The gift Xiao Letian gave to Prussia this time was really too heavy. It could make the petroleum internal combustion engine appear in the world fourteen years ahead of schedule, and it was given to Prussia, which had very developed industrial and technological capabilities. This gift was undoubtedly for Prussia. The national destiny has wings.
Many people in later generations, especially those within the Chinese ethnic group, criticized the generosity of the head of state. They thought it was a waste to send such a gift at a time when the Sino-Putian alliance had been reached.
Since Prussia has agreed to develop side by side with the Chinese, why should it give away this militaristic weapon and the key to the second industrial revolution?
Is the Führer a bit too generous?
In fact, such doubts existed at the time, and even among the Four Heavenly Kings there were objections. For example, General Luo Huo, a former bodyguard of a commercial company, shivered in distress when he saw the Prussians carrying away the internal combustion engine.
When the group of people took the special train back to Berlin, Luo Huo mumbled and expressed his dissatisfaction to Xiao Letian.
"Master! I'm a rough guy. I don't understand so much about science and technology. I know how to fight... But I'm not a fool either. You keep saying that technology is the primary productive force. What steam engine changed the world..."
"Then let me ask you, how come such an important internal combustion engine, which you say is the key to a new era, was given to Prussia so easily? Are you too generous?"
Xiao Letian looked at Luo Huo, then at the group of officials around him who wanted to speak but did not dare to speak. He smiled bitterly and said, "Look at you, are you angry again?"
"The pattern, you have to have a big pattern in mind!"
"Don't always think that the internal combustion engine is some incredible technology, as if we, the Chinese, can catch up with the luck of Britain and France by locking it up. This is impossible!"
"When the dawn of science and technology is born in a certain country, it can indeed give that country an opportunity to catch up, but it is not that simple to make science and technology form a real national strength!"
"*, compass, papermaking, movable type printing... these are all inventions of ancient China, but why are these technologies so popular in Europe?"
"When the gun spread to Europe, people risked their lives in research. From artillery to rifles, technology has been developing continuously for hundreds of years. Let's look at our China? The red cannon during the Kangxi period was still a copy of Portuguese technology. We I’ve even lost my art of making cannons!”
"The compass became a powerful tool for Europeans to explore during the Age of Discovery. Papermaking and movable type printing directly promoted the Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe!"
"Do you know why Martin Luther in Germany was able to found the Lutheran Church and why it was able to fight against the powerful Holy See?"
“It’s not because Gutenberg used his printing press to print the Bible for the first time. Since then, the Bible has suddenly become a must-have item that ordinary families can have from a precious collection handwritten by clergy! "
"Because of the increase in productivity, it was possible for ordinary people to own a Bible, and then the emergence of Protestantism broke the old rule of writing the Bible only in Latin!"
"It was this series of breakthroughs that gave ordinary people the opportunity to explain the gospel of God. This is the essence of the Reformation!"
"The so-called religious reform in Europe is, to put it bluntly, an impact on the centralization of the Vatican. It completely broke the centralized power of the Vatican and dispersed it so that the Vatican lost its sense of mystery!"
"When religion can no longer control people's hearts, only then can there be a possibility of reviewing literature and art!"
"Brothers, this series of technological evolution cannot be completed in just a few decades. Technology forms productivity and ultimately forms national strength and affects the national destiny. It depends on the efforts of countless people!"
“It is difficult for a technology to become the driving force behind the national destiny without a century of in-depth exploration and subdivision!”
"It's just like the internal combustion engine we have now! Although it appears in our hands, it is too primitive and the level of science and technology inside is too low. To be honest, our creativity can be copied by British and French scientists after just a few glances. !”
"If people want to copy our technology, it will be effortless. One photo can reveal all the secrets!"
"How many scientists do we have? How many chemists do we have? Engineers? Mathematicians? Physicists? Countless..."
"As long as people pass by your machine and smell a little smell of gasoline, they can guess the secret of this machine!"
"You guys, don't be a miser, don't think that hiding this thing in a boudoir can escape the eyes of those people... Unless you never let this machine see the light of day, you won't be able to hide it at all. live!"
"You should always remember one sentence, and you should also pass this sentence on to future generations of Chinese children and grandchildren!"
"Technology cannot rest on its laurels. It must face challenges from competitors around the world and always maintain our advantage in this challenging game!"
"This is the first generation of internal combustion engines. We will join forces with Prussia and use thousands of scientists to tackle key problems. Then we will have more mature second, third, and countless generations of internal combustion engines!"
"What we want to do is to make this machine cheaper and cheaper, more reliable and more efficient, and our internal combustion engines will be smaller and smaller in the future, but more powerful!"
"One hundred horsepower, five hundred horsepower, or even thousands of horsepower are possible!"
"One day, we may even be able to put internal combustion engines on hot air balloons, battleships, and carriages! Can you imagine such a scene?"
"To do all this, we must rely on cooperation and mutual communication. There is no other way!"
Everything Xiao Letian described made all the senior officials in the carriage fall silent. Luo Huo whispered in disbelief, "Put it... on a hot air balloon? Do you mean that in the future, the hot air balloon will no longer have to consider the wind direction?"
"You can fly however you want?"
"Put it on a battleship? Instead of burning coal, it will burn oil instead? Can it be so powerful?"
Xiao Letian said calmly, "The first-generation prototype machine must not be able to do it, but can't the second-generation and third-generation machinery do it? Don't underestimate Prussia's industrial strength!"
Xiao Letian successfully dispelled people's doubts, and the subsequent development of the situation also successfully verified Xiao Letian's judgment.
Sure enough, technology requires communication. Less than three days after this prototype was sent to the secret military factory in Berlin for research, excited Sino-Prussian engineers found the key to the problem.
"Oh God! Your Chinese steel has serious problems, and your desulfurization technology is completely inadequate!"
"Do you know why this machine is made so big? It's not because you are afraid of exploding the cylinder. The high temperature and high pressure of gasoline combustion will also leak out!"
"Because you dare not make the steel thinner and smaller, and because you do not have the most advanced desulfurization technology, you cannot solve the problem of cracks inside the steel!"
"God bless you. Fortunately, the head of state exchanged the technology... Now let's show you how advanced Prussia's steelmaking technology is!"
"In ten days! We can reduce the size of this prototype by half!"
