parentshiftbook Chapter 726: Ancestors Who Envy Future Generations [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Chapter 726: Ancestors Who Envy Future Generations [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
[Fortunately, it has only been three hundred years since Shen Kuo's death. With the official power of the Ming Dynasty, at least 99% of Shen Kuo's lifetime works, including "Mengxi Bi Tan", have been preserved. 】
[Let’s go back and build a forest of scientists’ monuments in the Academy of Sciences. All the many scientists from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present will have monuments and statues to describe their achievements!]
[When the time comes, build a large and strong statue of Shen Kuo in the Forest of Steles, and let Shen Kuo stand in the middle position C among the scientists and sages!]
[Others can underestimate or ignore Shen Kuo’s achievements, but the Academy of Sciences cannot underestimate or ignore Shen Kuo’s achievements!]
In a flash of thought, Yan Changqing made a decision.
Zhu Yuanzhang and all the civil and military officials on the side were shocked when they heard Yan Changqing talk about the history of oil.
They originally thought that the source of the oil was probably one or two hundred years ago during the Shen Mengxi period of the Song Dynasty, but they never expected that the origin of the oil could be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was a thousand years ago.
In fact, this is indeed the case. China can be said to be one of the first countries in the world to discover and use oil.
"As of the Yuan Dynasty, there is a record in "Yuan Yi Tong Zhi": "There is an oil well drilled in the Nanying River in Yanchang County, which is worth ten kilograms. The oil is flammable and can also treat scabies in six livestock. The annual income is one hundred and eleven kilograms. Also in Yanchuan River There is a well in Yongping Village, eighty miles northwest of the county, with an annual income of 400 kilograms. It enters the Yanfeng Treasury."
"At the same time, there is also a record saying: 'Oil is obtained from the stone well in Yaoqu Village, twenty miles west of Yijun County, by drawing clear water. Although the smell is smelly, it can cure scabies in camels, horses, sheep and cattle.'
"This shows that hand-dug wells were officially started to extract oil in the Yuan Dynasty, and its use has been expanded to treat livestock skin diseases, and it was purchased and stored by the government."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Yan Changqing's story, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty officials had begun to formally dig "803" manual wells to extract oil, and then purchased and stored it in the warehouse.
Zhu Yuanzhang's emphasis on oil increased even more, and at the same time he decided to arrange for people to dig wells by hand to extract oil and purchase it for storage.
If Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the former Yuan Dynasty was inferior in everything because it was a foreign court of Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty, as a Han court, should fully boycott everything of the former Yuan Dynasty.
Well, since Yan Changqing taught him "Dragon Slaying Technique" a few years ago, he talked about the various advantages of the former Yuan Dynasty court in the currency system of copying and issuing banknotes, which made Zhu Yuanzhang realize that the former Yuan Dynasty court was not really useless.
On the contrary, with the development of the times, even the former Yuan Dynasty also had its advantages compared to other dynasties in the past.
Zhu Yuanzhang also abandoned his discrimination against the former Yuan Dynasty and looked at the former Yuan Dynasty from a more fair and objective perspective.
Another result of this was that Zhu Yuanzhang could not wait to remove all the advantages, strengths, and benefits of the former Yuan Dynasty, and then transfer them all to Ming Dynasty.
This is like:
Dayuan: I have a comprehensive and complete banknote issuance system!
Daming: Wow, you are really awesome, but the next second, it will be mine! (Zhu Yuanzhang put his hands on his hips and looked up to the sky and laughed.JPG)
Dayuan: I have discovered the important role of oil, and have begun to dig wells by hand to extract oil, and purchase and store it.
Daming: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for your experience in digging wells and extracting oil. I will absorb your experience and introduce new ones. Then I will send ten times or a hundred times more manpower to dig more wells, extract oil, and purchase and store more oil! (Zhu Yuanzhang was full of gratitude. Smile.JPG)
There are many other things like this, which gave Zhu Yuanzhang the pleasure of gathering Yuan's wool to strengthen Ming Dynasty.
In short, after putting aside discrimination, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to take a handful of wool from Qian Yuan as long as he got the opportunity.
“Compared with coal, oil burns more efficiently and does not produce as much waste residue after burning as coal does.
"At the same time, oil is a viscous liquid, which is particularly suitable for continuous transportation through pipelines compared to coal."
