But even if it is a copycat, it is not so easy, and everyone knows the telegraph theory.

But even if there are samples from other people's homes, it is not so easy for you to imitate them, such as the current 300 mm 30 times the caliber naval gun or 350 mm 30 times the caliber naval gun.

Everyone knows what these big guys look like, but there are few countries that can produce on the contemporary Blue Star.

After two years of tossing, the Royal Telegraph Company solved the problem of the production of telegraph equipment, but there were still many problems and high costs, so the early telegraph laying was very limited, limited to short-distance telegraph lines, and did not form a telegraph network.

This was another two years of tossing, until January of the ninth year of Qiansheng, the Royal Telegraph Company solved the problem of mass and low-cost mass production of telegraph equipment, and solved the last obstacle to the large-scale application of telegraphy!

In this way, the construction of cable telegraphs in the Daheng Empire is on the fast track.

If nothing else, in July of the ninth year of Qiansheng, the first long-distance commercial telegraph line of the Daheng Empire, that is, the telegraph line from Jingshi to Luohaicheng, will be officially opened and put into operation.

At the same time, more telegraph lines are being erected at a rapid pace.

After the limited telegraph, Lin Ziran asked the Royal Telegraph Company to continue to work hard and strive to get the wireless telegraph out as soon as possible!

The field of wireless telegraphy is still an emerging field on the Blue Star, and even now the theory is not perfect, which also gives the Daheng Empire a chance to overtake in a corner.

That's why Lin Ziran attaches so much importance to the Royal Telegraph Company!

However, judging from Lin Ziran's experience, even if he attaches importance to it, invests money, and even explains the basic theory, it is not so easy to get it out.

The field of electrification is an emerging field for countries around the world, and it is not so easy to do.

But no matter how difficult it is, the Great Heng Empire will not intervene and lag behind.

In the first stage of the industrial field represented by the steam engine, countries such as the Krull Kingdom have already occupied an absolute advantage and advantage, and even if the empire tries hard, it can only continue to catch up and narrow the gap, but it is difficult to catch up.

But it's different in the field of electrification, everyone is not doing well now, and the empire has every chance to overtake them and then get the lead.

Once it gains a head start in the field of electrification, the empire will be able to use the fruits of electrification to advance science and technology and productivity, and eventually surpass established powers such as the Kingdom of Krull.

In order to be able to take a leading edge in the field of electrification, in recent years, Daheng Empire has increased its investment in many aspects, and in the field of education, many universities such as Imperial College London have set up electrification colleges such as the School of Electromagnetism and set up many electrification research.

Nowadays, the research in the field of electrification on the blue star is still relatively shallow, even the electrification research of the Krull Kingdom, the first power, is at a very shallow level, and the scientists of the Daheng Empire are not much behind in the most cutting-edge theoretical research, if there is a deficiency, it is some basic technology.

To this end, the Imperial Academy of Sciences has allocated a large amount of special research funds to support the cutting-edge research of scientists in major colleges and universities.

In the field of electrification industry, with the State Assets Management Commission and the Royal Asset Management Committee as the main investors, it has successively invested in the establishment of more than 10 enterprises specializing in electrical research and production, such as Jingzhou Electric Company, Deqing Cable Company, Royal Telegraph Company, and Shengli Electric Power Company, so as to transform the research theories and laboratory products of scientists into industrial products.

In addition, the three major weapons companies also have their own electrification plants that serve the military field, such as the Luo'an Communications Factory under the Nanzhou Arms Company, which cooperates with the Royal Telegraph Company to develop a battlefield radio communication system.

The military wireless telegraphy system of the Nanzhou Arms Company has attracted great attention from the military, and the Ministry of National Defense Technology under the Supreme Command has awarded two large research and development contracts and purchased a number of sets of equipment for preliminary testing.

The Jingzhou Arms Company also has a similar telecommunications project, but their research in the field of telecommunications is more focused on the field of telephone, and they try to develop a telephone communication system in order to achieve real-time two-way communication on the battlefield.

In the second year of Qiansheng, scientists from the Valya Empire put forward relevant theories and made prototypes, but so far, they have not been put into practical use.

At present, there are still many problems in the telephone set made by scientists, such as short call distance and low efficiency.

Scientists from many countries are also working on this telephone, and the Daheng Empire is naturally no exception.

In addition to the field of communications, Daheng Empire is actually more important in the field of electric vehicles, many companies are concentrated in generators, motors, transformers, cables and many other core areas to invest heavily in research and development.

This is to allow the electric motor to replace the steam engine as the main driving force for production!

