The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 458 The world's first expert

The huge Kongming Lantern caused a sensation in Beiping City.

Businessman Wu Hong excitedly led the technician Wang Chun and a few hired workers to the suburbs of Beiping again.

This launch event attracted many people to watch.

Many people who knew the news came here early and were very interested in the upcoming launch.

"I don't know when it will be able to carry people."

"How dangerous."

"It's more reliable than thousands of households flying into the sky."

Some scholars laughed.

Speaking of Wan Hu, this man was originally named Tao Guangyi, a person from the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Because of his meritorious service in offering firearms to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still the king of Wu at that time, he was awarded the title of Wan Hu by Zhu Yuanzhang, so people around him called him Wan Hu.

This man is fantastic.

In the 23rd year of Hongwu, he rode 47 self-made rockets, sat on the chair by himself, and wanted to lift off the rocket.

Then hold two big kites in your hands, and plan to use the buoyancy of the kites to land.

The plan of course failed.

The ancients were still very enthusiastic about launching into space, and there are countless deeds.

For example, "Han Shu Wang Mang Biography" introduced that at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang recruited talented people from all over the country to join in the fight against the Huns, and for this reason he held an air show in Chang'an.

It really attracted a capable person who can "fly". This person "takes a big bird as two wings, with hair on the head and body, and uses the ring button to fly hundreds of steps before falling".

For example, Yuan Huangtou landed from a high place by relying on a "kite", and his actions of escaping death and so on.From the Han, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties, there are records of ancient people trying to fly.

The huge Kongming lantern is made of linen, and wise scholars use bamboo strips to support it.

According to the previous experience, this time they applied a layer of alum varnish on the inside and outside of the Kongming lantern's linen, which not only reduces the air permeability of the Kongming lantern, but also increases the high temperature resistance.

Different from the misconception that people in the West mistakenly believe that thick smoke helps lift off, scholar Wang Chun has discovered that the cause is thermal airflow.

Because the Kongming Lantern itself is based on this principle and can be judged by the naked eye, and there is no Kongming Lantern in the West.

"Can today's lift-off take more than half an hour?"

Wu Hong asked with concern.

Wang Chun nodded, "The lift-off fuel this time uses kerosene, which should last more than half an hour."

"Great."

Wu Hong smiled happily.

The longer it takes to fly, the more attractive it becomes.

Today he also invited two staff members from the food stamp bank. Their attitudes will determine whether he can get a loan in the future.

"did you see."

The surrounding people were pointed out.

Workers are putting two sheep into bamboo baskets and tying them with ropes to prevent the sheep from moving and damaging the lift.

"They used sheep."

"If sheep can be lifted into the air and returned to the ground safely, then so can humans."

The people were very excited.

They wait for what comes next.

More and more people came here, and there were already three floors inside and three floors outside. At least two to three thousand people came here.

After all the work arrangements were in place, Wang Chun stepped forward to inspect it before nodding to the workers.

Workers light the stoves in bamboo baskets.

The stove burned straw, and soon the heat gathered in the Kongming lantern, and the ropes tied to the ground were straightened.

The workers began to get nervous, they were still in the bamboo baskets.

After the straw was burned, they lit the kerosene lamps.

According to Wang Chun, the long-term use of kerosene lamps can increase the time that Kongming lanterns are in the air.

Having completed this step, the workers descended from the bamboo baskets and let go of the ropes.

The huge Kongming Lantern was lifted into the sky immediately.

"Wow."

"Fly."

"There are sheep in it."

There is no wind today.

The day before yesterday, the Kongming Lantern chased it a long way.

The Kongming Lantern rose higher and higher, and the people on the ground held their heads up and looked at the Kongming Lantern hard, and the Kongming Lantern also began to float into the distance.

"Floating away."

"It's floating back again."

"Oh, it's drifting away again."

The Kongming lanterns drifted farther and farther away, and people started to follow them on the ground. Thousands of people gradually couldn't keep up.

Just when people were disappointed, the Kongming Lantern stopped fluttering again and went up to a higher place.

"Why are you still taking off?"

"God, it won't be ascended to the Heavenly Palace, will it alarm the gods?"

The huge Kongming Lantern has become a small point in the sky, and people need to be careful to see the Kongming Lantern.

It also took more than a quarter of an hour for the Kongming Lantern to be lifted into the sky.

"No, people can't see it anymore." The businessman became anxious.

"It's a good thing, it shows that my technical direction is correct." The scholar laughed, and the two thought differently.

