"Old Liu, what do you mean by this?"

Zhu Jie hurriedly helped Liu Zongzhou up and said: "It's about the Ming Dynasty, it's about the Han family, I don't hesitate to have my own good head, do you have anything you can't get out of?" Two thousand years of ups and downs, the shackles imposed on people by the autocratic imperial power are too heavy, even if I try my best to break this cage, it is very difficult, because I lack a knowledgeable Confucian like you and Xianzhi who can respond to every call to support me, I do not want to beat Confucianism and Taoism to a pulp, but to clean up the source and return Confucianism to its original face! Otherwise, Confucius and Mengquan will know and die without turning a blind eye......"

Liu Zongzhou laughed miserably: "Your Majesty, since you want the old minister to lie down in front of the thunder, it is the honor of the old minister, but the emperor does not need to go into battle in person, it's just that as long as the emperor can keep his promise and not beat the Confucian Taoist system to pieces, the old minister will spell this old bone, and the old minister has only one request, that is, the emperor should not personally participate in it, and the gentleman will not stand under the dangerous wall......"

Liu Zongzhou has the intention of dying, anyway, he is already nearly eighty years old, and he doesn't have a good life for a few years, but the emperor is different, the emperor is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he is not a hero, how can he be involved in such a thing? Once something goes wrong, it will be a big loss, and it is not easy for the Ming Dynasty to have the scene of the four seas being leveled, Liu Zongzhou does not want all this to be ruined because of this incident......

Zhu Jie nodded and replied, "Okay, what's the matter?" I am not so easy to be knocked down, Manchuria invaded the Central Plains, I don't know how many people died in the war, now is the time when the resistance to the Ming Dynasty is the least, if you miss this opportunity, it will be really difficult! Xianzhi, I can put this opportunity in your hands to set things right! ”

"The ministers will go to the soup and fight the fire, and they will not give up!"

Zhu Jie has made up his mind that this feudal autocratic system of etiquette and religion must be completely shattered, otherwise, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to truly break free from the domination of thought, and only with independent thinking and spiritual freedom can we create a modern civilization that is more brilliant than the West!

After staying in Songjiang University for a day and meeting with the scholars and outstanding students of Songjiang University, Zhu Jie left Songjiang University and went to Nanjing City accompanied by Huang Zongxi and Qin Mufeng.

Yingtian Academy, this is Zhu Jie's goal to go south, two years have passed, the current Yingtian Academy, the changes are great, all kinds of research is in full swing, after all, the royal title and huge bonuses are hanging in front, as long as you research out useful inventions and theories, fame and fortune are at your fingertips!

First Thomson's steam engine, followed by Descartes's analytic geometry and Lu Liuliang's steam locomotive the next year, this year's Royal Science Medal has also been released, steam engine textile machine and loom, this time the research was not completed by Thomson, but by two students in Yingtian Academy independently, children of Jiangnan textile family. As the year draws to a close, Thomson's steam-engine ship has completed its experiments, and the Royal Science Prize will be won by Thomson the following year.

Although the loom and loom are very important, but the most interesting thing for Zhu Jie is the steam engine ship, this is the future ship, will change the entire navigation industry, but also will change the future history of war, with the steam engine ship, it is possible to appear armored warships, it is impossible to drive armored ships by sails alone.

Swallow Dock.

Thomson was elated, pointed to the steam engine ship he made, and said to Zhu Jie: "Your Majesty, you see, this is the minister's steam engine ship, four feet five feet long, two feet wide, equipped with a hard sail behind, a steam engine boiler installed in the middle, with a linkage shaft to link the propeller blades, the whole engine ship has a weight of about 50,000 catties, a displacement of 50,000 catties, when fully loaded with goods, it only takes a moment to cross the Yangtze River, with the help of hard sails, the speed is more than 30 miles per hour, and in the case of downwind, it can even exceed 50 miles!" ”

Zhu Jie nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go, board the boat, let's go up and try!" ”

Zhu Jie took Cha Zhu and Bi Dengfu, boarded the boat, and sailed towards the other side of the Yangtze River, where the Yangtze River is almost five or six miles wide and narrow, more than ten miles back and forth, and it took less than half an hour to return to the Yanziwu Wharf, which was extremely fast.

Zhu Jie jumped off the ship, nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Mr. Thomson, yes, although this ship is still small, but everything is the same, as long as we are in the right direction, we only need to improve the process of the steam engine in the future, then the steam engine ship will surpass the sailing ship sooner or later, and now the steam engine on the ship can provide as much power?" ”

Thomson said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the power that the current steam engine can provide is one hundred horsepower, that is, you have formulated, the unit of mechanics, one horsepower is about equal to the power that can lift a hundred and fifty catties of objects by three feet and three inches, and one hundred horsepower is enough to drive a ship of thirty or forty thousand catties to travel in the Yangtze River......."

"Not enough, far from enough!"

Zhu Jie shook his head and said: "Mr. Thomson, you should know that the largest warship in the Western Ocean has reached the scale of three million catties, and the power provided by such a hundred-horsepower steam engine is far from enough, if you want to drive your largest warship in the Western Ocean to sail at high speed, you need to build at least two or three thousand horsepower steam engines, Mr. Thomson, the road ahead is still very far!" ”

Zhu Jie doesn't know anything else, but the Zhenyuan ship and the Dingyuan ship in the armored ship era have a power of 7,000 horsepower and a speed of eighteen knots, how big are the Zhenyuan ships and the Dingyuan ships? It's only a displacement of 7,000 tons, and if you want to drive today's 2,000-ton warship to cruise at high speed, without the power of 2,000 horsepower, it is impossible to achieve!

Thomson's face froze, two or three thousand horsepower steam engine! This is too exaggerated, the largest steam engine I can make now is only one hundred and fifty horsepower......

"Your Majesty, this, this is too exaggerated, in a short period of time, I am afraid that I will not be able to guarantee that the power of the steam engine will break through to two or three thousand horsepower......"

Thomson said with a bitter face.

Zhu Jie said angrily: "Stupid, don't you use your brain and think of other ways?" If a steam engine boiler can't achieve such a large amount of power, wouldn't you use two steam engines or three steam engines? Also, the current steam mechanism parts are not precise enough, the efficiency of heat utilization is too low, improve the manufacturing process, I still say the same thing, ask for money for money, ask for people to give people, I only need a powerful steam engine driven by a ship, three years, I hope you can make it for me! Don't be too big, you only need to have a displacement of more than two million catties and a speed of one hour and thirty-six miles, even if you succeed! ”

(End of chapter)