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Chapter 1097 Tsinghua Garden

Gunshots sounded in Tsinghua Garden.

The emperor who was sweating profusely took off his bag, sat on the pile of logs with the blunderbuss still smoking from the barrel, panted heavily, shook his head and waved his hands, and said, "I'm too tired, I can't hit it for sure." Yes, you guys fight."

"Whoever can hit three shots three times, I will shoot a bronze medal for Fashen, and he will be allowed to go north to join the battle——Water."

By the lake in front of Tsinghua Garden, under the willow embankment twenty miles away, Wan Li supported his knees and took a bowl of cool boiled water from the eunuch Wang An. He held the water bowl in his trembling hand and forced himself to take a sip. The eyes beside the long hair are still sneaking over the edge of the bowl, looking towards the school field by the lake.

There is a scene of tyranny there.

The alternate vertical and horizontal ditches have not yet been completed, piles of logs transported from outside the garden have been piled up randomly, thousands of peonies and tens of thousands of peonies have been removed by the imperial guards, and the city of Beijing has been selling for half a month. The famous flowers and utensils in Tsinghua Garden and all the silver exchanged were rewarded by the emperor to the soldiers outside the Great Wall.

All kinds of rare and strange stones transported from Lingbi, Taihu Lake, and Jinchuan have now become raw materials for building bunkers, and some are also used as artillery targets.

There, there were dozens of Jinyi guards in armored unicorn suits, each with embroidered spring knives on their waists and hips, holding Tianxia Taiping blunderbuss, their foreheads were soaked with sweat, and they shot alternately at distant wooden targets.

The sound of bangs and cracks came to the ears, and there were patches of gunpowder smoke from the side of the ditch. The lead pellets flew dozens of steps in an instant, but very few of them could accurately hit the horizontal log target.

They had just accompanied the emperor on the [-]-mile willow embankment in Tsinghua Garden, and the emperor was lazy today, so he didn't wear any armor. Except for the bird guns, he only had the decorative leather pockets. These guards are three-day dry food and armor pockets. , Bird Gun, waist knife, and carrying backpack are fully armed.

Now the emperor's hands were so trembling that he couldn't even lift the gun, it was already remarkable that they could barely let it go.

"No wonder the Art of War says that the poor should not chase after them. If you have a little fighting strength and courage, you will be counterattacked if you catch up." The emperor drank more than half a bowl of water, and his breath calmed down a little, but his body felt even more tired. His eyes no longer looked at the trenches. In the past, the sea of ​​flowers is now the school field of the moat sea. He raised his eyes and looked along the embankment, and said with a sneer, "Are they still competing?"

Wang An, who was accompanying him to the left and right, also followed the emperor's eyes. On the embankment, a few Jin Yiwei who were behind were unable to maintain the correct marching posture holding the guns. Unable to run with a blunderbuss, the instructor Jin Yi Qianhu was scolding loudly beside him, and the faces of the few who were behind the teaching looked like concubines—their salary had been withheld.

Farther away, two little people were jumping and chasing, bouncing slowly along the embankment as if their bodies were falling apart. They were two slugs, Zhu Yiliu, king of Lu, and Buta Shili, a little prince of Mongolia. They were about the same age, On the contrary, Lu Wang ran faster.

Almost made Buta shy to tears—what about the Senehans who were said to have weak limbs?
He didn't understand, how could the Daming imperial family, who had to hammer buttons to be delivered by eunuchs even to eat, run so fast?
Speaking of it, it was thanks to the emperor's blessing that Wanli stood on Huode Xingjun and punched him when he had nothing to do, but King Lu was not used to driving Huode Xingjun, he was naturally active, so let him sit on Huodexing Lord's back Watching the big thing move slowly was worse than punching him twice.

The most common scene in the Forbidden City is that the emperor stood on Huode Xingjun's back and punched him, and Lu Wang ran around Huodexing Jun with his sworn brother on his head.

But after all, the calf is short, and the legs are several times more straightened than others to run the same distance, which is why they lag behind.

Taking advantage of the time when the two of them ran over, the emperor had almost rested, and when the two little men were spread out in front of him, he rubbed his legs that seemed to be filled with lead, and stood up leaning on the Tianxia Taiping blunderbuss with wooden thorns, He casually ordered an eunuch, and said to King Lu: "Shi Li and I board the boat, Zhu Yiliu, you are here to direct the Jin Yiwei, and let seven wooden targets of different shapes go there at once. Remember the distance, and let people collect the wooden targets after they are released. .”

"Is the emperor's grandfather going to board the ship?"

Wanli nodded slowly and stood up. Even though he was exhausted, he still lifted his chin slightly, turned his head and looked at the vast lake. He didn't speak, and Wang An behind him pulled out a triangular inlaid dragon flag pinned to his waist, and pointed at Yang Liu. Embankment broad lake waves.

There are several luxuriously decorated painting boats parked beside the lakeside trestle bridge. They are almost the few remaining decorations that Emperor Wanli confiscated from his grandfather in this Tsinghua Garden, which occupies a vast area in the northwest of Beijing, but it is not them that the emperor wants to ride.

It's a nine-foot-long steamboat swimming in the lake. The shape of the boat is neither a shark boat nor a blessing boat. There is not a single mast on the double deck. It is called a bird boat and actually looks like a strange fish.

The tongue in the middle of the bow is a mural of Tenglong. The side of the tongue and the sides of the bow are nailed with iron nails like teeth. The eyes are huge. There are also nail plates for decoration on the body. There are four closed doors on the left and right sides of the lower deck. The gun port, the chimney on the stern tower is whistling backwards and a huge smoke is rising.

Not long after Wang An waved the flag, the strange-looking boat turned around in the lake in a beautiful slowing arc, and slowly stopped beside the trestle. The emperor boarded the ship.

The young Xu Guangqi was very excited when he stepped down from the poop, and bowed to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, this ship is very good. The modification by the Steam Bureau was very successful. The ship was too fast when there was no wind. Measuring the speed of the ship."

Xu Guangqi's clothes were not tidy, and his clothes and hands were stained with engine oil as he walked around the lower deck to test the normal operation of the steam engine in the ship, and his face was also covered with black marks from coal smoke, but his expression was extremely excited.

He was lucky enough to drive a steam car and crash into the city wall, but he suddenly smashed himself into the emperor's heart. What is the emperor most interested in?steam engine.

And he happened to have worked in the Steam Engine Bureau, and made a little improvement on the steam engine. In this era, anyone who makes any improvement on the steam engine is eligible to be remembered in history. Xu Guangqi is one of the people who seized such an opportunity , because of its design, the steam engine no longer needs to assign a special deflation worker. There is a deflation valve inside the machine that relies on gravity and cylinder pressure.

As long as the pressure is greater than gravity, the air release valve will be lifted up, and after excessive steam is released, it will automatically fall down, and the cycle will repeat.

Although the imprecise design will further reduce the power of the steam engine, which has a low thermal efficiency, but the safety is greatly guaranteed-what does the emperor use with such high efficiency?Safety is the most important thing.

As he was reporting, Wu Bian had already pushed a cart with a ruler that was similar to the tape measure that Cheng Dawei used to measure the land from the bow. There were also hourglasses and a clock on the cart.

Xu Guangqi bowed and said: "We only sail at full speed for a moment, put down the long ruler, and travel from bow to stern in nine seconds, about 42 miles in an hour."

"If there were sails, it would be faster."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)