I am Da Song

Chapter 357 The steam engine is born!
Hearing Su Dai's words, Zhao Huan raised his head and looked seriously at the fair and pretty woman in front of him.

Although her face has the weakness of a typical oriental lady, she also has a calm and self-confidence.

It is indeed worthy of the praise of the professor of Taixue and the scholar of the Song Dynasty, and can become the core of promoting the entire engineering system.

Zhao Huan leaned on the soft couch and said with a smile: "You were the first to create the water intake system, and you have the deepest research on this aspect. I believe in your ability, and you can slowly explain it in detail."

Su Dai felt like a deer bumping in her heart in an instant, it was this feeling again!

When the whole world doesn't understand and is full of doubts about me, the people in front of me stand behind me kindly and firmly, encouraging and supporting all my ideas, and supporting me to try and chase them.

Su Dai's fingers were tightly twisted together, her heart beating violently.Looking at the smiling face in front of her, Su Dai was vaguely aware of her own intentions, even if he was not an official, she was willing to give everything for his words.As long as he wanted, I was willing to help him with anything... even death!
"Why don't you speak? Didn't you clear your mind?"

The sudden sound awakened Su Dai, who was in a trance, and she realized that she had been distracted for a long time, and that the king had lost her appearance.

"No... I... I'm just thinking about where to start from the official."

"In fact, if the officials can understand the principle, there is no need to elaborate. The plan is very simple, that is, to use a steam engine to lift water from the ground to the water tower."

Su Dai was still thinking about how to explain the principle to the official, but she never thought that the official's expression would be brightened instantly and she would speak excitedly.

"The steam engine can already be used to pump water?"

"Yes... yes." Su Dai was taken aback by Zhao Huan's excited expression.

Zhao Huan sat up from the soft couch excitedly, overjoyed.

The most famous steam engine is naturally used as power for trains and cars.

But in the beginning, the steam engine was invented for pumping water, and it was called "Friends of Miners".It is used to pump water tens of meters deep underground to the surface.

Su Dai's current research results mean that the first steam engine in the Song Dynasty has come out, achieving a zero-to-one breakthrough!
With this foundation, it will be fast to improve the steam engine to smelting, textiles, trains, ships, and machine manufacturing.

Even the speed can be described as changing with each passing day.

Zhao Huan resolutely said: "Just use your plan, use the steam engine as the power, make a water pump, and then fill the water tower with water, and create a new automatic water intake project for Tokyo!"

As long as the power problem can be solved, the remaining sedimentation, filtration, channel laying and pipeline installation are not difficult problems for Taiyuan College.

Even if it goes back 500 years, it would not be a problem if Yu Wenkai, the minister who created the Eastern Capital for the Sui Dynasty, came to preside over it.

In fact, the tap water system in Tokyo in the Song Dynasty has been conquered, and it is only waiting to be implemented!

Zhao Huan praised: "With this system, the pressure on firefighting in Tokyo City will be greatly reduced, and [-]% of the patrol superintendents set up every [-] steps can be eliminated. The old, weak, women, children, widows, widows and lonely people all have something to rely on. This is definitely a great achievement what!"

Su Dai smiled softly and said, "I dare not take credit for it, I just tried my best."

Zhao Huan said firmly: "When the project is completed, I will definitely show my credit for you!"

"The queen told me that you can share my worries, and I am finally convinced that it is correct."

Su Dai didn't expect the queen to have such a high opinion of herself, so she said immediately: "May I live up to the saint's high expectations with my meager resources, and be able to serve the officials a little bit."

"You are too modest. I really have a question and want to hear your opinion."

"The country has a comfortable style, and the people have little enthusiasm for pioneering and innovation. For example, it took hundreds of years for the whole world to improve from Zhiyuanli to Quyuanli. From the invention of Quyuanli to the present, it has passed For 500 years, the plow is still the same. If there is no accident, the common people will not think about how to improve it in a thousand years."

"Just talk to me about how the imperial court should operate so that everyone in the world loves research and invention like you."

Su Dai's astonishment could not be restrained on her face, the officials actually regarded her preferences as so important?
"Isn't it strange? When manpower is limited, it depends on your own strength. If you want to improve the steam engine in all aspects, the progress will be very slow. But what I hope is that the steam engine can change with each passing day, so we must encourage everyone in the world to participate in it."

Su Dai immediately said: "I am a woman who dare not speak nonsense about major events in the world. But I am willing to study for a few reasons. One is because of my nature. I just like this aspect and yearn for the demeanor of Mrs. Wuhou. The other is also It has something to do with social customs, and everyone in the world values ​​money, so I tried to make money by inventing."

Zhao Huan was thoughtful after listening, and when it comes to social customs, the Song Dynasty is indeed very different from the previous dynasties and the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Due to the prosperous commodity economy, industry and commerce are highly developed.

The biggest characteristic of all social classes in the Song Dynasty is the love of money.If you have money, you have high social status.

Even the family of the public servants and the scholarly family are not unavoidably vulgar. They don't pay attention to what kind of family is right when they get married, but to see how much the other party's family is rich.

In this regard, the most famous one is the famous "Widow's Gate" in the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Qixian and Xiang Minzhong, the two prime ministers of the Zhenzong Dynasty, fought for a widow "Chai Shi", and even alarmed the emperor.

The last two prime ministers both lost their primes because of a widow.

The reason is that Chai's dowry is as high as [-] guan.

One hundred thousand crowns, the two prime ministers fell.

It has to be said that the purchasing power of the Song currency is really strong.

Zhao Huan said: "The imperial court has set up departments to encourage the two situations you mentioned. Anyone who can invent and innovate will be encouraged and rewarded by the Imperial Academy."

"I remember that if you can be rated as the first class, the reward is [-] guan!"

One hundred thousand guan, the annual salary of a prime minister is only 2 thousand guan.Even an extremely talented minister has to work hard for ten years.Even if various rewards, benefits, and allowances are added, the money, property, objects, and imperial gifts that the prime minister gets in one year are all converted to more than [-] guan.

Inventing and creating a thing, the reward you get, can make the prime minister run for himself!
No matter how you look at it, this bounty is rich enough.

Su Dai said seriously: "This system, temple supervisors, and rewards are undoubtedly excellent. But as the officials said, all of this faces a serious problem. The motivation for the restoration of the world is insufficient, and the risk is too high."

"A craftsman has been working hard on research and development for a long time, but in the end, he may get nothing when he is sent to Taixue for review. His years of hard work and expectations of supporting his family have all been wiped out."

"Even if they have gained something, they have no motivation to continue to innovate. For example, if the steam engine was invented by ordinary people, they must not have much enthusiasm to improve it. Because even a little improvement will not be recognized by the court. Zhiyuan Li and There is only one difference between Quyuanli and Yuanli, but it has not been improved for hundreds of years because of this. Who will recognize his achievements if he only improves this one item?"

(End of this chapter)