Making a match seems simple, but it is a craft job, but how to get this process out is not simple.

It took the West more than two hundred years from the fact that it really started to study matches to make them.

Yes, you read that right.

It is the small match that young people have hardly seen in cities today. It has been spent more than two hundred years in the West to study it.

For ordinary people, pushing open the matchbox, taking out a match, and gently stroke it on the match skin, the match will burn, and you can do many things as a fire.

But what is the red solidified object at the top of the match, why can the match skin ignite the match quickly, and why there is a burning smell of smoke at the moment the match is lit... These are the key points involved.

If you want to put it in detail, it contains many aspects of knowledge in chemistry, physics, etc.

Being able to make perfect matches reflects that the Western chemical industry has developed to a very high level.

At least in that era, we have beaten the ancient East.

So in the Duck Film War, Sino-Japanese War, etc., the ancient Eastern Kingdoms lost a lot. It seemed that the court was incompetent, the military was not good enough, and the source of troops was dispersed, but the real reason was the crushing of technology.

There has been a war of generational disagreements, and it is impossible to be unexpected.

Even if the Zhiyuan ship knocked over the flagship of the Joint Fleet, the Matsushima, that year, it would not change the end of the entire battle.

The topic is far from the bottom of the question.

The key principle of a match is the mixed combustion substances such as sulfur and potassium chlorate on the match head, as well as the red phosphorus applied on the match skin.

Once the two rub in the air, they will immediately get angry and burn.

Both sulfur and potassium chlorate are easier to obtain, but the slightly more difficult one is red phosphorus.

Red phosphorus needs to be obtained after purification and purification of white phosphorus, and the most important thing is to remove the toxicity of white phosphorus.

The early match skin was covered with white phosphorus, so once the match was lit, a yellow smoke was ignited, which was poisonous.

After it turns into red phosphorus, the smoke is similar to green smoke, without any harm.

This is also the main reason why dangerous white phosphorus must be repurified and evolved.

As for how to get white phosphorus, it is also very simple.

Anyone who studies chemistry will listen to a short story, that is, a German businessman fantasized about using strong heat to evaporate human urine to get gold. As a result, when he experimented with urine, sand and charcoal, he got something like white wax.

This is white phosphorus.

Liu Mingqi, who knows how harmful white phosphorus is, can only do this experiment by herself.

In addition, a lot of experimental equipment must be made to provide a larger vacuum environment so as to purify it into red phosphorus.

Of course, all this is not difficult.

After the preparation was done properly, Liu Mingqi spent three days to produce red phosphorus and produced more than 100 boxes of matches.

Luo Lie had already sent the second batch of tobacco leaves, which increased Liu Mingqi's cigarettes to 297 boxes.

Carrying matches and cigarettes, Liu Mingqi felt that she was the most beautiful boy on the street.

Unfortunately, his injuries have not completely healed these days. It is cold winter again and it is snowing every day, so he cannot go out to show off for the time being.

In boredom, the boy was waiting for a visitor.

The one who came was Gao Jing, the chief governor of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Liu Mingqi used to deal with him often and was quite familiar with him.

When I saw it today, I was shocked: "Governor Gao, what's wrong with you?"

Not only did Gao Jing's face look pale and ugly, and he looked a little depressed.

Gao Jing sat on the chair and asked without answering a question: "Your Highness, I'm here to ask you if there are any clues about the killer here."

"I didn't even see the figure, so where would there be clues?" Liu Mingqi smiled bitterly, "Has I told you about it in the palace before?"

Before leaving the palace and returning home to recuperate, the Xiuyiwei and the leaders of the police yamen all listened to the detailed description of Liu Mingqi and Dazhu.

But the fact is that they don’t even know where the enemy shoots arrows, how many of them come after them.

I only know how to escape all the way.

There is nothing we can do about this.

There are only three of them, and Liu Mingqi is the key protection target.

On the other hand, if there were only Dazhu and Fan Shan, they might be able to compete.

Gao Jing said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I am not asking about the details, but asking who do you think it is possible?"

Liu Mingqi shook her head and said, "Is there anyone in my enemy? If it weren't for Minghua?"

