Yang Fan got out of the car and shook his arms to feel more comfortable. Tu Shanyue and Lin Yueru were a little embarrassed when they saw that the master's arms were numb, and their faces were slightly red.
"Is your place nice? This gate is quite impressive."
Yang Fan put his hands behind his back and looked around first. The research institute is a large courtyard covering an area of 10,000 square meters. The courtyard is fifty meters wide and two hundred meters deep.
Although only the gates and walls have been repaired so far, not much construction has been completed.
The three-in-one main room and side room in front are used for offices, and there is also a factory building. The rest is wasteland. The weeds haven't been cleared away yet.
"Sir, we are Qingshui Yamen. You need more budgets. If you don't do research, you won't know. Spending money is like a dyke bursting. It's terrible." Chen Xi pouted.
At first, Yang Fan approved so much money for her, and she came to take up the post with full confidence. Unexpectedly, after the experiment was carried out, it was discovered that the money was just drizzle and could not last for half a year.
"Don't worry Chenxi, as long as you produce results, money is not an issue. I will continue to invest in you."
"Master, this is what you said, don't go back on it. We have already built two steam engines. I will take you to see them." Chen Xi grabbed Yang Fan's sleeve and shook it.
"Okay, as long as I am satisfied with your prototype, I will definitely approve enough budget for you." Seeing that Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru's faces had darkened, Yang Fan quickly promised.
Chen Xi excitedly led everyone through the Sanjin Housing Office in front and went directly to the factory.
This factory building was built with a reinforced concrete frame and corrugated iron produced by Xinghe Iron Works. Although it is simple, it is tall and spacious enough, and also very sturdy.
The factory building is a full fifteen meters high. It seems that the construction team has tried its best to consider future needs and deliberately increased the height.
Entering through the huge gate, you are greeted by a very ugly cast-iron monster standing there.
"This thing is really ugly, it's too ugly," Xiao Niangpi said with a frown.
Women are naturally beautiful and like beautiful things.
This steam engine with an upright structure is big, dark and thick, which is really ugly. In order to keep up with the progress, I didn't polish it carefully. There were a lot of burrs, and I looked like a wretched middle-aged uncle with an unshaven beard.
Yang Fan took a deep breath, the Newcomen steam engine is gone, this is it.
The Newcomen machine was first invented by the Englishman Newcomen in 1705 and was mainly used for pumping water in mines. The mechanism of this thing is very simple.
There is a column in the middle of the factory building, which is made of I-beam steel. A transverse steel beam similar to a seesaw is installed on it. You can move both ends up and down.
On the left is a simple steam engine, with the boiler below, the water reservoir above, and the pipes and cylinders above. It is an upright structure, tall and thin.
At this time, the boiler was burning coal, the fire was blazing, and the high temperature kept people away. On a hot summer day, two stokers were sweating profusely while loading coal.
Because the ladies were coming to visit today, and Director Chen Xi was also a girl who had not left the government, they did not dare to work shirtless. Everyone was fully dressed, and their backs were all soaked.
"It's really hot here. The workers are working too hard. It's best to install air conditioning..." Yang Fan suddenly stopped. There is no air conditioning in this era.
"Air conditioner, what is that?" Chen Xi asked in surprise.
"Well, this, you can make an air-conditioning fan. Just use straw as a curtain, put a water tank on it, and let the water slowly flow down from the straw. Behind it, use a propeller driven by a bicycle, similar to the one that drives a boat. Fan. The wind passes through the water curtain and the air is moistened, which will cool down the air." Yang Fan knew that he was lying, so he quickly explained the concept of an air-conditioning fan.
"Hey, Master, what you said makes sense." The morning light was full of little stars. Looking at Yang Fan with admiration.
My master’s brain is really good, he can think of this method.
She had studied rudimentary physics and chemistry and knew that when water evaporates, it takes away a lot of heat, and such a machine must have a cooling effect.
Chen Xi finished marveling and understood that now was not the time to discuss this.
So, he continued to introduce. "This is our first prototype. According to the information the master gave us, it is called a Newcomen machine, and it is mainly used for pumping water."
"Nowadays, the pressure wells are all small-sized and produce little water. One well can only irrigate one acre of land. Now many farmers have 50 acres of land. They need to purchase 50 sets of hand-pressed well equipment. The investment is too big. This Machines can replace manpower in pumping water, and the water output is very large. One machine can irrigate hundreds of acres of land in a few days."
