Chapter eight hundred and forty seventh comprehensive fuelization
The trucks launched by Dongfang Machinery Company are relatively expensive in terms of purchase price and usage cost. Generally speaking, only enterprises will purchase them for production and transportation needs.
But as the Daheng Empire is so big, there are companies or some farmers who have demand for such trucks. For these production and transportation tools, the high purchase price is nothing.
You have to know that agricultural machinery represented by gasoline tractors are not cheap, costing thousands or even thousands of dollars. And agricultural machinery and equipment are not just one type, there are many other types.
If you want to have all the supporting facilities, it will cost several thousand hengyuan at least, or even tens of thousands of hengyuan.
Some small and medium-sized farmers in Daheng often need bank loans to purchase such expensive agricultural machinery and equipment.
However, since farmers dare to seek bank loans to purchase these agricultural equipment, it is because these agricultural equipment can bring them more profits. In the past, when horses were used for plowing, the cost of using the draft horses was actually very high, and
It requires more manpower, and the effect of horse plowing is also average. It can only be planted extensively and harvested lightly. The yield per acre is actually very average.
With the introduction of mechanical equipment, the draft horses can be thrown aside. The most important thing is that the same manpower can cultivate more areas of land. In the past, when a family used horse farming, they could only cultivate one or two hundred acres, which was more than 100 acres.
It's only four to five hundred acres. If it's more, you'll have to hire someone.
But with the advent of mechanical equipment, one person driving a gasoline tractor can do all the work that used to take several people and horses to do in minutes.
This means that the scale of the farm can be expanded rapidly, further diluting the cost of agricultural machinery, and ultimately making more money.
Well, this large-scale use of agricultural machinery also directly led to a substantial increase in the output value of agricultural products in the Daheng Empire, because the scale of cultivated land increased significantly.
As for the lack of land, it is impossible for the time being. The Daheng Empire has nothing but plenty of land. There are large tracts of wasteland in the central and western regions that can be reclaimed. Any citizen of the Daheng Empire can go to these remote places and pay a small amount of land.
You can farm it for a fee, and after a certain number of years of farming, the land will be yours directly.
Among the more than seven million square kilometers, one-third of the country's land area is more than two million square kilometers of arable land. This is no joke!
Farmers dare to buy agricultural machinery because agricultural machinery brings more profits, and the same goes for companies purchasing trucks because they can bring more profits.
As for the field of passenger transportation, it goes without saying that cars have been around for several years. There are tractors and trucks on the streets, but there is still no market for private cars.
Even before, some companies tried to enter the field of public transportation and developed gasoline-powered buses, but nothing happened...
In the Daheng Empire, public transportation is not very good except in big cities. Public transportation in big cities mainly relies on urban railways, tramcars, trams, etc.
Especially in recent years, trams have developed rapidly. Their advantages such as low operating costs and large passenger capacity are unmatched by current buses.
So after struggling for a period of time, there are no more companies bothering with buses.
The automobile still needs to continue to develop in both private and public passenger transport.
In the field of internal combustion engines, the Daheng Empire can be said to be unique within the entire Blue Star. Even if other countries have the technology, they do not have huge market support. Even if they have a market, they still have to consider oil supply.
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After all, a very important point in the Daheng Empire's development of internal combustion engines is based on the fact that the Daheng Empire is the largest oil producer in Blue Star.
Except for the Daheng Empire, the oil production of other countries is not very high. Even the Republic of Kean, which discovered the large Kean Oil Field a few years ago, is actually not very high in oil production now, because it was not long after the discovery of the oil field.
War broke out in the region, and multiple factions in the Garfia Empire, the Kingdom of Lieji, and the Republic of Ken participated in the war.
The war severely affected the production of the Kenn Oilfield.
The lack of oil production capacity has directly led to many countries wanting to develop internal combustion engines. Even if they have the technology and market, it is still very difficult.
This is the same as the oil-fired boilers used by ships.
Everyone knows that using oil-fired boilers can make battleships have better endurance and greater power.
But so far, except for the Daheng Empire, which has widely adopted oil-fired boilers on new warships, other countries, even the Kingdom of Krul, have not followed suit.
It's not that they lack technology. In fact, the Kingdom of Krul developed pure oil-fired boilers earlier than the Daheng Empire.
They have the corresponding technology. They have even used oil-fired boilers on some light warships, and the results are very good. However, they still have not used pure oil-fired boilers on new warships.
There is only one reason, that is, they cannot ensure oil supply!
Nowadays, fuel-injection-assisted coal-fired boilers are widely used, and their huge fleet needs to consume huge amounts of oil every year. If the pure fuel mode is adopted, the oil supply of the Kingdom of Krul cannot be satisfied at all.
This has to be said to be a very embarrassing thing.
The Daheng Empire does not have these concerns.
Since the use of pure oil-fired boilers on many light battleships, and the results have been good, which means that the development of pure oil-fired boilers has matured, the Daheng Empire Navy has directly adopted oil-fired boilers on new main battleships.
Nowadays, a series of new warships under construction in the Daheng Empire all use pure oil-fired boilers, and coal-fired boilers have completely become history.
The use of pure oil-fired boilers directly allows the warships of the Daheng Empire Navy to reach a higher level of maneuverability, directly leading the world.
During Lin Ziran's inspection in autumn and winter, he went to Quping Naval Base and saw a heavy cruiser that had just been completed at Quping Naval Shipyard, the Matsukaze, the first ship of the Matsukaze-class heavy cruiser.
This ship is actually a power-upgraded version of the Kawakawa-class heavy cruiser.
The ship layout, naval guns, protection, etc. have not actually changed. Even the steam engine in the power system has not changed. However, the boiler part has been changed from an oil-injected coal-fired boiler to a pure oil-fired boiler. The result is,
Its maximum speed has been directly increased from the previous 26 knots to 27 knots.
At the same time, the battery life has been increased by more than 20%.
This is also the Daheng Empire's first pure oil-fired boiler main battleship completed and put into service, and the increase in speed brought about by its sea trials has further strengthened the Daheng Empire's navy's determination to promote full-scale fuel conversion.
However, this is actually not the focus of Guo Dongyan's inspection. The focus of Guo Dongyan's inspection at Quping Naval Base is actually to inspect a top-secret test ship: the destroyer Anxiao.
At first glance, the appearance of this destroyer is no different from the Guanglin-class destroyer that has been widely used in the Daheng Empire. In fact, this battleship itself was developed from the Guanglin-class improved destroyer.
The reason why this ship is special is because it is the first test ship for the Daheng Empire’s top-secret steam turbine project!
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