There are no years in the mountains, no days and nights in seclusion.
Unknowingly, Li Sheng developed a good habit of having lunch in the middle of the night... Of course, even in small shops in Hangzhou, they only serve late night snacks at midnight, so fortunately they are full.
After eating 20,000 yuan of seafood wontons in this small shop, Li Sheng also burped - so comfortable!
Wu Meiniang did not burp, a destructive behavior, but her face was much rosier. Apparently she had a good experience eating supper with Li Sheng...
But while we were eating, of course we got down to business.
Li Sheng frowned, as if he was in a bad mood.
Wu Meiniang felt very distressed when she saw this, "Young master, why are you frowning? I am in such good health..."
"Okay, okay, there's no other problem, it's just..."
Li Sheng scratched his head, "How should I put it...because the recent college in Lingzhou...no, university."
"Quietly, they actually built a land-based steam engine..."
Of course, the steam engine used on land...can't be the kind used in cars, it is naturally a steam train.
Of course, the steam engine developed by the university in Lingzhou is far from the power required for running a steam train. It is just a simple version——
But it turns out that such a simple version can be used to sell goods!
Of course, at present, it is only from Lingzhou to a grain-producing prefecture and county near Lingzhou. The distance is also very short, only more than a hundred miles.
But Li Sheng was so surprised that it could still be used to pull goods over a distance of hundreds of miles, which he called "awesome".
You must know that this group of ancient people did not receive systematic mechanical design education. These people were all temporarily led by themselves... rather than being students, they are more like apprentices.
It is difficult to say that the strength of an apprentice is reliable. It must be trained by the master all the time and spent time.
Li Sheng didn't have so much time to take care of his apprentice. He didn't have time, so he could only... basically, to put it mildly, he just let him fend for himself.
However, Li Sheng never expected that these people would actually use the steam engines used by ships in Hangzhou to transform a train version...
The ocean is the source of life, because water is buoyant, and any power system at sea is often easier to operate than on land - aircraft carriers are not included, but they are the things that all major countries use to attract money. Such things are always the most popular.
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But overall, it is true that things on the sea are easier to use than things on land. For example, the Indians have canoes and rafts, but they don’t have wheels.
The reason for all this is not considered for the time being, but in any case, it is a good thing that these scholars in Lingzhou have done such a thing this time——
But Li Sheng also has a lot of liver.
Because according to Li Sheng's script...
"After this steam train is actually built, the next step should be to find an oil field or something. After all, there will be follow-up development...but..."
As Li Sheng and Wu Meiniang were talking, they couldn't help but frown, "Oil fields are indispensable. There are actually many of them in China, but the problem is that they are not easy to find."
"Not easy to find? Oil fields..."
Wu Meiniang thought for a moment after hearing this, then raised her head, looking at Li Sheng with bright eyes, "What kind of oil field is this, sir? Can you tell me? I don't have much else in Jiangdong, but there are quite a lot of fertile fields..."
Wu Meiniang mistook the "oil field" mentioned by Li Sheng as some kind of fertile land.
But this is not her fault, because the ancients said that there is an idiom for fertile land, called "the land of anointing", which means a place that is fat and flowing with oil.
So it wouldn’t be surprising if somewhere the fields where food is grown well are called “oil fields”.
However, Wu Meiniang's question immediately confused Li Shengren, and he didn't know how to answer the question for a while.
However, I still explained that this oil field is not fertile land, but...
A resource!
Why is there such a thing as Hangzhou Industrial Zone? Because Datang needed big ships, powerful ships.
So why did the Tang Dynasty need big ships? It was actually simple, because it needed to go to sea.
Why go to sea to find resources!
But this time we explore the South China Sea...
We don’t have much time, what resources can we find?
In fact, he did find a small coal mine, which made Li Sheng very happy. He was really lucky.
After all, time is indeed too short. If you can find a small coal mine, you can build a blast furnace and the like on the spot in Southeast Bay. Many supplies that need to be transported from Shenzhou can be solved on the spot.
Coal mines are the ancestors of industrial energy, and all other energy sources have to come later.
The importance is simply beyond doubt.
Li Sheng knew very well how awesome this thing was. But...
Now that we are going to the next stage of liver explosion, oil is essential.
Since ancient times, China has a tradition of serving one generation, developing one generation, and pre-researching one generation.
Nowadays, the most cumbersome steam engines used in ships are already available, and the Lingzhou steam train should also be considered under research - its current transport capacity is actually quite insufficient, so it is more appropriate to call it a technology demonstrator.
So when it came to pre-research, Li Sheng thought about it, who else could he count on, and it wouldn't be him.
But even if you want to trial-produce something like an internal combustion engine yourself, it is not feasible without oil.
An internal combustion engine is something that is really complex. That cylinder... In the eyes of modern people, a single-cylinder diesel engine is very simple, but it is really not easy to develop one from scratch.
And Li Sheng had to do this...
After all, the complexity of the steam engine was only the first impression for these ancient people.
And for most ancient people.
What does it mean? It means that there are still a few talented ancients who can understand the steam engine.
As time goes by, wouldn't this nonsense have to be spread? After all, Goguryeo is a country of barbarians. This is what those great scholars and the grassroots soldiers of the Imperial Guard made nonsense of.
But in fact, with such a big country and so many people, how can it be possible that it doesn’t have any strength?
There are also the remnants of the Turks who have fled to unknown places, and Arabia even further away... that is also a place where big bosses emerge in large numbers.
Although steam engine technology was only in its infancy, Li Sheng knew clearly that it was only a matter of time before this technology was leaked out.
The internal combustion engine is different. This technology is not something that any ancient person with extraordinary talent can understand.
Even if it is really like the Ghost Valley and Zhuge Reincarnation that these people say, without a basic knowledge of physics, mathematics, and mechanical design, it is impossible to understand it!
Even if we can understand the principle, we are still far away from building a finished internal combustion engine.
However, trial production of a finished internal combustion engine is still a long way from low-cost production!
What Li Sheng wanted to do was to build this internal combustion engine for Datang.
With this thing, the outflow of technology cannot flow at all, and the combat power of the Divine Forbidden Army can be used to bring about radical changes...