The "Flying Leopard" light truck produced by the Wuhu Automobile Factory has become a joke of the world's surname. The difference between the two prototypes is the dark black smoke from diesel fuel and the gray smoke from the burning of wood gas.

The diesel car was invented by the German Diesel as early as 1886, and in 92, his product came out and sold 20 units, nearly 30 years ago. It's a pity that this extremely immature technology brought the inventor not rolling money, but debts that were not paid off until death. Just a year ago, Diesel committed suicide by jumping into the sea on a ship across the English Channel.

Diesel engines do have a number of flaws, the biggest of which is weight. Because the cylinder pressure of the diesel engine is much higher than that of the gasoline engine, the cylinder block of the diesel engine is much thicker than that of the gasoline engine, and the mass of the air compressor used by the early diesel engine for compressed air is also very huge, which makes the diesel engine as a whole very bulky and extremely unsuitable for the car with a very small skeleton at that time.

Within thirty years, Diesel invented the four-stroke diesel engine and diesel car, which almost no one cared about, and all automobile factories and engine factories considered diesel engines to be useless waste.

The Wuhu Automobile Factory made diesel-powered trucks, which was funny enough, and even funnier was that the other car turned out to be firewood-burning. In the back of the truck, a huge wood gas generator is installed, and the charcoal is used as fuel for the car to prevent the flames from being completely burned. A car with a load capacity of two tons is driven by such a pitiful power, and its speed is comparable to that of a snail.

The reporters who thought they were going to see the latest technology were shocked and couldn't believe it was true. The relationship between Wuhu Automobile Factory and Rolls-Royce in the UK is well known in the industry. Rolls-Royce has the world's most advanced technology in both car and engine manufacturing, especially the V-eight petrol engine used in the Silver Ghost series, which is of unrivalled quality.

After careful analysis, Western journalists and politicians, figured out the problem, the use of diesel and wood gas as power, is not accidental. In the eyes of Westerners, China is a country that is extremely short of oil, and the output of the Yumen oilfield in Shaanxi Province is not worth mentioning in the world. If you rely entirely on imports, the cost is too high, and it will be greatly controlled by others. Using a very immature diesel engine and using cheap diesel and charcoal as fuel is a last resort choice for the Chinese.

The bosses of Western car factories are not as rigid as politicians, and they found that the diesel engines of the "Flying Leopard" light trucks were not very heavy, and at the same time, Rolls-Royce applied for patents for piston pump injectors in major Western countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. Rolls-Royce, which has always been in charge of automobile manufacturing and engine manufacturing, has been the research direction of the automotive industry in every move. Diesel engines re-entered the sight of the bosses of the car factories of the Western powers.

Capitalists will always have a more sensitive sense of wealth than politicians.

As for the use of wood gas as a fuel to propel cars, it has aroused the interest of the extremely resource-starved Yue himself. However, this interest is not too great, and it is said that the country is not yet able to take into account civilian science and technology. Most of the new warships have already used heavy oil as fuel, and the white coal of Wales, which was once all the rage, has become a thing of the past. Desperately short of oil, they set their sights on Southeast Asia, which is rich in high-quality light crude oil, and the traditional colonial powers of Spain and the Netherlands felt tremendous pressure from the island countries in the East. Britain, which has many colonies in Southeast Asia, is indifferent, and in the eyes of politicians in Downing Street, the only country that dares to make a move against the British Empire is Germany, the hegemon of the European continent.

What is it? Can monkeys also drive warships? As for Ben's record of victory over Russia, the British were dismissive. After a whole night in the North Sea, sinking only one British trawler, killing four fishermen, and accidentally wounding three Russian sailors, there is nothing to be proud of in defeating such a fleet.

Shortly after the ceremony of the "Flying Leopard" car off the assembly line, Shanghai Guanghua Group spent a lot of money to import a heavy crude oil cracking production line from the American Standard Oil Company and purchased the patent rights related to this technology. At the same time, two oil tankers loaded with heavy crude oil sailed from Mexico to distant China.

