In order to wait for Han Qi's letter or write a letter to Emperor Zhao Xu, Wang Jinghui did not rush to submit the memorials that had been written. Instead, while calculating the time when Han Qi wrote to the letter, he organized people to speed up the manufacturing of the clock. With Su Song's strong assistance, the most primitive escapement model had been assembled. After combining with the pendulum mechanism, an original clock model was finally manufactured. This is thanks to Su Song's deep attainments in various mechanisms, and Wang Jinghui's inspiration on the side, he could make the model so quickly.

The manufacturing of the watch model does not mean that the work has been completed. It only verifies that the escapement and the pendulum mechanism can accurately time the combination. The rest is to further improve the overall mechanism to reduce errors more accurately, and it is delivered to Xu's jewelers for jewelry decoration and shaping, etc. to do, but this little thing is already a timer tool that has the characteristics of modern watches.

However, when creating watch models, Wang Jinghui and Su Song were still a little different - dial logo. Wang Jinghui came from an era a thousand years later. He had long been used to the 24-hour timing in his mind. In this era, it was the twelve-hour timing. Although Wang Jinghui had already adapted to this change and used the time unit when talking to others, he always felt very awkward in his heart, so he advocated the dial logo in future generations, while Su Song advocated the twelve-hour timing plan.

The dial designed by Su Song is also a round 360-degree twelve parts, which is no different from Wang Jinghui's dial, but his dial is 24 hours a day, while Wang Jinghui's one takes 12 hours. However, Wang Jinghui still admires Su Song's design plan very much - the twelve zodiac beasts combined with Zi Chou Yin Mao, which is a typical Chinese flavor. His own dial numbers are capitalized in Chinese digital Chinese characters.

"The Roman numeral logo dial is also the set created by Westerners. It was later confirmed after hundreds of years of promotion. Since the clock was invented by the Chinese, it is nothing to use Zi, Chou, Yin and Mao to mark the time. Perhaps after a thousand years, the world's technology will be more developed, but from this small dial, people can remember that the clock was invented by the Chinese!" Wang Jinghui thought silently in his heart, and after thinking about it, he thought about it.

Wang Jinghui turned to Su Song's design plan, which made Su Song and the craftsmen around him a little confused. However, the dial design was only left to verify its accuracy, and it was approaching success step by step, which made everyone very excited. A few days later, Shen Kuo brought better news to Wang Jinghui - Shen Kuo sent an iron rod about one foot long. The surface was very smooth - this was a sample processed with an original machine tool.

Wang Jinghui touched the surface of the iron rod and felt a smooth feel. It turned out that in the initial design, he did not consider the cooling problem. Although the iron birch turning tool was hard, it could not hold on to the heat generated when processing the iron parts, and it was worn out in no time. Wang Jinghui and Su Song concentrated their efforts to make the clock. The perfection of the lathe was handed over to Shen Kuo. After Shen Kuo took over, he realized the life of the turning tool. When processing wood parts, this problem was not a problem, but the processing of the iron parts was fully exposed. Wang Jinghui did not study mechanical processing after all, and did not consider it thoroughly at the beginning, but this problem was not difficult to solve. It was attached to a sink to cool the turning tool when processing the iron parts. Shen Kuo and the others thought more thoroughly and used oil and water mixing to cool the turning tool. This was also conducive to reducing the oxidation problem of the workpiece.

When Wang Jinghui came to the trial lathe house in Commercial Press, the lathe he saw was no longer what he saw at the beginning. Shen Kuo transformed it on a large scale, and more than 80% of the parts were replaced with iron parts. Whether it was processing wood or iron parts, the speed and stability were greatly improved. The shape of the turning tool was also modified, which looked more like an iron block, which was not only easier to process the turning tool, but also solved the problem of the turning tool breaking during the processing.

Shen Kuo's transformation of the lathe made Wang Jinghui so surprised that he couldn't stop talking about it - this is simply a modern lathe! It's just that the power and transmission system are still very primitive, and there are still standards to control the lathe working surface. It is rumored that Shen Kuo once calculated the gap when he was in charge of the Song Dynasty river channel correction, and this rigorous attitude also brought him to the lathe renovation.

Seeing that Wang Jinghui's face was strange, Shen Kuo shook his head slightly, thinking that the prince consort was very dissatisfied with his improvement of the lathe, he asked, "Change it, isn't such a change good?"

Wang Jinghui turned around and smiled and said to Shen Kuo: "Brother Cunzhong, it's not bad, nor good, but excellent! After your hand transformed, this lathe is much better than the one I originally designed and can be put into use. Now we can hand over the trouble to the emperor!"

Shen Kuo said modestly: "This is still a result of the previous design transformation, and basically no changes have been made. Without your "Theory of Things", Kuo could not have such a clever mechanism."

