In the distance on the other side, these places with the best view are almost all Jingshi and Tongzhou and the wealthy people in the vicinity. Among them, some of them had already sent their servants to occupy their positions, and some of them had come and seen a satisfactory position and smashed them out with money;

These people, or they were full of curiosity, wanting to see how the legendary steamship made the ship on the water move; Or maybe you feel that there is any business opportunity in this, and you want to come and see and confirm it......

In the process of waiting, it is natural that there will be no silence. In fact, on the other side of the shipyard, there was almost a constant buzz, and the officials who stood by the river did not care, and even themselves, basically looked at the shipyard.

"You say that this steam can be burned with coal, and it can make the ship move, it's incredible!" A young man dressed as a scholar, although it was winter, he was also dressed more gorgeously, and he seemed to be a rich man, and the person who paid more personal income tax said with a little emotion.

"Hey, didn't you go and see those science and technology books that the Ministry of Rites is vigorously promoting? You're too lonely to hear! There was a tall young man, who also looked like a scholar, but the person who was dressed in decent clothes, said with a contemptuous look and tone, "Do you understand the energy transformation?" Tell me about this son, I'm afraid I don't know what energy is, right? “

When his companion heard this, he immediately followed along, and said with a little sneer: "Don't say it, he must be from Jiangnan!" Hehe, they are different from us northerners, that energy and knowledge are used on empty talk, boastful, talking about heaven and earth, talking about politics and women, talking about flowers and snow, how can they read some real books? The imperial court said that this book of science and technology is a book of getting rich, a book of wisdom for the people, and an epoch-making book, which they don't understand! ”

"......" When the fancy young man heard this, his face immediately turned red, and after a pause, he retorted with a little confidence: "Please don't talk nonsense, this son ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the person just now: "Still don't admit it?" Look at your clothes, your clothes have been taxed, right? I'd rather pay taxes than look good, love for vanity is the characteristic of you Jiangnan people, and don't tell this son, you didn't join the Restoration Society, hum, those people in the Restoration Society are not such a group of people! ”

"You ......" When the fancy young man heard this, his face seemed to turn even redder, and he pointed at the person who despised him, but he couldn't speak, obviously, he should have been right. In fact, it is not surprising that in the early years of Chongzhen, as long as they were literati in the south of the Yangtze River, as long as they were slightly headed, they all joined the Fushe.

This reunion is actually a combination of multiple societies. The emergence of the community was a poetry society group formed by the poetry of the poem at the beginning, but because it was a scholar, it was inevitable to talk about things related to the imperial examination, and the nature slowly changed, and eventually various societies developed, and they all aimed at the imperial examination, and this attracted more scholars to enter the community.

So, naturally, the people of these societies began to pursue how to win the imperial examination, and those who were well educated naturally slowly became leaders, or those children of official eunuchs who had family connections in the officialdom, and the resources were utilized, and more people were attracted to join the group. In order to gain political status, it is inevitable to talk about the government and government, criticize the government and attract the attention of government and opposition officials, and win prestige.

Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, became famous all over the world with a famous "Tombstone of Five People" that was famous even in later generations, thus laying the foundation for his leadership. And this attracted more Jiangnan scholars to follow suit, and the literati gathered in Jiangnan, either in the wind and snow, chanting poems against each other, or criticizing the government and government, and the words were not shocking and endless. It is precisely because of this that there is the cynicism of these northern literati just now. Because, they finally found a more superior place than the Jiangnan literati who were at the peak of their literary style.

In the original history, the Fushe almost controlled the imperial examination of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and it was almost impossible to become a Xiucai without visiting the docks of the Fushe. When Chongzhen was in his last years, even the people and jinshi were controlled by him. Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, is faintly known as the "Emperor of the People".

Those people around them, hearing their conversations, those from the south, basically stopped talking, so as not to attract ridicule; The northerners talked about the new thing of science and technology one by one, and many scholars talked eloquently, foaming at the mouth, as if they were all masters of science and technology, and they were very conspicuous in front of the southerners.

