Chapter 61 The biggest trend in the 19th century! (Please collect, vote for me, recommend, and read more)

"A gas-burning car?"

Zhuge Weijiu suddenly thought of something and looked at Zhuge Weidao with burning eyes, "Are you sure it's a gasoline car? Are you sure the time has come?"

"Yes!" Zhuge Weidao said, "I want to read the Heavenly Book. My Heavenly Book contains an internal combustion engine that can usher in the era of gasoline cars!"

All the military advisors present showed expressions of surprise.

This is a very critical question!

In fact, the strategists of the Zhuge family have long known that "cars" will be an important outlet!

Because among the twenty volumes of the Heavenly Book left by our ancestors, there is only one "Automobile Heavenly Book".

But because this volume of heavenly book has not yet been unsealed, no one has read it.

Therefore, the Zhuge family's military advisers did not know what this "car" was?

There are currently four "car" routes in the world, one is electric, the second is steam, the third is gas, and the fourth is gasoline and diesel.

Although "qi" and "qi" are literally different, the development direction of such an important industry cannot be determined from just one word!

Besides, "gasoline" and "steam" are not both the same "steam"?

Therefore, the Zhuge family can only diversify their investments and bet on multiple projects at the same time.

In addition, it is uncertain when the "car" will be successful. If the money is burned endlessly, it will be a huge loss.

For big players like the Zhuge Family, if they could know in advance which route and when they would finally win, it would be a huge profit!

As long as it is confirmed, with the financial resources of the Zhuge family, they can burn out a few Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Ford. These are century-old businesses!

In history, there are many major automobile manufacturers that emerged when the automobile industry emerged at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Ford, General Motors, etc., and they have continued their glory for a hundred years!

Moreover, in another timeline, until the 21st century, the automobile industry chain is still the most important industrial chain in the industry! For any country that is industrializing or wants to industrialize, the automobile industry is a battleground.

In addition, the added value of this automobile industry chain is relatively high and can support the relatively high-income working class.

Historically, Henry Ford was able to pay high wages, firstly because G could cause trouble; secondly, because Ford's profits were really high!

When Zhuge Weidao took the tram, slowly passed through a bustling neighborhood of modern industrialized Beijing that seemed a bit fantastic no matter how it looked, got off at the entrance of the alley west of Goulan Hutong, and then walked back to his mansion in Goulan Hutong.

, the sky is already quite dark.

He stayed in the "Beijing Institute of Technology Building" in Longzhongzhuang for most of the day today. In addition to attending the plenary meeting of the Zhuge Family Military Division, he also read the Bible in the "library" for an afternoon, and then relied on his amazing memory.

I hand-drawn a sketch of a four-cylinder water-cooled piston engine and gave it to "Machine Strategist" Zhuge Weiguang, asking him to find a way to complete the development of a gasoline internal combustion engine with a horsepower of 20 and a speed of over 1,600 within two years.

This engine is much more advanced than the 12-horsepower four-cylinder water-cooled engine equipped by the Wright brothers for the Flyer One in history, and has almost reached the level of the engine selected by the Ford Model T.

As long as this type of engine can be mass-produced, not only car engines will be available, but early biplanes can also be used.

Zhuge Weiguang, who holds two important positions, including the president of Beijing Institute of Technology and the dean of Beijing Heavy Industry Machinery Design Institute, took a look at the sketch Zhuge Weidao gave him and immediately agreed. He also told Zhuge Weidao that although the Heavy Industry Machinery Institute

Mainly engaged in large-scale equipment, but in order to provide engines for the navy's airships, it has already developed an 8-horsepower gasoline engine, and has also opened a small gasoline engine factory for mass production, with an annual output of thousands of units!

This is quite a surprise!

So Zhuge Weidao took Zhuge Weiguang to have a meal together in the cafeteria of "Beijing Institute of Technology". While eating, he asked questions and answers. It was not until he found out the basics of Daming's machinery industry that he left Longzhongzhuang full of surprises - now

The Ming Dynasty is indeed an industrialized country that is leading in many aspects!

The cost of a world war is sufficient, but the motivation for starting a war is not sufficient.

This situation is a bit like the United States, which has just developed in history. Its GDP and industry have already ranked first in the world, and its national income is also among the best. The country is rich in resources and the land is fertile. Even if it needs some resources and external markets, it can still be controlled through the British Empire.

International trade was achieved under the current situation. Life was prosperous, who wanted to go to war? Moreover, the United States at that time was not a financial bully and did not need the US military to maintain the credit of the US dollar.

But only such a country is qualified to become the real protagonist on the stage of world hegemony, right?

Otherwise, like Germany and Japan in history, they lack hard power and can only make huge bets. But if you bet for a long time, you will lose, and it is reasonable to lose everything in the end.

