Chapter 70: Imagination of the Industrial Revolution

Children should attend school well, don't always think that they have grown up, and always think that they have learned a lot is wrong.

Mei Xiaohan agreed to take the child away, but also made a clear request: after going back, you must also study hard, and if you don't study, you will regress. This is the same in all eras.

The child also agreed, the child is always a child, always has a playful nature, but in some aspects needs the supervision of adults.

Human nature is always in the carefree time will be vividly exerted, when the body is under pressure and burden, the problem is more to consider, and the only remaining bit of spirituality in the body will disappear.

So this is the difference between children and adults, children always think from the perspective of children, although they do not consider the problem comprehensively, but sometimes what they say, they have to say very correctly.

For a traverser, the greatest wealth is not to have more than others, but to shoulder more than others and have heavier responsibilities than others.

Just like everyone has their own dreams, teenagers have juvenile dreams, middle-aged people have middle-aged dreams, and China has Chinese dreams, although everyone's dreams are different, but the ideals they have are the same, all in order to live a better life, and they are all looking forward to the future.

Work on your own land and work hard for your ideals. This child, he works hard for his dream of being an actor, although he is only an extra, he works very hard in acting. He knew what his position was, so he didn't enter the classroom, because society itself is a classroom.

Life is like a play, find yourself in the play, feel different lives, and feel all kinds of life.

Mei Xiaohan felt that she was not in the play, dealing with different people every day, although some were acquaintances, but these people were a little different every day. Because everyone is changing, everything needs to change.

The city where he is located, the city that now belongs to him, "Meicheng", an ancient city, waiting to develop, waiting to create life, and as the master of the city, he must work hard, he must work for the well-being of the people there.

Now is no longer the time when one person feeds the whole family and is not hungry, he needs to take care of many people, in a sense, Meicheng is a country within a country, and everything is up to him.

Now he has power in his hands, he can be high, he can show off his might, he can also have a group of wives and concubines, and he can be his own emperor freely, but he can also live a different life.

A life with dreams is not muddy, nor is it just about enjoyment. It was as if he saw in the child's eyes, not gloomy, but full of power.

Although there is a hint of ridicule about life, although there are some game lives, but it is real, thousands of people, everyone's attitude towards life is different, everyone's life realm is different, and sometimes it has nothing to do with age.

Since meeting this child, Mei Xiaohan's heart has also been a lot more steady, because he sees a kind of tranquility in a child's eyes, he does not struggle, even if he is living a hard life, he is also happy in the bitterness and laughs at himself.

If a person can live a very easy life, this is already an epiphany of the true meaning of life, for thousands of years, countless sages left the teachings of the earnest teachings have been recited over and over again, but how many people can remember? Even if they remembered, how many of them followed such teachings?

The next day, Mei Xiaohan exchanged the gold for more yuan, which made his heart feel a lot more steady. He didn't want to do that kind of magic trick that would make a giant ship disappear inexplicably.

Mei Xiaohan's ultimate goal is to carry out the industrial revolution:

The modern Industrial Revolution is thought to have begun in the sixteenth century or earlier, and in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was already significantly advanced in England.

The Industrial Revolution is generally considered to have originated in the Midlands of England and was the early stage of capitalist industrialization, when capitalist production completed the transition from factory handicraft to machine industry.

The Industrial Revolution was a production and technological revolution in which machines replaced manpower and large-scale factory production replaced manual production in individual workshops.

Because the invention and use of machines became the hallmark of this era, historians call this era "the age of machines".

In the middle of the 18th century, after the Englishman Watt improved the steam engine, a series of technological revolutions caused a major leap from manual labor to power machine production. It then spread to Britain and the entire European continent.

It spread to North America in the 19th century. The steam engine, coal, iron, and steel are generally considered to be the four main factors that contributed to the accelerated development of the technologies of the Industrial Revolution. Britain was the first country to start the Industrial Revolution and the first to end it.

However, the time for the industrial revolution is far from ripe, because many farmers have problems with food and clothing, and there are also big problems with education. I don't even know the most basic knowledge, so I can't talk about the industrial revolution.

For example, the steam engine that triggered the beginning of the industrial revolution, although the principle of the steam engine is very simple for modern people, as long as modern people understand the concept of high-pressure gas, they can understand the operation principle of the steam engine.

