"Woo ......"

Next to a well with a depth of twenty or thirty meters, a steam engine much larger than Niu Ke sits, spitting white smoke and making a loud noise. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Ming watched from a distance away from the steam engine. The steam engine was operated by a Frenchman, as it was made in France. At this time, the real industrial steam engine had not yet come to the market, and although the current steam engine was also the largest kinetic steam engine that Watt had just improved and separated from the condensing cylinder, it was far from enough to lead the industrial revolution. And this thing is not secret, the French make it, it is easy and simple.

So this thing has not yet received much attention from the British, the French, the whole of Europe.

Chen Ming was far away, and the important ministers around him were also far away. This kind of steam engine, which uses steam at high temperature and pressure, has greatly improved its efficiency. But this steam engine was much more dangerous than the earlier vacuum steam engines. Historically, explosions of boilers and machines have caused many major accidents, and safety valves have also been born as a result.

The French led two teams of men to add water and coal to the steam engine.

It was surrounded by a large group of high-ranking military and political officials of the Fu Han army, as well as businessmen. Chen Ming told them a few days ago that he hoped that the steam engine he brought back from Europe this time could be improved to the greatest extent, so that it could become a steam engine that could be widely used, replace manpower and animal power in the future, and promote the development of production efficiency to the greatest extent!

Chen Ming's 'pretending' words were also recorded in Newton's diary, which later became a proof of Chen Ming's "far-sightedness and far-sightedness" in the field of historiography. It has also become one of the ironclad proofs that prove Chen Ming's 'greatness'!

Today, the steam engine, which is too behemoth, is finally assembled.

"It's out of the water, it's really out of the water......"

The people around Chen Ming shouted, a well twenty or thirty meters deep. This machine may look scary, but it is really powerful. Chen Ming initially said that it could be used to pump water from coal mines, which was obviously possible.

The water output of the outlet is very large, and it can be seen that this steam engine is more than enough, twenty or thirty meters, forty or fifty meters......

"If you kill Watt back......"

Chen Ming's heart once again flashed this dirty attention. It's not that he's despicable, it's because Watt means too much to the steam engine. The steam engine was the key to the first industrial revolution. But Chen Ming himself was reluctant to give up the Watt steam engine. Now that this thing is about to be invented as scheduled, Chen Ming is fully confident that he will promote it faster, on a larger scale and faster than the British.

It would be wonderful if Chen Han had deep roots in Europe, and it would be wonderful to be able to kidnap Watt to China without hurting his name.

Because as far as Chen Ming remembers, Watt's work on the modification of the steam engine continued until the last decade of this century......

It's a pity that it's all delusional.

In Wuhan, Chen Ming waited until the steam engine was assembled and water was successfully pumped out of a deep well, and then he returned to Lushan with a large number of instruments, materials and Newton.

No more hurried than when he came, on the way back, Chen Ming took more than twice as long as when he came. The assembled steam engine was placed in the form of a complete machine on a six-horse cart.

Another snow fell in Henan.

Chen Ming came to Wuhan in the wind and snow, and also returned to Lushan in the wind and snow. After this trip, he will be able to rest for a while.

Wait until next spring......

……

The New Year's Festival has arrived, and the entire Xiaonangou is guarded by 3,000 soldiers of the Guards Brigade inside and out.

It is another year of ancestor worship day, and this year's Chen ancestor worship is larger in scale and more grand. There is no need to say much about the reason, everyone knows that the Fu Han army will move the capital next year, and at most the year after next, Chen Han will be proclaimed emperor, and then there will be the official Northern Expedition.

Therefore, this year, the people who came to Xiaonangou to worship their ancestors were the original Chen lineage and a few close ministers, but many people were expanded at once, and Chen Gang was included in terms of blood official positions.

Therefore, this year's pro-guard brigade only came with 3,000 people at once, plus the guards around Chen Hui and Chen Ming, as well as the 1,000 people dispatched by the guard brigade, the guards were strict and meticulous.

Chen Hui was in charge, Chen Ming was half a position behind, and a group of Chen's relatives and ministers kowtowed to the ancestral tablet.

