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Chapter 233 The Unexpected Harvest of Water Resources Utilization
Chapter 233 The Unexpected Harvest of Water Resources Utilization
Xiao Qi conquered the world for the Song Dynasty and conquered all countries without victory. Not only did the people of the Song Dynasty no longer suffer from the harassment of foreign enemies, but he also allowed the people of the Song Dynasty to live a good life as the first-class citizens of the world's most powerful country.
Zhenbei King Xiao Qi is not only called the God of War by the people, but also has a high prestige among the people. He is also the son-in-law of the only daughter of the current emperor.
This military exploits and status made Xiao Qi unmatched in prestige both in the court and among the common people. He was simply the most powerful figure in the Great Song Dynasty, bar none.
Because Emperor Zhao Shen knew that people like Xiao Qi had no intention of the throne being something that would drag him down, he was very relieved of Xiao Qi, and was not worried that Xiao Qi would seek power and usurp the throne at all.
Because of the birth of the son of the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion, it can be said that the whole country of the Song Dynasty celebrated a wave, especially in the capital city of Lin'an, where the people in the city looked like they were celebrating the New Year.
Because of this, the Zhenbei Palace has been bustling for more than a month, because there are too many generals in the Changsheng Camp in various places, and they have been preparing gifts since Zhang Xiu became pregnant.
Now knowing that a little prince was born, all the generals of the Changsheng Camp brought gifts to congratulate, even Ma Shoucheng and Zhang Jiangong who were in the peninsula and island countries sent people to send many local rare things.
A month later, after a long discussion between Xiao Qi and Zhang Xiuyongjia, they named the child Xiao Qin and the word Ping An.
The implication is that they hope that this child will not become lazy because of his good background, and hope that he will be diligent and safe all his life.
Although the name was average, the three of them put in a lot of effort. Yongjia felt that the child should have a domineering name as he was the grandson of the emperor, but Xiao Qi disagreed. Names are one of the first words a child understands.
A name that is too domineering and a good background will make this child feel that he is above everyone since he was a child, and it is easy to develop a domineering personality.
Xiao Qi was worried that his child would bring misfortune to himself because of his arrogance in the future, so he resolutely opposed to giving his child a domineering name, and made a rule that the names of his children and grandchildren must be correct and peaceful.
Zhang Xiu also felt that what Xiao Qi said was reasonable, and agreed with the rules set by Xiao Qi, Yong Jia had no choice but to agree that the descendants of the Xiao family should not be too domineering and weak in naming.
After the child was full moon and Zhang Xiu was able to go out, she and Yongjia brought a group of maids to return the gift, and led Xiao Qin to kowtow like a worm, and went to the palace to thank the child's great-grandmother and grandmother.
Those grandmothers in the palace were fine, seeing the little guy happily rewarding a lot of gadgets.
Those great-grandmothers were different, especially those so-called great-grandmothers in their 30s and [-]s who were rushed into the palace by that coquettish fox Zhao Gou, their eyes turned green when they saw Xiao Qin, and they wished they could keep their children by their side.
When I went there, I brought several large carts of gifts, and when I came back, the carts were full again. Those young great-grandmothers also asked Zhang Xiu to bring their children to visit them more often.
Going back, Zhang Xiu told Xiao Qi about this, Xiao Qi couldn't help but shook his head, thinking that the common people think it would be nice to live as a concubine in the palace, look at those women who are being harassed by foxes, they are just crazy Is being punished!
But this is the way the world is going now, Xiao Qi didn't say anything nonsense, it's useless to say it.
Just when the young prince Xiao Qin was about two months old, someone from the Great Song Foundry Bureau suddenly ran to the palace to report the good news to Xiao Qi.
After the person who announced the good news said what the happy event was, Xiao Qi was also overjoyed, and said to himself that there is strength in numbers, and people will think of things that I can't think of.
It turned out that Xiao Qi was ordering people to study the structure of the water mill, and asked them to replace the wooden structures that used the power of the river with steel structures to connect the new steel looms.
When some of those blacksmiths studied this power system, they felt that this thing could be used to hammer iron embryos and purify those large iron embryos.
Once this idea was put forward, it immediately got the support of many blacksmiths. After a period of experimentation, the first water-powered workshop for hammering iron ingots has been built, and the experiment was successful.
