Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 644 Electricity

There was a great deal of debate among players about what to do with the fake money.

Some merchants and players advocated using the money directly, sending it to a place where Qianyuan Chongbao had not depreciated as before, and selling it in exchange for supplies and sending it back to the capital to sell, and continue to participate in this crazy arbitrage business.

Naturally, this plan was opposed by many players. The Qianyuan Chongbao privately cast by the prince is not enough copper, which will disrupt the currency system that is already on the verge of collapse. money market.

Wang Chengwei, the magistrate of Wannian County, even stated that the use of counterfeit currency in Wannian County is illegal and will be brought to justice, whether it is a player or an aborigine.

This plan was rejected first, and now Tongguan is still fighting, and the General Staff also needs the Tang court to hold back Shi Siming's main force and stabilize the situation in Guanzhong.

Then some players proposed to remelt these fake money and cast them into real money of sufficient quality for use.

However, this method is still rejected by the players. The reason why private casting is banned by the court is not entirely because of the lack of fineness of private casting, but because this kind of flooding is to compete with the Tang court for the right to mint coins, which is a behavior that disrupts the market. .

Since these two proposals were rejected, another player proposed to simply melt the copper coins and cast cannons.

This suggestion has won the support of many artisan players, and even Shangbo is impressed by this plan.

Qin Di said: "The reason why our plan works in Chang'an is because there are too many dignitaries in Chang'an."

Shangbo finally made a decision to melt and cast copper cannons with the copper coins "borrowed" from the Temple of Grace!
Shang Bo asked for a remote manor from the princess's mansion, gathered the player craftsmen in Chang'an City, and asked them to go to the manor to tinker.

Qin Di said: "We use Edison's old method, the filament is carbonized bamboo filament, but this filament is selected from dozens of bamboo filaments after hundreds of experiments and different carbonization processes. Yes, with the highest brightness and the longest lighting time, it is currently the best filament in Datang!"

In fact, the difficulty of making generators is not high. Some players have successfully made hand generators a long time ago.

Now Shang Bo looked at Qin Di seriously. They were able to make light bulbs, which made Shang Bo's eyes shine.

But electricity alone is not enough. We must know that the most important thing in the electrical age is not electricity, but how to make electricity available to thousands of households.

Shang Bo nodded. Power generation is actually boiling water. Since it is boiling water, it is enough to boil water directly in the factory. Why bother with the power grid.

After speaking, Qin Di opened a design drawing.

Isn't this a hamster cage?
Qin Di's design is very simple, it is a metal cylinder, connected to the power generation components.

Shang Bo frowned and looked at the three players. The leading player was Qin Di, a level [-] Baigong player.

Shang Bo asked: "Is it a battery? Doesn't it mean that there is no breakthrough in battery technology?"

After discussing with each other, the three brothers decided that they could only stay in Chang'an and sell the goods slowly.

But copper cannons are different. It is not difficult to purify copper, and copper itself is a very good material for casting cannons. It only needs to transport the shells from Longyou, and the newly cast copper cannons can be used.

The power transmission network and batteries are the most important. Otherwise, the electricity generated by the hand generator without even a light bulb is completely useless.

Qin Di said at this time: "In addition to electric lights, we also manufacture gramophones, and our friends in Longyou are about to manufacture radios."

"Thermal power generation is to heat the steam into kinetic energy first, then drive the generator to turn it into electrical energy, and then deliver it to the user, counting the loss of the grid, and then use the electric motor to turn the electrical energy into kinetic energy. Why don’t you just use the steam engine directly.”

So now in Longyou, the most sought-after craftsman is a senior technician like Wu Zhonghua, and the hottest research direction is the steam engine.

"Have!"

Longyou's cannons were all made of copper at the beginning. Pure iron cannot be used to cast cannons. Longyou is also constantly experimenting with alloy ratios. Only then did he develop the steel that can be used for casting cannons. Only then did Longyou sweep the world today. Right steel cannon.

Qin Di said: "But our plan does not require any power grid."

Building a generator requires only high school physics, but building a city power grid is far more difficult.

If stepping on hamster cages to generate electricity, and connecting electric lights and phonographs to the house, if it really becomes a trend, these wealthy people may not be reluctant to raise a few more servants who are responsible for stepping on the wheels.

Or you intellectuals understand exploitation.

Seeing Shang Bo's expressionless face, Qin Di knew that he was not easy to be fooled, so Qin Di said:

"What are you going to do with copper?"

Seeing that Shang Bo was about to chase away people, Qin Di finally revealed his plan.

Now the Longyou railway network is still short of funds, how can it be possible to build a power grid.

The craftsmen and players of the place quickly concluded that steam machinery is a better development direction in this era.

Shang Bo asked helplessly: "And then? Everyone knows that the electric age is better than the steam age, but where does electricity come from and how is it delivered to thousands of households?"

"Oh, coil, I still know what you said."

Qin Di said: "Only the dignitaries in Chang'an can make people generate electricity in hamster cages all the time. As long as electric lights and phonographs become popular commodities among the dignitaries, they are still willing to use a few servants who spin the wheel."