After Chen Hui became king, the Han palace did not change much, and the ancestral ancestral hall of Xiaonangou was changed to a temple, renovated, and expanded many times. At that time, there were still too many uncertainties about Chen Han's future, and Chen Hui was reluctant to move the ancestral tablets in the deep mountains to a closer place. But now the overall situation seems to have been decided, and when Chen Hui is proclaimed emperor, the family will really be separated here, and part of the tablets will be moved to the Taimiao Temple that has been built in Nanjing.

And this temple has once again become the ancestral hall of the Chen family.

Although when the ancestral hall was turned into a temple, many tablets had already been moved to the mezzanine room, and there were many wing rooms.

The Chen family was originally a clan, and when they moved to Lushan in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, they also brought genealogies and tablets. In the first year that Chen Ming traveled over, when he was worshipping his ancestors, he looked at the tablets on the stage, densely packed, just like some scenes in the TV series in his previous life that highlighted the deep hatred of the sea of blood, Chen Ming really chilled.

I'm used to it now.

In the main hall of the temple, the most direct tablets are now enshrined, Chen Ming's grandfather, great-grandfather, great-grandfather, and so on.

The creaking of footsteps in the snow. The snow has stopped, but the snow in many parts of the mountain is still white, making people feel holy. Looking at Xiaonangou from afar during the day, the top of the mountain not far away was white, which made Chen Ming think of the scene when he first came to Xiaonangou.

At that time, he didn't expect that the 'great cause of rebellion' would be carried out so quickly......

Hurriedly but very formally worshiped the ancestors, and a group of people took advantage of the dark night to hurry back to Lushan.

Horse-drawn carriages, front and back, end to end, connected for two or three miles.

Both sides of the carriage were full of soldiers of the Fu Han Army, and there were sentry points along the way, and there were even more secret sentry posts left on the mountain, which was not worth having soldiers.

In the carriage where Chen Ming's family of three was riding, little Chen Ding was already asleep in a daze. Li Xiaomei is still entering the annual rhythm of 'thinking of relatives every festival'. Chen Ming really feels that the Li family has been overtaken now.

Otherwise, they should have come out a long time ago? The entire southern kingdom is the Han army, what else do they have to worry about?

returned to Lushan at dawn, and it was not a loss to Chen Han for continuously repairing bridges and paving roads in recent years.

Chen Ming's family didn't have time to return to the prince's mansion, so they changed their robes in a side room of the Han Palace, and joined Liu Wanyun, who had been waiting there for a long time.

In this year's ceremony, in addition to Li Xiaomei, Chen Ming still only took Liu Bangyun with one woman in the backyard.

Ascended to the seat, sounded the whip, praised the "shift", played music, and Chen Hui was in place. The ministers and foreign envoys stood solemnly, yes, the foreign envoys, although there was only one envoy of Lord Zheng, and a Korean envoy who did not even have a king, Chen Ming led the ministers to perform five bows and three bows.

Well, three kneeling and nine knocking belong to the use of worship.

Now Chen Han, the worship rituals of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties are intermingled with each other. If you don't usually bow down, one 'bow' is enough. The current five bows and three knocks belong to the Ming Dynasty, and when the ministers of the Ming Dynasty meet the emperor, they obviously can't 'shake' enough.

"Uh-a-a......-a

Chen Hui, who got up to congratulate, was actually tired again, not only feeling weak in his body, but also itching in his throat and eyes. Chen Er held a bowl of steamed pears with Chuanbei rock sugar and looked at Chen Hui with worried eyes. This is the second time, when he came back from Xiaonangou last year, Chen Hui was slightly ill, and at that time, there was also the current Royal Highness the Crown Princess. As a result, it was found out that the crown princess was pregnant.

This year, the crown princess led the wife and the younger generations of her relatives to salute the queen and the queen mother, and she was in high spirits. Although Chen and the others were waiting by Chen Hui's side, the other ear had been watching the backyard, and now it was afternoon, and the princess was also red, talking and laughing.

