Zhang Rou was noncommittal about his idea, but Zhao Zhen himself was very excited, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

He returned to the palace, sat cross-legged on the dragon couch, closed his eyes, and the contents of the book "Heavenly Creations" flashed in his mind like a movie!

It's still the wife's business that is the top priority! Zhao Zhen came to the desk, picked up the pen and waved it, and after a while, the structural diagram of a textile machine jumped on the paper.

"Whew...... Fortunately, I didn't forget it! Zhao Zhen sighed, picked up the drawings and looked at them with satisfaction for a while.

Taking advantage of the heat in his brain, Zhao Zhen was ready to write out most of the content in "Heavenly Creations" as soon as possible. Of course, his version was not complete, except that he didn't remember, and there were some things that he didn't think had much effect.

Zhao Zhen planned to split the whole book into several volumes, such as the agricultural volume, the handicraft volume, and the industrial volume. Only the weapons inside were intercepted, which was mainly the dirty little bit of caution in his heart.

When he was writing energetically, when he saw Xiao Shunzi coming, he knew that it must be nothing good.

Sure enough, it was Wang Shenli who came back, this is a busy man, and it is rare to see the emperor once.

"The ministers see the emperor!" Wang Shenli was full of worries, and he didn't have time to observe words and feelings.

"Aiqing is flat! Aiqing, a busy person, has time to come to me today, so he must have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace? Zhao Zhen didn't say hello and asked directly, he also knew the temper of this thing, usually he couldn't hit a fart with three poles, he hid everything in his stomach, and he didn't have to say anything, don't think about him opening his mouth until he had to.

Wang Shenli was more direct: "Back to the emperor, you let the steam engine of the ministers have a problem!" ”

Hey, Nima, this is a big deal, I'm still waiting for this thing to have an industrial revolution!

"What the hell is going on? Wasn't it okay some time ago? I think it can move, right? ”

Wang Shenli's character is very calm: "Your Majesty, don't be too anxious, we have figured out the principle of the steam engine, and theoretically it can be made." The problem now is that our process level is not enough, and the fit of each component of the machine is not enough. As you know, steam engines require a lot of parts, and they're all weirdly shaped like even our best craftsmen can't fit perfectly. Just like the piston we get now, the gap between it and the cylinder is not tight, which causes the air pressure in the cylinder to never go up.

The last time you went, it happened to be idling, but it couldn't turn up when the resistance was a little bigger, and now it seems that if the process level is not improved, the energy conversion rate of the steam engine is too low and has no practical value. ”

"I see!" Zhao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, the minister recently read your "On Flowing Operations", and I have a lot of insight! Then, the minister thought of the steam engine, according to your meaning, this thing will be used as a power source for a wide range of use in the future......" Wang Shenli said this, seeing Zhao Zhen nodded, he continued: "But at present, this steam engine is too difficult to manufacture, and the minister is a group of craftsmen with the best craftsmanship in our dynasty, and it cannot meet the demand." So, there is a pimple in the minister's heart, you always say that this steam engine is very magical, but even if it is made, it can't be used on a large scale, and the minister also heard that you plan to send people across the ocean to find materials, do you say that we spend so much energy appropriate? ”

"Aiqing, you have to remove the word '? Zhao Zhen tensed his face and pretended to be very serious.

Wang Shenli is also a good person: "The emperor forgives the sin, and the minister has absolutely no courage to question you." Isn't this your god's minister's need to be realistic, the minister is listening to you! If nothing else, he took the smallest and most used part of the steam engine, the screw, which looked very simple, but it was not at all the case. Do you know how the first screw was made? ”

Screw? Zhao Zhen could only say that he had indeed ignored this inconspicuous thing, and now he wanted to know how the few proud protégés he had taught came up.

"Tell me, what did you guys do?"

"Your Majesty, you don't know! When you see the screws on the drawing you draw, your first thought is to have a craftsman build it. The craftsmen also worked very hard, and with great effort, they finally got a threaded screw. But when it was the turn of the nut, the craftsmen made a difficulty, they could knock out the shape on the outside, but they had no way to find the texture on the inside. So, the minister meditated hard and gave them a suggestion, let them first get a piece of iron sheet with the same width as the width of the nut, quickly wrap it on the screw after it is red, and quickly and gently knock it, so that they can indeed make a nut that matches the screw, but do you know how much time we spent before and after making this screw? It's been three days! Wang Shen idealized the original situation, and excitedly stretched out three fingers, wanting to cry without tears.

"Haha...... Whining! Zhao Zhen was very happy when he heard what happened to him, he just laughed heartily, and he was embarrassed to cover his mouth with his hand when he looked at the resentful eyes of others.

"Your Majesty, you see you're still smiling! Chen also knew that this was very unreliable, so he improved it again, replaced it with casting, which was much simpler, and put the screw into the mold mud first, and when it dried, it became a screw mold. The nut is also good to say, put a screw in the hexagonal hollow clay mold and you're done.

