I am the king of the dead

Chapter 777 Blacksmith Emperor
Zhu Qiyu received three copies of auspiciousness in August of the ninth year of Jingtai, and then the emperor of Ming Dynasty began to live in seclusion. If the memorials sent by the courtiers to Nantang Bieyuan had not been approved all the time, the local officials in Guangzhou even doubted whether the emperor of Ming Dynasty had appeared What an accident.

There were also speculations about carrying a stone of abalone back to Beijing in order not to make a funeral, or carrying a stone of abalone back to Beijing secretly.

Nantang Bieyuan is surrounded by the official factory special zone established in Guangzhou, which is full of construction sites, and the construction is in full swing. Every day, eunuchs in red robes will come to Nantang Iron and Steel Factory with a blueprint to purchase and customize, and bring them back. A whole lot of parts.

Of course Zhu Qiyu was not surprised, he was thinking about how to boil water more efficiently.

The principle of the steam engine is not complicated, it is a reciprocating power machine that converts the energy of steam into mechanical work, and its structure is not difficult for Zhu Qiyu.

The steam engine includes boilers, gas pipes, speed regulating structures, slide valve gas distribution devices, cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts, and flywheels. These things are very simple for the craftsmen of Ming Dynasty, especially the big craftsmen of steel.

Only in terms of size and precision, Zhu Qiyu's requirements are extremely high, and the advancement is slow but firm enough.

On August 14th, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival again. Zhu Qiyu, who had been dealing with various machines for a month, finally put down the work at hand and came to the Imperial Study Room to give a gift to the man who died in the Tumu Fort on the Mid-Autumn Festival in the [-]th year of Zhengtong. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty burned a stick of incense.

After the three sticks of incense were completely burned out, Xing'an opened the window to ventilate, and then turned the spirit card over again.

"Even if you don't start from scratch, there are still many difficulties." Zhu Qiyu sat in the imperial study and began to write again, revising his own drawings. A steam engine model that failed in trial production.

The hardest part of a steam engine is about the cylinder piston.

The simplest single-acting piston is the Thomas Newcomen steam engine.

Pour steam into the cylinder, the steam pushes the piston up, and then injects water into the cylinder to make the steam liquefy quickly to form a vacuum, and the piston slides down and reciprocates due to the atmospheric pressure.

To achieve this, you need to open the throttle valve, close the throttle valve, open the condenser valve to inject water, close the condenser valve, open the water valve to drain water, and open the throttle valve again. One such horizontal bar piston needs at least three to five personal operation.

While consuming a huge amount of coal, the efficiency is extremely low. Within 1 minute, it can only reciprocate twelve times. While the speed is uncontrollable, it cannot work for a long time. It needs to be continuously sprinkled for cooling to ensure air tightness. .

This kind of single-acting piston steam engine can only be used if there is a coal mine at home, otherwise the consumption of coal will be astronomical.

It eats more than people and dries slower than people. Only coal mine drainage can be used for this kind of thing, and no one can make it fast.

What Zhu Qiyu wants to do is to add a slide valve gas distribution device to the single-acting piston steam engine, inject steam into the head to push the piston, and the connecting rod drives the slide valve gas distribution device, and then inject steam from the tail to push the piston, so that From steam single action to steam double action.

From the single-acting piston to the double-acting piston, a flying ball centrifugal governor needs to be added. The faster the flywheel rotates, the faster the flying ball rotates, and the less air intake, the slower the flywheel rotates, the slower the flying ball rotates, and the air intake more.

The purpose of this flying ball centrifugal governor is to maintain the rotation speed of the flywheel within a stable range before it can output normally.

Theory belongs to theory, and practice is practice. In the process of practice, the engineering problems that Zhu Qiyu encountered, if written down, would be too numerous to write down.

Zhu Qiyu's landing of the steam engine only reached the single-acting piston, not even the double-acting piston.

For Daming, lubrication is not a problem, this is an archaeological research.

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty and those poor scholars dug out the book "Natural History" from the pile of old papers: Take the container, it starts to yellow and then turns black, like gelatin, burns very brightly, and the gelatin No difference.Plaster carts and water pipes are very good, and local people call them stone paint.

For example, in Yumen, Gansu, there is a thing called "shiqi", which is extracted from petroleum and can be used for mechanical lubrication.

The first problem Zhu Qiyu encountered was the airtightness of the piston. Even if it is a single-acting piston, the inner wall of the cylinder will be drawn into deep grooves by the piston. Compression pressure drops and power is lost.

In layman's terms, it is pulling the tank.

In order to solve this problem, Zhu Qiyu worked hard to get it resolved.

"Your Majesty, what's the use of this thing? No one can make it fast, even if someone can do it fast, it's not as fast as animal power." Xing'an looked at the discarded drafts on the table, and said with a little distress.