At the same time, power applications are also very important in many fields.

In this regard, the Daheng Empire is ahead of many countries, and there is no concept of a completed electrification revolution in other countries, and they may be scattered to engage in some telegraph, telephone, electric light, electric and other related research, but they are not like the Daheng Empire, which concentrates national resources and forces to carry out concentrated research, and regards the research in the field of electrical as a national key research.

In addition to the investment in the field of electrification, Lin Ziran has also instructed the Royal Asset Management Committee to increase research in the field of internal combustion engines in the past two years.

The Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company has successfully copied the gas-powered reciprocating four-stroke internal combustion engine that was exhibited at an international exhibition in the Valia Empire a few years ago, and can be regarded as keeping up with the international pace in the field of internal combustion engines.

Although the gas four-stroke engine has many shortcomings, such as not being easy to carry and store, and being unsafe, it still has a certain application value in the industrial field due to its large thermal efficiency and the many advantages of smaller internal combustion engine.

At present, the Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company is continuing to tackle key problems, trying to make the power bigger and the thermal efficiency higher, so that it can be put into industrial applications.

In addition, according to Lin Ziran's instructions, the company began to develop internal combustion engines powered by gasoline, which is easier to store and carry than coal gas and kerosene, and has a wide range of applications.

It's just that if you want to get a practical gasoline engine, I'm afraid it's unlikely in a short time.

It's not that it can't be designed, it's that it can't be built......

The design, in fact, is very simple, now the four-stroke internal combustion engine of the gas engine is already relatively mature in design, and it can also be used as a gasoline engine after a slight improvement, the problem is that if you want to be practical, you have to continue to increase the power, increase the speed, and increase the thermal efficiency value like the gas engine, and if you want to do it, you must have more advanced basic materials and processing technology.

In this regard, the foundation of the Daheng Empire is still relatively weak, even if in recent years, the Daheng Empire has invested heavily in its own research and development, and it is also spending a lot of money to continuously introduce various technologies, but it is still difficult to keep up with the pace of several powerful countries.

The deficiencies in the basic field not only limited the development of the internal combustion engine, but also limited the development of the steam engine, limited the development of machinery and equipment, and even affected the industrial development of the empire in all aspects.

In order to solve this huge trouble, the empire's investment in basic fields is increasing year by year, and it is not even just through corporate investment, but directly through the Royal Academy of Sciences, allocating scientific research funds for research and development.

At Imperial College London, it is not the seemingly lofty projects that gain the most experience every year, but the seemingly ordinary materials department.

The research of materials and the improvement of processes have almost no other ways to take advantage of the problems except to use time and money to forcibly tackle key problems

For example, the new generation of nickel-chromium hardened armor jointly developed by Imperial College London and Jingzhou Iron and Steel Company!

There's almost no other way to do this thing than to use a pile of money!

The principle is already known, the process has been designed, and the only problem is that it cannot be mass-produced, and this thing is expensive to produce with the current technical means......

From the very beginning, the research and development of hardened armor in the Daheng Empire was that Luohai Iron and Steel Company and Jingzhou Iron and Steel Company went hand in hand and competed with each other.

However, it is not these two steel companies that solve the problem of mass production of hardened armor, but Professor Li Xuntong of Imperial College London!

In the seventh year of the reign of Qiansheng, Professor Li Xuntong took the lead in developing the high-pressure water spray cooling hardening process, which historically obtained the cooling and hardening of large-area steel plates and obtained practical and uniformly hardened hardened armor.

This ushered in the era of hardened armor!

Just a few months later, Luohai Iron & Steel upgraded the process to replace water with oil and use high-pressure injection to cool and harden the high-temperature steel.

This high-pressure water and oil injection process for rapid cooling and more uniform hardening of armor is also known as the Lee's process.

The Lee process may sound like a no-brainer, but it's extremely important, and it's the most important technology for pioneering hardened armor.

Therefore, it was listed as a special secret process by the Ministry of Defense Industry of the Supreme Command, and it was strictly forbidden to leak it.

With the successful development of this Lee's cooling and hardening process, the hardened armor of the Daheng Empire has the real possibility of mass production.

As a result, hardened armor began mass production and was used in the new warships of the third phase of the Naval Development Program.

The main products are the products of Luohai Iron and Steel Company, which are ordinary steel hardened armor and nickel steel hardened armor, with different specifications to meet the needs of different warships.

Later, in the process of developing hardened armor, they found that nichrome was more suitable for hardening, but unfortunately, it is very difficult to manufacture nichrome nowadays.