A complex machine, constructed almost entirely of steel casting and roller gears, is placed in the center of the laboratory.

Zhao Qing and Zhang Cang and Liu Jiangli, who designed the dough press, stood excitedly beside Chen Xu. There were also hundreds of intelligent figures of all sizes in various departments of the Academy of Sciences around, and their faces were also red with excitement.

The group of newspaper reporters who were invited to observe were also like a group of horse monkeys jumping around and asking about the different names and manufacturing methods of various parts on the craftsman machine.

"Mr. Marquis, the noodles are settled!" A craftsman rushed over and reported.

"Okay, put the noodles into the hopper to start the test!" Chen Xu nodded excitedly.

Soon several assistants carried a huge wooden barrel, which was filled with stirred dough. Under the command of a craftsman, the assistant shoveled the dough into the feed hopper of the noodle press with a shovel. A burly assistant with a large waist took off his shirt and began to shake the handle. As the huge gears began to rotate, the three finished shaped drums also began to rotate at a constant speed under the linkage of several pairs of different sizes. Soon the dough was pressed out of the drum. Then, through two drums with dense teeth, the dough became noodles of different width and thickness, and fell from the inclined discharge port.

"Haha, the noodles are out, it's out!" All the onlookers shouted in surprise.

"Prepare for cutting, cut it three feet a day, and quickly take the bamboo pole!" Liu Jiangli burst into tears.

"Crack!" Seeing that the noodles at the outlet had reached a three-foot scale, a craftsman pressed down a wooden handle, and the sharp sword fell down. After the fine noodles were neatly cut off, a helper hung the pressed noodles with a bamboo pole and then sent them to the wooden rack next to them to dry them.

"Wow, the noodles are fine and consistent, exactly the same!" Looking at the hanging noodles, countless onlookers began to exclaim again.

"Get out of the way, come again!" The helper in charge of drying noodles shouted and hung up another pole of noodles.

"The speed is too fast!" Almost everyone had time to see clearly, the noodles were hung on wooden racks one by one, and the fine and dense white noodles looked pleasing to the eye.

"Marty, we finally succeeded!" Looking at the continuous stream of noodles pressed like flowing water, Liu Jiangli was excited and slapped all over.

"Haha, success is inevitable. I said at the beginning that once the gear is developed successfully, all kinds of machinery will be able to be manufactured. Gears are the core and soul of the machinery!" Chen Xu nodded with a smile.

A large bucket of dough was over a hundred kilograms, and it was already bottomed out in just a quarter of an hour. The burly helper who was responsible for shaking the handle was sweating and gasping all over, but he was still extremely excited. This was the first real machine in the Qin Dynasty. It was enough for him to participate in this first test ceremony to brag for the rest of his life.

"Mr. Marquis, the dough is used up!" An excited report of a craftsman who was also blushing and panting.

"Not bad, this speed is very good!" Chen Xu was very satisfied and turned around and patted Liu Jiangli on the shoulder. "You have made great contributions. I officially announced that the Liu's noodle press test was a complete success. Please prepare all the design drawings and data. I will ask the Science Evaluation Committee to evaluate and issue bonuses for your design, and at the same time, the Ministry of Industry will issue you a patent certificate. You will get the patent fee for all the machines manufactured and sold in the future, but this machine still has a lot of room for improvement. I hope you can continue to study and improve..."

"Thank you... Thank you, Marquis..." Liu Jiangli said excitedly that he couldn't shake.

"Supervisor Pang, the technology sector in this newspaper will introduce this noodle press in detail. At the same time, facing national investment, merchants who want to buy this noodle press can start to pay deposits to the Academy of Sciences to customize production!" Chen Xu said to Pang Que, the head of the newspaper standing next to him.

"Don't worry, this noodle press will inevitably become the focus of the next newspaper. One hundred kilograms of noodles will be made into noodles in a quarter of an hour, enough for a hundred people to eat for a whole day. This speed is simply fast. At present, there are dozens of food and noodle restaurants in Xianyang City alone, and all families can eat and drink. They need to consume tens of thousands of kilograms of noodles every day. This machine will definitely not have to worry about selling it!" Pang Que nodded excitedly.

"Maro!"

"Marty, I'm here!" Ma Gan squeezed out of the crowd with a bumpy look.

"My Hou has now decided to establish the Daqin First Machinery and Machinery Factory, and will be responsible for various machinery manufacturing in the future. This noodle press is the first product of the machinery factory. If you serve as the director of the machinery factory, you must be responsible for strictly checking and doing every machine!"

"Yes, Marquis!" Ma Gan nodded excitedly.

"Liu Jiangli, since this noodle machine was designed and developed by you, I will ask you to be responsible for the supervision, manufacturing and improvement of the noodle machine, and also train repair workers!"

"Don't worry, Master, I will do my best!" Liu Jiangli bowed excitedly.

