Chapter 5 Research Institute

At present, the research institutes are: Paper Research Institute, Printing Research Institute, Textile Research Institute, Gunpowder Research Institute, Firearms Research Institute, Machinery Research Institute, Agricultural Research Institute, Shipbuilding Research Institute, Daily Chemical Research Institute, Flight Research Institute, etc.

"Research Institute" is naturally the name given by Liu Hou. He hopes to build a large-scale research institute in the future, but the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. At present, most of the major research institutes only have two or three kittens, and the least one only hangs a sign at the door of the shack, but in fact, there is no researcher inside.

Liu Hou just wants to build the structure first, have a goal to strive for, and then slowly improve it later.

Papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and soap (household chemicals) are now mature enough to be mass-produced. However, Liu Hou still set up corresponding research institutes, hoping that they can continue to invent new technologies and new products.

These research institutes also have the most researchers, after all, there are now quite a few craftsmen who understand these techniques. Liu Hou asked Ge Xuan to select people with excellent technology, flexible minds, and the key is to be innovative people to serve as researchers in the institute. The directors of these research institutes are all concurrently served by Ge Xuan.

At present, the main task of the Textile Research Institute is to develop a new type of textile machine. Liu Houke remembers too much the role played by the invention of the new textile machine during the British Industrial Revolution. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing is in the first place, in order to solve this primary concern of the people, it is necessary to innovate textile technology, there must be a new type of textile machine.

At present, there are only two carpenters who know how to make traditional looms. Pu Yuan also served as the dean. Liu Hou asked Zuo Ci to give them some concepts of the new textile machine, but unfortunately he didn't learn this background himself, but he just knew what the textile machine was like, and he didn't know anything about the specific structure, so he could only rely on them to slowly explore.

The main task of the Agricultural Research Institute is to study hybrid rice. Improves yield and insect resistance to lodging traits. This Liu Hou knows a little more than the loom. When I saw Yuan Longping's deeds, I also learned the principle of hybrid rice, and I also learned Montesquieu's genetic theory in middle school biology class.

So he poured these theories to Zuo Ci and asked him to teach them to some people who were good at farming. The researchers were mainly a few old farmers, and unexpectedly Dong Yun, as a civil official who cared about agricultural affairs, was very interested in this matter, so Liu Hou made him the dean.

The Gunpowder Research Institute and the Firearms Research Institute are both headed by Zuo Ci. Liu Hou was not satisfied with black powder, and those smokeless gunpowder, TNT or something in later generations were his ultimate goals. Zuo Ci accepted a few literate people as researchers.

The Firearms Research Institute mainly develops muskets, artillery and rockets. Mainly, some of the best of the blacksmiths served as researchers.

The Mechanical Research Institute, the Shipbuilding Research Institute, the Flight Research Institute and the Textile Research Institute are all Pu Yuan concurrently serving as the president.

Among them, the Machinery Research Institute, Liu Hou gave a lot of tasks, including hydraulic turbines, new waterwheels, lathes, bearings, new carriages, etc., as Liu Hou remembered something, he could add something at any time. A large number of carpenters and blacksmiths are concentrated here.

The Shipbuilding Academy and the Flight Academy are still just empty shells, except for Pu Yuan, the dean, there is only a plaque, and there is not a single researcher.

The reason is simple, there is no relevant talent. Shipbuilding is Soochow's strength, but Shu has no talent in this area. Not to mention flying, such an unbelievable thing, after Liu Hou said it, no one believed it at all, even Zuo Ci, a veteran of the religious circles, thought that it was just a fairy method, and only existed in the legend of zài. Where can I find "talent" who is good at making flying props?

Later, Liu Hou explained that everyone understood that what Liu Hou wanted to do was just an enlarged and strengthened version of "Kong Ming Lantern". It is said that Zhuge Liang invented the Kong Ming lantern in order to convey the military information, which everyone knows, after all, as the craftsmen of Liu Bei Group, some craftsmen also personally participated in the production of Kong Ming lanterns, and they are very familiar with it.

Liu Hou said that if he wanted to make a super big Kong Ming lantern, he could fly people into the sky. Everyone was taken aback by the idea, but they also had to think that it was feasible in principle. Kong Ming lantern can carry a certain weight of things to the sky, so if you make a big enough thing, it is natural to carry heavier things to the sky.

To make such a big "Kong Ming lantern", it is also necessary to have enough strength, of course, it is not an easy thing. All Liu Hou could think of was to tie a spherical shelf with iron wire, cover the surface with leather, and cover the seams of the leather with another layer of skin, so as not to leak air as much as possible.

Liu Hou asked Zuo Ci to find Liu Bei to order the collection of all the cobblers in the jurisdiction, and even went to Wei and Eastern Wu to hire cobblers with high salaries. At first, when Liu Bei heard that Zuo Ci wanted to build something that could take people to the sky, he also thought he was messing around, but when Zuo Ci showed the "Kong Ming Lantern", Zhuge Liang immediately realized that this was still his brother's original! Zuo Ci, you actually plagiarized my brother's invention! However, for Zuo Ci to build a "Kong Ming Lantern" as big as a palace, Zhuge Liang still admires his courage.

Of course, he was familiar with what he had invented, and he realized that if it was big enough, it could indeed carry people into the sky. At the same time, I realized the great military significance of this thing. Zhuge Liang was so excited that his whole body trembled, and he immediately built yì Liu Bei to fully cooperate in the manufacture of this thing.

