When Zhao Jun received the news of the old man's location, what he saw was this strange and spectacular scene at the moment.

The street that was supposed to be crowded with people suddenly appeared in an out of place.

A large group of people formed a circle, centered on their old man, with their heads down and not knowing what they were looking at.

What's more, he also found the figure of Wuhou patrolling the street in the crowd, and his demeanor was no different from others!

Zhao Jun was stunned, carefully passed through the crowd, and came to the ground behind Zhao Duan and looked at the ground that everyone was looking at, with a puzzled expression. What are these people watching?

After seeing the reaction on the old man's face, Zhao Jun asked directly, "What are you looking at?" ”

"Oops, hey!"

His voice instantly woke Zhao Duan up from his immersion.

Everyone was taken aback, and when they looked back, it was him, and they suddenly said angrily: "You stinky boy, suddenly standing next to me, walking silently?" Don't you know that people are scary and easy to scare people to death? ”

Zhao Jun scratched his head and continued to ask, "Then what are you looking at, watching so seriously?" ”

Zhao Duan came back to his senses at this time, pointed to the floor with an excited face, and said, "What materials do you have here?" I look like mud and not like mud, this is hard to beat, if it is used to explain the city wall thief!

It's much better than glutinous rice glued or something! ”

Only then did Zhao Jun understand what the old man was attracted by, and said with a smile: "Feelings, you are looking at cement here?"

A little cement, you make such a big noise? ”

Zhao Duan was stunned for a moment, big move? I'm just looking at the cement, what's going on.

But when he looked up, he saw a pair of dead fish eyes staring at him.

They heard the conversation between the father and son clearly just now, and thought that this person had discovered something amazing, but in the end, the relationship was that they had never seen the world and regarded cement as a good thing!

What's even more ridiculous is that his group of people actually squatted down and studied with him curiously, and in an instant, everyone only felt that their faces were hot and painful, and they felt like they were being slapped in the face.

Zhao Duan looked up and was stunned when he saw this scene, and then Zhao Jun on the side came to him and whispered: "Old man, if I were you, I would run away now, otherwise when their anger has accumulated enough, you won't be able to run away if you want to." ”

Zhao Duan listened enough to observe carefully, and sure enough, he found that anger was slowly accumulating in everyone's eyes, and the more he thought about the person who was squatting down with him like a fool just now, the more angry he became, and he saw that the anger value was about to reach its peak!

Seeing this, Zhao Duan nodded seriously: "Well, I think you're right!" ”

After speaking, Zhao Duan turned his head and nodded at Cao Shuang, Cao Shuang immediately understood, and then the master and servant slipped out of the crowd like monkeys.

That movement is clean, that speed! Just blink an eye!

Zhao Jun, who was still stunned, looked at the people who had already looked at his son, and showed a polite smile in embarrassment:

"Hehe, what's that, everyone, have eaten it?"

"Eat your uncle! Hit him! His dad ran away! Hit him! ”

This sound was like a lit fuse that instantly detonated the crowd, and the angry crowd rushed towards him frantically, but after the noise passed, they could no longer find Zhao Jun's voice.

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"Old man! Wait for me! How could you run away and leave me behind! It's so immoral! ”

On a certain street, Zhao Duan, who was running wildly, seemed to hear the shouts of his resentful son, but immediately shook his head and left the voice behind.

No way! When pigs fly! At this time, he should be behind being surrounded, how could he run out?

Right! That's right! That's what it looks like!

Thinking like this, the movement of his feet suddenly became a little faster, and the wind seemed to be attached to him at this moment.

In the end, this is still Yunzhou City, Zhao Jun's territory, and Zhao Duan's old Deng...... The old man still couldn't run away and was caught.

Looking at Zhao Jun with a black face, Zhao Duan not only did not feel a little guilty, but was quite arrogant, and he didn't look like he had done anything wrong at all.

When he saw Zhao Jun, he came up directly and asked: "It just so happens that you are here, I heard that you have a steam engine here, and you can use it yourself, and your official newspaper has been talking about this every day recently, so hurry up and take me to see the real thing." ”

After breakfast this morning, Zhao Duan bought an official newspaper of Yunzhou County from the boy who sold newspapers on the roadside, and saw something about the steam engine on it, and an iron lump could actually move on its own, which was really interesting and aroused his curiosity.

