It can be said that it was the power of the entire government that made this not original Newkomen steam engine. Some of the craftsmen understood the value of the machine, while others thought it was another plaything of the king, and they didn't know what this bubbling thing could do.

The steam was permeating, the cantilevers were undulating, the axles were rotating, and even Qi Xuan could understand the things, but Xiong Jing watched for half an hour until ...... Bang ——! When the right cantilever fell, the cylinder made of ceramics suddenly exploded, and everyone was shocked, and the sanitation on his side quickly blocked the king behind him.

"Please go back to the palace, please go back to the palace. …… Quick, extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire! Gong Yindao's panicked tone was a little calm. It's not the first time he's experienced a cylinder rupture, and before the king came to watch, the cylinder had broken several times, and this one had been the longest to support.

After the cylinder ruptured, the steam filled the entire shed, and Xiong Jing did not leave, still standing in the steam. After the boiler was extinguished, a figure could only be seen in the shed where the steam had been dispersed.

"Who made the cylinder ceramic?" Xiong Jing was very excited to build a steam engine two thousand years in advance, which marked that the Chu State was about to enter the steam age, who would have thought that before he was excited, the cylinder exploded, and he asked with gritted teeth, and he was full of murderous energy.

"Death penalty!" A handful of craftsmen knelt down, and Gongyin Dao was also among them. He paused and said, "It was the minister who asked the cylinder to be made of porcelain." ”

"You?!" Xiong Jing was still furious, "Don't you know that ceramics will be broken when they are smashed?" ”

"Minister ......" Gong Yin Dao is bitter and can't say. When Xiong Jing explained, he did not say that the cylinder should be made of iron, but kept talking about the lack of a boring machine and a boring machine. He asked the craftsmen to think of a way according to the simple drawings, and the craftsmen also discussed materials such as iron and bronze, but the cylinder should be close to the piston moving up and down without gaps, which cannot be done at all with the current processing capacity of the Chu State.

However, the ceramic processing is simple, and the piston can be burned first, and then the piston can be used to process the cylinder mud embryo, so it is the 'no gap' that the king wants. Everyone also thought that the ceramic was fragile, so the cylinder wall burned very thick, but I didn't expect it to be unstable.

"Tell the king, the ministers don't know that the cylinder will be made of iron." Someone finally told the truth,

"I don't know?" Xiong Jing was on fire, "What about your brains?" The ceramics will be broken as soon as they are smashed, and your brains will be eaten by the dogs? ”

Anger is a common thing for Xiong Jing in recent times, rainy days are already annoying, and Qin and Zhao are about to meet this month, and Qin and Zhao may attack themselves again. Hearing this news, the Wei merchants and Zheng merchants all left Yingdu, and the matter of the national debt was no longer settled.

The national debt is money, the New Deal, and the New Deal is a ball without money!

"Brother Wang." Qi Xuan also noticed that Xiong Jing was extremely irritable this month, and every time Xiong Jing was angry, she would take his hand and let him lean into her arms, even if his hands were often touching around, she didn't mind. Now that everyone is watching, she can only whisper Xiong Jing to stop his anger.

The call behind him really stopped most of Xiong Jing's anger, and he said: "Ceramics are not good, they must be made of iron, and bronze is also good." Tell me how to make this cylinder. ”

No one dared to speak, and everyone was waiting for Gong Yin Dao. In fact, there was no good way to do it - even the British in the early eighteenth century had no good way, and the largest caliber cannon at that time had an inner diameter of seven inches (17.78 cm), and cylinders smaller than this size could be borechambered, and cylinders larger than this size could only be cast.

"I think that I can only cast cylinders." Without exception, Gong Yin Dao thought of casting, which was the only way. "It's just that the casting cylinder is not available."

"Why isn't it available?" Xiong Jing asked. "Is it cast? Where is the cylinder, move over and see. ”

The cylinders were soon moved, and on a rainy day, the light in the shed was unclear, and a fire was lit. Xiong Jing was thin and small, and he was very rude and got into this cast cylinder. The cylinder is not made of iron, but is cast in bronze, which is most familiar to the craftsman. Seeing the potholes, charcoal, copper particles, and copper slag in the cylinder, Xiong Jing knew that this cylinder would definitely not be used.

"I think that the cylinder is not a force-bearing thing, but only gas-bearing, and the ceramics are easy to make, and a thick glaze is applied, and it is smooth and tight." Xiong Jing was desperate when he saw the bronze casting cylinder, and Gong Yin Dao was also desperate at that time. "Whoever wants ceramics to be fragile can't be angry."

"Boring machine! The boring machine had to be built. Xiong Jing slapped his hand on the cylinder, and the copper cylinder clanged.

"King, what is a boring machine?" Gong Yindao has heard the word boring machine more than once, and this time the king said again, he had to ask.

"Boring machine?" Xiong Jing smiled bitterly: "I don't know what a boring machine is." I only know that the boring machine can process cylinders, and the accuracy is about one millimeter. ”

"King," said Yagong Sang's saucer, "the villain thinks that the cylinder should be cast, and then polished." ”

"Grinding?" The inner wall of the cylinder is full of pits, and there are countless impurities hanging on it, Xiong Jing is desperate for the casting cylinder of this era.

