After entering November, everyone in Sun City has to be busy with another thing in addition to work, that is, the annual Spring Festival, which is also the birthday of the Sun God. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's a big festival, it's not to be sloppy, there are a lot of big festivals to be held, and every inhabitant of every town, men, women, and children, has to prepare for these tasks in advance.

At present, a tall archway is being built on the riverside of Sun City, and when the workers see a black boat, without sails, emitting black smoke and white smoke passing by the river, they even forget what they are doing, and stare at the boat with their mouths open. I don't know who reacted first, knelt on the ground and began to pray, and then everyone around also understood that the sun god had descended again, and the medium was the tall man standing at the door of the bow room. He is an oracle, and his task is to possess the sun god from time to time, and then pass on the will of the sun god to mortals through his mouth.

"Xiao Qi, come out." Hong Tao faced more and more kneeling worshippers on the shore, and he couldn't return the salute, and he had to look more majestic with his chest folded and his face facing the sky. There is no way, the believers like to pretend to be forced by themselves, and not to pretend that they are not happy.

"What?" Wen Xiaoqi was immersed in the tremor feeling coming from under his feet, he felt that it was the real divine power, and he completely ignored the things outside.

"I'll let you come out, come out, where did you come from, so many why! I count to three, and if you don't come out, I'll throw you into the river, and then I'll go out to sea in my own boat. Seeing that the people on the shore were gathering more and more, and the speed of the boat was getting faster and faster, Hong Tao glared and stretched out three fingers.

"Don't take such a trick, say that I will be the captain, and you will not be the one who will drive the ship in the future, why do you have to rob me." In the face of Hong Tao's obscenity, Wen Xiaoqi had no choice. I couldn't beat it, I couldn't say it, so I could only reluctantly put down the steering wheel and get out of the cab door.

"Face the riverbank, wave your hand, try not to laugh too silly." Hong Tao didn't plan to compete with Wen Xiaoqi for the right to drive, but wanted to take this opportunity to let him show his face more and get some divine power, which would be good for him to manage his country in the future.

"Hey, hey, now you're also a miracle person, and your subordinates will listen to a few more words when you talk in the future, understand? Craftsmanship alone cannot rule the country, sometimes it takes more brains, and it is not just ships and machines here. Although Wen Xiaoqi's appearance is not too natural, Hong Tao is basically satisfied, anyway, the people on the shore can't see the expressions of the two of them clearly, and it is enough to recognize who it is.

"I can't learn what you're capable of, and I can't lie to people every day. Where is the sun god, it's all a lie! Wen Xiaoqi then understood what Hong Tao wanted him to do, but he didn't think it would help him.

"If you dare to say that, I'll kill you! I know in my heart that I can, but there are some things that I can't say. Whether you will or not, you have to learn something. Hong Tao is a little worried about how pure craftsmen like Wen Xiaoqi, Qi Zu, and Bush will manage the country in the future, and their emotional intelligence is too low.

"Don't worry about this, Uncle Qi and I have discussed, when the time comes, we will manage the country as a big factory, what's so difficult? The factory director is the king, the master craftsman is the minister, the apprentice is the county official, and the workers and their families are the people. If there is food in the factory, everyone will not be hungry, and whoever does not do well will be hungry twice. Wen Xiaoqi not only despised Hong Tao's management style, but also his own set of theories, and he didn't think so alone, Qi Zu was also involved.

“…… Count your skills, I'd like to see what you two can do! Wen Xiaoqi's words really stunned Hong Tao, the way he thought of was not impossible, but it was very successful. As long as the supply system and planned economy are maintained, there is nothing wrong with this model.

For a period of time, there was such a model in China, and many large factories, mines, forestry farms, and agricultural reclamation corps were actually a small country with all kinds of organs. However, whether this model can be achieved in a country as the main body is a new issue. Hong Tao thinks that you can try, anyway, there is an alliance outside to protect you, and if you don't succeed, you can change it.

Moreover, Wen Xiaoqi and Qi Zu's ideas are also very in line with their own concepts, how to manage the country, if conditions permit, it is necessary to try, just like doing research, through continuous practice, to prove the actual effect of a thing. In the past, it was a one-man attempt, and the speed was very slow, but now someone has finally opened up and is ready to use their own wisdom to create a new national model, why not?

Industrial No.! Hong Tao gave the round-headed steel-hulled steamboat a name, and advised Wen Xiaoqi not to dismantle it, and when it completed its mission, build a special slipway for it in the South Shore Shipyard in Sun City, fix it on it, and become a monument to the beginning of an era. Let the children of the future come to see what kind of spirit their parents used to climb on the road of science and technology. The ship was more of a handicraft than an industrialized product, and most of the ship was hammered with various hammers.

