Beijing's power, steam and other test facilities are not located in Beijing, but outside Yongding Gate, the south city.

Chen Mu was very happy to get the news from Zhang Juzheng's mansion after he came to the Ministry of Works to get the news - he didn't have to go around the city anymore.

The Beijing city of this era made Chen Mu feel too big. It took him half a day to go around the Sanfang in Xuanbei, Xuannan and Zhengxi in the south before he could walk from Zhang Juzheng's mansion in Nancheng to the Ministry of Works and then go south from the Ministry of Works to Yongding Gate.

Big, and dirty.

There will be sandstorms that will come at some time, the streets are narrow and cramped, with mud stench and messy hawking everywhere, and mosquitoes and flies flying all over the sky - if you stand in the sky and look down, it is indeed the case, it is terrible.

But if you are in this, Chen Mu doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. For the ancient agricultural dynasty, the more developed the city, the more dirty the city is. The dirty one is because of the large population and the poor city appearance is inevitable.

However, there are some reasons for this. Zhu Di built a complete sewer in the North City of Beijing. However, later, the outer city was built during the Jiajing period. After repairing it, I found that I forgot to lay the sewer. As a giant city with a population of over one million, this is a very terrible thing.

It was much better outside the city. Just as the farming work was coming, Chen Mu led the military camp to ride horses all the way, and he could see lush green everywhere. Without going far, he saw them building a simple factory village outside the city under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Works.

Chen Mu came to inspect the research and development results of the Ministry of Industry. The officials of the Ministry of Industry had time to explain these things on the way. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Industry itself had too many affairs and had no care at all. He could only set up branches outside the city. Therefore, the officials of the Ministry of Industry in the city knew nothing about the research and development of these things.

The Beijing North Branch of the Ministry of Industry is located in the south of the city, backed by the Yongding River, and there are large farms on the east and north. In the past, there was a forest land here. Fortunately, there was a lot of manpower nearby, so this Gongzhai was built in a sloppy manner.

From a distance, it doesn't look like a yamen in the court, but rather like a bandit village standing in the fields, completely different from what Chen Mu imagined in his mind.

"this……"

Seeing Chen Mu's doubts, the minor official of the Ministry of Works, who led the way forward, bowed and said with a plea: "The master of the cabinet proposed a telegram, and he was urgently in power, so he did not set up a yamen. He focused on doing things. The copper and iron needed were all dispatched by the river boat. It would not be too late to repair the branch office after this matter."

Chen Mu nodded and looked at the hasty construction department. He thought that there were officials in the court who did this. It was Zhang Juzheng who transferred a capable person. He asked, "Who is the person in charge?"

"The court invited Kong Yang, the resigned, to conduct the tour, and Zhou Sijing, who served as the chief officer of the Senate."

Gong Kong Yanggong said that Ma Sen, the retired old man who was the Minister of Revenue, was invited back to the governor of the matter. Chen Mu had met before, but he had no friendship. However, this senator from Macheng, who is now the head of the Ministry of Works, is much more familiar with Chen Mu. He had a brother named Zhou Sijiu, who served as the prefect of Qiongzhou. Hai Rui admired his virtue of being an official, so he heard of this name.

"The lower official is Jing Haibo to report?"

Chen Mu, holding the reins, was about to nod and respond when he heard a noise in Muzhai from afar, mixed with loud shouts. Then something hit the gate of Muzhai and made a loud noise of overturning iron.

Several people looked at each other, and the officials of the Ministry of Works frowned and rushed forward. Soon the door opened, and a huge boiler fell crookedly beside the road. The ground was covered with water and muddy. The craftsmen bowed to each other. The officials in the lead showed a repressed surprise and bowed to this side from afar.

This is an accident.

Chen Mu quickly rode over and turned around and dismounted when he approached the door. He also heard the officials beside him reminded: "Be careful, there is boiling water in the ground."

