In the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, the gasoline internal combustion engine had just been successfully developed, and the Eastern Machinery Company, which developed this gasoline engine, couldn't wait to design and build the first gasoline engine-powered car based on this thing.

It is worth mentioning that this was the first gasoline-powered vehicle, but it was not the first mechanically powered vehicle.

That's what, purely mechanical kilometer vehicles, that's steam engine-powered vehicles, this thing was invented decades ago, and extended a series of steam engine-powered vehicle machinery, such as steam engine tractors, people use these steam engine vehicles to transport heavy loads, etc.

However, the development of these steam engine-powered vehicles in foreign countries is not very smooth, but after entering the Daheng Empire more than ten years ago, they have developed rapidly as agricultural machinery and equipment, which is naturally behind the agricultural mechanization of the Daheng Empire.

In the years of the Daheng Empire, at least hundreds of enterprises engaged in steam engine-powered vehicles appeared, most of which were mainly engaged in agricultural machinery.

Eastern Machinery Company, a company that produces a large number of steam engine-powered agricultural machinery, has a huge sales volume, but they also face a great challenge!

Steam engine vehicles are already a very mature technology, the competition between companies is very fierce, in order to get better products to seize the market, the Eastern Machinery Company has long tried to replace the steam engine with the internal combustion engine.

They first tried using gas, and in the process gained a lot of experience in the development of internal combustion engines, and this experiment brought them additional benefits.

When they first developed the gas engine, they originally wanted the gas engine to be used as vehicle power, but they didn't expect that the four-stroke gas engine was unreliable to use as vehicle power, but it showed good potential in the industrial field, so this led them to develop the gas internal combustion engine business, which was specially provided to major factories.

At the same time, in the process of developing the gas engine, they also studied the various technologies of the internal combustion engine thoroughly, which accumulated enough technology, and they were also handy in the field of gasoline internal combustion engine.

Last year, they developed the first practical gasoline engine and installed it in a vehicle, and the world's first gasoline-powered car was born.

However, the car at that time was not very practical, and after more than a year of tossing and turning, the Eastern Machinery Company officially launched the mass-produced car and launched it on the market, to be honest, it was not very good......

After all, the car is a new thing, and the current car failure rate, driving and riding experience are relatively poor, so the current car is actually a toy, or a very expensive toy.

But!

In the field of passenger cars, gasoline engines are difficult to open up all at once, but in the field of agricultural and industrial production, gasoline engines are quickly opening up.

What does Eastern Machinery do?

People started selling steam engine tractors!

Now they are based on the gasoline engine, to make a gasoline tractor, and put it on the market, this thing is light, relatively easier to operate than the steam tractor, and the efficiency is also high, so after the official launch of the market in the middle of this year, even if it is only the first generation of imperfect models, but it still won the great popularity of farmers, and the order quickly exceeded thousands of vehicles.

Whether it is a tram or a gasoline tractor, these mean that the Daheng Empire is already steadily moving towards a new era.

And at this point, the Great Heng Empire can proudly say that it surpasses other countries.

Although other countries have advantages in the field of traditional industries, the Daheng Empire has a temporary advantage in the field of latecomers.

The scale of electricity application is larger than that of other countries, and even more so than the kingdom of Krull.

At the same time, the technology is more advanced.

The same goes for internal combustion engines!

The reason why these new technologies can be quickly popularized and applied after they come out is not only the active promotion of the imperial officials, but also related to the huge internal needs of the Daheng Empire itself.

The vast territory, population, and resources of the Great Heng Empire have laid the foundation for the spread of new technologies.

Many new technologies are not even promoted by the official empire, and entrepreneurs themselves will go to great lengths to develop them and then launch them on the market.

Because it's profitable, and it's a big profit.

Today's Daheng Empire is the largest consumer market on the Blue Star, larger than the consumer market of the Krull Kingdom!

This is not only because the Great Heng Empire has a population of more than 200 million, but also because almost more than 40% of these people in the Great Heng Empire belong to the middle-income group, and they have strong spending power.

The consumption power of the huge middle-income group can not only support the existing industrial scale of the Daheng Empire, but also continuously stimulate the industrial progress and upgrading of the Daheng Empire.

This is very evident on tractors!

Why can't the early steam tractor develop abroad, because there are not so many large farms abroad!

Steam tractors are very expensive, and the operation has to be operated by several people at the same time, and only large farms have the capital to use this expensive equipment, and use this expensive equipment to further improve production efficiency and reduce costs.

The huge sales of steam tractors also stimulated the domestic steam tractor manufacturers of the Daheng Empire to continue to make technological progress in order to compete with their peers, and in this process, the internal combustion engine appeared, which then led to the birth of gasoline tractors and gained market acceptance.

The promotion and technological progress of tractors was fundamentally due to the huge demand for large farms in the Great Heng Empire, which led to the popularization of tractors and technological progress.

This is simply not feasible for other countries.

They didn't have this need, so even if they had invented and used the steam tractor first, it would have been difficult to popularize it.

Of all the steam tractors on the Blue Star, the Great Heng Empire owns more than ninety-five percent, and it is difficult to see this thing in other countries.

The same is true in many industries.

For example, many countries are very concerned about the textile industry, when the Daheng Empire was just unified, although the scale of the textile industry was large, but the technology was very scummy, but now the textile technology of the Daheng Empire has basically been able to enter the first echelon.

As for the scale!

Now the output value of the textile industry of the Daheng Empire even exceeds that of the Krull Kingdom, you must know that the Krull Kingdom relied on the textile industry to start, and the textile industry is their traditional advantageous industry, but in just over ten years, the Daheng Empire has gone from backwardness to catching up and surpassing, and has become the largest textile power on the Blue Star.