Traveler Major League

Chapter 189 Technological Breakthrough

The sun has just risen, and the steam engine power branch of the Ministry of Science's test site, which is located at the nearest location by the riverside wharf, is crowded with people, only the open space in the middle is empty, not only is there no one, but there is also a trench dug on the edge, basically all the onlookers All are covered by the earth wall behind the trench, just like battlefield fortifications.

The reason for the tension is that in many previous tests, the accidental explosion of the boiler resulted in double-digit casualties. This time it was another extreme durability test. The Danger of Dark Metal Artifacts.

As the date of the official founding of the People's Republic of China approached, the steam engine finally made a major breakthrough after several prototype experiments.

"Brother, can you make it this time?" This is a newcomer in the department. Unlike the previous training by Liu Ze himself, all branches of the Science Department have begun to recruit outstanding graduates from schools on their own.

At present, the most schools in the People's League are the literacy classes in various workshop villages. The learning content is only: Chinese, mathematics, history, and basic physics and chemistry. The teachers are usually assistant students trained by Liu Ze before. Most of the teachers are part-time Teaching, they all have other main jobs.

The deeper knowledge schools have not yet been built, mainly because the new qualified talents have not been cultivated to this point, and on the other hand, the textbooks are still being compiled by Liu Ze.

The current education system as a whole is mainly for literacy, followed by the most important further education system and the diversion system. The diversion system means that after the literacy study, those who have outstanding achievements will have the opportunity to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and they will be assigned to Different departments carry out the combination of work and study, and the advanced study system is after the diversion. Those with outstanding work performance can get the opportunity of Liu Ze's increasingly large student group, and follow Liu Ze to invest in deeper research and exploration.

Especially young teenagers who have received literacy education, under the distribution of the People's Government, they can be found in all industries. This place is not boring and repetitive child labor that consumes life, but carpenters, road builders, and wall plasterers. Craftsmen, doctors, butchers, blacksmiths, etc. are mainly trained in skills, and they will become the core of all walks of life in the future.

The person who was questioned by this newcomer named Li Deye was his master, named Tao Ju, "Almost, I didn't see the chairman of the committee coming. The airtightness and horsepower of the previous short-term experiments were sufficient. If this becomes , must be of great use, we are short of people everywhere, there is no way."

The chairman Tao Ju mentioned refers to Liu Ze. Since the establishment of the special committee for the establishment of the People's League, he has been unanimously elected as the chairman to exercise the power of the supreme leader. This is his original job, but now Put on the justifiable rule shell.

Li Deye scratched his head and asked: "There are so many of us. I heard that the east side has been expanding outwards, bringing in a steady stream of red-haired man. Is there still a shortage of people?"

"Where is there no shortage of people? This person is the most precious resource."

"Isn't it said that the population is a burden? The food is only relieved by this harvest. Before, we always said that there are too many people, and we talk about saving food every day. We eat fish every day, and there is no seasoning. We only have some salt. I'm so tired. If there are only half of us here, how can we live a good life of eating food every day?" Li Deye asked back, with his head held up, his face full of doubts.

Tao Ju glanced at the confused Li Deye, and said with disdain, "Who did you hear that from? That idiot from Jiayu Factory?"

"Master, do you know him too?"

"I heard the chairman judge him, saying that an idiot like him should be sent to sweep the street at the gate of the headquarters of the Ministry of Science, and let everyone who comes in and out judge this kind of person."

"What?"

Tao Ju cleared his throat and recalled Liu Ze's words: "The view that population is a burden is too extreme and completely divorced from reality. If it is an agricultural society or a resource-based society, the largest amount of wealth is stable, and the population and wealth will show a curve corresponding to it." , At a certain stage, the population is small and the per capita wealth reaches a critical high point, but this is not stable, and this kind of society is deformed.”

