When Liu Xin saw this bulky steam engine, he was extremely excited. The significance of the steam engine will be understood by all future generations. This simple steam engine will gradually become the foundation for the development of the world in the future.

After checking the situation of the steam engine, Liu Xin took out a notebook and told all the craftsmen what could be improved from all aspects of the steam engine. Now that the principles and finished products were manufactured, it became easier to optimize each component.

Today's steam engines are still not enough for use on trains, but they can already be used to make steam textile machines, steam grinding discs, pulverizers, conveyors and other equipment. In this way, as long as they are built, Liu Xin's iron castle, cement factory, textile factory, etc. will all

Steam engines can be used, which will greatly reduce the number of manpower required and increase production efficiency.

When Liu Xin saw this, he knew that Yizhou had entered the most critical period. He ordered more than 200 students to be recruited from the students who had just started school this year, and 200 workers with various crafts from among the workers, plus 70

Several officials who are good at industrial management plan to set up a large steam engine manufacturing laboratory here.

Liu Xin first personally explained the principles of steam engines to the more than 500 people who arrived, then discussed with everyone the shortcomings and deficiencies of current steam engines, and then gave an optimization plan based on the maximum strength that Shujun Steel can achieve.

After the optimization plan was formed, Liu Xin first designed a small steam engine drawing according to the needs of the textile factory. There were many pistons and air outlets, all of which required special steel. He asked 500 people to individually manufacture the optimized accessories.

It took half a month to build a steam engine that was half the size of the first one. After Liu Xin tested it, he found that his power was almost the same as the first one. Everyone who participated in the experiment was very happy to see this.

It’s just that this time the steam engine also used more than 20,000 kilograms of steel, including more than a hundred kilograms of special steel. Many places seem to be poorly optimized. At least some of the brackets can be made of wood, Liu Xin

The use of steel made it bulky and expensive.

It relied on hundreds of people to move this machine little by little to a new textile workshop. This was a textile machine specially made by Liu Xin's textile factory. Liu Xin and many craftsmen participated together.

When all the equipment was set up, Liu Xin asked the workers to light the fire and boil the water in the boiler. The steam engine finally started running.

Watching the spinning machine running faster and faster, many textile workers were surprised when they saw it. This steam spinning machine worked faster than the more than 100 people they used to work in a day, but now they only need two people to add stones in turn.

Coal, two workers collecting wire.

After two months of busy work, the steam spinning machine was produced. Liu Xin found that the steam engine was still too big. He optimized the machine again. This time he upgraded the steam engine to only weigh 6,000 kilograms, so that only twenty people could turn it.

Lift it out from the workshop.

When Liu Xin built the third steam engine, he was slightly satisfied. He divided the experimental group into twenty groups, three of which designed the steam engine Yizhou needed according to its size and function, and three groups designed the steam engine according to these requirements.

Experiment with design requirements.

Three groups continue to optimize and transform the basic components of today's steam engines, and ten groups produce steam engines of different sizes and functions.

There is also a group of ten people from the general design team, who are responsible for negotiating with Liu Xin to quickly complete the optimization and transformation of the steam engine, and to train some people who are talented in mechanical manufacturing. These people can start from the industrial college.

Steam engines will inevitably become one of the most important courses in industrial colleges and a course that all students in industrial colleges must learn. However, because steam engines have just started, only textile factories have just begun to use them slowly. In the future, when steam engines are introduced in Yizhou

After it begins to be widely used, its effect will inevitably become greater and greater.

Liu Xin was in the industrial area. He ordered Mianhu Iron Fort to give priority to all steel materials to meet the needs of steam engine production and research, and to develop steel with strong wear resistance. For this reason, Liu Xin specially proposed to the craftsmen of Mianhu Iron Fort to use carburizing

Through the quenching method, Mianhu Iron Fort quickly developed steel with very strong rigidity and wear resistance. As a result, the power of the piston device of the steam engine was increased by more than 30%, and the noise was more than twice as small as before.

In addition, Liu Xin went to Mianhu Iron Fort to let craftsmen test the performance of carburized steel with different carbon contents, and at the same time asked people to try adding other mineral elements.

On the other hand, he asked the steam engine craftsmen of Iron Castle to continuously improve the steam engine manufacturing process. After various steel materials were produced, there were more and more types of steel for steam engines, and the amount of steel consumed was less and less. Eight

After nearly ten times of optimization in half a year, Liu Xin finally changed the weight of the textile steam engine from one thousand pounds to two thousand pounds. Four strong people can lift this steam engine. As a result, more and more steam spinning machines are used in industrial areas.

Production quantities began to increase dramatically.

Seeing that the spinning machine was spinning more and more cotton threads, and the workers had no time to weave them into cloth, Liu Xin began to conceive of how to use a steam engine to drive the loom. Soon three major design groups were studying and discussing with Liu Xin, the steam loom

also began to be produced.

Immediately afterwards, various steam machinery such as stone mills with small steam engines, pulverizers used in cement plants, and transporters were manufactured one by one. This increased the production efficiency of the cement plant more than ten times, and the heaviest work of the cement plant was completed.

With the replacement of steam engines, the work intensity of workers has also been reduced a lot.

The amount of iron produced in Iron Castle began to increase greatly, and the iron ore that had been accumulated was rapidly decreasing. The desulfurization coal site also began to operate vigorously. The washed desulfurization coal was quickly transported to various workshops and factories that used steam engines. The second generation of steam engine research and production

The number of people in the ten groups began to increase, and eventually students from the entire industrial college participated.

The emergence of the steam engine drove the industrial development of the entire Yizhou. Countless cotton cloths were made, dyed and shipped to all parts of the world. Slowly, Jingzhou, Sizhou, and even Yangzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou and other places all had Shu counties.

The shadow of cotton cloth, when the war finally stopped, Shu County cotton cloth seized the opportunity to spread quickly in the Central Plains, and exchanged the world's gold, silver and copper back to Yizhou.

All the princes did not notice that when the amount of their money was decreasing, Yizhou paper money had slowly flowed into the counties and counties under their rule. When more and more gold and copper in the world were gathered in Yizhou by Liu Xin, the world
Chapter completed!