Once the shipyard is opened, it is a very profitable project, the previous sea ban has hit the shipbuilding industry a lot, and now the sea ban is suddenly lifted, and the ships that can go to sea will definitely have a very large market demand.

Li Gui, the head of the Li family, the first family in Dengzhou Mansion, was overjoyed after getting the news, their Li family used to be a shipbuilding family, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the sea was banned, and their Li family changed their careers.

Li Gui is very concerned about his family's traditional craftsmanship, and always wants to restore the glory of the Li family's former shipbuilding family.

This time, the news of Zhou Xian's promulgation of the opening of the sea ban made Li Gui excited, and he never expected that he would be able to complete his dream in his lifetime.

As soon as he got the news, Li Gui held a family meeting, at which all members expressed their support for Li Gui and agreed to start the family's old business, shipbuilding.

Immediately, Li Gui went to the Dengzhou Mansion and reported that the Li family was going to open a shipyard to build ships, and the officials of the government were also very supportive of Li Gui, saying that they would send professionals to the Li family to guide them in building the latest sailing ships.

After Li Gui obtained the shipbuilding license from the government, he happily returned to the Li Mansion and began the work of building a shipyard, and the same thing was happening throughout Shandong at the same time.

On this day, Chen Kaizhi, Song Yingxing, and Chu Fei were summoned to Zhou Xian's mansion at the same time, and after they saluted, Zhou Xian said: "I came to you today to make an internal combustion engine. ”

"Internal combustion engine?"

The three of them suddenly became excited when they heard this, they had already known about the internal combustion engine, but they had no clue, and now they were naturally excited when they heard the news that Zhou Xian was going to teach the internal combustion engine.

"Now that we have a large amount of rubber, as well as gasoline, diesel and engine oil refined from crude oil, we already have the basis for manufacturing internal combustion engines, so it is natural to make internal combustion engines and use them to accelerate the progress of our industrial revolution." Zhou Xian looked at the excited three people and explained with a smile.

"Please ask the emperor to teach you how to manufacture internal combustion engines!" Song Yingxing bowed to Zhou Xian and said very sincerely.

Song Yingxing was most interested in this internal combustion engine, and he was particularly fascinated by all mechanical theories, and it was this fascination with him that made him a great scientist.

"Haha, I'll teach you how to make an internal combustion engine!" After Zhou Xian saw Song Yingxing like this, he smiled and began to explain the principle and manufacturing method of the internal combustion engine.

The principle of the internal combustion engine is actually not complicated, take the gasoline engine as an example, only the three conditions of oil, fire and cylinder pressure are needed to start it.

First of all, let's talk about this oil, which naturally refers to gasoline, the first step is to atomize gasoline, if you want gasoline atomization, you need a carburetor, and gasoline enters the engine after atomizing through the small hole of the carburetor.

The second fire, which refers to high-voltage electricity, is designed to make a stator with a coil wound with copper on the engine, and a magnetic bowl made of magnets is installed on the crankshaft as a rotor, so that electricity can be generated.

The third cylinder pressure refers to the tightness of the engine cylinder liner, the better the sealing, the stronger the cylinder pressure, the better the engine starts and the more stable.

After receiving Zhou Xian's teaching, the three of them immediately understood the principle and manufacturing method of the internal combustion engine.

"Thank you for the emperor's teaching!"

Song Yingxing and the three of them bowed to Zhou Xian again.

"The three of you don't have to be so polite, you can build the internal combustion engine as soon as possible is the best reward for me."

Zhou Xian stepped forward to help the three of them and said earnestly.

"I will live up to the emperor's grace!"

Song Yingxing saw that Zhou Xian valued himself and others so much, and hurriedly assured.

After Song Yingxing and the three of them learned the technology of the internal combustion engine, they suddenly felt itching, so they directly proposed to Zhou Xian to go back and seize the time to make the internal combustion engine.

Seeing that they were so attentive, Zhou Xian was also very satisfied, so he didn't keep them anymore and let them go back to make internal combustion engines.

As soon as Song Yingxing and the three returned to the arsenal, they gathered hundreds of workers and began to arrange the work of manufacturing internal combustion engines.

With the manufacturing method taught by Zhou Xian, the three of them were as if they had built an internal combustion engine hundreds of times, and every part came to their minds, and they could make it as long as they made it according to the picture in their minds.

After more than ten days of overtime work by the trio, they finally built the first internal combustion engine in history, which was a small single-cylinder engine.

The engine shell is all made of aluminum, but the machining accuracy of the current lathe is not very high, so the appearance is very rough.

But this roughness gives a sense of mechanical beauty!

Looking at this internal combustion engine that they had made without sleeping or eating, the three of them felt a little proud and a little apprehensive.

The next step is to join the gasoline and engine oil test run, and after they are ready, Song Yingxing personally took the battery from the Electric Power Institute and started the test run.

The sound of "click" sounded.

After more than ten seconds, it was still a "click" sound.

"Can't start?"

This was the thought in everyone's mind, and suddenly there was a "boom, boom" sound from the engine.

The engine started!

Everyone in the workshop cheered excitedly, the unique sound of the internal combustion engine echoed in the workshop, and the sound of this engine sounded like a natural sound to everyone, which made people never get tired of hearing it.

Song Yingxing and Chen Kaizhi burst into tears of excitement, this was the first time they had created such an epoch-making thing, and they were so excited.

Soon Zhou Xian got the news of the successful manufacture of the internal combustion engine, and when he got the news, Zhou Xian was very surprised, he didn't expect Song Yingxing and them to be able to manufacture the internal combustion engine in such a short time.

In fact, this is still Zhou Xian's underestimation of these scientists in the late Ming Dynasty, as a group of people with the highest IQ in this era, they naturally still have some skills, they are just limited by their vision and theoretical knowledge.

With this theoretical knowledge, they will be able to quickly produce finished products.

After getting the news, Zhou Xian personally went to the arsenal, and when he saw the engine at work, Zhou Xian was very satisfied.

"All the personnel involved in the manufacture of the engine will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and Song Yingxing, Chen Kaizhi, and Chu Fei will be rewarded with one thousand taels of silver." Zhou Xian looked at the reward of the engine. ＷＷw.ＧóΠъ.oяＧ

"Thank the emperor for the reward!"

Everyone knelt down in thanks.

Zhou Xian asked Zhou Changan to also come over, and asked Zhou Changan and Song Yingxing to cooperate and first manufacture a batch of two-wheeled motorcycles and three-wheeled motorcycles.

As for why they don't make cars directly, it's because the engine they made is a cylinder, and the single-cylinder engine is only suitable for the power of motorcycles.

Four-wheeled cars need at least four-cylinder engines, and four-cylinder engines are several times more difficult than single-cylinder engines, so Zhou Xian asked them to understand the single-cylinder engine first, and then make four-cylinder engines later.