A complex machine, almost entirely made of steel casting and drum gears, sits in the center of the laboratory.

Zhao Qing, Zhang Cang, and Liu Craftsman, who designed the dough sheeter, all stood beside Chen Xu excitedly, surrounded by hundreds of large and small figures from various departments of the Academy of Sciences, all of whom were also excited and red.

A group of newspaper reporters who were invited to observe the exhibition were also like a group of horse monkeys, jumping around asking about the different names and manufacturing methods of various parts of the craftsmen's machines.

"Master Hou, the noodles are reconciled!" A craftsman rushed over to report it.

"Okay, put the noodles into the hopper and start the test!" Chen Xu nodded very excitedly.

Soon several helpers carried over a huge wooden barrel, which was full of stirred dough, under the command of a craftsman, the helper shoveled the dough into the feed hopper of the dough sheeter with a shovel, a burly helper with a big waist and a round waist took off his shirt and began to shake the handle, as the huge gears began to rotate, the three finished zigzag drums also began to rotate at a uniform speed under the linkage of several pairs of gears of different sizes, and soon the dough was pressed out of the drums, and then passed through two rollers with close teeth. The dough becomes a noodle with a uniform width and thickness, falling from the sloping outlet.

"Haha, the noodles are out, they're out!" The onlookers all let out a cry of surprise.

"Cut ready, cut once in three feet, hurry up and bring the bamboo pole!" Craftsman Liu's tears of excitement came out.

"Click!" Seeing that the noodles at the outlet have reached the three-foot scale, a craftsman pressed down a wooden handle, and the sharp knife went down, and after the fine noodles were neatly cut, a helper hung the noodles with a bamboo pole and hung them up, and then was sent to the wooden rack next to them to dry.

"Wow, the noodles are fine and consistent, exactly the same!" Looking at the hanging noodles, countless onlookers began to exclaim again.

"Get out of the way, here we go again!" The helper in charge of drying the noodles shouted and hung up another rod of noodles.

"It's too fast!" Before almost everyone had time to see clearly, the noodles were hung on wooden shelves one by one, and the thin and dense white noodles looked pleasing to the eye.

"Master Hou, we finally succeeded!" Looking at the endless flow of noodles pressed out like flowing water, Artisan Liu shook excitedly.

"Hehe, success is inevitable, Ben Hou said at the beginning, once the gear is successfully developed, all kinds of machinery will be able to be manufactured, and the gear is the core and soul of the machine!" Chen Xu smiled and nodded.

A large bucket of dough is full of hundreds of catties, and it has bottomed out in just a quarter of an hour, and the burly helper who is responsible for shaking the handle is sweating and panting, but he is still extremely excited, this is Daqin's first machine in the true sense, and being able to participate in this first test ceremony is enough for him to blow cowhide for a lifetime.

"Master Hou, the dough is running out!" A craftsman was equally red-skinned and panting with excitement.

"Not bad, this speed is very good!" Chen Xu was very satisfied, turned around and patted Liu Craftsman on the shoulder, "You have made a great contribution, Ben Hou officially announced that the test of Liu's dough sheeter was a complete success, please prepare all kinds of design drawings and data, Ben Hou will let the scientific evaluation committee evaluate your design and issue bonuses, and at the same time will let the Ministry of Industry issue you a patent certificate, and you will get patent fees for all the machines manufactured and sold in the future, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in this machine, I hope you can continue to research and improve ......"

"Thank you...... Thank you, Master Hou......" Craftsman Liu's excited words were no longer trembling.

"Director Pang, the science and technology section of this issue of the newspaper will introduce this dough sheeter in detail, and at the same time, in the face of national investment, businessmen who want to buy this dough sheeter can start to make a deposit to the Academy of Sciences for customized production!" Chen Xu said to Pang Que, the director of the newspaper standing next to him.

"Hou Ye rest assured, this dough sheeter will inevitably become the focus of the next issue of the newspaper, one hundred catties of noodles, all made into noodles in a quarter of an hour, enough for a hundred people to eat all day, this speed is simply fast, at present, there are dozens of restaurants and noodle restaurants in Xianyang City alone, as well as all families to eat and drink, and tens of thousands of catties of noodles need to be consumed every day, this machine must not worry about selling!" Pang Que nodded excitedly.

