Nanjing in late autumn was a little cold, Zhu Yunwen was indeed tired of the book that he had approved for a day in the Qianqing Palace, stood up and shouted double happiness, and planned to go out to run two laps of activities, when he saw a Ji Gang, the commander of the brocade guard, running in in a hurry.

"What's wrong?"

Ji Gang lowered his head and arched his hand: "Back to Your Majesty, Mo Sicheng didn't come back after the Ming Expo in Guangzhou, and directly set off to Shanxi with several craftsmen in Guangzhou, and the names of those craftsmen were..."

"Stop."

As soon as Zhu Yunwen raised his hand, his brows furrowed: "Where did he go?" Shanxi? What is he going to do there, I haven't stressed many times that I want to ensure his absolute safety, going to Shanxi is just fooling around, hurry up and bring people back to me. ”

Ji Gang turned around and left, and after a few steps, he heard Zhu Yunwen's voice behind him: "Slow, did he say what he did in Shanxi?" ”

The emperor asked, and Ji Gang had no choice but to turn around and replied respectfully: "I heard that Mo Sicheng had a sudden inspiration in Guangzhou and planned to go to Shanxi to build a steam engine. ”

Inspired to build a steam engine?

People who don't know what is going on think it's a brainless dream.

"That's not right, before leaving, didn't Mo Cheng still say that this thing only stays in theory and can't be realized?"

Zhu Yunwen was a little puzzled, what did Mo Cheng see in Guangzhou, and he was able to be empowered in an instant?

"Mo Sicheng said..."

At this time, Zhu Yunwen saw Ji Gang holding a notebook in his hand, so he immediately went down and snatched it and looked at it himself.

"Theoretically speaking, when the pneumatic thrust (full horsepower) generated in the cylinder pushes the piston and drives the centrifugal ball and the piston rod, the steam engine has come out, the difference is only how to apply it to actual life, and how to enhance it to achieve some things that are difficult for human beings to do.

How deep the coal well in Shanxi, the workers are placed under the coal pit, perennial by the water trouble, the knees and feet are many ulcers, and the manpower and animal power are extremely difficult to deal with. ”

Zhu Yunwen has not waited for the official of the Steam Department of the Ministry of Industry to resign, indicating that the efficiency of Jinyiwei is still fast.

Theoretically, the steam engine was already in existence when the pneumatic thrust (full horsepower) generated in the cylinder pushed the piston and drove the centrifugal ball and piston rod.

Zhu Yunwen has read this sentence many times.

In the end, the excitement was only converted into a long suffocation.

"Fourteen years."

This emotion, not to mention double happiness, is that even Ji Gang, who was standing behind Zhu Yunwen, instantly understood the meaning.

It has been fourteen years since Mo Cheng Xingchong Chong Chong Chong Chong with a pot of boiling water in Tanglin and began to dream of his daydream.

There is no theory, no basic support, and no guidance left by predecessors.

Back then, everyone was laughing at it, without theory, it would be impossible for Daming to develop a steam engine in his life.

But today Mo Cheng did it.

Historically, Newcomen, and his friends only took seven years to build the steam engine, because Europe left relevant records of steam research in ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and ancient Rome, and they also had a set of gradually improved mathematical knowledge, and there were various so-called messy codes.

Although the Ming Dynasty has no knowledge of the Western system, it has been working for fourteen years by relying on the not too esoteric mathematical knowledge left by the ancestors, the technical team of thousands of people, plus the support of the entire Ming Dynasty and the resources of the entire Ming Federation!

Lu Xun said, go to Europe grandma to have a leg.

You have to tell Zhu Yunwen what kind of fantasy this is, and Zhu Yunwen promises that as long as this person appears in front of him, he must be strangled.

Zhu Yunwen believes that the Chinese ancestors who created so many miracles from scratch were smart, and they didn't recognize anything else.

"Tell the cabinet that I will drive Shanxi in half a month."

Zhu Yunwen wants to see the first steam engine come out with his own eyes!

Hearing the emperor's words, both Shuangxi and Ji Gang's hearts skipped.

