Chu'er was helpless at the door, but she still ran back into the house. She and Xiaosheng brought the kettle over, along with a small wheel made of bamboo sticks. The small wheel was connected to the kettle lid with a bamboo connecting rod.
"What is this?" Zhu Gaochi frowned slightly, and his brothers also gathered around.
Zhu Zhanchen lit a fire to boil water, and a group of people just watched the kettle boiling water.
"Fifth brother, what will happen if it is burned like this?"
"It will open."
Everyone was stunned, as if they were looking at a fool. Zhu Gaochi slapped his forehead and sighed helplessly.
Among the three legitimate sons of his family, the eldest son Zhu Zhanji is outstanding in every way. In the future, Zhu Zhanji's throne will be more stable than that of the crown prince.
The third son is an honest man with dull qualifications but a loud voice. I thought the younger son was smart, but suddenly he was surprised when the water boiled when someone saw him boiling water. It was like he had the potential not to eat minced meat.
He stood up with helplessness and was about to leave, but Zhu Zhanzhen shouted happily: "It's moving, it's moving."
Zhu Gaochi turned around and saw that the kettle lid was pushed open and the connecting rod moved. The simple wheel made of bamboo sticks turned a quarter of a turn driven by the connecting rod.
It only turned a quarter of a turn, because the pot lid cannot control the reciprocating motion. If you are lucky, you can drop it and go back and forth several times, but if you are not lucky, you can only lift it once.
The connecting rod device and the bamboo stick wheel are also very rough. Fortunately, Zhu Zhanyi has at least repaired car engines and has done some research on the connecting rod device. In order to learn, he also studied it on bilibili. By the way, he also looked at the principles of reciprocating steam engines.
and applications.
He has a strong thirst for knowledge about mechanical principles. He has studied the principles of steam engines, engines, differentials, and gearboxes. Although he cannot memorize them all, he knows the simple working principles.
"Fifth brother, what's so strange about this? If you boil water for a long time, you will open the lid of the pot."
"The lid of the pot can be pushed open to drive the movement of the wheels. If the lid can be restricted to move up and down without falling off, the wheels can keep turning."
"Huh?" Zhu Gaochi made a voice of doubt and surprise.
Taking the bait, Zhu Zhanchen understood that his fat father was becoming interested in steam engines.
Zhu Gaochi sat down again: "Lao Wu, tell me in detail what it is for."
"Father, I'm thinking that if you can install a device on the car, it can continuously boil water, control the even up and down movement of the pot lid, and drive the connecting rod, so that the carriage can run on its own."
"Fifth brother, aren't you just delusional? How can the car run without a horse?" Zhu Zhanquan, the second brother, shook his head and said with a smile.
"Second brother, you saw it just now, the wheel is turning."
Zhu Zhanjuan still thought it was impossible: "It's just a slight rotation. It's just a coincidence. And how to control the movement of the lid?"
Zhu Zhanzhen couldn't talk about his thoughts about the Pistons at this time, otherwise he would think too much all of a sudden, and soon it seemed that he had already planned it. As a child less than ten years old, would this make people think that he is a monster?
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You have to be steady and patient in order to live a long life.
Zhu Zhanzhen had only a simple answer: "Just add an iron cage to restrict the movement of the lid only within it."
The brothers started a heated discussion, and only his third brother Zhu Zhanyong stood on his side. Of course, he didn't think Zhu Zhanyong could succeed, he simply thought that what his brother had done was awesome.
After careful consideration, Zhu Gaochi finally came to the conclusion: "It's quite interesting. You can study it more."
Zhu Zhanchen understood that his fat father was a little interested now, but not very interested. He had to let him know the future role of the steam engine, and the role it would play in changing the world to arouse his interest and let him allocate funds.
"Father, wait a minute."
"What else?"
Zhu Zhanzhen's mind was spinning rapidly and he found an entry point: "Father, if this device can be successful, it will be feasible if it is installed on a car without a horse to run, and it is possible to install it on a boat without wind."
"Can't run without horses and without wind?" Zhu Gaochi looked puzzled. It seemed that his son was extremely confident in his research, which made him quite happy, but his wild ideas were still too unrealistic.
After all, it is really unimaginable for people of this era to imagine a car that can run without being pulled by a horse.
Zhu Zhanji started from the aspect that Zhu Gaochi cared about most: "Father, how much money does it cost to raise a horse that is good at fighting? How much wastage of the horse on the battlefield in Mobei? How much time and energy did Master Zheng need to go to the West?
Silver, if this machine can be completed, father, please imagine how much money will be left for the court."
Raising horses and sailing to the West, these two expenditures have always been Zhu Gaochi's heartache. Every year, the national fiscal revenue has to be tortured by these two expenditures.
So when it comes to these two items, he has personal experience, and his mentality is completely different all of a sudden. If he can really build cars and boats that can travel without horses, as his son said, how much money will be saved.
Is it really possible to create such a thing? Zhu Gaochi is not a person with a wild imagination, nor is he a person who is fooled by a boy's dream of the future and believes it completely.
Zhu Gaochi patted Zhu Zhanzhen on the shoulder: "If you really create it, I will reward you with a thousand taels of gold."
What's the use of rewarding me? What I want is start-up capital and talents.
"Father, please allow me some funds and some craftsmen first. I can't do it myself."
If Zhu Zhanzhen didn't mention these two things, Zhu Gaochi would still think that he was just thinking wildly, but the two requests he made showed that he really wanted to implement them, especially that he wanted craftsmen.
If you want to make what Zhu Zhanyi just thought of, you must be a skilled craftsman.
He looked at Zhu Zhanzhen with surprise and surprise: "I will think about the funds tomorrow. Craftsman, you go find Zheng He. He has more, and tell him your thoughts."
"Yes, father."
Unexpectedly, my father really agreed, but the other brothers couldn't believe it.
Zhu Gaochi walked out of the school and looked at his son through the window with a smile on his lips: "In a world without horses, this child's ideas are quite novel."
"Your Highness, the fifth master is really smart." The eunuch next to him hurriedly patted his horse.
"Did you understand what he said? Just call him smart."
"Your Highness, the fact that you are so happy naturally shows that the Fifth Master is extremely smart."
"If you stop flirting, you can go to Zheng He's house for me later, and also ask Yang Shiqi for me. I will have a chat with them about the horseless world."
