industrial lord

Chapter 81
A rain, at the end of May, washed away the green leaves in the mountains and forests, and the birds flapped their wings in the fresh air and flew high into the sky.

Under that rainbow, the one-ton boiler temporarily escaped the shackles of gravity with a loud bang.

With a loud bang, the boiler flew more than 200 meters over the hills and landed in the mountain stream, startling the rabbits drinking water in the distance and running away.

On the top of the hill one kilometer away, a group of people divided into two groups, going all the way to the place where the boiler was first fired, and all the way to the place where the boiler was dropped.

Frederick frowned, and was speechless to these guys.

He just mentioned that he was worried that the boiler would explode due to excessive pressure, and then the group started a destructive test, and Ogilvy also specially produced several special pressure gauges.

These pressure gauges are connected to the boiler through long pipes, and the pointer on the dial moves with the pressure, and at the same time, a toothpick drives the pointer on the opposite dial.

When the pressure of the boiler disappears or the boiler is blown off together with the pressure gauge, the pointer on the second dial can stay at the position where the boiler pressure is the highest.

The fifth boiler is being fried now, and according to the plan, five more boilers will be fried to obtain enough data.

The boiler fried this time is a finished product after design and positioning. The design length is 2.5m, the outer diameter is 1.2m, and the wall thickness is 12mm. It is made of slightly strengthened elemental steel and weighs about 1.1 tons. .

Today, the boiler only needs to be installed with instruments, heating magic circle and control system, but the gas outlet and safety valve are blocked.

"My heart is bleeding." Frederick said with a sigh, "These are all gold coins!"

Ogilvy on the side smiled. Anyway, it was not his own money, so he smiled happily.

Frederick continued: "Oh, a steam engine will be built for almost a thousand florins in the future. Who can afford it?"

Ogilvy and the others estimated the cost of the steam engine, and the price scared Frederick.

This means that nobles below the baron should not expect to buy steam engines to go back.

"It doesn't matter." Ogilvy is knowledgeable, "Others can't afford it, but our paladins can't afford it?"

"Your great panes of glass are so flat and smooth that even the king sent for them."

Frederick pouted, made a cheap "Holy Book" by himself, and donated the formula of maltose. The Church of Light gave a title of paladin and an enchanted saber, and then there was nothing else.

Seeing his expression, Ogilvy asked curiously: "Are you dissatisfied with the Church of Light?"

Frederick did not deny it.

Omit had a weird smile on his face.

"What's the matter?" Frederick was a little surprised to see him laughing like this, "Is there anything I don't know?"

Ogilvy replied with a smile: "You will know when you become an adult."

Then he changed the subject: "The church is quite rich, how about letting them buy the tractor you mentioned and rent it out to farmers?"

"It's not good." Frederick shook his head. "There are still a lot of farms in the strip-field system. The tractors plowed the land of two families, and the middle ridges are gone. How do you count?"

"Landlords may rent it. Their public land is a large piece of land, which is quite convenient to use."

"If tractors are really to be promoted, the land must be redistributed between landlords and tenant farmers, at least making the land piece by piece like in my territory."

"When we arrive, maybe the fields in a village will only be divided into four or five pieces according to the crop rotation."

"Others can't afford a steam engine, so we use it internally."

"How soon do you estimate the full work will be completed after the successful boiler experiment?"

Ogilvy calculated in his mind and said, "It will take another month to generate the first machine."

"If it is going to be mass-produced, I think it will be next year."

Frederick thought for a while and asked, "Is there enough steel production now?"

Ogilvy is now equivalent to the director of the Industrial Bureau of Wessen Land. He is very familiar with this matter and replied: "The smelter will be able to officially start production next month. It has already reserved enough raw materials and fuel. Skilled workers are already in place. Apprentices Workers learn as they work.”

"Now the construction workers who are building the smelter are starting to transfer to the city of Rangnaar in the south, and build a cement factory there according to your plan."

Frederick nodded slightly, and then said: "At present, the steam engine is very useful in machine production, and now we can start planning to replace it with other power sources. In the future, the magic reciprocating machines that have been eliminated will be sold to the village."

Ogilvy was a little depressed, thinking that his magic reciprocating mechanism could make more money, but he didn't expect a more powerful steam engine to appear.

He replied: "The replacement of the two machines is not a big problem. They are reciprocating in nature, and there are very few places that need to be changed."

Frederick said suddenly: "The steam engine is ready, it's time for us to enter the textile industry."

"Arrange someone to find the best weavers in the territory. In autumn, everyone will discuss how to use the steam engine for spinning and weaving."

Ogilvy immediately agreed.

Frederick took a deep breath of the fresh air on the top of the mountain and let himself relax a bit.

The stalls spread out, and things also increased.

The Edelweiss Library he mentioned to the Grand Duke of Mainz before, the Grand Duke took the initiative to help find the master architect, who is now studying the layout of the Pentagon.

The army's first draft was over, and now that the recruits were doing physical training and the traditional pikeman formation, he hadn't had to see it yet.

and many more.

Frederick and Ogilvy chatted for a while about the things in the territory, and the student team led by Schmidt came to report after sorting out the experimental data today.

"Principal, Professor Ogilvy," said Schmidt holding a piece of paper, "the results are out."

Ogilvy is very satisfied with Schmidt. He saw that someone made money and did not ask the principal for ideas. Instead, he looked for work everywhere. He was discovered by the principal in the paper mill, and finally got a knighthood by relying on a double-sided printing machine. promise, so he entrusted the work of the steam engine to him.

After Friedrich nodded, Schmidt looked at the data on the paper and said: "Today, when the boiler exploded, the internal pressure reached about 25 atmospheres. Judging from the state of the boiler and the scene, it was the screws on the top plate that could not bear the pressure and collapsed. .”

"The explosion site was so powerful that the surrounding wooden piles were blown away, chickens and ducks were shaken to death, and the flying roof smashed a fox and a tree."

Frederick nodded his head, thought for a while and said, "The normal working pressure of this boiler is 12 atmospheres, and the maximum pressure is 15 atmospheres. The safety margin of 10 atmospheres is enough."

"Remember to take the boiler back and remelt it. I don't have that much money to make new materials."

Schmidt has a big smile on his face, as long as he doesn't have to pay for it himself.

Frederick gave him a hard look, and then asked, "How is the steam engine going?"

Schmidt's face turned black all of a sudden, and he said cautiously: "There is still a gap between the cylinder and the sealing ring on the piston, and water seepage was found during the water filling test."

Frederick thought that there was nothing to do, so he said, "Let's leak it, just keep it within an acceptable range."

"First solve the problem of yes or no, and then solve the problem of whether it is good or not."

Schmidt breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Principal, I have two thoughts."

"Can a safety valve be controlled by a spring? If it's the current one, it's fine. If it's tilted, it will reduce its working pressure."

"The second is the accessories on the boiler. Can their safety strength be set between the working pressure of the safety valve and the ultimate pressure of the boiler to act as a second safety valve and also an early warning before the explosion."

Frederick thought about it for a while and said, "You can take care of these yourself, and it will be up to you later. I am very optimistic about you."

There are only so many things he can take out, and the rest is for these scholars to continue to study and develop through research.

Schmidt immediately shouted happily: "Thank you for the cultivation, principal!"

(End of this chapter)