Gao Jing was amused and crying, "Your Highness, don't joke, I'm almost ill!"

Minghua is the second son of King Li, Duke Lu. The last time he reported that Liu Mingqi and others gathered to gamble was him.

But as long as anyone with a brain knows that Duke Lu cannot do such a thing.

Not to mention that it is not a deep hatred, even if it is a life-and-death enemy, Duke Lu can't become so many dead soldiers!

Liu Mingqi nodded and changed her head: "Or it was Lin Yao!"

"Lin Yao?"

Gao Jing felt it was a bit familiar.

"The eldest son of Lin Zhenyuan, the governor of the canal transportation, a few days before I was assassinated, this kid wanted to invest in my sugar deal, but I refused." Liu Mingqi said, "Governor Gao, I think he is taking revenge on me, you go and check it."

Gao Jing wanted to slap Liu Mingqi in the head: "Your Highness, do you think that for this, he will send dozens of dead soldiers to kill you? If you kill you, he will get a sugar deal?"

Liu Mingqi said: "How is it impossible? What if he is such a person? Let me tell you, he is particularly arrogant!"

Gao Jing was helpless.

It was a mistake to come over to find Prince Yu himself.

He is a straightforward person. Since it is useless to come, let's leave.

He drank all the tea leaves in the cup in one sip, stood up and said, "Since that's the case, the official will leave first. If you have anything to think of, you can send someone to the Embroidered Yiwei Yamen to say it at any time."

"Don't worry, Governor Gao."

Liu Mingqi pulled him, "How long has it been since you went to bed?"

Gao Jing was stunned for a moment and then said, "What are you asking about this?"

Liu Mingqi looked like an old charlatan, "Did you have been unable to sleep well during this period, anxious and have a headache when you think about things?"

"Well, it's almost the same!" Gao Jing did not hide it, "The main reason is that he has no achievements, and the lower official feels guilty."

"Then I have to recommend a good product to you to ensure that it can eliminate these symptoms of yours." Liu Mingqi said with a smile.

"You mean flower essential oil, right?" Gao Jing said, "To be honest, I can only sleep for an hour or two after I rely on it recently, but it is not of much use."

"No, no, flower essential oil cannot solve men's troubles when doing things." Liu Mingqi took out a pack of cigarette from her pocket and handed it to Gao Jing, "But it can!"

Gao Jing looked at the white paper box, "What is this?"

"Don't worry about it for now."

Liu Mingqi shook out a cigarette, handed it to Gao Jing, then took out a match, and lit the fire with a "swish" stroke, "Big Boss, please smoke!"

Gao Jing listened to this for no reason and watched him lit this paper stick for himself.

The paper stick did not ignite, but burned with sparks like incense.

A stream of blue smoke rose immediately.

To demonstrate, Liu Mingqi also lit a cigarette for herself, put it in her hand, and put it in her mouth and took a breath.

Then Gao Jing was surprised to see that Liu Mingqi exhaled two white smoke columns from her nose as if she was playing magic.

The boy explained the steps to smoking to him, then raised his hand and asked him to do this.

Gao Jing was surprised, but when he saw Liu Mingqi constantly sucking and spitting smoke, he seemed to have a button in his heart that was touched, and he couldn't help but put the cigarette into his mouth and took a deep breath.

Suck in.

Spit it out.

Unconsciously, he finished smoking a cigarette, but Gao Jing didn't feel anything except the smoke in front of him.

It’s not surprising that Liu Mingqi looks.

People who smoke for the first time cannot experience that kind of happiness just like people who drink for the first time.

So he stuffed five packs of cigarettes and a box of matches to Gao Jing, "Governor Gao, it is called cigarettes. If you smoke a few when you are irritable at night, you might be able to solve your problems."

Gao Jing laughed in his heart, and on the surface he thanked Liu Mingqi politely, but he decided not to do such novel things in his heart.

I have a lot of trouble myself, so where can I have time to play with you?

...

At night, Gao Jing, who was sitting in his room at the Embroidered Uniform Guard Office, couldn't help but feel his head hurt when he looked at the information summarized today.

It has been so many days, and these bastards have been checking for so long, but there are still no clues.
To be continued...