In the ruins area of the Pearl River Delta, about a hundred kilometers away to the east, there is a human settlement here, which is currently the closest human settlement to the cluster.
The name of this settlement is Ji'an City. This name has nothing to do with the city name that people associated with it before the Great Destruction. Instead, it was a village where people successfully banded together to save themselves during the Great Destruction and found a place with river transportation and hills to support them.
Such a city was built in the area.
Now the entire city is surrounded by a three-meter-high city wall. There are high platforms everywhere on the city wall. The black muzzle looks down from the platform. The artillery technology is barely breech loading, with a steel rifled barrel and a very special barrel wall.
It is thick and uses brown gunpowder as the propellant. Relying on the base roller on the fort, the surrounding area can be controlled. Overall, this is probably the Krupp steel cannon technology of the mid-19th century.
Civilization has regressed to the present, social systems have begun to become blunted, and many technologies can no longer be maintained.
For example, chemical industry! Technically speaking, after preparing potassium nitrate, hydrochloric acid is then mixed in to nitrate glycerin or guncotton.
Every step is operable! However, many intermediate products are extremely unstable!
In the 21st century, formal chemical factory recruitment requires academic qualifications and discipline, as well as good management. Those small-scale workshop technicians with low education levels in the private sector may be cautious and reluctant to do so at the risk of being imprisoned, driven by interests.
Preparation of some chemicals.
Nowadays, in a situation where some people monopolize resources and most people have lost their promotion channels, they still have to maintain the production of hazardous chemicals with many key steps. It is only a matter of time before a major accident occurs! So, it is not that people have forgotten knowledge.
Rather, society determines production relations, and production relations restrict productivity. Strong explosives cannot be produced, so the gun bore pressure does not need to be high. The military industry gradually sacrifices performance for the sake of stability.
In small and medium-sized city-states such as Ji'an City, the overall reliable military technology has been reduced to the twentieth century. A few craftsman-level technologies, such as the production of refined gears, wires, and optical glass, have barely reached the workshop level of the mid-twentieth century.
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Now, in the center of this cannon-fortified city.
The city center is in a building similar to the Great Wall tower.
The windows on the four walls of the building are very small, and there are three sets of skylights on the top to let in light. Steel plates can be pulled down on the skylights and wall windows to completely seal the room.
Inside the building, there are electric fans, incandescent lamps and other equipment. The light from the skylight just shines on several potted plants, two of which are potted kumquats, and the small oranges on them are still green.
On the wooden chair, there is an old man in a white coat lying, like a researcher in the 21st century. In this era, it is very unusual to have clothes from hundreds of years ago, because humans have lost cotton supplies.
Most people are already using flax fiber to make clothing.
This is Zeng Longmu, the owner of Ji'an City. He looked at the report provided by the person in charge of the bacterial culture room. The report showed that there were abnormalities in the fungi in the petri dish. The owner of the city opened a book and turned to
One of the pages records the reason for this phenomenon: there have been major changes in the genetic community in the surrounding area.
He turned around and came to another glass display cabinet, and took out a box of tags. The names of his beast masters were recorded on the tags. He first picked up a tag belonging to his disciple, then picked up another tag, and then
He hung the two signs on the potted kumquat next to him and smiled kindly.
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Nearly 40 days have passed since Wei Keng traveled here, and the construction of this territory is getting more and more prosperous.
In the residential area, local blast furnaces have been built one by one, reaching a height of five meters. They are all made of bricks excavated from the ruins of the city. For such a large blast furnace, the gas blasting work cannot be continued by manpower. Well, mainly
It was Wei Keng who felt his hands were sore.
Therefore, Wei Keng specially blocked the small river and used the lever principle and the runner to make the blast furnace blower reciprocate and continuously push the hot air in.
As the hot air blown into the hot coals turned into a flame, the temperature of the furnace reached a level that could melt steel. The metal objects dug out of the ruins finally melted at this temperature.
This indigenous steelmaking technology wasted a lot of resources and produced a large amount of useless scrap steel in the 1960s. Therefore, after the 1980s, some literary and intellectuals mentioned this kind of steelmaking when they mentioned this era.
The method is contemptible.
But in fact, this steelmaking method can produce relatively usable steel. Back in the 1930s, this method was used to obtain weapons during the local anti-aggression war.
The premise that it can be used is that the people who used this method to make steel in the 1930s were science and engineering students who returned from studying abroad. Although it was a local method, all the standards were met.
In the 1960s, those who made large-scale steel production were farmers who had no awareness of industrial production. For the tasks assigned by the above, they could not understand the meaning of each indicator. They relied on enthusiasm and quantity, hoping to get praise and approval. Therefore, the height of the small blast furnace was not enough, and the inner wall
The strength is not enough, and the furnace temperature is not even reached, so what is produced is scrap steel, and there is no technical summary.
