Chapter 67 The Fork in Technology

Zhang Guozhu was extremely disappointed...

Just in a huge reservoir, a ship with two huge wheels was slowly sailing in the reservoir.

The ship is ugly. The hull is very long, with two large paddle wheels in the middle. There is also a towering chimney on the hull. Black smoke is constantly coming out of the chimney. Various mechanical devices make unpleasant sounds, and there is almost nothing to be desired.

But the two wheels were slowly turning, dragging the ship slowly in the reservoir with difficulty.

"Is this what Your Majesty is going to make me provoke?"

Zhang Guozhu didn't even hide his disdain when he saw this thing.

"Don't underestimate this thing, it can drive without wind, and I tell you that on the river, this thing can go against the current without a boatman dragging it."

Zhang Guozhu laughed and said, "Your Majesty, do you know that every year after the south wind blows on the Yangtze River, the sailboats on the Yangtze River will flow upwards. When encountering turbulent waters, these ships will also release sky sails, which are kites-like things to drag the boats up the river.

So this thing is not very useful."

Yun Zhao pointed at Zhang Guozhu and said, "You will be ashamed of what you said in the future."

While speaking, the whistle on the ship suddenly rang three times, and then a thick smoke rose into the sky. Then, the two paddle wheels suddenly accelerated and drove like waves in the reservoir. After a while, they left Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu's sight.

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu, who was hesitant, and said, "How?"

Zhang Guozhu was unwilling to say something against his will, and rubbed the short beard on his chin and said, "It looks interesting. So, Your Majesty is going to send this thing to the sea?"

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "This thing cannot be delivered to the sea before a better boiler appears."

After taking Zhang Guozhu out of the reservoir, they came to a place with a high wall. Even Zhang Guozhu was here for the first time.

The guardian was a royal guard wearing a black military uniform. These people were fully armed and looked very serious.

When the carriage arrived at the door, the door covered with barbed wire slowly opened. Yun Zhao's carriage carried Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu into the door.

The first thing that caught my eye was an iron rack running around the ground. There were four wheels on the iron rack, which were made of expensive rubber, and there was also a steaming teapot on the iron rack? Two thick connecting rods twitched with the steam piston? They were running around with the iron rack.

There are many iron racks running around like this, with four wheels? There are also six wheels? There are even two large, two small and four wheels.

Zhang Guozhu didn't feel too strange about this thing? He just felt unaccustomed to it. He had thought about it? If this continues? The Ming Dynasty was full of teapot monsters everywhere.

"How much money does Your Majesty spend on these teapots every year?"

Yun Zhao smiled and said, "Six million."

“Is it worth it?”

Yun Zhao laughed and said, "As long as you succeed, it's worth it."

Zhang Guozhu shook his head and continued to walk in with Yun Zhao. There were more and more steam monsters inside? There was a steam-driven hammer? A steam-driven mill, a steam-driven machine tool... He even saw an iron dog driven by steam and could walk by himself.

Yun Zhao stepped forward and twisted the steam dog's ears. The steel steam dog that was originally in action stopped. A man in blue clothes came over? Added some water to the steam dog's body and twisted the steam dog's butt. The bra? A few pieces of carbon were added. When the steam dog's nose began to vent white air? The man in blue clothes twisted the dog's ears again, and the dog began to move four feet again? He began to walk in a straight line.

Yun Zhao looked at the scene in front of him happily and said to Zhang Guozhu: "How about the wooden ox and flowing horses compared to Zhuge Wuhou's?"

Zhang Guozhu sighed? He patted the tall steam hammer with his hand and said, "Your Majesty must lose your ambition? Your Majesty should be closer to living people and stay away from these cold things."

Yun Zhao also patted the steam heavy hammer and said, "Do you know that with one hammer, you can bear the power of a blacksmith for a month, and even do things that a blacksmith can never do."

After saying that, he pulled Zhang Guozhu away from the heavy hammer. Six craftsmen used an iron cart to push a red-burned iron rod and placed it under the heavy hammer. A craftsman pulled the machine and the heavy hammer hanging high fell with a loud bang, hitting the red-burned iron rod heavily. Then he quickly lifted the heavy hammer and continued to fall. The iron rod was splashed everywhere, and the black hard skin cracked. The craftsmen kept turning the iron rod. After a while, the iron rod changed from a cylinder to a rectangular body.

Seeing that the iron rod temperature dropped and no longer turned red, the craftsmen pushed the iron cart and left again, stuffing the rectangle into the furnace for heating.

"Every part on our artillery is hit by a hammer. The artillery parts made of steel that are hit are far from comparable to those made by casting."

"We already have a hydraulic heavy hammer, which is as useful as it is. As far as I know, the hydraulic heavy hammer of Yushan Iron and Steel Plant is already the only one in the world. Why does Your Majesty still have to order people to develop this kind of steam heavy hammer that is so popular?

