Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 285 steam locomotive
"Where is the steam locomotive you made? Let me go and see."

Zhao Wen suddenly stopped and looked at the steward.

To be honest, it was beyond Zhao Wen's expectation that these workers could manufacture steam locomotives.

The steward turned around and looked at Zhao Wen, "My lord, the steam locomotive is not far from the workshop, so I'll show you there."

With that said, the steward led Zhao Wen to the place where the steam locomotive was.

After a while, Zhao Wen came to a place about two miles away from the workshop under the leadership of the steward.

This place is a huge open space, which was specially opened up by Sun Yuanhua.

There are two four-mile-long railways in the open space, but the railway tracks are somewhat different from those of later generations.

The railway tracks of later generations are I-shaped railways, but these two railway tracks are convex.

Because Zhao Wen did not tell them the manufacturing drawings of the railways, these railways are the railways that Sun Yuanhua combined with Zhao Wen said to be manufactured.

Although the appearance is not the same as that of later generations, overall the gap is not very big.

The rails are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the base can be firmly placed on the sleepers on the flat ground.

"Are all the rails you make look like this?"

Zhao Wen pointed to the two railroad tracks in front of him, and looked at the steward behind him.

"Return to Sir, we don't know how to make the railroad track look reasonable. And these two railroad tracks were made after discussions between Sir Sun and Mr. Song." The steward looked at Song Yingxing next to him, and then at Zhao Wengong said respectfully.

Song Yingxing replied: "My lord, you didn't mention the specific shape of the rails before, so we don't know how to make them.

This kind of convex railway was decided after my experiment with Mr. Sun. The top of the rectangular railway is as wide as the bottom.

In this way, the bottom of the railway cannot be placed on the sleepers stably, but if it is widened, the top is too wide, and the wheels of the steam locomotive are too narrow, which is not suitable, so we made it like this.

And the sleepers under the railway.Originally we put the railway directly on the flat ground, but in this way, the railway will be pressed into the soil by the steam locomotive, so we came up with this method, placing the railway on this long strip of wood.

At the beginning, the steam locomotive running on the whole railway vibrated very much. We didn’t know how to solve it, so we tried various methods. Later, we found that laying stones on the sleepers can effectively reduce the vibration amplitude, so We laid a lot of stones under the sleepers.

Because this strip of wood is very similar to a pillow for sleeping, and the railway is like sleeping on it, so we call it a sleeper. "

Earlier, Zhao Wen only mentioned steam locomotives and railways with Song Yingxing and Sun Yuanhua, without explaining them in detail.

Therefore, when Sun Yuanhua and Song Yingxing made the rails, they extracted some useful information from what Zhao Wen said and made them.

Zhao Wen listened to Song Yingxing's words, and slowly squatted beside the railway.

"It's not easy for you to manufacture railways to this extent. By the way, what about steam locomotives? Get them out and let me see."

Zhao Wen looked at the sleepers in the middle of the railway and the stones on the sleepers, and looked at Song Yingxing.

Song Yingxing pointed to the end of the railway, and said to Zhao Wen, "My lord, the steam locomotive is in the cabin at the end of the railway. If you want to see it, you can start it now."

"Then let's start it now." Zhao Wen casually picked up a stone on the railway, looked at it, and then threw it into the railway.

Song Yingxing nodded, and then said to the steward, "Go find some people."

The steward cupped his hands at Song Yingxing and headed towards the auto shop.

Zhao Wen also stood up and followed Song Yingxing towards the cabin at the end of the railway.

A few quarters of an hour later, Zhao Wen, led by Song Yingxing, came to the front of the cabin at the end of the railway.

The cabin is not big, only one foot long and wide, and about one foot high.

The front of the cabin is empty, and the railway has passed through the front of the cabin.

The manufactured steam locomotive is placed on the rails in the cabin.

Zhao Wen walked into the cabin, looked at the steam locomotive in the cabin, and kept nodding his head.

The steam locomotive in front of me looks very crude, and the crude ones don't look like steam locomotives.

