My Brother-in-law is the Prince

  Chapter 349 Peerless National Scholar

  Seeing Zhang Anshi like this, Zhu Di's face sank, and his lips pursed into a straight line.

   After a pause, Zhu Di said, "Speak up if you have something to say."

  Zhang Anshidao: "Your Majesty, the Thirteenth Taibao, no, this Xu and others are indeed not messing around. I can use the head as a guarantee."

  Zhang Anshi has confidence in his heart.

   After all, there are some things, if a layman, it is impossible to tell the details.

  Since Xu Jingchang told the details, the only possibility is one, and that is that there are really results.

  It will be easy to handle when there are results.

   But Zhu Di didn't know, he frowned at this moment and said: "Why, you also want to cover for them?"

  Zhang Anshi said solemnly: "Of course I dare not cover up for them, I just speak out."

  Zhu Di: "..."

  The four words of righteousness and righteousness, from Zhang Anshi's mouth, are really fresh.

  But Zhang Anshi looked determined, calm and relaxed.

  Zhu Di said: "Okay, I will listen to your righteous words."

  So Zhang Anshi said: "The minister speaks out of righteousness, not just by talking about it, I implore your majesty, follow the minister to see the real thing."

   "The real thing?"

  Zhu Di saw Zhang Anshi's calm look, and began to ponder in his heart at this time. He didn't show his expression, but said: "Everyone is here, let's take a look."

   Immediately, a group of people set off to go deep into the high wall.

  The area here is very large, even if it is a horse race, it will take some time.

   But see... Some places have track already laid.

  When Zhang Anshi saw this track, he understood it in his heart, so he became more determined.

  So he pointed to Xu Jingchang and asked him, "How did you solve it?"

Xu Jingchang scratched his head and said, "There are many problems. The craftsmen have been thinking about this thing as early as three or four years ago, but they know that its principle is easy, but the finished products made after that are not satisfactory, because many materials and things None of them passed the test. Later... everyone discovered that the rubber seal was the best, and they directly cooperated with the craftsmen in the steel workshop to make many special components, but there were still many problems. Not to mention other things, this spring alone was enough to let the Dozens of craftsmen have been pondering for several months, but it is still difficult to overcome. Fortunately, that guy Meng Wen thought of a solution... But later, everyone found that the exhaust of the cylinder and the ventilation of the boiler are very troublesome."

He looked at Zhang Anshi, and continued: "Brother-in-law, in the compendium you wrote, there are principles, principles, and the general structure is correct. But the problem is that when you really do it, you find that there are too many difficulties in it. Not to mention other things... The ventilation problem of the boiler has cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and many craftsmen are helpless. But later, I suddenly thought of a solution, which is to simply use two cylinders to solve the problem. In addition... to improve the chimney..."

"However, the problem with the cylinder has been solved, but this thing is too heavy. We laid the track according to the method, but this track...is a big trouble. Fortunately...we read the book of my brother-in-law, which explained it in detail. The principle of friction, so... Try to work **** the wheels and tracks. Only by making them smoother can the problem of power be solved. In this regard, Xu Zhengye is in charge. He is interested in steel and machinery. So every day with a group of people, experiment in a special steel workshop."

"As for me, hehe..." He smiled and continued: "Meng Wen and I only think about how to increase the power. How can it be so easy to increase the power? Our boilers and cylinders are bigger. The heavier the car body, the more cumbersome the car body, the greater the power, but the increase in its own weight, the power does not rise but falls. Finally...we decided to make a fuss about the cylinder and the boiler."

He talked eloquently: "The problem of the cylinder... was solved later, it is rubber, the rubber thing, the sealing is really good, the tools used to make pistons and airtight cylinders are simply blessed, after only using rubber, this cylinder The impetus brought by it has increased by at least seventy to eighty percent."

"Of course, the problem with the boiler is also very big. Didn't my brother-in-law always emphasize boiling water in the general outline? The more water is boiled, the more steam, and the more steam, the stronger the power. But how can we boil more water? Then you have to make the fire burn hotter."

"Later, we found two areas that could be improved. One is fuel. In the past, we used ordinary coal, which had many impurities and incomplete combustion, and would cause a lot of heat loss. Therefore, we found many Coal, and even devoted a lot of money to the major coal workshops, asking them to think of ways to improve, and finally chose a kind of coal, and found that it has high heat and more complete combustion, so this aspect has increased a little bit of motivation.

