Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 588: Ambition
After visiting Wang Can, Hei Xiong went to the Sijin Duwei Yamen and took away a large amount of wrought iron, a small amount of steel, and copper ingots.

After returning to Lantian, he was busy with two things. One was to audit the merits before and after, and to implement the rewards of official titles, cloth, silk and money.

Another thing is to command the Taoist soldiers to swing the sledgehammers to hot-forge or cold-forge the materials, while Lu Bu and Dian Wei are responsible for the finishing.

At the same time, we also test the fuel, select the composite fuel with high calorific value, and then experiment to find the appropriate proportion of white mana input.

There is a shallow layer of thick, bitumen-like oil in the Upper County area.

But now is not the time to develop and use this thing, and in the end we still have to choose a small amount of charcoal and coking coal as fuel.

After rough forging, each component is transported back to the Sijin Duwei Yamen for tempering. After tempering, it is hand-rubbed and fine-cut.

They were busy until the beginning of spring in February of the following year, when the ice and snow melted and everything came back to life, and then the prototype was assembled.

In order to adapt to the steam engine, a new locomotive was made using previously shade-dried shipbuilding wood.

Twenty dried horses were saved at once, and the cavalry team was expanded to ninety horses.

The expansion will stop when it reaches a scale of 100 cavalrymen. In future battlefields, the Iron Cavalry Team will only fight against Cao's army, and its adaptability will not be so wide.

In the absence of rubber, the wheels are hot-forged from wrought iron.

Since there is no need to carry additional fuel, the load on the front of the vehicle is limited... The more troublesome thing is steering, which requires three level four Taoist soldiers to turn the steering wheel together.

After the chariot was built, excluding the locomotive, there were three carriages; the locomotive had two in front and six in the back, a total of eight widened pure iron wheels.

Each carriage is 12 feet wide and can carry 100 soldiers.

The three carriages were enough to meet the daily office needs of the shogunate office.

But this thing is a bit scary, so when it was tested on a small scale several times, more than 60 horses were arranged to pull it in front, so that it could barely move.

It was like a huge toy, and in Lantian, no one would stand up and say it was a waste of horses or anything.

So many horses were consumed in the battle of Youzhou, so now using some of the spare horses of the cavalry to pull carts is really nothing.

The current shogunate can be said to be very wealthy in terms of the number of horses it owns.

It was not until the spring plowing season that this giant toy, pulled by over a hundred horses, slowly headed towards Ganquan.

After barely crossing the Weishui floating bridge, the black bear could no longer tolerate the slow speed, so he lit the charcoal, added coke, and started the steam engine.

There was a guardrail on the top of the car. Fa Zheng's face turned pale. Even though he was sitting on the top of the car with his hands holding the guardrail, he still felt his legs trembling.

Without animal power to pull them, the new chariots drove northward like a snake.

Especially at the front of the train, large clouds of steam would gush out from time to time.

Black Bear felt the slight bump and began to conceive of an improved model.

The train style is just for the convenience of modification and use. The final form should be a wider and larger integrated land battleship and a mobile palace.

In the future, this thing will rely on the highway and move on flat ground, and no one will compete with it for the right of way.

He can go wherever the road is built and the river flows.

Therefore, it can be built wider and longer. Since the car body is made of wood, there is no problem in building it in two floors.

If one steam engine is not enough, then another one will be made and placed on both sides of the rear as rear driving force.

If the transmission and differential structure are well developed, it is even possible to build a larger land battleship equipped with four steam engines.

I don’t have that much time to research this, so I might as well make it public so that more people can participate in its creation.

Therefore, during the spring plowing season of the eleventh year of Jian'an, the first farming season began with a horseless, self-propelled steam locomotive pulling a heavy plow.

Zhong Yao and more than a hundred central officials of the shogunate were watching. Although they had roughly understood the ingenious mechanical principle during this period, it was still difficult for them to accept it emotionally.

This also made them doubt the flying wooden bird made by the ancient Mohists. Could such a sophisticated mechanism really communicate with the power of ghosts and gods?
The principle is really simple. Thanks to the tea drinking trend, we are all familiar with the phenomenon of steam gushing and rising when boiling water.

But the Grand Marshal was able to study and manufacture this kind of equipment based on this phenomenon together with the Grand Historian Wengong and others, and then borrow the power from the heaven and earth... This kind of Taoism seems to be popularized? Today, during the spring plowing, they saw that the steam engine replaced a dozen strong horses to plow the land, and they also saw that more steam engines would be manufactured in the future, and Guanzhong and other places in the world would rely on this kind of equipment to plow the land.

Naturally, we also saw the scene of hundreds of steam chariots charging into the pitiful infantry formation in the white fog.

The black bear walked along the edge of the field in short clothes, checking the effectiveness of the plow and harrow.

After confirming that there were no problems, he ordered the Taoist soldiers to drive the steam engine to continue plowing the land. He turned back and said to the silent Zhong Yao: "The Mohist school of thought aims to use the power of nature to serve one's own benefit. It can be used in wars and to improve production. When all the people in the world can cultivate their land, have enough food all day long, and naturally live in peace, then the world can be united."

