Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 340 The highest honor (1)
A bloodbath is about to take place in Ziz's cold and rainy night.At the same time, in the No. 1 auditorium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Daxing County, Beijing, an award ceremony for the highest honor in the empire's scientific and technological circles was going on.This is the first science and technology award ceremony in the history of the empire personally authorized by Guan Xuqing. Today, Guan Xuqing also came to the award ceremony with great interest. The award he wants to present is the highest technology award that symbolizes the highest technological achievement of the empire in the past year. This time The award will be presented to the great man who started the aviation dream of the empire and the world, the Wright Brothers.The bonus is an unprecedented 200 million yuan!

The National Highest Science and Technology Award is the highest honor in the empire's scientific and technological circles, but to win this crown, it needs to go through many screenings.Under Guan Xuqing's initiative, the newly appointed Minister of Science and Technology, Kang Guangren, who is known as the chief designer of the Empire's science and technology, led the new team. After more than a month of arduous research, they finally handed over the empire's highest technology to Guan Xuqing. Award birth "flow chart"

The first step is to recommend candidates at the provincial and municipal levels.

In the second step, the academicians and experts of the Imperial Academy of Sciences evaluate and score the recommended candidates.

In the third step, the review committee of the Empire's Highest Technology Award will conduct the selection.

In the fourth step, the Standing Committee of the National Science and Technology Awards conducts the review.

In the fifth step, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Empire conducts approval.

In the sixth step, the imperial cabinet ministers discuss and approve.

In the seventh step, His Majesty the Emperor Zhu approved the reward edict and issued the bonus.

The Standing Committee of the Imperial Science and Technology Award is responsible for the macro-management and guidance of the award, employs relevant experts and scholars to form a review committee, is responsible for the review work and puts forward review suggestions to the Standing Committee.The Minister of Science and Technology, Kang Guangren, is the head and assistant minister of the Standing Committee, and 15 to 20 persons in charge of science and technology, education and other relevant departments as well as famous scientists and relevant experts serve as members to ensure the scientificity, fairness and authority of the selection work .The candidates for the composition are proposed by the Ministry of Science and Technology and reported to the cabinet and the emperor for approval.In order to ensure the fairness of the highest science and technology award, the judging committee implements a ballot method, and each judging member must be responsible for his own vote.To be valid, a two-thirds majority of the members present must be passed.

The fairest and strictest selection mechanism in the world today was born in China. In the next 20 years, this mechanism has had a profound impact on the development of political systems in Europe and the United States.This is a well-established selection mechanism, with clear division of labor among departments and clear procedures.No one will doubt the authenticity and impartiality of the winners produced under this system.The Wright Brothers' award was something everyone expected. Their achievements almost captured the hearts of all the judges, and the final voting rate exceeded 90%. This result made Guan Xuqing proud of them.

The first important award to be awarded was the Imperial Natural Science Achievement Award. The winner was John Holland, in special recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Imperial Coastal Defense.

Known as the "Father of the Modern Submarine", John Holland was born in Ireland in 1841.From a poor family, he entered a school to learn English, and three years later entered a middle school.At this time, Huo Lan's father died of illness, so he had to end his studies and go to a school as a science teacher.During his teaching career, Holland became interested in submarines, which were new at the time, and began designing them. In 1873, Holland resigned from his job as a teacher and went to the United States with some drawings of submarines he designed. One day in 1875, Holland sent his plan to build a new type of submarine to the U.S. Navy to fight against the British.However, the U.S. Navy still remembers the disaster caused by the "Wisdom Whale" submarine three years ago, and categorically rejected Holland's plan.Some people even said, "No one would go to the bottom of the sea to die in this thing."

However, the stubborn Huo Lan did not back down in the face of setbacks.He was invited to China with his dream of an undersea kingdom, and was respected and supported by all Chinese below the emperor.After three years of hard work, Holland finally sent his first modern submarine, the Holland 3, into the water in 1894. The submarine is about 6 meters long, equipped with a 15-kilowatt gasoline engine and a battery-powered battery. The electric motor adopts a dual propulsion system. When navigating on the water surface, it is powered by a gasoline engine, and its speed can reach 33 knots per hour, and its endurance has reached 7 nautical miles. nautical miles, with an endurance of 1000 nautical miles.The weapon is a bow torpedo tube (with 5 torpedoes) and two cannons, one with the muzzle forward and one with the muzzle backward. The aiming of the cannon depends on the submarine itself to aim at the target.The boat can launch torpedoes underwater, sail smoothly on water, dive quickly and maneuver flexibly.Holland 50 is a milestone in the history of submarine development and is recognized as "the originator of modern submarines"

The second important award is the Imperial Science and Technology Invention Award, which is undisputedly awarded to Maxim, the father of automatic weapons.

Maxim, whose full name is Hiram Stevens Maxim, invented the super land combat killing weapon Maxim machine gun. He is known as the father of automatic weapons and one of the greatest mechanical geniuses in history.

He was born in an ordinary and poor family in Maine, USA on February 1840, 2.Like most self-taught people, Ma Keqin did not have enough money to receive a better education and relied entirely on his own hard work. At the age of 5, he was apprenticed in a carriage workshop, where he built a small wooden boat and a horse-drawn rake.At that time, he basically worked 14 hours a day. This early arduous apprenticeship not only honed Maxim's will, but also taught him many skills, which were very beneficial to his future development.A few months after producing the rake machine, he went on a short-term travel and hunting with his brother, which not only exercised his body, but also gave him a preliminary understanding of the structure of weapons, which laid a solid foundation for his future work. The foundations were laid for the development of weapons.

Later, after several trips in Europe, Maxim came to China. After countless tests and improvements, a large ammunition chain with a length of 6.4 meters and a capacity of 333 rounds was successfully developed.The feeding mechanism designed by Maxim can pull the belt to automatically pass through the feeding port. This experimental machine gun is equipped with an external rate of fire controller and a firing device.

Since the first Maxim machine gun came out, there have been many different types of Maxim machine guns. The big ones are heavy machine guns that require two people to carry them on the march, and the small ones are light machine guns that can be picked up with one hand. The 1893 Maxim machine gun is the world's first automatic weapon that uses gunpowder gas as energy to complete an automatic cycle, and it is also the world's earliest water-cooled machine gun.The advent of this machine gun is an important milestone in the history of world weapon development.It is precisely because of Maxim's excellent weapon development capabilities that the empire's land combat strength has been unprecedentedly improved.He is an excellent weapon designer. The Maxim machine gun he designed and invented created a new era in the development of automatic weapons in the world.

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