Chapter 882 Iron Armor No. 3 Sun Wenying.It turned out that Sun Chengzong really wanted to marry Quan Xu and marry his granddaughter to Quan Xu, but this Sun Wenying is a spoiled eldest lady, not to mention how bad her nature is, but she is not a good person.However, times have changed.Quan Xu became the emperor, and naturally no one was willing to come to the door to ask for relatives.Today's Sun Wenying is twenty-six or seventeen years old, and she will also belong to the eldest girl in the next generation.Sanniang is about the same age as Sun Wenying, but Sanniang is already the mother of three children, and when she sees Sun Wenying again, she still has a hanging sideburns hairstyle, which is the biggest difference between married and unmarried women.Judging from the sideburns, Sun Wenying is still Yun Ying's unmarried.When Quan Xu looked at Sun Wenying, she also saw Quan Xu.However, immediately, Sun Wenying's eyes were full of mist.If it weren't for the willfulness of the year, I'm afraid that I would be the queen now, right?
However, everything is in the past tense and cannot be reversed now."
Auntie......"
Just when Sun Wenying was thinking about it, an eight or nine-year-old boy pulled another twelve or thirteen-year-old boy and shouted at Sun Wenying: "Auntie, it's time for us to get off!"
”Sun Wenying hurriedly got out of the car.Sanniang walked to Quan Xu's side: "Do you want me to give ......"
"Stop ......"
Quan Xu knew what Sanniang wanted to say, but forget about it, after all, women hurt a lot.Helena didn't say anything and took the train all the way south.More than 10 years ago, Helena followed Quanxu along this road from Beijing to the Daimyo's Mansion.More than a decade ago, it was no better than Europe, or even worse, the people were like beggars, ragged, yellow-skinned, full of dilapidated houses and barren fields.Now, the fields are verdant, and the railways pass by towns from time to time, which, although not as prosperous as the Family Villa, at least show signs of development."
What a change!"
Helena sighed: "You Ming people are really amazing, you always have the ability to turn decay into magic.It's hard to imagine that ten years ago, this barren land is now clean, tidy, orderly and thriving!
”Quan Xu said with some pride: "This is the advantage of our Ming people, our Ming people are the most hard-working people in the world, give them a hoe, no matter how barren the land, we can grow food."
Give us the tools, we can build the Great Wall more than 2,000 years ago, dig the Grand Canal 2,000 kilometers long more than 1,000 years ago, give us the blades, we are the best army in the world, of course, we are ...... in terms of culture" Before Quan Xu finished speaking, Helena smiled: "If I can, I really hope that the towns of Venice can be as quiet and rich as the towns of Daming." ”"It's a simple question, but it's really hard to do!"
Quan Xu said lightly: "The key is education, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there were still hundreds of thousands of people in Daming who could read and write, and now this number has increased more than a hundred times!"
”Quan Xu is not exaggerating at this point, if he can read a few books in elementary school, and if he can write, he is considered a reader, and there are at least forty or fifty million readers in Daming now.That's more than the population of all of Europe.When it comes to reading, the Republic of Venice is very similar to Zhu's Ming, this is the power of the aristocracy, people like Helena who can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, the entire Venice City-State Republic can't pick out ten people, if you remove the writing of Chinese characters, it is estimated that dozens of people can speak Chinese.Of course, even those who could read and write Roman and that were Italian were not too many in the Venetian city-state republic, almost two or three percent.Of course, this figure is about the same as that of the Ming period of the Zhu family."
At this point, there is no way for the Venice city-state Republic to compare with the Ming Dynasty!"
Quan Xu pointed around and said: "Since the Spring and Autumn Period, our Huaxia has been at the forefront of the world, when you Europe is still using bronze weapons, we have entered the Iron Age, when your Roman Empire was at its most glorious, our Han Dynasty has become famous in the world, as early as more than a thousand years ago, our Chang'an is the capital of the world, with a population of more than one million, whether it is military, education, or industry, agriculture, we are in the forefront of you, even if you want to chase, It is also necessary to use one or two generations to make up for the gap between Europe and the Ming Dynasty!