"Liu Jiangli has made a fortune, but he has to treat him to the garden to play!" Someone in the crowd began to yell.

"Don't worry, I'll get the bonus this time. I'll definitely invite you to go to the garden to eat, drink, play and sleep!" Liu Jiangli's back of his teeth were exposed with a smile.

One day later, Daqin No. 1 Machinery Machinery Factory was established in the blacksmith shop of the experimental factory. Although it was still the same team as the Magang, the meaning changed completely different. In Chen Xu's view, this is a very important step for Daqin to take to industry, and various machines will begin to appear continuously in the future.

Two days later, in the latest issue of Daqin Metropolis Daily, a news article titled the beginning of the Machinery Industry appeared in the technology sector. In addition to the special pictures and pictures released by this manuscript called Liu's noodle press, it also launched advertisements and began to invest in the country, encouraging merchants from all over the country to purchase noodle presses and open noodle processing factories.

The news came out and was immediately widely circulated among the public. Many people were asking about what this strange item called a noodle press is everywhere. Many keen merchants also saw business opportunities. Some people went to the experimental factory to watch the noodle press. In less than a day, the machinery factory received an order for eight noodle presses. Although the price of one noodle press is as high as 20,000 yuan, if you can make 2,000 kilograms of noodles every day, only half a kilogram will be calculated, and it will take less than a month to recover the cost. However, the business model cannot be calculated like this. The cost of manual transportation in the venue is also a considerable expense. However, there will be no problem in earning back the cost in three to five months. Then how can the noodle processing factory make tens of thousands of dollars in a year, which is definitely a very cost-effective transaction.

At present, even a little wealthy people in Xianyang and even many counties in the county have become a habit to get up in the morning to eat a bowl. However, the noodles are made by hand-rolled and cut, and they can’t make much in a day. Some noodle restaurants and food halls hire a few helpers every day to start making them before dawn, but it is not enough to sell them.

Moreover, because the noodles are soft, tender and smooth, they can be eaten in half a minute after boiling them. If you add a little more complicated and add a little fried minced meat and noodle sauce, it will be a very delicious dish. It will definitely replace the dry naan bread and become the first choice for home travel, so you will not have to worry about not being sold.

The emergence of the noodle press not only caused a huge response among the people, but also caused heated discussions in the court.

When Chen Xu went to court, not only many officials were asking, but even Qin Shihuang asked specifically. Chen Xu also introduced it carefully, which aroused the emperor's great interest. In order to satisfy the emperor's idea of ​​broadening his horizons, Chen Xu had to ask Ma Gan and others to transport the prototype of the noodle press from the experimental factory to the city by carriage, and placed it in Qinghe Park to demonstrate the production process of the noodle press to the emperor and many ministers.

Looking at such a complex gear machine, the emperor kept asking questions. After watching the working process of the noodle press, he was very excited to announce that he would reward all the craftsmen who participated in the design and production of the noodle press for 500 yuan each, and also reward Liu Jiangli with a ninth rank. Although he did not have a lack of official position, the 1,200 yuan annual official order still made Liu Jiangli kneel on the ground and almost couldn't get up.

From an official to an official, this is a hurdle that many people will never overcome in their entire lives.

Moreover, this official position was awarded by the emperor himself, which was enough to shine the Liu family and comfort the ancestors.

In March, the spring season has entered, and the lively Xianyang has also begun to enter the summer mode ahead of schedule. The eldest daughter-in-law and the young lady who are walking through the streets and alleys have long been eager to put on various styles of thin spring skirts, and welcome the arrival of midsummer with flowers.

After a grand sacrificial ceremony on the Shangsi Festival, several noodle processing factories were opened in Xianyang City. In addition to the large amount of fresh noodles served in the noodle restaurant every day, a large amount of dried noodles were bundled with hemp pulp paper into one tube, one foot long dry noodles for sale in grain stores. Although each catty is two or three cents more expensive than flour, it was quickly loved by the majority of business travelers and families. Wealthy families bought them in large quantities as a spare ingredient for weekdays. They can be eaten quickly during busy and hungry time.

As this conveniently portable noodles are taken farther away by business travelers and pedestrians, merchants in other counties have also been constantly visiting the Academy of Sciences to consult and purchase noodle presses. In just half a month from the advertisements, the First Machinery Factory has received orders for nearly 30 noodle presses, and the income of 600,000 yuan has also made the First Machinery Factory another profitable department among the affiliated enterprises of the Academy of Sciences.

After several years of accumulation of the Academy of Sciences, it finally began to enter a stage where there was no need for the support of the imperial court's money and food.

In mid-March, after absorbing Liu Jiangli's pressing machine, the Academy of Sciences once again developed a machine to make clay boards, which made the production of ceramic boards and ceramic tiles officially enter the machine era. After this machine came out, the largest pottery factory in Xianyang customized five units at once, and the machinery factory became more and more prosperous.

