Valley Emperor

The use of electric lights in the palace of the Datang Empire is the first non-experimental large-scale application of electric lights in the history of the Datang Empire!

Well, this is not the first time to use electric lights. In fact, electric lights were developed and used on a small scale several years ago. However, the lifespan is extremely low and the cost is high, so they have not been popularized and applied.

Most of the ones used before were small-scale applications in some special occasions. The military should use them more. Especially the navy used electric lights to illuminate the interior of warships several years ago, and also used them as searchlights.

For example, the Sichuan battleship, which was built and launched in Xuanping 50 years ago, has six generators, more than 400 electric lamps, and four searchlights. It was a battleship that was launched ten years ago!

So don’t look at the fact that there are no electric lights in civilian or commercial applications, and think that there are no electric lights in the Datang Empire. In fact, there were more than ten years ago, but the service life is limited, the limitations are relatively large, and the price is very expensive and difficult to promote.

So that although electric lights have appeared for several years, they have not been popularized, and many people do not even know that there are electric lights.

However, with the further development of technology, the service life of electric lamps has changed from a few hours before, to dozens of hours, to hundreds of hours, and finally to thousands of hours now, which is the initial promotion and popularization of electric lamps. Foundation.

The royal family announced this time that the palace is electrified because it has reached a preliminary technical solution, and now it is barely possible to carry out large-scale promotion.

The royal family played with electric lights this time, in fact, to contribute to the promotion and popularization of electric lights!

To put it bluntly, it is an advertisement for the electric light!

In the Tang Dynasty, the first non-experimental, non-industrial, large-scale electric light application purely for lighting appeared in the imperial palace.

On the evening of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, countless electric lights illuminate the entire palace so brightly!

Just after the Spring Festival, many official agencies of the empire announced the installation of electric lighting facilities in office buildings one after another, taking the lead in promoting the electrification process of the Datang Empire.

Official institutions began to use electric lights, which was somewhat of a political mission, but when ordinary commercial companies began to use electric lights, it meant that the era of electric lights had come.

In February of the 1962th year of Xuanping, the Shanghai North Shore Building began to fully apply electric lights, and installed colorful lights on the outer walls and two huge searchlights on the roof.

When the generals at night, the electric lights on the outer wall turned on, and when the huge searchlights shot the beam of light into the night sky, the whole Shanghai was a sensation.

That night, countless people were looking at the North Shore Building more than 100 meters high!

Immediately afterwards, many other buildings and large commercial institutions quickly followed suit. In less than a month, more than a dozen buildings in Shanghai were lit up.

After the popularity of electric lights, the financial market also made the most timely feedback!

Before the Spring Festival last year, the stock price of AIA Electric Company, a listed company under AIA Machinery Company, ushered in a continuous rise. The price of a single share rose sixfold within three months!

However, AIA is only the second strongest company in the field of Imperial Electric, and there is a huge gap between this second strongest company and the first strong Zhaoqing Electric Company.

Zhaoqing Electric Co., Ltd. is the most advanced and largest electrical equipment supplier in the Empire. It mainly develops and produces power generation equipment, electric motors and electrical facilities such as cables and lamps.

However, because this company is too important, and at the same time, it has been in a state of huge investment and has been losing money year after year, so it has always been wholly-owned by Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. and has not been listed.

After more than ten years of hard work, the electrification promoted by Zhaoqing Machinery Company has finally paid off!

Because of the layout more than ten years in advance, and the huge investment in research and development over the years, Zhaoqing Machinery Company has already thrown many competitors away in more than one level in the electrical field.

This move also made Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd., which has been developing slowly in the past ten years, and has even been caught up or even surpassed by other competitors in some fields, once again stood at the top of the wave of the times.

During the decades of development of Zhaoqing Machinery Company, many of its core businesses, such as various steam engine businesses and machinery manufacturing businesses, have been constantly challenged by competitors.

In the field of machinery and equipment, Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. has been strongly challenged by AIA Machinery Co., Ltd., so that its market share has been continuously compressed.

