Chapter 1015 Founding Celebration (15)

Being able to have so many high-level officials from Haihan gather together for a meeting on the night of National Day, the matters discussed were naturally not trivial. On the cover of a stack of handwritten documents placed on the table in front of each participant, Xing Mu’s words were written on the cover.

The word "top secret".

Bai Kesi continued: "Our current industrialization process is indeed far ahead of this era, but for those of us, the current development speed is still too slow, and there is still a considerable gap between the industrial society we want to build.

Especially in terms of production efficiency, the mechanical equipment we can use now is still limited to the hydropower station with a small installed capacity built six or seven years ago, and primitive steam power. We have already had the manufacturing technology of internal combustion engines, but

Limited by fuel supply, we cannot put it into practical applications. However, this shortcoming will not limit our development for too long, because the project we are going to implement next is to solve the fuel supply problem of internal combustion engines.

.I believe everyone here understands what taking this step means to us."

In the original history, it was not until 1794 at the end of the next century that the Englishman Street proposed the concept of mixing air and fuel to obtain power from fuel combustion. By 1833, the Englishman Wright proposed the direct use of combustion

The design uses pressure to push the piston to do work. Various internal combustion engine plans have appeared since then, but it was not until 1860 that the Frenchman Lenoir imitated the structure of a steam engine and created the first practical gas internal combustion engine. However, the thermal efficiency of this thing was only

It is about 4%. In 1876, German inventor Otto created the first four-stroke internal combustion engine, which was truly an internal combustion engine that could be mass-produced and practically applied.

The invention of the internal combustion engine has far more significance in improving social productivity and technological development than the steam engine. However, this more advanced power equipment has much higher fuel requirements than the steam engine. Although the internal combustion engine can also be manufactured with gas, transportation and storage are difficult.

Gas that is not convenient enough is obviously not the best solution, and travelers from later generations know this very well. In order to put the internal combustion engine into practical use, the fuel problem must first be solved - oil must first be mined and refined into refined oil.

, to ensure the fuel supply of internal combustion engines.

Although the time travelers have dragon-slaying skills, they are limited by the objective environment on this issue. In the land area controlled in the first few years of time travel, there are no known oil fields that can be exploited. There are many reserves on the bottom of the South China Sea.

Astonishingly large oil fields, such as 120 kilometers southeast of Vung Tau Port in southern Annam, are the location of the Baihu Oilfield, which will later have the largest proven reserves in Vietnam. However, the time travelers will definitely not be able to achieve the production technology and production technology required to exploit the seabed oil fields before entering the coffin.

Large-scale equipment, so even if we know there is oil on the seabed, we can only look at the sea and sigh.

However, the Ministry of Industry, which has always been obsessed with internal combustion engines, is not helpless at all. Thanks to the all-encompassing database, time travelers have already confirmed that there are underground oil fields on the island of Taiwan that can be exploited.

Existence. Since then, the Ministry of Industry has made up its mind to advance the history of industrial oil well extraction from a small town in Pennsylvania, USA, in 1859, to Taiwan Island two centuries ago.

In the original history, during the late Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, people in Chushuangkeng, Miaoli County, Taiwan, discovered that local oil gushes out of the ground. The locals dug a well more than ten feet deep using manpower, and could harvest the underground oil every day.

The amount of crude oil that gushes out is seventy or eighty kilograms. However, the real internal combustion engine had not been invented at that time, and the locals only used it for lighting. In the third year of Guangxu's reign, Shen Baozhen, the governor of Liangjiang, visited Taiwan and heard about it.

They took over the oil field as a government operation and hired American technicians to mine it with machines. The oil production was once increased to 1,500 kilograms per day. In the 13th year of Guangxu's reign, Taiwan Governor Liu Mingchuan established the Mineral and Petroleum Bureau and drilled five wells, the deepest of which was as deep as 1,500 pounds.

One hundred and twenty meters, but later because the output was too low to make ends meet, it closed down within a few years of operation.

