"Move this guy here, don't stand there stupidly! Hurry up and test the machine!"

In the suburbs of Nanjing, a wasteland seven miles away from the research institute, Huangluzhuang commanded more than a dozen people to be busy, including his proud disciple Chen Shen.

Just last year, the institute was officially expanded into the research institute. Although the official rank of Huangluzhuang has not changed, his power has become much greater.

With the expansion of the institute to the institute, the division of the entire institute is more careful than before, and it is also reintegrated and newly established multiple project teams according to the different research objects.

Among these project teams, the largest scale, the most expensive and most staffed is the steam engine project team that Huang Luzhuang has been following up personally. The steam engine project was officially launched two years ago, and last year, after Zhu Yicheng conducted Huang Luzhuang to include it in a key project, it has been three years since it was held.

During these three years, the steam engine gradually formed from scratch and was continuously improved through many experiments, and was finally developed not long ago.

Today's steam engines have a look like nine in the future in terms of appearance. In some aspects, they have been continuously improved by Huangluzhuang and the scientific and technological personnel of the Institute, and are much more advanced than the existing steam engines in Europe. The small and medium-sized steam engines have been completely successful in the laboratory of the Institute and can replace human-driven machinery, which is enough to mark the Ming Empire that has officially entered the steam era.

This is a huge advance in science and technology. Although the steam era was short in history, it was replaced by more convenient and clean fuel, electricity, etc. shortly after it appeared. However, no one could deny the importance of the steam era to modern science, because with the beginning of the steam era, it marked that humans began to use energy to replace human power, liberate productivity, and began to take off in science and technology.

Even in the new era of the 21st century, steam engines have not been completely eliminated. On some special occasions and special equipment, steam engines are still irreplaceable by other energy-driven machinery.

The successful development of the medium-sized steam engine made everyone in the research institute happy, but for Huangluzhuang, this was just the beginning.

Huang Luzhuang always remembers the scene that Zhu Yicheng described to him. Trains and warships driven by steam engines sped on the land of China and the vast ocean, becoming a new driving force for the advancement of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, after successfully developing the small and medium-sized steam engine, Huang Luzhuang did not stop at all and continued to lead scientific researchers to improve and design larger and stronger steam engines again.

This time, they will move the steam engine to the "train" for the first time, and truly use steam to drive the vehicle, so that it can completely replace animal power, so that this new invention can be widely used.

"Teacher, the machine has been installed." Chen Shenwei gasped, his forehead covered in sweat and crawled from the front of the car.

The so-called train is just a carriage similar to a carriage. The front of the car is square, with a huge steam boiler embedded in it in the middle, which looks very strange. The front of the car is placed on a railway track. The railway track is not surprising in the Ming Dynasty. Shortly after Zhu Yicheng returned to Nanjing, railway tracks were built between the mines and steel mills to transport ore.

Of course, the driving force of transport vehicles is still animal power, but after installing the rails, the use of animal power has become more convenient and fast. Today's trains have basically been operating as well as the railway trains driven by animal power, but the energy used has changed from animal power to steam engines.

"What is the debugging result?" Huang Luzhuang stared at the technician who was still testing the locomotive and asked at the same time.

"Don't worry, teacher, I've checked it carefully, everything is normal." Chen Shen replied with a smile.

Huang Luzhuang was extremely relieved about Chen Shen, a student. It was precisely this way that he handed over the most important steam engine installation and debugging work to him. He nodded with satisfaction, and Huang Luzhuang frowned at the same time. Chen Shen, who knew the teacher's wishes, quickly said that he went to see the condition of the car body, and then ran over to help.

"When is it?" Huang Luzhuang looked at it for a while, and then asked the people around him. He learned that it was just past Si Shi, and Huang Luzhuang showed a little slowness. It seemed that there would be no problem in completing all debugging at noon.

"Sir, the emperor is here." Just as Huang Luzhuang was supervising and debugging on the spot, a guard rushed to report. Huang Luzhuang was stunned and then hurriedly asked where the emperor was. When he learned that Zhu Yicheng had arrived at the gate of the experimental field, Huang Luzhuang explained to the people around him, and then rushed to the gate.

When I arrived near the gate, I saw Zhu Yicheng wearing casual clothes walking towards him from afar.

In two steps at one time, Huangluzhuang rushed forward and stopped four or five meters away from Zhu Yicheng, and saluted the emperor in a dress.

"Emperor, why are you here? Why don't you say it in advance?" Huang Luzhuang, a technical official, spoke more straightforwardly and asked directly subconsciously.

Zhu Yicheng smiled and pointed at him with the folding fan in his hand: "I said, Lord Huang, if someone told me that you were going to test the train today, I don't know that you have successfully developed it. What? I'll come and take a look, don't you welcome it?"

"The Emperor is joking, how can I not welcome me?" Huang Luzhuang then reacted and quickly explained embarrassedly: "Today is the first field experiment. I am just worried about the results of the experiment. If I fail, I am afraid of being embarrassed in front of the Emperor. So I originally planned to wait until the experiment is completed before I invite the Emperor. Who would have thought that the Emperor's eyes were like lightning? I did not hide these little thoughts and actions from the Emperor."

This sentence made Zhu Yicheng laugh and pointed at him and said happily: "Huangluzhuang, Huangluzhuang, I don't know that you are a little bit an official over the years, and you can even flatter me? If these words were not said in front of me, I would have thought that the official in the court said it."

Zhu Yicheng smiled, and everyone around him couldn't help laughing. Even Huang Luzhuang felt a little embarrassed. After laughing a few times, Zhu Yicheng didn't say anything more about it. He pointed to the busy crowd in the distance and the particularly eye-catching locomotive and asked: "That's the locomotive for today's experiment?"

“That’s right.”

"Let's go! Take me over and take a look." Zhu Yicheng waved his sleeves with interest, then walked towards the other side with great strides. Huang Luzhuang and everyone hurriedly followed.
Chapter completed!