Chapter 425: Bicycles and Pedaling (Three Watches)
No, they are all masters in Jinyi, and Wei Liangdong is an ordinary person with a blank sheet of paper, which can be regarded as teaching from scratch, so he will get so many prestige points!
When Wei Liangdong had practiced martial arts, Xue Qian came to invite them to dinner, and during the banquet, Tang Shuxue saw Chang Wei's eyebrows subconsciously showing joy, and secretly asked: "What good things have happened to you so happy?" Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Chang Wei smiled and said, "No matter how bold I am, I won't dare, I still have to collect the debt you owe at night." β
After eating, Chang Wei said that he wanted to go to the laboratory to see the progress of the new thing, Wei Liangdong and Xu Shuyi were curious about what he had built, and by the way, they also saw what was strange about his laboratory.
Originally, it was Chang Wei's personal activity, but now because the two big men want to follow, Chang Tong naturally has to accompany him, and in addition to the Big Dipper Nine Sons, he added one hundred and ten brocade guards and more than a dozen guards from the Guogong Mansion as bodyguards, and suddenly the team became mighty.
The laboratory and gun workshop are both built at the foot of Beigu Mountain, with the Volunteer Camp camp in the east and the site of Beigumen in the west.
Although the soldiers on duty at the gate recognized Chang Wei and Chang Tong, they still had to check the token documents and asked them not to bring weapons and idle people into the gate.
This also has to check the identity of her master? Xu Shuyi was surprised.
With Wei Liangdong's stubborn temper, how could he endure this? As soon as he opened his mouth to scold, Chang Wei happily explained to them: This is the reason why the Volunteer Battalion has strong combat effectiveness, and moreover, this place is extremely important, and most of the military exploits come from here.
The soldier went in with Chang Wei's token to report to Song Yingxing, the manager in the laboratory, and only after getting Song Yingxing's permission did he lead Chang Wei, Chang Tong, Wei Liangdong, Xu Shuyi, Xue Qian, Tang Shuxue, and Yan Ruyu in.
This is the first laboratory in Daming, and it is a feat that transcends the times. Chang Wei knew that the European-style cannon (that is, the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty) made by the European casting method in the same era with a long barrel and a high bore pressure (that is, the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty) was almost a world of difference in combat effectiveness compared with the various miscellaneous earthen cannons produced by the Ming Dynasty.
The European works translated by the Ming Dynasty, "Fire Attack Essentials" and "Western Law Divine Machine", clearly pointed out: The manufacturing technology of the Ming artillery is inferior, it is easy to explode, it cannot withstand high chamber pressure, and the range accuracy is much lower than that of European artillery. In addition to the advanced artillery manufacturing technology, European artillery also has supporting gun carriages, ranging telescopes, and most importantly, ballistics, which are incomparable to the Ming Dynasty.
Da Ming is not without experts, like Song Yingxing invited by Chang Wei, he clearly knows that the heat energy generated when gunpowder explodes is equivalent to the power of one or two thousand times the original volume of gas. However, just a few Song Yingxing, Xu Guangqi, Zhang Jimeng, and Bi Maokang cannot change the status quo that there is no systematic discipline in the Ming Dynasty.
In this era, Europe gave birth to masters such as Galileo, Leibniz, Fourier, Newton, Kepler, etc., and gradually formed professional disciplines in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and other natural sciences. These large numbers of inventors and scientists, as well as the entire social climate that encouraged research and invention, laid a solid foundation for the leap forward of European military and civilization as a whole.
If we want to catch up with and surpass Europe, we must start from the most basic and most effective laboratory, Chang Wei will collect: ballistics, blast furnace smelting technology, artillery standardization, artillery mobility, howitzers, cannons and other technologies are all promoted in the laboratory.
Fortunately, the new artillery of the Volunteer Battalion is equipped with gun carriages and ballistics knowledge.
In the laboratory, various machines for making gun chambers and rifling wires, models of sails and ironclad warships, ballistics research, artillery improvement, blast furnace smelting exploration, and other projects are all going on at the same time.
The scholars and craftsmen led by Song Yingxing were enthusiastic and spontaneously lived in the laboratory all day long to study technology, which fascinated them with every knowledge and made them happy from the bottom of their hearts.
After walking around and taking a look along the way, after patiently introducing all kinds of magical machines to Wei Liangdong and Xu Shuyi, the two laymen, I finally saw Song Yingxing.
"Mr. Song, how are the two cars prepared?"
"As the adults envisioned, everything else is fine, except that the wheels are not perfect and too bumpy. β
Song Yingxing's clothes were stained with black oil and iron filings, and there were still a few pieces of shavings floating in his hair, and he looked more like a middle-aged craftsman than the clean and neat man he had a few months ago.
Chang Wei smiled: "It doesn't matter, when we bring back rubber from the Americas next year, we will be able to improve the wheels and reach the perfect state." β
Speaking of this, a look of mockery flashed on Song Yingxing's face, "My lord, with all due respect, I still don't believe what the Westerners say about the earth. β
Chang Wei couldn't laugh or cry, this Song Yingxing is good anywhere, but he just hugged the round sky and the place, and resolutely refused to believe that the earth was round, even if the globe and European astronomical and geographical works were in front of him, he had to refute them word by word.
Moreover, every time he and Chang Wei finished discussing serious matters, they had to debate and claim that when they had time, they must write a book to refute such absurd remarks, so Chang Wei had to put aside the controversy and only wait for the time to complete the round-the-world voyage, and then come to reason with him about this issue.
Xu Shuyi asked curiously, "What is the Earth Circle Theory?"
"As the name suggests, the earth under our feet is round, and its name should be the earth!" As early as when the ocean-going fleet was formed, Wei Liangdong knew this fact, and he gave Xu Shuyi a general science popularization at the moment.
Xu Shuyi suddenly realized, "Oh, it's the same as the world that the emperor likes, it's very interesting, fearless, you have time to talk to me about Western studies, the things here are very novel." β
Chang Wei suddenly remembered that Xu Shuyi was lonely in spring, and she had nothing to do except those boring banquets every day, so it was good for her to get in touch with some world trends.
"Okay, when I go to Nanjing, I'll send a few truckloads of books to the Guogong Mansion, and I'll explain it to you when you have a general understanding first. In fact, in addition to these specialized disciplines, European literature and art are also very interesting. β
Xu Shuyi immediately became interested, "Is it?
"I can't say a word or two, but Byzantium, Roman, and Gothic art are all very distinctive, and besides, Europe has just experienced the Renaissance, and the academic atmosphere is unprecedentedly strong, and these things are just the products of the Renaissance, and you can't finish it for decades. β
Xu Shuyi glanced at him meaningfully and said, "Don't be afraid, I have time." β
"My lord, please come with me to see the pedal carriage and the carriage. β
The name pedaling is very vivid, and Chang Wei's so-called new gadgets are bicycles and four-wheeled carriages. (To be continued.) )