In the following days, Ren Baqian’s students were troubled by the fact that the weight of the locomotive was too heavy, and the power of the steam engine could not move the locomotive; It also started to get bigger and bigger...
Seeing that the locomotive was half the size of a yard after half a month, Ren Baqian finally couldn't help it: "Can't you idiots replace all the structures with iron?"
"Iron is too expensive! I can't afford it!" Tong Lan said confidently with her small face raised, and everyone nodded.
Ren Baqian almost laughed angrily, a group of second-generation officials... Well, although they are useless among the second-generation officials, they still have a lot of money, right? With so many people gathered together, they can't even afford iron, right
But judging from their expressions, they didn't look fake, Ren Baqian remembered that he didn't care too much about Dayao's current iron production situation these days, so he didn't say any more.
Not enough, but he recently discovered some interesting phenomena: It was okay before, but since the steam engine was made, these students were gradually divided into three levels.
The first level is Tonglan and Shi Gan, the two with the highest military strength. At this time, it can be seen from the two of them: the others are somewhat dirty, but the two are relatively clean.
However, the cleanliness of the two is different. Tonglan is clean and refreshed, and she is dressed in white, which is completely incompatible with the messy scene around her.
And Shi Gan... Although his chest and sleeves looked a little dirty, his hands were clean and there was no trace of work.
However, he stained his clothes a little to make him look less special.
It can only be said that he is indeed the son of Dazhi, and he is not at the same level as Tonglan, a silly girl with a head full of muscles.
These two people are mainly responsible for talking and making suggestions. Among them, Shi Gan still put forward many useful suggestions, and the role of Tonglan is only to move his mouth and be a mascot.
Although Tonglan seems to have done a lot of things recently, but these things are all because of "different ideas" and fighting with Shi Gan, and coming up with bad ideas.
The second part is a small group of people with high force and less work, mainly doing chores and giving ideas. Unexpectedly, these people are mainly civilian students.
These people are relatively hardworking, and their personal strength is not bad. After entering Ren Baqian's school by accident, their performance is generally very good.
The last part is the useless firewood in the families headed by Du Laoliu and others, all of whom are dirty and completely reduced to coolies.
The ancient people's respect for martial arts, the law of the jungle and the strong prey on the weak are shown here in Chiguoguo.
However, Ren Baqian felt that this division was not too bad, at least it was much better than coolies who were all common people's children. After all, Dayao's atmosphere is relatively simple.
After class, I went to the Ministry of Industry to inquire.
Finally, after asking, I found that these students really couldn't afford it... It's not fake, it's real.
Although Dayao's Damo Iron Mine has been mined smoothly for more than half a year, and Dayao's iron production has increased sharply, but the price has not dropped much.
It is because Dayao's demand for iron is too great.
Although there is a lot of iron ore output in Damo Mountain today, the priority is still to satisfy the army. During the war, the consumption of weapons has always been very fast.
And there is also a large amount of weapons needed by the militia.
After removing these two items, there will not be so many of them going to the folk.
After all, it only took a little over half a year to mine the Damoshan Iron Mine with a solar furnace, and the full calculation was only one million catties of iron, and only about 50,000 weapons were made. Although it is a hundred times faster than before, the time is still too short.
Now there are more civilian weapons than before, but they are mainly concentrated in the north, and the weapons left over from the Great Xia are mainly remelted and forged.
Therefore, the price of iron is still at a very high level, and it is only slightly lower than it was at the beginning.
It's okay to ask these students to scrape together some money to buy two weapons or something, but don't think about the others.
A catty of iron costs about four taels of silver, and a steam engine with various structures, connecting rods, and wheels costs at least a thousand catties of iron, which is four thousand taels of silver.
The monthly salary of a low-level official is only six taels of silver. Although most of these students come from good backgrounds, firstly, the wealth level of the ancient officials is not high, and secondly, most of these students are not very popular in the family. "Waste people" don't have much money. So they really couldn't afford four thousand taels of silver.
Seeing this, Ren Baqian went back to the palace and found that the Empress specially transferred three thousand catties of iron to the Zizhu Academy, and then ordered the Ministry of Industry to transfer a few blacksmiths there, and set up a courtyard in a corner of the academy, where it would be opened every day after school at noon. The beating and beating finally got the production of the locomotive back on track.
In fact, as long as the power problem is solved and there is a clear goal, this thing is not too difficult to complete. It just depends on how much time it takes to research a suitable structure, and then we can create this ugly ecstasy with an extremely low conversion rate. The locomotive is gone.
Although Ren Baqian held a complete set of train drawings in the early 20th century, he didn't plan to show them out. The value of letting the students make a little bit of progress is much more valuable than a train.
Ren Baqian has been quietly watching their changes, waiting for the day when they transform.
Ren Baqian's daily life has also become the long-awaited two-point line, the palace and the school.
Apart from going to class every day, he is practicing in the palace, and every now and then he will be repaired by little Luoli. Other times, it is to accompany the empress to sit in a daze in the palace, or to walk around the palace to see some subtle changes in the palace.
For example, street lights can be seen everywhere.
In the past few months after returning to Lancheng, Ren Baqian started his "Imperial Palace Lighting Project" again, and brought back some street lighting equipment and batteries when he was free.
After a few months, there is now a street lamp every twenty meters in the palace, making the palace brightly lit all night, like a city that never sleeps.
For such a change, the empress was very happy, and when she was free, she would always sit on the roof of the bedroom and drink at night, and the bright palace could be seen as far as she could see.
At the same time, this kind of change made the guards and maids in the palace a little unaccustomed. There was no need for torches or palace lanterns at night, as if the palace suddenly became a city that never sleeps in a few months, no matter whether it is day or night. A little shady place.
Even in other places in Lancheng, you can see the extraordinarily bright palace every night.
The biggest impact this has on them is... can't find a place to pee anywhere... it's too bright...
After all, it takes courage to urinate anywhere in a brightly lit place under the watchful eyes of everyone...
Also surprised by the huge changes in the palace are the ministers in the court and in China. At the earliest time, they discovered the street lamps in the palace. After all, there were so many pillars on both sides of the road, and they couldn't see them if they wanted to.
It's just that the number was still small at that time, and with the ensuing battle with Great Xia and the peace of Tianjing, both Ren Baqian and His Majesty were not in the palace, and they were left to speculate secretly in Lancheng.
But no matter how you guess, one thing everyone can be sure of is that this kind of treasure that absorbs light during the day and releases it at night must be of great value.
Unexpectedly, within a few months after His Majesty and Ren Baqian came back, the imperial palace was covered with such treasures, so that there were no dead spots in the imperial palace. Although it was extremely beautiful, it also made many people even more frightened. So many treasures were spent to the end. How much, and where did it come from.
In addition, fighting was still going on in the northeast and southeast outside, but such a sudden change in the palace caused a lot of criticism.
In fact, the change is not only that, many palace windows in the palace have also been replaced with glass, but everyone knows that the glass is made by the royal family, although the price is expensive, it has not caused much discussion.
On the contrary, these street lamps are more precious treasures than night pearls in the eyes of many people. After all, how big is the light of the night pearl? How can it compare to these street lights in the palace
This caused many ministers to discuss in private: Your Majesty has changed a bit, and has become too extravagant!
And the source of this change is also inseparable from the head of Zizhu Academy.