1689: City of Power (Part 1)
The more they walked inside, Yu Cong and Qiu Dongye became more shocked. The strict vigilance here was completely beyond their expectations. When they finally saw a piece of city wall appearing in front of them, they were completely stunned.
In the deep mountains, there is a city hidden.
"What is this?" Yu Cong asked nervously.
"This place is called the city of strength by His Majesty." Tian Zhen whispered: "Because His Majesty said that what is being done here has the power to change the world and the power to destroy the world."
Yu Cong and Qiu Dongye's faces changed color: "Is there really such a power in the world?"
"Of course there is." Tian Zhen showed a look of awe on his face: "I have seen that their power is now incredible to me, but His Majesty said that this is just a beginning, just like the growth of a person. He is still in the stage of just being born. In the future, as he grows up slowly, his power will appear before our eyes bit by bit."
"The power to destroy the world?" Qiu Dongye murmured.
"Your Majesty said that he opened the seal of the demon and wished not to bloom the red shore flower that ultimately despaired."
"I don't understand what Your Majesty meant." Yu Cong said.
"I don't understand either." Tian Zhen's face slowly showed an excited look, "But I saw that when this power is completely controlled by us, we will be unprecedentedly powerful. What is Qi State? It's as easy to destroy it as if it were pinched an ant."
Yu Cong Qiudongye and the others looked at Tian Zhen's face with a somewhat fanatical look, and their hearts suddenly jumped up.
"Two, the carriage can only go here. Next we will enter the city. They will see the true power of the City of Power." Tian Zhen said: "Please, two."
Behind the city wall is an empty area, a hundred and ten steps away. After that, there are only buildings built. Through the streets between these houses, through the open doors, the two of them could see that there were all workshops inside, and the craftsmen were busy working in front of their workbenches.
Of course, both of them are familiar with this scene.
As I walked past this house, there was a rumbling sound coming from the front. The more I walked in, the louder the sound became.
When the two stopped and looked at the guy who made a strange noise, their eyes were full of strange gazes.
A big guy about twenty meters long and nearly three meters high was rumbling, and a stream of white smoke was simmering from around him, making his huge figure look a little hazy.
There are two huge ponds on both sides of this big guy. At this moment, a water pipe made of a thick felt cloth was bulging. At the opening of the front end, a water column as thick as a bowl was sprayed out, and the water from one pond was poured into another pond next to it.
There were dozens of figures standing next to the big guy, some were operating the big guy, some were constantly adding coal to the stove on the big guy, and some were holding paper and pen, observing for a while, and then carefully recording something.
The two of them were stunned, watching the water in the pond as big as an acre of land lowering the water level at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"What's this?"
"Two, what you see now is what Your Majesty said is the power that can change the world. Of course, his power is still very weak now. This is the first prototype made by the Tiangong Bureau." A figure came from the hazy white air. When the two saw it, they immediately bowed to salute.
"Mr. Xu."
The person who came was Xu Lai, the helmman of the Tiangong Bureau. He bowed to the two with a smile on his face: "Mr. Yu, Lord. Qiu, both of them are leaders of your business. Your Majesty specially called you to take advantage of your expertise and see how to effectively use this thing."
"Is this kind of power still very weak?" Yu Cong murmured. "Mr. Xu, what is his name?"
"Of course it's still very weak. Lord Yu, Your Majesty named this machine a steaming machine. Looking at the appearance of water vapor, is it true?" Xu Lai smiled and said, "This is just the first one we made. It's not an exaggeration to use it to be large but not appropriate. The reason why we still let it run every day is that we want to use it to collect more information and find out more shortcomings. This guy is too big and there are limited places to use. Please come with me, two."
After walking forward for a while, a much smaller steam engine was roaring in the same water vapor, but he was no longer pumping water. Yu Cong walked over and looked carefully.
The steam engine roared, and in front of him, another machine was connected. The machine was not covered with the outer cover, and the inner structure was completely exposed. Yu Cong could clearly see the gears and chains inside.
The steam engine roared, the gears and chains rotated rapidly, and with a threaded steel brazing in front of him, a craftsman pushed the machine in front, allowing the rotating steel brazing to contact a iron plate in front, sparks splashed, and a iron plate several centimeters thick slowly drilled through.