Compared with high-quality light crude oil, heavy crude oil is much cheaper, but the cracking process is much more complex, and the quality of the finished product produced is far less than that of cracked light crude oil. Heavy crude oil is much cheaper than light crude oil in this era. Instead of buying high-grade light crude oil from Southeast Asia, they buy low-quality heavy crude oil from Mexico. In addition to showing that China is indeed desperately short of oil, it also shows the weakness of China's economic foundation. It is better to use a cheap bargain than a higher-priced high-end product.

After the "Flying Leopard" car left the factory, no one cared about it, because of the lack of orders, a total of a few cars were not built, but the production line of diesel engines was in full swing. Most of the finished products are shipped to the tractor factory in Baotou, and a small part is shipped to the United States. Shanghai Guanghua Group quietly purchased a gasoline-powered tractor manufacturing plant in the United States that was on the verge of bankruptcy, began a renovation and expansion project, and applied for an invention patent for high-pattern low-pressure pneumatic rubber tires.

In the Anqing Military Advisory Office, Chai Dongliang was quietly preparing for the First World War. He now set his sights on the Northeast and Henan, and he deeply knew that in Zhaozhou and Saltu in Heilongjiang, there were huge oil reserves, and in later generations, that place was called Daqing, and on the north bank of Pushui in Henan, there were also rich reserves of oil, which were the Zhongyuan oil fields in later generations. By the standards of this era, China is not oil-poor. Of course, if it's the kind of consumption of the twenty-first world, that's a different story.

However, the vast majority of the oil produced in China is heavy crude oil, and the cracking process is more complex and contains more impurities. However, heavy crude oil is an important source of raw materials for the petrochemical industry, and petrochemical, as a basic material industry, will be one of the most important pillar industries in the world in the future. In the 21st century, the price of heavy crude oil even surpassed that of high-quality light crude oil at one point.

For the sake of the oil resources of Daqing and Henan, it is also imperative to introduce heavy oil smelting production lines from the United States, and as for the "Flying Leopard" car driven by wooden gas, it is just a smoke bomb.

It gives the world the impression that if China's oil supply is cut off, the country's economy and industry will collapse in an instant. To put it bluntly, it is to lower the vigilance of the European and American powers against China's development.

According to Chai Dongliang's plan, in the coming period, maybe two years, maybe three years, China still needs to develop in a low-key manner, monopolize trade with Russia in the early stage of the European war, whether it is arms, quilts, or food, as long as the Russians need it, Chinese enterprises will produce it. Consolidate the domestic manufacturing industry through export trade, and at the same time improve the pattern of the domestic manufacturing industry.

The development of the manufacturing industry will inevitably bring the fear of the great powers, and it is also a homework that must be done to put two smoke bombs to confuse.

In the later stages of the war, China had to enter the war, it had not experienced a large-scale war, the combat effectiveness of the army could not be tested, the defects of weapons were not tested in the war, there was no pressure from the front, and the military factories lacked the spirit and motivation to innovate.

Chai Dongliang estimates that the huge profits brought by aminobenzen sulfonamide will come to an end within half a year at most. In the future, the profit growth point will be placed on the electromechanical manufacturing industry, and the trucks and tractors driven by diesel engines will become the two most important projects.

The tractor factory in Baotou can produce tanks and armored vehicles with a little modification. The high-efficiency and low-energy diesel engine drives the low-pressure and high-grain large wheeled tractor, which will become the favorite of farmers in the United States, Canada, Russia and Northeast China, and the huge market will bring a steady stream of financial support for domestic development.

Manufacturing is the foundation of national strength, without a strong manufacturing industry, a rich country and a strong army is a tree without roots and water without a source. As an emerging industrial project, the automotive industry has irreplaceable advantages, and its development potential is unlimited. This industry covers metallurgy, machining, petrochemical and many other related industries and sectors, as long as the automobile manufacturing industry has achieved great development, it will lead the entire manufacturing industry to a new height. In the 21st century, a large automobile manufacturing plant, there are dozens of medium-sized enterprises to provide assembly for it, hundreds or even thousands of enterprises to produce parts for it, and at the same time, there are steel, rubber, petrochemical, logistics and other upstream and downstream enterprises rely on the automotive industry to survive.

