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On the first day of June, Yuncheng...

"Bor"

In the huge military factory, Lu Que was sitting upright in the rest room, looking at the hot teapot lid not far away, rising and falling as the water vapor in the pot burst.

He had not come back to his senses for a quarter of an hour, and he looked at the rolling teapot lid in a state of meditation.

"Lao Lu, what are you looking at? So enchanting?"

At this moment, a craftsman interrupted Luque's contemplation. When he passed by him, he laughed dryly, picked up a rag on the table and went to carry the kettle.

Lu Que hurriedly stopped him: "Wait, don't move, I'm thinking about something..."

The craftsman turned around in confusion and saw his serious appearance, so he stopped carrying the kettle, threw down the rag, sat in front of him and asked, "Lao Lu, what's wrong with you? It's rare to see you serious appearance..."

Lu Que still stared at the boiling teapot. When he heard the craftsman ask, he frowned and said, "Why did the lid of the kettle keep jumping?"

Upon hearing this, the craftsman turned around and looked at the kettle, and said with a smile: "Because the water boils..."

"Why does water keep jumping when it boils? You must know that the weight of the lid is heavier than water, so why can it push it away?" Lu Que asked thoughtfully.

The craftsman scratched his head and thought Luque was very strange, so he explained: "What's the matter? When the water boils and heats up, the lid will naturally be pushed open..."

Lu Que did not answer. He kept staring at the boiling teapot and muttered to himself: "Do you think there is a possibility that the hot water vapor can completely push the entire lid?"

When the craftsman heard this, he frowned and turned around to look at the teapot, and fell into deep thought.

Suddenly, Luque wore thick cotton gloves, took a piece of plug and came to the teapot, and then blocked the tea mouth from the angry tea.

"Bang……"

"Bang..."

The next moment, a light sound echoed, but the tea lid suddenly flew up, carrying a few drops of hot hot water, and finally fell to the ground.

"Old Lu, you..."

Seeing this scene, the craftsman stared at the lid that fell to the ground, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Lu Que picked up the lid on the ground and felt something new flashed through his head, but for a moment he couldn't catch the key, so he was really anxious.

"Lao Lu, what's wrong with you? Is it because of the pressure recently? Why not take a few days off?" The craftsman thought Lu Que had a different spirit and kindly stepped forward to persuade him.

Since Luque joined the arsenal, his enthusiasm for work has made many old craftsmen feel inferior. He devoted himself to his work wholeheartedly, solved many technical bottlenecks left in the past, and improved the production efficiency of military factories by a huge margin.

Of course, Luque's income is also increasing day by day, and he no longer has the embarrassment he had when he was in Shendu City, and his family has lived a life of food and clothing without worries.

After the problem of survival was solved, Luque devoted himself more wholeheartedly to the research of science and technology, and was obsessed with some insignificant details.

For example, he actually understood the screw making process from the spring making process. When the screws were made into baskets and put into various fields, they quickly occupied the market and even compared with iron nails. He also gained jealous wealth from patent dividends.

However, it is obvious that Luque has no attention to money anymore. What he wants to solve now is the problem of unstable power in winter forging equipment mainly based on hydraulic power.

He keenly discovered that every winter, the efficiency of the arsenal will drop significantly, especially after the river surface freezes, the forging hammers and drilling machines that have lost their hydraulic power are basically closed, either relying on animal power to operate, but that would be too costly.

Therefore, Luque thought hard to change this situation, which not only allowed the arsenal to operate normally throughout the year, but also did not reduce efficiency.

Just a few days ago, he found that the teapot that boiled water would push the tea lid because the water boiled, which was like a devilish person. He often observed it for several hours. He always felt that there must be some factors in it, but he didn't notice it.

"nothing……"

Picking up the tea lid, Luque replied to the craftsman and continued to sit back on the chair and study it carefully.

"well……"

The craftsman sighed, then picked up the kettle without tea cover and left. He knew Luque's temperament and did not disturb him anymore.

"The military governor is here~"

While Luque was staring at the tea cover in his hand in a daze, an excited shout sounded outside the lounge.

Except for Luque, all the craftsmen resting in the lounge immediately stood up and prepared to welcome him.

Accompanied by Zhang Gong and a group of "old-time veterans", Liu Ce entered the lounge, said hello to everyone, and then found Lu Que's figure and walked over with a smile.

Perhaps it was the sequelae of the trip to Liaodong. After Liu Ce returned to the Far East, he immediately inspected the major departments and departments under his jurisdiction, and also inspected the military battalions. After confirming that the industries in the Far East were completely incomparable to Liaodong, he calmed down and turned to Yuncheng to inspect the progress of the military industry.

Seeing Liu Ce walking towards Lu Que, Zhang Gong was about to say hello to him, but Liu Ce stopped him. He came to Lu Que carefully and asked with a smile: "Master Lu, what new discoveries have you made?"