There are many displaced people who come to take refuge, and the labor problem has been solved, but talents, especially high-end talents, are not so easy to solve. Liu Hou needs talents from all walks of life, in addition to technical personnel in various fields, there are also management personnel. None of this can be obtained from the homeless. Although there are some talents among the displaced people, there are not many after all, which is a drop in the bucket for Liu Hou.

So Liu Hou sent a large number of people to search for talents all over the world. Liu Hou's search for talents is targeted, and he relies on his impression to make targeted arrangements for some famous talents in the history of the Three Kingdoms.

Somewhere in Luoyang, there are all kinds of wooden parts scattered everywhere. A man in his thirties was drowned in the parts. I saw that he assembled some parts from time to time, and sometimes used knives, chisels, hammers, saws and other tools to process these parts.

A young man who looked like an apprentice of seventeen or eighteen strode into the room, handed over a greeting post, and said, "Master, there is a guest who wants to see you." ”

"No, no, don't see I'm busy? Leave me alone. ”

"Master, he said that if you read the prayer post, you will naturally meet him."

"Oh, whoever ate garlic in such a big breath, bring it!" The man in his 30s threw down the chisel in his hand and stretched out a large, rough hand.

Garlic was introduced to the Central Plains from the Western Regions in the Western Han Dynasty, and now some families with better family backgrounds can eat it.

The apprentice shoved the prayer slip into his hand. This is a very ordinary appearance of a worship post, only the word "worship post" is written on the cover.

"Oh!" But as soon as the man started his hand, he screamed in surprise.

"This is? This is not Cai Hou paper! This is better than Cai Hou paper! Quick, get that man in. The man instructed his apprentice so eagerly that he didn't even open the post and look at it. However, he can see the advantages and disadvantages of the paper at a glance, and it seems that he is also a person who knows the goods.

Not long after, the apprentice led in a man dressed as a scribe. "Master Ma, how are you thinking about it?" The scribe bowed to the man and said directly.

It turned out that this man was the most famous master craftsman, inventor, and scientist in the Wei Kingdom, with the surname Ma Mingjun and the word Deheng.

He is a great person, he once invented the lost guide car, the water turning car, the puppet of a hundred operas, etc., and also improved the accumulation of silk machine qì, Zhuge crossbow and so on. It is said that his improved Zhuge repeater can increase the power of the arrow by 5 times, which is quite amazing. He also planned to build a rotating stone cart that could be continuously ejected, but unfortunately it did not attract the attention of the imperial court in the end and could not be established.

Ma Jun is one of the few famous scientists of the Three Kingdoms period that Liu Hou remembers.

"Oh, what? What is considered to be how? Ma Jun didn't know the visitor at all, and he felt very inexplicable that the visitor would ask such an inexplicable question as soon as he came.

"Well...... that's what the post said." The people who came were also a little baffled and didn't know what the problem was.

"Oh, that's right." Ma Jun scratched his head in embarrassment, and then opened the worship post to see.

The content of the worship post is very simple, it means that the owner of this worship post has created something that can carry people to the sky, and wants to invite Ma Jun to watch it, and jointly study and reproduce Lu Ban's inventions.

Legend has it that Luban has a number of amazing inventions, in addition to the saw, ink fountain, curved ruler and other woodworking tools that have been used in later generations, there are also some miraculous inventions. These inventions include a bamboo magpie that can fly in the sky for three days and three nights, a wooden kite that can fly into the sky to spy on enemy cities, a wooden man dancing girl who can use a fake reality, a wooden chariot horse that can use a mechanism to walk automatically, and a wooden chariot that can carry its mother (that is, a wooden cart that can carry people to walk automatically).

These things are nothing in the afterlife, and we can all get confirmation from real life. For example, we have airplanes, drones, space shuttles, etc., that can fly; Dancing Ji belongs to the category of machine qì people, with the 21st century machine qì people technology, it is not difficult to get a dancing machine qì people, it is said that Japan, has made a machine qì people who look very similar to people; Autonomous carriages are nothing of a deal, Google's self-driving car technology is said to be very mature, and China has also tested its own self-driving cars.

But in ancient times, these were great things. Most people believe that it is just a myth and legend, how can there be such an elaborate thing in reality? However, there are indeed some technical maniacs in history who have been committed to restoring these "strange and ingenious skills", such as Ma Jun in the Three Kingdoms period, Ou Chun in the Jin Dynasty, Lingzhao in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Ma Beifeng in the Tang Dynasty. Ma Jun is the leader of these tech maniacs.

Liu Hou is well aware of the psychology of these technological maniacs, their pursuit of technology is better than a qiē, if they know that someone can restore Lu Ban's legendary things, it may be difficult to resist the temptation to come and watch. If they can participate in the study of these things, it will be their lifelong wish. Therefore, he specially sent people to lure Ma Jun with these things.

Ma Jun looked at the prayer post, and sure enough, the chicken froze. "Is this true?"

"Of course it's true." The man replied.

Ma Jun grabbed the arm of the person who came, and said: "Don't lie to me, you can carry people to the sky, this is the means of Master Luban, for hundreds of years, countless skilled craftsmen have tried to reproduce this grand wish without success, what kind of person is your master, who has such ability?" ”

"Whether it's true or not, Master Ma will know when he looks at it." The person who came took Ma Jun's hand away, rubbed the place where he was scratching, and said.

Ma Junyi thought, yes, it really can't be fake, it can't be fake, and what you say is not as important as what you see with your own eyes. So he said, "Where is your master?" Take me to see it. "He looked like he was in a hurry.

"Please Master Ma don't be impatient, don't hide it, my master is in Shudi, and the road is far away. Please Master Ma pack up and arrange things at home before setting off with me. ”