Steel Dynasty - Chapter 973

[Chapter 967 Jing Ye Si]

The atmosphere was a bit dull, and a gust of night wind blew, making people feel a chill to the bone.

Niu Ben glanced at the lights outside the palace gate and said loudly: “Everyone, you should go back early. Niu believes that the emperor’s eyes are as sharp as a torch and he can see clearly the world.”

Everyone came back to their senses and stopped mentioning the current topic. They said goodbye and left.

Niu Ben and Luo Quan walked at the back. When everyone left, Luo Quan said: “These civil servants just like to fight. No wonder the emperor attaches so much importance to this naval battle today, just to calm these people down. Focus more on building the Great Chongqing Kingdom.”

“There is nothing we can do about it. Pang Yukun, Zhan Xingchang and others are the ones who follow the emperor to conquer the world. They think that they should have most of the power. Fiji and others were latecomers and did not accompany the emperor through the most difficult period after all, so they believed that these old ministers should not get so much, and those old ministers were wary of Pang Yukun and the others, so since the emperor ascended the throne, although there have been They worked closely together, but they couldn’t get together.” Niu Ben was on the outside and could see clearly.

Luo Quan nodded lightly, “Well, that’s the truth, but these civil servants like to fight back and forth whether they are in power when they are wise or foolish. It doesn’t matter, so let’s just ignore it.”

” That’s absolutely true.” Niu Ben laughed and walked towards his mansion.

In fact, the quarrel is noisy, but each of them has a steelyard in their hearts. Now the country of Chongqing is prosperous and moving upward. With Xiao Ming here, no one can make waves.

As for the quarrels caused by different political opinions in the court, it is also normal, and some struggles for power are also normal. After all, officials have fleshy hearts and have their own feelings and desires.

At the same time that everyone left, Xiao Ming returned to the dormitory. Fei Yue’er had already fallen asleep, and Xiao Yi had already lived separately from them because he was seven years old, and was taken care of by the nuns in the palace alone.

Without disturbing Fei Yue’er, Xiao Ming came to the main hall outside the dormitory and sat down, asking the palace maid to light the candle.

He picked up a pen and skillfully recorded the knowledge in the technological crystal. Dick’s description of Britain did surprise him.

When he talked to everyone today, he deliberately ignored one factor, which was that Dick once said that the British secret society participated in the current scientific and technological research and development in the UK.

Moreover, this association has also brought some elite talents, who are members of the association and come from all over Europe.

It is precisely because of the help of this association that the UK can verify various technologies so quickly.

He had heard about this secret society twice, once from Dengzhou and once from when he attacked the south.

Combined with the various mysterious legends about this association in modern times, he had reason to worry about the secret association in this world. After all, the Cao family had joined it, and it was difficult for him to determine whether there were still secret members of this association in Dayu.

If there was, it would be a trouble for him, so after the end of the Southern War, he kept letting the secret guards investigate, but with little success.

This result is good news and bad news for him. The good news is that the secret society may not make any progress in infiltrating Da Yu. The bad news is that the infiltration may be too powerful and the secret guards will have nowhere to start.

Things that cannot be controlled have always been unsettling, so he now eagerly hopes that Great Yu will take a step further in science and technology and open a wider gap with Europe.

Especially after the emergence of electricity, many things that accompanied the emergence of electricity in modern times should also appear. In this way, Dayu can be regarded as entering the age of electricity.

Correspondingly, there are internal combustion engines. The emergence of electricity made it possible to produce diesel and gasoline on a large scale. With diesel, the gas in gasoline has a source of power.

Because of this, electricity and internal gas complement each other, which is why he knew that the internal gas structure was not very complicated and did not develop it in advance.

After all, it can only be used as a decoration when produced.

But things are different now. With electricity now available, the next step is to overcome the problem of refining diesel and gasoline, which requires Lutong to solve a series of problems.

In addition, he has to solve the problem of the source of oil, and this is his more troublesome problem.

Coming from modern times, he knew very well that the oil resources in the Great Chongqing were scarce, and the few places where you could find fried dough sticks were very difficult to extract. It was impossible to extract them at the current level of the Great Chongqing.

And he is not willing to mine, because he is currently implementing a policy of plundering resources from overseas and retaining domestic mineral resources.

Based on this, the imperial court now encourages businessmen to go to Goryeo, Japan and other places to mine mines. After capturing the Philippines, he will also mobilize businessmen to go to the Philippines and even Australia to mine, and continuously transport foreign minerals to Dayu.

As for the unused mines, his request is to use them for land reclamation.

Therefore, he would not exploit such a scarce thing as oil at home, so his target naturally turned to the Ottoman Empire.

This empire is now sitting on the most precious wealth in the world without knowing it. Taking advantage of this opportunity, it would be a good business to exchange industrial products or even arms for oil.

The Ottoman Empire not only did not deal with Europe, but also did not deal with Tsarist Russia and the Golden Horde. It was happy to use this behemoth to cause some trouble to Europe.

Of course, his most important goal is oil. The geological structure of the oil fields in this land is simple, and self-blowing wells are the norm.

To put it simply, just drill a drill bit into the oil layer, and the oil will spurt out from the wellhead, making it very easy to obtain.

What he is writing now is about the knowledge of oil extraction and internal gas. These two technologies will bring about earth-shaking changes to the transportation industry of Dayu.

However, he still has many things to do before that, including occupying Nanyang and seizing the strongholds established by the French and British on the routes. This process cannot be accomplished overnight and may take a long time.

During this period, the establishment of the petrochemical industry system and internal gas technology can also be carried out at the same time, but there is no need to be impatient.

After thinking about this, Xiao Ming set his sights on Nanyang. Now I wonder what achievements Yue Yun has achieved?

…

Malacca.

The Marine Corps, led by Liu Chen, was taking advantage of the darkness to board the beach. They did not encounter any resistance along the way.

The actions of the combined fleet caused the British soldiers in Malacca to completely ignore the possible dangers. They did not expect that the huge fleet would arrive in Malacca at night.

“Quick! Quick! Quick!”

Liu Chen called the soldiers across the beach and into the plain. In front of them were the forts carefully constructed by the British. Now they wanted to capture these forts.

(End of chapter)