A trace of disappointment flashed on Cheng Jiyuan's face and said:

"A hundred years ago, there was a plan, but unfortunately the bronze is heavy, the waterwheel is extremely difficult to push and pull, and such a huge whirlwind wooden column car, the copper and iron required are less than 2,000 catties, more than 35,000 catties, at that time the smelting furnace can not be completed in one go, multiple refining furnaces at the same time casting will inevitably appear defective, the cost is extremely expensive.

At present, Yongxing City has built a 5,000-pound blast furnace, and there is no problem in casting and molding it in one go, but the hydraulic power cannot drive such a heavy iron bed machinery, and it is useless to build it. ”

"No!" Bailiyan said categorically: "To build this kind of large iron bed, water power naturally cannot be driven, if you only build a small iron bed with a diameter of one or two inches and a length of two or four or five feet, supplemented by a large waterwheel, it can be driven." As for the big iron bed, there will be a way to drive it in the future, so it might as well spend two or three years to make the required gears, bearings and small iron bed, and the big iron bed can be left for later. ”

Although the headquarters of the Ligong faction was destroyed by the hands of the Black Turban Army, a lot of documents were snatched away during the retreat, and the drawing shown by Cheng Jiyuan is a large simple woodworking lathe powered by a waterwheel that can process wood with a length of three meters and a diameter of more than half a meter.

The production of wood structure machine tools is simple, the transmission resistance is small, it is made larger, the water flow is faster, and the waterwheel can still be driven.

The metal machine tool of the same size is subject to the structural weight, friction coefficient, and a series of machine tool resistance generated by the early original machining, even if the waterwheel drive can drive the lathe to rotate, the torque generated by it is not enough to support the processing of chip metal bars, which is very likely to cause torque overload and damage the waterwheel.

However, if the lathe model is smaller, only the processing size is enough, and the cutting depth of the metal is less, the use of waterwheels can drive small metal cutting machine tools, while large machine tools can only be driven by steam power or even electricity in the future.

In addition to this structural drawing of a whirlwind wooden column car, the other two drawings show a planer used to process long square timber instead of manpower, a flywheel with a huge flywheel at the top, pulled by wind or water, and a copper frame structure with a simple iron drill to punch holes in the plank, or an iron crutch to process wood inner circles of different diameters like a boring knife. But in the end, it's all woodworking machinery, and the prototypes have been burned.

After carefully reading the drawings, Bailiyan felt that the significance was not very large, because it was still a wooden structure, at most it had some reference significance, and if you wanted to tackle the metal machine tools, you had to start all over again, and there was still a long way to go.

"Master Cheng, apart from these three kinds of machinery, are there any others?"

"Yes, but they are all the same, and some are just bigger."

"Then make two of them first, and the money will be spent by my house. After making, you can first try to process a diameter of one or two inches, three feet long iron rod with a rotary car, if the waterwheel can be driven, then it will be on first, and after the gears and bearings can be used, you can rebuild a small iron bed gyratory car to replace it. ”

"But good iron can be used to process copper rods, and pig iron can barely be used as a knife from forged and quenched iron.

"Master Cheng can rest assured that this matter is made, as long as the master makes it, he will have his own way to solve it."

"Then the old man might as well be respectful!"

Cheng Jiyuan clearly knows the difficulty of metal cutting, processing bronze or copper, and can still use iron as a tool, low-speed cutting, low-speed processing of quenched steel for pig iron, processing steel, with the current technology is very difficult, not to mention the processing of forgings and quenching parts, there must be a suitable tool as a cutting tool.

That night, Cheng Jiyuan and others were entertained in the mansion and arranged for them to stay in the East Chamber.

In the next few days, the tomb was calm, and there was a faint illusion of peace in the world, and the streets and alleys were full of jokes about the world alliance and fat beatings of black and gold thieves, and there were also some alarmist rumors.

Xuan'er's illness has been cured, and every day she is alive and kicking up with other sisters to go to the palace to attend classes. Bai Liyan has never been worried about the children's education, and has always planned to arrange for them to go to school in the future.

On November 18, after the end of the early dynasty, Marquis Ding Yang proposed to King Xian again in the Guangyuan Hall to go to the Changsun Congress.

"Great King, only by alliing with the eldest grandson can the Xianguo state protect our country's interests in the Sun country in the future, otherwise, the future situation will be worrying."

"Marquis Dingyang." King Xian lay on the couch and said calmly: "The eldest grandson was killed by the black scarf thief and lost thirty percent of the country, you let the widow be embarrassed to go to the eldest grandson national alliance, what do you think of the overlord's country?" Won't the widow need to trade with Zhiguo in the future? ”

"The king's words are wrong, now it is what Zhiguo needs for my Xianguo, more than what I need for Zhiguo, Zhiguo can't do without my Xianguo's iron, fine cotton, salt, sugar, and my Xianguo's trade with Jin is mostly cotton, beans, sulfur, coal, and iron ore, which are also owned by Jin and Weiguo, so there is no need to worry at all."

Gao Xun said at this time:

"Taiwei, the alliance has been proposed by the overlord since ancient times, or the powerful country challenges the overlord. Now the land of the Changsun Kingdom has fallen into three percent, and its soldiers are weak, and the alliance proposed by the Changsun State is not justified, and it will inevitably be laughed at by the people of the world in the future. ”

"Lord Changshi's words are ridiculous!" Marquis Ding Yang sneered: "The eldest grandson is invincible in the world, and there is no one in Zhiguo so far, and the overlord of the Central Plains will return to the eldest grandson sooner or later, can't Lord Changshi even see this." ”

"Taiwei Zhang, it is true that the eldest grandson has a heaven-shaking fire, and it is not false that the heaven-shaking fire is invincible in the world, since the world is invincible, and the princes of the world will do something to relieve the siege of his eldest grandson country."

