Seeing that Chen Jian's intention had been decided, the craftsmen all came to the spirit. Many of them are already proficient in these gadgets, especially now those "apprentices" who learn from them are a group of people with basic education, many things can be quantified and calculated, all kinds of whimsical ideas can only be used for self-amusement in the past, but now some people pay them to do it, and their mood is naturally different.

The so-called union of free men, at this time, is not the religious asceticism, not the morality of saints, but the craftsmen or the possible emperor of carpenters, who devote all their energies to the profession they love, and there is nothing more like this to bring into play the creativity of free men.

The only thing the craftsmen don't understand is why Chen Jian is holding such an exhibition, and who he is aiming at when he says shock or late.

Jian Chen thought of a rhetoric, found a small stool and sat down, took out a cigarette purse from his arms, and gave each person a handful of expensive Spanish tropical tobacco.

In the smoke, Jian Chen hid his face in the blue-gray smoke and said, "This time I went to sea, I saw a lot of things, such as some gods that other countries worshipped. In the book, they depict an ideal world, flowing with milk and honey, and each person can send a lot of woman-like objects to vent. I was shocked, and many people were shocked, and after the shock, they either believed or didn't. ”

"But I'm also painting a future in public. What does the future look like? Imagination alone is always a little less flavorful. We are a very pragmatic group, so the first thing we need to solve in the future we are painting is where does the 'milk and honey flowing everywhere' come from? This can be referred to simply as where it comes from. ”

"Then, we want to paint a picture of what the city of the future will look like. Just like when dignity marched in the past, the future that those people depicted was actually just a reappearance of the past. With that kind of scattered land, small workshops, and dreams like hometown aspirations, I don't think it's qualified to call it the future, but people can't imagine what the future world will be like, so the propaganda on our side is always suppressed by them. Both the future, which can be referred to simply as where to go. ”

"Where did you come from, where did you go. Both of these issues have to be addressed, and we have been working on them. But now is too far away from the future, so we can only rely on your skillful hands to hammer out a miniature future, a miniature future with thick smoke, and a miniature future with a big factory with smoke as the blueprint. ”

"It's like...... Those people say that the world of milk and honey flows everywhere, but our world can be seen and touched, and there is hope for a lifetime. Or the children have a hope in their lifetime, and there is always a real hope. ”

"So, it's really important."

The craftsmen nodded their heads again and again with the dizzy feeling after swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, and asked Chen Jian some more about what he had seen and heard about going to sea, and finally went back to this question.

"Mr. Chen, we all understand what you said, but what does the future look like? It needs to be someone who knows about it before we can tell us to hammer out these nifty little things according to the plan. Or is it our imagination, free to play with our imagination, and then displayed among the bizarre smoky black smoky brass wrought iron? ”

Chen Jian thought about these craftsmen, apprentices, or some romantic literary and artistic workers who received the enlightenment of nature at this time, and his brain must not be able to stop. Whether it is models, drawings, imagination, or even imagination, there will be an extremely strange style, and this style can be imagined by him: black smoke, steel, and the pride of the newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers and thinks that he can control everything and conquer nature.

From a scientific point of view, this and the next 100 years will certainly not be the end of science.

But from the perspective of feelings, this time and the next hundred years will be the most romantic time for people.

Beginning to systematically understand the world from scratch, but not yet touching a deeper and unattainable realm, then the nascent sun-like feelings will be irreproducible. Even when science reaches an age when everything we have seen in the past hundred years feels ridiculous, there will be no more such boundless romance, because there is no longer such boundless romance, because there is a lack of contrasting feelings that have been suppressed by cruel nature for thousands of years and suddenly turned over.

Just like these craftsmen in front of them, many things they imagine and design may be useless in the future. For example, perpetual motion machines and the like will also emerge in an endless stream, and may even consume a lifetime of painstaking efforts of craftsmen, or even delay the diligent pursuit of several generations.

However, Chen Jian did not want to stifle these things, at most he provided some of the ideas he was familiar with, and the rest relied on the freedom of the craftsmen.

As for what kind of thing can shock people's hearts the most, Jian Chen already has a general idea in his heart. Industrial production of many things is impossible at this time, but many models or concepts can be made by the hands of craftsmen.

