Chapter 263: Ironclad Chariot

In the afternoon, Zhao Yan's spirit recovered a little, so he summoned Mao Geng and other subordinates in the Special Administrative Region, and before the inspection, Zhao Yan wanted to listen to a brief briefing, and then delineate the content of the inspection.

Before the arrival of the delegation, Zhao Luan and Mao Geng and others had already made preparations, and Lao Qiu took out the strength of the future generations to welcome the inspection of the superiors, and made a set of reception and visit plans round.

What Zhao Yan saw was a report material similar to PPT format, this is Lao Qiu's masterpiece, which fully reflects Lao Qiu's artistic skills, this thing is full of pictures and texts, it is the table that makes Zhao Yan a little unaccustomed to it at first, but looking at it, he also realized the beauty of the table, in any case, Lao Qiu is rushing to the leader to see clearly and understand without brains.

There are so many bright spots in the SAR that of course we can only highlight the key points.

However, even if the focus is highlighted, there are still a lot of projects, so the copy is a bit long.

Lao Qiu was not among the summons in the afternoon, and among the traversers, only Mao Geng participated.

Although Zhao Yan has always been very concerned about the exhibition of the Special Economic Zone, and Zhao Yan has also reported very diligently, Zhao Yan is still shocked by the detailed report materials in front of him. Comparing the words and numbers, Zhao Yan asked questions one by one for the questions he was interested in, and at first they were all answered by Mao Geng, but Mao Geng felt that it was really not worth boasting about the traverser's achievements, and the answers were just decent, and even a little boring.

However, Han Yanxuan's addition was much more exciting, so later, the protagonist of the introduction was simply replaced by Han Yanxuan.

Zhao Yan listened to the report and felt happy from the bottom of his heart, in less than two years, the special zone has changed greatly, according to the introduction, the grain produced by this land can not only meet the needs of the island, but also supply grain to the big six.

The following day, Zhao Yan mainly looked at agriculture in the Special Economic Zone.

At this time, it was the season of rice sowing and transplanting, and Zhao Yan was most satisfied with the construction of water conservancy facilities in the special zone. In the construction of water conservancy facilities, Mao Geng has indeed spared no effort to invest, Taiwan's conditions are good, and it was a blank sheet of paper before, so it is naturally good to draw the latest and most beautiful pictures.

In Zhao's view, agriculture in the SEZ is very outstanding, and now there are many people who come to the SEZ to engage in farming, and the abundant rain here and the extensive use of struvite make the grain production higher than in other areas of the Great Song Dynasty.

It must be mentioned that Gu Yongqiang also produced the first "pesticide" in this time and space - iron sulfate. Because the reserves of pyrite in northern Taiwan are very amazing, the scientific name of pyrite is ferrous sulfide, after Gu Yongqiang came, the first thing was to use pyrite to produce sulfuric acid, and the increase in sulfuric acid production can produce a series of downstream products, such as iron sulfate can be easily obtained.

Iron sulfate can be used as a herbicide and insecticide, as well as a chemical fertilizer, with the effects of phosphorus removal, nitrogen fixation, active potassium, loose soil, bactericidal and insect control, and strong roots.

With the addition of struvite and iron sulphate, the high yield of crops is of course guaranteed.

Of course, the so-called high yield, in Mao Geng's view, is actually still very pitiful. For example, the yield of rice is 500 catties per mu, which is certainly high compared to the average yield of 300 catties per mu in other areas of the Great Song Dynasty, but it is really not worth mentioning compared to the yield per mu of more than 1,000 catties in later generations. For example, the average yield of sweet potatoes has reached more than 1,000 catties, in Zhao Yan's view, sweet potatoes are so high-yielding, and they don't pick the land.

Taking down Taiwan, just the high-yield sweet potato is a great achievement. Food security is the most concerned thing for the emperors of all dynasties, especially the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty is most afraid of the people's rebellion, there is the Song Dynasty, more than any dynasty attaches importance to food security. Now that there is a big island of Taiwan, the Great Song Dynasty has a new granary, which is really worth rejoicing.

Of course, in addition to rice and sweet potatoes, sugarcane is also cultivated in a large area. Judging from the yield of the sugarcane that has just been harvested, the yield is high and the sugar content of the sugarcane is also satisfactory.

Zhao Yan saw a large area of sugarcane forests, and a considerable part of the white sugar produced in the Special Economic Zone was squeezed from locally produced sugarcane. Mao Geng introduced that due to the use of steam power and advanced roll sugar extraction equipment, the sugar yield of sugarcane has increased by almost two percent compared with that of traditional sugar extraction.

Zhao Yan then visited the sugar factory, and it is amazing that the utilization rate of sugarcane has reached the extreme here, after the sugarcane is extracted from sugar, the remaining dregs are used to ferment wine, but the wine is not for drinking, all for the production of alcohol. The Great Song Dynasty liquor industry implements a monopoly, and the taste of sugarcane wine is average, and the demand for alcohol in the special zone is increasing day by day, and the use of sugarcane bagasse as raw materials is obviously far from meeting the demand.

After watching the agriculture in the Special Economic Zone, Zhao Yan sighed.

The fishing industry in the Special Economic Zone is also good, however, because there is a Xia Xia Island, that is, Hokkaido, which is known as the world's largest fishing ground, although the fishing industry in the Special Economic Zone is also good, but Mao Geng admits that the fishing industry in the Special Economic Zone is so far, and the gap between Xia Xia Island and Xia Xia Island is too big.

