The thin Jinyiwei leader among them, while starting to chase, looked at the tall catcher and shouted sternly: "Don't let this man get away, call someone to round him up!"
Hearing this, the thief in brocade came back to his senses.
That’s right, if you don’t run away now, wait until later!
However, the tall detective was reminded by the Jinyi Guards Colonel, and immediately drew out his waist knife and shouted sternly: "Do you dare to try to run away?"
When the thief in brocade saw it, he weighed it in his mind and felt that he couldn't run away. With an idea, he suddenly shook the package in his hand, threw it to the ground, and shouted at the same time: "Come and grab the gold!"
Sure enough, as he shook off the package, the golden gold fell to the ground with a clanking sound.
The crowd of onlookers who were running around suddenly saw this scene and no longer thought about running away. After being stunned for a moment, they didn't know who was the first to rush towards the gold on the ground like crazy.
The thief in brocade clothes also held two handfuls of gold bars in his hands. When he saw those people rushing to grab the gold on the ground, he ran away.
The tall detective did not hesitate and immediately threw himself on the ground, grabbing the gold first.
This place was originally in chaos because Geng Jimao and others stabbed each other randomly, and then the thief in brocade clothes scattered a package of gold on the ground, which caused even greater chaos.
It’s chaos, it’s all chaos!
Xia Chengde, who was watching from the side and watching from the beginning to the end, saw it and immediately pulled Xia San away and ran back to the remote inn where he stayed. Ignoring the guy's greeting at all, he barged directly into his room.
With a "bang" sound, the door was kicked open by him.
I saw two monks inside, one dressed as a layman, eating large pieces of meat around the table!
This sudden "pop" sound frightened two of them and fell to the ground, their mouths still stuffed with meat and full of oil.
When they saw clearly that it was Xia Chengde who had returned, one of them couldn't help but complain a little: "Master, you..."
However, before they could say anything, Xia Chengde walked quickly to his bed and shouted sternly: "Clean up immediately and leave!"
As he spoke, he had already arrived at the bedside, picked up a package from the pillow, and slung it over his shoulders, but immediately changed it and hugged it directly in his arms, and then strode out again.
During this moment, Xia San had already explained to several other confused accomplices: "I saw Geng Jimao, the eldest son of King Huaishun, on the street. He was discovered by Jin Yiwei, and it will drag us down!"
While talking, he went to the table, pulled out a chicken leg and took a big bite, but found that Xia Chengde was already leaving the room, so they didn't care and followed him one after another, leaving only a place in the room. messy.
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Not long after, the Tongzhou garrison was dispatched and the whole city was under martial law. Everyone stayed where they were and no one was allowed to move around.
The imperial guards wearing black flying fish uniforms also appeared in large numbers.
There were also cavalry troops, centered in Tongzhou, spreading out for more than ten miles like a net, searching and inspecting all the men they saw on the road.
The intensity of this kind of manhunt is unprecedented!
Near Tongzhou Railway Station, where the initial incident occurred, there were civil servants, military generals, hundreds of Jin Yiwei in white flying fish uniforms, and even Dongchang stall owners with pointed hats.
There are many corpses here, including those stabbed to death with daggers and others trampled to death. There were bloodstains everywhere on the ground.
One of the two policemen also died, being trampled to death. The other one was seriously injured and was lying there, not far from death.
In the pool of blood, there were several gold bars, which were very dazzling.
The entire scene confirmed the saying: Birds die for food, and people die for wealth!
The officials present all had serious expressions on their faces.
The Jin Yiwei Baihu was the first to come to his senses and immediately ordered: "Anyone who is injured should be taken to the side for treatment!"
It can be seen from this that Jin Yiwei has the greatest say.
The soldiers waiting nearby heard it and began to deal with the scene.
At this time, there was a sound of shouting. When these people turned around to look, they saw Jinyi guards and soldiers escorting several monks over.
Among the Jin Yiwei, there were the three Jin Yiwei who were at the scene at the beginning. There were blood stains on their bodies. It was unclear whether it was their own or someone else's.
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Daming Capital Academy, in the laboratory, Zhang Mingwei is inspecting the newly completed experimental site.
During this time, he devoted himself to the improvement of steam engines.
The previous steam engines were handmade by the most skilled craftsmen in the entire Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, although the steam engine was built, the high price was too high for Emperor Chongzhen to bear.
Now that he had a prototype of a steam engine, Zhang Mingwei began to build various tools. The most useful ones are naturally the various lathes.
At the beginning, Zhang Mingwei was a little worried that people of this era would not understand, so he explained the concept of lathe in detail.
Unexpectedly, Song Yingxing understood this move very well.
In fact, the original lathe appeared thousands of years ago. After generations of development, tools similar to lathes have long been available in the Ming Dynasty.