"Hemp stalk!"

"Master Hou, I'm here!" The hemp rod squeezed out of the crowd.

"Ben Hou has now decided to set up the first machinery factory in Daqin, and will be responsible for all kinds of machinery manufacturing in the future, this dough sheeter is the first product of the machinery factory, and you are the director of the machinery factory, and you must be responsible for strictly controlling every machine!"

"Yes, Master Hou!" Ma Pole nodded excitedly.

"Craftsman Liu, since this noodle machine was designed and developed by you, Ben Hou will let you be responsible for the supervision, manufacturing and improvement of the noodle machine, and at the same time, you must also train repair workers!"

"Don't worry, Master Hou, your subordinates will do a good job!" Craftsman Liu excitedly bowed his hand again and again.

"Craftsman Liu has made a fortune, but he wants to invite guests to play in the garden!" Someone in the crowd started yelling.

"Don't worry, this time the bonus is in hand, I will definitely invite you to the garden to eat, drink, play and sleep little lady!" The back molars of Liu's smile were exposed.

A day later, Daqin No. 1 Machinery Factory was established in the blacksmith shop of the experimental factory, although it is still a set of hemp rods, but the meaning has become completely different, in Chen Xu's view, this is a very important step for Daqin to take to the industry, and there will be a steady stream of machines in the future.

Two days later, in the latest issue of Daqin Metropolis Daily, there was a news called the beginning of the machine industry in the science and technology sector, in addition to the special picture released the graphic manuscript called Liu's dough sheeter, and also advertised, began to attract investment from all over the country, encouraging businessmen from all over the country to buy dough presses and open noodle processing factories.

This news came out, immediately widely spread among the people, many people are asking everywhere what this strange item called the dough sheeter is, and many discerning businessmen also see business opportunities from it, some people went to the experimental factory to watch the dough sheeter, after less than a day, the machinery factory received an order for eight dough sheeters, although the price of a dough sheeter is as high as 20,000 yuan, but if you can make two thousand catties of noodles per day, only half a pound per catty, it only takes less than a month to recover the cost, However, the business model can't be counted like this, and the cost of site manual transportation and other costs add up to a lot of expenses, but there will be no problem at all in earning back the cost in three or five months, so how can the noodle processing factory make tens of thousands of dollars back in a year, which is definitely a very cost-effective deal.

At present, the people in Xianyang and even many counties and counties that are slightly wealthier have become a habit to get up in the morning and eat a bowl. However, the noodles are made by hand, and they can't be made much in a day, and some noodle restaurants hire a few helpers to start making them before dawn every day, but they are not enough to sell.

And because the noodles are soft and tender and easy to eat, you can start eating them after boiling them in hot water for half an hour, and if you add a little more complicated minced meat and noodle sauce, it is a very delicious food, which will definitely replace the dry naan cake as the first choice for home travel, so you don't have to worry about not selling at all.

The appearance of the dough sheeter not only caused a huge response among the people, but also caused a heated discussion in the court.

When Chen Xu went to the court, not only many officials were inquiring, but even Qin Shi Huang specifically asked, so Chen Xu also carefully introduced it, which also aroused the emperor's great interest, and in order to meet the emperor's idea of opening his eyes, Chen Xu had to let Ma Zhu and others transport the prototype of the dough sheeter of the experimental factory to the city in a horse-drawn carriage, and put it in Qinghe Garden to demonstrate the production process of the dough sheeter to the emperor and many ministers.

Looking at such a complex gear machine, the emperor kept asking questions, and after watching the working process of the dough sheeter, he was very excited to announce that he would reward all the craftsmen and craftsmen who participated in the design and production of the dough sheeter with 500 yuan each, and also rewarded Liu Craftsman with a nine-grade Lang position, although there was no real lack of official position, but the official rank of 1,200 yuan per year still made Liu Craftsman so excited that he knelt on the ground and almost couldn't get up.

