In the scorching summer, China ushered in a new round of high temperatures, and the temperature values of 1,286 cities across the country broke the highest record in history. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Especially in the capital, the perceived temperature exceeded 40 degrees, and the maximum temperature on the ground exceeded the 50 degree mark.

This is a rare hot day, but it is also directly related to the large-scale urban construction and rapid industrial development of the Chinese Empire.

In Washington, D.C., at the same latitude, the perceived temperature is only 33 degrees, and the ground temperature does not exceed 40 degrees.

This is due to the large-scale urbanization of the city of Beijing, where all the streets are paved with asphalt slabs and oil roads, which are more heat-absorbing than the sand, earth, masonry and stone streets of other countries. At the same time, millions of cars are shuttling back and forth in the streets, and the exhaust fumes of the cars directly raise the temperature of the city by an order of magnitude.

Around Beijing, there are Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base in the east, Mongolia Industrial Base in the north, Shanxi Northwest Industrial Base in the west, and Central Plains Industrial Base in the south.

For Li Weiguo, he felt hot when he stayed on the island in the lake of the Old Summer Palace, but when he thought that this was the miracle of China's industrial economy that he created, although he was hot, he was also happy in his heart.

Just now, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Industry jointly submitted a statistical report on the gross national product of the 23rd year of Guanghua (188_9), which was sent to the New Press Office of the Imperial Court of the Chinese People's Republic of China for release after Li Weiguo's imperial review.

Every decade, the last year of each decade, the Chinese Empire publishes not only its own economic data, but also the economic data of the world's major countries.

This economic data was originally released by the British Empire, which was the strongest in the world back then, not only economically, but also military, which was the first in the world, so it was very active in the release of global statistics.

Now that the British Empire's economy and military power are in serious decline, it is no longer released out of self-esteem.

The Chinese Empire naturally wants to bear this baton, just like the British Empire back then, to show off in front of the whole world, this kind of thing, in fact, the Chinese pay more attention to it than the Westerners, and in this world, there is no race that loves to save face more than the Chinese ethnic group.

In 188-9, the Chinese Empire still had the largest economy in the world, accounting for 32% of the world's total GDP, an increase of 0.6 percentage points from five years ago.

Don't underestimate this 0.6 percentage point, which is the share of the world total. You must know that all countries in the world are developing, the economic aggregates of all countries are increasing, the economic aggregates of the whole world are increasing ferociously, and the total economic output of the Chinese Empire accounts for the proportion of the world, which, theoretically speaking, should be declining, but it is increasing its proportion.

This can only illustrate one problem, that is, the economic growth rate of the Chinese Empire far exceeds the economic growth rate of other countries, and only in this way will the ratio of the total economic output to the global total be pushed up, which is enough to prove the prosperity of the unprecedented scale of the Chinese Empire.

The total economic output of the United States accounts for 15.1 percent of the world, an increase of 0.1 percentage points, which shows that the economy of the United States is also in a state of prosperity, because the end of the Cuban War, although it was pitted by the Chinese Empire and suffered a loss, but the advantage is that there is no need to continue to spend high war funds, and more money can be invested in economic development, which has caused the ratio of the total economic output of the United States to the world to increase.

The British Empire's economy continued to decline to 11.1 percent, a drop of one percentage point, because of its strong foundation, and even if it declined, it would take a long time.

The German Empire remains the fourth largest in the world, accounting for 11 percent of the world economy, an increase of 0.7 percentage points from five years ago.

This is a rather terrifying economic development capacity, as a rising European power, Germany's scientific and technological level has exploded, a bit to the 21st century of Sino-American science and technology, although it has not surpassed the Chinese Empire, but is narrowing the gap. It is much faster than the development of science and technology in the United States, Great Britain and France.

If the science and technology of the Chinese Empire is considered to be the world's first-class, then Germany is currently in the second echelon, and Anglo-American law is in the third echelon.

Because the German Empire lacked overseas colonial markets, it could only rely on technology to compete economically and trade with other powers, so there was a reason why Germany's technology was developing at such a rapid pace.

Of course, with the basic opening of the world's railways, the German Empire became the largest trade exporter and the largest trade importer of the Chinese Empire.

It is expected that in the next five years, Germany will surpass the British Empire.

Li Weiguo was supportive of the rapid economic development of the German Empire, saying that if the German Empire was too weak, it would be strategically unable to contain Britain, France, and Russia in Europe.

In order to alleviate the military pressure on the Chinese Empire and free up its hands to deal with the more economically developed United States, Li Weiguo allowed the German Empire's economy to develop rapidly.

