Since the Royal Institute of Technology developed the high-pressure steam engine, many machinery companies such as Zhaoqing Machinery Company and AIA Machinery Company have also spent a lot of effort to compete for the patent authorization of the steam engine.
At first, they planned to spend money directly on Tianjin AIA Machinery Co., Ltd., which is a purely private enterprise and has not been listed on the market. They only need to spend money at the same time as the board of directors. They didn't have to worry too much and just quoted a high price.
But in the end, the patent licensing tender plan announced by the Academic Affairs Office of the Royal Institute of Technology surprised many people.
Because this time the patent authorization will not charge too much patent authorization fee in the early stage, but will be based on profit sharing. As for the early stage authorization, it only requires 10,000 yuan.
Although the share ratio is high, it doesn't mean anything.
The key thing is that this bidding puts forward extremely high requirements for the manufacturer's production technology!
They require manufacturers to have sufficiently advanced equipment and skilled technical workers.
In the end, among so many machinery-related companies across the country, only three companies met the conditions. One was naturally Zhaoqing Machinery Company, a leading company in the domestic machinery industry, and the other was Tianjin AIA Company.
The last one is very surprising, this is the Qingdao Naval Shipyard!
Qingdao Naval Shipyard is not an ordinary enterprise, but a shipyard within the navy. Because it is a military industry, it is not open to the outside world and is only responsible for building and repairing warships for the navy.
Many people don't know that the various steam engine test ships of the Navy in the past many years were actually responsible for the Qingdao Naval Shipyard. At the same time, this shipyard is also the only institution within the Navy that researches steam engines. It is quite mature in steam engine technology.
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As for the equipment, although it is not available yet, it is not a problem at all for the Navy. The Navy has already prepared diversion funds internally to upgrade the steam engine factory of Qingdao Naval Shipyard.
After the Qingdao Naval Shipyard emerged, it put Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin AIA Company under pressure!
Because they all know that the biggest market for this kind of high-pressure steam engine in the future is transportation, especially battleships and trains!
As for general industrial use, to be honest, current high-pressure steam engines do not have much cost advantage. Today's high-pressure steam engines are expensive, the technology is not very mature, and the cost of use is still relatively high.
Domestic factories have been using low-pressure steam engines for many years. It is not easy for factory owners to replace steam engines on a large scale.
As for trains, this is something that will only happen in the future. There are not many railways nowadays. The railways in Beijing and Zhenzhou have not been repaired yet. Even if all steam engines are used, not many of them will be used!
The only one who has an urgent need and doesn't care about the high price and high usage cost is the Navy!
But now that the Navy's own naval shipyard is developing steam engines, what will Tianjin AIA Company and Zhaoqing Machinery Company do?
For the same quality and the same price, people will definitely use their own products. Even if the quality of their own products is worse and the price is higher, they will probably use their own products.
The Royal Institute of Technology doesn't care what type of naval shipyard it is. As long as the technical conditions can be met, then they will authorize it. Anyway, they only charge patent licensing fees, and they don't care about the rest.
Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin AIA Company were also authorized. Then these two companies turned around and went to the Navy to make trouble. What are you talking about? Your Navy has built its own steam engines. How can we survive? Can we survive?
If you go down, you will have to close the factory, and then your naval shipyard will be the only one left. It depends on what you do in the future.
The top brass of the Navy are not stupid either. They naturally know that these two companies say they are crying, but in fact they are telling the Navy not to engage in monopoly. If you want the Navy to do it on its own, then I will not build ship-based steam engines and go to industry and
Let the trains and steam engines go and let you navy have fun on your own.
The senior leaders of the Navy naturally know that eggs cannot be put in the same basket. Although the Naval Shipyard is their biological son, Zhaoqing Machinery Company and AIA Machinery Company are also godsons. They cannot only care about their biological sons and ignore their godsons.
Otherwise, if the godson stops playing and only the biological son is left, what if the biological son dies?
That would be completely over.
For this reason, after internal discussions among the top brass of the Navy, a plan was put forward, that is, the eggs cannot be put in the same basket as the shipyards that build large-tonnage battleships. In addition to Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard and Qingdao Naval Shipyard, now the Navy is also
Just like supporting the Jiangnan Shipyard, the Navy needs to maintain at least three large and powerful shipyards.
The same is true for naval guns. The Navy purchases naval guns from the three major weapons companies in order to allow the three major weapons companies to maintain the production capacity and research and development enthusiasm for large-caliber naval guns.
Similarly, the Navy also needs to maintain at least two or even three manufacturers that can build shipboard steam engines.
