"A substitute for tinea oil? It's interesting." Bai Zhou said.

Could it be that Wei Fu and the others found oil, Bai Zhou guessed like this. Of course, if this is true, it would be exciting enough and enough for Wei Fu to come in person to escort this trip.

Although oil cannot be called a national bloodline this year, this resource is not enough to trigger a war. In the era when internal combustion engines were invented, oil mainly refers to its refined substances, which can only be regarded as a good commodity or a relatively ordinary strategic resource.

If Xiqin had enough oil now, it would undoubtedly cause great damage to the Burgundians on the defensive end. Some tactical plans also gave Bai Zhou more choices.

However, what surprised Bai Zhou was that among the knowledge he knew, Switzerland and its surrounding countries did not have any famous oil production bases, and now the commercial activities in Xiqin have not been carried out. Where did Weifu get oil?

Of course, then again, all the famous oil production bases in later generations were super-large oil fields, and even if given to Xiqin, it would be of little use. On the contrary, it is a small oil field that is easy to exploit. In later generations, it must be a small oil field that no one knows except the locals, but for Xiqin today, it is just right.

It is not surprising that Bai Zhou could recognize the value of oil at all. After all, the Middle-earth people were the Middle-earth people who drilled oil. The earliest oil wells appeared in the fourth century or earlier. The Middle-earth people used drilling drills with drilling drills with a depth of about one thousand meters. They burned oil to evaporate salt and steak to make salt. In the tenth century, they used pipes made of bamboo poles to connect oil wells and salt wells.

The stone slab records in ancient Persia seem to show that the Persian upper class used oil as medicine and lighting. The first person to propose the term "petroleum" was "Taiping Guangji" compiled by the Northern Song Dynasty in 977 AD. The official name was named oil based on the name "born in the sand and gravel between water, mixed with spring water, and came out in a daze" in his book "Mengxi Bitan". Before the emergence of the term oil, oil was called "devil's sweat beads", "luminescent water", etc., and the middle earth was called "stone fat water", "hard oil", "stone paint", etc.

"Where? Sir, don't keep it a secret, take it out quickly." Bai Zhou looked around and found that there seemed to be no objects to hold liquid around him. Could it be that Mr. Wei even stormed the oil?

"Young Master, don't be anxious. I'll take out the sample now." Wei Fu said, then reached out and took it into his arms.

Wei Fu's action surprised Bai Zhou a lot because it was obvious that liquids would not be put into his arms. In other words, the oil that Bai Zhou guessed was just a thought. But the question is, what kind of object would become a substitute for tincture oil?

Suddenly, Bai Zhou thought of something, and seemed to have forgotten something very important.

What Weifu took out was a piece of cloth bag that was square one foot wide, stretching out, containing some black powdery things.

Sure enough, it's gunpowder!

Wei Fu is right. When defending on the city wall, this thing can indeed replace tincture oil to a certain extent. In terms of the power of gunpowder, it is much more powerful than the same amount of tincture oil.

At first, Bai Zhou never expected that Wei Fu would bring such a thing to Xi Qin, which was a bit beyond his expectations.

This is not Bai Zhou's omission, forgetting such a "good and low-priced" killer weapon. It may be that due to the major background, Bai Zhou always thought that he was "simple" living in the era of cold weapons, and should have nothing to do with gunpowder, guns, and other hot weapons. Moreover, because now on the Europa continent, muskets, artillery and other things have not been invented, and it seems that even gunpowder has not been introduced, Bai Zhou has never considered this aspect.

Furthermore, Bai Zhou, who often plays games, knows that even if these thermal weapons were invented, the role they could play in the early stages was actually not much stronger than bows and arrows or catapults, so Bai Zhou did not have much effort.

Now that I think about it, even if Bai Zhou is determined, he is indeed powerless. After all, Bai Zhou's chemistry is extremely different. Apart from knowing the ratio of black gunpowder, there is little to know. Of course, there are also picoacids, smokeless gunpowder and so on that are famous in modern history. But the key is that Bai Zhou only knows one name. As for their specific methods, it is natural to have a dark look.

Now, the gunpowder weapons in Middle Earth have appeared since the Tang Dynasty, and the Song and Ming dynasties have been constantly developing. It may be because of the problems of gunpowder itself and the shortcomings in mechanical technology that thermal weapons have actually been a very embarrassing existence in Middle Earth, as if they are the cold dishes on New Year's Eve. If they have it or not, the country that should be destroyed is still a dead country.

But Bai Zhou knew that thermal weapons must be the trend of the development of the times. Although it seems that Xi Qin could not count on him now, or that no one could use it as a force to decide the outcome within a hundred years, first, it is necessary to develop thermal weapons. For example, it may not be used by Bai Zhou at present, but as long as the Western Qin tribe wants to live safely on the Europa Continent, absolute force guarantee is essential, and in the future, guns and cannons are guarantees; second, even if it is muskets and cannons have not been made, they are definitely the only killing weapon in this era when used. Although Bai Zhou is not very clear about the specific usage, he knows that a closed container must be used to hold gunpowder to achieve the effect of blasting. Like Wei Fu now, he is purely a sample. In real actual combat, he will definitely not use ordinary cloth to wrap it. After all, ** bags are not like this.

As far as Bai Zhou knows, the Europa locals definitely do not have a thermal weapon force or a concept of gunpowder (after all, if Bai Zhou saw someone using firearms in the local army, then Bai Zhou's first reaction was whether they had more advanced weapons in Western Qin. After all, Western Qin represents Middle-earth and is also the ancestor of gunpowder. Although in later generations, Middle-earth weapons were quite different from the West, in this era, the most advanced technology was still in the hands of Middle-earth people). In other words, gunpowder seems to have not been introduced to the local area yet.

In fact, as early as the eighth and nineth centuries, together with the knowledge of medicine and alchemy, salt was also introduced from China to Arabia. At that time, the Arabs called it "Chinese Snow", while the Persians called it "Chinese Salt". They only knew how to use salt to cure diseases, metallurgy and make glass. In the 13th century, gunpowder was introduced to Arab countries by merchants through India, and the Greeks only learned about gunpowder by translating Arab books. Gunpowder weapons were transmitted to Arab countries through war.

As for whether the Arabs have gunpowder weapons, Bai Zhou, and they don’t need to care. The local countries of Europa must have not obtained this technology, or even if they have obtained this technology, they have not had time to convert it into combat power.

So, from this point of view, gunpowder was a great gift for the Burgundians by Western Qin. Let others know that some people in this world cannot provoke them.

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ps: I wish you a happy holiday tomorrow. Also: In fact, a famous tactic of Joan of Arc is the use of artillery in concentrated use. That is to say, in official history, generals of Joan of Arc's era knew artillery. But in the setting of this article, gunpowder has just been introduced to Europe.


Chapter completed!