I want to be emperor

Although the technical difficulty in this field is very high, based on the considerable technical application scenarios, coupled with self-confidence in oneself, and the rapid development of the domestic electrification industry in the past two years, corresponding electrification talents have begun to appear in large quantities.

This also made Tangshan Machinery Company more determined to take the technical route of electronic ignition... Open ignition and heat pipe ignition are trivial and not worth mentioning. Tangshan Machinery Company wants to make the best electronic ignition.

Then, in the research and development of the electronic ignition technology project, I was hit hard...

This damn thing is really difficult for the basic technological level of the contemporary Chu Empire, especially the nascent electrification level.

The electronic ignition device, or spark plug, previously developed by Tangshan Machinery Company was only a low-voltage spark plug compared to later generations.

In this way, there are many faults, the ignition success rate is very unstable, and at the same time, there are many faults, it is very easy to break, and the service life is very short. At the same time, there is also the defect of low-voltage spark plug, that is, it limits the engine speed.

The gasoline engine that people in later generations are familiar with is actually a high-speed gasoline engine that uses high-voltage spark plugs after the 20th century. This thing is completely different from the low-speed gasoline engine that used low-voltage spark plugs or heat pipe ignition in the late 19th century. Their performance is very different. .

Of course, the issue of speed is actually not too serious, especially for the contemporary Dachu Empire... So low-voltage spark plugs can actually be used.

The real problems that prevent spark plugs from going out of the laboratory for large-scale commercial application are the low ignition success rate, many faults, and short service life.

Today, Tangshan Machinery Company wants to make continuous improvements to the original spark plugs. Not to mention other things, it must at least improve the ignition success rate.

Only when the ignition success rate is improved can we talk about more other technical issues, such as faults and service life.

After they invested heavily and mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources for several years of research and development, they finally saw the dawn of success.

Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company began to supply gas engines using heat pipe ignition mode to the market on a large scale, and used mature heat pipe ignition in the research and development of gasoline engines. When it built the first gasoline prototype in the laboratory, it even prepared When the first-generation gasoline engine was recently introduced to the market to seize the opportunity.

The electronic ignition project team of Tangshan Machinery Company has also started testing their newly developed new generation 'internal combustion engine electronic ignition system'!

And this time the test was an unprecedented success!

The success of the new generation of internal combustion engine electronic ignition system means that Tangshan Machinery Company has overcome the crucial ignition problem in the field of internal combustion engine research and development, laying a solid foundation for their subsequent research and development of high-performance gasoline engines.

After the successful test of their new generation internal combustion engine electronic ignition system, Tangshan Machinery Company continued its efforts and used its many years of technical knowledge and huge patent library to create a brand new gasoline engine prototype, which they internally called a high-performance gasoline engine.

In October of the 46th year of Chengshun, when the market was still immersed in the successful large-scale application of gas engines, Tangshan Machinery Company also began testing high-performance gasoline engines.

At the same time, the gasoline engine projects of Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company and Liaodong Machinery Company are actually advancing rapidly, but the technical routes adopted by these three companies and their emphasis are different.

There are good and bad performances, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages, but it is undeniable that these three agricultural machinery companies, or the three major internal combustion engine companies, all came up with gasoline engines in the second half of the 46th year of Chengshun and carried out Various tests.

Although the so-called gasoline engines they have developed are basically laboratory products at present, there is still a long way to go before they can get out of the laboratory. If they want to mass-produce and apply them, they face bigger and more problems than gas engines.

But it is undeniable that in the forty-sixth year of Chengshun, the Dachu Empire had developed a gasoline engine... and there were three gasoline engines with different technical routes.

Following the gas engine, the gasoline engine, an important category in the field of internal combustion engines, was also conquered by the Da Chu Empire.

In addition, this year is also the year of the first large-scale industrial application of gas machines.

Therefore, the forty-sixth year of Chengshun can be regarded as the first year of the internal combustion engine of the Chu Empire. The future influence of the empire will be very profound.

Even the Emperor, His Majesty Luo Zhixue, the Emperor of the Great Chu Empire, couldn't help but personally order it after hearing that the three major internal combustion engine companies were launching their own gasoline engines, saying that he wanted to take a look at this gasoline engine.

Relevant instructions were quickly transmitted to the three major internal combustion engine companies via telegrams. Soon in November, the three major internal combustion engine companies sent personnel to carry their respective gasoline engine prototypes south to Jinling City to prepare for on-site introduction and demonstration of gasoline engines to His Majesty.