This is not the only oil and gas field that has been discovered and exploited on the island of Taiwan in later generations. There are oil and gas fields with considerable reserves in Jinshui, Tiedan Mountain in Miaoli County, Qingcao Lake in Hsinchu, Qiding and other places. However, their exploitation

The technical difficulty of the oil field varies, but it is not as close to the surface as the oil field in Miaoli Chusangkeng. The oil field in Chusangkeng was said to still have stable output until the crossing operation. Considering its geographical location, it is the closest to Sanya.

It is an oil-producing area, and it is relatively difficult for Haihan to control the area, so it has become the preferred mining target identified by the Ministry of Industry.

Haihan only officially set foot on the island of Taiwan in October of the previous year. By the first half of last year, it basically completed control of the west coastline of the island. The Ministry of Industry only started to formally prepare for the oil project last year.

The relevant preparatory work is mainly divided into three parts. The first is the production of drilling equipment. The drill bits are the finished products brought during the crossing, and only the drill pipes and drilling rigs need to be produced. Although Haihan's steel production capacity is still very limited, it can squeeze out

It is not difficult to produce part of the drill pipe, but drilling rigs and beam pumping units can only use steam power. The production technology in this area is basically mature, and only some adjustments need to be made according to the needs of oil extraction. Although

The production efficiency is definitely not as good as the professional equipment of later generations, but as long as the local method is implemented and can be used, the existing problems must be solved first, and then the equipment upgrades will be slowly considered.

The second part is the construction of oil refining facilities. The extracted oil must be refined to obtain the refined oil used in internal combustion engines. Although due to the limited productivity conditions of this era, it is impossible to build large-scale oil refineries, but with Haihan's current

For some industrial levels, it is not too difficult to build tube furnaces, vertical kettles, and use kettle distillation to refine oil. However, the processing capacity is limited, and the quality of the refined fuel cannot be as high as that of later generations.

Although they are both indigenous oil refining, the resources the Ministry of Industry plans to invest in the oil project are not comparable to those of private workshops in later generations, and a series of technical improvement plans have been formulated for this purpose. For example, designing more efficient furnace structures and heating systems,

Build a catalytic tower and increase the kettle temperature, configure a fractionating tower, use continuous feeding and rapid slag discharging to improve production efficiency, etc. Although these technical improvements will greatly increase the initial investment and increase the workload in the production debugging stage, the Ministry of Industry

It is believed that these are all costs worth paying. Ushering in the era of internal combustion engines faster and earlier will allow Haihan to lead this era with greater advantages.

The third part is the organization and training of production personnel, which is divided into two parts: drilling and refining. There is already a certain reserve of professionals required for drilling. In recent years, the well drilling team organized by the Ministry of Industry

We have drilled many artesian wells on Hainan Island, which is a disguised form of actual combat training, and we have become relatively proficient in basic drilling techniques. However, there are no corresponding facilities for oil refining, and it is difficult to train skilled industrial workers purely by talking on paper.

This can only be done through production and training after the project is implemented in Taiwan.

These preparations are not difficult to say, but they are not easy to say. They require the coordination and cooperation of many departments, mainly the Ministry of Industry. In addition, it depends on the budget and staffing that the Executive Committee can finally approve. So far, the Executive Committee

The meeting gave the green light to this. Basically, the project preparation team will give them whatever they want. The drilling equipment required for the initial stage has basically been in place. In addition, the local situation on Taiwan Island has stabilized. Everything is ready now, just waiting to start construction.

After the celebrations have passed in the past few days, the first batch of engineering personnel composed of the exploration team of the Ministry of Industry and the construction team of the Ministry of Construction will go to Taiwan to carry out initial oil field exploration work.

"At present, the personnel and production equipment are in place, and the drilling plan and local construction site infrastructure have also been planned. The next step is to arrange transportation and safety protection." After Baikes introduced the preparations for the project, he

The right to speak is given to those at the back.

"Then let me continue." Sun Changmi, the former Minister of Shipping and now the Deputy Minister of Transportation, took the initiative. He and Yue Zhiyun were not idle this evening, and attended the Ministry of National Defense and Industry separately.

The two meetings led by the department are also one of the busiest departments.

"We have mobilized 22 ships at Sanya Port for related materials and personnel, striving to complete the transportation work at one time." Sun Changmi said: "There are also some living supplies that will be organized in Guangdong and will be shipped directly from Hong Kong.

