Chapter 1391 Steam Locomotive

In August, Xin Mao, Puzong Mengba.

First, the prime ministers and ministers lamented whether the emperor had talents. Zong Meng said: "Half of the talents were ruined by Sima Guang's heresy."

The emperor said nothing and looked directly at Zong Meng Jiuzhi.

Zong Meng was so frightened that he could not tolerate it.

The emperor replied: "Does Pu Zong and Meng Nai not want to take Sima Guangxie? Without discussing other matters, he said that he was the deputy privy envoy. Since I came to the throne, I have only seen this person. Although others forced him to go, he refused."

In addition, because of his general discussion on ancient and modern figures, Zong Meng Sheng praised Yang Xiong as a virtuous person, and Emperor Zuo Se said: "Yang Xiong's play on Qin Meixin is not good."

After leaving the court, Wang Anli played Zong Meng and said: "Yang Xiong is tired of sitting for the public."

At that time, the imperial censor commented that he was wasted in drinking and sex, and that he had repaired the government buildings and made mistakes, so he stayed in charge and learned about Ruzhou.

Wang Anli returned to the dynasty and was appointed as Shangshu Zuocheng; Li Qingchen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Personnel, was appointed as Shangshu Youcheng.

Cai Jing, the former Chancellor of the Right Secretariat, came out of Chengdu Prefecture.

This was an appointment that Cai Jing could not object to, and it was also Cai Que's attempt to quench his thirst by drinking poison.

Xiao Cai's flying knife was so powerful that it was impossible to guard against it. He would be hit unexpectedly, which made Cai indeed a little irritable.

Xing Shu came up with an idea and asked him to go to Chengdu. Sichuan was the place where Su You made his fortune and his hometown.

Cai Jing is Su You's lackey. Now if the lackey is asked to look after his master's house, how dare he refuse?

Cai Que slapped his thigh, it was wonderful!

Cai Jing's resume has a shortcoming, and that is his lack of experience in outside positions - he has never been a top outside leader.

So sending him to Chengdu is not to suppress him, but to train him, improve his resume, and prepare for the next step of promotion.

Being the Minister of Finance, You Cheng, is equivalent to being the last person to participate in politics, and then go to Chengdu Prefecture, and get the label of "knowing economics". When you return to Bianjing, you will be the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Zuo Cheng, the best minister.

Candidate.

This is what Zhang Fangping did back then.

Cai Jing was also very happy to get this appointment. Su You wrote to him that the Silk Road was opened last year, and this year merchants from the Western Regions completed their initial trials and tasted the benefits, and the trade road will flourish in the future.

Sichuan's goods will now have new export channels, and Sichuan's economy will continue to grow.

There is also immigration. Next year Jiangsu Oil will engage in skilled immigration to continue attracting talents. Someone in Sichuan is needed to cooperate.

There are advantages to many parties, and this business can be done well.

However, Cai Jing still wrote to Zhao Xu, saying that of course the imperial appointment could not be declined, but by transferring me to Shuzhong, did the important officials in the imperial court think that I talked too much?

If there is no foreign appointment, the court must give an explanation.

Before leaving the house, he lost Cai Que's last flying knife and got the title of bachelor of Duanming Palace. Zhao Xu thought that he had been wronged and specially arranged it.

In the six years of Yuanfeng's harvest, two words can be used to describe Ningxia's Third Road, just like Cai Jing who went to Chengdu to take up a post - making money with blood.

The most convenient place to use the pot machine is the 5,000 hectares of cotton fields in Shazhou.

When the cotton is received at the edge of the field, a pot camel machine is used to drive the doffing machine to separate the cotton seeds and cotton yarn, and the cotton seeds are made into coarse cotton and packed in trucks. The remaining cotton seeds are kept for oil extraction to make soap. The workload is much less than before.

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The same goes for ripe wheat. Chaogu ordered his people to thresh the grain directly at the edge of the field, and the straw burned the fertile field.

After receiving the letter from Chaogu, Su You was heartbroken. He said to Chao Guodong, who had come to Xingzhou to study and was taken out to watch the wheat harvest today: "Your father is really a prodigal. In the past, all the straw in Shu was made by farmers."

Fuel for the stove."

Chao Guodong was proud: "We all burn coal."

After speaking, he took out a rough dagger from his arms and said, "It was made in our metalworking internship class. Godfather, this is for you."

Su You almost shed tears when he took it: "It's better to be your godson. My biological son only cares about his mother... Ouch!"

Chao Guodong quickly took out his bag: "Why did you cut your hand? Godfather, I have white medicine here!"

"It's okay... Well, let's wrap it up... Okay, let's go, my godfather will take you to see something interesting!"

In Yinfeng Supervisor, Shen Kuo saw Su You's thumb wrapped like the head of an Indian envoy: "What's wrong with your hand?"

Su You ignored him: "Where is the car? You, the Ningxia Road Transporter, are really fun. Chao Buzhi and Liang Yiduobu are doing all the work. You are here to earn Sitong's tribute subsidy."