The steam engine used on the steam locomotive is directly placed on a long and narrow platform in the open air.

The platform is all made of iron, about four meters in length and two meters in width.

Six pairs of wheels are neatly installed under the platform.

These six pairs of wheels are all made of steel. The wheels are similar to those of the steam locomotives of later generations, but they look a little weird.

These wheels are connected together by huge iron connecting rods.

There is a huge gear in front of the platform, the size of this gear is about 1.5 meters.

The gear connects several smaller gears, which in turn are connected by connecting rods and connecting rods on the various transmission tools and the wheels below the platform.

Zhao Wen jumped onto the platform, stroked the gears on the steam locomotive, and said with a smile on his face, "Who made the linkage device on it?"

To be honest, being able to make the steam locomotive what it is now is good enough.Although this steam locomotive looks a bit crude, it already has the embryonic form of later steam locomotives.

Song Yingxing cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, who was standing on the platform and kept checking the steam locomotive, and said with some pride, "I'm right here."

"Okay, okay, Mr. Song is really a great talent. It's incredible that he can make such a linkage device."

Zhao Wen jumped down from the platform and looked at Song Yingxing excitedly.

In fact, the IQ of the ancients was not lower than that of the later generations. It was only because of social limitations at that time and various other reasons that the ancients did not pay attention to this.

And Song Yingxing is the master who wrote "Tiangong Kaiwu", and he often discussed some things with Zhao Wen and Sun Yuanhua when he was in Xuanzhen, which broadened his horizons, so he created this linkage device.

Although the linkage device looks a bit rudimentary, it represents that the industrialization of Daming has already started.

Song Yingxing looked at Zhao Wen's constant praise of himself, and hurriedly replied modestly: "My lord, in fact, the greatest credit for being able to figure out this linkage device should be your lord."

"Oh? How do you say that?" Zhao Wen looked at Song Yingxing suspiciously.

When he left Xuanzhen, he only gave them a rough introduction to the concept of steam locomotives. He never talked about the specific manufacturing of railways and steam locomotives in detail. How can he still say that the biggest credit is his own?
"My lord, I got the inspiration for this set of linkages from the set of linkages in your steam engine production workshop.

I don't think I'd ever be able to make something like this in my life if I hadn't been inspired by your lord's linkage.

And when manufacturing this linkage device, Mr. Sun Yuanhua Sun also gave me a lot of help. "Song Yingxing looked at Zhao Wen sincerely.

Zhao Wen burst out laughing when he heard this, "Haha, Mr. Song, you don't have to be modest, your ability to create this linkage device has already proved your talent.

If you can be good at this in the future, you will definitely gain a lot. "

"Don't dare to act, dare not act!" Song Yingxing hurriedly said modestly.

At this moment, the steward had already brought the personnel who operated the steam locomotive, and there were not many people, only about seven or eight.

"My lord, I have already brought him." The steward pointed at the seven or eight strong men behind him, and said to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen nodded, pointed to the steam locomotive, and said to the steward, "You can arrange it, start the steam locomotive first.

Let me see how the steam locomotive is running. "

The steward bowed his hands to Zhao Wengong, and then led these people into the cabin.

At the back of the cabin there is a house a little smaller than it can be, and this house holds some coal and water for running the steam locomotive.

The steward directed these people to get out the coal and water inside and load them on the steam locomotive.

After a while, the steward stood on top of the steam locomotive and shouted at Zhao Wen, "My lord, I'm starting."

Zhao Wen nodded and replied, "Okay, let's start now."

"Okay!" The steward replied, then turned around, looked at the ready hands standing on the steam locomotive and shouted: "Start, light the fire!"

With the steward's order, the coal piled up under the boiler on the steam locomotive has been raised by these people.

Under Zhao Wen's watchful eyes, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and steam began to come out of the boiler.

After a while, with the sound of a whistle, the gears on the steam locomotive began to rotate.

At the beginning, the speed of the gears was relatively slow, but as more water vapor entered the cylinder, the cylinder began to run rapidly.

