The Rise of the European Emperor

At first, Marin didn't know that briquettes were popular in Daming, but he soon knew. Because Kong Tai sent a batch of local products from Taiwan. At the same time, news of honeycomb coal was also sent back...

As the governor of Taiwan Island, Kong Tai organized a large-scale army, mainly rattan soldiers. After the rattan soldiers were trained, Kong Tai ordered them to start expanding in the northern part of Taiwan Island.

Facing thousands of rattan soldiers and musketeers, the aborigines on Taiwan Island were no match at all. No matter how brave they are, it is difficult to break through the defense of the rattan players. And if they attack each other from a long distance, they can't beat the musketeers... Moreover, the loud noise of the muskets also has its own intimidating effect...

Therefore, in the past two years, Kong Tai has dispatched troops and has already reached the coast of Tainan in later generations. And a Fanmin tribal alliance, the predecessor of the later "Big Belly Kingdom", was also defeated by Kong Tai's expeditionary force. The two sides started a battle at the mouth of the Dajia River in Taichung. Kong Tai dispatched 2,000 rattan soldiers and 100 musketeers. And the fan clubs of the Dadu Alliance gathered more than 4,000 strong civilians and took the initiative to attack the colonial army that had just landed. However, their attack failed to break through the defense of the rattan soldiers, and the most valiant soldiers who rushed to the front were shot and killed by the musketeers at close range, and then the Fanmin of the Dadu Alliance were defeated and fled. Subsequently, many fans of the defeated Dadu Alliance were forced to flee to the depths of the island's jungle. Kong Tai did not dare to go deep into the jungle easily, so he occupied the coastal areas and the downstream areas of several large streams on Taiwan Island, and began to develop slowly, and built fortresses, steadily.

Subsequently, Kongtai began large-scale development in the occupied area. First of all, what Marin attaches the most importance to is naturally the oil produced from the sulphurous pit. Although the daily output is only about 20 kilograms, the accumulation of less oil becomes more. After more than two years, about 15 tons of oil have been accumulated. Of course, this ship sailed to Panama City last year, and only brought back more than 7 tons of oil, which is a year's production. As for the output of the second year, it has not yet been accumulated and sent back.

Marin was also very happy to see so much oil. After all, with more than 7 tons of oil, even if the gasoline yield is only 10%, more than 700 kilograms of gasoline can be extracted. It is used to burn the enemy army, and it can be used freely.

With this oil, plus the non-stop oil production in the Galicia region of Poland, there will definitely be enough gasoline in the future. Therefore, Marin decided to start developing a bed crossbow that can launch a glass bottle filled with gasoline.

These days, ships are all made of wood. If the wooden boat is made thicker, it may be able to withstand the bombardment of iron ball shells. After all, planks are also very strong. However, wooden boats are absolutely afraid of fire. In particular, gasoline burns with such an inextinguishable flame.

Originally, Marin planned to try to use a trebuchet to throw simple cocktail Molotov cocktails at enemy ships. However, after experimenting, Marin discovered that the trebuchet wanted to hit the bottle on the target, it really depends on luck...

So, he thought of the bed crossbow...

The heavy crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow were made into the appearance of the later generations of diamond monkeys, and Molotov cocktails, such as Molotov cocktails, were tied to the shafts of Molotov cocktails. When the crossbow was inserted into the enemy's body at a distance of several hundred meters, the gasoline glass bottle tied to the arrow shaft was broken due to the impact, and the gasoline was splashed on the enemy's ship due to inertia... Next, the bed crossbow was used to shoot rockets... This After one set, the enemy wants to keep the ship, it's just wishful thinking...

Unless, the other party learned of the existence of gasoline in advance and prepared sand to cover the fire. Otherwise, if you want to use conventional watering methods to extinguish the fire, you will definitely die ugly...

However, because the current oil production is very limited. Therefore, Marin generally does not use gasoline easily. Only when attacking a fortified city with a wooden city gate, or when a decisive sea battle with an enemy country is launched at sea, will this kind of big killer be sacrificed...

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In addition to the oil produced in Chusongkeng, the product of Taiwan Island that Marin values ​​most is probably mothballs. In the northern part of Taiwan Island, at this time, the virgin forests were full of camphor trees that produced camphor. After Kong Tai sent troops to occupy the northern coast of Taiwan Island,

Soon relying on Ming craftsmen, many camphor trees were cut down, and hundreds of catties of camphor were extracted and sent back.

After getting these powdered natural camphor, Marin was very excited. Because, his research on smokeless gunpowder can continue...

Before, Marin only produced the most basic smokeless gunpowder-B gunpowder, that is, mixed nitrocellulose with 2% paraffin for passivation, and obtained the first smokeless gunpowder in history.

However, the passivation effect of paraffin is average, and the smokeless gunpowder produced is easy to spontaneously ignite, leading to very serious accidents (in history, a French steel warship was sunk by the spontaneous combustion of B gunpowder, and the losses were very heavy). Therefore, during World War II, everyone began to passivate nitrocellulose with more advanced passivators such as phenylenediamine.

But Marin doesn't know chemistry, and doesn't know how to deal with phenylenediamine. Therefore, he can only use the most powerful natural passivation agent - camphor...

In history, the dynamite king Nobel used camphor as a passivating agent to develop Knott's smokeless gunpowder. It's a pity that his invention was a bit late and born at an untimely time. The production equipment of B gunpowder is ready, will you adopt your new gadget? Then, Nobel's invention was put on hold until the British learned from Nobel's ideas and plagiarized his ideas...

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Then, Marin began to improve the smokeless gunpowder himself. He first used the old method to make nitrocellulose particles containing 2% paraffin (the specific process will not be mentioned, so as not to be caught like the 848th chapter). After obtaining the granular nitrocellulose, Marin dissolved the camphor with alcohol, and soaked the granular nitrocellulose in the alcohol solution of the camphor (nitrocellulose is insoluble in alcohol). After the alcohol evaporates, the camphor covers the surface of the nitrocellulose particles, forming a thin film that hinders the rapid combustion of the nitrocellulose...

Of course, Marin was not sure about the specific concentration. So, he made dozens of camphor-alcoholic solutions of different concentrations. Then, test the effects of various passivated nitrocellulose one by one.

Then, several testers tested the effect of dozens of smokeless gunpowder on the shooting range. After several days of testing, Marin finally got a better ratio.

Subsequently, Marin used this passivated smokeless powder as the standard propellant for slugs. Later, in key battles, slugs will all use passivated smokeless powder as propellant. This kind of gunpowder is powerful, and it has been passivated with camphor, which greatly improves the safety. It is not afraid that the shooter will be killed by accident...

In short, the batch of camphor sent back by Kong Tai has helped Marin a lot...

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