Chapter 180 The God of War arrives quietly
"Your mission is to help the world break the limitations of the past, understand the world better, and help the world climb out of the swamp of superstition."
"We are walking on the long road to the Kingdom of Heaven. Only by understanding the framework of the world system can our Father create a true Kingdom of Heaven with our hands."
After speaking, Garris continued his lecture.
Except for some of the lessons he taught, it was a direct infusion of knowledge.
Most of them guide these students on how to understand the world and encourage these students to explore all things with the spirit of seeking knowledge and empirical evidence.
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Of course, Garris doesn't just teach students.
The Dead Sea has unique natural conditions. As the largest saltwater lake on earth, it can not only produce a large amount of salt.
In fact, there is still a certain amount of saltpeter mines. The overall reserves are not large, but at least they can be found on the surface.
The extremely arid climate of the Dead Sea region promotes evaporation and sedimentation, and the organic-rich environment promotes humification to produce potassium nitrate. The geological structure and characteristics of the rift zone have exposed underground potassium nitrate minerals to the surface.
It can be said that the reason why Garris unscrupulously used saltpeter to make ice and sold it to passing Arab merchants was that he was really arrogant.
After all, why not make good use of this gift of nature?
The process of purifying saltpeter is not difficult either.
The method of purifying saltpeter is to boil the crude saltpeter into liquid and then cool it. Afterwards, the pure nitrate will crystallize on the surface, and the residue will precipitate at the bottom. Finally, the pure nitrate crystallized in the middle layer will be used as raw material.
What's more, making ice with saltpeter itself does not consume saltpeter, it is just a use in the process of storing saltpeter.
It's just that in the past year, Garris was more busy with the system construction of the territory and setting up the framework of Arnon County, so he lacked the energy to deepen the technical aspects.
We can only let some people mine saltpeter, purify the saltpeter, and then simply use it.
But things are different now. After controlling the core area of Transjordan, Gairis can finally spare a considerable amount of manpower to dig out the gifts of nature along the Dead Sea.
Of course, compared to the small amount of saltpeter, that is, potassium nitrate (KNO3), the most outrageous thing in the Dead Sea is the massive amount of naturally occurring chloride.
Whether it is magnesium chloride, sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride... they are all famous for their reserves starting from billions of tons.
Among them, potassium chloride (KCl) and potassium nitrate (KNO3) are commonly used fertilizers in agriculture.
In fact, if the treasure house of the Dead Sea can be mined well, Gehrys can obtain large amounts of potassium chloride and potassium nitrate simply through crude purification methods.
This is coupled with the presence of phosphate deposits in the nearby desert.
Transjordan is truly a place rich in minerals, including nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
Except for a small amount of crystallized ore, other minerals are more troublesome to mine and more difficult to purify in large quantities.
Because of the insufficient population and lack of energy in the early stage. So far, Gallis's saltpeter reserves only amount to a few tons.
If these several tons are used in agriculture, since saltpeter is rich in nitrogen and potassium, it can actually be used directly as chemical fertilizer.
In addition to creating a "small" agricultural myth on more than ten hectares of land, the greater use is actually the cultivation of improved seeds, which indirectly increases the agricultural output of the Transjordan region.
But if it is used for gunpowder production...
Garris had actually asked the blacksmiths in Malwan to produce early artillery.
In the blacksmith shop, Marwan showed Garris the finished product he had provided. This is something that looks like a vase.
The length is only about 60 centimeters, the thickness of the wall tube is about 2 centimeters, and the diameter of the hole in the middle is about 4 centimeters.
There was actually no technical difficulty in early artillery, and any skilled blacksmith could make it.
After all, the "artillery" now in front of Garris didn't even use the casting process.
This is a wrought iron cannon, and its manufacturing process is quite simple.
The wrought iron cannon consists of two structures, and the overall manufacturing process of the wrought iron cannon is like making a wooden barrel.
In fact, the English barrel is called "barrel", which means barrel.
The first step is to forge some thick iron bars of similar shape. Then during forging, a bellows is used to heat the blast furnace, the iron bars are heated until red, and then the iron bars are beaten on a wooden shaft
The next step is to place the heated iron hoop on the iron bar and tighten it. When the temperature drops, the thermal expansion and contraction iron bars will be tightly held by the iron hoops.
The next step is to heat the iron bars again, soften the iron bars, and forge the iron bars together, while sealing one end.
During this process, the wood core in the middle will gradually carbonize due to high temperature, and then be removed from the muzzle.
The final step was to seal the gaps between the iron bars with molten lead and polish the inside of the barrel.
In fact, there is no technical difficulty in this process. Garris had tried it himself in his previous life.
By the way, the production principle of the Urban cannon that bombarded Constantinople in 1453 was roughly the same.
"Prophet, are you sure this thing won't explode?" Marwan was a little worried.
A few days ago, Garris had shown him the power of gunpowder.
At that time, Garris took a 75:10:15 formula of black powder, wrapped it tightly in sheepskin, made a small explosive bag, and demonstrated its explosive effect to key people such as John, Simon, and Marwan.
There's nothing to hide. If Marwan doesn't know how the thing he built will be used, it might mean some accidents that shouldn't happen.
If John, Simon and others did not understand the use of black powder, how could they protect themselves after Gehrys left Transjordan?
Although the current strength of the religious order can mobilize two to three thousand people, this number is still too scarce compared with Saladin's legion.
It can be said that only artillery, only gunpowder, and only faith can better maintain the existence of the religious order.
Steel! gunpowder! Belief!
It is the foundation of the Second Kingdom and the Order!
After realizing the explosive effect of black powder in a dense space, Marwan could actually easily understand Garris's description of firing cannonballs.
But just because he could understand it, Marwan was actually very afraid of this thing, so he didn't push the shell out and instead exploded on the spot.
Listening to Marwan's words, Gairis easily picked up the cannon barrel with one hand, showing Marwan, the Muslim blacksmith, the strength of the prophet.
To be honest, a gun barrel with a diameter of 15 times should not be so easy to explode, but it is hard to say. Even Garris can only answer: "You have to try it to know."
Therefore, while Saladin was besieging Jerusalem, Gehrys was also trying something new.
This is the additional update for the monthly pass of 700, which is still short of the additional update for the monthly pass of 800, 900, and 1,000.
(End of chapter)