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Chapter 18 The Age of Steam

When I came to the twelfth floor of the library, I was also the highest floor, and there was no different layout from the downstairs.

Yang Song watched Shen Kuo look around the various drawings in this floor again, and he did not disturb Shen Kuo, but also looked around the bookshelf.

"Design of Steam Engine Power System for 100 Tons Vehicles", "Design of Steam Engine Power Industrial Lathes", "Design of Thousand Tons Hydraulic Stamping Machine", "Design of Practical Rail Wheel Steam Power Tractor Head"...

Looking at these names, Yang Song could be regarded as finding the invisible reward of the system, which is that these various design drawings are all very practical, just use them directly.

After looking around, Yang Song found that although these drawings did not cover much, they were all important representative machines in various fields.

Yang Song looked at these drawings and thoughtful. It seemed that the system wanted to help Xia Guo accelerate his industrial development!

You should know that a machine cannot be designed perfectly at the first time. From its initial prototype to its final maturity, it requires a lot of trial and error.

The system now directly gives these drawings. Although it suppresses Xia Guo's R&D capabilities, it saves a lot of time and industrialization time.

The rest only needs to digest these drawings and turn various machines from drawings into physical objects, and the productivity of Xia Kingdom will be qualitatively improved.

On the other hand, the rewards of various technical materials in the system actually have a great suppression on the cultivation of various research talents in Xia Kingdom, unless all the knowledge in the future depends on the system.

Because researchers can summarize many practical experiences in the process of trial and error in research, and avoid various errors in future research, which plays a very important role in the cultivation of researchers.

But now with these drawings directly, although it saves time, it will cause fatal damage to the future of Xia Kingdom!

Since Yang Song has a clear understanding of this aspect, it is not impossible to reduce damage. He also knows a way to avoid damage, that is, to use time to polish and settle.

With sufficient theoretical knowledge, as long as these technical data are completely digested and one or two generations of precipitation, this welfare trap can be completely eliminated.

Fortunately, there are not many knowledge and technologies in the era of knowledge steam. If it is the future electrification era, the atomic energy era, and the information era, such a seedling is unable to be completely eliminated.

"Your Majesty, although these drawings are good, I suggest that you can only refer to them and not use them all directly." Shen Kuo quickly browsed around and suggested to Yang Song with some concern.

"I am worried that all the country's use of these drawings will have some adverse effects, and the design parameters in these drawings may not necessarily meet the needs of the country."

When Yang Song heard Shen Kuo's suggestion, he knew that the other party had noticed these problems. He smiled slightly and said, "What I said in the store is very important, don't worry. Take your time with these machines, don't worry."

Now there is no external threat in Xia Kingdom, and the rest only needs to develop with peace of mind. Anyway, time is now on Xia Kingdom.

In no time, Xia will become an industrial country. At that time, even if it is a million troops, Xia will not be afraid!

Yang Song had enough confidence to make Xia Kingdom stronger, and the task of dominating one side was still there.

Suddenly, Yang Song found a name "The Design of the Rear-mounted Flintlock Fusel" in the corner of the bookshelf that interests him very much!

Back-mounted, rifled, or flintlocked musket? Seeing this name, Yang Song was confused. In his impression, aren't flintlocked rifles all equipped with front-mounted rifles? Why does it have a flintlocked rifle? Whether there is rifled or not is no longer within his thinking range.

Then he actually saw a name next to him, "Frontlock Fusel Design", which is consistent with Yang Song's impression of the description of the Fusel.

But how come there are two musket design drawings? The questions that followed immediately immediately came to Yang Song's heart.

He called Shen Kuo and asked, "Storing, do you see what is the difference between these two musket drawings? What are their shortcomings?"

After reading the design drawings of the two muskets, Shen Kuo pondered for a while and reported to Yang Song: "Your Majesty! I already know the general idea of ​​these two design drawings."

"The disadvantage of "Design of Rear-mounted Flintlock Fusel" here is that it has high requirements. Whether it is materials or processing technology, it cannot be processed without a lathe, and there must be specific bullets." Shen Kuo talked about the disadvantages of Rear-mounted Flintlock Fusel, and then talked about the advantages: "The advantages are long range, fast firing speed, high accuracy, and convenient and fast operation."

"And the disadvantage of "Front-mounted Smoothbore Flintlock Fussel Design" here is that it has a short range, slow firing rate, low accuracy, and inconvenient operation." Shen Kuo basically described it again, and Yang Song probably knew what Shen Kuo was going to say next.

Shen Kuo then said: "The advantage is that it is convenient for manufacturing, low cost, and much lower requirements for processing technology."

Shen Kuo developed the fire from beginning to end and knew all aspects of the fire. Therefore, he had only read these two drawings and had a good understanding of it.

After listening to Shen Kuo's introduction, Yang Song said that these two weapons have their own advantages and disadvantages, basically two directions and two choices.

Yang Song knew that installing a rifled gun was the future choice, but now the system provided him with two options, probably telling Yang Song that he would do whatever weapon he wanted to use!

If Yang Song wants to choose now, Yang Song will choose to install a smoothbore flintlock rifle in front, because now, only using cold weapons, Xia Kingdom has few opponents around, let alone using muskets, which is completely bullying!

It was precisely because there was no urgent need that Yang Song understood the advantages and disadvantages of these two muskets and said to Shen Kuo: "Make the steam engine first."

Liu Ji had already read the plan that Yang Song handed him at the court meeting and suggested to Yang Song: "I think this plan formulated by the emperor is taken out in the next court meeting and briefly informed the ministers and then follow it up."

Liu Ji's words mean that he has no objection to this plan, and basically there is nothing worth changing. After all, this is also a plan that Yang Song has repeatedly revised and formulated for a long time. It is too unreasonable to have any major loopholes.

"It's just that the implementation is completely carried out according to this plan, and the population is very large. Even if it is two or three million, it is probably not enough for me." Liu Ji finally put forward a few things to pay attention to.

Yang Song pointed out and said, "Gu knows, Gu still knows that the cost is very high according to this plan. And now the national steel output is only 1,000 tons per year, but after implementing it completely according to this plan, the steel output must be at least 100,000 tons or more."

In the industrial era, there was a high demand for steel, and all kinds of machines were made of steel.

If so much steel is needed, the amount of mineral mining must be increased, not only iron ore, but also coal as fuel!

The so-called "one moves the whole body" and all growth can transform the Xia Kingdom into an industrial country, although it is an industrial country in the steam era.

However, such a nationwide reform cannot be completed overnight. Even with the various conveniences provided by the system, it still takes a certain amount of time, and this time is calculated over the years!
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