Wang Jinghui saw a craftsman rounding a piece of iron rod on the lathe. Although the sound was still very harsh, in his ears, this was no less than the most wonderful music in the world. He turned around the lathe twice and said excitedly: "Brother Cunzhong, this is the first complete lathe, let's put it here, and ask the craftsmen to carve the names of you and all the craftsmen who participated in the making of lathes to keep them as a souvenir. This is a great invention!"

Shen Kuo smiled and said, "If the change is heavy, how can it be so important!"

Wang Jinghui waved his hand seriously and said, "Brother Cunzhong, you are wrong this time! Do you know, how much money will be saved every year when the Song Dynasty has this lathe?! Just the arrow rod used to process the crossbows is an amazing number. The Song Dynasty has enough crossbows to defend the city as much as possible. How many soldiers of the Song Dynasty will save me?! I dare to assert here that even if no one in this era can realize the role of the lathe, people from later generations have proved that this is the work of Brother Cunzhong, which can make you famous all over the world!"

Wang Jinghui's words made Shen Kuo fall into silence, and the craftsmen around him also looked at Wang Jinghui in surprise. They did not expect that the mechanism they made would have such a great effect, which was something they had never thought of.

Wang Jinghui smiled and said loudly: "Since the manufacturing of this lathe has been completed, I will fulfill my original promise. Liu Chanfang has prepared 3,000 guan. The hard work you have paid for these days, and you will have to work harder in the future. In the future, there will definitely be improvements in this lathe. If you can continue to boldly innovate in this lack of place, Jinghui will still reward the improvers with heavy rewards!"

During this period, Shen Kuo worked with craftsmen from Wang Jinghui's industry to build lathes. He had long heard that the prince consort had promised them a heavy reward. At first, he thought it was only a few hundred stalemates for a dozen people. Unexpectedly, it was as much as three thousand stalemates, which was enough to support his salary for several years. He was very surprised by the prince consort's reassurance.

After Wang Jinghui brought the craftsmen to the joyful dispersion, he held Shen Kuo's hand and said, "Brother Cunzhong, the lathe is successfully produced and will be handed over to the emperor for use. When the emperor affirms the benefits of the lathe, he will definitely be rewarded to the emperor. However, I still gave Brother Cunzhong a small gift to show my gratitude!" After that, he winked at Liu Chan's office next to him. Liu Chan cooperated very well and took out a small box wrapped in red silk and handed it to Wang Jinghui.

Wang Jinghui handed the small box to Shen Kuo in both hands. Shen Kuo took it and was very heavy. He knew that it must be gold. Otherwise, even the iron block of such a small box would not be so heavy. It was probably at least a hundred taels. This "black gift" is far from being as simple as a boon.

Shen Kuo hurriedly said, "If you change it, Kuo can only lend a helping hand to help from the side. How can you afford such a heavy gift?!" He said that and quickly returned it to Wang Jinghui.

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "Who can't afford to be a brother Cunzhong?! Such a lathe is perfected by Brother Cunzhong. If it is promoted and popularized into the military workshops of the Song Dynasty, how many soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty will be saved on the battlefield? This is not something that gold can be bought! With Brother Cunzhong's great talent, it should not just be the position of editing books. Jinghui should recommend Brother Cunzhong to the emperor, so that you can make the best use of your talents!"

Wang Jinghui only briefly knew Shen Kuodi's life, but from other sources, Shen Kuo still had great political ambitions, which was also a common problem for intellectuals in this era. Since Shen Kuo is a person of fame and fortune, it would be much easier for Wang Jinghui. If you recommend someone to promote an individual to the emperor, you probably won't take his own face. Besides, he hasn't recommended anyone to promote him, and it's even simpler as to money. He needs Shen Kuo. With such a super scientist around him, it's best to put forward the creativity to Shen Kuo to perfect it. This will kill all the golden combinations.

"Technology is the primary productive force!" Wang Jinghui grew up in life a thousand years later, so he naturally would not forget such a powerful saying. Perhaps great men had greater achievements in their lives, but based on this sentence alone, Wang Jinghui privately believed that Deng Weiren was enough to leave a name in Chinese history. This sentence completely overturned the chronic disease of China's despise of scientific and technological talents since history, and that would lead to great development of China's economy in later generations. He believed that everything he had invested in Shen Kuo was worth it. If the philosophical officials of the Song Dynasty were a group of chickens who could lay golden eggs, then Shen Kuo was the leader of the group of chickens. The Song Dynasty would not do anything to his talents, and Wang Jinghui would not let it go. Not only did he value them in concept, but he also had the ability to improve everything about them.

After Wang Jinghui's carrot attack, Shen Kuo fell down completely and said, "In the future, the prince-consort Dan will be sent to you, and Kuo will not refuse!"

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "Brother Cunzhong is so serious. The court does have many shortcomings in employed people. As a minister, he should correct his shortcomings. Not only Brother Cunzhong is like this, as long as he is talented, no matter what talent, he will be responsible for selecting wise men from the emperor!" He paused for a moment and continued:

"Brother Cunzhong, the lathe is basically over, but this is just the beginning, and there are more things left to do. Today, I will enter the palace to ask for the meeting of the saint. At that time, I want to take Brother Cunzhong with me and want to finalize another important thing with the saint!"