The agriculture in the SEZ is gratifying, but what really shocked Zhao Yan was the industry in the SEZ.

After looking around, Zhao Yan only felt dazzled.

Take the large-scale production of ready-to-wear garments in the Special Economic Zone, the degree of sewing machine sewing is really amazing, while stepping on the foot, while pushing, the sewing needle shuttles up and down, and after a while, a piece of clothing is completed. In other words, the so-called fashion of the Special Economic Zone is really eye-catching, and even Lin'an has begun to popular the "Hatang" clothing in the Special Economic Zone, especially the women's clothing produced in the Special Economic Zone, which directly catches up with the open atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Yan didn't think there was anything important, since he could wear it in the glorious era of the Tang Dynasty, why couldn't the Song Dynasty wear it!

If there is a word, it is long, and if there is no word, it is short. Zhao Yan looked at this and that patiently, and must admit that there are bright spots in every item, but when it comes to the most eye-catching, it is still necessary to push Zhu Xi's version of the "ironclad chariot".

The team led by Zhu Xi worked overtime, changed the pipes, and after some overhaul inside and out, they were finally able to make the "ironclad chariot" run again.

The test site is in a mountain col, the location is a little biased, the test site is surrounded by a circle of barbed wire, in addition to three steps and a post, five steps and a sentry, outside the barbed wire fence and put out a row of patrol posts, the end is heavily guarded, it is simply like a big enemy.

said that he came to see the ironclad chariot, and the whole body ironclad is not false at all, but Zhao Yan looked at it for a long time, and he couldn't feel that this was a "car", the cars all had wheels, even if it was a bicycle that had been popular in the past year, there were two wheels in front of the other, but where are the wheels of the "ironclad chariot" in front of him?

At first glance, the upper part of the thing looks like a large iron cabinet, with a square circumference, a cylinder on top, and a window in front of it, which is lined with an iron fence with oblique blades.

Zhao Yan was puzzled, and Mao Geng on the side began to explain where the chimney was, where the crawler was, and so on.

Since it is powered by a steam engine, it is necessary to raise the fire first, and then start it only after the steam reaches the set pressure.

The emperor felt that the waiting process was a bit long, but fortunately, Mao Geng patiently explained on the side, and Zhao Yan seemed to understand it.

This "ironclad chariot" has a large amount of wood for its practical use, and the so-called ironclad is a layer of 5 mm iron plate pasted on top of the wooden board. With such an iron plate thickness, it is a bit reluctant for this car to be called an "ironclad chariot".

The power system is a water-tube boiler, a 6o horsepower steam engine, the fuel is gas, equipped with a gas tank for storing gas and a charcoal gas stove, the gas from the gas tank is used when the fire is raised, and the gas stored in this pressure gas storage tank can allow the chariot to travel 4o kilometers. Of course, the gas in the pressure gas tank is mainly used for fire and warfare, and the charcoal gas stove is used in peacetime to produce the gas and use it now.

It must be said that the design of the gas tank and the water-tube boiler is still very powerful, turn on the gas switch, ignite the fire, it is not as troublesome as the coal fire, and the water-tube boiler can quickly produce enough steam, in fact, the emperor just waited less than twenty minutes, and the "ironclad chariot" started.

The movement is moving, but the degree is really not fast, I am afraid that it is not much faster than walking.

This "iron turtle" weighing about four tons, the fastest driving degree is only 1o kilometers, you must know that the time of other marathon runners is close to 2o kilometers, this "iron turtle" is really slow enough.

However, at this time, our Emperor did not feel slow at all, and a huge and heavy iron guy actually started to move like this, and it was getting faster and faster, almost as fast as a jog.

The most wonderful thing is the track that keeps sliding on the ground, well, that's called a track, yes, yes, there is no road here, the ground is simply potholes, and there are stones and trees or something, but relying on this magical track, the "chariot" actually rampage, and rolled out a road.

What is even more exaggerated is that in the face of a pit as wide as three feet, the chariot did not dodge or dodge, and actually drove directly over the ditch.

Further on, the chariot began to climb, the hillside was still a little steep, and it was a little difficult for the chariot to climb up, but a little bit, it still climbed up, slow or slow, but it was not easy to climb up.

It seems that as Zhu Xi said, this ironclad chariot can be driven wherever there is no road.

Next is the anti-strike demonstration, Zhao Yan looked, good guy, even the bed crossbow was used, only to see a huge arrow with a thick arm shot out from the bed crossbow, bang, hit the front of the chariot, but the arrow was bounced away, only a little depression was left on the chariot, and the chariot continued to drive forward as if nothing happened.

The last demonstration is the attack of the chariot, because it is a makeshift prototype, this chariot did not have time to be equipped with cannons, and with its wooden base, it could not be equipped with cannons.

However, on the sides of the tank, two "meteor cannons" were mounted.

The two 4o-mm meteor cannons were fired almost simultaneously, and the two canopies of iron sand covered the frontal area of thirty meters at once, bang, bang, bang, and hit the one-inch thick plank, and the plank that was the target was suddenly full of holes.

Zhao Yan was not calm for a moment, the old emperor was excited, the musket and artillery were very powerful, but no matter how powerful it was, how could it compare to this fierce chariot! With this, what are you afraid of the cavalry of the golden people!

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