Chapter 46 focuses on the Ottoman Empire's trial production of marine diesel engines

In fact, both Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He knew that it was definitely not easy for Zhang Zhimu to see Chen Yuanyuan, but Zhang Zhimu didn't say that they didn't ask, because there were too many mysterious things on Zhang Zhimu's body. Zhang Zhimu is not a person who quarrels with Yang Yulin for a beautiful woman.

After talking about Chen Yuanyuan and the emperor's coming, Ouyang He took out a large stack of materials and said, "Mr. Zhang, I think I have time, do you also want to take a look at these?" ”

"Oh my God! What's that, so much? Zhang Zhimu looked at a pile of materials and was a little scared.

"It was Liu Yun and the others who sorted it out, and Li Kui and the others went west to lead the information back this time." Ouyang He said admiringly, "Looking at Li Kui like a rough man, this person is really not simple. Although it took them a long time to go back and forth this time, they did a lot of work. The information brought back is really huge. There are not only geological, road, and mountain information that goes all the way to the west. A large amount of political and military information was also collected. It took me a few days to go through it. This is only part of what Liu Yun has sorted out. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "I can see it! Don't let Zhimu waste time on this, let's study these things slowly! What is needed, we can talk to Zhimu! ”

"Good! I agree with Uncle Chen," Zhang Zhimu hurriedly said, "These things are too scary, let's look at them!" ”

"Huh!" Ouyang He smiled and said, "Although I just browsed it, I know a lot about things over there. On the European side, the Ottoman Empire was still the main power, they believed in the Celestial Religion, engaged in the integration of military and government, and enforced their personal laws. The surrounding countries were either annexed by them or became their vassal states. Russia over there is also threatened by them, and I can't take care of us. In the future, we will face opponents who are likely to be them, and Russia, on the contrary, is not to be worried! ”

"Now that this matter is clear, Li Kui didn't go there in vain." Zhang Zhimu said, "The Ottoman Empire occupies a large area there, and its military potential is also large. As we move westward, we may have to meet them one day, and we should study them as soon as possible and gather more information about them. ”

"None of us are afraid militarily!" Chen Yufeng said, "The key is that we must manage the places we occupy well." Or use the method of Zhimu, do not rush in, lay down a place, and make it our rear. The cadres assigned to Ningde this time are too useful for the stability of Hexi. My idea is that the North-Western Frontier Army will be expanded into four border guards. In peacetime, it is stationed in the cantonment and fights in wartime. To the west, there were two more cavalry corps and two infantry corps as mobile forces. There are enough troops over there. Except for the west, we have nothing to worry about at the border. There is only a little place in North Korea here, and then there is the Mughal Empire in the south, and the border is simple. ”

"What Mr. Chen said," Ouyang He said, "I think we need to make great efforts to develop the water army in the next step." We must have a naval fleet in the North China Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Western Ocean. ”

"Huh! I don't think it's enough, we still have to have a fleet in the Black Sea, so that we can be safe to the west. Zhang Zhimu added.

"Huh! Looks like I'm still a little bit worse than what I think! Ouyang He said with a smile.

"I don't blame you for this," Zhang Zhimu said, "and it's not surprising that we haven't really regarded a place as big as the west as our own!" ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that Ouyang He had such a clear understanding of the situation in Europe so quickly, which showed that Li Kui and the others had really done a lot of fruitful work, and it also showed that Ouyang He was really extraordinary. Although Zhang Zhimu is not very clear about the history of the Ottoman Empire and Europe, he also knows some things about the nearly 300-year war between Russia and Turkey. It doesn't seem to have started yet, maybe they are fighting, and there is no time to think about it, which can give us a chance to develop steadily.

However, Zhang Zhimu is also worried that if he develops westward now, will he attract the attention of the Ottoman Empire too early, and even make the Ottoman Empire feel threatened by us and give up attacking Ukraine, so that Russia will not go to war with the Ottoman Empire, and even more so, they may unite to deal with us together.

Zhang Zhimu's worries are justified.

