Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 205: Ming Dynasty's First Steamship!
At the end of September, Zeng Ying and Li Dingguo each led an army to pacify Chongqing and Kuizhou.

In the next two days, Zhu Yuxi set up a secret manufacturing bureau, and asked the craftsmen headed by Hua Mude to develop steam engines based on the blueprints obtained by Hao Guangming.

Because of the drawings, Zhu Yuxi paid more attention to this matter, and went to give guidance from time to time. In just over half a month, Hua Mude and others trial-produced the first steam engine.

However, as the first trial-produced by craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, there are still some shortcomings and flaws in terms of craftsmanship.

Afterwards, Hua Mude and others spent half a month trial-manufacturing the second and third steam engines that were more perfect.

After Aimee Zhu went to see it, Hao Guangming also watched it through the mobile phone video, and found that the third engine was no different from the steam engine on the drawing.

So Auntie Zhu ordered that Hua Mude and other craftsmen of the secret building bureau cooperate with the recruited shipwrights to trial-produce steam wooden ships according to the drawings.

Because Aimee Zhu now wants to manufacture the ship as soon as possible, so that it can be used next year, and has no idea of ​​cultivating the scientific research capabilities of Hua Mude and other craftsmen (otherwise, he would not have given detailed drawings of steam engines and steam ships).

Therefore, instead of asking Hua Mude and others to start the development from the paddle steamer, they directly trial-produced the propeller steamer according to the drawings.

Speaking of which, as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were written records of paddle steamers in Shenzhou, and their actual appearance may have been earlier.

At that time, people invented ships based on the operating principle of cars, so they were named cars and ships.

In the Song Dynasty, the development of vehicles and boats can be said to have reached its peak, and it was brilliant in the water battles between the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin and Mongolia.

However, the shortcomings of vehicles and ships are too obvious.

One is that the water depth requirements for navigation are higher, and it is easy to destroy the ship's wheel for sundries in the water.

The second is that vehicles and boats are completely unsuitable on the sea, and it can even be said that they cannot go to sea and can only be used as inland river boats.

Therefore, by the Ming Dynasty, vehicles and boats had declined, and by the Qing Dynasty, they were almost completely eliminated. Only one or two ships could occasionally be seen in the south, but they were relatively small.

However, in this time and space of the Ming Dynasty, many people knew about vehicles and boats.

Therefore, when Aimee Zhu proposed to use the steam engine as power to build ships, the craftsmen and shipwrights of Huamude first thought of vehicles and ships.

But both Zhu Yu and Hao Guangming knew that even if a steam engine was used, the paddle wheels would be replaced by propellers, so they simply let Hua Mude and others directly try to build a propeller ship according to the drawings.

Speaking of it, the invention of the propeller has both cultural inheritance and accidental factors.

In the East, Shenzhou invented the prototype of the propeller, the scull, very early.

When a ship sails by manpower, three tools can be used, oars, sculls, and sculls. Among them, sculls are the most labor-saving and efficient to use, and there is even a saying that there are three oars.

Only limited by manpower, the explosive power of the scull is far from being comparable to that of the oar and the oar.

It is a pity that in history, China did not invent the steam engine, and navigation activities were not prosperous. Naturally, there was no chance to invent the propeller according to the inheritance.

The invention of the propeller by Westerners was inspired by an invention of Archimedes, namely the "screw water pump" or "screw water pump".

After the steam engine was applied to ship navigation by driving the paddle wheel, the paddle wheel also became its major disadvantage, which was even more troublesome than before.

Therefore, Western shipbuilders have been thinking hard about a solution, and finally thought of Archimedes' spiral water vessel.

Originally, shipwrights wanted to install the screw lifter directly on the bottom of the boat.

But this requires a big hole in the ship, and the speed of the ship is not much, initially it can only reach 4 knots.

Therefore, the captains were reluctant to accept such a modification, preferring to use the same defective paddle steamer.

