At this time, Lin Hui also stepped forward and explained beside Li Xuan: "This prototype is redesigned by us after repeated tests, and we did not pursue extreme performance data, but took into account today's industrial capacity, so that the factory can carry out mass production!" ”

He naturally will not say that even if it is this kind of mass-produced high-pressure steam engine, there is no factory that can mass-produce it on a large scale, even if Zhaoqing Machinery Company wants to mass-produce this high-pressure steam engine, I am afraid that it will have to invest heavily in upgrading equipment and transforming the process, otherwise, it will not be built at all.

However, this kind of thing is nothing more than the follow-up spending, as long as the money is in place, it can be produced after all, and it is not his Lin Hui's money that is spent, so he Lin Hui doesn't care.

Li Xuan listened and said: "Well, the steam engine naturally has to be able to be mass-produced and applied to all walks of life, otherwise, it is just an expensive toy!" ”

Lin Hui continued: "In order to ensure the smooth mass production of this prototype, we designed the index to be conservative, the steam pressure standard is 0.35 megapascals, and under special circumstances, it can be forcibly pressurized to 0.5 megapascals. However, this can have a serious impact on the uptime and subsequent service life of the machine.

With high-pressure steam, the power can reach eight horsepower, but its volume is one-twentieth that of a low-pressure steam engine with only eight horsepower! ”

The others actually didn't listen to him, they all knew that the size of this thing was really small!

Steam engines, everyone has seen them, they're all big stuff!

But the steam engine in front of me is incredibly small, which is simply unbelievable.

As the saying goes, seeing is believing, Lin Hui also knew that everyone would not believe it completely just by listening to himself, so while he explained to Li Xuan, he also ordered the people under him to prepare for the ignition test!

"In order to ensure the pressure of steam, we have carried out research and development from scratch from coal-fired boilers, to pipes, to cylinders, etc., and in the process of research and development, we don't know how many design solutions have been changed, and we have tried countless material formulas.

The steam engine in front of us contains the most advanced technology of our Royal Institute of Technology, and even the whole empire, we have used a total of more than 10 kinds of new research and development of new materials, and the processing accuracy is beyond the past, in the research and development process, we have accumulated thousands of patents, and many by-products of the research and development process have been put into the market! ”

When Lin Hui said it, he sighed, and Li Xuan also knew why he sighed!

Because it is really not easy to make this high-pressure steam engine, it is almost from scratch, the materials have to be developed, and the processing technology is still re-engaged, as for the design itself, to be honest, it is nothing at all, and the original design drawings have been there more than ten years ago.

There is a saying in later generations that the aero engine is the flower of industry, and the engine can only be made after the development of the basic industry is mature.

And for the present day, the steam engine is the flower of industry!

It's not just as simple as it seems, in fact, every part of it, even a screw, and even a few turns of the screw, represents the top level of today's empire and even the world!

Everything behind this means countless days and nights of hard work by countless scientific researchers!

Watching this steam engine ignite smoothly and then run successfully, the rumbling sound came out, making countless people applaud!

Li Xuan withdrew his gaze from the steam engine, then stretched out his hands to hold Lin Hui's hand, and said, "Hard work!" ”

To be able to let Li Xuan hold his hands and say 'hard work' on such a formal and important occasion, there are really few people, Lin Hui is a little excited when he listens to it, and he can't help himself!

Immediately, Lin Hui couldn't control his emotions, and directly shed tears: "Your Majesty, it is the duty and honor of a minister to serve Your Majesty, how dare you say bitterness!" ”

However, standing beside Lin Hui, who has also been Lin Hui's sworn enemy for more than ten years, Chen Ziran, the director of the Department of Materials, looked at Lin Hui with disdain but was in tears, and then quietly moved a few steps, saying that he would not stand with a disgraced person like Lin Hui.

However, the successful operation of the testing machine still made him excited!

He wasn't excited about Lin Hui, he was excited for himself!

The steam engine is known as the flower of industry, and its successful research and development is not the credit of Lin Hui alone, in Chen Ziran's view, Lin Hui spent a few design drawings at most, and then assembled various parts, at most, just an assembler!

Almost all the parts of this high-pressure steam engine are made of new materials, and even the tools used in the machinery and equipment used to process these new materials are newly developed.

And most of the research and development of these new materials are the responsibility of their materials department!

