"What brings? Bring... civilization?!"

In the building of the house, the noise of the steam engine made everyone shout with all their might. After hearing Zhaoshu's report, Xiong Jingqing said without looking back: "Bird is bright. No see."

After throwing these words out, he discussed with Gong Yindao, Ou Chou and others the Watt steam engine with white steam coming out of his eyes. The steam engine was starting and stopping. Whenever the piston stopped moving, the white high-pressure steam in the boiler would emerge, turning the entire shed into a fairyland on earth.

Although there are already Juste Steel with various carbon content, although there are already high hardness cutting tools, and although there are high-precision boring machines, and..., Zaofu still cannot produce a stable watt steam engine.

In fact, the masonry only used a boring machine to bore the high-precision cylinder of the Watt steam engine, which solved the cylinder leakage problem of the Newcastle steam engine. The Watt steam engine is balanced because the cylinder accuracy is sufficient and the piston is wrapped with a hemp rope to seal the cylinder. The Newcastle steam engine can only be vertically placed because there is a thin layer of accumulated water at the upper end of the piston, and this layer of accumulated water is the key to sealing the cylinder.

No one thought of sealing with water. According to Xiong Jing's guidance, Zaofu worked hard to build a boring machine and a cylinder that could be directly closed with hemp rope. But it is not clear how to do Xiong Jing next. The piston of the Watt steam engine can do work left and right. Its structure includes air valves, crankshafts, bars, and flywheels. Compared with the Newcastle steam engine that is so simple that it cannot be simple, the Watt steam engine is too complicated, and the speeds of the two are also very different.

The Newcastle steam engine sprayed water to cool the cylinder, increasing the speed of the steam engine piston from the earliest four round trips per minute to ten round trips per minute, and subsequently improved to sixteen. After twenty years of improvement, Watt made the steam engine piston round trips to fifty round trips per minute at the end of the 18th century. The faster the speed, the higher the mechanical strength requirements, the lower the design error tolerance rate, and the more accidents.

The mechanical design of Zaofu cannot keep up with the mechanical processing at all. Although there are various machine tools, these machine tools are only better than manual tools. All of these machine tools do not have speed-changing gears to regulate speed, so there is only one fixed speed; there are not many fixtures, so the machining accuracy is difficult to guarantee. Stress calculation and strength calculation do not exist at all. How thick the connecting rod of the steam engine needs? It can only be estimated according to experience. If you break it and change it to a thicker one, then break it and then change it to a thicker one.

Xiong Jing was helpless about this. He had seen the limits of the craftsmen in the mansion and knew his own limits. He only knew so much. If the craftsmen in the mansion wanted to completely transform the Watt steam engine, they would probably have to wait for the next generation of fully educated craftsmen to grow up. Only they could completely improve the steam engine and the boiler.

While everyone was talking, the craftsman opened the cylinder air intake valve again, and steam immediately poured into the cylinder. At this time, the piston began to reciprocate horizontally, and the speed became faster and faster. However, there were some slight tremors in the rotation of the flywheel at the high-speed rotation at the other end of the connecting rod, and the amplitude of this tremor became larger and larger. Gong Yindao, who felt wrong, shouted: "Stop! Stop!"

He shouted loudly, but the cylinder link had already cracked from the flywheel with a "sense" sound, and a small piece of steel broke through Xiong Jing's head, and Xiong Jing's face did not change at the time, but it turned pale afterwards.

"The villain's death sentence!" The craftsman who opened the air intake valve looked paler than Xiong Jing. He hurriedly rested and paused.

"I am guilty of death!" Gong Yindao, Ou Chou and others hurriedly rested, and they were glad that Xiong Jing was fine.

"The steam engine that can kill the unspoken has not been built yet, so why should we panic?" Xiong Jing, who was almost dead just now, was afraid, but he forced a smile. He said, "You wait for innocence, get up."

"Thank you, King." Gong Yindao looked up and saw a smile on Xiong Jing's face, and then he got up from the ground.

"Buying believes that you will be able to make it one day." Xiong Jing said to the craftsmen who were still in a hurry, but no one dared to answer.

This is not a big-wing warship, a sailing boat, a big-wing warship, a sailing boat just builds a palace on the water surface. The wood properties, column and beam structure, and structural principles have not changed much. Different steam engines, the craftsmen cannot fully grasp the properties of giant iron, and the mechanical structure and column and beam results are also very different. The most important thing is movement.

No matter how fast the big-wing warship is, it is just that the bottom of the boat is sliding on the water surface. The boat is completely stationary. Although the steam engine is fixed on the ground, every part of its body is moving. Not only is it moving, it is also terrible, faster than the high-speed chariot on the battlefield. Nothing incorrectly can be made, and these parts need to move for at least eight hours a day and at least three hundred days a year. If this intensity is a car, it should not be scrapped in one month.

"What, can't it be done?" Xiong Jing couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when he saw that the craftsman did not agree.

