Daming Military Empire

Chapter 497 Light up Chang'an Avenue

How to quickly promote a new thing?Naturally, he advertised in the busiest trouble spots. Zhu Cijiong has a deep understanding of this. Every time he goes to those bustling streets in later generations, he will encounter those who hand out advertisements. It is a billboard, and advertising is naturally the place where the most candidates are selected. This is a very simple reason.

To say that the most prosperous place in Ming Dynasty is Chang'an Avenue, the east and west Chang'an Avenues have a frighteningly large number of people, at least a million people a day!

Regarding the installation of street lamps on Chang'an Avenue, Zhu Cijiong had already had a plan in mind. The reason why he called so many people was to arrange this matter.

Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, it is definitely too late to temporarily make light bulbs. You must know that Chang’an Avenue is nearly 50 miles long. Even if you install a street light every [-] meters, you will need thousands of light bulbs. There is no special building at the moment. It is not a few days for a light bulb factory to make thousands of them.

Fortunately, Zhu Cijiong had already informed Bi Maokang a few years ago that he would start promoting electric lights after the Chinese New Year and asked him to prepare more light bulbs. I don't know how many he has produced now.

Zhu Cijiong asked directly: "Meng Hou, how many light bulbs are in stock in the warehouse of the Ministry of Industry?"

Bi Maokang replied with a little shame: "Back to the emperor, there are about [-] in total. There is no professional factory, and it is too slow to make."

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said, "Well, it's enough for the time being. After the next year, I'll find a place in Xicheng District to build a special light bulb factory, and build it at a monthly rate of 1."

Bi Maokang immediately nodded and said, "I understand."

Now that the light bulbs are enough, the plan to install street lights on Chang'an Street can begin. Zhu Cijiong directly introduced: "I am going to install street lights on Chang'an Street. The so-called street lights are installed on both sides of the road to illuminate the entire road. This street light One needs to be installed every fifty steps or so, and the two sides of the road are staggered. According to the length of Chang'an Avenue, a total of about [-] need to be installed."

Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard the words. They knew how troublesome it was to install electric lights. Now almost every factory has installed them. Just a light bulb is enough, and the wires have to be pulled over, and the electricity has to be sent to it. This time is not like the later generations, there are power outlets everywhere, and I don’t know how much time it will take to pull a wire.

Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi have the best experience of this point. They were exhausted when they first installed electric lights in the palace. Although they have a little experience in installing more lights later on, they were all in the room, under the eaves or If you install it on the city wall, there are still things attached to it. You can slowly pull the thread over it. How to install it on Chang’an Street. Both sides of the street are bare. You can’t slowly install it from the shops on both sides. street.

If there were no transformers, they might also consider walking the telegraph wires directly from the ground.

Now they dare not. After Zhu Cijiong’s reminder, they have tested it. If the voltage is too high, it can kill people. Telegraphs can use low voltage. If the voltage is low, the light will not light up.

Besides, ordinary electric wires are not as thickly protected as telegraph main wires, and if they are accidentally broken, if they are buried in the ground, it will definitely kill people!

This Zhu Cijiong also had a plan for a long time ago. He directly took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, drew the shape of a telegraph pole, and then explained: "This column is made of reinforced concrete. It is hollow in the middle. The bottom is larger and the top is smaller. About one foot and five feet, of which the lower three feet are buried in the ground so that they can stand upright."

It's just a simple pillar, everyone can understand it naturally, everyone nodded after hearing the words.

Zhu Cijiong looked up and said: "Liangfu, you are in charge of this. Is there any problem if you make a thousand before the ninth day of the first lunar month?"

Wang Zheng hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, there is absolutely no problem."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and then drew a horizontal bracket on the pole, and drew a few small pillars on it, and then introduced: "This is a bracket for passing the line, just fold it out with a steel plate, and the top is The magnetic column is used for winding wires, and it is fixed on the bracket by screws. Yizhong, you are familiar with this, and you are in charge. Before the tenth day of the first month, make [-] sets. Is there any problem?"

Xia Yunyi is indeed very familiar with this. Zhu Cijiong taught him when the magnetic column was laying the line in the palace. He didn't know how much he used this thing, but the bracket had never been made like this. He nodded without hesitation: "Please rest assured, the emperor, there is absolutely no problem."

Zhu Cijiong drew an arc-shaped bracket on one side of the electric pole, and drew a lampshade on the top, and then introduced: "This bracket can be cast directly, divided into two halves, the middle is empty, and used for wiring. The round hoop is fixed on the column and fastened with screws. The lampshade is the one on the wall of the imperial palace. You are in charge of Chang Geng, and it will be before the fifth day of the lunar new year, with a thousand sets. Is there any problem? "

Song Yingxing hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, there will be absolutely no problem."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and made arrangements: "Chuyang, you dispatched [-] guards. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, dig a three-foot-deep hole on both sides of Chang'an Avenue every fifty steps. The ninth day must be completed. Then Assist Liangfu and the others to finish the rest."

Sun Yuanhua hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and continued to make arrangements: "Fuzhai, prepare four generators and enough wires, install one on each side of East and West Chang'an Avenue, let Shuntian Prefecture help you find the place, and get the generators ready before the tenth day. Installed, the wires should be finished by fourteen, and the lights should be installed.”

Xu Fuyuan quickly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and then said to Bi Maokang: "Mr. Meng, you are in charge of coordination. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, on the night of the Lantern Festival, you must light up Chang'an Street."

Bi Maokang hastily cupped his hands and said, "My minister complies with the order."

This New Year's Day, the Ministry of Industry did not rest, but they are used to it. People like Bi Maokang and others did not plan to rest. They have projects in their hands, and they are obsessed with research and development, so naturally they will not stop.

Now the emperor has arranged another task to light up Chang'an Avenue, which is not difficult, and basically they don't need to do it themselves, as long as they arrange things.

On the morning of the eighth day of the first lunar month, [-] guards lined up neatly with hoes and shovels and came to both sides of Chang'an Street. Then, they lifted up the marked stone slabs on both sides of the road and dug in one go. The common people on the street were surprised. Looking at them, I don't understand what these people are doing.

On the ninth day of the ninth day, the guards carried thousands of long concrete pillars and placed them next to each pit, and then some workers from the Wang Gong factory took some weird things and put them on the pillars.

After installation, those guards worked together to erect the pillars one by one, inserted them into the pit, filled them with soil, stepped on them tightly, and covered them with stone slabs.

Then, someone pulled wires, light bulbs, brackets, stairs and so on, and was busy on the pillars for a while.

The onlookers had seen electric lights before, and they finally understood what these people were doing. These people were actually installing electric lights on both sides of Chang'an Avenue!

Sure enough, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, in the evening, just as the sky was getting dark, the electric lights on both sides of Chang'an Avenue were suddenly lit up, and the whole Chang'an Avenue was like daytime!
(End of this chapter)