Chapter Fifty-Six: The Sprout of Steam

Half a step ahead is a genius, and a step ahead is a madman. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

His Royal Highness King Liang has just completed the transition from a genius to a madman.

Ma Yue now feels the meaning of this sentence firsthand. Now he still remembers that when he equipped the fierce Liangzhou soldiers with heavy vests and heavy armor, the whole world was shocked by his shrewdness and ability, and the people of Liangzhou thought that he was a saint who came out of hundreds of years in the cursed barren land of Liangzhou.

But when he asked to load the carriage on the tracks, it was easier to run? Or even an iron horse powered by burning fumes?

Zhangjiachuan raised the most capable craftsmen in the world, and these skilled craftsmen no longer looked at King Liang like they were looking at a god...... It's looking at a fool.

There is no horse in the iron box to be able to run, and your Royal Highness King Liang should have been able to fly a long time ago!

"Your Highness, you attach great importance to the status of craftsmen and give us dignity no less than that of the Shi peasants, and we are all grateful to you and love you very much." Liu Bad has always admired Ma Yue very much, but even he, after hearing Ma Yue's series of ideas about the unheard of things such as steam engines and trains, he couldn't help but be a little suspicious, and said sincerely: "But this is ...... It's almost impossible, how can an iron box not have to be pulled by a horse, how can it run on the ground by itself? ”

This kind of thing can only make people think of a bad word...... Sorcery!

As the saying goes, there are demons in troubled times, Zhang Jiao who rebelled, Zhang Xiu who made five buckets of rice, and Luo Qian, who was three assistants, were all characters who rebelled, and all of them brought misery to the people.

Therefore, in this era, if anyone or something has a little connection with the demon law, it will make the people afraid.

That is, now Ma Yue is relying on his own efforts step by step instead of his obscene skills to reach where he is today, which can be somewhat convincing.

If this set of theories is brought out during the Guanghe period, even if you ignore the backward productivity of Liangzhou back then, a casual pavilion chief will use the rope around his waist to tie him if he knows about it.

The more people make trouble when they are determined, the easier it is to be killed by people who are crazy about self-preservation.

In fact, these days, Ma Yue has drawn up a blueprint for suggesting a steam engine, and he is just about to put it into action. Faced with the incomprehension of the craftsmen, Ma Yue did not say much, but asked them to build a large cauldron, and the firewood was burning under it to heat the water.

The difference is that the craftsman made a pair of iron sheets the size of the mouth of the pot and covered the cauldron.

When the water is hot, the lid is constantly stirred up.

"What did you notice?" Ma Yue pointed to the common sense situation and asked a group of craftsmen, raising his head not with eyes full of curiosity, but as if he saw that King Liang, who had always been wise and martial, finally became like those wise kings in history when he got older, and when he got old, he was confused, and a craftsman thought for a long time before saying: "Your Highness, isn't this normal?" The water is boiling, it's time to boil. ”

However, Ma Yue was not discouraged, and when he decided to trigger a second-century industrial revolution, he was mentally prepared to be regarded as a madman for a short time.

He knows better that as a master of advanced technology, his position in history is not to invent this or that technology, but to guide the people of this era with the common sense that he knows that does not belong to this era...... He has made too many preparations for this step, just like if he doesn't take out the Takahashi saddle, horseshoe, and double horse pedal if he doesn't unify Liangzhou, if the strength is not to a certain level, it will be a joke to take out something.

But now it is different, the rise of productivity, whether it is the assembly line or mineral mining, or even the transportation system, architectural culture and water conservancy, these things have almost been completed to the peak of this era in the Liangguo Gyeonggi, Longdu and even Anding-gun, a hundred miles of land.

Without a more powerful blower, it is difficult for the steel casting process to rise, and without the steel casting process, mineral mining will be limited. The same applies to other areas.

Even if he allowed Liu Bad to get the official position of lieutenant as a craftsman, even if many famous craftsmen held important positions in academies around the country, or if he provided a very generous reward system for inventors and creators...... But these need to be taken step by step, and the changes made by Liangguo in the past 20 years are just a drop in the ocean in the vast history...... He can't compete with the farmers and industrialists who have been in use for thousands of years, and he can't save the truth that a technology can only achieve qualitative change after hundreds of years of quantitative change inheritance and accumulation.

"Yes, the water is boiling, but haven't you noticed that the tin sheet is being pushed up? Just as we can use the power of the river to drive the waterwheel to irrigate the wheat fields, why can't we use the power of steam to start the chariot? Ma Yue said seductively as he lifted the iron sheet covering the iron pot, and white steam rose into the sky, and he said, "This power can be used by us, do you understand?" ”

The craftsmen didn't speak, and what His Royal Highness King Liang said was a little too unbelievable, but it seemed to make some sense when he pondered it carefully, and these skilled craftsmen fell into deep thought, and Liu Bad asked, "What does His Highness mean...... Will these, steam? Collect it up and push the vehicle? This force is so small that it can't even push a sword......"

