The Second Industrial Revolution Began in the Ming Dynasty

Is the author a male engineer? The subject matter is quite new, but I keep writing about manufacturing this and that. . . . I'm off topic.

Generally speaking, it is written that the steam engine starts with a step-by-step process, but it is difficult to knock it out with a hammer, and it is almost impossible to achieve. But if it is a generator or an electric motor, it is different, it is nothing more than a combination of magnets and coils. It will be much easier to make a steam engine with electricity, and the power of ships for long voyages will also be solved.

This idea is absolutely correct. How can one person fight with a group of old foxes in official circles? He can only rely on technology to crush him.

Why did I pay to see you copying public information for me? Do you still have any professional ethics as an online article author?

I think industrialization is extremely difficult, especially starting from scratch, but the protagonist is a time traveler, there are technology trees to pave the way, and Ming Dynasty is not a primitive society, so it is possible to achieve it in a few decades. But looking at the author's thinking, we know that it is difficult and unreasonable. The emperor is the most powerful person. Although he has the highest power, he is only a relative. The one who truly rules the Ming Dynasty is not so much the emperor as the bureaucratic ruling group under the centralization of imperial power. Therefore, the interests of the emperor and the bureaucratic group are consistent, and they both maintain the rule of the bureaucratic group. However, industrialization will definitely break this balance, and emerging interest groups will inevitably appear and conflict with the old interest groups. And industrialization is not just about industrial technology, but more importantly, a nationwide supporting system, transportation, talent training, land, minerals, and unified dispatch by a strong central government. This was impossible to achieve in ancient times. If you want to achieve it, the feudal bureaucracy is the biggest obstacle. If you want to industrialize, you must revolutionize and revolutionize your own life. I think the best result is to engage in the Westernization Movement like the late Qing Dynasty. But this is actually enough. Relieving the people from hanging upside down is ultimately the ideal of a saint. Being able to provide food and clothing for the people would have been a peaceful and prosperous age in ancient times. If it could make the people live a prosperous life, it would be an emperor through the ages. If he could expand territory and conquer barbarians, he would be a greater emperor than Qin Shihuang. It is a pity that the Ming Dynasty died, but I bet that the author will never follow the path of shehuiism. It is nothing more than a Ming Empire with more flawed technology.

Let me tell you In fact, the technology in ancient times was not as bad as you think. Some technologies are even amazing in modern times. The difference in ancient times was information and output. This is not a big statement. For example, some secret recipes are still used in modern times. These are ancient techniques.

The plot is draggy, not exciting, blatantly clichéd, and often clumsy. It's as boring as an autobiography. No, the autobiography is more exciting. So do you write to make money or do you write for fun? If you don't change the law to make money, why should readers pay for it? Just pretend I didn't say it, Chapter 50 or 60, the glass is still burning. Nothing else to say

Come on, were the major cases in the early Ming Dynasty related to anti-corruption? It's just massacre to gather power, just raising pigs for the sake of the family. 😰 Written by literati, you don't need to believe the major cases of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty at the end of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin's murder of his brother, etc. They were all written by literati, aren't they nonsense? Anti-corruption, anti-corruption, tens of thousands of people killed? 🙂 Also the hero is of the White Lotus nature, 😰 Except for the blue jade and other parts that do great death, 🙂 the rest can't read numbers? 😰Are you kidding? 😰 I remembered someone who said that Fu Youde applied for 3,000 acres of land from Zhu Chongba, but was told that he was too greedy and did not know how to count. Haha, Lao Zhu was constantly looting and killing, having power was greedy for power, and begging for wealth was greedy. The truth and the opposite are all said. Even after Li Shanchang had quit the center for more than ten years, he was still slaughtered by everyone. 🙂

Author, could you please stop writing so much data and tell a story? We are here to read stories, not technical books.

There is nothing wrong with the idea, but the author's historical literacy is really not up to par! In the first chapter, the "Battle of Jingnan" and "Jingkang Difficulty" were confused. Don't confuse these two events just because they have the word "Jing" and "difficulty" in them!

I look forward to the author continuing to write. This is a good new subject that I haven't seen much. Regarding the development of industry in ancient times, I hope the author can make a good start and let the people behind him know more about this subject.

As a modern person traveling through ancient times to play with power and scheming, that's what second-class officials do. In the late Qing Dynasty, the bureaucrats who had been influenced by thousands of years of culture were useless in the face of the guns of the great powers. They could only survive by constantly betraying the country.

A cool article is a cool article, but doesn't the author know that basic science is the foundation of modernity? Study it later? Why not give it a few years to develop the industrial base? I didn't even dare to "try drugs for free" after seeing the introduction.

Writing industrial articles first requires sufficient knowledge. Are motors and generators so easy to build? I don't think so! How do you make 0.35 Silicon steel sheets? Let alone silicon steel sheets, how do you make silicon steel? Don't say that you can make silicon steel just by building a small earthen kiln. There is also copper. Copper used in electrical equipment is generally electrolytic copper and fire-smelted copper. How do you solve the difference in resistance and conductivity? Even if you can make silicon steel, or can find other steels that can replace it, because of the problem of iron loss, you need to overturn and redesign the Y series motor. Your bearings are not up to standard and need to be specially designed. If there is no suitable lubricating oil, it needs to be specially designed. Animal grease cannot be used at high speed and high temperature, so the design can only be changed to reduce the speed and power. There is also the insulating paint of enameled wire, how to solve it. There is a reason for climbing the science and technology tree step by step. Without industrial supporting facilities, peripheral supporting facilities, and theoretical design capabilities, what can we do if we have data? Technological leap! No kidding.

Love it, love it, it's so happy to be in the book review section every day

The reason for building a steam engine instead of an electric motor is that the main fuel for steam engines comes from coal. At this stage, using coal as energy is the most convenient and easiest to mine, the easiest to utilize, and the easiest to store energy. Electricity is a secondary energy source. Not to mention hydropower, although the principle is simple, the actual technological content is quite high, and it also requires transmission, voltage transformation and so on. Even if the electricity is sent out, it will be used in more than one place, right? Then we have to set up a power grid, which is another huge problem. Eventually it will come back to the steam engine. As long as you have a steam engine, you will soon have trains, steam freighters, and large machine tool factories. But electric multiple units, electric freighters or oil tankers, and motor machine tools, you almost don't want to have these in the short term. So actually skipping the steam engine is not feasible.

If you want to write popular science, write popular science well; if you want to write a story, write a story well. A lot of popular science stuff is full of loopholes and completely unreasonable and divorced from reality. As an engineering student, it's really hard to watch.

This is a novel, not a popular science book. There is no story. It's boring for you to write so much popular science. Alas

There is no plot at all. It is better to read Baidu Encyclopedia to watch this.

Just build generators, turbines don't even produce electricity, steam engines don't even produce electricity, and you build high-rise buildings without laying foundations.