Pan Dai followed with a smile and patted Zhang Yuan lightly on the back, Zhang Yuan turned his head to look at him, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay," Pan Dai waved his hand repeatedly, but then pointed to the generator behind him that jumped like a thunderstorm in the mist, "This thing is just here?" Is it safe or not? ”

"It's okay," Yuan Zhenli said beside him, "Don't worry too much about these things, there is always the possibility of accidents in machinery, if there is an accident, we will be afraid of wolves and tigers, so will our industrial revolution be carried out in the future?" ”

"That's it, don't be afraid!" Zhang Yuan smiled and waved his hand, and slapped Pan Dai on the shoulder, "Let's go, let's go eat something and relax." He looked up at the starry sky at a forty-five degree angle and stood for a moment, "If only there was beer here." ”

"Beer is not a big problem," Yuan Zhenli sighed, "I specifically asked Sun Wenbin, beer is mainly made from barley malt hops and water, which is fermented by yeast. We have barley here, but we don't grow hops. I confirmed with Sun Wenbin, and he said that hops don't pick soil, but pick the climate, like potatoes, they like cold and heat, and they are not very good to grow here. ”

"But aren't potatoes grown here on a large scale, and with good results?" Pan Dai pushed the frame of his glasses and asked curiously, "We're in the tropics here!" ”

"Yes, although it is tropical here," Zhang Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "But the seeds we brought are basically improved by the old world, not to mention tropical potatoes, cold potatoes, as long as we want to plant, we can plant them everywhere and turn them into food." ”

"Well, you won," Pan Dai sighed, "where are you going now?" ”

"It's not that we won, but that our Senate won," Yuan Zhenli said with a smile, "We will unify the world in the future, as for where to go, you tell me what is still open at this time?" ”

"Supper Street?" Pan Dai asked with a puzzled face, and after getting Zhang Yuan's affirmative nod, he nodded and said, "I also guessed where you went, so let's go, I'm here by car, let's go together." ”

"No," Zhang Yuan waved his hand mysteriously, "We have something better, you can leave your broken car here, and we'll just drive by ourselves." ”

Soon the three of them came to a stop in front of an extended version of the vehicle, which had four wheels, no tires on the wheels, only a rim with a full circle of spring plates. The overall length of the vehicle is about five meters, and the width of the car is more than two meters, and the shape of this car is no longer like the so-called Rolls-Royce of the past, exuding a strong bicycle atmosphere, but has begun to bear some resemblance to the popular cars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the old world. The body shell has a thin iron plate, the roof is open-top, and the Rolls-Royce is different in that the bottom of the car has completely canceled the Rolls-Royce pedals, but laid a wooden floor, and the seat is a canvas-wrapped cotton pad, which can reduce the discomfort caused by the vibration of the car body due to poor road conditions. The footrest in front of the driver's seat has been replaced with a throttle and clutch, and a gear controller is installed on the driver's right-hand side. This gear controller has changed a lot from the old version of Rolls-Royce, the old gear controller is only divided into fast, slow, reverse and neutral, but the new version of the gear controller has been expanded, has been divided into one, two, three gears, reverse and neutral.

"Wow! Cars? Pan Dai almost jumped up, "Did you get the car?" ”

"No, the car doesn't have this kind of chimney," Yuan Zhenli pointed to a chimney erected behind the car body, "This is still driven by an external combustion engine, and the Stirling engine is still used, but it has been redesigned to ensure that the layout is reasonable as much as possible to reduce the loss during operation." ”

"How fast can this car go?" Pan Dai stroked the body of the car a little lovingly, and circled around the car, Zhang Yuan said a little proudly, "This car can go up to forty-five kilometers per hour." ”

"Only forty-five kilometers per hour?" Pan Dai was immediately deflated, "I thought I could reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, but it was only 45 kilometers per hour." ”

"You're wrong," Yuan Zhenli patted him on the shoulder, "First of all, our vehicle has no tires, so we can only use rigid wheels to keep up with bad road conditions, and the vibration to the human body is great when driving." This time, the northbound detachment could have increased its speed a lot, but it was unable to drive on bad road conditions for a long time because it had no tires. ”

