open sea

Chapter 1142
On the lake in front of Tsinghua University, the chimney of the steamship was extremely quiet, and the crane-wing sails that should have been unfurled were stacked on the deck. The whole big ship was docked in the calm lake.

This is not the earliest steam sailboat on the former lake in the past, nor is it the second one. The second steam sailboat was also designed by Zhou Sijing, the director of the Steam Engine Bureau. The funnel of the ship was obliquely extended from below the deck through the rear of the poop, basically hidden in the hull.

It was really comfortable at first, but after the emperor realized that he had never studied in the warship department of Guangzhou Jiangwu Hall, and had never gone out to sea by boat, it took a long time to get back to the taste. It was faster to install a steam engine ship with better power, and the chimney hidden It really looks better when it enters the hull and emits smoke backwards.

But what's the use of it?
What is the purpose of a steamship?It’s not that it’s fast, but that it’s both fast and capable of carrying a lot of cargo, and that it’s mainly sailing at sea. The exhaust chimney channel bends under the deck, not to mention occupying the loading area, and the surrounding area is too hot to live in. A large ship of [-] materials can only carry [-] people and let the steam engine sail for two days, so what is the use of this thing even if it can fly?

Zhou Sijing’s design is very delicate. He changed the design of the porcelain kiln and installed it outside the boiler, and placed the boiler in the middle. The wall of the kiln made of refractory bricks was covered with a layer of enamel. The heat can also be turned back with light, and an endless blower is placed on the shaft of the steam engine to connect the outside with the boiler, which greatly increases the efficiency of the boiler.

As a result, fuel consumption speeds up and the boiler becomes heavier and stronger. The reason for the heaviness is not only the external insulation kiln, but also the difficulty of exhausting smoke after changing the flue, and the pressure inside the boiler is greater.

This steam engine was originally consecrated by Emperor Wanli, until one day when the wind blew up on the lake, the chimney behind the buttocks sucked the waves of the lake into the boat, and almost brought the emperor into the lake.

Now the second steamboat was directly pulled to the shore by the warriors of the Banner Army, and the emperor renamed the boat Quyi Fengying to keep it as a warning to himself.

"Then I will understand that professional matters should be left to professional people, just like Zhang Ge's illness, which cannot be decided by him or by me, but by you."

The emperor held Chen Mu's long letter on the boat and read it with great interest. Whenever he encountered something he couldn't understand, he would be distracted and say a few words with Chen Shigong who was sitting beside him, and then continue reading after thinking for a while. He patted the side of the boat and said: "Just like this ship, we learn from each other's strengths and make up for our weaknesses. There are more powerful steam engines and safer chimneys."

"The speed doesn't take up too much space, it's just ugly, ugly, it doesn't matter; Marshal Chen's handwriting is also ugly, who can say that this is not a treasure?" Wan Li raised his eyes and frowned and asked Chen Shigong: "Dr. Sheng, Chen Shuai's handwriting seems to have improved a lot in recent years, how did you practice?"

When the emperor said this, Chen Shigong on the side didn't know how to answer it. He pursed his lips several times before bowing his head and saluting: "Your Majesty, the handwriting of the Marshal has improved by leaps and bounds after the Mingxi trade."

"Xiyi likes porcelain, and especially likes porcelain with the handwriting of the commander in chief. The same quality, with the handwriting of the commander in chief, one character costs three thousand Tongbao."

Knowing Beiyang's annual report, Wanli raised his eyebrows and said, "It's still the silver-for-silver ratio?"

"Still, it hasn't changed."

The emperor put down Chen Mu's letter, put his hands next to his cheeks, quickly closed his eyes to calculate the formula, and muttered in his mouth: "Fanyi Baiyin Tongbao exchange rate, plus [-]% tax for utensils, three thousand Tongbao is five taels of silver. Six cents, heh!"

"The word Dashuai is not very valuable."

In the emperor's mind, how could a random set of calligraphy and painting in the palace be worth a few hundred taels? Chen Dashuai's inscription on the porcelain was only two characters in total, and it cost more than ten taels of silver to ask the important officials of the Ming Dynasty to write. Would the price drop?

"No no no, Your Majesty, you have misunderstood." Hearing this, Chen Shigong quickly waved his hands and said, "The commander-in-chief doesn't write his name."

"No name?"

The emperor scratched his temples and asked doubtfully, "Then what did he write?"

"Usually the commander-in-chief will write an official name. If the name is written, it must be the most expensive and the longest. Forget it, I will report it to His Majesty, cough cough."

Obviously this embarrassed Doctor Chen, but since His Majesty asked, he had no choice but to answer.

So he straightened his body, and the first-class doctor put the medicine box beside him, cleared his throat and put on a show, then took a deep breath and reported to the emperor on the boat: "The important minister of the Beiyang Army of the Ming Empire, the Minister of the Dongyang Army, , Jing Haibo, a military minister who promoted sincerity and power by Tian Yiyun, held the imperial bestowed Shangfang sword and ordered the governor of Dadongyang Zheng Yipin Tejin Ronglu doctor, Zuozhuguo Chen Mu's own handwriting."

After Chen Shigong finished speaking, he bowed his hands to the emperor with a sluggish face and a quick mind, and said: "Your Majesty, the words Marshal are the best written."

The emperor raised his hand several times, then lowered it several times, opened and closed his mouth several times, swallowed his dry saliva, nodded slowly and said with emotion: "The capital fortune of the Dadongyang Military Mansion is actually Jinghai. Did Bo Niannian earn it back for me in this way? It's really hard work."

Hard work?

He doesn't work hard!
That is to say, the emperor's fucking brain circuit would think that the silver of the million taels of the Dongyang Military Mansion every year would be earned by his writing.

As far as that word is concerned, no one will buy it even if it is ten times cheaper in China. Even Westerners buy it because they have no choice. Every time the market opens, those without words are sold out first. , Merchants can only bite the bullet and buy... Daming's goods are like this, no matter the price, buying it back and selling it is a matter of earning more and less profit, and it is a matter of madness not to buy things.

Not one thing.

But he didn't know what made the emperor think, he picked up the letter carefully, and said seriously: "Jing Haibo spared the time to make money to write to me, it seems that what I read is not a letter, but gold, you have to read it carefully."

As he said that, the emperor lost the desire to continue talking with Chen Shigong. He patted the books piled up on the boat and said, "In this case, the doctor should leave first, and go to persuade the teacher. It is better not to have the operation, but to use Chen Shuai The diet, taboos, and the doctor's advice, let's treat the disease by taking a sitz bath and applying medicine to reduce swelling."

"Teacher is the same as me. For Daming, there must be no mistakes...medical skills."

The emperor picked up Chen Mu's long letter, looked back at the bookcase beside him, added a sentence, and said with a smile: "I will read your research, but now, I want to read Chen Shuai's research first."

He raised his arm and pointed to the new inner warehouse where the soldiers guarded the constant traffic, and shook Chen Mu's letter quite contentedly: "I have a lot of money and nowhere to spend it. Chen Shuai sent the doctor to send the letter just for I have found many places to spend money, is there anything in this world that makes me happier than spending money on myself?"

In the sound of Chen Shigong's resignation, and the sound of the accompanying military eunuch unloading the boat into the lake, Wanli raised his eyes to the horizon, with confusion in his deep eyes.

He thinks that I am the world, but he has never been able to take a good look at the world.

The dissatisfaction with reality made him wish to see the world outlined in Chen Mu's letter with his own eyes.

It was a... ambitious world.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)