"This is the second prototype we built on the basis of the first one. The fuselage is smaller, but the power is greater. Do you know why?"
Qiu Dongye stood in front of this machine, looked for a while, and then said, "Mr. Xu, is this hot steam that generates power?"
"That's right!" Xu Lai smiled.
"I think Lord Xu must have thought of some way to let the high-temperature steam dissipate less." Qiu Dongye said carefully.
"Wonderful, it's really a big expert." Xu Lai smiled, "That's it. Now, I'm looking for a better container to prevent the steam from running away. Have you seen the thing in front?"
"It's very sharp, and even iron plates can penetrate!" Qiu Dongye nodded and said.
"I'm going to ask him to take out a steam-carrying cylinder for me on a whole piece of steel ingot!" Xu Lai smiled proudly. "Now the masters of iron and steel making are trying to improve the hardness of the drill bit in front, but I can't wait for them to study it slowly, so I made many such drill bits. If one of them broke, I would change it. Do you know, as long as I drilled the first cylinder, he would provide more power and I could drill faster. Then I had a second cylinder."
"Mr. Xu, this thing should not be used as a drill to dig holes. I think he can make more things!" Qiu Dongye's eyes shiny.
Xu Lai curled his lips, "That's your business. What about me, the purpose of getting him out now is to let him dig a hole for me. Hahaha, Lord Yu, Lord Yu!"
After calling Yu Cong several times, he found that Yu Cong was standing there in a daze, looking at the high-speed rotating drill. Seeing that Yu Cong had no reaction, Xu Lai was too lazy to scream again, so he pulled Qiu Dongye forward directly. They were all in this industry. Seeing Yu Cong's appearance, he knew that he had remembered something, which was what they usually called inspiration suddenly appeared. It would be less beautiful to bother him at this time.
However, Tian Zhen looked at Yu Cong in surprise for a while, then squatted on the ground, picked up a drill bit broken on the ground, and started writing and drawing on the ground. He walked up to look at it for a while, but didn't understand it, so he shook his head and followed Xu Lai and the others.
After catching up with the two of them, Tian Zhen asked curiously: "Mr. Xu, where is Mr. Yu squatting while painting, but I can't understand."
"Don't bother him, let him think about it. Sometimes the inspiration of our business flew away in the blink of an eye."
"Mr. Xu knows what he is drawing?"
"I don't know!" Xu Laixiao replied, "But Yu Cong is just a shipbuilder. What can he do? He just wants to hand over the steam engine to use it on the ship as power. Don't pay attention to him."
After walking forward for a while, a huge track formed a closed circle on the site. A steam engine of about the same size as the rumbling sound was dragging several cars on the circular track.
"Rail car!" Kodongo blurted out and exclaimed.
"It's the rail car!" Xu Lai said proudly: "I first studied this steam engine and wanted to use it to pull the rail car. Now it seems that my dream is about to come true!"
Looking at the railcar that was spinning around at a fast speed, Xu Lai laughed proudly. Before the laughter fell, the sound of the steam engine became smaller. The shafts and pulleys under the railcar gradually stopped. In a short while, the entire railcar stopped completely.
More than a dozen people jumped out of the carriage, ran towards the nose, climbed up, and began to check carefully.
"Prototypes always have problems of one kind and one kind. If you find one and solve one, you will get better eventually." Xu Lai said a little embarrassedly.
"It's amazing!" Qiu Dongye opened his mouth wide and exclaimed: "If this could be applied to our Ming Dynasty rail car system on a large scale, the rail car would have to improve its efficiency by many times. There is no need to raise so many camel horses. I heard that the current rail car has extremely high costs and is difficult to make profits. Except for those trunk lines, the branch lines are basically at a loss."
"It won't take long, and at most next year, we will be able to accomplish this feat!" Xu Lai said with great enthusiasm: "This year, we will definitely solve all problems and will be able to produce on a large scale next year."
The three of them stood there and looked for a while. The craftsmen on the long nose on the track jumped down one after another, as if they had found the problem. After another busy schedule, the steam engine roared again, and then dragged the carriage and started moving again on the track car.
Chapter completed!