As the first steamship with practicality, it is difficult for the Lady to leave a name in history, although after the successful development of the high-pressure steam engine, the navy is the most rapid, and they already have a plan to equip the steam engine on a large scale.

However, the modification of warships is more troublesome, and there are too many things to consider, and it is impossible to use it like civilian ships.

The most important thing is that the steam engine equipped with the Lady of the Yangtze River Shipping Company is not a mass-produced steam engine produced by Zhaoqing Machinery Company, Tianjin Youbang Company or the steam engine factory under the Navy Shipyard, but a test model directly taken from the steam engine project team of the Royal Institute of Technology.

Strictly speaking, this is not only a trial voyage of the Yangtze River Shipping Company, but also a test of the steam engine project team!

At present, the steam engine equipped on the Lady is the only two shipborne high-pressure steam engines in the whole empire, which is also a prototype, and the other prototype is now being tested in the laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology.

On the Guards Headquarters building in the port, Li Xuan led a group of people to watch the sea trials, and on the Lady, several people also looked at the huge shipborne steam engine in front of them with serious faces.

Among these people, one is an officer wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Guards, the other is wearing a Confucian robe, this is the captain of the Yangtze River Shipping Company, and there is also an official wearing an official robe, this is the deputy director of the Department of Transportation of the Ministry of Industry, in charge of coastal inland river transportation.

In addition to these three people, there are a few young people who look much younger than them, but although these young people are wearing civilian clothes, they have a grade medal pinned to their chests, and this high grade is a little scary, and the leader is pinned to the chest A badge representing the third grade.

There are several other people, one is from the third grade, and a few are from the fourth grade.

These people, looking at their age, are only in their twenties, and even one of them looks to be seventeen or eighteen years old at most, looking at their age, looking at their grade, and as soon as they appear, a bunch of people appear, it is not difficult to guess that they are researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology.

Because you can have the grade of three or four grades at a young age, and as soon as you appear, there are a bunch of people, and there is no other place in the world to find it except the Royal Institute of Technology.

In this group of people, it is obviously led by a young man with a positive third grade in front!

"Professor Xu, this is almost there, is it time to start?" At this time, Lu Xiyuan, the deputy director of the Department of Transportation behind him, said respectfully.

This is not disrespectful, the person in front of him is Xu Quan, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology, who is also one of the deputy leaders of the steam engine project team, and he is also the Viscount of the Empire.

Professor Xu didn't know if he didn't hear it, or if he didn't care, so he didn't plan to answer at all, but stared at the various pointers of the steam engine in front of him, and then said a few words to the assistant next to him.

After a while, the assistant next to him stepped forward with a few researchers and got busy in front of the steam engine.

Seeing that the researchers of the Royal Institute of Technology were busy in front of the steam engine again, an officer, an officer, and a captain behind them glanced at each other, all showing anxious expressions.

Guards Colonel Ji Xiaoyang approached the two people, and then lowered his voice and said: "Isn't this air pressure enough, it should be able to drive the boat, why do you have to wait, if you wait any longer, I'm afraid there will be problems!" ”

Dong Qingjun, the captain of the Lady, said with a worried face: "Isn't it, the Son of Heaven is watching outside!" ”

"You say, there won't be anything wrong with this steam engine!" Lu Xiyuan, deputy director of the Department of Transportation, frowned and said: "In order to avoid temporary problems, we have already prepared two hours in advance, but now the time to book a trial flight is almost up, how can this not be done yet!" ”

Ji Xiaoyang said: "Crow's mouth, don't say the good or the bad, if there is a problem, I'm afraid you and I will inevitably be trained!" ”

Dong Qingjun said: "How can we be trained, to be trained is also their Royal Institute of Technology people are trained, our company is trying to cooperate with them, what they say, how we will transform the lady, all the modification plans are given by them, even the construction is also they take people to do it, if there is a problem, it can't be blamed on our company!" ”

Lu Xiyuan looked contemptuous of him: "Who owns this ship?" But you are the captain of the Lady of the Yangtze River Shipping Company, not from their Royal Institute of Technology! ”

"Besides, even if there is a problem, people will pat their butts and go back to continue researching, and we don't have to clean up the mess!"

Hearing Lu Xiyuan say this, Dong Qingjun and Ji Xiaoyang were even more worried!

Lu Xiyuan is right, Xu Quan, the professors, lecturers, and students of the Royal Institute of Technology, belong to the absolute privileged class in the empire, and no one blames them for any problems that have gone wrong in their research.

