Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1006 The country's most important weapon

  Emperor Hongzhi entered the carriage, which was completely different from what he had imagined, and the carriage gave off a comfortable feeling.

  The Empress Dowager sat down on the sofa with her support.

  Emperor Hongzhi sat beside him, and that boy Zhu Houzhao had disappeared.

  Fang Jifan felt that he was a little hateful at the moment.

  So, he became silent knowingly.

   But the atmosphere... looks a little awkward.

   After a while, the steam train finally began to tremble.

  Emperor Hongzhi was obviously frightened, and subconsciously grabbed the handle of the sofa.

  Empress Dowager Zhou gave him a sideways glance, and said leisurely: "What are you afraid of?"

  Emperor Hongzhi blushed, feeling a little embarrassed.

   The shaking in the carriage began to intensify a little.

  Emperor Hongzhi felt even more uneasy, and his complexion turned a little dark.

   Fang Jifan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is only natural for you to experience some discomfort in this car for the first time. Your Majesty, you will be fine soon."

  The train finally started to move, moving very slowly, but the rumbling sound was astonishing, and the rattling sound of the wheels and rails made Emperor Hongzhi even more thrilled, as if the monster inside had come to life.

  In the No. 2 carriage, Xiao Jing's screams came, mixed in the noise.

   Of course, no one paid him any attention.

  The Empress Dowager sat steadily, with no expression on her face, but a look of relief on her face, which dispelled Emperor Hongzhi's timidity.

  Look, such an old lady is so calm, as the emperor, how can she be afraid.

   Soon, the train began to move smoothly, first slipping out of the station, and then, the outside became brighter.

  The train began to be under inertia, coupled with that poor momentum, the speed began to increase.

   But no matter how fast it is, it is only more than 20 kilometers per hour. For Fang Jifan, it is already as slow as a cow.

   But its biggest advantage is that the power is continuous. When the animals are tired, the roads will be congested, but the train only needs to follow the railway line, at this speed, and move forward at a constant speed.

  Emperor Hongzhi turned his head sideways and saw the skylight outside the window. Countless scenes flashed in his eyes. The vibration finally gradually began to decrease. I don’t know whether it was a gradual habit or other reasons.

  Emperor Hongzhi's face was full of shock.

   "Why is this car driven?" Emperor Hongzhi finally couldn't help asking.

  Fang Jifan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it is His Royal Highness's perseverance, filial piety, and original intention to benefit the people of the world!"

  Emperor Hongzhi frowned and glared at Fang Jifan with a gloomy face: "Speak humanly."

  Ah, why is this not a human language? The Empress Dowager loves to hear this.

  Fang Jifan couldn't make the switch, so he took a deep breath and instantly switched from the liberal arts student mode to the science student mode.

"Your Majesty, when the prince and his ministers checked the boiling water, the pot was heated, and steam was generated in the water, and the lid of the pot could be lifted, so they knew that the water vapor could actually generate force. His Royal Highness was very excited about this. Ten thousand, since this water vapor can generate heat and lift the lid of the pot, can more water vapor generate greater force like windmills and waterwheels."

"Windmills and waterwheels rely on wind power and water power, but these two forces are too dependent on natural conditions. If God does not blow the wind, the windmill will be useless. If the waterwheel is not built next to the water flow, the waterwheel will be useless." It's useless. But the heat can be artificial. Over the past few years, His Royal Highness and the ministers have figured out this joint, and have been heading in this direction, recruiting hundreds of thousands of craftsmen and spending countless gold Yin, reading ancient books at the same time, trying again and again. In the past two years, has your Majesty found that His Highness the Crown Prince is more taciturn than before?"

  Emperor Hongzhi shook his head.

   Ugh, this is a bit embarrassing.

   "After spending countless painstaking efforts, the problem of using water vapor was finally solved. His Royal Highness, use coal to generate steam. The steam enters the transmission system along a special pipeline, and the transmission system uses piston movement..."

  Fang Jifan kept explaining how the car works.

  Actually, even he himself has only a half-knowledge of these blunt and difficult mechanical knowledge. To be honest, Fang Jifan is not good at it. He is more likely to put forward a directional thing.

It was the first time that human beings began to use water vapor, or in other words, to build a steam train. On the way, they actually took countless detours, and each detour was delayed for several years or even ten years. Fang Jifan proposed a direction, And countless smartest craftsmen in the world, under the leadership of Zhu Houzhao, just work hard in one direction.

  Since ancient times, there has never been a lack of skilled craftsmen here. What's more, the engineering college has laid some foundations, and the emergence of a large number of Francine captives has made the technology of the East and the West begin to spread.

