Daming 1805

Chapter 362 Fuel Power
After the banquet on the battleship, Zhu Jingyuan and the representatives of Britain and France took a rest on board and returned to the city in the afternoon.

Daming's visiting fleet will drop by to escort them back to Taixi, but they will not directly use their warships to carry them to live.

Warships can give them a brief tour, but they won't allow long-term rides for diplomats with intelligence missions.

Charlotte and Shire, as well as representatives of the two countries, will still leave on a more comfortable special passenger ship.

After Zhu Jingyuan sent them back to their residence, he directly reminded Charles and Charlotte that they could pack their things and prepare to return.

Talleyrand, Grenville, Monroe and other officials were all relieved and could finally leave.

On the contrary, Charlotte and Charles themselves were obviously reluctant to part with each other.

In the courtyard where Charlotte lived, Zhu Jingyuan said goodbye to Charlotte, and was going back to the palace to work on his own affairs.

Charlotte reached out and pinched Zhu Jing's sleeve and did not let go.

Zhu Jingyuan stopped and looked back at the girl beside him:
"what happened?"

Charlotte chanted what she wanted to say intermittently:

"After leaving this time, I don't know when I will have the opportunity to see you again.

"Even if you tell me where you are going in the future, I may not have the chance to actually meet you."

Zhu Jingyuan felt that what Charlotte wanted to do had not been said.

However, Zhu Jingyuan did not disregard the atmosphere and said: If he really wants to see someone, the British can't stop him at all.

I probably wouldn't specifically think about meeting Charlotte again.

For Charlotte herself, even if she becomes the king of England, she probably won't have the freedom she has now.

After a brief silence, Zhu Jingyuan turned around and opened his arms.

Charlotte hesitated for a moment, then boldly took two steps forward, and hugged Zhu Jingyuan's body forcefully.

Then, with his eyes closed, he said in a very small voice on Zhu Jingyuan's chest:

"Your Highness, I actually... want to be with you and have a baby together.

"We can't get married, but we don't need to get married, I can be your lover.

"A child of your blood must be very good, and he must be a very good king."

Zhu Jingyuan blinked and understood what Charlotte meant.

Charlotte is second in line to the British throne and alone in her generation.

Unless her 47-year-old father and his wife who have been separated for an unknown number of years now create a legitimate son, Charlotte's order of succession is completely fixed.

She will become King of England after his father, George IV, Prince of Wales, is gone.

At present, the possibility of his parents giving her a legitimate brother is infinitely close to zero.

This kind of thing did not happen in the original history. In history, after she died of dystocia, his uncle worked hard to create a legitimate daughter, Victoria.

Charlotte will definitely succeed if she is not dead, and Charlotte's own heir must also be chosen from among her own children.

Now Taixi has openly allowed illegitimate children to inherit, but the order of succession is after legitimate children.

The concubine son similar to Daming can also inherit, but the inheritance order is after the legitimate son.

If Charlotte never gets married and has no legitimate children, she only has a few illegitimate children with herself.

The eldest son of herself and her illegitimate children will become the king of England after her.

This method is of course feasible, especially with Daming as the backstage support, even if it is a war of succession to the throne, it can win.

But the problem is that it is impossible to implement now.

Zhu Jingyuan rubbed Charlotte's head:

"You are still a child yourself, so you just want to have a child, at least wait until after you."

Charlotte rubbed her head in Zhu Jingyuan's arms:

"Charlotte won't die. Charlotte has already had menstruation, and the doctor said that after menstruation, she can become pregnant."

Zhu Jingyuan explained and arranged helplessly:

"In theory yes, in practice no at all.

"At your age, you just want to conceive and have children, and accidents are easy to happen, and the result is likely to be one dead and two dead.

"I don't want to see that result.

"If you really want to be my only woman, you can come and live with me for a year later.

"I will give you the status of the princess of the Great Food King, even if the British don't accept it, the Great Food Country will accept it.

"We'll think about having a baby then."

Zhu Jingyuan is a prince-level pro-vassal king, and he has the quota of four concubines, and the concubine is not the queen.