I haven't seen the emperor leave Beijing for several years, and now I have to go thousands of miles to Shanxi for a mere Mo Cheng, a steam engine that has not yet been launched.

"Yes, the slave will go and inform you."

Shuangxi nodded in response, and not far away, the little eunuch had already run out smartly.

How can you really let Double Happiness run in person.

And Ji Gang also hugged his fists and retreated: "The minister will go down to arrange the matter of guarding the holy car." ”

No one persuaded the emperor, and Zhu Yunwen's previous sentence had already made his attitude clear.

Tell the cabinet that this is not a negotiation at all.

Moreover, the emperor's mood seemed to be very urgent, and the preparation period before the reservation trip was only given fifteen days.

Guards of honor, guards, safety and supplies along routes and alternative routes must be prepared.

Zhu Yunwen moved alone, that is, hundreds of thousands of people moved together.

This is no small undertaking.

Until Ji Gang left for a long time, Zhu Yunwen was still holding Mo Cheng's notebook and looking at it, didn't he press his temples twice.

"The steam engine, and that's it?"

Come to think of it, why don't you think it's realistic.

Whether it is the delayed detonation technology of arquebuses and shell fuses that have been developed over the years, or what cement, steelmaking, and hand-cranked water pumps are, even if they achieve a leap of two hundred years or even higher, it is nothing in Zhu Yunwen's eyes.

Because there are no technical barriers.

Conquering a certain technology, or thinking ideas and practical behaviors can be achieved at that point.

But the steam engine is different, not to boast about how great the technology is, but to the importance of the steam engine technology for the transformation of society as a whole.

From human production to mechanical production.

Manpower is sometimes exhausted, and it is impossible to be a mechanical opponent.

But thinking about it carefully, Zhu Yunwen doesn't think there is anything too difficult to accept.

Whether it's Newcommen or Watt, they have a big R&D team, not to mention the level of support.

Even if there is national support, the support that can be given by the size of the first ten John Cows in the colonization is unlikely to be as big as that given by Zhu Yunwen at this moment.

Relaxed R&D environment. Don't worry about eating and drinking, no one will point fingers, the daily work is to face the difficult nodes again and again, and then record the failure data, and finally record the success data, compare with the failure, and summarize it into a theory.

Comfortable living environment. The craftsmen of the Steam R&D Department of the Ministry of Industry get the highest salary, up to Mo Cheng, a four-grade official, down to ordinary technicians, and the worst one can also have a technical subsidy of dozens of taels a year, plus a fixed salary, in Nanjing City, where prices are flat, live not too comfortably.

There is no pressure to survive, the quality of life is good, there is no need to think about family chores such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in the mind, and I am not bound by the world.

An inexhaustible resource. In the process of research and development of steam, fourteen years, what was needed and what Daming provided.

I didn't go to Nanyang to buy it, I went to Arabia to buy it, and I didn't go to rob it!

Give as much as you want.

If you want to make steel, you will take ore from all over the country, and you will try one by one, which one is useful and which one is useful.

and the useless ones are ready for you.

The resources of the entire Minglian are terrible, and the manpower is also terrible.

Guang Daming plus India is hundreds of millions of people.

You just have to climb Mount Everest and see what you have, you can try it.

Under such conditions, it took fourteen years, and even Zhu Yunwen felt a little slow.

Of course, this process is from scratch, and the most valuable thing is not the steam engine, but the countless experiences summed up in order to develop the steam engine and break through the technical barriers.

That is, the theory that those who laugh at the Ming Dynasty regard as the guideline!

This is the most valuable thing.

Daming has no physical system and no chemical system.

Now thousands of top craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have come up with a set of oriental physical and chemical systems.

It's not necessarily all right, but at least the seeds are left, according to the map and the support of the Ming Dynasty, there is no reason why it is slower than the West.

The amount of resources determines the speed of technological progress.

Sharpshooters are piled up with bullets.

Zhu Yunwen made up his mind.

Be sure to go to Shanxi and take a look at the scene in person!