Chapter 311: Building a Strong Industrialized Domain

The strength of the British Empire originated from the first industrial revolution, since the second industrial revolution, Europe began to enter the real point era, and now Chen Cao has crossed over and began to build his own industrial revolution, which is a full two centuries earlier than the European powers that are still a small British country, more than 200 years ahead of it.

Once the internal combustion engine created by Zhang Lin really comes out, it will greatly improve the production and creation capacity in various fields, which is also Chen Caohui's exceptional promotion of Zhang Lin to an engineering academician and a third-class baron.

Cao Shiyun, the pioneer and leader of the steam turbine manufactured under Chen Cao's guidance, is now the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in the Ming Dynasty, and his classmates have now made great achievements in various fields.

The refinery in Puxi, Shanghai, has truly entered the era of motor mobility.

The newly appointed Minister of Petroleum, Xie Hance, was personally promoted by Bi Maokang, whose ancestral home was Shanxi, and who had been in charge of the fierce fire oil used to be used by the army since joining Chen Cao's shogunate.

"Lord Wang, the oil factory in Shanxi has now been seized by the northern imperial court, and the oil wells in Shaanxi cannot be accessed because Yang He seized the land given by Xi'an, and there are still about fifteen tons of oil in storage;

These 15 tons of crude oil are calculated as one ton of crude oil to produce 300 catties of gasoline and 500 catties of diesel, and at most 4,500 catties of gasoline and 7,500 catties of diesel. ”

At present, the fierce fire oil used by the armies of the Matsue Domain is diesel products.

"Now the engineering academy and several colleges are using more and more oil, and this measurement can be used in less than a month at most."

Chen Cao, an oil-producing country all over the world, generally knows that since Columbus discovered the American continent in 1492, the current American continent has been occupied by European countries, and the crude oil production in the Americas is not a small amount.

And now in front of Chen Cao is the shortage of crude oil, that is, the current European continental countries, the use of crude oil is also ignorant of the use, before the internal combustion engine was not completely invented, crude oil can only be used as a lighting oil lamp.

And the oil in the sea with the current technology, it is absolutely only dry staring.

The five major oil fields in later generations are now the most convenient ones that Chen Cao can touch, and it is estimated that only the Zhongyuan oil fields located in Henan are located.

"How is the development of the oil field in Puyang Kaifeng?"

Xie Xiance replied: "Back to the prince, I just sent an exploration team to Puyang last month and summoned the local displaced people to help find it, but there is no news for the time being. ”

wants to build an industrialized strong domain, but it is completely blocked at the oil level, which Chen Cao absolutely cannot tolerate.

"Go back, and immediately summon the commanders of the four major fleets of the Navy to meet me at the Governor's Yamen."

Deng Guang, commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Fleet, Chen Maoxiu, commander-in-chief of the North China Sea Fleet, Chen Yongsu, commander-in-chief of the South China Sea Fleet, and Pang Zhifan, commander-in-chief of the coastal defense fleet, sat around the round table, staring at a large map of the world and being silent.

A moment later, Chen Cao asked Chen Yongsu, "Can all the family members of Professor Taixi in my Songjiang Domain take them over?" ”

Chen Yongsu stood up and saluted: "Back to the prince, according to the instructions of the prince last year, before September this year, all the families of Tang Ruowang and other professors and gentlemen have been brought in, and they are now living in Qingpu County. ”

"How many warships are available in the South China Sea Fleet today?"

It was rare for Chen Cao to personally convene the commanders of their four fleets, and now he suddenly asked Chen Yongsu about the armament of the South China Sea fleet, and it was very likely that there would be a battle to be fought.

So he replied in a loud voice: "There is one 12,000-ton all-iron flagship warship, six 5,000-ton iron-sheet warships, 25 3,000-ton three-masted soft-sail warships, another 1,500-ton horse ships, 60 800-ton wolf-tooth warships, and nearly 100 supplementary ships of various types, totaling about 300 warships in our South China Sea fleet." ”

After Cao Shiyun developed the steam turbine, the power of this all-iron warship was the steam turbine, and the speed could reach 15 knots per hour, and it only took 24 days to sail from Shanghai to England, while the three-masted soft-sailed warship took 30 days.

"With more than one hundred and thirty warships, do you have the confidence to defeat the armed men of the Dutch East India Company who occupied the Old Port Propaganda Division?"

Facing Chen Cao's inquiry, Chen Yongsu smiled and said, "The giant cannon on the ironclad warship is humble and thinks that no one can resist it. ”

Chen Cao's goal is the Middle East, the country that 'has a piece of cloth on his head, the richest country in the world', to send troops to occupy the two coastal countries of Yemen and Oman in advance, and then attack Saudi Arabia to take the world's largest oil-producing country, and the world's blood lifeline will be controlled by the Ming Dynasty in the future.

And now the composition of these Arab countries is the Kingdom of Heaven, and their capital is the holy city of Mecca.

Although the kingdom of heaven is large, its disadvantage lies in its backwardness, even now, muskets are only decorations, and the real battles are those Moose Lin knights who ride Middle Eastern war horses and camels.

"What do you think when you pass by the Kingdom of Heaven?"

Chen Yongsu has been there, and his tanned skin is tanned in the Middle East Sea: "The merchants of the Celestial Side are rich, they are very good at doing business, and they have fought pirates along the coast of the Celestial Side, but they all use old-fashioned weapons, and only some of the pirates have arquebuses and handcuffs that we have eliminated for several years." ”

"How many troops do you think it will take to fight the Heavenly Kingdom?"

