Li Xiao looked at these two concept cars very attentively, this car can only be described in one word, that is, big!

It's really, really big, two as big as the buses of later generations. Not only is it big, but it's also heavy. The net weight of a car is not much different from that of the main battle tanks of later generations.

Li Xiao felt that even if this thing could be driven, it was estimated that there were few roads in the Ming Dynasty that could be driven, so it was no wonder that Newton hit the idea of the railway.

There is no way, the manufacturing process is immature, and many things can only sacrifice space and weight. This kind of thing is not cost-effective at all.

When it started, Li Xiao could hear the roar of the engine from dozens of meters away. As he got closer, Newton said that he couldn't hear at all, and his ears were full of loud noise.

If this thing were put on the street, it would probably scare one or two people crazy.

The cost performance is not to be discussed, the highway travel is only 60 miles per hour, and the later generations are about 30 kilometers per hour. That's about the speed of a person's walk!

Li Xiao doesn't speak, and neither do others. Everyone could see that the face of the handsome man was ugly.

However, this is already a remarkable achievement, and many people have seen it for the first time, and the car can run by itself without pulling a horse.

"How much does this thing pay?" Li Xiao asked while pondering what this thing could do.

"According to your Ming calculation unit, you can pull 40,000 catties." Newton was proud.

40,000 catties, which is converted to 20 tons. Lao Tzu spent so much fucking money, so let your kid get a fuel locomotive for Lao Tzu? The output power of the fuck is seriously insufficient, and it can only pull twenty tons of goods.

If this thing is mass-produced, it is estimated that there will be no place to use it.

Li Xiao pondered for a moment and shook his head helplessly. It seems that if scientists are left to study on their own, this is probably the end.

As a last resort, it seems that he must pull out the seedlings to help them grow.

Motioning to stop this thing, the fuck is basically talking by yelling now. If you keep yelling, your voice will be hoarse!

"Unload things off the railroad tracks, and the action part is redesigned like this." Li Xiao drew a sketch of a track on the drawing, and the painter was not good, so he could only make do with it.

"What about the gearing?" Newton clearly did not understand Lee's crooked sketches.

"This wheel with gears is called the driving wheel, and the rest of these are called load-bearing wheels, which mainly distribute the weight of the whole vehicle evenly to the ground. Otherwise, your car will get stuck in the mud if you don't get it right.

The load-bearing wheels should be double-row structure, and the middle can accommodate the track inducing tooth...... In addition to the driving wheel and the load wheel, there is also a ...... of the induction wheel! Li Xiao even talked about the concept of the tracked vehicle he knew to Newton.

I had told the Xu brothers before, but these two guys hadn't made a finished product for more than a year, and now Li Xiao decided to hug Newton's thick legs.

Perhaps the giants of science can turn their imaginations into concrete things.

Since there are no cars for the time being, let's simply drum up a tracked tractor. Although the highway in Daming cannot bear the weight of this car, it should be no problem to come to the farmland of Daming.

Tracked vehicles, in particular, have an inherent advantage in dealing with muddy terrain. If the weight of the car body is controlled again, plowing in the field or something is much more efficient than plowing oxen.

Looking at Li Xiao's sketch, combined with Li Xiao's explanation, Newton thought for a moment and immediately understood what Li Xiao meant. At worst, a giant of science is a giant of science. The structure of the brain is different from that of ordinary people. In layman's terms, it's smart!

No amount of money can be sold smartly, Li Xiao can see from Newton's constructive opinion that there will soon be tractors in the farmland of Daming.

By extension, Daming will take the lead in developing the tank.

It is hard to imagine how great the advantage of tanks was in these years. If you have a tank corps, it is basically not a dream to sweep across Eurasia.

However, this dream still needs to be continuously improved by Newton. If you want to build a tank with modern significance, you don't know the Year of the Monkey.

Newton thought for a moment and immediately came up with a solution. He said something quickly in English to the man under him, who occasionally replied with a few words.

Soon, the man took the clip and began to draw. In his hands full of yellow hairs, the pencil kept sliding, and soon a sketch appeared on the white paper.

