The groom and the two maids heard a loud roar, and tremblingly felt over to see what was the matter, and walked out of the fence that surrounded the workshop.

I saw a monster spitting smoke and fire, stretching out an iron pipe with the thickness of his arm, and pumping the water in the Yongding River up to the high bank.

"Mother! The Dragon King has appeared! ”

The middle-aged groom exclaimed, quickly knelt in the snow, and kept kowtowing to the dragon lord.

The two beautiful maids had never seen such a glamorous scene, the embroidered shoes stepping on the snow suddenly softened, kneeling on the ground and not daring to move, the delicate body trembled and trembled, and the mouth was chattering.

Zhu Shun walked over to help the groom and ordered, "Go and call Shihui and them." ”

If you can invite the dragon lord down, you must be a fairy, where did the groom dare to stand up immediately, kowtow to Zhu Shun three times religiously, and stood up and ran to invite the three disciples of the fairy.

The sound of the Newcomon steam engine was very loud, and Song Shihui and the three of them were still three or four miles away from the steam workshop, and there was a faint roar on the empty snow.

Could it be that the teacher invented the steam engine?

Song Shiyi and Jiao Miao glanced at each other, opened their legs, and strode over, Song Shihui carried the dry tobacco pole and walked behind silently.

"Teacher! This is the steam engine? ”

Song Shiyi saw the Newcomun steam engine spitting smoke and fire, exclaimed, and ran to the Newcomun steam engine with a large amount of white steam, and looked left and right.

The third disciple Jiao Miao also wanted to go over and touch the steam engine, he had not been apprenticed for a long time, and he was still relatively unfamiliar with Zhu Shun, and he was relatively wooden, so he just stood in place and looked at the monster that was spitting smoke and fire.

Zhu Shun walked over, rubbed Jiao Miao's head wearing a dogskin hat, and said with a smile: "Go, if you want to touch it, go over and touch it." ”

There was a frenzy on Jiao Miao's face, and he ran over, carefully stroking the steaming Newcomen steam engine.

Zhu Shun turned his head to look at Song Shihui at the door, who was completely tanned into small black charcoal, squatting at the door, smoking a dry cigarette in silence.

Seeing that the teacher looked at her, Song Shihui grinned and showed her white teeth, and smiled brightly.

Zhu Shun was even happier when he saw the eldest disciple's innocent smile, knowing that this senior disciple was happy for his teacher in his heart.

Zhu Shun walked over and straightened his folded collar for him: "You can go too." ”

Song Shihui put away the dry tobacco stick in her hand, walked over silently, and touched the steaming Newkemen steam engine.

Just touched it, and squatted nearby and smoked a dry cigarette.

Grinning.

Zhu Shun looked at the eldest disciple who had an extremely good face in the past, and became like this, while being sad, he was more happy, and was about to go over to explain him.

Song Shiyi ran over and said happily: "Master, I will move the shuttle loom over in a while, and strive to invent the power loom as soon as possible." ”

Jiao Miao also ran over from the Newcomen steam engine, scratched his head, and said with a smile: "Master, the invention of the mass production of gunpowder should also be able to use the steam engine." ”

"That's why I want to bring those glass vessels here and make a mass production invention of gunpowder."

Zhu Shun never interfered too much with the invention direction of the three disciples, and did what he wanted to do the most where he was interested.

At the beginning, Song Shihui wanted to invent a new type of cotton, but after some twists and turns, she finally got on the right track.

Song Shiyi's mind has always been on how to improve the efficiency of the textile machine, and it is being realized step by step.

Zhu Shun's highest expectations were focused on gunpowder, which seemed to coincide with Sun Yuanhua's invention direction, but in fact, the two people took completely different routes.

Sun Yuanhua was thinking about how to purify gunpowder and make it more powerful, and Jiao Miao was thinking about how to mass-produce gunpowder to reduce the production cost of gunpowder.

In Zhu Shun's view, Jiao Miao's invention direction is more practical for today's Ming Dynasty.

The biggest cost of firearms is not the cost of building, but the cost of use.

When Zhu Shun was studying the history of the Ming Dynasty, he read Tan Lun's "Tan Xiangmin's Recital", and after a war, the ammunition cost of the bird gun alone was as high as 3,272 taels of silver.

This is only the ammunition money for the birds, not counting the ammunition money for artillery, and the gunpowder money for various other firearms.

It is estimated that this kid likes to play with firecrackers since he was a child, and before he served as the treasurer of the General Administration of Firearms, Jiao's family was not very wealthy, and the price of firecrackers was high, so he made up his mind to invent gunpowder with a lower price when he was a child.

As the source power of the industrial revolution, the steam engine played a great role in the mass production of looms and gunpowder, but not now.

The sky didn't know when it started to snow again, Zhu Shun walked into the simple thatched hall with three disciples, and sat around the fire pit: "I want to move here, but not now." ”

"This year is already the fourth year of Chongzhen, there will be a big drought in Beizhili, we must use the function of this steam engine to pump water, sing a big show, and dig a hole in the rock-solid system of the Donglin Party."

If this sentence was heard by Sun Yuanhua and others, even Xu Guangqi, the leader of the West French Party, would feel great consternation, and the rock-solid system of the Donglin Party was, to put it bluntly, the system on which the bureaucratic and gentry class depended.

Zhu Shun's desire to break the rentier class of the Ming Dynasty with the steam engine is simply a fool's dream.

What Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua couldn't understand, the three disciples couldn't understand it even more, but when the teacher was happy, they were happy, and they all laughed with the teacher.

Zhu Shun knew that they couldn't understand it, and it was estimated that even Sun Chengzong, the top strategic warrior of the Ming Dynasty, couldn't understand it, and he was so happy today that he didn't vomit or be unhappy.

Zhu Shun couldn't say anything to anyone just now, only the three disciples in front of him could say their true thoughts without reservation.

Zhu Shun looked at the three disciples smirking there, and scolded with a smile: "Okay, hurry up and go back to do your own things, and check the progress of your invention after a while to see if you are lazy." ”

The three disciples knew that the teacher still had important things to do, so they stood up and respectfully saluted the teacher, and reluctantly went back together.

Zhu Shun drank a cup of hot tea to warm up his body, and called the groom over: "You go to Wang Gongju to call Zhu Zhangchang over, and say that the selected craftsman can be brought over." ”

The groom hurriedly saluted again, and after saluting, he hurried to invite the younger brother of the living immortal according to the instructions of the living immortal.

It wasn't long before thirty craftsmen arrived in the steam engine workshop, all of whom were the most skilled craftsmen.

This is also the reason why Zhu Shun must firmly control Wang Gong Bureau, as long as he controls Wang Gong Bureau, he will master the most outstanding craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty.

These skilled craftsmen were the most valuable assets of the Industrial Revolution, and with them, they were able to build steam engines and various industrial machinery.

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