No one thought that the battle between the Tang Empire and the powers of the Western Continent to compete for the interests of the New Continent would last so long, so that this war made the contest between the Western Continent and the empire even usher in an unimaginable event for the entire continent. During the development period, in order to support this war that almost represented the war between East and West, both sides tried to overwhelm each other economically and militarily, and technological leadership has increasingly proved that they can do this effectively, so both sides They are all sparing no effort to increase investment in the development of science and technology in an attempt to promote economic development.
The intermittent war lasted for thirteen years, from the Northern Latin Ocean in the north of the New World to the Oceanus Procellarum in the west, from the Sahara Plain in the north to the Congo Black Steppe in the south-central part of the land, from the Ginaya Basin in the west to the Great Lakes in the middle In the plains, the Tang Empire resisted the attacks of almost all the powers in the Western Continent. From a series of defeats in the early stage to a gradual improvement in the mid-term, and then to mutual victory and defeat in the later stage, the Tang Empire gradually changed from an unfavorable situation. The situation began to turn around, and the entire war can be called a history of the Tang Empire breaking free from its prison and shackles of fate.
During the entire war, the Tang Empire controlled the scale of the war just right. At the same time, after winning over the West Oran, Jutland and Constantine people, the Imperial Navy was finally able to operate in the Northern Latin Ocean and the Aegean Sea. It competed with the navies of the countries in the Western Continent. From repeated defeats at the beginning to gradually gaining the upper hand, the empire's huge shipbuilding industry provided a solid foundation for the rise of the Imperial Navy. The loss of ships and soldiers was still higher than the total of all the powers in the Western Continent. But wars are not measured by numbers. Whoever wins in the end is the real winner, and the Imperial Navy, which was built after bloody battles and hard battles, finally laid the foundation for their dominance of several oceans. Base.
When the "Heidelberg Armistice" was signed in Heidelberg in November 715 and the "Leap to Definition of the New World's Sphere of Influence" was signed in Constantinople in December, almost everyone in the political and business circles realized that the pulse of the continent was at this time. Normal beats are finally returning, but they will be completely different than they were seven years ago before the war broke out. The changes it will bring will plunge the entire continent into a vigorous and huge revolutionary era.
In September 715, what is known as the greatest invention in mainland history was produced. James Watt, a famous scholar in the Kingdom of Leeds, led a scientific research team and the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Tang Empire (the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Tang Empire was established in March 611). ) research team almost simultaneously announced a historic breakthrough in developing an improved steam engine, which can effectively convert thermal energy into kinetic energy.
Since mid-716, experiments in using steam engines on ships have been accelerating. Countries have invested huge sums of money to develop this invention that may change the division of power in the entire ocean.
In February 718, the first steam ship (paddle wheel) successfully completed its trial voyage on the Rhine Canal, the largest inland canal in the Famini Empire. The thirty-kilometer voyage was completed in just two hours. In May, the first steam ship in the Tang Empire set a new record when it made a trial voyage from Zhuangyuan'ao Military Port in Songjiang to Yuhang Military Port. After fourteen hours of continuous sailing, we arrived at the destination. Although it broke down once during the voyage, after the full repairs by the engineers and technicians, it resumed normal operation after three hours. During this voyage. The steamship ran at a maximum speed of fifteen knots per hour without any support from the sail. In July, a test conducted by the Navy of the Kingdom of Leeds further verified this. A steam ship named the "Mayflower" completed a voyage of 55 nautical miles in three hours, improving the record one step further.
The successful sea trial of the steamship immediately caused huge waves in the shipbuilding industry, and some shipbuilding owners took the initiative to seize the opportunity to make changes. While some strive to be at the forefront of history, some are stubborn and resolutely resist such innovations that may lead to the obsolescence of the shipyard's original equipment, but no one can resist the trend of history. The vigorous shipbuilding revolution set off a revolution. Within three years, the entire continent's shipbuilding industry evolved from sail ship manufacturing to steam ship manufacturing. This greatly stimulated the rapid development of the steam engine production industry. When the Tang Empire After it was announced that eighteen large-scale machining companies would be selected as the designated production companies for steam engine production and patent fees would be waived, the craze for steam engine production finally arrived.
From May to September 719, almost coincidentally, the Kingdom of Leeds, the Tang Empire, the Famini Empire, the Barotse Kingdom, and the Augsburg Empire simultaneously announced that they would promote new steamships in their respective navies as the main force of their navies. Battleship. Sail battleships will be completely eliminated, the competition for naval equipment will further intensify, and the navy will begin to enter the era of steam battleships.
In July 721, the most important invention in the history of the mainland occurred. Leeds scientist Steven successfully experimented with using a steam engine to drive a locomotive to transport ore on the rails in the mining area. This initiative was immediately captured by the Tang Empire's economic spies in the Kingdom of Leeds. Just when the people of Leeds were overjoyed and prepared to keep this initiative a strict secret, the Tang Empire quickly put this achievement into practice. In September 721, at an observation meeting in Zhongzhou, the imperial capital, the Imperial Academy of Sciences showed the entire process of running a small steam locomotive on a 150-meter-long rail track, which was produced against the clock. This immediately aroused sensitivity. of great interest from the imperial merchants.