Charlotte has a high probability of successfully becoming the queen of England, and it is not impossible to give her the status of a big food king and concubine.

After hearing this arrangement, Charlotte was both regretful and pleasantly surprised.

The surprise is of course the princess, but it is a pity that she is still unable to have children.

It is common for Tessie royal family members to find their lovers to spend the night together.

The courtiers of Daming and the people in the court didn't think there was any problem with the fact that their prince had a little girl.

On the second day, the British and French missions headed by Charlotte and Shire officially began to pack up the gifts.

Three days later, the well-prepared delegations of the two countries officially left Xintianfu.

Zhu Jingyuan also went to the pier to see off Charles and Charlotte as his master, friend, and lover.

Charlotte held onto Zhu Jingyuan's hand all the way.

Charles looked at this picture from the side, always feeling that something was wrong.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't think too much, and sent them all the way to the pier.

Others boarded the boat one after another, but Charlotte hugged Zhu Jing and didn't want to let go, and said with tears in her eyes:
"Your Highness...we still have a chance to meet, right?"

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded:

"Of course there is a chance..."

Charlotte is still full of worries:

"But... But, my grandfather, father, and the British don't allow me to see you again, what should I do?"

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:

"If you come later, none of them will let you come to see me.

"If you're 20 and I still haven't met you.

"Then I will take the fleet to capture London, England or Richmond, America.

"I will snatch you back and make you my princess."

Charlotte's worry suddenly turned into surprise:
"Really! If I can't get out, will you really go and snatch me back!"

Zhu Jingyuan nodded very seriously:

"Of course it is true, I always keep my word, and the UK and the US have no ability to stop me.

"But you have to remember, according to our Daming's rules, if you want to be my princess, you can't have an affair with other men.

"It doesn't matter whether you are married or not..."

Charlotte nodded vigorously and very seriously:
"I understand, am I your exclusive royal mistress..."

Charlotte finally felt relieved, said goodbye to Zhu Jingyuan with [-]% expectation, and boarded the passenger ship step by step.

Only then did Zhu Jingyuan realize that Charles was still standing not far from him.

Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte spoke in a very low voice, and Charles deliberately avoided it a little bit.

So Ciel probably didn't hear what the two of them were talking about.

But the state of Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte fell into Charles' eyes, and the relationship between the two was fully exposed.

After Charlotte boarded the boat, Charles came to Zhu Jingyuan with a complicated mood:
"Best friend, I'm leaving too. If you don't say something, I can only remember your character of valuing sex over friends..."

Zhu Jingyuan opened his arms with a smile, and also hugged his best friend:

"Good luck to you, I wish you all the best, my friend."

Charles also hugged Zhu Jingyuan, and was finally satisfied. At the same time, he was quite reluctant to leave, and turned around to board the passenger ship.

The passenger ship was ready long ago, and the horn sounded as soon as the last passengers boarded.

The anchor chain and gangway were quickly put away, and with the assistance of the tugboat at the dock, they slowly left the dock.

Zhu Jingyuan stood on the pier, waved to Charlotte and Charles on the edge of the deck, and watched them leave.

Two battleships and four cruisers have already set sail first, waiting outside the pier.

After converging, the fleet sailed northeast and arrived at Sanqing City the next morning.

The two battleships were to refuel here.

After the battleship dock docked, the prepared fuel pipeline was preheated and quickly connected to the fuel injection port.

This process of refueling has also become the focus of observation by British, French and American officials such as Talleyrand, Grenville, and Monroe.

They have basically confirmed through the appearance of the chimneys and the smoke emitted by the chimneys during the voyage that these two ships should be pure fuel oil battleships.

Now, rather than reconfirming this, it is more important to directly observe the efficiency of the refueling.

Even for a battleship of [-] tons, it would take at least two days to fill the fuel tank with coal in an empty state.

After the tonnage is enlarged to [-] tons, the time to continue replenishing coal may be more than four days.

Because coal is solid, it must be loaded into the cabin by mechanical equipment and adjusted evenly in the cabin.