Among other things, there are several kinds of grinding pictures recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu". For example, "Zha Miao Tu", "Chong Miao Tu", "Diaotang Tu" and so on.
In this way, Zhang Mingwei felt much more relaxed. He drew all the drawings in his memory and asked Song Yingxing to be the supervisor.
As for materials, boring tools have high requirements.
If tungsten is infiltrated into steel and the proportion of tungsten is adjusted, tungsten steel will be the hardest and can be used as high-speed cutting alloy steel. However, tungsten is not available yet, so naturally there is no way to talk about high-speed cutting alloy steel containing tungsten.
However, Zhang Mingwei remembers clearly that China has the largest tungsten mine in the world, located in the famous tungsten capital, Dayu County, Jiangxi.
Of course, now is not the time to deal with tungsten, and there is no way to make it. Therefore, Zhang Mingwei asked Ming's skilled craftsmen to select the hardest steel for temporary use, and then replace it when it wears out.
As for the power of the lathe, when the experiments were first started, water power was used.
Then Zhang Mingwei integrated the defective steam engine parts that he had built before. Instead of being used as a steam locomotive, the power was lower, but it was no problem to use it as a stable power for a lathe.
Zhang Mingwei's first target was the gun barrel boring machine originally invented by John Wilkinson. This boring machine can process both gun barrels and steam engines. It is a tool that Ming Dynasty urgently needs!
In the original history, Wilkinson built a more accurate water wheel-driven cylinder boring machine in 1776.
This kind of boring machine uses a water wheel to rotate the material cylinder and push it towards the centrally fixed tool. Due to the relative movement between the tool and the material, the material is bored into a cylindrical hole with high precision.
Normally, the invention of the boring machine promoted the development of the steam engine, and then, in turn, the popularity of the steam engine replaced water power and provided power for this kind of machine tool.
In this plane, Zhang Mingwei adjusted the order and instead used stable steam engine power to power the barrel boring machine.
At this time, the first purpose of the experiment was not to process artillery, because as of now, Daming's artillery demand is not that urgent.
The most urgent thing now is to reduce the cost of steam engines. One of the biggest difficulties in steam engines is actually the sealing of the cylinder.
At this time, seeing that everything was ready, Zhang Mingwei nodded to Song Yingxing and said, "Let's start giving it a try?"
After Song Yingxing heard this, he turned around and motioned to his son, and the two of them started operating together.
The rumbling steam engine began to sound accompanied by thick smoke. The father and son used this boring machine to start refining the cylinder of the steam engine.
Others, including Fang Yizhi and his son, Princess Kunxing, and the eunuch Wang Erbiao who was watching on behalf of the emperor, all looked at the result with anticipation.
In fact, the whole process is a bit boring. But these people, for some unknown reason, kept looking at it with gusto, as if they could see what kind of flowers they were coming from!
I don't know how long it took, but Song Yingxing finally stopped operating. Even in such a cold weather, he was sweating all over. He waved his hand to wipe it away, and at the same time reported to Zhang Mingwei: "My lord, this time it's almost done!"
Zhang Mingwei also nodded with expectation and asked him to test it.
When other people saw it, they couldn't help but gathered around it, and then after a test, they found that the 190 cm diameter steam engine cylinder had an error of no more than one centimeter.
Suddenly, everyone cheered.
Even Zhu Ainao couldn't suppress the excitement in her heart. She grabbed Zhang Mingwei's arm, with two dimples on her face, and said to Zhang Mingwei with a smile: "Sir, is this okay? Is it okay?"
You know, I don’t know how much time it took to build the steam engine cylinder by hand, but the final effect was actually this.
The most critical issue why the entire steam engine is so expensive is precisely here.
In other words, now that we have this tool, the cost of steam locomotives will be greatly reduced!
"It's okay, at least it's enough for the present!" Zhang Mingwei heard Zhu Yu'a's words and immediately replied with a smile.
Technological progress has been a big step forward, but after that, every small step may cost a huge price, so it is better to use the previous technology for the time being. Once you have a solid foundation, you can move forward.
When Wang Erbiao saw Duke Xingguo nodding, he immediately ran out and shouted excitedly: "Our family will go to report to Lord Long Live immediately, our family will go to report to Lord Long Live immediately, so that Lord Long Live will also be happy..."
Before he finished speaking, he had already disappeared!
When Zhang Mingwei saw it, he couldn't help but shake his head: This damn eunuch is not afraid of breaking his balls if he steps too hard!
Oh, it seems like there are no eggs!
In a happy mood, he made a joke to himself, and then told Song Yingxing: "This steam engine-driven boring machine is a benchmark. Nowadays, if there is no redundant steam engine, it can be driven by water power. Next, you will be mainly responsible for this part!"
Song Yingxing listened and nodded. Before he could speak, he saw Liu Jin suddenly hurried in from the outside.
