Li Xuan strode in front, followed by a large number of important civil and military ministers, and almost all of these people were looking forward to it.
Under the influence of Li Xuan, coupled with the various benefits brought by advanced technology, the imperial court of the Tang Empire now attached great importance to scientific research.
Because with more advanced guns, more land can be conquered, with better medicines, more diseases can be treated, and with better machinery and equipment, more products can be produced.
Most of the people present are aware of the huge strategic significance of high-pressure steam engines. Even if they didn't know it before, most of them have temporarily learned about it now.
Of these ministers, the ones who are most looking forward to and excited are the officials from the Ministry of Industry and the generals from the Navy!
Officials from the Ministry of Industry are excited because once the high-pressure steam engine is successfully developed, the train plan can be launched smoothly. When the Beijing-Zhenzhen Railway they have worked so hard to build is completed, the trains may be directly used instead of directly prepared.
The carriage is here.
Once the Beijing-Zhenzhen Railway is successfully put into operation, the Ministry of Industry will quickly launch more railway plans. They even proposed a slogan some time ago: Build a hundred thousand miles of railway for the empire!
Their Hundred Thousand Mile Plan is also quite weird. They directly drew a line between many cities, and then drew a huge spider web on the map of the empire. This is the origin of the Hundred Thousand Mile Plan, and then it was
Li Xuan cursed when he saw it. If the railway planning can just be drawn on the map, then you can just get out, because I can find any cat or dog to draw it, and there is no need for you officials from the Ministry of Industry.
Although the 100,000-mile railway plan is a little weird, their intention to build a national railway network is real. Now various planning plans and even preliminary surveys have begun, first the Jiangnan Railway Plan, and then the North-South Railway Plan.
The railway plan will then be extended based on the Jiangnan Railway to build an East-West Railway!
To put it simply, it is to build a cross railway with Jinling City as the center.
Then use this cross railway as the backbone to build branch railways, and finally form a basically complete railway network.
The Ministry of Industry's railway plan is ambitious, but it is all based on the smooth development of trains, and the premise of the train is a high-pressure steam engine.
So it is normal for them to focus on the research and development of high-pressure steam engines.
The navy also pays attention to high-pressure steam engines, because the navy's generals all dream of getting a warship that can operate without wind!
Once the steam engine can be used as ship power, it will bring a complete innovation to the navy, an innovation that will allow the Imperial Navy to dominate the global seas!
People from the Ministry of Industry and the Navy understood the importance of high-pressure steam engines. Although other ministers did not pay such attention, they also knew the importance of high-pressure steam engines.
Now they can't wait to see the Royal Institute of Technology develop a practical high-pressure steam engine that can be mass-produced.
With a group of important civil and military officials behind him, Li Xuan walked up to the steam engine project research and development building. In front of the building, Lin Hui, the leader of the steam engine research and development project team, was already waiting with his people!
Before Li Xuan could get closer, he led others forward and bowed!
"I respectfully welcome the Holy Master!"
Li Xuan took two steps forward and personally helped Lin Hui up: "Chen Aiqing, please get up quickly!"
Then he looked around and said with the same kind face: "My dear friends, please get up quickly!"
Seeing that Li Xuan was so kind and even helped Lin Hui and others up personally, this moved a group of researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology, especially several junior students who had just joined the project team for a short time. This was their first time.
Seeing Li Xuan for the first time, I was even more excited now.
Liu Ping, who followed behind for inspection, was filled with emotion when he saw that the Holy Emperor treated these scientific researchers so favorably.
In the past, I didn't know why these scientific researchers would raise their tails to the sky. But today, I see that they really have the capital to raise their tails to the sky.
Today, in both the government and the public, the number of ministers who can be helped up by Li Xuan himself can be counted with a slap, and this Lin Hui is one of them.
It is well known that the Holy Emperor attaches great importance to scientific research. The important ministers in the court know that Liu Ping is an official of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and the executives who actually work in the company also know it.
But knowing it is one thing, but seeing it with your own eyes is another.
Seeing such a scene, he understood why the teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology were able to come up with so many inventions, even the almost impossible high-pressure steam engine.
There are also many R&D personnel in Zhaoqing Machinery Company. Their own steam engine R&D personnel clearly told Liu Ping that with the current technical capabilities, it is impossible to build a high-pressure steam engine. Liu Ping asked them if it can't be done now.
, so when can it be done? The answer given by the researchers is twenty years!
