Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 9 Apocalypse for advice!

After the fainted one was sent to the hospital, Zhang Haogu took Zhang An back to the inn, and Zhu Youxiao also followed.

The clockwork was still on the table in the inn, Zhang Haogu knew it well, Zhu Youxiao insisted on chasing after him at this time, and he would not stop until he got the clockwork out of him completely.

He joked: "It's exaggerated to see those people are ecstatic and beating their chests and feet. Fortunately, you told me in advance so that I can be prepared, otherwise I don't know that I won't know my position until the ranking is released." The top three, will it be like them?"

Zhu Youxiao said: "I just happened to know about the imperial examination."

Zhang Haogu deliberately asked him: "According to the usual practice, give the person who announces the good news a piece of happiness silver instead, Zhang An."

Zhang An is about to pay
Zhu Youxiao said: "No need, I'm here to announce the good news to you, not for money."

In fact, Zhang Haogu couldn't understand what he was doing for it.

But he can't say it by himself, and if he takes the initiative to be courteous, he will inevitably end up with a flattering face. He has to wait for Emperor Tianqi to say it himself, and then work out it with him.

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao paused slightly, "I came to announce the good news to you in advance, just to let you calm down and not worry about the imperial examination, so that you can focus on the clockwork."

Zhang Haogu pretended to be troubled on purpose, scratched his ears, and fidgeted for a while before saying: "I owe you a favor in this matter, and I should agree to your request. It's just that I want to really do it , there are still many difficulties..."

"What's the difficulty, can you tell me?"

Zhang Haogu thought that Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, was not so absurd in the history books.He can basically do anything for his hobbies.

But he is also an emperor, in a high position, rich in the world.

Such an emperor is fatuous and incompetent in the eyes of the officials, and is notorious in the history books.

Ming Xizong.

Xi is not a good name.

But in Zhang Haogu's eyes, this guy is actually a young man with a special hobby.

Don't you just like carpenters?

If he is not the emperor, he should be a good carpenter.

But if he wasn't the emperor, where did he get so many things for him to study carpentry?

If Zhu Youxiao's interest is used to figure out the clockwork, it may be of great use in the future.

Let Zhu Youxiao become the emperor who entered science?
It's pretty interesting when you think about it.

Zhang Haogu picked up the clockwork on the table: "This kind of clockwork can only drive two gears. If possible, more gears can be added to make more complicated and delicate things. But it's a pity. ..."

"What a pity?" Zhu Youxiao became more and more fascinated the more he listened. Every time Zhang Haogu stopped talking, he would ask.

"It's a pity that it's too complicated. It's too difficult for you to figure it out all at once. However, if you want to make something complicated, you might as well start with the simple one!"

"simple?"

Zhu Youxiao became interested: "How about a simple method?"

"It's fun, and the structure is simple!" Zhang Haogu thought for a while: "First of all, you have to make this thing move!"

"Move!"

Zhu Youxiao immediately became interested.

Zhang Haogu picked up the pen and paper, he hesitated before the ink fell, the clockwork is so useful, what can we get out of it?
On the street outside the inn, several children were playing and laughing, and the childlike laughter reached Zhang Haogu's ears. He had a flash of inspiration, and he had it!

I saw him carefully drawing on the paper, outlining the outline without any modification, it was not an artistic painting, but a blueprint.

"What is this?"

Zhu Youxiao looked at the things he drew, and distinguished several of them, which were mechanisms composed of gears, which were obviously a complete clockwork.

And the one drawn in the middle is a frog?
The clockwork frog is Zhang Haogu's childhood memory before he crossed over.

At that time, this thing was simple in workmanship and cheap in price, but it was quite interesting and very popular with children. At that time, clockwork frogs could be seen in almost every household, and children had great fun playing with them.

Zhang Haogu put down his pen, and he drew each part of the clockwork frog separately.

He pointed to the drawings: "These, as long as you make them all and assemble them together, you can make a frog that can jump by itself."

"Jump by yourself?"

Zhu Youxiao saw the clockwork painted on the side: "Wonderful, really wonderful! Use a clockwork to drive the whole frog, and of course it will move by itself."

"That's right!"

Zhang Haogu nodded: "Wooden cows and horses are roughly the same, but more complicated!"

"But although the clockwork can move, it's very tiny. The frog has to be made of wood, and the clockwork probably won't be able to move such a heavy object."

Zhu Youxiao immediately grasped the key point. After all, he is a professional. He thought hard and said: "I can only find some light wood to make it, but most of that kind of wood is inferior..."

He encountered difficulties, but Zhang Haogu had a solution: "No matter how light the wood is, as long as it is driven by bamboo sticks, it will definitely not be able to move."

"But there is no other more flexible wood." As soon as Zhu Youxiao said the words, he suddenly realized.

He remembered what Zhang Haogu had said before, the bamboo sticks are just a substitute, we need to find something more flexible, what is it?

Zhang Haogu reminded: "Steel."

Zhu Youxiao was even more troubled: "Bamboo sticks are wood, and steel is gold. Wood has always been softer than gold. If you want to find something more flexible, how can you replace wood with gold?"

"No, there is steel that is more flexible than wood, called manganese steel. That kind of steel is rolled into a thin strip, which can be wound around many times and tightened like a bamboo strip. It will be released slowly, driving the gears to rotate, and the whole frog will be Can jump."

"Manganese steel?"

When Zhu Youxiao started to make it, he always made the best use of it. He had never heard of manganese steel. He frowned and said, "Where can I find this thing you are talking about? But where is it produced? "

But Zhang Haogu spread his hands helplessly, and said slowly: "This is not ore, but an alloy. Manganese steel is not a rock, just like bronze pig iron, it needs to be smelted."

"My Ming Dynasty smelted pig iron into wrought iron, forged swords, and forged armor. I have never heard of manganese steel, let alone how to smelt it."

"Not necessarily!" Zhang Haogu smiled, and said slowly: "You have to inquire about this matter, and see if there is such a thing, in case there is!"

"I'll go back and study!"

Zhu Youxiao looked at the blueprint carefully, thinking in his heart that other parts of the clockwork frog are easy to handle, and other parts can be made, but the most core but also the most difficult part of the clockwork belt cannot be conquered.

Zhang Haogu thought the same thing, let alone the Ming Dynasty, it might not be possible until the end of the cold weapon era.

Which dynasty did not make steel for the military, and how could it be made specifically for making clockwork frogs?
However, cultivating the emperor's interest is the first step.

Metallurgy?
Zhang Haogu recalled that in his previous life, he had read a pamphlet of "Steelmaking by Local Methods".

It is said that it was printed out in order to catch up with the Premier League cents. In the previous life, he just read it briefly, but now, he finds that he seems to be able to remember this thing. .

If it is carefully studied, this thing should be able to come out.

Of course, you can't take it out in a hurry, you have to let Zhu Youxiao beg him.

(End of this chapter)