The Greatest Invention!

The steam engine was the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution!

Everything started with this steam engine, which prompted the rise of the first industrial revolution, the steam engine transformed the traditional manual workshop into a mechanical factory, trains and ships began to appear, and the prototype of a modern society began to appear in front of the world.

It was the steam engine that enabled us to gradually get out of the old world and take a big step forward into the modern society. Since then, the world has become smaller, human communication has become more convenient, and work and life have become more colorful.

A hundred years after the invention of the steam engine, the world was changed!

And now, this primitive steam engine, presented in front of Zhu Mingzhong, appeared in the Ming Dynasty in 1667, not in England half a century later. From now on, with this steam engine, scholars, engineers, and craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty will strive to improve it and make it more practical, just as Watt improved the steam engine, which ended mankind's long-standing dependence on animal power, wind power, and water power. At this time, a huge new energy source will be available to mankind.

The new cotton spinning and steam engines, as well as the future railroads, would require an increase in the supply of iron, steel and coal – a need that was met by a series of improvements in mining and metallurgy. The development of the textile industry, the mining industry and the metallurgical industry is bound to promote the technological change of the Ming Dynasty.

From today, the Ming Dynasty has fully opened the prelude to the industrial revolution, which will first start from the Ming Dynasty, and then it is bound to change the whole world.

Yes, the world will be changed!

In the roar of the steam engine, Zhu Mingzhong silently calculated its speed.

"It's about 40 revolutions per minute......

Although this speed is very low, but Zhu Mingzhong's mood is still excited, once upon a time, he thought that the technology of manufacturing steam engines is not mature enough, and it will take time, but who would have thought that now a primitive steam engine is in front of his eyes.

Even the primitive steam engine in front of him with low speed made Zhu Mingzhong see room for improvement, and it only needs to be slightly improved to be used on the railway-train!

With trains, even if the Western Regions are 5,000 miles, how far can they be?

With the train, the distance will no longer be the distance, and even the emergence of the train and the future ship will also bring a new change - the vassal states of the South Seas will no longer be truly independent, and they will be a member of China, tightly surrounded by railways and ships.

Everything will be changed!

Just when Zhu Mingzhong was excitedly imagining the "steam world" and imagining the changes that the steam engine brought to Daming and the world, the businessmen who were originally stunned by the roar of the steam engine and its operation immediately asked the questions they were most concerned about.

"Childe, can this steam pump really pump water?"

"Absolutely. This steam engine not only does not need to rely on water power and animal power, but its power can be adjusted according to your needs, not only can it easily draw water from a mine dozens of fathoms deep. Moreover, it can also drive the fan to supply air to the mine, with it, the coal mine and iron ore can be dug deeper, and there is no need to dig the coal mine as in the past, because the air in the mine is insufficient, resulting in the coal mine can not be dug deep. ”

For the role of the steam engine, Sun Zhongyue can be said to be confident, from the beginning, he aimed at two markets, one is the pumping of mines, and the other is the ventilation of mines.

Because of the construction of railways and the construction of yarn mills and other purposes, especially the former requires tens of thousands of tons of iron, so now the Ming Dynasty has more and more demand for iron, which requires more iron ore to be mined, iron ore needs to be dug deeper, and the widespread use of coal has also led to a surge in coal mines, and the demand of the market stimulates the demand for mining. With the deepening of coal mines, especially the mining of coal mines and iron ores in southern Hunan, Guangdong, etc., these coal mines are more or less facing the problem of eliminating underground water.

At the beginning, people used manpower pressurized water tank to solve the problem, but it soon could not meet the use, and then animal power, hydraulic pumping machine have appeared, but it is difficult to meet the requirements of removing groundwater from the mine by manpower and animal power alone, and hydraulic power is not every mine has such conditions, so with the increase in demand for coal and iron ore, mine owners around the country need new types of pumping machines. Now the steam pumping machine can meet their requirements, and there is an inexhaustible supply of coal in the coal mine.

And it can be used not only for pumping water, but also for ventilation, and a better ventilated coal mine means that it can be dug deeper and more coal can be dug out. These were all needed by the mine owners, and they were exactly what Sun Zhongyue's steam engine provided.

"I think this steam pumping machine can not only pump water and ventilate, but also spin and weave cloth, you see that the wheel is spinning so fast, if you get a connecting rod and connect it with the waterwheel of the yarn mill and the sky axis, won't you be able to spin and weave ......"

The businessman's sense of smell was keen, and almost as soon as someone saw the possibility, someone immediately suggested it.

"Isn't it possible to improve it like this? After all, every winter, the weather is frozen, the river is frozen, if there is no wind, or the wind is not fast enough, then the mill will stop working! ”

Use it in spinning!

