Having said this, he paused and then said with emotion: "But in the final analysis, the reason why the imperial court can take advantage is because of your help, science and technology can develop vigorously, thus allowing the imperial court to rapidly improve its strength!"
Liu Weichao laughed after hearing this. No, the development of science and technology starting from the Industrial Revolution has brought about great changes in human society in just a few hundred years. It is far from the slow development of agricultural society before.
Not to mention, the current Emperor Chongzhen has himself given him some advice, which is equivalent to accelerating the natural development of technology many times in history. This kind of golden finger is not that kind of fantasy to normal human society.
In the human society of high martial arts, it is definitely the biggest golden finger.
While he was thinking about it, he heard Emperor Chongzhen say to Liu Weichao with excitement: "Several beloved ministers have been studying day and night. Now some parts of the internal combustion engine can be mass-produced on the assembly line. The cost has dropped a lot. Assembling the parts of the internal combustion engine can be used."
The speed is much faster than the previous manual work. Tell me, where can I apply the internal combustion engine to better?"
Liu Weichao was not surprised by this. In fact, most of the industrial machines before the 20th century could be built by hand by the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty. The only difference was how much time and cost it took to build them.
It's not that kind of high-tech internal combustion engine. It's foreseeable that Daming's skilled craftsmen would have no problems building it.
Hearing Emperor Chongzhen's question, Liu Weichao thought for a moment and then said with a smile: "If you want to attract attention and shock the world, you can first apply the internal combustion engine to the manufacture of aircraft. However, gas may be inconvenient to store. There are comparisons
There are many problems; and if you want the internal combustion engine to generate value as soon as possible, I think it can be used in agricultural machinery, reducing the total amount of agricultural machinery and making it suitable for more terrains."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen quickly asked: "That means that if I build an airplane, it would be more convenient to use a gasoline internal combustion engine?"
Upon hearing this question, Liu Weichao knew that Emperor Chongzhen actually wanted to build an airplane.
So, he put his mobile phone on the mobile phone holder, then briefly searched it on his computer, and then introduced it to Emperor Chongzhen: "The first airplane in history was invented by the Western Yi. For the first airplane that was created from scratch
In terms of the difficulty of manufacturing an aircraft, there are mainly three issues: wings, engines, and how to control the aircraft, and how to solve the problem of controlling the aircraft is particularly difficult and important."
After a pause, Liu Weichao said with a smile: "With my help, the wings and how to control the aircraft will not be difficult for you. Your bottleneck is the engine. The engine of this first aircraft in history is
A four-cylinder water-cooled gasoline engine. I have never built an airplane myself, but I think this is the most basic condition for making an airplane!"
Emperor Chongzhen listened, and it was obvious that he was very excited. After waiting for a moment, he said: "In that case, I will first let them familiarize themselves with the manufacturing of internal combustion engines, and the built gas internal combustion engines will be used to power agricultural machinery.
, it happens that there is a large-scale reclamation in the Hetao Plain, and there is a shortage of manpower, so we can use it first. Then, let them start the petrochemical industry. There is open-air oil in the northwest, so I will send people directly.
Go over there and set up a petroleum branch of the Academy of Sciences?"
Of course, Liu Weichao would not interfere with this idea, but just reminded him: "If we set up the Petroleum Branch of the Academy of Sciences over there, if they have any problems, they will not be able to get timely advice from me through you."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately changed his mind and said, "Then I'd better have someone send the oil to the capital!"
Liu Weichao was a little speechless when he heard this. He originally thought that Emperor Chongzhen would say that as long as the complete set of information was given to them, they would not need much guidance. Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen changed his mind directly...
Forget it, if you rely on yourself, just rely on yourself, oh, or if you don’t use yourself, you won’t use it?
Thinking about this, Liu Weichao didn't mind, and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "It seems that there is oil here in North China. I have heard about it, but I don't know if the oil is easy to mine or if it is open-air. I will check later. If
If it is easy to obtain, it will be much more convenient for you."
When Emperor Chongzhen heard that he was overjoyed and wanted to change his former self, he would definitely urge Liu Weichao to go and investigate immediately. However, now that he is somewhat more restrained and able to prioritize things, he was not in a hurry. At this moment, he did not urge Liu Weichao immediately.
"By the way, if you want to vigorously develop the Hetao Plain, the railway must be built there, and you must also be prepared to be attacked by the hostile Mongols!" Liu Weichao thought of another thing and reminded Emperor Chongzhen.
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded immediately and said: "I have already sent an order to the governor of Yansui and the governor of Xuanda, asking them to prepare to build a railway to Guihua City this year. After capturing more Mongolian prisoners next year, the construction can start!
