Beijing's electricity, steam and other test facilities are not located in Beijing, but are located outside the Yongding Gate in the south city.

After Chen Mu came out of Zhang Juzheng's mansion and got the news from the Ministry of Industry, he was quite happy - he didn't have to go around the city.

The city of Beijing in this era felt too big for Chen Mu, so big that it took half a day to go around the three squares of Xuanbei, Xuannan and Zhengxi in the south city, so that he could walk from Zhang Juzheng's mansion in the south to the Ministry of Industry, and then go all the way south from the Ministry of Industry to Yongding Gate.

Big, and dirty.

I don't know when the sandstorm will come, the streets are narrow and cramped, the stench of mud and the mess of hawking, the mosquitoes and flies flying all over the sky - if you look down from the sky, it is indeed so, terrible.

But if he is in the middle of it, Chen Mu doesn't think there is anything wrong with this, for the ancient agricultural dynasty, the more developed the city, the more dirty it is, and the dirty is because of the large population, and the bad appearance of the city is inevitable.

However, there are also man-made reasons, Zhu Di repaired the north city of Beijing has perfect sewers, but later Jiajing built the outer city, only to find that the sewers were forgotten after repair, as a huge city with a population of more than one million, this is a very terrible thing.

Outside the city is much better, just catching up with farming, Chen Mu took Wu Ben all the way to fight horses, you can see lush everywhere, and it didn't go far to see them build a simple village outside the city under the guidance of the Ministry of Works.

Chen Mu came to accept the research and development results of the Ministry of Industry, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry had time to explain to him on the road, but unfortunately the Ministry of Industry itself had too many affairs to take care of it at all, so he could only set up a branch outside the city, so the officials of the Ministry of Industry in the city did not know anything about the research and development of these things.

The Jingbei branch of the Ministry of Industry is located in the south of the city, backed by the Yongding River, there are large farms in the east and north, and this side is a woodland in the past, but fortunately, there are many manpower nearby, so this work village was scribbled to build.

From a distance, it doesn't look like a yamen of the imperial court at all, but like a bandit cottage standing in the field, which is completely different from the imagination in Chen Mu's mind.

"This ......"

Seeing Chen Mu's doubts, the small official of the Ministry of Works, who led the way and rode forward, said with a flattering meaning: "The old cabinet is discussing the telegram, and the matter is urgent, so he has not established a yamen, mainly to do things, and the copper and iron required are all dispatched from the river boat, and it is not too late to repair the yamen of the division after this matter is completed." ”

Chen Mu bowed his head, looked at the hastily built construction department, and thought that there were still officials in the imperial court who did this, thinking that Zhang Juzheng had transferred a capable person, and he asked, "Who is in charge?" ”

"The imperial court recruited the inspector of Kong Yanggong of Zhishi, and Zhou Sijing, who was tired of serving as a senator, was in charge."

Kong Yanggong is talking about Ma Sen, the old man who has been a scholar of the household department, and he was invited back to supervise this matter, Chen Mu has seen it before, but he has no friendship. However, Zhou Sijing Chen Mu, who was born in Macheng, is much more familiar with Zhou Sijing, who is now the director of the Ministry of Industry, and he has a brother named Zhou Sijiu, who served as the prefect of Qiongzhou, and Hai Rui admires his virtue as an official, so he has heard of this name.

"The lower official went to report for Jing Haibo?"

Chen Mu, who was holding the reins, was about to nod his head when he heard a noise in the wooden village from a distance, mixed with loud shouts, and then the gate of the wooden village was slammed into by something, making a loud sound of heavy iron overturning.

Several people looked at each other, the officials of the Ministry of Works frowned and rode forward, and after a short time the door opened, a huge boiler fell crookedly beside the road, and the ground was covered with water stains and mud, and the craftsmen bowed down on both sides.

It was an accident.