Obviously, in the promotion of science and technology with Jingshi as the origin and center, the northern side was the most affected, while in the south of the Ming Dynasty, it was somewhat slower. After all, the change of atmosphere cannot be so easy!

But as long as the people of Daming are proud of understanding science and technology, and are proud of being proficient in science and technology, then sooner or later, the existing atmosphere of Daming will change. And this is that Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate to encourage enlightenment with great fanfare, and widely publicized things related to science and technology, so as to promote the spread of science and technology. For example, the current improvement ship is the best example.

While they were talking, they suddenly heard the sound of "bang bang bang", and then they saw smoke coming out of the river in the distance, and several boats on the other side of the royal driver.

"It's started, it's ......"

Many people excitedly announced, and then the people on the other side of the river consciously stopped talking, and watched with bated breath the steam powered boats emitting black smoke on the opposite river.

After waiting for a while, I saw that the boats on the sea with black smoke were all moving, and slowly sailed away from the harbor.

Seeing this, many people cheered and celebrated the appearance of the new ship and the birth of new things.

However, in the midst of their cheers, a steam-engine ship was seen, slowly falling behind, and then seemingly not moving. Clearly, something is wrong; This is not over, and immediately after, one of the other three steam engine ships stopped, and it seemed that there was something more serious, and I saw that the craftsmen on the ship were in a hurry, as if they were ...... It seems to have entered the water.

In the shipyard, a few ordinary boats soon rowed out and dragged the two problematic boats back to the shipyard.

However, the last two boats did not change again, and they sailed forward on the river, one after the other.

"See, that boat with two big wheels, this is called the paddle wheel, in fact, it has been around for a long time, but the wheels are not so huge!" There are well-informed people, and they quickly introduce to the people around them.

"Oh, I see, the steam engine drove these two big wheels to turn on the water, so that the boat could move forward in the river!" There are also other people who suddenly realized, "In the past, there were two rows of people sitting at the bottom of the boat and stepping on them. ”

This steam paddle steamer, many people can still talk about it, after all, there are things they are familiar with. But for another steam-engine ship, no one can comment on them.

"What's the ship doing? There are no sails, no oars, and no paddle wheels, so how does it move? Someone said with a puzzled face, "And looking at the speed, it seems to be getting faster and faster, obviously surpassing the paddle steamer!" ”

"Wow, it's better than the paddle steamer, and it's getting faster and faster." Someone else exclaimed, "Amazing, amazing, so powerful......"

The steamer, which did not have a paddle steamer, became faster and faster as time went by, not only surpassing the paddle steamer, but even throwing off the paddle steamer far away.

Under such a miracle, almost all the people, even the officials and officials on guard, couldn't help but cheer. The sound of this cheer can be described as earth-shattering, and the sound is higher than the other. They were all smiling, excited that they could witness a powerful ship, a new ship, a ship that could change the status quo of today's Ming ships.

"Look, see, the boat is back, see?"

"Wow, that's fast, that's amazing!"

“……”

However, the accident happened again, and just as the steamship was only about a mile away from the shipyard, that is, the royal pilot, it suddenly slowed down again, and the craftsmen on board began to get busy, and at last a small flag was waved, and a large ship was sent from the shipyard to pull the steamship.

Seeing this situation, many of the people on the shore were very sorry. It's also a pity that the scene wasn't perfect. However, the previous performance of this steamship just now still made them excited. At this time, they are quite inclusive.

"What a pity! If only there were no problems! Unexpectedly, in the end, it was still a nest! ”

"Isn't there still the paddle steamer ship, isn't it okay, see if you see it, and drive back safely!"

"Ah, that's too slow!"

"You are content, the speed of this paddle steamer ship is slow because the steam engine ship just now is too fast, okay? You take this paddle steamer ship to compare it with other ships, really! ”

"This one is the same, it seems to be faster than the previous ship!"

