Wentang

Chapter 725
Under the welcome of teachers and students from the School of Chemistry, Yue Shan came to the School of Physics next door.

As soon as he entered the door, he showed a puzzled expression, it was too deserted.

It's not the kind of desertedness where people are not around for a while, but the kind of desertion with few people's activities for a long time, which can be seen from the grass sprouts emerging from the cracks in the bricks and the birds looking for food in the yard.

It is very abnormal for an academy to have such a situation.

What are these students doing?
He subconsciously thought that something happened, but he randomly denied this idea. If something happened, Wang Ji and the others would have told him.

But the question came back again, where did the people go?Why is the School of Physics deserted here?
Just when he was wondering, he heard a neat voice from one of the classrooms: "Stand up, sir, goodbye."

He hurried towards that classroom, and saw a person walking out of the classroom with a book under his arm from a long distance away.He knew this person, Ding Moyan, the deputy dean of the School of Physics.

Immediately raised his voice and greeted: "Mr. Ding."

Ding Moyan stopped and saw that it was Yue Shan, he was so excited, he walked up to him in three steps at a time, and said: "Dean, you are finally back."

At this time, the students who followed him also found him, and they all wanted to come up.

Yue Shan counted silently, and found that there were only about twenty people left, and asked suspiciously: "You guys...how come there are only so few people left, what about the others, where is Tian Yuanzheng?"

Ding Moyan's expression became complicated and aggrieved, and he said, "It's hard to describe in one word."

Seeing that he didn't say anything, the other students couldn't help it, and said the matter in a hurry.

After hearing this, Yue Shan's face was very ugly, why?Because Tian Shungu took all the teachers and students to work in the steam engine factory, he didn't study physics at all.

Ding Moyan objected, thinking that this was contrary to Yueshan's original intention of establishing the School of Physics, and was rejected as a non-group.

In desperation, he could only stick to the academy with some students who were willing to continue studying, waiting for Yue Shan's return.

At this time, they have been isolated by others.

Ding Moyan said aggrievedly: "Dean, you know me. I, Ding, are not the kind of people who are greedy for power. I really think about the children and the future of the School of Physics."

"I understand, I understand everything." Yue Shan comforted.

Killing the chicken to get the eggs, at this moment, he only had these four words in his mind, wishing that Ling Chi would execute Tian Shungu to death.

The steam engine is important, but it is only an egg when it is important.But the School of Physics is the hen that lays eggs.

Although it is only a small chick now, it will grow up and produce more eggs if it is carefully nurtured.

Now Tian Shungu actually wants to kill the chicken for an egg... Yue Shan has the heart to kill him.This is not a joke, if Tian Shungu stood in front of him, he would definitely slash him without hesitation.

"Okay, okay, Tian Shungu is really good. I was really blind and let him be the principal." Yue Shan laughed angrily: "Students, please rest assured, I will uphold justice for you."

Ding Moyan was so excited that he burst into tears, and said: "Dean, actually many students don't really want to work in the steam engine factory, but they dare not speak up, so please ask the dean to call them all back."

Yue Shan said resolutely: "Don't worry, I will definitely call all the students back to you. Also, regarding the future of the students..."

He told everyone about the decision he had just made in the School of Chemistry.

Hearing this decision, everyone cried and laughed excitedly.At the beginning, I was still worried about my studies, but I didn't expect that even my future work has been arranged now.

It's back, it's all back.The dean is indeed a person who understands righteousness, and all the stares he has suffered these days are not in vain, everything is worth it.

After appeasing these people, Yue Shan went to the steam engine factory angrily. He really wanted to see what Tian Shungu was doing.

Halfway through the journey, the anger in his heart gradually dissipated, his ability to think was restored, and he gradually calmed down.Although he is very annoyed by Tian Shungu's behavior, anger can't solve any problems, it will only intensify the conflict.

The words of Ding Moyan and the others seem to make sense, but after all, they are just the opinions of one family, so it is inevitable that they will be biased.It's better to ask Tian Shungu first, and see what he says before drawing a conclusion.

Thinking of this, his emotions gradually calmed down, and his face returned to normal.

The scale of the steam engine factory is very large, and the courtyard wall can't be seen at a glance-the courtyard wall was built on the basis of a hundred acres at that time.

It's just that the wall hadn't been built when Yueshan set off for the expedition, and only a small part of the factory building inside had been built.But now, not only the courtyard walls have been repaired, but also huge factory buildings have been built inside.