What's more, the development of automobiles will bring about a huge leap forward in transportation and infrastructure, and the traditional stone roads will be eliminated and replaced by asphalt or cement roads. This, in turn, has led to the development of the chemical and grinding industries. At the same time, the replacement of horse-drawn carriages by automobiles as the main means of transportation will greatly reduce logistics costs, greatly improve the scale and efficiency of commercial activities, and promote China's transformation from a small-scale peasant economy to a modern industrial civilization as soon as possible.

Chai Dongliang never thought that he had the ability to do everything, not to mention that he didn't understand a lot of things, even if he was a wise and close demon like Zhuge Liang, he knew half of the things in the sky, and the all-knowing super fierce man on the earth was still exhausted to death by the style of doing everything, and left a withered Shu country.

In the modern economy, the most important point is profit. The most important content of economic development is to let the relevant links and related industries obtain benefits. As the pillar of national strength, the most important thing is to have a broad market, otherwise there is no benefit, no one will have motivation, and there is a lack of motivation for innovation.

As a political axe, the most important thing is to provide a relatively fair market competition environment for enterprises, while protecting the safety and interests of enterprises, the army and other powerful organs, is the sword of the country, the enterprise is the ploughshare of the country, the purpose of the existence of the sword is to escort the plow, the purpose of holding the sword is to do business, not simply to show off force and national prestige.

Chai Dongliang now feels that the entire area controlled by the Jianghuai Army, whether it is military, political or commercial, has developed a sense of dependence on himself, especially the most obvious performance of commercial activities, any suggestions he put forward, Yu Qiaqing, Wu Jintang and others have never refutated, even if it is yang and yin, they trust themselves to the point of superstition, and always feel that as long as the governor says, it is right, and they will definitely make a fortune.

Yu Qiaqing, Wu Jintang and others intentionally or unintentionally suppressed the positive surnames of the specific staff below, and the creative surnames of the entire industrial and commercial system were suppressed. also produced a sense of slackness.

In more than two years, they started with a three-core socket, and then made a fortune on cement paper-burning and grinding equipment such as machine kilns, and established a monopoly position in metal smelting, shipbuilding, and financial industries. Now, the status of the Yu family and the Wu family in the Jianghuai army is almost equivalent to Mitsui and Sumitomo in the book.

However, Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Mitsubishi have monopolized the market with the help of the power of the political axe, and they still rely on the strength of the enterprises themselves in terms of technological innovation. The Guanghua Group has a bit of a taste of eating the old book, losing the momentum to move forward, just waiting for Chai Dongliang to take out one after another drawings of the latest technology, and then they can lead the world again and again according to production, so as to obtain huge monopoly profits.

This kind of thinking is unacceptable!

Chai Dongliang had to admit that he was in charge of things too widely, and he was too careful, and the result of the seedlings was that the company was lazy, not that they did not work hard, but that they lacked a sense of crisis and the motivation to compete.

This is something that Chai Dongliang is very worried about, in recent times, the laptop is running slower and slower, and it takes half a day to boot up, in case the laptop is broken, who will repair it in this world?

If one day, the connection with the book friend group is lost, and the innovative spirit of the enterprise is suppressed, then the joke will really be big.

Alloy steel, aluminum alloy, China has led the world in the material industry, the Navy already has a seaplane aircraft carrier, and two old cruisers are being converted into seaplane aircraft carriers, strategic and tactical thinking has also led the world, the tractor manufacturing plant is about to be built, and the diesel engine with practical surname has also been produced, which can be transformed into a tank at any time.

Although the navy is still weak, China is not the center of the European war after all, and there is no need to build too large a fleet now, and with the advantage of naval aviation, the era of battleships is about to come to an end, and the seemingly powerful navies of European and American powers will soon become obsolete.