"According to what Lord Changshi said, did I not lose land in Xianguo, and did Xu, Liang, and Sun have no lost land and need to be recovered, joke!"

"Taiwei Zhang's words are wrong, the Changsun army ranks first among all countries, hundreds of large, medium and small earth-shaking fires, more than twice as many as the vassal states, and more than 40,000 soldiers use sky-shaking fires, which is six times that of the vassal states.

"According to the words of the long history, the Sun Kingdom almost perished, and half of the Xu Kingdom was lost, what can I say about this."

"The people of Xu are far inferior to the eldest grandson, the army mutinies a lot, and the battle in the south is even more heavy, and the Sun country is the nest of the Black Turban rebellion, and half of the army rebels, how can the two be compared with the eldest grandson."

The two of them did not give in to each other, and King Xian lay lazily on the couch, his face was very unhappy, and he said:

"Marquis Ding Yang, the widow looks at the long history and makes sense, this Changsun Kingdom was defeated in a mess before, if there is no widow army to fight with it on the Eastern Front for three years, how can the Changsun Kingdom survive to this day. Now it has countless earth-shattering fires, but it is only a tie with the Black Turban Army, not to mention that there are very few earth-shaking fires in the Black Turban Army, if the Changsun Kingdom does not have this earth-shattering fire, I am afraid that the country would have been destroyed by the Black Turban thieves. ”

"The king, the eldest grandson is good friends with Jin, and now he is a guest of Liang Guozuo, there is no reason for my country not to go to the alliance!"

"But the widow didn't say that he would not fulfill the responsibility of the alliance, as long as the princes shed blood, my Xianguo can also join forces, so important is it to have no blood?"

"Blood is a friend of faith, if you don't make a covenant with blood, how to protect the interests of my Xianguo in the Sun country, please think twice."

"The eldest grandson has always forgotten his righteousness, and every time the widow is weak, who can know that the eldest grandson will not conspire with the Jin State in the future, trying to land my Xianguo, the covenant is just an expedient measure, and when the black scarf is destroyed, what is the use of the covenant!" Gao Xun said sharply.

"If Lord An Changshi said, everyone in the world can not admit their accounts in black and white, and everyone in the world, what faith and righteousness do they have, aren't they all deceitful people."

When the three of them couldn't argue, the prince hurriedly entered the hall, looking panicked:

"Father, something happened to Luhou!"

When King Xian heard the news, he got up and asked urgently:

"What happened to Lu Hou!"

"Half an hour ago, Lu Hou slipped while walking at home, and since then he has been unconscious, and now his qi pulse is weak and his condition is urgent, and the medical officer rushed to Lu Hou's house helplessly!"

"Changshi, quickly prepare a car for the widow and go to Luhou's house!"

"Obedience to the king!"

King Xian hurriedly left the palace and rushed to the house of the Marquis of Lu, at this time Bailiyan was in the middle of the Sinong Mansion to allocate farm tools for next year, Gao Xun suddenly broke into the mansion and said eagerly:

"Dasi Nong, Luhou is critically ill, and the king declares that you will go to Luhou's mansion immediately."

"Critically ill! When did it happen? ”

"More than half an hour ago, I fell while walking in the hospital, and I am still unconscious, and the medical officers are helpless."

"Let's go!"

Lu Hou is already a sixty-eight-year-old man this year, and it is rare to live to be sixty-eight years old, even if he is a modern old man, he falls at the age of sixty-seven or eighteen, and if he does not die, he will have a fracture, and half his life will be suspended, not to mention that the medical conditions are not developed at the moment.

When I arrived at the Luhou Mansion, martial law was already under martial law inside and outside, and the streets outside the house were empty, and more than ten cars of all sizes were parked.

As soon as he entered the mansion, he heard from a distance that King Xian was furious, and reprimanded the medical officer for his incompetence.

Seeing Bailiyan appear, King Xian pushed away the medical officer who was blocking the way and stepped forward and said:

"Yongxing Hou has excellent medical skills, quickly see how Lu Hou's condition is for the widow!"

"Obedience to the king!"

When he came to Lu Hou's bedroom, Lu Hou was already lying motionless on the couch, surrounded by two medical officers, as well as an elderly steward and a few maids, and vomited on the ground.

Bai Liyan only glanced at it, and her heart was completely cold.

His complexion is purple and red, his pulse is weak and disordered, his heart is weak, his snort is almost stagnant, and there is an obvious fresh wound on his right forehead, which is caused by acute intracranial blood loss caused by falling on his head.

At this time, King Xian anxiously asked:

"Yongxing Hou, how is Lu Hou's condition, can you help him?"

"Alas......" Bai Liyan sighed: "Lu Hou is bleeding from the skull, and it can be saved by the medical skills of the world." Lu Hou is already a sixty-eight-year-old man, even if it is a little dyed with a cold, it is enough to die, let alone fall. ”

King Xian was silent, his eyes were depressed, his expression was gloomy and sad, his eyes were suddenly full of tears, and the whole person seemed to have aged a lot in an instant, and Jiang Hai at this time also thought of himself.

(End of chapter)