"Yes, you have to be cruel to yourself when you are alive, especially now that we have fallen behind and need to catch up! Stop fantasizing about the paradise described by Tao Yuanming. That kind of limited small farm life is gone forever!"
"In the eyes of Western colonists, my beating you has nothing to do with whether you are kind or moral. I beat you just because I am strong and you are weak, nothing more!"
"This is the reality that those rotten scholars will never face up to. Those hypocrites who always live in the illusion of morality, always think that shouting a few moral slogans can solve all problems?"
"Bullshit! The so-called morality must only appear when people can protect themselves? Can a wolf talk about morality with a sheep?"
"Only by turning yourself into a wolf can you talk about morality with the wolves! Those stupid scholars still don't understand this truth..."
Just when Xiao Letian was angrily scolding the moral hypocrites in the country, suddenly the door was pushed open and Wang Ju hurried in from the outside.
"Let's go! Let's go to Hamburg! The ship is coming, our ship is coming!"
The ship finally arrived. It was a merchant ship that both Xiao Letian and Bismarck were waiting for. It departed from Ryukyu by not taking the Suez Canal, but by going around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and around the entire African continent to Prussia.
On the surface, this merchant ship is very inconspicuous, but the cargo carried on this cargo ship is incredible.
Xiao Letian and Bismarck took an emergency train to Hamburg. When they arrived at the pier, they found that the military had blocked the entire trestle.
The tall wooden frame was erected, and the canvas was pulled up to cover the entire trestle. No one outside could see what was inside.
The Prussian soldiers on guard immediately moved out of an alley when they saw the Führer. When Xiao Letian walked in, he saw a few familiar faces at a glance. They were actually several guards around Xiao Hexin, all of whom had been with him for many years.
When everyone saw the head of state coming, they immediately stood at attention and saluted. Xiao Letian returned the salute with a straight face and said, "Have you had a safe trip?"
"Reporting to the head of state, the journey was relatively safe. We encountered a typhoon and two groups of pirates..."
The guard said it casually, but Xiao Letian carefully looked at the mottled wooden shell outside the merchant ship. There were even bullets embedded in it. One can imagine how fierce the battle with the pirates was at that time.
"Thank you for your hard work!"
"It's not hard work! It's just a group of pirates, and they haven't encountered the French regular army. It's not a big deal... But this time we come to Europe, the head of state, you can't drive us back!"
"The war is coming, will you let us join the war?"
Xiao Letian patted several people on the shoulders, "How many brothers did you bring?"
"Two companies! They are all elite soldiers and generals personally selected by General Xiao. I promise not to embarrass the Führer!"
"Okay! Go to Bureau Wang and General Sima and ask them to make arrangements for you! Since you are lucky enough to take the credit, I can't let your hearts go cold!"
After a few words of comfort to the soldiers who had come from afar, Xiao Letian, Bismarck and others finally boarded the deck of the merchant ship. At this moment, a huge crane had already lifted a huge wooden box from the bottom cabin and was slowly lifting it. Place it directly forward on the deck.
"Is this...is this what you call an epoch-making internal combustion engine?" Bismarck asked.
"Yes, this is the machine I said can change the course of human history!" Xiao Letian replied.
"But this is too big, isn't it?" Bismarck looked at the huge wooden box that was more than two meters high and three meters long, and couldn't help but sigh.
"This size is not much smaller than a steam engine. Is this what you call miniaturization?"
"Hey... don't look at the size now, but this is a prototype and it can still be reduced in the future. What I have to do now is to ensure that the theory is correct!"
"Come here, open the wooden box, start the machinery and let the Prime Minister open his eyes!"
The Chinese engineers from Ryukyu began to open the wooden box with crowbars. Among the countless piles of fluffy shavings, a dark and greasy steel machine appeared in front of people's eyes.
It is difficult for Bismarck to describe this weird thing in words. It looks so strange and looks like nothing else. It is densely covered with rivets. The huge flywheel is quietly installed at the tail. There are also crankshafts, levers, Different combinations of parts such as gears.
It was like a sleeping, ferocious beast with its skin peeled off, its sinews and muscles nakedly exposed to the air, faintly exuding power!
The mechanics started to get busy. They opened a tin bucket and poured the light yellow liquid into the machine. Then someone took the crank and started to start the machine violently.
Everyone held their breath and stared at the mechanical monster's awakening. The technician only shook it more than ten times before the machine suddenly came to life.
Chug tug tug... The whole machine began to vibrate violently, black smoke emitted from the jet nozzle, the connecting rod began to move back and forth, the crankshaft began to rotate, and eventually the huge flywheel began to rotate rapidly.
"It's moving! Look, it's really moving!"
The flywheel is rotating rapidly, and the vibration just now has become much smoother. Although the noise is still very loud, anyone with a little bit of engineering foundation can know that a steadily rotating flywheel is a stable output of kinetic energy.
This coal-free machine can actually move? You really can't see any flames outside?
"Xiao Letian! Tell me, what does this machine burn? I know that French scientists once used gas as power, but you don't have a pipeline to transport gas?"
"Is it the light yellow liquid you just poured in? Is it really oil that is burning?"
Bismarck squeezed Xiao Letian's hand and said excitedly!
Xiao Letian said with great pride, "You guessed it right, this is the internal combustion engine invented by our Chinese people. It burns oil instead of gas!"
"European scientists have fallen into a misunderstanding. They have always believed that viscous liquids like petroleum are not suitable as fuel for internal combustion engines because there are too many impurities inside petroleum!"
"So some people choose to use gas, and some choose to use hydrogen, but they themselves know very well that although using gas as a power source is pure, it cannot last long!"
"In complex industrial and mining enterprises, who can guarantee long-term gas supply? Therefore, the practicality is greatly reduced!"
"Why has coal always been the main raw material for industry? In the final analysis, it is because it is cheap, easy to transport and store, and has high reliability!"
"In fact, many scientific breakthroughs are just a layer of window paper! Our Chinese scientists are still very smart. They think that since oil has too many impurities, why don't they think of ways to process the oil carefully?"
“If we deep-process the oil in advance, maybe there’s something we want in it!”