Generally speaking, it is not a problem of methods, but a lack of qualified talents in industrial production. - Wei Keng: So a bunch of literary youths are scolding you, do you have the quality to make steel?
Wei Keng now wants to make steel, which is useful to him, and all related processes have entered the summary state.
The copper and iron dug out from the city are sorted, the steel goes into the No. 1 large furnace, and the copper goes into the small furnace.
After the steel is refined, it flows directly from several discharge ports into the shell casting area for casting! The other discharge port flows into the forging area. After it is forged and shaped, it is drilled with a drill, and then extruded.
It turned into an iron can with a length of 30 centimeters and the thickness of a mineral water bottle, and then welded the bracket below. Oh, forget about the angle device. There is a visual ballistic marking system provided by the system. This is a grenade! Simple steel pipe, cast iron
Charged iron block. Easy and convenient to use!
After confirming that these blast-resistant iron frame steel pipes were released in batches, Wei Keng immediately announced: "I don't want to use that sling anymore."
As for the copper smelted in the small furnace, it is forged into copper sheets while it is hot, and then cut into specific specifications.
After heating and extrusion, it becomes a copper pen cover and a copper pen tip. The copper pen tip needs to be filled with lead liquid with a counterweight.
These jingling things were sent into the chambering machine by the measurement team to try to push them, and then they were taken out and tried to be processed with files.
These copper pen cases are filled with black particles, and then the "pen tip" is inserted, and then a large stapler-like stand is used to squeeze the front part to prevent the pen tip from falling out.
In fact, the most technically complicated thing is the thing at the bottom of the copper-steel sleeve. The tutorials provided by the system are very complicated.
Fortunately, there are hot springs and sulfur in this place. If there is sulfur, sulfuric acid can be prepared. To prepare sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid can be prepared from table salt. When hydrochloric acid and pyrolusite are heated, yellow-green gas can be generated, and this yellow-green gas can be produced through hydrogen oxidation.
A bleaching powder is prepared from potassium.
Then, you can do the cannon throwing. Just find the realgar (omit a hundred words)
Is that thing in the thermometer nitrified? It's too dangerous. To prepare that thing, formal industrial technology is required. All operating steps need to be below 80 degrees. You can reach that condition just by rubbing it with your hands.
Rows of "made in the border area" rolled off the production line in Wei Keng's adobe house workshop.
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After a day of industrial production, the water that cooled the equipment was passed through the dried bamboo tubes and poured onto each Wei Keng who had soaked in the pond. After the bath was completed and the water was wiped off, the water in the jar was mashed.
Tian Qiye wiped it on his body.
These days, the Wei Keng people are harassed by a bunch of female mosquitoes that demand their sperm and blood to give birth to babies. In fact, all those who have sucked Wei Keng's blood have died. Every adobe house is in urgent need of straw curtains.
The only shortcoming now is that Wei Keng, which is heavily involved in heavy industrial production, is very inefficient in weaving straw carpets.
Wei Keng: "Wouldn't it be beautiful if a group of girls came to knit straw sandals and straw blankets for me?"
Oh, Wei Keng didn't say this to the supervisor. Although his emotional intelligence was a bit low, he still felt that because he was unwilling to cooperate with certain things, he and this girl seemed to have some differences about this plane. When disagreements occurred,
The goal should be to avoid quarreling. As for telling some jokes, it will not produce goodwill but only disgust.
Wei Keng judged the relationship between himself and the supervisor this way: In the words of the 21st century, the personalities of both parties are not suitable? The consumption concepts are not suitable, and the living habits are not suitable. In short, he is too rustic to match the flight attendant.
Don't come together.
However, in the dimensional space bubble, Supervisor Bai Linglu is constantly looking through Wei Keng's action records these days. Of course, there are some unsightly scenes, such as the scene of standing in a row of golden water columns and opening an arched corridor in the morning. She
The intelligent coding system is directly turned on.
This girl's impression of Wei Keng has greatly improved, and she now has a positive evaluation: "He is very decisive in his actions, and he tries his best to make allowances. He is now very reliable."
Take the nitrate control project she was reading right now. The plan set by Wei Keng was only to complete the initial output of three kilograms per day. However, when executing the plan, he set the standard as high as possible and directly blocked the river.
Live, and then catch a large number of fish, and add the offal to the nitrate pile, ensuring a daily output of 15 kilograms of pure nitrate.
Although this was just a part of a small plan, Wei Keng set a goal and absolutely completed it, making Bai Linglu feel that the master plan for this plane was executable.
So the question is, how to get Wei Keng to agree to stay here?
Bai Linglu: "He doesn't talk to me now, what should I do?" She did not send this trouble to the gravity well.
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Wei Keng wanted to stay in the ruins for a hundred days without any worries and then leave. However, if he existed here, he would inevitably encounter some unexpected collisions.
