Recently, there has been no movement of the Southern Expeditionary Army on the way to the Southern Expedition, and even if there is, it has been regularly reported back in accordance with the regulations.

In comparison, the northern border is much more lively.

The combined army, composed of Willon Gale and Arken Kingo, will launch an offensive almost every half a month, waging a non-stop war of attrition against Luronse.

The five hundred beginner-level wood mages sent by Xia Qi before reduced the chance of casualties among the defenders of Lulongsai to a certain extent with their healing techniques.

However, after this period of defending the city, the number of wounded soldiers who retreated from the front line was still close to 5,000.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the mortality rate has dropped relatively well, and the number of soldiers killed in the war on the northern border has been successfully controlled below 2,000.

After reading the latest report sent by Lu Longsai, Xia Qi was also somewhat relieved.

In any case, the situation has improved a lot compared to the previous year.

Put this report aside for the time being, this year, there are quite a lot of government affairs in Great Xia, and Xia Qi is often dizzy because he is busy.

After quickly reviewing all the stacks of documents on his desk, Xia Xuan stretched his waist vigorously, and then asked, "What are the arrangements after that?" ”

Luo Xiaohei, who heard the question, immediately took out the notebook he carried with him, which recorded Xia Qi's daily schedule. Initial Update@

"Your Majesty, you need to go to the Academy of Sciences in the afternoon to confirm the latest research and development results."

"Got it, you go and arrange it."

After eating lunch and taking a nap, Xia Qi led a group of guards to the Science and Technology Institute located in a corner of Daxia City.

In the past few years, he has been busy fighting wars, and he has shifted his financial funds and focus to the research and development and production of ordnance, and the research and development progress of the Academy of Science and Technology has been a little slow.

As the president of the Academy of Science and Technology, Wei Xi is also anxious!

So I collected the funds under pressure and quickly came up with a result, hoping to take this opportunity to apply for a research grant.

In order to get financial support, this old guy behaved like a courteous person, no, Xia Qiren hadn't arrived yet, and he saw him standing at the door of the Science and Technology Institute from a distance, with a respectful expression on his face.

"Weichen Wei Xi, see Your Majesty!"

"No courtesy."

Xia Qi stepped out of the carriage and signaled that he didn't have to be polite, and the group walked into the science and technology institute.

The heavy door of the experimental factory was opened, and the smell of diesel fuel suddenly came to his face, making Xia Qi subconsciously frown.

Then his eyes fell on the machine in the center of the factory.

"This time, the output power is finally up to standard?"

Xia Qi obviously didn't see this for the first time, he had come to see it five or six times before, but the output power of this machine had not met his requirements, so the Science and Technology Institute had been constantly improving.

"Yes, Your Majesty, after many tests, the stability and output power of this internal combustion engine have met the requirements!"

As he spoke, Wei Xi waved his hand quickly, and several members of the surrounding science and technology academy suddenly understood, and after one operation, the internal combustion engine began to operate.

With a sound, Xia Qi could clearly see the precise operation process of the entire machine, and in his eyes, this machine had taken on a unique beauty at this time.

That's right.

In recent years, the primary R&D project of the Academy of Science and Technology has been the internal combustion engine.

The internal combustion engine, also known as a diesel engine or a gasoline engine, mainly uses diesel and gasoline as fuel.

At present, diesel is burned, so it can be called a diesel engine.

Compared with steam turbines, diesel engines have the advantage of being small in size, light in weight, and easy to move.

General automobiles and some small civil and agricultural equipment use this kind of diesel engine.

Of course, it would be a joke to use it to run a battleship.

It's fine to use it to run a car or something, but if you want to install it on a steel warship that moves thousands of tons, you can't carry it at all, because the output power is completely insufficient.

At most, it is used for speedboats or small cruise ships. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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, fishing boats.

As for the steel battleships, they still have to rely on steam turbines, and even for a long time afterward, they also use gas turbines.

However, the manufacture of internal combustion engines is still of great value, after all, large turbines cannot be installed in automobiles.

After briefly confirming the results, Xia Qi waved his hand and signaled the Academy of Science and Technology to build a sample for him first, and then consider the next thing after testing the performance in more detail.

In this regard, Wei Xi naturally responded again and again, and then asked with a little flattery on his face: "Then Your Majesty, can the funds of our Science and Technology Institute increase a little this quarter?" ”

Looking at his appearance, Xia Qi, who was standing on the side, couldn't help laughing.

