"My lord, good news!"
Qin Yun, who was immersed in writing, looked at Yang Yong who broke into the study with a look of displeasure.
"What good news?"
"Your Majesty, Mr. Wang and Granny Jiang are back."
"oh!"
Qin Yun immersed himself in writing the textbook. He was going to write down all the knowledge in his head, especially the application of the subsequent industrial development. After all, he did not have time to answer the annoying questions of Lu Ban and Zhutie Ling one by one.
Aren't you just back? Why so excited.
"Go down, I know!"
Yang Yong said: "Your Majesty, they also brought back a brand new ship, and it has been modified and equipped with artillery."
Qin Yun's eyes widened: "The three of them drove back a big ship. Are you kidding me or making up a script for me?"
"It's absolutely true, it's at the dock! People from Tiangongyuan have already passed by and are discussing whether to dismantle the ship and study it."
"Destroy this, you are a bunch of losers, prepare your horses immediately, I will go to greet you personally!"
…
At the dock, Bai Zhanpeng, Liu Yulin, Bai Feiyang, Tie Shuan, and Yue Qing were all staring at the mighty ship docked on the sea. Of course, the only thing they were unhappy about was the golden crow bird flag with a fuso painted on the sail. .
Jiang Yingying stood proudly on the bow of the boat, while Wang Menghu laughed.
"Did you see the boat I snatched back?"
Lu Ban snorted coldly: "What the hell, I'm going to build a better boat than yours soon. Come down quickly, stop pretending, and let me go in and take a look."
"As for your virtue, wait until the prince comes."
At this time, the sound of fast horses came from the shore.
"The prince is here!"
Everyone paid tribute, and Qin Yun jumped off the horse in one step, used Qinggong to pull the rope and flew onto the boat.
"Your Majesty!"
Jiang Yingying rushed forward and Qin Yun hugged her.
"Okay, okay, okay!"
He shouted three times in a row, expressing the joy in his heart.
Below, Yue Qing pursed his lips and said, "Is that Jiang Yingying?"
Han Jiangxue on the side nodded.
"Mr. Wang, you have accomplished a great feat this time."
Wang Menghu said: "It's not my fault, it's all the work of the thieving disciples who stole the sky, the earth, and the air!"
Qin Yun looked at Granny Jiang and cupped her hands: "Thank you, Granny!"
Grandma Jiang smiled and said, "Your Majesty allowed me to see the world again. You don't need to thank me much."
"Okay, when we go back, I will give you a banquet to celebrate!"
Wang Menghu said seriously: "No need, we're probably in a lot of trouble."
Qin Yun paused: "How do you say that?"
Wang Menghu said seriously: "This time, we went to Ryukyu Island and found that the Kyushu people on the entire island had been enslaved by Fuso. The Fuso Kingdom built many farms and workshops on it and carried out cruel rule."
"As for the origin of the artillery, Zhu Jiuxing made it based on the models of the two cannons you had at Longyou."
Qin Yun was startled: "Where did they get the model?"
Wang Menghu shook his head, and Grandma Jiang beside her said: "The Japanese have been hiding deep in the mainland these years. They colluded with bandits, landlords, powerful people, and even court officials. It is not surprising that they got this thing."
"What about gunpowder?"
Wang Menghu said: "It is said that Zhu Jiuxing was born out of bad luck!"
Qin Yun shook his head. It is not difficult to predict the finished product of mononitrate, disulfide, and charcoal. The only difficulty is the specific ratio.
Besides, the imperial court also had a formula, so it was not surprising that Qin Yun was found out, and what he was most worried about seemed to have happened.
The Japanese who received the inheritance of Mozu's mechanism skills indeed had enough technical reserves to reproduce it.
Qin Yun looked at the big ship: "Let Master Lu and Master Zhu come up and see what the difference is."
"The rest of the people have dispersed!"
"In addition, I will replace the sail with the king, and I will see that this ship will belong to Qiongzhou from now on."
"promise!"
Everyone was happy.
But Qin Shan, who was on Ryukyu Island, was furious.
"Trash, a bunch of trash!"
Zhu Jiuxing narrowly escaped death and suffered some burns on his body, but he survived in the end.
Tanaka Haruko on the side consoled her: "Your Majesty, the top priority is to track down the traitors and continue to mobilize people to build ships. As long as we have enough ships, are we afraid that we will not be able to capture Qiongzhou?"
"My concubine is right, write a letter to the head of the Tokugawa family and ask him to continue sending people!"
"promise!"
"Make nine stars."
"I'm here."
"For people in the One-Eyed Alliance, our cannons can't hit as far as others. What's going on?"
