"Hey, it's moving!" Many people watched the flywheel spinning and murmured. Obviously no one moved those things, but those wooden poles and wheels moved by themselves.
As the water temperature began to approach the boiling point, the connecting rod and flywheel rotated faster and faster, and a stream of colored steam began to emerge from the exhaust pipe of the cylinder. And the flywheel also began to roll the rope to lift the bucket that was placed in the pond before. After reaching a certain height, the students dumped the water and threw it into the pond, repeating the cycle.
"This thing actually moved by itself." Many ministers walked over to watch it, and found it very interesting.
After all, it does not require manpower, and it can move automatically, which is still a bit novel. But after ten minutes of freshness passed, everyone lost interest.
"But what's the use of this?" Someone began to ask doubts.
Tong Zhenye immediately yelled: "Have you made such a toy for more than a month? Although it looks quite novel, if you want to carry water, it is much faster to let them carry it by themselves! Even the water wheel you made before It's more useful than that."
"That's the case! It looks interesting, but it's useless." Others also commented, a little surprised that Ren Baqian came up with such a thing, it doesn't suit his identity.
One must know that what Ren Baqian produced before was quite astonishing, how did he produce such a thing with such a great fanfare this time, and invited everyone to come and see it.
"Old man, so you say that you have a long beard and short knowledge, is this a toy thing?" Qin Chuan immediately laughed. However, this remark also made a group of people laugh at it, and many senior officials present glared at him. You must know that there are quite a few court officials with bald heads and beards.
"What do you understand again?" Tong Zhenye snorted coldly.
Qin Chuan’s attitude is that as long as Tong Zhenye agrees, he must oppose it, and vice versa: “This toy is quite interesting. The most important thing, um, the most important thing is that so many people made it together. Even drinking and frolicking, now I can make something like this, not bad, not bad!"
As soon as Qin Chuan finished speaking, Tong Zhenye almost burst out laughing.
Ren Baqian's face immediately darkened, the old man might as well not speak.
Turning around to look at the group of students, many of them looked sad. Obviously, the words of these two old men, Qin Chuan Tong Zhenye, had dealt a great blow to the students who finally made their first steam engine after more than a month.
As for the others, most of their ideas were similar to those of Qin Chuan Tong Zhenye.
Originally, after these students entered school, they said that Ren Baqian would teach the principles of all things in the world, and everyone was looking forward to it.
But now it seems that it is nothing more than that.
Seeing everyone's reaction, Ren Baqian felt upset, and after a little turn in his mind, he also understood his mistake this time.
The role of the steam engine is great, and its significance is also very important, but these people don't understand it at all. How could they understand what the steam engine represented without their own insight as a posterity
"You only saw that this thing can lift water, but this is just a prototype that has just been made. In fact, this thing can do too many things, such as being able to drag a truck without horns."
"Isn't that still a toy? I have countless horned oxen, and I can use them to pull carts, why use this thing?" Tong Zhenye really didn't understand why Ren Baqian got into it. You must know that the solar furnace he made before has played a big role and can directly smelt iron ore.
There is also well salt, so that Dayao can produce part of the salt himself.
And those cement and red bricks also played a big role. Now the new steelmaking furnaces outside the city are made of cement red bricks, which can also be used to build city walls and build houses. Compared with digging rocks before, it saves a lot of money. A lot of manpower.
But now this thing, he really can't see any effect.
Not only was he like this, but others also took his words seriously. Only the old fox Shi Qing kept looking at Ren Baqian with an inscrutable smile.
"The biggest function of the steam engine is not limited to one place, but represents a new power source. A power source that can replace human and animal power!
Whether it is smelting, mining, or pulling goods, it originally required a lot of manpower and animal power to do it. However, the steam engine can minimize manpower and material resources and increase the speed to a higher level. This is what the steam engine is about.
For example, if you have a steam engine, you can develop a train. This thing can pull goods and people, and its speed is several times that of a horned ox. The load is not comparable to a horned ox. As much cargo as a thousand horned oxen can pull.
How much manpower is needed to pull goods with hundreds or thousands of horned oxen? How much will it cost during the trip? How long will it take from here to the Northeast Protectorate's Mansion
As long as the steam engine is improved and a train is made, it can travel around the clock. It used to take half a month to deliver, but now it only takes three days. What kind of advantage is this if food, grass and troops are mobilized during wartime? "Ren Baqian said with a dark face.
I was actually despised by this old clapper.
I was despised by a group of primitive people.
It's just unbearable!
"Is it like what you said?" Tong Zhenye asked with some doubts.
Ren Baqian bared his teeth, wanting to kick the old clapper: "Did I tell lies before?"
"Often tell lies!" Tong Zhenye said without thinking.
"When did I tell a lie? The solar furnace and other things, which one didn't achieve the effect I said?" Ren Baqian's eyes widened, and now he really wanted to get down on Tong Zhenye's crotch. foot.
Old man, this is called slander, do you know that
"Last time you said that you invited me to the Yanyun Building!" Tong Zhenye stroked his beard, saying that you were lying to the old man.
The blue color flashed across the empress's face, and she shot him flying with one kick, and then looked at Ren Baqian with unkind eyes.
Qin Chuan grinned loudly, he was happy to see the old man's misfortune.
"I really don't like going to brothels. He insisted on dragging me there, so I had to perfunctory him. This is called a white lie." Ren Baqian had a look of grievance on my face.
The empress glared at him before saying, "When will what you said come true? After all, there is nothing to see now."
She has some understanding of the train that Ren Baqian mentioned, but other people can't imagine it at all. Only by making it for everyone to see, can everyone change their minds.
"If it's quick, you can make a small steam locomotive in a month or two. After you succeed, you can enlarge it and make a real train." Ren Baqian thought for a while, and it's not difficult to make a small steam locomotive. , as long as the steam engine is improved, and the flywheel driven by the connecting rod is replaced with a train wheel.
It can be said that it is very easy to do it yourself, but it will take some time for these students to do it. But this kind of thing must also be done by students so that they can grow.
So Ren Baqian's goal is to first change the steam engine into a small locomotive, as long as it can run, and then scale it up.
In this way, after the steam engine and the locomotive are built, these students will have a considerable understanding of the steam engine and physics, and they will be able to learn or do things much faster in the future.
"Then I will wait to see you do what you said." The Empress nodded. Then he looked at the many students who looked a little sad: "Do well, Dayao's future depends on you."
When the empress said this, many ministers were a little surprised. You must know that these words were not just casually.
I didn't expect His Majesty to value these things so much, to say something like "Dayao's future depends on you".
In their hearts, the future of Dayao lies in the talented children of each family.
However, what the empress said made those students feel like they had been beaten to death. It is estimated that they will not say anything when they go to the battlefield now.