In an imperial village in Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen looked at the steam engine in front of him, with a tangled expression, he specially opened up this imperial village, gathered a large number of craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, and personally presided over this epoch-making research, which took more than 2 months, and finally manufactured the first steam engine of the Ming Empire after continuous exploration and improvement. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the courtyard of Huangzhuang, a large brick boiler, above which is a special cauldron is erected, the shape of the pot is like an old-fashioned kerosene lampshade with the bottom sealed, at this time, this strange cauldron is filled with most of the well water, and the fire ignited below provides a steady stream of energy for the boiler, so that the iron round chimney-like device above continuously emits a large amount of steam out. One of the pistons attached to the wheels reached into the strange chimney, and was pushed up by the steam below, and then a burst of white gas evaporated, and after the steam was released, the piston was pressed down again under the inertia of the connected wheels, and then it was pushed up by the steam, sending out the gas, and pressing down again, back and forth, and the cycle continued.

The steam engine was made, but this thing, don't look at its own dripping and cheerful turning, but after testing, it can't do any work at all, and with this little effort, it is difficult for an unloaded four-wheeled carriage to drive. In addition, this thing is so large in size, the small four-wheeled carriage can't be put down, and if you want to enter the practical stage, it is estimated that there is no improvement of more than ten years, and in the current situation, you can get this thing, which is your own limit, as for the improvement or something, you were not a professional in this line in your previous life, and it has been out of the scope of the principle that you know, and the rest of the work can only be handed over to those craftsmen to study by themselves.

Whether it is a generator or a steam engine, in the world of his later life, as long as he has received nine years of compulsory education, he has not slept in the classroom, and few of them do not know the principle, it is not difficult to have a group of craftsmen to get a simple generator and steam engine, and it is difficult to work externally, which reminds Chongzhen of some so-called "perpetual motion machines" in later generations that can also use gravity to keep moving themselves, but those "perpetual motion machines" cannot work externally, what is the use, when their generators just came out, It is also this situation, Chongzhen once wanted to set up a high-voltage power grid for defending the city, but that bit of power is not realistic at all, connected to a large-scale power grid, there is no dead electricity at all, it is used to transmit signals, and the current limit can be transmitted for more than ten kilometers, and the voltage is not enough far.

I have no choice but to set up a transfer station every ten kilometers, that is, Beijing City to Shanhaiguan, and the transmission of news back and forth also has to go through twenty or thirty spy transfer stations, although it has to go through layers of transmission, but after all, it is a cross-era product, and it is such an efficiency of transmitting messages, and it is not comparable to the so-called eight-hundred-mile expedited.

In the case of the current steam engine, the little force emitted can only drive some generators, and if you want to build a railway, there is no future, at present, most of the generators now use waterwheels driven by the power of the river, and where there is no river water, the turntable driven by livestock is used, and the generator is connected to the generator to generate electricity after being accelerated by gears. It would be a great waste to venture to build such an immature steam engine now, and it would be more reliable to wait for the steam engine to mature a little bit before considering this matter.

"Your Majesty, Shanxi Urgent News" Wang Chengen presented the latest information sent by someone from the Espionage Department to send it urgently.

"Cao Huachun and Zhou Yuji did a good job in this matter, and immediately ordered Cao Huachun to let the imperial merchants over there in Shanxi take over all the shops and stores of the Jin merchants, and at the same time, all the materials of the Jin merchants were not allowed to be touched, so that the imperial merchants could take over in an all-round way, with the help of the existing inheritance of the Jin merchants, I wanted the imperial merchants to replace the Jin merchants in the shortest possible time to become the top business houses in the Ming Dynasty" Chongzhen opened the information and taxes to check, and suddenly the dragon heart was happy, I didn't expect the Jin merchants to really knock out so much money, and now I was much easier.

Although he has sent a large number of eunuchs in the palace to form his own trading house over the years, the effect is not ideal, although with the help of the convenience of the post stations and the existence of cheap warehouses in various places, the scale of the imperial merchants has come up, but the little money earned every year, in addition to the expenses of the post stations and the commercial houses themselves, there is no surplus money at all, and the current situation still has a long way to go.

The imperial merchants should have made a lot of money, but in this period, the most profitable is the trading of salt, iron, wine, tea, vinegar, alum and other products, which should have been controlled by the monopoly of the imperial merchants, and now they are controlled by the major merchant families, not to mention the core commodities, even the minting of money is now not the privilege of the central government, these years, although they have tinkered with the Ming Dynasty, but in essence, the Ming Dynasty is still the rotten Ming, and what they are doing at the moment is only a disguised extension of the Ming Dynasty's national fortunes, and the interior of the empire has rotted, such as Zhou Yuji, the governor of Shanxi sent by the imperial court, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, although they have immortal talents, it is difficult to make a difference in the case of local local officials.

The current Daming is already difficult to return, even if he has promoted a small number of elites, he can only make a difference in the rotten officialdom of Daming. A huge Ming country, taxation, coinage and other national lifelines are no longer under the control of the emperor, you can imagine how rotten this country has been.

The current empire urgently needs a fighting change, a top-down change led by the emperor of the empire.

"Daban asked people to inform Liu Ruozai, the champion of Enke in the household department, and asked him to gather all the scholars who had the reputation of Jinshi in the capital at the beginning, and when the time came, I summoned them in the Hanlin Academy" These scholars, some of them have already chosen to join the army and become military advisors, the same existence as staff, and some of them follow Shi Kefa to work for relief, that's it, there are thousands of scholars with the merit of Jinshi in Beijing, you must know that there are 353 of the top three scholars admitted by Enke, the first class is given to the Jinshi and the first, a total of three, and the second is given to the Jinshi background, A total of sixty-seven, the third class was born with a jinshi, a total of two hundred and eighty-three. Later, Chongzhen will open an Enke every year, the number of people admitted each time is different, all the admitted scholars were left in Beijing by Chongzhen, plus those who were later called back to Beijing in the past years to accumulate the Jinshi level has not produced the scholars, and now Beijing City has the scale of nearly 1,000 scholars.

After all, after the rich and powerful have the fame of the Jinshi, they have long had a channel to get an official to take office, who is still waiting for the so-called opportunity with a group of bitter haha in the capital.

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