The industrial revolution is a revolution in production and technology that replaces manpower with machines and replaces individual workshops and manual production with large-scale factory production. Steam engines, steel, and coal are regarded as the three indispensable elements that promote industrial revolution technology and accelerate development!
Taiyi City is now at the peak of its handicraft industry, but has been unable to break through its bottleneck. As a result, with the entire Tang Dynasty, Wa Kingdom, Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, especially Southwest and Tuyuhun, As well as the increasing demand from the food country, the entire Taiyi City handicraft industry has long been unable to meet such a large area of demand.
Even if the entire Tang Dynasty and Taiyi City were able to operate all the authorized workshops, they would not be able to meet the market demand in terms of textiles.
Although under Li Hong's reforms, in order to further improve productivity and meet market demand, the original individual processing has been transformed into divided workshops, dividing skilled craftsmen and unskilled craftsmen.
In this way, it not only improves the quality and total quantity of production, but also makes it impossible for a single craftsman to complete a product alone. In this era without patent protection, it can be regarded as protecting the interests of Taiyi City to the greatest extent.
But even if he killed Li Hong, Li Hong would not have thought that one day the Tang Dynasty would enter the era of steam engines. Although looking at the gadgets in front of him, he knew that the era of steam engines was still far away, but... at least people are starting to study steam now. Okay, this is a good sign, isn't it
Bai Chun and others woke Li Hong up in the middle of the night, with solemn and mysterious expressions on their faces, as if they had received some priceless treasure. Someone who had just fallen asleep with Yan Lingbin in his arms, bleary-eyed and yawning, shook his head and listened to Bai Chun nagging beside him, letting him and Yan Lingbin keep him in pajamas.
"What on earth are you talking about for a long time? Can it move? There are many moving things, and the leaves can still move when the wind blows." Li Hong put his hands around Bai Chun's slender waist, trying to push her down on the bed and continue sleeping.
"Oh... pull me up." Bai Chun was so suppressed that she couldn't breathe. She took out her pink fist and lightly hit the prince who was holding her down. Her other hand was pulled hard by Yan Lingbin, and finally she was pulled up.
"My slave doesn't understand either. I just heard from the students at Hongwen Hall that this thing shouldn't be simple, but they don't know what its specific function is. So my slave took the initiative and pulled them over together with that thing."
Li Hong rolled his eyes at Bai Chun with half-open eyes, put on silky pajamas, and then put on his fur, and said dissatisfied: "If that thing has no value at all, let's see how I deal with you!"
There are many students from Chongwen Hall who have gone to Taiyi City. Those crazy people are studying everything. But so far, except for those people led by Li Chunfeng, they have made some research results, and the medicinal food room has been working on improving explosives. , as for other aspects, there are no impressive research results.
Now Bai Chun mysteriously pulled him up from the bed, and he had to be taken immediately to see something he couldn't even name. It would be strange if he could be motivated and in a good mood.
But even so, Bai Chun still pushed him from behind, with a pleading tone, and pushed someone into the living room downstairs.
There were no students from Chongwen Hall in the living room. Only Xiaoxue and the others were guarding a copper object that looked like a stove. Seeing the solemn and nervous expressions of several people, Li Hong became even more curious about what kind of thing could be used. They were so nervous that they ran to Taiyi City in broad daylight and rushed back in the middle of the night.
"What is this?" Li Hong pointed to the copper stove-like thing placed on the table. The boiler didn't look like a boiler, and the hot pot didn't look like a hot pot. What on earth is this
Li Hong walked up to him and looked at the four girls Xiaoxue, Xia Zhi, Banmei and Xunlan with confusion. He used his hands to pull the hollow copper ball on top of the boiler, which was supported by two copper pipes. On both sides of the copper ball, Two short copper tubes that looked like horns were also pulled out. At this time, he pulled them with his hands and turned around on the brackets of the two copper tubes. Apparently, the two copper tubes extended from the surface of the copper furnace. The tube is not what fixes the copper ball.
"This... this... what... steam ball? Who developed this? Where are the people? Where are they? Let them come here immediately!" Li Hong looked at the hollow copper ball that was still idling, and suddenly he seemed to be frightened, and shouted road.
Bai Chun was startled by Li Hong's reaction, and the four Xiaoxue girls were also startled by Li Hong's reaction! Before Yan Lingbin could come down the stairs, he almost fell down the stairs when he heard Li Hong's scream.
"You... what did you call it just now?" Bai Chun looked at Li Hong in disbelief, feeling as if His Highness knew this thing.
But this thing was made just a few days ago by a few students from Chongwen Hall, and it was never shown to outsiders at all! Let alone the name, because even those students from Chongwen Hall don’t know what to call it!
His Highness has been busy these days, and it is impossible for him to know about this thing, but why does he call this thing a steam ball
Moreover, the name of the spinning ball is completely consistent with the moving thing in front of you. Although there is no name, the spinning ball in His Highness's mouth is simply too appropriate.
