Xu Wei's speech was very lame, but his status made the craftsmen here excited. Although they were already millionaires, who could refuse to become a billionaire?
Not to mention that it can also make them famous in history, which is even greater than the temptation of money. After all, this world is a world of fame and wealth, and the importance of fame is money first! How can such a big painting not let the craftsmen here excited!
Of course, Xu Wei does not think that he is painting a pie. After all, this is the core of the first industrial revolution, an artifact that can change the world, and a trillion-dollar market. This has reduced the pattern of the steam engine. The famous history is even more It’s such an easy thing, it can even be said that the changes these craftsmen brought to history are more important than tens of thousands of celebrities!
After Xu Weihua finished drawing the pie, he led the world's most advanced group to start climbing the ladder of steam engine technology!
But Xu Wei's steam engine model was accidentally leaked and was seen by Daqian businessmen!
After some businessmen saw this magical steam engine, their eyes flashed with gold. This is the smell of money. In this era of explosive productivity, power has become the biggest problem that troubles all businessmen.
Daqian Textile Factory can only work for most of the year. In winter, as soon as the snow falls and the river freezes, the entire textile factory will be paralyzed, and textile machines worth tens of millions will not be able to operate.
It can be said that this is something that every businessman is extremely anxious about. Every day of work in the textile factory can bring them tens of thousands or even tens of millions in income. On the contrary, if they stop working for one day, they will lose tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. , the average loss is hundreds of millions in half a year. It is difficult for any businessman to accept such losses. It can be said that winter has become the biggest enemy of textile factories.
It is not that there are no businessmen who want to set up textile factories near the south to reduce losses, but the closer the factory is to the south, the further away it will be from the most important raw material of the textile factory, wool. The establishment of factories in this era is still resource-oriented. Although the southern textile machines It can be run, but because of the long distance, the woolen cloth produced cannot beat the textile factories near the north. Therefore, the idea of building a factory in the south is not considered by many people.
But the textile factory couldn't really stop for half a year, so everyone took advantage of the characteristics of the north. After the winter, they used animal power to maintain the operation of the textile factory, and purchased hundreds or even thousands of cattle and horses to maintain the operation of the textile factory. , of course, this is not without its shortcomings. Animal power is not only expensive, but also has low power, which is not as good as the continuous and free water power.
And the most important thing is that in the Spring and Autumn Period, animal power is useless again. They still have to spend a lot of effort to raise these cattle. It can be said that the factory owners in Bingzhou are deeply troubled by these two power systems, which are too cumbersome and expensive. Taller.
In order to reduce costs, these textile factory owners have tried their best. The first way they thought of was to cooperate with taverns and hot pot restaurants. They bought cattle in winter, and when the ice and snow melted, these cattle were sold at a price slightly lower than the cost price. Sell them to pubs and hot pot restaurants and let them slaughter them. However, because there are too many farm cattle on the market at the same time, it is easy for pubs and hot pot restaurants to lower the price, which is not cost-effective.
Then they cooperated with farmers and rented these cattle as a source of power in winter. In spring, these cattle were exchanged to farmers to cultivate the land. However, there were often a lot of conflicts because of the issue of ownership of the cattle. After all, hundreds of
Who can tell who's the cow?
After these businessmen saw the actual picture of the steam engine, they seemed to see the lover of their dreams. This was a source of power that was not afraid of winter and kept running continuously.
If the steam engine is used to drive the textile machine, not only will they no longer have to worry about the source of power, but they can even spin cloth several times faster. This thing can tear down all kinds of cattle, horses and rivers.
These businessmen soon realized the prospects of steam engines, and took their own money to find Xu Wei, wanting to join the ranks of manufacturing steam engines. Many businessmen even had Xu Wei before he thought of the usefulness of steam engines.
Got an idea.
Niu Ming went to Xu Wei and said: "In power, this steam engine is very suitable for our mining industry. You can find a way to get dozens of sets for our mining industry!"
Niu Ming is the eldest son of Old Man Niu. He has now taken over the Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant. In terms of output value, he is not inferior to the wealthy state of Daqian. He is also a senior executive of Daqian, but he rarely appears in high-level meetings of Daqian.
Xu Wei asked curiously: "What does your mining industry use a steam engine for?"
Niu Ming immediately said: "The mines need steam engines to pump water, and the steel plants need steam engines to blow air!"
Xu Wei understands the blowing, but Xu Wei doesn’t understand the pumping!
Niu Ming immediately explained to Xu Wei that as long as the mine is not an open-pit mine, groundwater will continue to accumulate when the mine is dug deeper and deeper. When the mine is too deep, it takes him a lot of energy to scoop water out of the iron bucket.
At that time, it was no longer cost-effective to continue mining in this mine, so many mines were abandoned, and all the preliminary preparations for the mines were in vain.
Until a few years ago, Xu Wei built a water press in order to cope with the drought. Niu Ming saw this machine and felt like it was a treasure. Isn't this a magical tool to solve the problem of water accumulation in mines? All he needs to do is get some iron pipes to connect it.
Then use a water press to continuously remove the accumulated water in the mine.
After Niu Ming himself conducted several sets of such water press experiments, he quickly drained the water out of these mines, greatly extending the life of these mines. However, as the depth of the mines continued to increase, manpower
At the end of the day, Niu Ming wanted more power but a steady source of power, and the steam engine was his hope.
So relying on this small glass steam engine, Xu Wei's mass-produced steam engine has not yet been manufactured. A large number of businessmen gave Xu Wei more than 200 million yuan to let Xu Wei use it as he pleased, and Xu Wei still kept the future steam engine in his hands.
70% of the shares.
Then Xu Wei took the money in his hand and started to build a steam engine. Originally, Xu Wei thought that he had his own cheats, and just like his other inventions, the steam engine should be manufactured soon.
After all, history books say that most of the results of the first industrial revolution were empirical results. Even if you don’t know much about science, you can still get it based on experience. Xu Wei is surrounded by the top craftsmen in the world.
They have ninety-nine percent of the experience, and Xu Wei provides the last one percent of inspiration. Once the two parties are combined, the steam engine should be built effortlessly.
But reality soon hit Xu Wei in the face. The steam engine that he thought he could easily build was stuck!