my steam dam

Chapter 2

"Woooooooooooooo~~~~"

The whistle sounded.

On the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway, which was just completed a few years ago, a steam train with a full load of twelve carriages roared past the railway.

At the furnace of the front of the car, several workers are throwing shovelfuls of high-quality coal into the boiler.

During the burning process of these coals, the chemical energy contained in the body is converted into heat energy, which heats and vaporizes the water in the locomotive boiler.

The extremely high-temperature superheated steam enters the steam engine along the pipeline and expands to do work, pushing the piston of the steam engine to reciprocate. The piston changes the reciprocating linear motion into a circular circular motion through the connecting rod and rocker, driving the locomotive wheel to rotate.

The powered wheels of the front of the car were constantly reciprocating, and the huge traction generated pulled the twelve carriages and drove steadily towards the capital.

Peng Ke, who was sitting in the second VIP car, opened the window and smelled some pungent soot, but there was a happy expression on his face.

"This is the breath of civilization."

It has been 16 years since Penke came to this world.

Although there is also a Ming Dynasty in this world, there is also a Hongwu Emperor who started with a bowl and ended up conquering the whole world.

But in more places, it is different from the previous life.

There are not only the barbarians who have mastered various mysterious witchcraft, but also the Taoist priests who have devoted themselves to cultivating Taoism and mastered various talismans and techniques of inviting gods.

But what is even more outrageous is that Emperor Hongwu succeeded in restoring the mountains and rivers of the Han family, not by mysticism, but by science!

That's right, I, Daming, don't play feudal superstition, and I'm firmly on the road to science!

When Emperor Hongwu rose from the grass, he was assisted by great sages from the Mohist school.

Moreover, the contemporary Mohist tycoon is a genius of heaven. Not only has he researched the mechanics that have been passed down for thousands of years to the extreme, but he has also innovated and developed a steam engine!
Yes, Daming of this plane has embarked on a path that Pen Ke never imagined.

Still going very well!
In just 20 years of development, the steam engine has been thoroughly studied by the big-headed dolls of the Mohists.

Even better than when the steam engine was at its peak in his previous life.

At least in his previous life, he had never heard of being able to fly a coal-burning plane into the sky.

Don't those things use internal combustion engines?

I have never heard of a steam armor that can be worn on the body. After a fight, the armor overheats and needs to be poured with water to cool it down.

Relying on the steam engine, the Mohists developed a bunch of magical weapons and helped Emperor Hongwu drive back the northern barbarians who had sunk the land of Shenzhou back to the desert, recasting the mountains and rivers of the Han family.

As a visitor from another world, Peng Ke watched the magical development of the steam engine in Daming. Although he didn't understand it, he was shocked.

It smells like steampunk.

After sighing in his heart, Peng Ke turned his head and looked at the subordinate sitting opposite him, who had kept his head down without saying a word since getting in the car, and asked, "Ah Hu, what is going on at the research institute?" How is the electrical progress?"

"I also expect to have a refrigerator in my lifetime."

The attendant named Ah Hu saluted respectfully before replying: "Your Majesty, there has been no news from the research institute for a month, and you will have to confirm it yourself after you return to Beijing to know the progress."

"Hey."

Although the steam engine has now brought infinite vitality to Daming, with the help of the steam engine, Emperor Hongwu drove the northern barbarians out of the land of China, and even launched the Northern Expedition year after year, advancing triumphantly all the way.

However, as a person who has felt the charm of modern technological society, Peng Ke knows that the steam engine is not the end of science.

Electricity is the kinetic energy that can truly enable human society to develop by leaps and bounds.

Although electric energy is still quite low-level, it has a much higher prospect than steam power.

So in recent years, he has been privately investing in research in electricity.

However, the results of the research were not so smooth.

After several years of hard work, the generator was barely produced, but the power output was very unstable, and there was always a mysterious force hindering it, causing the generated electricity to sometimes suddenly disappear.

It seems that the world is consciously suppressing the development of electricity.

Peng Ke sighed helplessly, then looked at the boy sitting next to Ahu: "Azhu, why is the old man urging me to return to Beijing in such a hurry?"

"Although Xihang has almost been dealt with, the errand of clearing the rivers and lakes that His Majesty told you has not been completed yet."

"Your family son, I'm very busy now, you know?"

The reason why Peng Ke appeared in Xihang was not to catch Hu Wu. As the commander of Jinyiwei, he couldn't make it worthwhile to catch a gangster himself.

It's just that he happened to be handling some official business in Xihang, and happened to run into Hu Wu who was robbing his house, and it happened that Hu Wu was on the list of mobs who were "prohibited by force" sent by the prefect of Xihang this time. dealt with it.

Ah Zhu didn't dare to look directly at Peng Ke at all, and lowered his head and said submissively: "My son, I don't know the details. The master didn't tell me, so he asked me to tell you that there is something urgent at home, the kind that is extremely urgent. Let you return to Beijing as soon as you finish your work!"

What can happen in Beijing?
If something really happened, Penke would have received an urgent telegram long ago.

That's right, after several years of hard work, the telegraph was still worked out by him, and Jinyiwei has been installed, and cables have been laid in several major arterial cities.

He can become the commander of the Jinyiwei, and the merits of the telegram cannot be ignored.

Although due to the influence of mysterious factors, the telegram cannot be used all the time, but at least there are always a few hours in a day.

If something major happened in the capital, Jinyiwei Qianhu in Xihang would have already received a telegram to inform Peng Ke.

"I think the old man is idle, and he is thinking about my marriage again." Rolling his eyes, Peng Ke didn't bother to talk to A Zhu anymore, and turned his head to look out the window.

After Ahu and Azhu looked at each other, they didn't dare to speak again.

Calm returned to the carriage.

Less than two hours later, the train arrived at the railway station in the suburbs of Beijing.

After the train stopped, Penke got up and walked out of the carriage.

"Hey, haha, hey ha ha ha!"

Coincidentally, just as he got out of the car, a row of patrolling soldiers in steam armor walked by.

A large number of exposed hydraulic transmission organs and pipelines, armor technology connected by rivets, and brass-textured armor all show the rough and violent mechanical aesthetics.

The leader, the elder, was routinely looking at every passenger who got off and off the carriage.

A smile appeared on Pen Ke's face, and he waved at him very enthusiastically as a greeting.

However, when the superintendent saw Penke, the calm expression on his face froze immediately.

"Quickly, go and inform your lord that the King of Hades has returned to Beijing!"

(End of this chapter)