From an official to an official, this is a hurdle that many people cannot overcome in their lifetime.

Moreover, this official position was personally rewarded by the emperor, which was enough to glorify the lintel of the Liu family to comfort the ancestors and ancestors.

In March, it has entered the strong spring season, and the lively Xianyang has also begun to enter the summer mode in advance, and the big daughter-in-law and little lady who walk through the streets and alleys have already been eager to change into various styles of thin spring skirts, and welcome the arrival of midsummer.

After a grand sacrificial activity in the Shangsi Festival, several noodle machine processing factories have been opened in the inland of Xianyang City, in addition to a large number of fresh noodles every day to supply the noodle restaurant, there are also a large number of dried noodles bundled with hemp pulp paper into a tube of dry noodles one foot long and put them in the grain store for sale, although each catty is two or three dollars more expensive than flour, but it has quickly been liked by the majority of business travelers and families, rich families buy a large number of back as spare ingredients on weekdays, busy and hungry time can be quickly eaten to satisfy hunger.

And with this kind of easy-to-carry noodles by business travelers and pedestrians to take farther places, other counties and counties also continue to have businessmen to the Academy of Sciences to consult the purchase of dough sheeters, from the advertisement to the present in just half a month, the first machinery factory has received nearly 30 orders for dough sheeters, and the income of 600,000 yuan has also made the first machinery factory become a subordinate enterprise of the Academy of Sciences in addition to the bearing factory and glass factory in addition to another money-making department.

After several years of accumulation, the Academy of Sciences finally began to enter the stage where it did not need the support of the imperial court's money and grain.

In mid-March, after absorbing the process of Liu Jiangyi's dough sheeter, the Academy of Sciences once again developed a machine for making clay tablets, which made the production of pottery plates and tiles officially enter the machine age.

With the maturity of the gear technology, Chen Xu can finally carry out the next step of industrial advancement, and has carried out a ten-day lecture in the Academy of Sciences and the School of Engineering, placing the prototype of the first dough sheeter in the laboratory of the School of Engineering, guiding all teachers, craftsmen, and students to disassemble and observe the working mode and transmission state of the gear, and once again in the Academy of Sciences system to organize a team to start developing the first lathe.

In the industrial age of later generations, from the iron lock of the door bolt to the satellite carrier, it is inseparable from the two things of screw and nut, not to mention all kinds of complex parts.

If the gear is the soul of the machine, then the screw and nut are the bones of all the machine, with the lathe, in order to turn out the thread, and the gear transmission that can run smoothly and at a uniform speed can be used to manufacture qualified threads, which is a step-by-step process, and once there is a screw and nut this riveting artifact, the precision light and heavy industry will be greatly developed.

Therefore, for the research and development of lathes, Chen Xu has invested a lot of energy, and he has to stay up late at home every day to prepare for classes, and he has written hundreds of lecture scripts and various mechanical graphics drafts.

For the process and state of the riveting of threads and screws proposed by Chen Xu for the first time, as well as the wide application prospects of threads in various machines and even life, the entire Academy of Sciences was once again stimulated a little crazy, and the heavy reward was secondary, the main thing is that with these things, all kinds of equipment can be installed and dismantled very easily in the future.

At least once the research is successful, the horse-drawn carriage manufacturing that is running all over the country will undergo earth-shaking changes, so after Chen Xu offered a reward, Vice President Zhang Cang once again volunteered to take charge, and convened a group of craftsmen and craftsmen who have studied gears and machinery in the Academy of Sciences and experimental factories to carry out public relations.

Chen Xu is now almost no longer involved in the specific research and development of various departments of the Academy of Sciences.

First, because he was busy with official business after becoming the left minister, even if he went to the court and went to Zhongshu Province to inspect every day, it took half a day, and if there were more important things, sometimes he was almost busy for a whole day, so he didn't have much energy to give specific guidance.

