Chapter Twenty-Nine: Childhood (Part II)

In the past few years, Liu Hou has continued to stuff all kinds of knowledge from later generations to Zuo Ci and Ge Xuan. After teaching, there is no specific knowledge, it is almost looking forward to a better future, which sounds like a fantasy in Zuo Ci and the others.

Because at this time, Liu Hou didn't have any theoretical knowledge to tell them, so he could only tell them something similar: telephone, you can talk to each other thousands of miles away, and even have a video phone that can see each other; TV and movies, which can play out recorded programs, are an electrical appliance for seeing portraits; What other planes, satellites, spaceships, can fly into the sky, even space; Missiles that can hit thousands of miles away or even thousands of miles away; And what submarines, atomic bombs, radios, refrigerators, and so on.

For these things, if you can explain the principle, you can explain the basic principle, and if you can't explain it, just talk about what the function of this thing is. In the ears of Zuo Ci and Ge Xuan, this is simply a dream talk.

According to their understanding, this is the ear of the wind, clairvoyance, flying sword thousands of miles away to kill people invisible, heaven into the sea and the moon and other immortal spell methods. Liu Hou didn't care if they understood it or not, let them write it down.

They compiled these words of Liu Hou into a book and named it "Records of Heavenly Observations". After Liu Hou read it, he waved his pen and added the word "sleepwalking", which became "Sleepwalking in Heaven".

A book that looks forward to the future direction of scientific development has been turned into science fiction by him. After Zuo Ci succeeded the ancestor of chemistry, electricity, and science, he got the name of the ancestor of science fiction. This book was later called the "Zuo Ci Conjecture", and later generations continued to study this book for thousands of years with unquenchable enthusiasm.

Just as later generations have pursued some of the miraculous creations of Patriarch Luban, later generations have also followed the footsteps of Zuo Ci, the ancestor. Not only have historians studied him, but the scientific community is also very curious about the writings that have been handed down to him.

Many people have devoted their lives to exploring the miraculous things described in this book. The more they studied, the more frightened these people became. Because it is often correct to study in the direction of this book, every few years, the scientific community announces that a certain conjecture of the book has been realized, and this kind of news is often a major event that shakes the scientific community.

The more this book went on, the more attention it received from the scientific research community, so that when many people in later generations could not find the direction of scientific research, they took this book out and followed the guidance of this book.

For example, for the research of semiconductors, the book indicates that silicon should be used, although it does not specify how to do it, but for later generations of researchers, the scope has been narrowed to a very small extent, they do not have to test other materials, and the research of silicon alone has saved them a lot of detours. Therefore, this miraculous book has almost become the bible of the scientific research community in later generations.

This has also caused many people to speculate about Zuo Ci's identity, some say that he is a traverser, some say that he is an immortal, and some say that he is a scientific genius. Either way, Liu Hou, who was hidden behind, was not noticed, in fact, he was the source of Yiqiē.

Liu Hou has also worked in recent years, which is to openly and secretly guide major research institutes to carry out research. In the beginning, when researchers from major research institutes encountered unsolvable problems, they would go to Zuo Ci or Ge Xuan for advice. Of course, the two of them will give some pointers, but there are many areas that they are not good at, and they don't know how to answer, so they record them and secretly ask Liu Hou for advice.

Liu Hou has a vision and systematic knowledge that is nearly 2,000 years ahead of this era, and can consider problems from many aspects and perspectives, so he can often give answers or good solutions.

But in this way, Zuo Ci and Ge Xuan are annoyed to death, they also have their own research projects, and they feel that there is not enough time every day, so it is a waste of time to help this group of people convey various problems like this.

What bothers them the most is that there are some fields that are not their research, and they have problems in understanding themselves, so if they convey it, they must first understand what Liu Hou explained, and then explain it to the person who asked the question, which is really not ordinary.

Later, when Liu Hou was a little older, Zuo Ci simply announced that Liu Hou had already graduated from the teacher and had done his best to pass on his true legacy, so that the researchers of these research institutes would first go to their excellent disciple Liu Hou if they had problems, and then find him as a master if the disciples could not solve the problems.

At first, the researchers had a lot of opinions about him, thinking that he was using a little kid to perfunctory them. However, they later found that Liu Hou's guidance was no worse than that of Zuo Ci's master and apprentice, and many times the speed of giving answers or solutions was faster than Zuo Ci's. As a result, Liu Hou's technical status was gradually recognized.

In the past few years, Huang Yueying has developed a parachute to add a layer of protection to the life safety of hot air balloon pilots, and of course, this project was also carried out under the ignition of Liu Houtong Guò Zuoci.

Now she's working on gliders, which can be useful in certain environments. The most important thing is that in the future, on the basis of the glider, with the addition of power, it is easy to get the plane out. So now the necessary technology accumulation is still needed. Of course, such an idea also appeared under Liu Hou's awakening.

And Ma Jun finally succeeded in modifying the Zhuge crossbow. The original Zhuge crossbow can fire ten arrows at a time, and the firepower is very strong, but the size and weight are too large to be used by individual soldiers, and they are mainly used to defend cities and camps.

Ma Jun transformed it into a fifty-arrow repeater, and its size and weight were greatly reduced, making it a single weapon. Correspondingly, after the transformation, the range of this crossbow machine has also been shortened, but there are still 50 steps, which makes Liu Hou feel secretly frightened, this thing is comparable to his original firearms.

