I'm a big dick

Chapter 578
In fact, rail transportation has not just been planned, but has been experimented with in the coal and steel complex in Tangshan.After being used in coal mining for a period of time, there is a more scientific and reasonable data reference.

Moreover, according to the ideas and suggestions provided by the emperor, the Academy of Sciences has developed a "hand rolling car", which is a manual rail car.

This kind of manual rail car weighs nearly 12 jin. It is driven by mechanical devices such as levers, crankshafts, and gears. It is driven by four people. [-] kilometers.

Although the power of the "hand rolling car" is still far from enough to be applied to transportation, it also provides people with new ideas and opens a window.

If the power is enough, wouldn't it be possible to pull a lot of carriages?It is the kind of simple steam car that can only reciprocate, and it seems to be usable.

Of course, the emperor does not have too high expectations now.Rail cars are pulled by horses and oxen, which is also several times more efficient than the current road transportation.

"Very good." The emperor put down the document and said to Sun Yuanhua with a smile: "Since the experiment is feasible, let's speed up the implementation! I will find a way to solve the funding problem."

After a pause, the emperor reminded again: "The most urgent task is to cultivate a group of railway construction talents, and through them, the construction of railway tracks will be promoted to the whole country."

Sun Yuanhua bowed and said: "If Long Live is so planned, I suggest setting up a special school."

The emperor shook his head slightly and said, "Yes. You can gather people and get this matter done!"

The country needs scholars, but not just those who read the Four Books and Five Classics, only those who have passed the imperial examination.All kinds of professional talents will play an increasingly important role in the construction of the Ming Dynasty promoted by the emperor.

As for the official position, it was nothing to the emperor at all.This is also to take care of the social customs and inherent concepts at that time. You say that academicians and engineers are very good, but they only recognize a few grades.

If not, how could the Academy of Sciences be so attractive?Regardless of whether you really have the spirit of studying science, as long as you have professional expertise, you will have an official position and rank, and enjoy the treatment of an official.

It seems that officials have given indiscriminately, and there will be worries about redundant officials in the future.But the emperor didn't think so. Official ranks were used on technical officials, which was not much different from the titles of later generations.

Sun Yuanhua bowed in response, paused and said: "Long live Qizuo, the development of rifled guns is progressing slowly. Although the real thing has been produced, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and mass production is very difficult."

The emperor's concern for military industry is obvious to all, and the ideas and suggestions put forward are also correct.No matter how much effort it took, prototypes of rifled muskets were manufactured, and the results of live-fire tests were encouraging.

However, as Sun Yuanhua said, it takes time and effort to manufacture, and it is impossible to equip the army one day, and it can only exist as a small number of samples in the world.

The emperor knew what Sun Yuanhua's report meant, and he was afraid that he would be impatient and that he would be punished.

He waved his hand and said: "If you want to be good at something, you must first sharpen your weapon. Only by developing a machine that pulls the rifling can the manufacture of rifled guns be scaled up. This is the same as the production of musket barrels in the past. From manual to mechanical , it was equipped with our Ming army. There is no rush for this work, just develop it slowly.”

"Wei Chen understands." Sun Yuanhua secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

The flintlock musket was already the most advanced in the world, and the emperor was really in no hurry to replace it with a rifled musket.But the technology tree has to keep climbing, from smoothbore to rifled, which is also the normal track of historical development.

(End of this chapter)