Chen Yongsu never imagined that Chen Cao's goal was the Heavenly Kingdom, a vast and mostly yellow sand border, so he left with the fleet after only half a day on the shore: "What does the prince mean... Attacking the Kingdom of Heaven? ”

Chen Cao was silent for a while before he strengthened his confidence and said, "That's right, attack the Heavenly Kingdom..."

Chen Yongsu gasped, although he only passed by the Heavenly Country, he learned from the guide at that time that this country was huge and the number of soldiers: "Lord Wang, it is completely feasible for my South China Sea Fleet to occupy the Gulf of Oman in the Heavenly Country, but once it lands, it will require a large number of soldiers. ”

Chen Cao thought of the hundreds of Europeans who had slaughtered tens of thousands of Native Americans, and under the blows of new rifles and artillery, those cavalry and infantry of the old era could only suffer the slaughter.

"How many people do you think are needed?"

Chen Yongsu was embarrassed, how did he know: "Maybe it needs 100,000, or maybe 200,000, the Heavenly Kingdom is too big, the border is too long, and the lowly position is not too clear." ”

Chen Cao knocked on the round table, this action everyone present knew that it was a dangerous signal, and sure enough: "Order, mobilize all departments of the Tianxiong Army, and transfer troop carriers from all parts of the three major fleets except the South China Sea Fleet, if it is not enough, let the Longjiang Shipyard stop all the construction of warships, build all troop carriers, and attack the Tianfang Kingdom with the South China Sea Fleet as the main force;

All the trainees of the fourth phase of the Army Military Academy and the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy went with the army, and in addition, Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai were transferred to the military affairs, and the whole army set out in May this year to attack the Kingdom of Heaven..."

"Yes..."

After the matter of mobilizing the South China Sea Fleet to attack the Tianfang Kingdom was decided, the entire Songjiang Domain entered the moment of full mobilization, and the ten divisions of the newly formed Tianxiong Army began to assemble urgently, and the various divisions began to rotate, Commander-in-Chief Lu Xiangsheng and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Sun Chuanting were transferred back from Hangzhou, and the first two divisions took the lead in capturing the Old Port Xuanwei Division as the transit base of the South China Sea Fleet, and the rest of the divisions went soon after.

The ultimate goal of attacking the Heavenly Kingdom and seizing oil is to strengthen the army and the domain, so as to lead the Ming Dynasty in the future to walk on the road to the pinnacle of the world, and make the Ming Dynasty a powerful and powerful country in the world.

Three days later, Chen Cao went to the arsenal again and met Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang.

"Lord Wang, according to your drawings, we have produced this revolver, but after the test firing, there are up to fifty rounds, and the barrel is all red, and it must be cooled with water."

It's better to have than nothing.

The development of the machine gun is underway, but now the attack on the Tianfang Kingdom is imminent, Sun Chuanting has already taken the lead in setting off, and Lu Xiangsheng will leave in a few days, but there are only two divisions of Kang Xing rifles urgently equipped for the Tianxiong Army, and Chen Cao has no choice but to transfer all the Kang Xing rifles of one division equipped with a given Wu Army to the Tianxiong Army.

For this reason, before the advent of the machine gun, the development of the Maxim revolver machine gun was immediately put at the forefront.

Now that the steelmaking technology and steel manufacturing industry of the Songjiang Domain have been extremely developed, the Ming Dynasty, which had already led the ironmaking technology in front of the world, has opened the distance for at least a hundred years, and the machine guns of the mille-feuille steel still cannot reduce the burning force of the gunpowder, and the barrel turning red after fifty rounds is already the limit.

"There are many seas in the Gulf of Oman, so we can only do it first, and give them an urgent production of 100 renotor machine guns in three days..."

Chen Cao didn't give Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing time to complain at all, so he left quickly, and for three days, he had to work overtime and all night to barely finish.

Bi Maokang looked at Song Yingxing with a wry smile: "Go and give an order, let all the resting workers return to the factory, all departments will start manufacturing from now on, and you and I will send someone home to inform you later, I will not go back for three days." ”

When Huang Chunyao returned from Huating and learned that Chen Cao had ordered an attack on the Heavenly Kingdom, and the vanguard had already set off, it was too late to persuade him.

Chen Cao knew Huang Chunyao's thoughts, so he said: "In recent years, the financial resources and food accumulated by foreign trade companies are enough to fight a war, as long as Oman and Yemen in the territory of the Heavenly Kingdom fall into my hands, Saudi Arabia is in my hands, after capturing the holy city of Mecca, with the Arabs controlling the Arabs and seizing their oil resources, my Ming Dynasty will be the hegemon of the world in the future." ”

Huang Chunyao knew Chen Cao's ambitions, so he recognized the matter, and said: "This can only be done like this, but the heavenly people are not easy to deal with, and the students still think that the prince will send some more troops to go with him." ”

"There are nearly 200,000 Tianxiong troops, and there are more than enough to poke and poke in the past, but the navy is empty now, only the warships of the North Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet, if the northern court knows, Zhao Tianlin's gang will not come to sneak attack, if it is a sneak attack, it can only protect itself, and the counterattack is insufficient, so I will strive not to do anything this year, and recuperate is..."