Three Kingdoms: Gou Shen I was overheard by Cao Cao

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In order to be able to drive a steam car and become a veteran driver, he is willing to work hard.

"Emma, ​​you are so heavy! You grew up eating iron? You don't look fat, why are you so heavy?"

Xia Houzhe was carried on the shoulder with a speechless face: "Put me down!"

Cao Cao didn't respond and didn't hear at all.

"Put me down!"

"What crotch?"

"Put me down!"

"Oh! You said it earlier, I'll get you a carriage, today we have to go to Puyang and get the oil field done!"

Cao Cao looked at him flatteringly, turned around and asked Guo Jia to find a carriage with four horses.

A group of people got into the car, Xu Chu acted as the driver, and headed towards Puyang.

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After several hours, a group of people arrived in Puyang, and it was already dark.

He can only rest in the city guard's mansion for one night before continuing on his way.

The next day, under the leadership of Xiahou Dun, they came to a small basin on the edge of Qingfeng County.

At this moment, there are already heavy soldiers here, forming a circle to guard.

In the middle is a pit more than three meters deep. There is an opening of a wooden bucket egg in the pit, and some dark brown thick slurry is flowing, which looks very disgusting.

Crude oil is not as light as gasoline, but viscous, as thick as molasses.

"Yuanyi, do you see if this is oil? It doesn't seem to be hidden very deep!"

Cao Cao poked the crude oil with his hand, and it instantly turned into a black finger.

Xia Houzhe nodded: "That's right! That's the thing! The oil doesn't have to be hidden very deep, it can be deep or shallow!"

"Then this can be used as lubricating oil? Can my steam car start?"

Looking at Cao Cao's excited face, Xia Houzhe poured a basin of cold water down.

"You think too much! There are many impurities in the oil, which cannot be used directly! It needs to be processed before it can be used!"

After speaking, he waved his hand casually, and released a large iron cylinder, about two meters high.

There are many pipes connected to it, such as condenser pipes, horn pipes, and some other things.

This is the same principle as rice wine distillation, because gasoline oil and asphalt lubricating oil have different boiling points.

As long as the temperature is controlled within a certain range, the same can be separated out.

Originally, he didn't want to be tired, but after thinking about it, he has a large stake in the oil field, so he could only grit his teeth and make it.

However, the scale is not large, and their demand is not high anyway, so just do it slowly!

"My dear brother, what are you using this for? Oiling?"

Xia Houzhe nodded, and reached out to pat the big barrel. There was a small iron boiler under the barrel, which was used to light the fire.

"That's right! This big iron barrel is the burning barrel for distillation. The refining of crude oil needs to rely on the different boiling points of various oils for distillation and separation!"

"This is a condenser tube. We need to add cold water to it to condense the separated oil and gas into a liquid!"

"It's easy to say, but hard to do."

Seeing Cao Cao's bewildered expression, Xia Houzhe didn't explain at all.

It's like playing the piano to a cow!

"Brother! Take care, I'll teach you refining, you just need to train a group of people to stay here refining oil! This will be our weapon of war in the future!"

"As for the equipment...I'll ask Zishun to build a few more big ones later!"

Xia Houzhe confessed to General Tuntian, and the other party looked carefully, not daring to make any mistakes.

I saw Xia Houzhe had someone lift a few barrels of crude oil and pour it into a distillation barrel.

He doesn't have a machine for pumping oil, so he can only do it manually.

Then he closed the lid, and with his backhand, a large thermometer made of mercury appeared in his hand, and he inserted it into the lid of the vat.

It took him a few days to make this gadget, and the highest temperature can be measured to more than 300 degrees.

The boiling point of mercury is more than 300!Although the measurement is not very accurate, it can only be measured roughly, but it can also be used as a reference.

Mercury was already available in the Qin Dynasty. Although it is expensive, it is not too rare, and you can buy it if you have money.

And mercury can be used as medicine...

"Brother, watch out, this is a thermometer! If you want to refine kerosene for war, the temperature should be between 30 and 150 degrees. There is a scale on it, so don't exceed it! Otherwise, the refined gasoline is useless!"

Xiahou Zhe taught very carefully, and Xiahou Dun also studied very seriously!

After pouring water into the condenser tube, people found a lot of firewood, and then started to heat it in a small boiler!

Under the horn tube at the end of the instrument, a large wine jar was connected to prevent the purified gasoline from being volatilized.

"You guys are optimistic! The temperature will slowly rise later!"

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Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the temperature of the boiler is slowly rising, and the mercury in the thermometer is also rising!

Seeing that the scale has been rising, Cao Cao and the others couldn't help being amazed.

This little thing can actually measure the temperature?

In the past, when they measured the temperature, there were only two types: hot and not hot!

There is no equipment that can be so accurate!

"My dear brother, this is a good thing! Your baby is so long!"

"Nonsense! I wasted a few days for it, and I don't know how many times it was scrapped! And the mercury is poisonous... I did it at the risk!"

Xia Houzhe rolled his eyes and continued to light the fire.

