Leaving Qingtang was a foregone conclusion, so Ma Jinxi and them stayed, took Mu Guiying and Mu Guiying's personal soldiers, and quickly returned to Huangzhou.

April 5 was a great day, and the Qiang people at the wharf of Huangzhou City were simply stunned. To say that the merchant ships from the Song Kingdom were big enough, but this time they are really bullish, this is Shenma black technology?

A 1,500-ton ship does not need manpower, no sails, only the sound of rumbling machinery, accompanied by thick smoke, and can shuttle through the river on its own?

In other words, this incident was scolded by the Song Kingdom, saying that the Machinery Industry Bureau was extravagant and wasteful and played the piano, and their so-called trial voyage was actually to pick up their director, who needed such a big ship?

This is a miracle in the eyes of the Tibetans.

I heard that this magical ship came from the Song Dynasty's Daimyo's Mansion, which had to go through many turns, and the water level of some rivers made it difficult for the big boat to sail. In this way, it is necessary to adopt the design of a flat-bottomed boat with a center of gravity, but such a large ship, such a large load, and a sudden mechanical monster, it can be filled with supplies and not fall apart from the Daimyo's Mansion here?

"What the hell is this technology? Can such a big and heavy boat walk in shallow water? ”

On the wharf, many people who are accustomed to seeing the ship on and off the cargo expressed their shock.

No one knew, not even the treasurer and sailors of the Song Kingdom, who were experienced in sailing. But they know that the team of the Beijing Shipyard was part of the Funing County Machinery Factory back then, and there was also a part of Shen Kuo, and when it came to brain technology, especially the understanding of wood technology, which is unparalleled in today's world, they can do it.

"Da Song is amazing."

"Yes, there are more and more black technologies. Not only this kind of big ship, but the railway from Suide Army to the Security Army and the railway from Daimyofu to Bianjing, which were built simultaneously in the Great Song Dynasty during the war, I heard that more than half of the progress has been made. Once opened, their ability to mobilize supplies will be greatly improved. ”

"Because of the convenience of circulation, food prices will be very stable in the areas after the opening of traffic, because the materials in the cheap areas can be coordinated to the high-priced areas at the bottom cost."

"As for the southern region, I heard that there are no large-scale railway plans for the time being. However, this kind of flat-bottomed mechanical ship is powerful, which can greatly improve the efficiency of water transportation. ”

"The best thing is that the verification of the third-generation steam engine of Funing County Machinery Factory has already ended, and I heard that at the same time that the Great Demon King retired from Zhuo Luolan in Xiliang Mansion, the third-generation production version of the steam engine of Funing Machinery Factory was off the assembly line."

"What does the third-generation steam engine look like, isn't it powerful?"

"Damn, I haven't even seen the first generation. However, I heard that compared with the second-generation machine, the thrust-to-weight ratio has increased by nearly 30%. ”

"What does it mean that this thrust-to-weight ratio is increased by 30%?"

"You call it not learning and not knowing, if you read more Funing Industrial News, you will understand. The ratio of thrust to the weight of the machine is called the thrust-to-weight ratio. Assuming that the volume and weight are not increased, the lifting thrust is possible. Alternatively, it is possible to significantly reduce the volume and weight without increasing the thrust. That's it. ”

A guy who knows a little bit of technology intervened: "I heard that compared with the second-generation steam engine magic version, the third-generation machine is not as powerful as the second-generation for the time being. However, the new architecture design is more advanced, and the potential can be tapped later, I believe that it will not be long before the strength of Funing County Machinery Factory will design the fourth generation at the same time, and the third generation of the machine magic will be changed to more than 200 horsepower. ”

"Is it really two hundred horsepower for such a machine?"

"Yes, it's stronger than two hundred horses, because it's a unified force, and there is less loss in coordination."

These are the things that people are talking about now, and basically when they stop to replenish water and coal along the way, you can listen to all kinds of people talking about it on the wharf.

There is a sense of achievement, and Da Song really has internal strength now.

Perhaps more and more people are forgetting how all this came about, but these are no longer important, and it is pointless to dwell on them, just like later generations of people who are generally not interested in arguing who invented and who promoted the industry when they take the high-speed train.

But as long as I have others who don't, or everyone who is sometimes the most advanced in our country, this is where the sense of national glory comes from. Now, even if most of the people of the Song Kingdom have never seen trains and steam engines, they can tell them all about it, for no other reason, this is their superiority over the Liao people and the Xixia people.

In this blink of an eye, listening to these news, Wang Yan himself felt as if he was in a different world.

