At the turn of the spring and summer of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there was a new thing in the city of Beijing, a Kong Ming lantern appeared in the bright sky in broad daylight, but it was different from the ordinary Kong Ming lantern, this was a super large, huge Kong Ming lantern, and there was a big basket under the Kong Ming lantern, and there was a person in the basket.

There were also a few very curious gentlemen riding fast horses from behind and chasing from behind, wanting to see who was so awesome that they could fly through the sky, but the speed of the horse could not keep up with the speed of this Kong Ming lantern anyway, not to mention that there were obstacles such as houses and alleys, so in the end they had to go away with hatred, making their stomachs depressed.

In the northern suburbs of Beijing, on an open grassland, this Kong Ming lantern slowly fell, and from the basket climbed down a young man who was shivering from the cold, about seventeen or eighteen years old, this guy is a native of Changzhou, Jiaxing, and his family has been poor since he was a child, but he loves to study and study. In the entrance examination of Daming Technical College in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Bo Jue, who was only fifteen years old, stood out, because of a small kite in his hand, the kite designed by ordinary people is a big kite, and Bo Jue took out a small kite with five plum blossoms, the production of this kite requires extremely high skills, whether it is the length and thickness of the material, or the angle of the binding thread needs to be accurately calculated, only in this way can it be put like a blooming plum blossom.

Because of the poverty of his family, Bo Jue's cultural score is not high, and he can only be said to be barely qualified, but he has a very high talent in hand arithmetic and mental arithmetic, so Bo Jue has been snatched by several teachers, and that teacher doesn't like smart students? At this time, it even alarmed Song Yingxing and Zhu Ling, Zhu Ling looked at Bo Jue's kite, didn't say a word, pulled it up and left, but he was slapped on the back of the head, turned his face and was about to get angry, but immediately turned into a smiling face, because the person who beat him was Song Yingxing.

Zhu Ling definitely can't snatch Song Yingxing, but fortunately, he has a good relationship with Zhu Youxiao, so Bo Jue also gets special preferential treatment, and he can freely listen to lectures in all courses of Daming Institute of Technology and choose his own courses, so that Bo Jue has an excellent opportunity to listen to his favorite courses. Song Yingxing didn't have much time to take classes here, but Bo Jue would listen carefully from the beginning to the end every time, and it can be said that he had learned good basic skills, so when Xu Guangqi's disciples made astronomical telescopes, Bo Jue made a military telescope that could see frontal images on this basis, and then this guy also made a microscope that could magnify 1,200 times, which played a great role in many disciplines, which made Song Yingxing extremely happy, and even Zhu Youxiao rewarded him with 1,000 taels of silver. What made Song Yingxing even happier was that this guy developed a universal joint, which is an epoch-making thing, because Zhu Youxiao mobilized a large number of pot camel machines to go to Henan to help dig rivers and build embankments. For this new invention, Zhu Youxiao is particularly concerned, because when purchasing scrap products, he had seen this thing, but forgot how to make it, and it was developed by Bo Jue, Bo Jue now does not know how valuable it is, but Zhu Youxiao is very clear, he personally helped Bo Jue register the patent certificate, and also allocated 10,000 taels of silver to set up a universal joint factory, for which Song Yingxing's special steel factory also sent a large number of special steel for experiments, Of course, Bo Jue would not do these practical hands-on experiments, and handed them over to Song Yingxing's disciples.

In addition to these studies, Bo Jue was also fascinated by Zhu Ling's steam engine laboratory. Zhu Ling's brain is more clever, fiddling with things, the invention of the steam engine is one of his biggest highlights, but after all, he has not completely learned the basic knowledge of scientific research, it is an accidental phenomenon, the improvement of the steam engine is progressing slowly, and most of the improvement work is pondered by the masters of the factory. Bo Jue is different from him in this regard, Bo Jue's good talent and his hard work, especially in the systematic study of Daming Institute of Technology, make his basic knowledge relatively solid, he saw the shortcomings of the steam engine, and also came up with a solution. Moreover, Song Yingxing and they provided him with a lot of new materials for free, which made him have a research advantage over Zhu Ling.