After a pause, Xu Jingchang finally said: "All in all, we have encountered no less than forty problems this year. Some problems are big, while others are easy to solve, so we split up and divided into many groups. Let's push forward separately, our 13th Taibao, and hundreds of skilled craftsmen in this research institute, if we can't solve it, we will try to find a way to ask for advice from the mechanical workshops, steel workshops, and coal workshops outside. There are also many of them there. People are knowledgeable, and they also know that if we send people to ask for advice, once we can solve it, we will be willing to give money, so...the various workshops are also willing to help, brother-in-law, don't underestimate those workshops, there are also capable people in each workshop , Sometimes we can't solve the problem even if we think about it, they may just look at it and know where the problem is."

  After hearing what this guy said so well, Zhang Anshi couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "You guys...as expected..."

  Xu Jingchang stared blankly at Zhang Anshi: "What?"

  Zhang Anshi's face twitched, and he thought to himself, sure enough... there must be no problem with IQ, it's just that it's not used in the right place.

  The most important thing is that people are locked inside and isolated from the world all of a sudden. The only thing that can get rid of them every day is all kinds of strange things in the workshop.

  Once you have an interest, it's hard not to concentrate on it.

  Furthermore, their mentality is fundamentally different from other craftsmen. Many craftsmen are just making a living, and there are always various troubles at home.

   And these guys are heartless, not to mention...the family doesn't need them to worry about them at all. To be honest, only others should worry about them.

  Other people are doing research, and they may still be thinking about budget and money issues. After all...no one dares to gamble for something that may have no profit at all.

  That's why...Although Zhang Anshi has already been in the library, he has tried his best to write down many popular science books that he can remember, and many people will read them, but at most they only solve some small problems in production or life.

  Guys like Xu Jingchang...Once I think I like this thing, I want to give it a try. As for how much money they will spend, they don't know how much they will spend, and they don't care too much about it.

Even the craftsmen of the Military Industry Research Institute are often more sensitive to funding when they conduct research. It’s not that Zhang Anshi is reluctant to pay, but that normal people will inevitably start to worry subconsciously when they think of a project that costs so much. What if the research went wrong, or ended up being futile.

  But people like Xu Jingchang...they don't bother to care about it.

  Anyway, there is a big grievance who gives money.

  Even if the big grievance is not given, it doesn't matter, if it doesn't work, I will do it myself.

  So Zhang Anshi looked straight at him and said, "Did you spend a lot of money on this?"

   "It didn't cost much, brother-in-law..." Xu Jingchang grinned and said, "Someone calculated it, but it cost more than 400,000 taels of silver..."

  Zhang Anshi's face turned blue and red.

  Although he knew that he was the one who was wronged, Xu Jingchang looked indifferent, but Zhang Anshi was a little bit off guard.

  Zhang Anshi breathed out silently, laughed dryly, touched his head and said, "Well... I'll take a good look at it later, I hope this thing... it's really useful."

   The implication is that if it is useless, you are dead.

  A railway track like a long dragon, in this large venue, has several large circles, winding like a long snake, and it is seven or eight miles long.

  Zhang Anshi and Xu Jingchang led the way, while Zhu Di followed behind on horseback, like a prisoner.

  He also heard Zhang Anshi and Xu Jingchang say some strange things, but...he didn't understand.

   At the end of the railroad track is a huge work shed.

  The mighty civil servants and military generals at the back looked at this place, only felt strange, and looked around curiously.

  This place, how should I put it... gives people a kind of... uncomfortable feeling.

  The Marquis of Baoding, Mengshan, grabbed Meng Wen's ear all the way, almost holding the ear, and lifted Meng Wen up.

  Meng Wen was in pain, so he had to tilt his head all the way, and said in his mouth: "Oh, father, take it easy, father... when will the grievance be repaid... father... I won't give you a pension in the future..."

   Finally entered the huge shed.

   Immediately... In the depths of the railroad track, a huge steel beast was lying on the railroad track.

   This thing is as tall as a person, and it is born like an iron lump, with a chimney protruding from it.

   Zhu Di looked at it and couldn't help being speechless.

Xu Jingchang's face showed a bit of complacency, and he said cheerfully: "Don't look at it like an iron lump, in fact, in order to reduce weight, hardwood is used in all places that can be used, and hollowed out in places that can be hollowed out. In fact, it is not heavy. , only two thousand nine hundred catties."

   "More than two thousand nine hundred catties..."

   Do you have any misunderstanding about the word heavy? This is not heavy?

   Zhang Anshi looked at this thing, his eyes lit up a little, and he felt very kind.

  He couldn't help laughing, stepped forward, looked at this, touched this.

   This is a steam locomotive, it looks like... a bit.

  This thing... In fact, the manufacturing principle is not difficult at all, and even anyone who has studied junior high school physics in later generations can probably know it.

  But it is unimaginable in this era to really create it.

