Chapter 440: Cars
With large-scale extraction equipment, it is natural to start extracting oil immediately, and before exploitation, these extraction equipment needs to be transported to the northern oil field area before it can be successfully extracted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Fortunately, there is a large railway from the capital to the north, which can be used to transport a large number of materials, and a large number of mining equipment produced in Chang'an City is continuously transported to the north through this strategic railway.
Due to the fact that there are too many related equipment, Chang'an City North Railway Station has become extremely busy, no matter day and night, there are large groups of people working hard, especially the number of porters is very large, and the overall busyness even exceeds that of Chang'an City West Railway Station.
You know, since the establishment of the three Chang'an City railway stations, the west railway station has been the busiest one, followed by the east station, the north station has been relatively leisurely, after all, the west station has to undertake the task of transporting the huge commodities of the western countries, and the east station is responsible for the eastern densely populated areas, as well as the southern transportation task.
That is to say, Chang'an City West Railway Station undertakes more than ninety percent of foreign trade goods, while East Railway Station undertakes more than ninety percent of domestic trade goods, and the North Railway Station leads to the sparsely populated northern Tang Dynasty, and the neighboring countries only have sparsely populated grassland peoples, so the goods that need to be transported are naturally relatively small, and it is natural to be idle.
Since the discovery of oil resources in the north, all kinds of personnel and materials have to be transported to the north, so that the attendance rate of Chang'an City North Railway Station has also greatly increased, and at the busiest time, it has surpassed the West Railway Station and become the busiest railway station in the Tang Empire.
Due to the large size of many oil extraction equipment, it is difficult to transport ordinary carriages, so Ang Lee has specially developed special train transport carriages to transport these large equipment.
A train full of oil extraction equipment roared to the north of the capital, which carried not only oil extraction equipment, but also the hope of further industrialization of the Tang Empire, and also Li An's personal ideal.
After the train speeds up, it only takes half a day for these large-scale equipment to be transported to the oil fields in the north of the capital, and the installation and commissioning will officially begin.
As the technical director of the oil extraction project, Ang Lee must often go to the site to provide guidance to prevent problems that the craftsmen cannot solve.
"Li Shilang, the ten oil wells in this area have been installed, and they will be able to produce oil tomorrow, and a place next to it will be installed tomorrow, and they will be able to produce oil in a few days."
The craftsman pointed to the drawings and introduced them to Ang Lee.
"Yes, you did a very good job, much faster than the scheduled time, continue to work hard, but you must ensure the quality, and there must be no safety accidents, otherwise, this official will not spare you."
Li An encouraged, but also gave a stern warning, after all, safety production is greater than the sky, once there is a safety accident, the consequences are very serious, especially in the oil industry, once there is a leak, the loss will be very huge, and even a terrible explosion will occur.
"Li Shilang rest assured, he must be seriously supervised and urged, and nothing will go wrong."
"Well, that's good."
Li An nodded, walked to a relatively high position, and looked down on the entire oil field, there was an indescribable pleasure in his heart, this feeling was really beautiful.
When he first came to Datang, Datang's industrial base was basically zero, and Ang Lee didn't plan to bring the industry of later generations into Datang at the beginning, but with the changes of current affairs, Ang Lee changed his mind, after all, he is a later generation, since he came to Datang, he should bring something, and Ang Lee's most capable thing is the scientific and technological knowledge from later generations in his mind, only this is the most handy, and it can also change the Tang Empire the most and make the Tang Empire more powerful.
At the beginning, Ang Lee just invented some gadgets to improve the lives of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and to get some money for himself to spend, but with the deepening of scientific research, Ang Lee couldn't control himself, invented more and more things, and the changes in the Tang Empire became bigger and bigger, and even unimaginable things such as ironclad artillery cars, oil, rails and trains were made.
Moreover, Li Ang also sent steam ships to explore and discover the Americas, and brought back a large number of useful crops from the Americas, and even, in the dense forests of the Americas, established a rubber mining workshop, so as to supply a steady stream of rubber resources for the Tang Dynasty, which greatly promoted the industrialization of the Tang Empire.
All these achievements have changed because of his arrival, which makes Ang Lee's heart quite proud, if it weren't for himself, Datang would still be a backward era of poverty and whiteness? Because of his own intervention, the strength of the Tang Empire has rapidly expanded several times, so that it is far stronger than the surrounding countries, so that the surrounding countries no longer have the strength to confront the Tang Empire, thus not only avoiding the historical fate of the Tang Empire from prosperity to decline, but also making the Tang Empire stronger and stronger.
The speed of industrialization has exceeded Ang Lee's expectations, and he didn't plan to develop to this point at the beginning, but he came step by step, and soon reached this step, which is not something Ang Lee can control, it is the natural development of industrialization.
Ten oil wells stand right in front of you, and a large group of craftsmen are busy debugging equipment to ensure that oil can be extracted normally after a day.
"Datang's industrialization has developed at an incredible speed, what should be invented next?"
Li An said bluntly, he couldn't figure out what to do next, now there are more and more things invented, Datang's technical talent team has already reached hundreds of thousands, if you count other affiliated industries, there must be more than one million employees, or even millions, which can be described as a very large data.
The abundance of human resources ensures that more industrial achievements can be developed, thereby further promoting the development of industrialization in the Tang Empire.
Now that the petroleum-related industry has begun to develop, the next step is to develop automobiles, otherwise, the production of petrochemical products will not be of much use.
In addition to automobiles, many petroleum refining products must also be developed, after all, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibers, these are very advanced technologies, and once these things are developed, it will better promote the development of the Tang Empire.
