"During this period, I asked the Ministry of Industry to conduct an experiment. I want to add icing on the cake to Daqian's prosperous age."
"At the same time, it is also to strengthen communication between the north and the south."
"I have shouted before that if you want to be rich, build roads first."
"As for the reasons, they are also explained."
"Only when the transportation is convenient enough, Daqian can better manage this vast territory."
"In the past, it might take half a month to get from the capital to the Anxi Protectorate. This is still fast. If there is no fast horse, it will take more than a month."
"Now, the widening of roads and the construction of bridges have greatly shortened the distance. It may take less than ten days to reach the Anxi Protectorate from the capital. However, the fastest horse is still the first."
"If it's a caravan, it will take more than twenty days."
"Then, is there a means of transportation that can arrive in a shorter time and carry more people and more goods at a time?"
The ministers had no idea what this new means of transportation that Prince Xiao Yi was talking about was.
Xiao Yi explained directly: "Your Majesty, you can understand this means of transportation as - an iron horse!"
The so-called iron horse is naturally a steam engine. This is also the technology tree that Daqian must point out when entering the era of industrial change.
This is the cornerstone of the true industrial revolution.
That is to say, productivity has changed.
In the past, it was all about manpower.
With the steam engine, there is mechanical power, which can be regarded as a mechanical revolution.
From now on.
Daqian will truly enter industrialization.
In the history of previous generations, the first industrial revolution was due to the emergence of the steam engine, which was an epoch-making product.
Since then, the world has entered the steam age.
If Daqian wanted to achieve industrialization, this steam engine was indispensable.
However, it is true that Xiao Yi is a science student, but it is impossible for him to make the steam engine by himself.
It’s not like a dream about cement. I dreamed that I was in a cement factory and saw the production process of cement.
Therefore, what he is showing the officials now is actually a very primitive steam equipment.
A large closed iron bucket with two holes, a water inlet and an air outlet.
Xiao Yi also hopes that under his guidance, Daqian can cultivate a sound scientific research and production system and independently join the torrent of history and move forward.
The key to the birth of the steam engine is not the steam engine itself, but the environment in which the steam engine was born.
Chasing profits with almost crazy innovation.
Therefore, what Xiao Yi needs is to take advantage of the situation and create a highly "competitive, innovative, and profit-seeking" environment that can give birth to steam engines and looms. This is far better than just pointing out steam engines across basic technologies on the technology tree. Much more important.
Because there is competition, people will be prompted to continue to innovate.
Businessmen who pursue fame and profit cannot just put this profit on exploiting the people.
This is not advisable.
The emergence of textile machines greatly improved the productivity of many textile factories, thus achieving high production.
Those nobles had to find a way, or buy it from the official, and then go back and imitate it themselves.
But the government is also constantly innovating on the basis of new textile machines, so the textile factories of the nobles do not need to innovate themselves, and it is impossible to purchase them from the government.
This money is not worth it.
The simplest steam engine seems to be a principle of boiling water, and then the gas rushes out and directly drives the windmill. The windmill rotates, and then drives the mill like a waterwheel.
Xiao Yi continued to explain: "The iron horse that I mentioned is to use this principle to create a very large power machine to drive the carriage. In this way, even dozens of horses cannot catch up, and the horses still need to be bred. , take care of it, eat grass and beans, this iron horse is not used at all, you only need to use steel made from coal and iron to make the iron horse, and then keep throwing coal in to drive the iron horse."
A fantasy.
The cement has amazed them, and their previous views are almost shattered to pieces.
I felt that this was just gray powder, how could it have such an effect? It felt like a miraculous creation.
However, now, His Royal Highness the Prince said that he would build an iron horse, a very large power machine, and then pull boxes after boxes of iron boxes.
People can sit in iron boxes, and goods can also be piled inside iron boxes.
However, the iron box is pulled by a very large power machine and can travel hundreds of miles a day.
Listen, listen.
I just feel...here and there are new learnings, this is the magic!
If this were made.
How much money will it cost and how big of a project will it take?
Looking at the most primitive steam equipment in front of us, it just demonstrates the principle of steam power.
In fact, it can already be used as a power machine.
At the very least, there is no need to build large water mills in the future, and steam engines can be used directly as power.
To create a real steam engine, the craftsmen who oversee it need to explore on their own, from the first generation, the simplest steam engine, to the second, third, fourth generation...