If there were not hundreds of thousands of skilled craftsmen working together, Zhang Anshi had not proposed a correct direction from the beginning, which almost reduced all the cost of trial and error. Something, almost unimaginable.

  Technology itself is developing by leaps and bounds. Of course, for the ancients who had almost no real progress in technology for thousands of years, this may be unimaginable.

   But in fact, once certain things start to be unlocked, then... the potential of many smart people starts to be developed on this basis, and now... the appearance of this thing can be regarded as opening a whole new era in Ming Dynasty.

  Zhang Anshi looked at Xu Jingchang excitedly and said, "Can you run?"

   "Yes, but it's too slow." Xu Jingchang said very dissatisfied: "That's why... we want to make a fuss about gunpowder and kerosene."

  Zhang Anshi wanted to kick him away, so he couldn't help but glared at him and said, "If you haven't learned how to walk, don't think about running, it's a waste of my money..."

  Zhu Di's face sank when he heard about the waste of money.

  If he did not make a mistake in his own cognition, it seems that this research institute...was spent on the money of a business company, and the business company...

  Xu Jingchang hurriedly said: "Yes, yes..."

  Zhang Anshi was more concerned about another issue, so he asked again: "How much can it hold?"

  Xu Jingchang said: "Not many, just five trailers. If there are more, they may not be able to run..."

  Five…

   Less is a little less, but...

  Zhang Anshi said: "The five trailers are fully loaded?"

"yes."

  Zhang Anshi couldn't wait to say: "Go and try."

"Oh."

  Xu Jingchang rubbed his hands, eager to try, and then... shouted backwards: "All the Taibao... all brothers... come to me."

  Given an order, a group of youths rushed forward, and even Meng Wen took advantage of Meng Shan's unpreparedness, broke away suddenly, and ran away in a hurry.

  Zhu Di had already dismounted, Zhang Anshi walked up to Zhu Di with a smile, and said with a smile in his eyes: "Your Majesty...it's terrible, it's terrible..."

  Zhu Di didn't know what Zhang An Shile was talking about, but he was in a bad mood right now.

  He pressed his hand, and said very honestly: "Don't tell me, I don't understand what you said, I just want to know, how much money did this thing cost me?"

  Zhang Anshi's face froze, and finally said honestly: "This... this... is actually not much, that is... a few hundred thousand taels..."

  Zhu Di: "..."

  Zhang Anshi then said again: "But...Your Majesty...Just look at it, and soon Your Majesty will know how powerful this thing is."

   As he spoke, Zhang Anshi forced himself to stop looking at Zhu Di's obviously unhappy face, and turned around to greet people, moved tables and chairs for the monarchs and ministers, and taught them to pour tea.

   It's just that the smell in the shed is not very pleasant, and it's full of filth, especially the smell of tung oil, which is even more unbearable.

  Everyone held teacups in their hands, but they were not in the mood to drink.

   After a while, the boiler started to fire.

  There is only one person in the front of the car, and it is Xu Jingchang.

   As for the others, only start connecting the trailer at the back. Then, under Zhang Anshi's order, the trailer was loaded with goods.

  Zhu Di was confused, but he didn't show his expression.

He was getting more and more confused... just facing something he didn't understand at all, he was too embarrassed to ask more questions, especially in front of so many people, so... he showed a calm expression, just wanted to know what these guys were up to .

  As for Yang Rong, Jin Zhongren, etc., the same is probably true.

Who are they? They are the smartest scholars in the world. I won’t say anything about the Wenyuange University Scholars. These people... are theoretically the emperor’s secretary. policy.

   Jin Zhong is even more different. He is not only a minister of the Ministry of War, but also a character tester.

   But now looking at this thing, he only has a dumbfounded expression.

  So the more this time, the more she wants to show a calm look, and she can't wait to show the expression of Zhizhu holding the Lunjin feather fan.

  The monarchs and ministers were surprisingly quiet.

   Immediately afterwards, everyone saw that the chimney began to exhaust smoke.

  Slowly, the car body began to shake.

Everyone was bluffed for a while, and then Hu Guang smiled: "Haha... I understand this, isn't this just... isn't it just a stove? When I was studying... I saw my mother cooking in the back kitchen. , the hearth burns a fire, and the chimney produces smoke.”

  Everyone nodded, showing a look of finally understanding, and many people relaxed accordingly.

  It seems...that's about it, this thing...simple, looks bluffing, its essence...it seems to be the same thing.

  Zhang Anshi's face turned dark, but it was inconvenient for him to have an attack.

finally…

  click…

  The sudden smoke was suddenly discharged from the front of the steam engine, and the thick smoke was billowing even more.

