Chapter 437: New Developments
The Academy of Science and Technology has finally come up with the latest results.
This new work, although it has no practical effect at present, is of great significance.
Because, it is the prototype of the generator!
Holding the handcrank that is placed next to it and turning it at a specific speed, the two electromagnets on it begin to rotate rapidly, forming a magnetic field, and when the two magnetic fields are staggered, electricity is generated.
Does this picture sound familiar?
Because at a certain time, there were hand-cranked telephones.
Originally, Xia Qi wanted to directly buy a design drawing of the generator, and then let the research institute conduct research.
But it turned out to be a little disappointing for him, because there was no at all.
Then Xia Qi reacted, not that he didn't, but that he was all hidden by other players.
The development of electrical appliances is another great progress in the history of human science and technology.
Those players who have developed into the electric age or higher than the electric age obviously don't want too many players to easily enter the electric age, so one by one, even if they have redundant design drawings, they will not come out.
After all, the fewer players of your own era, the better.
After realizing this, Xia Qi hurriedly went to the trading house to search for the steam engine, and sure enough, there was no same.
Fortunately, he had obtained a blueprint for an early steam engine from Xiongba, otherwise it would not have been so easy for him to overcome the hurdle of entering the industrial age.
Since you can't buy the blueprint, you can only toss it yourself.
For this reason, Xia Qi had to go to consult Yang Guang.
Yang Guang is a busy man, and when Xia Qi was sending him a message, the other party was pushing oil for his sister on a tourist planet.
After receiving Xia Qi's news, in addition to being somewhat dissatisfied, he was also surprised.
How long has it taken for you to complete the development journey of human beings for thousands of years?
Then, after spending some time, Xia Qi finally got a design concept.
There is no way, Yang Guang has developed to the stage of interstellar colonization, this rudimentary power generation device is like an antique, if it weren't for the order of his own emperor, who would care about this kind of thing.
After getting this design concept with design drawings, Xia Qi handed it over to the Academy of Science and Technology.
Under this premise, the Institute of Science and Technology still spent a lot of time to finally come up with such a hand-cranked prototype generator.
Of course, with the electricity generated by such a gadget with a hand-cranked power, it is estimated that even lighting a light bulb is tiring, but its appearance proves that they are one step closer to the generator in Great Xia.
It is a symbol of coming out of nothing.
For his subordinates who can produce results, Xia Qi has never been stingy with his praise and rewards.
Subsequently, Xia Qi asked Wei Xi to continue his research on the generator, and at the same time, he also reminded him not to forget to continue the improvement of the steam engine.
It's not that the steam engine is useless when the generator is built.
In the early years, the generator was simply not enough in terms of output power, and at the same time the power was unstable, in addition, there was also the problem of safety, so if you want to make some big guys operate, for a long time, you still have to rely on steam engines.
At present, the steam engine in Daxia is a typical reciprocating steam engine, but Xia Qi hopes to improve it to the level of a turbine steam engine.
Because the turbine steam engine not only brings more powerful kinetic energy, but also can generate thermal power.
But it's a light thing to say, but it's not easy to do.
But in any case, after the research and improvement of generators and steam engines have been ordered, it is indeed time to deal with the things that should be dealt with.
In the shooting range of the palace, Xia Qi played with the rifle in his hand, and he seemed to be in a pretty good mood this day.
The trigger was pulled, and with the sound of a gunshot, the bullet that came out of the disembowel accurately hit the target at a distance of 100 meters.
Subsequently, Xia started to skillfully remove the cartridge casing, reload the bullets, and then continue shooting.
For rifles, he has already played quite slippery.
And the rifle in his hand now is the latest research result of the Ordnance Research Department. However, this time, the results are not in range, power and accuracy, but in cost.
If it took a thousand copper plates to make a rifle before, then the manufacturing cost of this rifle in Xia Qi's hand at this time was six hundred copper plates.
He can now build almost two rifles that cost him.
The reason why this low cost can be achieved is naturally due to the racial talent of the goblins.
Goblins are very good at cutting costs, and they can even cut the manufacturing cost of a device in half, and then create a device that is basically not inferior in power and performance to the original, and it is completely talented in black technology.
However, the only fly in the ointment is that low-cost devices are manufactured, and occasionally there are some minor failures.
But there is still no denying the power of this talent, it is a talent, and not everyone can do it.
It is no exaggeration to say that even if Xia Qi handed over this matter to Xia Fox, Xia Fox could not say that she could create a rifle that was not inferior to the original in terms of performance while cutting half the material.
At this time, the rifle in Xia Qi's hand was undoubtedly a typical low-cost rifle, but it was not the same as the original low-cost equipment of the goblin civilization.
Just like all instruments generally have blueprints, the low-cost devices researched by goblins also have blueprints.
Take the low-cost rifle in Xia Qi's hand as an example, if you want to build it, you can only follow the design drawing, otherwise you won't be able to trigger the effect, either the performance will be greatly reduced, or it will directly fail to be manufactured and become a pile of rags.
And under this premise, the powerful place comes.
Xia Qixian asked the deputy director of the Ordnance Research Department to take the original design drawings and study a low-cost design drawing.
After determining that a low-cost rifle could be successfully manufactured according to the low-cost design drawing, Xia Qi signaled him to hand over the low-cost design and the manufactured product to Xia Fox, so that Xia Fox, the top ordnance master of the human race, could improve the low-cost rifle, improve the stability of the low-cost rifle and reduce the probability of failure while controlling the cost.
