Crossing Wu Dalang starts from selling cakes

Chapter 598 Laying Electric Wires Across the Country!

Song Huizong's joy was unprecedented.

It's more of a curiosity about new things.

The light bulb satisfied Song Huizong to a great extent.

So do the people.

Song Huizong continued to take two steps closer, looked at the light bulb, with the look of a person who has got a treasure and is studying it carefully, trying to see every part of the treasure.

But my eyes are a little dizzy after seeing too much of this thing.

The surface of the bulb is made of glass.

Da Song had made glass a long time ago. Before that, several Persians used glass to cheat money, and they lost a bet with Wu Zhi.

At that time, glass production began, and there was already a certain scale and technology, so glass is not unusual.The wick inside the glass looks more mysterious, it radiates light, especially in the dark night, but the light bulb illuminates a distance of dozens of steps.

"Amazing! I've never seen such a magical thing in my life, light bulbs, electricity, so good!"

"Wu Xiang, what is the principle of this light bulb?"

Song Huizong couldn't help asking curiously.

Everyone pricked up their ears and wanted to understand. At this moment, they were like junior high school students facing a chemistry teacher teaching some new things, arousing a strong desire for knowledge in their hearts.

For these people's curiosity, Wu Zhi also tried his best to satisfy, he said with a smile: "The working principle of the light bulb is made according to the heating effect of electric current.

After the bulb is connected to the rated voltage, the current passes through the filament and is heated to an incandescent state, thus giving off heat and light.

Light is a form of energy released by atoms.

Consists of many tiny clusters of similar particles! "

atom?

particle?

Song Huizong and Zheng Juzhong and others looked at each other in blank dismay, this is completely incomprehensible.

It's cloudy.

I don't know where Wu Zhi learned about these principles.

They don't understand it, but it feels reasonable.

Wu Zhi continued: "These particle-like things have energy and momentum but no mass. Particles are called visible photons, which are the most basic unit of light. When electrons are excited, atoms release visible photons.

The structure of the light bulb is very simple.On its bottom there are two metal contacts for electrical connections.

There is a thin gold filament thread in the center.

When the bulb is connected to a power source, electricity flows from one of the contacts to the other and then to the wire and filament. "

"That's how a light bulb works!"

"..."

Everyone didn't understand at all, but after Song Huizong was shocked, he clapped his hands and applauded.

Although the surrounding courtiers did not understand, they also applauded.

Zhao Jinluo and Zhao Jinnu's eyes widened, feeling very mysterious.The look in Wu Zhi's eyes is even more adored to the extreme.

"Wu Xiang is really clever! Such a miraculous thing can be made, and we will have electricity after the Song Dynasty! It's unimaginable!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, if Da Song can use this kind of electricity, no lamp oil will be used in the future, and the night in the palace will be like day. If we install such light bulbs in Bianjing City, the picture will be so beautiful at night!"

"Hmm!" Song Huizong said, "By the way, Prime Minister Wu, is there only orange light bulb?"

"of course not!"

"Can there be other colors?"

Wu Zhi nodded: "The color of the bulb itself cannot be changed, but the color of glass can be used to transmit light. White, gold, blue, and green are all fine!"

"Well, it makes sense, just as the lantern can turn red, because the lantern is red!" Song Huizong nodded, full of infinite emotion in his heart.

Zheng Juzhong suddenly asked: "Mr. Wu, is this lightning capable of killing people like lightning?"

Everyone is in awe and fear of thunder and lightning. Since ancient times, there are many people who have been struck to death by lightning. Thunder and lightning are like the power of gods.

"If it is as lethal as lightning, wouldn't the person who touches it be electrocuted to death?" Zheng Juzhong added.

Wu Zhi: "The problem Mr. Zheng said does exist, but compared with lightning, being exposed to such electricity for a short time will not kill you. If you are electrocuted for a long time, you will also have the risk of being electrocuted. Prevention is also indispensable!"

