'Woo~~Woo~~' The little train roared, pulling people back one after another to continue eating and drinking.
It's a little awkward for adults to sit on a small train, but it's still faster than walking.
This time everyone had gained a lot of experience. When they returned to the original place, there were more people discussing with each other.
They knew that His Majesty would not talk to them, and they probably had many things to ask Zhu Li.
Hu Weiyong began to feel uneasy. He felt that he was wronged and he just wanted to embarrass Xiaqiu Village. As a result...
"Yichang, you need to install the hydroelectric generator for us as soon as possible. There is a moat behind us and Xuanwu Lake. Send us the pedal boat as well."
Zhu Yuanzhang sat down and took a few sips of wine, and began to ask for things from Li Chang. He wanted to have a light bulb.
"Your Majesty, the transmission of electricity requires a lot of copper. After it is drawn into wires, it is coated with paper and enameled for insulation. Insulating materials such as rosin and white wax are used in power generation equipment.
But this electricity! There is a problem. If you accidentally touch it, you will die.
After you have eaten, you can try it with a sheep. Your Majesty will know then.
At that time, if there is a problem with the electric lights anywhere in the palace, people from Xiaqiu Village must be found to solve it.
At the same time, candles and oil lamps are always available. I don't know when a light bulb breaks, or there is a problem with the place where electricity is transmitted.
When the wires are connected, walk in the bamboo tube that has been punched through. Do not let it get caught in the rain or put it in a damp place. besides……"
"It's better not to have any now. Write these down and we'll find someone to read them. We just don't touch the lights and wires."
Zhu Yuanzhang felt a headache after hearing this, so he simply lay down, didn't touch it, and just used the light.
As for copper wires, if the Ming Dynasty was short of copper, how could it still be short of wires in the palace?
The head of the village nodded. In that case, there is nothing else to do, and the village will handle the rest.
It involves blowing out the bulb, putting in the carbon filament, taking out the air, sealing it, and it's ready for use.
For Xiaqiu Village, the cost of light bulbs is very low. The key is that every household can light the lights at any time, which also saves fuel and candles.
And the cost of the generator…
It can't be calculated that way. The generator is built for a purpose and will be used in conjunction with other electric motors.
"Chang Zhu, can't you bring your village's generator line to the palace?" Queen Ma felt that it would not be easy to rebuild a power-generating water tanker.
"The queen is like this, our village still needs to do other things, and that water tanker may not be enough.
There are many places in the imperial city that need electricity, and it is just right to have a separate power generation equipment.
At the same time, people in the village use it to practice, as if they are familiar with what they have learned before.
The longer power generation equipment and lights are used and the more people use them, the more money they save.
Regardless of the use of copper, copper wires are not consumables and can be used for a long time. If they break, they can be remelted and redrawn.
In fact, it’s okay to use silver to make wires, and it’s better than copper, but the price is..."
The head of the village disagrees with the palace and Xiaqiu Village using the same power generation equipment. If something goes wrong, someone will blame Xiaqiu Village.
Take it out separately and tell it in advance if it breaks. If it breaks, we will send someone over to fix it.
If you want to save copper, you can use silver. Of course, silver oxidizes faster than copper and requires better anti-oxidation packaging, which is more troublesome.
"Okay, okay! We need to make more useful things. If this electric lamp is not made in Xiaqiu Village, the craftsmen don't know when they will be able to figure it out."
Queen Ma had no idea how difficult the steam engine technology, power generation and electricity application technology that Xiaqiu Village had developed was.
She thought that the craftsmen would figure it out slowly and eventually.
Zhu Wentian was eating slowly beside him. He was the most tired person recently.
The application of steam engines and generators took many years in history, and countless people took countless detours.
He just copied it ready-made without having to think about it step by step or try it out.
With electricity, you can grind noodles at any time. You don’t have to go to the river to borrow the power of a waterwheel to grind it into a display.
…
It was getting dark, and someone went over to pull the switch, the kind that pulls on a rope, once to turn on the power, and again to turn off the power.
In fact, it can be done by pressing the switch, and there is no technical difficulty.
However, there is a problem with the push switch. You have to go to the wall to push it, while the pull cord uses rope instead of the length of the wire to save copper wire.
As long as the rope is long enough and has a few turning points in the middle, it can be pulled ten meters away.
It is convenient when you go to bed at night. You can pull the rope after lying down and pull it again when you get up at night.
The kind of switch will also work. You need to make several switches and connect them, with copper wires in the middle.
Everyone looked up at the light bulbs. Some were made of different colors of glass, and some were made of transparent glass.
"This is good. It's brighter than a glass lamp when it's illuminated from such a high place. If you want to turn it off, just pull it up?"
As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he went over to pull the rope. There was a click, and part of the lights went out. The other people beside the rope quickly helped to pull it, and everything went dark instantly.
Zhu Yuanzhang clicked and turned on some of the lights, and others continued to follow suit.
"Don't imitate me, let's just take a look. It's all dark suddenly. It's scary." Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid of scaring the baby.
He pulled there a few times and found it funny, so he sat back and took a few bites of food.
He doesn't plan to leave today, he just stays here and feels the electric light.
Houses have been prepared for them in Xiaqiu Village a long time ago. Things that are necessary for normal life in the palace are available in Xiaqiu Village, but some things in Xiaqiu Village may not be available in the palace.
For example, every household has a flush toilet, and a tall concrete water tower is built over there. Water is pumped up from the river every day and piped to each house.
The pipes are all clay pipes, sealed with hemp and paint, and the same is true for sewers, which are collected together in the sewage treatment plant.
Because the people in Xiaqiu Village were idle and had nothing to do, Zhu Wentian asked them to build the village.
As for how the water is pumped from the river to such a high water tower? It's too simple, the Archimedean screw pump goes up as it turns.
Now that there is electricity, Zhu Wentian doesn't even plan to use an electric pump to pump the water upwards. The lift is not enough and sealing is difficult.
Because at night...
"We want it too. We need to lift up the stones on the ground in the palace first. We also want this flushing device. We don't want to use a bucket."
Zhu Yuanzhang fell in love with this toilet immediately, and he didn't care about how to deal with the water and sewage.
Anyway, Xiaqiu Village is using it, so Xiaqiu Village has a way to solve it. Leave it to Xiaqiu Village and let them direct people to work.
…
The next morning, everyone had dinner in the village. Some went to court, some returned to the palace, and people from Xiaqiu Village followed them.
They have to look at the terrain. Zhu Wentian is the main force. Wherever they go in the harem, people will avoid it.
At noon, when the group returned to the village, the village chief asked Hanhan: "How was it?"
"The moat is in the way. The height of the imperial city is higher than the surrounding areas. Anyway, when there is a flood, the last one can reach the imperial city.
There is no suitable place for a sewage treatment plant in the surrounding area. The only option is to go north, which requires pipes to pass through the moat. The amount of work is not small.
I don’t know how long it will take for His Majesty to finish it. We will go on a northern tour with the Prince in a few days. "
Zhu Wentian doesn't think there is a problem elsewhere, except that the sewage pipes need to cross the moat.
(End of chapter)
