Valley Emperor

The internal combustion engine and the engineering vehicle and transportation vehicle project that Li Xuan personally promoted.

Its core purpose is not to let all the people of the Tang Dynasty own a car or something. This goal is unrealistic, at least not for 20 years or even longer.

Even though Datang has been industrialized, the prices of various machinery and equipment are still very high, and the machinery and equipment using internal combustion engines, regardless of whether it is a car, a truck or an engineering vehicle, will be very expensive in the short term. Private cars If so, it is very difficult to bear except for the rich and powerful.

This is why Li Xuan promotes the application of internal combustion engines on engineering vehicles and transportation vehicles for industry, agriculture, transportation and production.

Of course, military vehicles can also be developed on this basis.

As for the private car, Li Xuan basically doesn't care, let them do it on their own.

Anyway, as the economy rises year by year, people's income rises, the manufacturing cost of cars falls, and after the selling price falls, there will be a market, and businessmen are always sensitive to the market.

Even without Li Xuan's personal promotion, the private car business can grow rapidly when the market matures.

As for now, it's too early.

According to the instructions of Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, the state-owned enterprise department of the empire led the establishment of Songjiang Machinery Co., Ltd., and began to pre-research various types of construction machinery using internal combustion engines. Among the many sub-projects they launched, the most important thing was excavators.

Excavators are nothing new in the Tang Dynasty. Since the development of steam engines, especially the appearance of high-pressure steam engines with greatly reduced size and weight, the application of high-pressure steam engines is not only in factories, trains, and ships. The above three It's just a relatively large impact, and people are more familiar with the application field of steam engines.

In fact, the application of the steam engine has penetrated into all aspects of the Tang society.

Loading and unloading operations in ports have long been equipped with steam engine-driven hoisting equipment. When hoisting various large parts in shipyards, steam engine-driven hoisting equipment is also used.

In terms of land transportation, with steam engine-powered tractors, it is worth noting that part of Datang's local tractor business is used in agricultural production, while the other part is used in transportation, especially in the transportation of heavy goods. big advantage.

Many forest farms in remote areas use steam tractors to transport logs.

There are even construction equipment such as excavators powered by steam engines, which are used for railway construction, mining of large mines and even the construction of canals.

The Panama Canal is trying to introduce steam excavators, but the import and export committee has been dragging it, neither approved nor rejected.

The people from the Import and Export Committee are also watching the wind. There have long been rumors in Jinling that the Empire is preparing to adjust its import and export policies.

As for other adjustments, the people of the Import and Export Committee do not care about one of them, that is, the relaxation of restrictions on the overseas use of some engineering equipment.

Of course, this relaxation of restrictions is not without restrictions, but is prepared to take special cases, one case at a time, only for some projects that play an important role in the empire's global strategy. Come back, even if it is scrapped, you have to pull it back.

This process will be supervised by the supervision officers of the Import and Export Commission throughout the process.

When the project is finished, not a single screw can stay in the place!

This is not because of the lobbying of private capital, but purely because of Datang's need to build military bases around the world.

Datang has a huge overseas territory on a global scale. Not to mention other places, only in Europe, Datang already has thirteen colonies (North Africa, not including Ceuta), most of these colonies are also used. to serve as a military base.

In the ordinary construction of military bases, there is no problem in using indigenous labor, but many projects cannot be done even with human lives.

For example, the construction of military ports, especially the construction of deep water channels and wharfs, cannot be completed without the help of construction machinery and purely by manpower.

In addition, the restricted use of this special event can also be regarded as a small opening for the construction of the canal.

The Empire had already built a canal in Panama and was also negotiating with the Ottomans over the ownership of Egypt.

The importance of these two Grand Canals is self-evident as they are related to the development of the empire's overall global strategy.

However, the Panama Canal has been under construction for several years, and many indigenous laborers have been mobilized, but the construction progress has been very slow. According to predictions, if this continues, no matter how many laborers die, it is estimated that it will take more than 20 years.

Twenty years is too long, and the Empire cannot afford to wait. That's why the Canal Construction Company tried to introduce machinery and equipment to speed up the construction progress.

The same waters as the Suez Canal.

In order to start the construction of the Suez Canal, the Tang Empire has already transferred its fleet to Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, for exercises.

In October of the thirty-eighth year, the Suez garrison of the Ottoman Empire attacked the Tang merchant ships under the pretext of the Ottoman Empire. For this reason, they dispatched a fleet of troops carrying a mixed regiment of troops to bombard and land in Suez, and then actually took control of the Suez area.

Of course, this is not a war, just a small-scale local armed conflict~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In this small-scale armed conflict, which is insignificant to the empire, a mixed combination of the Datang Army and the Marine Corps jointly formed The regiment's infantry did not even meet the opposing defenders.

Because before the mixed regiment launched the landing, the fleet's intensive artillery bombarded the entire city of Suez to pieces!

At that time, the landing fleet consisted of only one cruiser and two frigates, plus three offshore patrol ships, making a total of six battleships.

The guns carried on these six warships must be very few in the era of smoothbore guns. In the era of smoothbore guns, a thousand-ton battleship can carry dozens of artillery pieces, and a two-thousand-ton battleship can carry dozens of artillery pieces. Hundreds of artillery pieces, six battleships down, at least there are hundreds of pieces of artillery pieces.

However, the six battleships of the Tang Dynasty carried only more than 30 naval guns, of which only two 150 mm naval guns.

More are 120mm and 75mm naval guns.

But these more than 30 naval guns, in a short period of time, they fired more than 2,000 rounds of artillery shells at military targets such as the local army's barracks and artillery facilities. These are all cylindrical high-explosive grenades with large charges. .

Those garrisoned troops hadn't reacted yet, and they didn't even notice the arrival of the Datang fleet, and their barracks had been directly blown to pieces by the intensive artillery fire!

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