"What a fun challenge!" British envoy Eisenel said.

Immediately, Eisenel and French envoy Truss glanced at each other, and both saw the ambition in each other's eyes.

The British and French envoys in Nanjing had already secretly reached a consensus to obtain the most advanced science and technology of the Ming Dynasty by stealing them and exhibiting their respective countries.

Although the envoys of the two countries have the same purpose, they belong to two different countries. Britain and France have always competed with each other, and neither can fully trust the other, so the two acted separately.

The most advanced science and technology of the Ming Dynasty is mainly manifested in radio, electric lights, trains, steel warships, and guns.

These are undoubtedly the technologies that the British and French envoys are keeping an eye on, and they are also the technologies they can't wait to get the most.

In this way, in the name of the special envoys of Britain and France, they were the special envoys of the two countries in Nanjing, taking care of their respective students, and maintaining mutual contact with the Ming court.

The technology of guns and artillery only exists in the Daming Firearms Bureau, and because there was a Manchurian theft once 20 years ago, the Firearms Bureau and the Science and Technology Institute have added countless overt and covert defenses, and it is impossible for the envoys of the two countries to come into contact with each other no matter what method they use.

In terms of electricity, even if there are electric lights and wires in the embassy, but this electric thing can't be touched at all, and it's just some electrified wires. Without the right theory, neither electricity nor electric light can be understood casually, and it is difficult to steal it.

The same is true for radio, which is based on electricity, and it is too complex, and it needs to be based on correct theories and so on to be able to understand, and it is not something that can be stolen casually.

After two or three months of busy work, but nothing came of it, and the British and French envoys even began to feel hopeless and powerless.

The Ming Dynasty is really a country full of advanced and mysterious, and many advanced things, even if they can have a way to get their hands on them, they can't understand them for a while, and they get nothing.

It's so hard!

Finally, after several defeats, the British envoy Eisenel and the French envoy Truce began to set their sights on the steam motive.

In fact, after two or three months of understanding and familiarization, coupled with the description of steam motivation that I saw in the Daming Daily in June 6, people in Britain and France have gradually gained a certain understanding of the theory of steam motive.

This is also the first time that people in Britain and France have slowly understood the theory of one of the most advanced technologies of the Ming Dynasty.

It is nothing more than boiling the water and using the water vapor as the power to promote the operation of the entire steam engine.

After figuring out some theories, the technology of steam motor is no longer as black as electricity and radio, and there is nowhere to start. At least in Britain and France, they felt that if they could take apart a steam engine, they would probably be able to get the technology directly.

Steam engine technology is as tempting as radio and gun technology. Whether it is a train or a steel battleship, it is propelled by this so-called steam engine.

Trains can quickly transport large quantities of people and materials over long distances.

The most eye-catching thing is the steel battleship, and the British and French can even think that once they understand the steam power technology, whether it is a train or a steel battleship, they can build it.

Being able to see hope is what makes people motivated.

Under the vision of beauty, whether it was the British who were mainly Eisenel or the French who were mainly Truss, they all focused on the steam motor technology of the Ming Dynasty, and began to attack this aspect at all costs to win this technology.

The British and French are still acting separately.

Through unremitting efforts, the British first obtained a scrapped locomotive from the Yongyangcheng Railway Station, two hundred taels south of Nanjing, which contained the steam engine technology they had dreamed of.

As long as this scrapped locomotive is disassembled and the role of each part is understood, then one will definitely be copied.

"God, this is a great miracle, and one day we will have such a train running on the land of England, connecting all the places of our England so closely." Eisenel stroked the scrapped locomotive.

God knows how much gold he gave to the Ming official at the railway station in order to get this scrapped locomotive, and finally let him get it.

The other Britons on the side were also full of excitement.

It has been more than half a year since they accepted the queen's order to return to Daming, and finally let them get an advanced technology, with this technology, the core of trains and steel battleships will be available, with their British cleverness, it will not be long before they will be able to make trains and steel battleships as advanced as Daming.

Take this locomotive to a more secluded place.

Eisenel and a group of Britons began to disassemble the locomotive, hoping to record all the components and understand what they did, and then bring them back to England to replicate.

The British began to work in a hurry, and one by one the parts were disassembled.

At the same time, I began to disassemble the locomotive, hoping to fully understand the principle and technology of the steam motor through the structure of the parts inside. Because the British and French people frequently made great moves in various advanced technologies of the Ming Dynasty, they inevitably attracted the attention of Jinyiwei, especially Chen Mingyu, the commander of Jinyiwei.

Chen Mingyu gave an order to the Jinyi Wei secret agent, asking them to find out what the British and French were doing.

With the ability of Jinyiwei, he soon found out that the British and French were stealing the Daming steam engine technology, and even the British had obtained a scrapped locomotive through bribery, and the news of the dismantling reached Chen Mingyu's ears in due time.

Chen Mingyu frowned: "These European barbarians, too rampant, right?" Without the consent of the Ming court, he stole the steam engine technology of the Ming Dynasty. Hum! Such a thief is truly shameful! ”

Chen Mingyu snorted coldly, very dissatisfied with the behavior of the British and French people.

He felt it was necessary for him to stop all this and report the matter to the emperor.

With a decision, Chen Mingyu took a part of the brocade guards without saying a word, and went straight to the place where Eisenel and other Britons were secretly dismantling the locomotive.

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