Since the Royal Institute of Technology got the high-pressure steam engine out, many machinery companies such as Zhaoqing Machinery Company and AIA Machinery Company have also spent a lot of effort in order to compete for the patent authorization of the steam engine.

At the beginning, they planned to use money directly, Tianjin Youbang Machinery Co., Ltd., a pure private enterprise, and not listed, only need the board of directors to spend money at the same time, there is no need to worry too much, directly quoted a high price.

However, in the end, the Royal Institute of Technology's Academic Affairs Office announced a patent licensing bidding plan, which surprised many people.

Because this time the patent authorization will not charge too much patent authorization fee in the early stage, but mainly take the share, as for the early authorization, only 10,000 yuan is needed.

And although the proportion of sharing is very high, there is nothing about it.

The key thing is that this bidding puts forward extremely high requirements for the manufacturer's production technology!

They require manufacturers to have sufficiently advanced equipment and skilled skilled workers.

In the end, there are so many machinery-related enterprises in the country, there are only three companies that meet the conditions, one is naturally the leading enterprise in the domestic machinery industry, Zhaoqing Machinery Company, and the other is Tianjin Youbang Company.

And the last one is very surprising, this is the Qingdao Naval Shipyard!

Qingdao Naval Shipyard, this is not an ordinary enterprise, but belongs to the shipyard within the navy, because it is a military industry, so it is not open to the public, only responsible for building ships for the navy, repairing warships.

And many people don't know that in fact, the Qingdao Naval Shipyard is responsible for all kinds of steam engine test ships in the navy in the past many years, and this shipyard is also the only institution in the navy that studies steam engines, and it is quite mature in terms of steam engine technology.

As for the equipment, although it is not available yet, it is not a problem for the navy at all, and the navy has already prepared funds for the transfer of funds to upgrade the steam engine factory of the Qingdao Navy Shipyard.

After this Qingdao Navy Shipyard popped up, it made Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin Youbang Company feel the pressure!

Because they all know that the biggest market for this high-pressure steam engine in the future is transportation, especially warships and trains!

As for ordinary industrial use, to be honest, the current high-pressure steam engine does not have much cost advantage, today's high-pressure steam engine is expensive, the technology is not very mature, and the cost of use is still relatively high.

Domestic factories have been using low-pressure steam engines for many years, and it is not so easy to get factory owners to replace steam engines on a large scale.

As for the train, this is also a thing that will come later, and now there are not many railways, and a Jingzhen railway has not been repaired, even if all the steam engines are used, there will not be a few of them!

The only urgent need, and don't care about the high price, the only thing that has a high cost of use is the navy!

But now the Navy's own naval shipyard is engaged in steam engines, so what does Tianjin AIA and Zhaoqing Machinery Company do?

With the same quality and the same price, people will definitely use their own, and even if their own quality is worse and the price is higher, it is estimated that they will use their own.

The Royal Institute of Technology doesn't care what type of naval shipyard it is, as long as the technical conditions can be met, then they will authorize it, anyway, they only charge patent licensing fees, and they don't care about the rest.

Also authorized are Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin Youbang Company, and then these two companies turned around and ran to the navy to make trouble, saying, your navy has built its own steam engines, how can the two of us live? If you can't survive, you will have to close the factory, and then you will only be left with your naval shipyard, and it will be up to you to see what you do in the future.

The top brass of the navy are not stupid, and naturally know that these two are crying, but in fact, they are telling the navy not to monopolize it, and if you plan to do it yourself, then Lao Tzu will not engage in ship-based steam engines, but will engage in industrial and train steam engines, and let your navy play by itself.

Although the Navy Shipyard is its own son, Zhaoqing Machinery Company and AIA Machinery Company are also godsons, and they can't just care about their own sons.

Otherwise, the godson will stop playing, and only his own son will be left, what if his own son hangs up?

That's the end of it.

For this reason, after internal discussions, the top level of the Navy put forward a plan, that is, eggs cannot be put in the same basket, just like the shipyards that build large-tonnage battleships, in addition to the Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard and the Qingdao Naval Shipyard, and now the Navy is also supporting the Jiangnan Shipyard, the Navy needs to maintain at least three large shipyards with strength.

The same is true for naval guns, the Navy will purchase naval guns from the three major weapons companies, in order to let the three major weapons companies maintain the production capacity and research and development enthusiasm of large-caliber naval guns.

Similarly, the Navy needs to maintain at least two or even three manufacturers capable of building shipboard steam engines.

