A lawyer is very attractive to Wang Jinghui - scholars who have no hope of imperial examinations are just suitable for this profession, and relatively in medicine, it is easier for scholars to become a lawyer, at least the industry threshold is not so high; the disadvantages are also very obvious - traditional Chinese medicine is at least respected by the royal family, and lawyers do not even have a legitimate social status.

"Hi!" Wang Jinghui sighed alone in front of the window. The lawyer's affairs were intervened halfway. He had never thought about this aspect, because in his imagination, the social status of the lawyer was taken for granted, but he did not expect that it would be the result. Before this, Wang Jinghui even wanted to specialize in law majors in Huaying Academy and Xihu Academy. But now it seems that fortunate that he had no time to do this at the beginning. However, he became a thorn in the court's side?! It seems that this matter still requires careful arrangements and plans, and at least it can be implemented after he returns to Kaifeng, Biandu. After all, only those who have obtained the emperor and ministers can be at least able to be at the least resistance when promoting this matter. He must be able to use Wang Anshi's power to do this.

Thinking of the lawyer, Wang Jinghui became even more worried - the status of craft officials has not been solved yet! The workshop specializing in making watches in Biandu was just beginning to be built when he left. Of course, he had reached an agreement with Emperor Zhao Xu on the issue of increasing the income of craft officials. Wang Jinghui believed that although the profits generated by watches as luxury goods were as exaggerated as the glass industry, there was no problem in achieving double the income of technical officials. The key is the social status of technical officials, which is the most difficult to solve. There is only one way to achieve - carry out major inventions and innovations, and widely publicize them by himself and his subsidiary "Mirror of the Song Dynasty" to the mouthpiece. There will naturally be results over time.

Wang Jinghui has been running to Hangzhou to hide his strength and maintain a low profile for almost two months. When he left Kaifeng, Biandu, he just took out the drawings of the artillery and set up a "road map" without time limits. He handed these things over to the leaders of Shen Kuo and Su Songlai. Now he also knows how far these two people have done. What is certain is that artillery is definitely difficult for technical officials of this era to realize, and there are too many problems to be solved.

The concept can be resolved by Wang Jinghui, Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo in the newspaper for a day or two. As the news of the Dingbian Army's victory began to become the focus of people's attention, he left Kaifeng, Bian Capital, which made people slowly begin to forget this big discussion on the status of craft officials. The cold tea in this regard is a true portrayal of this!

Now that Wang Jinghui is in Hangzhou, if he wants to continue to heat the pot of water, he must use some means - to develop a powerful weapon, and take out a weapon to keep the emperor's enthusiasm at a level. Until the artillery research and development is finally successful, it will give the system the final impact.

Six days later, through the 600-mile fast foot of the Privy Council, Shen Kuo, Kaifeng, Biandu, received a letter from Wang Jinghui from Hangzhou. Opening the thick letter, Shen Kuo first saw a large picture. The small words below indicate the name of the picture - the decomposed oil agency map!

Through the small words commented next to it, Shen Kuo realized that the so-called "oil" is the common turbulent oil and naphtha, which is unfamiliar to him. (In history, oil was first born by Shen Kuo, but this was at least the failure of Wang Anshi's reform in 1076. Shen Kuo was slandered and demoted to Xuancheng. Three years later, in 1079, in order to resist the Western Xia, Shen Kuo only saw oil when he was the Yan'an Prefecture, and he died after inspecting the oil deposits.)

Shen Kuo knew that there was a weapon in the Great Song Dynasty's arsenal called a fire bomb. The principle of fire was to use the principle of oil burning. Shen Kuo did not have much knowledge of oil at this time. Apart from knowing that oil could burn, he knew nothing else. Wang Jinghui's letter opened his eyes - it turned out that dark oil could actually be decomposed, according to the method mentioned in the letter of the Prince Consort. If that kind of "gasoline" could be decomposed from oil, and thrown and ignited it in a clay pot, it would be even more powerful than a thunderclap!

Wang Jinghui was forced to helplessly. If he wanted to keep Emperor Zhao Xu's enthusiasm for the problem of craft officials, he had to use new inventions that were beneficial to the development of the Song Dynasty to stimulate the emperor. Only after Emperor Zhao Xu realized what the things the Song Dynasty's craft officials did would change the war would he truly make up his mind to change the social status of craft officials. Now the only thing he could do was to use oil to refine gasoline. In fact, he had never done this, but he still knew the principle of the split tower of oil refining.

The picture drawn in the letter Wang Jinghui gave to Shen Kuo is the splitting tower. Since the principle of refining petroleum is to decompose the components in it by heating oil, and then use its same liquefaction point to make various oil products. There is a very great danger in the middle, so Wang Jinghui also specifically warned Shen Kuo in the letter to pay attention to safety, otherwise a very big disaster will occur - a violent explosion will occur during the process of refining petroleum, destroying everything around!

