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Chapter 276 Necessary for Time Travel—Making a Steam Engine ()

In the Ming Dynasty of another time and space, Zheng He read the comments on the sky screen and felt a little unwilling.

In his opinion, if Ming Dynasty could really build a steam engine, it could be used in his Fu Ship.

In this way, when he sails to the Western Ocean, he can no longer follow the crowd.

It can also sail freely by relying on the power of its own steam engine when there is no sea breeze.

But the comments on the marquee made him give up this delusion.

After all, making a steam engine is not a simple matter. With the current technology of the Ming Dynasty, even the steam engine produced cannot be put into use.

However, Zheng He still took a chance and went to the craftsmen to understand the situation. After understanding the real situation, he realized that he was afraid that his Ming craftsmen would not be able to build a steam engine by the time of his next voyage to the West.

This is not to say that his Ming craftsmen lacked technical prowess, but that they were trapped in a sealing material.

And this sealing material is what is called rubber on the canopy. Without this sealing material, the steam engine cannot run for a long time.

Such a steam engine is of no use at all. After all, on the sea, especially in dangerous places, if the steam engine suddenly loses power due to seal failure, it will be a disaster for the entire ship.

For those craftsmen who lacked this kind of material, Zheng He felt that he could help.

After all, I found a lot of weird things in the New World. Maybe among those weird things, there was the rubber that the craftsmen needed.

So he asked people to start identifying the weird gadgets found in the New World one by one to see what their specific functions were.

However, the surprise came so suddenly. He actually found the rubber thing mentioned on the sky in the new continent.

After knowing the result, Zheng He quickly handed the thing to the craftsmen and asked them to see if this material could seal the steam engine.

The craftsmen took what Zheng He gave them, and after a brief test, they were surprised by its performance.

They had a feeling that this was what the marquee was talking about as rubber.

But they were not sure, after all, they had never seen this thing before.

But now that they had this speculation, they began to really apply it to steam engines, hoping to use steam engines to test whether it was that kind of thing.

Sure enough, it lived up to their expectations. The steam engine did not run out of gas like before, and the steam engine could run for a long time.

This result made all the craftsmen happy. After all, they had been stuck making steam engines for a long time, and now they finally solved the problem.

After calming down, they told Zheng He the good news, hoping that Zheng He could give them more such items.

Zheng He, who was preparing the items needed for his next voyage to the West, stood up after receiving the news.

Originally, he had no hope for the steam engine, but he did not expect that among the things he was looking for in the New World, there were key materials for making steam engines.

With this steam engine, the ocean will be a place that humans can conquer.

This also made Zheng He once again realize the value of the New World, and began to write to the court, suggesting that the court develop the New World.

And in order to persuade the court to explore the New World, he also listed a faster route to the New World for me based on past navigation charts.

Not only that, he also issued an order to the craftsmen who built the ship, asking them to build a steamship that could sail without sails based on the performance of the overall engine.

After the craftsmen got the news, they began to discuss.

After all, not only have they never seen such a ship, but the ancestors who taught them have never seen it either.

However, the various advantages of steamships still made them realize that times are changing.

So they began to design various collection ships to meet Zheng He's requirements for ships.

When Zhu Di saw the memorial handed over by Zheng He, he looked at the contents and felt very happy.

He did not expect that this steam engine could be manufactured simply like this. Originally, he thought that the manufacturing of this steam engine might not be successful even in his lifetime. However, what we didn’t expect was that the key materials needed for the steam engine could easily be solved with the items that Zheng He brought upon his return this time.

And not only that, Zheng He also proposed a new waterway that would allow the court to develop the New World faster.

Zhu Di attached great importance to Zheng He's memorial. He called Prince Zhu Gaochi to discuss these matters with him.

Finally, he wrote approval in the memorial, allowing Zheng He to lead more people to explore the New World.

After Zheng He received the order, he was very happy.

The more you see the vastness of the sea, the more you realize how small you are.

Has he truly seen the vastness of the sea, and how vast the uninhabited land in the New World is?

At that time, he was thinking that if the people of his Ming Dynasty could grow food there, the entire Ming Dynasty would never suffer from hunger again.

For this reason, he asked many soldiers to explore the new continent and explore the environment and landforms of the new continent.

And based on the investigation results of each soldier, he summarized a set of files for exploring the New World.

However, now his wish has begun to come true. He will lead more soldiers to explore the new continent and prepare for the Ming Dynasty to enter the new continent in the future.

Not only that, in order to explore the New World more quickly, the imperial court even issued orders to the craftsmen who made the fortune ships, asking them to make steam ships that could walk freely in the sea based on the performance of the steam engines.

The craftsmen who were making the Fuchuan received the order, and they were full of curiosity about the steam engine they produced.

Although the video on the marquee has established the function of the steam engine, they are still curious when the reality appears in their lives.

They watched for a long time before dispersing, and then gathered again to discuss how to use steam engines to build a lucky boat that could walk freely on the sea.

They overturned one plan after another, established another plan, and finally found a plan that could meet the requirements.

Finally, they dedicated their latest plan to Zheng He, hoping that he would put forward his own opinions.

At the end of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian read the comments on the sky screen, and he once again called Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing. These two people were the pillars of his Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youjian believed that they must have a solution.

However, what disappointed him was that Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing had no solution. For them, what they lacked was not only technology, but also sealing materials.

Especially the sealing material rubber, they had never heard of it. Without this material, how could they create a steam engine that could be used for a long time?

In order to solve this problem, they conducted many experiments, but the results were not ideal.

How could they give up on a machine that could change the Ming Dynasty?

So Xu Guangqi called his foreign missionary friends and asked them for their opinions.

When the foreign missionaries saw the steam engine being built, they were astonished.

They didn't expect that there was such a machine in the world that could operate automatically using only steam.

It's just a pity for them that this kind of machine cannot run for a long time due to insufficient sealing technology.

And they don't have any good suggestions for materials to seal such machines.

After all, they are just missionaries. Although they have a wealth of knowledge, they are not divorced from reality.

And since they came to the Ming Dynasty and witnessed the miraculous inventions made by the people one after another, they have become more and more aware of their own insignificance.

As for the canopy that people usually discuss, although they don't know what it is, they feel that it must be a gift from God to Ming Dynasty.

System 9527 looked at these foreign monks and curled his lips in displeasure.

It was obviously his own merit, but why did these foreign monks regard it as the credit of God?

But it was just a system and could not appear in the Ming Dynasty, and there was no way to argue with these foreign monks.

He could only sulker secretly and not watch the host bound to it continue to watch videos.

(End of this chapter)