With the maturity of the gear technology, Chen Xu can finally carry out the next step of industrial promotion. He held ten days of lectures in the Academy of Sciences and the School of Technology, placed the prototype of the first noodle press in the laboratory of the School of Technology, guiding all the teachers, craftsmen and students to dismantle and observe the working mode and transmission status of the gears, and once again offered a huge reward in the Academy of Sciences system to organize a team to start the development of the first lathe.

In the later industrial era, from door studs and iron locks to satellite aircraft carriers, screws and nuts are indispensable, let alone various complex parts.

If gears are the soul of machines, then screws and nuts are the bones of all machines. With a lathe, threads can be produced, and gear transmission that can run smoothly and at a constant speed can produce qualified threads. This is a gradual process. Once the riveting artifacts such as screws and nuts are available, the precise light and heavy industry will develop greatly.

Therefore, Chen Xu devoted great energy to the research and development of lathes and stayed up late at home every day to prepare lessons. He wrote up to hundreds of lecture drafts and various mechanical graphic drafts.

Regarding the process and state of riveting of threads and screws proposed by Chen Xu for the first time, as well as the widespread application prospect of threads in various machines and even life, the entire Academy of Sciences was once again a little crazy, and the rewards were secondly. The main thing is that with these things, various equipment can be installed and disassembled very easily in the future.

At least once the research is successful, the manufacturing of carriages running around the country will undergo earth-shaking changes. Therefore, after Chen Xu offered a reward, Vice President Zhang Cang once again volunteered to take charge and convened a group of craftsmen and craftsmen who had research on gears and machinery in the Academy of Sciences and the experimental factory to conduct public relations.

Chen Xu is now almost no longer involved in the specific research and development of various departments of the Academy of Sciences.

First, because he became the left prime minister and was busy with official duties, even if he went to court and inspected the Secretariat every day, he would take half a day. If there were more important things, he would sometimes be almost busy all day, so he didn't have much energy to provide specific guidance.

Second, after nearly four years of preparation and development, Chen Xu has basically finished his mathematical, physics and geometry knowledge that Chen Xu should talk about one after another, and many craftsmen and officials have also begun to slowly enter this state of scientific research. The scientific atmosphere of the entire Academy of Sciences system is also relatively strong. Many simple physical structures and research no longer require Chen Xu to provide detailed guidance.

The most important thing is that technological development is a process of accumulation and development. As long as you train enough scientific researchers, you will naturally start to flourish when you accumulate to a certain extent. The success of a noodle press can almost be seen as the beginning of this industrial foundation, and gears will be widely used in various research and development in the future.

Chen Xu has now begun to enter the state of a science tutor. According to various machines in later generations, there will naturally be a large number of people to solve the problem.

The length of the solution does not matter, and the quality of the completion does not matter. What is important is that a lot of experience will be accumulated through solving these solutions, and many unexpected innovations and inventions will also appear.

This is the purpose of scientific experiments.

The Academy of Sciences is an incubation institution for modern industries. It must not be a craftsmanship group that can only be manufactured according to Chen Xu's drawings.

What Daqin needs are various scientific research teams and scientists with independent research and development capabilities, rather than turning workers and fitters and installers.

At the end of March, the construction of Cuju Field was completed, and all the stands and interior decorations were completed. Although Chen Xu looked extremely simple, the stands were not closed, there were no special seats, they were all cement steps, and the grass laid on the court was also all weeds on ordinary river beaches, no matter where you sit, you can clearly look down at the entire venue, and you no longer have to stand on tiptoe like before and can only listen to a loud scene.

Although the supporting commercial buildings are still under construction, Meng Yun and other groups of playboys could not wait to ask for a highly anticipated Cuju competition in advance. After Chen Xu inspected and accepted the entire Cuju venue with the craftsmen of Liu Bang and Zhang Cang, he also felt that an experimental stress test could be conducted to test the carrying capacity of the stadium, mainly to ensure the order of the audience's ticket check and exit, and to test various fire and safety measures.

After a few days of arrangement, in early summer of April, an advertisement for a Cuju competition appeared in Xianyang Metropolis Daily and Cuju newspaper.

This is not a formal game. The bookmaker did not issue lottery tickets, but the viewers need to buy tickets, regardless of the area or location, and they can buy them at Liuxiangyuan, Qingheyuan, Books and Newsstands, etc., with a limit of 30,000 people. After this advertisement came out, the whole city caused a sensation.

This miraculous building, supervised by the Academy of Sciences and built with more than 10,000 craftsmen and migrant slaves after more than two years, is finally about to unveil the mysterious veil of the interior in front of millions of Xianyang people.