In 1453, the "Second Rome" Constantinople fell. Constantine XI was killed in battle in the city, one of his two sons was killed in battle, the other was subject to the Turkish Sultan, and only his niece, Princess Sophia, fled to Rome. The thousand-year-old Roman Empire was shattered, and all of Europe trembled under the Ottoman crescent. Later, in 1472, the Holy See married Sophia to the Moscow lord Ivan III, in order to contain the Ottoman Turks. Ivan III, who had picked up the treasure, declared himself the successor of the Byzantine Empire while marrying Princess Sophia, and declared Moscow "the third and permanent Rome". Since Russia inherited the mantle of the Byzantine Empire, it should naturally be regarded as a feud with the Ottoman Empire. However, the Grand Duchy of Moscow did not get rid of the Mongol Golden Horde until 1480, and at the same time, the Ottoman Turks did not take the self-proclaimed Third Roman Russia to heart, and they felt that the madman would leave the mild climate and abundant products of southeastern Europe and go all the way to the cold of Moscow to hunt polar bears. The two rivals, each with their own hearts, have lived in peace for nearly two hundred years.

However, now the Ottoman Empire has penetrated northwest into the Black Sea and east to Ukraine. For Russia, the Ottoman Empire, an old enemy and pagan country, had come to its doorstep, and it was in the right place to go to war with it. So, despite constant reports from the Far East that the Ming Dynasty had sent a large army to occupy much of the land they had occupied and slaughtered them, Tsar Alex remained unmoved.

Because, the Far East is just too far away. It is now impossible for Russia to send a large number of troops there. With regard to the Far East, the Tsar's approach was to encourage ambitious Cossacks to go on expeditions, at no cost to Russia, and to sit back and enjoy the benefits they brought back. However, the people of the Ming Dynasty are constantly approaching the Ural Mountains, and everyone in Russia cannot but worry.

In particular, after knowing the news that the two thousand Cossacks went to ambush the Ming army and did not return, they could not help but take this direction seriously, they knew that if they did not stop the Ming army, they would not be able to make the Ming Dynasty people like the Mongols at the beginning, and the army swept in. They will never forget that painful lesson. But the Ottoman Empire to the south has come to the door, and Russia must take care of its old enemy. As a result, they sent very limited troops to the Ura Mountains, and most of them were Cossacks.

In fact, the people of Yaogang still know too little about the Ottoman Empire. It was a vast empire with a population of more than 30 million and a well-established military and political system. The arrival of Li Kui's caravan and the envoys of the Ming Dynasty not only aroused the joy of the common people and merchants, but also attracted the attention of the upper echelons of the Ottoman Empire, including the Sultan Empress Dowager, who held the real power of the Ottoman Empire.

The Sultan Empress Dowager played with all kinds of novelties brought by Li Kui and them, and stroked the colorful and colorful wide acetate fabrics, and became very interested in this long-known oriental power. At the same time, the Imperial Intelligence Agency tried its best to extract more information from the mouths of these Eastern merchants and officials.

When they discovered that there were people in the caravan who were surveying the mountains, rivers, and towns, they became alarmed. If such a powerful eastern power had ambitions for the Ottoman Empire, it would be very dangerous, far more dangerous than the Russian barbarians. But, on second thought, it was too far away. There is no real threat at all. Therefore, the Queen Mother did not alarm Li Kui and their people, but only controlled their movements. When they returned, the Ottoman Empire sent a team of intelligence officers in the name of merchants to follow Li Kui and them to Yaogang. These intelligence officers are very professional, and the people sent by Li Zhi have been following them for a long time, and they have not found anything unusual about them.

In fact, I don't blame Li Zhi for their people, because there is a big gap in their living habits, especially because they don't have any excessive behavior, and it is normal to come to Yaogang to learn about the situation everywhere.

However, when the Ottoman intelligence officers arrived at the kiln, they were simply shocked, and they knew that the intelligence collected in the kiln was enough to shock the entire Ottoman Empire. Everything here is really incredible, and they know that the gap between the empire and the empire here is too big, and if they really fight, there is no chance of winning. Although they did their best to gather intelligence, they could only get some military information from the newspapers of Yaogang, and they had no direct access to the military information of Yaogang. They were interested in the steamship in Yaogang, but they could only take the ship, and they were not allowed to go to the engine room to see it. In fact, they can't understand it even when they look at it.