Sweat broke out on Zhu Jiuxing's forehead: "Your Majesty, I copied the cannon made by Qin Yun one to one. I definitely didn't cut any corners."
Qin Shan: "If Qin Yun can do it in the first grade, can't I do it in the fifteenth grade? Send me people to Qiongzhou and steal the opponent's advanced artillery blueprints at all costs."
"promise!"
Tanaka Haruko looked at Chiyo, who nodded slightly.
…
Qiongzhou Prefecture, Tiangongyuan.
Since the last time the big ship was brought back, they had conducted an all-round inspection, and Zhutie Ling repeatedly praised the Japanese for having a few brushes.
It's even better and faster than the Shenlong Ship they built in Wu State.
But in the words of the prince, times have changed!
An old caster from Zhushen Villa who was specially responsible for the development of steam engine projects laughed wildly.
"I succeeded. I finally achieved 90% power output!"
"Go quickly and inform the prince."
Not long after, Qin Yun arrived and looked at the first prototype of the steam engine that occupied an entire room on the ground.
"My lord, give it a try!"
Zhutie Ling handed over a shovel.
Qin Yun shoveled up the coal and threw it into the stove.
"Du~~"
The steam boils and the whistle blows.
Qin Yun stared blankly at the industrial products in front of him, with shock in his eyes. They had really succeeded. From theory to practice, from scratch in an era when even shovels had to be smashed with hammers, they built the first steam engine!
Qin Yun took a deep breath and turned around slowly. Everyone looked at him expectantly.
Qin Yun smiled and said: "Congratulations everyone, the steam era has arrived!"
The casters present burst into cheers, and some even had tears in their eyes.
After all, from the initial idea, from the drawing to hammering it out, they spent countless efforts.
Of course, the most important thing is that they can give an explanation to those who died in the shipyard.
On that desolate wild land, there was finally more than just white silk flying, they believed that soon they would be able to fly the flag of victory!
Qin Yun took a deep breath to calm down and looked at Zhu Tieling, whose eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes.
"Master Zhu, I'll give you a day off and have a good sleep!"
Zhutie Ling shook his head: "No, I won't sleep until this steam engine is on the ship."
"The hull on Luban's side is almost completed. Your lord, I want to see with my own eyes that the hoisting is completed."
Qin Yun said: "Okay!"
…
One day later, a strange scene appeared outside Qiongzhou City. Dozens of horses were walking in front, with two temporary railway tracks behind them. And above the railway tracks, a strange-shaped, white-smelling big thing was huffing and puffing. The ground roared.
Since this first steam engine was designed for use on ships, it did not have a transmission wheel similar to a steam engine train.
Moreover, it is definitely too late to make it now, so we might as well just use horses.
Thousands of sergeants were tightly surrounding it, and no one was allowed to watch. After all, this was equivalent to Qiongzhou's top military secret.
"Your Majesty, the time has come for you to board the ship."
Qin Yun nodded.
At this time, Zheng Jing led a group of boatmen to hoist the steam engine into the power unit of the shipyard using the fixed pulley that was previously designed and built according to Qin Yun's requirements.
Then someone connected the drive shaft, closed the iron sheet, and hammered it in with rivets.
Since there is no welding technology at present, we have to use manpower to hammer it in one hammer at a time.
This process will last for several hours, but no one here dares to blink. After all, this is the first one and the first time to board the ship.
From morning to sunset, after changing several shifts of workers, it was finally completed.
Finally install the side iron plates.
Zheng Jing came forward with the trial flight manual and said: "Start up!"
"Du~~"
The whistle sounded from the sky, black smoke billowed out, and seawater flooded into the dock.
Hundreds of trackers pulled the boat in from the front.
"Your Majesty, please board the ship!"
Qin Yun smiled and said: "Okay, board the ship!"
Qin Yun and a group of curious babies boarded the newly built iron boat.
Looking at all the facilities on the ship, everyone was amazed.
"This ship has no sails, how can it travel far?"
As a major shipbuilding country, Princess Yue issued her own soul torture.
Qin Yun smiled and said: "You will know later!"
"Zheng Jing, sail the boat!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
…
The black ship slowly sailed out of the port, and the specially modified naval guns on the ship slowly turned.
"My lord, will you sail the ship first or test the cannon first?"
Zheng Jing asked.
"Go to sea first!"
Qin Yun decided to go to sea first to test his speed.
At the same time, the pirate ships that received the mission to attack Qiongzhou at night were slowly approaching the coast of Qiongzhou.
Not long ago, they let go of an unknown large ship, for which they were scolded a lot, but this time it was different. They had been preparing for several days just to land on the island and fight another crushing battle.
But what they didn't know was that in the dark night, a black ship was slowly moving forward.
"Boss, what is that? It's black!
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