Zhu Jingyuan called a craftsman from the royal agricultural machinery and took him to see the sample tractors.

The overall structure of these machines was designed by Zhu Jingyuan, and the appearance is of course very similar to the tractors in the previous life.

The most distinctive thing is the one-person high tire and the large pattern on it that is a few centimeters deep.

This design makes it easy for the tractor to grasp the soft ground.

There is a hydraulic suspension behind the body, and there are transverse screw ports in front of the chassis, which can be connected to various combined agricultural equipment.

The six four-wheeled tractors in front of you use different cylinder counts, with different weights and powers.

The lightest is sixteen horsepower for a single cylinder, and the heaviest is sixty-four horsepower for four cylinders.

This power is not low among the tractors of this era.

One of the four-cylinder tractors was tentatively fitted with an empty cartridge starter.

The empty bomb starter is a by-product of the turbine laboratory.

An empty cartridge is a shell without a warhead, only a shell and a primer and a propellant inside.

When the empty cartridge is activated, the internal propellant burns at a high speed, and a large amount of gas is instantly discharged.

Originally, this gas pressure was to push the warhead out.

In the absence of a warhead, the gas venting is an instantaneous thrust that can be used for other purposes.

A turbine is equivalent to a fan, and blowing the turbine with the thrust of gas can make the turbine spin quickly.

The Turbo Lab designed a small, improvised turbine with its main shaft connected to the engine spindle by a gear.

The gas with empty bombs drives the turbine, and the turbine drives the main shaft of the internal combustion engine to rotate.

While the spindle is driven by empty bomb gas, the throttle of the internal combustion engine is controlled to feed oil, and the internal combustion engine can be started.

This kind of starter has a simple structure, low failure rate, and fast start-up speed, which is very suitable for use in emergency situations.

This starting method is actually very common in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, and it is an emergency starting method for many military equipment, from F4F to B52 to J-20.

After this method was invented in this world, it has also rapidly begun to be promoted on various military machinery, and it is also ready to be used in some large agricultural machinery in the future.

Zhu Jingyuan also drove a car in his previous life as a tractor, but he never played with an empty bag bomb start.

Now I checked the situation of the machine with the craftsman, and then went to operate the empty cartridge start.

Take out an empty cartridge of the corresponding model and stuff it into the empty cartridge slot of the four-cylinder tractor starter.

Tighten it on the outside with the corresponding special nut, and finally pick up the hammer and tap it on the back of the nut, this process is equivalent to the primer of the cannonball, and the effect is similar to pulling the trigger.

With a violent puff of smoke coming out, the diesel engine on the tractor began to tremble violently.

"Sudden ......"

Zhu Jingyuan immediately reached out to pull the accelerator, and the speed of the diesel engine immediately increased again, and smoke also came out of the chimney.

The tractor was launched.

Zhu Jingyuan sat in the driver's seat, stepped on the clutch to put up gear, and began to slowly circle around the test site.

Zhu Jingyuan drove a tractor all morning and became familiar with the simple essentials of tractor driving.

In the afternoon, Zhu Jingyuan followed Lin Zexu to see the temporary site of the textile factory.

According to Zhu Zhongliang's original idea, it was suggested that textile factories and petrochemical factories should be placed in oil extraction areas.

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That is, the northernmost part of Nanyinzhou, in what was later the Lake Maracaibo region of western Venezuela.

But later, the two looked at the map and studied the situation in Xintianfu, and finally decided to separate temporarily.

The oil-producing areas are all raw, and the composition of the surrounding residents is very complex.

The petrochemical and textile industries, on the other hand, are highly monopolistic profiteering industries and must be placed in the safest place possible.

Therefore, the personnel and equipment of textile-related industries still came to Xintianfu together.

For the time being, only oil extraction bases will be built in the Maracaibo region.

There are a large number of houses to be allocated in the new Tianfu City, and there are also some workshops outside the city waiting to be used.

The Royal Architectural Company gave the two of the remaining factories closest to the city gate to the Great Food Textile Factory and the Garment Factory.

Hao Zhongyi, as the future factory director, is directing the workers to transport the machinery and equipment into it, ready for installation and commissioning.

Zhu Jingyuan also went to Hao Zhongyi to chat:

"How do you feel now? Are there any difficulties? ”

Hao Zhongyi said very sincerely:

"I don't think it's anything difficult, it's all old workers, it's all used equipment, it's all the work I've done.

"As soon as this machine is installed, everyone will be able to start production immediately, and they will be able to start bringing new people immediately.