”Helena's expression became firm and said: "It's the same for the Republic of Venice, we must also be prepared to pay the price, pay our generation, or the next generation, to fight for the opportunity of Venice's development." ”"You should know that more than ten years ago, when I was in the Daimyo's Mansion, at that time, there was no huge land, no prosperous factories, and my income was very limited, but at that time, I ran the Golden Ladder Academy!"
Golden Ladder Academy is the only institution of higher learning in the Ming Dynasty so far, and it is a comprehensive university with a primary school, a secondary school, and a university department.If it is said that Quanjiazhuang is a commercial town with a developed economy in Daming, Quanjiazhuang Town has become an educational capital and a tourist city.Now the town of Quanjiazhuang has expanded nearly ten times, more than six or seven times larger than the city of the daimyo, and it is not surprising to say that this is the first town in the world.A huge university town, which has more than 300,000 people in the town, has exceeded the population of the city-state republic of Venice."
It is precisely because we lack this vision that we have tasted the bitter fruits of today!"
Helena said with a wry smile: "More than ten years ago, our Venetian city-state republic had an annual financial income of more than two million gold coins, we were not short of money, but we didn't use the money for education, the farmers in the city-state put their children on the farm to help, and they were not willing to let them go to school, and the merchants raised their children to do business, and they were not willing to let them receive systematic learning......
This is the inertia of thought, the Republic of Venice is the first country in the world to be established with bourgeois democracy, After eight or nine hundred years of development, they have not been annexed by their surroundings, which is enough to show their superiority.Helena decided to continue copying Daming's homework, and after returning to Venice, she immediately started compulsory education, completely replicating Daming's compulsory education system.At the same time, it also copied the military system of the Ming Dynasty.The cultural system of the Ming Dynasty.It sounds very difficult to implement compulsory education, but in fact it is not that difficult, the key is the volume, in a country with a population of more than one billion, it is as difficult as a sky, in a country with a population of less than one million, it is much easier to implement compulsory education, and the difficulty is not an order of magnitude at all.In this regard, Daming has ready-made experience, and the compulsory education implemented by Quanxu did not start at once, but started from Liaodong, starting from the four states of southern Liaoning, and then extended to the entire Liaodong after the four states of southern Liaoning formed a system.At that time, Liaodong had occupied more than one-tenth of the population of the Ming Dynasty, and the city-state republic of Venice was similar to Quanxu at that time, and the native languages of Venice and the Holy Maro Empire were Roman.Teachers can be hired from the Holy Roman Empire, or they can learn from Quanxu to attract the population and increase the economic vitality.Of course, it doesn't mean that this homework is easy to copy.First of all, the attitude of the Venetians towards education is different, the Chinese are very worshipful of knowledge, the attitude of the Venetians towards knowledge is not so positive, the Chinese have a saying that everything is inferior only to read high, not to mention whether this statement is correct, this statement fully reflects the attitude of the Chinese towards knowledge.Don't look at the later generations of the Internet full of various opinions, but when Chinese meet teachers, most of them are very respectful, of course, there are very few people who are different.Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to get through the most difficult hurdle in front of them, and also survive the attack of Britain, France and the Netherlands.While Quanxu was riding the train south, the Port of Arthur in Jinzhou was testing a steam engine steamer.In fact, Quan Xu did not put his eggs in one basket, there is a naval ship research institute in Shanhaiwei, Lushun also has one, and Dengzhou is actually one.The Lushun shipyard used steel warships, and when there was no electric welding, the problem of welding steel was a very difficult problem.Of course, it is not that welding cannot be done without electric welding, for example, the current railway track is actually a combination of steel pasting process and riveting process.However, it is a bit inappropriate to put it on a huge hull, and some craftsmen have proposed direct casting, that is, to take molds to manufacture the entire hull of the battleship, and then use multiple gantry cranes to directly cast the molten steel like casting early cannons.However, this casting method is prone to accidents, you must know that when the molten steel is cast coldly, the mold must be kept dry, as long as there is a little moisture, the molten steel will explode.As a result, an explosion occurred, in which more than 600 tons of molten steel exploded, with a power comparable to that of a missile, which directly twisted the plant into twists and blew up the mold to a wharf of 2,400 meters.The accident caused huge losses to the Lushun shipyard, as many as 20 senior technicians were instantly evaporated by the molten steel, and even the bodies were not preserved, more than 400 workers were injured to varying degrees, and as many as 60 people died.After Quan Xu learned about it, he urgently stopped this brute force.Later, Lushun Shipyard adopted a different method, first using a small boat of more than 100 tons, first assembled with wood, and then began to wrap the iron sheet at the bottom of the ship, and connected the iron sheet with the hull with rivets, so as to make a small iron ship.However, the carrying capacity of this iron ship with steel counterweight is extremely limited, thanks to the update and iteration of the steam engine, the steam engine has been developed in two ways: large-scale or small-scale.For example, large-scale, now the largest steam engine train in the Ming Dynasty is called "Xia Dongchu", which has 3,000 horsepower, can pull 2,000 tons of heavy trailers, and moves at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, mainly used for the transportation of grain, coal, steel and other materials in Heishui Province.Miniaturization, the smallest of today's Daming steam engines is about 1 horsepower, which can be mounted on a tricycle and move at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour......
