Song Yang originally didn't plan to tell Tong Qian and Shen Xiaowan.
However, the people in the camp were so talkative, how could such a heroic deed be hidden from them?
That night, Song Yang was severely criticized by two girls.
"Yeah!"
"Okay, okay!"
"Yes Yes Yes!"
Song Yang could only deal with it this way.
In the end, in order to make up for the mistake, I played a few rounds of poker with the girls before settling the matter.
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Early the next morning, Song Yang heard some noise outside early in the morning.
When I came out, I saw Wei Bin kneeling at the door.
The guards asked him to go back first, saying that Song Yang hadn't gotten up yet.
As a result, Wei Bin refused and had to kneel at the door.
"How are you? Are you still feeling any discomfort?" Song Yang asked with a smile on his face.
This is the result of his heroic efforts to save people.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I'm here to thank you for saving my life. I have no problem with you anymore."
Wei Bin buttoned his head three times and then raised his chest to show that he was fine.
After a night's rest, Wei Bin's body basically recovered.
Originally, he had no injuries. He was suffering from lack of oxygen.
After breathing for a whole night, I was almost healed.
"Haha. Get up quickly. As long as it's okay, it's okay. It's worth my efforts." Song Yang patted Wei Bin on the shoulder.
Wei Bin knelt there and was so excited that he couldn't speak for a long time. Finally, he kowtowed and said:
"Your Majesty saved Biaoxia's life, and they are Biaoxia's reborn parents! Biaoxiao was born as the prince's person, and dies as the prince's ghost!"
Song Yang's mouth twitched, why do I want you to be a ghost?
It’s almost noon now that I’ve packed up.
Song Yang was very tired from rescuing people yesterday. In addition, he played poker very late at night, so he got up late today.
It was also Song Yang who heard Wei Bin say that oil had been found yesterday, so he was not in a hurry to dig holes today.
"My lord, the fire is fierce...the oil is right over there."
Wei Bin took Song Yang and his group to the swamp, pointed into the swamp and said.
That place is where he got stuck yesterday, just a little bit further ahead.
"Did you come into contact with violent... oil yesterday?"
Yu Ming set up a pergola and looked for a long time without seeing any clues, so he looked at Wei Bin and asked.
The place looked like a big mess, with weeds and mud, and I couldn't tell why.
Yesterday Song Yang was in danger to save someone, but Yu Ming didn't dare to let Song Yang do it again no matter what he said.
So he decided to follow Song Yang wherever he went from now on.
Song Yang's eyes looked far away and he couldn't see where the oil was.
The swamp was so dark that nothing could be seen.
"Your Majesty, my lord, I didn't come into contact with the oil, but I saw it, almost ten steps away." Wei Bin cupped his fists and said.
"Ten steps! Are you sure it's oil?" Lai Mingxi was a little doubtful.
Wei Bin nodded heavily and said: "Your Majesty, you two adults, I can confirm that the mark is Menghuo Oil, which is the oil that Your Majesty is looking for."
"I used strong fire oil when I was on duty at the northern border before, and I remember the smell very deeply," Wei Bin explained.
Wei Bin was born in the Jiangbei Guards and fled to Jiangzhou.
Because I had some foundation, I directly became the scout horse with the best salary and the highest requirements, and I was also the general flag.
Song Yang nodded and said, "Okay. Since you are sure that it is oil, let's go and have a look. Lao Yu, please let someone lay the planks."
"Okay. I'll make arrangements right away." Yu Ming nodded.
Yesterday's branches and leaves had long since dispersed over the night.
The swamp will flood at night.
I had some preparations today, and I brought some boards with me before.
Yu Ming ordered to go down, and soon the guards came over with a pile of wooden boards.
First lay some branches on the meadow with wooden planks, then put up the wooden planks, and then you can leave.
And it's much more stable than yesterday.
Soon we reached the place where Wei Bin was stuck yesterday.
There are still boards left.
Continuing forward, before taking a few steps, the guard in front shouted: "Your Majesty! General Yu! It's fierce fire oil! It's fierce fire oil!"
There is more than one person who has seen oil. This time, the leader of the planking team assigned by Yu Ming is from the Jiangning Guards, and has now been reorganized into the Fuxing Army.
This man had also seen fierce fire oil in Jiangnan Camp back then.
"Let's go! Go and have a look!"
Song Yang said and was about to move forward.
"No! Your Majesty! It's dangerous ahead!"
Yu Ming hurriedly grabbed Song Yang's sleeve and shouted hurriedly.
What happened yesterday almost scared Yu Ming to death.
If he had been present at that time, nothing he could have said would have put Song Yang in danger.
"Don't worry. The planks have been laid here. Look, nothing happened to them. Aren't they still laying the planks forward?"
Song Yang curled his lips and said.
Yu Ming looked over there and saw that the road ahead was still paving in the direction of oil.
The leading guard would have no problem stepping on the wooden board.
"In that humble position, please stay with the prince. If there is any danger, you must retreat!" Yu Ming said resolutely.
"Okay. Let's go and have a look." Song Yang nodded.
Yu Ming was thinking about his safety, and of course he knew and appreciated it.
Song Yang and Yu Ming only took Liu Bao and Qi Yuan onto the wooden pontoon bridge.
Although it is paved with wooden planks, it will definitely sink if there are too many people on it.
So I didn’t dare to take too many people forward.
Liu Bao is a master carpenter, and he may be involved in building bridges and paving roads later, so he needs to take a look.