When I got to the door, I was stopped by the guards. Li Shimin sent a battalion of guards to guard the place, and they were responsible for the guards at the door.

Xu Shanying stepped forward to negotiate, saying that Xia Guogong was visiting, and asked them to report.

The guards didn't dare to neglect, moved a chair for Yue Shan to sit down, and at the same time sent someone to report internally.

After about seven or eight minutes, a group of people came out to greet him, and the first one was Tian Shungu with a crew-shaven hair and greasy face.Seeing his appearance, the dissatisfaction in Yue Shan's heart disappeared again.

Regardless of his reasons for keeping the students in the factory, at least he himself set an example, and now it is up to him how to explain.

"Dean, you are here. I have been looking forward to you for a long time." Tian Shungu said happily.

Those who followed were all the stewards of the steam engine factory and officials sent by the Ministry of Industry, and they also stepped forward to say hello.

"I've also wanted to take a look for a long time, but I can't move away. What's wrong with you, the dirty one is like something." Yue Shan pretended nothing happened, and smiled.

"Hey." Tian Shungu said with a simple smile, "I don't have any other hobbies, but this is what I like to do. Besides, other people are busy, so it's not good for me to be idle."

"Well, let's go, let's go in and have a look." After Yue Shan finished speaking, he made a gesture to lead the way.

Walking into the compound, I saw piles of coal, iron and other raw materials piled up outside, as well as many strange-shaped machines, and some wooden barrels with unknown contents.

"What's in it?" Yue Shan pointed to the barrel and asked.

"Stone lacquer." Tian Shungu said excitedly, "We found the lubricating oil you mentioned. It can be extracted from stone lacquer. It is very useful."

"Stone paint?" Yue Shan was surprised, what kind of paint is so powerful that it can replace lubricating oil?

"There is also Shizhi, which is a kind of black oil that emerges from the ground and can be burned." Tian Shungu said.

"Oil?" Yue Shan immediately understood what he said, but still couldn't believe it.

Do these people know how to extract lubricating oil from petroleum?Isn't that something that was invented in the modern industrial period?

In fact, he is really ignorant. The use of oil by human beings can be traced back to a long time ago, but it is not as detailed as the use of modern industry.

"Is this thing called oil? It's more appropriate than stone paint and stone grease, so it will be called oil in the future." Tian Shungu said.

"No...how did you come up with the idea of ​​extracting lubricating oil from oil?" Yue Shan asked.

"We didn't think of it, but we thought that the old craftsman told us that there is stone paint in "Shui Jing Zhu" that can be used for lubrication, so we found some and tried it." Tian Shungu explained:
"The stone paint is too viscous and unsuitable, so we tried to dilute it and extract it, and it really produced lubricating oil. It is very easy to use, and there are few impurities."

Water injection?Is there a record of petroleum lubricants?For a while, Yue Shan couldn't tell the truth from the fake, which was too unexpected.

But he believed that Tian Shungu would not lie about this kind of issue.

Our ancestors came up with those black technologies back then.It seems that it is necessary to go through all the ancient books and reorganize all the knowledge points, and maybe come up with some black technology.

Under the leadership of Tian Shungu, Yueshan visited each supporting workshop one by one. After watching it, he could only feel that people's creative ability is really powerful.

Workshops specializing in the production of bearings, axle workshops, wheel workshops, water tank workshops... basically every component has a special workshop for production, and then assembled in a special workshop.

"You taught us to divide a whole machine into different categories and give it to different people to make according to different processes, and then assemble it. This method is so easy to use." Tian Shungu said with admiration: "Now we have one day At least two steam engines can be assembled."

Yue Shan also said in admiration: "I should admire you. I'm just talking about it. The real work is done by you."

At the beginning, he just said that it is possible to divide the work in this way, but he did not expect that they could divide the work in such a detailed way. They have really achieved that each component has a group of people dedicated to making and researching it.

This already has the meaning of classification in modern industry.

"Is the accuracy accurate? Is there any situation where the data difference parts cannot be used?"

"This often happened at the beginning, and then an old craftsman took out a measuring tool called a caliper and solved this problem."

Tian Shungu looked left and right as he spoke, then ran to the side and took a strangely shaped ruler: "This is it."

Seeing this 'caliper', Yue Shan was stunned for a moment, he extremely doubted whether there was another traverser.This is clearly the vernier caliper from the previous life. How could there be such a thing in ancient times?
He stammered and asked, "Where did this... come from?"

