Chapter 3 The Ship and the Crew of the Detained

Wu Yuanqing stuck his head out of the window, and all the dense places were red painted carriages with two carriages hanging on them, and the noisy students quickly found the corresponding carriages according to their respective destinations, and Yuguan drove over from the school gate. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hey, hey, shall we go to this school first?" Wu Yuanqing saw this small school, and stabbed the eldest Sun Tang and said.

"Okay, today you can do whatever you want. But wait until the students pass over first. The eldest grandson didn't even blink his eyes.

When the students were gone, Wu Yuanqing couldn't bear Wu Yuanqing's grinding, and the eldest grandson had to get out of the carriage.

If it is in the future, the eldest grandson will yearn for this school very much, and everyone knows the reason. But now the teachers in this school are all down-and-out scholars from all over the world, and the eldest grandson can be said to have as many as he wants for their arrival.

Of course, their task is also very simple, after a short training they need to do is to educate the children, not that the eldest grandson does not want to improve the basic quality of the students. It's that we don't have the right people on hand.

The content they teach is just a simple four arithmetic and literacy, as for the higher level of education, it is not nothing, this is the need to rely on understanding, and this promotion rate is less than one-tenth, in this is not that the eldest grandson does not want to, but there is no such condition, before a large number of qualified teachers are trained, it is impossible to have an essential improvement.

However, once you go to a higher level of school, then all the benefits will be greatly improved. When you graduate from here, you will be recruited for various positions that require skilled workers, and even fewer will be recruited into various research institutes.

Such an education system is also a last resort, and the eldest grandson also wants to have a six-year compulsory education, but this is simply not possible. This was not completed until the mid-to-late eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution was almost complete, under the leadership of Bismarck, which led to the rapid growth of Germany's national power.

It seems to be a paradox that we need education the most, because education is a century-old plan, but we tend to focus only on the present and forget about this century-old plan. The louder we shout, the more we pay attention to it.

That's a bit of a stretch.

The two were eventually stopped by the doorman and did not make the trip. Wu Yuanqing looked at the empty and wide campus, and felt a little regretful.

"Okay, let's come over for a visit after a while, okay?" Changsun Yu said. At present, there is only one primary school in the whole Jinshan, and of course, Changsun Tang has circled several sites for the construction of schools for the vision of the city.

Wu Yuanqing insisted that the situation was only a cowardly departure.

After leaving the school, the first place the two of them went next was the Navy's shipyard.

Although it is said to be a shipyard of the navy, in recent years, in order to meet the growing needs of maritime transportation and the relatively safe marine environment, it has been working overtime to build civilian transport vessels. Thanks to the advanced shipbuilding concept and quality management of the Navy Shipyard, it has been in a state of short supply.

At this time, the naval shipyard already had four dry docks, which were building all kinds of ships day and night, with more than 2,000 workers, and some of the jobs were filled by women.

At this time, the shipyard was in full swing, both in terms of weather and atmosphere. It's a huge dry dock with ships under construction.

At this time, ships were built of timber, and other material warehouses were also stocked. The tall gantry crane with the inverted chain can easily lift the huge hull and components; The combination of wooden tenons, nails and rivets makes the connection of the boat more close and reasonable; Buckiele handling is a huge step forward in shipbuilding.

"What's that?" Wu Yuanqing asked, staring at a part that resembled a rudder but was magnified many times.

The eldest grandson raised his eyes and replied weakly, "That's the wheel." ”

"Wheels? Wheels? "Wu Yuanqing is more confused, do you still have to get into the carriage on this boat?

"That's the wheels that push the boat." This hot weather really made Changsun Tang a little unacceptable, and what he hoped most at this time was to have a pot of herbal tea or sour plum soup.

"Can you have wheels on a ship?" Wu Yuanqing still didn't understand.

