The Rise of the European Emperor
Chapter 980: The World’s First Barrel of Gasoline
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Europeans in this era may not understand the use of oil, but Marin knows it very well. Not to mention the modern applications of gasoline, diesel, lubricating oil, etc. in later generations, but petroleum itself has many local applications in this era.
For example, setting fire to the enemy with oil or something. The most classic is that in ancient China, oil was used as "fire oil", which was the main force of fire attack. In ancient China, sulfur and kerosene were the sharpest weapons for attacking fire. Among them, kerosene is more powerful than sulfur. Because, once the kerosene is ignited, it cannot be extinguished by water, and the effect is extremely powerful.
In ancient Chinese wars, kerosene oil was successfully used in wars many times. For example, the side defending the city can use kerosene to burn down the enemy's siege equipment. In addition, in the Houliang period, there are also records of putting kerosene in iron cans and firing them out with trebuchets to burn down enemy warships.
Of course, this operation is more dangerous. Because, once the oil is not successfully thrown out, but lands on the ship...then the ship will be burned... However, it is safer if it is used to attack ships from land. However, whether it can be accurately thrown onto the enemy ship also requires a lot of luck.
If it was really thrown onto the boat by an oil tank, it would be dangerous, much more dangerous than being hit by n iron ball shells. Because iron ball shells may not be able to damage the ship, but kerosene cans can easily burn the ship. After all, ancient ships were all made of wood, and they were most afraid of being burned.
However, for more dangerous naval battles, Marin is more interested in whether he can use oil to burn down the enemy's city gate...
The iron gates that many big cities in Europe have switched to now may not have a fever. However, for now, the gates of most European cities are still made of wood. If you pour oil on it and set it on fire... It seems that the opponent's city gate can be burned without bombardment. At that time, if you throw another gunpowder barrel, the city gate will naturally break open smoothly, even if it blocks the city gate hole, it will be useless.
Coincidentally, this attack on Scotland, it seems that the gate of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is made of wood...
Therefore, when Marin saw the oil, he was very excited, and he didn't care about the fat steward's corruption. Those are small things, the life and death of the country are the real big things. Even, Marin didn't mind rewarding their two brothers.
Moreover, Marin has made up his mind to send spies to the Vistula Valley in Galicia, Poland, to buy the land property rights in the area where the oil wells are located, and then monopolize the artificial oil wells...
From now on, Marin will have a source of kerosene. If you want to play fire attack or something, you will have the materials. If you play a fireboat tactic... Hehe, hehe...
Anyway, as long as there is oil, in the future, the wooden city gates of European countries will be equivalent to undefended for Marin...
The walls of European cities are too strong, they are all made of stone, stronger than the brick walls of ancient China. If shelling is used, it is estimated that the shelling will take a long time to break through the city wall. Unless you use a super cannon like the "Urban Cannon" that Turkey broke through Constantinople, which weighs 17 tons and has a shell weighing 1,500 pounds, it can easily blast through the stone city wall.
However, the Urban Cannon is too heavy, with a weight of 17 tons, not to mention how difficult it is to cast, but transportation alone is a huge problem. It can be used in the siege of Constantinople because Constantinople is by the sea, so it is convenient for the Urban artillery to be unloaded from the ship for use. If it is deep inland, it is impossible to transport such a huge monster. You know, in this year, the load of the carriage is only one or two tons. Even with a 4-horse cart, it is difficult to carry more than seven or eight tons of heavy objects, let alone a 17-ton super heavy artillery? Therefore, the Urban artillery was only used in the siege of Constantinople. As for the inland siege, such heavy artillery could not be transported at all.
Therefore, if the enemy's city has wooden gates, it is more cost-effective to burn the gates with oil. Not to mention how difficult it is to blast through the city gate, the consumption of gunpowder alone is an astronomical figure that makes people feel distressed.
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After returning to the palace, Marin immediately started the experiment. However, the burning of oil was not as powerful as Marin imagined. Because the burning intensity of oil is stronger than that of ordinary oil, and it cannot reach a very violent level. Moreover, the black smoke from burning oil is very large, and it seems that the combustion is not complete...
