Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Yan Zilun turned directly to Lu Daqiang, "Academician Lu, how long will it take to build this steam engine? Our steel plant needs a lot!" Yan Zilun's eyes were filled with anticipation.

"It will take at least two months for such a large-scale one." Lu Daqiang took a deep breath and said, "And there are so many places to use it now, it probably won't be your iron and steel factory."

Yan Zilun immediately became anxious: "Why can't we get the turn? Our iron and steel factory is what we need most. Without our production of steel, how can you make this steam engine? Without this steam engine, other industries have to wait? So our iron and steel factory is the most important thing. The most important thing."

"According to what you said, the mining farm is what is needed most." Lu Daqiang was a little speechless. This thing can be used in any place in theory, although there are some places because of its huge size and difficult to control. It is easy to use, but it is more difficult to use, but compared to the current manpower, its effect is too great.

For example, to mine ore, many large-scale mines have no way to do it. Human mining is too slow, so many underground mines cannot be mined at all, but with this thing, it will be different.

"The mining field can be full of people. Anyway, the steel we cast now makes money. If a hundred workers are not enough, there will be 1. We just need to send them money, and then we will pay them according to the ironware. But my steel factory, whether it is iron It’s still steelmaking, and now our speed can’t keep up with the speed of mining, and casting a large number of new steelmaking furnaces, ironmaking furnaces is actually too wasteful.” Yan Zilun said quickly.

"It's a waste, it's not a waste at all. I think the most important thing to build now is to design a production line for the production of steam engines." Lu Daqiang said seriously, "Design a production line for steam engines of different specifications. Come, so that these steam engines can be applied to various fields as quickly as possible."

Yan Zilun paused and said, "That's not a problem."

"Then I have one more thing I want to discuss with you steel manufacturers." Lu Daqiang said.

"You said."

"To control the speed of the steam engine, one part is the centrifugal governor. This part needs to use a special structure, which is the spring. Do you think this kind of spring is produced by your steel factory, or should we set up a separate department." Lu Daqiang asked.

"Spring, in fact, with this thing, we can produce springs, especially large springs. Manpower winding is too slow, and the effect of winding it is not good, but with this machine, it is easier to wind springs. , and we can quickly fire back after winding." Yan Zilun said.

"The springs we need don't need to be too thick. Of course, different sizes of steam engines require different sizes of springs, but there is a question. Can your steel quality keep up?" Lu Daqiang looked at Yan Zilun and asked.

"Look over there." Yan Zilun pointed Lu Daqiang in a direction.

Lu Daqiang looked in that direction and found a group of children who were only twelve or thirteen years old.

"Eh? Didn't His Highness prohibit the use of child labor?" Lu Daqiang was a little confused. The word child labor was nonsense in Datang. Which child in the folks did not help since childhood, but His Highness said that some labor-intensive factories were not allowed to use it. For children under the age of 16, such as mining, steel factories and other factories.

For example, if Lu Daqiang and the others take apprentices, there are ten-year-old children, and they all start practicing since they were young.

"Child labor? That's our engineer! My little ancestor." Yan Zilun felt helpless.

"Huh?!" Lu Daqiang was dumbfounded. His Highness also invented the word engineer. It is a special term for their craftsmen. Many craftsmen like to use it. It sounds better than the previous name. Teachers who are engineers, listen to it. Nice to hear.

Of course, this title must reach the level of some masters to be called an engineer. Now you call a bunch of twelve or thirteen-year-old children engineers? !

"You're not kidding me?" Lu Daqiang was speechless.

"Why am I teasing you? These children are orphans collected by His Highness from various states and counties in the Tang Dynasty. They have been studying since they were young. They have been teaching according to His Highness's new education method since they were studying, so don't look at them. He's only twelve or thirteen years old, but he's much better than me in terms of physics and chemistry."

"I'm also working hard to learn chemistry and physics, but chemistry is...too difficult." Yan Zilun said with a wry smile, "I asked the teachers at the school, and they said that it was because these children were exposed to new things from the very beginning. The way of education is reading, and children’s ability to accept is stronger than that of adults! In fact, these children have been studying for at least six years! They have been studying since they were six years old, although they only came into contact with physical chemistry later.”

Later, Yan Zilun lowered his voice and said.

"This...Your Highness is really far-sighted, so can they do it?" Lu Daqiang asked hesitantly.

"Why can't it work? Although they haven't finished their studies, they are better than me. I have called the school and given them the opportunity to learn while practicing! They have guided us to improve many measures in the process of ironmaking and steelmaking. And good results."

"As for some of what they said, I pretend I didn't hear it. They told me that our body is composed of iron, and our blood also contains iron... I'm going crazy." Yan Zilun said with a wry smile .

Lu Daqiang paused for a moment. He was also studying chemistry and physics. Of course, he had learned this theory. To be honest, it was hard for Lu Daqiang himself to imagine, but His Royal Highness said so, so Lu Daqiang believed it. .

He can understand Yan Zilun's incomprehension of these feelings. When he first came into contact with him, he also thought it was a fantasy.

"Actually, why don't you chat with those priests? I can clear up your doubts." Lu Daqiang hesitated for a moment.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Yan Zilun froze for a moment.

"I also inadvertently chatted with Daoist Yuan Tiangang before I knew this. You read the "Tao Te Ching" once said that Tao gave birth to one, one gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things. It is also said that 'everything in the world is born from being, and being is born Yu Wu' said that everything in the world has a common root."

"This sentence means that the origin of all things in the world is a common one. Do you remember that it was said in physics that the most basic of all things in the world is composed of the same kind of tiny particles that we can't see. Although I don't understand, But isn’t this the same truth as what Lao Tzu said about oneness?”

Lu Daqiang hesitated for a moment and then said quickly, "You see, Lao Tzu is a sage, and what he said must have some truth. He also said, 'The world has a beginning, and I think it is the mother of the world. If you have its mother, you will know it. Its son; knowing its son, guarding its mother, it will not perish.' Doesn't this mean that as long as we understand this 'one', we also understand the world born of it? Master this 'one' , and master the world?"

"It makes sense! So His Highness's theory is not random." Yan Zilun's eyes lit up.

"Sure, Your Highness has said that technology is developing. You must have seen the magnifying glass. Think about it. Is the surface of the object it magnifies different from what we see? We can't see this now, but it doesn't It doesn't mean you won't see it in the future, you will definitely see it in the future." Lu Daqiang nodded straightforwardly.

"Thank you, Academician Lu, for clarifying the confusion. I'll talk to the priests of our factory some other day." Yan Zilun said with great interest. After chatting with Lu Daqiang like this, he felt that there was nothing he couldn't understand.