Inside the Academy of Sciences and the Vehicle Research Institute.

The person in charge, Yue Shan, scratched his head anxiously, his sparse hair falling down one by one.

If this continues, in a few years, Yue Shan won't even have to wash his hair, and he can save some money on lights at night.

The imperial court has spent a lot of money and resources. Anyone who Yueshan needs, no matter what your reasons are or what projects you have in hand, will put down your work and immediately come to cooperate with Yueshan's arrangements.

Within this year, Yue Shan could be said to be the most popular figure in the entire Academy of Sciences.

The limelight was gone for a while, and even Wang Ji had to speak cheerfully when he saw Yue Shan.

Not to mention the heads of other departments, they would bow their heads even more when meeting Yue Shan.

As long as you can please Yue Shan, you can get certain projects from Yue Shan.

Although it may not necessarily have anything to do with my own professional project, in the current context, staying alive is the most important thing.

Besides, you can also get some experience and research, and the property rights of the things you develop are half and half with those of Yueshan.

No matter what, as long as we can attract projects, we can at least guarantee that there will be certain profits in the future.

However, others only saw the infinite scenery of Yue Shan, but did not see the hair that Yue Shan lost behind his back.

I couldn't sleep the whole night, and even my dreams were about cars.

But one problem delayed him for a whole year without any solution.

Despite investing a lot of money and using a lot of manpower and material resources, scientific research progress has almost stopped. This result obviously makes Yue Shan full of anxiety.

"How did it turn out?" Seeing his apprentice walk in, Yue Shan asked expressionlessly and without any emotion.

"Failed..." The apprentice looked slightly disappointed.

They have experienced scenes similar to today's scene countless times.

You can still get some reaction once or twice, but after countless times, no one will be too excited.

There is nothing to be excited about. The only thing that can really cause them to have a wide range of emotional fluctuations is hearing the word success.

"Got it!" Yue Shan nodded, his mind completely blank.

This is so fucked up to say the least.

Yue Shan was excited at the beginning, but after problems occurred, Yue Shan was still very optimistic.

I think that after investing a lot of resources, this problem can be solved quickly even through trial and error.

As a result, this delay lasted for one year.

The vehicle has actually been designed a long time ago, and several prototypes have been made.

However, such a vehicle obviously cannot be mass-produced and used.

As for the shape of the vehicle, Yue Shan adopted Wang Buxu's suggestion.

It is a tractor with a bucket.

This form has the advantages of this form. Although it doesn't look so good, it has many uses.

When farming is busy, tractors can be used to plow fields, and when farming is slack, a tractor can be attached to it for transportation. In today's context, the wider the scope of use, the more prospects there are.

It is obviously impossible to use wooden wheels for this kind of vehicle, as the bearing capacity is not enough.

In order to solve this problem, Yueshan designed the vehicle with two different styles of wheels.

One is the front wheel and rear track. The front wheel is made of iron frame, and the outside is wrapped with a layer of wood, and then some grooves are carved on the wood to improve the grip.

The center of gravity of the entire vehicle lies on the track body at the rear, so the main function of the front wheels is to control the direction.

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Similarly, due to the shift of the center of gravity, the sensitivity of turning is a big problem, and the control is not that simple.

The other one is purely wheeled, but the wheel looks similar to a water wheel. Wooden boards are added to half of the area to increase grip, and hollows are used in other places.

The advantage of this design is that for a steam engine of the same size, the speed is faster, the steering is easier, and the power provided is also stronger.

But the problem is that the loss of the wheels is also very large.

The purpose of using wooden boards is to facilitate replacement. It does not need to use too many steel resources. You can replace it by cutting a wooden board yourself later.

The disadvantage is that due to the weight of the car body and the fact that the wheels are not solid, the wheels will deform after being used for a period of time.

Although Yueshan later solved this problem by changing the wheel structure and adding support points.

The improvement is quite obvious, but it will still deform after being used for a long time.

The length of use time has a great relationship with the use environment.

Therefore, both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

After this plan was reported, Wang Buxian directly approved the adoption of both plans.

The crawler type continues to optimize the front wheels, with the goal of facilitating control and minimizing the turning radius.

The main customer of this type of vehicle is the military. Although the power is not as good as the wheeled type due to structural reasons, the advantage of the crawler type is its strong passing ability.

No matter what the weather is, no matter what the terrain is, he can walk.

What if the speed is slightly slower?

It’s better than lying down when it rains and goes to a place with bad terrain, right?

The other kind of wheeled one is mainly used for agriculture and internal transportation needs.

But it also needs to continue to be optimized.

This approval is a reassurance for Yue Shan. It is best to optimize it. If it cannot be optimized, just take your time. At worst, produce this first and upgrade it later.

What Yueshan can do is to constantly optimize the structure of the vehicle itself.

Then, based on your own situation, you will send your change opinions to various departments, allowing them to optimize or redesign according to their own requirements.

To put it simply, the design structures of the tractor prototypes currently appearing in the Academy of Sciences are not complicated.

After all, they can't do anything too complicated now.

According to Yue Shan's idea, the first step is to make him run and work.

Then make changes little by little and upgrade.

This is a long-term plan, not something that can be accomplished in one or two years.

This idea is correct and has been recognized by Wang Buxu.

Therefore, the structure of these first batch of tractor prototypes was a vehicle chassis, equipped with a steam engine, four wheels, small at the front and large at the rear, with purely mechanical steering.

What is the current level?

It is directly linked to the front wheel linkage through the steering column.

There is no need to turn several times when turning. It can only be turned to a position of 60 degrees in one direction at most. If it is any more, it will hit the chassis.

The power connecting rod from the steam engine is directly connected to the rear wheel.

Some technical problems are solved through direct connection. Although it is laborious to operate, this structure is the least likely to cause problems.

And even if there is a problem, the problem can be discovered and solved as quickly as possible.

Other than that, it's just a driver's seat.

Driving requires two people, one to operate and one to add coal.

There are only brake pedal and accelerator pedal below, and the principle is very simple. When you step on the accelerator pedal, the baffle of the power output compartment will be opened, and steam will enter and start operation.

Then there is a reversing device. Although the speed is a bit slow, it is really convenient to have this thing.

It stands to reason that such a good design, such a simple and convenient design should be mass-produced soon.

But who would have known that there was no reversing at the beginning, and now even reversing has been developed, but the problems encountered by the steam engine have not been solved.

What's the biggest problem now?

On a steam engine of course.

And there are many problems encountered.

For example, the problem of air leakage...

Another example is the problem of excessive friction...

They added various lubricants to deal with this problem, but the situation can only be said to have improved, but it cannot really solve the problem.
Chapter completed!