Let’s have a royal tribute!

Regarding technological breakthroughs in the field of internal combustion engines, although Luo Zhixue is also very clear that the so-called gasoline engines currently developed have basically no practical value... After all, this thing has not even come out of the laboratory. The so-called gasoline engines produced by the three major internal combustion engine manufacturers They are all still very primitive, and are basically still in the theoretical design and exploration stage.

But this did not affect Luo Zhixue's emphasis on and expectations for gasoline engines, and he personally ordered him to go and have a look for himself.

Because he is very aware of his influence!

In some industrial fields, changes may be achieved with just one instruction from oneself, just like previous instructions to support the development of internal combustion engines.

Just one instruction attracted the dual attention of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Industry. The stagnant research on internal combustion engines was revived. The three major internal combustion engine companies successively restarted projects or increased investment, and the official R&D funds allocated by the empire were And policy interest-free loans have exceeded one million yuan.

It can even be said that Luo Zhixue's instructions are at least more than one million yuan or more in R&D funding support or policy support for an industry.

Luo Zhixue is very aware of his influence, and he is even more aware of the impact this influence will have on others and even the entire industry.

After all, he was born as an ordinary person, and he is not an idiot... Even though he has become an emperor now, with overwhelming power and wealth that can be said to be all over the world, he also knows very well that the income of an ordinary person is only seven or eight yuan a month. What, it is clearer what the policy support funds of millions of dollars mean.

According to the current average monthly salary of an ordinary worker in Songjiang Prefecture, which is about sixty-seven yuan, that is the total income of an ordinary person for more than ten thousand years!

That is a huge wealth that ordinary people cannot even look up to!

He knows the value of these funds very well!

In fact, in reality, many big bosses are very stingy in the eyes of ordinary people... They think that if they have so much money, why do they care so little about it, instead of just throwing away a little bit of wealth to make themselves satisfied.

That's because the boss clearly knows that although this little money is nothing to him, he knows very well what this little money means to you.

So when he measures the value of money, he does not start from his own perspective, but from your perspective...

One million is nothing to him, but he knows exactly what it means to you... and what price it will cost you.

In many online articles, hundreds or tens of millions are spent on women at every turn. In real life, the boss of Shenhao laughs after reading this... Even if he is the protagonist of a cool article, he cannot do without the unique attribute of diaosi: when he sees a woman, he becomes a licker. .

As the emperor of the empire, Luo Zhixue never spends money to pick up women... He can allow some women in the harem to climb into his bed. That is a gift, and both the woman and the family behind her have to. Thank you!

Therefore, he would not easily let some ordinary women climb onto the dragon's bed. Without extraordinary beauty or other special factors, it would be difficult for him to become a member of the harem of the Dachu Empire.

Because he knew very well that for himself, it might be an impromptu movement... but for those women and the families behind those women, it was of great significance.

So many times he would hold her tightly and would not let the women in the harem go to bed easily.

Luo Zhixue has always had a clear understanding of these things, and he is not one of those traditional feudal dynasty emperors who were raised in a deep palace and knew nothing.

Therefore, when dealing with various affairs on a daily basis, Luo Zhixue is actually very cautious... and will not give direct instructions at will, let alone give explicit instructions on supportive policies.

Most of the time, he is a superior arbiter and will not give his decision easily.

Only on some special matters, especially major matters related to the future development of the empire, Luo Zhixue would personally make decisions.

For example, in the early years, research and industrial promotion in important fields such as steam engines, railways, and cable telegraphs were all promoted by Luo Zhixue.

Now in the field of internal combustion engines, Luo Zhixue also plans to personally promote it!

Even he knew that he didn't need to do anything else. He only needed to order a demonstration of the gasoline engine in front of the Imperial Palace. Then he would praise a few words, give a few instructions to support him, and express his expectations for the future. At that time, various departments will naturally start to carry out comprehensive strategic planning and implementation of research and development and industrial applications in the field of internal combustion engines.

Even this demonstration hasn't started yet, but Luo Zhixue can actually predict the subsequent actions of various departments in the empire.

And this is exactly what he wants!

On some important matters, it is necessary to personally promote it, but there is no need to do everything personally, which is not in line with the principles of a superior person.