Luque did not notice that it was Liu Ce beside him, but just sighed and said, "I was wondering why the water vapor emitted from the teapot can push the lid open after it is heated. It is not logical."

When Liu Ce heard this, his eyes lit up and he hurriedly said, "Because the water vapor expands to a certain level in a sealed environment, it is natural to push the tea cover open..."

Lu Que's mind flashed, staring at the tea lid in his hand and continued, "Then why is the tea lid in the entire teapot only opened?"

"Don't the tea mouth still get angry?" Liu Ce replied, "That's because of the air pressure..."

"Air pressure?"

When Lu Que heard this, Du suddenly became interested. He turned around and was about to discuss with the person who answered. What he didn't want to catch his eye was Liu Ce's cold face.

"Mr. Military Governor, please forgive me..." Lu Que hurriedly stood up and bowed to Liu Ce.

Liu Ce stopped and said, "Master Lu, it seems that you are very interested in steam..."

"It made the military governor laugh..." Lu Que said ashamed, "I just wanted to solve the problem of instability in winter. I just thought about some things and thought a little dazzled, so I didn't notice the military governor's arrival..."

"A good craftsman should be like you, not disturbed by the world..." Liu Ce patted Lu Que's shoulder with approval, "I am very pleased with your enthusiasm. If you continue to work hard, I am very excited about your ideas and support you!"

Lu Que nodded in surprise, endured for a moment and said to Liu Ce: "Mr. Military Governor, is there such a possibility that the air pressure you mentioned just now? After the water vapor boils, it will push away the hundreds of kilograms of things or even pull up?"

Liu Ce nodded vigorously: "Of course, things that can be pushed up not only a few hundred kilograms, but even thousands or tens of thousands of kilograms!"

As soon as these words were said, not only Lu Que was shocked, but even Zhang Gong was shocked. Several people even looked at the steaming teapot, but they couldn't believe that it could push things up thousands or tens of thousands of kilograms.

Liu Ce continued, "This steam expansion is not just about simply pushing the so-called things away..."

As he said that, he picked up a teapot and put it on the stove. After it boiled, the lid rose and fell again, and everyone was confused.

Liu Ce pointed to the teapot and said, "You see that there is no lid and it keeps rising and falling back and forth. As long as the water in the teapot is not dry and the charcoal fire in the stove is not extinguished, it can keep moving.

If you have any inspiration for this, you can study it yourself. This military supervisor can only remind you that the specific way to do it depends on you as pragmatic craftsmen.

But this military governor can tell you responsibly that once you master and apply this natural law to practice, your achievements will be enough to change the existing industrial system of the entire world!”

After listening to what Liu Ce said, all the craftsmen present felt that their blood was boiling and changing the existing industrial system? What kind of situation would it be?

This group of craftsmen did not understand, but Liu Ce was quite clear. Watt's improvement of the steam engine (In 200 BC, the ancient Greek Hero had invented the steam engine, but was used as a toy) and it directly led to a huge gap between Eastern and Western civilizations and the most intense collision.

In the world in Liu Ce’s memory, the humiliating past that cannot be looked back on in modern Chinese history was the rise of the Western Industrial Revolution, which led to the situation of "backwardness and beating".

The traditional Chinese civilization dominated by Mitadori was torn beyond recognition under the mechanical civilization of Western powers.

During the First Opium War, to be fair, the gap between the firearm equipment of Mitoko and the Empire of Sun-Down Settings was not big. The ultimate reason for the failure was the lack of an advanced military advisor training system and the corrupt, incompetent but extremely arrogant court.

If the Mitsuyuki court could pay attention to industrial reforms after its first failure, even if Daoguang took out the "Western antiques" collected by his grandfather Qianlong and studied them, perhaps there would be no tragic situation of the total backwardness of the Second Opium War. Unfortunately, the Mitsuyuki court's bad nature of the fishing and hunting nation, the fishing and hunting nation, had no idea why he was backward, and he still dreamed of a country as the Celestial Empire.

(ps: During the Second Opium War, the Western Regions were all lagging behind by a whole generation, both tactical ideas and weapons and equipment. It was less than twenty years before the end of the First Opium War. This time, the disastrous defeat made the senior management of the Mid-Dragon pay attention. Soon, the Westernization Movement began to be vigorously controlled by barbarians)

The decline of the Han civilization in the previous life made Liu Ce sigh. Now, seeing his current booming industrial technology, he was deeply relieved, and vowed not to let the tragedy of his previous life happen again in another world.

"By the way, Master Lu, I heard that you have improved the fire god camp fire guns you seized? I wonder if you can take this military commander to observe..."

In fact, the main reason why Liu Ce came to Yuncheng for inspection this time was that he heard that the military factory had improved the muskets. Judging from the presented design drawings, it seemed that there were many similarities with the tiger cannon in his impression, which made him come and inspect it with great interest. If it was really a cannon, then the bulky catapults and crossbows could be gradually eliminated in the future.
Chapter completed!