This made Sun Zhongyue stunned, he really didn't think about it, because he didn't think about it at first, but those businessmen almost realized the role of this steam engine on the yarn factory, and there has always been a saying in Daming that the yarn factory is not the river, the reason why it is not the river is because the north is cold, and it can be frozen for half a year every winter, and the river flow is slow, so the yarn factory in the north can only start for a few months.

Even the yarn factory run by the government in Qinghe had to move to Yangzhou and other places, and even the arsenal in Zhongdu also intended to move south to Yangzhou and merge with the Yangzhou Arsenal.

The reason for the migration is because of the water! Because the Yellow River freezes, because there are several months of freezing every year.

Now there is a steam engine.

That's all about to change!

"Not only can you use a yarn mill, but you can also use it in any factory to replace the hydraulic ......"

Listening to His Majesty's self-talk, Huang Zongxi asked in some surprise.

"Really, really, there really are so many uses?"

"Heaven and earth, omnipotent!"

Although it is a bit exaggerated to say this, Zhu Mingzhong knows that this is only a slight exaggeration, after all, there are also steam planes and steam subways.

After recovering from the initial shock, Zhu Mingzhong turned his head and instructed Huang Zongxi.

"Well, after a while, let him stay and give me a detailed report."

Now that the steam engine has been invented, what is needed now is to improve it, and this is exactly what Zhu Mingzhong is good at, he is an engineering student, although he is unfamiliar with the steam engine, he is not unfamiliar with its principle, and the shortcomings of the primitive steam engine in front of him are naturally seen at a glance.

Further improvement, maybe a year or two later, a mature steam engine, will appear in this world, when the time, the Ming will be able to enter the steam age, and even the power problem that has been restricting the Ming telegraph line can also be solved.

Steam-powered generators and even electric lights......

At this moment, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but be full of expectations for the future, he was looking forward to all this, perhaps, all this was too advanced, but who knows?

"Yes."

Huang Zongxi looked at Sun Zhongyue on the stage and reminded him softly.

"Your Majesty, in this life, he is the nephew of Fang Yizhi, the governor of the Northeast, his mother is Fang Yizhi's sister, and his father is Sun Lin, the deputy envoy of the prison army. Sun Lin died in battle with the Qing army, his mother threw himself into the water several times, hunger strike, so he took his son and traveled thousands of miles home, keeping his will to raise orphans, a few years ago, His Majesty had rewarded his fate. ”

"Oh? is Sun Wending's son, but he didn't expect it to be Zhongliang. ”

In fact, Zhu Mingzhong is not familiar with Sun Lin, an official of the Longwu Dynasty, but knows that he is Fang Yizhi's brother-in-law, who guarded the Xianxia Pass between Zhejiang and Fujian with Yang Wencong, and was later martyred in Pucheng on the same day as Yang Wencong's family. Even the Longwu Dynasty did not rush to give him the nickname, as for the Yongli Dynasty, he also forgot about him, until Fang Yizhi petitioned, four years ago, Zhu Mingzhong posthumously called "Wending", although there is a relationship between Fang Yizhi, but in the same period, there are no less than 1,000 civil and military generals, and they may only remember a few people, and now they are all enshrined in the Martyrs' Shrine.

"His father is the loyal and good of my Ming Dynasty, and he can achieve such results, which is very good! Very good......"

Looking at Sun Zhongyue, who was talking eloquently there, Zhu Mingzhong said to Huang Zongxi again.

"It's really commendable!"

It is indeed worthy of commendation!

It's just that no one noticed Zhu Mingzhong at this time, except for a few professors with shocked faces who recognized His Majesty, most of them had never seen him, and their attention was now on the steam engine, and many of them were even more enthusiastic about Sun Zhongyue.

"Sun Gongzi's steam engine is really ingenious, and it can really be described as an artifact. If this vessel can be made in the future, we will buy it enthusiastically, and if Sun Gongzi can use this steam engine for spinning machines, I believe that all the people in the world will be able to use the steam engine......"

Looking at Sun Zhongyue, who was surrounded by businessmen, Zhu Mingzhong's mood suddenly became more comfortable, it can be seen from the performance of those businessmen that they are full of interest in the steam engine, not only interest, they see the power contained in the steam engine, not only did they reject this kind of machine, but even took the initiative to hope that the steam engine will be put into use as soon as possible, and expand the scope of use, which shows that these businessmen are no longer businessmen in the traditional sense, they will be the promoters of new technologies.

Smiling on his chin, when Zhu Mingzhong looked at the appearance of the steam engine, the smile on his face became brighter and brighter, at this moment, he saw the future, the future belongs to China, as for England...... To hell with him!

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