Throughout history, the rise of great powers stems from the successful maritime strategy, and shipbuilding is the basis of the maritime strategy.

The Age of Discovery was kicked off by his own three hundred years earlier, which is related to the national fortunes of China, but also related to the development of human beings.

With the previous calculation, Lotte said: "Master Xiong, haven't you thought about changing the cylinders that are used as driving power from one to two or three?" ”

"What does Master Hou mean by converting the original one cylinder into two or three?" Steward Xiong said hesitantly, in the eyes of Xiong Guanshi, not to mention whether the principle can be said, such a technical difficulty is not easy to solve.

Hearing this, Lotte nodded and glanced at the two shores, feeling that it was twenty miles away from the pier when it set sail, and it would be more than an hour to come and go, and it would not be too early when he returned. The mouth commanded: "Turn around and go back, and then slowly sail the test after tomorrow!" ”

At Lotte's command, the steam engine-driven Qianli Boat slowed down, and the paddle wheels on both sides gradually stopped rotating, and when it was about to stop, I saw that the paddle wheel on one side of the Senri Boat began to rotate slowly, and then the Qianli Boat slowly turned around in the river and completed the transfer action.

"Official, the ship is so fast, it is estimated that it will take twenty days to arrive from Biandu to Hangzhou!" Shakuchi shouted excitedly from the side.

Lotte waved his hand and said: "You said that it has been a long time, if you rotate the people to sail day and night, it will only take about ten days to arrive." ”

"Master Hou!" Steward Xiong, who had been pondering for a while, spoke at this time: "What Hou Ye just said about the transformation from one cylinder to two or three cylinders, the villain thought about it, if according to what Hou Ye said, this will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of manufacturing a steam engine, and also increase the manufacturing cost......

"Ben Hou doesn't need you to save any money for Ben!" Lotte interrupted Steward Xiong's words, his eyes swept over the craftsmen of the ship, and said seriously: "What Benhou needs is technology, and it is a wonderful idea that no one else has!" ”

The craftsmen of the ship fell silent, and all of them knew very well that the request made by this Le Hou Ye was difficult for his people to understand in a short period of time, and it was even more difficult to do.

"Master Hou......" At this moment, a weak voice spoke.

Hearing the voice, Lotte turned his gaze, but saw a young man with a face smeared with soot on his face, standing at the entrance of the engine room, looking at himself timidly there, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

At this moment, everyone's eyes fell on the young man, and the young man became more and more shy.

The young man's expression was timid, but he still hesitated and said: "Master Hou, the multi-cylinder steam engine you said, the small one has an idea......

"Bear child, don't talk nonsense here......" Before the young man could finish speaking, Steward Xiong rebuked loudly.

The young man hurriedly shut up, and did not speak, his face full of horror after being reprimanded.

Then Steward Xiong hurriedly said to Lotte with a flattering face: "Master Hou don't listen to this kid's nonsense, this kid is just an apprentice, and the little one will arrange him to burn the boiler in this boat......"

Without waiting for the bear steward to finish speaking, Lotte waved his hand to interrupt his words, his eyes swept over all the people on the boat, and said: "There is a saying that is good, three stinky people will be Zhuge Liang, Le is to brainstorm, you can put forward any good ideas, Le is not afraid of failure, defeat is that you have no idea at all." ”

After saying that, Lotte said to the boy, "Go on!" ”

The young man responded, and continued with a timid expression: "Hou Ye said before that he used multiple cylinders, and the small one imagined in his heart that if three single cylinders with increasing diameters were set up at the outlet of the boiler, the high-pressure steam coming out of the boiler would first push the first and smallest piston, and when this piston began to retreat, a part of the expanding steam was driven into the second cylinder to push the piston, and the third cylinder was to use the second cylinder to expand the steam, and after the action of the three cylinders, The exhaust steam can be re-collected and fed into the boiler for heating......"

The young man's cowardly words fell, and everyone was silent, pondering whether the young man's line of thought was correct.

Lotte was also a little surprised that a teenager could say such an idea, and he must have made the structure of the steam engine clear. Of course, the steam engine in front of us is very simple, but it should be noted that this steam engine is the most complex, esoteric and high-tech machine of this era.

"Master Hou, you might as well give this method a try!" When everyone was silent, a craftsman spoke: "What Hou Ye said is right, if you expect to blindly increase the boiler to drive the piston, under the charcoal fire, more steam in the boiler will be lost in vain under the action of high temperature and high pressure, and with the escape of the safety valve, it can be said that the gain outweighs the loss."

If you use a multi-cylinder piston according to what Hou Ye said, you can indeed get more use of the steam in the boiler. The villain thought about it for a while, the method sounds very complicated, and it is very difficult to manufacture, but it is a way to solve the lack of power of a single cylinder and increase the power of the steam engine. ”

Hearing this craftsman, the young man's face couldn't help but smile.

"What's your name!" Lotte asked, looking at the boy with his face smeared with charcoal ash.

The young man's expression was still a little cowardly, and he said cautiously: "Back to the Hou Ye, the little one is called a bear child!" ”

Lotte laughed dumbly, and so did the craftsmen.