The sketch was much more delicate and accurate than the sketch in Li Xiao's hand. This thing is a tank chassis. This thing can be used for many purposes, it can be used as a tractor, and it can be equipped with a turret machine gun to be a tank.

Not only is it versatile, but it also has excellent off-road ability. With this thing, the efficiency of plowing on the plains will be greatly increased. Of course, there is more to a tractor than just ploughing.

Pull on a body and you'll be able to pull goods with ease.

Even if it develops a little further, there may be a sharp weapon such as a harvester.

"Give me half a year, and I should be able to get it out." Newton thought for a moment and gave his answer.

"No problem!" In half a year, Daming will have a tractor, and what is not satisfied.

After getting the Middle East, Daming has a lot of diesel and gasoline. If the problem of miniaturization of gasoline and diesel engines is solved, then in the future, the warships of the Ming Dynasty will no longer need to burn coal.

The output power of various ships will also be greatly increased.

Miniaturization and increased power output will soon replace airships.

In terms of combat effectiveness, airplanes are much more powerful than airships. At the very least, the plane itself is an airship killer.

A fast and nimble aircraft, if used against an airship, is an absolute airship nightmare.

But now it's all a dream, but now that we have a model, it will always develop slowly. In many cases, quantitative change can induce qualitative change. If there is no participation of supporting talents, the final outcome of the project can only be gradually abandoned.

Looking at Newton's gasoline engine, Li Xiao was very emotional. Development is not a matter of one time and one place, but a process of long-term accumulation. The current Daming can only be said to have just started, and the road ahead is still very long.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has entered the upward channel, the pace of industrialization will move forward step by step in this country.

It was not only the Ming Dynasty that was trying to seize the wave of industrialization, although Britain lost India, but also a large number of scientists, including Newton.

But after all, they inherited the scientific and technological achievements of Britain in India, and many skilled workers who fled back to Britain before the fall of India are well integrated with local skilled workers.

Britain is one of the most industrialising in Europe. Secondly, in France, a lot of skilled workers were bought from the British. He also purchased a lot of technology from the Ming Dynasty, and Napoleon was very satisfied with Joseph, and happily named his brother the king of Spain.

The rapid industrialization of Western Europe has attracted the attention of Europe. Everyone began to follow the example of Western Europe and try to seize the opportunity to develop.

Russia was like an outcast in Europe, with 200 years of Mongol rule and its own Slavic ancestry. Let them become outliers in Europe!

No one looks down on Russia, and in the eyes of Europeans, Russians belong to ignorant and backward representatives. Rats in soup pots, boogers in rice porridge, cysts in Caucasians.

The Russian aristocracy, represented by Catherine, was often overlooked when the European aristocracy gathered.

On the battlefield, although the Russian army was brave and good at fighting, it was a pity that due to problems in command and weapons and equipment, it was repeatedly defeated on the European battlefield. Often joked about by European armies, the Russian casualties in the Battle of Austerlitz were much higher than those of the Austrian army.

Catherine decided to put an end to this unappreciated suffering, and after an abnormal transfer of power in the Russian Empire, this woman with extreme ambition rose to the pinnacle of Russian power.

"Dolgon, my friend, you want me to come and see this today?" Catherine looked at a bright light in the sky and turned to ask Dorgon.

"The day after tomorrow is your birthday, Your Majesty! Today I am here to tell you that on your birthday, Russia's first airship will take off to celebrate your birthday.

At that time! You will take a ride in an airship and get a bird's-eye view of Your Majesty's territory. You will see that the whole of Moscow cheers at your feet. Dolgon looked at Catherine very respectfully.

"Dolgon, you succeeded?" Ekaterina looked at Dorgon excitedly, she didn't expect the airship project to be so quickly successful.

It was only half a year since the mechanics from England came to Russia, and the first airship was actually built.

"It worked! It's just that the performance is a little worse than Daming's, but we are improving the process, and it will get better and better in the future. "Worse is just a modest statement on the part of Dolgon, and in fact the airship project was far from a success.