"
Building railways requires a lot of labor. Although there are railway soldiers under the name of the Railway Department, the manpower is still insufficient. There is a sweetness in using prisoners. Emperor Chongzhen has already tasted it, so naturally he will not give up this unnecessary use.
No, he immediately went on to explain to Liu Weichao: "The purpose of vigorously developing the Hetao Plain is to stabilize the grassland situation. Several groups of people transferred from the north have marched west and east, surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and those who are willing to submit will move there.
The Hetao Plain has lived a life of a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry. If those who are unwilling to submit and dare to go against the Ming Dynasty, then let them build the railway!"
When Liu Weichao heard that Emperor Chongzhen had already made plans, he said no more.
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When they were talking about what happened on the grassland, far to the west of the Mongolian grassland, there was a huge Ming cavalry army, still heading west.
At this time, it is already early autumn. The wind blowing on the western Mongolian grasslands is already a bit cold. It is estimated that it will probably snow soon.
In the resting camp, several generals gathered together and were talking.
One of the older students said with emotion: "The changes in the imperial court are really great! If it were in the early years of Chongzhen, we Qin border soldiers would have to sell our sons and daughters to prepare for the winter!"
"Who says otherwise!" Another person continued, "Every winter, life is very sad. It is really difficult to be hungry and cold. But look at now, we are all dressed warmly, and we are not worried at all.
These things!"
A general who was obviously younger heard their conversation and came over with great interest and said: "Clothes are very cheap now. I heard that the emperor invented darts and so on, which greatly reduced the cost!"
"You Li Laiheng, you are really unlearned and unskilled. It's not a dart, it's a shuttle!" The older man immediately laughed and said something, then turned to look at the general opposite him and said: "Let me tell you something.
Zhihu, I suggest you let your adopted son study more? This will be good for him in the future!"
A tiger, that is, Li Guo, was Li Laiheng's adoptive father. Hearing Tian Jianxiu's words, before he could speak, Gao Yigong next to him said: "Forget it about the imperial examination, but if
Come to Heng to study a new type of course. I think there will be a future in the study of physics taught by the emperor."
"No, I won't go!" When Li Laiheng heard this, he immediately shouted, "My head hurts!"
When Li Guo heard this, he immediately glared at him and said, "We won't talk about it since we are older. You are still young. If you don't learn more, what are you going to do? Go back and get close to the military supervisor.
This will allow you to open up more niches and learn more!"
Li Laiheng suddenly grimaced after hearing this, but before he could speak, Gao Yigong sighed again and changed the subject: "When you mentioned the supervisory army, it really opened my eyes. It turns out that the supervisory army actually
It’s really a long time to do such a job!”
In their impression, military supervisors are generally aloof, and even the commander must fawn over them. Most of the time, they are either civil servants or eunuchs.
As a result, I didn't expect that now the imperial army would all appoint Jinyi Guardsmen as supervisors, and there were more than one.
These imperial guards usually did not interfere with military command, but reports of military merits required the signature of the supervisors. In addition, what surprised them even more was that the supervisors actually taught singing and literacy in the army. Throughout the dynasties, but
There was no such thing, and it was an eye-opener for Gao Yigong and others who were recruited.
After hearing this, Li Guo also sighed with emotion: "That's why I said that the combat power of the imperial army has suddenly become very strong! If it had been like this in the past, we wouldn't have rebelled!"
"Well, Emperor Taizu has appeared. How can we not change?" Tian Jianxiu heard this and interjected, "I think back then, when we founded the Ming Dynasty, it was under the command of Emperor Taizu that the Ming army fought from south to north, from south to north.
Fighting from east to west, the Mongolian Tatars were beaten to a pulp. Either they had to surrender or they fled in confusion. Haha, we now seem to have returned to those days!"
His words made everyone very excited. Making great achievements, as far as the west is concerned, and reappearing the Han and Tang Dynasties are of course the most popular among these soldiers.
After Gao Yigong heard this, he turned to look west and said at the same time: "I wonder how Ma Huihui is doing? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
When Li Laiheng heard this, he immediately responded: "How about I go and take a look? Can I help you?"
After hearing this, Li Guo turned to look in the direction of the central military tent and said, "This matter depends on what Uncle Ning Yuan wants! Otherwise, let's go meet together and see how Uncle Ning Yuan arranges it?"
The nominal commander of this Western Expeditionary Army was the Governor-General of the Trilateral Region, but after far away from Shaanxi, the actual commander was Ning Yuanbo Li Dingguo. Just like the Luzon Expeditionary Army was nominally the governor of Fujian, but the actual commander was Zheng Zhibao.