Chapter 461

Bowen college is in a special joy because of the birth of the duplex steam engine.

And then Xiao Ming's collective award to the College of physics ignited the enthusiasm of the students. The whole college was as lively as the Spring Festival, and the duplex steam engine was discussed everywhere.

Of course, the happiest thing is Xiao Ming. He came out of Bowen college and went back to the palace with a smile, because a revolution in the industrial age is about to take place in Qingzhou.

"What happy event makes your highness so happy? "Back to the palace, Fei yue'er asked with a smile. Although I don't know why, she also laughed when she saw Xiao Ming so happy.

Xiao Ming said, "I'm afraid the princess doesn't know what this steam engine is. Come on, I'll tell you about it. "

so Xiao Ming talked about the development of steam engine by Bowen college, and made use of scientific and technological crystal to popularize science for Fei yue'er. After his detailed explanation, Fei yue'er gradually understood.

"If it is true, as your highness said, this steam engine is too important for Qingzhou and even Dayu. One steam engine can replace hundreds of manpower. This is terrible." Fei Yue Er exclaimed.

Xiao Ming nodded: "that's the truth. The population of the fiefdom is small. Now with the steam engine, one person can take care of the machine, and one hundred people, especially the textile industry, will change dramatically. "

Fei yue'er became more and more interested. She asked," Your Highness, what does this have to do with the textile industry? "

" because there is a kind of textile machine that can only play a real role through the steam engine. "Said Xiao Ming.

After the beginning of the industrial revolution, the steam engine was first used in the textile industry, so he felt that it was time to push the Jeanine engine out.

Steam engine and Jeanine machine, the textile industry in Qingzhou will be driven by these two kinds of machinery, earth shaking changes will take place.

Since ancient times, male workers and female weavers have been weaving in the state of Dayu. Speaking of this textile, Fei yue'er has more and more spirit. She said: "Your Highness has made a new textile machine for Qingzhou. Is there any more powerful textile machine? "

" of course, this is a kind of textile machine using shuttle. This kind of textile machine is also a multi spindle spinning machine with eight spindles. It can not only spin cotton, but also wool and hemp. "Said Xiao Ming.

Fei Yue son smell speech immediately some surprise, "can also spin wool and hemp?"? "

Xiao Ming nodded," this is just the most basic. After improvement, this kind of textile machine can have up to 40 spindles. Imagine that a steam engine controls a steam engine with 40 spindles day and night. How much cloth can be produced? "

Fei yue'er thought for a moment, with shock in her eyes. She looked at Xiao Ming and said," Your Highness, if this is true, how can the common people sell cloth in the future? The cost of the cloth they spin is too high to compare with ours. This will cause people's dissatisfaction. "

Fei yue'er's reminding made Xiao Ming frown.

He can clearly remember that Jennie's textile machine was smashed by the people who lost their jobs because of terror, because Jennie's textile machine seriously damaged the self-supporting economy.

Now Xiao Ming will also face this kind of problem, but he knows that the wheel of history can't stop because he doesn't understand it temporarily, so he said, "even so, the textile industry must change. They don't understand it now, but they will understand it soon. "

Fei yue'er nodded worried.

See Xiao Ming lost in thought, Fei Yue son sensible no longer speak, went back to the bedroom.

With a sigh, Xiao Ming rubs his brows. The appearance of the steam engine really makes him happy, but Fei yue'er's unintentional reminder really makes him feel a little painful.

Now the whole country of Dayu is a small-scale peasant self-supporting economy, with women weaving and selling, and men farming and herding cattle.

The emergence of the steam engine means that he can turn Qingzhou into an industrial society at any time, but such drastic changes are easy to cause chaos. If he really let go, then capital will quickly push his fiefdom to transform the capital society and urbanization.

He was not sure what such drastic changes would cause? And he can't afford the chaos caused by this change.

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

Great Chongqing is different from Britain before the industrial revolution. The freedom of the country lies in the fact that the land is the lifeblood of the common people and can not be moved for the time being. Moreover, the wisdom of the people in the land fief also makes the people unable to understand what industrial change is.

So, for the time being, he planned to let the government set up a workshop for the use of steam engines, so as to avoid the drastic change. After the people accepted the steam engines and factories, they realized that they could live by working in factories, and then he gradually opened the steam engines to businessmen.

Moreover, he can keep the secret of the steam engine for a long time, so as to prevent the secret from being pryed into prematurely.

After thinking about this matter, Xiao Ming breathed a sigh. It's not easy to be a vassal. He should be careful in any change. Now he relies on the common people. He can't change his position and stand behind the businessmen.After he gradually popularized industrial knowledge, he believed that the soon industrial transformation could have a soft landing.

He was thinking about it when the servant came to inform him and said, "Your Highness, song Changping from the military workshop is here. He said that he would send the rifles to your highness."

"Rifles?" Xiao Ming was stunned.

This time he went to Dengzhou, Qingzhou's science and technology really broke out. The duplex steam engine came out, but now it's all coming out. As he expected, with the mastery of knowledge, she had to advance towards the big explosion of science and technology.

"Let him in. "Xiao Ming said excitedly, but he wanted to know how song Changping produced rifles.

After a while, song Changping came in with a flint gun in his hand. He came to Xiao Ming and said, "Your Highness, this is a new type of gun from the military workshop. The rifled gun is imitated and produced according to the books given by your highness. "

Xiao Ming took the flint gun. He looked into the barrel. It was not spiral rifling, but inclined rifling. The rifling density was very high. At first glance, it was similar to the spiral standard rifling.

After looking at the rifling, Xiao Ming had a worry in his heart. He said, "to be honest, how long did you pull this flint gun with a hook knife?"

Song Changping was stunned and began to laugh bitterly. He said to Xiao Ming, "in the end, nothing can be concealed from your highness. This flint gun is indeed pulled by hook knife, but it took several days for me to pull a qualified rifling gun. Nevertheless, the rifling gun is very hard to load, which can only reach one-third of the speed of a musket."

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