Chapter 740 Industrial Revolution (Congratulations to Princess Huichen)
Have you built a steam engine? After hearing the news, Li Xuan immediately put his thigh era behind him and immediately took the report and read it.
After looking at it, Li Xuan said: "Go down and tell me, I will go and see this steam engine in person tomorrow!"
Now that the steam engine has been built, there is no reason for Li Xuan not to take a look. This thing is more important than large-caliber artillery, muskets, etc.!
If he could build a steam engine, Li Xuan could start an industrial revolution in minutes!
Naturally, something so important cannot be ignored.
At this time, the war in the north, the negotiations with the Folangji people, the development of industry and commerce, and the taxation work of the tax department were unable to attract Li Xuan's attention.
Early the next morning, Li Xuan got up early, and after briefly handling today's memorial, went straight to the Zhaoqing General Camp of the Young Army Camp in the morning.
Because the inspection of the Youjun Camp was a temporary decision, not many people followed Li Xuan to the Youjun Camp this time. Except for the escort troops, the only ministers who were on duty at the Imperial Study Room were Qian Mengjiu. Everyone else was busy with their own affairs.
Li Xuan didn't notify them either.
Youjun Camp Zhaoqing General Camp is located on the outskirts of Zhaoqing. It is actually a certain distance away from the imperial palace. In fact, it is not just Youjun Camp. Many institutions, especially institutions and factories with large numbers of people, are set up on the outskirts of Zhaoqing.
Because the urban area of Zhaoqing is relatively small, and the royal palace and the yamen of central government agencies occupy a large area, Zhaoqing City, which is relatively small, seems to be insufficient.
Not to mention, the current population of Zhaoqing City has exceeded 80,000 and is rapidly heading towards a population of 100,000. It is naturally impossible for so many people to work and live in a small urban area.
So in fact, most of the population lives in the suburbs.
Apart from being separated by a city wall, there is not much difference between the suburbs and the urban area!
When Li Xuan came towards the Youjun camp, a group of people in the Youjun camp were watching a large, weird-looking machine. Among this group of people, a few were middle-aged people wearing official uniforms, but there were more
They are still those young men wearing ordinary Confucian clothes.
But in their expressions, these middle-aged officials were quite respectful to the young people in front of them.
This group of people is naturally the management officials and students of Zhaoqing General Camp.
But it can be seen from the attitude between the two that these young students are definitely not ordinary students!
The management system in the Young Military Camp is quite special. On the one hand, it has officials sent by the Hanlin Academy to perform ordinary administrative duties. However, these officially dispatched officials can only be responsible for ordinary administrative management, while teaching tasks and scientific research tasks are not.
But it is the students who are responsible!
For this reason, there is a rather weird senior responsibility system in the junior military camp!
Senior students have great power over junior students, but they also have unshirkable responsibilities for junior students.
The most typical example is: the teaching tasks of the lower-grade students in the cub camp are the responsibility of the upper-grade students!
At the same time, the military camp is under militarized management, imitating the military and establishing positions such as squad leader, deputy squad leader, grade president, deputy grade president, etc. These positions are all held by the most outstanding students.
At the same time, except for a few students who applied for the Royal Academy, most of the students in the Young Military Camp stayed in the school, and many of the management were actually early students.
Under this special system, within the junior military camp, senior students actually have very great power!
Of course, senior students generally do not interfere randomly. They have heavier self-study and research and development tasks. Many trivial matters are actually left to the monitors and seniors of the lower grades.
At this time, a rather heroic-looking young man was heard saying: "Brother Lin, can this machine really start? It's just like the last time, it can only spray water vapor!"
A thin young man on the side immediately looked unhappy and snorted: "Yesterday, I led someone to test it. Otherwise, how could Lin report it to His Majesty?"
After that, he also showed a trace of sneer and said: "Chen Ziran, if you care about my steam engine, you might as well care about your steel mass production plan. How long has it been, and I heard that you still haven't implemented the steel mass production plan."
come out!"
Hearing this, Chen Ziran, the heroic young man opposite, immediately turned cold and snorted: "It's just a mass production plan for steel materials. When Chen comes back, he will personally lead the team to conduct the test!"
While speaking, he also gave a few young people behind him a sharp look. Each of the young people behind him looked embarrassed, and at the same time secretly said in his heart: "It seems that the senior student of mine is rumored to be
It’s true that there are many conflicts between you and Lin Hui. In this kind of situation, you can just fall out and scold him!"