"The sky lanterns that went up the day before yesterday were due to a one-time heat flow. When the heat flow was exhausted, the sky lanterns fell down on their own."

"This time I used kerosene lamps to prolong the time for the birth of heat flow, so Kongming lanterns can fly longer in the air."

The businessman said unhappily: "But we have been in the air for so long, and we can't control it."

"So next time we have to carry people."

"People control the burning of kerosene lamps inside the bamboo basket, which can increase or decrease the time the Kongming Lantern flies in the air."

The technician said calmly.

"Too dangerous."

The businessman disagrees.

Relying on the current gimmick, he is sure to get a loan from the food stamp bank, but if there is an accident, the food stamp bank may be scruples about public opinion, which leads to the rejection of the loan.

The scholar ignored the businessman and stared at the sky.

At last.

The Kongming Lantern finally came down.

After floating in the air for half an hour, the kerosene lamp burned out the kerosene, and as the heat in the Kongming lantern gradually diminished, the Kongming lantern descended faster and faster.

"Clap."

The Kongming lantern fell heavily on the ground.

Shortly after.

The businessmen, scholars, and other people chased after them and quickly looked into the basket. Although the two sheep were alive, they were seriously injured.

This is a failed technology.

The staff of the food stamp bank gave an assessment.

Businessmen don't get loans.

The scholar ignores the discouraged businessman and instead ponders the gains and losses.

"No problem with liftoff."

"The time of liftoff can be controlled by burning fuel, but it needs to be controlled by a person in a bamboo basket."

"It is difficult to ensure the safety of people falling in bamboo baskets, because the Kongming lanterns fall too fast."

Many things require scholars to understand and think by themselves.

It is very simple for later generations to understand, but it is a huge problem for scholars today.

How to control the descending speed of Kongming Lantern?

Scholars think with their superficial understanding of things, and finally thought, since combustion can control the time of lift-off, whether it is possible to control the speed of the Kongming lantern's descent by reducing the scale of combustion.

The only problem right now is people.

It takes people to try.

This is very risky behavior.

"Come again, I will ride the Kongming Lantern myself."

The decadent merchant is found by the scholar.

The businessman was amazed by the scholar's bold idea. Isn't this man afraid of death?

"I'm out of money."

"what?"

"Actually, I lied to you. I am not a shareholder of Heji Commercial Bank at all."

"Aren't you from Cantonese? Someone in your family is engaged in maritime trade." The scholar looked at the businessman in disbelief.

The merchant smiled wryly.

"There are indeed people in my hometown who are engaged in maritime trade, but they have nothing to do with me. I only get one hundred yuan for all my wealth." "You."

The scholar was so angry that he could not speak.

Take all precautions, but you still can't guard against cunning people.

No wonder businessmen have been very stingy.

……

The Imperial City of Peking.

Zhu Gaochi raised his telescope and looked at the sky lanterns on the outskirts of the city.

"It's really rising."

Chen Heng on the side said incredulously.

A group of people beside him were holding on to the railing, and each of them held a pair of binoculars. Many people watched in amazement.

Everyone thought it was awesome.

"You think, what if we ride on the Kongming Lantern and the sergeant throws powder packets on the ground?" Chen Heng said in a whimsical way.

"How to control the gunpowder package, I am afraid it will explode before it hits the ground."

"Lengthen the match rope."

"Then if the match rope is too long, it will be trampled by someone when it falls to the ground."

"You can find out the height, how high the height is, and what length of match rope is suitable." Everyone said something to each other.

Zhu Gaochi didn't say much.

Why didn't Kongming Lantern become a hot air balloon.

During the Three Kingdoms period, productivity was insufficient.

There was also a shortage of materials.

People don't even have enough to eat, so how can they waste such luxurious fabrics?And there is no market prospect, and the military role is not great.

Until the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty had the best chance of becoming a hot air balloon.

Because the Song Dynasty had a market.

However, the external environment of the Song Dynasty was too harsh. The demise of the Northern Song Dynasty and the maintenance of the Southern Song Dynasty were too destructive to the stability of society.

Then came the Yuan Dynasty.

The market has lost its vitality, the Han people have lost their initiative, craftsmen have become inferior to each other from generation to generation, and there have even been many technological gaps.

Due to the inertia of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty lacked social vitality, and spent a lot of energy on restoring the population and production in the north.

Technically, it has not returned to the level of the Song Dynasty.

The invention of hot air balloons in France is regarded as a rarity in itself, and businessmen get tickets from ordinary people in the market.

The accidental invention of phosphorus and the profit model are the same social environment.

