A telegram successfully resolved Ruan Tiantian's precarious position of being replaced, and also bought her time to deploy.

She thought about it, as long as she survived for a few months and waited for her subordinates to come back, or she could be directly promoted to deputy minister through this investigation.

But Liu Yun repeatedly warned her not to mess around, the Dutch secretly studied the steam engine in China, Ruan Tiantian told Liu Yun that the matter was not reported to the Congress, because the Dutch steam engine project was still in the exploration stage.

They can't build a qualified machine at all, this is what You Nanzhe said, because if you want to build a qualified steam engine, it is impossible to do it without drawings and available materials, and how difficult this is can be seen from how to get the first steam engine through the crowd.

It took You Nanzhe a whole year to study the restoration technology of the steam engine, which was also made without any drawings, just based on an appearance to compare, he didn't believe that there was someone in Europe who could be better than him, if there was really such a powerful character, he felt that Australia could get this person back.

It's a pity that such talents don't come to Australia, this is a super potential scientist.

However, according to Ruan Tiantian's investigation, the progress of the Dutch is not so fast at present, but some parts have been imitated, and the formal assembly work will take some days.

Whether you can see the problem depends on the formal assembly, the Dutch parts are all knocked out by hand, according to You Nanzhe, it can be started after assembly, but it must not be used.

Because the hardness of the steel is not up to standard, their machine is equivalent to a model.

If the Dutch can build a model, it means that they have taken a big step forward on the road of exploration, as long as they work hard, maybe they can really make a working steam engine, as long as there is a third of the Australian production is considered very successful.

The Dutch don't care how long the machine lasts, the key is that what they make themselves is cheaper, and the price of five steam engines can be as high as one of the Australians. They choose to use their own.

When Ruan Tiantian announced the news, it can be seen how much impact it has on the domestic crossing.

In addition to the shock, it is necessary to find a way to stop this behavior of the Dutch, and if you can, use force.

Of course, this is impossible, and the use of force to solve the problem in the Netherlands requires Australia to send a force to land in Europe to fight.

The war in Europe is chaotic enough, and if Australia is involved, it is estimated that the First World War will have to be brought forward.

Moreover, Australia does not have so many troops, and now its troops are mainly concentrated in Hong Kong. Preparing to launch an operation against the Manchus, there are no longer enough manpower, how can they send people to Europe.

There is no such possibility, so they can't send troops and can only closely probe their progress, and the matter of probing the progress happens to be the responsibility of Ruan Tiantian's people, and Fan Wei is difficult to insert even if he wants to intervene now, after all, her people have entered the Dutch.

This time Fan Wei only failed in this matter, but he did not say that he gave up the position of the top director of the European Intelligence Department, you must know that the director of the European Intelligence Department is a necessary qualification for his promotion.

So the competition isn't over yet. Both sides continued, but for the time being, the matter was put aside and the Dutch were instead tracked down for the construction of steam engines.

The Dutch sent spies into the country every month, but none of them succeeded. It's not easy for them to make this just by looking at something.

The only people who have such skills in their memory are the scientists in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, who relied on the cattle who groped things out from newspapers or a picture. It's still very little.

After all, the scientific thinking of this period was limited, and in addition to the fact that engaging in science is not like that of later generations, those cattle people actually had a certain foundation before they were built. The Dutch shipbuilders are different, they have not seen it, and if they do, it is only a form.

According to the intelligence, the ships received by the Dutch were not dismantled for research, but were used for transportation, which indicates that they were actually working on the steam engine on their own.

They have been working on the steam engine for more than a year, since the Australians converted the wooden sailboat.

The Dutch, who had the largest number of ships in Europe during this period, could not have failed to see the role of the steam engine in the transport industry, so they attached great importance to this project.

The steam engine research project has been kept in a high state of secrecy, apparently because it is not at ease with the Australians and others, and the reason why the spies have been sent to Australia is to steal the Australians' drawings and then find out what they need to solve.

Nguyen discovered this suspicious phenomenon last year, when the Dutch summoned a large number of top shipbuilders and blacksmiths from the country to a secret location, and then they never came out.

At that time, Ruan Tiantian felt that something was wrong, so he sent someone to investigate and found that there were heavy guards here, and it was not so easy to enter at all, but in the end, Ruan Tiantian only knew that they were studying the steam engine by entering this secret house through the channel of supplying food.

The Dutch were studying the steam engine, Ruan Tiantian was surprised at that time, this was okay, I was wondering if Australia's technical information was leaked, but it should be impossible to think about it, Australia's strict prevention measures are quite high, and there is no need to steal the data, and there is a big problem that she did not find out what drawings are used in the Netherlands.

reported this news to Liu Yun, Liu Yun also expressed concern about this, and just said that he would investigate, but there has been no news, Ruan Tiantian naturally did not give up this investigation, because she felt that this clue was very important to her, and if she grasped it well, it would be very likely to rise from here.

Judging from the current situation in European countries, even Spain, an old seafaring power, has no signs of making steam engines, which shows that the Dutch are indeed worthy of attention, and once they build steam engines, they will have a greater impact on the world pattern.

The generation difference in weapons may have suppressed the Netherlands on the battlefield, but once the speed of shipping is shortened, it will be difficult to distance itself, and Ruan Tiantian has grasped the initiative of the European Intelligence Division by relying on this secret investigation, because at this time, everyone knows that she cannot be easily transferred back, and it is very likely to affect the entire investigation plan. (To be continued.) )