Zhong Yao also knew that at this moment he was not the Inspector of the Imperial Guards, but the opinion leader of all the scholars of the old era, and now he needed to express his position.

He felt horrified and bitter, he would rather die than experience the current scene.

The advanced nature of Confucianism was shattered when it encountered the steam engine.

Knowing that he couldn't delay any longer, Zhong Yao coughed twice and asked, "Has the Grand Marshal known about this item a long time ago?"

"I didn't know it long ago. If you study things to gain knowledge and understand the principles of the operation of all things, you can use them to your advantage. This is just the way of nature."

The black bear smiled, revealing his dazzling white teeth. "For example, the ambition to fly to the sky. This has been everyone's dream since ancient times. Even in dreams, people think of flying. I often dream of this. With a leap, even without wings, I can fly between heaven and earth."

"Does Da Sima really have the ability to fly?"

"There are some clues."

Black Bear was really worried about scaring the old man to death. It was difficult to find a suitable mascot, so he said in a calm tone: "When I ate chickens, ducks and geese, I found that the bones of birds were hollow, large and light, and would not sink in water. The bones of humans and animals are dense and heavy. I also found that the heat of fire waves would rise. If we can make a device to borrow this rising heat and restrain it, we can be pulled by it and rise slowly until we reach the sky."

As he spoke, Black Bear slowly raised his head to look at the sky: "Rather than fighting in all directions, I would rather govern one place, enlighten the people, unite the people's strength, and create a flying device. From now on, I will travel to the North Sea in the morning and stay in Cangwu in the evening. The world is so vast, there is no place I can't go."

Zhang Song, who was invited to observe the spring ploughing and was one of the shogunate's retainers, also vaguely heard these words and felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

Qin Mi stepped out of the courtiers' ranks excitedly and bowed, "Your Majesty, if we can unite the weavers in Shu, we can weave a Shu brocade more than ten feet wide! This can restrain the heat and gain the power to rise!"

Black Bear's eyes lit up, and he turned to look at Qin Mi: "Sir, if you are willing to fly with me to the sky, you can go to Shuzhong to supervise this matter. But Shu brocade is luxurious, and I only need tight and strong cloth. The shogunate wants to unite the people to realize the ambition of flying, but it cannot ignore the livelihood of the people. The choice should not be biased."

"Yes, I will make sure to inform everyone of Yu's family."

Qin Mi looked up at Black Bear, his eyes full of eagerness: "I will move the weavers to Guanzhong so that they can weave the cloth needed by the shogunate and not interfere with the production of Shu brocade."

"If you can fly, Shuzhong will be the first to achieve the credit!"

Black Bear made a promise and waved his hand gently. Qin Mi stood up straight, looked up at the sky with a smile on his face.

Compared to flying, what are the little farming tools?
No matter how many farming machines there are, they can only improve the lives of ordinary people, and have almost no fundamental change in their lives.

Flying to the sky is a dream and ambition rooted deep in the heart of every knowledgeable person.

The deeper the knowledge, the more stubborn the dream of flying becomes.

It is hard to find immortals in this world, and flying is the most promising plan at the moment!
Another plan is to go overseas to search for fairy mountains and islands.

Only by exploring the unknown can you reap immeasurable rewards.

Compared with flying into the sky, the steam engine for farming shook the advancement of Confucianism... But now all the Hu people have been pacified, and the general who is the same age as the Grand Marshal has been severely injured. In the next few decades, the land of China will be ruled by the will of the Grand Marshal.

The Grand Marshal was able to consume three generations of Confucian scholars. He was destined to be consumed by exhaustion. What was the point of gritting his teeth and holding on?
Confucianism absorbed all the schools of thought, and was able to combine the appearance of Confucianism with the essence of Mohism.

As long as they are still these people, it doesn't matter what ideology they promote. As long as they don't let the workers, farmers and soldiers ride on their heads, everything will be easy.

What's more, the steam engine has already become practical. If they continue to resist, with the support of the shogunate, the craftsmen who were born as technicians and slaves will be promoted to the ranks of court nobles, which will really put the Confucian scholars to death.

Last September, the Double Ninth Festival reception did not invite officials or celebrities, but invited workers and peasants, such vulgar people to participate. This is already a very dangerous signal, but there are no hidden dangers outside.

If there is no cooperation from within, do you really think that Lu Cui died because he accidentally killed an auxiliary soldier?
Even in Guanzhong today, if there were a burning of books and burying of scholars, no one would be able to stop it.

No matter how hard the backbone of a Confucian scholar is, can it be harder than the skull of a barbarian?

As a result, there was no objection or noise. The officials and celebrities on the scene were all moved by Fei Tian's lofty ambition. Under the encouragement of Sima, they realized that they had the mission of the times, and they were all moved to tears.

(End of this chapter)