Last year, Bi Zifei, a professor of the mechanical department of the Royal Institute of Technology, took his students to conduct an experiment in the gunpowder factory on the outskirts of the Jiangnan Arms Company, but the test went wrong, and the entire factory was blown up, killing and injuring dozens of people, and the economic loss was more than 100,000 yuan. ”

Who is he? Naturally, it refers to Bi Zifei!

As the most senior and most powerful gunpowder expert in the Tang Empire, the gunpowder R&D project team led by this person is the most professional and even the only gunpowder R&D project team in the empire.

As for why Bi Zifei is a professor in the Department of Mechanics, why he is an expert in gunpowder, you have to ask himself, he is good at chemistry, mechanics and even medicine and other disciplines at the same time, and is willing to be a professor in the Department of Mechanics, and at the same time develop gunpowder, that is his own business.

This kind of thing is very common in the Royal Institute of Technology, but anyone who can mix in the Royal Institute of Technology to graduate is basically a demon, the kind with an explosive IQ, and it is normal to specialize in multiple majors at the same time, Lin Hui and Chen Ziran, the main direction of the two bigwigs is still theoretical physics, but they play steam engines alone, and steel alone......

As a professor in the Department of Mechanics, it is not surprising that Bi Zifei plays with explosives.

Bi Zifei blew up the entire factory, killing and injuring dozens of people, but the first sentence of the Son of Heaven was to ask him if there was anything wrong, and when he learned that when the explosion occurred, Bi Zifei happened to be not in the factory, so when he didn't have anything to do, the Son of Heaven breathed a sigh of relief, and then personally gave Bi Zifei a holy decree, that is, when carrying out dangerous tests such as gunpowder in the future, he was not allowed to operate it in person, and let the assistant replace it.

Li Xuan was really afraid that he would blow himself up that day!

Historically, there have been countless scientists who have studied explosives and finally killed themselves, why is Nobel so famous because he was not killed......

In general, a group of scientists who studied explosives, the others were killed, and he lived well, so he became one of the greatest explosives experts!

It can also be seen from Bi Zifei's example that in the heart of the Son of Heaven, Bi Zifei's value alone is more than an entire gunpowder factory plus dozens of lives!

Well, what outsiders don't know is that even if this number is increased by ten or even a hundred times, Li Xuan will still feel that Bi Zifei is more important!

In this environment, if Xu Quan and the others from the Royal Institute of Technology messed up this trial, they would at most sigh, and then pat their butts and go back to continue their research, preparing for the second test.

But the rest of the mess has to be cleaned up by a few of them.

This feeling is basically the feeling of those officials in the Education Department of the Royal Institute of Technology, because one of the major tasks of the officials of the Academic Affairs Office is to wipe the butts of these researchers!

Just when these people were more worried about it, they saw Xu Quan in front of them coming over, and then said to the three people: "You can start!" ”

This time for the trial, Xu Quan is the highest person in charge, well, it is the kind of person in charge who specifically commands the test, but he is not responsible for anything that goes wrong in the test, and he pats his ass and leaves.

Hearing Xu Quan say this, Ji Xiaoyang, Dong Qingjun and Lu Xiyuan were all greatly relieved!

Immediately, after the three of them glanced at each other, Captain Dong Qingjun said: "All departments are in place, this ship is about to set sail!" ”

Immediately, Ji Xiaoyang, the colonel of the Guards, left, he had to take a group of soldiers to prepare for all kinds of messy dangers such as extinguishing fires at any time, and then when there were explosions, steam leaks and other accidents, he would take Xu Quan and other researchers away safely as soon as possible!

As for saving the ship, that's not his task!

To put it bluntly, the dozens of Guards soldiers said that they were experimental objects, but in fact they were bodyguards for Xu Quan and more than a dozen teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology.

And Lu Xiyuan also followed Dong Qingjun to leave, preparing to go to the bridge, and immediately said after arriving at the bridge: "Send a flag to the holy driver, saying that the ship is ready, please set sail!" ”

He was the official representative of this test, responsible for communicating with the shore, and at the same time evaluating the trial operation of the steam engine, whether it could be promoted on a large scale at the first time.

Soon, through the telescope, I saw the flag from the lady's number, and at this time, an official next to him also stepped forward and said: "The lady's horn, please set sail!" ”

Li Xuan said with a kind smile: "Accurate! ”

After Li Xuan's order was conveyed to the Lady through the flag, Dong Qingjun, who had already run to the bridge, as the captain, officially gave the order to set sail!

Immediately afterwards, I heard a long whistle from the Lady, which was the sound of high-pressure steam passing through the whistle, and then the tall chimney of the Lady emitted more white smoke, and slowly left the dock and sailed towards the center of the Yangtze River!

The Lady, set sail!

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