With that said, several students who had just come out of the academy turned on the venting switch. Steam entered the cylinder, and the piston in the cylinder immediately began to move up and down.
A column comes out of the cylinder and is connected to the seesaw steel beam.
This will reciprocate as the piston moves up and down. The upper beam was pulled downward and pushed upward, and it kept moving up and down at both ends.
The other end of the beam is connected to a pressurized water pump with an iron rod. It's just that this machine pumps a lot of water, and it can't be pressed manually.
Now it is reciprocating up and down driven by the steam engine. Since there is no well below, it is just idling.
However, everyone watching the scene understood that this thing is very practical. After all, there is a huge demand for agricultural irrigation.
It has been cold and dry these years. If all dry fields were turned into irrigated fields, farmers would laugh to death.
"Master, this thing is really a magical tool for pumping water." Xiao Niangpi immediately thought of its use.
She thought for a while and then said: "Master, don't you want to build some kind of tap water in the new city? With this machine, it will be easier to lift water from the water tower. There is no need to use manpower to lift water layer by layer with a water press. ”
Xiao Niangpi immediately became happy. She and Lin Yueru both had mysophobia. I love being clean and taking a bath. Yang Fan even had to be cleaned every day before he could go to bed. This made Yang Fan so helpless. However, the efficiency of manpower lifting water is limited and it is too tiring. If you let it go, it will tire out many people.
If you use too much water, there will be comments about being inconsiderate to the servants. As a matron, this is not a good thing.
Therefore, in Yang Fan's back house, bathing is very water-saving, and you cannot take a bath every day.
Now that we have this machine, we can take a hot bath every day.
Yang Fan was a little helpless. It was indeed possible for a steam engine to do this, but to supply water to the entire city, the power of this prototype machine was still too small. The small power of the current vertical machine was still far from enough.
Besides, the Newcomen steam engine was too inefficient, wasted coal, and was not worthy of widespread promotion. It was still necessary to use the reciprocating steam engine as soon as possible.
"Master, I think this kind of steam engine can also be used for pumping water in coal mines and iron ores." Lin Yueru thought carefully for a while and said.
Recently, she has been responsible for handling mining affairs and is relatively familiar with mines.
She saw a lot of problems with mine water permeability in the report submitted below.
Now that Yang Fan has used chemical fertilizers and explosives to open the mine, the tunnels in the mine have gone deeper and deeper into the ground. Support and waterproofing have become big issues.
If the water is not pumped clean and the water floods up, it will not only drown the miners, but also cause landslides and the mine will be abandoned.
Yang Fan nodded. This kind of steam engine was invented solely for pumping water.
Lin Yueru has a strong working ability. If this era had not limited her vision and knowledge, she would be a strong woman in modern society.
Lin Yueru controls the intelligence system, and Yang Fan must keep her by his side because the intelligence system is extremely important. They cannot be allowed to form an independent force, otherwise they will be difficult to control.
Although the intelligence system will have new people in charge in the future, she is only a temporary arrangement. But there is currently no suitable candidate to replace Lin Yueru, so we can only manage it like this for now.
So no matter what, we can't let her get involved in the army again. The last time she was sent to Nagasaki, the main reason was to let her take this opportunity to see Duke Wei.
She knew this herself, and the master would never let her have too deep involvement with the army.
In the current army, An Sanxi's mother and son regard Tu Shanyue as their benefactor. Zhang Geda was even more submissive to Tu Shan Yuezhi. When the military leaders got into trouble, they didn't dare to tell the master, so they all went to Tu Shanyue and asked the mistress for help.
Tushan Yue does not show that the mountain is watertight, and he can control internal and external affairs with ease.
The military affairs in the secretariat are handled by Tu Shanyue. Xiang Yi is in charge of the finances. Xiangying is responsible for the cashiering of funds and the distribution of supplies. Yaoguang is in charge of UNESCO. Song Yingxing is responsible for public construction.
Everyone has their own area of responsibility, but they also restrict each other. No one can dominate everything below.
Lin Yueru knew deeply that intelligence and spy leaders were not welcome.
Whether it was Dongchang or Jinyiwei, officials, troops and people all avoided him like snakes and scorpions.
As long as I still take care of this, Yang Fan's subordinates will naturally not get close to him.
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