Li Xuan strode in front, followed by a large number of civil and military ministers, and almost all of these people had a trace of expectation.

Under the influence of Li Xuan, coupled with the various benefits brought by advanced technology, the court of the Tang Empire now attaches great importance to scientific research.

Because with more advanced guns, more land can be conquered, better medicines can be used, more diseases can be treated, better machinery and equipment can be produced, more products can be produced.

Most of these people present knew the great strategic significance of the high-pressure steam engine, even if they didn't know it before, but now most of them have learned about it temporarily.

Among these courtiers, the most anticipated and excited are the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the generals of the navy!

The officials of the Ministry of Industry were excited because once the high-pressure steam engine was developed, the train project would be able to start smoothly, and when the Jingzhen Railway, which they had worked so hard to build, was completed, they would probably be able to use the train directly, rather than the horse-drawn carriage that had been prepared directly.

Once the Jingzhen Railway is successfully run, then the Ministry of Industry will quickly launch more railway plans, and they also put forward the slogan some time ago: Build a 100,000-mile railway for the empire!

Their 100,000-mile plan is also quite strange, they directly drew a line between many cities, and then drew a huge spider web on the map of the empire, which is the source of the 100,000-mile plan, and then was scolded by Li Xuan after seeing it, if the railway plan is directly drawn on the map, then you can also get out of here, because I can draw any cat or dog at will, and I don't need you Ministry of Industry officials.

Although the 100,000-mile railway plan is a little wonderful, but their heart to build a national railway network is true, and now a variety of various planning drawings and even preliminary surveys have begun, first of all, the Jiangnan Railway plan, then the North-South Railway plan, and then on the basis of the Jiangnan Railway, to extend, to build the east-west railway!

To put it simply, it is to build a cross railway centered on Jinling City.

Then use this cross railway as the backbone to build a branch railway, and finally form a basically complete railway network.

The Ministry of Industry's railway plans were ambitious, but it was all based on the successful development of trains, which were premised on high-pressure steam engines.

Therefore, it is normal for them to pay attention to the research and development of high-pressure steam engines.

The navy is also concerned about high-pressure steam engines, because the admirals of the navy dream of getting a kind of warship that can be automatic without wind!

Once the steam engine can be used as ship power, it will bring a complete revolution to the navy, enough to allow the Imperial Navy to dominate the world's seas!

The people of the Ministry of Industry and the Navy understood the importance of the high-pressure steam engine, and although the other courtiers did not pay so much attention, they also knew the importance of the high-pressure steam engine.

Now they can't wait to see the high-pressure steam engine that the Royal Institute of Technology can produce for mass production and practicality.

With a vote of civil and military ministers behind him, Li Xuan walked in front of the steam engine project R&D building, in front of the building, Lin Hui, the leader of the steam engine R&D project team, was already waiting with people!

Without waiting for Li Xuan to approach, he just led people forward and bowed!

"Greetings to the Holy Driver!"

Li Xuan took two steps forward and personally helped Lin Hui up: "Chen Aiqing, please get up quickly!" ”

Then he looked around, and said with the same kindness: "All Aiqing, please get up quickly!" ”

Seeing Li Xuan so kind, and even personally helping Lin Hui and others, this moved a group of researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology, especially a few junior students who had just joined the project team for a short time, this was the first time they saw Li Xuan, and they were even more excited at this time.

Liu Ping, who followed the inspection, also sighed in his heart when he saw that the Son of Heaven treated these scientific researchers so well.

In the past, I didn't know why these scientific researchers would raise their tails to the sky, but today, they really have the capital to lift their tails to the sky.

Today, the government and the opposition are up and down, and the courtiers who can let Li Xuan personally help him can count them with a single slap, and this Lin Hui is one of them.

It is well known that the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to scientific research, and the important ministers of the court know that Liu Ping is an official of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and the executives who actually work in the enterprise also know it.

But it's one thing to know, but it's another to see it with your own eyes.

Seeing such a scene, he also understood why the teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology were able to come up with so many inventions, even the almost impossible high-pressure steam engine.

There are also a lot of R&D personnel in Zhaoqing Machinery Company, and their own steam engine R&D personnel have clearly told Liu Ping that with the current technical ability, it is impossible to build a high-pressure steam engine, Liu Ping asked them, if it doesn't work now, then when will it be able to get it, and the answer given to him by the researchers is 20 years!