The second is that after nearly four years of preparation and development of the Academy of Sciences, Chen Xu's knowledge of mathematics, physics and geometry has basically been completed one after another, and many craftsmen and craftsmen have begun to slowly enter this state of scientific research, and the scientific atmosphere of the entire Academy of Sciences system is also relatively strong, and many simple physical structures and research have no need for Chen Xu's meticulous guidance.

And the most important thing is that the development of science and technology is a process of accumulation, as long as enough scientific researchers are trained, and the accumulation to a point will naturally begin to flourish, and the success of a dough sheeter can almost be regarded as the beginning of this industrial base, and the gear will be widely used in various research and development in the future.

Chen Xu has now begun to enter the state of a scientific mentor, and according to the various machines in later generations, there will naturally be a large number of people to solve the problem.

It doesn't matter how long it takes to solve, it doesn't matter how well it is done, what matters is that a lot of experience will be accumulated by solving these solutions, and there will be many unexpected innovations and inventions in it.

That's what scientific experiments are for.

The Academy of Sciences is an incubator of modern industry, and it must not be allowed to become a craftsman group that will only be manufactured according to Chen Xu's drawings.

Daqin needs a variety of scientific research teams and scientists with independent research and development capabilities, rather than turners, fitters and installers.

At the end of March, the construction of Keju Field was completed, and all the stands and interior decoration were completed, although in Chen Xu's opinion, the stands were not closed, and there were no special seats, all of them were cement steps, and the turf laid on the court was also wild grass on the ordinary river beach, but no matter where you sit, you can clearly overlook the entire field, and you no longer have to tiptoe like before and can only listen to the scene.

Although the supporting commercial buildings are still under construction, but Meng Yun and a group of gentlemen have been eager to ask for a much-anticipated Keju competition in advance, Chen Xu in Liu Bang and Zhang Cang and other craftsmen and craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences inspected and accepted the entire Keju field, but also felt that a test of the nature of the stress test, in order to test the carrying capacity of the court, mainly to ensure the order of the stadium spectators to check in and out, as well as to test various fire and safety measures.

After a few days of arrangement, in the early summer of April, an advertisement for a Keju competition appeared in the Xianyang Metropolis Daily and Keju Daily.

This is not a regular game, the bookmaker did not open a lottery ticket, but the audience needs to buy tickets, regardless of region and location, unified five dollars a piece, in the fragrance garden, Qinghe Garden, books and newsstands and other places can be purchased, the number of people is limited to 30,000 people, this advertisement came out and immediately caused a sensation in the city.

This miraculous building, supervised by the Academy of Sciences and built by more than 10,000 craftsmen and migrant slaves for more than two years, will finally unveil the mystery inside in front of the eyes of millions of Xianyang people.

Because from beginning to end, the interior of this Keju field has never been exposed, but after the repeated propaganda of the craftsmen and people who participated in the construction, this covers an area of hundreds of acres, and the highest point reaches nearly 20 zhang high The scale of the strange building has always been something that everyone talks about, and now it is finally completed, standing on the south bank of the Wei River like a flock of chickens, like a miracle rising from the ground in the spotlight, standing nearby, the oval appearance that stands under the blue sky and white clouds is full of mystery. People can't wait to go in and feel the warm atmosphere of the mountain and tsunami.

The 30,000 tickets produced by the printing house were sold out in one day, and the ticket income of 150,000 yuan was completely disproportionate to the huge investment of more than 100 million yuan in the final construction cost, but this good start made Meng Yun and the other group of gentlemen almost pee with excitement.

This is a good start that they have been waiting for for two years, as long as the annual Keju League is well organized and completed, the tickets alone have at least millions of income every year, and after adding the millions of income of the bookmaker, after digging out various expenses, the money allocated to them is also a crazy number, you must know that the annual income of the bus company with nearly 200 buses is only more than one million dollars, and the business of the bus company has made countless businessmen red-eyed.

However, the income of a few gentlemen is like this, they can only get part of the dividends of the bookmaker and Keju tickets, as for the income of the supporting commercial plaza, they are all under the Keju Plaza according to the original investment dividends, the majority is Wang Jian and his son and Huaxia Qianzhuang, and the rest have Qinghehou's own millions of investments, as for Chen Xu's begging father and grandmother to ask for a penny, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military and princely ministers can only watch the commercial plaza make money in the future.