Back then, the steam engine that was made by a group of grassroots people, in addition to sounding everywhere like a fast falling shelf, was also stupid and black, the machine was a big one, the life was inferior, it took less than half a year, and it was only thirty horsepower.

Now in a blink of an eye, Wang Yan can see, the assembly of this machine assembled on the big ship is much smaller, only half the size of the original, but it can provide 120 horsepower output, in view of the progress of technology and materials, plus Shen Kuo has refined better quality lubricating materials, and now the operating life has increased to more than five times that of the original.

That is to say, the commercial environment of the steam engine is basically mature, and the use of the steam engine is not cost-effective, at least it is not a loss.

However, due to the lack of production capacity, except for Ye Qinghua and the government, none of them can get the goods, and they are still in Ye Qinghua's exclusive period.

The machine installed on the big ship is the second generation of the magic revision, the machinery factory believes that although the third generation of thrust-to-weight ratio and process parameters are better, but the new thing is not as mature and stable as the old thing, so it is not in a hurry to try the flagship used by the leader, stable and grass-tolerant. This is the view of Xu Langshan, the director of the machinery factory.

If it's Shen Kuo's dumb kid, he actually prefers to show off new things and new technologies.

On this issue, Da Yan supports Uncle Xu Langshan, the so-called safety first, the leader of the ship, in case the machine is blown up, you can't cry blind? Like Shen Kuo, he is the only one who experiments with gliders by himself.

By the way, before arriving in Beijing, Wang Yan received a document written by a certain imperial historian, and the imperial history platform said: Shen Kuo is seriously concerned about the waste of resources of the national dynasty and the behavior of engaging in deference, and Wang Yan, the governor of the Machinery Industry Bureau, is given a warning.

This is because a while ago, Wang Yan provided the idea and approved the funds to allow Shen Kuo to build a most primitive "wind tunnel system" to facilitate him to test the aerodynamic parameters without breaking his head again. Anyway, his head is now worth a lot.

The extremely simple wind tunnel system, which is regarded as the technical verification device of the "Second Aviation Institute" under the command of the Machinery Industry Bureau, is driven by the latest third-generation steam engine, which uses a large speed ratio to drive the turbine, and then "blows" in a specific environment.

The current design is still chilling, with a low start, resulting in insufficient wind to test larger parameters, but it is more than enough to test a glider equivalent to a two-person load.

The Machinery Industry Bureau was born by Wang Yan and formulated relevant regulations. But at that time, Dayan was still a bare-bones commander, and he didn't even have subordinates, so he led the volunteers to the west because of the emergency of the Hehuang battlefield.

Therefore, just like Lu Huiqing in Funing County, the follow-up organizational structure construction and various work carried out were basically completed by Shen Kuo. In addition to being a technical nerd, this kid also has some organizational foundations, because before that he was the head of a county.

In his hands, the current Industrial Bureau has the so-called "First Railway Institute" and "Second Aviation Institute", as well as the Third Ship Design Institute, referred to as "301 Institute", which has just been established. Because there are not many people in the ship yard just built, it is jokingly called "institute" by the people of the aviation institute and the railway yard.

As for why it was so named, Wang Yan didn't understand, in short, Shen Kuo, this kid got these rosters, and submitted them to the Zhongshu Sect for customization, and now Wang Yan can't do anything about them.

These are the joyful news that this April Sky Voyage has obtained. Overall, the Great Song Dynasty is really thriving.

For Wang Yan, the top priority is to think about the exam, if he can't pass the exam, he simply resigns and goes home to his wife and children, and by the way, he does business to make money, or it seems good to set up an East India Company to go to sea to be a bad guy?

In the end, Lu Huiqing is no longer a magistrate. Because of his good political performance and the amazing logistics ability he showed when coordinating the battlefield of the Volunteer Army, he is now the governor of Yinzhou.

The administrative office is still in Funing County, and the administrative area is not much different from before, but now it is at the state level, or Shangzhou, and it is an important industrial town directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

At the beginning, because of diplomatic problems with the Western Xia, the name "Yinzhou" could not appear on the surface, but now the Western Xia has no temper, after the victory of the Beichuan estuary of the Volunteer Army, Fu Bi decisively notified the world to restore the establishment of the Yinzhou Administrative Region, Lu Huiqing knows the state, and is not subject to the control of the Northwest Transshipment Division, and is directly under the management of the Zhongshu Gate.

This is actually the first "municipality directly under the central government" in the Great Song Dynasty......

As Shen Kuo's childhood friend, Chen Fan is also a technology nerd. Although it is not the kind of prostitution that has been a soldier together, it is also the kind of sworn friends who have been in trouble together, such as when they were children, they lit the "gas well" together.