"Yes," Zhang Yuan hurriedly said, "You can't make tires without rubber, and even solid rubber tires are far better than rigid rims." ”

Yuan Zhenli nodded, "That's right, with rubber, we can take our industrial revolution directly to a higher level." There is also a problem is the road condition, we basically do not have many hardened roads in this world, even if we are in the Oriental Port, there is no cement road, the best is only the hardened mud floor, if the water can not be discharged immediately after the rain, it is easy to soak the road surface, every time it rains to repair the road, the mud is more and more rotten. So under such conditions, our speed simply cannot reach high speed. ”

"Well," Pan Dai nodded thoughtfully, "but forty-five kilometers per hour is not bad. ”

"Of course, you want to!" Zhang Yuan hurriedly said, "The fastest speed of the horse is only 244 kilometers per hour, and the speed of the carriage is even slower, but the maximum speed is 20 kilometers per hour, and the speed of our new car is already the fastest speed in the world." Come on, stop, get in the car, let's go eat first. ”

The three of them got into the car, set the combustion chamber of the engine on fire, and soon heard the sound of the engine running fast, Zhang Yuan quickly shifted gears, the vehicle started slowly, and several naturalized migrant workers on the side looked at the car with envy.

The front of the car has two large lampheads, which are equipped with gas lamps, and like all lamps produced in Oriental Port in this time and space, they need to be specially lit to emit light. Compared with other lights, gas lamps are more cumbersome, not only need to be lit with the lid open, but also need to be pumped before they are lit, which has been criticized by the patriarchs, and everyone is very nostalgic for the electric lights that turn on when they are pulled in the old world. When I lived in that world, no one paid attention to it, and everyone was full of all kinds of dissatisfaction with life, but now at this time, all the patriarchs miss the life of the upstairs and downstairs electric lights and telephones in their hearts. There is no doubt that the two running lights need to be lit and pumped up, but in the end, the running lights have been improved, and the running lights have been changed to small searchlights that can project light at a distance of about 30 meters.

"This thing is still a bit primitive." Pan Dai sat in the back seat and sighed sincerely, "If you want to start the engine, you have to go to the combustion chamber to light a fire, if the situation is urgent, it will not be over?" ”

"That's no way at all," Yuan Zhenli shrugged, "All machinery powered by external combustion engines have this problem, relatively speaking, the Stirling engine is already the fastest, and it can do work quickly after heating, if it is a steam engine, it must wait until the water in the boiler boils to output power." ”

"Aren't you the commander-in-chief of the Air Force?" Only then did Pan Dai notice that the young man in front of him with oil stains on his face turned out to be Yuan Zhenli, "What are you doing in the heavy industry laboratory when you are not at the airport and the air force headquarters?" ”

"Why can't I come?" Yuan Zhenli laughed out loud, "You must know that I have been here to help since the development of the steam engine, except for the days when the real war was fought, I am basically a member of the industrial committee." ”

"Well, I think so," Pan Dai laughed, too, "your daughter-in-law is an important veteran of the light industry sector, and you are the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, so you can easily get the steel, wood, and canvas you need to build airplanes." When the time comes, your air force will be properly expanded! Some time ago, I built an airplane like a dumpling, and then I built an airship, and even if you make a space carrier, I won't be curious. ”

"Then I'll take your good word." Yuan Zhenli laughed, "But you're really exaggerating, our Mozu attack trainer has a total of four or five planes, and there is only one mosquito plane, and now we can't build it if we want to rebuild it...... Not to mention that not long ago, because the quality of the engine oil was not up to par, an engine was pulled, and now there are only three Mozu birds left to go to the sky. ”

"Why?" Pan Dai interrupted Yuan Zhenli's words curiously, "Aren't you all the building materials?" Why can't it be recreated? ”

