The next day, the Donglin Party and some well-informed Jin merchants began to hoard rice and wheat, and now the price of rice and wheat on the market has fallen back to a penny and a bucket of silver in normal years.

The West French people don't know if they are evil, or if they drank Zhu Shun's ecstasy soup, and what potatoes the emperor promoted with evil words.

After the autumn harvest, the common people have no flour to eat, and the price of grain in the capital will definitely rise sharply, and it is very likely to rise to one penny and six cents of silver per bucket, or even two coins of silver per bucket is not impossible.

While the Donglin Party is waiting to watch the show, it will also take the opportunity to make a big profit, and if it doesn't hoard rice and wheat now, it will be over in a few months.

When the Donglin Party and the Jin merchants were hoarding white rice and winter wheat, Zhu Shun was still quietly doing research in the No. 0 experimental courtyard and continuing to improve the second-generation steam engine.

In the corner of the No. 0 experimental courtyard, there was a craftsman's room, and Zhu Shun was staring at a designed drawing, building a part according to the instructions above.

As long as this part is built, Zhu Shun is confident that he will increase the speed of the steam engine again, as for how much it can be improved, it is difficult to say, and it will not be known until the experimental data comes out.

It took half a month of hard work before and after, and Zhu Shun built the steam distribution mechanism of the slide valve and installed it on the steam engine.

Because of the success of the research of the second-generation steam engine, the three disciples all fell into a state of forgetting to sleep and eat, and they must come up with a decent invention in the near future.

Zhu Shun would go around when he was fine at night, and every time he could meet Wang Zheng, who was invincible, spitting and scolding this and that.

However, with Wang Zheng's mouth cannon, the progress of the three disciples' research has really accelerated a lot.

In addition, everyone is accompanied by several geniuses in mathematics, physics and chemistry, while learning junior high school physics knowledge, while following the practice and working together, the speed of research has accelerated again.

There will be new results next year at the latest, Wang Zheng is most optimistic about Song Shiyi, the second disciple who is studying carding machines, and Zhu Shun is optimistic about Zhao Doumi, who has just been here for a long time.

Although Zhao Doumi's intelligence is lower than that of the other three disciples, because of his personality charm, he has attracted the most mathematics, physics and chemistry geniuses, and there are eight people around him, all of whom are almost half.

Because of this incident, Zhu Shun and Wang Zheng also made a bet, whoever loses, who will drink.

Zhu Shun's No. 0 experimental courtyard also recruited a genius in mathematics, physics and chemistry, who was not tall, had a round face, was very cute, and his personality was relatively shy.

Zhu Shun would blush nervously when he said two more words to him, this is also where Zhu Shun took a fancy to him, if he recruited a broken mouth like Wang Zheng, he would not be annoyed to death if he chattered all day long.

The steam engine in the No. 0 laboratory courtyard was also renovated to create a special boiler that piped steam into the cylinder.

"Click-click-"

As the boiler heats up, the steam engine spews out a large amount of white gas, and the sound starts to run with a roar.

The spool valve designed by Zhu Shun is used to control the time when the steam reaches the cylinder, so that the steam engine can alternately enter the left or right side of the cylinder to promote the movement of the piston.

When the piston reaches the far left side of the cylinder, the spool valve changes the flow direction of the steam under the action of the drive shaft, pushing the piston to the right.

When the piston reaches the far right side of the cylinder, the spool valve changes the direction of the steam flow under the action of the drive shaft again, pushing the piston to the left.

In this way, under the control of the spool valve, the steam constantly changes the flow direction and pushes the piston to complete the reciprocating motion.

Nowadays, the steam engine only moves with one hand, and with this spool valve, it is equivalent to moving back and forth with two hands.

As long as it can be successful, it will be another qualitative leap for the steam engine.

The difference between one hand and two hands is not as simple as having one more hand.

As the steam engine began to run normally, Zhu Shun stared at the Western self-striking clock next to him and began to count the speed of the steam engine.

One turn.

Ten turns.

Fifty turns.

Sixty turns.

When he reached fifty revolutions, Zhu Shun knew that he had succeeded, but what he didn't expect was that he had reached sixty revolutions and had no intention of stopping.

Seventy turns.

Eighty turns.

Ninety turns.

One hundred turns!

A full 100 revolutions!

It's only been a few days, and only a part of the changes have been made, and the speed of the steam engine has reached one hundred revolutions, and happiness came too suddenly, and Zhu Shun didn't react for a while.

When he reacted, before he had time to celebrate, the shy young man ran over with a list and handed it to Zhu Shun with a blushing face.

Zhu Shun only glanced at it, his breathing was a little sluggish, and the consumption of coal was only a quarter of the original.

Three-quarters of the coal saved!

The significant savings in the operating costs of the steam plant have once again allowed the steam engine to complete a strategic change and allow it to be used in areas where coal is not produced.

This meaning is a great change for Zhu Shun, who is in urgent need of making money, and there is no restriction on the use of steam engines from then on.

Zhu Shun, who has been nervous for so long, knows that he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

With this kind of steam engine up to 100 revolutions, it is also of great significance to the Song Flour Mill under construction, and one steam engine can completely drive fifty pairs of grinding discs.

With these fifty pairs of millstones, it only takes more than nine months for a steam mill to grind all the potatoes in Liangxiang County into flour.

Zhu Shun patted the shy young man's head, and said relaxedly: "Li Zhouqiao, go, the mountain chief invites you to drink today." ”

Being able to be patted on the head by the mountain chief, Li Zhouqiao almost jumped up happily, and soon his face turned red again, and he said writhingly: "The mountain chief... That one... That one... I don't drink. ”

"And... And also... I have an idea. ”

Zhu Shun knew that this shy young man didn't know how to drink, but it should be fine to drink some rice wine, so he said in a good mood: "If you have any ideas, just say it." ”

Li Zhouqiao took out a drawing from his arms, looked up and handed it to Zhu Shun, quickly lowered his head with a blush, and looked at his toes.

Zhu Shun only glanced at it, and the relaxation on his face gradually turned into prudence, and soon became solemn again.

On the drawings of the Lizhou Bridge, it is another improvement of the steam engine, which is used to improve the stability of the steam engine.

The biggest defect of the steam engine is that it will produce an explosion, and after the explosion, it is a trivial matter for the machine to be destroyed, and it is a sin to kill people if it is blown up.

Behind each spinning woman represents a family, and most of the spinning women in Zhu's spinning factory are widows with several young children.

If the spinning woman dies in an accident, those children will really become children without a father and a mother, with Zhu Shun's character, he will definitely not sit idly by, but no amount of money can buy family affection.

Zhu Shun smiled bitterly: "It seems that I have to be busy for a while." ”

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