Song Huizong: "Wu Aiqing, according to what you said before, you want to transmit electricity to thousands of households. How many people can this small power station provide? Can the people of the entire Song Dynasty use the electricity here? ?”

"That won't work!" Wu Zhi said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is just a small power station, and it can support hundreds of households at most!"

The population of Da Song is more than 1 million.

Small power stations are definitely not enough.

Song Huizong: "Well, then build more power stations all over the country?"

"Weichen also has this intention. There are more power stations like this, so that electricity can enter thousands of households."

"Wu Aiqing, is electricity transmitted through this kind of wire?" Song Huizong looked at a white wire next to the bamboo, which was glued on the surface, but he had never seen anything inside.

Wu Zhi: "Electricity needs copper wires as the best conduction, and the Department of Commerce is currently building such copper wires, so this aspect is not a big problem.

At present, it is only necessary to build the power station, construct the line synchronously, connect it by means of electric poles, enter thousands of households, and then install a large number of light bulbs produced by the Commercial Department! "

Song Huizong's eyes were shocked: "Wu Aiqing produced such a light bulb ahead of time?"

Wu Zhi: "Your Majesty, all the supporting equipment related to electricity has basically been stored in a large amount this year, and a lot has been produced. I plan to start with the Imperial Palace in Bianjing City, spread Bianjing City, and install it in other places. Really let All people have access to electricity."

"This..." Song Huizong was very happy, but it is estimated that the money spent is quite a lot. Song Huizong thought: "Wu Aiqing, we have electricity, and we also have lines. After the electricity is popularized, how should we charge is a problem." ah!"

Da Song spent so much money, can't he get nothing, right?

After that, where will the money for other construction come from?

What Song Huizong considered was right.

Wu Zhi: "Your Majesty, don't worry about this. The power station built by Song Dynasty is not free of charge. We only need to bring the electricity to the city. Every household that the people want to use electricity will have to pay some electricity fees. , installation fees, and future electricity costs!"

Zheng Juzhong frowned: "It's just... it's really going to be activated. Some people use it a lot, and some people use it less. How to calculate the electricity bill?"

They naturally couldn't understand, but Wu Zhi prepared everything.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, the Department of Commerce has made a meter."

Wu Zhi made a gesture, and the people from the Commerce Department came over and handed over a box.

The electric meter was relatively simple at the beginning, not as fine as the previous Hyundai, and the current technology of the Commerce Department cannot be produced.

Even so, it works.

Song Huizong took the electric meter and looked it over carefully. A group of courtiers came around and saw that there were many numbers on the electric meter. At first, they were all zeros, and the meter seemed to be adjustable.It is very novel.

Next, Wu Zhi gave them an experiment to satisfy their curiosity.

It's nothing more than connecting the wire to the meter, and the other end of the meter is the light bulb.

This will cause the meter to start rolling.

After the meter is connected to electricity, there is a red flashing point, which is a small light.

Everyone was very moved by the flickering things, and after waiting for a while, the numbers really rolled.

"What does this number mean?" Song Huizong asked.

"The number scrolling here shows one, which is one kilowatt-hour of electricity. If it is two, it is two kilowatt-hours. We can collect money based on this!"

"How much do you charge for one hour of electricity?" Song Huizong was a little excited when he heard that he could make money.

Wu Zhi said with a smile: "We can set a one-time electricity for Sanmao!"

"Three hairs?"

"Will it be too little?"

"A lot, this is daily expenses. If each household provides 100 yuan of electricity bills, 1000 million households will be 100 billion!" Wu Zhi: "We have a population of more than 1 million in the Song Dynasty, and this is just a rough calculation. Cloud, Dali and other places are counted, at least tens of billions per month, which is hundreds of billions of shares per year."

Song Huizong and the courtiers were dumbfounded when they heard it, and felt that it was really easy for Wu Xiang to make money, and this figure was just like talking for fun.

It is good for ordinary people to earn one or two thousand a month, and hundreds of billions if a TV is popularized?