It is said that the refining of iron and steel in the Song Dynasty has made great progress, and the quality of the iron produced from refining is much better than before. Now there is such a thing that can forge large iron ingots.
From then on, large pieces of iron in the Song Dynasty would not only be made of poured iron. Such workshops could hammer large steel ingots that cannot be hammered by manpower into the desired shape.
Xiao Qi excitedly came to the newly built ironware workshop by the river. After looking at the structure, Xiao Qi gave his own suggestions for modifications.
He told these craftsmen that in the future, such a hydraulic workshop must choose a suitable location, that is, it can operate normally in normal times, and when there is a flood, it is necessary to ensure that the workshop will not be flooded.
There is also the transmission structure of the water power, which can be disconnected. When there is a flood, when the water flow is too fast and the water truck cannot stop, the place where the water truck transmits power can be disconnected, so as to save the danger in the workshop.
Lin Lin always mentioned a lot of areas for improvement. Xiao Qi gave a large reward to those craftsmen, especially the craftsman who came up with this idea. The official position of the seventh rank.
Xiao Qi understands very well that the little wisdom of these low-level craftsmen is very useful, and because they have been practicing all the time, all mechanical improvements must have appeared because of the flash of inspiration of these people.
Therefore, Xiao Qi once again added a reward system for those small inventions in the reward and punishment regulations of the Great Song Foundry Bureau.
Now the enthusiasm of those craftsmen has been raised even more, and the new and old craftsmen slowly began to report the tips they had accumulated in their previous work, as well as some techniques for saving manpower and material resources.
Within a short period of time, the Song Foundry Bureau once again reached a new level. Not only did raw materials save a lot, but the output also increased a lot.
The Great Song Foundry Bureau, before the steam engine was built, entered a stage of trotting forward.
This result made Xiao Qi very happy. Although cotton had been introduced to China for a long time at this time, it was not planted on a large scale, only in the border areas.
Xiao Qi ordered his fiefdom and Longyou Duhufu to vigorously reclaim wasteland to grow cotton in the so-called arid areas where there is not much rain.
He didn't want his power and loom to be ready, but the raw material of cotton was not, that would be nonsense.
As for the south, it is rainy here, which is not suitable for large-scale planting of cotton, and the people here have always had a high enthusiasm for growing grain, so suddenly it will not work for them to grow inedible things.
Whenever you want to change people's thinking, you must first let everyone see the benefits, otherwise you can only force the people to do it. This is not what Xiao Qi wants to see.
Speaking of cotton cultivation, the most suitable place for cotton growth is the Xinjiang region in the previous life. The climate there is suitable for cotton growth, and the cotton produced is the best.
It's a pity that Xiao Qi has no plans to take it down now, the journey is too far away, even if he takes it down and starts planting on a large scale, transportation in this era is a big problem.
This can only be done in the future when one's own steam engine technology is mature, and steelmaking technology has also been greatly improved. At that time, the first railway in the Song Dynasty will be laid and the transportation problem will be solved.
Thinking of the transportation problem, Xiao Qi remembered that the carriages in the Song Dynasty were still two-wheeled, because the four-wheeled carriages could not solve the steering problem, so Huaxia's carriages were still two-wheeled until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Thinking of this, Xiao Qi immediately locked himself in the study to write and draw, and made a diagram of the structure of the four-wheeled carriage.
Although he didn't know much about the steering of the front wheels of the four-wheeled carriage, he could do experiments!
Taking the structure diagram of the four-wheeled carriage that I drew, I came to the Dasong Foundry Bureau, found several top carpenters, and asked them to make samples according to several drawings I designed.
After building it, Xiao Qi asked them to conduct various experiments, such as turning radius and turning speed.
The most important thing is how to control the two front wheels from swaying left and right when the carriage is running. When the carriage is running at high speed, the two front wheels sway from side to side and it is too easy to overturn.
After many experiments by many craftsmen, I don’t know how many times the car turned over and two soldiers driving the car were injured before the problem of the front wheel not swinging around was solved.
Next, Xiao Qi thought about improving the transportation situation of the Song Dynasty carriages. After changing to a four-wheeled carriage, the carriage can have a larger load and pull more, so the axles and wheels must be improved, otherwise it will be too much on the way halfway. It is easy to go wrong.
Xiao Qi got into the study again and began to design steel axles and wheels. Steel axles are easy to say, at worst, use more steel to make the axles thicker and less likely to break.