Hearing this, Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "That thing is still a semi-finished product, and one of the materials has not been found, so now it is just a spectacle, and it has to be stopped after two moves." ”

"Look, look."

In the end, at Zhao Duan's insistence, Zhao Jun still took the old man to the Tiangong Academy, which studied steam engines.

Ye Lao, the old craftsman who was in charge of researching the steam engine, was originally a blacksmith, and after Zhao Jun proposed the design of the steam engine, Ye Lao led the land he cultivated to conquer the technology of the steam engine.

From the beginning of the unknown principle, to the present prototype, the steam power is enough for the head of the steam locomotive to pull a person to walk a hundred meters in half an hour, a full three years.

Ye Lao pointed to the iron lump behind him, a little similar to the locomotive in his previous life, and said: "The biggest problem at present is that "there are no good sealing materials at the junction of the sealing valve and pipeline, as well as the cylinder, which leads to the power generated by the coal we put into the steam engine is directly wasted, and only about one percent can be converted into the power of the steam engine."

If this problem cannot be solved, then the steam engine is of little use, first, it is not durable, and second, it is too expensive to consume. ”

With Ye Lao's introduction, Zhao Jun and Zhao Duan, father and son, looked up and down at the big guy in front of them, the swarthy steel body was full of strange industrial beauty, and just looking at it gave people a shocking feeling.

After looking at it for a long time, Zhao Duan suddenly said:

"Didn't you say he could move?

Let him move! ”

Ye Lao turned his head and looked at Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun thought about it and finally nodded and said, "Go and get ready, I also want to see the current progress." ”

"Good! Wait for the throne! ”

After speaking, Ye Lao went down to make arrangements, and after a while, many people came to the original exhibition venue, and everyone surrounded the steam engine in the middle to write and draw.

Zhao Jun glanced twice, and then realized that they were recording the experimental data, and there was no need for Zhao Jun to mention it, and now the craftsmen of the Tiangong Academy will take the initiative to summarize the data of each experiment, and they will find the things that need to be improved from all the data obtained, so as to make the things manufactured more advanced.

Soon after, a cartload of coal and a small cart were pulled over, and the small cart was covered with stones, which were soon hung at the tail of the steam engine.

Others ignited the boiler inside the steam engine and began to add coal to it.

As the black coal is continuously added to the boiler, the boiler fire becomes more and more vigorous, and the water in the steam engine is burned out a large amount of water vapor, and then the kinetic energy generated by the water vapor is driven by the steam engine to drive various parts.

The next moment, everyone heard the sound of praising and eating, and the small cart pulled by the head of the steam locomotive, which had just been immovable, slowly moved.

Although it moved very slowly, the entire steam engine was leaking everywhere, spewing white smoke like a balloon filled with water that had been pierced with holes.

But he still moved after all, the shock brought by this industrial miracle made Zhao Duan, who saw this kind of scene for the first time, have a big mouth, and he can't close it for a while!

"This ...... This...... This iron lump moves! ”

Zhao Duan pointed to the steam engine that was moving slowly but slower than a turtle, and looked at Zhao Jun with a shocked expression and said.

Zhao Jun nodded slowly, and said with emotion on his face: "Yes, it's moving!" ”

After a long while, Zhao Duan's shocked expression gradually calmed down, and he looked at the steam engine that hadn't advanced much for half a day and said: "It's moving, but this thing is moving too slowly, at this speed, it's a question of whether you can move forward a mile a day." ”

Zhao Jun said: "Old man, you can't look at it like that.

If before today, I told you that the iron pimple can move on its own, do you believe it? ”

Zhao Duan shook his head: "Then I definitely don't believe it!" ”

Zhao Jun pointed to the steam engine and said, "But it has appeared alive in front of our eyes."

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and now that the problem of iron pimple movement has been solved, will it be far away if he can move faster?

As I said, this thing is still a semi-finished product at the moment, and you can see the white fog coming out of the steam engine everywhere, and it is not the power of the steam engine.

At present, because we have no materials to use, all the white mist leaks out of the inside of the steam engine, resulting in less than 10% of the force.