However, today the Royal Institute of Technology has developed a high-pressure steam engine!
Before, he was curious about how he could get it out?
Now that he sees how seriously Emperor Sheng attaches importance to researchers such as Lin Hui, he knows why he was able to figure it out!
Under the personal care of Emperor Sheng, the progress of the research and development of high-pressure steam engines cannot be understood by common sense, because under normal circumstances, it is impossible to invest a huge amount of research funds for more than ten years in one project, which is more than three million.
It's not 30,000 or 300,000, but more than 3 million. In the past ten years, Zhaoqing Machinery Company's total net profit has not been this much!
But these are no longer important. What is important is that now the Royal Institute of Technology has developed a high-pressure steam engine. Now what Liu Ping has to do is to obtain the patent authorization for the high-pressure steam engine as soon as possible, and then set up a production line for production, and grab
ahead of other competitors.
You must know that Zhaoqing Machinery Company is not the only machinery company in the Datang Empire. After so many years, stimulated by the rapid development of domestic industry and commerce, the demand for various types of mechanical equipment is getting higher day by day. Once there is demand, there will naturally be
Someone is making related investments.
In order to increase the supply and healthy competition in the domestic machinery and equipment market, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has successively established five independent machinery manufacturing companies. Not to mention the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, even private capital has rushed in and established almost countless companies.
Various machinery and equipment companies.
Most of them are small and medium-sized machinery companies, which are not a problem, but AIA Machinery Company in Tianjin is a big rival. The establishment of Tianjin AIA Machinery Company is also very interesting, because this company is a joint venture of five graduates of the Royal Institute of Technology.
Founded!
It is really big news that the graduates of the Royal Institute of Technology do not enjoy the glory and wealth, but run out to start a business. So these people want to start a business, but the company has not yet been registered, and a large number of people are just waving
I want to invest in the stock with my check!
Finally, when AIA Machinery Company was established, the registered capital reached 500,000 yuan. All these 500,000 yuan were invested by businessmen. More importantly, the total shares held by the businessmen who invested 500,000 yuan were
It’s only more than 20%. The five founders’ team, who are graduates of the Royal Institute of Technology, account for more than 70% of the shares. Well, they didn’t pay a single copper!
This situation is also closely related to the special operating mechanism of the Royal Institute of Technology!
What is Royal Institute of Technology?
From a business perspective, this is a comprehensive R&D institution that develops various new technologies and survives by selling various patent licenses.
From the perspective of the education industry, this is currently the most high-end educational institution in the empire, recruiting a large number of geniuses to engage in teaching and scientific research.
From a political point of view, this was the engine of the empire's industrial and commercial development and the driving force for the empire's external expansion!
In Li Xuan's mind, the only meaning of this organization's existence is to copy the many technologies he described, including steam engines, steel battleships, trains, internal combustion engines, electrification facilities, etc.
Regardless of the above, it has led to the most special university in the empire, its incomparable desire for talents, and its strictness!
Only true geniuses can be admitted to this school!
The number of freshmen admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology varies from over 100 to more than 300 almost every year. There is no limit on the number of places. In fact, there is no limit on the number of places. As long as you can pass the admissions examination
, then you can enroll.
It's a pity that only about one or two hundred people can pass the examination every year.
And all is not well for these students who have passed the exam, because the Royal Institute of Technology adopts a drop-out system. Freshman and sophomore students who fail to pass the promotion exam for three consecutive years will be dropped out.
There are only 20 to 30 people who can successfully pass the promotion exam and finally graduate as senior students every year.
In other words, out of about two hundred freshmen each year, only a dozen percent will graduate successfully, and the rest will be eliminated one after another.
However, even these people who dropped out of school are still very popular. Administrative agencies and major companies are willing to hire them with high salaries. Those who are willing to be officials can become officials, and those who are willing to get high salaries can go
In major companies, those who are willing to teach and continue research can also work in various schools.
Generally speaking, however, most of them prefer to teach in various universities in order to continue their research.
Well, currently, 50% of all lecturers and professors at Jinling University are from the Royal Institute of Technology.
In the end, only about 15% of the students can successfully graduate, and there are only about 20 or 30 students each year. Even for the entire Royal Institute of Technology, there are only more than 300 lecturers who have graduated from the school.
Now that five graduates from the Royal Institute of Technology have come out and said they want to start a business, no wonder those businessmen pounced on them like cats that smelled a fishy smell!