Daming 1805

Chapter 460 New Power

Zhu Jingyuan went through the handover procedures with the former Chief Secretary of Jianghuai, and officially assumed the post of Chief Secretary of Jianghuai.

Just like the administration training in the previous stages, Zhu Jingyuan also did not directly intervene in government affairs this time, but first began to investigate the local situation from two levels.

I took a few secretaries to look through various data files in Jianghuai Province.

At the same time, let Lin Zexu arrange a group of reliable secretaries to visit the entire Jianghuai Province.

Screen different types of counties, towns, and streets, and consult local official archives.

If you find officials with the same surname and close household registration in the same yamen, ask and confirm their relationship and register.

County-level supervisors and secondary officials are low-level officials. The key is that local people cannot be officials in the local area. It is basically impossible to form a traditional clan and family power in the place where they work.

Moreover, if officials above this level have traditional relationships with each other such as clan, master-student, or in-laws, they are usually directly disclosed, and most of them will take the initiative to avoid suspicion.

On the contrary, ordinary officials in the county government, townships, and streets below the county-level chief officials can all hold posts in the local area, and have the opportunity to form a strong local clan power in a certain place.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's experience, this kind of officials at the lowest level who are oriented to ordinary people may have a very bad impact on the local people once they form a group of clan forces within the official system.

Zhu Jingyuan is going to do a detailed general survey for the time being, and at present it is just a rough random sampling to check whether this situation exists in the local area and whether it is universal.

Even so, it will not be completed in a short period of time. Whether it is searching for, screening and rushing to the appropriate Yamen, or asking for and querying, sorting out and confirming data, it will take a lot of time.

After Zhu Jingyuan arranged the order, he was ready to continue looking at the data of Jianghuai Province.

But after watching for a while, Zhu Jingyuan realized a problem.

Now that I want to do this kind of investigation myself, I can check the family member information of the other party according to the household registration information corresponding to the name.

Household registration information based on the family is obviously convenient for oneself to find out the clan relations groups that may exist in the system.

If I abolish the household registration management system in the future, and use the personal general education examination certificate that does not directly reflect the household registration and family information as the identity registration level, it will be impossible to do so...

Therefore, even if the general education examination certificate system is fully promoted, it seems that it is not appropriate to completely abolish household registration information...

Probably, this is also the reason why I always kept the household registration book based on the family in my previous life?

Family household registration information can visually confirm the kinship of a family.

It's not necessarily a bad thing for ordinary people.

However, if the household registration information is not abolished, how to completely eliminate the inherent ethnic differences?
How to avoid different cities from treating people with different household registrations differently?
Simply erase this information on the household registration?

Zhu Jingyuan put down the file at hand, thought carefully for a while, and felt that he could only do this.

But this matter is at least five years later, or even ten years later, so there is no need to rush to make a decision for the time being.

Zhu Jingyuan temporarily put this matter behind him, and continued to look at the data of Jianghuai Chief Envoy.

It has to be said that Jianghuai Province is really the richest province in Ming Dynasty, and it seems that it should not be one of them.

Just looking at the economic data, the province of Jianghuai is comparable to the major countries in Thailand and the West.

Royal consortiums, government-run consortiums, and private manufacturers all have a lot of industries.

As the true confidant province of Ming Dynasty, it is now a thriving scene from top to bottom.

Simply looking at the data, there is no problem at all.

But even if you can't see the problem, it is necessary to simply look at the data and know the situation of this identity.

Zhu Jingyuan continued to browse patiently.

However, just two days later, Zhu Jingyuan hadn't finished reading the documents he had read, when he suddenly received a message from the Ordnance Department.

The good news starts right off the bat:

After years of continuous research and experiments by Daming Airlines, Royal Flying Machinery Company, and the Ordnance Department, a turbojet engine with practical value was finally produced, and the design and flight test verification of the supporting new aircraft were completed.

Then he went on to add that the piston engine using turbocharging and water injection afterburner, the piston engine using the turbine energy recovery system, and the turboprop engine have now completed the installation test flight verification.

However, when turbojet engines are already practical, relevant researchers are somewhat confused about the future development direction of airlines, so I hope Zhu Jingyuan can give some instructions.

If possible, Li Rui hoped to report the situation to Zhu Jingyuan in Yingtian Mansion.

Apart from family members and senior and subordinate officials related to government affairs, craftsmen related to scientific research are also a small number of people who know Zhu Jingyuan's whereabouts.

Zhu Jingyuan often directly contacts and exchanges various ideas and discusses various issues with them.

Like this time.

However, in most cases, it will not be serious enough to discuss directly in person.

It may be that this question is particularly important, or it may be because Zhu Jingyuan just arrived at Yingtian Mansion.