You must know that in the first world war in history, the total economic volume of the United States was more than that of the entire Allied bloc combined, so as soon as the United States entered the war, the Allied countries were quickly defeated.

Now that the Chinese Empire is a member of the Central Powers, it is natural to rewrite the history of World War I, and the Allies must not be defeated, so the United States can only be contained by the Chinese Empire with all its might, so that the German Empire can be free to fight in Europe.

The thing that Li Weiguo is most happy to see is that the world war will continue indefinitely, and if the United States does not participate in the war in history, the Entente and the Central Powers will be at least five years dead, and the outcome is unpredictable.

In order to drag down the entire Western world, Li Weiguo can be described as well-intentioned, once the world war is turned from four years to ten years, then what will be the scene of the Western world?

The answer is Hell on Earth!

The next fastest growing is the Tsarist Russian Empire, which used to be a traditional power, the second largest country in the world, with a huge military force, but the economy and science and technology are backward, the gold content of GDP is not high, and it is all driven by real estate and agricultural products, a typical agricultural country, and the granary of Europe. Now that it has joined the Entente, it has received scientific and technological support from Britain, France and the United States, and its industry has developed rapidly and has made great achievements.

However, because of the glory of the German Empire, the rapid development of the Tsarist Russian Empire was compared.

But it is undeniable that the industrial growth of the Tsarist Empire was rapid, especially the rapid increase in steel production, which reached five million tons, more than double the number ten years earlier.

This scale of steel will attract great attention from both the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, because five million tons of steel will be used to build a lot of war weapons, such as large battleships. In the past, the steel production of the Tsarist Russian Empire was too small, it could not afford to build large battleships, the cost was too high, and the quality was not assured when it was imported from abroad, so with the increase of domestic steel, the Tsarist Russian Navy got the opportunity to strengthen its strength.

Five million tons of steel was enough to make the Tsarist Empire happy and celebrated.

However, looking at the whole world, compared with the Chinese Empire or the Confederate States of America, the gap is still quite huge.

By the end of 188-9, the total steel output of the Chinese Empire continued to be the largest in the world. Among them, the output of steel was 15 million tons of steel and the output of pig iron was 31 million tons, doubling from ten years ago.

The Confederate States of America, that year's steel output was only 8 million tons, pig iron output was 10.8 million tons, although the development speed was also quite fast, double that of ten years ago, but compared with the Chinese Empire, it was still more than twice as bad, unchanged second position.

The German Empire was also the third largest in the world, producing 7.5 million tons of steel and 6.1 million tons of pig iron.

In the British Empire, steel production and pig iron production were surpassed by the German Empire, but they were still ahead of the French Empire.

As for Italy, Austria-Hungary, and the Japanese Empire, development is still slow, and although the total steel production has increased several times, it is a pity that the base is too low.

For example, in Japan, steel production has increased 20 times, which seems scary, but unfortunately the base 10 years ago was only 20,000 tons, and after the 20-fold increase, it is only 400,000 tons.

Although the Chinese Empire has only doubled, its base is huge, doubling is 15 million tons, and this gap is quite huge.

Li Weiguo in the Old Summer Palace is still immersed in the joy of great economic achievements.

There is a saying that people are in good spirits when they are happy, and suddenly Li Weiguo thought of a way to resist the scorching heat -- air conditioning.

The historical air conditioner was invented in 1902, because the American industry was developing at a super high speed at that time, so the climate was getting hotter and hotter, and finally the Americans who couldn't stand the heat invented the air conditioner.

Now this situation is happening in the Chinese Empire, because of the hot problem, sooner or later it will attract the attention of the scientific and technological personnel of the Chinese Empire, and I believe that air conditioning will also be studied.

However, since Li Weiguo is here, the development of the air conditioning system will be put on the agenda.

Just do it, a phone call from Li Weiguo's secretary's office reached the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and soon hundreds of experts were recruited to come to the Old Summer Palace to listen to Li Weiguo's teachings in person.

Li Weiguo naturally can't make air conditioners, but he understands the principle!

"The principle of air conditioning is actually very simple, although it is divided into single cooling air conditioner and cold and warm air conditioner, but the working principle is the same, and the refrigerant generally used in air conditioning is freon."