Liu Hou named this crossbow machine as a horse crossbow by Liu Hou, which made Ma Jun happy for a while. However, Liu Hou found that this kind of crossbow machine belonged to precision machinery in this era, its structure was exquisite, the process was very complicated, and it could not be mass-produced at all, and the arrows used must also be specially made. Therefore, its manufacturing cost and use cost are much higher than that of firearms.

In this case, Liu Hou only asked Ma Jun to produce a small number of this crossbow machine, and planned to use it in a small range in the future in occasions where it was not suitable to use firearms (such as sneak attacks and other occasions when it was not suitable to make a sound).

After Ma Jun completed this crossbow machine, he also wanted to develop a rotary stone throwing machine that could be fired continuously. Liu Hou knew that this kind of thing had no advantage in front of the cannon at all, so he took him to watch a round of cannon firing performance, and then asked him, how big do you think your stone thrower and this cannon are?

Ma Jun was shocked by the power of the cannons, knowing that his stone throwers could not compare to these cannons in any way, and finally decided to give up the research and development of the continuous stone thrower.

Then, Liu Hou tricked him to improve the textile machine, wanting him to develop a textile machine that could improve efficiency. Liu Hou remembers studying world history in the past, and it was mentioned that the beginning of the industrial revolution in Britain in the 18th century was the invention of the Jenny spinning machine.

It's a pity that Liu Hou didn't know the structure of Jenny's spinning machine, but remembered that the book once said that "turning the original horizontal spindle into an upright spindle" and "multiple upright spindles side by side" and other few words of introduction to Jenny's spinning machine.

Liu Hou told Ma Jun these simple descriptions and asked him to develop a spinning machine that could spin many cotton threads at once.

Originally, he didn't have much hope, but he didn't expect that after Ma Jun heard Liu Hou's introduction in a few words, his eyes lit up, and he immediately threw himself into research and development as if he had found inspiration. Therefore, geniuses are geniuses, they often only lack a little spark, as long as there is a little spark, they think a little, and quickly become a prairie fire.

It didn't take long for him to develop a spinning machine that was 10 times more efficient. Liu Hou also asked him to improve the loom, and asked him to further develop spinning machines and looms that could be driven by water or wind or animal power.

If it can be successful, it will be an epoch-making progress, and from then on, mechanical power will replace manpower, and production efficiency will be qualitatively improved. If you can replace it with a steam engine or something like that, you can basically declare the arrival of the Industrial Revolution.

However, the steam engine is not so easy, in addition to the mechanics and the problem of materials. In fact, Liu Hou had already told Zuo Ci and his apprentices about the principle of the steam engine, but he himself thought that the time was not ripe to develop the steam engine, so he did not let them organize the research and development.

After all, in addition to complex mechanical problems, steam engines also need pistons without air leakage, so as to ensure the efficiency of piston work. Solving air leaks is not so easy, especially in hot environments.

It took Watt more than 30 years from the beginning of the improvement of the steam engine to the development of the double-acting steam engine, and it took Watt a long time to solve the problem of air leakage between the piston and the cylinder. Therefore, Liu Hou sensibly did not throw out such a difficult thing at this time, occupying valuable research resources.

His plan is to wait for Ma Jun and Huang Yueying to get out some urgently needed things, and when the economic conditions and political environment are relatively stable, and then gather some high-end researchers to form a research team, give full play to the collective wisdom, tackle tough problems together, and take down this difficult hard bone.

Time flies like a white horse, in the blink of an eye, it is the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219 AD), Liu Hou finally reached the age of 12, and the virtual age is 15, indicating that Liu Hou bid farewell to his childhood and entered his youth.

In ancient times, a lot could already be done at this age. There is a saying that the children of the poor are in charge of the family early, so in ancient times, in poor families, many 12-year-old children already need to come out to do things like adults, and even for life, it is not uncommon to take charge of the family.

In ancient times, at the age of 12, some people were already married. And Liu Hou, although he was not born in a poor family, but in troubled times, he still had the opportunity to take on some responsibilities. Now he has gradually stepped onto the stage and taken over the power of the "Ministry of Industry".

Fei Yi, Dong He, Jiang Bin and other officials in various regions gradually developed the habit of discussing some major matters with Liu Hou before making decisions, no longer deciding all affairs alone as before, at most informing Liu Hou. Zhao Yun also gradually transferred military power to Liu Hou, so that Liu Hou could command the Hong army with ease. Coupled with his authoritative position in science and technology, Liu Hou has become more and more like the head of the "Ministry of Industry".

However, this qiē is due to the selfless spirit of the heads of various departments, and it is all due to their practice of not seizing power and deliberately cultivating Liu Hou.

The hardest thing for people to let go of is the rights that have already been obtained. Changed to a group of other people, seeing that Liu Hou was young, he overthrew Liu Hou every minute, monopolized the power of his own region, and finally embarked on the road of no return to use power for personal gain.

However, this is the people of Liu Bei's group, and under the influence of Liu Bei, they are all more "benevolent", "selfless", and they are more dedicated to the public. Of course, there is also a reason that it is estimated that Liu Bei also said hello and asked these subordinate officials of the "Ministry of Industry" to train Liu Hou more.

Liu Hou, who gradually bid farewell to his childhood, has gradually stepped onto the world's political stage and war stage, and will surely become a bright star on these two stages.

(After the second volume, welcome to read the third volume, Liu Hou officially walked on the stage and began to conquer the world.) ）