Originally, after returning to Chengdu to the Fifty-first Pavilion, Deng Ming wanted to tinker with the steam engine. Although he didn't know how the steam engine should be manufactured, Deng Ming knew that steam could drive machinery, just as he knew that cutting magnetic lines could generate current, Deng Ming knew that thermal work could be converted.

However, after a long time of struggle, Deng Ming found that the steam engine was far more troublesome than the generator. After thinking hard, he finally found a very simple way to use steam, which is to heat water to push a cylinder into the air, and wait for the temperature to lower it to make the work due to gravity. However, Deng Ming found that it was difficult to achieve this idea. The sealing, pressure resistance, and transmission of the cylinders through machinery and the utilization of kinetic energy along the way are technical difficulties one after another. If many technical problems are not solved, the equipment will be inefficient, and there is no way to create an acceptable steam engine without decades.

On the contrary, the technology requirements for power generation and power utilization are much lower. The biggest problem is theoretical. Although the transmission of mechanical energy is complex, it does not require high theory, and each step is visible to the naked eye, so it is easy to understand; however, electricity cannot be seen with the naked eye. When seeing two stationary metal wires, people who do not know electricity cannot understand why they can carry the power to drive the machinery through. After receiving the concept of current and magnetic lines, the people in the 51st Pavilion actually reasoned out the DC and AC electricity themselves, and created experimental products to verify the theory.

In the name of gods and Buddhas, Deng Ming and two other people signed the same agreement as Chen Siyuan, turning all the electrical and chemistry he could recall into theoretical manuals of junior high school. Around the New Year, Chen Siyuan, the great electrical wizard of Wuyi Pavilion, publicly proposed the "primordial qi theory", assuming that the vital energy in this world is certain and cannot be created or destroyed (here is Deng Ming borrowing the concept of energy), and vital energy can exist in different forms such as electricity, movement, heat, light, etc. This hypothesis even extends to the just-starting alchemy of Wuyi Pavilion, believing that combustion is a process of converting vital energy from alchemy to hot vital energy, and after heating, it forms a new elixir component. As long as the vital energy is replenished - for example, the pill solution can be powered on, the previous elixir components can be restored, and after regaining the pill energy, it can burn and release heat again...

These theories made Zhou Kaihuang feel more difficult to understand than the legend of the vixen. However, Zhou Kaihuang was very excited about this, because for him, the young man, the people of the Fifty-One Pavilion said completely different from what he had known in the past. What surprised Zhou Kaihuang the most was that he saw that Deng Ming seemed to be able to understand what these alchemists and great wizards were saying, and often had fierce discussions with them, but Zhou Kaihuang could not speak at all at this time.

After Zhou Kaihuang took the concept of vital energy into his heart, he found that these crazy mages and sorcerers wanted to set the unit of measurement for this illusory thing: one of the claims is to set the electrical vital energy that can electrolyze a qi of copper as the standard unit of vital energy. When Zhou Kaihuang saw that copper was produced from liquid and connecting metal wires could make a machine start to rotate, Zhou Kaihuang believed that this was a real spell rather than a scam. He really wanted to understand these strange principles and methods of use - if he could master it, wouldn't it be better to make some gold and silver for himself from the water?

Now the 51 Pavilion is rationed to an army of 10,000 people, which means that even if it is not included in other construction investment, the daily maintenance fee alone exceeds the expenses of the standing army in the entire western Sichuan region. Moreover, the news of the 51 Pavilion has also spread, and many merchants are talking about this mysterious area. After the last immigrant arrived, the government conducted strict screening activities for all the craftsmen, among which the craftsmen with the best skills and the safest and reliable were taken away directly, and together with their families, they were sent to the 51 Pavilion; and as long as they were glass workers, they were taken away without leaving anyone to hire by the merchant bank.

While the people of the Faben Alchemy Research Association were having lunch, several sorcerers and Deng Ming, from the Faben Alchemy Furnace (laboratory) and Zhou Kaihuang sat on the same table to eat. Zhou Kaihuang noticed that Deng Ming was very casually discussing the issue of alchemy with these sorcerers while eating. Zhou Kaihuang thought it was easy to understand this. Who doesn’t want to see through the secrets of immortality? He just wants to learn some knowledge and go there, so he can refine some gold in private?

In Deng Ming's impression, alternating current was widely used in his previous life, but for some reason, the Fifty-One Pavilion is extremely favored by DC. The electrical department discusses all day long how to control the speed and keep the current stable. They have begun to realize that current can also be quantified, but it is just as troublesome as how to formulate a unit of measurement for the vital energy.

At the Alchemy Research Association, warlocks are becoming more and more interested in electricity. As they understand this invisible thing in depth, every wizard and warlock in the fifty-one pavilion have the same feeling, that is, they are piercing the layer of paper on the windows of gods and Buddhas, and seeing the hidden world that humans cannot see with their naked eyes - touching the great power that drives the operation of the vast world. Therefore, these young alchemy warlocks read those theoretical hypotheses eagerly, and boldly put forward their own hypotheses when they cannot be satisfied.

