New Shun 1730

The emperor understood Liu Yu's hidden meaning, but the others who were not aware of the situation did not.

It sounded like Liu Yu was saying that the Celestial Empire still had the potential to continue to oppress and go to war with foreign countries, and it was still far from the oppression of the people in the Han Wu era.

Sang Hongyang was a legalist system, and the court was immediately blown up.

Some people say that even if Wang Anshi was reforming the law, he was also practicing the art of Shen Shang and avoiding the name. Now Liu Yu kept talking about Sang Hongyang's set, which was purely to cause chaos in the world.

At this time, there seemed to be no foreign enemies around, so we should rest and recuperate, and never do anything drastic.

What's more, they were worried that the emperor would make some goods for export state-owned.

In the past, we could only find examples from history books, but now Liu Yu talked about a lot of systems in Western countries, and even Luosha was state-owned. Many people were afraid that the emperor would get excited and really do something state-owned.

Those who are loyal to the country know that if they do this, they will end up like the Song Dynasty. Although they can collect more money, the cost is too high and the world will be in chaos.

Those who seek benefits behind them are worried that if they do this, the emperor will completely control the trade with the West, which will cause them great losses.

Some people, either out of laziness or out of concern for banning religion to prevent the Mingjiao from being defeated by the Lord of Heaven, think that it is better to simply close all the customs and leave a loophole, which will not only facilitate taxation, but also facilitate the investigation of smuggling, and save a lot of trouble for the coastal governors.

In the chaos, Liu Yu turned into that kind of dumbfounded look.

Listening to various speeches in the court, he stood there with his eyes half closed, brewing sleepiness in the hustle and bustle.

Until the court was dismissed, no one argued about Ziwu Maoyou, and many of the words were completely empty output, made out of nothing.

As soon as the court was dismissed, Liu Yu ran away as soon as he went out, because he was afraid that some "out of anger" would beat him up. Many people who were born in the imperial examination system also learned archery and still had some strength.

When I returned to my residence, before I could even sit down, someone came to report.

"Sir, someone is coming from Weihai. They have an urgent matter to see you."

"Ah?"

When Liu Yu heard that someone from Weihai had an urgent matter, he panicked and hurriedly asked someone to come in without even putting on his shoes.

What could happen in Weihai at this time?

The first battleship with 64 guns sank as soon as it was launched?

Did Japan notice something and ban trade?

Or did the grain storage city in Hokkaido fight?

I had arranged everything well before I left. If something happened during this period, it would definitely be a bad thing.

Soon, a confidant came in, handed over a letter, and stood aside.

He glanced at the letter and saw that it was Kang Budai's mark, which made Liu Yu even more panicked.

However, when he opened the letter, there were only four words on it.

"The boring machine is ready"

Pah...

The teacup on the table fell to the ground, and Liu Yu jumped up as if a thorn had grown on the chair, knocking the table to the ground.

His hands were shaking as if he had a stroke, and he turned around the room several times.

The confidant who delivered the letter did not know the content of the letter, but he had followed Liu Yu for many years. He knew that although Liu Yu was not calm in the face of a mountain collapse, he had fought against the Rakshasas and attacked the Western Regions. What kind of thing could make him so excited?

The person who delivered the letter did not know, and Kang Budai might not know how important this boring machine was.

But he knew one thing, this thing was the one Liu Yu offered the highest price for.

At the beginning, he directly offered a reward of tens of thousands of taels of silver, saying that it was higher than the reward for the British navigation clock. The silver money needed every month was directly withdrawn within a certain amount.

Kang Budai did not understand technology, but he could count. Based on the size of the amount, he knew very well what Liu Yu valued.

Expensive ones must be good.

Liu Yu, who had suffered a stroke, turned around the room seven or eight times before stopping.

After a burst of laughter, he couldn't help but spit out all the resentment about the trivial matters in the court.

"Fuck the intrigue! I don't need to play with you! Hahahahaha..."

He knew that this thing was not difficult. As long as the principle was explained and the deflection and precession problems were solved in a different way, it could be done with the current technical level.

Now Europe has a lot of steam engines, but they have not been improved to the kind of Watt, and the law of conservation of energy has not been considered, resulting in a lot of energy being wasted, so the steam engine like the one in Weihai Dry Dock can only be used to draw water.

This is the era of craftsmen, not scientists.

Science is useful at this time, but it is not very useful for steam engines.

The existing steam engines, like the Newcomen engine that Weihai is already using, lack a "latent heat" science from a scientific point of view - steam to water releases heat, water to steam absorbs heat.

But before this thing became a scientific theorem, many people actually had a vague intuitive perception.

As Engels commented on Watt: Watt's improvement added a separate condenser to it, which made the steam engine reach the current level in principle.

Watt found the idea of ​​separating the condenser, and this idea was not a problem for Liu Yu.

With the idea, there were two obstacles in front of Watt.

