Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Once this is completed, sending electricity across counties will no longer be a problem!

Where there is a need, there is motivation.

The political center of the new Ming Dynasty was established at the intersection of Hubei and Henan, which is rich in water resources.

Almost all of New Daming's factories are concentrated in river valleys and plains with rich water resources.

More than 80.00% are all in Jianghan Plain.

With the abundant water in the Yangtze and Han Rivers, the prospects for hydropower generation are very rich.

As long as Sun Yunqiu breaks through this, large-unit power generation projects will have real opportunities for profit demand!

Electric machinery is far more practical than steam machinery!

Just imagine, once electricity begins to break through, Ming Dynasty's industry will inevitably usher in a new round of explosion!

What a great driving force for economic growth this will be!

To put it bluntly, you can earn more gold and silver than mountains!

Interest is the biggest magic weapon to promote scientific and technological progress.

Even war itself is a violent part of interests.

Zhu Youjian believes that with the wisdom of the people of the Ming Dynasty, it will not be long before large units can generate electricity, which can be tinkered with by these lovely ancestors!

maybe...

Before the construction of the hydropower station was completed, large units appeared!

At that time, directly installing the power generation unit will bring light to hundreds of millions of people!

In the era of technological take-off, technology can be applied and waited for. We cannot wait for technological breakthroughs before we start planning applications.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian directly launched the Danjiangkou Hydropower Station project!

The reason why Zhu Youjian handed over this big project to the eunuchs was because the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty really had no shortcomings.

Whether it's making weapons or leading troops in battle, the eunuchs are not only good at it, but they can also play it well and play it well!

The Danjiangkou Reservoir was handed over to the eunuchs for construction. First, it allowed the internal officials to accumulate experience and leave records in books for reference by future generations of successors.

The second thing is that the Danjiangkou Reservoir is right next to Handu. This is a major event that can affect the safety of the capital!

He can rest assured only if it is handed over to the eunuch!

Zhu Youjian understands very well——

With the style of the Ming Dynasty eunuchs, this is at least a hundred-year project!

On the "bang bang bang" train, Zhu Youjian looked out the window at the ever-changing village, his thoughts flying.

The Beijing-Hankow Railway has completed the laying of simple railways.

This method was originally thought up under the leadership of the eunuch Wang Lian.

Simple railways require less roads because of less transportation.

After the simple railway is opened, transportation along the way will be much more convenient.

No matter how little cargo this thing pulls, it far exceeds that of ox carts and horse-drawn carriages!

It can run day and night.

Build a simple railway first, and then build a permanent railway - it may seem like a lot of extra effort, but in fact it can greatly shorten the construction period.

After all, only when transportation is convenient can efficiency be improved.

Zhu Youjian went all the way to Hanzhong. Looking at the railway line being dug along Jinniu Road, Zhu Youjian felt even more relieved.

Once this railway is opened to traffic, the connection between Sichuan and the capital will be even closer!

After inspecting Hanzhong, Zhu Youjian turned back south.

This time, Zhu Youjian took the boat for the entire journey.

This is the latest technology of Junzhou Shipyard - an iron-ribbed steel shell riveted double-boiler triple-expansion power steamship.

The length is 44 feet and the width is 62 feet. Its appearance is the same as that of Zheng He's treasure ship.

That is, it is 148 meters long and has a displacement of nearly 2 tons!

The sail design is still retained.

Because of the increase in weight, although the steam engine has been developed to triple expansion and adopted a turbine-pulp design to reduce losses, the speed has not increased, but has actually decreased.

Originally, when the double-expansion steam engine was used, the current was smooth and there was no wind, and it could run 31 knots in one hour.

However, under the same conditions, the new ship can only run 26 knots.

The counter current is only 21 knots.

In other words, if converted into an hourly calculation, the ship's speed is only 11.75 knots.

However, Zhu Youjian's joy was beyond words.

because--

This thing is more domineering than the world's first battleship "Napoleon" built in France in 1849!

If the Napoleon is driven only by the steam engine, the speed is 12.14 knots. If the auxiliary sail is added, the speed can reach 13.86 knots.

In terms of speed, Zhu Youjian's new boat is slightly slower by less than 0.5 knots.

However, the Napoleon is 71 meters long, 16.2 meters wide, has a draft of 7.72 meters, and has a displacement of only 5000 tons.

In other words, Zhu Youjian's new ship is as long as two Napoleons, and its displacement is four times that of Napoleons!

This is the wisdom of the people of Ming Dynasty!

As long as you tell them the general direction of technological development, they can play tricks!

The surging Han River is running endlessly.

Zhu Youjian stood on the bow of the ship, watching the bow of the ship chop through the waves, and couldn't help shouting:

"Big guns, giant ships, men's dream of iron horses!

My battleship era is here! "

Yes!

The battleship era has quietly arrived.

Zhu Youjian knew that on a wooden sailboat, Xin Daming could not overtake in corners.

Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of Junzhou Shipping Bureau, Zhu Youjian decided to abandon sail power directly and embarked on the road of steam power.

With the Hanjiang Business Group, Zhu Youjian would not be short of money at all.

In this case, let him start this era of torrent of steel!

In this world, Ming Dynasty is the only great power!

The new ships were experimental in nature, and a total of three were built.

Only Zhu Youjian, who is rich and powerful, can play this.

Although he is very sure that this new technology is a proven and mature technological development path.

However, the great craftsmen at Junzhou Shipyard were trembling with fear.

They are no strangers to wooden armored ships. After all, the technology for this thing has long been mature.

In fact, even Ming Dynasty's hard-core younger brother and the traitor in the east have learned the technique of armoring wooden ships.

(In 1578, the Portuguese missionaries who went to Japan recorded the iron-clad ship - Gialong ガレー ship in the information given to Portugal.

At the same time, during the Japanese invasion of Korea, North Korea dispatched an ironclad ship, the Turtle Ship, and defeated Japan's Toyotomi Hideyoshi's fleet.

According to some historical records, during the Wanli Battle of Korea, North Korea only built about 3 to 5 ships, while the number of turtle ships that appeared in the Korean water battle was no less than 40.

However, after the Qing government burned all Chinese books, we in later generations have no way to verify...)

Although the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were no strangers to armored ships.

This is the first time that a battleship is completely made of steel!

not to mention--

A new ship costs as much as 180 million silver dollars!

Three ships is more than 500 million!

Including top masters like Wang Zheng and Bi Maokang, who wouldn’t be worried?