In May 722, when celebrating the 51st anniversary of His Majesty the Imperial Emperor, the Imperial Administration officially announced the construction of a 15-kilometer experimental railway from Qingyang City to Qingpu as a transportation experiment to connect Northwest University and Northwest Military Academy to Qingyang City. line. In October 722, the railway was successfully laid and officially opened to traffic. This greatly shocked the entire empire and even the entire continent. After receiving the news, the Kingdom of Leeds hurriedly began to prepare for their first project as if they had just woken up from a dream. A railway.
At this time, the empire has announced the establishment of four railway companies. In addition to the Imperial Railway Company, which is affiliated with the Imperial Government Council, there are three other joint consortiums that have obtained rights to railway construction and operation. They represent the Imperial Financial Oligarchs and the Meili Financial Group. The Imperial Zongheng Railway Company, the Datang Railway Company representing the Jiangnan merchants, and the Zhongtang Railway Development Company representing the Indian Mining Consortium, four railway companies announced their construction plans almost as soon as they obtained the qualifications to build railways.
The Sino-French Railway from Zhongzhou to Qingyang and later extended to Fahan Province via the countries in the Western Regions, and the China-Sea Railway from Zhongzhou to Heisen City, the capital of East Liberia Province, were won by the Imperial Railway Company, while the Imperial Zongheng Railway Company It obtained the Hehan Railway from Hejian to Hanzhong, the Monan Railway from Moro Port in Nanhai County to Nanfeng in Tiannan County, and the Datang Railway Company obtained the railway from Songjiang Prefecture across the entire Jiangnan County to Yueyang Prefecture in Wuhu County. In addition, they also obtained the privilege of building the first railway in the New World, and the route was determined by themselves. Zhongtang Railway Development Company had always hoped to get the line from Fahan to Zhongzhou, but failed. In the end, they chose multiple short lines, such as the line from Shuangdui Prefecture via Huoshan Prefecture, Weituo Prefecture to Qingyang , a branch line connecting the China-France Railway from Reed, a line from Lahore to Goa and finally to Luxor.
The railway construction launched in the Tang Empire is unparalleled by any country. The most important point of the great development of railway construction is that it suddenly pushed steel production onto the path of crazy development. Everyone knows that the construction of these railways will How much steel will be needed to make these rails, and how many railway constructions will be fully rolled out in the future, and how huge the profits will be. The doors of financial institutions are almost unlimited to railway companies and steel production enterprises. The emergence of the New World Steel United Company marked the final formation of a pattern dominated by the four major steel companies in the empire. When the last section of the line from Keshar to Kuqa was completed and opened to traffic on the Sino-French Railway in 637, the entire Tang Empire had built 8,500 kilometers of railway lines, accounting for more than half of the railways built on the entire continent.
Railway construction has greatly promoted the development of the steel industry, and the development of the steel industry has stimulated a rapid improvement in the efficiency of the mining industry. The entire continent has moved from slow to accelerated dynamics under the influence of this linkage that affects the whole body. It started to move and rumbled into the fast lane of the industrial revolution.
Just when the empire gained the upper hand in railway construction, the chlorine bleaching method was first promoted in the Kingdom of Leeds. The quality of the Kingdom of Leeds' textiles was greatly improved. The textiles of the Kingdom of Leeds quickly became popular in the mainland. The textile products of the Tang Empire Suffering a heavy blow, it was not until ten years later that the empire's textile industry began to slowly recover. The competition between the Tang Empire and the Western Continent for ocean transportation was comparable. The Tang Empire clearly had the upper hand in terms of the promotion of steamships. However, the Kingdom of Leeds joined forces with several major maritime powers in the Western Continent to take the lead in conducting new experiments. The paddle wheel should be a propeller-type propeller, which was another great progress for steam ships. Fortunately, the empire responded quickly and spent a lot of money to replace the propeller-type naval ships with propellers, so they did not fall into a disadvantage.
The vigorous industrial revolution was launched simultaneously in the East and the West due to the competition for the rights and interests of the New World. In order to ensure that their respective status was not threatened, every country involved had to make every effort to develop its national strength and improve science and technology to avoid being in this Falling behind in a game that determines the success or failure of the national destiny, the Tang Empire, the Leeds Kingdom, and the Famini Empire gradually became three pillars, and the Augsburg Empire came from behind and gradually squeezed into the ranks of the first echelon. The once glorious Barrow Here, the League of Hanson, West Oran, Jutland, Constantine, the League of Babylon, and the Kingdom of Saladin are gradually sinking. All those in power know that when new characters rise and a group of former leaders decline , it is time for history to turn a new page and usher in a new period of dramatic change.