"In addition, the combustion value of oil is approximately twice that of coal for the same mass."
"In other words, the same quality of oil can generate twice as much heat as coal."
"For some industries with high heat demand, the effect can be better, such as steel and steelmaking."
"And although oil is still a polluting fuel like coal, burning oil emits less waste gas than coal, which is relatively harmful to the environment.
Burning oil causes less air pollution. "
"Furthermore, in addition to simply burning petroleum, it can also be further refined to extract solvent oil, kerosene, lubricating oil, paraffin, asphalt, etc."
"The various oils extracted have their own uses. Even the lowest value asphalt can be used to build and pave roads."
"And compared with concrete cement roads, asphalt paved roads will be softer, and vehicles will feel more comfortable driving on them.'
"Based on the above related advantages, this is why I say that the next energy era after the coal energy era is the oil energy era."
Yan Changqing—listed the advantages of petroleum while showing various petroleum products he extracted through distillation.
And the method of refining oil is not difficult.
Commonly used petroleum refining methods are mainly divided into: distillation, cracking, reforming, and isomerization.
However, he is limited by the environmental conditions of the current era and mainly uses distillation.
The so-called distillation method uses the principles of vaporization and condensation to distill out the part of petroleum with a specific boiling point.
The general distillation method is divided into normal pressure distillation and vacuum distillation.
Atmospheric pressure distillation is distillation under conditions close to normal pressure. It mainly distills gasoline, kerosene (or jet fuel), diesel, etc., and the bottom of the tower is your normal pressure residual oil (ie heavy oil).
Vacuum distillation means distilling atmospheric residual oil under an absolute pressure of about 8kPa to distill heavy distillate oil, which can be used as lubricating oil, cracking raw material or cracking raw material. The residue at the bottom of the tower is vacuum residual oil.
What he used was the atmospheric distillation method in the distillation method.
Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of civil and military officials on the side listened to Saint Ban Heng's narration and looked at the unknown uses of various petroleum products he displayed, and their hearts were surging.
In the past, the imperial court earned tens of millions just from selling briquettes made from coal.
If the imperial court is allowed to sell oil that has more advantages than briquettes and has more derivatives, then the imperial court will still make a lot of money?!
"Since oil has more advantages than coal, can we directly choose to enter the era of oil energy instead of the era of coal and biogas energy?!!"
Ru Taisu, the Minister of Household Affairs, looked at Saint Ban Heng and asked.
In his view, since oil has so many advantages over coal, forget about the era of coal and biogas energy.
Be bolder, take bigger steps, just take off on the spot, skip the coal and biogas energy era, and enter the new oil energy era, and that's it.
Yan Changqing looked at Ru Taisu, the Minister of Household Affairs, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
He found out why people in the Ming Dynasty liked the idea of taking off on the same spot and jumping across eras?!
The former Crown Prince Zhu Biao and the former Minister of Industry Xu Ben both wanted to skip various energy eras and enter the solar energy era.
Now Ru Taisu, the Minister of Household Affairs, also wants to skip the coal and biogas energy era and enter the new oil energy era.
But to be honest, he actually wanted to, but it really couldn't be done. Sometimes you really have to respect the objective laws of development.
"Petroleum is not all advantages and no disadvantages, and coal is not all disadvantages and no advantages. They all have their own advantages and disadvantages."
"For example, distribution and reserves."
"Coal is more widely distributed and has larger reserves."
"According to my preliminary estimates, coal mines exist in almost every province and prefecture in the Ming Dynasty; and the total coal reserves are about twenty times more than the oil reserves."
"For example, the difficulty of mining."
"Most of the coal storage locations are on the surface of the earth's crust, and the difficulty of mining is relatively low; while the oil storage locations are mostly in the middle and lower layers of the earth's crust, and the difficulty of mining is relatively high."
"Some coal mines may be able to dig coal after digging for more than ten or dozens of meters."
"Some coal mines are even open-air, and School Disciple can just pick them up."
"But oil is not the same. If you want to dig and mine oil, most of the mines must be dug deeper than coal mines.
"And this means that digging and mining oil will be more dangerous!"
"For example, the difficulty of development and utilization."
"After coal is mined, its greatest value, or the way to use it with the greatest value, is direct combustion. "
"According to the method of making honeycomb coal that I taught before, even a fool can successfully make honeycomb coal as long as he practices a few more times.