Therefore, even in front of the Holy Son Li Xuan, Chen Ziran dared to say that 80% of the credit for the successful development of the steam engine was due to himself and his colleagues in the Department of Materials, and Lin Hui and the assemblers in the Department of Mechanics would at most share 20% of their credit.

Unfortunately, there is no detailed evaluation criterion.

Of course, as Li Xuan, who has the soul of a generation, naturally he will not be like everyone else, only staring at Lin Hui and ignoring Chen Ziran!

After he said goodbye to Lin Hui, he walked in front of Chen Ziran again, and also stretched out his hands to hold his hand and said, "Hard work!" ”

Chen Ziran was much stronger than Lin Hui, he did not lose his temper, but maintained a normal tone and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is not hard, research and development of science and technology for His Majesty, I don't know how many people ask for the glory, the minister is very honored to get this glory!" ”

Of course, no one knew that when he said this with a normal demeanor, his feet were shaking, and his hand holding Li Xuan was also trembling!

Seriously, this is the first time he has shaken hands with Li Xuan in more than ten years!

Although it is said that as the most high-end scientific researcher, he has enjoyed political treatment that even Liu Bagou does not have, but this kind of hard work with his hands covered and said, looking at the world, few people can get this kind of treatment!

If it weren't for the Holy Son of Heaven and for the empire, it would be impossible to get this kind of treatment!

Li Xuan looked at Chen Ziran, who was trembling, with a satisfied expression, and then turned his gaze to Lin Hui and the dozens of members of the research team behind Chen Ziran, and said, "Everyone Aiqing, you have worked hard!" ”

"The high-pressure steam engine successfully developed by Aiqing today is enough to make the empire advance a lot, and its strategic significance is no less than that of a million troops!"

When everyone was amazed, he said again: "Lin Hui, Chen Ziran and the country have great merits, and they are marquis!" ”

As the so-called Chrysostom Yuyan, although it is only a few simple words, it is a declaration that there are two new marquis in the empire!

Although it is not the kind of top-level hereditary marquis, nor is it a hereditary marquis who is reduced to a baron, but even if it is an ordinary marquis, there are few in the entire empire.

The most are military generals, but if the generals of the military want to get the marquis, they have to make great contributions.

Subsequently, Li Xuan continued: "The meritorious personnel of the rest of the R&D team will be rewarded!" ”

The specific reward is naturally not for him to say now, there will naturally be a deal, listing the detailed rewards, the upgrade of the grade, the title of the knighthood, and the house of the house.

Immediately, Lin Hui and Chen Ziran took dozens of R&D personnel in the R&D team to kneel and thank them.

Li Xuan once again helped them up!

Subsequently, Lin Hui and Chen Ziran continued to take Li Xuan to see this steam engine in detail, and at the same time went to see many other steam engine projects.

The previous eight-horsepower prototype was only the most basic prototype, and it was mainly intended for factory use, and there was no special design.

But what Li Xuan saw then was a steam engine specially designed by the steam engine project team of the Royal Institute of Technology for trains and ships.

For example, the steam engine that is going to be used for the train, its design is not the same as the high-pressure steam engine used in industry, but the detailed design has not yet been completed, and the test cannot be carried out for the time being.

However, this is not important, the important thing is to be able to use it, as for the appearance, these are not important, and it will continue to improve in the future.

As for the ship's steam engine, it's a big guy!

When these two core problems are solved, then the subsequent design is not a problem at all, and even the relevant design drawings have already been used, and have been verified with the previous low-pressure steam engine.

If it weren't for Lin Hui saying that the shipborne steam engine had just begun to be designed and studied, and it had not yet been accurately finalized, I am afraid they would have to let the researchers try to test the fire.

According to Lin Hui, this shipborne steam engine was built entirely for ships, and if everything was designed to meet the predetermined standards, its output power could reach an astonishing eighty horses.

That's quite a staggering statistic!

In the past, limited by the huge size of the low-pressure steam engine, the low-pressure steam engine tested by the Navy many times can generally only achieve more than 10 horsepower for a single horsepower, and it is more than 20 horsepower at the top.

However, such a shipboard steam engine can achieve 80 horsepower, and its volume and weight are greatly reduced, which means that the steam warship that the navy has dreamed of and has been looking forward to for many years can finally be realized.