Getting out of the car, Liu Yongnian and Deng Baoji looked at the car in curiosity, and then arrived at the front of the car together. Looking at the steam engine that was panting heavily, he looked around the front and back. After a while, Liu Yongnian said, "Yun Judgment, let's go up and see how coal burns."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "Okay. But the fireworks above are hard to catch, so you can't wait for a long time."

The three of them got on the front of the car together, and several soldiers from the furnace scrambled to salute together.

As soon as I got on the bus, I felt the heat waves rising and my whole body was warm. Liu Yongnian said: "It's very warm here, much more comfortable than the back, so how hard it is to be! If I had known this, wouldn't it be nice for us to stay here on the road!"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Yanei, the fire is slowly extinguishing now, and the road is much hotter than it is now. In early spring, it is not uncomfortable, but it is sad in summer. The stove here is hot and tiring, and the work is the hardest to do."

Liu Yongnian disagreed. Although the space here is a bit cramped, the environment is not too harsh. To be honest, the work at the front of the car is nothing in this era, and it is much more decent than most work. However, the whole train is just the poor working environment here.

Asking the soldiers to open the door and look at the red coal in the furnace, Liu Yongnian asked: "Yun Judgment, just fill the coal from here and burn it, and the cart will start to walk? What is this? Is there a monster in the world that eats coal like a cattle and a horse and eats grass?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Yanei said this, but it's very vivid. In fact, it's like this. When filling coal from here, the water in the large water tank over there will be boiling and turning into water vapor. There is a plug inside, and the water vapor pushes forward for a while and then backwards. That's it. Take the wheels of the car behind and the car goes forward. As long as the water vapor is inexhaustible and the coal fire is not extinguished, the car will not stop moving forward."

"Wonderful!" Liu Yongnian looked at it again and again, and could only see a rough impression.

Getting out of the car and walking for a while, Liu Yongnian suddenly said, "Yun Judgment, your car is similar to a car and a boat. It also uses coal to burn water in a big pot to make the wheels rotate. The car and the boat pushes water on the wheels, and this car is a road on the wheels."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "That's what Yanei said right. One water travels and one land passes, it's one thing."

Liu Nian nodded, thought for a while and said, "But the car has been used for many years, how did this car be made? - What's the name of this car?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Because it is a fire to move forward, it is called a train. The machines used on the vehicles and ships are much larger than those used on the vehicles, and the strength is not as good as those used on the vehicles. Like the vehicles and ships, the vehicles are too heavy and the cargo is too small, which is not cost-effective. For so many years, it is just to make the machine smaller, have greater strength and facilitate repair."

Deng Baoji, who was on the other side, heard this and said, "If this is the case, wouldn't this kind of machine be used on the car and the boat?"

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "It's true. Moreover, the current machines are smaller than the original machines, and are easier to repair and maintain, and much more convenient."

Deng Baojixi said: "Since last year, our Yingzhou has also used vehicles and ships to lay off the boat, but the Beijing city cannot produce machines. If you can do it here, why not buy a few from the Iron Supervisor and install them on the boat, and don't have to wait for the Beijing city anymore."

Du Zhongxiao was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he said: "This matter still needs to be planned by the three departments. Now the cars I made here are not enough to use on the road, and there is no remaining one. If you want to use them on the car and boat, you have to wait for a year or two."

Yingzhou, Caizhou, and Chenzhou have river navigation, and many boatmen are used. Nowadays, vehicles and ships are popularized to main stream routes. They don’t know that they have to wait until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month. There are idle fields in these states, and the layoffs can buy fields on site and increase households. These are obvious political achievements, and local officials are concerned about them. However, the steam engines used by vehicles and ships are more complicated than iron monitoring, and the processing methods are not good. The annual output is not much. The three departments are uniformly allocated, so they naturally give priority to the machines with a large number of fiber-pulling vans.

Du Zhongxiao dared not agree at once. There is another reason. Han Jiang's steam engine made in Beijing was tried on the ship from the beginning. Many places designed the environment. The steam engine of the Iron Supervision must be used on the ship and must be modified accordingly.

After entering the Iron Supervisor, I looked at the flat and tidy road surface, with slag on it, the surrounding buildings were neat, with flowers and trees on the roadside, and everything was in order. In the huge Iron Supervisor, there were no noises in people, and there were no chickens and dogs barking.

Liu Yongnian praised: "There is a very neat place here. I have been in charge of the army many times, but I have never seen such a military camp!"

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's different. This is the iron supervisor and the place for smelting iron. Everything has regulations, so how can it be clamored?"

In fact, the military camp is a place where the army is managed, and it is more necessary to be neat and orderly. However, in this era, I have become accustomed to everything being messy, and suddenly entering this environment makes me feel awkward everywhere.

When he arrived at the yamen, Du Zhongxiao ordered tea to come, sit there with the two of them and talk about gossip.