After looking at the bear child and then at the bear manager, Lotte asked the bear child, "What is your relationship with the bear manager?" ”

"Back to the Hou Ye, this bear child is the baby of my cousin's family, my cousin's family is poor, and he doesn't know a few big characters, so he gave the baby such a name!" Steward Xiong hurriedly said, and then lowered his voice to explain: "The imperial court restored the public land office last year, and my cousin's landlord's land was all occupied by the public land, and the family could not support so many people, so the bear child was sent to the villain as an apprentice." ”

After all, two lives as a human being, Lotte knows a lot of common sense that people in this era don't know, in terms of imagination, children's imagination is far higher, and the brain hole is also open to adults. To be realistic, adults are full of firewood, rice, oil, and salt to support their families, or money, power, and beauty, while children's minds are very simple, as long as they are interested in a certain thing, they will pay all their attention to the face.

Calling the bear child to his side, Lotte said: "When you return to the other courtyard, you go back first and draw the diagram of the three-cylinder steam engine you said according to your ideas, if the effect is good, Le will definitely reward you heavily!" ”

"Master Hou, the little one eats and drinks here in Master Hou, don't go hungry, you can learn crafts, and you still have a salary of five yuan a month, you are really satisfied, and you don't need any rewards." The bear child said hurriedly.

"Don't you really need any reward?" Lotte asked with a smile.

The bear child thought for a while before he said: "Outsiders say that Hou Ye is the first genius of the Great Song Dynasty, and the little one is ...... The little one wants to let ...... I want Master Hou to rename it, because they always laugh at me for this name! ”

Lotte nodded and agreed: "Okay, if your idea is really useful, Benhou will give you a name!" ”

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After stopping the mooring and anchoring at the shore and completing a series of procedures, Lotte checked all the parts of the steam engine and confirmed that everything was in order, and there were no potential concealments and failures before leaving the ship.

At this time, the shakuchi next to him reminded: "Master Hou, it's not early, it's time to go back to the city!" ”

The summer days are long, and the sunset is already halfway through the time of application.

Tell the bear child to go back to draw the drawings, and then ask the bear steward and others to go back to test the feasibility, and Lotte will return to the city after all the arrangements are made.

On the way back to the city, the car suddenly stopped while walking.

The hunger suddenly stopped, and Lotte reluctantly called: "Shakuchi, why did the car stop!" ”

Shakuchi ran to watch and quickly came back to report: "Official, there is a car pulling a loom in front of me that has fallen into a pit, and now he is unloading the loom from the car and trying to pull the car out. ”

"When will it pass?"

"If you go back to the Hou Ye, if you are young, you won't be able to pass for half an hour!" Shakuchichi Return.

I didn't eat well at noon, and my stomach was hungry, so I got out of the car and wanted to go to the roadside wine shop to buy some food.

Entering the wine shop, Lotte found a clean table and sat down, ordered some wine and food to eat, but heard a few diners eating and talking there, and Lotte immediately became interested after listening carefully.

I only heard one person say: "This Liu Mazi is lucky, now that the public land has been restored, and many people have lost their land to make a living in Biandu, as long as they are well managed, there are so many cheap labor available, his family's business is getting bigger and bigger, if I have so much money to spare, I will also buy a few more looms and hire a few more people." ”

"It's not enough to just hire people!" The other person shook his head and said to the outside: "Brother Yao, do you see the loom on the ground, it is completely different from the old machine we use, this new machine is the foot pedal to lift the opening, both hands can throw the shuttle and beat the weft, the speed is dozens of times faster, it is said that this kind of loom novice can weave two feet of cloth per hour, and skilled veterans can weave nearly seven feet." ”

"Brag!" A diner drinking at the adjacent table next to him mocked: "My mother-in-law can't weave a foot of cloth in a day, but she can weave seven feet in an hour, so your cowhide is blowing up!" ”

Listening to the ridicule of the diners at the adjacent table, the man sneered: "We are all weavers in the industry, if we use the self-sufficient methods of weaving cloth at home to make a living, I am afraid that we will not even be able to drink the northwest wind!" ”

Hearing this, how could Lotte not be interested, the large weavers hired a large number of weavers for large-scale production, this employment and market relationship, is undoubtedly a symbol of the embryonic stage of capitalism in the Great Song Dynasty, how can the heart not be happy.

Lotte has long been puzzled about whether there was a budding capitalism in the Northern Song Dynasty, and this discovery undoubtedly drove Lotte's confusion away.

Since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, it did not suppress land annexation, and the landless population poured into the cities to make a living, so that the Northern Song Dynasty did not need to be like the "land enclosure" movement in the embryonic stage of British capital, and also had a large number of surplus labor.

Whether it is the British enclosure or the Northern Song Dynasty's uninhibited land annexation, it is not accidental but an objective natural law, and the significance of both is to develop in the same direction, using the capitalist mode of management to replace the feudal mode of management.

To a certain extent, the Northern Song Dynasty was hundreds of years ahead of the old capitalist powers such as the British, and entered the embryonic stage of capitalism without the need for a brutal enclosure movement, but due to the invasion and destruction of the Jin and Mengyuan, the Ming and the productive forces were degraded.

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