Built a steam engine? After hearing the news, Li Xuan immediately left the thigh era behind, and immediately took the report and read it.

After reading it, Li Xuan said: "Tell me to go down, tomorrow I will go and see this steam engine in person!" ”

Now that the steam engine has been built, how can Li Xuan not take a look, this thing is more important than some large-caliber artillery, musket or something!

If he can get the steam engine out, Li Xuan can set off an industrial revolution in every minute!

Something so important that naturally nothing can be overlooked.

At this time, the war in the north, the negotiations with the Francophiles, the development of industry and commerce, and the tax collection work of the Ministry of Taxation could not attract Li Xuan's attention.

Early the next morning, Li Xuan got up early in the morning, and after briefly dealing with today's twists and turns, he went straight to the Zhaoqing General Camp of the Young Military Camp in the morning.

Because inspecting the young military camp was a temporary decision, there were not many people who followed Li Xuan to the young military camp this time, except for the escort troops, the ministers only had Qian Mengjiu, the minister on duty in the imperial study, and the others were busy with their own affairs, and Li Xuan did not inform them.

The Zhaoqing General Camp of the Young Military Camp is set up in the suburbs of Zhaoqing, and there is actually a certain distance from the Imperial Palace.

Because the area of Zhaoqing urban area is relatively small, and the imperial palace and the yamen of various central institutions occupy a large area, Zhaoqing City, which is relatively small in the urban area, is insufficient.

Not to mention, the current population of Zhaoqing City has exceeded 80,000 people, and it is rapidly approaching a population of 100,000.

So in fact, most of the population lives on the outskirts of the city.

And the suburbs and urban areas, except for a city wall, in fact, there is not much difference between the two!

When Li Xuan came towards the young military camp, in the young military camp, a group of people were watching around a huge and strange-looking machine, among this group of people, a few of them were middle-aged people wearing official uniforms, but more of them were young people wearing ordinary Confucian clothes.

But between their expressions, these middle-aged officials were quite respectful to the young people in front of them.

This group of people are naturally the management officials and students in the Zhaoqing General Camp.

But from the attitude between the two, it can be seen that these young students are definitely not ordinary students!

On the one hand, it has officials sent by the Hanlin Academy to serve as ordinary administrative positions, but these officially dispatched officials can only be responsible for ordinary administrative management, and the teaching tasks and scientific research tasks are the responsibility of the students themselves!

For this reason, there is a rather strange senior responsibility system in the young military camp!

Older students have great power over junior students, but they also have unshirkable responsibility for junior students.

One of the most typical examples is that the teaching tasks of the junior students in the kindergarten are the responsibility of the senior students!

At the same time, the young military camp is under militarized management, and the positions of squad leader, deputy squad leader, grade leader, and deputy grade leader are set up in imitation of the army, and these positions are held by the most outstanding students.

At the same time, except for a few students who applied for the Imperial Academy, the students in the young military camp basically stayed in the school, and many of the management were actually early students.

Under this special system, in the kindergarten barracks, in fact, the senior students have a lot of power!

Of course, the senior students generally do not interfere indiscriminately, they have heavier self-study and research and development tasks, and many trivial tasks are actually handed over to the class leaders and grade leaders in the lower grades.

At this time, I only heard a rather heroic young man say: "Brother Lin, can this machine really be activated?" Don't just spray water vapor like last time! ”

A young man with a somewhat thin figure on the side immediately looked not very good-looking, and immediately snorted coldly: "Yesterday, I have already taken someone to test it, otherwise, how could Lin report it to Your Majesty!" ”

After that, he also showed a hint of sneer: "Chen Ziran, if you care about my steam engine, it is better to care about your steel mass production plan, how long has it been, I heard that you still haven't made the steel mass production plan!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Ziran, the heroic young man opposite, immediately turned slightly cold, and immediately snorted coldly: "It's just a steel mass production plan, and Chen will personally lead the team to conduct the test when he turns around!" ”

As he spoke, he also glanced at the few young people behind him, and the few teenagers behind him all showed embarrassment, and at the same time, he secretly said in his heart: "It seems that the rumored contradictions between my senior and Lin Hui are true, and you can directly turn your face on this occasion!" ”

However, whether it is Chen Ziran or Lin Hui, no matter which of these two is, they are all existences that they need to look up to, because these two people are the only two senior students in the entire young military camp who have passed the eighth-grade assessment and started to study the ninth-grade course on their own!