With such an improvement, soon the screws went from one to two, and two to four...... The production efficiency has been greatly improved. But the shape of the other parts of the steam engine can be much more complicated, even if you want to use the melting casting method, you have to have a suitable model first, right? What's more, some parts can't be processed by casting! ”

Zhao Zhen laughed at others, and he had to face up to this problem, he couldn't encounter these problems in his own era, and there were other factories specializing in the production of accessories to do this. At present, we can only rely on ourselves, and it is inevitable that we can complete the transformation from scratch by hand, but we are not suitable for large-scale production. Think about it, in addition to the problem of this screw mentioned by Wang Shenli, in fact, there are many small things that are ignored by everyone (to be precise, it should be him), and it is really a problem to produce in large quantities.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhen suddenly changed the topic: "Does Aiqing remember the weapon workshop?" ”

"The minister remembers, you took the minister with you at that time! But what does this have to do with what we're talking about? ”

"Of course it is! Does Aiqing know what is the biggest change I have made to the Weapons Workshop? ”

"Rong Chen, think about it...... Is it an arrow shape? ”

"Wrong! Think again! ”

"That's the repeater, I heard that the current repeater is ...... old murderer"

"Still wrong!"

"Huh? What else...... Oh, the minister remembered, you also put a kind of hydraulic processing machine for them, and it is with this thing that the arrows can be mass-produced...... Do you want to ...... now?"

Zhao Zhen's middle finger and thumb swiped, and there was a click: "Bingo!" Although those are simple machine tools, we might as well learn from them and use them to process these iron guys......"

"Wait...... Your Majesty, why do you call that thing a lathe? I didn't look at it like a carriage! The minister saw that you got the thing that produced the arrow shaft, just two blades, and the arrow shaft turned around and the size was appropriate, and the minister thought it was right to call it a turning bed! Wang Shenli is right, Zhao Zhen was designing the arrow shaft to make the lathe, it was designed to imitate the pencil sharpener.

"It doesn't matter what your name is, it's not the point, the point is that we want to use it to process the steel we produce now......"

"Your Majesty, it's still not right! You see, you can use steel blades to process wood, but this steel is so hard, what are we going to do to make the blades? As a professional interrupter, Wang Shenli will use the interrupting skill whenever in doubt.

"Can you let me finish?" Zhao Zhen stared at him with a dark face.

"Uh...... The emperor forgives the sins! You go on to say, "I promise not to interrupt!" ”

"Where did you just go?"

"You say it's ...... to process steel"

"That's right! I already have some clue about processing this steel, and later I will call the people of the Materials Division to make a steel with extremely high hardness, and when the time comes, with this high-strength steel, I can make a steam engine through a machine tool like a weapons workshop. It's going to take some time, and you've got a good idea of the steam engine anyway, so I'll leave it for now.

I just have something to do here, nay, this is the drawing, it is an improved version of the existing textile machine, which is hydraulically driven, and can use dozens of spindles at the same time, which greatly improves the efficiency of weaving. There are also these supporting silk reeling machines, you can take them back and study them well, and let the people under your hands make them, and send the prototypes to your future queen's mansion. ”

"Obey the order!" Wang Shenli picked up the drawings and prepared to slip away.

"Wait a minute, Aiqing will go back and assign the task, I am writing a super book, you have to come back to help me!"

Wang Shen left in a hurry, and after half an hour's effort, he ran back in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, the minister is back! What do you think you're going to do? ”

What a comrade! The country needs a good young man with passion like you! Zhao Zhen patted him on the shoulder and encouraged: "Aiqing is good!" You have learned a lot of the theoretical knowledge that I have given you, and you may have your own way of thinking. Today, I will talk about the manufacturing methods of many novelty things one by one, and let you see another mode of thinking, maybe you can get some inspiration from it, which is also good for your future development. So, for most of the rest of the day, you have to follow me, and I remember what I want to say, and you record it and go back and sort it out. ”

"Obey! Thanks to the emperor's support, the minister is willing to follow your side, and learning things is fast! "Wang Shen doesn't know what Zhao Zhen's little calculations are, after all, he is an ancient, he can be valued by the emperor, and the cliff is fluttering.

"Excellent! If I want to write this book, the name of it will be "Heavenly Works", which is based on the "Heavenly Workers Replace It" in "Shangshu Gao Taomo" and "Yi Ji Ci" "Open Things and Succeed in Things". This book has three parts, divided into 18 volumes, including "Nailiang" (grain), "Naifu" (textile), "Zhangshi" (dyeing), "Essence (grain processing"), "Zuoxian" (salt), "Ganzhi" (sugar), "Paste" (cooking oil), "Taoyun" (ceramics), "Smelting and Casting", "Boat and Car", "Hammer Forging", "Sowing Stone" (coal and stone firing), "Finishing Paper", "Hardware", "Jiabing" (weapons), "Danqing" (mineral pigment), "Qu Tillers" (wine koji) and "Zhuyu", a total of 18 volumes. Each volume is a separate volume. I have made an outline here, and then you will organize the materials collected from me, and find someone to help you draw the illustrations and related drawings, so that those who have no theoretical knowledge can also follow the drawings and draw the gourd. "Zhao Zhen really only gave him an outline, to be precise, the outline is not counted, that is, the title of the eighteen volumes, plus such a disgraced explanation.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" Wang Shenli performed the military salute he learned when he was a child very unfamiliarly, and he was very excited today, and he did not have the slightest consciousness of being caught.

Of course, it's no wonder that he, who makes the readers at this time like to do the "work" of writing books!

Zhao Zhen looked at Wang Shenli, who was leaving happily, and sighed sincerely: "Good man! It's really a living Lei Feng at the moment! ”