Chen Mu nodded slightly. There were traces of people extinguishing the fire on the ground beside the road. He looked around and saw no craftsmen killed or injured. Then he bowed to the old man in charge with confidence and smiled: "The younger generation has seen Ma Gong!"

"I dare not be the one. Now the branch office is the chief officer of Zhou. I am just helping to allocate some copper, iron, and grain." Ma Sen still remembered Chen Mu, and introduced Zhou Sijing to Chen Mu with a smile on his face, saying: "The book of electric machinery is a new thing for us, and we also need young talents to be in charge of the officials... If you don't pay attention, you will cause trouble."

Zhou Sijing was over 40 years old and was about the same age as Xu Zhenming. He did not wear an official robe, only wore regular clothes, and had a square flat scarf on his head. He also had a pair of eyes on his nose, and used a rubber band to cover the back of his head. His rubber band was a genuine rubber band, not made of plastic in later generations.

"At the next week, I have heard of Jinghai Bo's name for a long time, and you can just call me Youshan."

Chen Mu and several officials greeted each other, then looked at the boiler beside him and asked, "What is that?"

He was very curious. The large iron block lying beside the road looked like a boiler, but Chen Mu knew very clearly that it was definitely not a steam engine boiler made in Nanyang.

Thanks to Guan Jiang, the steam engine in Nanyang is in a strange shape, with a brick kiln fire stove type. Chen Mu was busy with the war and did not make any effort to guide him. Later, after several improvements, it was mostly in terms of crankshaft connecting rods, etc. After all, the boiler shape has little impact on the effect of the steam engine... The steamer has its roots, but how high the efficiency depends entirely on other components.

For the steam engine that was just beginning to experiment, each component can move after it is perfected. If the components are not perfected, no matter how good the shape of the boiler is, it can only spray air and cannot move.

This steam engine boiler that hit the wooden door just now was interesting. It looked like a big clock that put the back cover down, and it was a big clock divided into two parts. The upper half was a pot and the lower half was a furnace, but the furnace had fallen to the other side.

When Zhou Sijing heard Chen Mu ask about this, his face turned red and said, "I have been watching the steamer for a long time. I feel something and want the motor to move... The air duct was broken, and the steam gushed out and scared the cart, and even the tram hit the door."

"tram?"

Have you played such an advanced technology tree?

"Well, the tram." Zhou Sijing said and explained to Chen Mu: "The steamer has a motor and is placed on the car. It can be dragged by the people and horses to move around for testing the wires in various places and testing the material resistance mentioned in Jing Haibo's book."

Not what Chen Mu thought.

He asked in surprise: "How did Brother Youshan put such a complicated thing on the cart?"

Speaking of this, Zhou Sijing was very interested and pushed the crystal glasses on the bridge of his nose and introduced to Chen Mu: "Yu Guangyue steamer, the various parts of the motor, has complex structures, with handles and rods. If you use a loom, most of the forging machines need to be like this, but the motor only needs to spin and generate electricity, and then imitate the water wheel, use gas to make water, and push the plate to rotate, only a copper tube."

Good guy, this was delivered to the work department by the steamer, and it was improved?

Chen Mu blinked and hurriedly reached out and said, "The branch office may have a new steamer. Please ask Brother Youshan to take me to see how powerful it is?"

"There is, but that's just made by the following guesses."

Zhou Sijing said, pointing to a steamer placed on a wooden table not far away. In addition to common valves, the cylinder of the Nanyang steam engine was removed and connected only by copper pipes. Put the air in the next to it and set up a wooden disc like a water truck to seal the wooden disc. One side inlets and the other side is air outlet. There are wooden poles in the middle of the disc connected to the motor mounted next to it, so as to rotate the motor with the motor.

As he said that, Zhou Sijing felt even more embarrassed and said, "Although it is a new one, its power is very small, the same boiler, power square and Nanyang steamer 11."

The efficiency of the Nanyang steam engine is not high, and Zhou Sijing is even lower, but Chen Mu is extremely happy.

Isn’t this a steam turbine?
Chapter completed!