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    Amidst the thunderous roar of the machine, Li Min felt his blood boil all over his body. This is one of the most tightly guarded forbidden areas in Dengzhou City. There are two thousand guards stationed around it all year round. Anyone wants to enter here.  , all must have a warrant from Li Min or Zhao Fu. If anyone dares to break in without authorization, he will be immediately killed by the soldiers on the spot without any mercy.

    The reason why there is such tight defense here is mainly because this is a steam engine manufacturing factory. After Yifan successfully developed the steam engine, he immediately studied the plan for large-scale manufacturing. Now it has begun to take shape. The manufacturing factory here covers an area of  Thousands of craftsmen work here, and the power of various machine tools and instruments has been replaced by steam engines. Although it is a bit more expensive, it has accelerated the production speed. Now it can produce thirty steam engines per month, and this  It's because Li Min tried his best to suppress it. If he let go of production, it wouldn't be a problem to produce a hundred units per month.

    The reason why Li Min suppressed the production of steam engines was, firstly, because the use of steam engines has not been popularized yet, and producing too much would be a waste. Secondly, there is still a lot of room for improvement in current steam engines. Instead of producing these backward steam engines, it is better to invest a lot of effort.  As for the improvement of steam engines, it will not be too late to mass-produce them after a higher-power steam engine is developed.

    Next to her, Yifan yawned and stretched. She stayed up late last night to design the drawings of a new steamship, and now she was invited by Li Min to visit the steam engine production factory. Naturally, she still hadn't woken up.  And Li Min looked at Yifan, who was thin and frail, especially with two dark circles on his face.  He also looked a little haggard, and felt a little unbearable at the moment.

    "Yifan. Although the steamship is important, your body is more important. In the future, you must remember to balance work and rest, and never stay up late again!" Li Min shouted with a serious look on his face. The machines around him were roaring too loudly.  , if you don¡¯t yell, even if you crawl into the other person¡¯s ear and talk, the other person won¡¯t be able to hear you.

    When Yifan heard this, he smiled and did not answer. Instead, he pointed at the busy surroundings and said loudly: "Your Highness, look at how the construction here is going. Can it become the most important industrial base in Datang in the future?"

    Hearing the proud tone in Yifan's words, Li Min also laughed and said: "Yifan, the invention of the steam engine will open a new era, and your name, Yifan, will also become a milestone. Thousands of years later, others will  You may not know who Li Min is, but when it comes to Zhao Yifan, everyone will definitely know about it!"

    Yifan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but then he showed an expression of disbelief, thinking that Li Min was making fun of him.  It's a pity that she didn't know that although Li Min liked to joke, he was telling the truth this time. Think about Watt in later generations.  Just improving the steam engine has been listed as an iconic figure of the first industrial revolution, and now Yifan has invented the steam engine from scratch, from scratch to perfection. This achievement is enough to make her famous throughout the ages.  Even Li Min can't compare to her.

    Seeing that Yifan didn¡¯t believe it, Li Min didn¡¯t say much.  It is useless to waste more words to explain. His words will naturally be proved to be correct in the future.

    Li Min walked and looked around, and Yifan next to him kept explaining. This factory already has the atmosphere of a later-generation mechanical processing factory, with drilling machines, grinders and other processing equipment very complete.  In fact, these processing equipments already existed in the Tang Dynasty, but they used to be manual and most of them were made of wood. Now they are all made of steel, and the power is also provided by steam engines, so the processing speed is faster than before.  Several times, but these instruments are still very crude, and there is still a long way to go compared with the processing instruments of later generations.

    After passing through several assembly plants, Yifan took Li Min to a high-end factory. The processing equipment in this factory is mainly a drilling machine, which mainly drills a straight hole in the center of a solid steel rod to form a  A very solid steel pipe.  This thing seems very simple, but it is very troublesome to actually make it. Because of the non-standard processing equipment and the insufficient hardness of the drill bit, the output of this kind of steel pipe is not high, and the scrap rate is astonishing. Among ten pipes, at most, only  The success rate was four or five. The rest were either drilled out of alignment or the drill bit was broken inside, so they had no choice but to be used as scrap.

    "Your Highness, are you asking us to drill these small steel pipes for any use?" Yifan asked, looking at the scraps piled higher than the finished products. His two delicate long eyebrows were already frowning, obviously he didn't quite understand Li  I wonder what to do with these steel pipes. After all, with current technology, it is really difficult to make these steel pipes. Those scraps are the biggest proof.

    However, Li Min smiled mysteriously after hearing this. He picked up a finished steel pipe and looked at it. He found that the drilled hole was straight and smooth, which was indeed in line with his original requirements. Then he said to Yifan with satisfaction: "One  Sail, how many of these steel pipes have been produced, and have they all been transported to Perak Island?¡±

    Seeing that Li Min didn¡¯t answer his question, Yifan couldn¡¯t help but roll his eyes at him, but he still answered:??: "Your Highness, you asked us to produce this kind of steel pipe regardless of cost, so during this period we produced more than 4,600 pipes, and they have been sent to Perak Island a long time ago."

