Daming Crazy Emperor

In the laboratory of the Mechanical and Electrical Research Institute, almost everyone is staring at a small light bulb.

Half an hour passed, and the little light bulb was still on!

Suddenly, the light in the laboratory dimmed significantly.

The small light bulb did not go out, but the big light bulb like a searchlight went out.

There was no surprise on the faces of the people. The big light bulb had been on for almost an hour, and the air in the light bulb hadn't been taken out, so it was normal for it to go out.

Taichang looked at the big light bulb that went out, and then at the small light bulb that was still on, and he couldn't help showing a hint of thought in his eyes.

Now it seems that as long as the air in the big bulb is evacuated, it will be no problem to light it for twelve hours.

And it's only five or six hours a night.

In other words, there is no problem with the big light bulb being on all night.

This can be put into practical use, and it can be installed in the palace. At most, it only needs to change a batch of light bulbs in two days.

Anyway, it doesn't cost much money to waste. This thing is just a big investment in the early stage, and the blown filament can be recycled in the later stage.

The problem now is that it is inconvenient to change the bulb, because the wire inside the bulb is directly connected to the generator.

Taichang thought for a while, then pointed to the outside of the big light bulb and said: "Mizhi, you have to cut this line and make a joint, so that it is convenient to change the light bulb.

Keep the wire at this end of the bulb as short as possible to save costs.

Or, you can just leave the wire inside without sticking out, and leave two copper or aluminum pieces outside as joints. "

Fang Yizhi did not consider this issue.

Because he was still experimenting, he never thought that the light bulb would be put into use so soon.

However, he has researched many ways to connect, the simplest one is the plug and socket that Taichang told him at the beginning.

He just thought about it for a while, and then he brought a set of plugs and sockets, and then cut two wires about a foot long to connect them to the plug, and connected an inch-thick gold filament to the other end.

Immediately afterwards, he used Professor Shen Yunpei's method to wrap a rubber bump like a plug, and stuff it into the glass bulb together with the needle for pumping air.

Then, he ordered someone to turn on the air extraction equipment.

The light bulb is not big, so the speed of vacuuming is naturally very fast.

After a while, the inside of the bulb is evacuated.

He followed Shen Yunpei's example and spread resin glue around the needle tube, then quickly pulled out the needle tube and squeezed the resin glue in.

Immediately afterwards, he said impatiently: "Quickly, turn on the power socket."

This is simple, his disciples connected the socket to the generator in three or two strokes.

He directly picked up the plug and plugged it into the socket, and the big light bulb that shone like a small sun lit up again.

This is a good way to do it in the future!
He was quite excited and said: "Your Majesty, how is it? This connection is good, right?"

Uh, how do you say this?

You're still a bit of a waste of material.

However, at this stage, it is already very good to be able to do so.

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, yes, let's use this method to replace the light bulb first, and you can try other cost-saving methods slowly.

Next, this light can be put into trial use. You can order your disciples to install generators in the palace, and then take Jin Yiwei and eunuchs to do the wiring, and connect all the rooms of the palace with such lights.

By the way, it is only an expedient measure for this kind of headlight to shine on the silver foil paper. You can paste the silver foil on a thick wooden board, and then hang a circle of glass beads or square or diamond-shaped glass blocks under the wooden board.

In this way, this kind of electric light looks high-end, atmospheric, and high-grade, and it is no problem to sell one of them for 100 taels of silver. "

It can still be so neat!
Fang Yizhi couldn't help but nodded excitedly, "I understand."

Taichang then taught: "You can also stick silver foil inside the lampshade so that the light can shine far away.

Just think about it, if such searchlights are installed on the pier or on the ship, will the ship be able to sail at night.

With this kind of searchlight, is it no problem whether it is the formation of ships, keeping the distance between ships, or entering the port to berth at the pier?
For this, you can install searchlights on the Feilong battleship first, and try it at the wharf of Wubei City. "

Fang Yizhi nodded without hesitation and said: "Okay, Your Majesty, I will take someone to try it tonight."

It seems almost.

Taichang thought about it again, and then confessed: "You find two more workshops, one is dedicated to the production of light bulbs, and the other is dedicated to the production of wires.

Once this electric light is popularized, the bulbs and wires needed are massive. The output of bulbs must reach at least 100 per month, and the output of wires must reach at least [-] million feet per month. "

Omg, so many!
Fang Yizhi was stunned for a moment, then dragged Shen Yunpei to mutter again.

The result of their muttering is that the output of wires simply cannot reach 100 million feet per month.

Fang Yizhi said helplessly: "Your Majesty, it is not a problem to make [-] light bulbs every month.

The Ministry of Industry already has a factory specializing in the production of glass. As long as the output is raised, it will definitely be no problem to make [-] glass bulbs a month.

The problem is that it is difficult to achieve the goal of producing 100 million feet of wires a month.

Because almost all the plastic produced by Longxing is used by Weichen at the moment, and the submarine cables alone can consume seven or eighty eight of the plastics, producing 100 million feet of wires a month, and the plastics are not enough at all! "

Can plastic be enough?
Taichang couldn't help but said to Shen Yunpei beside him: "Longxing, what are you busy with these days?"

Shen Yunpei hastily cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have almost done research on the plastic separation technology used to make the insulating layer.

Weichen is researching the application of gasoline and diesel. After all, we have stored a lot of gasoline and diesel. If we don’t use them, it would take up too much space.

At this moment, Weichen has already thought of some ways to use it.

For example, to breathe fire.

What Weichen thought of was to continuously press air into a tank, pressurize the mixture of gasoline and diesel inside, and then ignite it.

If this kind of fire-breathing thing is used to burn a boat, it doesn't need to be too violent. It only needs to be sprayed on the boat for a while before it is ignited. "

My God, this guy even thought of a flamethrower!
well.