The Ming Dynasty in this era has a relatively open attitude towards foreign things. From the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of missionaries came here with new technologies. Attitude, with their knowledge, improved many things.

  Fang Jifan tried his best to explain the truth of steam trains in detail.

  Emperor Hongzhi suddenly realized.

  At this moment, he no longer has any fear in his heart.

People are like this, when such a terrifying monster suddenly appears, people will be afraid, but once you tell him what is going on with this thing, oh, so it turns out, it just catches the steam, just like hot air blows it off. Turn on the teapot and use a lot of heat to make it move.

  Emperor Hongzhi's face returned to color: "It's not easy to make this thing."

Fang Jifan said seriously: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness and countless craftsmen have spent two or three years of hard work. In order to overcome one difficulty after another, many people have worked hard, and some even forgot to sleep and eat. In order to continuously develop and improve Many iron forging techniques improved modeling methods... many disciplines have been improved."

   This is a great initiative no less than the Manhattan Project.

  Its advantage is that in order to overcome many difficulties, countless mechanical manufacturing, woodworking, smelting, and many basic disciplines have been greatly developed.

  These cutting-edge technologies have created a steam train, but in fact, in the future, with the help of these, many machines will emerge.

Emperor Hongzhi was still furious just now, but at this moment, standing here, the train was still rumbling forward, the noisy noise and vibration, perhaps because the body had adapted, there was no more fear, nor Feeling unwell, he frowned, but at this moment, he was shocked: "This car can run only by laying rails?"

   "Yes." Fang Jifan said with a smile: "After the railroad tracks are laid, you can travel, and you can travel eighty miles in an hour."

  The speed is 20 kilometers per hour, which is 40 miles. This speed, in later generations, is equivalent to that of a battery car. It is stable and there is no traffic jam.

  Fang Jifan was not satisfied with such motivation.

  But Emperor Hongzhi felt differently. His first reaction was to gasp, as if he was shocked by the speed.

   Fast horses and whips can travel hundreds of miles a day, but the problem is that such knights have undergone special training, but they need to be constantly passed on, and they can only be used for the transmission of letters.

  Fang Jifan said again: "However, the greatest use of this car is that it can carry tens of thousands of catties, or even hundreds of thousands of catties."

   These words directly stunned Emperor Hongzhi.

  One hundred thousand catties, not much, that is, one hundred tons, is it a lot?

   This train is simply a weak chicken in the train industry.

  This load is the load of a train skin in later generations.

  But Emperor Hongzhi was completely shocked.

  He was silent, thinking quickly in his mind.

   "That is to say, if you go from the new city to the old city, you can carry 100,000 catties of goods, or... can you carry a thousand people and arrive at night?"

"It's only forty miles away, and it doesn't need to arrive overnight, that is, half an hour, and it can be transported there. If it is a passenger transport, you may need to stop halfway, but more than half an hour is completely enough. Your minister and His Royal Highness , I have already thought about it, on this railway line, there will be a few more trains, and I will try to make a train stop at every station every half an hour."

   Unexpectedly... it can be added.

  This is the truly terrifying amount of transportation.

  One car drives back and forth, but if there are a number of cars, driving back and forth day and night, wouldn’t the transfer of goods and manpower between the new city and the old city... almost be seamlessly connected?

  Especially in the old city, the canal is connected, and the canal will send countless goods to the old city. Doesn’t this new city take advantage of the water transportation convenience of the old city?

  Not only that, but also the flow of people...

  Boom...boom...

  The roar of the train was surprisingly pleasant to the ears of Emperor Hongzhi.

  Emperor Hongzhi's voice showed a bit of excitement: "Interesting, interesting. I have never seen such an exquisite thing in the world. To make this thing, the cost...is amazing."

   "Not much, back and forth, from research and development, to workshops specially built for it, then there are rails, and the manufacture of steam trains, as well as the manpower hired. So far, it has cost nearly 30 million taels."

   Well, Emperor Hongzhi's face turned livid when he was very realistic.

  Silver, thirty million taels, these two **** prodigal sons.

  Fang Jifan continued: "However, in the future, only the laying of rails is required, and the cost will be greatly reduced. Each mile of rails can be controlled at a cost of 13,000 taels of silver."

   "Besides that..." Fang Jifan said cheerfully: "Your Majesty, I have something to do and I forgot to report it. This place in the old city..."

  …

  I got up at four o’clock today, the first update arrived, and today’s update will start, first return yesterday’s one, and try to make the sixth update today...

  (end of this chapter)