1680: The prelude to the age of steam is slowly opened
Unlike the loose and tight outside the yamen outside the Tiangong Bureau, when I walked through a courtyard and saw rows of tall houses with gray steel and concrete structures in front of me, I was very cautious, three steps, five steps, and some swimming whistles patrolling back and forth.
The houses are tall and the doors are closed, but various sounds are heard from the inside. Qin Feng knew that among these houses, the most wise masters of the Ming Dynasty were working hard day and night, thinking hard, and turning one seemingly incredible thoughts into one reality.
This is the birthplace of the Ming Dynasty science, at least, Qin Feng saw it this way
Pushing open one of the closed doors, Qin Feng suddenly saw a railway track in the center of the room, and his pupils were shrinking. He took a few steps forward and half-squatted down. He looked at the guy in front of him, who was exposed with various parts and looked extremely ugly, dragging more than a dozen cars behind him.
"You won't tell me that you have built a steamer motorcycle, right?" Qin Feng was stunned.
"That's that simple!" Xu Lai smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty told me that day that if I could use the power of this steam reasonably, I could drive rail cars, warships in the sea, ships in the river, etc., so I tried to start researching this thing."
He waved his hand and a few craftsmen who were desperately squatting the parts on the workbench in a corner. Some brought a basket of coal and poured it into the machine. Some poured water into something like a water tank, and then ignited it. Seeing the coal burning quickly, the water began to steam. Gradually, the sound of water boiling. Xu Lai pulled it somewhere. In front of Qin Feng's eyes, the extremely ugly machine began to move with a clang, dragging the dozen cars behind it slowly on the rails. As the heat came out more and more, the speed of the railcars became faster and faster.
"You said you didn't succeed. Isn't this a success?" Qin Feng jumped happily.
"Your Majesty, don't be irritated!" Xu Lai looked at Qin Feng calmly: "Look, can this thing be called successful? He is just a toy."
"Why is it a toy?" Qin Feng looked at Xu Lai in confusion.
"I have calculated carefully. If you really drag the railcar in reality as His Majesty imagined, then this so-called nose must be built larger than this house. Can such a nose run on the railcar?" Xu Lai spread his hands and said
Qin Feng laughed and looked at the railcar that was gradually stopped because of the burning coal. He couldn't let go of his hands and stroked the hot body, "Good thing, Master Xu, no matter what, you did get the steam engine I mentioned to you. This thing is not only a machine head, it can also be used in various industries such as iron smelting, steelmaking, textiles, etc. He can provide endless power for our production."
"If he wants to exert enough energy, he must build big enough!" Xu Lai was still very dissatisfied.
"No, no, no," Qin Feng said happily: "This is just the beginning. What are you afraid of? Locomotives cannot be used, and the warships cannot be used, but it doesn't matter, it can be used in factories, and iron and steel smelting can be used! Master Xu, we can build a few large ones first, see where his shortcomings are, and find ways to optimize them while using them. I believe that one day, you will reduce his size, but your functions will become stronger and stronger."
“It takes time!”
"Of course it takes time. I'm not in a hurry and I don't fight at all." Qin Feng said loudly.
Looking at the appearance of His Majesty, Xu Lai couldn't help but feel angry. You said you were not in a hurry, but your appearance and your tone had completely exposed your true thoughts. Do you know that your attitude will put a lot of pressure on the people below.
"Mr. Le, Mr. Le!" Qin Feng turned around and called Eunuch Le, but found Eunuch Le stayed in front of the stopped track car like a demon, his eyes straightened, and he seemed to be unable to believe the scene he had just seen until Qin Feng slapped his shoulder, and he suddenly woke up.
"Your Majesty, I'm rude. It's really, this is so incredible." Eunuch Le pointed at the thing in front of him, a little incoherent.
"With this thing, there will be more and more things that will make you incredible in the future." Qin Feng laughed: "Go and invite the chief minister here, yes, there are also the Ministry of War and Geng's Ministry of Revenue, please come here too."
"I understand! I'll go right away." Eunuch Le turned around and left the room like flying.
"Your Majesty, is this thing really so important?" Seeing that Qin Feng was going to invite the chief minister and the two ministers to come here immediately, Xu Lai asked suspiciously.