As for the performance of the Industrial, it was able to sail normally in the sea, and the wind and waves were a little stronger, and the lower center of gravity made this not-so-stellar ship much more stable than most sail ships. However, its speed is a bit miserable, it can only run out of eight knots under strong pressure working conditions, and the duration is only twenty minutes, and when it is replaced by an atmospheric pressure drive, it is only a little more than five knots of speed, which is not much faster than the original old boiler and paddle wheel.

"It's still a waste ......" Wen Xiaoqi, who has always been very sensitive to the speed of the ship, was very disappointed, and the machine that took more than ten years to get was not as good as the sail, which was a great blow to him.

"You can't say that, your view is too one-sided. When any new technology first appears, it doesn't perform very well. When your Uncle Qi first started casting cannons, eight out of ten cannons were blown up, and the remaining two couldn't go far. Look at what has become of the cannon he built now? Don't be discouraged and take your time perfecting it. Besides, I think it's already doing very well, and it's not a big problem to run slowly, and it's not just a steam engine. Hong Tao really didn't comfort Wen Xiaoqi, he was very satisfied with the ship, not just ordinary feelings, but looking at the data collected by the craftsmen during the voyage, he was very satisfied.

Since it is not yet possible to calculate the output power of the steam engine, the coal consumption per horsepower \ kilometer cannot be calculated alone, and can only be measured by the stupid method of actual measurement. The method is stupid, but the result is good. The voyage was fully displaced, loaded with five tons of water and fifteen tons of coal, and the coal consumption per kilometer was only about 30 kilograms at atmospheric cruising speed. The fifteen tons of coal loaded on the ship can theoretically travel 500 kilometers, which is already much more than Hong Tao expected.

According to this coal consumption, the steamship has initially possessed the ability to sail to the sea, and when the carrying capacity of coal water reaches half of the displacement, the range can be nearly doubled. And by improving the shape of the hull and the efficiency of the steam engine, this value will become larger and larger, and it is not a dream to sail directly to the Victory Islands or even Fort Karl without stopping on the way. Besides, Hong Tao didn't expect to directly let the steam engine completely replace the sails, and the memory in his mind told him that there was another way to let the steam engine in his childhood get enough buffer period to let it grow up slowly in practicality.

"You see, this broken ship you have built, with a round head and a round brain, is still a fat man, and even if it is equipped with three masts, it will not go much faster. In addition, don't forget, we are fully loaded, and we are still against the wind, and it is good to be able to run at this speed. "Comforting people must be reasonable, and the process of comfort is actually the process of persuasion.

"Even if you change to a ship type like the Virginia class, you won't be able to improve it by a few knots......" It's really not easy to convince Wen Xiaoqi on the issue of shipbuilding, the main thing is that you can't fool him. He doesn't need to calculate carefully, just by thinking about it, he can report the approximate data, which is not much different from the actual data.

"Have you ever thought about fitting a boat with one or two lower masts, equipped with an up-bias sail that is easier to handle. When the wind is up, the steam engine is used to propel the ship forward, and at other times, the sails can be raised and the steam engine can be used to drive the boat. This will not only increase the speed of the ship, but also increase the range, don't you think? "Mixing sails and steam engines, this is Hong Tao's trick. Again, this time it was still plagiarism, this trick was not surnamed Hong, and later in the nineteenth century, when the steam engine was first used to drive ships, it also had the problem of insufficient power and too slow speed. At that time, the solution was to let the steam engine and the sail exist at the same time, and give the steam engine the opportunity to continue to practice and improve according to the situation, and then the sail was officially eliminated.

“…… You'd be able to make do with it, and I'd be able to increase the speed of the boat a lot, but my boat is still a sailboat! Wen Xiaoqi understood it, and it was clear, the method Hong Tao said could indeed solve the problem in front of him, but he was not satisfied, his ideal was to build a ship that did not need to use sails and was stronger than sailboats.

"You're a dead eye! It's not like you're going to die next year, so you won't study and improve slowly, right? With your abilities, I'm sure the kind of ship you spoke of will be built soon, or at least I'll live to see it. Okay, stop grinding your teeth with me, and think about making the ship fly, unless there really is a sun god. What you need to do now is not to be discouraged, but to carefully count every data, improve the machine as much as possible, and lay the foundation for future progress. "People who are purely engaged in technology are often tendons, because without this momentum of hitting the south wall and not looking back, they can't resist the test of failure again and again. At this time, it is necessary for a person like Hong Tao to enlighten him no matter what he says, so that the rhythm of hitting the south wall can be changed, or he can change the place and continue to collide.

(To be continued.) )