The aviation industry research and development center and engine production center in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty are located in Yingtianfu.

Looking at this request for instructions, Zhu Jingyuan couldn't help feeling sorry for himself.
It has been more than ten years since the first year of Ankang, and the craftsmen of Daming finally made the jet engine.

This is not just a successful experiment, but "has practical value".

According to the standards of the Ming Dynasty Ordnance Department, if necessary, it can be directly mass-produced and installed.

A proof-of-principle machine with the goal of being able to operate has been produced a few years ago.

This is of course great news. The aviation industry of Ming Dynasty can start to fully develop the turbine power steering.

But looking at the second half of the news, Zhu Jingyuan also understood the entanglement of the relevant craftsmen very well.

Turbocharging and water injection afterburning systems, and more importantly, turbine energy recovery systems, these horsepower boosting technologies for traditional radial piston engines, have only reached the same maturity in the past two years.

Zhu Jingyuan can imagine that the output power of the engines in these technical states may be very close...

Moreover, it has been less than 12 years since Daming's aircraft officially took off to the sky, and has been continuously and rapidly changing under his own guidance.

The most critical replacement part is of course the engine.

According to the standards proposed by Zhu Jingyuan and the judgment of relevant craftsmen, after the practical use of the turbine recovery system, the piston jet engine is now truly mature.

But the real core craftsmen also know that Zhu Jingyuan said ten years ago that the future belongs to the Jets.

Now the radial piston engine seems to have finally matured, but it seems that it is time to be eliminated.

They remembered that Zhu Jingyuan seemed to have anticipated a similar situation at the beginning, but the relevant person in charge is very entangled now.

Some of them have a sense of chagrin that "this decade of piston engines has been wasted".

The point is that some degree of disagreement has emerged within the artisan group, and Zhu Jingyuan's guidance is urgently needed.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that Li Rui seemed to have misunderstood what he meant.

So Zhu Jingyuan basically asked the secretary to reply to Li Rui without much hesitation.

Ask him to bring a few core craftsmen to Yingtianfu directly, and by the way, bring all the planes that use the latest engines.

Li Rui immediately organized the main craftsmen in charge, and flew to Yingtian Mansion the next day.

Li Rui and other craftsmen took a high-end business-only airliner. The flight took less than two hours on the road, and Li Rui and his party did not feel tired after landing.

Li Rui and his group, together with the few planes they brought, did not go to Yingtianfu's regular airport to land, but went directly to Yingtianfu's aviation experiment base.

Zhu Jingyuan also went directly to the test site. In front of the window in the lounge, he looked up and watched five planes from the north land on the apron of the test site.

The largest four-engine passenger plane is the business jet that brought Li Rui and his party over.

Of the remaining four, three of them are typical small single-engine propeller aircraft.

The last one is a bit special, the overall fuselage is quite smooth, and the wings have obvious swept angles.

There are no propeller engines hanging out from the nose or wings of the plane.

Instead, the rear of the fuselage continuously spewed flames backwards.

This is a turbojet engine, and the engine is directly installed at the rear, and the overall shape is very mature.

Obviously, the overall design idea of ​​this aircraft was directly provided by Zhu Jingyuan.

Rear twin engines, intakes on both sides, swept wings.

However, Zhu Jingyuan only mentioned such a direction, and the specific design was completed by craftsmen.

In the study of fighter jets, the early immature design of the wing-mounted engine similar to Meteor and ME262 was directly skipped.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that Li Rui and his party should be very urgent, so he didn't wait for them in the lounge.

Zhu Jingyuan went directly to the tarmac of the test site, and met directly under several planes.

When Li Rui saw Zhu Jingyuan, he instinctively bowed his hands and greeted him.

Zhu Jingyuan returned the salute casually, and the two sides had greeted each other:

"There is no need for red tape. Li Gong will tell me the situation directly."

Li Rui was familiar with Zhu Jingyuan's personality, and immediately introduced the four planes that came this time to Zhu Jingyuan:
"These three traditional aircraft have the same airframe, and they are all Type [-] fighter jets that have just been finalized. The only difference is in the engine.

"The prototypes of the engines of the first two planes are also the same, both are mature twin-row eighteen-cylinder radial engines.

"The engine of the first aircraft used turbocharging and water injection afterburning technology.

"The weight of the engine is 150 kilograms, and the power in level flight is about [-] horsepower.

"The engine of the second plane uses turbine energy recovery technology, and its power in level flight is [-] horsepower.

"The engine is slightly heavier, more than 1000 kilograms, but the power is also slightly higher, and the unit fuel consumption is also slightly lower.

"The third plane, although it looks like a propeller plane, has actually replaced the engine with a turbine-powered system.

