"Is that okay?" After listening to Li Hao's explanation, Fang Er's face was confused. However, he knew that Li Hao would not tell lies, in this kind of thing, Fang Er had known Li Hao for so many years, Li Hao's character and behavior were not fully understood, but he would not know too little.

"Absolutely! And through this competition, we can also raise the price of some of the remaining land on the edge of the West Lake again, and a large number of people will come to buy it. However, in this case, your Hangzhou government has to do something to improve your identity, so that everyone who comes to watch the game and participate in the competition is satisfied, and leave satisfied! ”

This kind of technique is about to be played by people in later generations, but in Datang, these are novel techniques, and many people don't even understand the Tao here. Li Hao uses it, and the benefits must be huge.

In addition to the cooking competition, there are many competitions that Li Hao wants to do, but cooking is what he is best at, and he is also the most familiar with it, so it is naturally easier to operate. As long as this cooking competition is carried out perfectly, other competitions can be carried out in the future.

This kind of cross-regional competition can enhance the status of a city, and can also promote the connection between various cities again, and accelerate the process of regional development of Datang.

Li Hao's students did not participate in this competition, and neither did his restaurant. However, if some people in his restaurant who were not Li Hao's students signed up, this Li Hao did not stop them. His own people don't need this contest to be there, so the opportunity is given to someone else.

And the people who came to Hangzhou at the end of this competition covered almost all the territories of the entire Datang, from south to north, from east to west. Those exotic people are not eligible to participate, but they can recognize the Tang Dynasty as their host, and then bring their exotic food to the competition, which is also valid.

"Teacher, the steam engine you said has now been brought out by the senior brothers, and it is a pity that it has been working continuously for a long time." At this time, the news brought by one of Li Hao's students shocked Li Hao, and the steam engine came out!

"Let's go! Let's check it out! At this time, Li Hao didn't care about the cooking competition in Hangzhou, so he left Hangzhou Mansion by boat after attending the ceremony on the first day, and then headed south. The competition here is left to his students, and he just needs to arrive at the end of the competition.

At this point in time, in order to be comfortable, Li Hao chose to take a boat, with Gao Yang and Wu Meiniang by his side, and then hurried to the south.

The research on the steam engine has been carried out in the south, and there are also relevant technical archives in Chang'an. However, due to the abundance of water resources in the south, some places have small populations, so it is appropriate to conduct this experiment. It's just that Li Hao didn't expect this thing to be researched so quickly.

After arriving in the south, Li Hao couldn't take a break, and took his two wives to see the running steam engine. These were the most primitive steam engines, one for draining water and one for driving the waterwheel.

"It's amazing that those things can work without human hands!" Gao Yang knew about this thing for the first time, but Xiao Wu had some knowledge of this. In the past, Xiao Wu was in charge of all the trial funds here, so she naturally knew this.

"This is the steam engine, the machine that heats water into steam and then pushes the mechanical action."

Li Hao didn't care about explaining at this time, and after seeing the most primitive steam engine, he circled around the steam engine a few times and looked at these things carefully. He found that this thing was much better than he had imagined, and because they were homegrown on the technology of the city, this one was much better than the first steam engine in the original history.

"Inform all the researchers here, each of them will be given a big bonus, and we will have a meal at this experimental base today to celebrate!" After this thing came out, Peugeot Datang has really come to the forefront of the world since then. Those other countries that are still groping in development, they can only follow Datang and eat ashes.

Unlike the countries of the European past, they always occupied a place because of the limitations of their own population base. But Datang doesn't need it, Datang itself is rich in land and resources, and has a large population base. If you want to expand outward, it is naturally not as hard as them.

With the powerful weapon of the steam engine, the first industrial revolution could begin in Datang. In the future, the development of civilization on the side of Datang will enter a new stage, and the pace of global domination can also be accelerated.

"From now on! Our Datang is about to enter a new era! After this change, the whole of China no longer has to worry about being ahead of it by other civilizations. ”

The steam engine came out, and these things such as the internal combustion engine were not far away. The computers in the back and so on, it seems that they are not far away. Grasp the first two opportunities, as long as the people here do not die, Datang will be able to stand at the top of the world and look down on the world.

"Is this thing so powerful?" Gao Yang didn't understand why his Lang Jun was so excited, it seemed that there should be nothing in this Datang that could make him so excited, right.