In order for Shen Kuo and Su Song to concentrate on oil refining, Wang Jinghui also told him in his letter who should go to seek help - if he lacks money, he goes to Liu Jianfang, the head office of the accounting manager of the industry, and Xu's head office; if he seeks military help, he goes to Guo Kui, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, or simply goes to Wen Yanbo, the Privy Councilor. Oil is one of the important raw materials for the Song Dynasty to make fire bombs, so the oil needed in the experiment was obtained through the Privy Council, and before that, he could go to the palace to meet the saint - he had submitted a letter to Emperor Zhao Xu, believing that this belligerent emperor would be stingy in the research and development of new powerful weapons in order to greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty army.

In fact, as Wang Jinghui thought, Emperor Zhao Xu summoned Shen Kuo and Su Song within two days after receiving his letter, and learned about the development of weapons. He also allocated 100,000 ounces of funds from the inner treasury to provide experimental costs for Shen Kuo and Su Song, and the required oil was also provided by the Privy Council.

Wang Jinghui wrote everything he knew in detail in the letter, and the principle of refining gasoline was that simple. After he hoped that Shen Kuo and Su Song could really refine gasoline according to this picture, which was probably a mixture of multiple oil products. Moreover, the gasoline in his hand is really useless unless it is used as a weapon such as a combustion bomb. After all, he can handle the work of an internal combustion engine. In other words, the process level of this era is far from manufacturing an internal combustion engine.

Shen Kuo and Su Song made rapid progress, mainly because Wang Jinghui explained the principle very clearly. It was difficult to understand them, but it was just a bit conceivable at the beginning. A month later, with sufficient financial, material and manpower, on a small island in Jinmingchi, all the equipment had been installed and oil was added to the sealed boiler. Since Wang Jinghui particularly emphasized its danger, Shen Kuo and Su Song dared to neglect in this regard. Except for Shen Kuo and a few craftsmen present, everyone else retreated far away.

According to Wang Jinghui's idea, when the oil components vaporize, they enter the distillation tower to cool down and condense into liquid when they reach the liquefaction temperature. What he needs is this liquid to be used as a combustion bomb. The experiment progressed very smoothly, and there was no dangerous accident he expected. Shen Kuo was standing under the distillation tower that was more than three meters high, watching some yellow-brown liquid flow out of the conduit of the distillation tower - according to Wang Jinghui's letter introduction, Shen Kuo knew that this was the final product they wanted to get for the experiment.

After receiving a can, Shen Kuo asked someone to seal it with the same method as a wine jar. Wang Jinghui knew that the product refined in this way could be called gasoline, but even if there were many impurities in it, its volatile nature would be very strong, and the sealing effect would cause them to do nothing in the past. So he also specifically told Shen Kuo to pay attention to the sealing nature of the product. Shen Kuo was indeed a curious baby, and he still scooped out a bowl of liquid from it, wanting to see if it was true, as Wang Jinghui said in his letter, this "gasoline" could evaporate cleanly in a moment. Sure enough, Shen Kuo did not wait long, and the liquid in this bowl evaporated completely in a short time, and he also smelled a pungent smell.

After getting the "gasoline", Shen Kuo and Su Song were eager to see if this liquid really had great destructive power as Wang Jinghui said. Or on this small island, of course, Shen Kuo was also very afraid of not destroying the equipment of the distillation tower if the jar was really powerful. So he tried the explosive power of the jar on the other end of the island.

Shen Kuo and Su Song knew that they had almost caused a disaster when they tested the power of new weapons on the island of Jinmingchi. It was the golden autumn season. The residents of Biandu who came to Jinmingchi to watch the scenery were shoulder to shoulder, but it was also very lively, especially in a few days, the Double Ninth Festival, and it was an old tradition to hold dragon boat races in Jinmingchi. You can imagine how many people around Jinmingchi at this time.

The residents of Kaifeng, Biandu and nobles who were traveling around Jinmingchi suddenly heard a loud "boom" sound, and saw a fire dragon rising from a small island in the lake, followed by a thick black smoke. Everyone knew what was going on. Although the residents of Biandu had seen the power and sound of thunder as they were watching the army during the Song Dynasty, they were far behind the scenes in front of them. The sound caused a commotion among the crowd.

Shen Kuo and Su Song were just twenty feet away from the explosion site. The official hats on their heads knew where they had gone. They were stunned by the scene of the explosion in front of them. They were basically blown up within one meter. They also knew why there were still several fire sources burning in the trees far away. Shen Kuo thought that oil could burn, and it was probably because liquid splashed onto the trees and continued to burn.

Just as Shen Kuo and Su Song stared at each other with big eyes and were stunned by the scene after the explosion, a team of imperial guards ran over. Although Shen Kuo and Su Song were dressed in good clothes, the two people's official positions could still be seen from the officials on them.

"Two sirs, what happened here? This commander is here to investigate the situation!" said an imperial guard.

