The first thousand three hundred and sixty-six chapters of the trio of hard trials
As the first practical steamship, it is difficult for the Lady not to leave its name in history. Although after the successful development of high-pressure steam engines, the Navy acted the fastest. They already have plans to equip steam engines on a large scale.
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However, the modification of warships is more troublesome. There are too many things to consider, and it is impossible to just use them like civilian ships.
The most important thing is that the steam engine equipped by the Lady of the Yangtze River Shipping Company is not a mass-produced steam engine produced by Zhaoqing Machinery Company, Tianjin AIA Company or the steam engine factory affiliated to the Naval Shipyard, but directly from the Royal Institute of Technology.
A test model brought over by the steam engine project team at the college.
Strictly speaking, this is not just a trial run by the Yangtze River Shipping Company, but also a test by the steam engine project team!
Currently, the steam engine equipped on the Lady is the only two ship-borne high-pressure steam engines in the entire empire. It is also a prototype. The other prototype is now in the laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology.
Conduct other various tests.
At the Guards Headquarters building at the port, Li Xuan led a group of people to watch the sea trial, and on the Lady, several people looked at the huge ship-based steam engine in front of them with serious faces.
Among these people, one is an officer wearing the uniform of a Guards colonel, the other is wearing a Confucian robe, this is the captain of the Lady of the Yangtze River Shipping Company, and there is another officer wearing an official robe, this is from
Yu is the deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Ministry of Industry, in charge of coastal and inland river transportation.
In addition to these three people, there are several young people who look much younger than them. However, although these young people are wearing casual clothes, they have a medal of rank on their chests, and these higher-ranking ones are somewhat
It's scary, the leader is wearing a badge that represents the third grade.
Among the others, one is from the third grade, and a few are from the fourth grade.
These people seem to be in their twenties, and one of them even looks to be seventeen or eighteen years old at most. Judging from their age and their rank, and there are a lot of people there when they show up, it is not difficult.
Guess, they are researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology.
Because there are third-grade and fourth-grade people at such a young age, and there are a lot of people when they show up, there is no other place in the world except the Royal Institute of Technology where you can find them.
This group of people is obviously headed by a young man in front of him who is of the third grade!
"Professor Xu, this is almost done. Can we start?" At this time, Lu Xiyuan, the deputy director of the Department of Transportation behind him, said respectfully.
This is disrespectful. The person in front of me is Xu Quan, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology. He is also one of the deputy leaders of the steam engine project team, and he is also a Viscount of the Empire.
Professor Xu didn't know whether he didn't hear it or didn't care. He had no intention of answering. Instead, he stared at the various pointers of the steam engine in front of him, and then said a few words to the assistant next to him.
After a while, the assistant beside him came forward with several researchers and started busy in front of the steam engine.
Seeing the researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology busy in front of the steam engine again, an officer, an official, and a captain behind them looked at each other, all showing anxious expressions.
Guards Colonel Ji Xiaoyang approached the two men, and then lowered his voice and said: "Isn't this air pressure enough? We should be able to sail the ship. Why are we still waiting? If we wait any longer, I'm afraid something will go wrong.
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Dong Qingjun, the captain of the Lady, looked worried and said: "Isn't that right? The Holy Emperor is watching outside!"
"You think there won't be any problems with this steam engine, right?" Lu Xiyuan, deputy director of the Department of Transportation, frowned and said: "In order to avoid temporary problems, we have already prepared two hours in advance, but now the trial voyage is scheduled
The time is almost up, why hasn’t this been done yet?”
Ji Xiaoyang said: "Crow's Mouth, don't say good things or bad things. If something goes wrong, I'm afraid you and I will have to be punished!"
Dong Qingjun said: "Why are we being trained? It's also the people from the Royal Institute of Technology who are being trained. Our company has tried its best to cooperate with them. We will modify the Lady as they say. All the modification plans are theirs."
It was given over there, and even the construction was done by them, so if there is a problem, we can’t blame it on our company!”
Lu Xiyuan looked at him with contempt: "Whose ship is this? But it belongs to your Yangtze River Shipping Company. You are the captain of the Lady, not from the Royal Institute of Technology!"
"Besides, even if something goes wrong, they just pat their butts and go back to continue their research. We still have to clean up the mess!"
Hearing what Lu Xiyuan said, Dong Qingjun and Ji Xiaoyang became even more worried!
What Lu Xiyuan said was correct. Professors, lecturers, and students like Xu Quan and others from the Royal Institute of Technology belonged to the absolute privileged class in the empire. No one would blame them for any problems caused by their research.
