In the autumn and winter of the sixteenth year of Qiansheng, the imperial emperor Lin Ziran's national inspection covered every state.

Shengjia first inspected the Jingzhou place, then went north to inspect Gaoqing Prefecture, Ningwu Prefecture, then south to Pingnan Prefecture, Bei'an Prefecture, Zisheng Prefecture, and then to Nanhu Prefecture, Northwest Prefecture, Zhongluo Prefecture, Quyang Prefecture, and then south to Nanhai Prefecture, and then ran to Ningyu Prefecture to have a look, and finally took a special train north to Dongdingzhou, and finally returned to Jingzhou.

It took Lin Ziran more than four months to travel all over the thirteen states along the national railway network of the empire, which had been built in the last ten years.

It not only reached some large cities in the states of the empire, but also went to some small and medium-sized cities and even some small towns along the way.

Although because of time, the stay in each place will not be very long, but this national tour still allows Lin Ziran to see and understand more about the Great Heng Empire.

Along the way, Lin Ziran has a clearer grasp of some of the current situation in the Daheng Empire, for example, the income of the people at the bottom, although there has been a certain improvement after more than ten years of continuous improvement, but in fact it is still not optimistic, there are still a large number of low-income groups in many cities, and their clothing, food, housing and transportation are still not optimistic.

In view of the difficulties of many low-income groups in the city, Lin Ziran felt that it was necessary to further promote the improvement of social welfare and raise the salary standard, otherwise, the widespread existence of a large number of urban low-income groups would become an unstable factor in the future of the empire.

As for the rural areas, there is no need for Lin Ziran to bother, the farmers of Daheng have money.

In other countries, the countryside may be synonymous with backwardness and poverty, but this is not the case in the Daheng Empire, on the contrary, the rural areas of the Daheng Empire are generally relatively affluent.

Most of the middle-income group in the Great Heng Empire was in rural areas, not in many cities.

After all, the unique rural economy of the Great Heng Empire is not built, and the huge amount of arable land, good climate and environment bring about an excellent natural environment for agricultural production.

This gave rise to a huge number of middle-income peasants in the Great Heng Empire!

The large number of middle-income people in rural areas not only directly contribute a large amount of tax revenue to the Daheng Empire, but they are also the main consumer group in the Daheng Empire.

What is the product that underpins the development of the internal combustion engine of its Daheng Empire? A series of agricultural machinery, and who bought these agricultural machinery? The peasants of the Great Heng Empire.

In the past two years, the Eastern Machinery Company of the Daheng Empire began to use the internal combustion engine to launch a car, but in fact the sales were very small, except for a very few people who would buy one as a toy, no one bought it at all.

In other words, if there is no huge market support for agricultural machinery, the development of internal combustion engines in the Daheng Empire will never be so fast? It is estimated that the development of internal combustion engines is the same as that in other countries? Only stay at the level of high-tech concept products and toys for the rich.

But in the Daheng Empire, it is different? Although the car or something is still very limited and cannot be popularized? However, all kinds of agricultural machinery powered by gasoline engines are booming, and the production and sales are very huge.

These gasoline engines for agricultural machinery? Even if it is worse, it is much stronger than agricultural machinery powered by steam engines.

The farmers of the Great Heng Empire? Even expensive? Bulky and difficult to operate steam engine tractors as the representative of agricultural machinery dare to use, not to mention lighter gasoline engine agricultural machinery.

Relying on the rapid development of the gasoline engine agricultural machinery industry, many related enterprises of Daheng Empire have begun to extend to other machinery products.

At present, the largest internal combustion engine R&D and production enterprise in the Daheng Empire, Eastern Machinery Company? They are based on a series of internal combustion engines represented by tractors after gasoline engines, agricultural machinery? It is also a continuous attempt to launch more internal combustion engine products.

Before the Eastern Machinery Company developed and produced several cars, but the sales of these cars were very poor, and no one bought them at all, so the Eastern Machinery Company was also slowly dying, and the car was still too expensive? And it's still too difficult for individual users, and the cost of use is too high.

So they still have a sedan business though? But the focus has shifted to the truck business.

After all, whether it is agricultural machinery powered by internal combustion engines today, what other vehicles are good? Are there still a series of problems such as high price and difficult maintenance? As a simple personal or even family consumer goods, it is still not very reliable.

Only as a production tool? When you can create profits, you can get the real market.

Huge agriculture casts agricultural machinery and equipment? It is because agricultural machinery and equipment can improve production efficiency and create more profits.

And the same goes for vans!

Although the cost of using trucks is still high, there is still a great demand in some special fields, such as urban short-distance transportation.

A huge city, where countless supplies come in and out every day, now rely on horse-drawn carriages, railways, and rivers.

Intercity transportation can rely on railways and river transportation, but the transportation of materials within the city can only rely on horse-drawn carriages, and the cost of horse-drawn carriages is not cheap.

This horse has to eat every day, and there is a lot of food, plus the horse is actually a relatively squeamish thing, even if it is a very good service horse like Shayang horse, its endurance is still relatively limited, and it is impossible to work for a long time in a row.

At the same time, there is another limitation of the carriage, that is, the transportation volume will be relatively small, and it is very troublesome when transporting heavy and large goods.

Therefore, before the advent of the internal combustion engine, there were already steam engine tractors in the field of transportation, and the heavy artillery units of the Daheng Empire began to use steam tractors to haul heavy artillery many years ago.

In the Dyna War, the reason why the Daheng Imperial Army was able to quickly transport a large number of heavy artillery units to the battlefield was that in addition to the power of railways and sea, the most important thing was that a large number of steam engines and tractors were used to haul artillery and ammunition trucks.

At that time, in addition to the small ones of a few tons, the artillery brought by the Daheng Imperial Army also carried a lot of big guys of more than ten tons, and these heavy artillery relied on horses to drag the mobility, and only high-power tractors could quickly pull these heavy artillery down the battlefield to fight.

Therefore, the Eastern Machinery Company believes that in the field of transportation, especially in the field of heavy transportation, the power of internal combustion engines is still a large market.

After some hard work, the Eastern Machinery Company introduced the Hercules truck, which was something different from the previous gasoline tractor transport model.

In fact, the Eastern Machinery Company has similar transportation products, that is, gasoline tractor transportation type, and many forest farms, mines, and the army have purchased a lot.

But this time the truck is actually different, the compartment of this thing is directly linked to the front of the car, and at the same time adopts the rear-wheel drive mode, rather than the front-wheel drive mode of the tractor.

At the same time, more importantly, the engine used by the Hercules has been specially improved, although the power is reduced, but the size is also reduced a lot, and at the same time, the stability and downtime are improved, making it easier to maintain and use.