Shen Kuo recognized that the spoken imperial guard was the officer responsible for defending them for the experiment. He saw that the new commander's clothes were embroidered with an eagle with claws on his face. This logo was not familiar to Shen Kuo. This logo was the symbol of the imperial straight squad, which means that the emperor or an important member of the royal family was nearby!

Shen Kuo bowed to the commander and said, "I am experimenting with new weapons here. I didn't expect that this thing is so powerful and makes such a big noise. Do you know if it disturbs anyone?"

The commander also saw the current situation around him. Gu Dexian talked to Shen Kuo, and quickly directed his subordinates to extinguish the flames that were still burning everywhere, saying, "The Lord is on the dragon boat that is far away. When the Lord heard the explosion just now, he sent him to observe what was going on!"

When Su Song and Shen Kuo heard this, they knew that Emperor Zhao Xu had also traveled today. After they got the "gasoline", they wanted to know how powerful this thing was. They did not expect that it would disturb the saint's driving in the nearby experiment. This was a good omen. They hurriedly said, "Can you take us to face the saint to explain? The experimental saint here should be aware of it!" After that, they informed their official position.

The commander pondered for a moment and said, "Please follow me and move. The emperor may listen to your explanation!"

Before leaving, Su Song pointed to the equipment that refined petroleum and said to the commander: "This object provides drawings for the prince consort. The emperor ordered us to supervise the construction. The weapon just now was produced from this object. It is actually a secret of the Song Dynasty. Please send someone to guard it carefully so that others can get close to you!"

"But the prince consort of Xiao Wang?!" the commander asked back.

"Wrong! Apart from the prince consort of Xiao Wang, who else can have such wonderful ideas in the world?!" Shen Kuo replied affirmatively. Then he immediately sent someone to the refining petroleum equipment to tell everyone to extinguish the furnace. He was already frightened by the power of the gasoline bomb just now. Thinking of Wang Jinghui's repeated warnings to be careful and be careless, so as not to explode again when he first arrived in front of the emperor, which would be a big deal.

The commander was unfamiliar with the prince-consor Wang Jinghui. There were few of his brothers around the hero in front of the emperor who came to be a bodyguard. It can be seen how much the emperor valued Xiao Wang's prince-consort. Moreover, the recent earthquakes and thunders in the capital read the army, and the crossbows were all secrets of the Song Dynasty. It is estimated that the weapons that caused the huge explosion just now were also his masterpiece. You can also think that it was definitely a secret in the Song Dynasty. The explosion just now almost alarmed everyone around Jin Mingchi. It is inevitable that some people would come over to see it because they were curious. If the news leaked, it would be a huge trouble. So they hurriedly left their people here to assist in the alert and prevent relevant people from coming here to spy on the truth.

After Shen Kuo and Su Song reported the direct commander of the imperial inner squad just now, they easily met Emperor Zhao Xu. This young emperor has always been very interested in new weapons, especially when the capital reader army happened a few months ago. Emperor Zhao Xu was excited to set up on the island to observe the power of the new weapons.

Shen Kuo and Su Song knew that their troubles were temporarily resolved. After tomorrow, the censor knew that they were the two of them in Jin Mingchi, there would be fewer bullets to wait for him. The most effective way was to make the emperor happy now, so they would use the bullets to be afraid that the censor would be bullets. Fortunately, there were three or four jars of gasoline after refining the oil, but with the reference of the "accident" just now, the two of them opposed the emperor's experiment on the island, fearing that they would cause riots in the capital again, so they should change the experiment location to a more secure place.

Emperor Zhao Xu nodded in agreement with their request. When he saw the two "gasoline bombs", his face immediately sank - Shen Kuo and his friends used empty wine jars to fill gasoline, and there was a big word "wine" on the jar!

Su Song people were sophisticated. Knowing that Emperor Zhao Xu thought they had lie to him together, he quickly explained the whole story, saying that it was just filled with gasoline, which was directly ignited, and it had the power of the explosion just now. Now it still has practical combat capabilities. He still has to wait until he went back to find a way to improve this kind of bomb before he could equip the army.

Emperor Zhao Xu's expression was better after hearing this. After a long time of getting ashore, the group took two jars of wine to the camp where the Tianlong Imperial Army was stationed in the east of the city. Under the heavy protection of the Imperial Army, they came to a small valley. The environment here was quiet. Because it was the garrison of the Tianlong Army, no one came to make any idea.

Under Shen Kuo's command, the Imperial Army soldiers slapped off the mud seal of the wine jar, dipped a towel into it with a towel and sealed the mouth of the jar to lead out the towel - this is a simple combustion bomb designed by Wang Jinghui. Of course, during the experiment, I was afraid that the towel would burn too quickly and detonate the gasoline jar, so I still used a piece of gunpowder to ignite it, and the Imperial Army ran back quickly.

The power of this explosion was even greater because of the trees in the valley. There were not so many weeds on the island. In autumn, it was the time when the forests were most prone to fire. Such a burning bomb was placed here to detonate. Soon, when everyone was amazed at the power of the explosion, a large area of ​​shrubs around were ignited.
Chapter completed!