Because from beginning to end, the interior of the Cuju field has never been exposed, but after repeated publicity by the craftsmen and men involved in the construction, this large and unique building covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres and reaching nearly twenty feet high has always been something that everyone talks about. Now it has finally been completed, standing on the south bank of the Wei River like a flock of cranes, rising up in the eyes of the crowd like a miracle. Standing near, the oval appearance standing under the blue sky and white clouds is full of mystery, making people want to go in and feel the warm atmosphere of the mountains and tsunamis.

The 30,000 tickets rushed to be sold out in one day, and the 150,000 ticket revenue was completely in proportion to the huge investment with the final construction cost of more than 100 million yuan. However, this good start made Meng Yun and other a group of dandy who were so excited that they almost urinated.

This is a good start they have been waiting for for two years. As long as the Cuju League is well organized every year, the tickets alone earn at least millions of dollars every year. After adding millions of dollars in revenue from gambling companies and digging out various expenses, the money they allocated to them is also a crazy number. You should know that the annual income of bus companies with nearly 200 buses is only more than one million yuan, and the business of the bus company has made countless merchants jealous.

However, the income of several playboys was like this. They could only get part of the dividends from the gambling company and Cuju venue tickets. As for the income from the supporting commercial square, they all belonged to Cuju Plaza based on the original investment. The big one was Wang Jian and his son and Huaxia Money House, and the rest were several million investments from Qinghehou himself. As for the civil and military officials and princes and princes who could not even ask for a sum of money when Chen Xu begged his father and grandmother, they could only watch the commercial square make money in the future.

Chen Xu believes that after the completion and opening of Cuju Commercial City, the rent will be slim every year. When a large number of business houses are moved in, Cuju Commercial Plaza will definitely form a huge money-making vortex, and a large number of businesses will move to the south bank of the Wei River centered on Cuju Plaza. A commercial complex integrating shopping and entertainment that spans time and space for more than two thousand years will emerge, which will greatly expand the horizons of the Daqin Capital and the business traveling across the country, and will greatly enrich the daily lives of the people in Xianyang.

With the prosperity of life and the abundant materials, culture and business will inevitably flourish, which is a process that human civilization has been constantly pursuing.

The most realistic purpose and requirement of the general public, including Chen Xu, is beyond the scope of hard work. But hard work is just a forced one. If someone gives money, most people are willing to eat, drink, play and entertain until they die. They get up in the morning and work overtime at night because of one word... poor.

Of course, besides these people who have not pursued it, there are still many people who have pursued it, such as emperors, Chen Xu, Xu Fu, and many people from the School of Literature of the Academy of Sciences. They have broken away from low-level interests and began to pursue higher spiritual enjoyment. The progress of human civilization is actually driven by this small group of people. The general public is passively accepting these innovations and inventions, and using the money they earned to enjoy the comfort and entertainment brought by others.

On the eighth day of April, the weather was clear and the weather was getting hot in the early summer. The commercial square with flowers and green willows was already crowded early in the morning. In addition to the 30,000 spectators who bought tickets, more than 100,000 Xianyang people rushed to gather around Cuju Field like a tide.

Because he was afraid that too many people would cause trampling and crowding, Chen Xu specially asked the Lieutenant's Office to arrange a thousand lieutenant imperial guards to help maintain order. Hundreds of recruited security guards in commercial squares were wearing uniform blue uniforms and badges, and were waiting at the ticket checkpoint under the leadership of the supervisor.

Among the noisy crowds, horse riding, carriage, donkeys, carrying loads and baskets, scribes, warriors, civilians, vendors, officials, idle men and disciples of various costumes were mixed together, and all kinds of lively shouts formed a surging wave, and the noise of Xianyang City on the other side of the Wei River was clearly heard.

At the end of Chenshi, as several fireworks exploded in the blue sky, ticket checks began in Cuju Field, and the crowd became more crowded and noisy. A large number of spectators holding tickets rushed to the ticket gates around the stadium like a tide to queue up to enter, while spectators without tickets were blocked by the imperial guards outside the safe area set up by the stadium.

Although all the security guards were on duty for the first time, because they had already been rehearsing several times, noisy incidents occurred. Moreover, all the spectators who deliberately crowded and made noise were confiscated by the security guards and the imperial guards on the spot and were expelled from the ticket checking area.

The 30,000 spectators have reached 80% of the designed carrying capacity of Cuju venue. Except for the first floor dedicated stands for royal and nobles, which accommodate 4,000 people, the rest of the stands will be almost full. However, these people are diverted according to the ticket gates printed on the tickets, and all sixty ticket gates are opened. The audience is not particularly crowded after evacuation, and the ticket inspection speed is also very fast. The security guard only needs to take a look at the ticket gates, the stands and seat numbers on the tickets and will be released. Those who go to the wrong place will naturally guide them to queue up at other ticket gates.
Chapter completed!