"It's much easier than when I first went to Mengxian and tossed all kinds of new products there."

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded:

"How's that guy staying? Is your family still used to it? ”

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"It's good here, it's really worthy of Xintianfu, it's much cooler than Mengxian, I haven't felt autumn for two years.

"I've heard from people here that the hottest temperature in summer is usually 30 degrees, and the coldest in winter is usually 7 or 8 degrees.

"The four seasons are distinct, and the winter is warm and the summer is cool, this is really heaven, that is, the sun and the seasons are reversed from the hometown.

"Although the house is not as good as the big manor in Mengxian County, only my family lives by myself.

"Two floors, eight rooms, two large living rooms, most of the places are empty, and the wife and children are satisfied."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded with a smile and said:

"It's good to be satisfied, but this is not the house that will be officially assigned to you in the future, and our factory will build a residential area by ourselves in the future."

"They are all built outside the city, together with the factory school, so that everyone's yard can be bigger and more convenient."

Hao Zhongyi said happily:

"yes, yes, great......"

Zhu Jingyuan went to various warehouses and factories to install and debug equipment in turn, and greeted the craftsmen and workers, and an afternoon passed quickly.

The next day, Zhu Jingyuan went to the agricultural machinery factory again to learn to install and replace various supporting equipment for tractors.

At present, it is mainly corn harvesters, mouldboard ploughs, rakers, seeders, and tow buckets.

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Zhu Jingyuan's team to Yinzhou was actually divided into two routes.

Zhu Jingyuan himself, as well as the personnel and materials that went to Xintianfu, all bypassed the Western Cape by boat and went directly to Xintianfu.

The personnel and equipment related to oil drilling and exploitation led by Zheng Fuguang set off from Quicksand City and entered the Red Sea.

When the Xihai Canal, which connects the Great Qin Sea and the Red Sea, was first opened, the water depth was only seven meters, and it could only pass through ships of six or seven thousand tons, and the capital ships could not pass through.

Before the World War, the Ming Dynasty had always wanted to expand the canal, but due to the resistance of the Taixi countries, it never did.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty even promised to deploy cruisers only in the Great Qin Sea.

After the end of the world war, this promise was nullified.

The Ming Dynasty also took it for granted that he began to deepen and widen the canal without any scruples.

In order to have a more solid and stable control over the canal area, the Ming Dynasty set up a direct political envoy around the Xihai Canal.

He also continued to migrate to the local area, and was responsible for opening the river and maintaining the canal.

Although the Xihai Political Envoy is a political envoy, its management model is similar to that of Huangzhuang, or a canal operating company.

Migrant workers are not high-use one-time workers, but regular employees of the operating company.

The salary of the employees is good, the work intensity is not very high, and they can work normally and continuously for a long time.

While they continued to dredge and deepen the existing canal, they were digging a new canal not far away.

Zhu Jingyuan's initial plan was to reach a water depth of 16 meters, allowing two-way passage of 100,000 tons of ships without interfering with each other.

The original canal has been dredged for more than two years, and the water depth has been deepened from seven to 12 meters.

It is already possible to pass 30,000 tons of passenger ships, as well as all 20,000 tons of cargo ships.

Zheng Fuguang's fleet crossed the West Sea Canal into the Great Qin Sea, and from there, through Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.

The fleet crossed the Atlantic, entered the Caribbean Sea, repaired on the island of Haiti, and set sail for the Gulf of Venezuela.

The flotilla sailed all the way to the deepest part of the Gulf of Venezuela, anchoring a dozen kilometers from the coast.

The workers and equipment led by Zheng Fuguang were transferred to a small flat-bottomed river boat and continued to "sail to the shore"

At the southernmost tip of the Gulf of Venezuela, there is a semi-open lagoon called Lake Sinamayinca.

The natural waterway between the bay and the lagoon is less than a kilometre wide.

The depth of the water in the waterway is six or seven meters, but the water on both sides of the waterway, behind the sand bars of the lagoon, is very shallow.

In many places, it is less than a meter, and the low tide turns directly into land.

Above these dives, there are a few stilt houses on stilts, which are the houses of the local Aboriginal Yin.

Zheng Fuguang's fleet, guided by local guides, slowly moved along the waterway and cautiously entered the lagoon.

Continuing south along the waterway within the lagoon, the water under the boat and around the lake begins to slowly deepen.

After a slow voyage of twenty kilometers, the shore of the lake, which was originally invisible in the east, reappeared a little abruptly.