In the field of steam engines, industrial steam engines are half-dead, and although the field of ship-based steam engines is OK, they have not been able to become the industry leader.

The follow-up is to rely on the automobile business to return a wave of blood. Zhaoqing Automobile Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhaoqing Machinery Company, has gradually grown into the fifth largest automobile company in China, and its market share is not bad.

However, although the automobile business is profitable, for the huge Zhaoqing Machinery Company, just an automobile business still cannot allow them to maintain the development of the entire group.

You must know that Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. is very large, and their core does not rely on terminal products, but on various types of high value-added mechanical products.

All kinds of industrial equipment is the foundation of Zhaoqing Machinery Company!

Many years ago, Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. felt that its competitors were becoming more and more powerful. In order to find new development paths, Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. has successively established many subsidiaries to explore new development areas.

Well, not including the auto business!

The automobile business seems to be huge and profitable, but in Zhaoqing Machinery Company, it is just a sub-business that supplements cash flow. Even if it is in the automobile business, Zhaoqing Machinery Company relies on selling all kinds of equipment for making cars, not the cars themselves.

In the past ten years, they are focusing on ballast electrification!

In the past few years, they have cooperated with the Royal Institute of Technology to jointly set up more than 20 electrification joint laboratories to develop a series of electrical equipment from generators to cables, motors, lamps, etc., and established Zhaoqing Electric Co., Ltd. Wholly owned subsidiary.

This subsidiary has spent a lot of money on the group company every year. It took so many years. Last winter, they finally knew that they were going to get ahead.

In order to popularize electrification, they did not hesitate to give free electrical facilities to the Palace Affairs Office and some commercial institutions, just to turn on the lights.

From last winter to March this year, they just spent more than half a million Tang Yuan on promoting electrification!

And this year, there will be a series of subsidy promotion plans, involving millions of Tang Yuan!

Zhaoqing Machinery Company, which spends such a huge amount, naturally has huge ambitions. They need to promote the electrification of the entire empire, and then obtain the largest profit in electrification development.

Just like promoting the development and application of steam engines back then!

The steam engine created the empire's first industrial revolution, and it also created the enormous Zhaoqing Machinery Company.

And now, electrification will create the second industrial revolution of the empire, and their Zhaoqing Machinery Company will gain huge benefits in the second industrial revolution.

Indeed it is!

The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises took the lead in merging many local power supply enterprises directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and under the local state-owned assets of Eastern Electric Power and Changjiang Electric Power.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry established the Electric Power Division, which subsequently announced a large-scale development plan for electric power facilities!

In the next five years, large-scale power supply network construction will be carried out in the five cities of Shanghai, Jinling, Guangzhou, Tianjin and Wuhan to provide industrial electricity and domestic electricity, and promote the empire to enter the era of electric and electric lights!

In addition to the above-mentioned power supply plan for the entire city, all seventeen national-level key industrial zones and twenty-six provincial highway industrial zones, including Dangtu Industrial Zone, Zhenjiang Industrial Zone, Fengyang Industrial Zone and other industrial zones are also planned. Provides the supply of electricity for industrial production.

The electric power development plan of the Electric Power Division involves more than 20 provincial highways, and plans to build 16 large thermal power plants, 37 small and medium thermal power plants, three large hydroelectric power plants, and more than 100 medium and small hydroelectric power plants. stand.

Who gets the most benefit from such a huge power development plan?

There is no doubt that it is the only Zhaoqing Electric Company in the empire that has the ability to supply a range of electrical equipment on a large scale.

Zhaoqing Electric Co., Ltd. will receive huge orders from generator sets to transmission cables, to the electric motors and lamps used in the terminal.

Because the company is a non-listed company, and the group company above them, Zhaoqing Machinery Co., is also a non-listed company, and there is no need to disclose financial reports, so it is difficult for outsiders to estimate how many orders Zhaoqing Electric Co. has received.

However, through the orders and revenue data obtained by AIA, it has been possible to make a rough guess.