Subsequently, the Navy placed formal orders with these two companies and purchased shipboard steam engines from each of them. Although the number was not large, only five units per company, this sent a clear signal that the Navy
We will still support Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin AIA Machinery Company.
The patent authorization has been obtained, and the Navy has officially placed an order for ship-based steam engines. Everything is ready and all it takes is Dongfeng. Liu Ping immediately waved his hand and immediately transformed the production line and built a high-pressure ship-based steam engine production line.
At the same time, it is also preparing to build a high-pressure steam engine for industrial use.
The train's steam engine was not put down either.
This is true for Zhaoqing Machinery Company, and it is also true for Tianjin AIA Machinery Company.
At the end of July of the 18th year of Xuanping, the Tang Dynasty Newspaper officially reported the news of the successful development of a high-pressure steam engine, which immediately aroused heated discussion among some people. The reason why they were called ordinary people was because of this scientific and technological breakthrough.
, not everyone cares.
After our spacecraft landed on the moon in later generations, few people discussed it. People talked more about actors who were neither male nor female, or who paid attention to the trivial matters in their daily lives.
Today's Datang Empire is actually similar. Ordinary people don't pay much attention to the breakthroughs in science and technology, but ordinary people don't pay attention to them, but those in industry and commerce pay a lot of attention to them.
The most obvious thing is that those who had previously invested in Zhili Railway Branch Company, a subsidiary of Datang Railway Corporation, were all laughing because they knew that when the high-pressure steam engine came out, the rumored train would not be far away.
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Once the train runs successfully, the railway will be a money printing machine!
Zhili Railway Branch is not a listed company. It only raises funds by issuing stocks and corporate bonds to institutions. However, many other related companies are listed companies!
The first thing that was reflected in the stock market was steel shipping. The steel industry, represented by Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, saw continuous sharp increases.
First? Because the high-pressure steam engine and the train appeared, then railway construction will set off a great climax, which requires a lot of rails!
Secondly, there are log supply companies in the timber industry, because railways require a large number of sleepers!
Next is the coal industry. Because of the emergence of high-pressure steam engines and the application of trains and steam warships, a large amount of coal is needed. It is natural for the stocks of coal companies to rise accordingly.
Therefore, although many people still don’t understand what a high-pressure steam engine is and what changes it will bring to the world, there will never be a shortage of smart people in the world, and smart people will always keep up with the times and make their own
Their choice caused the stocks of some industries in the stock market to rise sharply, allowing them to earn more money.
In August of the 18th year of Xuanping, the higher-ups of the empire did not even pay much attention to the war in the Northeast. Anyway, the Northeast was like that. The Army had sent several good news in a row. The Army had already defeated more than 100,000 soldiers.
The 100,000-strong Chahar Tribe and the cavalry of the Three Duoyan Guards are currently engaged in continuous in-depth operations to pursue the remaining enemy forces and completely sweep the Liaohetao area.
According to the Army Privy Council, it is expected that the war in the Liaohetao area will be completely ended in September. By then, there will be no large-scale alien tribes in the entire Northeast. In the next two months, before winter comes, the Northeast Expedition Command will
The subordinate troops will advance the front to the Heilongjiang River Basin, and then rest and recuperate for the winter, waiting to continue their raids next year.
This is already a mopping up operation, so naturally it cannot attract the attention of the court!
Now everyone in the court has been attracted by the big traffic improvement plan proposed by the Ministry of Works!
The Ministry of Industry proposed that since the high-pressure steam engine has been developed, the Royal Institute of Technology has also developed a steam engine specifically for trains. After completing the design, it has entered the final production stage. It is expected that in September, the first
Steam trains will be tested.
At the same time, the construction of the Beijing-Zhenzhen Railway has also entered the final sprint stage. If nothing goes wrong, the Beijing-Zhenjia Railway, which has been delayed many times, will be fully completed in October.
At that time, the Beijing-Zhenzhen Railway will surpass the stage of horse-drawn carriages and directly use steam trains!
Based on this, the Ministry of Industry proposed that it is time to build railways on a large scale!
In order to make the railway develop faster and better, the Ministry of Industry proposed to increase the issuance of corporate bonds by the Zhili Railway Branch and directly obtain large-scale loans from banks to raise at least 10 million yuan for the construction of the Jiangnan Railway.
Jiangnan Railway is expected to extend the Jingzhen line to Shanghai first, and then to Hangzhou.
At the same time, it extended westward from Jinling, built a railway to Dangtu, and then extended it to Jiujiang.
This forms the super-large railway from Jiujiang to Hangzhou: Jiangnan Railway!