"Have you thought it through?"

Eugenie asked again.

In response to the Queen Mother's question, Queen Maria spoke in a firm tone.

"Yes, I have to leave here, otherwise... I feel like I'm going to suffocate. Everyone is looking at me with pitiful eyes. In their eyes, I am a wife who has lost her husband, a saint's widow."

The widow of the saints.

Four years ago, Eugene was canonized as a "martyr saint" by the Pope.

In addition to the title of Queen, Maria also had another title, "Saint's Wife". For a woman of only 25 years old, it was extremely heavy to bear such a title.

Even if she wants to resolve everything by traveling, no one can ignore her title.

"My poor child."

Eugenie felt a little pain in her heart as she looked at Maria in front of her. The sunlight coming through the window into the office sprinkled on Maria's beautiful face, making her look as holy as a saint.

"If you decide to leave here, I won't object, my child, you know I have always loved you."

"Thank you, Queen."

"Have you decided where to go?"

"Let's go to the New World."

Maria's answer surprised Eugenie.

"To the New World?"

"Yes, let's go to Daming. Didn't you say that the scenery there is unique to Europe? And Queen Elizabeth has been traveling there in recent years. I want to go there and take a look..."

My silly child.

Sissi stayed there because of the scenery, and that little slut stayed there because of the man... Thinking of this, Eugenie felt jealous.

God knows, if it hadn't been for the accident that year, she would have almost stayed there.

Now she has returned to Paris, but what about Sissi?

But she stayed there, staying by his side.

Looking at her daughter-in-law standing there quietly, as pure as a saint, Eugenie's heart tightened involuntarily, and she thought...if you go there like this, you will be like a sheep walking into the tiger's mouth.

A sheep falls into the tiger's mouth... That guy wouldn't, wouldn't... just eat this innocent little lamb alive.

Thinking of this, her mind became confused and even her breathing became a little rapid.

Looking at Maria, she didn't even notice that her voice was trembling a little.

"Are you sure you want to go to Daming?"

"Yes, I want to go there and take a look. I have always heard from Eugene how outstanding Emperor Shengde was, and I am curious about everything there."

You are such a little fool! Are you walking into a trap?

But...if she went to Ming Dynasty, at least it could cause some trouble for Elizabeth, making her life less comfortable and saving her from writing letters to show off her sexual happiness to herself all day long.

When this thought came to her mind, the little devil in Eugenie's heart became stronger and stronger, and even an inexplicable feeling emerged in her heart.

"Ah, my child."

Walking up to Maria, Eugenie gently took her hand and said.

"Promise me that you will take good care of yourself and protect yourself in the future, okay?"

After a while, when Maria left the office, Eugenie, with a dazed look in her eyes, bit her lips and murmured softly, breathing in the scent of perfume leaves remaining in the air.

"This is a good deal for you, a bad guy..."

…

On the other side of the world, Emperor Zhu of the Ming Dynasty had no idea when he had acquired another title. He also had no idea that someone had already "plotted" against him.

As an emperor, even if he is in good health, he cannot stop attending court early in the morning every day. He still has to do his work.

"…We are expected to import 20 million tons of oil from Mexico this year. This oil is distilled in batches or continuously in the refinery to produce gasoline for cars and kerosene for lighting. Of course, the largest amount is heavy oil. After extracting gasoline and kerosene, about 60% of heavy oil will be left. Your Majesty, our refineries currently have 12 million tons of heavy oil left every year, which is almost useless except for being used as ship fuel or power generation."

Chang Minghai, the president of the Imperial Oil Company, couldn't help but look at His Majesty a few more times when he mentioned "heavy oil". The oil refining industry of the Ming Dynasty began with waste oil. In the 1860s, Texas oil was mainly used to extract kerosene, but a large amount of gasoline and heavy oil was produced during the refining process. At that time, gasoline and heavy oil had no use and were waste materials that were difficult for refineries to handle.

The Nanhua Company imported waste oil, refined it, and supplied gasoline to cars. In addition to refining lubricants from heavy oil, it also extracted asphalt for road construction. It was not until a few years ago that heavy oil replaced coal as the main fuel for Ming Dynasty ships. This was entirely due to the invention of the nozzle for burning heavy oil, that is, the burner, by Your Majesty.

"Well, we have also extracted another high-temperature oil from heavy oil. It is different from gasoline and kerosene. We are still studying its use. Although it will emit a lot of black smoke when it burns, it has many advantages. First of all, its calorific value is higher than gasoline. For the same mass of gasoline and this oil, and the same thermal efficiency of the engine, it should be able to provide more energy. However, it cannot be used in gasoline engines at present..."

"oh?"

Chang Minghai's report immediately aroused the interest of Emperor Zhu. If his guess was correct, it should be diesel.

Compared with gasoline engines, diesel engines are more powerful and have a wider range of applications. Diesel had just invented the diesel engine a few years ago. Although the diesel engine was still very primitive at the time, it was used in merchant ships and later in locomotives due to its excellent performance. In the end, it was the diesel locomotive and the electric locomotive that replaced the steam locomotive, making the steam locomotive a thing of the past.

"The company can increase research in this area. If a breakthrough is achieved, millions of tons of oil can be used each year."

While saying this, the principles of diesel engines that he had learned in school flashed through Emperor Zhu's mind. Maybe... he could give it a try.

What he cared about was not the ability to turn millions of tons of "waste oil" into treasure, but the wider application of diesel engines in other areas, from cars to locomotives to merchant ships. Not to mention using diesel engines to improve Ming tanks, even if they were used to improve submarines, the performance of this "trump card" of Ming could be improved by leaps and bounds.

After all, compared with gasoline engines, diesel engines are not only more powerful, but also safer. More importantly, diesel engines are more fuel-efficient. The same fuel can turn the Ming Dynasty's submarine force into a true ocean-going sword!

Diesel engine...seems like there is a future for it!