"What? Don't tell me it's really called a steam ball?" Li Hong still didn't react. After all, he knew what this thing represented.
If we really want to study and investigate, the steam ball in front of us is the earliest known machine in the history of steam engines that converts steam into power!
What's even more incredible is that this thing called a steam ball had already appeared in ancient Greece six hundred years before the Tang Dynasty where Li Hong is now. Even at that time, ancient Greece and ancient Egypt had already understood it. How to Harness Steam Power.
However, the development speed of society at that time was slow, and the handicraft industry was fully able to meet the demand for all things in that era. Therefore, steam power was not taken seriously by people. It was just used to open up steam in ancient Greece and Egypt. Used for huge, heavy temple doors.
Then, as market demand surged, the handicraft industry was unable to meet the huge market demand, so steam power was picked up again by the original British and began to be used, and finally the first industrial revolution broke out.
The emergence of any new thing must be caused by the surging production pressure of a society. The outbreak of the Industrial Revolution was because the handmade textile industry, which the British were proud of, could not satisfy the market demand as the market demand increased. Due to the demand, steam power finally entered the stage of human development and promoted the progress of human history.
Spinning machines and coal mines were the two major factors that gave rise to the emergence of the steam engine. With increasing demand and the inability of manpower to do so, the steam engine naturally emerged in the pace of social change.
If today's Taiyi City is isolated from the rest of the Tang Dynasty and viewed as an independent entity, then the emergence of this steam ball is not surprising.
After all, the demand of the Tang Dynasty and the production pressure of Taiyi City forced the students of Chongwen Hall who had been transformed by Li Hong to perform whatever they wanted with the support of the huge fund bank of Taiyi City. Imagination, to create more new things, the steam ball came into being. No matter how unreasonable, it is the failure of Chongwen Museum and the failure of Li Hong's reform.
Xiaoxue looked at Li Hong and glared at her. She was so frightened that she quickly shrank her neck, turned around and ran away. Fortunately, those students from Chongwen Hall were brought by Bai Chun and are now placed in the toilet in front. They were just afraid that the prince might look for them, so they were brought back just in case.
"Is this thing very powerful?" Bai Chun's reaction to Li Hong was no longer enough to describe him as surprise.
Because they didn't understand how to use this thing until students from Chongwen Hall demonstrated it, but now, His Highness the Prince started tinkering with it on his own without any teacher.
Although the steps are different from those used by students from Chongwen Hall, there is nothing wrong with the broad scope.
As the small charcoal in the stove below was lit, Li Hong poured water into the big copper stove with two copper pipes connected to it, and then someone dropped everything and sat on the sofa. Waiting to see the trick.
"You... why do you know how useful this thing is?" Bai Chun's tone changed. She could guarantee that His Highness had never seen it before, let alone seen it demonstrated by others, but how could he know it
"Am I weird?" Li Hong was too lazy to pay attention to her, rolled his eyes at her, and said calmly while sitting on the sofa.
Bai Chun also rolled his eyes speechlessly, unwilling to say that he was pulled down, but I'm not surprised.
However, she dared to say this in her heart. If she said it, she knew the consequences. She was afraid that she would be tortured a lot. The next day, her back and legs would be sore, and her whole body would feel sore as if she had been dismantled. .
But no matter what, Bai Chun was still very curious in her heart. As a woman, it is definitely natural to gossip, so she sat down next to Li Hong. With bright eyes showing no trace of fatigue, she pointed at the spinning ball and asked: " So according to you, this thing is very powerful?”
Li Hong raised his hand and held Bai Chun in his arms. This round trip from Taiyi City was quite tiring. Bai Chun could do this and send him over nervously as soon as possible instead of waiting until the next day to set off. When he came back, his behavior of running around all night still moved him deeply.
"Of course it's great, but it's hard to say when it will be able to realize its value. Ten years? Twenty years? Thirty years? In any case, this little thing in front of me is indeed a real opportunity for me. Something extremely important in the future of Datang."
"not now?"
"Now? Early?" Li Hong said with a knowing smile as he watched the hollow copper ball on the rotating ball begin to sway back and forth.
The steam ball was developed between 1070 and AD, and it was not really used until the end of the 17th century. Now the Tang Dynasty invented the steam ball. If you want to truly enter the steam age, I am afraid that there will be no one in the world. It cannot be done in decades or twenty years.
What's more, he doesn't know much about it. It's not an exaggeration to say he knows nothing. What he can rely on is the financial and material resources provided to the skilled craftsmen of Datang, and some inspirations that may even make them more confused. As for whether he can succeed, he himself doesn't know. , also does not have a general concept of time.
But no matter what, this backward invention still brought a glimmer of hope to him and Datang.
So during this period, what he needs to do is to impart his limited knowledge to these students of Chongwen Hall. As for the road ahead, it depends on them and whether there is such a thing in the Tang Dynasty. Good luck.
(End of chapter)