"Even if the production fails, it will not have any impact. At most, it will waste some coal, which will not cause any great risk.
"But oil is different. Compared with coal, the greatest value of oil, or the way to use it with the greatest value, is the various oil products after refining. "
"To give a less appropriate example, for example, if the value that can be created by burning oil directly is about one string of money. "
"Then the value that can be created by various oil products of refined oil may be three strings of money, five strings of money, ten strings of money, or even more.
"Therefore, although it is possible to burn oil directly, it will undoubtedly waste its other values …………………………
"But it is not easy to extract various by-products of oil. "
"Oil has the characteristics of high temperature, high pressure, flammability, explosiveness, toxicity, and corrosion during refining. Once it is improperly refined or improperly managed, it is extremely easy to be dangerous. ”
“At the least, it can cause coma or poisoning, and at the worst, it can even cause death!”
“If you want to refine oil safely, you must be familiar with the various properties of oil and other chemical knowledge.”
“Especially the chemical knowledge related to combustion and explosion, you must know the facts and the reasons.
“Only in this way can we ensure that no dangerous accidents will occur when refining oil.”
“And at present, I am probably the only one who can safely refine oil.”
At the end, Yan Changqing couldn't help but sigh:
“If you want to enter the era of oil energy, first, the technology of mining and extraction needs to be further improved.”
“Second, more people need to know how to extract oil safely.”
“Whether it is the former or the latter, it takes time.”
“After all, mining and extraction technology needs to be improved over the years, and the Wanmin Academy of Sciences also needs years to cultivate enough scientists who are familiar with the various properties of oil and master various chemical knowledge.
“Only when these two aspects have developed to a certain extent can we enter the era of oil energy.
"In my opinion, this step will take at least thirty to fifty years of development before we can enter the preliminary oil energy era.
"This is why I will place the energy era of oil behind the energy era of coal and biogas."
After listening to Saint Banheng's explanation, both Zhu Yuanzhang and all the civil and military officials fell into unspeakable silence.
At this moment, in their eyes, oil is like a mountain of gold, silver, and treasure!
However, they are limited by their current capabilities and cannot dig, mine, or utilize this mountain of gold, silver, and treasure!
Hiss, just thinking about it made Zhu Yuanzhang and all the civil and military officials feel pain.
Why can't they use such a good thing like oil and can only leave it to future generations?!!
Damn it, they really want to enter the oil energy era now!!!
Why should these good things be left to future generations? Saint clearly appeared in their era!!!
At this moment, both Zhu Yuanzhang and all the civil and military officials began to be jealous of the descendants of later generations.
"Xiong Ying, Ji Xi, and Gao Chi, you must remember and use oil well in the future. This is the mountain of gold and silver that grandpa left for you!!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang controlled the little heads of Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jizhu, and Zhu Gaochi and sighed.
The three little guys Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi all nodded, staring at the oil and various petroleum by-products on the display table with bright eyes, deeply impressed by it.
to 2.0 mind.
“I wonder where Saint’s oil was mined?!!”
"Or can Saint tell you where other oil deposits are?!!"
"As Saint said, the heat value released by burning oil is more than twice that of ordinary coal, which is obviously more convenient for steel casting."
"If possible, I would like the Ministry of Industry to use petroleum as the raw material for combustion in future steel castings."
"In this way, we can also practice and improve our oil mining and mining techniques."
Xu Ben, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, bowed respectfully to Saint Ban Heng and asked.
Knowing that oil of the same quality can produce twice as much heat as coal, Xu Ben didn't bother to care whether burning oil directly would cause a waste of oil value.
There is so much oil, so what does it matter if we waste a little?!!
As an ancestor, he should be satisfied first before talking!!!
Moreover, the reasons he gave were impeccable.
After all, if you want to improve the technology of oil excavation and extraction, you have to dig and extract oil. Only in this way can you improve the technology of oil excavation and extraction, right?!!
The oil that is also mined must be used after all, right?!!
After the oil is mined and extracted, we can't just seal it up and leave it to future generations, or hand it over to the Saint Ban Heng family for further refining, right?!!
Therefore, it would be perfect for him to directly use the oil extracted from the excavation for steelmaking!!!
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