What's even more interesting is that after them, there are no other 8th graders, because there were only two of them!

And then there's the 7th graders!

This caused a fault line in the young barracks, that is, there were two ninth-grade students, and there were dozens of seventh-grade students, but there were no eighth-grade students.

Cause? Without him, Chen Ziran and Lin Hui are too rebellious!

The learning ability is too strong, and his grades have always been ranked first and second, and after being promoted to the sixth grade, these two people and other students occasionally receive Li Xuan's personal teaching, because of their outstanding ability, and they also have the right to write directly to Li Xuan for advice when they encounter problems.

And these two people also lived up to Li Xuan's expectations, and continued to study many courses on their own, and then promoted to the seventh grade, eighth grade, and now the ninth grade.

These two top students are the existence that other young military camp students need to look up to, but then again, although these two people have outstanding learning ability, they rarely directly lead research projects.

Lin Hui only got a steam engine, and this was still an interest, but no one gave him a task, and he completely relied on his interest for research and development.

Chen Ziran's words, he is very interested in steel, and he is also engaged in the research and development of mass production of steel on the surface, but he is different from Lin Hui, Lin Hui will do it himself, but he himself completely leaves the matter to a few seventh-grade students he brings.

And steelmaking is easy, but it is extremely difficult to make steelmaking on a large scale, Chen Ziran himself immersed himself in learning, and threw things to the juniors, and how can those juniors make it so easy.

I haven't even made a refractory brick yet!

At the same time, because these two people are equally good, they often regard each other as the object of comparison, and after a long time, there is no contradiction and there is a contradiction.

However, although Chen Ziran was skeptical about this steam engine, he also knew that his old opponent Lin Hui was a person with a steady personality, and he was not completely sure, so it was estimated that he would not report it to His Majesty.

Wait a minute, Your Majesty is going to come to see this steam engine, if this steam engine can't start by then, I guess it's a lot of fun!

Seeing that these two people were sneering, a group of seventh-graders behind them also didn't see it, it wasn't something they could interfere with.

And a few officials dispatched by the Hanlin Academy on the side also didn't see it, they have never had the right to meddle in the internal contradictions of the students, and they are too lazy to interfere, their authority is very simple, that is, to ensure the logistics of these students, as for how these students are learning, what results they have developed, they have nothing to do with them, and they can't make a fortune with this promotion.

Li Xuan's speed was not slow, it didn't take long to arrive at the young military camp, and then he saw the steam engine developed by Lin Hui.

This guy is a bit large, with numerous and intricate parts exposed.

At the first glance of this thing, Li Xuan was very sure that this thing was a steam engine, because it was very similar to the early steam engine in his impression, but what the specific performance was, this still needs to be asked.

Immediately, Li Xuan beckoned: "Lin Hui, how about this steam engine, can it be used?"

Lin Hui immediately walked over: "Your Majesty, this steam engine has been successfully tested yesterday and can be started!" ”

"Oh, let's take a look!" Li Xuan immediately said with anticipation!

Others still don't know why Li Xuan is so expectant of the steam engine, but they don't know that it doesn't matter, as long as Li Xuan himself knows the great usefulness of this steam engine, even if the current steam engine still looks very primitive.

Immediately, Lin Hui nodded slightly, and several of the seventh-grade students he took to work on the steam engine together were busy, and at the same time, Lin Hui also explained to Li Xuan: "This steam engine is the third generation of steam engines developed by students, and the previous three generations of steam engines have more or less defects, so although it can also be called a steam engine, it cannot be put into practical use, and this steam engine is a special improvement made by the students according to the problems existing in the previous generations!" ”

As he spoke, the steam engine in front of him also began to ignite, and after a few dull sudden sounds, the huge wheels in front of the strange machine turned on their own, and they were getting faster and faster, and finally maintained a state of rapid rotation.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuan couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and immediately said: "Good, good, good!" ”

"With this weapon, my Datang will start the industrial revolution just around the corner!"