Chapter 270 High Pressure Air Bottle

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After the meeting, Roland left Barov alone.

You also see that the chemical laboratory currently needs people and the Grayburg Industrial Company needs people. Next, I plan to produce soap and perfume on a large scale, which also requires a lot of manpower.The prince said bluntly that when most of the townspeople pass the primary education assessment, they will get at least next year, and there will be only six or seven hundred people in full swing, which is not enough.I need more population.

If recruited from the fortress...

No, Roland interrupted, after the city is built next year, the fortress will be connected to the town as a whole, which is equivalent to taking out the money from the left pocket and putting it into the right pocket. I need more people outside the Western border.

This... Barov was a little embarrassed, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so easy to solve. If he went to other cities to catch people, the local lord would not sit idly by.

Not going to the city, Roland put his finger into the cup, dipped it in some ice water, and gestured on the table. I wonder if you have noticed that since the end of the Demon Moon, Gray Castle has been in war.Including the several attacks on the southern border of Tifeko, resulting in the burning of Eagle City and the surrounding villages and towns being severely damaged.Then there was an expedition to the northern border, depriving Duke Ace of his title and territory for treason.Finally, there was this sea attack in the east. He hit the table twice, leaving a ball of water stains, which affected Haifeng County, Jinsui City, and Lingui Fortress, not to mention those surrounding small towns. Just from the number of people fleeing to the royal capital, you can see how heavy the losses were.

You mean... Barov showed a thoughtful expression.

The prince smoothed out the waters. In the past six months, only the Western border was in peace, and there was no forced conscript or attack on the war.Especially the first point is that the TIFEK uses civilians to fight, and it will definitely recruit or even plunder civilians in various places. No one can guarantee that this kind of thing will not fall on oneself next time, so a safe place to isolate the war is the key point of our publicity.

I probably understood, and he thought, are you planning to attract civilians from other towns and villages by making promises of not forcing levy, not serving labor, and providing shelter, food and stable work?

Almost, Roland nodded with a smile. The active thinking and strong acceptance have always been the advantages of the minister's assistant, and it also needs to focus on promoting the generous treatment that literate people can enjoy. I think there will definitely be some desperate knights and nobles in these places who are willing to come to the West to try their luck.

Whether it is a village or a town, it is almost the territory of the little nobles.

If you are in a peaceful period, even if the land is barren or poorly managed, you can always fill your stomach by guarding a few acres of land.

But if the population loss is severe during the turmoil, life will be difficult to continue.

At this time, there is a safe place to go, and most people should be tempted. Anyway, the territory will not be occupied by others even if it is unattended. After this period, you can take the money and mercenaries back to take over the territory.

As for how to promote it, he believes that the other party has its own solutions.

But Your Highness, in this way, it would cost another fee to place these personnel, and the purchase of food cannot be interrupted. Barov hesitated that if there is any accident on the caravan, the city hall vault will soon dry up.

Well... what you said makes sense. Roland touched his chin. The most important task of the new political power is to establish prestige and confidence in the hearts of the people. If you suddenly fall into the dilemma of not being able to pay compensation, the good situation will take a sharp turn. Let's do it. You go back and make a plan first, and wait until the caravan and the town complete the next month's transaction, and then implement it after the vault is enriched.

Obey the order, Your Highness, Barov stroked his chest.

After assigning the task, Roland returned to the office and began to think about how to complete Margaret’s balloon order.

The unit price of a thousand golden dragons is higher than that of a steam engine, but its cost is much cheaper. The airbag is mainly drawn by Soloya, and hemp ropes and bamboo baskets are both bargains.

In fact, Roland has already tried a simple sample in the arsenal yard: a hydrogen balloon that can carry lightning and Maisie to the sky at the same time.

After repeated consideration, he finally abandoned the hot air balloon solution. The gas needs to be obtained through dry distillation of coal. The equipment covers a large area and is very troublesome to manufacture. In addition, coal has to be imported from other towns. Small-scale production is extremely unprofitable and is far less convenient and easy to obtain than hydrogen.

The trial product is made of a single-sided water coating, and the paper behind it was burned off after the painting. This made the entire airbag so light that it was almost weightless and had excellent flexibility.

During the experiment, the inflatable balloons were not afraid of rain, impact, or fire. Maisie turned into various birds and rushed to peck at them without leaving any trace. Only with an iron needle could the coating that was thick could be pierced through.

Due to its extremely light weight, a hydrogen balloon with a diameter of about two meters can be carried by an adult to take off.

The only difficulty lies in how to solve the problem of inflation of high-pressure hydrogen cylinders.

DC motors used for electrolyzing hydrogen production cannot be sold. A motor can be inflated by a steam engine after being connected to the steam engine, which is obviously too unprofitable.

To continuously earn Golden Dragon from the big dogs, you must have high-pressure gas cylinders that can be re-inflated.

The gas cylinder itself is not difficult. The material is not as thick as the wall is repaired. It is okay to use pig iron and cooked iron. Anyway, with Anna, it is not a problem to process it carefully.

The key is that in the inflation process, the pressure of the gas storage cylinders in later generations is above 20mpa. It is undoubtedly a fantasy to use the air pump to penetrate it. All ten Kirin arms are useless, at least they have to use a high-pressure air pump.

If the pressure in the bottle is not enough, it will not be able to fill the hydrogen balloon.

High-pressure air pumps are divided into piston compressor and turbine compressor. The former belongs to the technology tree of internal combustion engines, and the latter belongs to the category of turbines. No matter which type is developed, it is a time-consuming and labor-intensive project.

Until the evening, Roland finally came up with the easiest solution: self-inflate the bottle.

What inspired him was a news I saw before traveling through time: vendors selling hydrogen balloons on the street used modified liquefied gas tanks to store hydrogen, and the explosion occurred and caused a tragedy.

The reason is that the vendor directly reacts dilute sulfuric acid and aluminum in the bottle to produce hydrogen, and the reaction volume is not calculated, which results in too high pressure in the tank and directly swells the tank.

The method of self-inflating is to pour dilute sulfuric acid and active metal into the bottle and replace the hydrogen.

Zinc is commonly used in laboratories, and aluminum is the one that generates the most hydrogen by weight, but neither of them was in this era, so Roland still planned to use iron to react that Lucia can separate extremely purity iron element. The problem of slow reaction speed at room temperature can be improved by heating and increasing the contact area (such as iron sheets and iron powder). A coating inside can resist the corrosion of the acid liquid on the bottle.

Thinking of this, he immediately drew a simple sketch on the paper. In order to reduce air leakage, the high-pressure gas cylinder should be as whole as possible, so the bottle body is integrated, leaving only a raised threaded hole at the top, which can be screwed into the air nozzle with a valve.

After injecting reactants from the hole, tighten the gas nozzle. The continuously generated gas has nowhere to go, and the pressure in the bottle can reach a very considerable value.

When using, just unscrew the valve and hydrogen will rush out and rush into the airbag.

Re-rinsing is also very convenient. Take off the air nozzle, dry the water, clean out the ferrous sulfate crystals inside, and then you can pour the reactants into it again.

Considering that dilute sulfuric acid is also an alchemy product, the inflatable price obviously cannot be set too low.

It's time to charge fifty golden dragons and get ten charges once, Roland thought.