The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 14 Improving the Steam Engine

"Shhhhhh..."

One old and one young.

The two watched intently around the boiling kettle.

The old craftsman Hu Wansan never thought that the kettle in daily life would have such a great magic power.

Put it before.

Who told him that he would stare at the boiling water for an hour or two without moving, and he would definitely sneer.

Zhu Gaochi sighed: "The hemp rope you came up with is very good, which greatly reduces the consumption of heat energy and reduces the operating cost."

Don't underestimate the artisans in front of you.

People's old ideas, as if Western technology, are all invented by scientists.

In fact, it is a wrong impression.

For example a steam engine.

Beginning of the eighteenth century.

Invented by British blacksmiths.

China in the [-]th century had already begun to retreat in civilization.

And 200 years ago, in the mid-to-late sixteenth century, Chinese craftsmen were able to burn low-carbon steel and high-carbon steel to varying degrees.

The softness and rigidity of the two are different, and they are used to make bird guns, self-generating fire guns and gun knives, and Franji and Hongyi cannons.

"Unfortunately."

Wan San shook his head.

In the fields he is familiar with, Wansan is proud.

Zhu Gaochi in front of him, in his eyes, is no longer an honorable person who cannot be approached, but a colleague who can communicate.

Zhu Gaochi was very happy.

Compared with later generations, the ancients are proud.

Before the seventeenth century.

They do have the capital to be proud of.

"World History of Science and Technology".

In every century, except for the Yuan and Qing dynasties, Chinese science and technology are full of lengthy treatises.

The huge space it occupies exceeds that of other countries, which is the respect and recognition of Western civilization for them.

Even the Song Dynasty.

In the book "General History of World Science and Technology", in those centuries at that time, Westerners did not pay attention to Liao, Jin, and Yuan, but only paid special attention to Song Dashu.

He attached great importance to the advancement of technology in the Song Dynasty.

Also gave excellent reviews.

An explanation is also given.

The views in the book, such as the excellent Greek civilization, were unfortunately destroyed by barbarism, and the history of civilization was destroyed, which is the loss of the entire human race.

The demise of the Song Dynasty is also the loss of human civilization.

Zhu Gaochi attaches great importance to Wansan, and Wansan feels that he is not worthy of the attention of Prince Yan, and feels ashamed of the efficiency of the steam engine.

"Special...patent fees." Wan San said in a convoluted way, "Caomin dare not take that much money."

With a bitter face.

"The eldest son keeps it for himself."

After thinking about it for a while, I added something.

"Otherwise, you can give it as you see fit, as long as you don't need that much money."

"All or nothing."

Zhu Gaochi gave Wansan a choice.

There is no such thing.

Isn't this embarrassing.

Under the persecution of the eldest son, he finally chose to ask for everything.

"Let's think about it more, how to improve the steam engine, so that you can keep your money safely, and we can earn more."

Wansan nodded and looked at the kettle again.

Explore the principles inside.

The principle is actually very simple, but the creation of things is not so simple.

"I can't see anything coming."

Not for a while.

Wansan gave up.

He decided to go to Xishan to stay for a few days, no longer entangled with the principles here, and explored the areas that could be improved through the operation of the steam engine.

"Okay." Zhu Gaochi agreed.

I was grounded and couldn't leave the palace.

People have to be self-aware.

Letting oneself move his mouth is fine, it can make Wan San stunned for a while, but his hands can't play a role, and it will show his true colors.

"If you need anything, don't be polite, and someone must come to us."

"Eh."

Wansan nodded happily.

Prince Yan really has nothing to say to himself.

In the future, I have to call back all my apprentices who have been taught.

Who said that ordinary people have no wisdom of their own?
Wansan is very smart.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

His apprentices after he became a teacher were sent to various places by him, and if anyone caused trouble, they would not be caught in the same pot.

It is also to leave a way out for myself.

Now Wansan is determined to seek refuge with the eldest son.

People treat themselves so kindly, they can't let them down.

"Do you want to change your name?" Zhu Gaochi said suddenly.

In the older generation, many people's names are numbers.

It's not that they are uneducated and don't want to take names.

Passed down from the ancestors, there is no reason to use numbers for names.

For example Zhu Yuanzhang.

The names of their brothers are also numbers, and Zhu Yuanzhang himself is called Zhu Chongba.

Because according to the regulations of the Yuan Dynasty, Han civilians are not allowed to be named, and can only be replaced by numbers.

On the one hand, it is for the convenience of management, and on the other hand, it can attack Han culture, insult the dignity of Han people, and make Han people numb and lose their resistance.

in fact.

It is the same reason as the foreign forces in the later world to smear Chinese history.

Your Han emperor can’t do this or that, your Han officials can’t do this or that, your Han can’t do this or that.

After gradually accepting this kind of thinking, people will become numb to history and fall into self-denial.

Followed.

National identity also disappears.

Only those who have a certain understanding of history can clearly affirm that these concepts are all nonsense and nonsense.

Wan San was taken aback.

His family has a family tree.

Later, I couldn't survive, and the family was too poor. After several migrations, the family broke up, and the family tree didn't know where it went.

"forget it."

"Caomin's grandson has a name, Mr. please get a name."

"Okay, it's fine."

Zhu Gaochi laughed.

In terms of tenacity, no one can compare to the Han people.

Suffering never knocked them down, and facing the new life with a smile, countless people resumed their original lives and began to restore civilization.

"The more steam engines you sell in the future, let your grandson go to school."

"Ah."

Wan San nodded heavily.

"He didn't study hard, broke his legs, and waited until he grew up to be admitted to fame and honor his ancestors, so that he could be worthy of the old man."

"One day, let him kowtow to the eldest son."

?

The black lines on Zhu Gaochi's face.

He heard an answer he didn't want to hear.

There are senior figures in the industry in the family, and there is an atmosphere of cultivation since childhood. Shouldn't they inherit the ancestral business?

Started taller than others.

pity.

Although craftsmen are richer than farmers.

The social atmosphere is hard to change.

Patents can only be a means, not absolute. To make people live and work in peace and contentment, and willing to invest in other industries, it depends on other things.

Zhu Gaochi sent Wansan away.

at this time.

Katsuragi is on his way back.

People mature.

The other party is difficult to deal with, and I have nothing to do with the other party.

Quite a headache.

"What do they want?"

Katsuragi asked.

"Steam engine."

The entourage hurriedly said.

"The thing that the eldest son made?"

The entourage nodded again and again.

"But if you put yourself into it, you won't forget to eat."

"Ugh."

Katsuragi sighed.

When the other party entered Beiping and passed through the Xishan Mountains, why did they focus on it?

"Stability is the main thing."

"Where is the eldest son?"

Follower said worriedly.

Katsuragi shook his head.

In the recent troubled times, no accidents can occur in Yan Wangfu.

(End of this chapter)