Subsequently, the navy issued a formal order to these two companies to purchase ship-based steam engines from the two companies, although the number is not much, one is only five, but this is to give a clear signal, that is, the navy will still support Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin AIA Machinery Company.

The patent authorization has been obtained, and the navy has officially placed an order for the shipborne steam engine, and everything is ready only to the east wind, Liu Ping immediately waved his hand and immediately transformed the production line to create a production line for high-pressure shipborne steam engines.

At the same time, it is also a high-pressure steam engine for industrial use.

The steam engine of the train was not put down either.

This is true of Zhaoqing Machinery Company, and the same is true of Tianjin Youbang Machinery Company.

At the end of July of the 18th year of Xuanping, the Tang Dynasty newspaper officially announced the news of the successful development of the high-pressure steam engine, which immediately caused heated discussions among some people.

Later, our spacecraft landed behind the moon, and I didn't see a few people discussing it, and people talked more about those dramas that were neither male nor female, or they just paid attention to the trivial things in their daily lives.

Today's Tang Empire, in fact, is similar, the breakthrough of science and technology, ordinary people don't pay much attention, but ordinary people don't pay attention, but those people in industry and commerce are extremely concerned.

The most obvious thing is that those who have invested in the Zhili Railway Branch under the Datang Railway Corporation before are all giggles, because they know that the high-pressure steam engine has come out, so the rumored train is not far away.

When the train is successfully running, this railway will be a money printing machine!

The Zhili Railway Branch is not a listed company, but only raises funds by issuing shares and corporate bonds to institutions, but many other related companies are listed companies!

The first to be reflected in the stock market is the steel voyage, and the steel industry, represented by Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, has seen a continuous sharp rise.

Headed? Because of the emergence of high-pressure steam engines and the emergence of trains, then the construction of railways will set off a big climax, which requires a large number of rails!

The second is the log supply enterprises in the timber industry, because the railway needs a lot of sleepers!

The second is the coal industry, because of the emergence of high-pressure steam engines, the application of trains and steam warships, a large amount of coal is needed, and the stock rise of coal companies is logical.

Therefore, although many people still don't understand what the high-pressure steam engine is and what kind of changes it will bring to the world, there will never be a shortage of smart people in this world, and smart people will always keep up with the times and make their own choices, and their choices are to cause the stocks of some industries in the stock market to rise sharply, so as to make themselves more money.

In August of the eighteenth year of Xuanping, the top of the empire didn't even pay much attention to the war in the northeast, anyway, the northeast side was like that, the army sent several good news in a row, and the army had already defeated the cavalry of more than 100,000 Chahar troops and Duoyan Sanwei, and was currently conducting continuous in-depth operations, pursuing the remnants of the enemy army, and completely sweeping the Liaohetao area.

According to the Privy Council of the Army, it is expected that the war in the Liaohetao area will be completely ended in September, and at that time, there will be no large-scale alien tribes in the entire northeast region, and in the next two months, before the winter comes, the troops under the Northeast Expeditionary Command will advance the battle line to the Heilongjiang River Valley, and then rest for the winter, and wait for next year to continue the sweep.

This is already a sweeping operation, so naturally it can't attract the attention of the court!

Now the court has attracted all the attention of the traffic improvement plan proposed by the Ministry of Industry!

The Ministry of Industry proposed that since the high-pressure steam engine has been developed, and the Royal Institute of Technology has also made a special steam engine for trains, and has entered the final production stage after completing the design, it is expected that in September, the first steam locomotive will be tested.

At the same time, the construction of the Jingzhen Railway has also entered the final sprint stage, if nothing else, the construction period has been delayed many times in the Jingzhen Railway, will be completed in October.

At that time, the Jingzhen Railway will pass the stage of horse-drawn carriages and directly use steam trains!

Based on this, the Ministry of Industry proposed that it was time to build a railway on a large scale!

In order to make the railway develop faster and better, the Ministry of Industry proposed that the issuance of corporate bonds of the Zhili Railway Branch could be increased, and at the same time, large-scale loans could be made directly to the banks to raise at least 10 million yuan for the construction of the Jiangnan Railway.

The Jiangnan Railway is expected to extend the Jingzhen line to Shanghai first, and then to Hangzhou.

At the same time, it extended westward from Jinling, and the railway built to Dangtu was extended to Jiujiang.

This constitutes a super railway from Jiujiang to Hangzhou: Jiangnan Railway!