Last year, Shen Kuo got a job in Beijing, and he belonged to the Machinery Industry Bureau, a new organization, and heard that there were quite enough funds to squander, so Chen Fan decided to go to Shen Kuo and participate in oil research together.

Although this group of tech nerds are the earliest people to be enlightened, they have no choice but to have weak basic knowledge and need for further study. At that time, the most mature place for the development of mathematics, physics and chemistry was the "Coal College" under the Beijing Coal Yard.

So Shen Kuo and his uncle signed the "Entrusted Postgraduate Agreement", Chen Fan became the first "public graduate student" of the Machinery Industry Bureau, and took the full amount of money to enter Beijing for further study, which seemed to have a good effect, so Shen Kuo approved more funds and expanded the scale of graduate student dispatch.

Today, the coal yard is not only a children's primary school, but also a children's middle school and a coal college.

This title is too ugly, the actual controller is Wang Yan, but Cao Ji is the honorary president. In view of the fact that the uncle coal boss was born with a coal complex, he must be named, and the resistance from the rotten Confucianism is small. After all, he is the younger brother of the queen's mother.

In the process of further study, Chen Fan showed excellent learning talent, and also put forward many new knowledge and arguments, which Wang Yan did not mention at that time. In this way, he became one of the elites of science.

Yes, now the level of basic knowledge in this aspect of the Great Song Dynasty is higher than the enlightenment proposed by Wang Yan at that time, which is an achievement. It is the midsummer fruit that is widely sown and harvested after investing funds.

The basic knowledge they improved, Wang Yan couldn't remember those things at the time, but after they figured it out, Wang Yan could probably understand it, so that he could give timely guidance, keep the route correct, and avoid detours.

Academics are actually the most stubborn and difficult people in the world to convince. Once they have identified a theory, it is difficult to correct the bleeding without touching the head. But the advantage of prestige is that today's Great Demon King will approve of it once he speaks, and he will not dare to refute it.

It's really because Wang Yan's achievements in all aspects are too great, and he basically didn't miss it, and he is a mentor and pioneer in the industry who systematically proposes mathematics, physics and chemistry. The impact of this aura on non-Confucian academic circles is very far-reaching.

To this day, unless Wang Yan is proven wrong, someone may be able to take away his official position, but it is basically impossible to deny his achievements as a "mentor of the way" in a specific field.

This is the alternative leadership aura.

With sufficient funds and first-mover experience in petroleum research, coupled with the improvement of basic knowledge and experiments, the Great Song Dynasty has generally made great progress in the past year of its war with foreign countries.

In Chen Fan's view, the energy density of the current industrial department is extremely fierce.

Chen Fan swore that he had never thought that fuel could burst out with such firepower before.

But there are still flaws, and some of the craftsmanship is not clear.

This requires the things of the military department to corroborate each other. However, the Ministry of War refused to visit and refused to give the secret recipe of the process.

Don't look at it as a government agency. However, in the traditional concept, the military department is a heavyweight tome, and the industrial bureau is the second echelon of "enterprises and institutions", which is despised by everyone. In addition, the Great Demon King can't be separated, so he can't do public relations about these things. Therefore, under the conservative thinking of hiding the secret recipe, the requirements of the Industrial Bureau are not welcomed.

This is very realistic and objective.

Speaking of which, at that time, a bunch of people wanted to deny the Great Demon King in all aspects and let him withdraw his army, how could they still give the industry a situation? Therefore, the appeal of a third-rate official like Chen Fan, let alone public relations, he can't even ask to meet with "relevant personnel of relevant departments".

Not everyone has a prime minister as a father, and not every official has Wang Yan's domineering spirit and dares to enter the middle hall to petition.

Therefore, Chen Fan went to Beijing for further study, similar to the technical spy sent by the Industrial Bureau, and secretly took on the task of bribing public relations and obtaining the process of the fierce fire oil mill.

It's so hard that even Zhang Fangping can't help. Speaking of which, when Zhang Fangping was in power, he cleaned up the military department and reduced people's funds the most ruthlessly, and now it is equivalent to Zhang Fangping's almost half-cool situation, and no one in the military department sells Lao Zhang's account.

Chen Fan, the "underground party", gritted his teeth and persevered, and in the past year of studying in Beijing, he has seen the big from a small one, and has maintained the frequency of inviting relevant bureaucrats to visit Fanlou twice a month, and after spending a lot of public relations expenses, he still has not been given the opportunity to visit the fierce fire oil factory.

