The experiment on the locomotive was successful, so Ren Baqian sent his students to study the deceleration and braking system for the locomotive, while he himself went to the Empress and asked for another 10,000 catties of iron.
The next goal is to build a circular railway track with a diameter of 400 meters outside Lancheng.
After all, it is not enough for the train to run, but also the load, speed, and other aspects need to be tested.
However, Dayao's iron resources are not rich, and it is currently impossible to build too long rails. The circular rail is the best choice.
But what Ren Baqian wants to do this time is the regular rail size of 50 kilograms per meter, which is equivalent to 200 kilograms per meter on both sides. A 400-meter circular railway track has a circumference of 1300 meters, which is 26 kilograms.
This was Dayao's output for four full months before, and naturally there would be another quarrel in the court in the next few days. Although the annual production of 1.8 million jin of Damoshan Iron Mine is entirely due to Ren Baqian, but now Dayao's gap is too big, and everyone is not optimistic about the thing that is being made in the academy, it really took a lot of effort tongue.
Or really wasted some bricks.
She liked the texture of bricks more and more. Ever since she had this kind of artifact, the Empress could be said to be able to hit every target without fail, and she found great pleasure in it.
Now the Empress probably consumes a cart of bricks every week, and this consumption rate is still on the rise.
With iron ore, manpower is needed. Ren Baqian asked Tong Zhenye to make abrasive tools and mold the rails, and he himself brought a thousand people from the prisoner-of-war camp to lay the roadbed with gravel, press the sleepers, and then lay the road. rail.
It took a full twenty days to lay the sleepers and start laying the rails.
Ren Baqian was not idle during this time. On the one hand, he was planning to expand the school, and on the other hand, he started to build the library of Zizhu Mansion, which was Dayao's first library—Zangshuge.
After all, Ren Baqian still has a lot of cheats in his hands, so it would be too wasteful to just put them in the warehouse to get moldy, so it's okay to show these students.
The construction of the library was very fast, but it was completed in just over 20 days. Anyway, it is an ordinary brick building with three floors and an area of more than 400 square meters. Inside are bookshelves, tables and chairs made of wood, other than that there is no decoration at all, and it looks even rudimentary from the outside.
However, the value of this library is immeasurable in Dayao.
The homes of many officials in Dayao's court only collected dozens of volumes of books, or hundreds of volumes at most, let alone commoners.
And in this library, Ren Baqian has placed tens of thousands of volumes of books, covering all aspects, which is incomparable to anyone's collection of books, enough to make everyone's heart flutter.
Among them, the third layer is the various secret books brought back from the land of Tianjing, and some less important exercises collected by the empress.
Although it is not very important, it is also a good skill for common people.
Although the individuals of the ancient tribe have great potential, they also have the same problem as the ancient Huaguo, that is, it is difficult to acquire knowledge, especially such things as exercise secret books.
These secret books collected by the library can serve as a reference for students on the one hand, and benefit many ordinary disciples on the other hand.
The second floor is the professional books Ren Baqian brought back from Earth, including physics, chemistry, manufacturing, western medicine, business, and even the Analects and Tao Te Ching.
As for the first floor, there are some miscellaneous books, but it is these miscellaneous books that make those students unable to even move their feet.
Students can only keep books in the library and cannot take them out.
However, this did not affect the enthusiasm of the students. As soon as the news of the building of the library spread, these students began to look forward to it. There were several people who came to ask Ren Baqian.
It even spread outside the academy and to the ears of some court officials.
Those students waited for more than 20 days, and when the opening day came, they rushed in directly.
Many students rushed to the cheat books on the third floor, especially those common people, from which they could still find a lot of things that were useful to them.
But soon someone found the key to open the door to the new world on the first floor.
"Sea... thief... king?"
"Why are there paintings inside? This man's paintings are also quite strange..."
Half an hour later: "This thing is quite interesting..."
A day later, a short freshman approached Ren Baqian: "Teacher, I want to drop out."
"What happened?" Ren Baqian was a little surprised. "Tell me, anyway, I am your governor, maybe I can help you solve it."
In other words, there are really not many things that I can't solve in Dayao.
Although this boy is not outstanding in all aspects, Ren Baqian really doesn't want his student to leave for some inexplicable reason.
"I'm going to follow my dream!"
"..." Ren Baqian had a strange expression on his face, always thinking that the word "dream" came out of the mouths of the ancient people, why is it so unacceptable
"I want to go to Izumo, I want to snatch a ship, I want to go to sea, I want to be the One Piece!" The boy said loudly, clenched his fists with a serious face.
Ren Baqian looked at the other party's serious face, the corners of his eyes twitched, and silently took out a rifle from under the table and pointed it at the other party: "I'll give you another chance to organize your words!"
"I… "
"Da da da!"
Life is funny sometimes, especially looking back on it after a while.
A few years later, when this young man became the commander of Dayao's navy, Ren Baqian found it very interesting to think about today. Sometimes a person's future is decided by a small thought when he was a child.
At this moment, this young man, Ren Baqian still found it interesting.
But when he saw another person the next day, he began to feel that in this era without any entertainment, the impact of comics is too great, and the impact on students is even greater than he imagined.
The next day when Ren Baqian came to the school for class, he always felt that there was something wrong. After searching for a long time, he finally found the wrong place—several bald heads that were shining brightly.
Bald heads are not uncommon in Dayao. On the one hand, the weather is hot, and on the other hand, to save trouble, many men shave their hair directly.
However, there were a lot of bald heads in the classroom today, and one of them surprised him.
Beneath the bald head was a very pretty face.
"Zhuo Hua, what's the matter with your hair?" Ren Baqian asked with his hands on the table. Women of the ancient ethnic group wear their hair in a bun or braid, and their bald heads are quite out of the ordinary.
"Suddenly want to shave..." Zhuo Hua blushed slightly, his eyes wandering.
"What's the reason?" Ren Baqian had a bad feeling in his heart, and his face darkened.
"It is said that this can make you stronger..." someone next to me whispered.
"Puff puff puff!" Many people below secretly laughed.
Ren Baqian: "..."
"Sit down."
"Do you think the stories in those albums are true?" Ren Baqian did not reprimand these students, but asked seriously.
"I believe it! Something like that is happening somewhere in the world, otherwise how did those albums come about?" Someone immediately stood up and said with a serious expression. It was the boy who wanted to go to sea to become the One Piece yesterday.
"I think, maybe, maybe, it's true, right? What if it's true?" Another person said.
"Whether it's true or not, it's interesting anyway, and I hope it's true."
Seeing these students' answers, Ren Baqian thought about it.
Those comics have more influence than I thought!
These students haven't been exposed to too many things, and they haven't been exposed to any entertainment. There has never been anything like comics in this world.
I originally wanted to put some comics to entertain these students and expand their imagination, but I didn't expect so many students to be affected and even believe it was true...
The earth has been exposed to all kinds of information since childhood, and can easily distinguish what is a story and what is reality.
But the children of the earth also have the idea of wanting to become Ultraman, Super Saiyan, Monkey King, Calabash Baby...
Ren Baqian thought about how he always wanted to be Liuwa when he was a child.
These students have just been exposed to this new thing, and it seems that such a situation is not incomprehensible.
It seems that they still need to be exposed to more things before they can have the ability to distinguish things.
Maybe I should get a newspaper or something, such as Lancheng Daily, on the one hand, it can allow these students to exercise, on the other hand, it can also give some entertainment to the people of Lancheng, and by the way, I can also master the mouthpiece.
I used to think about how to improve technology, but now it seems that I can't completely let go of things other than technology.