For Liu Yongnian and Deng Baoji, the train is just a novelty. Now they don’t know how much the train can transport and how fast it runs. After a few conversations, the topic turned to other aspects. The coal-burning train is no big deal. The train has been used for several years, but it has only reduced the number of sergeants in the sergeant. There are no major changes in other things. Although the train is running on the road, I think it is the same.

The amount of iron used on railways is indeed shocking, but everyone thinks that this is the first time the Iron Supervision Bureau has opened. It has been crafted too much steel and cannot be sold. It is just a temporary solution. When it is sold nationwide, who is willing to use iron to pave the road? There are too many places in the world where iron is used.

The civilians from several states left one after another. Liu Yongnian and Deng Baoji had to wait for the people to withdraw before returning. They temporarily lived in the Iron Supervisory Bureau. After a few days, the two were very bored and moved around several factories. Everything here was well organized and the things they made were unprecedented, which opened their eyes.

On that day, the two of them went to the shop next to the ferry to buy the gifts they brought back. This shop was opened by the Iron Supervision Bureau, and all the products of the Iron Supervision Bureau are available. The reason why they opened here is not only close to the prosperous area, but also the function of displaying samples.

As the products of the Iron Supervision Corporation became more and more merchants came to sell. Most people came here to buy iron ingots and steel ingots by word of mouth. After arriving, they realized that the products of the Iron Supervision Corporation were so rich that they could not help but sell more.

In addition to profiles such as steel ingots and steel strips, the most popular ones are now enamel products. Cups and bowls are nothing but replaced by porcelain. The washbasin is really popular. No matter where it is, it is a goods that you don’t have to worry about selling. The iron supervisor costs eight guan per 1 guan, and you can sell fifteen guan when you go back. This item is very convenient to transport and has a lot of profits. Anyone who comes here, even if you don’t sell it, you will buy a few to send it to your relatives and friends.

Liu Yongnian and Deng Baoji just wanted to buy dozens of them each and give gifts to each person.

Liu Yongnian's grandfather Liu Mei was the ex-husband of Empress Dowager Liu. Empress Dowager Liu was favored by Zhenzong, who was the fashion-famous prince. After becoming famous, she recognized him as her brother. The Liu family became rich from then on. Everyone knows this, but there is no taboo. In this era, there was nothing wrong with women remarrying. When Empress Dowager Liu passed away, the Liu family was implicated, and many relatives were demoted. However, it was a former top tyrant. Liu Yongnian himself was loved by the emperor, and they were either rich or noble. When they saw such rare things, of course, they had to buy more and give gifts in the future.

Deng Baoji was an eunuch. He entered the palace since he was a child and was an old minister during the Zhenzong Dynasty. Eunuchs with certain status like him also had families and many relatives and friends. Moreover, they were eunuchs for generations. Although they were bound by the laws of the court, they did not have much contact with officials from other eunuchs and had no clan members. They also had a lot of contact with other eunuch families and princes, and they also needed them.

Most of the eunuchs in the Song Dynasty were from the Five Dynasties and had many aristocratic families. After reaching a certain status, they could buy houses outside, marry women as their wives, and adopt folk children as their adopted sons. Like officials, they had quotas of kindness, and many were sent to the palace by their families since childhood. Some of the wives of eunuchs would even be granted imperial edicts from the court, which was no different from officials from the outside court. There were also those who entered the palace without being clean and became officials outside court. For example, Zhang Maoshi, the adopted son of eunuchs Zhang Jingzong, had a rank of grace and became an official in the outside court, and had a prosperous official career. He was another person who was said to be the emperor's illegitimate son.

Liu Yongnian grew up in the palace when he was a child. He was so familiar with Deng Baoji that he couldn't be more familiar with them. He was always together in doing these things.

After entering the shop, the two looked around and discussed with each other that they would buy some pastries. They would be excellent things to coax their children and give gifts to others. They should buy the candy produced in the field business. This thing has become famous in the capital. Since it has come, it must be brought. Of course, the most important thing is the enamel washbasin. This thing is new, only sold here, so it is fresh.

The washbasin in the shop is not like the ones when the iron supervisor was fired. It doesn’t even have a packaging, and many of them are covered with dust. If it hadn’t been wiped with a cloth before the hair was wiped, it would make people frown. The washbasin in the shop was placed on a specially made shelf, which was extremely exquisite. On one side was the place to put soap and a hand towel was pleasing to the eye.

The two of them came forward to look at it, called the supervisor, and said, "We each need fifty of this basin, so you can prepare it quickly."

The supervisor was stunned for a while before saying, "Taiwei, there are only more than a dozen small shops, and this matter is a bit difficult to deal with."

Liu Yongnian smiled and said, "I know that you are a shop in the Iron Supervisor. There are not enough shops in it, so I just go to the Iron Supervisor to get it. Just say that it was Liu Dujian and Deng Dujian who bought it. Let the Iron Supervisor put other goods for one or two days and give it to us first."

The supervisor was hesitant and after a while, he said: "The Taiwei bought it, so the young man naturally dared not neglect it. However, these days--"

Liu Yongnian was a little unhappy when he heard this: "Why, don't you sell a few washbasins to us?"
Chapter completed!