What Dorgon was going to take out to fool Catherine was nothing more than a hot air balloon with a low output that would be able to fly in the sky.

There is no way, Russia's industrial base is really too poor. With such a hot air balloon, Dolgon still tried his best.

"Oh, Dolgon, I can't wait. Let's go see your airship now! Catherine was so excited that she personally ran to the Kremlin gate and ordered two horsemen to dismount.

He flew on his horse and whipped his horse and went straight to the airship manufacturing base outside Moscow.

Dorgon had no choice but to get on another horse and follow. He didn't expect that Her Majesty the Empress would be in such a hurry.

The airship was just debugged last night and is now inflated. Many workers are tied with ropes and are checking the dew points one by one.

The dew point is not terrible at all on flat ground, but the terrible thing is that the hot air balloon rises to a high altitude and then launches and tears. This is the deadliest of all, as long as the hot air balloon is torn, parachuting is the only means of escape for the people above.

This is also very evident in the airship.

"Can you fly now?" When Catherine saw the huge airship, she was as excited as a child who had received candy.

I've always dreamed of trying the taste of flying, but I've only heard of airships, and this is the first time I've seen them.

Airship! It means that this world's most advanced technology can carry people on the nine heavens. It is also possible to carry bombs and fly on the heads of enemy soldiers to.

No matter what country's army you are, there is only one way to resist when you encounter an airship. It could have been a one-sided slaughter, and no one could stop it except the airship running out of ammunition.

Looking through the reports she had received before, Catherine saw the words airship more than once. Da Ming has already brought the airship tactics into full play, and it is not fair that he, the empress, has only seen it for the first time. Catherine secretly vowed that Russia must become strong, so that people will never dare to underestimate themselves.

"I'm doing the final check, I flew it yesterday, and it's only more than 100 meters high." Dolgon was now afraid that Catherine would go up now, and the security check was not over yet, so he didn't dare to let Her Majesty go to heaven.

Her Majesty will definitely follow her when she goes to heaven. If there is a problem with the airship at this time, he can only follow Her Majesty to the western sky.

"Let's go up and have a look!" Catherine really couldn't hold back, and ran excitedly to the pod that had just installed the porthole.

"Uh......!" Dolgon didn't have time to stop it, and he was really afraid of something.

"Zilharang, what the hell is the extent of the airship?" Dorgon hurriedly asked Zilharang beside him.

"There shouldn't be any problems, and the security check is almost over. So far no dew point has been found, but if you go up with Her Majesty, I would suggest you bring a parachute. At the same time, it doesn't have to be higher. Listening to Zilharan's words, Dolgon's liver trembled a little, and this thing obviously didn't want to go up with him.

Say it's not dangerous, and the ghost will believe you. There is no danger, will you give up the opportunity to show your face in front of Her Majesty?

"Fly higher?"

"The longer it takes to fall, the longer it will take you to react. Skydiving within 100 meters is very dangerous. With his hands behind his back, Zilharang continued to direct the workers to make a final inspection.

Her Majesty's birthday is the day after tomorrow, and there is still a lot to do, so I dare not delay it.

"Dolgon, let them take to the air now, now, quickly! Immediately, immediately! Catherine, who was already standing in the pod, turned red with excitement.

"Your Majesty, ...... now!" Dorgon was in a dilemma.

"Don't say no, Dolgon!" Like a child who didn't have a toy, Catherine turned her head to look at Dolgon.

"Ugh! All right. Dolgon had no choice but to agree. Now Catherine is less like a Russian empress and more like a child.

"Get ready, take off, rise to more than two thousand meters." Dorgon's words were taken to heart, and he decided to climb a little higher, even if he had a chance to jump even if he parachuted.

When Kutuzov arrived at the news, he saw only the airship rising high, and it was flying higher and higher. In the end, the huge airship looked like a dragonfly in his eyes.

"Oh God! May God bless Her Majesty. "Kutuzov made a cross in his chest, and the Russian Empire would not allow more surprises.