Not only steamships, but also trains and automobiles were something they had never heard of before they came to the kiln, let alone radio and television broadcasts. They didn't know it yet, and what they didn't expect was that the information they brought back almost cost them their own lives. Because the ministers of the Ottoman Empire could not believe the information they brought back, many people said that they were spreading rumors to confuse the public, or that they were bribed by the Ming Dynasty and came back to confuse people. Fortunately, the Sultan Queen Mother was suspicious of their words and did not kill them. However, the Sultan Queen Mother could not help but distract herself from this large eastern country, and she knew that if what these people said was true, the empire would be in great trouble.

Chen Yufeng said to Zhang Zhimu: "Zhimu, I think you still have to keep an eye on the plane." If we had an airplane that could fly farther, it would be much more convenient in the future whether we were fighting a war or managing remote areas. Again, no one is afraid of war now, and it doesn't matter if you worry about it or not. But things like airplanes, if you don't keep an eye on the point, you can't make progress. ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Chen, those people from Li Yunhe and Mr. Lu Bingyi sent two students, and they cooperated very well. They not only did a lot of research and calculations theoretically, but also did a lot of wind tunnel blowing tests. The aircraft they are developing now is completely different from our first two types of aircraft in terms of development methods. The first two types of aircraft were constantly trying to improve according to the actual situation, but the current aircraft they first got through theoretically. In particular, their new engine, which was changed from five to seven, was much more powerful. The new plane can also carry a lot of more gasoline and can fly farther. The landing gear can also be retracted, which has much less drag in the air, and the speed and range can be increased. ”

"What happened to their twin-engine plane?" Ouyang He asked.

"They were all focused on the new aircraft, but there was a group working on the twin-engine aircraft, but the progress designation was much later than this new aircraft. However, the structure of the twin-engine aircraft came out roughly. Twin-engine aircraft, not how fast it is, to be stable, to have a large load capacity. It can accommodate more than a dozen people. ”

"That's great!" Ouyang He said, "If you take a dozen people, you can transport a lot of things without sitting on people." ”

"If you bring **, can you bring a lot?" Chen Yufeng thought differently from Ouyang He.

"Of course," Zhang Zhimu said, "the most important thing is that after sitting with a dozen people, you can fly directly from Yaogang to Beijing, Xi'an and other places." It's a great thing. But it's useless to be in a hurry, and you have to wait slowly. ”

"If we can have a hundred combat planes in the west and dozens of such twin-engine planes, and build a few more airfields in the west, then we can use a lot less troops." Chen Yufeng thought further, "Next year, after Liu Chenghuang solves the affairs of Nanyang, let him come back as soon as possible to form a real air force!" ”

"Actually, when Liu Chenghuang comes back this time, he has to tell Liu Chenghuang about it! In this way, when he solves Nanyang, he must also pay attention to choosing a successor. Ouyang He said.

"Taking over the affairs of Nanyang, I think Lu Qi and Fan Song can be used well!" Zhang Zhimu said.

"Hmmm! Zhimu is right, these two little rabbit cubs have a good workout! Chen Yufeng agreed.

"This time, Fan Song and Lu Qi can come back by boat," Ouyang He said, "The affairs of Nanyang can also be studied carefully." Taking a boat now is completely different from taking a boat before them, and the conditions are many times more than I know. ”

"Speaking of ships, there's something I want to tell you about." Zhang Zhimu said, "The 1,200-horsepower marine diesel they have developed can basically work stably after a long period of testing." The 3,200-horsepower diesel engine is also about to be tested. I've asked them to develop a more powerful diesel engine. ”

"Huh! I've heard that this diesel engine is not easy to handle, and there have been too many failures in their experiments in recent years. It's either overheating, or it won't take long to finish! Chen Yufeng said.

