open sea

Chapter 313
"Is this... a steam engine?"

Chen Mu saw, um, how should I put it.

Only the flywheel was similar to what he imagined.

He saw a kiln with a chimney built on top of the kiln. The chimney turned on the wall. Two iron rods were connected to a large flywheel, one left and one right.

But this is a kiln with completely sealed bones.

There is a furnace under the kiln. According to his letter, there is a piece of colored glaze inlaid on the top of the kiln. The corner connecting the colored glaze and the brick kiln can confirm that the brick kiln is an iron boiler.The colored glaze cannot be called completely transparent, but it can roughly see the amount of water inside.

"Here, how do you add water and deflate?"

Carpenter Guan pulled out a palm-length mortise and tenon iron bar from the kiln, and opened the three-inch-square iron drawer like a drawer, and the steam came out, saying, "This is how to release the air."

After finishing speaking, the old man stepped on the stool and pointed to the half-bamboo poles on the kiln stretching from the yard next door, patted the side of the kiln and said: "There are two floors inside, and there is an iron baffle in the middle. Just press it outside, and the water will flow." It can rise to the same height, and the bamboo tube can store water just by pulling it."

Chen Mu felt that Guan Yuangu was playing too high, and he pointed to the crooked neck chimney and asked, "What's the piston used for?"

"Skin, one layer of iron sheet and two layers of skin. A total of six layers are nailed together. The iron sheet is smaller and the leather sheet is just right. The inside of the brick is also an iron tube, so there is no air leakage." Guan Yuangu was quite satisfied with the steam engine, and said: "Can you It has been used for a long time, and it is not expensive to replace it after it is worn out, but it is weak, so it can grind rice by letting it lie down."

Grinding rice, the current kiln can't do much.

The size of the steam kiln is not small, and its strength is not small. Let alone ten hammers can be knocked around. Ten of these may be able to drive the textile mills in Xiangshan. Of course, if the looms are also improved.

But the problem is not here, the problem lies in the utilization rate of heat conversion to kinetic energy, which I do not understand.Laoguan can make the steam engine turn, but he can no longer make it turn faster, nor can he reduce the consumption.

Textile mills can use this, and with the huge profits of textile mills, they can afford to burn coal, but others cannot.

If you can’t afford it, you can’t sell it to others, and if you can’t sell it to others, you can’t work together. The following things can no longer be done by Laoguan alone. It takes a generation to ponder.

"Guan Jiang, let's go to Tuen Mun. When I return to Nanyang Port, Chen will start a war, and I don't care about these. I have someone build a Taoist temple in Tuen Mun and invite some Taoist priests. When the time comes, Guan Jiang will help me take care of it." They are just two things."

Chen Mu stretched out a finger and said, "Try to make it smaller, or find a way to make him more powerful, and another one."

"Give the Taoists magnets and copper wires, and let them ponder."

If it can be done, Chen Muching may make another small light bulb. In the future, the gods enshrined in Tuen Mun Taoist Temple will have to be renamed.It doesn't matter if he can't figure it out, he has more important things to do right now.

The deserted port two years ago has now become the preferred military base of the Guangdong Navy, with Nanyang Port to the east and Navy Port to the west.To be precise, Chen Lin's naval port really strangled the door of Guangdong. In line with the concept of Yang's craftsmen, Chen Lin built forts on more than ten small islands at the mouth of Lingdingyang.

From Haojing to Nanyang Port, water villages were built on the two big islands of Shenxianjing, Dalu and Dongshan, almost completely blocking Lingdingyang.

Nanyang Port has been frequently mobilized recently.

The Nanyang Guard's five divisions, the Thousand Household Offices, have each dispatched half of the banner troops to the island to station troops. In addition to the Nanyang Army as the main force, they have also dispatched elite troops to each of the guards under the Guangdong Metropolitan Division.

There are many guards in the Guangdong capital, good and bad. Even if the strict military law urges the generals of the guards to train according to the drill manual, and the Nanyang Guard supplies them with armor, they are not as capable as the Nanyang Guard's newly recruited banner troops. Chen Mu can mobilize the limited military ships. Simply recruit only the most capable soldiers, and only require quality and not quantity.

Nanyang Port has entered the stage of preparation before the start of the war.

At the port, Zhao Shizhen and Xu Wei came hand in hand.

After Mr. Xu left the Xuan Mansion, he actually did nothing else. Although he looked distraught at the time, Xu Wei was very clear in his heart.He did some things in the capital and Shaoxing, and the first stop of his trip was Guangdong. If he wanted to enter General Chen's shogunate, he had to know what kind of person he was.

When it comes, I can't move my legs.

Seeing the Chihai ship parked at sea from a long distance, and seeing the soldiers of the Weisuo Yu sailing out to sea in a small shark gunboat and returning with a full load, Xu Wei cried like a child on the shore.

This is an artifact!
There have been these ships and these guns for a long time, so there is no Japanese invasion.

In the days that followed, Xu Wei was drunk and fell asleep in Guangzhou Mansion, and woke up to drink. Suddenly, one day, he heard that the imperial court sent Chen Mu back to Guangdong.

"Ming Gong, I bought another 800 shi of military rations from Guangcheng, consuming [-] taels of silver, and the grain ships will be transported from Guangzhou to Nanyang Port within three days." Zhao Shizhen disembarked and saw Chen Mu unpacking and inspecting the delivery at the port Armament, stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: "The pickles and dried rice that Duke Ming said still take time, and the various guards are rushing to make them, and they can be delivered to Guangcheng within ten days."

Pickles have neither sauce nor vegetables. They are three liters of fermented soybeans and five catties of salt. They are mashed into mud and made into cakes. After drying, they are sealed in boxes to replace pickles to add salt. Soak in hot water when ready to eat.

Chen Mu held a blunderbuss to align and aim, tapped the barrel and put it back into the long wooden box covered with hay, nodded, turned to Bai Qi and asked, "Where are the pigs, cattle and sheep transported to Nanyang Port?"

"Going back to Chen Shuai requires a huge amount, and the guards in various places are still in transit. If it weren't for the past two years to imitate the Nanyang Guards to raise livestock in captivity, it would not be enough."

Four thousand pieces of salted fish, one thousand chickens and ducks each, five hundred pigs and sheep each, and one hundred cattle. How easy would it have been in the capital city of Guangdong three years ago?Even if there is a military order now, it is a pain for them to ask the guards to mobilize these livestock.

In other words, it is not easy for each thousand households to hand over two cows.

"Make all the dried meat, except for the salted fish, make [-] catties of dried meat, Hachiro, you can do this, and those who are greedy for three taels of meat, beheaded."

His son was the best at it, and Hachiro clasped his fists in response without saying a word, and then Chen Mu asked the most important thing: "How are the troops dispatched from various places gathering?"

Xu Wei cupped his hands and said: "Back to Chen Gong, the Guangzhou government has assembled more than 5000 banner troops, and there are still nearly [-] people who have not yet arrived. For the time being, the commander and colleague Sun Ao will be in command. Commander Sun asked, when will they be transferred? "

"No need to adjust, just let them settle in Guangcheng first, don't come to me to eat food——Have Lin Feng and Lu Shan come over yet?"

"When they come over, we will summon the generals from all ministries to discuss matters in the Chen residence."

Chen Mu heaved a sigh of relief when the luggage was checked, and told Hu Liangpeng, who was temporarily in charge of the luggage: "The guns, grenade, rockets, armored gunpowder and lead pellets sent from various places must be inspected one by one by a special person, and no mistakes can be found. Especially guns, [-] guns, you can count on them when you arrive in Luzon.”

(End of this chapter)