"It's okay, it's okay, didn't the fastest steam-engine ship just now go so far? If you go back and change it, you won't be fine! ”

"That's right, let's just say that this steam ship has the emperor's personal participation, and it has been tested many times before it builds this kind of steam engine ship today. It's strange that this steam engine ship can be driven at once without testing it many times! ”

“……”

Under the deliberate propaganda of Emperor Chongzhen, he did not hide how wise the emperor was and achieved it overnight, but publicized the process of inventing the steam engine, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty could understand how many failures this steam engine had experienced. This makes the people of the Ming Dynasty have been tested unconsciously... Improvement... Try again... Improvement... This mode of invention,

Therefore, most people are very satisfied with the inaugural test of the steam engine ship, and their excitement may be different, and the focus of the discussion is also different. But in the end, the view is the same, that is, this steam engine ship will definitely be built in the end. In the future, the ships of the Ming Dynasty will definitely be this kind of steam engine ship.

The young gentleman who was dressed gorgeously was also driven by the emotions of the scene, and he made up his mind that he must understand the book of science and technology well when he turned back to Jiangnan, so that when this kind of steam engine ship appeared in Jiangnan, he could understand much more than others, and he could be more eye-catching, and he looked up to others......

Not to mention how these people finally dispersed excitedly, let's just say that on the shipyard side, the causes of the accidents of the various steam engine ships, as the ships were towed to the shore, naturally someone reported to the imperial front.

And these reasons are actually similar to those that appeared in history. Thermal energy drives the propeller to rotate, and there will be vibrations, and this is very obvious on wooden boats. The one that broke down at the beginning was caused by too much vibration.

On the whole, although the paddle steamer is relatively stable, it wastes too much kinetic energy, which translates into too much energy consumption for the propeller ship to move forward; The propeller ship also had to overcome many problems, such as the terrible vibration of the wooden boat, the wear of the propeller shaft bearing under the waterline, the paddle shaft seal, the thrust bearing, and so on.

For the last locomotive ship, it can sail for so long and the speed is faster than the paddle wheel, which makes Emperor Chongzhen very excited, and immediately ordered to abandon the research and development of several other forms of propellers, and instead conquer this kind of propeller, to improve the problem.

He didn't know that because of the participation of his later generations, the propeller steamship did not encounter some of the problems encountered by the propeller in the original history.

In the original history, in the first tests of steamships, propeller ships were not as fast as paddle turbine ships. There are various reasons such as the design pattern of the propeller, the length of the shaft, and so on.

It is very coincidental that among the several propellers given by Emperor Chongzhen, there is a propeller that is similar to the famous "Guandao Oar" in later generations. This kind of propeller invented by the Chinese people after the liberation of later generations, similar to the Guan Gong knife, so it got the name of "Guan Dao oar", it has a very big advantage, not only improves the speed of the ship, but more strange is that the vibration of the spiral is greatly weakened.

After Emperor Chongzhen gave clear instructions on the direction of the research and development of the steam engine ship, the shipyard steward and eunuch told him: "Your Majesty, the difficulty encountered by the ironclad ship today is the fit between the hulls, but the slave maid is already organizing manpower to build a huge mold, and try it directly by watering, or soon, the ironclad ship will also be available." ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but be speechless. But in his mind, the immediate thing that came to mind was the Great Wall and the pyramids of Egypt!

Although he didn't go to see the huge mold that the steward and eunuch said, he could know that this method might really work, but regardless of the cost, and the ship built could not be too big to solve the problem fundamentally.

Therefore, he instructed: "You can try in a variety of ways, but the direction of the final research and development is to have simple operation, can be assembly line operation, energy production, and the fit between the iron armor to create a problem, but also to tackle the problem, and if you can't solve it now, it doesn't mean that you can't solve it in the future!" ”