Enough is enough, I really can't manage too much, the country's scientific and technological development is not something that can be done by one person, and the most important work for me in the future should be put on domestic affairs and foreign affairs, and it is enough to increase investment in education at the same time.

"Governor, Yanjing has sent a welcome group, please come to Beijing as soon as possible to take charge."

Gu Weijun walked over from outside, holding a telegram in his hand.

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Yuan Shikai painted a gourd in the same way, Sun Wen sent someone to Yanjing to invite him back then, and now he sends someone to invite me!" ”

"What do you mean, you still don't want to enter Beijing?"

Chai Dongliang smiled: "Congressmen, what is the attitude now? Would you like to revise a constitution? Brother Shaochuan, with all due respect, let me be a rubber stamp, I won't! ”

Gu Weijun also smiled: "Don't say that you don't want to, our Democratic Constitutional Party will not be the first to do it!" The attitude of Mr. Liang Zhuoru and I is to ask China to implement a presidential system, and when such a big country has internal and external troubles, it should engage in a parliamentary system? Ridiculous! If everything is delayed for a long time, what will become of the country? ”

Chai Dongliang smiled and nodded: "What about the attitude of the congressman?" ”

Gu Weijun smiled: "You are the acting chairman of the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang naturally looks forward to your horse, among the eight hundred Arhats, the Kuomintang accounts for 460 people, and everything others say is in vain." However, the lawmakers also felt that it was too hasty to reformulate the constitution and they offered a compromise proposal. ”

"Oh, let's hear it."

"The parliamentarians said that for the time being, the constitution formulated by Yuan Shikai will be implemented, and you will act as president for a period of one year, and the National Assembly will be convened within one year to revise the new constitution."

Chai Dong's eyes lit up: "Oh, this is possible!" But how can one year be enough? At least three years! ”

According to the constitution formulated by Yuan Shikai, the power of the president is almost equal to that of the emperor of a country, far exceeding the power of the president of a presidential country like the United States, and even exceeding the monarchs of constitutional states such as Yuben and Germany.

Chai Dongliang wants this, the First World War will break out in two months, this is a rare opportunity for China's rise, if you don't take advantage of the First World War to make a lot of war money, and at the same time take the opportunity to take Southeast Asia, where the Chinese gather, as China's backyard, it is really sorry to cross this time.

In Yuan Shikai's constitution, the president has the right to declare war, and he does not need the consent of the Congress!

This is exactly what Chai Dongliang needs! If, according to the "Provisional Covenant" or the "Temple of Heaven Constitution", the declaration of war requires the consent of the Congress, then the trouble will be great, what if the Congress does not agree? Could it be that he also learned from Sun Wen or Yuan Shikai and sent military police or ruffians to coerce the Congress?

According to Chai Dongliang's estimate, the possibility that the Congress will not agree is very large; first, it is difficult for Chinese to understand what impact a war thousands of miles away has on China; second, although the Chinese people hate foreigners, they are more afraid of foreigners in their bones, especially among cultural people, and the idea of fearing foreigners like tigers is extremely serious.

If that's the case, wouldn't Chai Dongliang's years of planning be in vain?

Can't wait any longer, the time is ripe!

"Brother Shaochuan, who did Yuan Shikai send to Anqing this time?"

"There are a total of sixteen people in the welcome group, and the head of the group is Cai Songpo, a disciple of Mr. Liang Zhuoru!"

Chai Dongliang's eyes lit up: "Oh, Cai Ye is here?" Lao Yuan will choose people! ”

??? Dividing line ???

Recently, it has been interrupted, and the rice balls are very sorry.

Recently, the family is facing demolition, Tang Yuan is anxious, and he really can't sink the heart codeword, and the width cable was broken some time ago, which was also broken because of the nearby demolition construction.

A good house, only ten years after it was built, it has to be demolished! Demolition is not just a matter of moving, old neighbors for many years have been separated, and children's schooling has become a problem.

I figured it out, no matter what, let's demolish it, anyway, the English name of our country is called demolition.

(To be continued)