My Italian: Chapter 421 Coal to oil?

The news of Fiat's A-type sales was not just a shock to other automakers, but also a relief to Kahlo. Agnelli deserves to be the entrepreneur who pays the most attention to civilian cars in Europe. Of course, if he alone can't do it, he needs a little push. Carlo came up with the concept of the assembly line and promoted the low-price strategy of automobiles, which finally started the Italian automobile industry.

What is Carlo dissatisfied with this? When other countries still build cars by hand in workshops, Italy has already begun to industrialize and build standardized cars. This is the advantage of rolling.

And relying on this first-mover advantage, Italy's leading position in the automobile manufacturing industry can be guaranteed for at least ten years, even if other countries have learned and learned, but the first-mover advantage is not so easy to eliminate.

If the auto industry is on the right track, Carlo will not bother with it anymore. After all, he has found the best leader for it. As long as it is not a serious mistake, let it develop on its own. If it was because of too much control, maybe Giovanni Agnelli left in a fit of anger, which was not worth the loss, but he had no confidence and no time to pay attention.

For example, he is currently exchanging his views on Italy's Far East foreign policy with the foreign minister.

"Your Majesty, the current negotiation between our country and other countries and the empress dowager does not seem to be going well. Although she said verbally that there is absolutely no such thing, according to the observations of the ambassadors of various countries, her idea of ​​changing the emperor has not changed. And the replacement of the emperor will bring The coming turmoil will seriously affect our country's interests in the Far East, so I would like to send a fleet to visit the Far East and give necessary warnings?"

Ambassador Bacona's words represent the pessimistic attitude of the foreign ministry towards Far East affairs. That's right, Italy is no longer a country that doesn't care about Far East politics. The reason is that Italy has too many interests in the Far East, but the attitude of asking is not conducive to ensuring Italy's interests. However, the effect of trying to intervene was too poor, and there was a feeling that doing nothing was worse than doing it, which made the diplomatic officials feel a little discouraged.

"What do countries think about Russia's practice of leasing ports in the Far East?"

Facing Bacona's talk about the Far East, Carlo did not give a positive answer, but asked about Russia's occupation of the Far East ports.

Although Bacona was a little puzzled as to why the king suddenly asked about Russia in the Far East, he still answered truthfully. "The actions of the Russians have attracted dissatisfaction from various countries. Britain directly leased Weihaiwei, which is across the sea, as a response. Japan, which is adjacent to it, reacted even more violently. I heard that they plan to continue to expand their navy and army. as a response."

Since the Far East is still the way he is familiar with, it is best not to move around at this time, Carlo thought for a while. "I don't agree with the practice of dispatching fleets, unless all countries dispatch together. And our foreign policy in the Far East is also consistent with other countries. We must not let the first bird do anything, and we must work with other countries."

That's right, Carlo doesn't intend to spend too much energy on Far East affairs. Although the Far East is Italy's largest overseas market, he knows that Europe will be the focus next. Putting too much energy on the Far East is not conducive to Italy's future interests.

Besides, the Italian navy is currently short of main warships, so sending some small boats there would not weaken its influence.

Bacona, who didn't get the desired result from Carlo, left, and Carlo continued to work hard.

After a while he stopped with a report. This is a report from the Ministry of Industry preparing to build a refinery for Libyan oil. There are several locations for the refinery in the report, such as Genoa and Venice in the north, Palermo and Naples in the south, and even the name of my friend Rome. Obviously It is hoped that Carlo will choose.

"Then choose Naples."

Carlo was writing Naples' name directly on the report.

Carlo directly chose Naples for one reason, because the south needs to solve the problem of population employment and reconcile the industrial gap between the north and the south, which is what the Italian government must do.

Just as Carlo was working hard, there was a knock on the door, and the voice of a servant came from outside.

"Your Majesty, Admiral Yagil has arrived."

Upon hearing that the Secretary of the Navy had arrived, Carlo let go of his work and responded. "Admiral, please come in."

"Your Majesty, what can I do for you?"

Admiral Yajier walked in and asked.

"Admiral, there is indeed something I would like to ask you about."

Carlo didn't hide it, and directly expressed his intention to invite him.

"Admiral, what do you think of the oil-fired boiler?"

"Oil fired boiler?"

"Yes."

For Admiral Yagier, of course he knows this oil-fired boiler. At present, the Navy has modified two boilers that use oil-injected coal-fired boilers, and the effect is not bad. As for the boiler that only burns oil, I haven't really noticed it. Mainly, traditional thinking is at play.

For a long time, various countries have used coal as fuel for warships, but coal has many shortcomings. The first is that transportation is inconvenient. Due to the large volume of coal, special coal carriers or docks are required to replenish coal for warships.

The second is that the coal filling operation is complicated, and it takes a lot of time, manpower and material resources to transport coal into the coal bunker on the battleship. The third is the need for a large number of manpower. Large warships require more than ten or twenty boilers. The stoker needs to continuously add coal to the boiler and ensure that the coal can be evenly distributed in the furnace. This requires a large number of experienced stokers to complete. Finally, the maintenance is cumbersome. Because coal combustion will produce a large amount of ash, when the boiler is turned off, the firemen will spend a lot of time and energy to remove the ash.

Although coal-fired boilers have so many shortcomings, as the only power for warships, navies of various countries have no choice.

But now, oil has begun to enter the fuel field, and countries have discovered that sprinkling heavy oil on coal can improve the efficiency of combustion. And the Italian Navy did the same, but I haven't thought about the oil-fired boiler that the king said.

"A purely oil-fired boiler, this is a new way of thinking about fuel supply."

This is not Admiral Yagier's perfunctory words to Carlo. After the king's mention, he really wants to try the efficiency of pure oil-fired boilers.

The first is efficiency. As long as you know about coal and fuel oil, you will know which one is more efficient. Secondly, there is no comparison with the labor problem. The more important thing is the smog problem. Except for a few high-quality coals, there is thick smoke after burning coal, which makes the smoke column over the battleship very conspicuous~www.mtlnovel.com~It is easy to be found.

The fuel oil does not have this trouble, its combustion is more complete, the smoke is lighter, and it is not easy to be found in the battlefield.

All these advantages made Admiral Yagier feel that the oil-fired boiler was very feasible, so he planned to ask the Power Research Institute to come up with a plan immediately after returning. He planned to see the effect of the oil-fired boiler.

A word from Carlo was not expensive, and he immediately felt a chill.

"By the way, Admiral Yagier, how is your steam turbine development going?"

"Your Majesty, our Naval Power Research Institute is already speeding up the development, and we expect to see the finished product this year."

Carlo was very happy to hear that the steam turbine he had been thinking about had achieved results.

"Then I'll take a look after you guys come up with the finished product."

"Okay, Your Majesty, Your Majesty has been informed by then."

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