Li Er's expression was indifferent, but the hand that pressed on Li Yuanxing's shoulder couldn't help but exert force. He said to Qin Qiong beside him: "Shu Bao will test it later, and also talk about some things?"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Qin Qiong saluted.
Naturally, the crossbow was handed over to the Forbidden Army, and Bai Erwa also retreated to a distance.
"I want a reward! I want a big reward!" Li Er said softly to Li Yuanxing, and Li Yuanxing nodded with a smile: "My brother has rewarded me. I will give him a house and he can choose a woman from among the female slaves in Yaozhou who is willing to be his concubine.
He was given a special reward of one pound of meat every day!"
Li Er laughed, threw the cigarette on the ground and stamped it out with his foot, took out his pipe and lit it: "Tell me, how many titles do you want!"
"I don't know, how many are there, how many do you want?"
"How many such things are there, give as much as you want!"
It was a very convoluted conversation. If it were a foreigner taking a Chinese test, they would definitely be confused. Li Er and Li Yuanxing both laughed. It's not about the title. As many such craftsmen as there are, they dare to give them as many titles as they dare.
A Xi Jun can be promoted to a seventh-grade school captain by buying one, but why not give a good craftsman a title?
The two were about to say something more when they suddenly heard huge cheers from the people.
Today was not a celebration, so Li Er only appeared here as a spectator. He did not specially invite the foreign envoys. However, according to the observations of Qin Qiong's subordinates, all the foreign envoys were sent to mix among the people.
"Open!" a steward shouted, the water truck began to transport the water, and the linen wrapping the giant beast was torn off.
This is a fully unfolded gravel crusher, nearly five feet high and seven feet wide, and there is a shed ten feet long, which houses the hydraulically connected power transmission belts. For these belts, the unlucky ones are pigs.
Fortunately, the slaves in Yaozhou killed nearly ten thousand pigs before selecting the best parts, adding hemp and silk to weave these belts.
Hundreds of laborers pushed wheelbarrows to push large rocks up the slope.
As soon as the machine was turned on, the steel rollers of the stone crusher began to rotate. Ma Yuan felt guilty. This machine was only made according to the drawings of His Highness King Qin. Can it really crush stones like this?
Not only Ma Yuan, but also the people were worried. The original noise disappeared and turned into whispers!
"It's really hopeless. So what if you fail? The most you can do is try again!" Li Yuanxing was very calm. Li Er gently shook his head when he heard this. In short, he hoped to succeed.
"Down!" Ma Yuan shouted with all his strength.
The labor of pushing a cart is also scary. A wheelbarrow contains two stones, which are bucket-sized stones. One bucket is ten liters, and one liter of water is one kilogram. If converted into stones, the size of a bucket is more than 20 kilograms.
The first worker who pushed the cart gritted his teeth, and the cart fell forward, and the two stones fell into the gravel crusher one after another.
The sound of click, click came from the gravel machine.
Li Yuanxing chose the pole style because he was afraid that Datang would lack power, so he chose the pole style. It relies on a force similar to the bite of teeth to crush the stone, and then uses iron rollers to squeeze the stone into smaller pieces.
"Pour, keep pouring!" Ma Yuan knew that once the machine started working, it would be meaningless to just throw a few stones. And with the help of the force of the stones squeezing each other, the effect would be better.
Under Ma Yuan's order, the laborers began to line up and pour stones into the giant beast.
The huge clicking sound became louder and louder, and from the bottom discharge port, half-inch-sized stones poured out like running water.
Wow! The people cheered loudly.
The laborers were also very motivated, with hundreds of them lining up and pouring stones into the hopper.
A carriage was quickly filled with more than 500 kilograms of gravel.
The top is poured quickly, and the bottom is loaded quickly.
Li Yuanxing made these gravels not for playing with, but for building roads. One was ten feet wide, and the roadbed was dug one foot. After laying down the three-component soil, he began to lay the gravels. After compacting, cement was used as the road surface.
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Fifteen miles long, gravel began to be laid on the prepared roadbed.
"Wulang, when will the cement you mentioned be used?" Li Er looked at it from a distance with the help of a telescope.
"Brother, the weather is too cold. It can't be used until the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming. Cement is very brittle after being frozen. To be as strong as a steel stone plate, it can only be used after the weather warms up. I hope it can be used within three months.
After completing these two hundred miles of roadbed, it will take three months to complete the road surface. However, my brother also wants to make this road more beautiful!"
When Li Yuanxing was talking, Qin Qiong came closer and said, "Your Majesty, Your Highness. Foreigners are approaching the steel crusher!"
"Let them see it!" Li Yuanxing really didn't care.
So what, if you can learn it, go ahead and learn it. Once you learn it, you can see what the use of this thing is on the grassland.
Li Er picked up the telescope and looked at it from a distance.
The person closest to the stone crusher, Li Er, had the impression that he was a deputy envoy of the Gaochang Kingdom. He seemed to be a somewhat knowledgeable person. He had a deep understanding of the history of the Tang Dynasty and the Han people.
