The old steam engine has only thirty revolutions per minute and only 500 horsepower, which has tripled its power and reduced its fuel consumption by three times.

This is equivalent to three times the horsepower based on the original one-third of the fuel.

Not only does the structure increase power, but the fuel utilization rate also increases. However, the fuel utilization rate is still very low, with a maximum of no more than 5%. Compared with the ones that generally exceed 20% in later generations, it still has huge potential.

The cost of fuel is equal to 1/9.

The practical and economic value of the new steam engine is beyond doubt.

Now that the steam engine is being produced a hundred years earlier than the West, how could Zhao Yan not be excited? But if the subsequent scientific research cannot keep up with it and the technical blockade is not successful, it will be useless and one day it will be surpassed by others.

"Set up a steam engine manufacturing plant immediately, and study the application of steam engines, focusing on steamships and trains." Zhao Yan immediately ordered after visiting the start-up ceremony of the new steam engine.

Then Zhao Yan immediately held a plenary meeting.

At the meeting, Zhao Yan determined the "Scientific Research and Technology Confidential Law". The Confidential Law stipulates that scientific and technological achievements that are disseminated without permission shall not be taught to any province or other countries. Anyone who violates this law may be sentenced to death at most.

At the same time, Zhao Yan once again improved the Patent Law. Individual patents can be enjoyed for 60 years and have not been promoted for a certain period of time. The government can forcibly promote the use of the patent. At the same time, a series of patent terms such as priority have also appeared.

Patents that the government will forcibly promote and use are patents of important value. Since they have important value but are not implemented, it means that the patent inventor wants to wait for the price.

The technology of steam engines is included in the highest secret in this meeting and is strictly prohibited from being disseminated to any country. In other provinces in the Ming Dynasty, applications must be made.

Any person engaged in steam engine research and development and manufacturing shall not go abroad.

What Zhao Yan strictly guarded against was to learn how to manufacture steam engines abroad, but in fact, as long as the export of manufacturing tools is blocked and the personnel going abroad, Westerners will not be able to obtain steam engines. Even if they can be made, they are still very immature.

As for other provinces, as long as you set up checkpoints on each road, such a large thing will not be shipped without approval.

The ban on transmission in other provinces of the Ming Dynasty was not so strict, but other provinces are not Zhao Yan's territory at present. If they were given steam engines, they could not be taxed. Why do they do it?

...At Zhao Yan's order, the steam engine manufacturing plant soon began to build. The steam engine manufacturing technology has been determined, so it is not as troublesome as it was when it was researched.

At present, the key research direction in production is smelting and manufacturing, the focus is on the treatment of steel, the production of weapons, and the application in the textile industry.

In terms of transportation, it is the study of ships and trains.

The Academy of Sciences has established more than 20 applied research groups.

The largest one is undoubtedly the application research team of trains. The railway paved with cooked iron is already hundreds of meters long, which is enough for the experiment.

The width of the rails that Zhao Yan asked someone to lay was 1,500 mm, which is 1.5 meters wide. Zhao Yan positioned this width as the standard width for future railway paving.

Relatively speaking, the application of steam engines in the textile industry has accumulated technology. As long as the steam engine is manufactured, it can be directly invested in the production of the textile industry.

This yield sounds very high, but it is not even a fraction of the future generations.

As long as there is enough steel, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to use it?

So many infrastructure construction requires steel, and war also requires steel. Naturally, the more steel the better.

Zhao Yan ran to the Science and Technology Academy every day and issued research projects from time to time.

Maybe I think of this today and that tomorrow.

Anyway, the finances are very abundant this year, so I will set up a few more research projects. This is how Zhao Yan reacted after he became rich.

It’s not about going to build a palace, but about starting research in all aspects.

In electrical science, the Academy of Sciences has already studied it to a good level.

First of all, the electric light has been successfully studied. This time, the arc lamp was not the arc lamp studied before. The arc lamp has very strong light, which is not suitable for home use, and the cost of use is also high.

Electric lights are actually not difficult. After most materials are made into filaments, they can light up for several minutes and dozens of minutes after evacuating the air in the light bulb.

Use cotton to brighten for two or three hours.

Using bamboo charcoal as filament can light up for 400 to 1,000 hours, mainly depending on the type of bamboo.

There is no need for tungsten wire lamps now, just use bamboo charcoal.

The research of the Science and Technology Academy this time was a bamboo charcoal lantern. The bamboo was found from the south and finally selected one of the varieties, which can last for 1,000 hours.

Generally, people only light up six hours a day, and 1,000 hours can be used for 166 days.

In fact, the light bulb you use at home may only be three or four hours a day.

The factory light bulb can be lit for twelve hours a day, which can only be used for 83 days.

Zhao Yan remembers that the bamboo that is most suitable for making filament is a variety of Japan, but the 1,000-hour electric light is almost the same. There is no need to go to Japan to import for those 100 or 200 hours.

And the price of this bamboo charcoal lantern is very cheap.

Of course, bamboo charcoal costs less, and light bulbs cost less, and production is even simpler. Use a hand-cranking evacuator to vacuum the light bulb, and there is a power-on device outside.

The cost of a light bulb is only five copper plates, and at most it can be sold for more than a dozen copper plates, which can be afforded by ordinary families.

Although the light bulb has been successfully researched, the battery is still used.

Therefore, Zhao Yan issued a research project on hydropower and thermal power generation.

Hydropower is used to generate electricity in rivers, while thermal power is used to generate electricity by steam turbines. Now a new steam engine has been invented. As long as it is modified, the steam turbine will come out.

At the same time, Zhao Yan also started the project of developing power wire insulators.

Wire insulators can be painted or rubber, but there is no plastic yet.

Thinking of plastics, Zhao Yan started research on oil and natural gas extraction, and oil refining.

At the same time, the research on telegraph has also improved.

With the direction given by Zhao Yan, telegraphs do not require too high-tech content, so it will probably take no time to study them.

In order to supply research needs, Zhao Yan set up a material collection team, which specializes in collecting various minerals and materials in various places, and then sorts and stores them to supply the experiments of Denglai Academy of Sciences and Denglai University.

In the first month of eleven years, Zhao Yan spent 5 million taels of research funds on scientific research, which was simply an astronomical figure.

If you say that infrastructure construction costs millions, it is nothing to make a fuss, but if you use five million taels of scientific research, you have not reached the stage of doing things that are too profound, it is naturally an astronomical number.

Many of this expenditures are used to build infrastructure, such as material collection, laboratory construction, etc. At the same time, more than 50 research groups were established. The Institute of Science and Technology was tortured by him, and there was no longer enough manpower. Some people were in this group and that group.
Chapter completed!