Chapter 723: The Role of Trains
Just when Bao Zheng was embarrassed, Fan Zhongyan had already arrived at the general prison in the Fengqiu military camp located in the north of Tokyo, which was originally the location of the Ordnance Division, but after the technology of the general supervisor was increasingly improved, he was also ordered to move to the Fengqiu military camp.
Today's Fengqiu military camp is completely different from the previous one, and there are even fewer guards on the city wall than before, but the road wider than the royal road makes Fan Zhongyan feel the difference here, although there are not many forbidden troops on the city wall, but the artillery of the black hole hole shows everyone its hideousness, the power of this artillery Fan Zhongyan has seen it, and the power of a cannon is terrifying.
The large and small bed crossbows on the wall were neatly arranged, if there were no chamberlains, Fan Zhongyan believed that he would be shot into a sieve before he got close to the city wall, although this was the Fengqiu military camp, but the degree of defense was even higher than that of the palace.
The palace wall defense of the palace is only ten zhang, and the defense range of this Fengqiu military camp is fifteen zhang away, a few days ago I heard that there is a splash and people bet, in exchange for his life gambling money, over the palace guard.
The guards on the palace wall did not shoot, but also sent a crossbow arrow to warn it, who knew that the splash picked up a life and got the gambling money is not over, and made a bet with people again, to Fengqiu military camp as a gamble, the gambling money doubled, but he just crossed the forbidden line of fifteen zhang was nailed to the ground by a thick crossbow arrow, and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion did not dare to come to collect the body, but asked the prefect to come to deal with it.
It can be seen that the official family attaches great importance to the Fengqiu military camp, even the palace is not as good as it, which makes Fan Zhongyan more surprised and the importance of the steam car, I can't wait to see its true face immediately, cross the Guangbei Bridge and walk less than 100 meters to the Fengqiu military camp, here was originally the old Fengqiu Gate, and now it has become the camp gate of the military camp, not far away from Yishan is already close at hand, but Wangshan ran a dead horse, after entering the barracks, the chamberlain respectfully handed the passage documents to the barracks guards, and got the horses from the guards.
The general who went to the foot of Yishan along the special road, the military academy was still above Yishan, and no one was allowed to go up the mountain easily without the official documents of the two governments or the emperor's will, which shows that he was more strict than the general as a prisoner.
Before Fan Zhongyan arrived at the foot of Yishan, he saw a huge cloud of black smoke rising, accompanied by cheers, and when he got closer, he saw that the capital of Ouchi knew Sancai while holding the official hat on his head and chasing something in embarrassment, and when Fan Zhongyan looked at it, he was stunned by what was in front of him. A behemoth with black smoke and a strange sound moved forward slowly, this "big guy" was much faster than a man, but not as fast as a galloping horse.
And the person who chased after the three talents was the official family who hurriedly left from the Daqing Palace, at this time the official family shouted and let out a happy laugh, from the sound you can know that the official family is extremely happy at this time, although the usual official family is not rigid and serious, but not as happy as today, even excited.
Fan Zhongyan looked at it for a long time and didn't see that this smoking behemoth was pulled by animal power, and this thing was all made of steel, not wood at all, and the animal power didn't want to pull it forward, the speed was still so fast.
Zhao Zhen played in the locomotive carriage called a joy, although there is no pressure gauge in later generations, but the skilled craftsman who will be the supervisor made a pressure tester with a short iron pipe, which is really a miracle! The most valuable thing is that this train is the same as I guessed, using coal as raw material and burning coal as force.
The emergence of the train means that the technology of the boiler and the steam engine has matured, and the craftsman who will be the supervisor has been able to combine the two into one, Zhao Zhen has long proposed the boiler on the grid, and the steam engine has been extended through the boiler, and the train is the intuitive manifestation of the steam engine used in life.
Compared with Zhao Zhen's excitement, the master craftsman and the official who will be the supervisor are about to faint with excitement, obviously the things they have made have been recognized by the official family, and they are still used again, Zeng Gongliang led Zhao Xiaowu forward, they wanted to hear what the official family had to say, after all, the official family was the founder of the mountain.
Zhao Zhen just recovered from the excitement, and asked the craftsman who followed him to stop adding charcoal to the boiler, and the speed of the train slowly decreased, this is the train that has just been tested, and there is no perfect braking brake, but as long as it can run, it is already very remarkable, you must know that it is now around the eleventh century AD, and the Europeans are still in a backward and barbaric era.
At this time, the Great Song Dynasty already had a train, Zhao Zhen vividly advanced China's science and technology for nearly eight hundred years, the appearance of the steam engine did not make Zhao Zhen very happy, what really made him happy was what the steam engine would bring!
A revolution, an industrial revolution, Zhao Zhen knows that he deliberately put forward the steam engine will affect the history of the progress of Chinese civilization, and he also knows that many things are still in the exploration stage, the industrial revolution may not come, it may be very slow, but as long as there is a steam engine, Zhao Zhen believes that this process will not be interrupted, long? He is not afraid, the Chinese people have patience and wisdom, and they will make up for this.
As long as the Chinese civilization continues to advance, it will firmly leave the world civilization behind, which is what he hopes to see and what he is excited about. Five years have passed, and there is no news of the fleet sent to the Americas, and Zhao Zhen believes that these great explorers have died in the belly of the fish, so he specially erected a plaque for them in the city of Tokyo.
There is no rubber to seal the steam engine of this train is a big test, if you want to completely seal the steam engine, the wisdom required is beyond ordinary people, and the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty found a way to connect them with threads, and made something similar to rubber with a mixture of various resins and fibers, but the cost is slightly higher, but the most important thing in the Great Song Dynasty is money.
Through the lever, drive the wheels of the locomotive, this train is enough to pull six huge wooden carriages, the train of the Great Song Dynasty is mainly wooden, as long as there is a steam engine as the power to drive, there is no need for a heavy locomotive, the wheels are not all iron, but the wooden wheels are wrapped in iron sheets, and the iron track runs smoothly, if the rear carriage is equipped with shock-absorbing iron sheets, it is definitely more comfortable than riding the same carriage.
Transporting goods, transporting grain, transporting vital resources, and transporting soldiers, this train will become the most important weapon of the Great Song Dynasty! Fan Zhongyan saw its usefulness at a glance and observed it carefully, and Zhao Zhen called him here exactly what he meant.
No one is more suitable for developing the value of trains than Fan Zhongyan, who is the president of the Highway Administration, and the role of trains in his hands will be maximized, and how to lay railways is also a difficult problem, which must be handed over to Fan Zhongyan to deal with.