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Chapter 241 Building a Steam Powered Battleship
Chapter 241 Building a Steam Powered Battleship
As the days passed, Xiao Qi also planned the entire Song Dynasty into four vertical and four horizontal roads, eight roads called national roads, and countless government roads connecting these eight national roads like spider webs.
He ordered people to draw ten copies of the road map, one copy was given to the emperor, one copy was sent to the Ministry of Industry for the record, and the remaining eight copies were given to the eight generals of the Changsheng Camp.
These generals, together with the soldiers of Changsheng Battalion, escorted the prisoners along the national road Xiao Qi assigned them, and began to build the road in full swing.
No one in the civil and military circles of the Manchu Dynasty thought that Xiao Qi would attach so much importance to road construction. In order to build roads, he not only mobilized 20 soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion, but also mobilized miners from various mines. A total of nearly [-] captives were taken to build roads.
These miners were something Xiao Qi valued very much before. They were not allowed to do anything except mining. Some state governments had previously wanted to use these miners to work for them.
They were all dismissed by the generals of the Changsheng camp on the grounds that King Zhenbei did not allow it.
Now Xiao Qi not only removed more than half of the miners, but also removed most of the prisoners of war who were cleaning and digging the rivers.
The rivers in various places, especially the old course of the Yellow River, have almost been cleaned up. Xiao Qi left one-tenth of the previous people to make the final finishing touches, and all the others were mobilized to build concrete roads.
Zhao Shen was also very puzzled, it is not easy to build a concrete road, the Song Dynasty is so big, I am afraid that it will not be able to build it like the map Xiao Qi sent him in ten years.
Zhao Shen was not entangled in why Xiao Qi made such a big effort to build roads. Difficult roads are a common problem in this era, not only in Song Dynasty, but also in surrounding countries.
In addition, the Song Dynasty encouraged businessmen and built good roads, which is a very good thing for the flow of merchants from all over the country, and it will be of great benefit to the court's various taxes.
Those ministers also got together privately to discuss the road, and most of them agreed with the road construction, thinking that the road construction would be beneficial to merchants and the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, after these eight national roads are completed, no matter where the border of the Song Dynasty has military conditions, the army can rush there many times faster than before, which will make the Song Dynasty more stable.
Some people say that it is good to march fast if the road is good, but in case other countries invade, it will also help them march. Wouldn't it be more dangerous for Song Dynasty by then!
The official who said this was not of high rank. The last time he followed the emperor to the Changsheng Camp Test Site, he did not get the chance because he was not of high rank.
The other officials who have been to the Changsheng Camp test site looked at this guy very disdainfully, and said to themselves: Do you know how much the officers and soldiers of the Changsheng Camp want someone to provoke them? I don’t talk to silly pokes!
Because everyone signed a non-disclosure agreement for this thing, and it was the kind that would be exterminated if it was leaked, other officials who knew the situation all said that there was something at home and left.
The official who said that the enemy could also use the road of the Great Song Dynasty thought that he had successfully defeated the Confucian scholars, but he could not refute what the officials said, so he had to leave in despair.
This put the boy in a good mood, and he was very comfortable drinking with his colleagues around him.
But he didn't know that the one sitting on the main seat, the one who admired him before, and the upper official who could enter the main hall in the previous court had blacklisted him, and his official career was just like this, and there was no possibility of further progress .
How the ministers in the court discussed, Xiao Qi didn't care and didn't have time to deal with these stupid things.
Arrange all the road construction and hand it over to the eight generals, let them each bring [-] Changsheng Battalion soldiers, and lead the prisoners to build the road assigned to them.
Xiao Qi focused on the steam engine, and now the second-generation steam engine has been trial-produced, and its performance and power are much better than the first generation, and its volume is much smaller.
Xiao Qi rewarded those senior craftsmen and let them continue to develop steam engines with smaller volume and more stable power.
Then he went to the iron craftsmen and asked them to study how to make large and thin steel plates by using steam engines as power.
Just when Xiao Qi went to the casting bureau all day, thinking about what else could be made with the current technology, but he hadn't thought of it yet.
"Ding! The host triggers a specific task."
"This specific check-in task is: to build the world's first steam-powered ship."
"The requirement for completing the task is: to build the world's first ship that uses steam engine power instead of manual paddling to move forward (merchant ships and warships are acceptable)."