Seeing Wang Jinghui's words mysteriously, Shen Kuo asked, "Why is it so important to change it?"

"The secret of heaven cannot be revealed. This is not a place to speak. When you walk to the lower house, there is Brother Zirong there. The clock has been done almost during this period. When you see Brother Zirong there, the three of us will talk slowly!" Wang Jinghui said with a smile.

After Shen Kuo came to the Prince Consort's Mansion with Wang Jinghui, the first thing he was concerned about was clocks. Because the Prince Consort urgently needed lathes and clocks to deal with the current stiff situation, he and Su Song acted on both sides, one was responsible for lathes and the other was responsible for clocks. Until now, both of them have basically completed their work.

Although the prototype of the clock has not been carefully decorated by craftsmen, for Shen Kuo, the clock is more in line with his appetite. He also has to struggle to observe the internal structure. The clock itself is a very complex organization in the eyes of people of this era, but Shen Kuo has a good foundation and it is easy to understand the tricks. Moreover, he had already understood the principles involved in it through Wang Jinghui's "Theory of Things". After walking around the clock, he clapped his hands and smiled: "In order to change it, Brother Zirong, you two are really fond of hearts!"

Su Song smiled and said, "This escapement is the heart of the clock. Fortunately, I have been involved in it before, and the idea of ​​changing the place was finally made soon."

Wang Jinghui asked the two of them to sit down, and Shutong Nixin poured tea for the three of them. Wang Jinghui said happily: "Now the two things that we promised with the emperor are all ready, but this is far from reaching the goal we are here. Watches and lathes are just the first step we have taken. There are more important things waiting for us to solve in the future!"

Shen Kuo thought that when he was in the Commercial Press just now, Wang Jinghui said that he would take him and Su Song to meet the saint, and said, "I will not meet the saint later on, what I said is more important?!"

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "We will do our best to make the next thing. With it, the Song Dynasty will completely change the passive military situation! Okay, please follow us to the study and talk!"

Su Song and Shen Kuo had been in contact with Wang Jinghui for a long time. He knew that not everyone could enter the study room of the prince consort. Most of the time, visitors could only talk in the flower hall. During this period, Guo Kui came to the study room once and talked to the prince consort. The person guarding the study room was a eunuch, who was usually not half a step away from the study room. If they were not seconded by Emperor Zhao Xu to the son consort, it would be impossible to enter the study room.

Wang Jinghui still pulled out a few drawings from the bookshelf. One of them had seen was a drawing of a flintlock musket designed by Wang Jinghui. The other one they had never seen before. It seemed that it was just drawn by the prince consort recently. Judging from the scale indicated on the drawings, if the thing on this drawing that had never been seen before was really made, it would probably be much larger than a musket.

This drawing that Su Song and Shen Kuo had never seen was a bronze cannon. Wang Jinghui felt that it was obviously unrealistic to make cannons made of steel at the current metallurgical level. Moreover, he had a sudden idea of ​​using birch wood to make a cannon barrel, but now it is even more out of reality. This is just like an egg can withstand a lot of grip force, but it can definitely not withstand a lot of directional pressure. Now Wang Jinghui has completely thrown this idea into the trash can.

"The muskets of these two drawings must be familiar with them. This drawing is our main goal in the future - bronze cannons! I originally wanted to design it as steel material, but considering that the current steel smelting is not good, so I used bronze as a substitute. However, this does not mean that I gave up on the use of steel. Large-scale steelmaking is imperative, and this is what we will do in the future. However, we must first build bronze cannons so that we can lay the foundation for the future of making all-steel cannons!" Wang Jinghui said.

Shen Kuo and Su Song gathered together to look at the drawings of the bronze cannon. There were brief descriptions on it, introducing the operating principle of the cannon - using the power of gunpowder to push a projectile out, and the range can reach a distance of one and a half to two miles - twice the range of the current King of Long-range Weapons Bed Crossbow! What's even more terrifying is that the projectile shot from the cannon was not a stone thrown by a catapult, but a shell similar to an explosive pack that would explode. This weapon combines the power of the long-range shooting of the bed crossbow and the explosion of the sky-shaking thunder. Although it is currently on the drawings, Shen Kuo and Su Song both believe that such weapons are "monsters". No wonder the prince consort did this.

Mysteriously, the words "King of Firearms" are marked on the drawings. If it really becomes a reality, it would be like a tiger to defend the city. A super giant city like Kaifeng City may be useless to attack Xixia and Liao's troops. The reason why the alliance of the Eiyuan was realized was because the Liao general Xiao Dalan was shot to death by the Song army's crossbow as an opportunity. Such a powerful weapon could undoubtedly be shown in the design that the accuracy of its hit target was very objective. When placing troops on the battlefield, the enemy's general was probably within the effective range of the artillery without knowing it!
Chapter completed!