The same was true in the Qi Yuan Dynasty. Mechanical skills were required to build bridges, pave roads, and construct oil extraction machines.
After walking forward for a while, water began to accumulate on the wooden planks.
The guards in front were unable to lay planks forward.
The end of the plank has passed the place where Wei Bin was trapped yesterday, and is only five steps away from the oil location.
But these five steps were covered in mud and water, and there was no way anyone could stand on the wooden board.
When Song Yang and others came over, the guards could only retreat immediately. There were more people in an area and it was more dangerous.
Song Yang walked over and saw oil flowing on the swamp in front of him.
From a distance of more than ten meters, it looked like it was indeed oil.
Walking to the front, Song Yang also confirmed that he was five steps away.
It's the smell of petroleum.
And from such a close distance, you can see oil constantly pouring out of the swamp in front.
The location where the oil leaked was about 20 meters away from the wooden plank bridge, and the oil that emerged was flowing nearby along the swamp.
"Have you brought a container with water?" Song Yang looked back at Yu Ming and the others.
Yu Ming and Liu Bao both shook their heads, while Qi Yuan took off a bamboo tube from his waist.
It's a bamboo kettle filled with water.
Qi Yuan usually drinks a lot of water and always carries drinking water with him when he goes out.
When he came out, he was carrying a water bag, but he was pricked by a branch on the road.
On the way, I made a kettle out of bamboo, but I didn't expect to use it now.
As soon as Song Yang said something to hold water, Qi Yuan knew that Song Yang must want to take oil samples.
The boy gurgled and drained the water in the bamboo tube before handing the diabolo tube to Song Yang.
Song Yang took the bamboo tube to compare, tied it with a rope, and threw it as far as possible to the spring in front.
A liquid suspected to be petroleum was soon returned.
Song Yang tried it with his hands and then sniffed it.
The face was radiant and he said: "Yes! It's oil! Haha! I really found it!"
Song Yang was sure that this thing was oil.
Everyone was happy for a while.
Only Qi Yuan asked what the problem was.
"Your Majesty, how should this... oil be used? Burn it directly?"
Qi Yuan also pinched some oil, but found that it was a little sticky and the smell was not very good.
Without understanding how to use it, Qi Yuan thought it was a fuel that could be used directly in steam engines instead of coal.
"It's a waste if you use it directly. It needs to be refined to make diesel and gasoline." Song Yang shook his head.
"How to refine the two things you mentioned?" Qi Yuan asked again.
As Song Yang's apprentice, Qi Yuan was extremely eager to learn.
The spirit of asking if you don’t understand is very good.
"We need to build an oil refining furnace. When you say that, I really think it is necessary to build an oil refining furnace on the spot and give it a try." Song Yang touched his cheek and nodded.
He wanted to try to refine it on the spot, because some oil contained a lot of impurities.
Especially how much gasoline and diesel can be produced from this surface oil remains to be verified.
"Your Majesty, we don't have much materials to bring with us," Liu Bao said worriedly.
"Didn't you bring a few iron barrels out? Those are for oil refining." Song Yang laughed.
"Uh, isn't that one filled with water?" Yu Ming was stunned.
In fact, they were well prepared for this trip.
In order to prevent the possibility of actually finding oil, we conducted an on-site verification to see if we could extract gasoline, diesel and other substances.
Before Song Yang set out, he asked Wang Jinshi to fill him with several iron buckets.
These iron buckets were carried all the way, and Yu Ming didn't know what they were for.
He thought it was a water tank filled with drinking water, so after getting off the boat, he filled a few barrels of drinking water and pulled it on a horse-drawn carriage.
Not to mention, the drinking water problem during this period was solved by these iron buckets.
"It can all be used, it can be used. It's no problem to fill it with water." Song Yang waved his hand and smiled.
Back at the camp, Song Yang asked Yu Ming to carry over the four empty iron tubes.
Yesterday, Yu Ming was thinking about where to replenish the Sitong water, but today he used an empty bucket.
"Your Majesty, can this kind of barrel be used to refine oil?" Qi Yuan asked with some confusion.
The three writers circled around the iron barrel and found no mystery.
This thing looks like an ordinary iron bucket.
"That's it. It's very simple. Just throw the crude oil in and burn it."
"Petroleum is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons and non-hydrocarbons that vary in molecular size and chemical structure."
"This iron barrel is a barrel purified by distillation. Although it is simple, it can be used. The specific principle is that based on the differences in boiling points of its components, straight-run gasoline, kerosene, light and heavy diesel and various lubricating oil fractions are extracted from crude oil.
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While Song Yang checked whether there were any holes in the iron barrel, he also educated his apprentices, Yu Ming, Lai Mingxi and others on the matter.
Lai Mingxi had no idea what Song Yang was talking about.
He doesn't even know what a molecule is.
Both Yu Ming and Liu Bao attended night school, so they still knew some basic knowledge points.
San Mo Zhe's apprentice has also been taking up natural science classes recently, and his recent study progress has been good.
Although they only had a partial understanding of what Song Yang said, it was still much better than someone like Lai Mingxi who knew nothing about it.
"Come, let's do the experiment over there. Bring the iron bucket over." Song Yang pointed to an open space outside the camp and said hello.
The guards immediately walked out with the iron bucket.
There isn't much grass in this open space.
Originally, Yu Ming planned to camp here.
As a result, there were too many gravels here, so it was difficult to nail the tent, so we had to move it to the side.
Now it happens that Song Yang can refine oil here.