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No one would have thought that the Tang Empire and the Western Continent would fight for the interests of the New World for so long, so that this war made the contest between the Western Continent and the Empire and even for the entire continent ushered in an unimaginable period of development, in order to support this war that almost represented the East-West War, both sides tried to overwhelm each other economically and militarily, and the leading in science and technology has increasingly proven that it can effectively do this, so both sides are sparing no effort to increase investment in the development of science and technology in order to promote economic development。 Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The intermittent thirteen-year war from the North Latin Ocean in the north of the New World to the Storm Ocean in the west, from the Sahara Plain in the north to the black steppe of the Congo in the south-central part of the country, from the Jinaya Basin in the west to the Great Lakes Plain in the middle, the Tang Empire resisted the attack of almost the entire Western Continent with the strength of one country, from a series of defeats in the early stage to the gradual improvement in the middle period, and then to the mutual victory and defeat in the later period, the Tang Empire began to reverse the situation step by step from the unfavorable situation, and the whole war can be called a history of the Tang Empire breaking free from the cage and despair。

During the entire war, the Tang Empire controlled the scale of the war just right, and at the same time won over Xiolan, After the Deland and the Constantine, the Imperial Navy can finally compete with the navies of the Western Continent in the Northern Latin Ocean and the Aegean Sea, from the beginning of repeated defeats to the gradual gain of the upper hand, the Empire's huge shipbuilding industry provides a solid foundation for the rise of the Imperial Navy, although the Imperial Navy's losses of ships and soldiers from the entire war are still higher than the total of the Western Continent powers, but the war is not calculated by the number of winners, who finally wins, who is the real winner, and built on a bloody battle after the hard battle The Imperial Navy has finally laid the foundation for their dominance of several oceans。

When the Heidelberg Armistice was signed in Heidelberg in November 715 and the New World Sphere of Influence Leap was signed in Constantinople in December, almost everyone in politics and business realized that the pulse of the continent was finally about to return to normal beating, but that the beating would be very different from before the outbreak of war seven years earlier, and that the changes it would bring about would plunge the entire continent into an era of great revolution.

In September 715, known as the greatest invention in the history of the continent, James Watt, a famous scholar of the Kingdom of Leeds, led a scientific research team and a research team of the Royal Academy of Science of the Tang Empire (the Royal Academy of Science of the Tang Empire was established in March 611) almost simultaneously announced that a breakthrough had been made in the development of an improved steam engine, which could effectively convert heat energy into kinetic energy.

From the middle of 716 onwards, experiments with the use of the steam engine on ships were accelerating, and countries were racing to invest heavily in such an invention that could change the entire division of maritime power.

In February 718, the first steamship (paddle wheel) successfully conducted a sea trial on the Rhine Canal, the largest inland canal in the Famini Empire, and completed the trial voyage in just two hours after a thirty-kilometer voyage. In May, the first steam ship of the Tang Empire set a new record, from the Songjiang Zhuangyuan Ao Military Port to the Yuhang Military Port for trial voyages, after 14 hours of continuous sailing to the destination, although it anchored once, but after the full repair of the engineering technicians, it resumed normal operation after three hours, and in this voyage, the steam ship ran out of a maximum speed of 15 knots per hour without the support of any sails. In July, the Leeds Navy conducted a test to confirm this, when a steamship named the Mayflower completed a 55-nautical-mile voyage in three hours, taking the record even further.

The success of the trial voyage of the steam ship immediately caused a huge wave in the shipbuilding industry, some shipbuilding owners took the initiative to seize the opportunity to change, trying to walk in the forefront of history, and some were stubborn and resolutely resisted this kind of innovation that may lead to the elimination of the original equipment of the shipyard, but no one could resist the tide of history, and the vigorous shipbuilding revolution set off Within three years, the shipbuilding industry of the whole continent evolved from sail ship manufacturing to steam ship manufacturing, which greatly stimulated the rapid development of the steam engine production industry, when the Tang Empire announced that it would select eighteen large-scale mechanical processing enterprises as the designated production enterprises of steam engines, and exempted from patent fees, the frenzy of producing steam engines finally arrived.

From May to September 719, almost unanimously, the Kingdom of Leeds, the Tang Empire, the Famini Empire, the Kingdom of Barodoz, and the Augsburg Empire announced at the same time that they would promote new steam ships as the main warships of their respective navies, and would completely eliminate sail warships, further intensifying the naval equipment competition, and the navy began to enter the era of steam warships.

