Li Yunze once heard a sentence about a steam locomotive, even a farmer can knock it out with a hammer.

He didn't know if the person who said this thought that the hammer in the farmer's hand was an artifact, and that he could have whatever he wanted as long as he went down with a hammer.

Not to mention anything else, here in Daqin, Li Yunze held hundreds of drawings, one by one guidance, and hand-in-hand teaching, but the group of craftsmen in the craftsman prison, who can be called the strongest manual ability in this era, still took more than a year to make a locomotive.

It's the kind of steam locomotive that has long been eliminated in the modern world, and even the little train in the park is more advanced than it.

In order to reduce the technical difficulty, I also specially found an ancient version of the technology, the average speed of which is only thirty or forty kilometers.

This also gave Li Yunze a stronger understanding of the promotion of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

I don't even understand the basics, and I can't knock it out even if I hit a hammer on the drawing.

Fortunately, a group of technicians have been initially trained, and follow-up production can be carried out according to the previous standards, and it is not in vain.

And in the past year or so, a lot of things have happened here in Daqin.

Among them, the most eye-catching is the rebellion of Chang'an Juncheng.

After the pro-government, Ying Zheng immediately began to prepare to destroy the kingdoms, and his first target was the Zhao State, which had lived as a hostage.

When he was a hostage in Zhao State, Ying Zheng was bullied a lot, which left a heavy shadow.

Now that the army is in hand, of course, it is time to take revenge.

Meng Fu set out with the vanguard and confronted Li Mu on the Qin-Zhao border.

Later, Ying Zheng sent his younger brother Chang Anjun to reinforce with soldiers and horses, but no one expected that when he was halfway there, Chang Anjun was actually moved by Fan Yuzhi, who accompanied him, and rebelled directly.

The most direct consequence of Cheng Yu's rebellion was that Meng Fu was attacked by the enemy and cut off the supply line, and was finally broken by Li Mu and killed.

The Qin army lost tens of thousands of people, and even the cavalry three-piece suit lost many and fell into the hands of the Zhao people.

Zhao Guoru, who obtained the three-piece cavalry set, quickly began to carry out large-scale imitation, and his cavalry combat effectiveness increased rapidly.

This is not the most deadly, the most deadly is that the Qin Wang cannon carried by the army was also sent to Zhao by Cheng Chan.

The propellant that various countries have been striving for has finally fallen into their hands.

This rebellion of Cheng Chan brought great harm to the Qin State.

Fortunately, although Zhao Guo got the propellant package and knew the general ingredients, they didn't know the specific proportions and production process.

And the guns they cast themselves were of poor quality, and there was even a case of blowing up the bore during the test firing.

If you want to improve your smelting technology and figure out the ratio and production process of propellants, you don't have to think about it without a few years of effort.

When the news reached Xianyang City, Ying Zheng directly entered a state of rage.

Then a large number of Qin troops poured over, besieging the rebels in the cantonment barrier.

Li Mu once led his troops to the rescue, but in the face of the tide of the Qin army, he really had no choice but to retreat.

However, when he retired from the army, he accidentally rescued Fan Yuzhi, who broke through.

As for Cheng Chan, he chose to commit suicide in despair.

In order to vent his anger, the angry Ying Zheng in history not only executed all the tens of thousands of subordinates of Cheng Chan, but even sent the people in his fiefdom to do hard labor, the kind that never stopped.

This time, Li Yunze took the initiative to go to Xianyang City and persuaded Yingzheng to only punish the first evil, that is, more than 100 generals, and more than five doctors.

The remaining sergeants were all assigned to work with Li Yunze to build the railway.

As for the people in the fiefdoms, they were punished by forced labor, and their place of work was also to build railways.

After nearly a year of construction, the laying of the railway with little technical content is very smooth, it has been laid from Liyang to Jincheng (Lanzhou) area, and the Hexi Corridor is across the river.

In order to support this project, the Qin state was mining everywhere, digging iron ore to dig coal and smelting it to make railroad tracks.

When the envoys from the eastern countries entered Qin, they saw that the Qin people did not build the Great Wall or the mausoleum when they were slack, but were desperately mining.

On the road to Xianyang City, you can see towering Tufa blast furnaces everywhere.

The thick black smoke and yellow smoke obscured the sky, and the blazing furnace fire seemed to ignite the heavens and the earth at night.

The countries of the Kwantung region were all frightened and overwhelmed, and they couldn't understand where the terrible productivity of the Qin people came from.

Li Yunze got the locomotive out here, and went to Xianyang City to look for Yingzheng to visit, and at the same time went to visit the Queen Mother to send him to learn the scriptures.

Ying Zheng is also very interested in this kind of steel giant beast that can move on its own, thinking that with this thing it is enough to run rampant in the world.

So after arranging all the work, he came to Liyang with Li Yunze with high interest.

Even if he has seen the drawings many times, and even the wooden model is placed in Xianyang Palace, but when Ying Zheng saw with his own eyes that the length is nearly ten zhang, the height is nearly two zhang, and the width is Xu, and the whole body is cast in steel, and it is said that it weighs hundreds of thousands of catties of real objects, he is still shocked and speechless.

I walked around the front of the car a few times, and reached out to touch it for a long time.

Ying Zheng, who had finally calmed down, rushed to Li Yunze with a look of ecstasy, grabbed his hand and shouted, "Taifu, with such a divine object in hand, where in the world can you go?" When conquering the nations, just send this iron beast to the battlefield and rush straight over."

"The King."