Later, the shipwrights continued to experiment, from the rough idea of ​​directly installing the spiral hydrant on the ship at first, to the ingenious idea of ​​only installing two spirals on the stern of the ship in the end.

But even so, the speed of this kind of ship still has no obvious advantage over paddle steamers.

Until an accident occurred in the experiment, the stone in the water destroyed half of the blades (wooden), leaving only the other half (two), which suddenly increased the speed of the ship, and the practical propeller, which has breakthrough significance in the shipbuilding industry, was born. was invented.

Historically, the appearance of propeller boats was 30 years later than that of paddle steamers.

However, in this time and space, Hua Mude and others tried to manufacture the propeller ship in only half a month based on the mature propeller propeller drawings provided by Hao Guangming and suitable for the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why it took more than ten days to report the good news to Auntie Zhu today is to make sure that there will be no accidents on the propeller ship during the sea trial...

Zhu Yu called the person who delivered the good news into the Chengyun Hall, listened to his report on the situation, and read the report letter from Li Feng, the ambassador of the Bureau of Secrecy, and Hua Mude, the head of the shipbuilding bureau.

Lu Daqi noticed it below and couldn't help but think to himself: "The success of the trial-built steamship made Jian Guo so happy. Could it be a creation from later generations?" '

At this time, Auntie Zhu said with a smile, "The steamship trial has been successfully built. Mr. Dong Chuan, would you like to go with me to observe its trial voyage?"

Lu Daqi immediately said: "This is my honor."

Now that he knew that Aimee Zhu was indeed governed by the imperial edict of Chongzhen, and that he did have "great supernatural powers", as a smart person, Lu Daqi naturally chose to work for Aimee Zhu wholeheartedly.

Because he has been able to meet, the Nanjing court will be vulnerable in front of Aimee Zhu.

And Aimee Zhu has "great supernatural powers", so Pseudo-Shun and Donglu will also not be opponents.

For Auntie Zhu, the biggest obstacle to reunifying the world and restoring the prosperity of Ming Dynasty is probably her identity as a woman.

But Lu Daqi felt that this was not a problem in the face of strong and unshakable strength.

There was Empress Wu Zhao in Tang Dynasty, so why couldn't Ming Dynasty have Empress Aimee Zhu?

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The shipyard where the ship was trial-built was located by Zhu Yuxi on the shore of Mingyuan Lake in the lower reaches of the Jiang'an River, not far from the arsenal.

One is to facilitate the use of steel from the iron factory in the upper reaches of Jiang'an River, various cement machine tools from the arsenal, and even various craftsmen.

The second is to facilitate the army to block and guard.

Of course, in the future when orderly armored warships are formally manufactured, they will definitely not be located in Mingyuan Lake, but will be chosen by other rivers that can connect with the Yangtze River.

Mingyuan Lake is some distance away from Chengdu City, and it's not a trivial matter for Auntie Zhu to travel, so she didn't arrive there until an hour later.

Li Feng, Hua Mude, and Huang Min, the head of ship development at the shipbuilder's side, came out with a group of craftsmen and shipbuilders to greet them, and saluted Aimee Zhu.

After the ceremony, Auntie Zhu said directly, "Can the steamship go on a trial run? Take me to have a look."

Li Feng and the others should do so immediately.

Immediately, he took Zhu Yuxi to the shipyard by the lake, and saw a wooden boat parked by the pier.

I saw that this wooden boat was not big, only three or four Zhang long and two or three Zhang wide.

But the not-so-high smoke punch above caught Aimi Zhu's eyes all of a sudden, making her eyes extremely bright.

This is a steamship!
The first steamship made by Ming Dynasty!
　Grandpa celebrates his birthday today, so he asked for leave and went back to the countryside to help cook and entertain guests.

　　I was very tired after returning, so this chapter only has about [-] words.

　　The state is not good, and I don't want to rush to write. Today's update is only these two chapters.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)