"I know, I'll talk to the Ministry of Finance about research funding."

Wei Xi, who heard this, was immediately overjoyed, and then sent Xia Qi out with a thousand thanks.

Under Xia Qi's instructions, the Academy of Science and Technology, which had produced the results, quickly increased its research funding by 20% every quarter.

In this regard, Wei Xi and other members of the Academy of Science and Technology were naturally more motivated, and soon built the first car in Daxia, to be precise, it should be a transport truck.

For the current Great Xia, everything has to be prioritized in the military field.

It's like that kind of small family car, which is almost useless for the current Great Xia.

What Xia Qi needs now is a transport truck that can carry out a large number of transportation logistics supplies and heavy ordnance in the field.

As for the design drawings of the truck, they are the silver-level design drawings that he opened the treasure chest before.

There's no way, there were too many battles in the previous period, and at the same time, I also got a lot of treasure chests, at that time, every once in a while, Xia Qi would open a batch of treasure chests.

Straight to the point.

The first test of the transport truck was held outside the city, and because the operation method was still quite difficult for people who had never touched the vehicle at all, the task of test driving was handed over to the people of the Academy of Science and Technology.

Even Xia Qi was just watching from the side.

It's not that he doesn't want to open it, but the people under his command don't let him open it, even if it's the Science and Technology Institute, they maintain an opposing attitude.

After all, Xia Qi's safety is related to the entire Great Xia, and he doesn't dare to come out of the accident at all.

The experiment with the transport truck went very well, and it was used to transport large ordnance weapons such as cannons without any problems, and the speed was much faster than that of horse-drawn carts and the like.

Originally, Xia Qi wanted to build a production factory, which was specially used to produce vehicles and put them into the military.

For this reason, he also confirmed the problem of resource consumption and production efficiency with Wei Xi. Error-free updates @

As a result, it turned out that it was impossible to produce on a large scale and with high efficiency under the current situation, because there were some technical problems in it that could not reach the point of assembly line production.

Also, this driver will have to take some time to train.

In this regard, Xia Qipan also expressed his understanding.

In any case, let's start with the establishment of a dedicated production plant and start production.

Soldiers can continue to ride horses, and transport trucks can greatly speed up the delivery of military resources and ordnance weapons, and the value of transport trucks is still very high if expeditions are required.

Things here must be arranged quickly, whether it is the training of drivers or the production of transport trucks.

And such a big move is naturally inevitable to attract the attention of the people, and even many businessmen have clearly felt the value of transport trucks.

However, under the premise that the military is not enough, it is obviously too early to put it into civilian use, so let's wait until this all-out war is over.

However, traffic rules, signs, traffic lights, zebra crossings and the like can be planned first, so as not to toss a lot of things at once and make yourself scramble.

During this period, he also upgraded the project of manufacturing transport trucks to level 5 to improve the manufacturing efficiency of transport trucks.

And the candidates for the drivers are also selected directly from the troops.

Due to the finished product. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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Due to the temporary limitation of transport trucks, the vast majority of drivers can only temporarily study in writing and then take turns to carry out the actual driving operations.

During this period, Xia Qi's current operation of this kind of equipment, the goblin soldiers were unexpectedly good hands.

They learn the fastest and are comfortable driving.

The only tricky thing is that they have to adjust the seat and cab according to their size.

However, this is not a problem, anyway, they do not have an assembly line factory at the moment, and some adjustments are just a minor problem.

Before the onset of winter, the first military transport convoy in Great Xia was officially formed, and this convoy, Xia Qi directly gave priority to the rear support of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

Loaded with military supplies, the convoy drove along the smooth road all the way to the elven administrative district on the southern border.

Although transport trucks also emit exhaust gases, it is obviously incomparable to steam trains, which is considered to be within the acceptable range of elves. @精华\/Shuge Error-free Debut~~

So far, at least, the elven people have not protested.

This finding is important because it is considered that before more advanced, non-polluting large-scale civilian transport vehicles are produced, he should be able to use some small and medium-sized vehicles as the main mode of transportation on the southern border.

Thinking of this, Xia Qi directly picked up a development plan book that was placed in the desk drawer, and then began to make notes and marks in earnest.

At this point, this matter is officially put on the agenda by him.

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