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Xiao Ming said slowly: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, this is exactly what I want to say, the foundation of the String of Pearls strategy is the navy, from now on the sail warships should not be built anymore, combined with the new technology of the current empire to build a new warship." ”

Cui Shangan was excited, the first-generation steam engine ironclad battleship was already very powerful, and you can imagine the horror of the second-generation ironclad battleship.

If these warships use the latest breech-loading rifled naval guns, the navies of Europe will be completely targets at sea.

However, relatively speaking, the construction process of ironclad ships is slower than that of sail ships, and the construction of a battleship often takes a year or even two years.

Because of this, it is necessary to cut the sail warship and let the shipyard devote itself to the construction of the ironclad ship.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the lower officials will supervise this matter when they go back." Cui Shangan bowed down to receive the order.

Xiao Ming bowed slightly, and then the two of them said some details before ending the conversation.

Seeing Cui Shang'an leave, Xiao Ming sighed slightly, although he wanted the Chinese Empire under his rule to be worshiped by the world, but the realization of technology was still the biggest limitation.

After all, it is easy for him to come up with technology, but it takes a long time to realize the technology, such as the construction of this ironclad ship.

And this is just one of them, thermal power plants, bridges and railways, water conservancy projects and other infrastructure are not built overnight.

However, despite this, the empire was thriving under his leadership, and now the main problem was not to defend against foreign races, but to compete with the Western powers for spheres of influence.

He was thinking about it, at this time, Qian Dafu came in a hurry at a trot, and when he arrived at the imperial study, he smiled and said; "Your Majesty, Lin Wentao's telegram, the internal combustion engine has eyebrows."

Since the telegraph, the transmission of news has been much faster, and many things can be solved with only one telegram, which has made Xiao Ming and the officials a lot easier.

In particular, the time of scientific researchers such as Lin Wentao is very precious, so he gave Lin Wentao and others the privilege to send him a telegram directly.

"Today is a double happiness." Xiao Ming laughed, the development of this internal combustion engine has long been on the agenda, after all, there is no pressure to manufacture internal combustion engines with the current industrial capacity of Qingzhou.

Stretching, he said to Qian Dafu; "Let's go, let's see how Lin Wentao's internal combustion engine is?"

"Okay." Qian Dafu smiled and walked towards the palace gate with Xiao Ming.

At this time, in the Qingzhou Machinery Research Division, Lin Wentao was discussing the issue of gasoline and diesel with Lu Tong.

In the process of developing the internal combustion engine, because of the lack of gasoline and diesel two combustion oils, Lin Wentao actually first used the method of gas combustion to test the combustion performance of the internal combustion engine, until these two days he obtained real gasoline from Lu Tong to test the manufacture of the first four-stroke internal combustion engine, after verification, the speed of the internal combustion engine has reached 800 revolutions per minute, the compression ratio has also reached three to one, running smoothly, until then he officially sent a telegram to the palace.

"This thing is much stronger than a steam engine." Lu Tong said that in the test just now, the internal combustion engine is powerful, and the most important thing is that the internal combustion engine is very small, according to Lin Wentao, the internal combustion engine will make a earth-shaking change in domestic transportation.

Lin Wentao sighed, "No matter how powerful you are, you have to have oil, your little oil is not enough at all." “

Lu Tong spread his hands when he heard this, and he said: "This is already the result of our three months of collecting in Kanto, and unless the Department of Minerals officially drills oil wells, no one can do anything about large-scale oil crops."

The two gossiped, and after a while, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu arrived at the Research Division, and when they saw Xiao Ming, everyone stopped what they were doing.

"Your Majesty, this is the four-stroke internal combustion engine." Lin Wentao pointed to the machine in front of him and said to Xiao Ming.

The mechanical horizontal seat in front of Xiao Ming is on the ground, which is roughly like a "work" type, and at this time, a pair of wheels are idling through the reciprocating motion of the connecting rod and crankshaft.

This scene made Xiao Ming smile with satisfaction, and he said: "It seems that the internal combustion engine is very successful. ”

"The emperor has won the award, all rely on the technical information provided by the emperor, this four-stroke internal combustion engine is no longer a problem, and the next official is ready to study the six-stroke internal combustion engine." Lin Wentao is full of confidence.

If he didn't dare to say this before, but now it's different, the emergence of the electric motor has made a qualitative leap in Qingzhou industry, and the conditions allow him to boldly develop the internal combustion engine, after all, all the conditions are met.

The only thing missing was gasoline, so he said; "Your Majesty, this internal combustion engine is no problem, but this gasoline is a problem, Xia Guan and Lu Tong are talking about this problem just now."

Lu Tong echoed: "The method of preparing gasoline and diesel by distillation has been mastered by Xiaguan's chemical college, as long as there is a large amount of crude oil, Xiaguan can provide gasoline and diesel. ”

All the problems were focused on the problem of oil extraction, and he smiled slightly, although he wanted to transport oil directly from the Middle East, but at this stage he was afraid that there were some difficulties, and he could not wait for the trade route to be opened.

After all, the contemporary Daqing Oilfield is in the Songnen Plain of Heilongjiang, and this layout has already begun when Zhu Sansi went north.

After the occupation of Yaksa, the Department of Minerals sent personnel to the Sonnen Plain to find the location of the oil fields, and during this time they basically figured out the exact location, because in some of the springs in these places they found floating black oil, which turned out to be oil.

In the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan" has such a record, there is a kind of oil in Yanzhou, which is produced at the water's edge, mixed with sand and gravel and spring water, and flows out intermittently, so the local residents use pheasant tail feathers to dip it up and collect it into clay pots.

This is the oil that has been brought up by the groundwater, and they have also discovered this in the search for oil in the Minerals Division.

"In the past, there was no way, but now there is, and the most critical part of the drilling equipment is already available." Xiao Ming pointed to the internal combustion engine and said that in the early days, the power of drilling was mainly diesel engines, and electricity was not used until modern times, after all, oil is generally in the wilderness, and electricity is difficult to reach.

Lin Wentao and Lu Tong glanced at each other, and they both laughed, they didn't expect that this oil and internal combustion engine would complement each other.

"If that's the case," he said, "the lower officials will let the machine shop try to produce a set of drilling equipment." ”

Xiao Ming nodded, now that Qingzhou's industrial level has reached the level of the end of the nineteenth century, it is time for oil and internal combustion engines to be applied.