"No, there are too many things involved in this thing, and it's not as simple as producing a small diesel engine. Originally, they thought that they could produce diesel engines for tractors and speedboats, and marine diesel engines, but they were not a big deal if they were more powerful. I didn't expect it to be like that at all. If the power is a little higher, it will be different if you encounter problems. However, the more failures they have experienced, the clearer their understanding of diesel engines. Speaking of this, Zhang Zhimu was full of pride. Zhang Zhimu himself doesn't know much about diesel engines, but he only understands some basic theories, and the problems in production practice can't help at all, and he completely relies on the technicians and workers in the factory to explore by themselves. It's pretty remarkable.

"Actually, our steam engine is already very mature," Ouyang He said, "It doesn't have to be a diesel engine, right?" ”

"The diesel engine is small in size and has a lot of power, which is incomparable to the steam engine." Zhang Zhimu said, "Besides, when our steam engine ships go to sea, the coal and fresh water we bring with us occupy a large place. If a diesel engine is used, it will omit the place occupied by the boiler, coal, and fresh water. Besides, diesel engines also start much faster than steam engines. The use of diesel engines is the direction of development in the future, and we will use diesel engines for large ships in the future. If they can produce diesel engines for big ships, they still have a long way to go. However, everything has to be done step by step. ”

"We can still use two 1,200-horsepower diesel engines on one boat, so we can build a bigger ship?" Chen Yufeng said.

"Yes, it can be driven by two propellers." Zhang Zhimu said, "However, even two such engines are still too small for a ship!" Of course, a fishing boat with more than 1,000 horsepower is already considerable, but for a warship, it is far from enough, and it can only be done as a speedboat! ”

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He chatted together very easily, and it was also a very enjoyable thing. They can talk about everything together, and they can talk about the sky. There are a lot of important things, and often decisions are made in this way.

After eating in the command center, Zhang Zhimu returned to the office. Yang Yulin's vinegar strength hadn't passed yet, so she entered the house and closed the door and asked, "Why didn't you bring your beauty back!" ”

"I don't think your house is a dart game?" Zhang Zhimu sneered.

"Oops! What do you think my elephant does? ”

"Behold! Like opening a vinegar room! ”

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly flashed, but he still didn't avoid Yang Yulin's pinch, and with an "oops" sound, he hit Yang Yulin's hand.

Even if this episode is over, Yang Yulin said: "Yang Chang called you twice!" ”

"Yo, what's the good news?"

"Didn't say it!"

Yang Yulin picked up the phone, dialed Yang Chang, and handed the microphone to Zhang Zhimu.

"Hey! Yang Chang, are you looking for me? ”

"Yes! I'd like to tell you about that disk storage! ”

"Come here!" Zhang Zhimu said.

Yang Chang and his people didn't arrive, Li Yunhe and Lu Qi arrived first.

As soon as Li Yunhe came in, he shouted: "Hurry up and get some water to drink!" ”

Yang Yulin was not polite when she saw Li Yunhe, "Just drink water and say drink water, why are you so loud?" ”

"Good! I was wrong, hurry up and get some water to drink! Too thirsty on the road! Li Yunhe hurriedly said goodbye.

Zhang Zhimu asked the two of them to sit down first, Yang Yulin came over and brought them a pot of water, Li Yunhe and Lu Qi were not polite, and after drinking it for a while, Yang Yulin got them another pot of water, and the two of them drank enough.

Wiping his mouth, Li Yunhe said: "When we came out of the Taiyuan Automobile Factory, we felt thirsty and wanted to drink it again when we got home. Yesterday I was busy all night, and I couldn't sleep on the road, and I woke up thirsty. ”

"How? Over there at the car factory. I never dared to ask you, for fear of putting too much pressure on you! Zhang Zhimu asked.

"No problem!" Li Yunhe said, "Thanks to Lao Lu who has been staring over there. This production line is not simple, and each link cannot be coordinated. And those who are engaged in management, they are all busy. In this way, the production line can not be overworked, and the use of personnel and materials is minimized. This automobile factory is the most scientific and reasonable factory in our kiln operation. It is guaranteed to be put into production before the end of the year. We came back this time to study the ribbon-cutting ceremony. ”

"Don't worry about this, just leave it to Mr. Lu and them!" Zhang Zhimu said, "Let's study something big!" Yang Chang and they will come over in a while, you should learn about the computer. Mr. Lu was the first person to ask me for a computer, and I think you can use it even more. ”

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.