Until the emergence of the kind of steam engine that can be used to pull trains, it can be considered the best result that can truly realize the beginning of the Daqian Industrial Revolution.
"Steam engines can pull trucks and even carry people on the road with two steel rails day and night without any need for rest. From now on, the north and south of Daqian can be greatly smoothed, and the imperial court's control will be extended along the steel rail road."
"A steam engine can also be placed on a ship to drive a propeller, pushing the ship forward through the water regardless of whether the wind is smooth or not, so it can do things that could not be done before."
"Not only that, since the steam engine is called a power engine, it can be used in many places, such as this water mill. In the future, even in places where there is no water, a large mill can be built, just use this steam engine."
"Then, cement factories, textile factories, etc. can also use steam engines as power machines to replace manpower."
"The power of the steam engine can be fixed, so that it can keep running all day long, as long as there is enough coal and water to provide power."
"With this steam engine, Daqian ships will travel faster in the future, and there will be no need to set up a special rowing layer."
"It doesn't require many people to row the oars to generate power and drive the ship on a long voyage."
"You only need to have enough coal and water, and you can save some space for loading more goods."
"I can be sure that the emergence of the steam engine will be the beginning of the first industrial revolution in Daqian."
"From now on, Daqian will enter the era of industrialization."
"And the so-called industrialization era is..."
After listening to Xiao Yi's words, the ministers had different reactions.
They all felt incredible, even a little surprised.
Others are deep in thought.
This information was too unfamiliar to Di Yan and others. At least they had never considered that a horse made of steel could have such powerful functions. It could weave cloth, pull goods, carry people, and carry people. Push the boat.
Throughout the ages, humans have never been able to realize the power of steel machines.
After all, this is something that has never been seen before.
It was also because human knowledge at this time was limited, and they were still stuck in the idea that kingship was granted by heaven, immortals and gods were above, and saints preached.
This is also a shortcoming of Confucianism.
Only after overthrowing the rule of the feudal emperors and enlightening the people's wisdom, most people have begun to awaken and begin to discuss the issue of change or unchanged.
Only when people fully awaken and the shackles of ideological imprisonment are lifted will more reforms and innovations occur.
Since His Highness the Prince seemed to have never boasted about anything that could not be achieved, everyone was excited for a while.
If such an iron horse really appeared.
After the Great Qian Dynasty, from south to north, from east to west.
It can be reached in one or two or three days' journey.
That speed.
hard to imagine.
It feels like it was written by His Royal Highness the Prince in the chapter Conquering the Demons in Journey to the West, where the Monkey King can travel thousands of miles in a single fight.
One can generate very large power by burning coal and water, and then directly drive the carriage behind it. It can travel hundreds of miles a day and carry a lot of cargo.
Such speed, such efficiency, such change.
It's really unimaginable.
The knowledge of officials is also limited.
Even if Xiao Yi has been enlightened, the environment in which people grow up and the knowledge they have learned have already limited their cognitive level.
Xiao Yi's enlightenment is not useless. At least, the lectures in the past few months have taught about the theory of rich countries, the theory of national destiny, the theory of Daqian's economics, the theory of Daqian's currency, the theory of Daqian's new science, the theory of Daqian's Chinese studies, etc. The topic really broadened the ministers’ cognitive level to a great extent.
For example, now, Xiao Yi pointed to the simplest and most primitive steam engine and told them that he would build a larger steam engine to form a larger power, which would drive many carriages and travel hundreds of miles a day.
They can still imagine it to some extent, and they can also feel that it can be created.
Instead of not believing it at all, I just think that this is an immortal magic that was conjured rather than created.
Guo Ziyi immediately thought that it would be much more convenient for the Ministry of War to transport baggage in the future.
There is no need for a large team of people to transport a lot of food to the border areas every month.
This saves a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.
It would have cost a lot of money to build this steam engine.
But if we have this iron horse, how much money will be saved, and how much money will be created?
Just a little calculation, I feel it's worth it.
The reason why Xiao Yi gave a demonstration to the ministers and built this most primitive steam engine was to get money.
good.
It is impossible for him to say that he can create something by building it. It does not mean that he can directly establish this project by saying that he will establish this project.
It requires explanations, planning, and a plan.
Then, there are special funds.
He naturally had to abide by some of the rules set by Xiao Yi. Only if he abided by them did he form a habit and a rule.
Later emperors would also abide by this rule and manage Daqian well within these rules.