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "This flamethrower is indeed useful, especially against the enemy's small arson boats, it is very useful.

As long as a few such flamethrowers are installed on the battleship, the enemy's small incendiary boats will be directly ignited once they approach, and their own ships will be burned and sunk.

Also, you can also find a way to develop a flamethrower that can be carried by a single person.

As for how to pressurize the fuel tank, it is actually very simple, you know the steam piston, that thing can actually be used to pressurize, as long as you can connect the protruding connecting rod to a handle, and shake it up and down with your hands to give Boost in the tank.

Of course, this thing doesn't have to be as thick as a steam piston, it doesn't matter if it's thinner, if it's made longer, the effect of pressurization will be more obvious. "

Hearing this, Shen Yunpei couldn't help cupping his hands excitedly and said: "I understand."

Well, this thing is not the most important thing.

Immediately afterwards, Taichang asked again: "Now how many barrels of oil can we extract a day?"

Shen Yunpei still doesn't understand why oil is calculated in barrels.

However, Taichang stipulated from the very beginning that oil should be counted in drums that are half a foot high and about two feet in size, and this will continue to be used later.

Upon hearing the words, Shen Yunpei reckoned: "Now we can probably extract five or six thousand barrels of oil a day."

That's all?

Too little!
Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "No, this amount is too small.

It takes a lot of plastic to make wires here, how much plastic can be separated from five to six thousand barrels a day?
Also, now we have sold candles and kerosene lamps to Europe, and America has started to use kerosene lamps and candles. The demand for candles and kerosene in these two places will definitely increase dramatically.

And in Africa, it won't be long before demand for kerosene and candles explodes.

Only 60 to [-] barrels a day is not enough, at least [-] barrels a day. "

Shen Yunpei couldn't help being dumbfounded when he heard this.

60 million barrels a day!

He was stunned for a while, and then said cautiously: "Your Majesty, it seems that there is not so much oil on the side of Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy. It is estimated that 60 million barrels a day will be exhausted in a short time. up.

Moreover, we can't recruit so many people to drill for oil at the moment. "

Well, oil, an important strategic material, is indeed ignored.

Taichang thought about it again, and then asked: "How is the oil extracted at this moment?"

Shen Yunpei said without hesitation: "Petroleum extraction is relatively simple. It is to dig a big hole like a well, then install a large water truck, turn the oil inside, first pass through a filter to filter impurities, and then flow into a large funnel with a valve. .

This last step is very simple, the people we hired only need to keep opening and closing the valve to fill the oil drums.

It’s just that the first few links are too labor-intensive, such as digging oil wells, installing large water trucks, installing filters and diversion tanks, etc., all require a lot of manpower. "

This efficiency is actually not bad, but it is not suitable for large-scale mining.

Taichang thought for a while, then pointed to the vacuum equipment and said: "Since you can make equipment for pumping air, you should be able to make equipment for pumping water and even oil, right?

To put it bluntly, that thing is to make it bigger, and then connect a pipe to plug it into water or oil. The principle is actually similar to the principle of pumping air.

Of course, if it is used to pump oil, then you have to add a filter to the front of the pipe.

In this way, the pumped oil can be directly filled into the oil barrel. "

Good stuff!

If there is such a thing that pumps oil, it will be much easier to extract oil.

Taichang then continued to guide: "Actually, not only Shaanxi Chengxuan has oil, but many other places have oil, not only in Daming, but also in Ming's overseas provinces and various dependent countries.

How about this, I will mark it on the map for you, as long as you organize people to explore, you will definitely find a lot of oil. "

Uh, how to explore this?

Shen Yunpei was quite puzzled and said: "Your Majesty, isn't this oil flowing out by itself like water?
If it is there, you can see it at a glance.

What do you mean by prospecting? "

Uh, your understanding is a bit outrageous.

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "Oil is not the same as water, most of the oil is buried in the ground and will not flow out by itself.

We have to use special drilling equipment to drill several feet or even tens of feet deep to find it. "

It turned out to be the case.

Shen Yunpei couldn't help being stunned.

However, he quickly frowned and said, "Your Majesty, what is this special drilling equipment?"

This is actually simple.

Taichang gestured and said, "You know the drill press, right?
In fact, dedicated drilling equipment is similar to a drilling machine.

It's just that the drill press is generally used to drill metal, while the special drilling equipment is used to drill into the ground.

The drill bits of drilling equipment must be enlarged, and the drill bits must be changed according to the characteristics of the soil.

Also, the drill bit of the drilling equipment should be extendable, that is, there must be an extended joint behind the drill bit, so that it can drill into the ground several or even tens of feet deep. "

Of course he has seen the drill press.

When Shen Yunpei heard the words, he couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, do you mean that as long as you drill a small well with drilling equipment and find oil, you can use the oil pumping equipment to pump it directly, right?"

This, it seems, is not the case.

However, this is also fine, at least it can achieve rapid mining.

Taichang nodded slowly and said: "It's definitely okay to use this method for the time being. Of course, you can also think of a better method."

Shen Yunpei nodded excitedly and said: "I understand, I will take people to develop drilling equipment and oil pumping equipment later."

This kid, if I wasn't here, I would have turned around and ran away.

Don't worry.

I'm not done yet.

Taichang thought for a while, and taught carefully: "In fact, plastic can be used not only as an insulating layer, but also as plastic bags for things, plastic bottles for water, and even buckets, ladles, washbasins, Foot basins, etc., can be made of plastic.

You think of a way to purify and classify the plastics, and then make all these things. "

Alright, time to get busy.

Just be busy!

Shen Yunpei nodded without hesitation and said: "I understand, I will lead people to purify and classify."