Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 687

[Chapter 687]

“You all go back.” Seeing is better than hearing.

Now Zhao Xu wanted to see the achievements of Wang Ying and Wang Chong with his own eyes, so he drove Liu Fu and others away.

The eyes of Liu Fu and the three were somewhat resentful. Their official positions in the court were higher than those of Wang Chong and Wang Ying, but in their eyes, it seemed that the two of them were the real treasures.

Be extra affectionate to them, which makes them jealous for a while.

Zhao Xu didn’t bother to pay attention to them, and went straight out of the study with Wang Ying and Wang Chong.

The three went to the steam engine workshop first.

There is indeed a steam engine the size of a locomotive lying on the ground.

However, there are still some parts that are not installed.

“With a little modification, it can become a steam locomotive.” Zhao Xu said to Wang Chong.

The mechanical drawings he gave Wang Chong included steam locomotives.

Therefore, Wang Chong is quite familiar with the concept of steam locomotive.

Hearing this, he said: “Manufacturing a steam locomotive is already in my plan. This steam engine is assembled, and the next step is to manufacture the steam locomotive.”

Zhao Xu nodded, and he was looking forward to it.   Thinking of something, he continued: “But this is a single-cylinder steam engine after all, with limited efficiency. Next, you need to expand the performance of the

steam engine and develop a three-expansion four-cylinder steam engine.”

The four-cylinder steam engine is a super-large steam engine.

This super-large steam engine is dedicated to giant steam ships and ironclad ships.

The steam engine of the Titanic is a three-expansion four-cylinder steam engine.

A single-cylinder steam engine can only match small steam ships.

However, it is enough to pull the sailing warship forward.

“I have asked a team of students to explore this giant steam engine.” Hearing this, Wang Chong wiped the sweat from his forehead.

With the advent of the steam age, there are too many machines to be developed, and they are becoming more and more complex, so he is under a lot of pressure.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu patted him on the shoulder, “I can only continue to work hard on you.”

“Your Highness is serious, this is what I am interested in, and I am just worried that I may miss His Highness’s important matter.” Wang Chong said.

“It’s okay, I know you’ve tried your best.” Zhao Xu smiled.

After thinking for a while, he said: “In order to stimulate more enthusiasm of the students and create a good research atmosphere, the king has decided to establish a research institute.

” With complete laboratories and living facilities, someone will take care of your food, clothing, housing and transportation in the future, and you only need to concentrate on research and development.”

“Also, the monthly salary of students in the research institute will be greatly increased, with a minimum of thirty taels of silver per month and a maximum of Three hundred taels of silver per month, and every time a research result is produced, the students of the corresponding team will be rewarded, how about it?”

Before Wang Chong had time to speak, Wang Ying said enviously: “Your Highness, I am a little moved by such a generous treatment. It’s gone.”

His monthly salary was only fifty taels of silver.

If he develops some more things and adds rewards, he will be no worse than him.

“Is this appropriate, Your Highness?” Wang Chongdao, he was a little worried. Wouldn’t it be much higher than the treatment of officials in this way.

He was moved by King Yan’s attention to them, but he was flattered.

Zhao Xu’s tone was firm, “You are worthy of this money, this king gave it to you, you just take it.”

He did this not only to motivate the students who participated in the research and development, but also to set a good example for the students in the science and technology school. example.

Let them study hard and work hard to enter the research institute.

After all, after the establishment of the research institute, there is a threshold.

Only the elite of the elite can be selected.

After talking about this, they went to the Military Division and inspected the Iron and Steel Workshop.

As soon as he entered the gate of the workshop, a wave of heat rushed towards him.

Zhao Xu saw an iron chain running from south to north on the top of the iron and steel workshop, and the iron lock was constantly moving, transporting buckets of molten iron that fell below to the sky above the converter in the middle.

The craftsman then pours molten iron into the converter below.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Xu felt as if he had entered a modern steel factory.

No, not as if.

This is a real modern steel factory.

Following the chain, he passed through a door, and next door to the converter was the blast furnace.

At this moment, molten iron gushes from the blast furnace and flows into an iron drum with iron skin on the outside and refractory material inside.

When the iron chain was raised from under the blast furnace workshop, the craftsmen hooked the hook on the iron barrel.

The iron cable rises, pulls up the iron drum, and then moves to the converter.

The power of the iron chain comes from the steam engine fixed underground in the steel workshop.

The molten iron becomes molten steel after being smelted in a converter.

The craftsman opens the valve at the bottom of the converter, and the molten steel flows out and enters the molds one by one, forming different shapes.

“It really turns a chicken into a phoenix.” Zhao Xu joked.

The amount of steel smelted by such a steel workshop every day is huge.

The era of cheap steel in Yanzhou has arrived, and the conditions for making rails are already in place.

“Your Highness’s words describe it well, isn’t it like a chicken turning into a phoenix?” Wang Ying laughed.

When he saw the first batch of molten steel flowing out of the converter, he was beyond shocked.

Compared with the steelmaking scene in the past, it is a world of difference.

“Hahaha…” Zhao Xu and Wang Chong also laughed.

After wandering around the Iron and Steel Workshop for a while, Zhao Xu followed Wang Ying to the Musket Workshop.

Here, he saw barrels made of converter steel.

Different from the previous barrels, the barrel made by Wang Ying this time has a trapezoidal protrusion in the front part, and a piece of iron with a depression in the middle.

This is the front sight of the gun.

Because the rifled guns currently used in the royal army are transformed from the previous flintlock guns.

There is no gun device such as a front sight on the barrel.

After all, flintlock guns rely on intensive shooting to kill the enemy.

Including the modified rifled guns, the flintlock array is still used to kill the enemy, but the accuracy is better than the flintlock.

However, if soldiers are to be able to accurately target the enemy on the battlefield, they still need the aid of the front sight.

So, since he made a new barrel this time, he simply asked Wang Ying to add a front sight to the barrel.

In this way, their soldiers will be more of a threat to the enemy.

Moreover, he was even able to train some snipers.

After all, the rifled gun with the new barrel has an effective range of 500 meters and a maximum range of 900 meters, which can be used as a sniper rifle.

If appropriate tactics are adopted on the battlefield, it will be a serious threat to enemy artillery and generals.

“Three thousand new-style gun barrels have been drilled so far, and 60,000 gun barrels can be drilled in three months.” Wang Ying introduced to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu nodded slightly, this time he only planned to manufacture 60,000 new-style rifled guns to replace the first-line troops.

After all, a rifled gun with an effective range of 300 meters is enough.

Furthermore, if it wasn’t a sniper equipped with a telescope, at a distance of more than 300 meters, the opposing soldier would be as big as a peanut.

It is difficult for soldiers to shoot the enemy accurately, and in the end they have to rely on intensive shooting to injure the enemy a lot.

So, there is no need to replace them all.

When needed, mass production is not too late.

(end of this chapter)