During the autumn and winter inspection of the sixteenth year of Qiansheng, Lin Ziran traveled to every state of the thirteen states of Daheng to fully understand the situation in each state and grasp the real development of industry and agriculture as much as possible.

In Donghu County, Lin Ziran saw large tracts of land that had been mechanized.

During the inspection, Lin Ziran made a speech, saying that this is the perfect combination of modern technology and traditional agriculture.

The development of traditional agricultural production and industry are not in conflict, on the contrary, they can still promote each other.

Although the original Donghu County had a large area of arable land for development, it was because of transportation problems, and at the same time, their arable land was also the kind of land that was widely planted and not too fertile, so under the traditional model, the cost of cultivating these lands was relatively high and the income was low.

However, after solving the transportation problem and introducing mechanized farming, the local agricultural production and transportation costs fell rapidly, and the cost of local agricultural production reached a level that was acceptable to the market, so that it exploded with great vitality.

In the past three years, Donghu County has directly expanded its total cultivated area by more than five times, which has not only greatly increased the income of local people, but also expanded the market for agricultural machinery.

This extra arable land cannot be cultivated by traditional horse farming, and must rely on agricultural machinery.

This, in turn, directly stimulated the rapid increase in the production and sales of agricultural machinery within the empire.

After leaving Donghu County, Lin Ziran saw a statistical table of the agricultural machinery industry on the special train to Northwest Prefecture.

Five years ago, there were only fifteen enterprises engaged in the research and development and production of agricultural machinery in the Daheng Empire, but now the number has swelled to two hundred and eighty-six, and there are more than 100 companies that produce steam engine tractors alone.

These enterprises are located in various states, and their product lines cover many products such as tractors, harvesters, and transport trucks with the two major power systems of steam engines and gasoline engines, covering all areas of agricultural production.

It is worth noting that although the current steam engine for the power of all kinds of agricultural machinery is still very large, but the gasoline engine for the power of all kinds of agricultural machinery is growing rapidly, currently occupy more than 30 percent of the market share of all kinds of power agricultural machinery and equipment, perhaps in the near future, all kinds of agricultural machinery and equipment powered by steam engines will be completely discontinued, and the full turn to gasoline engines for all kinds of agricultural machinery and equipment.

The development of the internal combustion engine represented by the gasoline engine in the agricultural field far exceeded the estimates of the top echelons of the empire, and even exceeded the estimates of Lin Ziran.

Speaking of internal combustion engines? Speaking of gasoline engines? No matter how you look at it, it should be the most conspicuous car, but in fact, the car is still a high-tech laboratory product in the current Daheng Empire? Not even a rich man's toy? Production and sales are extremely low.

But in the field of production, especially in agriculture? In the transportation industry, the development of gasoline engines is very rapid.

The first mass-produced Dongxing gasoline tractor launched by the Eastern Machinery Company in the fifteenth year of Qiansheng? Thirty horsepower? It's durable, it's easy to use, and most importantly, it's not expensive. It only costs 1,800 Heng Yuan to bring back to the farm.

Maybe for ordinary workers? 1,800 Hengyuan is very expensive, but this price is nothing for a large farm, and the previous steam tractor has to be thousands of Hengyuan, not a large number of farmers to buy.

Even if you are a poor farmer, you can buy it with a loan? Just like those farmers in Donghu County, compared to the fact that they now have a bunch of agricultural machinery? Tens of thousands of acres of land have been planted, but most of these machinery and equipment still need to be purchased through bank loans.

Dongxing gasoline tractor? It has received orders for 5,000 units just after it was launched on the market, and there will be more orders this year? It is expected to exceed 10,000 units.

And what about the hundreds of domestic companies engaged in agricultural machinery? Eastern Machinery Company is the largest though? But it has not been able to occupy too much market share, and many other machinery companies are not far behind, and many companies have also launched their own gasoline tractors.

Anyway, for those machinery companies that are steam engine tractors, they only need to replace the steam engine with a gasoline engine, and the structure and site of the tractor are ready-made.

As for how to get the gasoline engine, it is naturally purchased from the Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company, if you have a little ambition and strength, you can also spend a lot of money to cooperate with the Royal Internal Combustion Engine to obtain some core technologies of the gasoline engine, and then develop and produce it yourself, just like the Eastern Machinery Company does.

You don't even have to pay royalties!

Because in the Daheng Empire, a series of core patents for gasoline engines, including the crucial four-stroke structure, belong to the Royal Academy of Sciences, and these patents are free and public.

As for why it is only said in the Great Heng Empire, it is because the Royal Academy of Sciences only has patents in the Great Heng Empire......

As for other countries, naturally there is nothing to do with the Great Heng Empire.

After all, the gasoline engine was not invented by the Royal Academy of Sciences, it was invented by Professor Kostrow of the King University of the Kingdom of Krull, and he has a patent for the gasoline engine, and the patents for the gasoline engine in other countries also belong to him.

The four-stroke patent was invented by a company on the side of the Valia Empire, and there was nothing wrong with the Daheng Empire.

But that's just for some countries!

After all, the inventor has to go to various countries to apply for a patent before he can obtain a patent from various countries.

However, if you want to apply for a patent in various countries, you must find a modified patent administration to apply for it.

Before the reunification, the Daheng Empire was definitely not included, because at that time, there were no national patent institutions in the Daheng Empire, not even local patent institutions.

Because before the unification, the development of industry and commerce in the Daheng Empire followed the combination of government and business, to put it bluntly, the feudal towns directly controlled the official capital to engage in industry and commerce, but in all the industries that could make money, there was nothing to do with private capital.

And you expect those warlords to recognize your patents? Dream on.

Therefore, the patent system of the Daheng Empire, strictly speaking, after the reunification, the establishment of the patent office only has a special patent system.

However, after the establishment of the patent office of the Daheng Empire that year, the first batch of patent applications passed were patent applications belonging to the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Daheng Empire.

These patents applied for by the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Daheng Empire basically searched the patent databases of the patent offices of various countries, and then applied for all the patents above, and after the application was passed, it was directly announced that these patents were directly authorized for free, making them public free patents.

As long as they are within the territory of the Great Heng Empire, anyone can use these patents for free.

To put it bluntly, it is not recognizing the existing patents of foreign countries!

And this is also a kind of self-protection, after all, at that time, the slightly better technologies were all foreign, once the patent application was released, the patent holders of other countries could directly control the patent library of the Daheng Empire.

At that time, the industry of the Daheng Empire will have to pay a lot of royalties for whatever it produces, and this will not be high, and it will not be necessary to eat.

Therefore, the Daheng Empire directly came to play a scoundrel, and did not recognize the existing patents of various countries.