The wheels were troublesome. Too much material was used and the axle would be too heavy. If too little material was used, it would break easily. In the end, Xiao Qi had to decide to make the original wooden wheels stronger and the key parts of the wheels were made of steel.
Once some things have a beginning, problems will come one after another. After these are designed, Xiao Qi starts to worry about the connection between the axle and the wheel.
When the load is too heavy, the connection between the axle and the wheel becomes the place with the greatest friction. Hard grinding of the axle and wheel like before is definitely not enough, and the production of bearings in the previous life can be said to be very precise and very difficult to manufacture.
Even in Xiao Qi's previous life before traveling, Huaxia was still tackling the production of a few of the world's top precision bearings.
However, considering that this kind of carriage bearing must be produced, this thing is only an ordinary bearing, and it is no problem to hard-fit the beads of those bearings by thermal expansion and contraction.
And this bearing is something that must be used in the future. Now it is a carriage, and even those already built hydrodynamic transmission shafts must use this thing in the future.
Coupled with the development of the steam engine in the future, and the train that I think about day and night, it will require a huge amount of bearings.
Xiao Qi thought about it seriously for a long time, and felt that it was unrealistic to produce those ball bearings, and it was impossible to mass-produce perfectly round balls with the current technology.
If they are made into irregular balls, the bearings themselves will rebel, not to mention making the axle rotate smoothly.
Xiao Qi decided to use the kind of bearing with trapezoidal cylindrical balls inserted between two large and small iron rings.
After drawing the bearing drawings, Xiao Qi set more than a dozen size standards for these bearings. In the future, whether it is axles, hydrodynamic drive shafts, or train axles to be used in the future, these types of sizes should be used. Bearing inner diameter is made standard.
Holding more than a dozen standard drawings from small to large, Xiao Qi came to the Dasong Foundry Bureau, gathered all the high-level blacksmiths, and spent two days telling them the production methods and uses of these bearings .
Then let these craftsmen use their experience to figure out how to produce these bearings.
Now that I have thought about the carriage, I will make a complete set of things. The shock-absorbing springs will also be produced. Don’t worry about the leaf springs for the train. You can get some springs for the carriage first.
Of course, the carriages used to pull goods do not need to be equipped with these springs. The current technology has not yet reached the level of springs for trucks to improve comfort. These shock-absorbing springs can only be used as carriages for officials and rich people.
I came to the Dasong Foundry Bureau again and told the blacksmiths who were in charge of smelting steel about the idea of producing spring steel.
Because Xiao Qi didn't know how to make spring steel at all, he could only tell the blacksmiths to study it with their experience, so Xiao Qi set a high reward target.
These people research together, and if a breakthrough is made and spring steel that can be used for carriages is produced, the blacksmiths who participated in the development will be rewarded with 1000 taels of silver, and the blacksmith who made a breakthrough suggestion will be rewarded with another 500 taels of silver.
After finishing all these tasks and arranging them, Xiao Qi was exhausted. Although this work was not physical work, it was really exhausting. He slept at home until noon for two consecutive days before waking up naturally.
Zhang Xiu was so distressed by this, that Xiao Qi was not allowed to go to the study any more, and told him to get those things in the future, only one at a time.
When you have a new idea, write it down and rest for a while before proceeding to the next research.
Xiao Qi also knew what he could think of, and he couldn't finish all the busy work in his life. With Zhang Xiuhong's eyes strongly obstructing him, he had no choice but to agree to Zhang Xiu's will.
When he thinks of something in the future, he will take notes, and then select those who can make breakthroughs through hard work in this era, and hand them over to the Great Song Foundry Bureau for reward research.
In this way, Xiao Qi felt relieved. Although the Great Song Foundry Bureau was sent a lot of things to be studied by him, the current Great Song Foundry Bureau has concentrated the skilled craftsmen of the entire Great Song Dynasty.
Those research projects will have some breakthroughs every now and then, gradually forming an atmosphere in the Great Song Foundry Bureau to continue researching.
This was something Xiao Qi didn't expect. Did he accidentally create the prototype of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?
When he was happy, Xiao Qi ran into the palace to ask Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou to ask the second emperor to set up another Great Song Royal Craftsman Research Institute in the Great Song Foundry Bureau.
(End of this chapter)