"The property of Freon is that when it changes from a gaseous state to a liquid state, it releases a large amount of heat. When the liquid state changes from a gaseous state, it absorbs a large amount of heat. The air-conditioning system I proposed is designed according to this principle, and you can try to develop it. ”

"Of course, we also need an air compressor, which we have been available for a long time, and it is ready-made. The principle is to compress the gaseous refrigerant into a gaseous refrigerant at high temperature and high pressure, and then send it to the condenser (outdoor unit) to dissipate heat and become a liquid refrigerant at room temperature and high pressure. Then to the capillary, into the evaporator (indoor unit), because the refrigerant from the capillary to the evaporator after the space suddenly increases, the pressure decreases, the liquid refrigerant will vaporize, become a gaseous low-temperature refrigerant, thereby absorbing a lot of heat, the evaporator will become cold, the fan of the indoor unit will blow the indoor air from the evaporator, so the indoor unit blows out of the cold air. ”

Hundreds of experts suddenly lit up, they carried out scientific research, the most afraid of the heat, because a heat is not in the mood to work, the will is not concentrated, the past few years has been an urgent need for a cooling system.

Now that they heard Li Weiguo's instructions, they instantly saw the sun in front of them, and their eyes became clear.

As for other details, Li Weiguo didn't know, but hundreds of experts were not difficult at all, and it was easy to figure out and figure it out.

So, in less than three days, the first air conditioner was developed.

Although all kinds of key equipment were ready-made, Li Weiguo was still surprised that it was developed so quickly.

However, Li Weiguo was very happy, because this showed that the Imperial Academy of Sciences of the Chinese Empire was powerful, and whatever was developed, as long as the principle was sufficient, it would soon be developed.

Of course, this is also because these experts are too afraid of heat, so it is not surprising that they have worked hard to develop air conditioners with high efficiency.

The first air conditioner will naturally be installed in the Old Summer Palace, and Li Weiguo and his harem concubines will be the first to enjoy it.

Then there was the establishment of a factory for mass production, but the experts of the Imperial Academy of Sciences could not wait, and they directly made a simple version of the air conditioner by themselves, first to lower the indoor temperature, and then cool it down.

As for the rest, no one can pity it, and can only stare at the completion and operation of the air-conditioning factory.

However, in order to cope with the scorching hot weather, Li Weiguo knew that this was a huge business opportunity, and ordered the relevant departments to speed up the construction of the air-conditioning factory and strive to make money as soon as possible.

Just when Li Weiguo was comfortably enjoying the summer coolness brought by air conditioning, the world was already frying.

European and American countries were first shocked by the economic data released by the Chinese Empire in 398-9 (1889), although they had expected that the Chinese Empire would achieve a stronger scale of economic development, but they did not expect that the total economic output of the Chinese Empire was still increasing, which indicated that the proportion of other countries' economic aggregates in the world was decreasing.

In the past decade, European and American countries have been desperately developing their economies in an attempt to catch up with the Chinese Empire, but today's data shows that the gap between them and the Chinese Empire is getting wider and wider.

For the Entente bloc, only the United States was the only country that could compete with the Chinese Empire on an economic and industrial scale.

However, in the immediate aftermath of the economic report, the Chinese Empire doubled its defense budget to 30 percent, which completely shocked the world and frightened the children of the Entente bloc.

You must know that the Chinese Empire accounts for one-third of the world's economy, and its annual budget is equivalent to the budget of all countries in Europe combined.

The original budget of 15% was already beyond the reach of the entire Western world, but now it has directly doubled to 30%, directly scaring everyone in the Entente countries.

"The Chinese Empire is going to increase its defense budget again! It was revealed that the amount of budget increase this time was huge, and the Imperial Chinese Navy was preparing to build even more powerful super-dreadnought battleships! ”

The British Times sourly carried out related reports, confirming that the increase in the defense budget of the Chinese Empire was flowing into the Naval Ship Administration, indicating that the Chinese Empire was ready to start building more powerful battleships.

What kind of battleship exactly is it that requires the Chinese Empire to increase its defense budget by 15% to build, which has become the focus of attention of countries around the world.

Subsequently, the National Defense Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Chinese Empire released a new type of capital ship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, known as the super dreadnought-class battleship - the Thor-class battleship.

"The standard row is 34,000 tons, the full load is 38,000 tons, equipped with 4 triple 381 mm 50 times the diameter of the main gun, the armor is 300 mm BT33X5 China Special Steel, 18 boilers and 4 sets of steam turbines, four-shaft propulsion, theoretical speed of 25.5 knots, the estimated cost is 20 million yuan, and four ships of the same class are built."

This time, the tactics of the Chinese Empire changed, no longer concealing it, but choosing to disclose the data of the super-dreadnought battleship, and even the armor protection and speed were also announced, with intriguing intentions.

Because sometimes, the disclosure of military strength is also a kind of deterrence, which has special strategic value.

However, the navies of all countries in the world were instantly stunned when they heard the data of the Chinese Empire's Thor-class battleships, and the countries of the Entente bloc, which were the hostile countries of the Chinese Empire, were instantly frightened. (To be continued.) )