In fact, Wu Yuanqing can't be blamed for this. This kind of boat is equipped with a paddle wheel with paddles on the side or stern of the boat, and the paddle wheel shaft is stepped on by manpower, so that the paddle blades on the axle pull water to push the hull forward. Because the lower half of the paddle wheel of this type of boat is immersed in the water and the upper half is exposed to the water, it is called a "paddle steamer" or "steamer". This is the earliest meaning of ship. It was only in the age of steam that steam drove this paddle wheel forward, that we now call ships "steamers".

Hearing Changsun Tang's explanation, Wu Yuanqing also understood a little. Of course, it is impossible for this steamer captain Sun Tang to tell Wu Yuanqing to know.

At this time, the ship was not of much significance, and it was not practical for such a huge hull to be propelled by human power at sea. The purpose of Changsun Tang is to hope that after the steam engine is put into practical use, someone will take the initiative to use the paddle wheel to improve the ship to steam power.

After all, no matter how strong a person's ability is, it is impossible to promote the overall progress of an era.

Wu Yuanqing, who was hit, no longer asked indiscriminately, and it was easy to doubt his life when he asked Changsun Tang like this. The sensible way is not to ask the eldest grandson for now, and to keep it for the rest of the world later. Anyway, I will definitely be exposed to these things in the future.

He almost used the worst means to isolate himself from the court and the aristocracy, in addition to letting his younger brother who was uneducated and unskilled inherit his father's title, in the hope of gaining the trust of the eldest grandson to a greater extent. Because Wu Yuanqing knew that his achievements in Jinshan would be even more ambitious. This may be a vote of nomination.

When people have no desires and no desires, they can obtain very simple, but once they have desires, they cannot be simple. In the same way, the less people want, the more simple and simple they will be, and the happier they will be. In this circle of the ruling class of the aristocracy, people's desires and needs can be said to be the greatest, not only for power, but also for wealth.

Therefore, there is no simple friendship in the circle of the aristocracy, even if the relationship is good, once there is a difference in interests, this relationship will be destroyed to the fullest. In the circles of the aristocracy, it is the interests that come first. With common interests, the relationship will be maintained, and without it, it will not work.

So Wu Yuanqing dared to take such a bold shot. Before this, he was a partner of Changsun Tang, and then he became a subsidiary of Changsun Tang, because only in this way can he and Changsun Tang's interests be tied together. Wu Yuanqing put all the bets on Changsun Yu's plate.

Coming out of the shipyard, the weather was already early. Since the industrial zone is some distance from Jinshan and the naval shipyard, it is obvious that it will not be able to rush there today, and everything will have to wait until the next day.

The next day, when the two arrived at the industrial area, the sun had already risen very high.

When Wu Yuanqing saw that when he left three years ago, it was a huge construction site, and now it is a chimney, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Ah! ”

"How did you do that?" Wu Yuanqing asked.

This is the steel industrial park originally planned by Changsun Tang. A blast furnace ironworks alone as well as a converter steelmaking plant already occupy a huge area.

Both ironmaking and steelmaking require huge amounts of energy, so dozens of huge chimneys are constantly spewing out puffs of black smoke. Because the problem of pollution was fully considered when selecting the site at that time, the impact of Jinshan is not very large. But it's hard to say here.

"Ahem." Wu Yuanqing felt that his throat was a little uncomfortable, and he spit out a mouthful of phlegm and found that it was actually black. This made him a little shocked, seeing that the eldest grandson had put on a mask early in the morning, he still felt very covered at the time, but now he understands it.

Looking at the leaves not far away, there was also a black cloud of smoke on the leaves.

Wu Yuanqing didn't care about asking the eldest grandson, and the two quickly entered the factory director's office here.

The factory director received the notice early in the morning, and naturally accompanied the whole process. It's just that these people know the habits of Changsun Tang, but they didn't take the initiative to introduce the situation.

Entering the house, Wu Yuanqing looked at the transparent windows that were closed everywhere here, and watched the eldest grandson take off the mask, so he did so.

This glass was just fired when Wu Yuanqing left, but I didn't expect it to be popularized now, Wu Yuanqing thought to himself.

