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"I believe that you have all experienced the power generated by steam." Emperor Chongzhen glanced at these senior Ming officials with a smile, "But have you ever thought about whether this power can be used as we asked him to use it? place?"

Hearing this question, all the courtiers looked confused. Can this power be used where they want it to be used? How can it be? Even Xu Guangqi looked suspicious.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. When he said these words to the craftsmen here before, his reaction was better than theirs! It would be difficult for them to come up with something!

So, without waiting for the minister to answer, he gave an example: "For example, use this force to lift heavy objects, use it as a hammer to forge things, or use it as a horse-drawn cart, or use it as a rowing boat..."

Hearing these words from the emperor, Wen Tiren and others looked incredulous. How could this be possible? Your Majesty, can you please stop being so unrealistic and unrealistic?

"...It sounds impossible, right?" Emperor Chongzhen expected that they would think this way, and suddenly asked, making these ministers feel quite embarrassed for a moment. With their understanding, when they heard this, they naturally understood that the emperor must have a way to achieve it, but they couldn't figure out how to achieve it!

"Your Majesty, I may know!" Xu Guangqi suddenly said with surprise on his face, "It's like a waterwheel. It's the power of falling water that drives the waterwheel. This is the power of steam, or it can drive the waterwheel!"

Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect that someone would understand what he meant. When he saw that it was Xu Guangqi, he remembered that he was good at farming. He probably often dealt with water trucks and the like, so he thought of it. It's not bad!

So, he nodded approvingly and said: "Yes, the key to this steam engine is how to convert this force into other forces stably and safely."

At this point, he stopped giving lessons to these seventeenth-century people. He pointed at the huge steam engine and said: "The steam engine you are seeing is the one I asked several of their best craftsmen to do again and again. After several months of improvement, it can be said that it was completely hand-made. However, I am still not satisfied, because there are still many areas for improvement in this steam engine, and the energy conversion efficiency is too low. Many areas are still not up to standard. application requirements, and the cost is too high!”

After talking about so many shortcomings, there was a smile on his face, letting these courtiers understand that the emperor was probably still proud of himself.

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, he motioned to the craftsmen with his hands, and he turned to the Ming Dynasty ministers in the yard and said: "Next, I will ask them to demonstrate to you."

After hearing this, Wen Tiren and others watched with some curiosity as the craftsmen began to get busy. It was found that they were making a fire and boiling water. They already had a rough idea of ​​this because they had seen the hip flask experiment before, and they watched with great interest.

After the steam emerged for a long time, Wen Tiren and others saw nothing else but a large iron block connected to the steam engine being pulled up, then smashed down, pulled up, and smashed down again...

During this period, no one pulled the iron block, they just lit the fire. Just like the emperor said, the force generated by the steam is used to pull the big piece of iron one by one.

It’s really strange that it actually happened! Wen Tiren and others were surprised, but then they became confused, but what's the use of this?

Or knowing what they would think, the craftsmen did not stop and pulled another anvil and placed it underneath. Someone else brought a red-hot iron rod over and placed it on the anvil, letting the iron fall and hit the red-hot iron rod one by one.

At this point in the demonstration, Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and told them to retreat. At the same time, the steam engine was turned off. He turned to look at these courtiers and said: "There are still many shortcomings in this. For example, you cannot control the force as much as you want. You cannot control the force as much as you want." Control the force as you would a blacksmith striking with his own hands.”

At this point, his face suddenly became a little more serious, and he said loudly with dignity: "Don't underestimate it. It just replaces the blacksmith's beating. It seems a bit insignificant, but what I want to tell you is that what I just said The expressions of power that I mentioned are all achievable. Imagine for yourselves, once in the future, what I just said can really be realized, how big of a change will occur?"

When Wen Tiren heard this, a picture immediately appeared in his mind: a very large car. The driver no longer drove the horses, but burned firewood in front, and then the car moved forward...

This picture was so beautiful that he couldn't even imagine it. The other ministers probably thought about it for a moment, with different expressions on their faces. Anyway, the surprise they showed was far from what Emperor Chongzhen expected.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to add: "I can tell you that I will continue to improve the steam engine. In the future, the carriages pulled by this steam engine can have several times or even dozens of times the number of carriages behind the current horse-drawn carriages. Also, As long as the ship uses this steam engine as power, it has enough fuel and will no longer be affected by the wind. It can sail whenever it wants..."

He just cited these two examples, and the faces of Wen Tiren and others finally showed the kind of surprise that Emperor Chongzhen expected. This is such an earth-shaking change, it would be strange if they were not shocked!

Xu Guangqi was the first to come to his senses and excitedly confirmed: "Your Majesty, can this kind of steam engine really pull more than ten times the carriage?"

"Well, more than ten times is what I estimated from Shaoli!" Emperor Chongzhen looked at him, nodded and said, "After improvements are made in the future, I believe that even if it is fully loaded with goods, it will not be a problem to pull more than ten carts at a time. ! At that time, all goods and people traveling from north to south can be pulled by this steam engine day and night."

If you use a horse, there is a limit to the load, and the horse needs to rest and eat feed, which is very costly. But this steam engine only eats wood and coal. If it is really possible, Xu Guangqi thought along this line of thinking, and suddenly I was stunned.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that he had achieved his effect, and said with a smile: "I said this is a peerless treasure for the Ming Dynasty and for my people. Isn't it an exaggeration?"

"Your Majesty, this is truly a peerless treasure, absolutely a peerless treasure!" Cao Huachun was the first to respond.

In fact, the steam engine was the source of the industrial revolution, and there are still many applications that have not been mentioned. But now it's enough. Emperor Chongzhen looked at them and said: "The reason why I show you this steam engine is because I want you to understand something in advance. In the future, our Ming Dynasty will be changing with each passing day. You must keep up with the pace and remember not to rest on your laurels. , only looking for immediate benefits!"