Zhu Laosi has already begun to doubt life.

After being dragged to the Royal Academy by Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng, Zhu Laosi completely understood what Zhu Zhanji said.

The steam engine, composed entirely of steel, resembles a steel monster entrenched in the clearing, spewing out puffs of white steam while driving a machine converted from a hydraulic machine to drill a gun barrel.

"Look at the difference between the two pipes."

Yang Shaofeng casually picked up the two barrels and handed them to Zhu Laosi, saying, "You can compare them and see if you can find out the difference between the two barrels?" ”

Zhu Laosi took the two barrels of the same length and thickness for a long time and didn't see any difference, and finally could only shake his head helplessly and replied: "There is no difference." ”

Yang Shaofeng snorted and pointed to the gun pipe in Zhu Laosi's hand: "The earliest firecracker can only be built manually, not to mention the slow speed, and the size is difficult to guarantee. ”

Pointing to the steam engine and then to the barrel in Zhu Laosi's hand, Yang Shaofeng continued: "Later, when I used a hydraulic machine tool, the size of this thing can basically be consistent."

However, the shortcomings of hydraulic machine tools are obvious, in addition to the size of the water flow has high requirements, but also has requirements for the climate, once in winter, hydraulic machine tools are wasted more than half.

But now with steam machines, although this thing is infinitely more polluting than hydraulic machines, the advantage is that you don't have to look at the sky, as long as you have enough coal, you can use it until the day it is bad.

With machine tools, coupled with the assembly line and standardization that Sun Er has been emphasizing before, a reorganized guard has more than 5,600 firearms, and basically all the parts are interchangeable, what this means on the battlefield, you old man must know very well in his heart. ”

Zhu Laosi nodded, then put down the barrel in his hand and asked, "What else?" When you go to Jinling in one day, what else is there to do with this? ”

"Of course it does."

Yang Shaofeng led Zhu Laosi to the courtyard next to him: "Since the steam engine does not rely on the flow of water like the power water machine tool, why not install it on the car?"

This thing has a lot of strength, even if it is to prepare a carriage for it to load coal, or to build a few more stations on the road to load it with coal, this thing is much stronger than a horse, right? ”

In the huge clearing, a steel monster not much taller than a ten-year-old child was lying on two railroad tracks, and under the rails were pillows, dozens of scholars were discussing something around this steel monster, and no one noticed Zhu Laosi, Yang Shaofeng and the others.

"I think we could make it bigger. If it's a big deal, just widen the rails a little more, and if it doesn't work, try using three tracks? ”

"Not true. Now the biggest problem is how to solve the problem of sealing, using rotten hemp, beef tendon and the like to make seals, the effect is not very good, a large part of the steam is wasted, no matter how big it is, it is useless not to solve the sealing problem. ”

"If only there was something that could be sealed without being afraid of the heat."

"It is true that as Brother Zhang said, the key to this thing is sealing, but in addition to sealing, the size of the head is also critical, don't you believe you look at the fights of those killers of Jinyiwei, is the strength of the big ones also greater?"

"What kind of fighting, that's training, it is said that it is the technique taught by the six champions of Yang Madness, recruiting people to kill people, and they are vicious and ruthless."

"That Yang Liushou is also very powerful, not to mention this lot of messy knowledge, he can also lead troops in Jiaozhi and Burma to quell the chaos, and Jingguan alone has built several of them, and people give them the nickname Jingguan Crazy Demon."

"What kind of Jingguan madman, is he afraid of his wife madness at all, I heard that he knelt on the washboard several times after he came back from Myanmar last time, and those people in Jinyiwei are all rumored to have noses and eyes, saying that Yang Liushou is powerful, aren't you still afraid of their Jinyiwei's Qianhu eldest lady."

"Also, I heard that Yang Liushou was ambushed when he was in Burma, and it was the imperial grandson who led people to rush into battle to save him, otherwise Yang Liushou would have been killed by Li Li and Si Renfa."

"Thanks to the imperial grandson. But Na Li Li and Si Renfa are also damned, even if he Yang is not a good thing, then it is not their turn to take care of those barbarians! ”

Behind these people, Yang Shaofeng listened to these people gradually crooked, and his face became darker and darker as the floors became more and more crooked.