Sitong worshipers are divided into different levels. For those like Shen Kuo, who is an academician of physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, his temporary salary is 250 yuan a month.

This is almost the same as Cai Jinggang's discarded Shangshu Youcheng.

Therefore, Shen Kuo had a high income and was no longer so enthusiastic about officialdom: "I still like to engage in academics."

"There are still people in the court who believe that craftsmanship is not academic." Su You curled his lips and said, "But technology brings money. It's good to have more extra money to send home. Spend money to buy peace."

Shen Kuo's wife was Xu Xian. Zhang Chu, the deputy envoy to Huainan, saw that he was pitiful and married his daughter to him.

Zhang Shu was Shen Kuo's mentor and his immediate boss when he was in Yangzhou. He valued and cared for him very much.

Shen Kuo showed great respect to his teacher, Shangfeng and father-in-law.

As a result, he had a wife who was even more pitiful. Zhang's violence was as violent as Socrates's wife. When the two men fought, Shen Kuo's beard was once pulled off by his belt and flesh.

He also often implemented "Xia Chu" on Shen Kuo.

"Book of Rites·Xue Ji": "Xia and Chu are two things that share their prestige." Zheng Xuan notes: "Xia means rice; Chu means Jing. The two of them fight against each other and violate the etiquette."

This is a thing used in the academy to punish unruly students, and it is also a thing used by parents to beat their children. It is similar to the yellow thorn stick in Shu.

Mrs. Zhang used it to beat her husband. Su You almost burst out laughing when he received the letter. Brother Xiaoqi, look at Shen Cunzhong's wife. She beats her husband with courtesy, hahahaha...

What's even more strange is that the Shen University scientist seemed to have a masochistic constitution. After coming to Ningxia, he often missed Mr. Zhang and wrote letters to ask for help. He didn't even pay attention to his legitimate son being bullied by his step-wife.

It was Su You who received Liu Si's letter and sent Shen Kuo's son Shen Chong to the Royal Institute of Technology to study, and then arranged an errand for him at the Huangsong Bank. He gave up all the family property and left it to Zhang's parents and children.

That's it.

Hearing Su You's teasing, Shen Kuo blushed: "Zhang married me at the age of cardamom. I respect her."

Su You smiled and said: "To cure a disease, you must cure the root cause. Shen Chong is her heart disease. Forcing them to be together will only make everyone awkward. Let's separate for a while first."

"I asked Wei'er to see your wife. She said that she was suffering from inflammation of the liver qi and was not feeling well emotionally. In addition to taking medicine to regulate her condition, she also taught her a set of exercises. Take your time."

One thing Su You is better than Da Su is that he makes fun of you, but after making fun of you, he will thoughtfully help you solve your problems, often making others dumbfounded.

Shen Kuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry now, so he could only talk about it: "Why talk about family affairs when there is so much business, let's go see the big machine..."

The greatest scientific and engineering achievements of the Song Dynasty today are undoubtedly the Hangzhou-type battleships and the large open-hearth furnaces for steelmaking.

Next should be the steam bending machine for shipbuilding.

The third is the gantry crane used in the shipyard.

Now this thing in the warehouse can only be ranked fourth.

But his size should not be underestimated.

Of course, it was much smaller than the Jiayang train that Su You was familiar with in later generations.

The precision cast iron wheel is half a person's height, and the steam boiler is three meters long. Due to technological limitations, it uses a copper liner.

Inside the boiler are one hundred and thirty overfired copper tubes, evenly distributed in the cylindrical boiler, used to heat the water in the cylinder.

The water tank is also made of copper because brass has better sealing properties.

Inspired by Su You's instant water heater, Shen Kuo creatively changed the straight pipes in the boiler into curved pipes, and at the same time arranged more curved pipes around the boiler firebox to form water-cooled walls, superheaters and economizers, which greatly improved the efficiency of the boiler.

Improved heat utilization efficiency.

At the same time, in order to obtain greater driving pressure, the outside of the boiler is also covered with a heat insulation layer, and then reinforced with a riveted cast iron shell.

The steam bag is also made of brass, making the locomotive look like a big black man wearing a beautiful brass hat.

Inside this hat, a water-vapor separation device is also designed. After these improvements, this steam engine can generate a pressure of eight atmospheres, providing strong power to the cylinder.

What Su You didn't know was that this parameter actually far exceeded the famous Planetary locomotive in history. Because the inventor of the Planetary locomotive was not as rich as he was, the production cost was considered.

Under the same technical conditions, Stephenson and his son had fainted in the toilet from crying.

Of course, the dead weight of the train itself has also increased, but the principle of the train is to overcome the friction of the rails. This increased dead weight is completely negligible compared with the excellent power obtained.

Compared with the giant locomotives of later generations, how much weight does this have?

Chao Guodong looked at the "behemoth" made of steel and brass in front of him, and his heart was filled with awe.

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