"It's not a matter of motivation yet?" Zhang Yuan reluctantly interrupted his speech, "The engines we use in our aircraft now are all single-cylinder diesel engines, and now our materials and casting process capabilities are not high, not to mention the finishing cylinders, the diesel engine cylinders used in these three aircraft are selected from hundreds of cylinders, and there are certain problems, and now we can only improve product quality by adjusting the production process." In fact, there are countless units that need internal combustion engines, and every day the elders of the Industrial Council come to me for internal combustion engines, but where can I get them? I can't make a few qualified ones. Even if it is an airship, it needs to use a diesel engine on it, and only with a diesel engine can there be enough power to generate electricity. We can't do anything until the problem of the internal combustion engine is solved. ”

Yuan Zhenli nodded, "That's right, in comparison, I'd rather train pilots, pilot training is much easier now, but now a large number of trained pilots have no planes to drive, it's just as embarrassing!" ”

"Oh, the problem with the internal combustion engine is so serious?" Pan Dai thoughtfully lifted the frame of his glasses, and after a while, he turned his head to look at Zhang Yuan, "Then if the problem of the internal combustion engine is solved, will the car be able to be launched on a large scale?" ”

"Theoretically, yes," Yuan Zhenli said, "but the number of cars is directly related to fuel, and there are no gas stations that can be found everywhere in this world. Before we can start mass production of automobiles, we must first solve the problem of production capacity for oil extraction and refining. ”

"This is it!" As he was talking, suddenly Yuan Zhenli patted Zhang Yuan on the shoulder who was driving, "Slow down!" ”

The braking system of the new car uses friction pad brakes, but the brake transmission is not a hydraulic transmission, but the simplest steel wire...... Although the current industrial system of the Senate can make pressure-resistant pipes, the output of qualified products in those pressure-resistant pipes is tearful, and it is reserved for industrial equipment, and the use of hydraulic brakes on this experimental car is too luxurious, so it is used with wire brakes. The effect of wire brakes is the increase in braking distance, coupled with the use of steel wheels, the braking distance is even more uncertain, so the car basically has to start decelerating 300 meters in advance to determine the braking where braking is needed.

Zhang Yuan finally parked the car on the side of the road, but saw an extended version of a Rolls-Royce with a chimney parked in front of him, "Huh? This is the car of the Executive Committee, who used the car for private use? His words just fell, but Yuan Zhenli squeezed a sentence, "Don't laugh at a hundred steps at fifty steps, aren't we also private users?" It's still the experimental stage, if you really want to catch the bus for private use, there are really few in our Senate who are fine. ”

Pan Dai looked around, and at a glance saw Xiao Jing who was talking to someone, but the lights were a little dim at night, and he couldn't see who else was clear, so he walked over with a smile.

When I got closer, I couldn't help but be stunned, the one sitting with Xiao Jing was actually a gorgeously dressed woman, and judging from the slightly fluffy blonde hair, it didn't seem to be a native of Dongfang Port - the blonde ones were basically Maidno or Yaning, and there was no woman among the naturalized Maidno or Yaning people in Dongfang Harbor, so this woman must be a newcomer to Dongfang Port. At this moment, Jacqueline also seemed to hear the regular sound of the engine, turned her head to look, and just happened to see Pan Dai.

"It turned out to be Mr. Conductor!" Jacqueline stood up with some joy and raised the corner of her skirt to him and bowed slightly, this action made Pan Dai a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly stretched out her right hand to the right temple, but remembered that she was not from the military and political department, and the military salute was inappropriate, just when she felt a little overwhelmed, Jacqueline continued with a smile, "The performance you conducted tonight is very exciting, can you come to our palace to perform the repertoire?" ”

"Huh?" Pan Dai was really stunned at this time, he has a lot of identities since he crossed over, that is, he is the head of the power department, and he is the main member of the Senate Music Lovers Club, and later after establishing the Oriental Port Band, he had to work part-time as the chief conductor of the band. With the recent outbreak of large-scale tripping, he was confused, and even wanted to lose his work in the band, but he had to continue to work part-time because no one took over. You must know that there has always been a voice in the Senate saying that music is a beautiful sound used to corrupt the minds of working people, but now it has been affirmed by the enemies of the Senate, which makes Pan Dai feel quite unacceptable for a while.