He made a large thermometer, and also made a few small ones, and handed it over to two students of Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing as thermometers!

At this point... there is another strong stroke in the historical records?

My Dahuaxia thermometer came out, [-] years ahead of the West!

The technology of the big eastern country is not comparable to that of the small western country!

When the temperature reached a little over 100, a small stream of clear liquid began to flow out of the horn tube.

Seeing this, Cao Cao shouted with joy!

"Here it comes! My dear brother, your baby is out of the water!"

Xia Houzhe sneered for a while:

"What a fuss! This is called gasoline, not water! Petroleum has the lowest boiling point, and it is very easy to evaporate and burn! It will burn as soon as it is touched by fire."

"Using this thing in war is many times better than the kerosene you bought! Wait a little longer and I will try the effect for you."

"When you save it in the future, remember to seal it well, otherwise you will find that it has disappeared by itself in a few days!"

"Also, you must stay away from fire sources, it's very dangerous! If you stock up a lot, one mistake will cause a huge fire!"

Gasoline fire is not a good thing, and water can't put out that kind of oily fire. After all, there are no firefighters and fire extinguishers these days, so we can only watch it burn.

Therefore, these important things must be clearly explained.

At any rate, he also took [-]% of the shares in the oil field, so he must do a good job!Be worthy of the shares you take!

Seeing Xiahou Zhe's serious eyes, Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun nodded with solemn expressions.

"Yuan Rang, set up a stronghold to guard here in the future! It is strictly forbidden to light fire, and let me control it! Anyone who is disobedient will be slaughtered!"

Xiahou Dun cupped his hands in response: "Yes! My lord!"

While they were chatting, Xia Houzhe had cooled down the fire a lot, and the temperature kept hovering between 70-130.

There is no precise instrument to control the fire, and firewood must be artificially added, which is troublesome!

When the fire is burning, the temperature is high again, and when the fire is not burning, the temperature is not enough!

After a while, there was a lot of gasoline in the wine jar.

Cao Cao stretched his head over to have a look, and a strong gasoline smell came into his nose, and he immediately showed a look of enjoyment!

"Wow! It smells so good! This smells better than fine wine! Can I drink this? I think this taste is very attractive!"

Xia Houzhe sneered again and again.

"Of course! If you drink it, I will definitely spend a lot of money to hire a Taoist priest to see a treasured place of Fengshui! Let you live comfortably even if you burp."

"Besides... those sister-in-laws, you can rest assured that I will take care of you! It's not a big problem!"

Hearing this, Cao Cao smiled awkwardly, and poured back the gasoline he was holding in his hand.

The cold hand was still under the nose and kept sniffing.

Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Xiahou Dun also came over curiously to smell it, and immediately frowned.

"My lord! When did you learn this habit from Cao Zihe? It stinks to death, but you actually think it smells good?"

"That's right! This gasoline lamp is quite bright, but it smells very bad!"

Looking at the disdainful eyes of the two, Cao Cao was not happy, and opened his mouth to refute.

"It's really fragrant! You have a problem with your nose! If you don't believe me, let my brother judge! Brother, do you think gasoline smells or stinks?"

Hearing this question, Xia Houzhe burst out laughing.

"I don't know either. Some people think gasoline smells bad, while others like the smell and think it's very fragrant!"

"Just like eating sweet and salty rice dumplings, there is a huge controversy! I prefer the smell of burning gasoline!"

Thinking back to his previous life for a while, he often chased after the car exhaust and smelled it, which scared many drivers to dodge wildly, thinking that he was from Pengci...

So much so that there was a rumor of a Porcelain Maniac in the later part of the road!

After the three chatted for a while, gasoline stopped flowing from the horn pipe.

Xia Houzhe knew that the gasoline contained in these barrels of oil had been refined.

"Come on! Come here, I'll show you how good gasoline is!"

After Xia Houzhe poured a cup of gasoline, he quickly put the lid on the oil jar to prevent it from volatilizing.

Immediately afterwards, he poured the glass of clear gasoline on the ground, and took out a small burning stick from the boiler.

"Don't get too close, be careful of burning eyebrows!"

Xia Houzhe confessed with a smile, everyone nodded and took two steps back, looking at the pool of oil on the ground with interest.

They feel...that space seems to be distorted!

"My dear brother, why do I see something floating there?"

"Huh? It's gasoline evaporating, and it will dry up in no time!"

As he spoke, he threw the little fire stick in his hand towards the gasoline.

boom!

A sound startled Cao Cao and the others!

Under their watchful eyes, the cup of gasoline blazed into flames.

Cao Cao was shocked!

"Damn it! Is this thing so flammable? I remember it took a while to light it!"

Guo Jia also touched his chin in surprise.

"Hiss... this... this oil is really good! If you use a catapult to throw an oil jar into the city wall, then wrap it in a cloth with arrows, dip it in gasoline and ignite it... do you think it will work?"

"After the oil jar fell to the ground and shattered, it was ignited by a rocket... Tsk tsk! I can't imagine the picture!"

Hearing this, Xun Yu immediately gave a thumbs up, with excitement in his eyes!