Chapter 926: The Prototype of the Steam Train (Page 1/1)

There were many things going on in the empire, and this great court meeting lasted from morning to noon.

Li Nan was about to eat and rest after retiring from the dynasty, but before the meal came up, Karina, the finance minister of the empire, walked in first.

Karina is Barbossa's daughter, and because she didn't want to bring her back, the lustful Li Nan didn't touch her when she was in the Caribbean world.

For this genius girl who loves science, Li Nan still respects her more, after all, it is very rare for her to be able to learn scientific knowledge such as astronomy, mathematics and mechanics by herself in such an ignorant world.

After returning to her own world, Li Nanye Karina trusted her so much that she put the Imperial Treasury in her hands, and she was also the Empire's Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Seeing Karina walk in at this time, Li Nan hurriedly beckoned: "You haven't eaten yet, let's sit down and eat together." ”

Karina, who has a straightforward personality, was not polite to Li Nan, and sat directly across the table, and the palace maid who was waiting for the meal placed the dishes and chopsticks in front of her, and the two ate and drank.

After lunch, Li Nan took a sip of fragrant tea and asked curiously: "You came to me in such a hurry, what the hell is going on, is there something wrong with the empire's finances?" ”

"Of course not!" Karina shook her head and said, "The empire's economic situation is good, although more money has been invested in armaments and road construction recently, it can still maintain normal operations. ”

"Oh, that's good, since it's not the right thing, is it because you miss me?" Looking at this beautiful girl wearing a Chinese official uniform, Li Nan finally couldn't hold back, and asked with a flirtatious tone.

"Well, I miss you!" Karina responded very directly.

This is the biggest difference between Chinese and foreign women, like Karina, women from the West, are very direct in the expression of feelings, compared with the subtlety of Eastern women, there is a different taste.

"Hahaha......" Hearing the words of this little beauty, Li Nan couldn't help but feel overjoyed, and naturally began to wonder in his heart, whether it was time for him to take action at night.

Just when Li Nan was in a state of despair, Karina said: "Your Majesty, are you okay in the afternoon, I'll take you to see a good thing!" ”

"Good stuff? Yes! After receiving the invitation of the beauty, Li Nan immediately agreed.

The two said that they would leave, and soon left the palace and came to the station in Changsha City.

Today, horse-drawn trains have become the fastest and most popular means of transportation in the empire, so there are stations for waiting and changing horses in and around cities.

The station where Karina brought Li Nan to the station was larger, because there was not only a waiting hall for passengers, a stable for the horses to rest, and even a factory for repairing the carriages.

Confused, Li Nan followed Karina into the repair shop and found a strange-looking carriage parked on the tracks.

"Huh!" If people in this era might not be able to see anything abnormal, but Li Nan has too much knowledge, and he immediately saw that something was wrong.

Before coming to this carriage, he took a closer look, especially when he saw the huge and complex steel machine in front of the carriage, and he vaguely guessed what this thing was.

"You... You've figured out the steam engine! Li Nan looked at Karina and said with a sense of shock.

Karina smiled proudly, but said arrogantly: "Hmph! It's not interesting to be guessed by you at once. ”

It turned out to be a steam engine, and it had been placed on the carriage, then this was the prototype of the steam train, Li Nan, who was surprised and delighted, immediately hugged Karina and kissed her on her pretty face.

When Karina was in the Caribbean world, she was already in love with Li Nan, since she came to this world, the huge difference in the identities of the two made her feel a little inferior, plus Li Nan was too busy, and the two had no time to be alone at all, so they could only hide this love deeply.

Now that she was embraced by Li Nan, Karina naturally had no intention of resisting, and she took the initiative to meet her, and for a while, this repair shop full of machinery became infinitely passionate.

I don't know how long it took for Li Nan to let go of the little beauty who was about to suffocate, looked at Karina, who was blushing and breathing, and asked with a smile: "No one has researched the steam engine for so many years, you are a chancellor of the exchequer, how did you get this thing out?" ”

Karina said with some resentment: "You are busy every day, Sister Qing and Angelica are fighting at sea, only me and Selena are left in Beijing, and I saw the drawings of the steam engine in the Ministry of Science and Technology when I had nothing to do, so I made it." ”

In fact, the research on the steam engine has been going on in the empire, and Li Nan and other followers from later generations have long written down detailed drawings and operation theories, but they are trapped in the relatively backward manufacturing process of this era, so there is no progress.

Li Nan jumped on the steam engine locomotive that had been warned of improvements with Karina, but unfortunately after advancing less than fifty meters, the epoch-making locomotive slowly stopped, and it was estimated that the problem was still in the precision of the parts, which caused steam leakage.

Although the first trial was not very successful, it has given Li Nan hope.

The significance of the steam engine to human society does not need to be described too much, its emergence even caused the industrial revolution, even at the beginning of the twentieth century, the steam engine was still a very important prime mover.

According to the industrial level of this era, as long as the research continues, it will definitely be possible to build a more mature steam engine. The biggest problem at the moment is not the material, but the precision.

Nowadays, the schools of the empire have basically abandoned some useless subjects, and are imparting the knowledge that has been summarized and summarized by later generations, and various basic units are being popularized.

The biggest trouble in the manufacture of steam engines now is steam leakage and lack of thermodynamics, and these can be solved by the precision of the components, as for the problem of materials, the current smelting technology of the empire can fully meet them, and there are also rubber products that continue to perform well in the field of sealing.

In Li Nan's opinion, in the near future, steam trains and steam ships will appear in the empire!

Any improvement and research of science and technology takes time, and Li Nan is not in a hurry, he believes in the abilities of Karina and other imperial craftsmen.

Since he was not busy with political affairs today, Li Nan simply took Karina to the hotel, and ordered someone to pick up the three Fu family members who stayed there, and the group went out to play by horse-drawn train, and by the way, they enjoyed the great rivers and mountains of the empire.

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