Lu Zhaolin is Li Kuan's direct disciple.

This is an important reason why the relationship between the Lu family of Fanyang and the Chu Prince's Mansion can be eased.

In the view of the Lu family in Fanyang, having a Lu Zhaolin, a Lu family member who became Li Kuan's disciple, meant that Li Kuan was sending a signal of reconciliation and win over to the Lu family.

Although everyone had a lot of competition in business before, the Lu family gained more benefits from various industries created by the Chu Prince Mansion, so in fact, the two families did not reach the level of life and death.

However, what made Li Kuan a little depressed was that after Lu Zhaolin joined his disciple, he did not have any special interest in poetry or other things. Instead, he was full of curiosity about chemistry, physics, and mathematics.

A literary master who has been famous throughout the ages was stolen by himself?

Whenever Li Kuan sees Lu Zhaolin, he feels this way.

However, the Tang Dynasty did not lack literary masters, but all kinds of scientists were lacking.

Especially the kind of scientists who can fight alone and can open up a world alone without Li Kuan’s guidance.

Although after more than ten years of training by Guanshishan Academy, the scientific and technological talents of the Tang Dynasty have reached an unprecedented number.

But compared with later generations, it is still not enough to see.

So Li Kuan was happy to see Lu Zhaolin's success if he liked science and had talent in this area.

He even built a chemistry laboratory specifically for Lu Zhaolin.

"Master, this is something I extracted from brass. This is a silver-white, slightly light blue metal with a density very similar to iron. At room temperature, the performance is relatively brittle and there is no way to compare with iron.

But when the heating reached more than 100 degrees, it began to soften again; after it exceeded 200 degrees, it became dry again, and the performance was a bit special. It seems very close to what you said about zinc."

After spending a month of worrying about eating and sleeping in the laboratory, Lu Zhaolin asked Li Kuan to identify his experimental results.

"In addition to refining this kind of thing in brass, have you also processed and refined this metal in other minerals?"

Li Kuan recalled the characteristics of zinc in his mind, which was quite similar to what Lu Zhaolin said.

The most important thing is that brass is actually zinc-copper alloy.

If this metal is extracted from brass, it can basically be confirmed that it is zinc.

Although zinc has appeared in people's daily lives for a long time, the discovery of zinc is much slower than gold, silver, copper and lead.

So far, except for Li Kuan's proposed the word zinc, there has never been such a thing in the dictionary of the Tang Dynasty.

"I also went through some smelting and processing from the lead ore and finally extracted something similar."

Lu Zhaolin looked at Li Kuan with great anticipation.

"You have a good confirmation of melting point, boiling point, density, appearance, performance, and these things, and then form a paper published in the journal Science.

In addition, the School of Chemical Technology can set up a special workshop for processing and smelting zinc to industrialize zinc production as soon as possible.”

Li Kuan's words basically affirmed Lu Zhaolin's discovery.

This made the other party extremely excited.

"Master, I have prepared the industrial production plan in advance. In fact, although the processing conditions in the laboratory are different, the ideas are the same.

Combined with the current technology of various workshops, the related processing equipment will be in place soon.

As for zinc ores, some lead ores can be found outside Chang'an City. Judging from the experimental situation, these lead ores themselves are zinc ores. In the future, I will study and study how to identify various zinc ores with Yao Mosan in the future."

After all, Lu Zhaolin is Li Kuan's disciple and knows Li Kuan's style of doing things very well.

So when Qin Li Kuan came over to firmly discover zinc, he had already completed the preparations for industrialization.

With just one order, in ten days and a half months, large-scale zinc ingots will appear in front of the world.

At that time, the articles in Science magazine will probably be spread all over the various academies, and they will use pieces of zinc ingots to block everyone's questions.

"Well, during this period, the sales of tin plated iron plates have been very considerable, and the demand for tin ingots is very high. Some craftsmen once proposed to use tin plated iron plates to make water pipes, but the experimental results do not seem to be very good.

You can continue to study and see how rust-proofing effect of galvanized steel pipes is.

As long as the effect is good, the cost of steel pipes will definitely be much lower than that of copper pipes. The discovery of zinc metal has practical significance.”

Zinc is a very important metal.

If no use is found after discovery, it will greatly reduce the significance of Lu Zhaolin's discovery.

Nowadays, the houses in the workshop city have bathrooms built.

The water pipes used inside are all copper pipes, which are very costly.

Although only a small part of the bathroom is used, there are a lot of houses that cannot be built, resulting in a very strong demand for copper pipes.

If the Tang Dynasty had not discovered several copper mines from Zhenbeidao and other places in recent years, and huge copper mines were found in overseas Australia and South America, it would have been estimated that the copper price of the Tang Dynasty would have risen by several percent due to the use of copper water pipes.

It is even not surprising that the court would directly prohibit the use of copper to make water pipes.

"There are many iron smelting workshops everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, although no technology can match the iron smelting workshops in our Chu King's Mansion.

But overall, the progress of the iron smelting technology in the Tang Dynasty was very obvious. The iron smelting workshops in these states could also live a relatively comfortable local life, which can also alleviate the rise in steel prices.

According to the current situation, the price of a pound of copper is about ten times the price of a pound of ordinary steel. If you can really use steel pipes to replace the copper pipe, even if you use the more expensive zinc, the cost will definitely be much cheaper than that of copper pipes."

After staying with Li Kuan for a long time, Lu Zhaolin also has some business acumen.

Just calculate it casually and you will know that the cost of galvanized steel pipes is definitely much lower than that of copper pipes.

Although the effects may vary, the future of galvanized steel pipes is absolutely unlimited in the face of price advantages.

"You are right, so the discovery of zinc should be commercialized as soon as possible, so that more workshops can start using zinc to make some things.

Only discoveries with commercial value can be promoted as quickly as possible, otherwise they will only sink into the dust of history."

With the emergence of steam engines, Datang has stepped into the threshold of industrialization with one foot.

Next, Li Kuan is ready to promote the development of various industries such as chemistry, mining, and machinery.

In time, the Tang Dynasty will undergo earth-shaking changes.

"Master, don't worry, the disciple has recruited a group of students to study various applications of zinc. In addition to the galvanized steel plate you mentioned, other applications are also under consideration."

Lu Zhaolin is full of energy now.

Be famous as soon as possible.

He is fourteen now, and it's time.

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