Qin Feng patted Xu Lai on the shoulder: "Master Xu, you are obsessed with technology. What you see is that you invented a brand new thing, but in the eyes of us, it is completely different. Don't worry about other things. You just need to concentrate in the future, make his size smaller and smaller, and your ability bigger. But I can tell you that history will remember your name, and you will create a new era. We can call him the steam era and he will completely change our world."
"Your Majesty, you can create an era. I am at most a master craftsman." Xu Lai shook his head
"No, no, no, compared to your invention, what I do is small and negligible." Qin Feng laughed. Xu Lai, a new era begins, and it begins in your hands."
Looking at Qin Feng's affirmative look, Xu Lai was stunned for a moment before he said silly: "But Your Majesty, I made this thing, you reminded me, and asked me, not what I thought of it myself."
Qin Feng smiled and said, "That's what we made together, hahaha, I'm benefiting from you. Do you know that it's not easy to come up with an idea, but it's even more difficult to turn it into reality."
Like caressing the body of a lover, Qin Feng caresses the gradually cold body, "With him, we can make real machine tools, and with him, we have the motivation to drive machine tools to make more machines. Xu Lai, have you seen those who are squatting parts? With this thing, you can use machines to complete the work of these people in the future, but the efficiency is countless times higher hahaha!"
In front of you, you seem to see countless machines born here, then walk out of factories, mines, and then produce piles of materials. Qin Feng is simply overjoyed.
Xu Lai listened carefully to the future scenes depicted by Qin Feng with the unique calmness of a technical occupant. Of course, he was also very excited, but he was more thinking about how to turn the words depicted by His Majesty into reality one by one.
With this thing, it doesn't seem too difficult to think in his heart
"Xu Lai, in addition to this thing, I told you about gunpowder last time. What is the matter of your Tiangong Department doing?" Qin Feng suppressed his ecstasy and asked about another thing
"The things that Your Majesty said were even raw materials and rough matching. It was too difficult, so I handed this matter over to another group to study. They were better at making these things." Xu Lai said: "Because the thing you described by Your Majesty is too powerful, I dare not put him in Yuejing for research, nor do I dare to put it in other densely populated places at will. So I discussed with the navy commander Ning Zeyuan, and then built a small island on the sea to specialize in researching this thing. Usually, the safety of the island is the responsibility of the Eagle's Nest, and the safety of the sea is the navy sent two warships and supporting warships to station the last report. The last time I sent a report was a month ago, saying that it was blown up or exploded, but the effect was not satisfactory. What Your Majesty described was simply heaven and earth. They were very frightened, but they were still working hard."
"Take it slowly, don't worry," Qin Feng said: "This thing is too dangerous. You must remind them to pay attention to their own safety. I don't want them to roar and blow themselves up."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have carved the precautions that Your Majesty has told them one by one on the row, and put them on the most prominent position on the island, the place where the research is, the place where the raw materials are stored and the place where the finished products are isolated from other places." Xu Lai said
"That's good." Qin Feng nodded with satisfaction and turned to look in the direction of Qi: "Cao Yun worked hard and chased us to the death, thinking that with their Qi's background, he would get closer and closer as long as he tried his best. Haha, when you start to show his power, he will find that the distance from us is not getting closer, but getting farther and farther. I really like to see his desperate expression at that time."
Two people whispered around this thing that looked ugly now. Qin Feng recalled some things before the steam engine, but unfortunately, he could only remember a little bit of things, but for Xu Lai, these little things were really precious, he listened to every word that spit out from Qin Feng's mouth with all his heart, for fear of missing something.
Chief Auxiliary Quan Yun, the Ministry of War kitten Zhang Xiaozheng, and the Ministry of Revenue Secretary Geng Jingzhong, were taken to the Tiangong Office by Eunuch Le in a confused manner. When they appeared in front of Qin Feng, they were still confused.
Qin Feng proudly pulled them to the side of the track and said to Xu Lai: "Master Xu, come, let's take a good look at our adults."
After a repeat operation like before, with the rumbling and clanging sound, the railcar stood around the tracks in the huge workshop.
Chapter completed!