Beijing Chengnan, Steam Bureau.

A copy of the emperor's telegram was transcribed, and the director, Zhou Sijing, was pushing the glasses on the bridge of his nose and watching.

His myopia was preceded by the entrance examination, and later his friend Li Tao gave him a pair of glasses bought from the Portuguese, and they slept in the same bed in Beijing that year.

In the month of that year, it was very cold, and there was no thick bedding in the boarding house for the two, and there was only one bed for the thin one, so there was no other way but to sleep together.

It's not about money, there are too many students who go to Beijing to take the exam, and they can't live in a good room if they have money.

It was still cold to cover a quilt, and in the end, the robe that the Oriental handsome Chen Mu gave to Li Tao was useful, so that the two of them could warm up for a night.

There is no such thing as glasses at all these years, not to mention that it is a human relationship, which is not very clear.

Since he was appointed to the Ministry of Workers, his vision has become more and more blurred recently.

Originally, the steam and electricity experimental branch of the Ministry of Industry was a big idle foreman, relying on the Nanyang Military Government to allocate funds every year to maintain the livelihood of craftsmen.

The Huo De Xingjun who was locked up in the edict was saved from here, and the later modifications were directly boiled from here, and he, the principal, was personally brought into the palace.

At the beginning, from outside the city to the city, water and coal had to be added once, and later, after Wanli was finalized in the sixth year, there was no need to add water or coal halfway, Zhou Sijing watched Huode Xingjun grow up.

It is also because of the merit in making Huode Xingjun that the emperor said that the steam division is much easier to use than Qin Tianjian, and the gods here are all invited to go down to earth, and there is not even a solar eclipse that can be measured.

Of course, it is still not as good as Li Tao of the same department, he became the prefect of Hengzhou three years ago, and he was the first in the examination.

But...... This telegram from the emperor was for Zhou Sijing to take out, pay attention, it was to 'take out' a guy who could drag a four-thousand-pound cart at a speed of four miles per hour and paced for four hundred miles in a row, and he also drove the test.

Take it out within six months and give him the waiter of the processing department - don't care about the left and right, then it's just three products.

Zhou Sijing was overjoyed when he saw it, this thing, this thing is too easy!

His steam bureau is all over the ground, and the small ones are all running, so why don't the small ones move and change the big ones? A few days ago, the newcomer in the bureau said that he had changed a Type B Huo De Xingjun, and he wanted to pull another one to run on the road, so that he could deliver goods to others in the future.

didn't have time to be happy, and suddenly heard the chaos outside, and the chief Zhou Sijing had just put the telegram in his sleeve, when he heard someone shouting outside the door: "Master Zhou, the big thing is not good!" ”

"Come in, talk slowly about something, and panic into what kind of system." Zhou Sijing didn't even move his body, raised his hand on the table and asked the craftsman at the door, "What accidents haven't we seen in the Steam Bureau?" It's just that the Ordnance Bureau didn't make a big fuss with us, and the boiler didn't know how many times it was blown up, don't be afraid, drink saliva, are there dead people? ”

Zhou Sijing felt that his subordinates and craftsmen were all people who had seen strong winds and waves, so they shouldn't be so flustered.

The resistance was so great that the house was set on fire, and they had seen it, three or four times a year; The boiler exploded, the plant collapsed, and the steam turbine did not obey the call and cut the door, he has seen it, although there has been no such accident in the past six months, but Zhou Sijing feels that he has practiced the magic of calming the body and mind and facing the accident.

For example, in the corner of the yamen of the Steam Bureau, there is a small machine fixed to half a person high on a four-wheeled cart, which looks similar to Huo De Xingjun, but the engraved is not Huo De Xingjun, but two small people, one black and one white, with four hands dancing knives left and right, and spears in front of them.

The fanatical Zhou Sijing named it 'Black and White Impermanence' last year, but the strange thing that couldn't boil hot water, had a spear stuck in the front of the car, long blades fixed on the left and right, and several thick pipes on the butt was now just a souvenir of failure.

Because the power of this chariot does not come from steam, but from gunpowder.

A ration of powder packs transmits power to the wheels through four pistons and mechanical parts, allowing the chariot to charge forward and automatically pull down the powder packs that are then wrapped around the ignition twist.

Zhou Sijing's original intention was to make a kind of chariot that could be used to attack the infantry phalanx on flat terrain or downhill, and the city could also be used as a knife cart for the gate, so that the cart could be sent out without being pushed and the city gate could be easily closed.

To this end, he did many designs, many calculations, many experiments, blew up many pistons and left a scar on his thigh, and finally let him make this idea out.

The black impermanence in front of him will swing back and forth in a semicircle left and right with his arms holding two steel knives as he advances, and the white impermanence in the back will hold two spears to alternately stab and retract, and at the end of the charge road, the two impermanence will shoot two hundred pieces of lead one after another in the upper and lower chests and abdomen - and even choose to plant gunpowder under the butt to explode at the end.

Such a comprehensive and powerful weapon, which can be mass-produced and used to inflict a devastating blow on the infantry phalanx, should not stay here, it should go to Ye Mengxiong's hands.

In Ye Mengxiong's hands, it was not good, and now Qi Jiguang has already used them to impact the Mongols.

But black and white impermanence also has drawbacks.

It has only one drawback - at its farthest point, it took seven steps.

Gunpowder as a power force is too difficult to control!

Zhou Sijing glanced at the glory of the past, and the dusty black and white impermanence was proof that he was not afraid of any blows.

Then he saw the old craftsman shake his head quickly: "No dead, no dead." ”

The slightly suspended heart immediately fell back, and Zhou Sijing waved his hand: "It's good if there are no dead people, if there are no dead people, there will be no big things in this world." ”

The old craftsman was still hunched over his fists, his head slightly lowered but he raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes were full of panic, obviously, he was not convinced, he said: "Lord Zhou, there are no dead people, there are big things." ”

This finally attracted Zhou Sijing's attention, and he frowned and got up and said, "What happened?" ”

"City wall, Xu Suo is driving Huo De Xingjun out of the game and crashing the city wall."

At first, Zhou Sijing didn't seem to react to what the old craftsman said, frowned and asked first: "City wall?" The car of the steam engine broke down...... Which city wall are you talking about, Yangou City in Liangxiang or Beijing City? ”

"Outside the city, in the left corner of You'an Gate, Xu Suo is riding Huo De Xingjun to drag the cart upside down, as if he has changed something on the car again, so that he can't turn around and crashes into the corner of the city gate...... Director Zhou, you better go quickly, the city wall has collapsed, and the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division are all surrounded. ”

"The outer city was originally repaired, so it cut corners, and if you want to hit the inner city, even if you want to hit the inner city, even if you can't break it...... This Xu Xiucai, alas! ”

Zhou Sijing rubbed his forehead a few times with the tiger's mouth, and then got up and said: "Let's go, pay some silver from the bureau's account, after repairing the bridge and paving the road, my steam bureau actually went to the capital." ”

The Xu Xiucai in Zhou Sijing's mouth is a little Xiucai from Shanghai County, named Xu Guangqi.