Chen Xu believes that after the completion and opening of Keju Commercial City, the annual rent will be soft, when a large number of commercial buildings move in, Keju Commercial Plaza will definitely form a huge gold-absorbing vortex, a large number of businesses will be transferred to the south bank of the Wei River centered on Keju Square, a commercial complex that spans time and space for more than 2,000 years and integrates shopping and entertainment was born, which will greatly expand the horizons of business travel between Daqin Jingshi and the whole country, and will also greatly enrich the daily life of the people of Xianyang.

With the affluence of life and the abundance of materials, culture and commerce will inevitably flourish, which is a process that human civilization has been constantly pursuing.

Greed for pleasure is the most realistic purpose and requirement of the general public, including Chen Xu, and hard work is just a last resort, if someone gives money, most people are willing to eat, drink, and have fun to death, get up in the morning to go to work and work overtime at night because of one word...... Poor.

Of course, in addition to these people who have not pursued, there are still many people in Daqin who have pursuits, such as the emperor, such as Chen Xu, such as Xu Fu, such as many people in the Academy of Sciences and Liberal Arts, who have broken away from low-level interests and began to pursue higher spiritual enjoyment, and the progress of human civilization is actually promoted by this small group of people, and the general public is passively accepting these innovations and inventions, and enjoying the comfort and entertainment brought by others with hard-earned money.

On the eighth day of the first month of April, the weather was sunny, the weather in early summer was gradually hot, and the commercial plaza with red and willow green flowers was already crowded early in the morning, in addition to the 30,000 spectators who bought tickets, there were more than 100,000 Xianyang people who came to gather around the Keju stadium like a tide.

Because he was afraid that too many people would cause a stampede and crowding, Chen Xu specially asked the Lieutenant's Mansion to arrange a thousand lieutenants to help maintain order, and hundreds of recruited security guards in commercial plazas wore uniform blue uniforms and hung badges, and waited at the ticket gate under the leadership of the steward.

In the noisy crowd, those on horseback, those riding in carts, leading donkeys, carrying baskets, scribes, warriors, commoners, merchants, officials, idlers and hundreds of disciples in various costumes were mixed together, and all kinds of lively shouts converged into a surging wave, and the noise of Xianyang City on the other side of the Wei River was clearly heard.

At the end of the hour, as several fireworks exploded in the blue sky, the Kemari stadium began to check tickets, and the crowd became more crowded and noisy, and a large number of spectators with tickets poured into the ticket gates around the stadium like a tide to wait to enter, while those without tickets were blocked by the forbidden army outside the safe area set up by the stadium.

Although all the security guards were on duty for the first time, they had already rehearsed several times, so there was no incident, and all spectators who deliberately crowded and cut into the queue were expelled from the ticket gate area by the security guards and the forbidden army on the spot.

30,000 spectators, has reached 80% of the design capacity of Keju Stadium, except for the first floor to accommodate 4,000 people for the royal family and nobles, the rest of the stands will be almost full, but these people according to the ticket gate printed on the ticket diversion, the whole sixty ticket gates are all open, the audience is not particularly crowded after evacuation, and the speed of ticket inspection is also very fast, the security guard only needs to take a look at the ticket gate on the ticket and the number of stands and the seat number will be released, If you go to the wrong place, you will naturally direct you to queue up at another ticket gate.

Under the suppression of the security guards and the forbidden army, the audience did not dare to be too noisy, and basically stood on tiptoe and lined up excitedly to move forward, because some of the very awesome Keju hooligans who thought they had a head and a face mixed in Xianyang were dragged away by the forbidden army's bruised nose and swollen face, and the audience all honestly abided by the command of the security guards and the order of ticket inspection, and did not dare to be too public, because this is the territory of the Marquis of Qinghe, even if the prince and princess come, they have to be careful, not to mention the ordinary people, even if they buy tickets and are beaten, can only leave with his tail between his legs, and he will not have the courage to accuse loudly and resist.