When the tram drove into Xizhimen, Zhuge Weidao got a seat by the window. So, like a "countryside Zhuge" who had just entered the city, he looked at this city that had led to industrialization with curiosity and surprise.

The capital of the new Ming Empire.

Although Beijing is only a city with a population of more than 2 million so far, its liveliness is no less than that of Greater Beijing with more than 10 million people in later generations. Moreover, this modern industrialized city was the most prosperous city of the Ming Empire.

There are also some qualities of Zhuge Weidao that are difficult to feel in another era.

That is nobility, self-confidence, calmness, determination, and looking at all directions. This China has never hit rock bottom, nor does it know what a century of humiliation is, nor has it experienced the experience of being reduced to a poor country with a per capita GDP that ranks last in the world and its people are almost impoverished.

It seems that from the very beginning, this country (referring to the New Ming Dynasty) has been standing on top of the world, and is the celestial dynasty that all countries in the world must look up to!

This is not arrogance, but King Zhuge Wuzhong expelled the Tartars and restored the basic national conditions after the Ming Dynasty - starting out as one of the world's most powerful and wealthy countries, with four top industrial chains such as porcelain, silk, sugar, and tea. Europeans Xin

More than half of the silver earned through hard work as a bandit in the New World eventually flowed into the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty suffered a huge population loss after the war. Such a huge country only had a population of tens of millions. Later generations supported more than a billion people.

If resources are shared among tens of millions of people, then the land is truly vast and abundant!

After King Zhuge Wuzhong successfully implemented the land equalization system, the consumer market in the rural areas of the Ming Dynasty was fully launched!

There is no shortage of external demand, domestic demand, capital (the inflow of silver is enough), and resources. Coupled with the technology and talents provided by King Wu Zhong and the modern education system he established, industrialization is almost a matter of course, and the process is also a matter of course.

Not British-style, but American-the United States has always had a higher per capita population than Europe, even higher than wealthy Western Europe. Even before the opening of the United States of America, the thirteen states in North America were very wealthy. Otherwise, how could there be so many Europeans?

Are paupers running to the United States year after year? The European people voted with their feet, and that couldn't be more accurate.

Historically, the United States relied on the resources, land and "high per capita" population attracted by the chosen country to finally complete industrialization in just a few decades. From a state where decent factory handicrafts barely existed, it developed into

The world's number one industrial country!

What the United States can do, the new Ming Dynasty led by King Zhuge Wuzhong can certainly also do and of course do it better!

King Zhuge Wuzhong and his descendants have indeed achieved "better than the United States". Maybe King Wuzhong wanted a new Ming Dynasty that was "better than the Soviet Union", but his strength did not allow it, so King Wuzhong and he

I can only get angry.

When he thought of King Zhuge Wuzhong who was about to explode with anger in the ancestral picture, the tram driver shouted: "Here we go at Goulan Hutong!"

There are many theaters and movie theaters in Goulan Hutong. It is a big station. Half of the men and women on the tram came to play in Goulan Hutong, so they all got off the train with a rumble.

Zhuge Weidao got out of the car with the others and walked on Goulan Hutong Street, which became extremely prosperous every night. As he walked, he looked at the pedestrians on the street through the lights.

The people who go shopping in Goulan Hutong at night are very young, most of them are in pairs, and they are all dressed up in interesting ways - they are all the evolved version of Hanfu, with exquisite materials and workmanship. It is summer now, so it is very popular

Some people's clothes are made of silk fabrics. Most of the men's clothes are white, black, and blue, but the clothes on women are colorful and very bright. Some women's clothes are loose and elegant, and some are well-matched.

The figure is tailored. The figure is really good, and it looks familiar!

"Natalie Pavlovna?"

Zhuge Weidao was walking when he saw what looked like Natalie's back on the street. He shouted, and then he saw four women turning around.

Not four Natalies, but Natalie, Nalandili, Daheikong and Ali. Among them, Daheikong was holding hands with Natalie!

Seeing this scene, Zhuge Weidao's heart sank again: "I Zhuge didn't even think about how to get A Kong, so you Natalie won't have already succeeded, right?"

"Daozi! You are finally back!"

Natalie took Daheikong's hand and trotted up to Zhuge Weidao, and said to Zhuge Weidao, "Daozi, we bought movie tickets and are going to watch a movie. There are guests at home, all of whom are your colleagues in the navy."

, Yu Guanjia, Guo Xiaobao, Wang Wen are entertaining, you should go back quickly!

In addition, I have good news to tell you tonight, a big surprise!"

Big surprise?

Zhuge Weidao glanced at Daheikong and thought: "Is Natalie going to send Daheikong to me as a concubine? This is a beautiful thing. She is such a good wife. But we can't rush this matter, Daheikong."

But the one who wants to be a concubine has a higher status than a concubine, so she is considered a half-wife, right? At the same time, she can also let her father get some dowry!"
Chapter completed!