Because he has failed many times, he didn't even dare to inform Quanxu of the test.With the completion of the preparations, the "Iron Armor No. 3" started its horsepower, and with the sound of the whistle, it headed into the distance.The speed of the Iron Armor III became faster and faster, and the dock immediately erupted in enthusiastic cheers."
It worked!""
Don't rush to be happy, see how fast you can run at full power!"
As the saying goes, happiness and sorrow, after a while, the speed of this ironclad No. 3 became slower and slower, and it actually stopped at a position of about ten nautical miles in front of the port.encountered an emergency, had to send a technician to check, only to find that the problem was not big, mainly in the mature steam engine, there was a leak in some key pipelines, but also due to the negligence of the technicians, the conventional rubber gasket was placed in a high temperature and high pressure position......
Locations like this require the installation of heat-resistant gaskets, which are not complicated to solve, and can be replaced.There are always some comments on the Internet that boast that the Japanese are serious and detail-oriented, and the Chinese who form a contrast are sloppy and conclude that China has no future.However, the fact is: if you say Chinese sloppy, if you go to the United States, you will find that it is not called sloppy at all, and when you get to Russia, you will find what is called sloppy, after seeing the Indians......
They will teach you to be sloppy.However, after solving this problem, it does not mean that the experiment can be continued, because the steam leak caused too much coal and water consumption in the cabin, which can no longer support the next experiment.The Ironclad 3 could only return to Port Arthur to refill coal and water, inspect equipment, and avoid something like this from happening.Early the next morning, the experiment was restarted.The Iron Armor No. 3 sounded the whistle and began its maiden voyage, and the Iron Armor No. 3, a small ship of more than 100 tons, began to accelerate slowly, and soon threw off the transport ship that was sailing at the same time as it, this kind of transport ship had a speed of eight or nine knots, and then the Navy Exocet battleship responsible for escorting.You know, the Exocet battleship is much faster than ordinary transport ships, and can run at a speed of twelve or thirteen knots, or even fourteen knots, in a tailwind situation."
The speed of Iron Armor No. 3 is still improving!""
Fifteen knots ......"
"Oh my God, it's sixteen knots......"
"Don't be impatient, sixteen knots is not its limit!""
It's not the most important thing, it's important that it doesn't need to take into account the direction of the wind!"
Although it is said that when the wind is downwind, the flying fish can run at a speed of thirteen or fourteen knots, which is almost as fast as the cruise ships of later generations, but in fact the speed at sea is not calculated in this way.Because of the problem of wind direction, the sail ship can not take a straight line, but take a "zigzag" route, which means that the distance is two or three times more than a straight line, don't look at Lushun to Dengzhou sea route is only 89 nautical miles, even the flying fish can not do the morning and evening.However, the Iron Armor III did it.It took six hours and a quarter of an hour to set off at 9 a.m. and arrive at Dengzhou Port at 15 p.m.