Chapter 94 Water Conservancy Machinery

Ge Tiangong has been preparing for a long time.

You must know that when he was in Liaodong, he was already an official named in the Ministry of Industry, and he had already touched Langzhong's side. After a few years, there is no problem in being a worker. Of course, Ge Tiangong's official position is just an additional title.

After all, the position of these industries in the control of the Ming Dynasty is difficult to determine.

It was the same even after the establishment of Shaofu. Appointments can only be made on temporary borrowing from other official positions. This kind of separation of official duties and dispatches was also very common in ancient times.

For Ge Tiangong, there is no difference at all. As long as it's an official, it's fine.

After losing his official position in Liaodong, Ge Tiangong has been waiting for Dongshan to make a comeback, although He Xi asked Ge Tiangong to do a lot of things, but most of them were repeating the previous things, and He Xi had no intention of giving Ge Tiangong an official position.

In fact, He Xi did not give Ge Tiangong an official, on the one hand, because Ge Tiangong's previous affairs must be punished. After all, although the matter in Liaodong did not involve Ge Tiangong, in fact, He Xi did not believe it too much. It's just enough to do it.

Ge Tiangong's deeds cannot be replaced for a long time.

On the other hand, He Xi also wanted Ge Tiangong to correct, at least, to shift his mind from fame and fortune to science and technology.

But after a long time, He Xi also determined that many things are difficult to correct when people are over thirty. For example, Ge Tiangong, many of his thoughts were actually determined before he met He Xi, and it was difficult to correct them.

Although he is a great expert in technology, He Xi has not yet found someone who can replace Ge Tiangong. But he never had much love for science and technology itself.

The reason why he has his current status is because he was the first to contact He Xi and was the first to combine science and technology, but this advantage can be replaced when many students grow up.

Everyone has their own ambitions, and they should not be forced.

He Xi was a little helpless, but there was no way.

This time, let Ge Tiangong go out, naturally with the help of his technical talent. At the same time, He Xi has changed his position on Ge Tiangong, from a chief expert who takes care of science and technology to a technocrat who has become a technocrat.

The former, although it takes into account the management work, pays more attention to technology research and development. And the latter, providing technical support for certain things.

Nowadays, the dredging of the Tianjin River requires technical support. Before He Xi met Shen Guogong, in fact, he had already discussed with Ge Tiangong. The simplest technical solution is given. But how to achieve it is Ge Tiangong's business.

Of course, in He Xi's eyes, although Ge Tiangong has such and such problems, he is not the kind of big scientist who can promote a version of evolution, but as a scientist, or engineer, he is absolutely qualified.

This task is not too much of a problem to be handed over to Ge Tiangong. Ge Tiangong himself is also very confident.

More importantly, Ge Tiangong took this incident as an opportunity to regain his official position. Only then did he dare to make a military order.

Things are arranged here in Tianjin.

He Xi is going to arrange the following things, but the following things are not so easy to arrange.

And it's still raining outside, the water and the sky are vast, and it seems that the entire eastern part of Hebei has become a Zeguo. I only know that the floods are serious in various places, but where they are more serious, I don't know.

Therefore, what He Xi needs to do is nothing else. Rather, it is to connect Beijing with other places as quickly as possible.

So as to grasp the first-hand information, in order to arrange the following things.

As a result, countless people set off from Beijing and went south by boat. The boat in which they were riding was not very large. They are all sand boats with a very shallow draft. Where there is a lot of flooding, go there.

What has really made progress is Ge Tiangong's work.

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Canal Wharf, south of Beijing.

This wharf is also one of the supporting projects of Beijing City, and it is also one of the most important supporting projects.

Without him, the main reason why the prince and He Xi moved Beijing to the east was that the canal could not lead directly to Beiping City. The transshipment consumption is too great. In this case, in the construction of the new Beijing city, waterway transportation is particularly important, and the wharf, as an important node, is naturally more important.