AIA, a listed company, is the second largest electrical company in China. According to the financial report data released by Xuanping for the first half of 1962, their revenue has increased by 600%. This does not include the already A large order has been signed, but has not yet been delivered!

At the same time, it announced the introduction of a number of strategic investors to raise funds of 5 million Tang yuan through additional stock issuance.

All the funds raised will be used for technology research and development and the expansion of production lines!

Just a preliminary investment plan, it is planned to invest at least one million Tang Yuan in the research and development of electrical equipment within three years, and will further increase the research and development investment as the case may be.

At the same time, it will announce the construction of new production bases in multiple regions to meet the explosive growth of market demand.

Stimulated by this, AIA hit a new high.

By the time of Xuanping in July of 1962, the company's stock price had soared by more than 20 times compared to last winter, from a company with a market value of less than one million Tang Yuan to one with a market value of more than ten million Tang Yuan. large enterprise.

However, AIA is only a little brother in the electrification field of the empire, and at most it has eaten a little bit of bone scum in this wave.

As for how many benefits Zhaoqing Electric Company has obtained, it is difficult to predict.

The development of electrification has brought benefits to some commercial companies, and this is only secondary. The upper echelons of the empire are not even concerned with whether Zhaoqing Machinery Company, a huge enterprise, can gain any benefits from it.

The upper echelons of the empire are concerned with the productivity gains that come with the push for electrification.

The overall improvement of productivity is the core driving force for the upper echelons of the empire to spare no effort to promote electrification.

To this end, the emperor's grandson stood up in person to wave the flag and shout, and a vote of important officials in the empire stood in support, and even the imperial palace advertised electric lights for this purpose.

What the empire seeks is far more than the commercial interests of a few commercial companies.

Moreover, the promotion of electrification is only a link in the second industrial development.

The whole second industrial development includes two aspects.

Including power applications as well as internal combustion engine applications!

The focus of electric power applications is not to say things like lighting or movies, but to supplement electrical appliances with electric motors as the core, replace steam engines as new power and new energy in production, and ultimately improve productivity.

The second is the application of the internal combustion engine, and the purpose of the application of the internal combustion engine is still to replace the steam engine as a new power for industrial production and transportation.

In the field of internal combustion engines, the empire has also developed for a long time, and automobiles have even appeared long ago, but so far, the internal combustion engine has not been able to replace the steam engine and become the main force in industrial production and transportation.

In the second industrial development plan, it is also a top priority to further improve and promote the use of internal combustion engines in industrial production and transportation.

And at this point, the Imperial Navy has also set a good example!

At the beginning of the 63rd year of Xuanping, a cruiser newly launched by the Imperial Navy was powered by pure diesel engines for the first time!

Realize the leap-forward development of large ships on diesel engines!

However, this is not the first time in the shipping industry of the Empire that fuel has been put on ships. In fact, the Empire has adopted coal and fuel hybrid power systems on many warships in the past few years.

Makes the speed of the warship to further increase!

It's just that the performance of the Daheng Imperial Navy's warships has been seriously over-capacity in the early decades, so many new technologies have appeared, and the performance has been improved, but in fact, the outside world generally does not pay attention to it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the Jiangnan battleship In the same way, the first full-heavy artillery in the history of the empire, with unified fire control, was known as the most powerful warship in human history.

This has to be said to be the sadness of the contemporary Datang Navy!

Diesel engines have become the power of warships, which also means that the development of the Empire in the field of ship-based internal combustion engines is relatively mature, but the impact is still not big. What the Empire needs more is the popularization and application of internal combustion engines in land transportation, especially is to help with production.

And to make the car truly become an important part of the imperial land transportation, then a perfect road network is indispensable!

In the winter of the 63rd year of Xuanping, the Ministry of Communications of the Empire announced that it would upgrade and transform the original official roads and roads to create a national automobile road network.

The official roads originally designed for carriages and pedestrians will be widened and smoothed, and some key road sections will be paved with asphalt or cement for road hardening, so that cars can pass.

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