Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1082

[Chapter 1072 The taste of being lean]

San Yuzhu walked through the burning city of Jakarta without almost going crazy.

Now the entire city of Jakarta is full of burning buildings. The captured Dutch soldiers pointed out the important buildings in the city one by one. Without exception, these buildings were all burned in flames.

“These bastards!” San Yuzhu said angrily: “Go and inform the fleet to go to Boer City. We must not let these Dutch escape from Boer City to Calcutta.”

After receiving the order, the messenger quickly rushed to the coast. On the coast He used semaphore to inform Lei Ming of the situation in the city.

“The walls are strong and the fields are clear. These Europeans are quite capable.” After reading the meaning of the flag, Yue Yun said with a serious face.

Lei Ming’s face was quite ugly. According to the empire’s reward system for foreign wars, spoils of war were a very important indicator.

Now that they had a burned-out city, they suffered a big loss.

And although this attack was as successful as ever, the number of soldiers they lost doubled compared to previous battles.

The deep trenches still provided a lot of protection for the Dutch soldiers.

“With one thousand and three casualties, the soldiers can’t get a single copper. My position as commander is in vain. General Yue, please lead us to Buer City in advance. I will never let these bastards go.” Lei Ming said. .

Although he was used to seeing death on the battlefield, so many casualties made him really uncomfortable. Now he was only fighting against 20,000 Dutchmen and miscellaneous natives. If he faced the Calcutta battlefield, the number of casualties would probably be even higher.

Yue Yun could feel Lei Ming’s anger, and it was obvious that the Dutchman had angered him.

“There is no problem. With the speed of the armored ship, we will definitely be able to reach Buer City ahead of them.” Yue Yun said.

For the Dutch army on land, Bull City is a straight line away, but for the navy, they need to make a big detour to reach it. After all, the coastline is not straight. If they go at the speed of a sail warship, they may not be able to reach it in advance.

But the ironclad ship can definitely complete this task under full sail.

“Thank you.” Lei Ming said through gritted teeth.

…

Qingzhou.

After the hand-crank telephone was officially connected, the Telecommunications Department began to install telephones for the official offices of the Imperial Palace and the Outer Palace in Qingzhou.

According to the cabinet’s request, Qingzhou will implement telephone communication between various departments of the imperial court in the past few years to improve the efficiency of handling government affairs.

While the phone made significant progress, Lin Wentao’s Mechanical Research Institute also received good news.

“Your Majesty, this is the first car prototype we made using an internal combustion engine.”

Lin Wentao in the machinery factory pointed to the classic car in front of him with an excited expression. Since the internal combustion engine technology matured, they have launched various applications of internal combustion engines.

In addition to diesel engines for drilling, they have put the research on the application of internal combustion engines in sports machinery on the agenda in accordance with the requirements of the five-year plan.

So they first set their sights on the animal-drawn harvesters being used by the empire. According to the mechanism drawings, they gave these agricultural machinery the heart of an internal combustion engine.

After the application of harvesters expanded, they built a manned car based on the drawings provided by Xiao Ming. This is the classic car in front of them.

Xiao Ming walked to the classic car. The shape of this classic car was basically similar to the first generation of European cars in the 19th century.

It’s not that he doesn’t know how to create a more perfect shape, but with the current industrial technology, Qingzhou’s industry is still unable to produce a car casing with modern craftsmanship.

So under consideration, he still used the old-fashioned Beetle shell.

“How fast can this car reach?” Xiao Ming asked slightly excitedly. After so many years, he finally faced the embarrassment of going out in a carriage without riding a horse.

On the other hand, with a car, his safety when going out will be greatly improved.

“Back to the emperor, the speed of this car reached sixty kilometers per hour.” Lin Wentao said.

“Sixty kilometers?” A heavy smile appeared on Xiao Ming’s face. He was already very satisfied with this speed. After all, the speed of the world’s first car at that time was only one hour and fifteen kilometers per hour.

But the difference is that Xiao Ming gave Lin Wentao mature internal combustion engine technology and used purified gasoline, so this car completely surpassed the first car in all aspects and reached the level of an improved car.

Qian Dafu said with a smile: “With a speed of sixty per hour, wouldn’t it be possible to run more than a thousand kilometers in one day?”

“This is natural, but this requires sufficient fuel. I am afraid that the empire is not yet luxurious enough to use gasoline like this.” Lin Wentao There was regret in his words.

So far no progress has been made in drilling the well, which is proving more difficult than anyone expected.

There are no oil fields, which means that cars are manufactured in a fake way. This is why Lin Wentao sighs.

Xiao Ming naturally understood what Lin Wentao meant. He still overestimated the current technological level of the empire. Moreover, the Daqing Oil Field was already difficult to exploit, so it was normal for there to be no progress for such a long time.

According to records, Japan also tried to find the Daqing Oilfield during World War II, but drilling stopped when it reached about 800 meters because Japan at the time did not have the technology to drill deeper rock formations.

The real depth of the Daqing Oilfield is around 1,300, so whether oil can be successfully recovered essentially depends on drilling technology.

The fundamental problem of drilling technology is the drill bit. Now with the diesel engine, the power has been solved. However, the strength of the drill bit cannot be reached before it can reach such a deep rock layer.

After all, drilling oil wells requires specialized oil drill bits. He can provide drill bit design drawings, but the material issue requires multiple experiments.

So he is a little helpless about the current problem, because no one can be sure when this oil field will be successfully exploited.

If the oil field cannot be utilized due to technical problems, he will have to find a way from overseas. After all, his drilling technology cannot conquer Daqing, which is thousands of meters deep, but it is still very simple to exploit oil wells on land in the Middle East.

The most important thing is that after mastering the mature ironclad technology, the cost of sea transportation has been greatly reduced. It is not very far from the Middle East to the empire at the speed of an ironclad ship, and the cost of transporting oil is very low.

“Currently the empire is fighting in Southeast Asia. If things go well, the route to Persia and the Ottoman Empire will be completely opened. At that time, the empire can establish diplomatic relations with Persia and the Ottoman Empire and purchase their oil at a low price. In this way, ships equipped with internal combustion engines The machine will be able to run,” Xiao Ming said, and at the same time he became more determined to monopolize oil.

It’s really uncomfortable to be short of oil, and besides Persia and the Ottomans, he also wants to completely occupy Siberia. After all, there is also a large oil field there.

(End of chapter)