Look, for this heavy hammer, the workshop first needs to create a boiler covering an area of ​​half an acre, and then connect the air outlet with a pipe, and also needs to be sealed with expensive rubber. Even so, the boiler still leaks air everywhere, and its effectiveness is far less than that of a hydraulic heavy hammer.

Just like this scene I just saw, the craftsmen who maintained this steam heavy hammer had tried it many times before they could achieve results.

Your Majesty, don’t be addicted to it. Any emperor who is addicted to something will have a bad result.

The dynasty allocates 10 million national treasury to Your Majesty every year, hoping that Your Majesty can use this money to reward meritorious officials, inspire progress, compensate for injustice, help the weak, demonstrate the royal family, and promote the kindness of the royal family.

Your Majesty spends most of the money and food on these things every year. Over time, it will inevitably make the heroes feel disappointed, and the people of the world think that Your Majesty does not care about them, and only knows to play with some useless things."

"You said these are useless things?" Yun Zhao was shocked after hearing Zhang Guozhu's words.

Zhang Guozhu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, the words above are not the meaning of the weak minister, but the meaning of the subjects in the world. The weak minister naturally knows the importance of these things.

Whether it is a train, a wired telegraph, or the heavy ship that I have just seen that can travel without sails, it is of great use and can even change the Ming Dynasty. This has been seen and used by me personally, and of course I understand that as for the steam heavy hammer and all the steam-related things here, there are gratifying prospects.

As Your Majesty said, as long as there is one that can be truly developed and applied to real life, six million silver dollars can be said to be more or less, and gritting one's teeth can always squeeze out the money.

However, it is useless for our monarch and minister to know this principle.

If only a few or even dozens of people were published, the Weichen would still be acceptable and would even find a way to convince them. Unfortunately, the authors wrote not a few people, dozens of people, but hundreds of thousands.

What they care about is not just six million silver dollars, but begs His Majesty not to be addicted to it. You still have thousands of miles of territory that need jurisdiction, and you cannot focus on these trivial matters that require repeated trial and error."

Yun Zhao looked at the steam dog walking over while walking, nodded and said, "It seems that I'm too much."

Zhang Guozhu held the steam dog's head and let the dog creak and step on the spot. He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please hand it over to the department to deal with it. Even if the process of their development is slower, your Majesty and the Wei-Minist can afford it. There is no need to do it overnight."

Yun Zhao sighed and walked out of the workshop first. Zhang Guozhu smiled and let go of the steam dog and followed the emperor with his hands behind his back. He was very satisfied. It seemed that the emperor should have listened to his advice.

Yun Zhao learned through Qian Shaoshao that officials had a great response to their behavior of not misleading their jobs, so he thought of convinced Zhang Guozhu, who was the most fiercely opposed, and then did other people's work.

Unfortunately, Zhang Guozhu is a wise man. It’s not that he doesn’t know the importance of these things, but he just doesn’t want Yun Zhao to do these things himself.

Now that Zhang Guozhu talked about the reason for the incident, Yun Zhao gave up the idea of ​​persuading others.

Just as Zhang Guozhu said, he could convince dozens of people, but he would never be able to convince hundreds or thousands of people. Once the number of people opposed reaches a certain number, even incorrect things will become the right thing.

This is the horrible majority effect.

Since ancient times, those who oppose the majority effect have not ended well. The successful people recorded in history books are just a few fish that missed the net. Yun Zhao did not want to cause a storm in the court, so there was no need.

However, if he himself did not participate in these scientific inventions, God knew how many detours they would take. If he continued to develop as he is now, Yun Zhao believed that the Ming Dynasty would definitely embark on the road of steampunk.

At that time, the castles that will walk by themselves, the bridges that will walk by themselves, and the hot air balloons that will cover the sky and the sun... Maybe they will appear.

Moreover, with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty, he is definitely qualified to lead the world trend... Yun Zhao couldn't even imagine the beautiful scene where Steampunk comics became a reality.

In the evening, Yun Zhao did not go home, but continued to stay in the big study and work diligently. These days, there were too many memorials in his hands.

Not only that, the officials also hope that the emperor, the emperor, could leave Yushan City and inspect the world. Shuntian Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, Lantian Prefecture, Guangzhou City, and the prefectures of Shanghai City that are under construction on a large scale have written countless times, hoping that he can go and have a look.

Feng Ying, when Qian Duoduo came to deliver the meal, Yun Zhao didn't have much appetite. After taking a few bites, he threw down his bowl and continued to work.

Feng Ying whispered: "Why are you so diligent today?"

Yun Zhao said angrily: "People say that I am addicted to wine and sex, and I am about to become a fool."
Chapter completed!