The cost of synthetic rubber is much lower than that of natural rubber, and the cost of synthetic fiber is also lower than that of plant fiber.
At the location of the oil field, Li An sat in the town for half a month, personally guiding the craftsmen to work, and watching the bubbling black oil from an oil well.
When oil extraction was on track, Ang Lee took the train back to Chang'an City, bringing back more petroleum raw materials and products after oil separation.
After returning to the capital, Ang Lee already had a lot of gasoline and diesel in his hands, and all of them were transported to the R&D center to prepare for the next test.
The immediate task is to invent as soon as possible a gas-burning car and a family car with excellent comfort, first in aristocratic circles, and then gradually in the homes of ordinary people.
The car is a relatively complex system, but after so many years of development, the industrial base of the Tang Empire is already very good, so no matter how complex the car system is, it can be developed.
After returning to the R&D center, Ang Lee mobilized tens of thousands of technical personnel and began to go all out to study the car, and the core focus of this is the development of the automobile engine, after all, the transmission mechanism, the body and tires have long been studied, the only thing that needs to be focused on research and development, only the large part of the automobile engine, responsible for the study of the car eighty manpower, are studying the automobile engine, and in strict accordance with the drawings provided by Ang Lee, little by little to carry out meticulous research work.
Due to the development of the Tang Empire after so many years, the industrial base has been relatively strong, coupled with the detailed drawings provided by Li An, for this reason, the research of automobile engines has progressed very smoothly, and the results have been produced in a few months.
Under the personal guidance of Ang Lee, an experimental car was officially assembled, and the assembly was completed two days later, waiting for the order to test.
"How's it going, are you all ready?"
Ang Lee asked.
"Li Shilang, the craftsmen have checked it more than a dozen times, and there is absolutely no problem."
"Okay, very good, let's start experimenting!"
Ang Lee officially opened his mouth and ordered the craftsmen to test the newly developed car.
When the craftsmen heard the order, they immediately added gasoline to the mailbox, and then a driver entered the cab and operated the car to start.
"Buzz ......"
When the car was started, there was a buzzing roar, this kind of sound Li An was very familiar with, and his heart suddenly became excited.
Sure enough, after the buzz, the car started moving forward smoothly, although the speed was not fast, but this was the set speed, as long as it could be driven smoothly, it was a victory, and at present, the test has obviously been victorious.
"It's up, it's up, Li Shilang, we've succeeded."
Seeing that the car, which had been painstakingly developed for several months, finally started to start, all the craftsmen jumped up excitedly, which was the joy of success and an indescribable sense of happiness.
"Okay, very good, keep driving, accelerate out of the R&D center, and run ten laps around the wall of the R&D center."
Ang Lee opened his mouth to give the order to test the reliability of the car's engine.
The driver heard Ang Lee's order, and immediately drove the humble car that had just been developed, drove out of the R&D center, and ran around the exterior wall of the R&D center according to Ang Lee's request.
Of course, the current research and development of the car, is only the nature of the test, the appearance of the car is very ugly, and no measures to reduce noise have been taken, can not be used as a private car, but the follow-up will be the shape, practicality, and noise of the car to make a series of improvements, after the improvement, the car can naturally be used as a private car.
And this process of improvement will inevitably be smooth sailing, after all, the most core technology has been broken, and the rest are some aspects with low technical content, and the difficulty of improvement is naturally relatively small, and success is inevitable.
Ang Lee is absolutely confident that within a few months, a car suitable for family use will be manufactured, and Datang will be a new atmosphere at that time.
The experimental car ran back and forth around the R&D center five times without the slightest failure, which is enough to prove the maturity and reliability of automobile technology, that is, the newly developed gasoline engine is completely usable, and with this technology, the Tang Empire will once again undergo earth-shaking changes.
Before the development of practical cars, Ang Lee does not plan to make a big deal of it, after all, what is now made is only functional products, ordinary people can't see any use at all, only advanced and luxurious private cars are manufactured, and ordinary people can really understand the huge role of cars.
There was no large-scale celebration and no fanfare, Ang Lee asked the craftsmen to suppress the joy of successful research and development, and put it into the next research and development work, with greater enthusiasm, go all out to develop advanced cars, and then celebrate and reward on a large scale after advanced and practical cars have been developed.
In the following months, under the guidance of Ang Lee, the craftsmen went all out to develop advanced and practical cars, improving the details of the engine, adding noise-reducing devices to make the noise of the car even lower, improving the shape and decoration of the car, adding a large number of functional facilities, and even the medicine jade was also installed in the car, so that the Datang version of the car looked like a car in later generations.
Of course, due to the limitations of technology, the shape of this car is still a little stout, the overall height exceeds the height of a person, and there is no assembly line shape, and the speed will definitely be limited to a certain extent, but due to the relatively large size and larger internal space, it is still more comfortable to sit inside, and there is a condescending feeling of sitting in it when the chassis is raised.
Moreover, when designing, Ang Lee adopted a modular design, leaving a lot of room for improvement, which can be easily improved into a variety of cars, for example, the top can be replaced with a review car with an opening, and even, completely remove the top cover, and make a sports car that can be riddled.
Of course, this small chassis can only be made into these small vehicles, and next, Li An will also develop larger vehicles, including large transport vehicles and people transport vehicles, when these vehicles are all developed, Datang will undergo earth-shaking changes.
"Li Shilang, this is a car, it's really beautiful!"
Before testing the new practical car, Li Yu suddenly ran over and was very fortunate to participate in this test.