The transition from an agrarian society to an industrial society is not just a slogan.

The content involved is even more unimaginable.

Even in the minds of many people, the understanding of industrialization is very limited.

The members of the Cabinet, for example, heard the word industrialization the most, and had the same contact with the largest group of people, but so far industrialization had only been in their minds at the stage when the steam engine was used in the various workshops.

Ideological cognition is the biggest problem, and this problem often determines how far a country can go on the road to industrialization.

Li Yuanji was also a little anxious, because he knew very well that during the period from the beginning of industrialization to the 100 years of industrialization, the productive forces of this 100 years were equivalent to the total production of the previous 2,000 years of human society.

And this was only in the early days of industrialization, when all kinds of high-tech were not flying around the world.

By the time Li Yuanji crossed over, one year's hard work could basically be worth the development achievements of a hundred years in ancient times.

At that time, it was less than 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it had only been more than 30 years since the formal liberalization of the mind and its vigorous development.

Li Yuanji does not expect to be able to reach the level before his crossing in his lifetime, but he wants to reach the level of a hundred years of industrialization in his lifetime.

In fact, the tax rebate policy is also an important step in promoting industrialization.

Only when more people participate, the scientific research department will have more funds and energy to invest in the research and development of technology.

When more people use it, more and more people will have higher expectations for this, followed by the emergence of various industrial equipment and the upgrading of various industrial technologies.

But there is a process in everything, even if Li Yuanji is very clear about this, but he still can't help but want to reach the point where it can only be achieved in the planning for decades in just a few years, or even a year, but it is obvious that this is not realistic.

The cabinet members' awareness of industrialization has brought Lee Won-gil back from those unrealistic fantasies.

"Your Majesty!" Cabinet meetings have always been forbidden to be disturbed, except in the case of a major situation, but where are there so many important situations? However, this time, Song Zhong still decided to break into the venue, and even directly ignored the not very pleasant atmosphere and walked directly to Li Yuanji's side.

"Your Majesty, from the side of the Academy of Sciences, the problem of the steam engine has been completely solved, and the test results in the laboratory show that the power is nearly three times stronger than before."

"What?" Li Yuanji was taken aback and felt a little incredulous.

The problem with limiting the steam engine is its tightness, which is almost an unsolvable problem unless a breakthrough is made in materials, but now my students are just beginning to learn, and they are still far from studying on their own.

If they want to solve this problem, they can only rely on themselves.

And before that, Li Yuanji was even ready to pull only four carriages for a locomotive.

"It's only been a few months? How did they solve it? Li Yuanji shook his head violently, not because he didn't believe it, but because he knew how difficult it was.

"This slave doesn't know, they just say that there is no problem in the laboratory, and they plan to enter the formal test next." Song Zhong shook his head vigorously.

"Good! Ha ha! Good! Li Yuanji shouted excitedly, leaving only a bunch of cabinet ministers with bewildered faces.

It is good to solve the problem of the steam engine, but it is nothing more than to make the railway run faster, although they have also seen the benefits of the railway, but what is the concept of the steam engine?

They really don't realize it, and you can never force someone who has only seen the speed and pull of a horse to imagine the speed and pull and endurance of a heavy truck.

"Let them prepare as soon as possible, I want to go and see!" Li Yuanji is not very interested in laboratory tests, and the formal tests are actually road tests.

The road test is divided into two phases, the first stage is to run over the rails in the test field, and then gradually add carriages, load cargo, and test his limits.

Then the second stage is to officially leave the test site and go to the already laid rails to test, and this test is much more difficult, because the road conditions cannot be compared with the test site, the same two steps, first empty, and then gradually increase the carriage and load.

"When the time comes, Zhu Qing will go with me, and I want to let Zhu Qing see the charm of industrialization!"

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The preparation is actually not difficult, Lao Xu and others have been on the steam engine project for several years, and have experienced countless failures.

And this also brings another benefit, which is to make these people who did not know anything about steam engines before become experienced technical experts.

After previous tests, it has been proved that the overall design of the steam engine is no problem, and the biggest problem is the tightness.

So recently, they put all their energy on the main focus on sealing, but they didn't expect that a chance of a mistake really made them successful.

And this success is actually related to the commercialization promoted by the imperial court, if there is no commercialization, they would not know that there is such a magical thing in the world.