Therefore, there will be no 'person' to accompany Chen Hui to get sick this year, which is even more eye-catching.

And this time there are not only Chen Hui middle-aged and elderly people who go to Xiaonangou to worship their ancestors, how many years younger than Chen Cong? Several people of his generation in the partial branch are older than Chen Hui. The most straightforward ones are the Seven Princes and the Nine Princes......

Chen Er couldn't help but be anxious. If Chen Hui's cough can't be stopped now, the news that he is 'tired and sick' will spread throughout southwest Henan the next day, and he is the king of Han. This has a lot of influence, okay!

"It's fine." Chen Hui took the steamed pear with rock sugar in Chen's second-hand, ate and drank it dry, his throat was still itchy, and it was not a miracle medicine, how could he stop coughing all at once.

So Chen Ming was very surprised to find that his father was ......, could it be that his kidneys were not good? Why do you go to the toilet so often?

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, the king is sick again."

Chen Ming was taken aback, and a ball of essence was blocked by Chen Ming's drooping eyelids, "Is it serious?" ”

"Fatigue, cough."

Is it blowing the wind and catching a cold? But how can it be so familiar? By the way, last year, last year......

Chen Ming's mind spun rapidly, and his face didn't show it at all, as if the attendant who served the wine just now didn't speak in his ear. Holding a wine glass, he shouted loudly at the surrounding relatives and dignitaries, and drank endlessly.

At night, he returned to the prince's mansion with a slight drunkenness, lying on the bed, Li Xiaomei fell into a deep sleep, but his eyes were still wide open. "I was sick once last year, and I'm sick again this year......"

Don't say that Chen Ming has no conscience, knowing that his father is sick, and he is still acting as if he is fine, at this time, he is even thinking about his own little abacus, which is really ...... What's that. But this thing is very taboo, and it is explicit and arouses suspicion and wants to be emotional.

But this news can't really be hidden, it won't break out on the fifth day of the new year at the latest, and the illness at this time, as well as the reflection of last year, is too conspicuous.

But Chen Hui's body doesn't look old. The imperial doctor didn't diagnose anything on weekdays?

If Chen Hui was not in good health, ...... even if these two illnesses were just a small chance, after the influence spread, Chen Ming thought about it for a long time, and finally had to admit that this matter was very good for him.

The news of Chen Hui's illness came out quickly, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. But the reason is not that he is tired and sick from worshipping his ancestors, but because of women, Chen Hui let Zhou, who had just been promoted to concubine, carry a big black cauldron, and Zhou's concubine was pulled by the queen mother that day. But it was a thin tent that was covered, and as for whether it could really block everyone's sight, it was not enough to say it out loud. Even on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Abbeka became the first marquis of Chen Han - Sulu Hou, this news did not put down the hot text of 'Chen Hui is sick again' at all.

But the news deeply stimulated the North Korean group. Jin Jichong stayed in Lushan for a few months, although he frequently 'ran the department' and 'burst into tears', it cannot be denied that Jin Jichong had eaten fat. Ding Zaiyuan also got fat, and the people who came to Lushan in North Korea later all got fat.

On the occasion of the New Year, these people did not have a good time. Seeing that Abu Bekka, who was not even as good as them before, was suddenly given the title of Sulu Hou, and the total area of the so-called Sulu Kingdom did not seem to be much larger than that of Jeju Island, Kim Ki Chong and Ding Jae-won really wanted to spit on Abu Bekka in the face. It's so cheap, this brute!

Abbekka has now found the second goal in life, to learn Chinese as soon as possible, and then to unite closely with those Chen Han relatives who are interested in doing business in Nanyang. He can also teach at the School of Foreign Languages or the School of Political Science, which is just a remote elective.

He was contacted by both the School of Foreign Languages and the School of Political Science, who were willing to add a course of Nanyang history to their respective schedules, and urgently needed someone like Abubeqa who could speak Chinese and was familiar with the history and rise and fall of the Nanyang indigenous kingdoms as a teacher. This is a great opportunity to gain prestige.