"The copper electricity is used to prove Master Chen's hypothesis. There is also electric current passing through the water, and after the metal element burns out hot energy, it brings yang electricity..." When the alchemist sitting opposite Deng Ming said that when he was rising, he simply put down the bowls and chopsticks to draw the drawings: "The copper wire made of copper produced by electric copper becomes much slower when it is over-electric. Master Chen said that this hot energy is also transferred from electric energy; the copper produced by electric energy is purer than the copper dug out of the mine, so I have a hypothesis, that is, the copper wire is like a riverbed. The purer the copper inside, the smoother the riverbed. When the copper wire is completely pure copper, the electric energy will not heat up when it flows by. All electric energy may become dynamic energy, or use it to power copper..."

The warlock next to him heard it, and some people agreed and objected, and soon became arguing. Deng Ming also joined in and asked the warlocks if the smoothness of the riverbed of this kind can be measured. Then some people said that it can be measured and some people said that it cannot be. Those who say it can even suggest that a pot of water can be placed on the copper wire to calculate the boiling time to measure the smoothness of the riverbed of the electric energy.

When Zhou Kaihuang heard about the copper smelting, he pricked up his ears, but he did not hear that he was interested. What he wanted to know most was that everyone's discussion was only at the stage of copper smelting, and did not further discuss how to refine gold.

Seeing that the topic was getting farther and farther away, Zhou Kaihuang was very disappointed. Later, he realized that alchemy and silver should be the biggest secret of the Fifty-one Pavilion. The capital probably had to rely on this secret to prepare military expenditure. If it weren't for this purpose, why would Deng Ming spend a lot of money to support this area? Now Zhou Kaihuang understands a little why Deng Ming stayed in this place and didn't return to Chengdu city.

But the following topic surprised Zhou Kaihuang again, that is, the alchemists present at Deng Mingwen, who thought that when would they promote the two courses of spell and alchemy in the academy?

"If everyone knows spells and can alchemy gold, then gold is not worth much?" Zhou Kaihuang was anxious, but he didn't say it. He felt that Deng Ming should have thought of this, and he was unwilling to question the superior's decision in public.

What Zhou Kaihuang unexpectedly thought was that everyone present thought that in the latest half a year, they could write textbooks for spells and alchemy and spread them through the education system in western Sichuan. Most people only came into contact with the knowledge of spells and alchemy after they arrived in District 51, but after seeing the experiments being repeated again and again, everyone firmly believed in the correctness of hypothesis theory.

In addition to spells and alchemy, many people think that more glass craftsmanship is needed. Now many units in Zone 51 need glass products, especially each alchemy furnace has the largest demand. In addition to glass, Zone 51 also consumes a lot of alcohol. Deng Ming doesn’t know why he used alcohol stoves when he used the chemistry experiment in junior high school, but he thinks that it’s not wrong to draw a cat, so the experimental heating device recommended to each alchemy furnace is also an alcohol stove.

In addition to theory, many people also clamor for adding courses for glass manufacturing, metal processing, paintwork and woodworking in the academy. In addition to these traditional processes, the newly emerging pulley and gear manufacturing in District 51 should also be included in the education system in western Sichuan. As for caustic soda and acid manufacturing that are being studied, as long as the patented method can ensure that alchemy practices do not suffer losses, it seems that it will also help improve the process if it is passed on.

Zhou Kaihuang still did not agree, but he felt that putting magic and alchemy into the academy would probably be blown up. Gong Yan and Meng Zhengfa, who were like enemies, might all join forces to oppose it. However, Deng Ming did not seem to realize this. He told the sorcerers that theory was easy to deal with and could be taught to students over ten years old and had been enlightened, but various processing techniques should not be put together with theoretical learning. It is better for adults to educate these techniques. However, Deng Ming said that the existing teachers in the academy were not competent for this kind of work. At that time, he might need the wizards and sorcerers of the 51 Pavilion to write textbooks and explain their hypotheses to the students themselves.

By this time, Zhou Kaihuang finally understood that Deng Ming and these sorcerers were just going to train apprentices to refine alchemy. At most, they could teach them how to refine copper, or let them create larger and better alchemy furnaces. The core secrets of alchemy and silver were of course in the hands of a few sorcerers.

After taking Zhou Kaihuang to revolve around District 51, Deng Ming also gave Zhou Kaihuang a small wine pot. Zhou Kaihuang weighed it and felt that the wine pot was very light, but very strong, better than any iron product he had ever seen.

"This thing will not rust." Deng Ming had decided to return to Chengdu city with Zhou Kaihuang. He did not take the factional quarrels in the academy seriously, but another remark that Zhou Kaihuang did not take it seriously made Deng Ming feel a little worried and needed to deal with it. This small kettle represents the current highest technological level in District 51, so he gave it to Zhou Kaihuang as a souvenir.

"So good?" Zhou Kaihuang fiddled with it: "Is this aphrodisiac?"

"This is called aluminum. Everything is good. It can even be used to make powerful attack weapons, but unfortunately it is too expensive."—
Chapter completed!