Xing'an feels sorry for His Majesty. He was so busy in the capital that he finally came out for a vacation. Halfway through this vacation, he started to be busy again. Your Majesty is 30 years old. If you have the time, go to Goulan to listen to music, watch dances, and rest What a rest.

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand, clicked on his blueprint and said, "Xing'an, what's the use of a newborn baby?"

"It is not as powerful as an animal, or even as human, because it is a baby now."

"In the second year of Shaoxing in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Gui was stationed in De'an, and Jin soldiers came to invade. Chen Gui made [-] bamboo pole muskets, with giant bamboo as the tube, and the inner security nest. After ignition, the nest made a sound like a cannon, and it was heard a hundred and five times. For more than ten steps, the first burst of musket was to scare the horses with sound."

"The current hand guns, bird guns, flintlock guns, long guns, carrying guns, general guns, sub-cup guns, black dragon guns, and flower bombs, do they still rely on sound?"

"This thing, Dali Daming."

"Do you still remember the treadmill I saw in Guangzhou Mansion?"

Xing'an hurriedly said: "Remember."

Zhu Qiyu looked at his blueprint. This is the first double-acting piston, which is the well-known improved version of Watt's steam engine. He continued: "Treading the water wheel is a person stepping on the hub, and there is another kind of bullock cart. The cow surrounds the wooden wheel. The stake turns, the stake drives the sprocket, and the sprocket drives the water wheel for watering."

"If this thing is used, can it save manpower and animal power?"

Zhu Qiyu has actually seen an animal-powered waterwheel, which is very useful, but it is useless for cattle. A cow can only work for an hour and a half a day. If it works too much, you have to add beans to the forage, otherwise the cow will never do it.

If they refused to give the beans, they would have to be whipped. A buffalo with a bad temper would have a gastroparesis on the head, but a yellow ox with a good temper would also kick it and lie motionless on the ground.

Unlike people, who draw a cake and are willing to work overtime before their hunger is satisfied, cows must add beans to the forage.

Zhu Qiyu continued to outline his double-action piston steam engine, and asked, "Do you still remember the eighty-spindle spinning wheel?"

"Remember." Xing'an replied again.

Zhu Qiyu drew the blueprint stroke by stroke, and said casually: "Songjiang Prefecture is full of cotton fields, there is no farmland at all, and there are farmers who lost their land everywhere, but the [-]-spindle spinning wheel, except for our Songjiang Prefecture Weaving Bureau, there is no one. People want to use it."

"It stands to reason that with the shuttle, the efficiency of weaving has been greatly improved, and the supply of cotton spinning is in short supply. Is the spinning wheel with [-] spindles faster than the one with a single spindle?"

"Why is no one using it?"

"Because the cost of buying an [-]-spindle spinning wheel to build a workshop is higher than the cost of buying cotton spinning from ordinary people's homes, they naturally don't buy it, and they don't know how to set up a workshop to produce it."

"Until Uncle Huang said that he wanted to set up an official supply and marketing store and go to the countryside to collect cotton spinning, these luxurious and wealthy households finally agreed to use eighty-spindle spinning wheels and set up cotton workshops."

"Da Ming's labor cost is really too low."

Zhu Qiyu was talking about a past. When he visited Songjiang Mansion in the south, Li Binyan talked to His Majesty about the problem of promoting the [-]-spindle spinning wheel.

The cost of setting up a cotton workshop, buying a spinning wheel, and hiring craftsmen is far higher than the price of buying cotton directly from farmers, and it is much higher.

The labor cost is too low, which is the excellent moral character of the Ming people who are often praised by everyone, and they are hard-working.

When I was in school, someone kept saying in Zhu Qiyu's ear that there were several reasons why the industrial revolution happened in central England.

The first reason is that the constitutional monarchy has stabilized the government in England. There has been no war in the past [-] years, and it has provided a stable social environment for the industrial revolution.

However, the stability of the Central Plains Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years.

The second reason is the land enclosure movement. Landlords acquired a large amount of land, which improved production efficiency. Landless peasants moved to cities and towns, which provided conditions for the incubation of the Industrial Revolution.

For more than three hundred years in the Song and Song Dynasties, there was no land system, mergers were not suppressed, and official land was sold.

Is there a qualitative leap in productivity in the Song Dynasty?
On the contrary, in the last years of the Song Dynasty, a large number of land escaped from farming, and the people did not cultivate it, which eventually led to the collapse of the small peasant economy and the failure to establish a commodity economy.

The third reason is that the central part of England has a large amount of coal resources, and the production cost of using machinery is lower than that of human production.