The market is profitable.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi does not value the current hot air balloons very much.

If a businessman makes a hot air balloon, with the current level of technology, it can only be regarded as a rarity that attracts the common people to watch.

Only when the technology of producing hydrogen is invented, can it have certain military value.

Zhu Gaochi despises the current hot air balloon, because he knows more things.

But other people don't know.

Everyone is very interested in the large Kongming Lantern that is launched into the sky.

soon.

Patent Division.

The steward sent away the people from the food stamp bank, went back to his public room, made a cup of hot tea, took a break from his busy schedule, and looked at the street downstairs by the glass window.

A bus passed by, because someone blocked the track, the bell of the bus kept ringing, and the pedestrians in the middle of the road were scared and backed away.

Obviously an outsider who doesn't understand the rules of Peking.

"There are more and more foreigners. When they come to Peking, the first thing to do is to teach them the rules of Peking."

The steward of the patent department silently thought that he had forgotten his ancestral home.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

A staff member pushed open the door and said, "Someone from the Military-Industrial Joint Office is here and wants to review the patented Kongming Lantern technology."

"It's Kongming Lantern again."

The steward shook his head helplessly.

There are quite a few people who come to read the patented technology of sky lanterns today.

The huge Kongming lantern that rose above the city of Peking the day before yesterday, although it only floated in the air for a quarter of an hour, made a lot of noise.

The people from the food stamp bank had just left, but the people from the military-industrial joint office came again, and it was not known who would come later.

Ordinary people can't see it, but the patent department can't refuse these large departments
"Show them."

The steward didn't care.

Every day in the patent department, people come to apply for new patents, and the professional quality of the staff is still good. It can be seen that the Kongming lantern technology has huge flaws.

really.

The people from the Military-Industrial Joint Office looked through it and showed regret. It seemed that they were not too tempted.

But it is different from the food stamp bank.

The positions of the Military-Industrial Joint Office and the Food Stamp Bank are different.

this day.

In his study room, the scholar who was deep in thought was awakened by the knock on the door, and opened the door impatiently, only to see the businessman from a while ago.

The businessman was no longer decadent, and embraced the scholar energetically.

"Our research can continue."

"What happened?"

The scholar looked at the businessman inexplicably.

The businessman laughed and said: "The Military-Industrial Joint Office found me and gave me a sum of 1000 yuan. It is funds, not a loan."

The businessman said loudly.

Scholars don't know why, but why did it involve the Military-Industrial Joint Office?

"But you can't mess around with this money, but who cares, man, our Kongming Lantern can continue."

After the merchants babbled incoherently, the scholars who listened to it for a long time finally figured it out.

The Military-Industrial Joint Office took a fancy to their technology and gave them R&D funds of 1000 yuan to continue researching this technology.

The requirement is that this technology must be kept secret and belong to the Joint Military-Industrial Office.

Of course.

If there are results, the Military-Industrial Joint Office will give a high bonus.

Even if the results are extraordinary, the Military-Industrial Joint Office can also support them in managing the Kongming Lantern Factory, and the Military-Industrial Joint Office will place orders for them.

"Job, now we don't have to worry about anything."

The businessman didn't care about drinking tea, so he pulled the scholar and said with a smile: "We just need to figure out the manned sky lantern technology. The better it is, the better our prospects will be."

Scholars don't care either.

Compared with the previous principal of 1000 yuan, the current capital of [-] yuan is like a huge sum of money.

Scholars invited several well-known technicians to study Kongming lantern technology and discuss how to improve it.

The businessman was very conscious and helped everyone, allowing the scholars to study the Kongming Lantern technology wholeheartedly.

Under Wang Chun's adventurous spirit.

The spring of the 31st year of Ming Dynasty.

The larger Kongming lanterns and the mature burning appliances installed in the bamboo baskets have been shaped by various sophisticated algorithms.

Among the things that need to be lowered beforehand, how to put out the kerosene stove in advance and accurately control the heat flow.

Several scholars shook Wang Chun's hand.

"Be careful."

The merchant's eyes were also red.

Wang Chun smiled.

He and a worker who was willing to take risks for high pay drove the Kongming Lantern together.

soon.

The huge Kongming lantern carrying two living people rose again outside the city of Beiping.

It’s different from the previous episode.

This time the Kongming Lantern took off for a full hour.

And the height does not keep rising like it did years ago, but falls and rises for a while, and is controlled at a certain height.

The people on the ground looked at the sky worriedly.

I don't know how the people above got down.

(End of this chapter)