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

It was really, really big, twice as big as a later bus. Not only was it big, but it was also heavy. The net weight of a vehicle was not much different from a later main battle tank.

Li Xiao felt that even if this thing could be driven, there were probably not many roads in the Ming Dynasty that could be driven. No wonder Newton had the idea of ​​​​a 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, he couldn't hear what Newton said, and his ears were filled with huge noise.

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

The price/performance ratio is out of the question. The road travel is only sixty miles per hour, which in later generations is about thirty kilometers per hour. This is almost the speed of a person walking!

Li Xiao didn't speak, and neither did anyone else. Everyone could see that the handsome man looked ugly.

However, this is already an incredible achievement. It is the first time for many people to see that a car can run without a horse.

"How much does this thing carry?" Li Xiao asked while wondering what this thing could do.

"According to your Ming Dynasty's calculation unit, it can pull 40,000 kilograms." Newton said quite proudly.

Forty thousand kilograms, converted to twenty tons. Why did I spend so much money to get you a fuel locomotive? The output power of the damn locomotive is seriously insufficient, and it can only pull twenty tons of cargo.

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If this thing were mass-produced, there probably wouldn't be anywhere it could be used.

Li Xiao thought about it for a moment and shook his head helplessly. It seemed that if scientists were left to study it themselves, this would probably be the end result.

As a last resort, it seems that I have to pull back the seedlings and encourage them to grow.

Signaling to stop this thing, he basically relies on yelling to speak now. If he keeps yelling, his voice will become hoarse!

"Remove the things from the rails and redesign the action part like this." Li Xiao drew a sketch of the track on the drawing. He was not a good painter, so he could only make do with it.

"How about the transmission device?" Newton obviously didn't understand Li Xiao's erratic sketch.

"This geared wheel is called the driving wheel, and the remaining wheels are called road wheels. They mainly distribute the weight of the entire vehicle evenly to the ground. Otherwise, your vehicle will sink into the mud.

The road wheels should have a double-row structure, and the track inducer teeth can be accommodated in the middle... In addition to the driving wheel and the road wheels, there also needs to be an inducer...!" Li Xiao continued to make gestures, and told Newton the concept of a tracked vehicle he knew.

listen.

I have told the Xu brothers before, but these two guys have not produced a finished car for more than a year. Now Li Xiao decided to give Newton a big leg.

Perhaps scientific giants can turn their imaginations into concrete things.

Since there are no cars for the time being, we might as well build a crawler-type tractor. Although the roads in Daming cannot bear the weight of this car, I think it should be no problem in Daming's farmland.

Tracked vehicles, in particular, have inherent advantages in dealing with muddy terrain. If the weight of the vehicle body is controlled, plowing in farmland will be much more efficient than plowing cattle.

Looking at Li Xiao's sketch and combining it with Li Xiao's explanation, Newton thought for a moment and immediately understood what Li Xiao meant. In other words, a scientific giant is a scientific giant. The brain structure is different from ordinary people. In layman's terms,

, that’s smart!

No amount of money can buy cleverness. Li Xiao saw from Newton's constructive opinions that there would soon be tractors in Ming Dynasty's farmland.

By extension, Ming Dynasty will be the first to develop the tank.

It's hard to imagine how great the advantages of tanks are these days. If you have a tank army, sweeping across the Eurasian continent is basically not a dream.

However, this dream still needs Newton to continue to perfect it. If you want to build a tank with modern significance, you still don’t know how long it will take.

Newton thought for a while and immediately gave a solution. He spoke quickly in English to the person under his command, and the person responded with a few words from time to time.

Soon, the man started drawing with a drawing clip. In his hand covered with yellow hair, the pencil kept sliding, and soon a sketch appeared on the white paper.

That sketch was much more refined and accurate than the one in Li Xiao's hand. This thing was actually a tank chassis. It had many uses. It could be used as a tractor, and it could be a tank after being mounted with a turret machine gun.

It is not only versatile, but also has excellent off-road capabilities. With this tool, the efficiency of plowing on the plains will be greatly increased. Of course, the function of a tractor is not just for plowing.

Drag a truck bucket and you can easily pull goods.

Even if it develops further, there may be a magical weapon like a harvester.

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

"No problem!" In half a year, Daming will have tractors for use, so there is nothing left to be dissatisfied with.

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

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

With miniaturization and increased output power, airplanes will soon replace airships.

In terms of combat effectiveness, airplanes are much more powerful than airships. At least, airplanes themselves are airship killers.

If a fast and flexible aircraft is used to deal with an airship, it will definitely be a nightmare for the airship.

But now this is still a dream, but now that there is a model, it will always develop slowly. Many times, quantitative changes can lead to qualitative changes. You can succeed for a while by trying to encourage others, but without the participation of supporting talents, the final outcome of the projects you pull out will be

It can only be gradually abandoned.

Seeing Newton's gasoline engine made Li Xiao very emotional. Development is not a one-time thing, but a long-term accumulation process. Today's Ming Dynasty can only be said to have just started, and the road ahead is still long.