"The villain dares not deceive the king." A craftsman raised his head slightly and lowered his head soon.

"Gong Yin Dao," Xiong Jing turned to Gong Yin Dao.

"I'm here." Gong Yindao didn't know what Xiong Jing was going to do, and he felt very uneasy.

"From today, select some intelligent and skilled students from the school to study in the school." Xiong Jing could only place his hopes on the school.

"I respectfully accept the order." Gong Yindao said, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"The governments of the government still use the steam engines of the previous ones, and this type is taken back." Xiong Jing said again.

If there are accidents in the imitation of Watt steam engine, you can only use the Newcastle steam engine. The difference between the two lies in the work and the coal consumption. A imitation of Watt steam engine does twice the work of Newcastle, but the coal consumption is two-thirds of the former. This is a difficulty that can be overcome, but one more steam engine consumes half a ton of coal every day.

Now most of the motivations for building the house have been changed to steam engines, especially cement plants. The cement production is 100,000 tons per year, and the raw cement clinker needs to be ground. 400,000 tons of raw clinker requires steel mills driven by 150 steam engines to grind day and night, and there are more than 100 crushers. If it is a Newcastle steam engine, the coal consumption will increase by more than 50,000 tons per year.

But this is also a big problem. If you don’t replace the original stable steam engine, equipment failures continue to delay production, insufficient cement supply, and the defense lines of various countries cannot be completed within the planned time. This is a big problem. Huainan Coal Mine is on the side, using a steam engine to pump water, using a steam engine to pour air, and using a steam engine to lift coal from the ground. The efficiency of the coal mine is twice as good as before.

Of course, Gong Yindao knew the importance of this. He took Xiong Jing to see the steam engine and wanted to make such suggestions. After the four countries discussed, Wei, Qi and Zhao all urgently needed hundreds of thousands of tons of cement to build city walls. According to their plan, the cement required was millions of tons, which was obviously impossible to achieve. The government carefully increased the production scale by 150,000 tons, and realized within three years.

"How much sulfur?" Xiong Jing, who left the shed with regret, asked about sulfur. Everyone valued the bloody horses brought by the Sogdians, but he only valued the sulfur transported by the Sogdians.

"The Hu people have been transported so much this time, more than ten times the previous one." Gong Yin Dao said.

"How many tons?" Xiong Jing's heart jumped and asked directly. If there were three or four tons...

"From the Hu Commercial Bureau, there are 1.4 or 5 tons." The caravan has entered the city, and the goods have been counted and have now been put into the warehouse. Yin Dao recalled the report of his subordinates and said the general figures.

"Good." The sulfur was more than expected, and Xiong Jing couldn't help but feel happy. At this time, he remembered Zhaoshu's report just now. The envoy of Bactricia was about to see him now, saying that he had brought some civilization.

This attitude made him disgusted. People were not changed by monkeys from all over the world. People came from Africa. The reason for their reproduction and development was that they were different geography. The differences in geographical locations caused differences between the East and the West. Only when they entered the industrial revolution could the West truly be ahead of the world. The reason for this is geography.

The Mediterranean is equivalent to a primary school for sailing. The North Sea surrounded by the Isle of Britain, the Shetland Islands, the Scandinavia, the Jutland Peninsula and the Western European continent are the middle school for sailing. In this sea area, the Vikings invented sailing in equal dimensions and created a ship type that is more resistant to wind and waves. These experiences are integrated with the Mediterranean navigation technology and tradition, and have produced everything that the Great Navigation needs.

There is no navigation school formed by geography in Asia. Not only does it not have it, but there is a "great valley" to prevent boats who have not mastered the technology of tuning. The distance between America and Europe, Asia, and the terrain of America itself also determines that Europe is easy to discover and immigrate to America. Starting from Europe, it only takes 27 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean with the wind, and it is mostly a rich area to easily reach the Great Lakes region; Asia is different. It takes at least four months to cross the Pacific Ocean with the wind, and after getting ashore, you see the Rockies.

Xiong Jing could not understand such a grand issue in civilization. Judging from the great voyage he was familiar with, it was the geographical differences between the East and the West that caused the consequences of being controlled by others in later generations.

As for the difference between Alexander's army and Persian army, it is not so much a difference in military technology, but rather a difference in organization. People are familiar with the world that in the Battle of Gaugamira, Persian emperor Darius fled in panic, causing the collapse of the entire army, and Alexander destroyed the Persian Empire. In fact, in the Battle of Issus two years before the Battle of Gaugamira, Darius also fled at the forefront; in the previous Battle of Granikas, Persian infantry suddenly fled, leaving only 20,000 Greek mercenaries still holding their positions.

Weapons and tactics are indeed important, but it is people who use weapons to complete tactics. If there is no trust between soldiers, generals and soldiers, and there is no deep sense of charity, you plot against me during battles, and I am wary of you, and I want to run ahead and others stay behind. No matter how good the weapon is, the equipment will lose every battle.
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