After going back and forth like this, a new blueprint appeared, improved by two master armourers, the Goblin and the Terran.
The latest rifle, the cost has risen a little, but the performance and power are not inferior to the original, and the most important thing is that the successful improvement of the summer fox has eliminated the problem of easy failure that originally belonged to the goblin machine.
When he received this design drawing, Xia Qi was so happy that he could imagine how happy he was, and he did his best to serve Xia Fox all night that night.
Not to mention anything else, the firearms alone can save Xia Qi a lot of expenses every year.
And that's not the most important thing, the most important point is that his method has proven to work.
In other words, he could use this method for other devices.
For example, steam trains, cannons, and so on.
As long as this batch of design drawings is made, the financial pressure of Daxia can be alleviated!
The other side.
Outside the northeastern border of Great Xia, the infantry unit led by Hua Ye maintained a mobile shooting posture and pressed forward all the way.
In the face of a rain of bullets, even a quick-witted, thick-skinned hyena man could not escape the fate of eating a few more guns.
In this wasteland on the northeast border, a large number of scattered orc groups have not stopped, which also causes the garrison army in the northeast to be far busier than the other borders.
However, Hua Ye, as the general of the Western Border, felt that this was a good thing.
These orc groups are often not many in number, ranging from a dozen to dozens or hundreds, and the threat is very limited, just so that the soldiers under his command can accumulate actual combat experience.
Especially the batch of recruits who were replenished later, there is no blood, what use can it be when it comes to the battlefield?
Just as Hua Ye was thinking this, in the pile of corpses in the distance, a bloodied hyena man suddenly burst out and pounced on the soldier closest to him with his fangs open.
The physique of the orc clan is far superior to that of humans, and its vitality is also extremely tenacious, unless the bullet hits the vital point directly, otherwise it may not be able to die after five or six shots.
The soldier was obviously a new recruit, and this sudden situation directly scared him stupid, and his mind fell directly into a blank.
At this critical moment, Hua Ye, who was dozens of meters away, discovered this scene in time and immediately picked up the rifle in his hand.
Bang!
With a single gunshot, the hyena-man's head blossomed on the spot.
The corpse fell to the ground, and the frightened recruit, after breathing a sigh of relief, sat down on the ground at once.
"What are you doing?"
The recruit who heard this voice subconsciously raised his head, and Hua Ye's cold face suddenly met his eyes, and the huge sense of oppression made his brain instantly turn into a mess.
"General, general, I ......"
"You're still on the battlefield, who allowed you to relax?! Who allowed you to sit down?!!
As he spoke, Hua Ye's gaze swept over the rifle that had fallen to the side.
The recruit shuddered, grabbed his rifle in his hand, and struggled to get up from the ground.
"After returning to the city, run thirty laps around the training ground, and then do twenty rounds of gun training, and if you can't finish it, you don't need to eat!"
After saying that, Hua Ye's gaze swept over the other recruits around him.
Then he reprimanded, "You all listen to me! Now it's on the battlefield, and a little relaxation will take your life when the time comes!! I don't care if he's dead or not, I'll mend the corpse on the ground, do you understand?"
"Understood!"
The garrison troops on the northeastern border are scouting the terrain while clearing out orcs and training recruits.
To be honest, there is nothing good about this wasteland, and the further west you go, the more barren it becomes.
Grabbing a handful of sand and gravel on the ground, Hua Ye pinched it in his hand and rubbed it, it was very dry, and he could feel the obvious graininess.
As soon as his hand was released, an uncomfortable hot wind blew, directly blowing away the handful of sand and gravel in Hua Ye's hand.
He originally came here to clear out the hyenas of a small tribe, but after the mission was over, Hua Ye glanced at the map and found that the direction of this area further east had not been explored.
Then, with a mentality of "come and come", he took his soldiers to stay in this area for a few more days.
The fox scouts sent out to carry out reconnaissance missions soon returned, and after listening to the report, Hua Ye's brows furrowed directly, and then, a report was quickly sent to Daxia City.
Looking at this report from the northeast border, Xia Qi's eyebrows couldn't help but pick, he didn't expect that there was still a desert in the northeast of Great Xia.
As for the total area of the desert, it is not yet known.
But in a short period of time, Xia Qi had no interest in expanding his territory into the desert.
After all, he left the good fertile land instead of development and construction, but had to build a city in the desert, is he sick?
Unless, he's found an oil field in that desert.
Xia Qi opened his system map, and now he has figured out the terrain around Great Xia.
To the north is permafrost, to the south is the Yushan Mountains and the Barbarian Great Plains, to the west is the Bamboo Sea and grasslands, and to the east is Yunmengze and the wasteland and desert.
Xia Qi turned to Zhang Liang and asked, "Zhang Liang, has the latest progress report of the railway project been delivered, and what stage has it been?"
"Back to Your Majesty, combined with the latest progress, coupled with the report from the Engineering Department, the railways marked as important routes within the current Great Xia can be completed within three years."
As a project that Xia Qi paid great attention to, Zhang Liang, as an assistant officer, naturally followed up all the way, always paying attention to the progress of the project.
The progress of this railway project naturally has a priority, even if it is a modern society in China, not every city has a train, of course, Xia Qi is not naïve enough to think that he can do it all in one go.
At present, the important routes with high priority account for almost 20 percent, and after the 20 percent of the routes are paved, Xia Qihui will directly transfer 90% of the workers in the project, and the rest of the railways will be built slowly.
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