Not bad! Liu Bad is already on the road!

Ma Yue opened the blueprint of the steam engine in his arms with joy, pointed and said: "A cauldron, we don't need a cauldron, we need something like a furnace when smelting iron, the difference is that it is divided into two layers, the bottom burns iron, and the top uses less heat to burn iron to boil water." A pipe on the left is filled with water inward, while a charcoal fire burns at the bottom, and a pipe is drawn from above to the right, creating a space in between that that can push the gas...... I haven't thought of how to do this yet, and it takes everyone's efforts. On the other side, a movable stick is attached to two sections, and a large wheel is attached to the other end of the stick...... Just like this, the gas pushes the stick, the stick drives the wheel to spin, and the gas is pushed to a certain position and stored, and the external water flow is constantly cooled so that the gas becomes water again......"

Ma Yue racked his brain to think of a series of easy-to-understand words, this blueprint used up almost all his memories of his previous life, but he still couldn't figure out how to do it with the position of the middle cylinder, but he had already thought of condensation, and there was not much difference. ”

"If Your Highness is right, this furnace needs to be placed by the river, so that there will be a constant flow of water...... Do as you say and turn the heat into water. Liu Bad frowned and drew on the yellow earth with his sword, his face could be called a painstaking meditation, this question was definitely not easy for him. Although it is easy to say, it is very complicated to make a blast furnace in the mouth of His Highness, the air inlet, the water inlet, the water outlet, and the parts in the middle that you don't know how to do...... It's all difficult. ”

Now all the craftsmen don't think that Ma Yue is talking about a dream, or that they have agreed with Ma Yue's dream, and they don't care if it's a fantasy...... At least in the picture that Ma Yue took out, it is obvious that this is a mostly feasible object.

Even if this is a dream, they are willing to accompany Ma Yue to have this ridiculous dream!

Ma Yue wanted to put the steam engine in an iron box and let it run, make a train of the Han Dynasty, load the fiercest men of the Liang Kingdom on a train with rails, and send them to the farthest frontiers of the empire, conquer those unknown lands, and expand the most extensive super empire.

And Liu Bad and others, everyone also has their own ideas in their hearts, Liu Bad's first thought is to put this immovable big man at the head of the city, the flywheel drives the machine, winds up, down the arrows, and projects the sharpest arrows into the body of the most fierce enemy, and even places this kind of super crossbow machine that does not need to be pulled by manpower in the tomb of the king of Ma Yue, and kills every gravedigger in the future!

No way, after all, Liu Bad is a craftsman from the Imperial Tomb, and everyone will think of the place closest to their own work at this time, just like Ma Yue is a prince, so he naturally wants to dominate the world.

Their ideas are undoubtedly a bit ambitious, not to mention Ma Yue's dream of a train, even if the steam engine is really made, the relatively barren productivity at this stage is simply unable to produce such precision parts to constitute his dream of Hongda. Fortunately, Ma Yue just wanted to add bricks and tiles to this beautiful dream, as long as the steam engine came out, with this idea, according to the wisdom of the Han people, I am afraid that it will not take three hundred years for a real steam vehicle to appear.

At this time, the most useful thing to say was indeed a young blacksmith who was usually inconspicuous.

"Your Highness, if we move the iron-making division to the river and use this steam furnace flywheel in your mouth to drive the blower, we can make a bigger blower, stronger wind, which means a higher temperature, and can melt the magic weapon!" The young blacksmith looked frenzied, "Your Highness, a blower the size of an ox is constantly blowing in the wind, and a drinking board is erected at a high level upstream and the blast furnace water level, and a pipe directly inserted into the river can be connected to this pushing stick to send hot gas into the river...... That, that, that's simply! ”

The young blacksmith couldn't even speak, Ma Yue's eyes lit up, this kid is simply too smart!

The water level is contoured to ensure that the water level in the furnace does not decrease with evaporation, while a pipe ensures that the gas condenses back into the river, while the steam pulls the blower and continuously blows a strong wind into the furnace...... Molten iron flows out of the furnace without doing much but throwing coal and iron ore into the blast furnace...... Relying on the molds, batches of swords will be produced continuously.

Ma Yue fell into the misunderstanding of thinking, constantly thinking about the steam transport truck from afar, and now his eyes were as bright as these craftsmen, shining brightly.

It was a light that had never been seen in the conquest of the five states.

"Well said! If you can really make a steam iron-making furnace, you will be promoted to the fifth rank and eat a hundred households! Looking at the young blacksmith who was overjoyed, Ma Yue clapped his hands and said, "Don't be stunned, everyone will be rewarded for making this person!" Work! ”