Chapter 310 How is this possible? ! !Yun Chuhuan stretched his neck in the direction of her finger: "What's over there? Why don't I see anything?" "Not urgent." Yun Shu smiled and held up three fingers: "Three, two, one." boom! Fireworks suddenly lit up on both sides of the bluestone road. But unlike last year, this time the fireworks did not go straight up into the sky, but instead sprayed and bloomed on the spot like clusters of fireworks emerging from the ground. The originally dim bluestone road suddenly became as bright as day. Just talking about the visual effects, it is actually stunning and beautiful enough. However, Yun Shu's previous article in Tiansheng Weekly raised everyone's expectations too much. Looking at the fireworks now, everyone can't help but feel a little disappointed - "Isn't this just a new look for fireworks?"
Someone in the crowd couldn't help but whispered: "How is this 'trans-era'? What's so…" "what is that?!!" Before the man in front could finish his complaints, there was a burst of exclamations from all around. He looked up subconsciously, and saw that in the middle of the "fireworks" on both sides, a carriage that looked a bit like a carriage, but without a horse pulling it in front, was rushing out at an incredibly fast speed! But in a flash, it stopped steadily in front of Emperor Xuanwu! It was at this time that everyone saw clearly that there were actually two people sitting in the carriage. It looks like... The officials who were not very familiar with the Ministry of Industry were still thinking carefully about who these two familiar-looking people were. I saw the doors on both sides of the carriage being opened from the inside. The two people sitting inside walked side by side to Emperor Xuanwu and bowed excitedly: "Your servant Zheng Qiaozhang\Jiang Yuanbao pays homage to His Majesty. Long live His Majesty!" "Be flat!" Emperor Xuanwu was really surprised. He walked quickly to the side of the strange-looking carriage and looked around it in amazement. The dignified Emperor of Tiansheng seemed to have never seen the world before. He looked here and touched there. After walking around for a full circle, he couldn't wait to ask Jiang Yuanbao: "Your name is Jiang Yuanbao, right? Did you make this?" "Your Majesty, the blueprint was drawn by the Princess and Lord Zheng. I am only responsible for making it according to the blueprint given by Your Majesty." Jiang Yuanbao did not dare to take credit for it, and quickly explained: "It was Lord Zheng who first thought of the steam engine at the suggestion of Her Royal Highness, and then drew its blueprint. Later, Her Royal Highness thought that the steam engine could be used on cars, and thus this steam car came into being. " "Steam engine?" Hearing a new word that appeared very frequently from Jiang Yuanbao's mouth, Emperor Xuanwu remembered that when this carriage just rushed over, it seemed that there was always a puff of white smoke coming out... "What is that?"
"Your Majesty, a steam engine is a machine that converts the power of steam into another kind of power. Simply put, a boiler is used to boil water, generating a large amount of steam, which then expands and pushes the piston..." Zheng Qiaozhan has been so obsessed with studying steam engines these days that he is almost going crazy. Hearing that Emperor Xuanwu wanted to know more about this thing unexpectedly, he was so excited that he started to talk about it in a series of popular sciences. It made me feel dizzy and confused, and I couldn't understand anything at all. Fortunately, Emperor Xuanwu was not the kind of person who wanted to get to the bottom of everything. After listening for a while without understanding, he said nothing, but turned his head and looked at Yun Shu, who was standing beside him with a smile on her face: "What's the difference between your steam car and a horse-drawn carriage?" "Perhaps the biggest difference is that it doesn't require a horse to pull it?" Yun Shu walked up with a smile and patted the first steam car of the Tiansheng Dynasty in front of him, and said slowly: “Besides that, it’s just speed. An ordinary carriage on the official road can travel about 40 miles in an hour. And this car can travel a distance of 120 miles in one hour." "One hundred and twenty miles?" There were sudden gasps from the crowd. However, one mile is only 500 meters, and a speed of 30 kilometers per hour is far beyond the upper limit that a steam car can reach. Yun Shu nodded calmly: "One hundred and twenty miles in one hour is indeed a bit slow." "Is this too slow?" General Weiyuan, who had been patient for a long time, finally couldn't help but say: “This is almost as fast as riding a horse!” "I spent so much effort to build it, just to be as fast as riding a horse?" Yun Shu raised his eyebrows and asked back: "Do you think I am such a free person?" "That……" General Weiyuan was choked and asked in disbelief: "Could it be that it could be even faster?" "Of course!" Yun Shu raised his hand and placed it on the car door, and said without hesitation: "In theory, this car could have gone faster, but we were in a hurry when we built it, so many things weren't done to the best of our ability. Like this carriage, it can actually be replaced with iron to make it stronger. There are many other details. According to preliminary estimates, after the modification, it should be no problem for it to run 400 miles in an hour." "Four hundred miles?!" General Weiyuan was so shocked that he broke his voice:
"Your Highness, do you know what four hundred roads in one hour means? If the speed could really be that fast, it would only take five or six hours to get from the capital to Suzhou! If you hurry a little, you can even make the round trip in a day! How can this be? " "How is it impossible? If I had told you yesterday that there was a kind of carriage that didn’t need a horse to pull it, but could run on its own, and it could run almost as fast as you normally ride a horse, would you have said it was impossible?” Yun Shu curled his lips and walked around to the driver's seat while speaking. As he sat down, he did not forget to greet Emperor Xuanwu: "Father, would you like to come up and experience it for yourself? I will take you around the palace!" "Can!" Emperor Xuanwu's eyes lit up. Thinking of the place where Jiang Yuanbao and the others had just gotten off, he fumbled to open the car door and got in from the other side. General Weiyuan, Yun Chuhuan and other court officials were watching anxiously outside. Unfortunately, the steam car that was built in a hurry was indeed a little small, with only two places on it. No matter how envious they are, they can't squeeze in. They could only watch as this strange-looking but magical steam car whizzed away right before their eyes.