Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Since ancient times, the weaker races, the later countries, if they wanted to challenge the strong, they had to learn how to pass the curve!

What is a U-turn? In the course of major historical changes, the economy structure of our country can be adjusted rapidly by relying on the characteristics of small boat's small, good turn, and the promotion of new science and technology forcibly, so as to improve one's productivity and achieve the goal of surpassing the strong.

The older an empire was, the greater his own inertia would be. For example, the current British Empire was heavily dependent on traditional technology for his country's economic structure.

They were basically all factories in the country that had the standard to continue the past. This habit was so deep-rooted that if they wanted to innovate and upgrade their technology, they would need to invest a lot of capital and money. At the same time, there would be a period of chaos.

Humans all have inertia. When they become the world's number one, then the motivation for innovation will be much smaller than that of other races. Simply put, they can rely on their old ways to become number one in the world.

Change was gambling, and the future was gambling. The current model already made a lot of money for the UK. Why would they take such a risk? This is a kind of inertia of themselves.

We are a weak country, and we are not even as strong as the France. If we want to become stronger, we have to take the initiative to seek new change, and we have to surpass them by force.

They were like heavy elephants that were slowly charging forward, and we were like agile cheetahs that were quickly piercing through the winding mountain roads, surpassing them.

Now that the curve of history is in front of us, the second Tech Big Bang I mentioned has caught on.

In 1859, French engineer Lenova had experimented with a new machine, a small machine that burned gas. I had bought all his blueprints at a high price through various channels, a failed invention that had been stored in a laboratory and had not reached mass production, but which was valuable to me.

This was because this immature machine would provide a completely new source of power for humans!

What is the basis of industry? Actually, we all know that the foundation of industry is power!

In primitive society, if humans want to change nature, they can only rely on manpower. The power of our arms, legs, and bodies, as well as the power of livestock, is the only power that we humans can borrow.

However, the core of the Industrial Revolution was actually having a completely new power source, which was the steam engine!

The propulsion machinery must have strength. Without the manpower and the animal power, without the hydraulic power, we humans can actually start the huge operation of machinery by burning coal and wood, and by using the power of steam. This is a genius invention.

However, the steam engine was an external power source and its efficiency was very low. This was because countless amounts of energy had been wasted during the combustion process and during the steam leakage process. Its thermal efficiency was simply too low.

The French engineer's failure to invent this idea was actually correct. I called it an internal combustion engine, allowing the fuel to burn inside the body instead of outside the machine. This way, the thermal efficiency would not leak out too much and the utilization rate would naturally be higher.

In other words, a small amount of energy can provide a stronger power supply, and the size of the machinery can be reduced accordingly.

At this moment, the Chinese have placed their bets on the research of the internal combustion engine. To be honest, all of my universities have this kind of research team, and my foundation is also searching all over Europe for those that haven't been reused, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and so on …

Until now, according to the latest statistics, there are already 378 Western researchers working for me in Ryukyu, and the number is still increasing continuously.

My dear Prince, my Prime Minister, you can think it over. If one day there is such a machine, he is very small, only one fifth the size of a normal steam engine, or even one sixth the size of a normal steam engine.

However, it could provide as much power as a giant steam engine, so was this power source a completely new technological breakthrough? This kind of new power source, couldn't it push a whole new Industrial Revolution?

More efficient sources of power would create more efficient factories, and more efficient factories would have stronger productivity, and the strength of the country would naturally increase as well!

You may have questions about what this technological breakthrough has to do with the railway. Then I can tell you right now that this matter is extremely huge!

French engineer, the fuel he uses is gas, but gas is not the best source of fuel. After countless experiments and countless failures, we have finally decided the direction of research. What is the best fuel for an internal combustion engine if it wants to break through in the future? Oil!

Oil was the best fuel to start the internal combustion engine, so when the internal combustion engine was fully popularized, oil would naturally become a strategic resource to replace coal and iron.

In the future world, whoever controlled the oil would be able to control the entire world!

And where is the oil? I think the Prime Minister and the Prince are well aware of where the most primitive oil-producing areas in Europe are. In the Black Sea!

The Black Sea coast had been rich in black oil and fire oil since ancient times. During the time of the Ancient Rome, there had been local people who had collected this sticky black grease and used it as fuel for war.

Even Constantinople, the great city that was said not to fall for millennia, had been saved by this burning oil in its many wars with the enemy.

Oil along the Black Sea, especially in Romania, was the first oil field to be discovered by humans!

The Baghdad Railway would definitely pass through the Balkans, and after passing through the Balkans, they would naturally be able to control the Romanian territory.

Besides, my dear friend, not only the Romanian region, but also our destination, the Persian Gulf, has huge reserves of oil. Don't look at me like that, I know no one has found oil in this area, but I have!

This is a very high secret of my Chinese race. I have already expressed my sincerity by taking it out to share with my old friend!

Now, I just want to ask my dear friends, do you believe my prophecy?

If you believe me, then you will understand the importance of this railway line and how important it is to control the largest oil producing areas in Europe and the Central Asia.