In July 721, the most important invention in the history of the continent was produced, and the Leeds scientist Steven successfully experimented with using a steam engine to drive the locomotive to transport ore on the railroad tracks in the mining area, and this initiative was immediately captured by the economic spies of the Tang Empire in the Leeds Kingdom. Just when the Leeds people were overjoyed and ready to keep this initiative a secret secret, the Tang Empire quickly put this achievement into practice. In September 721, at a viewing party in Zhongzhou, Yanjing, the Imperial Royal Academy of Sciences demonstrated the entire process of a small steam locomotive running on a hundred and fifty-meter-long railroad tracks, which immediately aroused great interest among sensitive imperial merchants.

In May 722, during the celebration of the 51st anniversary of His Majesty the Emperor, the Imperial Government Council officially announced the construction of a 15-kilometer experimental railway from Qingyang City to Qingpu as an experimental transportation route connecting Northwest University and Northwest Military Academy to Qingyang City. In October 722, the successful construction and opening of the railroad greatly shocked the entire empire and even the entire continent, and it was at this time that the Kingdom of Leeds woke up like a dream and began to prepare for their first railway.

At this time, the empire had already announced the establishment of four railway companies, in addition to the imperial railway company under the imperial government council, there were three other joint consortiums to obtain pictures of railway construction and operation, they were the imperial vertical and horizontal railway company representing the Yanjing financial oligarchy and the Meili financial group, the Datang railway company representing the Jiangnan merchant forces, and the Zhongtang Railway Development Company representing the Yindean mining consortium.

The Sino-French Railway, which extended from Zhongzhou to Qingyang and later through the Western Regions, to the Fahan Province, and the Zhonghai Railway from Zhongzhou to Haisencheng, the capital of the Eastern Libera Province, was won by the Imperial Railway Company, while the Imperial Zongheng Railway Company obtained the Hehan Railway from Hejian to Hanzhong, the Monan Railway from Moluo Port in Nanhai County to Nanfeng in Tiannan County, and the Datang Railway Company obtained the railway from Songjiang Province to Yueyang Province in Wuhu County, and they also obtained the privilege of building the first railway in the New World, and the route was determined by themselves。 The Sino-Tang Railway Development Company had been hoping to get the line from Fahan to Zhongzhou, but it was unsuccessful, and in the end they chose a number of short lines, such as the line from Shuangdui Province to Qingyang via Volcano Province and Vito Province, the branch line connecting the Sino-French Railway from Reed, and the line from Lahore to Goa and finally to Luxor.

Railway construction in the territory of the Tang Empire** It is difficult for any country to match, and the most important point of the great development of railway construction is to push steel production on the road of crazy development, everyone knows how much steel will be needed for the construction of these railways to make these rails, and how many railway construction will be fully rolled out in the future, how lucrative the profits will be, the door of financial institutions is almost unlimited to the railway companies and steel production enterprises, and the emergence of the New World Iron and Steel United Company marks the pattern of the four major iron and steel enterprises in the empire finally taking shape。 When the last section of the line from Kshar to Kuqa was completed in 637 and the Sino-French Railway was opened to traffic, the entire Tang Empire had built 8,500 kilometers of railway lines, accounting for more than half of the railways built on the entire continent.

The construction of the railway has greatly promoted the development of the steel industry, but the development of the steel industry has stimulated the rapid improvement of the efficiency of the mining industry.

Just when the empire had the upper hand in the construction of the railway, the chlorine bleaching method was the first to be popularized in the Leeds Kingdom, and the quality of the textiles of the Leeds Kingdom was greatly improved, and the textiles of the Leeds Kingdom quickly became popular in the mainland, and the textile products of the Tang Empire suffered a heavy blow, and it was not until ten years later that the empire's textile industry began to recover slowly. The Tang Empire and the Western Continent competition in ocean transportation are comparable, and the Tang Empire obviously has the upper hand in the promotion of steam ships alone, but the Leeds Kingdom has joined forces with several major maritime powers in the Western Continent to take the lead in carrying out new tests from the paddle wheel to the propeller propeller, which is another big step forward for the steam ship, but fortunately, the empire's response is also quite agile, and it does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to replace the paddle wheel type naval ship, which has not fallen behind.

In order to ensure that their respective positions are not threatened, every country involved in the country has to devote itself to the development of its own national strength and improve science and technology, so as not to fall behind in this game that determines the success or failure of the country. Theoran, Edran, Constantine, the Babylonian League, and Saladin's kingdom gradually sank, and all those in power knew that when new actors rose and a group of former leaders fell, it was time to turn a new page in history and usher in a new period of drastic change.

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