mean that the emperor admits that the severe drought was caused by his own failure in all aspects?

All the previous victories will be handed over in an instant.

"Check it out, who is the one who is shaking their lips and tongues in the hall." Xiao Song lowered his head and twisted the screw, and the people around him bowed and listened to his instructions: "Pull out the list for me, one counts one, one counts Neither can run."

Although it is the reformists who have the right to speak now, judging from the current situation, the conservatives are considered to be centipedes who are dead but not stiff, and they will kill them anytime and anywhere to play such a game.

The point is that they don't just speak in court, their words will spread to the people as the drought worsens. In some cases, opening your mouth is the punishment of God, but it's okay?

The artificial rainfall project has been overcoming difficulties for about a month, and now it is almost a gamble. Xiao Song once thought that rockets were more difficult, but now after research, he found that the technical content of this thing is lower than that of gun barrels. There are too many, as long as the propellant is qualified, you can shoot it with any steel pipe.

The key problem now is that the overall test time is too short to meet the test requirements. It is a mistake that a mature engineering student must never make to rush the ducks to the shelves.

But the problem is also in front of us. In the midsummer season, the drought will only intensify. If there is no heavy rain to cool the earth down, someone will take the opportunity to make trouble.

Those landlords who do not give up will not let go of this opportunity, so in addition to fighting against the abnormal weather, they also need to fight against the anti-intellectualism.

"So there is a long way to go for enlightenment education."

The people below left, and Song Beiyun sat under the locust tree that had been wilted by the sun to escape the heat. The students next to him were eating lunch with their lunch boxes, and in front of them were a lot of parts scattered all over the floor.

Song Beiyun sighed, "It's time to compile a book of [-] whys."

"What is a hundred thousand whys?"

A student asked a question, and Song Beiyun recalled a little: "It is to describe the principles of the growth of all things and the transformation of galaxies in simple sentences, and then add pictures, so that most people can read it, and then wait for them to find out that they follow the book. After proving the truth of the content, as time passes, I no longer believe in the so-called Mantian Gods and Buddhas."

"That's a feat."

"Life is too short, and there are too many things." Song Beiyun leaned under the tree and sighed, "It would really be good if I could live another 500 years."

While talking, a gust of hot wind blows, making people drowsy.

According to reports from various parties, these days, most areas of the Song and Liao countries have fallen into hot and scorching heat, and the drought situation is similar. Large areas of half-cooked food crops have been affected, rivers have dried up, and lakes have dried up. It seems that it has been the past 40 years worst disaster.

Song Beiyun couldn't concentrate on tossing the rocket now, because since yesterday, urgent reports from all over the place have been pouring in like snowflakes.

The voices of governors from all over the country asking for help are endless, and the household department has already implored the central government to open warehouses for disaster relief as appropriate. Even the so-called "[-] disciples" of Yushitai have spread all over the country by means of open and unannounced visits. things.

Because food is controlled by the state, the price of food rations on the market has not risen too much, it has only increased by less than [-]%, but it has begun to supply food per head, and every household must go to Baochang’s every day to receive food stamps , Buy and sell grain by ticket.

The whole line of wine making is stopped, and restaurants, restaurants, and restaurants can no longer sell any food brewed, and anyone is prohibited from hoarding food in any name.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and everyone guessed what might happen, but they could also clearly feel that they were no longer as panicked as before when encountering things. As long as they saw that the government's granary was still there, there would be people inside every day Opening positions and accounting, the hearts of the people will not be too flustered.

In the afternoon, Song Beiyun was called to attend the regular meeting, and naturally a report was indispensable.

"In addition to providing certain subsidies for food, there is also the need to encourage policies." Song Beiyun opened his notepad and reported at the small meeting: "First of all, all growers should be exempted for two to three years. Second, expand the scope of income generation for farmers and encourage the development of secondary industries during slack. Third, this year, all localities should provide certain subsidies according to the actual disaster-affected area.”

Fu Wang nodded, then turned to look at Hubu Shangshu: "What about you?"

"The lower official thinks how to make up for this subsidy, but it is a problem. The Song Dynasty now...now there is no surplus food."