"Of course! With this we will be able to ride in a cart that does not need to be drawn by people and horses, and we will not have to ride in a boat that is rowed by sailboats and paddlers. And in the future, the time for us to run back and forth around Datang will be shortened a lot, and we may be able to get there by sleeping from the south to Chang'an. ”

Li Hao replied with a smile after hearing this, in addition to pumping water, the original steam engine this time is also used to drive ships and trains, as long as it is slightly improved, those things can be slowly realized.

The steam engine has a great historical role, and it has promoted the development of the machinery industry and even society in its original history. It solves the most critical problems in the production of large machines and promotes unprecedented progress in transportation.

The thermodynamics and mechanics established with its development laid the foundation for the development of steam turbines and internal combustion engines; The steam turbine inherits the characteristics of the steam engine with steam as the working medium, and the advantages of using a condenser to reduce the exhaust pressure, and abandons the disadvantages of reciprocating motion and intermittent steam intake.

The later internal combustion engine inherited the basic structure and transmission form of the steam engine, and adopted the method of directly inputting fuel into the cylinder for combustion, forming a thermal cycle with much higher thermal efficiency; At the same time, the cylinders, pistons, flywheels, hammer governors, valves and seals used in steam engines are the basic elements that constitute a variety of modern machinery.

The Industrial Revolution was partly due to the improvement of the steam engine, and the production of the steam locomotive was also due to the improvement of the steam engine and the due existence of later generations, when the British encouraged inventions, and when the population increased and the production rate increased, there were efforts to improve the production equipment at that time, Watt was one of them, and Watt's improvement of the steam engine led to a series of technological revolutions that caused a shift from manual labor to power machine production.

Therefore, the improvement of the steam engine was definitely one of the reasons for the Industrial Revolution. The steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that uses a steam engine as the power source, so without the improvement of the steam engine, it would not have been possible to have this means of transportation.

Now all of this has been realized in Datang, and Datang now attaches great importance to scientific and technological inventions. Whether it is the Datang Academy or the various academies run by Li Hao himself, there are rewards in this regard. After Li Ke became the emperor, he raised the treatment of this piece again.

Compared with Li Erlai, Li Ke has benefited a lot from Li Hao's views and the benefits brought by these things, and he knows a lot. Therefore, I am convinced of Li Hao's words that technology will change the world, which can be seen from various things in the past.

Whether it was the appearance of cement or the improvement of gunpowder printing, the imperial court got great benefits from it. The surrounding Xiaoxiao was even beaten by Datang's thermal weapons, and the entire territory of Datang was more than doubled compared to the original.

These benefits can not only be felt by Li Ke, but also by those high-ranking officials in the Tang Dynasty, and even Li Er in the palace will now tell Li Ke this, so that Li Ke can hold these things tightly in his hands, which is related to whether their Li family dynasty can sit down forever.

The test base was celebrated for several days because of Li Hao's arrival and the successful test of the steam engine. Bonuses and material rewards are just a piece of cake, and there are more to come. Not only did Li Hao give them rewards, but the imperial court would also give them all kinds of rewards when the time came.

Including material awards, honorary status awards, these people can also enter the Royal Academy of Science and Technology in the future and become a member of it, which is now the most sacred place for all scientific research workers in Datang. Because after entering here, it means that they are the elite of the Tang Dynasty, not only can they apply to see the emperor, but they also do not need to visit officials at all levels.

What's more, with this status, their families can enjoy a variety of benefits as well. If it is those who have been exiled, they can even apply to return to China directly because of this.

"You prepare a few copies of all the data for me, and keep these copies for the archives of the Royal Academy of Sciences."

After the celebration, it's time to deal with all kinds of things. All technical information is the same as for previous inventions. The Royal Research Institute wants an archive, and the Taoist side will also keep an archive, and Li Hao himself has built a basement somewhere to store this kind of information.

The purpose of this is that Li Hao is worried that one day this dynasty will fall, and some people will do all kinds of brain-dead things, and then destroy them in various ways, and then these things will be lost in the war, and it will be the extremely dark history of the entire Eastern civilization.

But in Li Hao's memory, this kind of thing has not happened in the east. That's why he is now making a tripartite insurance, just to keep all kinds of civilization history and technology well preserved. In the future, no matter who comes out to falsify and smear all kinds of historical materials, they will be slapped in the face by these materials in the end, making it difficult for them to fool the people. 2510