Iron Dynasty

Bowen College is in a special joy with the birth of the duplex steam engine.

And then Xiao Ming's collective award to the School of Physics ignited the enthusiasm of the students. The whole school was as lively as the Chinese New Year, and the matter of the compound steam engine was being discussed everywhere.

Of course, Xiao Ming was the happiest in this incident. After he came out of Bowen College, he returned to the palace with a smile, because a revolution in the industrial age was about to happen in Qingzhou.

What happy event makes His Highness so happy? Back at the palace, Fei Yue'er asked with a smile. Although she didn't know why, she also laughed when she saw Xiao Ming so happy.

Xiao Ming said: I'm afraid the princess doesn't understand what this steam engine is. Come on, this king will tell you about this steam engine.

So Xiao Ming explained what Bowen College had developed about the steam engine, and used the technology spar to conduct some popular science on Fei Yue'er. After his detailed explanation, Fei Yue'er gradually understood.

If it's really as His Highness said, this steam engine is simply too important for Qingzhou and even the Great Yu Kingdom. One steam engine can replace hundreds of people. This is terrible. Fei Yue exclaimed.

Xiao Ming nodded: That's the truth. The population of the fief is small. Now that there is a steam engine, one person can take care of the machine and can support a hundred people. Especially the textile industry is about to undergo earth-shaking changes.

Fei Yue'er became more and more interested, and she asked, Your Highness, what does this have to do with the textile industry?

Because there is a type of textile machine that can only play a real role through a steam engine, Xiao Ming said.

After the start of the Industrial Revolution, the steam engine was first used in the textile industry, so he felt it was time to introduce the Jenny machine.

With the steam engine and the Jenny machine, Qingzhou's textile industry will undergo earth-shaking changes driven by these two machines.

The men and women weaved in the Great Yu Kingdom since ancient times. Speaking of this textile, Fei Yue'er became more and more energetic. She said: His Royal Highness has made a new type of textile machine for Qingzhou. Is there any more powerful textile machine?

Of course there is. This is a spinning machine that uses a shuttle. This spinning machine is also a multi-spindle spinning machine with eight spindles. It can not only spin cotton, but also wool and linen. Xiao Ming said.

Fei Yue'er was a little surprised when she heard the words, Can you still spin wool and linen?

Xiao Ming nodded, This is only the most basic, after improvements, this type of textile machine can have up to forty spindles. Imagine a steam engine controlling a forty-spindle steam engine around the clock. How much cloth do you get?

Fei Yue'er thought for a while, with shock in her eyes, she looked at Xiao Ming and said, Your Highness, if this is the case, how will these folks sell cloth in the future? Compared with the cloth, this may cause dissatisfaction among the people.”

Fei Yue'er's reminder made Xiao Ming frown.

He clearly remembered that the Jenny textile machine was smashed by the citizens who lost their jobs because of terror, because the Jenny textile machine seriously damaged the self-sufficiency economy.

Now Xiao Ming will also face this kind of problem, but he knows that the wheel of history cannot be stopped because of temporary incomprehension, so he said, Even so, this textile industry must change, they don't understand now, but they will soon will understand.

Fei Yue'er nodded worriedly.

Seeing that Xiao Ming was lost in thought, Fei Yue'er stopped talking sensible and went back to the bedroom.

Sighing, Xiao Ming rubbed his brows, the appearance of the steam engine really made him happy, but Fei Yue'er's inadvertent reminder really made him a little bit painful.

Nowadays, the whole country of Da Yu is self-sufficient by small farmers. Women weave cloth and sell it, while men plow the fields and herd cattle.

The emergence of the steam engine means that he can turn Qingzhou into an industrial society at any time, but such a drastic change can easily cause chaos. If he really lets go, capital will surely quickly push his fief to capitalize and urbanize it. change.

He couldn't be sure what such a drastic change would cause? And he couldn't bear the confusion caused by this change.

After hesitating for a long time, Xiao Ming suddenly decided not to open the steam engine to merchants for the time being. This is the safest method at present.

Unlike the United Kingdom before the Industrial Revolution, the country of Great Yu is free. The land here is the lifeblood of the common people and cannot be moved for the time being. Moreover, the people's wisdom of the fief makes it impossible for the common people to understand what industrial revolution is.

Therefore, he temporarily prepared to let the government establish a steam engine workshop to avoid such a drastic change. After the people accepted the steam engine and the factory, the people realized that they could live by working in the factory, and he gradually opened the steam engine. to the businessman.

And he can keep the secret of the steam engine for a long time, so as to avoid the secret from being spied on prematurely.

After he figured out this matter, Xiao Ming let out a soft sigh of relief. It is not easy to be a vassal king. He must be careful with any changes. He is still relying on the common people, and he cannot change his position and stand behind the businessman.

After he gradually popularized industrial knowledge, he believed that the near-term industrial revolution could have a soft landing.

He was thinking when the servant came to report and said, Song Changping from the military workshop of His Highness is here, and he said to bring a rifle to His Highness.

Rifle gun? Xiao Ming was startled.

He went to Dengzhou this time, and Qingzhou's technology has really exploded. Not to mention that the compound steam engine came out, but now even rifled guns have come out. On the way to the big explosion of technology.

Let him in. Xiao Ming said excitedly, but he wanted to know how Song Changping produced rifled guns.

Soon Song Changping walked in, holding a flintlock gun in his hand. When he came to Xiao Ming, he said, Your Highness, this is a new type of gun from the military workshop, a rifled gun, which is imitated and produced according to the books given by Your Highness.

Xiao Ming took the flintlock gun, and he looked into the barrel. There were not spiral rifling, but sloping rifling. The density of these rifling was very high. At first glance, it looked similar to the standard spiral rifling.

After looking at the rifle, Xiao Ming had already thought about it. He said, To be honest, how long did you use the hook knife to pull this flintlock gun?

Song Changping was stunned for a moment, then he smiled bitterly, he said to Xiao Ming: In the end, nothing can be hidden from Your Highness, this flintlock gun was indeed pulled with a hook knife, but it took several days for the lower official to pull a qualified one. Rifle gun, but despite this, it is very laborious to load, and can only reach one-third the speed of a musket.