"What's going on?" Wu Yuanqing pointed to the black pillar of smoke and said.

"There's no way around this, that's the only way to do it at the moment." The eldest grandson replied.

In fact, the black column of smoke did not completely burn the coal particles carried out by the hot air current. In order to increase the temperature of the smelting furnace to meet the requirements of ironmaking and steelmaking, the coal is first crushed into powder and sent into the furnace, plus the blower that has just been driven by a steam engine, this efficiency is much higher, but the pollution problem is becoming more and more serious.

Changsun also wanted to reduce pollution through some later processes such as desulfurization and dedusting, but this is the content of the recently established environmental research institute, and these are basically just utopian dreams before there is no substantial breakthrough in chemistry, after all, it is impossible to take all the benefits in one step.

Wu Yuanqing didn't expect that there was a problem that Changsun Tang couldn't solve, so he was stunned for a while, and he didn't know whether to continue, he originally thought that the stock he bought was a high-performance stock, but in an instant, it was green, and Wu Yuanqing was really a little unacceptable.

"Alright, let's go and have a look." After finishing speaking, he passed the helmet made of strips handed over by the factory director, and turned another one to Wu Yuanqing. Although it is not possible to set fire to this strip of food, it is still possible to protect the head.

Wu Yuanqing, who entered the factory, immediately put away the comment he had just made about Changsun Tang, because this scene was too shocking.

The rumbling sound of the machine seems to be the background music playing on a loop. The slogan "Safety First" can be seen everywhere, and the word "Danger" is even more eye-catching. The world made up of roots and pipes, like a labyrinth, is the greatness of creation. The red-hot flowing molten steel ladle is boiling hot molten iron, and the operator mechanically controls the pouring of molten steel, and the splattered steel sparks are splashed everywhere, and after a period of transmission, they become black and hard steel.

Such a scene made Wu Yuanqing a little dumbfounded, he really couldn't imagine that the production of steel here was so simple, and hundreds of tons of steel came out of here every day. It's nothing short of a miracle. Even the steam engines you saw in the laboratory were equipped with several of them, apparently responsible for pulling the molten iron flow.

Every ancient, when he saw modern industry, no one could keep his composure. Wu Yuanqing is certainly no exception.

In this way, Wu Yuanqing left the industrial zone in a daze, and the other factory directors were really not interested in watching it.

The next place where Changsun took him was the mining site of this coal mine. This is not to say that there is anything special about coal mining, but this road is more special.

Due to the large-scale mass production of cement, the world is full of cement roads, so this business has also prospered unprecedentedly. This cement road is naturally the standard configuration of Jinshan, but today the eldest grandson took Wu Yuanqing to visit the so-called "railway".

When he saw the railway, Wu Yuanqing was once again stunned, and when he saw that a horse could drag a cart full of coal and gallop quickly on the so-called "railway", Wu Yuanqing became excited.

Because the factory produced too much steel in stock, Changsun Tang took out some of it to build a railway. Of course, it will take a long time for this steam locomotive to pass, and now it can only be barely a cannon brother carriage.

In fact, Britain also built horse-drawn railways in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, after all, the friction between iron and iron is much smaller. It's just that Changsun Tang did too much, and the horse-drawn railway was indeed built in full accordance with the specifications of later generations, and when the train pulled by the steam engine was invented, it could be directly on the road. This is the style of Changsun Tang's economy.

Today's Wu Yuanqing is truly aware of the powerful power of Jinshan and industry. I am even more glad that I have chosen the right path.

Just when Wu Yuan was rejoicing, a fast horse appeared.

Jinshan is not a very suitable place for raising horses, so horses are mainly used to tow a variety of vehicles. But there is one exception, and that is the herald.

Looking at the banner in the herald's hand, the color on Changsun Tang's face immediately changed.

"Report to Hou Ye, Dongying Wa Kingdom has seized a spice ship from me, please return to the base camp as soon as possible." Sure enough, the news from the herald was not very good. (To be continued.) )