But Zhu Laosi was very interested, and he didn't mean to interrupt these crooked buildings at all.

"By the way, didn't Yang say that we can go to his brother-in-law to ask for materials? Let's just throw this problem to his brother-in-law, his brother-in-law can't find it, so he will naturally go to Yang Crazy for help, and then the problem of this material will be solved? ”

"That's right! At the beginning, Yang was crazy and let us people work as coolies in the Royal Academy with just a few words, can we just endure it like this? It's time to get him in some trouble! ”

"The sap of the rubber tree, the fish gelatin, there are so many ways to use it, you can't think of it, you can only blame you for being stupid."

Yang Shaofeng said with a dark face: "If you have the kung fu to arrange your own officials, it is better to do a few more experiments honestly!" ”

The scholars were awakened at this time, and after standing up in a hurry, they were about to meet Yang Shaofeng, the so-called "teaching director", but found that there was an old man standing in front of Zhu Laosi......

"It's all out of courtesy, let's be even."

Zhu Laosi stopped these scholars who were about to salute with a smile, and took a few steps forward before pointing to the steam engine and said, "Who will tell me how this thing is used?" ”

A scholar volunteered to bow to Zhu Laosi and said, "The student is willing to demonstrate this for His Majesty." ”

After getting Zhu Laosi's permission, the scholar quickly sat down in front of the steam locomotive and shouted: "Add coal!" ”

As the coal began to burn, the water in the boiler gradually began to boil, and after a burst of white mist rose from the puffs of black smoke, the silly black steam locomotive finally began to move forward, and the speed slowly increased.

Zhu Laosi's eyes narrowed unconsciously as he looked at the steam locomotive.

The five flatbed cars pulled behind the steam engine were what they called carriages as long as they were surrounded on all sides, and it should be no problem to exchange the stones on them for goods or just let people sit on them.

Moreover, this thing only burns coal, neither feed nor rest, as long as the speed can be increased a little more, it is not a dream to rush from Shuntianfu to Yingtianfu in one day and one night.

Thinking further, since this thing can be used to pull a car and drive a machine tool, it can naturally be used in other aspects, such as looms, what kind of impact will it have if the hand-cranked spinning wheel loom is replaced with this thing?

Unlike Yang Shaofeng, who was full of tosses, Zhu Laosi thought of the impact of this thing in the future as soon as he saw the steam engine, and quickly came to a conclusion.

A large number of people who work in the workshops will lose their jobs.

The reason is very simple, people need to rest, and they also have to give people money to start work, and they have to take care of food, but this machine does not need to eat, nor does it need to rest, as long as it is not broken, it can be used forever.

What happens when people are unemployed?

Either go back to the countryside and farm honestly, or wait to starve to death after having no source of income, and those who are unwilling to starve to death will rise up......

"You unleashed a devil."

Zhu Laosi turned his head to Yang Shaofeng and said: "This thing can either make Daming usher in an opportunity for eternal prosperity, or it is the bane of chaos in the world." ”

"Perhaps."

Yang Shaofeng looked at the steam engine lane that was getting slower and slower, and was about to stop: "However, if Sun Er doesn't toss this thing out, there will always be other people tossing it out, whether it's good or bad, who can tell?" ”

"Speed up the start of school! In the future, even if it is a village with only 100 households, there must be a social science! ”

Zhu Laosi frowned and said: "I have no intention of writing it down, go back and let the Ministry of Rites think of a way to organize the people to read and write, and I want to transfer those people from the workshop to other places where they need to learn more." ”

Even though he bowed down, Yang Shaofeng laughed: "Your old man is really too worried.

Now this thing is not perfect, there are still many problems that need to be solved, the impact that can be produced will not be too big, and it is a very slow process to fully roll out, and it is impossible to do it without a few decades.

However, the reality is that not to mention a few decades, as long as it is twenty or thirty years later, most of the newly grown Ming people are literate, and the situation that your old people are worried about will not appear. ”

Zhu Laosi nodded, and only took a few steps forward after the steam locomotive stopped, stroking the steam locomotive as disgusting as stroking the concubine in the harem, and even the slightly blurred little eyes were the same disgusting: "This is the real important weapon of the country." ”

Turning his head to look at the uneasy scholars, Zhu Laosi suddenly laughed and said loudly: "I am very happy that you can develop such a national weapon!" Very happy!

