The rise of the prince

Chapter 511
"The emperor has done a good job." Li Xingzhou said sincerely.

Faced with the trend of land annexation and the rise of wealthy families, there are many people who can confront it head-on in history, but Yongzheng is the only one who can be said to be successful. There is no such thing as a complete success before modern times. It is indeed good to be able to do what he did.

The emperor froze, glanced at him, and said, "Go back."

Li Xingzhou bowed his hands and said goodbye.

He came this time mainly for two things, one is to get an official position for Wei Yubai, and the other is to find a way out for the black leopard. What he didn't expect was that the emperor agreed very happily, and he thought it would be a bargain. .

But the closer he was to the center of power, the more he understood the undercurrents under Jing Guo's prosperity.

In the afternoon, just after dinner after returning from the palace, Qiuer excitedly took him to see the steam engine. Qifang and Wei Yubai who accompanied him also came, and Zhao Si, Tieniu, Zhu Rong and others who heard the news all came up.

While asking people to add charcoal, Qiu'er told him about the problems with the steam engine.

After hearing this, Li Xingzhou asked, "How long is the longest service life?"

Qiu'er took his arm, and said sadly: "If the cylinder is reduced, the power output will be smaller. In this case, the best one can be hundreds of hours."

"Hundreds of hours." Li Xingzhou was overjoyed, and then held Qiu'er with both hands: "Enough! Enough!"

Qiu'er blushed, "My lord, what is enough?"

The reason why Li Xingzhou said enough is because the cylinder that relies on forging is impossible to have a long service life, because its interior is square, the stress acts on the four corners during operation, and the four corners are the weakest places when forging, so the cylinder will not explode No wonder.

"Let's build four or five according to the current specifications," Li Xingzhou said.

"But it can only be made in a few tens of hours." Qiu'er was worried, Li Xingzhou smiled, "I have my own way."

The way is to use these steam powers to bore new cylinders within the working life. The four-stroke cylinder is smooth and distributes the force. The principle is the same as that of an egg. There are no sharp edges and corners inside, and the stress will be evenly distributed when the steam is compressed.

After a while, the temperature reached the predetermined point, and the water vapor evaporated. Zhao Si opened the air valve, and the steam was instantly injected into the cylinder. The big iron wheel weighing a hundred catties turned faster and faster.

This astonishing force startled Wei Yubai, and quickly backed away, "What the hell is this? Such a big iron wheel can turn so easily, it must have the power of a thousand pounds!"

"Hey, if you can really solve all the problems, it will be more than a thousand miles." Li Xingzhou laughed.

In fact, in terms of practicality, Qiu'er's steam engine can already be used, but the service life is always a problem. In the spirit of excellence, the method Li Xingzhou thinks of now is to use the current steam engine to bore out a new circular cylinder. Easy to solve.

The boring tool is a big problem. Wang Fu has tool steel grade steel, and the material is not a problem, but the problem lies in the processing of the boring tool. If the most powerful craftsmen use manual and hydraulic processing, they can only be polished bit by bit. .

He estimated that it would take at least one month to produce a finished boring tool!
This is not a joke. Boring knives are very common in later generations, and they can be wholesaled on a certain treasure, but that is because there are various advanced CNC machine tools that can be processed, and manual processing and grinding bit by bit is very difficult work.

At this time, the importance of talents is reflected again. There must be many craftsmen in the palace who have metal processing experience, but if he draws the blueprints, someone must figure out how to process them.

This is a test of a craftsman's skills, experience, and dexterity. Once someone can find out a specific and feasible processing procedure, it will not be difficult later, because the rest of the craftsmen can process according to this tool. The key is that the first one who comes up with method of talent.

Li Xingzhou thought for a while and called Zhao Si to come over: "Zhao Si, go and know everyone. After the eighth day of the new year, call all the craftsmen in the mansion here. I will give you a blueprint. It's very difficult." drawings.

Whoever can process what I want according to my drawings will be rewarded with 500 taels!In the end, whoever came up with the easiest and most feasible method will be rewarded with 3000 taels! "

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of Tie Niu and Zhu Rong beside him widened.

After all, Zhao Si has received more than 1 taels of rewards before and after, and he is very calm at this moment: "My lord, in my opinion, there are only a few dozen craftsmen in the palace, no matter how powerful they are, they are always limited. I think the notice should be posted. , or through the Wangfu Commercial Bank, announce it to all places, let the craftsmen all over the world know, there will definitely be powerful people at that time."

Li Xingzhou was taken aback, and glanced at Zhao Si. Don't look at Zhao Si as an honest man. He is usually called a good man by his neighbors. At critical times, there are many ways. Indeed, no matter how wise the craftsmen of the palace are, they can match the wisdom of the world!

Moreover, if you want to build something like a boring knife by hand, it will take a long time, and it will take several months. Such a long time is enough for all the talents in the world to rush to the capital.

Now that the palace's business is spread all over the world, in the south and north, and even in foreign countries, it is not easy to post notices.

Li Xingzhou patted him on the shoulder: "Yes, your idea is very good." Zhao Si nodded embarrassedly and laughed.

"However, since this is the case, the rewards have to be changed. If more people come, there must be more people who can make them. After all, you only need to work hard. To prevent fraud, they are required to come to the palace to do it in person. If you make it, you will be rewarded with 50 taels. The most time-saving and labor-saving method will be rewarded with 1 taels!" Li Xingzhou said proudly.

Now, everyone was stunned, what is the concept of 1 taels, and the county magistrate's annual salary is only about 80 taels!

"You can buy horse bones with a thousand pieces of gold, and it's the same now. I want to tell people in the world that in my palace, knowledge and wisdom are priceless." He laughed.

They don't understand, but Li Xingzhou understands the value of a good boring tool, not just cylinders, gun barrels, gun barrels, and mechanical parts. With a boring machine, they will all rise to a higher level as a whole, let alone 1 taels, even millions of taels. Willing to.

Edison said that genius is one percent inspiration and 90.00 percent perspiration.I don’t know how many people this sentence has inspired, but in fact the complete version of this sentence is, “Genius is one percent inspiration, 90.00% sweat, but that one percent inspiration is the most important, even more than That 90.00% sweat counts."

This sentence is very poisonous, and most people will feel uncomfortable when they hear it, because there are very few geniuses, but historical experience reminds people all the time that the world is cruel, and the person who decides 90.00% of the fate of nine people is often the one percent , cruel enough to make people's hearts bleed.

Because of this, I only want to listen to the first half of the sentence.

Sometimes Li Xingzhou only wants to listen to the first half of the sentence, telling himself that hard work and dedication will pay off, but he has to be cruel to himself, always remembering the second half of the sentence.

What he wants now is that one percent, geniuses are always too few, and the most effective way is to expand the base of people he is looking for!

(End of this chapter)