When Li Xuan heard this, he took a high look at Qian Mu. He didn't expect that he was such a talented person that he could even develop a four-stroke thing.
As for the patent issue he is worried about, that is not a problem at all!
He immediately said: "Don't worry, I will make the decision for you. No one will compete with you for the patent. Let's talk to Lin Hui about this four-stroke!"
Hearing this, Qian Mu was relieved. At this time, he also realized that his reaction just now was a bit excessive.
Although the four-stroke patent is very important and he attaches great importance to it, when he mentioned it on this occasion today and thought about it carefully, he knew that it was impossible for anyone to compete with him to register this patent.
What kind of occasion is today? It is an occasion where the Holy Emperor is present. Even if the Holy Emperor is not here, this large group of civil servants and generals are all important officials of the empire. With them here, who dares to steal his Qianmu patent?
No one dares!
After an awkward smile appeared on his lips, Qian Mu said: "I obey the order!"
Then Qian Mu turned around and talked to Lin Hui about the four-stroke problem.
Lin Hui listened very carefully and asked a few questions from time to time.
He has been studying internal combustion engines for a long time. He actually knows more about internal combustion engines. He even proposed and perfected many detailed theories of internal combustion engines.
But theory is one thing, how to implement it is another.
A large number of professors at the Royal Institute of Technology have researched many theories, which are even far ahead of their time. For example, those perverts in the Department of Medicine have already had the theoretical basis of antibiotics. Have they developed antibiotics? No!
There is also the concept of aerial vehicles. They have already had the concept of hot air balloons and have even been able to make them, but they still cannot make a practical large-scale airship that can carry people and cargo.
As for the theory of airplanes, they have long known through experiments that objects with special shapes can generate lift under high-speed airflow, but can airplanes do it?
impossible!
Therefore, many professors at the Royal Institute of Technology do a lot of their research to be advanced, and far ahead of their time.
These advanced theories simply cannot be realized with current engineering technology.
The same is true for internal combustion engines in his opinion. He has been working on internal combustion engines for a long time. Based on many ideas of internal combustion engines proposed by Sheng Tianzi, he has successively proposed and improved many theories.
For example, fuel and air are mixed and burned
Another example is using the huge pressure generated after combustion to push the piston to do work.
He then perfected the compression of combustible mixtures to greatly improve thermal efficiency and at the same time increase the specific power of the internal combustion engine.
While perfecting these theories, he has been looking for various engineering designs to realize the above theories.
In the past few years, he has designed more than ten types of gasoline internal combustion engines, but none of them have been successful.
Either there is a problem here or there is a problem there, which is why research on internal combustion engines has remained at the theoretical stage for many years, and even experimental products that can operate stably have not been produced.
However, although Lin Hui studies internal combustion engines, he has never been interested in gas engines.
In the early years, he tried to use gas machines as a research direction, but found that there were too many limitations, such as the portability of gas and more importantly, safety, which were difficult to solve.
In addition, Emperor Sheng also asked him to study gasoline and diesel engines instead of gas engines, so in recent years he has completely turned to the research of gasoline and diesel engines.
However, whether it is gasoline, diesel or gas engine, the core theory is actually the same, and they all belong to the framework of internal combustion engine.
After listening to Qian Mu's introduction to the four-stroke, Lin Hui also discovered that the piston they used was actually different, it was an elastic piston.
This money is interesting, it is wasted doing research in such a small private machinery company!
So Lin Hui said: "You are quite talented in engineering design. Are you interested in working with me on internal combustion engines?"
After hearing Lin Hui's invitation, Qian Mu naturally agreed on the spot with a happy face.
Who is Lin Hui? He is the vice president of the Royal Institute of Technology and the Duke of the Tang Dynasty. Doing research with him will bring great benefits to Qian Mu.
Not to mention anything else, just saying that he and Lin Hui studied internal combustion engines together will greatly improve his academic reputation, not to mention that once he achieves results in internal combustion engines, it will bring even greater academic reputation.
And this kind of academic reputation is not just good-sounding, he may even get official recognition because of it, such as entering the Royal Academy of Sciences, or even reaching the top of scientists and receiving a knighthood.
While they were discussing, Li Xuan was still looking at the extremely primitive and crude gas machine.
Although the Navy says this is a naval chariot, it is actually just a four-wheel carriage with a gas engine installed, and even the frame is still wooden...
However, people from the Navy are still boasting: "We believe that this gas engine has reached the stage where it can be put into practical use. In the future, we will expand this gas engine and strive to reach more than 100 horsepower, so that
Armor and artillery can be installed on the vehicle body, and it can become a weapon for the Marines to charge into battle!"
If the navy wanted to do this, Li Xuan naturally didn't want to say anything.
Just as the Army insists on developing steam chariots, he will not stop the Navy from developing gas chariots.
Even if these two things are unlikely to be practical, many results can still be made after research, and these research results can also be applied to other fields.
For example, the Army's steam chariots actually have good body, track and even artillery designs. They already have the feel of primitive tanks. The only thing they lack is a high-power internal combustion engine.
Once replaced with a gasoline engine, it can be transformed directly into a real tank.
The same is true for the Navy's gas tanks. The power is not good, but that does not mean that other aspects of research are also not good.
So whether the Army was developing steam engines or the Navy was developing gas engines, Li Xuan just went with them, no matter how hard they worked, he didn't have to rest on his credit and wait to die.
Today, Datang has no enemies around the world, and the only enemy is itself.
If we want to continue to develop and move forward, what Datang needs to do is to constantly challenge itself.
Li Xuan is still very satisfied with the current situation in which the army and navy are unwilling to accept the status quo and constantly want to develop and challenge themselves.
Although he also knows that the development of the army and navy is more about guarding against each other, or a comparison mentality, but these are not important.
Of course, Li Xuan knew that before the emergence of practical gasoline engines, the military's tank plan would not make any actual progress.
Compared with chariots, today's small steam engines or gas engines are more practical in ordinary industrial and commercial fields!