Hearing that Li Guo was going to improve the steam engine, Song Yingxing still kept shaking his head, "Master Tiger, you also know that I have been busy recently, the way the Portuguese built ships, and the size of those ship boards, I am summing up." I. ”

"It's okay, you're not busy right now. I'm taking over your job now, you just have to get this steam engine right!" Li Guo immediately took over Song Yingxing's position, and he asked Song Yingxing to make every effort to transform the steam engine.

"But." Song Yingxing's idea was to worry that Li Guo would be stimulated.

"Nothing but, I think with your ingenuity, you will be able to do it in a month! If you can't do it well, hit your board. Li Guo said with a smile.

"Yes."

"King big stick!" Li Guo suddenly shouted Wang Da Stick.

Wang Da Stick came quickly, "Master Tiger, what's the matter?" ”

"You are like this, you will follow Song Yingxing this month and take good care of him." Li Guo commanded.

 "I don't! I want to protect you! "Wang Da Bangzi still wants to speak.

Li Guo went up to Wang Da Stick and kicked it, "Damn!" I also learned to talk back! Sue you, you do a good job of running errands for Ying Xing, because Ying Xing is very busy this month. He wants to do something, and he can't make it in a month, and Lao Tzu will hit your board! It means that you are not qualified to take care of Ying Xing! ”

Wang Da Stick muttered quietly, "What does this have to do with me!" ”

Song Yingxing hurriedly said, "Okay, Master Tiger, don't make a fuss about this, and don't work with the king's big stick." Can I promise I can't do it? But I have a request. ”

"You say." That's what Li Guo wanted.

"You don't have such a haha giggle this time. Just scared the hell out of me! I thought you were crazy! Song Yingxing was also blunt.

"Oh, okay, wait for you to make it. I promise not to laugh. Only then did Li Guo understand Song Yingxing's thoughts, because he was worried that he was stimulated.

So, within a month, Song Yingxing completely put down all the work at hand and started working without sleep and food.

Wang Da Stick didn't go to wait for Song Yingxing, but he brought a pot of chicken or a plate of fish every once in a while, and said to Song Yingxing, "Master Tiger said." I'm afraid you're working too hard, so I'll add a dish to you! ”

How could Song Yingxing not know Li Guo's thoughts, this thing must have an important place in the heart of the tiger master. Whatever you say, you have to do this thing well. So, within a month, the improved steam engine was ready.

In fact, the improved steam engine can no longer be regarded as a steam engine. It should be called a steam forging press. Li Guo drew more drawings of the forging press on the drawings of the improved steam engine.

watched Song Yingxing light the furnace and the steam engine began to work. Li Guo took a small stone and put it on the anvil under the forging press, only to hear a loud sound, the forging hammer driven by the steam engine smashed down, and smashed the small stone at once.

Li Guo smiled and pointed to the steam engine, and said to Song Yingxing, "Yingxing, do you know why I want you to make this steam engine?" Look, it's like this. The steam engine can drive the machine and smash the stones. You may think that's nothing. Because this thing is small, it can only be smashed with small stones. But if we make this steam engine bigger, we can use it to forge iron and steel! ”

Song Yingxing thought about it, this is really the case.

Li Guo explained, "The power of the steam engine is very great, beyond the reach of human beings. Now our steam uses the pressure of the steam to drive the hammer head and smash it downward, which can help us make better steel plates, steel, and forge better knives and guns, as long as you think about it, this thing can help you do a lot of things. The steam engine is the prime mover in all machines! Do you understand? ”

Song Yingxing was silent in thought.

"In addition, we can make the steam engine lighter, so that it can be put on the ship, and we can drive the wheel with the blades of the oars to row the water, so that we can go to sea without sails and oars. Do you understand? Li Guo patiently explained.

Song Yingxing was still silent.

"In addition, the steam engine is more exquisite, and it can even be put on the car, so that the car can also move on its own!" Li Guo only explained to Song Yingxing the purpose of the steam engine, and did not expect him to build a car.

Song Yingxing's eyes were dull and he was silent.

"But at the moment we can only make this machine a little bigger, we can only use it to temper steel, forge weapons, and others, to be honest, I really don't know what else can be made in such an environment. Ying Xing, I believe in you! You're going to come up with a better idea! Create more practical machines for our use! Li Guo said earnestly.

Li Guo really didn't know how to make the best use of the steam engine in the economic situation of this era, and he couldn't predict what advanced things could be made by using the steam engine at the end of the Ming Dynasty. But Li Guo knew that he was already one step ahead. You must know that the time when Watt improved the engine refers to the seventeenth century, and Li Guo was nearly a hundred years earlier than him at this time!

That's enough, so that the world will be turned upside down. Li Guo believes that at least there will be no later.

Li Guo also wanted to introduce some knowledge of steam engines to Song Yingxing, but Song Yingxing suddenly laughed out loud.

"Hahaha!" Then, Song Yingxing saluted Li Guoshen and turned to leave.

Liu Rushi and Wang Dabangzi on the side were both stunned.

Liu Ru said to Li Guo, "Oh my God, Brother Song's spirit seems to be a little bad?" ”

Li Guo shook his head, "No, is he in good spirits?" He just has some of the same reasoning, and I hope he can really figure it out! ”

Liu Ru was white, and Bai Li Guo said: "This thing will make people a little crazy!" ”

Li Guo glared at Liu Rus, turned around and ordered Wang Da Stick, "Big Stick, you give my order and tell it, Lao Song can do whatever he wants in the future?" Anyone can only support, not interfere! ”

Wang Da Bang turned around and left.

Li Guo ordered people to move the small steam engine and forging machine built by Song Yingxing to the school. Today he is going to talk about the principle of the steam engine, and he is going to give a lecture to the whole school, and the topic of the speech is 'Let the imagination be in the space and fly the wings of the ideal!'" ’

Li Guo doesn't know if these people can understand or not, but it's enough to understand some of them!

However, this kind of steam engine also has a disadvantage, that is, you can't see the water level in the boiler, and you can't know the pressure of the steam in the boiler, which is very dangerous, and the steam engine is easy to explode. Therefore, on the improved steam engine, a water level observer and a pressure gauge are also needed, and Li Guo can't make them now, because these two are made of glass.

At this time, in the Ming Dynasty, there was no glass in the real sense, let alone glassware in the real sense. A lot of things need to be made of glass.

Therefore, the establishment of a glass manufacturing factory is Li Guo's idea.

Moreover, glass is not only useful, but also profitable! (To be continued......)