Nine hundred and ninetieth eight chapters gasoline
Li Zhi smiled and said: "These are just subsidiary products, the really powerful things are upstairs."
Li Zhi took Cai Huaishui to the upper floor. After waiting for a while, he saw a transparent red liquid gradually dripping from the pipe. The liquid had a pungent smell, but it was not the same as the smell of asphalt.
Same.
Li Zhi smiled and said: "This is called diesel."
Cai Huaishui asked: "What is diesel?"
"Diesel is a heavy-duty fuel oil that is relatively viscous and has high energy density."
"What is fuel oil?"
Li Zhi laughed and said: "Fuel oil is used for burning. Although this diesel is inconspicuous, it burns with extremely high heat. The heat provided by diesel per unit weight is about 1.5 times that of coal.
If we use this kind of fuel oil to drive our tanks, we can put less fuel on the tank and the tank's dead weight can be reduced a lot."
Cai Huaishui nodded, looked at the pungent diesel, and asked, "Your Majesty, could this be the main product of this refinery?"
Li Zhi pointed to the upper floor and said: "Up above, let's continue going up."
When they reached the fourth floor, the two saw that some liquid had begun to leak from the pipes there.
The equipment had already been prepared on the table next to it. Li Zhi filled a small bottle with some liquid, inserted a cotton strip into the liquid, and lit the cotton strip with a little fire sickle.
"This is called kerosene. It is a very good lighting oil. Although we have begun to use electric lamps in big cities, most rural areas still do not have electricity for the time being, so they still use tung oil lamps. As a vegetable oil, tung oil is very expensive.
. And the kerosene extracted from this kind of petroleum can completely replace tung oil."
"It has great economic benefits. People who were only willing to light a tung oil lamp for their whole family can now light a kerosene lamp in every room of their house."
Cai Huaishui folded his hands and said: "This fierce fire oil comes out as soon as you dig it out of the ground. The price is indeed much lower than tung oil. It is an economical and practical good thing."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Let's go upstairs. The most powerful thing is on the fifth floor."
The two walked directly to the fifth floor. After waiting for a while, they saw liquid flowing out of the pipes on the fifth floor.
"Your Majesty, what is the most powerful thing?"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "This is gasoline. With gasoline, we can make internal combustion engines."
"In a while, when the level of our machine tools improves, we will be able to produce internal combustion engines at the level of the mid-19th century. Internal combustion engines use gasoline as an energy source. The machines are lighter, rotate quickly, and are more efficient. They are suitable for driving small
mechanical."
"In the future, our tanks can be driven by internal combustion engines. Their weight will be greatly reduced and their forward speed will be faster. Today's steam tanks can only travel three kilometers per hour, but in the future the speed will be at least doubled."
Cai Huaishui asked in surprise: "So, the internal combustion engine is a more advanced machine than the steam engine?"
Li Zhi nodded and said: "Of course! But we can't produce it now. The gasoline will be stored first. When the internal combustion engines are mass-produced, we can use it directly."
Cai Huaishui looked down from the guardrail on the fifth floor and said: "Your Majesty, after your refining, this fierce fire oil has turned out so many treasures. This oil refining industry must be a profitable industry. Should we hurry up?
Time to build more refineries and mass-produce various products?"
Li Zhi patted the guardrail and said: "I don't want to organize this refinery into a state-owned enterprise. Let's hand it over to private production."
"The refinery is actually high-temperature fractionation, and the production process is very simple. If we want to keep this simple process secret for a long time, the cost of confidentiality will be very high. Moreover, our state-owned enterprises under the Ministry of Industry are too large, and the larger the enterprise, the higher the management cost."
The higher it is, the more the gains will outweigh the losses.”
"It would be better to set up a patent fee and let private companies join in for large-scale production. Products such as asphalt, lubricants, and kerosene are urgently needed by the market. Private companies can get immediate results if they invest. This industry can also help us cultivate
A group of qualified entrepreneurs have emerged."
Cai Huaishui hugged his chest and said: "It may not be a good thing if there are too many entrepreneurs."
Li Zhi said: "With more entrepreneurs, the market in our one town and nine provinces will be more active, and the efficiency of industry and commerce will be higher. Why isn't that a good thing?"
Cai Huaishui said: "Things must be reversed at the extreme. If this entrepreneur is too rich and powerful, he will naturally think about seeking an official position, and even want to evade taxes like the gentry in Jiangnan. So I think this is not necessarily a good thing."
Li Zhi looked at Cai Huaishui and said with a smile: "This is not a big problem. The most important thing in our town and nine provinces is military merit. The military aristocrats we promoted have guns in their hands. It is still easy to suppress these entrepreneurs.
of."
Cai Huaishui cupped his hands and said, "The prince has his own plans, but his subordinates are unfounded."
Li Zhi nodded and said: "Our town and nine provinces are following the Prussian path. Entrepreneurs are just the lubricants of society and cannot become our ruling class."
Cai Huaishui was stunned when he heard the word Prussia. After thinking for a while, he seemed to have seen these three words somewhere before. Finally, he handed over his hand and said: "Your Majesty is wise!"
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In the arsenal, Cao Yu excitedly handed a brand new Jinwang rifle to Li Zhi.
"Your Majesty, we have achieved full mechanical production of Jinwang rifles, and all key parts are mass-produced using machine tools."
Li Zhi took the rifle and opened fire.
Castor oil was put on the gun, and Li Zhi pulled it back and forth twice, and it felt very smooth.
Of course, castor oil is not a qualified lubricant. Now that there are oil refineries, in the future, lubricating oil fractionated from petroleum will be used for rifle gun lubrication.
Li Zhi walked to the small shooting range outside the arsenal, took a paper-cased bullet from Cao Yu, and loaded the bullet into the rifle. He aimed at the target fifty meters away and was about to shoot, but was stopped by someone beside him.
Company commander Zhang Yu stopped him.
"Your Majesty, if the air leaks and burns your face, it will be terrible. Let me test it!"
Li Zhi nodded and handed the rifle to Zhang Yu.
Zhang Yu raised his rifle and fired the bullet with a bang.
Sure enough, the bullet hit the target. What surprised both Zhang Yu and Li Zhi was that there was not much gas leakage from the machine-made Jinwang rifle.
Zhang Yu looked at the rifle from left to right and said: "This is better than the one produced by hand."
Cao Yu laughed loudly and said: "Of course, as long as the precision of mechanized production is achieved, the deviation during production will be smaller than that of manual work!"
His eyes were bright and he said: "Your Majesty, we can start mass production of Jinwang rifles immediately, and the Huben soldiers will have one in their hands within a year."