  Crack...Crack...

  On the transmission belt, it seems...something started to move.

  The locomotive began to roar hysterically.

   And then...

  The ground seemed to tremble.

   At this time, everyone's face was shocked.

   Just when everyone was surprised...

  The front of the car...with the five long strings of trailers behind it...moved.

  At first...slowly, but the movement was very loud, as if the ground was shaking.

  At this moment... Zhu Di couldn't help but stood up, with a look of shock in his eyes, and then sat back unconsciously.

  Jin Zhong couldn't help but said: "Mu Niu Liu Ma, this... is this the reincarnation of Zhuge?"

   Of course, no one paid any heed to his words.

   Immediately afterwards, the clicking sound became more and more urgent. The front of the car seemed to be an old cow exhausted, dragging the heavy trailer behind, and started to accelerate, and then... grunting, it actually moved forward.

   It doesn't move fast, maybe even Zhang Anshi can barely catch up to it as long as he walks fast.

   It didn't speed up until it got out of the huge work shed.

  Probably, it is the speed of a person trotting.

  When everyone saw the moving steel giant go far away, Zhu Di couldn't sit still for the first time, but stood up quickly, and then walked out of the work shed quickly.

  I saw that billowing thick smoke, the steam train like a long dragon, on the track... continued to run, the speed seemed to have no sign of speeding up, barely faster than before.

  The victory is that it seems to have no sign of stopping, it just keeps puffing out thick smoke and continues to drive forward along the railroad tracks.

  The more everyone watched... the more incredible it became.

   This thing...it can actually run by itself.

  Zhu Di was even more dumbfounded. He only felt that he had seen a lot in his life, but he absolutely could not imagine that there was such a strange thing in the world.

  Hu Guang was even more confused, his eyes opened wide unconsciously, the stove and chimney were burning...how did it run away?

   Just when everyone was wondering, Zhang Anshi immediately shouted to the people around him: "Quick...quick... calculate the time and see how far you can run in one hour."

  In the locomotive, only Xu Jingchang, a big brother, is shoveling coal. No matter how many people there are, not only can’t stand up, but most importantly...it also increases the weight of the train.

  Thus, those Thirteen Taibao who loaded the trailer had already come down.

  At this moment, Meng Wen said: "Forget it in the past, one hour... If it is fully loaded, it can probably run thirty miles."

   Thirty miles...

  One hour is two hours, that is to say, the speed is fifteen miles per hour, and one mile is about 500 meters.

  The normal walking speed of an adult is roughly six to seven miles to thirteen or four miles per hour.

   This speed should be twice the speed of ordinary people walking.

  Zhang Anshi couldn't help complaining: The speed of this thing is not even as fast as a bicycle.

  But... Zhang Anshi comforted himself.

  What's the use of fast?

   Persistence is king!

  It was only Zhu Di and others, but they were still shocked.

  Everyone stood up unconsciously, staring dumbfounded at the steam train that continued to move along the rails.

  No one made any sound.

  This thing is too psychologically shocking for people who have never seen this kind of thing, and it is even big enough to make people feel unreal.

   Not long after, it made a full circle, and the railroad track was essentially a big circle. In the end, the steam train...appeared behind the shed, and then slowly drove into the shed.

  Xu Jingchang had obviously mastered the skill of this thing long ago, and started to turn off the engine consciously early on. Finally...the steam train slowly slid in, and then stopped rumblingly, and the whole shed was billowed with smoke again.

  Among the smog, Xu Jingchang jumped down happily, and shouted cheerfully: "How are you, how are you..."

  The monarchs and ministers still stared blankly at the scene in front of them without saying a word.

   It wasn't until Xu Jingchang came forward from the thick smoke that Zhu Di suddenly woke up.

   After all, Zhu Di is a man with vision, the kind of emperor who dares to go to the West, not the kind of person who sticks to the rules.

After a short period of surprise, he suddenly realized something, and then ignored Xu Jingchang, but pointed to the steam train and shouted: "Come... come... quickly put the goods in that car, Unload it all for me, and let someone take the scale... take the scale... I want to know...how much goods are loaded in this truck, hurry... hurry."

  His command awakened those who had been in shock for a long time.

   As a result, there was a sudden chaos in the shed.

  Zhu Di then said again: "I want an accurate number, and I can't make a mistake in a catty or a tael. If you are in his mother, I have hit a ghost today."

  Xu Jingchang: "..."

  ...

   I feel a little uncomfortable, but I’m not sure if I’m positive, and I’m afraid to go to the hospital for a test, but it’s okay, I’m better after taking the medicine, there’s another chapter, Tiger continues to work hard.

  (end of this chapter)