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

It was not just the Ming Dynasty that was trying to seize the wave of industrialization. Although Britain lost India, there were also a large number of scientists including Newton.

But after all, it inherited British scientific and technological achievements in India. Many skilled workers who fled back to Britain before the fall of India were well integrated with local skilled workers.

Britain's industrialization process is second to none in Europe. Secondly, in France, it bought many skilled workers from Britain and purchased a lot of technology from Ming Dynasty. Napoleon was very satisfied with Joseph and happily named his brother the King of Spain.

The rapid industrialization process in Western Europe has attracted the attention of Europe. Everyone has begun to follow Western Europe and strive to seize opportunities for development.

Russia is like an abandoned baby in Europe. Two hundred years of Mongolian rule and their own Slavic origins have made them an alien in Europe!

No one looks down upon Russia. In the eyes of Europeans, Russians are representatives of ignorance and backwardness. They are rats in the soup pot, boogers in rice porridge, and cysticercids among white people.

The Russian aristocratic force represented by Catherine was often ignored at gatherings of European aristocrats.

On the battlefield, although the Russian army was brave and capable, it was a pity that due to problems with command and weapons and equipment, it suffered repeated defeats on the European battlefield. It was often laughed at by the European armies. In the Battle of Austerlitz, the Russian army suffered more casualties than

Much higher than the Austrian army.

Ekaterina decided to end the pain of being ignored. After the Russian Empire experienced an abnormal transfer of power, this extremely ambitious woman climbed to the top of Russian power.

"My friend Dorgon, is this what you want me to see today?" Ekaterina looked at a bright light in the sky and turned to ask Dorgon.

"The day after tomorrow is your birthday, Her Majesty the Queen! 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 ride on the airship and have a bird's-eye view of Your Majesty's territory. You will see the whole Moscow cheering at your feet." Dorgon looked at Ekaterina very respectfully.

"Dorgon, have you succeeded?" Ekaterina looked at Dorgon excitedly. She did not expect that the airship project would succeed so quickly.

Only six months after the technicians poached from the UK came to Russia, the first airship was actually built.

"It's successful! It's just that the performance is a little worse than that of Daming. But we are improving the technology and it will get better and better in the future." The difference is just Dorgon's humble statement. In fact, the airship project is far from successful.

What Dorgon planned to use to fool Yekaterina was just a hot air balloon with a low output power that would be able to fly in the sky.

There is no way, Russia's industrial foundation is really poor. Dorgon still put in a lot of efforts to build such a hot air balloon.

"Oh, Dorgon, I can't wait. Let's go see your airship now!" Yekaterina was very excited. She ran to the door of the Kremlin in person and ordered the two cavalry to dismount.

He jumped on his horse, whipped his horse and whipped his horse, and headed straight to the airship manufacturing base on the outskirts of Moscow.

Dorgon had no choice but to get on another horse and follow. He did not expect that Her Majesty the Queen would be so anxious.

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

The dew point on the flat ground is not scary at all. What is scary is that the hot air balloon rises to a high altitude and then launches and tears apart. This is the most deadly. As long as the hot air balloon tears apart, parachuting is the only means of escape for the people on top.

This is also very obvious on the airship.

"Can we fly now?" When Ekaterina saw the huge airship, she was as excited as a child who got candy.

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

Airship! It means that this is the most advanced technology in the world. It can carry people to fly in the nine heavens. It can also carry bombs and fly to the enemy's head to shit.

No matter which country's army you belong to, there is only one way to resist when encountering an airship. It can be a one-sided massacre, and no one can stop it unless the airship runs out of ammunition.

Looking through the reports she had received before, Yekaterina saw the word airship more than once. The Ming Dynasty had already used airship tactics to its fullest, and this was the first time for her, the queen, to see it. This was unfair. Yekaterina

Lina secretly vowed that Russia must become stronger so that people would never dare to underestimate her.

"We are doing the final inspection. We flew yesterday. It is only a little over a hundred meters high." Dorgon was now afraid that Yekaterina would go up now. The safety inspection was not over yet, and he did not dare to let the queen

Your Majesty goes to heaven.

When Her Majesty the Queen goes to heaven, I must follow her. If something goes wrong with the airship at this time, I will have no choice but to follow Her Majesty the Queen to the west.

"Let's go up and have a look!" Yekaterina couldn't hold it back and excitedly ran to the pod where the portholes had just been installed.

"Uh...!" Dorgon didn't even have time to stop him, he was really afraid of what might happen.

"Jirharang, how far has the airship reached?" Dorgon hurriedly asked Jirharang next to him.

"There should be no problem. The safety inspection is almost over. So far, no dew points have been found. But if you and Her Majesty the Queen go up, I still recommend that you bring parachutes. At the same time, it must be higher." After listening to Jilharang's words, Duo

Ergon's heart trembled a little. This guy obviously didn't want to accompany him up there.

If you say there is no danger, no one will believe you. If there is no danger, would you give up the opportunity to show your face in front of Her Majesty the Queen?
To be continued...