Even though the water level of the canal has risen significantly due to this heavy rain, it still has not had much impact on the wharf, which was already considered when it was built.

Today, several large ships are stuck here.

Hundreds of people shouted in unison in the heavy rain, dragging very tall objects, the largest of which seemed to be an iron stove lying horizontally, about a foot high. Wrapped in an oilcloth, it dragged little by little like an ant.

Even more so because it's a rainy day.

Many people slipped step by step, fell to the ground, bumped into a lot of wounds, and even broke bones and tendons, leaving large traces of blood.

Shen Guogong rode on his horse, pointed at these things with his horsewhip, and said, "This is -----"

Ge Tiangong also rode on his horse, bowed down and said: "It's not a place to talk in the rain, please also ask Guogong to come on the boat with me, and we will talk about it in detail on the boat." ”

Shen Guogong glanced at Ge Tiangong, his eyes swept over the boundless heavy rain again, and said, "Okay." ”

Shen Guogong and Ge Tiangong soon got on board.

Shen Guogong could see that this boat was almost the largest boat in the canal. The whole boat is two or three zhang wide, and if it weren't for the heavy rain and the river swelling now, it would not have been too easy for this boat to come here.

It's just that as soon as Shen Guogong got on the ship, he found a problem, that is, the entire ship had been disemboweled.

The deck was dismantled, the mast or anything was gone. The bottom cabin was presented in front of him, and even Shen Guogong saw some stagnant water.

Shen Guogong turned to look at Ge Tiangong and did not speak. But the meaning of Shen Guogong's words is already very clear. I want Ge Tiangong to explain.

Ge Tiangong said: "Guogong, this is for the steam engine to get on the ship. ”

Shen Guogong said: "Steam engine on board? What's the use of getting on board? ”

It is naturally no secret that the steam engine was used on a large scale. Shen Guogong still knows a lot about steam engines.

Indeed, today's steam engines cannot be used as power machinery, and it is useless to get on ships. It's just that today's steam engines can't be used as power, and it's not that they can't do other things.

Especially in this case.

Ge Tiangong said: "The top priority of the national government is to dredge the river. Let the water in Tianjin quickly enter the sea. The best way is to dig deep into the bottom of the river, and the previous pickpockets, mixed with river dragons, all use manpower, too difficult, and the effect is not good, but now the steam engine is used to drive the shovel, go deep into the bottom of the river, and pick up the sediment at the bottom of the river. It's the best way. ”、

There are several types of boats similar to dredgers in ancient times, with an iron claw on the bow or stern of the boat, which sank to the bottom of the river and then dragged by a boat to remove the sediment from the bottom of the river. There is a roller with a lot of iron rods and chains, which are very heavy, you can put down, you can lift it, and after you put it down, you turn the runner to let the runner hit the bottom of the river, so as to stir up the sediment at the bottom of the river. Wait a minute.

In general, these are the use of manpower, or water power. The effect cannot be said to be bad. It can only be said that many times, the design requirements cannot be met.

After all, these engineering ships were built to control the Yellow River. Obviously, the Yellow River is not being treated.

He Xi doesn't know what kind of effect it will have when using a steam engine to drive these machines, but it is more efficient than using manpower. In the matter of dredging the Tianjin River, if it can be faster, one less person will be affected by the disaster, and one less person will die.

If you can be faster, you will be faster.

And in He Xi's view, this is also to expand the scope of use of steam engines. It was also a preparation for another thing, and that was the arrival of a steam engine.

After all, the technical requirements of a steam engine ship are much lower than those of a train.

It can even be said that the more he understands the technical details, the more He Xi knows the high requirements of the steam locomotive. Not to mention anything else, even in the 21st century, there are still many places where steam engine locomotives are used, which shows that the technical content on this is not too low.

And the marine steam engine can be made a little bigger. Today's thing, that is, for the future steam engine ship, can also make technical reserves.

In addition, Ge Tiangong assured He Xi that this technology could be realized, and He Xi strongly supported it.