According to rumors, this would require more than 100,000 kilograms of iron, so of course you have to see it with your own eyes.
The military of the Tang Dynasty has received an order to allow people to take a closer look, but they must line up neatly, and no one is allowed to stay. They must leave after just one look. There are tens of thousands of people waiting to see behind.
If you want to take a closer look, ten days later.
After Deputy Ambassador Gaochang approached, he pretended that his shoes had been stepped on. After getting permission, he turned back to pick up the shoes and looked at the huge steel beast seriously.
The pillars supporting this giant beast are fine iron pillars. They are definitely fine iron. They are not pig iron as rumored.
And that two-foot-thick cylinder with dense spikes on it is not made of iron no matter how you look at it, let alone pig iron. It is fine steel, and the teeth that have been polished by stones have a luster only of fine steel.
Only steel will have it.
Look at the shaft of the runner again, it is made of fine steel.
The most amazing thing was the part that supported the shaft. He couldn't understand it. He couldn't understand it at all. Why could the tightly clamped copper sleeve make the shaft rotate so easily? He couldn't understand it at all.
A truly giant beast made of steel, it could pull away hundreds of carriages of rubble in just half an hour.
This is tens of thousands of kilograms of gravel. It would take manpower to crush it. I don’t know how long it would take.
"Let's go, leave quickly!" A sergeant came to drive people away, and Deputy Ambassador Gaochang quickly retreated from here.
After a while, several people from the envoys who had made good friends gathered together and exchanged information about what they had seen and heard.
"Did the Tang Dynasty use so much steel to make such behemoths just to crush rocks?" someone asked.
No one answered because ancient people were completely unable to understand what the industrialization process was.
In their eyes, just use manpower to smash the gravel. If you smash it slowly and for a few months, it will be enough. Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fine iron and high-quality fine steel. How many swords, shields and armors can be made from these.
Someone else said: "Is the Tang Dynasty telling us that once the swords are in storage, they will not be used in foreign wars?"
Immediately there was an objection: "That's not right, or it means that the Tang Dynasty has more steel than we can imagine!"
It's just a stone crusher. Is it worth all the fuss?
However, Li Er also didn't understand: "Wulang, is it worth it for you to use more than 100,000 kilograms of steel?"
"Brother, even you say that, why don't I settle the account for you!"
"good!"
"It takes 50,000 people to build this road. With the gravel crusher, we can save at least thousands of labor. These people don't need to be counted. Just count these 50,000 people. If there is no gravel crusher, 50,000 people will be needed to build the road."
How long does Brother Huang think it will take to build a road that is a hundred miles or ten feet wide?"
Li Er thought for a moment: "One year, even two years!"
"Based on a year's calculation, how much do these 50,000 people need to eat? Just talk about food and don't count other expenses!"
Li Yuanxing was very confident, but at this point, he did not continue to calculate.
For 50,000 people, one hundred thousand kilograms of grain is equivalent to one hundred thousand kilograms of grain per day. Even if one kilogram is worth a penny, one hundred thousand kilograms is one hundred kilograms per day.
Then one hundred days is 10,000 guan, and the money saved is 20,000 guan. This is only food, not counting wages and other expenses.
The value of one hundred thousand kilograms of iron seems to have been redeemed.
"Brother Imperial, I have mobilized 50,000 people not only to build this road, but also to renovate the Jinghe River channel and open 300 miles of canals in Yaozhou. After the spring, 380,000 acres of fertile land will be available.
Whether it is medicinal materials or food, they are all income, steel is just a dead thing, only after it is maximized in value can it be a good thing!"
Li Er was very satisfied with Li Yuanxing's explanation.
In fact, Li Yuanxing was also changing Li Er's concept little by little. There was no way to make the ancients understand what industrialization was using anything in books. Only by seeing tangible benefits can real changes occur.
"Brother Emperor, there is another machine. If it is built, it will be equivalent to the speed of five hundred blacksmiths making armor leaves every day, and the quality is high. This machine alone can produce dozens of armor leaves a day."
Li Er nodded again.
In fact, Li Er understands some of the truth in this.
For example, an improved loom will naturally increase its speed several times as soon as it comes into use.
Moreover, the water-powered loom not only weaves well, but also is faster.
Cost! Li Er has slowly come to understand this word, which is what it costs to make something.
If you change it to Datang, it can also be understood as how much you will get in return and how much you will pay for what Datang wants to do.
"Wu Lang, go ahead and do it. Brother Wei has to take care of government affairs this year. Readjust the laws of the Tang Dynasty. If you need anything, just tell Brother Wei." Li Er wanted to go back in a hurry and look through the book again.
Books on political economy.
A volume of imperial edict was thrust into Li Yuanxing's hands.
There was no reading, and no incense table was placed. Li Er just took it out of his sleeve and stuffed it to Li Yuanxing.
When Li Yuanxing saw it, he couldn't laugh or cry. This was costing himself money and bleeding money!
Datang Royal University, Datang Royal Primary School, Datang Royal Women's College, all have to be prepared and established by themselves!!! (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)