Although it was rude to interrupt others, Li Yunze still spoke out to correct Ying Zheng's cognitive mistakes, "Have you forgotten that this thing can only run on the railroad tracks." ”

"uh~~~"

Ying Zheng was stunned, "The widow remembers, I seem to have heard Taifu say that steel monsters can also run on the ground."

"It's called a tank." Li Yunze shook his head again and again, "Technological breakthroughs in internal combustion engines and miniaturization are needed, as well as supporting the petroleum industry, with the current scientific and technological level of Daqin, even if it continues to develop along the road of mathematics, physics and chemistry, it will take a few hundred years." ”

It's not that the tank with a steam engine can't be made, it's actually because it doesn't make much sense even if it does.

Production, maintenance, transportation, use, etc. are very troublesome, and even the speed cannot keep up with the sergeants.

Now there are powerful cavalry, and there is no need for steam engines and tanks.

As for the internal combustion engine tank, Li Yunze estimated that it would be at least 200 years later.

This still has to go all out on the side of science and technology, and cannot let Confucianism and Buddhism come out, and even all those who only talk about the mind and do not talk about practice can not come out.

Listening to Li Yunze's words, Ying Zheng immediately showed disappointment, and his previous excitement was gone.

"Don't think about it so much." Li Yunze patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "A generation does a generation, what you have to do now is to lay a good foundation for science, just like the previous Qin kings did." Only when the predecessors continue to accumulate, the future generations will have the opportunity to accumulate and develop. ”

The specially trained driver got on the front of the car, lit the stove and began to shovel coal into the furnace.

It took a lot of time just to get started.

When the soft water in the tank is finally heated and the steam in the valve begins to overflow, the powerful steam force finally begins to push the piston to reciprocate, releasing the energy through equipment such as connecting shaft gears and connecting rods.

The moving structure pushed the huge wheels to turn, and the behemoth finally moved with the sound of steel rubbing.

"It's moving, it's moving! It's really moving! ”

Ying Zheng's emotions became excited again.

'Dirt Dirt ~~~'

The steam rushed out through the whistle barrel, making a terrible sound, and the shocking sound and the movement of the steel behemoth frightened many people around them with weak hands and feet, and collapsed on the ground and shivered.

There are also those who bow down to the front of the car, muttering in their mouths and not knowing what they are talking about.

Seeing this scene, Li Yunze didn't say much, and he wouldn't laugh at these people for being so ignorant.

He just put his arm around Yingzheng's shoulders and admonished him, "People who study science can build such behemoths and make them move." That's the power of science. And those who have not learned will only think that it is a fairy thing, and they can't walk when they see it, let alone control it. Now you tell me, isn't science important? ”

"What Taifu said is extremely true!"

Ying Zheng nodded vigorously, "Widows believe in science and can control such steel beasts." Ignorant people don't understand or don't believe, they are outdated. ”

Li Yunze smiled and nodded, and then waved his hand to signal the driver to pull down the brakes and stop the front of the car.

After that, he got into the back carriage with Ying Zheng and others.

"The carriages are much easier to build." On the carriage, the first thing Li Yunze did was to close all the doors and windows, "The most important thing is the frame structure, and if this problem is solved, the technical difficulty of the carriage is no different from that of a carriage." ”

The locomotive moved forward again, driving the carriage under its feet to rumble forward.

The excited Ying Zheng responded, and hurriedly opened the window to see the scenery outside.

But as soon as the window opened, a pungent pungent smoke and dust rolled in directly, and Ying Zheng, who was choking, coughed repeatedly.

Li Yunze shrugged, this kind of thing has been experienced after choking once.

The locomotive drove hundreds of miles in one breath before it slowly stopped.

Ying Zheng, who came out of the carriage, looked at the surrounding environment and took a deep breath, "Taifu, the widow wants to build this railway track out of Hangu Pass and repair it to various countries." Wherever the railroad tracks are repaired, the army of Great Qin will follow there! ”

Ying Zheng, who likes big projects, has started his own new project.

When he returned to Xianyang City happily, Zhao Gao came to report and said, "Your Majesty, there are several monks who have brought the immortal medicine they have asked for from the overseas Immortal Mountain, and they want to sacrifice to the King. ”

"Heh~~~"

Hearing this, Ying Zheng sneered, "Let them in." ”

The style of the monks is good, and their bearing is also very natural, without the slightest nervousness when they meet the king, and they look quite a fairy temperament.

After saluting, the leader stepped forward and said, "The king of good religion knows that I went to sea to find the immortal mountain and visited the immortals on the immortal mountain. It was blessed by the immortals and gave it the elixir of longevity. ”

"We know that we are not blessed to accept such immortal things, so we specially came to Xianyang City to dedicate ourselves to the king."

"Oh?"

Ying Zheng, who had a calm face, said lightly, "Take a look." ”

The alchemist took out a delicate small box from his bosom and carefully handed it over to Zhao Gao.

The inspected box was placed in front of Ying Zheng.

He looked at the red pill in front of him, reached out and picked it up, put it in front of his nose, sniffed it, looked at it, and even pinched a piece down to analyze.

"This tastes this color. There's lead, there's mercury, there's sulfur, that's mercury sulfide. Realgar, alum, Zeng Qing, Cishi, the widow has studied chemistry! ”

casually put the so-called immortal medicine back in the box, and Ying Zheng's eyes stared at the Fang Shi below, "What's your name?" ”

"Back to the king, a certain is just an idle cloud and wild crane, and the name is just that."

"The widow asked you what your name was!"

Ying Zheng roared, and the frightened Fang Shi who was still pretending to beep trembled, and hurriedly responded, "Back to the king, the villain's name is Xu Fu." ”

(End of chapter)