Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 790 Industrial Revolution (please subscribe!)
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"Woooooooo..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

Li Qingzhao, who witnessed the locomotive running with his own eyes, couldn't help but excitedly said: "It's running! It's running! Guan, look, this train is really running!"

Compared with Li Qingzhao, a group of scientific researchers who have already seen steam locomotives running and repeated experiments many times, although they are also very excited, they are far less excited than Li Qingzhao.

Liu Huiniang looked at it for a while, and said, "Officials, we seem to have successfully developed it, but... the speed of this train is countless times faster than the horses that the official said, which is much worse."

The speed of this locomotive is much faster than the speed of the previous steam locomotive. It can reach a speed of fifteen or sixteen kilometers per hour, which is almost equivalent to the speed of a person walking fast. Moreover, because there are rails, it also solves the problem of not being able to turn One drawback.

It can be said that human civilization has taken a big step forward.

Of course, this locomotive is still a long way from being put into use.

But even so, see, under his leadership, humans have finally developed a train, Li Yan is still very happy.

Li Yan said to Liu Huiniang, Li Qingzhao, Baivarhan and others: "Although it is still very slow, I believe that in the near future, it will definitely change human travel! By then, I will be in all regions of Dazhong They are all covered with railroad tracks, no, I want to be covered with railroad tracks all over the world. By then, it will only take one day from Tokyo to Yanjing, and only three to five days from Yanjing to Khmer, and from Yanjing to the far west It's only ten days!"

After listening to Li Yan's enjoyment, Li Qingzhao wanted to say: "This is simply impossible."

But looking at the steel monster running not far away, and thinking of all the miracles Li Yan had created in the past, Li Qingzhao couldn't help but thought again: "Maybe there will be such a day, maybe not necessarily."

suddenly!

There was a strange noise from the running locomotive!

Li Yan and others all raised their hearts, and Bai Varhan asked while running towards the locomotive: "What's going on?"

Not long after, the person in the locomotive poked his head out and replied loudly: "The turning rod is broken, it can't be made of wood, it must be made of steel!"

Slowly, the train stopped.

The main researchers, including Li Yan and Liu Huiniang, all flocked to the locomotive, and Bai Varhan even jumped on the locomotive to check the current situation of the locomotive in person.

After checking the locomotive inside and out several times, Bai Varhan and others got off the locomotive.

Bai Varhan came to Li Yan's side and reported: "Officials, the train we developed should be successful, but it still has many problems, and this time the main problem is in the transmission components. After inspection, not only the turning rod is broken, but also other wooden transmission components have cracks to varying degrees, and these transmission components must be made of steel."

This is actually not a problem - it is now in the research and development stage, and using wooden components can greatly shorten the research and development time. After all, wooden components are much easier to make than steel ones. After the development is almost done in the future, Just switch back to steel.

Another researcher, that is, the contemporary giant of the Mohist school (the contemporary patriarch of the Mohist school), said: "The material of this component is not a big problem. The real problem lies in the steam engine. The government proposed to replace coal with oil. There is nothing wrong with the direction of the driving force of the steam engine, but the heat of burning oil is far greater than that of coal, and the steam engine we developed cannot withstand this heat. I just checked the steam engine on the train carefully before running away like this After a short while, it has become hot, so even if there is no problem with the components, our steam engine can't last for too long, so this steam engine needs to be improved. In addition, I feel that at the current stage, coal is used as the driving force. It should be enough, and this can greatly reduce the difficulty of our research and development."

After coming to this era, Li Yan realized that he really underestimated the ancients.

In fact, whether it is coal or oil, it has been discovered and used in this era, or even earlier.

The record that coal was widely used in production and life is in the Han Dynasty.

However, coal was not called coal at that time, but was called Yanshi, Shi Nie, Heidan and so on.

There is a record in the Han Dynasty, "Stones produced in Yuzhang can be burned as salary".

There are also records in many documents, saying that coal was already used as fuel to make iron in the Western Han Dynasty.

After the Han Dynasty, there are more and more records about coal. For example, "Yuzhang Ji" mentioned the use of coal for cooking. It can be seen that the use of coal was already very common at that time.

In addition to iron smelting and cooking, there are records in the Southern and Northern Dynasties that people used coal for heating.

In the Song Dynasty, a major change occurred in the use of coal—the Song Dynasty began to use coke to make iron, which was a very important and epoch-making invention in the history of metallurgy. Compared with Europe, China was several hundred years earlier.At the same time, the Song Dynasty was also the most effective era in the development and utilization of coal in ancient times, and it was an era in which coal was mined and widely used in China on a large scale.It was also in the Song Dynasty that "coal" officially became the name of coal.

Oil has also been around for a long time.

Decades ago, Shen Kuo wrote in his "Mengxi Bi Tan Magazine [-]": "There is oil in the territory of Yanyan, and it is said that Gaonu County produces fat water, which is what it is."

And Shen Kuo was only the first person to record oil in writing. In fact, the Chinese have long known the existence of oil and started to use oil.

Therefore, it is logical for Li Yan to use coal and oil in steam engines.

only--

Li Yan's thinking ran too fast, and the research and development capabilities of Bai Varhan and Mo Juzi couldn't keep up with Li Yan's thinking.

Take this steam engine as an example.

Bai Varhan and Mo Juzi were barely able to use coal to start the steam engine, but Li Yan told them that they could use oil to start the steam engine, but as a result, their strides were too big, and they were messed up.

but--

It's all little things.

As long as the direction is right, you can improve slowly.

Li Yan gave orders to Bai Varhan, Mo Juzi and others to immediately improve the locomotive and launch the second generation locomotive as soon as possible.

At the same time, Li Yan asked people to lay the rails out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and pass through all the downtown areas of Bianliang City.

Everyone in Bianliang City felt a little baffled by the sudden appearance of the railway tracks. They didn't understand what the court was trying to do?

Until a few months later, a steel behemoth rushed out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Seeing this, people all scattered and fled, thinking that the "giant beast" was coming to harm people!

When people fled to a distance, they saw that although the appearance of this "giant beast" was very scary, it seemed that it could only run along the railroad tracks.

More importantly, there is still a person standing on top of this "giant beast".

This person... turned out to be their Emperor.

At this time, the staff of the Chinese Academy of Sciences mixed in the crowd explained to the people: "This is not a monster, but a train. It can carry people as well as objects. It was jointly developed by His Majesty and our researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences... "

Those who have not experienced the impact of this giant steel beast were all shocked after seeing the giant steel beast roaring past, and were all impressed by Li Yan who invented it.

Soon after, the imperial court introduced a thing called "spinning machine", which can spin many cotton threads at a time, which greatly improves the efficiency of weaving, and the quality of the cloth woven by the loom is also better than that of hand. Weaving is better.

After a while, people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences began to ride a group of strange cows—under the guidance of Li Yan, the bicycle was born.

Slowly, an industrial revolution forced by Li Yan, consisting of steam engines, coal, iron and steel, began to erupt...

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(End of this chapter)