However, with the increase of his knowledge and basic knowledge, he always talked about related things intentionally or unintentionally in the drinking and chatting with those technical bureaucrats, and in the past year, Chen Fan has basically summed up a rough prototype, and these chat notes are very important to the research and development of the "Fourth Petroleum Institute" of the Industrial Bureau.

It's not easy, this is already a secret agent of the Industrial Bureau. There is really no way to take the right channel, and it took countless funds, through a year-long period of time and dozens of chat attempts, to gradually deduce the general process flow of the fierce fire oil mill of the military department.

To the layman, these chat notes are of course useless, but for Chen Fan, a top technician in the industry, although these conversations are not all dry goods, they can already be studied and confirmed.

They were able to do all this because they had a good leader, and Wang Yan was rolling around in the war looking for rich people to cheat, so he helped these people get the administrative editor. Otherwise, with the sense of class superiority of the Great Song Dynasty during this period, Chen Fan would spend money to entertain guests, and people with relevant mouths would not go to the banquet, and the givers would not accept it.

At this point, the vigorous process of the fuel industry is ready to begin.

Chen Fan in the Coal Institute, through the feedback and confirmation of various materials, coupled with a large number of experimental research with the people of the college, he has formulated the technical indicators of several different fuels of the Fourth Petroleum Institute, and marked the number.

These are the crystallization of technology, and they all surpass the traditional fierce fire oil of the military department. However, there are still some difficulties to overcome from the "gasoline" required by the Great Demon King.

The direction is right, and it is not a problem to make it. The difficulty lies in the fact that the refining process is not yet mature, at least not at present, and it cannot be qualified on a large scale.

In this regard, Wang Yan has long instructed: the compression ratio of early internal combustion engines is very low, and the fuel must be effectively and fully "atomized" in order to combine with air to the greatest extent and carry out compression and ignition. It is not a big problem to use such an internal combustion engine for farming, but it is a dream to push an airplane into the sky.

As a result, this places high technological demands on the texture and form of the fuel.

Under the rule of the big devil, everyone is in a state of "pyramid scheme", and there is no need for the big devil himself, the whole team has entered the automatic rate, and they are competing with each other, and no one wants to fall behind.

As the leader of the Fourth Petroleum Institute, Chen Fan had only a few subordinates at the earliest, and was nicknamed "401" by his colleagues in the Industrial Bureau. Now those turtle sons of the Aviation Institute have actually built a wind tunnel, and great progress has been made in related fields.

Not to mention surpassing, in this technology competition, 401 can't be too far behind. Damn, if you are still lagging behind, and the zero-based railway and aviation institutes are still ahead, it will be a loss of face, according to the words of Shen Kuo, the second master, there is really a reason to "withdraw the hospital and set up a station". If there is no result, of course, the establishment must be reduced.

Shen Kuo has Shen Kuo's pressure, he has to be responsible for the Great Demon King, and has invested a lot of resources, establishment, and funds, if there is no progress, it will always be a bureaucracy, and someone will always take the blame.

These are the shadows that have been lingering in Chen Fan's heart, the master of the 401 Institute, lingering.

There is a belief that "go forward, go forward, go forward". No one knows where they can go. No one needs to urge, in short, Chen Fan wants to hand over a technical answer sheet on the occasion of the Great Demon King's class, and it doesn't matter what the significance is. Anyway, I just want to do it and not disappoint the Great Demon King.

But at the end of April, Chen Fan, who graduated from the Coal Institute and wanted to return to Beijing with countless experiences, materials, and notes, was grabbed into the number. The reason: stealing state secrets.

As early as the beginning of March, there was a bad omen, and the little uncle Cao Jilai, who had inside information, warned Chen Fan, and only said one sentence: "Run, go back to Beijing to hide from Zhang Fangping's house, any other problems, and wait for the big demon king to slowly pull the calf after the teacher."

But Chen Fan was afraid that he would run away and couldn't speak clearly, and he didn't dare to fully trust his little uncle, so he wrote to ask Shen Kuo.

However, Shen Kuo was also an idiot in this regard, and he did not reply to Chen Fan for a long time.

Shen Kuo is not exempt from vulgarity in these aspects, and he is afraid that he will not be able to tell if he runs away. I was also afraid that after replying to the letter instructing his subordinates to "escape", even Shen Kuo himself would be caught in across the province, so the Industrial Bureau would cry blind.

So in this way, how the news leaked, and how the Industrial Bureau, an enterprise that is not valued, was targeted by the relevant departments, no one knows. In short, at the end of April, Chen Fan was arrested for tea, and no one knew where he was locked up......