"The other kind of society is normal and healthy, such as the world that the chairman leads us to build. This is completely different from the above deformed society. You must know that the two major elements of industrial development: production and demand, must be completed by people. Therefore, for an industrial society/country that aspires to become a strong one, the population may be temporarily a burden (the grain output has not yet increased in the initial stage of industrialization, resulting in insufficient food), but with the progress of industrialization, various population constraints such as food will be It will be solved by industrialization itself, and population will eventually become the wealth of industrialized society. In the future, a country without enough population will not even be able to support a complete industrial chain, not enough market, or even enough talent reserves. This is undoubtedly a disaster for civilization .”

Tao Ju rubbed his young apprentice's hair, and said gently: "That kind of idiot is either short-sighted or harbors evil intentions. Let me say that it is not too much to forgive him by sending him to the mine to dig coal for a lifetime."

"It just happened to dig coal mines to supply our steam engine, apprentice, you must know that the thing we are building now can not only replace wind power, water power, manpower and animal power, but also can drive wheels to run, so that the boat can be driven by propellers in the water. It's a revolution."

"As long as we have this thing, everything will be different." Tao Ju focused his eyes on the operator who was making final preparations.

Li Deye asked: "So important? Why did it take so long to make it? I heard it took a year."

"To be exact, it has been a year and a half. Since the first time I traveled here, the steel factory has been built and trial production has started. From small to large models, I don't know how many experimental machines have been made, in various shapes, for technical reserves. .”

"As the chairman said, he knows all the theoretical drawings, but he doesn't know how to make them, how to rivet them, and how to cast them. The report is made in the morning, and it can be delivered in the afternoon, and the small-scale research has not stopped during the time I returned to Daming, so one can imagine how much the chairman attaches importance to it. How important this thing is.”

"If this steam engine is successful, you can see that we can save hundreds of horses for the animals that pull coal every day. If it is used in the coal mine, people don't need to push the small trolley hard. Just hang the rope and let the machine Lah, save your trouble. At least half of the people and most of the animals can be saved in the current workshop, and the remaining people can expand production. Do the math, this is incredible."

Tao Ju repeated what Liu Ze said in class before. In fact, he didn't know what kind of spectacular scene it was, but he believed it. Except for him, everyone in the class believed in Liu Ze's imagination.

According to what Liu Ze said, the essence of the highest level of human energy technology is to boil water. From the perspective of aliens, people on earth have not changed from thousands of years ago to modern times. Boil water, after all most of the electricity in the modern world is generated through steam.

It doesn't matter whether you burn firewood directly, or use coal or oil to boil water. Even nuclear energy works through nuclear reactors.

The most basic steam engine is a typical example. Liu Ze's concern for this kind of equipment is the same as that of electricity. He even spends more time here than in the office. This is a must for starting the industrial revolution.

In fact, as long as you look at the structure diagram, you will know that the principle of this steam engine is very simple. It has two parts: the boiler and the engine. The boiler is used to boil water. The purpose is to generate high-pressure steam. The engine uses the steam generated by the boiler to push the piston. There is nothing difficult. Basically, it is a question of theory and machining accuracy.

The method for the power part of the steam engine is to use iron to make the boiler for boiling water, and use cast iron to make the piston and various cylinders. The main difficulty is that the diameter of the piston should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the cylinder, but it should not be too small, otherwise it will leak. gas.

Now the method Liu Ze adopts is to make the cylinder slightly smaller than the final size, and then use a metal column to penetrate from the middle to use it as a bearing, and use a movable drill bit to support the inside of the entire cylinder to be uniform. In the previous experiments, a circle of hemp rope was tightly wound directly on the bottom of the piston and a cast iron ring was used to increase air tightness.

The locomotive power prototype currently being tested in the field is designed based on this basic principle. Basically, there is a boiler filled with water in the locomotive, and coal is continuously added at the charcoal burning port to heat the boiler through the combustion chamber, and Add multiple pipes at the back of the combustion chamber, use the high temperature of the hot gas to pass through the pipes to heat the water tank at the same time, pass the hot steam generated in the water tank through the pipes, and then heat it again on the side of the combustion chamber, and introduce the high-temperature and high-pressure steam into the cylinder.

