The imperial examination day on October 10th and the imperial examination day on November 10th are relatively important for the People's Army, but as the general of the People's Army, Fang Nan has no intention of putting it in it.

In May of the 15th year of Wanli, the Steam Engine Research Institute built the first practical type A steam engine. Three and a half years later, in early November of the 18th year of Wanli, the Steam Engine Research Institute successfully built the first practical type B steam engine.

In the Steam Engine Research Institute, watching the steam engine that spits out clouds and performs circular motion, Fang Nan seems to have seen the birth of steam-powered machinery such as machine tools, textile machines, ships, trains, etc., opening up the industrial age of the People's Army.

The Steam Engine Research Institute has built a Type B steam engine in three and a half years. The efforts of the Steam Engine Research Institute are worthy of praise. Fang Nan has been preparing to reward everyone involved in the research of Type B steam engine.

In history, James Watt came into contact with the Newcomer steam engine in 1763 and began to design his own steam engine. During this period, due to a shortage of funds, Watt had to find another job as a canal surveyor and worked for 8 years.

In 1774, Watt put the steam engine he designed into production. In 1776, the first batch of new steam engines were finally successfully manufactured and applied to actual production. These steam engines could only provide reciprocating linear motion and were mainly used on pumping pumps.

In the next five years, Watt won a large number of orders and was busy running between various mines to install water pumps driven by this new steam engine. Five years later, Watt continued to study how to convert the linear reciprocating movement of the steam engine into circular motion so that the steam engine can power most machines.

Until 1781, an employee of Watt Company invented a crank gear transmission system called "Sun and Planets", which allowed the steam engine to transform from linear reciprocating motion into circular motion. The improved steam engine is mostly different from the B steam engine in appearance, but it is almost the same in function.

Watt took eighteen years to do this, while the People's Army's Steam Engine Research Institute only took three and a half years. Of course, the greatest contribution was Fang Nan. Without Fang Nan's guidance, no one in the People's Army ruling might have thought of using steam power within decades, let alone Type B steam engines.

The B steam engine that can perform circular motion is just the beginning. Next, the Steam Engine Research Institute will continue to research and improve the B steam engine to create a better steam engine. The current B steam engine can be connected to the machine tool, but cannot be installed on ships or used on trains.

However, Type B steam engines have been manufactured, and it is only a matter of time before a better steam engine appears. As the education plan unfolds, more talents will study steam engines and related fields.

In the Steam Engine Research Institute, Fang Nan gathered all the personnel and stood next to the Type B steam engine. Fang Nan prepared to give a brief speech.

The Steam Engine Institute researchers all looked at the Governor with a fanatical look, because the Governor brought good days to them and their families and gave them a high-paying job.

"We succeeded! We finally made a Type B steam engine. With this Type B steam engine, we can make a steam-powered machine tool and replace the hydraulic machine tool of the arsenal. Our new machine tool will no longer be restricted by the site.

Steam powered machine tools are just the beginning. If a steam engine is installed on a ship, the ship does not need sails or manpower to row. It only needs to turn on the steam engine, and the ship can sail freely on the sea. We can even install the steam engine on the car. Without people pushing and pulling the horse, the car can drive quickly on the road.

Perhaps it takes less than a long time to connect the steam engine to the spinning machine and use the steam-powered spinning machine to quickly produce more fabrics. With the same money, in the future, we can buy more cloths, change a new set of clothes a year, change a new set of clothes in half a year, and even buy new clothes every quarter without making new clothes.

We can also connect steam engines to more things, replace human and animal power with steam power, and produce more and lower-priced products so that everyone can afford them.

And this comes from your efforts, and the changes you bring will make all the people thank you from the bottom of their hearts in the future.”

"No, I should thank the Grand Governor more, who led us to make the steam engine!"

Tang Bei, director of the Steam Engine Research Institute, was the first to shout. As soon as Tang Bei finished speaking, Deputy Director Wang Dachui also agreed: "It is the Grand Governor who led us to build steam engines. The Grand Governor has made the most contributions. We are just putting our strength."

"The Grand Governor made the greatest contribution, and the people should thank the Grand Governor!" *n

Fang Nan smiled and waved his hand to calm everyone down.

"Okay, I have made great contributions, but your contributions are not small. I am the only one, so it is impossible to make a steam engine. I decided to take out 10,000 yuan of equal coins as a bonus for all the researchers involved in the B steam engine!"

"Long live the Grand Commander! Long live the Grand Commander!" Everyone in the venue cheered together.

Ten thousand yuan of equal coins is not a small amount. Even if the director, deputy director, group leader, etc. get more bonuses, and they will be assigned to ordinary researchers, each person will have more than 150 yuan. In the past, one acre of fertile land in Guangdong could be bought with ten taels of silver, which is equivalent to the current ten yuan of equal coins.

In fact, people at the Firearms Research Institute want fields as rewards, but Fang Nan has reduced the use of fields as rewards. The main reason is that the fields are limited and there is no difference in the end. If you want to obtain more fields, you can only expand externally, but the fields are on land far away from the land of China.

They are already from the Firearms Research Institute and are considered to be part of the People's Army system. The People's Army pays wages, which is enough to support the family. There is no need to farm, as farming is very tiring.

The same is true for workers working in factories. They have money to work in factories, and even get more money than farming. In this case, families with workers do not need to farm.

The land is not allocated to those who have other jobs, and more land is allocated to farmers. The grain output does not change, and everyone still does not lack food to eat. People who do not farm have enough money to buy food, and farmers who farm also increase their income due to the increase in farmland.

Give farmers more land is basically the best way to increase their income. Fang Nan intends to gradually change the land distribution situation after the People's Army is founded, and it will not change all at once, just step by step.

If you go to a factory to work and make more money than farming, at least some ordinary people will choose the former. As time goes by, more ordinary people will choose to go to a factory to work.
Chapter completed!