I have never had the titles of viscount and baron, but today I want to make an exception for you, and Fenger and others will be third-class barons!

Work hard, I hope that one day, you will be able to elevate this non-hereditary baron of the third rank to a hereditary prince of the first class! ”

"What about me?"

Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but start to be jealous of these scholars who walked shit - the ideas and ideas were all put forward by himself, and now these dog things are expected to be knighted, but he is still a doctor from the ninth grade, he Zhu Laosi is really embarrassed?

Facts have proved that Zhu Laosi is not embarrassed, and after signaling those scholars to continue their research, Zhu Laosi took the lead and left the courtyard.

"What is that Qianli Transmission? Take me to see it. ”

Seeing the steam engine, Zhu Laosi is now even more curious about the thing that can transmit sound for thousands of miles: "Don't really transmit sound for thousands of miles, as long as you can transmit sound more than ten miles away, it is great enough." ”

I didn't want a knighthood, so Yang Shaofeng replied with a stinky dog face: "I can't do it for more than ten meters, and it's still more than ten miles?" Your old man will wait slowly, and it is estimated that it will be about the same for another ten or twenty years.

Also, it is impossible to transmit sound, and now it can only transmit some simple signals, and then convert these signals into words, it is impossible to spread it within the Royal Academy, let alone spread it to the entire Ming Dynasty. ”

It's not that Yang Shaofeng plans to block Zhu Laosi because he didn't get the title, but it's really hopeless.

Zhu Zhanji's so-called hundreds of steps and miles of land to communicate with each other is not bragging at all, but blowing elephants-

The coolies in the School of Electricity accidentally discovered the induction between electromagnets, and after countless experiments, they came to the conclusion that they could communicate by electricity, which made Zhu Zhanji, a stupid roe deer, mistakenly think that he could transmit sound for thousands of miles, and blew an elephant in front of Zhu Laosi.

However, in fact, those coolies are still in the primitive stage of generating electricity from apples, and even the generators are still in the groping stage, and it is natural nonsense to toss a qualified telegram.

It's just that the traverser only knows what a generator is, and he doesn't know the relationship between the actual magnet and the rotor, how the rotor should be wound, and so on, so this generator naturally can't be tossed out for a while, and can only rely on those coolies to experiment slowly.

In this situation, which is almost like a blind man touching an elephant, without a long time of investment and research, there is no hope of even a generator, let alone a thousand miles of communication.

It's.

But relying on Apple to generate electricity, as well as relying on electricity to ignite the fire, still surprised Zhu Laosi.

Apples are meant to be eaten, and they are full of water, but they can be used to generate electricity? Can electricity still be used to make fire? Isn't that no different from using water for fire?

Zhu Laosi asked himself, it's not a turtle, what haven't you seen in this world? I've even seen ice grinding into a magnifying glass and then using it to make fire, but this kind of gameplay like using apples to generate electricity and then make fire is the first time I've seen it!

Especially when Zhu Laosi saw the coolies in the School of Electricity trying to use electricity for lighting, and successfully made the thin bamboo burn for a moment, Zhu Laosi's outlook on life was almost completely subverted!

After Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji took Zhu Laosi to visit the entire Royal Academy, Zhu Laosi came almost in a daze, and left in a daze-

The College of Agriculture is pondering how to make grain yielding, the School of Steam Engines is pondering how to play with steam engines, the College of Electricity is pondering how to play with electricity, and the College of Ordnance Industry is pondering how to play with guns and artillery, but there are not many things that they can understand!

What an eye-opener!

"I originally thought that I was not afraid of life and death, but now, I can't wait to be younger, so that I can see what this Ming can be tossed into by you!"

Zhu Laosi turned his head to look at the imposing gate of the Royal Academy and the javelin-like soldiers, and couldn't help but sigh abruptly, and suddenly looked up at the clear blue sky and shouted: "God, do you dare to lend me another five hundred years!" ”

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