Wu Zhi: "This is still a small amount. Individual households don't use much electricity. We have industries in Song Dynasty, and there are many restaurant industries that require a lot of electricity.

For commercial electricity, we can raise the price a bit, such as restaurants and factories, it can be raised to [-] cents per unit. "

"On the whole, the more developed the industry and the larger the population of the Song Dynasty, the annual electricity bill may have 6000 billion to [-] billion entering the national treasury. This is not counting the sales of wires and light bulbs sold by the court.

If these are counted, each user must buy at least three light bulbs, and there are a lot of wires, so it is a lot of money!Even more objective than electricity bills, bulbs can be designed in different sizes, and this small bulb can be sold for three yuan each.The better ones can be sold for dozens, all of which require follow-up production design! "

"..."

Song Huizong became short of breath.

Song Huizong attached great importance to money and the revenue of the treasury.

Previously, because of the turmoil of banknotes, Song Huizong almost abolished banknotes because he valued money too much.

Fortunately, it didn't work out later, and now that he heard that he could make so much money, Song Huizong couldn't restrain his excitement!
In the future, the development of electricity will spread throughout the entire Song Dynasty, and Song Huizong, as an official, could not imagine the scale of it.

There is always an illusion of time travel, and he feels that these things seem... It seems that they are not things that should appear in this era.

Looking at Wu Zhi in front of him, Song Huizong was silent for a while, then smiled.

Wu Zhi has done too many incomprehensible things.

He asked some questions about why Wu Zhi knew so much, not only Song Huizong, but also the courtiers were asking, because they couldn't understand what Wu Zhi said.

The courtiers present all read the Four Books and Five Classics.How can I learn these kinds of content.

For these people's inquiries, Wu Zhi can only find an excuse, saying that he figured it out.

Although it's a little bit reluctant, it's not very good to say that I have encountered an expert to give advice. It's better to flaunt myself as a genius.

Everyone was puzzled, but it was acceptable.

Those who can do this are probably geniuses.

Every time they see the young Wu Zhi, everyone really wonders how his brain grows.

Now the discussion is going on for a long time...

After this incident, Wu Zhi will continue to plan the next production process.

Song Huizong and others discussed heatedly along the way, and sent His Majesty back to the palace, and Song Huizong asked them to go back to rest.

As for the power station here, Wu Zhi asked people to turn it off.The surrounding people stayed together for a long time, and the power station could not be moved away, so Wu Zhi had to build a water and electricity bureau.

A new department, Song Huizong approved it without even thinking about it.

The Water and Electricity Bureau put Wu Zhi in charge.

Guards were left at the site of the power station to prevent someone from damaging the generator or being electrocuted.

In the following time, Wu Zhi led people to build generators everywhere.As long as there is water upstream, Wu Zhi will not let it go.

As time passed, boxes of light bulbs in the workshop of the Commercial Division had piled up like mountains, as well as electrical wiring equipment.

The power station is not fully built yet, and the laying of the wires has already begun.

Especially on the outskirts of Bianjing City and the streets in the city, electric poles made of cement have appeared. This kind of wires are bare wires, and copper wires are moved to the homes of the people.

People who are willing to buy wires and light bulbs, people from the Water and Electricity Bureau lead the wires along the wall.

They can light up the lights just by turning on the electricity, which also saves the cost of lamp oil virtually.More convenient and faster.

The common people with the wires and light bulbs staring at the light bulb above carefully study it all day long, for fear of breaking it.

They are very much looking forward to the day when they will be electrified.

The generation of electricity caused people all over the country to talk about it. They said that Wu Zhi was a god-man who brought light to the world!
A large number of people from the Water and Electricity Bureau went to all parts of the country to build power stations and pull wires.

Even Mr. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang in Qinghe County now spent 400 yuan to install wires and light bulbs.

Seeing the people of the Water and Electricity Bureau busy, one after another magical white wires climbing rocks and walls, like spider webs, and seeing white light bulbs hanging above several rooms, Mr. Zhang couldn't recover for a long time.

(End of this chapter)