Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1027

[Chapter 1019 Internal Combustion Engine]

The vast world map makes people full of endless reveries.

Xiao Ming said slowly: “If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. This is exactly what I want to say. The foundation of the Pearl String strategy is the navy. From now on, no more sail warships will be built. Combined with the current new situation of the empire, Technology is needed to build a brand new battleship.”

Cui Shangan was excited. The first generation of steam engine armored battleships are already very powerful. You can imagine the horror of the second generation of armored battleships.

If these warships use the latest breech-mounted rifled naval guns, the European navies will be completely targets at sea.

However, relatively speaking, the construction process of ironclad ships is slower than that of sail battleships. The construction of a battleship often takes one or even two years.

Because of this, it was necessary to cut down the sail warships and let the shipyards devote all their efforts to the construction of ironclads.

“Yes, Your Majesty, I will supervise this matter when I get back.” Cui Shangan bowed and accepted the order.

Xiao Ming nodded slightly, and then the two of them talked about some details before ending the conversation.

Watching Cui Shangan leave, Xiao Ming sighed slightly. Although he wanted the Chinese Empire under his rule to be worshiped by the world, the realization of technology was still the biggest limitation.

After all, it is easy for him to come up with technology, but it takes a long time to realize the technology, such as the construction of this ironclad ship.

And this is just one of them. Thermal power plants, bridges and railways, water conservancy project construction and other infrastructure cannot be built overnight.

But despite this, the empire is always thriving under his leadership. Now the main problem is no longer resisting the aliens, but competing with the Western powers for sphere of influence.

He was just thinking about it when Qian Dafu trotted over. When he arrived at the Imperial Study Room, he smiled and said, “Your Majesty, Lin Wentao’s telegram has some clues about the internal combustion engine.”

Since the advent of the telegraph, the transmission of messages has been much faster. Many things can be solved with just one telegram, which makes Xiao Ming and the officials much more relaxed.

In particular, the time of scientific researchers such as Lin Wentao is very precious, so he gave Lin Wentao and others the privilege of sending telegrams directly to him.

“Today is a double blessing.” Xiao Ming laughed. The development of this internal combustion engine has long been on the agenda. After all, there is no pressure to manufacture internal combustion engines with Qingzhou’s current industrial capabilities.

Stretching, he said to Qian Dafu, “Let’s go and take a look at Lin Wentao’s internal combustion engine?”

“Okay.” Qian Dafu walked towards the palace gate with Xiao Ming with a smile.

At this time, in the Qingzhou Machinery Research Department, Lin Wentao was discussing gasoline and diesel issues with Lu Tong.

In the process of developing an internal combustion engine, due to the lack of two types of combustion oils, gasoline and diesel, Lin Wentao actually first used the gas combustion method to test the combustion performance of the internal combustion engine. It was not until the past two days that he obtained real gasoline from Lu Tong He came to test the first four-stroke internal combustion engine manufactured. It was verified that the speed of the internal combustion engine had reached 800 rpm, the compression ratio had reached three to one, and the operation was smooth. It was only then that he officially sent a telegram to the palace.

“This thing is much more powerful and powerful than a steam engine.” Lu Tong said. In the test just now, the internal combustion engine was powerful, and the most important thing is that the internal combustion engine is small. According to Lin Wentao, the internal combustion engine will bring about earth-shaking changes in domestic transportation.

Lin Wentao sighed, “No matter how powerful you are, you have to have oil, and your oil is simply not enough.”

Lu Tong spread his hands after hearing this, and said: “This is the result of what we have collected in Guandong for three months, unless the Minerals Department officially drills Oil wells, otherwise no one can do anything about large-scale oil production.”

The two chatted. After a while, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu arrived at the Research Department. When they saw Xiao Ming, everyone stopped what they were doing.

“Your Majesty, this is a four-stroke internal combustion engine.” Lin Wentao pointed at the machine in front of him and said to Xiao Ming.

The machine in front of Xiao Ming sits horizontally on the ground. It generally looks like a “worker”. At this time, it is driving a pair of wheels to idle through the reciprocating motion of the connecting rod and crankshaft.

This scene made Xiao Ming smile with satisfaction, and he said: “It seems that the internal combustion engine is very successful.”

“The emperor has given you the award. It is all based on the technical information provided by the emperor. This four-stroke internal combustion engine is no longer a problem. I will next study the six-stroke internal combustion engine.”

Stroke internal combustion engine.” Lin Wentao is full of confidence.

In the past, he would naturally not dare to make such big claims, but it is different now. The emergence of electric motors has made a qualitative leap for Qingzhou industry. Conditions allow him to boldly develop internal combustion engines. After all, all the conditions are met.

The only thing missing was gasoline, so he said; “Your Majesty, there is no problem with this internal combustion engine, but there is a problem with the gasoline. Xiaguan and Lu Tong were talking about this problem just now.”

Lu Tong echoed: “The distillation method prepares gasoline and Xiaguan’s School of Chemistry has mastered the method of diesel. As long as there is a large amount of crude oil, Xiaguan can provide gasoline and diesel. “

All the questions suddenly focused on the issue of oil extraction, and he smiled, although he wanted to directly get it. It is possible to transport oil from the Middle East, but it may be difficult at this stage, and he cannot wait for the trade route to be opened.

Therefore, he placed his hopes on Guandong. After all, the contemporary Daqing Oilfield is located in the Songnen Plain of Heilongjiang, and this layout had already begun when Zhu Sansi went north.

After Yaksa was occupied, the Minerals Division sent personnel to the Sonnen Plain to search for the location of the oil fields. During this time, they basically figured out the specific locations because they found floating black oil in some springs in these places. Proven to be oil.

And this method is not proven to be unfounded. There is a record in Shen Kuo’s “Mengxi Bi Tan” of the Song Dynasty that there is a kind of oil in Yanzhou. This kind of oil is produced by the water, mixed with sand and gravel and spring water, and it is intermittent. It flowed out from time to time, so local residents used pheasant tail feathers to dip it in and collected it into earthen jars.

This kind of thing is oil brought up by groundwater. They also discovered this situation when the Minerals Division was searching for oil.

“There was no way before, but now we have it. The most critical parts of the drilling equipment are already there.” Xiao Ming pointed to the internal combustion engine and said. In the early days, the power for drilling was mainly diesel engines. It was not until modern times that electricity was used. After all, oil is generally in shortage. In the countryside, electricity is hard to come by.

Lin Wentao and Lu Tong looked at each other and both laughed. They did not expect that oil and internal combustion engines would complement each other.

He said: “If this is the case, the official will ask the machinery factory to try to produce a set of drilling equipment.”

Xiao Ming nodded. Now Qingzhou’s industrial level has reached the level of the late nineteenth century, and it is time for the application of petroleum and internal combustion engines. .

(End of chapter)