Last year, Bi Zifei, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology, led his students to conduct experiments at the Jiangnan Weapons Company's gunpowder factory on the outskirts of the city. As a result, the experiment went wrong and the entire factory was blown up. Dozens of people were killed and injured, and economic losses exceeded 100,000 yuan.
Many, and after the Holy Emperor heard about it, his first reaction was: "Is he okay?"
Who is this? Of course he refers to Bi Zifei!
As the most senior and most powerful gunpowder expert in the Tang Empire, the gunpowder research and development project team led by this person was the most professional and even the only gunpowder research and development project team in the empire.
As for why Bi Zifei, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is an expert on gunpowder, you have to ask him yourself. He is good at chemistry, mechanics, and even medicine. He is willing to be a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and develop gunpowder at the same time. That is
His own business.
This kind of thing is very common in the Royal Institute of Technology. Anyone who manages to graduate from the Royal Institute of Technology is basically a monster with an incredible IQ. It is normal to specialize in multiple majors at the same time. Lin Hui
The two big guys Chen Ziran and Chen Ziran's main focus is theoretical physics, but one of them plays with steam engines and the other plays with steel...
As a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, it is not surprising that Bi Zifei plays with explosives.
Bi Zifei blew up the entire factory, killing and injuring dozens of people, but Sheng Tianzi's first sentence was to ask him if he was okay. When he learned that Bi Zifei was not in the factory when the explosion occurred, so when he was fine,
The Emperor Sheng breathed a big sigh of relief, and then personally issued an imperial edict to Bi Zifei, that is, when conducting dangerous experiments such as gunpowder in the future, he was not allowed to do it himself and let his assistants do it instead.
Li Xuan was really afraid that he would blow himself up that day!
In history, there are countless scientists who researched explosives and eventually blew themselves up. Why is Nobel so famous? Because he was not killed...
Basically, it was a group of scientists who studied explosives. Others were killed by the explosion, but he survived well, so he became one of the greatest explosives experts!
It can also be seen from the example of Bi Zifei that in the heart of the Holy Emperor, the value of Bi Zifei is more than an entire gunpowder factory plus dozens of lives!
Well, what outsiders don’t know is that even if this number is increased ten times or even a hundred times, Li Xuan will still think Bi Zifei is more important!
Under such circumstances, if Xu Quan and the others from the Royal Institute of Technology messed up this trial, they would at most sigh, pat their butts, and go back to continue research and prepare for the second trial.
But the rest of the mess will have to be cleaned up by a few of them.
This feeling is generally the feeling of the officials in the Education Department of the Royal Institute of Technology, because one of the main tasks of the officials in the Academic Affairs Department is to wipe the buttocks of these researchers!
Just as these people were getting more and more worried, they saw Xu Quan in front walking over and said to the three of them: "It's time to start!"
Xu Quan is the highest person in charge of this sea trial. Well, he is the kind of person who specifically commands the test, but is not responsible for any problems that arise during the test, and just leaves after being slapped.
Hearing what Xu Quan said, Ji Xiaoyang, Dong Qingjun and Lu Xiyuan were all relieved!
Immediately after the three of them looked at each other, the captain Dong Qingjun said: "Every department is in its place, this ship is about to set sail!"
Immediately, Ji Xiaoyang, the Colonel of the Guards, left. He had to lead a group of soldiers to be ready to put out fires and other messy dangers at any time, and then when accidents such as explosions and steam leaks occurred, he had to bring Xu Quan and other researchers to safety as soon as possible.
take away!
As for saving the ship, that's not his job!
To put it bluntly, those dozens of Guards soldiers were said to be experimental subjects, but in fact they were used as bodyguards for Xu Quan and a dozen other teachers and students from the Royal Institute of Technology.
Lu Xiyuan also left with Dong Qingjun, preparing to go to the bridge. After arriving at the bridge, he immediately said: "Send a signal to the Holy Commander, saying that the ship is ready, please set sail!"
He is the official representative in this test, responsible for communicating with the shore, and at the same time evaluating the steam engine's trial operation to see whether it can be promoted on a large scale as soon as possible.
Soon, through the telescope, I saw the semaphore coming from the Lady. At this time, an official next to me also stepped forward and said: "The Lady's flag is playing, please set sail!"
Li Xuan said with a kind smile: "Yes!"
As Li Xuan's order was conveyed to the Lady through semaphore, Dong Qingjun, who had already run to the bridge, as the captain, officially issued the order to set sail!
Immediately afterwards, a long whistle was heard from the Lady, which was the sound made by high-pressure steam passing through the whistle. Then more white smoke came out of the tall chimney of the Lady, and it slowly left the dock.