In fact, it is not difficult to manufacture ordinary lead-acid batteries, but the capacity of the battery is limited, and there is no power grid to charge the battery, so the battery is useless at all.

"Collar?" Shang Bo didn't hear clearly all of a sudden, these three guys seem to be weak and weak, playing so flamboyantly?

Although Shangbo is not a Baigong player, he has seen several technical debates in the forum.

This topic has been settled in the forum, and almost all artisan players agree with this point of view.

Shang Bo took a deep look at Qin Di, if this kind of thing became popular in Longyou, it would definitely be sprayed to death by players.

However, the manufacture of this kind of steel cannon requires a mature industrial line from smelting ore to refining alloys, and it is currently impossible to copy and manufacture it in other regions.

"You want copper too?"

Facing the plan of the three of them, Shang Bo didn't show much excitement.

The Qin Di brothers encountered setbacks, and originally wanted to make a fortune to go back and continue to do experiments, but they didn't expect that they were completely in their hands, and they couldn't even make up the travel expenses back to Longyou.

Now the majority of players are around level [-], and level [-] is considered an old player from the previous tests.

If you can have an army equipped with cannons near Chang'an, then if something happens to Chang'an, players will be able to respond quickly.

You must know that even in modern society, there are no more than ten countries with a complete set of power grid technology. There are many backward countries that are unable to maintain the power grid even if the international community helped build the power grid.

Qin Di said: "Before the grid is laid on a large scale and the motor is intensively used, the efficiency of the motor is not high."

Qin Di's three brothers also came prepared. They took out a hand-operated generator from the box, and then carefully took out a light bulb from the box, and then connected the wires to it. Qin Di personally shook it to generate electricity. machine, only to see the light bulb glowing orange.

Seeing this design drawing, Shang Bo almost spit out a mouthful of water.

Nowadays, it is even a problem for ordinary people to eat, and the luxury goods such as kerosene lamps and clocks imported by the three Qin Di brothers are even out of market.

In addition to electric lights and phonographs, there are radios, electric fans and other small appliances, all of which are eye-catching products.

Just when Shang Bo was about to end the conversation, Qin Di said:

"We've actually made a light bulb."

"How is this filament made?" Shang Bo asked with great interest. Players haven't been able to extract tungsten yet. How can filaments be made without tungsten filaments?

Light bulb?

Moreover, with the flamboyant personality of the rich and powerful in Chang'an, electric lights that can glow and gramophones that can sing and sing by themselves will inevitably become new commodities sought after by the rich and powerful.

Qin Di said: "Make coils."

Shang Bo asked with some doubts: "Why is it only in Chang'an? Can't it be done in Longyou? Isn't it possible to generate electricity as long as it is connected to a steam engine?"

Qin Di continued: "We want to make a generator in "The Wind and Cloud of the Tang Dynasty"!"

Qin Di and the two juniors in real life are all players who entered the game in the third test, but the three brothers are not very interested in doing business, but they encountered difficulties in funding the laboratory in Longyou, so the three had no choice but to enter the game from Longyou. Batches of goods were transported to Chang'an for sale, and they were going to make a fortune and go back to continue the experiment.

Perhaps after the popularity of the steam engine, the electrical age will see the dawn.

"Are there any samples?"

But this time, after hearing that the players in Chang'an got a lot of copper coins, Qin Di finally got up the courage to find Shangbo.

However, Shang Bo had just dismissed these players, and three more artisan players came to the door.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in Chang'an, the imperial court issued Qianyuan Chongbao, and the entire currency system in Chang'an collapsed.

Although this light is not comparable to the brightness of LED lights in modern society, it is much brighter than candlelight and kerosene lamps.

And now that there is a shortage of labor force everywhere in Longyou, this kind of waste of labor force must be banned.

"How do you deliver electricity to thousands of households? It is impossible to pull electric poles in Chang'an now, right? And the difficulty of power transmission is much more difficult than power generation."

"In fact, we have a plan for a generator set, but only Changan can sell it."

"Coils are an important material in electric motors and generators, and copper works best."

Sure enough, it is still the most difficult to deal with technical personnel. They are always immersed in their own world and cannot listen to other people's problems.

But when Shang Bo thinks about it this way, with the comparative personality of those rich and powerful in Chang'an, Qin Di's design seems to be really good.

In contrast, generators have no effect other than numbing people with electricity.

Shangbo nodded, this light bulb is indeed working well.

Although the electric light is good, it is just a glass ornament without electricity.

But Chang'an is different. The most important thing in Chang'an is the rich and powerful, and the most important thing for these rich and powerful is servants.

In the Princess Mansion, where Shang Bo often visited, there were 200 servants in charge of embroidery repairs, meals, dew, cakes, and serving in the mansion.

And the Princess Mansion is in the farm near Chang'an, where the emperor rested and bathed last time. There are a total of 2000 servants and maidservants.

Finding a few strong servants to step on the hamster cage is nothing to a dignitary like Princess Yanguang.

Maybe I should go to the princess mansion and sell it?
(End of this chapter)