Transport it there. The required ordinary laborers will be selected from the nearest immigration camp in Penghu, which can also save part of the long-distance transportation capacity. In addition, because there is a military accompanying this time, the route selected is subject to the opinions of the military."

"This time the military will send four exploration-class warships, two supply ships and a troop transport ship to accompany the Ministry of Shipping's fleet to Taiwan. After arriving there, a dock will be built and stationed in the area. Considering that Desu

This place is still under the control of the local indigenous tribes. We have prepared two companies of the army to protect the safety of the construction site and construction workers. In addition, I will also stay there for a period of time, serving as both military and medical personnel.

The head of the department." The next person to speak was the military representative Morgan. This time the Ministry of National Defense also gave him a task. Although he can't be said to be a local official, he at least has more power than leading apprentices at the medical school in Sanya.

Already.

"Minister He, can you say a few words too?" Tao Donglai suggested to He Xi after Morgan finished speaking.

The Security Department is also one of the few departments that needs to attend the two meetings tonight separately. He Xi and Hao Wanqing are each responsible for attending one side. After hearing Tao Donglai's proposal, He Xi nodded and said, "Then let me just say a few words.

The project in Miaoli is a key industrial project supervised by the Executive Committee this year. Everyone knows its significance for the future development of our country, so the confidentiality level for this project is also Class A. The Ministry of Security will station personnel locally to cooperate with the military in maintenance

Good intelligence security.”

As for how many people will be sent there and under what disguise, He Xi did not elaborate further. Although everyone here is a time traveler, the Security Department is only responsible to the Executive Committee, and these specific work arrangements do not need to be reported to the executive committee.

Other departments will make detailed reports. In addition, the Miaoli oil mining area will definitely be a military-controlled area in the future. The role of the Ministry of Security in the local area is actually relatively limited, and it basically only plays a surveillance function.

The last person to speak was the new Minister of Construction Liu Shanxia. He learned about this project at the latest among the heads of these departments. However, this was also because the role of the Ministry of Construction in this project was relatively limited. In the early stage, it was mainly responsible for

Build infrastructure projects and living facilities for production personnel and troops stationed in the local area. This kind of work is not technically difficult. If it were not for political considerations, there would be no need for him, the head of the Ministry of Construction, to personally supervise the work. There are at least several people under his command.

The foreman of a construction team can do the job. It is precisely because of this that Liu Shanxia's statement is really just a statement, and there is not much substance that needs to be emphasized in this kind of meeting.

These two meetings held on the night of April 1, 1634 basically established Haihan's military and industrial goals for the next period of time. The two decisions of marching into the northern coast of the Ming Dynasty and extracting oil had a profound impact on Haihan.

It will be very far-reaching, and there are various descriptions and speculations about these two meetings in the historical records of later generations.

There are two main doubts that have attracted the most speculation from the outside world. One is why Haihan took the initiative to choose to go north when the situation in the South China Sea was very good. Is it because the leaders of the Executive Committee at the time had judged that the situation in the Ming Dynasty was about to deteriorate and seized the opportunity?

We took this opportunity to proactively intervene. Secondly, Haihan did not have personnel stationed in Miaoli, Taiwan at the time. Why did it suddenly send an entire engineering team to the local area for exploration and successfully found the oil field, and used it as fuel to drive the subsequent

The internal combustion engine was introduced.

However, like many other unsolved mysteries in the history of Haihan, there is no generally accepted reasonable answer to these two doubts. Most historians can only understand them as the prediction talent possessed by the first generation of Haihan elders.

This talent whose authenticity cannot be confirmed allowed Haihan State to develop at an unimaginable speed in the early decades of its establishment, leaving its contemporaries far behind.

However, the time travelers at this time have no time to consider the opinions and questions of future generations. They just want to end the meeting early and go home to have a good rest. For these department heads, although they are indeed in their daily work and life

They enjoy superior power, but the degree of hard work at work is indeed not comparable to ordinary people. This founding celebration is both a great honor and extremely hard work for these time travelers who hold high-level management positions in Haihan Kingdom.

for a period of time, and many of them will go on distant missions after the celebration. Every minute spent reunited with their families before then becomes even more precious.
Chapter completed!