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Now that the Europeans have carved up almost 80 percent of the world's colonies, the Europeans, whose economy has gradually come to a standstill, have no new colonies for them to explore, so for the Europeans they can only rekindle the flames of war in Europe. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the end of the year, four more Nanling-class battlecruisers were launched at the Guangzhou Shipyard and the Imperial Fortress Shipyard, bringing the number of Nanling-class battlecruisers to eight and the number of Zhenyuan-class battlecruisers to six, plus two Empire-class battleships and two firmament-class battleships, as well as fifty-nine Glorious-class Type A armored protection cruisers with an average displacement of 6,700 tons and forty Wavebreaker-class ocean-going destroyers with a standard displacement of 3,500 tons, this is the full strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

Lin Haijiang has been paying close attention to every move in Europe, as the atmosphere of the war is getting stronger and stronger, all European countries are building railways and cable telegraph networks in a big way, and the Chinese Empire has always been at the forefront of the overall level of Europe in this regard, and the main reason why Lin Haijiang has always advocated speeding up the construction of railways is to quickly and quickly assemble the limited forces of the empire in some parts.

As long as the main force of the imperial navy is still there, then Britain, France and other countries will definitely not carry out landing operations in Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asia, because Britain and France have already had the experience of being wiped out by Lin Haijiang after the second landing.

Lin Haijiang has always insisted that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and now it seems that Lin Haijiang's original insistence is correct, and war is the main driving force for the development of science and technology, from 1866 to the beginning of the new year in 1868, the General Administration of Scientific Research of the Chinese Empire has perfected more than 1,000 inventions and practical surnames, including electrostatic telegraph transmission, rail durability in alpine areas and new alloy smelting ratio, Imperial Type 5 class light machine gun, large heavy oil fuel mixed new boiler steam turbine, The shallow oil fields extracted from the Imperial Fortress have begun to supply oil to several large refineries in Guangzhou and the Imperial Fortress, and this news is very exciting for Lin Haijiang.

If the Tieniu-2 test machine can meet the standards for boarding ships through the inspection, Lin Haijiang has decided to give priority to the Nanling-class and Cangqiong-class ships to replace the single-engine horsepower with more powerful horsepower, more durable endurance, and a lot of space-saving Tieniu-2 large heavy oil hybrid boiler steam turbine, if the empire can successfully complete the replacement of the power system of the main ship, then the empire will occupy a greater advantage in the future naval battle, and this advantage is likely to determine the future honor and life and death of the imperial navy.

However, the successful development of a new type of boiler steam turbine for large-scale heavy oil combustion and mixing and several refineries in Guangzhou made Lin Haijiang a little depressed, because the refining technology is relatively backward, and it cannot maximize the value of crude oil as later generations, and the problem with crude oil is that it contains hundreds of different types of hydrocarbons, and these substances are all mixed together.

Crude oil is a black-brown flowing or semi-flowing viscous liquid, slightly lighter than water, is a very complex mixture, and the oil also contains sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, vanadium and other elements. Soluble in a variety of organic solvents, insoluble in water, but can form an emulsion with water, according to the density range is divided into light crude oil, medium crude oil and heavy crude oil. However, the composition and appearance of oil in different oil fields can vary greatly.

Oil can be said to be the blood of modern industrial production, black gold is the first energy source of the surname, and it is also an important strategic material, but Lin Haijiang knows that the exploitation of oil is not a simple matter, and the exploration methods of oil and other minerals are basically the same. Organize manpower to analyze the form and mining value of various minerals!

For example, under the existing conditions, the empire can only exploit shallow oil fields for the time being, just like those deep oil fields in Northeast China, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Xinjiang Provinces, even if Lin Haijiang knows the exact location, it cannot be exploited before the technology is mature, which is why later generations said that they invaded the Northeast and had already explored the location of the oil fields, but gave up because the technology could not meet the exploitation standards, so that New China, with the support of Soviet technology, independently innovated and finally extracted the first barrel of crude oil belonging to China from deep wells.