This is a very tedious and laborious job, and the time required skyrockets with the size of the tank.

Now, several thick pipes are directly connected to the fuel tank, and the heated and melted heavy oil is pushed and flowed in by the oil pump.

There is no need for complex mechanical equipment to transport to the cabin, and the liquid oil can be evenly distributed in the fuel tank naturally.

So the efficiency of fuel shipment is directly improved by an order of magnitude.

In the end, both battleships completed their refueling before sunset.

It took less than six hours in total.

Grenville looked at the two battleships leaving the port again, his expression was full of astonishment and shock:

"In just half a day, the capital ship's fuel supply was completed..."

Monroe's expression became more serious:

"The draft of the two battleships has been deepened from light load to full load.

"According to the change in waterline depth, the two battleships have refueled at least [-] tons of fuel."

Jefferson stared blankly at the battleship in the distance and muttered:
"They filled up at least [-] tons of fuel in half a day...

"[-] tons of heavy oil...converted by heat, it is at least equivalent to more than [-] tons of coal.

"Eight thousand tons of coal is enough for a battleship to sail around the world at a speed of ten knots!"

Monroe sighed softly, then nodded seriously:

"It is, and the fuel is flowing, there are no voids inside.

"The space occupied by [-] tons of coal will be larger than the space occupied by [-] tons of fuel oil.

"For the same size fuel tank, the heat that can be obtained by loading fuel oil may be more than twice that of coal.

"That is to say, the theoretical endurance of a fuel-fired warship may be more than twice that of a coal-fired warship of the same tonnage."

Grenville looked at the two American officials:

"That is to say, even if we build a battleship with the same displacement of [-] tons, it is impossible to leave a cabin capable of carrying [-] tons of coal, which will make the weight distribution of the battleship completely out of control...

"Our warships must also switch to full fuel-fuel power, stop tossing about mixed fuel, we must make up our minds!"

Having said that, Grenville hammered hard on the railing of the ship's side.

After hearing this, Monroe issued a soul torture:
"Daming has four major oil-producing regions: Nanyang, Dashiguo, Baku, and Shiyouhu. We, the United Kingdom and the United States, don't have any..."

Grenville froze for a few seconds, then hammered the railing hard again.

On the other side, Talleyrand and Charles were also looking at the re-starting battleship, observing with another mentality.

Talleyrand said to Charles with admiration and emotion:
"Fuel is not only convenient to fill, but also stores more energy.

"The key is that the transportation in the boiler is much more convenient than coal.

"There is no need to manually shovel coal, and the speed of fuel injection will no longer affect the working continuity of the boiler.

"The efficiency of fuel filling is much higher than that of coal, and it can affect the progress of the war!

"Da Ming's new warship is replaced with full fuel oil power, obviously taking these circumstances into consideration."

Charles thought for a while and said:

"So our future new warships should all use pure fuel power."

Talleyrand said with some concern:
"The advantage of pure fuel power is indeed huge, but we don't have our own oil fields."

Charles said of course:

"You can buy it from Daming! My best friend said that the oil production of Baku and Dashi Country is enough to supply the entire Taixi.

"It is even possible to cooperate with the Great Food Country to build an oil pipeline from the oil-producing area of ​​the Great Food Country to the coast of the Great Qin Sea.

"Then we don't even need to go through the West Sea Canal, and we can directly get the oil supply from the big food country."

Talleyrand said with great concern:
"The Great Food Country can indeed supply our fuel needs, but...

"If all French warships are powered by fuel oil, and all our fuel oil comes from Ming Dynasty.

"Then once Daming cuts off the fuel supply, our fleet will be completely paralyzed...

"Even if you store fuel in peacetime, it is difficult to support a long-term war."

Charles obviously asked in surprise:
"If France didn't fight with Ming, why did Ming cut off our fuel supply?
"Does Your Excellency Talleyrand still think that we still have the ability to be an enemy of Daming? Do we still want to be an enemy of Daming?
"Our relationship with Daming can only be an increasingly close partner, there is no other possibility.

"We won't... The key is that we can't be enemies with Daming anymore."

(End of this chapter)