Based on Fang Xiaoyue's previously demonstrated strong research capabilities, in the opinion of the elders, the special plane should not be far away from them.
After testing the prototype here, Fang Xiaoyue rushed to the oil refinery without stopping.
For now, the technology of petroleum refineries can only separate petroleum into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and asphalt. Further separation and refining requires technical accumulation.
However, he did not come to the oil refinery to study oil refining technology. He could just leave these small things to the apprentices to study. It is impossible for him to do everything, right?
Wouldn't that mean raising a bunch of giant babies?
He went to the fuel engine R&D team next to the oil refinery to check on the situation.
The key reason why the prototype crashed to the ground after flying more than 100 meters was that the fuel engine was not very good.
No way, although there is information from later generations, the manufacturing of fuel engines was not very smooth due to metal materials and other reasons.
After the fuel engine R&D team inspected and solved some technical difficulties that the apprentices could not solve, Fang Xiaoyue hurriedly entered the oil refinery.
Compared with airplanes, fuel engines, etc., oil refining technology is the top priority for the rise of Xinghai Kingdom!
You know, the petroleum industry supported most of the industrial system in later generations.
For Xinghai Kingdom, the most critical thing is to extract cracked butene from petroleum to realize artificial rubber technology!
After all, it will take more than six years for rubber plantations to produce natural rubber.
In these six years, it is impossible for Xinghai Kingdom not to develop, right?
Therefore, before the emergence of natural rubber, it is king to make as much artificial rubber as possible.
Besides, although there is still some performance gap between artificial rubber and natural rubber, it is enough for the Xinghai Kingdom for the time being.
Since the Yaliba Kingdom has begun to produce oil, and the two newly repaired oil tankers have made a round trip, sending back 20,000 tons of oil, and went to the Yaliba Kingdom again.
This allows the refineries in Xinghai Kingdom to have sufficient raw materials for production.
For this reason, Fang Xiaoyue basically lived in the oil refinery for more than a year, leading his apprentices to seize the time to research oil cracking technology.
Thanks to the high intelligence attribute among the basic attributes, Fang Xiaoyue is beyond ordinary people in this aspect of research.
At least I think much faster than others.
As a result, one year later, oil cracking technology finally achieved a breakthrough.
As petroleum cracking technology progresses and butene begins to be produced, artificial rubber is not far away.
In later generations, researchers who knew a little bit about chemistry knew that artificial rubber could be made using sodium catalyst.
It's just that this process still needs to be repeated multiple times.
At this time, Xinghai Kingdom had built many more overseas ports.
The port in the west has been built near the Suesi Canal in later generations. Some elders of the Senate even clamored to dig out the Suisi Canal to facilitate the Star Sea Kingdom's fleet to enter the Imperial Sea bathtub.
To the south, with the assistance of the Tu'ao fleet, an immigrant team has begun to establish a port somewhere south of Tu'ao.
Well, the point is that the bauxite mine in the north of Tuao has been successfully put into production, and a large amount of high-quality bauxite is being continuously transported to the aluminum processing base in Changjiangkou via transport ships.
The reason why this aluminum processing base was built at Changjiangkou was mainly to provide nearby power supply.
After all, considering the electricity consumption of the aluminum processing base, it is not economical to be too far away from the hydropower station.
The seventh hydropower station on the Changjiang River has been built so far.
Cheap and environmentally friendly hydropower has largely made up for the shortage of coal power.
No way, although there is no shortage of coal now, and there is a lot of peat on the South China Sea Island, this thing is not suitable for steelmaking or anything else, it can only be used to generate electricity.
But coal power is always too unenvironmentally friendly.
Nowadays, due to the rapid construction in various parts of Nanhai Island, coal power is blooming everywhere.
Some elders who have higher requirements for living quality are very dissatisfied.
Take Xinghai City as an example. Since industry is concentrated around it, the number of coal power plants around it is also the largest on the island.
This also causes the carbon ash coming out of the chimneys of coal power plants to float everywhere every day.
Even the cement roads in the city have to be cleaned every morning by steam sprinklers. Otherwise, it would be too ugly to step on them one by one.
But unlike the dissatisfaction of the elders, the naturalized citizens living in Xinghai City proudly called this phenomenon the Black Gold Wind.
For them, this is a symbol of Xinghai City's wealth superior to other places.
Then Lingao and Chengmai want to put a layer of carbon ash on the road. Does it have the ability?
The Star Sea Kingdom has indeed become very powerful now.
In the mainland plus overseas ports, etc., the total naturalized population has reached an astonishing 1.17 million people, and the number of local indigenous people attached to each port has also reached as many as two million.
Well, these are not the only changes that have occurred in Xinghai Kingdom in the past year or so.
The first is that the military system has undergone some changes.
For example, in order to improve the combat flexibility of the troops, to unify command at a higher level and other factors, Xinghai Kingdom added a brigade-level organization under the division-level unit.
This also caused the division-level unit strength to jump from 3,000 to 10,000.
However, due to the serious shortage of total military strength, the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Xinghai State conducted a comprehensive reorganization of the army and navy.
The Army consists of two armies, of which the First Army has three divisions and ten brigades.
The first division consists of three brigades and one regiment, which are mainly responsible for the defense of the mainland of Nanhai Island and the front line of Jiaozhi. The second division and the third division have three brigades and one regiment, which are responsible for the defense or attack of the entire Ming Dynasty area.
The Second Army consists of three divisions and ten brigades, which are mainly responsible for the defense or attack on the front lines of Lusong, Tianzhu Nixi, and Tu'ao.
The Third Army also consists of three divisions and ten brigades, which are mainly responsible for the defense and offense from Suilan to the Kingdom of Ariba and the Suis Canal.
The navy has four fleets, the Northern Fleet is responsible for the coastal line of the Ming Dynasty, the garrison fleet is responsible for the mainland of the South China Sea Island and Jiaozhi, the Tu'ao Fleet is responsible for the line from Lu Song to Tu'ao, and the Malan Fleet is responsible for the line from Malacca to Suilan.
The Asia Minor Fleet is responsible for the entire line from Aliba to Suez Canal.
Of course, it can also be seen from the reorganization of the army and navy that the strategic focus of Xinghai Kingdom is still on the south for the time being.
After all, whether it is oil, bauxite, iron ore, etc., they will all be demanded from this direction.
In order to develop a series of resources such as high-quality iron ore and coal mines in Tu'ao, Xinghai Kingdom increased its immigration activities to Tu'ao during this year. A new port was built in the east of Tu'ao, a new port in the south, and a new port in the west.
Three new ports were built on the front side, while the north side remained unchanged.