Lin Haijiang used the most ancient and simple way, the need to separate different types of hydrocarbons, in order to refine the useful substances, this simple method can separate these substances to achieve the purpose of petroleum refining, the oil refining process of the refinery of the Chinese Empire began with a fractionation column, with the increase of the length of the hydrocarbon chain, its boiling point will gradually increase, so it can be separated by distillation, in a link of the refining process, the crude oil is heated, at different evaporation temperatures, It separates the hydrocarbon chains of different lengths, which directly leads to the gradual separation of various components in the crude oil.

The backwardness of oil extraction technology cannot be solved in a short period of time, and if Lin Haijiang wants to equip a large scale of heavy oil and new boiler steam turbines, he needs a larger oil field and more crude oil as a stable supply while improving the refining technology of crude oil.

So Lin Haijiang naturally set his sights on the entire Middle East, the Middle East is the region with the largest oil reserves in the world, and most of the oil fields are high-quality shallow and easy to exploit oil fields, and the oil in the Middle East is distributed along the entire Persian Gulf.

Muslims living in West Asia mainly belong to four ethnic groups, namely Arabs, Turks, Kurds, and Persians, and these so-called Muslim nations can be described as deep as the sea, and under the provocation and fanning of the British colonialists, country to country, sect to sect, tribe and army are constantly torn apart all year round, and the extermination of the empire in the Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asian provinces may be difficult to adapt to in the Middle East.

And there are two alternative ways to the Middle East for the Chinese Empire, one is to open the door to the Middle East through Burma to attack India, and the other is to completely conquer Afghanistan! To this end, Lin Haijiang summoned Li Anmin, Huang Tao and others, and wanted the General Staff to come up with a strategic plan on how to open the door to the Middle East!

For the Führer's ambition, Li Anmin really couldn't bear to hit the Führer's positive surname, but in the face of the current situation of the empire, Li Anmin resolutely said: "Your Excellency, I think the main task of the empire at present is to operate the defense of the Far East, strengthen the defense of the Indochina Peninsula, and strengthen the training of naval ship formations, rather than continuing to blindly expand the territory. In terms of policy and funding, the empire has done its utmost inclination, but it still scolds the sky, especially in Afghanistan and the Middle East, where there are many barren mountains and deserts in the Gobi Desert? Who's going to go? The Empire's military is already stretched! Unbridled expansion is a precursor to destruction! ”

Li Anmin was also frightened by his impatient remarks, saying that the country would die in front of the great head of the empire? Isn't this purely a matter of finding something to clean up? Huang Tao and the others looked at the head of state nervously, thinking about how to exonerate the chief, but Lin Haijiang smiled slightly: "Chief Li, don't be excited, I'm just taking precautions, I promise you that you will not launch a war against Afghanistan for at least five years, but as soldiers, you must always remember that Afghanistan is the land on the territory of the Tang Dynasty, as a soldier, it is your duty to take back every inch of land we have lost in history, for the empire, any country trying to discuss the territorial issue, that means war, Every inch of the empire is useful, and whoever wants to discuss territorial issues with the Chinese empire must be prepared for a sea of corpses and blood, and must have the determination to destroy the country and exterminate the species. ”

Li Anmin, Huang Tao and others immediately stood up, and replied in unison: "To revitalize China, never give up!" ”

Lin Haijiang waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down, but when it came to Afghanistan, Lin Haijiang himself was also very troubled, because this country is so special, and the pronunciation of Afghanistan comes from Persian, which means mountain people.

After Huang Tao got Lin Haijiang's approval, he picked up the report file and said: "We don't know much about the current situation in Afghanistan, most of them are just simple geographical conditions, which can only be used as a reference, Afghanistan is a landlocked country located in central and southern Asia, located in the heart of Asia, Afghanistan is located in the heart of Eurasia, not only connecting Eurasia and the Middle East, but also the necessary place for imperial forces to enter and exit the west and go south and north!" Its territory is mountainous, plateaus and mountains account for about 80% of the country's area, the north and southwest are mostly plains, there are deserts in the southwest, the Wakhan Corridor in the northeast protruding narrow strip borders the imperial border, Afghanistan belongs to the continental climate, dry and rainy throughout the year, cold winters, and hot summers! ”

(To be continued)