Liaodong Plant, Shijing Plant, Jining Plant, Shengzhou Plant, Liuzhi Plant, Jianghuai Plant, Ma'an Plant, Guangzhou Xingning Plant, and the Guangping Plant under construction, which one is not rich in coal resources?
Zhu Qiyu has been thinking about this matter, and later found out that he wants to really carry out the industrial revolution and transform the small peasant economy into a commodity economy.

It is necessary to find ways to unite craftsmen and farmers, such as farms, such as trade unions, only to organize laborers and increase their bargaining power;

Only then can the labor remuneration of craftsmen be increased from top to bottom and from bottom to top, and craftsmen with money can create demand and create a market in which demand exceeds supply;
With the expansion of market demand, manual production cannot meet market demand, and only then will someone artificially increase productivity on a large scale to meet the market, develop and use advanced production tools, and productivity will increase.

Finally realize Zhu Qiyu's program and goal: to make Daming great again.

Coal, steel, and steam are the foundations of the industrial revolution, but the industrial revolution is not only the replacement of production tools, but also changes in society, ideas, and lifestyles. It is an era of great changes.

Zhu Qiyu is committed to improving the productivity of Ming Dynasty, and then promoting social structural changes.

Among the scholars, His Majesty, the supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty, had an nickname other than Emperor Zhenwu, and his name was Blacksmith.

Zhu Qiyu has been living in seclusion, making a steam engine that can be used to improve Ming's productivity.

The blacksmith emperor is forging iron, but Annan'emperor' Li Yimin, who has been declared war by Ming Dynasty, what is he doing?
"Hahaha!" Li Yimin burst into laughter, tears came out of his laughter, drinking iced sour plum soup, looking at the five strong men in front of him, he laughed wildly, his laughing faces twisted together.

The five strong men in front of Li Yimin are the sergeants of the Thang Long Army and the Imperial Guard. These sergeants are heavy-backed, and they are definitely good fighters on the battlefield, but they all look pained at the moment.

They were playing with Li Yimin.

Play a game of snapping a bowstring.

Everyone has three crossed bowstrings tied on their bodies, paper balls stuffed in their noses, and whistles stuffed in their mouths.

Two people pressed one of them, and the remaining two pulled the bowstring with an iron hook. After the bowstring was fully drawn, they released it forcefully. The bowstring hit the body heavily, leaving a bloody red mark.

If the whistle blows in the mouth of the person who is flicked by the bowstring, he will be punished and flicked again. In order not to be flicked, the person who is held down will be red-faced, gritted his teeth and endured the pain, and dare not let his mouth The whistle sounded.

The places where it can be played include not limited to the tiger's mouth, wrist, back of hand, front chest, back, thighs, calf, instep and other places.

This pain game does not only include bowstrings, willow sticks, acupuncture, etc., and it is not only the strong men of the imperial army, but also the maidservants.

After every scream, Li Yimin burst out laughing, and the maidservants were all pale with fright, in stark contrast to the flushed face of the strong man who was pinned down.

At this time, the maids in the palace often feel that they might as well be sold to Daming.

A eunuch hurried in and said out of breath, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

"Why are you so flustered, what's the proper way?" Li Yimin said dissatisfiedly to the eunuch, he was happy here, but this eunuch disturbed his mood.

"Liu Taiwei has come into the palace and said he has something important to report." The eunuch bowed his head and said hurriedly.

Li Yimin's expression changed instantly, and he waved his arms and said, "Hurry up, get rid of it, get rid of it! Taiwei Liu saw it, and he's going to nag again, get rid of it quickly."

At this time, Liu Pu was climbing up the stairs. When he entered the palace, he naturally had something important to report. As soon as he looked up, he saw the guards in a hurry. When he moved his nose, he immediately smelled the smell of iron rust. Looking at these people With a concealed appearance, he stopped several people.

"I've met Taiwei Liu." The five greeted in a panic.

Liu Pu took out a few taels of silver and ten silver coins from his sleeve and said, "Come on, come on, give some wound medicine money to the brothers. The Holy Lord is still young and his temperament has not yet been determined. You have worked hard."

Several imperial guards held the money in their hands, and they didn't shed any tears when they were struck by the bowstring. They fell to the ground like beans. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Mrs. Liu, thank you, Mrs. Liu!" Captain!"

This money can be taken, because it was given by Liu Taiwei, Liu Taiwei is their immediate boss, Liu Taiwei gave this money, it means that if Li Yimin blames, Liu Taiwei will resist.

"Get up quickly, get up quickly." Liu Pu stretched out his hand and pulled them up and said, "Go back quickly, you must find a doctor to take a good look at it, go, go."

Liu Pu looked at the backs of several strong men. They should have gone to battle to kill the enemy and make contributions, but they had to suffer this kind of humiliation and torture.

　Compared with the Duvalier family in Haiti who practice witchcraft, Li Yimin, who likes to play bowstrings, looks very cute.Ask for a monthly ticket, woohoo! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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