It's like a martial arts master who has been hit by sweat medicine, and he can't use his strength! ”

"Can you find that kind of material?" Zhao Duan asked, looking at the steam engine that was fogging everywhere.

Zhao Jun nodded affirmatively: "Definitely can!"

This world is so big, there will definitely be the materials we need, it's just that sooner or later we find him! ”

Looking at the steam engine that had already walked forward, Zhao Duan nodded silently: "I hope I can find it soon." ”

Saying this, Zhao Duan noticed the rails under the steam engine again, and asked curiously: "Can your steam engine only walk on these two iron bars?"

If that's the case, even if you overcome the material problem in the end, your steam engine will have to go somewhere else, and these two iron bars will have to be repaired somewhere else.

This sticker doesn't look like ordinary iron, it's not easy to forge it alone, and if you need such a large amount, how much iron will it consume! ”

As an emperor, he saw at a glance another problem that the steam engine needed to face in the future, that is, the rails.

If you want to use steam trains to transport materials, you must lay the rails to the destination, not to mention the difficulty of construction, the steel to be consumed alone is an astronomical amount, just thinking about it makes people's scalp tingle!

However, what Zhao Duan didn't expect was that Zhao Jun was very calm at this time:

"If you can find that material, these are not a problem, the purpose of this steam engine is not only used in this cart, but also in many other places, when the steel production can increase at a flying rate, plus our Yunzhou County is not short of iron ore.

It can fully meet the needs of laying railroad tracks, and have you ever thought about a question, why are there so many people rebelling every year in the Great Song Dynasty? ”

At the mention of this question, Zhao Duandang frowned, and then sighed and said, "Tax and Tian." ”

Zhao Jun nodded and continued: "Heavy taxes and land that is constantly annexed by the big families and landlords and gentry have caused more and more people to lose their livelihoods.

And after they lost their land, they still had to pay high taxes, and even more so, the corrupt officials and landlords and gentry would pass on all the taxes they should have paid to the people.

When you have no source of income, you have to pay taxes for yourself or even for others.

Father, do you have any other choice but to rebel in this situation?

As for borrowing money and paying taxes, in the end, the result was that he was even sold to others as slaves. ”

When Zhao Jun said this, Zhao Duan opened his mouth and wanted to say what he wanted most, but was interrupted by Zhao Jun and continued: "Don't say that the Great Song Dynasty does not allow people to treat the Song people as slaves, as the so-called policies and countermeasures.

When the common people could not afford to repay the high loans, their creditors, the landlords and gentry who lent money, naturally controlled their fate, even if it was only through employment contracts.

However, all the terms of the contract are favorable to the employer, and the employment period is still for life.

What is the difference between this and a slave contract? ”

Zhao Duan was silent.

Zhao Jun continued: "This will create a vicious circle in the entire Great Song Dynasty, the faster those landlords and gentry merge, the more the people will lose their land, the more rebels, and the more soldiers the court will need to use to suppress the rebellion."

And the suppression of the rebellion needs silver, where does the silver come from?

It can only be a more aggravated tax.

The increased taxes led to the loss of land and rebellion by some people who could not pay the taxes.

Repeat and repeat.

If this continues, sooner or later, the entire Great Song Dynasty will be full of rebellion, and the scene of the last years of the previous dynasty will be staged in this world again! ”

"You say so much, can this steam engine change all that?

The cycle of land annexation has lasted for thousands of years, and successive dynasties have not escaped this fate, so what can this little steam engine do? ”

Zhao Duan was a little unconvinced.

In this regard, Zhao Jun smiled confidently and looked at the steam engine that was still slowly moving.

My thoughts seem to have returned to the high-rise buildings and prosperous world in my previous life.

The tone was firm and solemn: "Yes, there are still ways to break the cycle of fate, as long as the productivity can be improved, then everything is not a problem."

And this steam engine is the key to unlocking the productivity that has restricted the world for thousands of years!

Once this productive force is unraveled, the powerful power it bursts out will definitely shock the whole world! ”

Zhao Jun's eyes lit up.

In a trance, Zhao Duan seemed to see the time when he first ascended to Dabao when he was young, thinking that he had the ability to rejuvenate Da Song and make Da Song great again.

At that time, I was young and fearless, but now I am old, and I have become timid and conservative!

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(End of chapter)