Bo Jue first selected the high-quality steel plate provided by Song Yingxing, which can increase the pressure of the boiler and create a high-pressure boiler, so that the water vapor pressure generated by the boiler is greater. Secondly, Bo Jue also optimized the design of the cylinder, and he made a series of inventions, such as a separate condenser, an insulation layer outside the cylinder, an oil-lubricated piston, a planetary gear, a parallel motion connecting rod mechanism, a centrifugal governor, a throttle valve, a pressure gauge, etc., which increased the efficiency of the steam engine to more than 3 times that of the original Zhuling steam engine, and finally invented the steam engine in the modern sense. These are all epoch-making products, making Bo Jue a scientist in the true sense, and this series of inventions and creations have made Daming's mechanical manufacturing enter a new era of power, and also made the steam engine enter the era of popularization.

Bo Jue's series of inventions and creations aroused Zhu Youxiao's interest, enabling him to become a core scientist in the Ming Dynasty, and to see many of the most advanced things for this era, such as Zhu Youxiao's generator. Zhu Youxiao told Bo Jue about the electromagnetic theory of his half-bottle of vinegar, and showed Bo Jue his own experiments, although Bo Jue could not understand these theories, not to mention that Zhu Youxiao himself was not very complete, but this did not hinder Bo Jue's interest. Many things that can be bought on the market in later generations are impossible to see in this era, but many natural things are still relatively easy to find, such as magnets, which are still very easy to find in magnetite mines, and the purity of general copper wires is not enough, but in the laboratory, these high-purity copper wires Song Yingxing can provide him at any cost.

Bo Jue used the grinder to find the natural magnet on the grinder to grind into a regular strip, according to the simple model provided by Zhu Youxiao, after a lot of hard work, countless tests, and finally manufactured a DC motor that can continue to generate electricity, although it is still relatively simple, but under the drive of hand or foot power, it can continue to generate electricity, and the current is also very strong.

According to Zhu Youxiao's method, Bo Jue tried to use the current to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen and oxygen, but the experiment was very bad, the current was too strong, the container he used was too small, and as soon as the generator was started, the bottle that collected hydrogen collapsed, Bo Jue didn't understand the reason at first, and thought that his assistant didn't hear the news, but after several repeated tests, he finally understood the reason, so he asked Song Yingxing to try to make a cylinder for him.

According to Bo Jue's intentions, Song Yingxing used the material of cast steel to make several cylinders for him, and also made several cylinders according to Zhu Youxiao's reminder, which were used to pump and pressurize, these things appeared when developing the canned sealing machine, and now it is not easy to manufacture high-pressure cylinders, and the problem of low pressure is not big, and most of Bo Jue's problems have been solved.

With the advent of rubber grass, there are more and more rubber products in Daming Academy of Sciences, Bo Jue naturally thought of the method of sealing containers with rubber, this soft rubber with great elasticity is very suitable for sealing gaskets, but now the life of these gaskets is still relatively short, Song Yingxing's disciples are constantly experimenting, adding a variety of materials, intending to extend the service life. The rubber pads used by Bo Jue are durable and durable, the key is to have a good sealing effect, which can meet the test requirements, and Bo Jue uses these gaskets mainly for several interfaces.

These hydrogen and oxygen containers designed by Bo Jue looked relatively simple in later generations, but they were very advanced things in this era, whether it was copper pipes, steel cylinders, or even glass bottles with openings on the top, these things were very common in later generations, and many of them were specially made at this time, so the cost of the current experimental activities is very large, if it is not in the Daming Academy of Sciences, but in their own homes, these experiments cannot be completed, especially the materials, no one can make up. In order to train more scientists and senior technicians, Zhu Youxiao asked them to set up many scientific research teams by themselves, and it was in this context that Bo Jue started his scientific experiment and formed his own scientific research team.