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Chapter 1769 Placing an Order

The internal combustion engine vehicle exhibition area has complete vehicle exhibits and main parts exhibits, the most typical of which is of course the Ford Model T, as well as gasoline engines, pneumatic rubber tires, car horns and other auto accessories.

Because internal combustion engine vehicles will become an important export product in the near future, they will definitely be dismantled after export, so it is better to display them generously at the World Expo.

"This three-wheel internal combustion engine vehicle uses single-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine, electric ignition, carburetor and other technologies, with a maximum power of 0.68 horsepower and a maximum speed of 16 kilometers per hour."

There are several technicians in the internal combustion engine vehicle exhibition area, who made a special trip to introduce the history of their research on vehicles over the past ten years.

One of the most rudimentary is the first gasoline engine car, which looks really rudimentary, with the gasoline engine still placed at the back, like a human-powered tricycle.

And the power of 0.68 horsepower is really a bit shabby.

"And this is our latest internal combustion engine car, a four-cylinder gasoline engine with a maximum power of 20 horsepower and a top speed of 72 kilometers per hour." The technician turned everyone's attention to the new Model T car.

The car in front is just to let everyone understand the history of the car in the past ten years, but in just ten years, the internal combustion engine car has changed from a simple machine to a complex one.

What they are selling is not the three-wheeled car that was just invented and easy to drop the chain, but the Model T car that is quite mature and practical.

The automobile production line has been set up, and the automobile manufacturing plant is fully capable of mass-producing Model T cars. Gasoline can also be supplied from oil fields in Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf.Chu Yun has sent a team to the Persian Gulf to investigate the distribution of oil fields, and believes that the oil fields in the Persian Gulf will be developed soon.

Although the current technology for extracting oil is urgency, there is still no problem in exploiting shallow oil fields.Just shallow oil is enough for millions or tens of millions of cars.

The problem now is to quickly open up the market and export cars to the local and overseas at the same time.

Prince Condé and Crown Prince Louis XIV of France had a soft spot for internal combustion engine vehicles, but they were still at a loss when they heard the introduction of internal combustion engine vehicles so closely.

They don't understand the internal combustion engine at all. The only thing they know is to buy it with gold and silver. Learning to use a car is much easier than building a car.

"Can we buy a few of these cars to go back? It should be easy to transport them back with a galleon." Prince Condé asked the interpreter who led their French delegation in place of Louis XIV.

"How many cars do you want in France?" Unexpectedly, the technicians of the car factory were looking for a market, and they would also occupy the European car market in the future.

Prince Condé and several French nobles looked at each other, and the other party was suddenly willing to sell the car. Now they don't know how many cars they want to buy.

They discussed in low voices for a while, and finally decided to buy 20 Model T cars directly for the French royal family.

This is just the beginning. In the next decade or so, a large number of Model T cars will be shipped to France and other continental European countries by galleons to monopolize the European market for new transportation tools.This will be a market worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver, bringing a lot of income to the local area every year, and the income will be converted into research and development funds for new technologies!

On the other hand, the Duke of Brandenburg is very interested in steam engines for ships, and the secret of the power of steam ironclads seems to have been revealed.

However, it is not so easy to produce ironclad ships.

The Duke of Brandenburg is negotiating with the technician of the steam engine for the ship, and wants to purchase the power system of the steam ship for research.

"This is a non-saleable product, please forgive us for not being able to sell it."

It was the technicians of the Imperial Shipyard who were in charge of introducing the steam engine for ships, and they clearly rejected the Duke of Brandenburg's desire to purchase steam engines for ships.

The sale of internal combustion engine vehicles is equivalent to exchanging the market for the risk of part of the technology leakage, and the steam engine for ships does not want to be sold outside.

"Then can we buy a finished steamer? The steamer we saw in Malacca would be fine, 20 taels of silver? 30 taels of silver? Or 50 taels of silver?" asked the Duke of Brandenburg.

"My lord, this is not a question of money, but a question of technical secrecy." The technician from the Imperial Shipyard said.

The Duke of Brandenburg saw that the other party was still unwilling to sell the steam ironclad ship as a big killer. It was obvious that the other party wanted to monopolize the steam technology for ships for a longer period of time, but none of the core technologies related to the military field were used as commodities.

"Okay." The Duke of Brandenburg was a little helpless, and then he asked if he could buy a steam locomotive, but the other party still refused.

Only internal-combustion engine vehicles, a commodity with huge private demand and huge profit margins, are allowed to be sold. If you want to imitate internal combustion engines and develop them to be used on ships and trains, I am afraid that you will not be able to do so in decades.

In addition to the most eye-catching exhibits such as internal combustion engine vehicles and steam engines for ships, diplomatic missions from various countries are also interested in new products such as harvesters, lawn mowers, strip seeders, steam plows, sewing machines, rubber, etc., most of which are It can be exported, and they have placed a lot of orders.

These envoys are only here for the first time, and it is impossible to carry a lot of gold and silver, and the orders they place are limited.

Instead, it was the big local businessmen who actually placed the orders. The World Expo this time only initially opened up the overseas market, and currently the local people are the big consumers.

Some wealthy Chinese businessmen directly placed hundreds of orders for planters, and Christina, Irina, Kopruli and others were all surprised by the lavishness of their purchases.

Traditional commodities such as tea, porcelain, spices, and silk are still very popular, and their sales volume exceeds that of industrial products.There are hundreds of types of tea in the exhibition alone, and countless people place orders for tea.

The reason is simple. The market for industrial products is still small. Tea and spices are indispensable commodities in daily life. The market is huge and still accounts for the bulk of all trade volume.

But this is only the beginning of the overtaking of agricultural and sideline products in the market share of industrial products.

There are also some very novel, but not very conspicuous exhibits, which may be overlooked if you don't pay attention.

"Is this 'canned food'? Can it prolong the spoilage time of food?" The Netherlanders who pay attention to navigation were the first to discover the existence of tinplate cans, and he was very interested in this kind of thing.

Scurvy and other diseases caused by the lack of fresh food in the Age of Discovery have always been a troublesome problem, and thousands of sailors and soldiers died of scurvy.If there were a way to preserve fresh food, it would undoubtedly save many marine casualties.

"That's right, canned food with a longer shelf life can extend the quality of the food by three months to three years," said the technician.

"We want this technology!" exclaimed the Dutchman in surprise.

(End of this chapter)