Qiming 1158

Chapter 1639 Daming Needs a Train

Daming really needs trains very, very, very, very much right now.

As long as there are trains, not only can a large amount of coal be conveniently and cheaply transported to eastern Liaoning and northwestern regions, but also the sales channels in the vast area of ​​Jiangnan can be opened up.

According to Lin Jingchun's on-the-spot experience, the Jiangnan area has not been very warm in recent years. Especially in winter, the cold waves are really uncomfortable. He thinks that the people in the south will also like the high-quality and low-cost honeycomb.

However, due to the problem of transportation, coal prices in the south cannot be further reduced, which inhibits the willingness of the private sector to purchase to a considerable extent.

Therefore, many areas in the south are still using wood or other combustible materials to make fires for heating, which is inefficient and consumes a lot of money, which seriously affects the needs of the people to improve their quality of life.

"It's a crime!"

Lin Jingchun was heartbroken.

Why doesn't Su Yonglin want to point out the technology of trains as soon as possible?

There are still many technical problems that have not been overcome successfully.

It takes time to turn a steam engine into a steam-powered engine.

Before, Su Yonglin had already racked his brains, thinking of some key components on the train, and conveyed all the concepts that he could think of, such as valves, bearings, connecting rod mechanisms, to the technicians.

Under his guidance, the skilled workers forged some simple samples of relevant parts and gave a preliminary demonstration. Su Yonglin also drew pictures to demonstrate the transformation and use of steam power.

Although he does not have the ability to do it himself, and he does not know how to smelt iron, this behavior seems to have brought new ideas to the technicians.

After the republican year, the skilled workers began to do their best to overcome the gear difficulties, and achieved the transformation from steam engines to power engines in the direction pointed out by Su Yonglin, and achieved certain results.

For example, they have figured out the operation principle of steam power engine and began to change to practical operation, but this does require a lot of time and trial and error costs.

And the rails are also very important.

Su Yonglin used ancient rail vehicles as an example, telling them that trains also need tracks, and unlike ancient rail vehicles, train tracks not only require traditional wooden sleepers, but also iron tracks to match the wheels.

Therefore, in the design of the train, the width between the train wheels must be matched with the width of the rail from the beginning, so that the train can run smoothly on the rail.

The principle is very simple. Ancient rail vehicles also operated in the same way, but the power was different.

Replacing animal power with steam power is a clear goal.

With the technological advancement of steam-powered engines, when the time came to the Republic of [-], skilled workers had already begun to try to lay experimental rails on a road in the northeast area outside Zhongdu City.

They need to make the rudimentary steam vehicle run on the track. Only by running it can they determine whether steam power is really feasible and whether it really has strong research value.

If the steam power generated by the combustion can really make a cart run at a speed far exceeding animal power, then for Daming, it is the words "Wuhu take off".

None of this requires a lot of money.

Because the steel that can be used to forge important parts and rails is the highest-grade product of the current Ming Dynasty steel smelting level, and the highest-grade steel smelted with the highest-grade coke.

Such a type of steel is generally used to forge firearms. Guns and artillery require this level of steel to be forged. Firearms troops like this high-quality weapon because it is less likely to explode and is safer.

The few remaining high-quality steels were distributed to the cold weapon forging workshops to forge high-level hacking knives for the front-line melee troops.

After this kind of high-quality magic weapon was distributed to the front-line troops, the first-line melee troops rated it very highly. When a knife was attacked, the enemy was shattered, and they were intact. No one disliked this kind of magic weapon.

Because this kind of knife was born in the Hongwu period, after entering the republican year, it was called the Hongwu knife by the army soldiers. If a soldier can distribute a Hongwu knife, it will be a very face-saving thing, and it will also be a good thing when he goes to the battlefield. There are greater guarantees.

Under the urgent needs of the army, a considerable part of the top steel production must be given priority to the Ministry of Industry, and even the production of artillery must be reduced to meet the needs of the train research group.

The Ministry of Finance has indeed done it, and so has the Ministry of Industry.

They are all aware of the urgency of the transportation revolution. On the issue of the R&D Department of the Ministry of Industry, both the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry have fully supported them, and they can give as much funding as they want.

Now the pressure is on the R&D team itself, they need to give real results, so that everyone knows that the money is well spent, or even worth it.

There is not much time left for them, and they are under a lot of pressure. Shizheng, the minister of industry, has set up his office in the R&D department for a long time, supervising and helping the work of the R&D department nearby.

Anyone who has a higher vision of national affairs is now focusing on the R&D department and the train research group.

A few years ago, no one would have imagined that Su Yonglin's almost single-minded implementation of the train research project would become an existence that everyone desperately needs at this moment.

Most people have to admit Su Yonglin's foresight once again.

When no one expected it, he had seen this day come, and tried his best to push it forward.

What's funny is that among the group of people who urgently need the train to be born and put into operation, quite a few strongly opposed Su Yonglin's misappropriation of a large amount of construction funds to invest in the R&D department.

But now, they all know that they are wrong, they know that they are wrong, and they know what a special existence like a train can bring to Daming.

In addition to the daily things to do, they only have the word "urgent" in their hearts.

But unfortunately, they don't understand the truth at all.

When they watched the skilled workers write down a large number of calculation formulas that they couldn't understand with pen and paper, and when they watched the skilled workers fight for the slightest distance difference, they could only feel the name of [interlaced as The loss of the mountains.

Fortunately, Daming does not have only one thing to do, and the Ministry of Finance cannot only focus on one department of the Ministry of Industry.

For example, the current Minister of Goryeo, Hu Wei, submitted a statement to the court at the beginning of [-], saying that the five-year plan for the Goryeo Kingdom had been successfully completed, and all the vows made to the court five years ago had been fulfilled. At present, the Goryeo Kingdom has prepared All right.

All is ready except for the opportunity.

Some members of the executive committee are not aware of this matter. Su Yonglin has been busy for so many years, and has almost forgotten the agreement between him and Hu Wei five years ago.

Fortunately, Hu Wei is a very trustworthy person, saying that five years is five years.

In five years, Hu Wei successfully completed the task given to him by Su Yonglin, and successfully turned Gaoli into a war machine.

(End of this chapter)