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After all, the current gasoline market is still too small, even in a few years' time, the gasoline market will not be as big as there.

Of course, they will not ignore it, but the investment scale is smaller, and gas stations are also established in some key cities.

It can also be seen from the reaction of Imperial Oil Company that the successful development of gasoline engines and the emergence of automobiles have brought more than just a car.

What it drives is the development of an entire industry and the upgrading of the entire industrial system.

In this regard, even Li Xuan attaches great importance to it. In the new round of the Imperial Cabinet meeting, he emphasized that it is necessary to do a good job in guiding and supporting new industries related to gasoline engines.

Fight for the early days to make cars an important part of the empire's land transportation.

Li Xuan didn't say anything about letting every family own a car within a few years.

Because in Li Xuan's view, the biggest role of a car in a short period of time is not to replace those ordinary passenger carriages, especially private carriages, as a means of transportation, but to replace horse-drawn trains and construction machinery powered by various steam engines. in industrial production and transportation.

As for the field of private private cars, it is good to go with the flow.

Anyway, in the field of passenger transport alone, Datang has no shortage of horses now, and there is not much urgency for private cars.

On the contrary, in the field of industrial production and transportation, despite the development of industry, it is increasingly difficult to meet the needs of domestic industry and commerce by relying solely on horse-drawn carriages.

The steam engine tractor is too bulky and difficult to use on a large scale.

The car is to replace the above two, as the best weapon for industrial production and transportation.

At the imperial cabinet meeting, the focus was also on how to develop gasoline engine-related industries and integrate them into the empire's industrial system to provide strength for the development of the empire's industrial system.

Of course, although the private car field is not the focus, it will not be ignored or suppressed, and the policies that should be given will also be given, but don’t expect the empire to invest much financially to support it.

At the meeting of the imperial cabinet, Li Xuan passed the support plan for the research and development, production and application of internal combustion engines proposed by the Ministry of Commerce.

The program has many clauses, but the core is to provide all-round policy and financial support in the research, production and application of internal combustion engines.

Especially in many fields such as industry and national defense.

Although this policy focuses on the defense and industrial fields, it does not give much support to the private automobile field.

However, many aspects of the two are the same.

For example, the Xihu brand car, after it adopts luxury decoration, is a luxury car, but if those decorations are removed, only the most basic power and body structure and necessary protection are retained, then it is the 'Type 41 armored vehicle ordered by the military.

Another example is the Qixiang brand two-wheeled car, which is a toy for the rich and famous in the private market, but in the hands of the army, it is military equipment and is called a Type 21 car.

At the same time, there are still three-wheeled vehicles that have not yet been launched on the market and are in the final stage of perfecting their design. These vehicles have not yet been equipped. The military has already given the models and determined them to be Sany vehicles.

In the support policy, there is support specifically for national defense vehicles, so these two companies with ordinary vehicles as their core products can also receive support.

But the biggest beneficiary is Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company.

Because this company is the only company in the empire that specializes in all kinds of heavy machinery and equipment powered by gasoline engines.

Although they haven't launched any mass-produced products yet, their multiple research projects have attracted the attention of the entire empire.

Many domestic enterprises are paying attention to them, because the product positioning of Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company is very clear, that is, all kinds of construction machinery, as well as medium and large gasoline engine power for industrial use.

Among all kinds of construction machinery, excavators and bulldozers are the representatives, but in fact, the core they pay more attention to is the power of gasoline engines for various industries.

In this era, the fields in which gasoline engines can be applied are very broad. Basically, gasoline engines can be used in areas where steam engines can be applied, but gasoline engines can still be used in areas where steam engines cannot.

This is why a large number of domestic companies are staring at Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company.

Because they all want to keep up with the times and purchase these heavy machinery and equipment for industrial upgrading.

It is worth mentioning that the military is also paying attention to them!

The military is watching them because one of their products is still in the works.

Gasoline tractor!

Or to use a more accurate term to describe it as a 'gasoline crawler tractor'.

The company has previously experimented with designing steam-powered track tractors to increase the tractor's terrain adaptability.

But unfortunately, the steam machine is large and heavy, and it is difficult to adapt to it.

However, after the gasoline engine appeared, it was different. After the gasoline engine was replaced, a crawler tractor could be produced.

In the eyes of the military, the products of Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, Qixiang Automobile Company, and Zhongyuan Automobile Company are all light-duty vehicles, and a small and medium-sized gasoline engine with that little horsepower is useless.

That piece of shit, can't even mount the artillery.

What the Army wants is a combat vehicle that can be equipped with artillery, have some armor protection, and maintain off-road mobility!

A real chariot!

The gasoline tractor project of Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company is very appetizing to the Army.

If this thing has enough load capacity, it can be equipped with a gun.

It's a pity that there is still a concept for the time being, and I don't even know when the prototype car will be produced.

Because almost all the spare parts ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, especially the gasoline engine, have to be developed from scratch.

At least, the performance of this gasoline engine has to continue to be greatly improved. The two-cylinder will not work, and the four-cylinder or even the six-cylinder gasoline engine is estimated to be barely usable.

But these are not important. The important thing is that the Army saw the hope of a real chariot from this design plan. Therefore, Songjiang Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.'s gasoline tractor project won the Army's research and development contract not long after it appeared.

Interestingly, people in the army didn't even know that the design of this gasoline crawler tractor developed by Songjiang Prefecture was also derived from Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven.

Last year, Li Xuan sent unofficial instructions through the Hanlin Academy to see if he could get a tracked vehicle.

Otherwise, in fact, Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company will not engage in such an obviously advanced project.

They already have a project with a gasoline tractor, a wheeled tractor that is much less technically difficult than a crawler.

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