One was the accuracy of the cylinder. The emergence of the hydraulic boring machine for drilling cannons solved this task that was difficult to complete by hand.

The other was the patent system in the UK. The crank transmission mechanism had long been patented. For this reason, Watt also developed a set of planetary sun gear structure. It was not until the patent of the crank transmission expired that the steam engine was finalized.

In front of Liu Yu, these two problems did not exist.

The hydraulic boring machine has been solved.

And the patent...

The concept of patent does not exist in Dashun at all.

It can be said that the first Watt steam engine in Dashun should only take about four or five years, plus an investment of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

The boring machine is the mother of the steam age.

There may still be problems of this or that kind, but since Kang Budai wrote to me, it is enough to prove that he has reached the level he required at that time.

Although I have long thought that the scientific and technological research plan that I have invested real money in will definitely break through within a few years.

Even with such psychological preparation, when the four words "boring machine is ready" were really handed to me, the huge shock made him realize that he was not mentally prepared to accept that all this could happen so quickly.

Minié bombs are nothing. Battleships are nothing.

And this "mother of the steam age" is the thing that can really change the world.

With trembling hands, I picked up the pen and wrote a letter to Kang Budai in a flourish, which was also very brief.

"Keep your promise. Don't make it public. Wait for me to go back."

After writing and sealing it, he handed it to the confidant and told him, "Go back quickly."

The messenger didn't know what it was, but he knew it must be extremely important. He didn't care about staying in the capital to rest, and hurriedly rode away on a fast horse.

Liu Yu, who stayed in the room, drove away the others. After he was left alone, he took out the letter with four words written on it, and couldn't help but smile.

After laughing for a while, his face gradually became ugly.

The appearance of the boring machine is only the last step away from the Watt steam engine.

This last step is still easy to take, but after taking it, it is the most difficult part of the road.

Considering the national conditions of Dashun, Liu Yu thought to himself, well, the process of burning money has just begun.

You have to use money to burn out a bottom-line option.

After the excitement, Liu Yu was sober and knew very well what the steam engine meant in the eyes of court officials and the emperor.

If the textile industry is engaged in the right place, the emperor and the court officials will not see the great progress of productivity, but will see that tens of millions of small farmers and weavers will have no way to make a living; they will see that the power of merchants may grow without the control of the court.

Britain had chopped off the king's head before, but Dashun had not gone through this step. Moreover, as an orthodox classical Chinese empire, the stability of small farmers is the foundation of the dynasty's rule. They will inevitably consider the issue from the perspective of stability above all else.

At least, the emerging bourgeoisie at this time can only be regarded as just officially sprouting.

It is still far from having such "abundant martial virtues" as suppressing large-scale small farmers' bankruptcy uprisings at home without changing their faces; chopping off the emperor's head to set an example so that no one dares to sit on the dragon throne; and grabbing markets and raw material bases abroad.

In Dashun, if you want to get things done, you have to consider the bottom line, and you have to change the way you say it.

The steam engine can be shown to the emperor, but what the emperor can see cannot be a textile machine driven by a steam engine, but rather "a Grand Canal that can lead to the northeast and northwest without river water or trackers and connects the north and south": a steam train model.

For the sake of stability, internal suppression, and border stability, the emperor and his court officials will most likely support this.

Anyway, they don't know that this thing has other uses. As long as it is not exposed in advance before it is ready, it is enough to fool people for a while and make a backup option.

For this backup option, they must continue to spend money, and spend 8 million taels in the direction of the railway.

This money cannot be obtained from the textile industry. This time, the "primitive accumulation" can only be obtained from overseas trade.

But on second thought, the Northeast problem has been completely solved.

In any case, the railway from the capital to Heilongjiang will definitely be completed earlier than the Siberian Railway.

Outer Northeast and Siberia are already in the bag, it's just a matter of time.

Everything has two sides. As long as the emperor sees what he likes and doesn't see what he is wary of, you can continue to fool around.

Before you can ensure that the emperor will not ban it in order to maintain the stability of the country, you should not take the "right path of industrial revolution" of mechanical textiles, but take a different approach.

While thinking about the follow-up plan, someone called out from outside, and Liu Yu shouted: "Didn't you say to let me be alone?"

"Sir, someone is coming from the palace, please go to the palace quickly. His Majesty summons you."

Not knowing what the emperor had to say, he quickly changed his clothes and hurried into the palace. The eunuch led him to the vicinity of Tianyou Hall.

After entering, Liu Yu was a little surprised.

There were only the emperor and a few important officials in the room, and there was no record of their presence.

Jiang Chen, who was robbed of the first merit by Liu Yu in the northwest and now resigned his military power to serve in the newly established Privy Council, which is actually the General Staff of Dashun, was also among them.

There were a few maps on the table in front of them. Just by glancing at the outline, they could already recognize that it was Japan.