Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 14 Baby
Taichang's behavior is really incomprehensible, at least for people these days.

He actually took the prince and a group of Zhan Shifu officials to do carpentry work!

Even the weirdest apocalypse in history is just doing carpentry work by himself, and he didn't pull a large group of officials to do it with his son.

What is he doing this for?

He must have an answer to this question in his heart, but it is rather troublesome to explain it clearly to others.

Sometimes a word is worth a thousand words, do it!

Actions can express a lot of things, and it is easy to explain after doing it first.

However, it is not so easy to make a telescope. The lens barrel is really simple, just replace it with two harder wooden barrels temporarily, but the lens is a big problem.

It's not that there are no suitable crystals in the palace, soon Liu Shiyou came over with a plate of crystals.

These crystals are quite transparent, almost like glass. The question is, how to process them into lenses?

Taichang picked up a crystal bowl for a closer look, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

The shape of the bottom of the bowl is similar to that of a lens. The problem is how to cut it out and how to process it into a concave-convex mirror?
He frowned and pondered for a while, but he still didn't think of the processing method. In desperation, he could only raise the crystal bowl in his hand and ask, "Which of you can process this thing."

Among these people, does anyone know?

Someone really will!
Song Yingxing cupped his hands carefully and said: "Back to the emperor, I have seen the making of this thing several times, and I know how to process it, but I have never done it myself."

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but curiously said: "Oh, then tell me how this thing is processed."

Song Yingxing recalled: "The processing of jade and crystal utensils uses a mound machine and a jade sand. The mound machine is also called a water stool, so jade crystal processors also use a water stool. Mounds, wooden mounds, and leather mounds, these things are supplemented by Jieyu sand, which makes cutting, drilling, grinding, and polishing easy."

Uh, there are special machines!

Taichang asked in embarrassment: "Ruoyu, do you have this mound machine and Xie Yusha Shangbao?"

Liu Shiyou nodded thoughtfully and said, "There should be. I heard that there are quite a few old-fashioned ways of making jade in Shangbaojian."

That's it.

Taichang said without hesitation: "Go, order Shang Baojian to send both the mound machine and Xie Yusha, and then send the most skilled veteran."

The main reason why he didn't let people send things directly to Shangbao Supervisor for processing was to cultivate Prince Zhu Youxiao's hobby.

Zhu Youxiao loves carpentry, which is a good thing, at least he has the foundation to become a technology fanatic, or he is already a technology fanatic, but all his thoughts are on wood processing technology. If you add guidance, you can guide his hobbies to weapon processing.

Shangbaojian’s yamen is just outside the Xihua Gate of the Imperial Palace, not very far from Ciqing Palace. After a while, two young eunuchs came over with something that looked like a long chair and a long table. He also followed an old man, who was carrying a wooden barrel in one hand and a box in the other, looking quite professional.

In fact, the so-called mound machine is a bit similar to the vertical grinder of later generations. It is also a rotating shaft with a grinding wheel, but this rotating shaft is not driven by a motor, but driven by a rope wound on it. When working , as long as a person steps on the pedal under the mound machine, the rotating shaft will rotate rapidly with the grinding wheel-shaped thing on it.

This thing is actually similar to the machine used by Zhu Youxiao to process round logs. They are both pedaled and driven by ropes, but the wooden utensils are fixed on the rotating shaft and processed with chisels and files. The rotating shaft carries processing tools such as grinding stones, wooden stones, and leather stones, while jade and crystals are manually pasted on them for processing.

As for the extra bucket, it is actually used to hold water, because the speed of the punch and mill on the machine is too fast, if jade and crystal are processed, if they are cooled with water from time to time, they may be burnt. cigarette.

The things were moved, but the old trick was so frightened that he lay down on the ground and dared not get up.

The status of craftsmen these days is quite low. They can only lie on their stomachs in front of the officials and eunuchs, and cannot get up. The emperor and the crown prince are standing in front of them. How dare he get up.

Seeing this, Taichang had no choice but to comfort the old man, and finally let the old man get up.

However, as soon as the old man picked up the crystal bowl, his whole person changed. He carefully looked at the blueprint for a while, and then listened to Xu Guangqi's explanation.

Many times, the wisdom of the ancients is really impressive. This mound of machine-processed crystal is really fast. The hard crystal is like a piece of tofu in the hands of the old man. The bottom of the bowl was cut off, and the weird concave-convex mirror surface seemed difficult to process, but the old-fashioned style replaced it with a millstone without thinking. Visible velocity is taking shape.

Originally, Taichang thought that it would take at least half a day to process two lenses, but he never thought that in less than half an hour, the old-fashioned method processed a convex lens.

He took a careful look at the convex lens, and couldn't help but nodded again and again: "Well, very good, that's how it is."

The processing of this thing is indeed very good, not only the shape is regular, the surface is as smooth as a mirror after being polished and polished, and it does not affect the perspective at all.

Immediately afterwards, he said to Zhu Youxiao, who was eager to try, "how about it, principal, do you want to try?"

OK!

Zhu Youxiao looked at the side for a while, and his hands were a little itchy. He couldn't wait to pick up a crystal bowl, pushed the dumbfounded old hand aside, replaced it with the cutting mound, and then skillfully Step on the rotating shaft and start cutting.

This kid is indeed a genius, he just watched the old-fashioned movements just once, but when he moved his hands, it was similar to the old-fashioned moves, flowing freely without any stagnation.

Soon, he cut off a round bottom of the bowl, and then he replaced it with a grinding stone and tried to polish it.

According to the structure, the concave mirror should be more difficult to process than the convex mirror, but Zhu Youxiao was not afraid of the difficulty at all. He tried to operate it, and asked the old trick a few times, and it was only more than half a step before and after. In a matter of hours, a concave mirror was processed by him.

Now, even the old man couldn't help giving a thumbs up and praised: "His Royal Highness is really a god!"

Zhu Youxiao is so excited. He used to be sneaky when he was doing carpentry work, for fear that his father would be angry if he found out, but now he was encouraged by his father and exposed himself to everyone's admiring eyes. First hand, this feeling is simply too cool!

The next thing is simple, and the assembly work is Zhu Youxiao's strong point. The tables, chairs and benches he assembled are all tightly stitched, and there is no trace of assembly at all. The assembly of two lenses and two lens barrels is very important to him. It should not be too simple. Under the guidance of Xu Guangqi, he assembled the monocular in two or three steps.

Taichang took the telescope, walked to the window, lifted it up and slowly adjusted the relative positions of the large and small lens tubes to the distant scenery, and soon, the distant scenery seemed to be pulled in front of him, becoming extremely clear.

Well, yes, the focusing distance is about one mile. Although it is not very far, it is already a good start.

He seems to have gotten used to the thinking of later generations. Words of later generations such as telescope, concave-convex mirror, and focusing distance popped up in his mind, but he didn't even feel weird at all. There is no feeling of unfamiliarity.

The problem is that it is not enough for him to change his thinking alone. He has to let his cronies know the importance of developing technology, especially his son, the prince Zhu Youxiao.

His son is actually a treasure. If he is placed in future generations, he will be a natural technical talent. It's just that he has never met Bole in history, and he has no advanced skills to learn. As a result, all his skills were wasted on carpentry!

He can catch up with Lu Ban in carpentry work, which shows how talented he is.

If he trains him well and turns his interest to weapons development and even technology development, his achievements will be limitless!
(End of this chapter)