Fang Yizhi hopes to realize that steam locomotives can not only run on railways, but also on land.

Let the entire Ming Dynasty's means of travel completely get rid of the dependence on animal power and manpower.

Especially manpower.

The sympathetic Fang Yizhi felt that the appearance of the rickshaw driver in Daming was an insult to a person like him, who was mainly responsible for locomotive manufacturing.

Fang Yizhi has been trying to find a way to reduce the volume of the steam locomotive.

At the same time, it is also tentative to use tires made of natural rubber to enable locomotives to run on land instead of rails.

However, because the steam locomotive is still too heavy, ordinary rubber cannot withstand the pressure of the steam locomotive.

Therefore, Fang Yizhi has been obsessed with the improvement of rubber tires.

Rubber is an important part of the machinery industry, Zhu Youzhen in the division of kings in the Americas, has begun to order Jinyiwei to find a way to get a batch of rubber seedlings from South America back.

At the same time, it was arranged to be cultivated in tropical areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty, such as Batavia.

Even, Daming also made the local aborigines become rubber workers in Daming, forcing them to plant all rubber and cut rubber.

Because of this, Daming is not short of rubber.

But what Fang Yizhi needed was rubber tires that could withstand the operation of a steam locomotive.

Boyle was also interested in the rubber process after all, and began to use sulfide as an accelerator to use sulfur as an accelerator by mixing it with rubber to enhance the strength of rubber, hoping to explore better rubber reinforcing agents.

Hard work pays off.

Boyle, with the support of Fang Yizhi, finally created the rubber reinforcing agent of anilinated sulfur.

As a result, Fang Yizhi's team began to build rubber pneumatic tires with better strength, and experiments proved to be enough to withstand the load of locomotives.

The manufacture of steam locomotives was no longer difficult.

The current steam industry in Daming has matured, and now the rubber industry has been improved, and the first original version of the steam car was officially launched at the end of the forty-fifth year of Chongzhen.

Although the first steam car of the Ming Dynasty was still a little too large, it was equivalent to a steam locomotive car.

But it did achieve the goal of moving away from railroad tracks on land.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen personally experienced the steam car of the Ming Dynasty, only to see that above the large iron car is a big chimney, there is no cover, only in the row behind the chimney can see a row of seats, as for the driver's seat is also rough, it seems that the speed can not be controlled.

Overall, Daming's first steam car wasn't much faster than a bike, but it was a real start.

Fang's team began to look for ways to reduce the size of the steam car and enhance the control system and appearance, while Boyle and others in his team continued to look for rubber reinforcements and anti-aging agents.

Even, began to focus on the research of synthetic rubber.

The Ming Ordnance Company also began to develop steam chariots with more technical data from the Zhi team, hoping to realize the use of steam chariots in warfare.

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The shipbuilding base of the Daming Shipbuilding Bureau, where Hu Ke stayed, is still an important base for the Daming shipbuilding industry, and it has been responsible for the development of steam ironclad ships.

The most difficult thing about the current Daming ironclad ship is not ironclad, but that it is easy to operate while being ironclad.

Regardless of whether the hull is wood or iron, as long as it is made into a ship model, it is difficult to sink, and the most difficult thing is the insensitivity caused by the increase of its own tonnage.

However, at the beginning of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Daming still achieved the success of the manufacture of ironclad steam warships.

In order to create a real ironclad battleship, it took more than ten years for Daming to do so.

Even over the years, several times it has been reversed, countless technological innovations have been realized, and even thanks to the development of organic chemistry, Daming began to master the welding technology using acetylene.

Not only that, Daming's manufacturing industry began to move towards an operating system.

A mechanical product is not just an independent variety of a certain technical category, but the result of the combination of various technical systems.

The first ironclad ship of the Ming Dynasty was named "Zhongshan King" by Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen even personally came to Nanjing to attend the launching ceremony of the ironclad ship.

The whole "Zhongshan King" is very large, more than one-third larger than the "Kaiping Wang", and it is three large chimneys, and the deck and hull are all painted steel welded together.

And in terms of artillery, it is not only that the previous battleships had three layers of rifled cannon batteries at a glance.

A sixty-five-pound central turret was even added.

What is even more rare is its operating system, the commander of the battleship can easily direct the movement of the ship in the command room, and even realize the automatic starting of the cannon device made by using the principle of electricity.

And Hook also personally participated in the collision test of the battleship and discovered the outer ironclad of the best ironclad battleship.

Not only Hook, there are not many Western soldiers who served for Daming shipbuilding in the Daming Shipbuilding Bureau, and even many of them are Dutch prisoners of war captured when they recovered Dongfan Island.

Naturally, the production of such ironclad warships should be stepped up, but for the cabinet, the production and maintenance of such warships is also not a small amount.

As a result, the cabinet was undoubtedly busier, trying to spend its limited funds on the construction and invention of the empire.

Investing in large-scale construction and manufacturing projects in the country is only a matter for the Cabinet to extract as much profit as possible from the bourgeoisie.

And Zhu Youzhen thought that he could take advantage of the appearance of the Ming ironclad battleship to take back the sovereignty of Macao.

At the same time, it is also to lay the foundation for the recovery of Cochin.

The Ming Nanyang Fleet was responsible for the purchase of the first ironclad steam warship of the Ming Dynasty.

Not long after, the Ming Nanyang Fleet sailed towards Macao with this ironclad steam warship, the "Zhongshan King", as the flagship.

Over the years, except for the Netherlands being completely destroyed by the Ming Dynasty because of the rebellion of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen has not stepped up the resolution of many sovereignty issues.

Macau is one of them.

It is not only that Macao is now about to become a gathering base for the Franc machine, but also because of the development of trade, Macao has also begun to become a rich place, where a lot of wealth is concentrated.

A rumbling sound rang out.

Black smoke and dust rushed into the sky.

The first warship of the Ming Dynasty was the flagship "Kaishan Wang", and as soon as it arrived in Macao, it jumped up first and prepared to attack Macao directly with a side battery.

And behind the "Kaishan King" there were dozens of battleships of different grades and sizes.

"Oh my God, how can it be so terrifying, how far has this Ming Empire's warship developed", the evil-doer Governor of Macau, Dewar, couldn't help but exclaim.

But De Waal was not willing to give up Macau so easily, after all, Macau has a lot of wealth.

As a result, Franc Robot Dewar still gathered ten battleships to meet the fleet sent by the Ming Nanyang Fleet.

The first to bear the brunt is naturally the "Kaishan King".

When the Franco-man began to move towards the Kaishan King at a light speed with two battleships, the central turret of the Kaishan King had also begun to be adjusted to target an enemy battleship.

(End of chapter)