The most arrogant in history

Liu Ai smiled evilly and said, "It's a pity that there is not enough time. Otherwise, we should build a dragon boat for the emperor."

"Come on, this is work, not fun."

Ye Kun was annoyed: "This time, I am here to inspect the quality of the steamship. Why do I need the dragon boat treasure ship? You guys, you are not saying nice things!"

The dragon boat race in the water palace was done by the tyrant emperor Yang Guang.

Ye Kun has no money, so he would waste it on this.

Liu Ai immediately stood up and clasped his fists, saying: "Your Majesty is wholeheartedly for the people and is frugal and thrifty. This is truly a blessing for all the people in the world."

Ye Kun nodded and said, "Pass on my order. This time, we will inspect the Yongji Canal with only ordinary steamships, a total of ten ships, and only two hundred guards. No more than one will be needed."

Two hundred guards are actually too many.

From Zhuo County to the Central Plains, all the troops were under Ye Kun's direct control, and no one dared to cause trouble.

Tan Bamao said, "The emperor's tour is a very important event. If there are too few guards, it will not be safe enough and will not reflect the royal majesty. I think two thousand guards is more appropriate."

"No need to say more, let's just leave it at that."

Ye Kun stood up and announced the adjournment of the meeting.

After returning to Fengyi Palace, Ye Kun gathered everyone together again and announced the news of the inspection of Yongji Canal. Anyone who wanted to go with him could go.

If you don't want to go, don't force it.

Because this inspection was also a quick one, there was nothing fun to do, it was nothing more than just looking at the scenery on both sides of the strait.

Jiang Yourong, Xie Baochan, Wei Caiqin and others all wanted to go out for a walk.

However, some concubines had to stay in the palace because it was inconvenient for them to travel due to their young children.

Considering that it was still early, Ye Kun went into the Science and Technology City and continued to urge everyone to carry out scientific and technological research.

Ye Kun could no longer help with the actual operation of the science and technology city. He could only put forward some ideas, draw some blueprints and make some suggestions from a high-level perspective.

The development of hydropower plants has also been very good recently.

There are also electric lathes and some power tools.

Electric drills, in particular, are very popular among people.

China has had painting technology for a long time, which is of great benefit to the production of enameled wire.

Ye Kun stayed at the hydropower plant for two days, called He Tiantian and the person in charge of the hydropower plant, and said:

"The scale of the hydropower plant is far from enough. The electricity is only enough for us to conduct experiments, not enough for production. We need to expand the scale of the hydropower plant and build a thermal power plant.

We have abundant coal resources, so building a thermal power plant is an advantage.”

To expand hydropower plants, we need large rivers.

However, there are no large rivers near Zhuo County.

There is a lot of coal and it cannot be used up, so Ye Kun considered building a thermal power plant.

He Tiantian asked: "Your Majesty, we all know that this hydropower plant uses the momentum of water flow to drive the rotor to generate electricity. But what is this thermal power plant?"

"It boils water, just like a steam engine, using high-pressure steam to drive the rotor to generate electricity."

Ye Kun smiled slightly: "So, the end of technology is boiling water. As long as the water is boiled well, it can be done in the sky and on the ground."

Everyone laughed.

Ye Kun took everyone to visit the welding test laboratory.

I have already started to study electric welding and oxygen welding techniques.

The difficulty of electric welding lies in the development of welding rods;

The difficulty of oxy-welding lies in the high-pressure oxygen.

Ye Kun is not omnipotent, he just puts forward ideas and lets everyone explore them slowly.

There are now electric oxygen generators that can collect oxygen, put it in large bags, and then squeeze the bags for oxygen welding.

Although this type of oxygen welding is troublesome, it can solve technical problems.

Welding rods have also been tested a lot and are expected to mature soon.

With electric welding and oxygen welding, it is possible to produce larger warships and merchant ships, enhance the strength of the hull and increase the carrying capacity.

Sun Yi asked: "Brother Emperor, with our current technology, can we build a large ship that can accommodate 10,000 people?"

"Definitely not. Even a ship with 5,000 people can barely handle it."

Ye Kun shook his head and smiled:

"Xiao Dequan once built a treasure ship that he claimed could carry 3,000 people. But before it could even be put to sea, a strong wind blew the ship over. Our technology today is far superior to that of Xiao Dequan back then.

If we build a large ship that can carry 5,000 people in a calm lake, I think it is no problem. But it is hard to say what will happen if such a large ship is put into the sea. "

The bigger the boat, the more stable it is.

But the larger the hull, the higher the requirements for the hull material.

Simple wood and steel cannot make a large sea vessel.

Aircraft carriers of later generations can carry 20,000 soldiers, as well as many aircraft and strategic weapons. They are all made of special steel and are the products of human top wisdom.

Even for a great country like China, it took several decades for it to slowly develop aircraft carrier manufacturing technology, after other countries had done so.

The large ship with tens of thousands of people that Sun Yi mentioned is not much different from an aircraft carrier, and Ye Kun would never be able to do it.

Sun Yi smiled and said, "Then let's build a big ship that can hold 5,000 people. Once it's done, it will open everyone's eyes."

"No need."

Ye Kun shook his head: "It is better to figure out the technology of a ship that can carry thousands of people than anything else. The bigger the ship, the higher the manufacturing cost, and our national strength cannot afford it."

He Tiantian nodded and said, "A large ship with 5,000 people has very high power requirements. All supporting equipment must be upgraded. This is no joke."

Ye Kun nodded: "Our next task is to conquer the diesel internal combustion engine. The efficiency of the steam engine is not high, not as good as the diesel engine. If we produce 100,000 diesel engines a year, we can basically achieve national industrialization."

Pang Jia asked: "Diesel engines and steam engines both provide power, what's the difference?"

Ye Kun smiled and said, "If we can make a qualified diesel engine, people will not need cattle and horses to plough the land in the future, but can directly use machines. One diesel engine can plough 100 acres of land a day.

Moreover, it can be made into a harvester. One harvester can harvest 100 mu of rice a day. Only then can the people live a truly good life.”

Pang Jia laughed loudly: "Brother, you are bragging, right? What kind of diesel engine can plow the land? And a hundred acres a day?"

"One hundred acres, just small machines. In the future there will be large machines that can plow five hundred acres a day."

Ye Kun patted Pang Jia on the shoulder and said, "Don't underestimate the kinetic energy and efficiency of machinery. Come on, accompany me to see the rice mill!"

When it comes to efficiency, just look at the rice mill.

Before the steam rice mill came out, rice was pounded manually.

Zhuo County has a population of hundreds of thousands, and it needs thousands of professional rice pounding workers to ensure everyone's daily rice needs.

But with the advent of the steam engine, there came the rice mill, and rice pounders suddenly became unemployed.

There are four rice mills in Zhuo County today.

Two are for official use and two are for civilian use.

Each rice mill has four steam rice milling equipment, working day and night.

Sang Buyi and others have come to visit, and when they saw the white rice flowing out of the machine quickly and well, they all praised it.

Ye Kun inspected the rice mill and said with a smile:

"In the past, when rice was pounded, the rice bran was coarse and mostly discarded. Our rice mill can grind the rice bran into powder and feed it to pigs, killing two birds with one stone.

Our four rice mills employ only a hundred people, but they have freed up thousands of rice pounding workers. This is called efficiency, and this is the power of technology!"

He Tiantian smiled and said, "Your Majesty, can you design another flour mill?"