The width of the water area immediately narrowed from almost thirty kilometers to less than ten kilometers.

According to the guide, this is the boundary of Lake Shinamayinka.

The fleet continued into less than ten kilometers wide and reached its final destination, Lake Maracaibo.

After the flotilla continued to sail a few kilometers further, it came across a Tessy building on the western shore of the water.

This is the town of Maracaibo, where everyone is headed.

If you continue south along this water, the lake will become deeper and deeper, and the salinity of the water will continue to decrease.

After 30 kilometers to the south, the waters will become wider again, and the lake will basically become a flood.

Then it's time for the main body of Lake Maracaibo.

Lake Maracaibo is the largest lake in South Yinzhou, located in the northwest of South Yinzhou, the westernmost point of Venezuela.

The lake is 190 kilometers long from north to south and 115 kilometers wide from east to west.

The water area is 14,344 square kilometers, which is about six times the size of Taihu Lake.

Lake Maracaibo is a tectonic lake formed by the collapse of faults in the Andes Mountains, with water depths of more than 20 meters in most areas.

But the lagoon, which connects to the ocean outside, is too shallow for large ships to sail directly from the Gulf of Venezuela into Lake Maracaibo.

The lake is located in an area surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the tall Andean spur traps a large amount of water vapor from the Caribbean Sea, creating an abundance of topographic rain on the surrounding slopes.

This rainwater pours into Lake Maracaibo through dozens of rivers and forms the main source of water for Lake Maracaibo.

The lake as a whole is always in a state of outflow.

In addition, the lagoon outside is shallow and the waterway is narrow, making it difficult for the sea water to penetrate inward.

Only at high tide can a small amount of water pour in through the lagoon.

This only slightly increases the salinity of the water in the northern part of the lake, but does not turn the entire water of Lake Maracaibo into salt water.

So, Lake Maracaibo, despite its de facto connection to the ocean, is still a lake, not a bay.

Even Lake Maracaibo is often thought of as a watery lake.

It can be regarded as the closest lake to the ocean, and the water body is directly connected to the ocean.

But for Zhu Jingyuan, the more important thing is that this is one of the earliest oil-producing areas in history.

Second only to the Persian Gulf, it can be compared with the Caspian Sea and is called the two major oil lakes.

Very early on, there were obvious oil seedlings found here.

In 1876, oil extraction began by the soil method, and in 1917, large-scale industrial oil extraction began.

Venezuela, which had Lake Maracaibo in its previous life, is nominally the country with the largest oil reserves in the world.

It is nominally the most reserved, because many people doubt the "hidden strength" of Saudi Arabia, which is in second place.

At the same time, many people know that most of Venezuela's oil is heavy oil, even super heavy oil.

The difficulty and cost of extracting heavy oil are relatively high, and there are also requirements for smelting technology.

However, the high cost of mining is relative to the bay and Lucia, and not to the rest of the region.

And, while Venezuela says that almost 75 percent of Venezuela's oil reserves are heavy oil.

But it's not without conventional oil, and its total reserves are too high.

Even if three-quarters of the heavy oil is removed, only the remaining quarter of normal oil reserves can be ranked ninth in the world.

It is on par with Lucia in eighth place and twice as much as Nigeria in tenth place.

These countries are also not free of heavy oil.

At the same time, Venezuela's heavy oil, the most difficult to extract and use, is concentrated in the Orinoco heavy oil belt in the east, where it did not begin to be exploited until the eighties.

The Lake Maracaibo region in the west happens to have light oil, and heavy oil here is relatively easy to extract and use.

Otherwise, Lake Maracaibo would not have been the first large-scale oil field.

Now the town at the mouth of Lake Maracaibo has been taken over by the Ming New Tianfu Huangzhuang.

After Zheng Fuguang and the craftsmen went ashore, they placed their families in the cleared house.

Zheng Fuguang repaired a little and adapted for a day, and then took the craftsmen out to survey the environment.

Zheng Fuguang originally prepared, according to the experience he summed up, and used the equipment he prepared to look for oil here.

As a result, they soon discovered that there was no need for this for the time being.

The oil seedlings here are so obvious, much like Baku on the Caspian Sea.

Zheng Fuguang looked at the companions he brought:

"Let's drill the well first, just behind this town called Mara, I guess it will be able to produce oil directly.

"Let's drill the oil out first, start a continuous and stable supply of oil, and then go to other regions to test the technology."