Chen Mu hurriedly beat his horse over, turned over and dismounted near the door, and heard the official next to him hurriedly remind: "Jing Haibo beware, there is boiling water on the ground." ”

Chen Mu nodded slightly, there were still traces of people on the ground beside the road who had just put out the fire, he looked around, and there were no deaths or injuries of craftsmen, so he bowed his hand to the old man at the head with confidence, and said with a smile: "The younger generations have seen Ma Gong!" ”

"Don't dare to be, at the moment the branch is the chief officer of Zhou, and the old man is just helping to allocate some copper, iron, money and food." Ma Sen still remembered Chen Mu, introduced Zhou Sijing to Chen Mu with a smile on his face, and said: "The book of electrical machinery is a new thing for us, and we need young talents to be in charge...... If you don't pay attention, you will cause trouble. ”

Zhou Sijing is over forty years old, similar to Xu Zhenming's age, not wearing an official robe, only wearing regular clothes, wearing a square scarf, exuding Confucianism, and a pair of eyes on his nose, with a leather band around the back of his head - his leather band is a genuine leather band, not made of plastic in later generations.

"In the next week, I will hear the name of Jing Haibo for a long time, and Your Excellency can call me a friend of the mountain."

Chen Mu and several principals exchanged salutes, then looked at the boiler next to him and asked, "What is that?" ”

He was very curious, the large iron block slumped on the side of the road looked like a boiler, but Chen Mu knew very well that it was definitely not a steam engine boiler made in Nanyang.

Thanks to the Guan craftsman, the steam engine in Nanyang has a strange shape, the model is 'brick kiln stove type', Chen Mu was busy with the war, and did not free his hands to guide it, and later it was improved several times, mostly in the crankshaft connecting rod and other aspects, after all, the boiler shape has little impact on the utility of the steam engine...... The steamer is fundamental, but how effective it is depends entirely on the other components.

For the steam engine that has just begun the experiment, the parts can be moved after they are perfected, and the imperfect parts, no matter how good the shape of the boiler is, it can only be jet-driven.

This steam engine boiler that just hit the wooden door is interesting, it looks like a big bell with the back cover down, and it is a big bell that is divided into two parts, the upper part is the pot and the lower part is the furnace, but now the furnace has fallen to the other side.

Zhou Sijing heard Chen Mu ask this, his face turned red, and said: "I have been watching the steamer for a long time, and I feel something, and I want the motor to move...... The air plug broke, and the steam gushed out to frighten the cart and the train crashed against the door. ”

"Tram?"

You've already played with such an advanced tech tree?

"Well, the tram." Zhou Sijing said and explained to Chen Mu: "The steamer has a motor, is placed on the car, and can be moved around by people and horses for testing the test line in various places and testing the material resistance mentioned in the book of Jing Haibo. ”

It's not the kind Chen Mu thought.

He asked in surprise, "How did Brother Youshan put such a complicated thing on the cart?" ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Sijing was full of interest, pushed the crystal glasses on the bridge of the nose, and introduced to Chen Mu: "Yu Guangyue's steamer and motor parts, their structures are complicated, there are handles and rods, such as for looms and forging machines, but the motor only needs to rotate and generate electricity, so it follows the example of a waterwheel, uses gas to make water, pushes the plate and turns, only a copper pipe is needed." ”

Good guys, this is the steamer sent to the Ministry of Industry, and it was improved?

Chen Mu blinked, and hurriedly reached out and said, "The branch has a new steamer that can be used, and please ask Brother Youshan to show me quickly, how is its strength?" ”

"Yes, yes, but that's just a matter of conjecture."

Zhou Sijing said and pointed to a steamer placed on a wooden platform not far away, in addition to the common valves and the like, the cylinder of the Nanyang steam engine was removed, only connected by copper pipes, and the gas was put into the side to erect a wooden disc sealed like a waterwheel, and the air was inlet on one side and the other side was out, and there was a wooden pole in the middle of the disc connected to the motor erected next to it to rotate with the motor.

Saying that, Zhou Sijing was even more embarrassed, and said: "Although it is new, its power is very small, the same boiler, the force and the Nanyang steam engine eleven." ”

The efficiency of the Nanyang steam engine is not high, and Zhou Sijing's efficiency is even lower, but Chen Mu is very happy.

Isn't this just a steam turbine?

Well...... Very, very, very original steam turbines.