"This task is a specific reward task, reward after completing the task: early industrial machine tool blueprint."
"This task is a specific task. After completion, there are only rewards, and there is no sign-in and upgrade experience."
"The specific check-in task is an additional check-in task, and the system will always default that the host agrees to accept it. The duration of this task is one year."
"Ding, if this task fails, the host will not be able to get the opportunity to unlock the rewards of early industrial machine tool blueprints again within ten years."
Xiao Qi was extremely happy when he heard this specific sign-in task issued by the system.
With industrial machine tools powered by steam engine power systems, it is truly the beginning of the industrial revolution!
Industrial machine tools can produce more precise workpieces, which is the beginning of driving the progress of the entire society.
This drawing must be obtained!
To build such a steam-powered warship, the warship must be redesigned. The location of the steam engine, the chimney, and the boiler that powers the steam engine must be steel cabins.
Otherwise, the boiler here is burning brightly and the ship is running happily on the sea. As a result, the wooden structure of the boiler room cannot withstand the high temperature and burns. That is not a joke, and the lives of the soldiers on the ship are not guaranteed!
He had to let these craftsmen first create steel plates that could be used to build boiler cabins. Only after the fires were safe on the ship could he proceed with the development of steam-powered ships.
Of course, there are many problems nowadays. If nothing else, it is not easy to build a ship's chimney in this era without electricity or welding. Steel plates must be riveted together piece by piece to make the chimney.
Looking at the blueprint of the steam engine ship he designed, Xiao Qi felt powerless in his heart. The industrial revolution is really too difficult, and he still has the knowledge of his previous life, so he won't take detours.
Otherwise, we don’t know how much manpower and material resources will be wasted in the future, paying for various experiments.
For a ship made entirely of steel, Xiao Qi dare not even think about it now. Such a warship can be built, but it would be good if an all-steel warship built with the current technology can float.
Without welding technology, those steel plates can only be riveted together, and the quality of the current steel is to resist the corrosion of seawater, so the steel plates must be thicker.
After a rough calculation, Xiao Qi felt that even if such an all-steel warship could float steadily on the sea, it would have to be very huge.
But with the power of the current steam engine, installed on such a huge steel warship, not to mention that it can only move forward slowly. When encountering wind and waves, it will definitely be overturned by a big wave.
Because the power is too small and the boat is too big, going to sea is to seek death.
To understand this, Xiao Qi redesigned a new type of warship. The size of this kind of warship is between the three-masted warship and the large-scale building ship. It is much larger than the three-masted warship and a circle smaller than the large-scale building ship. .
When Xiao Qi designed this new type of warship, he summoned many senior shipbuilding craftsmen to find the strongest place on the big ship to build the cabins for the boilers and steam engines, and also to keep the warship from sinking.
After discussing with these senior shipbuilders for half a month, they finally designed the appropriate boiler and chimney positions, and according to Xiao Qi's request, many parts of the design of this warship were wrapped with steel plates.
After nearly 20 days of discussion and design, they designed the design drawings of the first iron-clad warship that came out hundreds of years in advance.
Xiao Qi asked these craftsmen to start building the hull of the warship immediately, and sent the steam engine craftsmen to draw new steam engine and boiler drawings according to the designed steam engine cabin size.
Let these craftsmen spare most of their manpower to develop this new type of ship power system.
In order to design this power system, Xiao Qi died a lot of brain cells.
In the past, he didn't understand the power system of the ship at all, so he could only design a transmission system according to the transmission structure of the steam engine today, and drew blueprints for those craftsmen to try to build.
Because the current technology cannot create a power system like a propeller at all, Xiao Qi can only design a so-called propeller that looks like a large waterwheel on the stern of the ship that he has seen in history books.
Xiao Qi spent a lot of time on this thing. In order to make this thing stronger and more durable, the best steel was used as the material, but this thing is all made of steel and it is too heavy, which will affect the stability of the warship.
In order to solve the problem of light head and heavy tail, Xiao Qi finally had to thicken the previously designed bow steel plate, redesign many previously designed storage compartments, and move them forward to increase the weight of the bow.
After discussing the design again with those senior shipbuilders, the problem that made Xiao Qi worry was finally solved.