Abbeqa didn't know the North Koreans' contempt and spurning for him now, and even if he did, he would smile slightly.

Sulu is no match for North Korea, which is not small in size and has a population of tens of millions. And Sulu is a small country in front of North Korea. The more Abubeqa understands China now, the more he feels that he has really betrayed the country.

This little land and population can be exchanged for a noble marquis, which is simply ......, indescribable joy. In particular, Suluhou's annual income was simply more than his income in Sulu in a year. What's more, as a marquis, he still has a full 3,000 acres of land.

Jin Ji planted their spurning for the cowardice of Abubeka, oh, just because the external pressure was too great - the Spaniards, the foreigners, gave up their ancestral inheritance, this kind of unscrupulous descendants, even if they die, they will not see their ancestors. But they didn't know that the greens and greens all saw the true God when they died.

Moreover, these envoys who were loyal to Korea did not know how much influence they sent back to Korea as a negative example in the hope of inspiring the negative example of the troubled Korean clan to some Korean clans in the near future, but this influence was precisely that the envoys despised.

Chen Jigong, who has not been seen for a long time, also returned to Lushan this year, and Zhu Zhiwei went to Lushan with him. The Jiangnan Trading Company he presided over has made a very good profit this year. Chen Ming is in charge and lets him let it go, and the profits he earns can be used by himself.

Zhu Zhiwei ordered 10 new ships as the new ships of the transport team. In the coming year, he will increase trade with the islands of the South Seas, and he will also strengthen Japan's commercial ties. And Chen Jigong came to Lushan to see Chen Ming this time, but it was to hand over a task to Chen Ming.

Western-style sailboats?

He had already drawn the drawings of an orthodox Western-style sailing ship. Although the Portuguese did not have a shipyard for authentic Western-style sailing ships in Macao, no information could be found, but as a wharf, the necessary repair capacity for ships was still available.

Chen Jigong took advantage of the collapse of the deformed occupation of the Portuguese in Macao, and used a lot of money to pry away a number of shipwrights and shipbuilders, and with these people, it was easy to draw a traditional Western-style sailing ship manufacturing map.

But Chen Ming soon put forward new requirements for Chen Jigong, he hoped to combine the watertight compartment with a Western-style sailing ship, and gave a thing called a flying scissor bow, which made Chen Jigong's head blow up.

The shipyard in charge of Chen Jigong has already launched its first Western-style sailing ship this winter, and the tonnage is not large, about 150 tons, and this is just a test hand.

Due to the fierce call of the sail division troops, in addition to the sail warship that Chen Ming asked to build, the fast, dexterous, and fast small ships have also become another task of Chen Jigong's shipyard.

Because of the existence of rockets, a considerable number of people in the current naval division of the Fuhan Army have become fans of 'Kuailingxiao'.

Chen Jigong returned to Lushan this time, and the debriefing was on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was like Chen Ming submitting 'homework'.

The combination of a sail warship - a watertight compartment and a Western-style sailing ship was completed. But the flying shear bow is still in the stranding period for the time being.

"Your Highness, this flying scissors bow ...... unreliable."

"You've tried it?" Chen Ming raised his eyebrows and flew to cut the bow ......, will it make the structure of the ship unreliable?

"Nope. But those foreigners said so when they looked at the drawings. They said that if the bow of the ship is like a flying shear bow, it will definitely have a certain increase in speed, and it will definitely have a bad impact on the overall stability of the hull structure. ”

"Experiment. Let's take a look at it first. Chen Ming knew very little about sailboats, and he knew a rough outline of the famous flying scissor bow, a simple appearance, and another was that he knew that there was a flying clipper ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 13 days. In addition, his only impression of this kind of boat, and the deepest impression, is that it is fast!

Chen Ming now has money and materials, regardless of whether the real effect is good or bad, let's build it out for a walk first. "Don't worry about money and wood, if there are no two things in that land, there will be no shortage of what you have there." Chen Ming said very boldly, as if he had completely forgotten the appearance of Alexander when he looked at the general military budget next year. (To be continued.) )