The piston was pushed by high-pressure gas to turn it into a mechanical function, but this condition was very difficult for the ancients to do.

Salt and iron have always been the top priority of ancient society, and salt and iron taxes are also the main source of tax revenue for the government.

Iron is very important. Iron is one of the most widely distributed and commonly used metals on Earth, accounting for about 5.1% of the mass of the Earth's crust and ranking fourth in the sequence of elemental distributions, after oxygen, silicon and aluminum.

Ancient China had long learned to make iron tools, which were made from iron ore smelting and processing.

The advent of iron tools led to epoch-making progress in human history. The first artificial ironmaking in the world was carried out by people living in Asia Minor 1300~1100 BC, and iron smelting was introduced to the Lianghe Valley and ancient Egypt, and some parts of Europe also entered the Iron Age around 1000 BC.

However, at that time, all smelting was a block of iron, and it was not until the end of the Middle Ages (around 1400) that the smelting of pig iron appeared after the invention of hydraulic blast furnaces in Europe.

China used iron tools as early as 1300 BC (Shang Dynasty iron blade copper Yue), but it was meteoric iron.

The jade-handled iron sword of the Kingdom of Yu in 800 B.C. is the earliest known iron-smelting tool in China. It is a sign that our country has entered the Iron Age.

Chinese ironmaking began in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, the ironmaking method was block ironmaking, that is, at a lower smelting temperature, iron ore was reduced to a solid state to obtain sponge iron, and then forged into iron. For smelting block iron, three types are generally used: earth furnace, flat ground furnace and shaft furnace. Soon after mastering the technology of block ironmaking, liquid pig iron containing more than 2% carbon was smelted and used to cast tools.

At the beginning of the Warring States period, China had mastered the technical methods of decarburization and heat treatment, and invented ductile cast iron. In the late Warring States period, the reusable "tetsufan" (an empty stomach made of iron to cast metal objects) was invented.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the crucible iron-making method appeared. At the same time, the scale of iron-making shaft furnaces was further expanded.

After the Han Dynasty, the method of steel filling was invented. "The Book of Northern Qi Qi Mu Huaiwen Biography" is called "Sugang", and later generations are called Filling Steel, also known as Tuangang. This is another major achievement of ancient Chinese steelmaking technology.

However, the amount of iron produced in ancient times varied at different times:

In the early years of Tang Yuanhe, the annual iron output was 2.07 million catties;

During the reign of the Northern Song Dynasty, the iron output was 8.241 thousand catties;

In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was 2,162,144 jin (excluding the Jin Kingdom in the north);

In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1263), 5,844,000 catties;

In the early years of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, it was 19,575,026 catties.

Mei Xiaohan came to the bookstore and opened a book: "Industrial Revolution"

The first industrial revolution was a technological revolution initiated from England in the 18th century, and it was also a huge revolution in the history of technological development, which ushered in the era of replacing hand tools with machines.

This revolution began with the birth of the working machine, marked by the widespread use of the steam engine as a power engine.

This technological revolution and the associated changes in social relations are called the first industrial revolution or industrial revolution.

In terms of production technology, the industrial revolution replaced manual workshops with factories and manual labor with machines. In terms of social relations, the industrial revolution led to the disappearance of the yeoman peasant class, which was dependent on the backward mode of production, and the industrial bourgeoisie and the industrial proletariat were formed and strengthened. The first industrial revolution greatly strengthened the ties between the world, changed the face of the world, and finally established the dominance of the bourgeoisie over the world.

After reading it, Mei Xiaohan's blood boiled, but the reason why Britain was able to complete the first industrial revolution is because: at the time of the first industrial revolution, Britain had the political power, labor, capital, market, technology and other conditions of the industrial revolution, while other countries either did not have it at all, or only had a few of them, so Britain took the lead in the industrial revolution;

However, since the chaos at the end of the Tang Dynasty, five dynasties and ten countries have been fighting, and the whole country is far from meeting such conditions in terms of economy and market, and the equipment is not perfect enough.

With this in mind, the issue of children's education is even more important. After coming to this bookstore, Mei Xiaohan emptied almost the entire bookstore.