It only took three days for Lao Xu and them to inform Li Yuanji that he was ready to conduct the test.

The test site is still the same place where the horsepower train was tested that day.

The last time I came, there were only two people, Li Yuanji and Li Tao, and what they saw was only a small carriage pulled by horses.

But this time, Li Yuanji came with cabinet ministers.

Li Yuanji found that blindly relying on only one mouth to say it can never be more effective than letting them really see the side.

It's like a general on paper, never expect him to play much of a role on the battlefield.

The steam train is only a small corner of the progress of industrialization, and the important thing is the steam engine.

"Tell me how you solved the problem of tightness?" Looking at the huge locomotive in front of him, Li Yuanji couldn't help but sigh a little.

I had seen this locomotive myself a few months ago, but at that time he still had a lot of problems and was prone to breakdowns.

After that, the locomotive was sealed, and Lao Xu and others continued to bury themselves in the laboratory to find a solution.

A few months have passed, and it has appeared in front of everyone again, and there is no change in the appearance, it is still the same as before, but Li Yuanji knows very well that what has changed is its interior.

"Your Majesty, this was a complete accident, and the first to discover this was not the minister, but the minister's student Jiang Tian. At the same time, it was Jiang Tian who solved this problem, and the minister felt that it would be more appropriate to let him explain to His Majesty. Lao Xu didn't have the slightest intention of stealing the limelight from his students, because he couldn't do it.

No matter how awesome Jiang Tian is in the future, he will also bring him out by himself, not to mention anything else, Jiang Tian's name as a mentor has already ensured that he will never go to that kind of hard life again in his life.

In addition, the thinking of people in this era is relatively simple, or the character of people is also more upright, most people will not do those things against their will for fame and fortune, and there are many people who know about this matter, if Your Majesty goes to investigate, you don't have to work hard at all, you can get the real result.

Therefore, instead of dying by yourself, it is better to be frank and unrestrained, after all, you are the person in charge, even if the first credit is not yourself, the credit is always indispensable.

Li Yuanji didn't care about that, and he didn't care about Lao Xu's thoughts, so he nodded and agreed, whoever reports is the same, the important thing is the result.

"Your Majesty, when I met with my family, my brother mentioned something to the minister, saying that the merchants in the south used a special method to make several pieces of glass together without affecting the beauty, and at the same time it was waterproof and windproof, and the thing was very soft, so the minister decided to find some to try, and after a try, he found that this method was really feasible. It's just that the durability is not good, and it won't be long before it goes wrong.

After disassembling it, it was found that the problem was that the things could not withstand the overheating temperature in the cylinder, so after a while of use, they would melt.

But the minister felt that this material was easy to obtain, so he asked his brother to contact the southern merchant, and bought the manufacturing method with the usual money, and then consulted the experts of the iron-smelting workshop to add some other materials with reference to the iron-smelting method, but the results were also unsatisfactory, and even the effect was getting worse and worse.

And there happened to be an accident during the test.,The cup used to drink water was accidentally broken.,And the minister didn't notice that a small piece of fragment fell into it.,After the experiment,But it was found that the condensed material,The durability is better than before.。

So the minister glued the cup into powder and added it to experiment, and found that the melting speed was slower, and even the firewood could no longer meet the demand, so he had to change it to coke.

After several tests, it was found that only by adding some kaolin to these raw materials can greatly improve the high temperature resistance of these materials, and before that, this material was tested in the laboratory for ten consecutive days without any problems, and the power is very stable, and there is no previous situation.

In addition, under the leadership of Xu Shi, the ministers and others have made a small improvement to this train, yesterday has been preliminarily tested, the power is very strong, it is no problem to pull twenty cars full of cement, and yesterday basically ran for a day, when the ministers and others dismantled and inspected this morning, they found that the degree of wear and tear was almost negligible. Jiang Tian couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and told the whole process one by one.

Scientific research is so wonderful, many times, after investing huge manpower and material resources, it may not be possible to solve it in years or even decades.

But sometimes, it only takes one person, one experiment, and one accident to solve the problem.

Kaolin, this is very common, it is everywhere in the land of Datang, to put it more bluntly, these kaolin is the soil used to fire ceramics.