"The weight of the engine is also 1000 to [-] kilograms, but the level flight power has reached more than [-] horsepower.

"The turboprop engine with a weight of [-] kilograms that we have tested can achieve a power of more than [-] horsepower.

"There is no doubt that the turboprop engine, compared to the traditional piston engine, has almost doubled the power density.

"At the same time, because the structure is simpler, after maturity, the maintenance will be even simpler.

"The only downside is that the fuel consumption is slightly higher than that of a turbocharged piston engine.

"But in the face of doubled energy density, this little fuel consumption is not worth mentioning at all.

"The weight and space saved by the engine can allow for greater range with only a fraction of that spent on fuel."

What Li Rui narrated will definitely have a huge shocking effect on the pilots and commanders of this era.

Li Rui himself admired in his heart that the turbine power system that His Royal Highness Prince Dashi arranged ten years in advance is really too powerful.

But at the same time, Li Rui's expression and tone did not show much surprise or admiration.

On the contrary, there was such a tangled helplessness.

Because the first two engines that are obviously going to be eliminated are also matured by him with a little bit of tossing.

Almost seven years of hard work have been in vain.

What makes Li Rui even more complicated is that the new propeller engine, which is sure to eliminate the traditional piston engine, seems to be eliminated simultaneously by another research completed at the same time.

With a particularly tangled mood, Li Rui looked at the last plane without a propeller:
"The last aircraft, the turbojet engine, was completed this year.

"It uses two 'turbojet modified' engines, and the normal thrust of a single engine is about 1000 to [-] kilograms.

"The thrust of a turbojet engine cannot be directly equivalent to the power of a propeller engine, but it can be roughly converted and compared under certain conditions.

"The thrust of 1000 and [-] kilograms is roughly equivalent to the thrust formed by a [-]-horsepower propeller engine, and two sets are nearly [-] horsepower.

"One engine weighs about 1000 kilograms, and the total weight of the two engines is almost [-] to [-] kilograms.

"The power density of a turboprop is double that of a piston prop, and the power density of a turbojet is double that of a turboprop.

"Such surging power makes the maximum speed of this jet directly exceed [-] kilometers per hour.

"Our researchers believe that as long as we continue to optimize the shape or engine technology and increase the engine power, its speed may directly exceed the speed of sound.

"Under such a huge gap, the previous different types of propeller engines seem to be meaningless.

"The key is that these three aspects of research have been basically synchronized in the past few years."

When Zhu Jingyuan saw Li Rui's report, he roughly guessed where these craftsmen were thinking.

Now I listened quite seriously to Li Rui's thoughts, and then asked back with a smile:

"Li Gong, although everyone is a member of the Ordnance Department, we can't just consider military use.

"What about civil aircraft? From small private aircraft to agricultural aircraft, what type of engine is better?

"Jet engines are good, but can they be used by ordinary people and farmers?
"Even if you only consider military use, you can't just consider fighter jets and bombers.

"There are also transport aircraft, small transport aircraft, what type of engine is more suitable?

"Compared to jet engines, propeller engines also have their advantages.

"Compared to turboprop engines, piston propeller engines also have their advantages."

Li Rui said rather embarrassedly:
"Your Highness... we... actually didn't think of this.

"Compared to piston engines, turbo-helical engines are easier to maintain, which is actually for military and official agencies.

"For ordinary farmers and enthusiasts, the internal combustion engine structure of the piston engine is actually easier to maintain.

"All kinds of propeller engines can indeed play a role in the civilian market and or military small transport aircraft.

"But... our craftsmen are all developing the most advanced military fighter engine.

"It turns out that now it seems that the energy wasted in vain, and too many resources were wasted..."

Zhu Jingyuan seemed to understand what Li Rui and others were thinking:

"Li Gong, and all the great workers, don't feel sorry for this matter.

"Without your hard work over the past ten years, what aircraft engine should we have used in the past ten years?
"You can't say that you feel full after eating the third steamed bun, but you feel that the first two steamed buns are wasted.

"Don't say that after riding a bicycle for ten years, after suddenly changing to a car, you feel that the bicycle you used in the previous ten years has not carried you?
"Also, don't look down on small transport aircraft and the civilian market.

"In an environment where there may be no chance of another large-scale war in the future, the civilian market is the real core market.

"Also, in order to meet our design targets, the relevant technologies that have been tackled in the design process over the years can only be used on specific engines, right? Can they be used in other possible related industries?

"Finally, it is about small and medium-sized transport aircraft, which actually has a very important purpose.

"Now that our radio detection technology is rapidly maturing, we can begin to develop land-based and ship-based special early warning aircraft.

"In my vision, this kind of aircraft is the command center of the battlefield and the eyes of the large fleet, which is very important."

(End of this chapter)