Zhang Zhaoyun urgently called two teams of excellent boatmen from the dock to cooperate and first transformed two inland boats.
The inland boats in the Song Dynasty already had side-round oars, which rely on manpower to ensure that the speed of the ships that go upstream is much faster than paddling.
Now that this is transformed, you only need to replace the human power with the machine.
What a steam engine, what size is suitable.
The craftsmen of the Song Dynasty did not know how to calculate the strength, so they needed to try it, so they had to build a few more.
The inland ships are small, one ship is about two hundred materials, and five hundred materials are all large inland river boats. The largest ship on the Grand Canal is a ship with 350 materials, and there are large inland river boats with 500 materials on the Yangtze River.
Only sea boats have more than a thousand materials.
Mingzhou was in full swing. Ten days later, the emperor received a secret letter from Liu An in Bianliang City.
After seeing it, the emperor immediately called someone to the gate and called Liu Chenggui in.
"Liu, An Ge'er has a letter. I have read the secret letter. You can read it too."
"Yes." Liu Chenggui took the letter with both hands and read it carefully.
After reading, Liu Chenggui said: "The official family, Lao Nu believes that since he became an official, Mr. Liu has been calm and bold in encountering things, and every time he advises, Lao Nu thinks that the final result will be good."
The emperor interrupted: "It's excellent."
"Yes, that's what I mean."
The emperor nodded: "I can't understand this picture. Although I can't understand it, I like it very much. Since the craftsmen under his command have successfully created the Cloud-Swallowing Fire Dragon Beast, according to Ange's suggestion, I will go to Mount Tai for the Fengshan. If there is an iron road from Bianliang to Mount Tai, the steel giant beast will follow me with thousands of imperial guards and go with me in a majestic momentum."
"The official family is indeed good. And I think this divine beast is of great use. If a certain place is uneasy and supplies are delivered one day, but the imperial guards will go to the battlefield in one day, the world will be more peaceful."
Liu Chenggui put Liu An's letter back on the imperial case with both hands and said, "The official family only uses the wealth of the Japanese to help the Song Dynasty prosper. I think this matter should be adapted. Liu Xueshi said the truth, but the truth cannot be known to the world, as it will harm the benevolence and righteousness of the Song Dynasty."
"rational."
"I thought that Xueshu Liu did not say that there were letters from all the people of the Japanese people, and that all the Japanese people were slaves. Then it was reasonable for me, the Heavenly Herders of the Song Dynasty to punish the Japanese king. So I thought that I could reply to Xueshu Liu and let him deal with it. There should be a suitable reason for this matter. The manifesto must be written, and this matter must be known to the world."
The emperor's eyes lit up: "Okay, please serve me ink."
What the emperor thought about was to prepare quickly. I could go to Songshan to worship the world and issue a manifesto to show my prestige and the benevolence and righteousness of the Song Dynasty.
No, the emperor had a new idea in his mind. I have so many ministers, such as benevolence and righteousness. As long as Liu An said he could win, he could win. Liu An would definitely not come to war with the matter of war. I have given so much money to support so many generals. Now is the time for them to fight.
And I!
Sacrifice to heaven, sacrifice to heaven, sacrifice to heaven.
I want to sacrifice to heaven.
Some things are addictive, and the emperor is addicted to worshiping the sky. Whenever he wants to worship the sky, the emperor feels that his life has reached its peak, and the rest is not important.
The emperor thought of this and tore up the letter he was writing, so he picked up a pen and rewritten another letter.
Liu Chenggui felt his scalp a little numb when he saw this new letter, and then he had goose bumps all over his body, but he had to say in a favor: "The official family truly cares for Mr. Liu, and Mr. Liu is also dedicated to the official family. I seem to have seen the arrival of the prosperous age. My Song Dynasty will reappear the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties. No, my Song Dynasty will surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties."
Hahaha.
The emperor laughed heartily: "Liu, let's put aside what you have on hand these days. You can see if you can do that song and dance last time, let's arrange it."
The emperor wrote another letter asking Liu An to send two thousand guan to Bianliang within three months.
After writing this letter, the emperor issued an order to ask Liu Chenggui to go to the treasury to spend three million yuan first and repair the ceremonial guards.
When Liu Chenggui saw this large expenditure, he could only make the emperor satisfied. As for whether the treasury has so much money, he was not concerned about whether he had so much money, he only had the emperor satisfied.
Liu Chenggui also said: "The official family, do you think you should consider it? The imperial guards always have tens of thousands of sets of new armor and new dresses."
"You speak well, and you will get the reward yourself. If you use snacks for this matter, you can also think about how to convince those in the court who don't do serious business all day to take out the money, and there are new americans. New dresses must be designed well, proof first, and make a few more."
"Yes, I must have done my best."
The emperor sent another second letter to Liu An and reposted it. This time it was not 20 million coins, but 30 million coins.
The total national treasury income in the Song Dynasty was 97 million yuan in the previous year.
What the emperor wanted was one-third of the treasury income.
Liu Chenggui said while adding a lacquered seal to the emperor: "Official family, I believe that the money sent back by Mr. Liu will definitely exceed this number. Mr. Liu will always make the official family happy."
Hahaha.
The emperor smiled very happily.
That night, the emperor gave Tietou a reward of 300,000 yuan, added a Wusan stairs, and then asked Tietou to rest for a day, and quickly sent his what he had given to Liu An back.
After the iron leader was rewarded, he stayed back to Pan's mansion that night.
The letter was not dared to be demolished privately, but the emperor rewarded it means that the emperor was very satisfied and happy. So Tietou wanted to go back and inform the eldest lady of Pan's mansion, and also inform the Marquis of Anping, who was pregnant and returned to her parents' home, that is, her own eldest lady.
Let’s talk about Liu An’s place.
After almost twenty days of hard work, two new ships have been transformed, both of which are inland boats.
Liu An did not go to see the boat, and looked at a propeller with a diameter of about one meter in the blacksmith's workshop. This thing was very good, but with the current craftsmanship, it was all thanks to the first-class blacksmith's hammer and hammer. After hitting five, only one of them could barely be used.
The cost is huge.
Liu An sighed.
Wu Tie said from the side: "Don't worry, Marquis, I will continue to study this thing, but it is really difficult to make this thing drive underwater without leaking water."
"No hurry, I sighed, I was wrong."
"Mr. Marquis is right, he is a little bit unable to do it."
Liu An shook his head: "What is the old saying that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Our research direction is wrong. You see, there are steamed car beds that can be used to axle. I mean, researching from this direction, only with better tools can we create more things."
Chapter completed!