In the middle of the trench, as the operator continued to add coal, the burning red light reflected the faces of the two people, and the sweat continued to stay, and the steam pressure in the boiler was also increasing. In this way, there was no accident again, and a miracle was done vigorously. Under the action of the pressure, the piston finally drove the wheels to spin.

Although the experiment has been successful several times before, this time is different. This is a continuous test.

Until the bright light in the sky changed from morning sun to sunset, everyone present finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Liu Ze, who had been waiting by the side, was even more excited.

Others don't understand, but Liu Ze understands it very well. This time he finally has a device that can convert heat energy into kinetic energy. Either using manpower or animal power has great limitations.

And the steam engine can move as long as you have fuel. This idea is more powerful as long as you provide more fuel and optimize a better mechanical structure.

As long as the railway network is laid, whether it is military or civilian, the whole society will undergo earth-shaking changes. As long as the trains lead to the border of the territory, Liu Ze will be invincible.

The torches were fired to disperse the darkness, and everyone present cheered. It has been running stably for a day, and seeing that there is no abnormality, it indicates the success of the stability test. , like fairy music in the huge noise, making the atmosphere of the scene constantly rising.

There are 300 technicians and blacksmiths here, some of them followed Tao Ju from beginning to end, and some were gradually transferred after crossing. They all reveled as Liu Ze announced the word 'success'.

Although it took such a long time to succeed under the existing theoretical basis, today's success will become the most memorable day in their life when Liu Ze repeatedly explained the meaning for a long time. New Era.

"Go and inform the cafeteria to prepare a banquet, and ask everyone to inform their families to come and have a big dinner together tonight." Liu Ze couldn't stop his excitement, and he raised his arms and ordered.

Wang Zhe asked, "Will the Patent Law be implemented?"

Liu Ze nodded: "Notify the Legislative Council tomorrow that it's time for this law to be implemented, and the steam engine should be used as a typical propaganda."

The purpose of establishing the patent law is to promote technological innovation. The period of this utility patent is set to ten years. During this period, all people who use this patent must obtain the permission of the patent holder. Usually the holder will receive Patent fees, to put it bluntly, are monetary and material rewards.

As the backbone members of this steam engine power division, they will all get a part of the rights and interests of this patent. Although Liu Ze is the biggest contributor, Liu Ze just wants to make this first patent into a publicity campaign to encourage all technologies. personnel.

Now, as the days are gradually stabilized, the social order that was originally controlled by the military has also begun to loosen. Especially after the first summer harvest, after the food crisis was resolved, the industry and commerce in the new Hefei City also began to develop rapidly, and formed a city that was different from the original Xi'an in the Ming Dynasty. market culture.

All the layouts of New Hefei are centered around government departments, workshops, and schools. Restaurants are the first batch to appear. Later, in order to enrich the spiritual life, Chen Mo, who is in charge of the Propaganda Department, specially set up storytellers from his old business. Teahouses, theaters and other places have been added on this basis. The only thing missing is various temples. The priests, monks, imams and other religious personnel in Xi'an temples were all forced to work.

This is also a major feature of Liu Ze's administration. The old system and class rules are completely broken, and the structure he is familiar with is reset. The shattered old system and class personnel are also controlled and used by force, such as mining.

On this basis, the world is slowly loosened, resulting in the city that is completely different from all places today.

Contrary to the chaotic and lively steam engine power branch compound, the other departments around here are very quiet, but from time to time someone looks at this side, which shows that those places are not empty. In front of them hang the wooden signs of textile, shipbuilding, steel and other divisions.

As if fighting for favor, there was also a commotion in the power branch on the other side, and several people rushed out to report to Liu Ze: "Chairman, high-power capacitors and transformers have been made."

This means that it will be possible to artificially create lightning, which is another attempt to create a generator charging tablet after the failure.

(End of this chapter)