Today, however, the Royal Institute of Technology has come up with a high-pressure steam engine!

Before, he was still curious about how he could get it out?

Now seeing the importance that the Son of Heaven attaches to Lin Hui and other researchers, he just knows why he was able to figure it out!

Under the personal care of the Son of God, the research and development progress of the high-pressure steam engine cannot be understood by common sense at all, because under normal circumstances, it is impossible to invest a huge amount of research funds for more than ten years because of a project, which is more than 3 million, not 30,000 not 300,000, but more than 3 million, and their Zhaoqing Machinery Company has not had so much net profit in the past ten years!

However, these are no longer important, the important thing is that the Royal Institute of Technology has now got the high-pressure steam engine out, and now what he Liu Ping has to do is to get the patent authorization of the high-pressure steam engine as soon as possible, and then establish a production line for production, ahead of other competitors.

After so many years, stimulated by the rapid development of domestic industry and commerce, the demand for all kinds of machinery and equipment is getting higher and higher day by day, and there will naturally be people to make relevant investments.

In order to increase the supply of domestic machinery and equipment market and healthy competition, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has successively established five independent machinery manufacturing enterprises, not to mention the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, even private capital has broken in, and almost countless various machinery and equipment enterprises have been established.

Most of them are small and medium-sized machinery companies, which is not a problem, but the AIA Machinery Company located in Tianjin is a big rival, and the establishment of Tianjin AIA Machinery Company is also very interesting, because this company was jointly founded by five graduates of the Royal Institute of Technology!

The graduates of the Royal Institute of Technology do not enjoy the glory and wealth, but run out to start a business, which is really big news, so these people want to start a business, the company has not yet been registered, a large number of people are waving checks and want to buy shares!

In the end, when AIA Machinery Company was established, the registered capital reached 500,000 yuan, all of which were invested by those businessmen, and more importantly, those businessmen who invested 500,000 accounted for only more than 20 percent of the shares.

The reason for this situation is also very related to the special operation mechanism of the Royal Institute of Technology!

What is Royal Institute of Technology?

From a corporate point of view, this is a comprehensive R&D organization that develops various new technologies and survives by selling various patent licenses.

From the perspective of the education industry, this is currently the most high-end educational institution in the empire, recruiting a large number of geniuses to engage in teaching and scientific research.

From a political point of view, this is the engine of the development of the empire's industry and commerce, the driving force of the empire's external expansion!

In Li Xuan's mind, the only meaning of the existence of this institution is to copy the many technologies he described, such as the steam engine, the steel warship, the train is later, the internal combustion engine, the electrification facility, and so on.

Either it is one of the above, it is the most special university in the empire, the incomparable thirst for talent, and the rigour!

Only true geniuses can be admitted to this school!

The Royal Institute of Technology almost annually enrolls a variety of new students, ranging from more than 100 to more than 300, and the number of students is not limited, in fact, there is no limit on the number of places, as long as you can pass the entrance exam, then you can enroll.

It's a pity that there are only one or two hundred people who can pass the assessment every year.

And these students who are admitted are not all right, because the Royal Institute of Technology adopts a withdrawal system, and freshmen and sophomores will be expelled if they fail to pass the promotion exam for three consecutive years.

There are only twenty or thirty people who can successfully pass the promotion exam and finally graduate from their senior year.

In other words, out of about 200 new students every year, only a dozen percent of them can successfully graduate, and the rest are eliminated one after another.

However, even these people who were dropped out of school halfway through the school are also very sought-after fragrant buns, and the administrative agencies and major enterprises are willing to pay high salaries to hire, those who are willing to be officials can become officials, those who are willing to get high salaries can go to major enterprises, and those who are willing to teach and continue their research can also go to various schools.

Normally, though, most of them prefer to teach at universities in order to continue their research.

Well, 50 percent of all the lecturers and professors at Jinling University are from the Royal Institute of Technology.

In the end, only about 15 percent of the students can successfully graduate, and the number of students is only about twenty or thirty per year, even if it is the entire Royal Institute of Technology, and the number of lecturers who graduate stay in the school is more than 300.

Now that five graduates of the Royal Institute of Technology have come out and said that they want to start their own businesses, it is no wonder that the merchants have pounced on them like cats that have smelled fish!