Speaking of the black smoke of oil, Marin seemed to think of a story in ancient China. The ancients seemed to have used the characteristics of black smoke from burning oil to make a high-grade ink stick lampblack...
The so-called soot ink is not the same thing as ink. Oil smoke ink and pine smoke ink are both black and gray ink materials extracted from black smoke, which were specially used for inkstones in ancient China. When the ancients wrote, they used ink sticks to grind on the inkstone, and then mixed with water to form ink. In the beginning, the modules used by the ancients to grind ink were all natural ink, which is the legendary graphite. However, the output of graphite is limited, so people later came up with pine smoke ink. Pine smoke ink, that is, light the damp pine wood. Because of incomplete combustion, resulting in a lot of black ash. Then, place a damp cloth over the flame. When the incompletely burned pine black ash rises and hits the damp cloth, it is trapped. Then, after extraction and reprocessing, a very high-grade pine smoke ink is obtained. The so-called smoke is the black smoke of incomplete combustion. There is black ash in the black smoke, which is a very high-grade toner. Later, people came up with lampblack ink. However, this oil does not only refer to oil, but mostly refers to the oil of the tung tree. Because, in order to make pine smoke ink, the felling of pine trees is too severe. Later, people used the faster-growing tung wood instead of pine, lit it to collect soot, and made lampblack ink.
However, black smoke from burning oil can also collect toner, and high-grade lampblack ink can also be obtained. In ancient China, the ancients did this, burning oil directly, and then extracting the black ash from the black smoke to make ink sticks.
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That is to say, unprocessed oil does not burn completely, and the burning intensity is not enough, so it is difficult to burn down the city gate all at once. Then, it needs to be purified...
"Purification..." Marin thought for a while, called his men, and went to the brewery to ask for a tin pan for steaming Erguotou...
Yes, the tin pan for steaming Erguotou. Marin also has a little understanding of the principle of oil processing, isn't it just fractional distillation at different temperatures. Fractionated tamarin can't be made, mainly because he can't do temperature control. In addition, Marin does not understand how to control the oil and gas at different temperatures into different outlets. After all, he didn't study petrochemical industry.
However, it is relatively simple to separate the gasoline with the lowest distillation temperature. The props used are tin pans from Erguotou. Using the "low temperature" of more than 100 degrees, Marin quickly obtained a batch of light gasoline with a tin pan. Then, with 20 barrels of oil, Marin distilled a barrel of light gasoline with a tin distiller from Erguotou.
In fact, 20 barrels of oil can be refined far more than a barrel of gasoline. However, Marin's technology is backward and cannot separate heavy gasoline, let alone hydrocracking technology. Therefore, he could only extract so much gasoline.
Among oils, gasoline burns the most violently. Even gasoline, to a certain extent, can cause an explosion when it burns. Such violent "fire oil" is the sharpest weapon to burn down wooden city gates.
Then, Marin took out a small bottle of gasoline and conducted a combustion test. Sure enough, the gasoline burned quickly and violently. If a barrel of gasoline is poured on the wooden city gate of Edinburgh, Scotland, and it is lit... Hehe, the city gate of Edinburgh must be finished, and the speed is very fast...
And, gasoline has another benefit. That's where it comes from no one knows...
As long as Marin blocks the good news, no one will know that gasoline is extracted from black oil. After all, the appearance of pitch-black oil and colorless gasoline is too different. Those who don't understand the principle, no one knows that the two will be connected. Using gasoline to burn the city gate, the secrecy is particularly strong...
It just so happened that the Fourth Army was going to attack Edinburgh. Marin decided to send this barrel of gasoline, let the blasters of the Fourth Army take the barrel of gasoline, pour the gasoline on the wooden city gate of Edinburgh, and then set a fire...
And this barrel of gasoline, Marin guessed, should be the first barrel of gasoline in this time and space world he traveled through...
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