Then Xiao Qi began to calculate the approximate displacement of such a warship, and the weight of the hull, and finally calculated that the displacement of this new type of warship was about 1000 tons but less than [-] tons.
But his own weight has already reached nearly [-] tons, which makes Xiao Qi very worried.
The battleship is equipped with coal, water supply system, artillery ammunition, some supplies and soldiers on the battleship, basically [-] tons.
It cannot be fully loaded at sea. This ship cannot carry more than [-] tons of load. Ocean-going ships must leave enough space for him to resist wind and waves.
In this case, the warship's ocean voyage must be supported by a large transport ship, otherwise the warship's own supplies will be consumed before it can go far.
No way, Xiao Qi had to design a new supply ship again.
The supply ship must also be equipped with steam engines and boilers, otherwise the supply ship will not be able to keep up with the warship due to lack of power, so it will be a fart to supply.
With the design experience of the previous warship, the design of this transport and supply ship was much faster. Xiao Qi and these senior shipbuilders only took three days to complete the design drawings of this large ship.
After the drawings were designed, they sent people to send the drawings to another large shipyard so that they could start producing the hull as soon as possible.
In order to facilitate the installation of boilers, steam engines and chimneys, Xiao Qi moved two large iron workshops to these two large shipyards, specializing in the production of steam power systems and components for ships.
After finishing all these, Xiao Qi felt a lot more relaxed.
Neither road construction nor shipbuilding can be completed in a short period of time. He can only make these two major projects proceed in an orderly manner without interference from the outside world.
In the following days, Xiao Qi began to seriously accompany his wife and children, playing around.
Zhang Xiu was very dissatisfied with Xiao Qi leaving her, Yongjia and their children in Kaifeng Mansion twice and went to work on his own.
Although Zhang Xiu didn't say anything to complain, Xiao Qi could still feel that his precious daughter-in-law was dissatisfied with him.
In order to make his daughter-in-law happy, this guy not only led the two daughters-in-law and son to the beach, caught them all kinds of seafood for the two daughters-in-law to eat, but also ordered someone to transfer a newly built large boat.
A family with their own soldiers took a boat directly from north to south, and turned around all the major seaports.
Xiao Qi completely accompanied his family this time, and played together on the shore and at sea for more than two months. Zhang Xiu and Yongjia had already had so much fun that they forgot about Xiao Qi letting them go twice.
Xiao Qi also took the time to tell Zhang Xiu that what he was busy with before was to install steam engines on these big ships, so that the sailors on the big ships would not have to paddle when there is no wind or against the wind, and such big ships are faster and more flexible.
Zhang Xiu felt envious in her heart when she heard it, and she would definitely take such a big boat for another round in the future.
Xiao Qi immediately promised that there would be no problem, and that the boat could be built in a year at most, and the whole family would take that big boat and go around for a while.
After making the two daughters-in-law happy, Xiao Qi and his family disembarked at Shanghai Port and returned directly to the capital.
It was only when Xiao Qi arrived at the city gate that he realized that there was a traffic jam in Lin'an City.
I wondered in my heart: just a few days after the four-wheeled carriage was produced, the traffic jam started so soon?Are there so many rich people in Lin'an?Is it necessary to issue a license plate to the horse-drawn carriage, and implement odd and even number restrictions in the future?
Xiao Qi didn't know what was going on until the soldiers who inquired about the situation came back and said.
It turned out that Zhao Shen wanted to repair the roads in the capital as soon as possible. When repairing the roads near the palace, he could still think about repairing half of them first, and then repairing the other half after finishing.
As a result, after the road near the palace was repaired, Zhao Shen and his cheap father Zhao Gou went out in a four-wheeled carriage for a while.
This is terrible, the four-wheeled carriage of the two of them is the top-notch, and the shock-absorbing springs and tires are the best.
This kind of carriage was driving on the smooth concrete road. Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou were so happy and danced. It was so comfortable!
However, within 2 minutes of being happy, the carriage drove out of the newly repaired cement road. The two emperors thought that the car was enjoyable before such bumps, but now they feel that the bumps feel very bad.
So when I returned to the palace, I made an order to repair half of the road and then repair the other half. Let me build the whole road together. I will build one main road in the capital with all my strength. If the people and officials here want to pass, they have to detour for two days.
(End of this chapter)