Seeing the appearance of Li Tai and the students, Xia Hongsheng couldn't help but look forward to it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Tai and his group of students have been devoting themselves to the invention of the steam engine since they began to get involved, and they have been repeatedly surprising Xia Hongsheng in this regard. Li Tai and the others were so excited, it was hard to guarantee that there was no new progress in the steam engine.

The biggest obstacle restricting the development of Datang today is the lack of motivation. Wherever great power is needed, it can only be built on the edge of a river and driven by hydraulic power. However, with hydraulic drive, the factory must first be built on the edge of the river, and secondly, it also needs a large area to accommodate a series of transmission devices, and it also needs a lot of manpower, and it is also subject to the constraints of the natural conditions of the river, such as the seasonal difference in river water volume, which can easily cause the instability of production.

There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Li Tai and his team have been devoting themselves to the research and development of steam engines, and most of them have graduated, but they have stayed in the academy because they participated in the development of steam engines.

The Newcomon machine, which is of great significance in the history of the invention of the steam engine, has now been built by Li Tai and his team. Of course, the name was given by Li Tai as the No. 1 steam engine of the academy.

And today, Li Tai and these people came over, but I am afraid that there has been progress again.

Therefore, Xia Hongsheng was immediately happy, even if he wanted to go over and have a look.

hurriedly explained, and sent a family member to wait at the door of the house, if Wang Xuance came, he said that there was something important, and asked them to wait for a while.

Then he hurried to the academy with Li Tai and those students.

"Qingque, what progress have you made again?" Xia Hongsheng asked.

"This time I made something much more useful than the one last time." Li Tai said to Xia Hongsheng very mysteriously: "When the time comes, it will be used in your coal mine, and there will be no problem in ensuring that your ore output will increase tenfold in a day!" Remember to treat me to dinner when the time comes! ”

The two of them walked slower, lagging behind the others, because Li Tai didn't come to the master, before the two became masters and apprentices, they were friends, and Xia Hongsheng didn't like too much politeness. When there are only two people, they talk much more casually.

"What, you made a minecart?!" Xia Hongsheng was taken aback, is this step a bit nonsense?

"What's that?" Li Tai shook his head: "I changed the previous academy No. 1 steam engine as you said before, and changed the work done up and down to reciprocating work, so that I could drive the gears and achieve rotation - this is not the main thing, this time the main thing is not in the steam engine." ”

"What's that?" Xia Hongsheng said curiously.

Li Tai was quite impressive, and replied: "It's about the wheels and the tracks!" I made a carriage without horses and pulled it with a steam engine! ”

Xia Hongsheng was startled, and his heart beat wildly.

Train?! When pigs fly! Even if the Academy-1 steam engine has been improved, there are still many technical problems in the distance that can be used to make a steam locomotive. Absolutely impossible.

Xia Hongsheng was surprised in his heart, and he didn't ask more questions at the moment, but his feet sped up a little.

Li Tai saw Xia Hongsheng speeding up, so he also took a few steps faster, followed Xia Hongsheng, paused, and said: "By the way, my father is extremely interested in geography these days, and often summons me and my third brother to explain to him, and also asks me for a complete set of geography textbooks for our academy to read." ”

Xia Hongsheng originally heard it unintentionally, but when he turned his head and saw Li Tai, he suddenly remembered something.

So Xia Hongsheng's steps slowed down a little and said, "This is a good thing, your father is interested in what you have learned, this is normal, tell me what to do." ”

"It's not." Li Tai shook his head and said, "I listened to my father's meaning, he wanted me and my third brother to compile a book together, which was the geography of the academy. ”

And so it was!

Xia Hongsheng looked at Li Tai and continued to listen.

"I calculated it with my third brother, and my father meant that he wanted to record these things and circulate them to the world. I didn't want you to think that I was stealing your knowledge, so I asked my third brother and I to survey and compile it according to our own opinions, and write it into a book. Li Tai said again.

This made Xia Hongsheng strange.

"Stealing knowledge?" Xia Hongsheng looked at Li Tai with a strange expression: "How can my father-in-law think like this?" ”

"My third brother and I are both your students, and you are my father's son-in-law, if you are someone else, how can you do this?" Li Tai said, paused, and sighed again: "Just because you are a 'Immortal'!" How can the art of immortals be stolen at will? ”

Xia Hongsheng couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

"That being said, it's actually my father who respects you." Li Tai said: "He thinks that your knowledge is not taught outside Jingyang Academy, if he makes your knowledge public, although you can't stop it, but in the end he may be upset." If it were me and the third brother, it would be different. We are all your students, and students write their own books based on the teachings of the teacher, combined with their own views and opinions, and this is our own knowledge. ”

Xia Hongsheng couldn't help laughing and said, "Then what else do you tell me?" ”

"I know Master, you won't mind!" Li Tai said: "I have thought of the title of the book, it is called "Kuo Di Zhi", or it is called "Zhenguan Di Zhi", it's okay!" ”

"Okay." Xia Hongsheng nodded: "If you want to do it, do it all, do it well!" Make an encyclopedia of geography. Absorb the history of the construction of various political regions and mountains, rivers, lakes, products, historic sites, customs, people, stories, four to eight to, household registration, customs, surnames, people, native products and historic sites, the surrounding ethnic groups, but also do overseas continents, oceans, and races...... You can enter all the knowledge about geography in the college. If my father-in-law asks again, he will say that the knowledge can be passed on, and I will be too late to be happy, and I won't mind for half a minute. ”

"I knew it." Li Tai was immediately very happy: "When I turned around, I began to refine and compile. ”

"It's a good word to refine!" Xia Hongsheng smiled and squeezed his eyes: "When the time comes, don't forget to thank the academy at the frontispiece for promoting and publicizing for me." ”

"The master is generous, that's natural!" Li Tai also smiled.

The two walked while talking, and soon arrived at the academy.

When everyone arrived at the academy, Li Tai led Xia Hongsheng directly to the back mountain.

After walking all the way for most of the day, I walked to the back of the park in the back mountain, sparing the foot of the mountain, and there were already many people under the foot of the mountain on the other side.

Seeing Xia Hongsheng coming, the students saluted one after another, and then got out of the way.

Xia Hongsheng walked over, looked up, and saw that two railways were spread straight up along the mountain, and there was a bucket car almost one meter wide and two meters long parked at the foot of the mountain, with a sharp angle in front of the bucket car, and a rope thick with an arm on it, which continued to the top of the invisible mountain. There are two wheels under the bucket car, one on top of the two railroad tracks.

Xia Hongsheng said in his heart that it was really not a train, but a horse-drawn carriage that was replaced by a steam engine winch to pull the cart.

However, Xia Hongsheng was curious, what method Li Tai used to fix the track and clamp the wheel.