Driven by the cylinder, the huge gear at the front of the steam locomotive also began to rotate rapidly.

"Open the connection device." The steward looked at the man standing next to the gear and controlled the connection between the gear and the wheel, and shouted loudly.

There is a control device between the huge gear and the wheel on this steam locomotive. When the device is closed, the connection between the gear and the wheel will be disconnected. When the speed of the gear reaches the highest speed, the control The guy with the device turns it on.

Following the steward's order, the man turned on the control device.

Driven by the gear, the connecting rod of the steam locomotive began to rotate slowly.

Immediately afterwards, the steel wheels under the steam locomotive also began to rotate slowly.

"It's moving, it's moving!" Zhao Wen stared intently at the moving wheels, his face full of excitement.

"Increase the firepower!"

The steward looked at the steam locomotive moving slowly under his feet, and shouted at the man behind who was adding coal to the boiler.

"Hoohoo!"

The man standing next to the boiler hurriedly speeded up his men, and kept adding coal to the boiler.

"Hoohoo!"

The fire is getting bigger and bigger, the steam produced in the boiler is also increasing, the speed of the cylinder is getting faster and faster, the gears connected to the cylinder are getting faster and faster, and the speed of the steam locomotive is gradually increasing.

"Buzz!"

The steward pulled the exhaust valve on the steam engine, and strong water vapor gushed out from the exhaust valve.

Under Zhao Wen's gaze, the speed of the steam locomotive gradually increased from the speed of a turtle, and the final speed had already caught up with the speed of a person trotting.

Zhao Wen looked at the moving steam locomotive and followed it excitedly.

"Haha, okay, okay, although the speed is not fast, it is also successful."

Zhao Wen trotted behind the steam engine, looking at the steam engine going away along the railway, his face was full of excitement.

Song Yingxing followed closely behind Zhao Wen, with an excited expression on his face.

"Haha, Mr. Song contributed a lot to the successful operation of the steam locomotive." Zhao Wen shouted as he looked at the steam locomotive in motion.

The steam locomotive kept moving forward. The exhaust valve on the steam locomotive kept steaming out. The wheels made of steel were in close contact with the rails, and when they passed the joint of the rails, there was a sound of "click, click!" up" sound.

Zhao Wen stopped. Looking at the steam locomotive going away, he couldn't calm down for a long time.

"This steam locomotive can be said to be a success. If we improve it in the future and speed up the steam locomotive, it will be of great help to Xuan Town."

Song Yingxing stopped behind Zhao Wen, panted and looked at the steam locomotive going away, and said out of breath: "Yes, build the railway tracks all over Xuan Town, and connect all the cities in Xuan Town. Wherever there is something, it can be reached quickly.

If the railway is extended and built throughout Daming, a large number of troops can be quickly mobilized wherever there is a military situation in Daming.

In this way, the deployment of troops in various places can be reduced on a large scale, as long as a fast-moving army is established.

The reduction of local troops can reduce a large amount of military expenditures.Although the cost of building a railway is not small, the railway is not a one-off, and it only needs to be built once and it can be used for many years.

Under the ebb and flow, the construction of railways can save a lot of military expenses. "

"You're right that railroads can not only deliver troops quickly, but also develop commercial agriculture.

Think about it, sea fish caught in the southern coastal areas can only be stored for two or three days at most, and they will stink after two or three days.

Therefore, it is impossible to transport these sea fish too far, and northerners seldom eat sea fish. If the salvaged sea fish is transported to the northern inland by railway in the future, it will generate huge benefits.

In addition to sea fish, food from the north can also be transported to the south by rail.

Wherever there is a disaster in the future, the food for disaster relief can be delivered quickly.And it can also reduce the loss on the road. "

With a smile on his face, Zhao Wen described the future scene for Song Yingxing.

Listening to the scene Zhao Wen described, Song Yingxing couldn't help sighing, "I don't know if I can live to see that day."

"Yes, I will." Zhao Wen said resolutely with determination in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)