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Soon, the three major internal combustion engine companies arrived in Jinling City with their own prototypes and engineering teams. Not only did they bring gasoline engines, they also brought gas engines. Liaodong Machinery Company also brought kerosene engines that they had built before... In addition, after Guangzhou Machinery Company learned of the news, it also contacted the person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and then came over with their diesel engine that was still in the research and development center.

After all, the diesel engine they are working on is also an internal combustion engine, and they are currently the only manufacturer of diesel engines in China... Although the technology progress is very slow, there is still no problem in making a demonstration sample.

As a result, what was supposed to be a demonstration of gasoline engines turned into an expanded demonstration of internal combustion engines. After learning about it, Luo Zhixue also expressed his approval. Anyway, it is a matter of watching. It is also good to take a look at the development of various internal combustion engines.

The imperial exhibition cover-up meeting was quickly prepared. In early winter and November of the 46th year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue took a group of people to attend the internal combustion engine demonstration. Not only Luo Zhixue attended the demonstration with him. Responsible officials in the field of industry and commerce, as well as civilian officials in other fields, including more than a dozen senior generals in the military.

In addition, the emperor and several princes also attended!

Just looking at the list of many people attending with the emperor directly raised the standards of this demonstration to the highest level.

This made many people recall carefully and found that the last time His Majesty took so many important personnel to participate in a new scientific research product demonstration was when the cable telegraph was developed.

And what level of scientific research achievement is cable telegraphy?

That is one of the most advanced strategic scientific research results that has been classified by the empire's high-level officials as a major national defense and people's livelihood project!

The emergence of wired telegraphy gave the Chu Empire the means to quickly obtain various news thousands of miles away or even thousands of miles away.

This method was very important for the Chu Empire to maintain its global dominance.

For example, without wired telegraphy, if something happened in Eastern Europe, it would take more than ten days for Jinling to get the news at the earliest. This is based on the fact that the news happened along the Eastern European railway, and the news would be received as soon as possible. Just take the train all the way to Jinling.

Then to deliver the news from Jinling to Eastern Europe...it would take at least ten days.

It's been more than a month since this happened.

However, with wired telegraph, any situation in Eastern Europe can be transmitted to Jinling via telegram on the same day. Even if the telegram transmission needs to be transferred through many telegraph stations, it is enough to transmit the information to Jinling City within one day. .

Jinling City then transmitted the relevant handling opinions to the governor or garrison in Eastern Europe via telegram.

In this way, if there is any emergency in Eastern Europe, Jinling City can deal with it in a timely manner and put it in place in as little as one paragraph or as long as two days.

This kind of information processing speed is crucial for an empire with a huge territory, direct jurisdiction, administrative territories, and vassal states all over the world.

Otherwise, if the news is delayed for several months, this global empire will not be able to last for long, and the control of overseas territories will not be very good. The only way to do this is through overseas enfeoffment, or by granting great autonomy to the governors of overseas territories. rule.

Just like the early rule of the Chu Empire in Southeast Asia, America and other regions, local governors were granted great autonomy, including the power to declare war and sign treaties.

It was not that Jinling City wanted to delegate power at that time, but that it had no choice but to delegate power.

But with the advent of wired telegraphy, it was different. Basically, the governors of overseas territories that had telegraph access would revoke sensitive authority such as declaring war, and return it to Jinling City to handle it personally.

For a global empire like the Da Chu Empire, a convenient communication project like wired telegraphy is no less important than a million-strong army. Therefore, the empire's top officials attach great importance to it. Both the cabinet and the military have given strong support to it in recent years. Construction of telegraph lines.

Even the Pacific Undersea Cable was attempted to be laid once to try to connect the mainland and the Americas... Unfortunately, the laying failed before one-tenth of the time was completed.

The technology required for submarine cables is too high and the construction is too difficult. It may not be successful for a while, but the empire urgently needs to solve the problem of rapid communication between the mainland and the Americas.

Therefore, on the one hand, the technicians of the Empire continued to choose to construct the second Pacific submarine cable and improve related technologies.

At the same time, the empire simultaneously carried out a backup plan.

That is to go through the Bering Strait, a shallow water strait. After passing through the Bering Strait, go to the northern part of North America, which is later Alaska and other regions, and lay all the way south along the west coastline, and finally reach the west coast area of ​​​​central North America, that is, Jinshan Port and other places, and then across the North American continent to the east coast.

