In March, the warbler flies and the grass grows. After sending away the southbound Qi Jin fleet, Zhu Youxiao never worried about defeat and the long-delayed war, if that was the case, Qi Jin would really be incompetent, and Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to change people. There is another thing, that is, Li Hui, the lord of the subject country of North Korea, was deposed, Zhu Youxiao remembered that there was such a thing, and the specific situation was not very clear, so he arranged for someone to understand the situation and asked Song Jin of Dongchang to send someone to implement it, because Zhu Youxiao still had more important problems to solve.

Now Zhu Youxiao is thinking about another problem, how to solve the problem of ruling after the expansion of the territory. For the time being, communication is a problem, even if it is 800 miles of express delivery, it will take half a month from Guangzhou to Beijing, to say that the information in this era is so slow, and it is not very important, but if there is turmoil or military action, then there are no three or five months to do not want to arrive, especially the problem of logistics support, it is even more prominent. Not to mention that Zhu Youxiao tried to expedition to the Western Regions and Burma in the future, and the logistics at that time were even more troublesome.

Now the road is also a big problem, in the plains is a little better, it is nothing more than the rain is heavy, the road is muddy, the snow is big and the road is slippery, then the march, war, and supply in the mountainous and hilly areas, this is simply a headache for anyone, Zhuge Liang can not succeed in the six out of Qishan, it has a lot to do with the logistics supply, the wooden ox and the horse are just a legendary thing, and later generations think it is just a small cart.

Just when Zhu Youxiao thought about it, his brain hurt a little, and finally thought of a somewhat reliable way at present, the small cart plus the diesel engine doesn't want to be a walk-behind tractor in the future! That thing can be pushed up the mountain no matter what the road is, and it is still used in the mountains of the 21st century. You don't have to think about diesel engines, it is estimated that they can't be built at the current level of science and technology, but what about steam engines? By the way, this thing is called a pot camel machine, which seems to have been very popular for a while in the fifties, and it was not phased out until the development of Daqing Oilfield. Haha, that's it, this thing is easy to manufacture and simple to maintain, and the power used is everywhere, whether it is coal, firewood or straw, as long as it can boil the water in the boiler, it is nothing more than a matter of speed and slowness, although the efficiency is a little lower, but it is much better than the shoulder trolley, at least the power of the machine is greater than the power of the muscles. Second, it is necessary to intensify steelmaking and iron-making, and to connect the south to the north, that is, from Guangzhou to Beijing, and then from Beijing to Shenyang, and it is best to build a railway, even if it is a simple small railway, and the future transfer of troops, logistics, and commercial trade will be much better. After figuring out these problems, Zhu Youxiao immediately stopped having a headache, and left the headache to a professional person to do!

Under Zhu Youxiao's order, Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing, Bi Maokang, and Zhu Ling rushed to the original prince's mansion. The emperor hadn't summoned them like this for a long time, and this time he suddenly summoned them, something wonderful must have happened, and everyone ran over one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

After Zhu Youxiao explained the reason for inviting them over, everyone calmed down and quietly thought about how to turn Zhu Youxiao's idea into reality. Xu Guangqi said, the original three ironclad ships on the twelve steam engines are almost all handmade, it took countless manpower and material resources, for example, the cylinder, that is smelted into steel plates after grinding by hand little by little smooth, and then fixed with screws to form a square closed cabinet, such as crankshafts, connecting rods, etc., which are completely hand-polished, in order to manufacture these things, the cost of labor and materials used alone is equivalent to piling up this thing with gold, if it is commonly used in the army as Zhu Youxiao said, Civil, this is difficult to do in the current situation.

Zhu Youxiao thought about it, and it was indeed a problem, but the problem had to be solved, and he turned his head to look at Zhu Ling, this guy looked up as if he was thinking about the problem Xu Guangqi said; Look at Song Yingxing, Song Yingxing is thinking about the problem with his head down; Bi Maokang, this guy didn't do anything, and he was looking at other people's expressions like Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao saw that the atmosphere was a little dull, and he didn't want everyone to be too depressed, in fact, thinking about it, these are things that can only be popularized in a hundred or twenty, two, or three hundred years, and it is definitely unrealistic to let these people come up with a solution right now. After one or two hundred years of development, the West has a certain industrial base and an industrial way of thinking to solve most of these problems. Zhu Youxiao was not in a hurry, so he told them that this was just his initial idea, and it didn't matter if he couldn't think of a way now, just work hard in this direction in the future.

Just when Zhu Youxiao was about to give up, Zhu Ling, who was looking up, jumped up, pulled up Zhu Youxiao and ran out, and the others also followed, running to the simple grinder and circular saw made by Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Ling didn't move, but stared at these two things vigorously, as if he had found a treasure, and Song Yingxing circled around these two tools.

It has to be said that Song Yingxing's culture is only relatively high, and the scope of his involvement is relatively wide, and he quickly reacted. Song Yingxing slowly organized the language and said, this tool for grinding things is round, but it can grind flat things, this circular saw is round, can be sawed out of long straight lines, does this mean that square, circle, and straight lines can be converted to each other and used each other. And the crankshaft can convert linear motion into circular motion, can it be turned into other ways?

Bi Maokang also woke up at this time, he said, if you use gear conversion, can you convert it casually to be able to rotate forward, backward, left, right, up and down? He slapped himself on the head in excitement.

Just hearing them say this, Zhu Ling immediately started to act, he tossed the grinder upside down, and then tossed the circular saw, and finally he was still frustrated, this thing is too simple, and he can't change too many tricks. However, his toss was not without effect, Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing, and Bi Maokang saw many doorways from his toss, as for what doorways, the three of them still can't tell what they are, they just said to go back and discuss and see what they can drum up, anyway, Zhu Youxiao's inner library is open to a few of them, and the big deal is to waste more silver.

In fact, when Zhu Youxiao heard that the marine steam engine was almost piled up with gold, he understood a problem, just the simplest pot camel machine production, also need the most basic industrial processing equipment, need to build a set of the most basic industrial processing machine tools, otherwise, all the machines are made by hand, that is really the gold pile. And the basis of manufacturing all this is to manufacture a set of industrial machine tools, and then use this set of machine tools to copy various processing tools. The most basic industrial machine is a lathe, planer, milling machine, grinder, boring machine, drilling machine, etc., Zhu Youxiao in the previous life is a dry waste station, he has basically seen these things, and the general principle also knows, relative to the current industrial level, it is too advanced to be in the advanced machinery, now it does not need to be so complicated, as long as it has the most basic functions, as for the simple machining center, Zhu Youxiao can also dial it a little, so that now these big bulls can also be built.

In fact, the mother machine of the industrial machine is the lathe, as long as the lathe is manufactured, other machine tools can be easily solved. It's just that it's simple to manufacture, and the real complexity is precision, when it comes to precision, there must be standardized standards, which is another headache, Zhu Youxiao can't always stretch his feet like a British king, foot, this is a foot.