"Exactly, the king can know that the jade of the Jade Mansion is made by pondering." Yu Yin also said. "This cylinder looks uneven, but after pondering, it can be flattened. Please give this jar and the jade mansion to the king, and after a few years, it will be smooth. ”

"How many years?" Xiong Jing had a headache when he heard it for a few years, but he didn't think about it and didn't know the style of the boring machine, so what choice could he have. "Okay, it's up to you, the cylinder will be handed over to Yufu for pondering, and it must be polished tightly and seamlessly, and there can be no air leakage."

"The minister commands." Yu Yin Gao responded, with a little pride in his voice: What others can't do, Yufu can always do.

"Don't participate in this matter, the ceramic mansion can't really be made with ceramics for cylinders." Xiong Jing looked at Tao Yin again and said.

"The minister commands." Tao Yin's response was dull, and he could only go back to play with concrete.

"The so-called boring machine is a thing that can round the inner wall of the casting and smooth the chamber. In the future, the cylinders were all made of iron, and there were tools for processing iron, but there was a lack of processing methods. Wait back and think about it, what should be the vessel of the inner wall of the chamber? Xiong Jing finally explained that his definition of a boring machine was correct, that is, he didn't know what Wilkinson's boring machine looked like.

"Craftsmen find their own way, if it's wrong, it's wrong, why be angry." On the carriage back, Mi Xuan and Xiong Jing were in the same room, and the historians were in the outer compartment. Xiong Jing pillowed on her jade legs, and her hand touched her small waist, which was indescribably fragrant.

"They actually use ceramic to build cylinders," Xiong Jing's anger has subsided, "I'm really angry." ”

"You urge them to be so anxious, it will take several years to ponder the bronze ware, and why not use ceramics?" Mi Xuan smiled. "Why should Brother Wang be in a hurry, the Empress Dowager Zu said that no matter how urgent things are, you have to take your time."

"Empress Dowager?" In Mi Xuan's mouth, the Empress Dowager Zu is the sky. He immediately thought of Mi Qian's marriage and asked, "If I give the marriage to the Xiang family, will the Empress Dowager Zu be furious?" ”

"Naturally, it's a big rage." Qi Xuan looked at Xiong Jing and sighed heavily. "Brother Wang can't obey the will of the Empress Dowager? If Sister Qian doesn't marry into the Qin Palace, you won't worry about me waiting......"

There is another advantage of marrying into the Qin Palace, that is, to maintain the power inheritance of the Chu relatives, otherwise, after this life, the next Qin king will ascend the throne, and the Chu relatives will completely lose their position in the political arena.

Xiong Jing naturally knew this, but in addition to his cousin, he added a Mi Xuan at most, and he didn't have a good impression of Chu's relatives. The most evil thing for him was the battle of Yan Ying. At that time, the Empress Dowager Mi had not lost power, Wei Ran was still in the same state, and the battle of Yan Ying was fought when they were in power. Just like Wu Zixu, it is always the Chu people who hurt the Chu State the most, so he has a deep hatred for the Chu relatives.

"Why should your power be based on Princess Qian's marriage into the Qin Palace?" Xiong Jing no longer pillowed Mi Xuan's jade legs, but sat up and spoke. "After the Qin King Zhao Zheng, there is either no Chu State, or there is no Qin State, what is the point of marrying or not marrying?"

"Brother Wang?" Xiong Jing's tone was cold, and his gaze was also cold, and Mi Xuan felt that he was looking at himself as if he was looking at an outsider.

"You're too young to understand the intricacies of politics." Seeing that Mi Xuan looked ignorant, Xiong Jing sighed again. "I don't understand the great determination of King Qin to dominate the world. How can there be any unification after the world is peaceful? Bullshit stuff!

After the Empress Dowager Zu is alive, the King of Qin will definitely attack Chu, and once Chu is attacked, you and other Chu relatives will definitely enter the cold palace. I will never give in, as long as I don't give in, Chu and Qin will continue to fight, and it will be difficult for you to climb out of the cold palace and get the reuse of King Qin. Of course, Zhao Zheng will not kill you, he will protect you well, and then take it out and use it when the time is right.

Only when the last Chu pawn dies in battle, and then I die, can you return to the heart of power. You are Chu people, the queen is also Chu people, and the crown prince who is a Chu girl will help the Qin State to pacify the last resistance of Chudi, you say, am I lifting a stone to shoot myself in the foot if I marry Princess Qian? ”

"I don't know." Looking at Brother Wang, who was angry and loud, Mi Xuan could only hold his hand. "Brother Wang, don't be angry, I won't mention it again."

"I mentioned it." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "Mi Xuan, can I trust you?"

"Believe me?" Mi Xuan was a little confused, she didn't quite understand what Xiong Jing meant.

"It's that you have always been good to me, and you stand on my side in everything, including betraying the Empress Dowager Zu and your parents. Agree with whatever I say, don't be the slightest bit skeptical. Of course, I will make mistakes, you can remind me, but don't blame me. Xiong Jing looked at Mi Xuan childishly, and it seemed that she was really a child.

"I ......" Mi Xuan couldn't understand the mind of a single dog after two thousand years. This is a group of people with extremely low self-esteem and extreme conceit. When you are inferior, you can't tolerate half of the blame, and when you are conceited, you can't tolerate half of the doubt.

"Okay, I know you can't do it, you can't let go of the Empress Dowager, you can't let go of your parents." Not wanting to embarrass Mi Xuan, Xiong Jing announced the answer himself. "I'll ask you myself." He concluded.