    Li Min was even more happy when he heard that there were more than 4,000 steel pipes. Although it was impossible for all of these steel pipes to be made into what he needed, he estimated that there must be at least a thousand. As long as he had this batch of things, Sweeping Sweep could  Japan is not a problem at all.

    After visiting the steam engine factory, Li Min immediately asked Yifan to take him to take a ride on the steamboat.  And Yifan was also excited. After all, this was her hard work, and it was also strongly supported by Li Min, so she had long wanted Li Min to see it.

    The steam engine manufacturing plant was originally in the ship city, not far from the shipyard where steam ships were built. Li Min and Yifan quickly arrived at the shipyard. There was a small dock in the shipyard, where some newly built and unopened ships were parked.  Li Min took a rough look at the ships that were leaving and found that there were more than a dozen ships in total, and among these dozens of ships, he even saw the steamship at a glance.

    I saw that this steamship was not very big. It was about seven feet from head to tail. It was considered a medium-sized ship, and its shape was similar to that of an ordinary fortune ship. It was just that the hull was thinner and narrower, and the draft was deeper. In addition, the most special thing  However, there was no mast on this ship, and it was even less likely to have sails, making the deck look bare. This was why Li Min could tell at a glance that it was a steamship.

    At this time, the two of them also walked to the pier. Yifan pointed at the very long and narrow steamboat and introduced it with a proud expression: "Your Highness, please look, this is the steamboat built by this little girl. According to your instructions, Your Highness,  Let us use cars and ships as a template. Later we also built several prototype ships. Although the effect was good, the paddle wheels outside were very easy to damage and the efficiency was not high. Later, Your Highness proposed the concept of propellers. After our efforts,  , finally built this propeller steamship!"

    "Quick! Take me up there and have a look!" Li Min said excitedly. As a later generation, he certainly knew the development direction of ships. He had previously asked Yifan to make a paddle steamer and then this kind of propeller ship. Although  I took a few detours, but I also gained a lot of experience, which is very worthwhile.

    The steamship had long received news that Li Min was going to board, so everyone on the ship was ready. Li Min's guards went up first to provide safety protection, and then Li Min and Yifan got on the boat.  Yifan transformed into a guide again and took Li Min to visit the entire ship, even the boiler room in the cabin.

    After the visit, Li Min immediately ordered people to set sail and prepare to take the steamship to sea. The target was Perak Island. He happened to have many things to go to the island to deal with.

    Seeing Li Min's excited look, Yifan also showed a satisfied smile. Following her order, the steamboat that had already been on fire emitted a flute, attracting people in the shipyard to look this way, and at the same time their eyes  Zhong Ye showed excitement. They all knew about the strange ship without sails on the pier. Many craftsmen even participated in the construction of this ship. Although these craftsmen did not know the significance of this strange ship, they made it  The instinctive intuition of a shipbuilder made them vaguely feel that the ship was a miracle born in their own hands.

    Amidst the louder whistles, the steamboat under Li Min's feet finally started to move. Li Min on the boat also clearly felt the roar of the steam engine under his feet. Then the whole ship suddenly trembled, and then began to slow down.  Move forward slowly.

    When he saw that the ship really started to accelerate slowly without the use of sails and oars, Li Min just nodded with satisfaction. However, the palace guards who came with him all opened their eyes wide and held hands one by one.  The hilt of the knife was on full alert, as if this was the only way to give them a sense of security.

    Li Min couldn't help but laugh when he saw the nervousness of the guards around him. After telling them to relax, he and Yifan walked to the bow of the ship and felt that the speed of the steamship under their feet was getting faster and faster. All the ships they encountered after leaving the port  Being left far behind by them made Li Min even more excited. At the same time, he had begun to plan to build a shipyard that would actually produce steam ships. However, this shipyard would no longer be built in Dengzhou, but in Dengzhou.  On the land that you really control.

    Perak Island is located ten miles away from the original navy camp. It is not very far from the ship city. Coupled with the speed of the steamship, we arrived here quickly.  Yifan has been to Perak Island before, but because the island is too confidential, she can usually only move around the periphery of the island. She has no right to enter the real core area.

    As soon as their ship approached the only military port on Perak Island, many warships immediately surrounded Li Min's ship, and the giant crossbows and strong bows on the ship were all ready. It seemed that they would attack at any time, until they saw Li Min.  When Xin stood at the bow of the ship, the generals on the warships respectfully commanded the warships to leave.

    And just as Li Min's ship arrived at the port, he immediatelyHe heard thunders coming from the island, each sound was like a thunderbolt from the blue, and Li Min smiled after hearing it. He named the island Perak Island at first, and now it seems that he was really prescient.
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