Steam Daming: Stop calling me to supervise the country

Chapter 5 What a Beautiful World Without Horses

Zhu Gaochi asked suspiciously, "What baby?"

"Chu'er, go get the kettle in my room."

Chu Er at the door was helpless, but she still ran back into the house, and Xiaosheng and the two brought the kettle over, and along with a small wheel made of bamboo sticks, the small wheel was connected to the kettle lid with a bamboo rod.

"What is this?" Zhu Gaochi frowned slightly, and several brothers also gathered around.

Zhu Zhanchang set fire to boil water, and a group of people watched the kettle boil water.

"Fifth brother, what will happen if it burns like this?"

"It will be open."

Everyone was stunned, as if they were looking at a fool, Zhu Gaochi patted his forehead and sighed helplessly.

His three direct sons, the eldest son Zhu Zhanji, are all outstanding, and even Zhu Zhanji's throne in the future will be more stable than that of his prince.

The third son is an honest man with a dull aptitude but a loud voice. I thought the younger son was smart, but suddenly people see the kettle boiling water, and they are surprised because the water boils. What is the potential of not eating minced meat.

With a helpless face, he stood up and was about to leave, but Zhu Zhanchang shouted happily: "Move, move."

Zhu Gaochi turned around, only to see that the lid of the kettle was pushed open and moved along with the connecting rod, and the simple wheel made of bamboo sticks turned a quarter turn driven by the connecting rod.

It's only a quarter turn, because the lid can't control the reciprocating motion. If you are lucky, you can go back and forth several times, but if you are unlucky, you can only lift it up once.

The connecting rod device and the bamboo stick wheels are also very rough. Fortunately, Zhu Zhanchang has at least repaired the car engine. He has a little research on the connecting rod device. In order to learn, he has also studied it on BILIBILI, and by the way, he also read the principle of the reciprocating steam engine. and application.

He has a strong thirst for knowledge about mechanical principles. He has studied the principles of steam engines, engines, differentials, and gearboxes. Although it is not possible to memorize them all, he knows the simple working principles.

"Fifth brother, what's so strange about this, after boiling water for a long time, the lid of the pot would have been opened."

"The lid of the pot can be pushed open to drive the movement of the wheels. If the lid can be restricted from moving up and down only, and if it doesn't fall, the wheels can keep turning."

"Huh?" Zhu Gaochi made a questioning and surprised voice.

Hooked, Zhu Zhanchang understood that his fat father was beginning to be interested in steam engines.

Zhu Gaochi sat down again: "Fifth, tell me in detail what to do."

"Father, I was thinking that if I could install a device on the car to continuously boil water, I could control the even up and down movement of the lid of the pot, and drive the connecting rod, so that the carriage could run on its own."

"Fifth brother, aren't you delusional? How can the car run without a horse?" Zhu Zhanxun, the second brother, shook his head and said with a smile.

"Second brother, you saw it just now, the wheel is turning."

Zhu Zhanzhen still felt that it was impossible: "It's just a little turn, it's just a coincidence, and how to control the movement of the lid?"

Zhu Zhanchang can't say what he thinks about the pistons at this time, otherwise he thinks too well all of a sudden, and soon he seems to have planned it a long time ago. He is a child less than ten years old. Will this make people feel like a monster? .

One has to be steady and persistent in order to live a long life.

Zhu Zhanchang had only a simple answer: "Add an iron cage and restrict the movement of the lid to only within it."

The brothers started a heated discussion. Only his third brother, Zhu Zhanyong, was on his side. Of course, he didn't think that Zhu Zhanyong could succeed.

Finally, after careful consideration, Zhu Gaochi came to a conclusion: "It's quite interesting, you can study it more."

Zhu Zhanchang understood that his fat father is a little interested now, but not very interested. He must let him know the future role of the steam engine, and the big role of changing the world can arouse his interest and let him allocate funds.

"Father, wait."

"What else?"

Zhu Zhan's mind was spinning rapidly, and he found the entry point: "Father, if this device can be successful, it can run without a horse on a car, and it can be installed on a boat without wind."

"Running without horses, feasible without wind?" Zhu Gaochi was puzzled, as if his son had incomparable confidence in his research, which made him quite gratified, but his unrealistic idea was still too unrealistic.

After all, if you want people in this era to imagine a car that can run without a horse, it is really impossible to imagine.

Zhu Zhanchang started from what Zhu Gaochi cared about most: "Father, how much money does it take to raise a horse that can fight well, how much is the loss of horses on the battlefield in Mobei, and how much time and effort does it take for Master Zheng to go to the West? Silver, if this machine can do it, father, think about how much money you should leave to the court."

The two expenses of raising horses and voyages to the West have always been Zhu Gaochi's heart problems. Every year, the national fiscal revenue has to be tortured to death by these two payments.

So when it comes to these two things, he has personal experience, and suddenly his mentality is completely different. If he can really build a car and a boat that can go without a horse as his son said, it will save a lot of money.

Is it just really possible to make something like this?Zhu Gaochi is not a person with unrestrained imagination, nor is he a person who is fooled by a young man's dream and believes in a few words.

Zhu Gaochi patted Zhu Zhanchang on the shoulder: "If you really make it, I will reward you with a thousand taels of gold."

What is the use of rewarding me, what I want is start-up capital and talents.

"Father, please allow me some funds and some craftsmen first. I can't make it myself."

If Zhu Zhanchang didn't mention Zhu Gaochi's two things, he would still think that he was just imagining things, but he put forward two requirements to show that he really wanted to do what he wanted to implement, especially that he wanted craftsmen.

If you want to make what Zhu Zhanchang just thought of, you must be a skilled craftsman.

Looking at Zhu Zhanchang full of surprise and surprise: "I will think about the funds tomorrow. You go to find Zheng He as a craftsman. There are many of him, and tell him your thoughts."

"Yes, father."

Unexpectedly, my father really agreed, but the other brothers couldn't believe it.

Zhu Gaochi walked out of the school and looked at his son through the window, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "In a world without horses, this child's ideas are very novel."

"His Royal Highness, Fifth Master is really smart." The eunuch beside him hurriedly beat the horse.

"You understand what he's saying? Say he's smart."

"Your Highness, you are so happy, it naturally shows that the fifth master is extremely smart."

"If you don't pat the horses and stalk the beards, I will go to Zheng He's mansion for me, and find Yang Shiqi, and I will chat with them about a world without horses."

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