However, whether it is Chen Ziran or Lin Hui, no matter which one they are, they are the ones who need to look up to them, because these two people are currently the only two people in the entire young army camp who have passed the eighth grade assessment and started to study the ninth grade courses by themselves.
senior students!
What's even more interesting is that after them, there are no other eighth graders, because there were only two of them before.
Further down, there are those seventh graders!
This created a gap in the Youjun camp, that is, there were two ninth-grade students and dozens of seventh-grade students, but no eighth-grade students.
The reason? Without him, Chen Ziran and Lin Hui are so outrageous!
Their learning ability is so strong that they have always ranked first and second in their grades. After entering the sixth grade, these two people occasionally received personal lessons from Li Xuan with other students. Because of their outstanding abilities, they also received honors.
When you have a problem, you have the right to write directly to Li Xuan for advice.
And these two people did not live up to Li Xuan's expectations. They studied many courses by themselves continuously, and then advanced to seventh grade, eighth grade, and now ninth grade.
These two academic masters are the ones that other young military camp students need to look up to. But then again, although these two people have outstanding learning abilities, they rarely directly lead research projects.
Lin Hui only built a steam engine, and it was still a hobby, but no one gave him a task. He relied entirely on research and development based on his hobby.
As for Chen Ziran, he is very interested in steel, and he has ostensibly engaged in research and development of mass production of steel. But he is different from Lin Hui. Lin Hui will do it himself, but he completely leaves the matter to himself.
A few seventh-grade students led by me did it.
It is easy to make steel, but it is extremely difficult to make steel on a large scale. Chen Ziran immersed himself in learning and left the matter to the younger generations, and how could those younger generations do it so easily?
Not even a refractory brick has been produced yet!
At the same time, because these two people are equally outstanding, they often regard each other as the object of comparison. As time goes by, conflicts will arise even if there is no conflict.
However, although Chen Ziran expressed doubts about the steam engine, he also knew that his old rival Lin Hui was a stable person and would probably not report it to His Majesty if he was not completely sure.
Your Majesty will come to see this steam engine soon. If the steam engine cannot start by then, it will probably be a lot of fun!
Seeing these two people sarcastic and sarcastic, a group of seventh-grade students behind them pretended not to see it. That was not something they could interfere with.
The several officials sent by the Hanlin Academy on the side also pretended not to see it. They have never had the right to intervene in the internal conflicts of the students, and they are too lazy to intervene. Their authority is very simple, that is, to ensure the logistics of these students.
That's it. As for how well these students study and what results they develop, it has nothing to do with them. They can't get promoted or make a fortune based on this.
Li Xuan's arrival was not too slow. It didn't take long to arrive at the Youjun camp, and then he saw the steam engine developed by Lin Hui.
This guy is a bit huge, with many and complex parts exposed on it.
The first time he saw this thing, Li Xuan was sure that it was a steam engine, because it was very similar to the early steam engines in his impression, but he still needed to ask more about its specific performance.
Li Xuan immediately waved: "Lin Hui, how about this steam engine? Can it be used?"
Lin Hui immediately came over: "Your Majesty, this steam engine was successfully tested yesterday and can be started!"
"Oh, let's take a look!" Li Xuan immediately said with great anticipation!
Others still don't know why Li Xuan is looking forward to the steam engine so much, but it doesn't matter if they don't know, as long as Li Xuan himself knows the huge usefulness of the steam engine, even if the current steam engine still looks very primitive.
Immediately, Lin Hui nodded slightly, and several seventh-grade students he took with him to work on the steam engine started to get busy. At the same time, Lin Hui also explained to Li Xuan: "This steam engine is the third generation of steam engine developed by students."
Steam engines. The previous three generations of steam engines all had more or less defects. Therefore, although they can be called steam engines, they cannot be put into practical use. This steam engine was designed by students based on the problems of the previous generations.
Specially made relevant improvements!”
While he was talking, the steam engine in front of him also started to ignite. After a few dull chugs, the huge wheel in front of this weird machine actually started to rotate on its own, and it was getting faster and faster. Finally,
It maintained a state of rapid rotation.
Seeing this scene, Li Xuan couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and immediately said: "Okay, okay, okay!"
"With this weapon, we in the Tang Dynasty can start the industrial revolution just around the corner!"