Tian Shungu didn't notice his abnormality, and said proudly: "This thing has been around for a long time, but it is rarely used and not many people know about it. An old craftsman in the Ministry of Industry passed it down from his ancestors, but he didn't use it much himself. However, it has been pressed at the bottom of the box."

"There are always slight differences in the parts that are made separately at the beginning, and one or two out of ten that meet the standard is very good."

"We held meetings every day to find a solution, and finally found out that it was an error in the measurement. But this kind of error can't be solved with a ruler. Even the most powerful craftsman will have an error five or six times out of ten. At that time, we all Desperate."

"The old craftsman thought of the caliper at home. He dug it out and used it, and found that it was very easy to use, and the error was reduced to less than [-]%. If you are a skilled hand, you can guarantee that only three or five unqualified parts will be produced out of a hundred."

"We quickly produced a large number of calipers to solve the error problem. Now all the parts produced by the workshop are common."

Yue Shan on the side was dumbfounded long ago, this incident sounded like a myth to him, was the vernier caliper a tool invented a long time ago?

This……

No, a flash of inspiration came to his mind and he thought of a piece of history.

The story of Wang Mang, the time traveler, and the great magician Liu Xiu, the son of the plane... It seems that Wang Mang is considered a time traveler because he has developed many black technologies, including vernier calipers.

It seems that a real object was also unearthed, a vernier caliper made of bronze, which is the oldest surviving one.

He just listened to this story as a story, and he was not an engineering student, so he touched a vernier caliper when he was in junior high school, but he never saw it again, and then he forgot about the story.

After all, this is just a somewhat legendary story, and he hasn't studied the history of the Han Dynasty much.

Seeing the vernier caliper at this time, this long-forgotten story was finally recalled.

**** (a plant), Old Ancestor Beer.

There is lubricating oil again, and there are vernier calipers... The ancestors are really amazing.

It took a while for Yue Shan to recover from the shock, and said happily: "Well, well, well, you did a great job. By the way, who is the craftsman who contributed the caliper? Did you give him a reward?"

"Awarded, the Ministry of Industry rewarded him with consistent money." At this time, the official Jia Youjie from the Ministry of Industry who had been following behind finally found a chance to interject and said.

"Only consistent? Not enough, reward him with fifty guan." Yue Shan frowned, and said displeasedly: "There is also the person who thought of using oil as lubricating oil, reward twenty guan, and researched the method of extracting lubricating oil from oil." People reward one hundred strings."

"Ah? This...Yuegong, this is against the rules. Those craftsmen are from the Ministry of Industry. Working to solve problems is what they should do. Why give such a high reward." Jia Youjie dissuaded.

"Master Jia, have you ever heard the story about a thousand pieces of gold buying a horse bone? And you must have heard the rumor that the imperial court is planning to revoke the craftsman's status. I'm afraid it won't work if you want the craftsman to do a good job without bloodshed," Yue Shan said.

Of course Jia Youjie heard about this matter, and he also knew that Yue Shan was the one who made this suggestion first.

To be honest, he didn't like this decision very much, thinking that Yue Shan was meddling in his own business and was harming the interests of the Ministry of Industry.Without these craftsmen, who would they enslave.

However, the bosses above all agreed, so naturally he, a little shrimp, dared not say anything.

Regardless of the fact that Yue Shan has resigned from all official positions, everyone knows that he has no actual position for more than half of the time, but this has not affected his power at all.

So Jia Youjie didn't dare to have any disrespect at all, but said awkwardly: "This... such a large sum of money, the lower officials can't make the decision."

Yue Shan immediately said: "I'm in charge, take the account of the steam engine factory and give them rewards. At the same time, I have to tell everyone that no matter who can improve the production process or invent something else, there will be a big reward."

"Here." Although Jia Youjie was reluctant, he had no choice but to agree.

In fact, he really wanted to ask Yue Shan, what does this steam engine factory have to do with you, why should we make decisions for us.But he didn't dare to say that, he had to follow what Yue Shan said and do it beautifully.

After solving this problem, Yue Shan asked again: "How many steam engines have been produced now?"

"Three units of 110, except for the thirteen units we stayed for research, and the others were taken away by the Ministry of Industry." Tian Shungu said.

Without waiting for Yue Shan to ask, Jia Youjie replied consciously: "All these steam engines have been sent to various mines, which have played a great role. It is said that the efficiency of the mines has increased by three or four times."

"What about the train, how is it made?" Yue Shan asked the question he was most concerned about.

(End of this chapter)