For example, miniature buildings made of cement masonry and iron prefabricated panels, fashionable and non-mass-produced flush toilets made of expensive ceramics, mill waterwheels powered by steam models, steam trains made of brass and fine iron files heated by alcohol or kerosene, miniature hydrogen airships powered by clockwork springs, paddle steamers without sails driven by clockwork springs, rolling bearings with hand-hammered double-layer clips, hand-blown and hand-pumped carbon bulbs with a short lifespan, close-range electromagnet ticking concept wired telegraph, Capacitor Leyden bottle that can electrify people......

These things can be made by craftsmen at this time, including the mysterious-sounding model of the steam train, which can be done with a file, but the small one is as small as an arm.

The difficulty is not the concept or the miniature, but the industrial production and sustainability of the series. In fact, as long as you understand the principle, many things here can be made by craftsmen in the Tang and Song dynasties without the guidance of the cost, and they may be more exquisite.

These things not only depict a paradise-like, figurative, and seemingly attainable future, but also sweep away the original deep-rooted notions and push the boundaries of people's imagination at this time by means of ingenuity. In the same way, it is also for the sociological ideological platform of one's own partisan organization to conceive the future life in the world of the steam age in this miniature, rather than in the blueprint of small workshops, small producers, and perfect patriarchal guilds.

Maybe these are just toys, but three-dimensional things are more likely to give people a sense of shock than the depictions in books.

In the face of these eager craftsmen, Chen Jian replied: "You must have a plan, but also have freedom. I'm going to think about something, and when you're done, you're going to use your imagination and do what you really like. ”

"How long will this take?"

"There's definitely enough time, but it's time to prepare. I thought about it for three years, and in three years I would invite people from all over the world from east to west, south to north to watch. Those who understand can surrender without a fight. If they don't understand, they can have ideas that they want to understand. It's just that those things can't be conjured, so you can only start accumulating and trying now. It may seem to many people that you spent a lot of money in exchange for a bunch of playthings three years from now, but don't think like that, when the things you conceive or type out become practical realities in the future, people will always remember your name. ”

Craftsmen think that they can do a lot of things in three years, but what Chen Jian gives has always been beyond people's imagination, and I don't know if it can be done in three years.

Chen Jian didn't say what to do at this time, and many things still need to be carefully planned and pondered after going back, and at this time, it is just to let the craftsmen know what they might want to do first.

After leaving here, Jian Chen also went to see the rest of the place, and the overall development was not bad. There is no doubt that a planned and directed development is faster than the need for capital or the fortuitous taste of an artisan.

Such as accurate weights and measures, this is what Jian Chen requires, and it is said that he did not need these things before, so few people tried to do it. This is the basis for many things in the future, just as the bottleneck of the marine clock and the steam cylinder appeared at this time, and the significance of accurate weights and measures also appeared.

But to say that the kind of thing that can change the world immediately with a sudden light in people's eyes is not, it can only be said that it is constantly improving, and it is getting closer and closer to breaking through that bottleneck, but the closer it is, the more it feels as if it is stagnant.

In general, the five most important things have been moving forward in the past few years, but most of them have not yet been finalized.

The only thing that could be considered final was the iron pump blower that could replace the original wooden box blower.

Compared with the bellows, which are quite mature in technology, this pump blower does not have much innovation in technology. The structure was completed hundreds of years ago when the bellows were used to smelt iron and copper, and now all that needs to be done is to complete the wooden box into an iron pump that can withstand higher air pressures.

Valve, air intake, air outlet, these bellows leather technology accumulation has been perfected; At this time, the centrifugal pump type is not possible, in fact, it is a large iron hydraulically driven blower with higher wind pressure, smoother air pressure, and more air.

Although there is no earth-shattering progress, the role of this thing in the growing demand for iron at this time cannot be underestimated.

Its advent means that more iron can be produced per day, a larger pig iron blast furnace, a higher furnace temperature, and more adequate oxygen delivery.

If the steam engine, marine clock, and the like belong to a kind of progress from scratch, the pump blower is more like a natural improvement for this group to replace materials and replace them for a long time.

The former is the accumulation of technology until it changes the world. The latter is based on reality, improvement, progress, and scale change. Chen Jian is sure that science and technology are really making progress secretly, and he is also sure that the day to break through that bottleneck is getting closer and closer.