After all, the local area now has a relatively complete backbone cable telegraph network. At the same time, the cable telegraph network in North America is also being rapidly laid out, and the construction of several north-south and east-west backbone networks has been completed.

As long as these two huge wired telegraph networks are connected, rapid communication between the mainland and the Americas can be achieved.

Only then did we come up with the plan to take the Bering Strait route.

This plan is highly likely to be impossible in the original time and space, because the countries they belong to are different. At the same time, northern North America and the northeastern region of Northeast Asia are both bitter and cold places with few people. It is difficult to build a telegraph. The operating costs are high and it is more difficult to recover the capital.

But in the Da Chu Empire, these are not a big deal... Because this kind of telegraph line has great national defense and security features, the consideration is whether it is necessary or not, not whether it is high or not, whether it is difficult or not...

Just like building the Pacific submarine cable now, this thing is difficult to build and the cost is very high, but after the empire failed to lay it out for the first time. Still continuing to work hard on the Pacific submarine cable, the second laying project started non-stop... Even the General Telegraph Administration has contacted many cooperative manufacturers, Royal Institute of Technology and other professional institutions to start discussing the third laying plan!

They themselves also feel that the second laying currently being carried out is still unlikely to be successful, so they are preparing for the third laying...

In order to build the Pacific Cable, the General Telegraph Administration, or the senior officials of the empire, did not consider the cost issue at all... Compared with before, the difficulty and cost of the Bering Strait submarine cable were not worth mentioning.

In fact, for long-distance communication, the most convenient and realistic method is wireless telegraphy... Unfortunately, due to the immature development of electrification, wireless telegraphy will not be available for a while. A group of people from the Royal Institute of Technology Professors of electromagnetics in China are still struggling with many basic theories of electromagnetic waves, and they can't even talk about using electromagnetic waves for practical applications.

Wireless telegraphy probably won't be available for a while.

Therefore, the construction of wired telegraph still needs to be promoted on a large scale.

This is the huge role of wired telegraphy in the current Chu Empire.

But now, Luo Zhixue's emphasis on internal combustion engines has reached the same level as his original treatment of wired telegraphs.

This had to make many empire senior officials make various speculations.

Many imperial ministers were surprised by His Majesty's emphasis on internal combustion engines, not to mention the three major internal combustion engine companies and the Guangzhou Machinery Company.

When they learned that this internal combustion engine demonstration in front of the emperor was not the kind they expected for His Majesty to just come and see for a novelty, it would be a serious event with a large group of imperial ministers, princes, and princes. When you get up and watch.

They were all stunned.

The heads of the four companies led by Rao are all officials, and they can also be regarded as mid-level officials, but they have never experienced this in their lives, and they have never even imagined that they would experience such a thing!

The original intention was to bring a prototype and then cover it up for His Majesty to see it as a novelty. Although this kind of thing made them excited, to be honest, it didn't make them lose their temper.

But looking at this battle now...the nature is completely different!

Even in the past few years, the Navy's most advanced 10,000-ton battleship, the Yingtian, with a displacement of more than 16,000 tons, was put into service. His Majesty did not even bother to take a look, let alone attend with a group of important imperial ministers, princes and princes. .

But now, His Majesty has brought almost all the counselors, co-organizers, princes, and many princes who are engaged in politics and the military to participate. This standard... To be honest, it is too scary.

How can their internal combustion engines be so valued by Your Majesty and the Empire?

Faced with this situation, it would be a lie to say that they were not excited or scared... Several company leaders who led the team all had trembling hands or legs, and they were unable to speak properly.

In order to calm down, Supervisor Shen, the team leader of Tangshan Machinery Company, took out a cigarette and wanted to light one to calm down. However, his hands kept shaking and he couldn't light it for a long time. In the end, he settled on the gasoline engine project next to him. Then Chief Engineer Fang helped him light the fire.

"Old Shen, with such a battle today, this life is worth it, right?"

Supervisor Shen took a deep breath of cigarette, letting the smoke fill his lungs before calming down a little, and then said: "Yes, who would have thought that we people would still have such a day."

"When your Majesty comes back, your project team must perform well. The demonstration must be perfect and successful..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard someone shouting from the front that His Majesty's Holy Chariot had arrived at the entrance of the guild hall, and when all the subjects were preparing to greet him, his legs began to tremble involuntarily, and finally his legs gave out and his whole body collapsed. The ground... He was still mumbling something like greeting him!