Forty days after arriving in this plane
A ship passed by from the upper reaches and stopped outside Wei Keng's residence. This sneaky appearance was just like the sneaky footbath spies next to Dalian Military Port in Port Arthur in the 21st century.
For this reason, Wei Keng must of course be hospitable and let them disembark for a drink.
Bullets hit the river, warning them to stop the boat.
The merchant who disembarked from the boat stammered and claimed to be from Ji'an City, and saw that there was a new human settlement here and was ready to do business.
When doing business, of course Wei Keng needs tea, cotton, and tung oil.
I originally traveled through time to be a space merchant, and I still had a lot of small yellow croakers on hand. Of course I had to buy them. I would make tea to treat constipation, put up mosquito nets, and paint tarps.
Wei Keng invited these panicked suspected businessmen to the camp to discuss business. However, after these guys entered the camp, they kept trembling. Wei Keng could not hear the Cantonese dialect clearly, so he had to rely on the translation system.
Communication is even more troublesome.
It is not difficult to understand why this group of businessmen were trembling. A human settlement suddenly appeared in what was originally a ruins. After entering, they found that these humans all looked exactly the same.
There are all kinds of weird genetic communities in the world of Pandora. Some genetic communities have no shortage of humanoid individuals. They are called fusion people. Although some individuals look very different from humans, there are some differences in life that are different from normal people.
Talk about very strange behaviors. For example, one year is a human being, and ten years after pupation, it is an animal. These genetic communities only use the thinking ability of the human brain. As for human morality and social habits, they have never existed.
Wei Keng is now like this weird genetic community, and because he looks exactly like other people, it has triggered the "uncanny valley" effect.
Of course, for this reason, Wei Keng resolutely argued: "If there are a thousand identical beauties, you will definitely not have the uncanny valley effect. The little yellow croaker in my hand is much more attractive than the beauties. Please use your capitalist greed and make it ten times more attractive."
The kind that can sell the noose for profit."
The system prompts again: These guys may not be businessmen, at least not pure businessmen.
They were conceited when discussing business, and they did not bargain with Wei Keng at all about the parameters of the tea cloth. Wei Keng said whatever he said, and he was obviously perfunctory.
That night, when Wei Keng deliberately left a hole, they escaped. As a result, they fell into the dry toilet and almost choked to death. This shows what kind of hole Wei Keng left.
"Ah, ah, mom, daddy..." In the tunnel, the man's mentality collapsed and he thought he had been swallowed by something. He cried for his father and mother, and the stench kept coming up.
Wei Keng squatted on the edge of the dry toilet, threw the rope down, pinched his nose and said: "Everyone, since you are here to do business, why do you act in our area without saying hello many times? This is probably not the way to be a guest."
Wei Keng's shouting gave the people in the cesspool a little peace of mind, and they probably realized that they were not in the belly of some evil beast. No, there were also dried leaves thrown by Wei Keng in the dry toilet.
Wei Keng's question went unanswered for several minutes. Just when Master Wei Keng wanted to unbutton his crotch and wash them with hot water,
Finally, a strong voice shouted: "We are not guests, you are uninvited guests." Then a piece of shit was thrown out, and it almost missed Wei Keng who was shouting.
Wei Keng was silenced and stopped arguing. After pulling them up, he simply poured a basin of water on them and unfolded a map on a wooden board a few meters away from them.
Wei Keng issued a warning to these businessmen: "Have you seen this map? Using this river as the boundary, your city's armed forces are not allowed to cross within six months. Don't say it was unforeseen." Then he lost one.
Small simple wooden map.
Among the team that climbed out of the filthy tunnel, a few weaklings accepted the map provided by Wei Keng with tears in their eyes, and then the group of people rushed into the jungle without looking back, as if there was a ghost behind them.
They didn't dare to stay.
The guards looked at the direction in which they disappeared, lowered their heads and thought carefully. They seemed to feel that the situation was very unsafe. So they sent a small team to follow them from a distance to determine their return route. Of course, they also wanted to determine the relevant information about Ji'an City.
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A week later, part of the investigation team returned, and another part was sent to rotate the investigation.
In Wei Keng's eyes: this is a somewhat remote city with cement walls, but the cement exterior walls are pure black, and some damp areas are covered with moss.
The investigation team went to the nearby hilltops to observe the situation of this dilapidated human settlement.
Based on the number of animal-drawn carriages parked in the open area, combined with the road conditions on the map, we can infer the force that will be dispatched after full mobilization: it should be possible to mobilize a team of a thousand people, carrying artillery and other heavy weapons to attack the area where they are entrenched.
To strike.
Of course, this offensive power is the upper limit of the ideal situation.
Even the Mongolian system during the Genghis Khan period was unable to devote its strength in one direction when there were extremely abundant reasons for war.
Judging from the lushness of the shrubs outside the city, the soldiers in the city have not had military training such as large-scale marches for a long time.
Under the current circumstances, the city's highest center, even if it has the highest authority, if it wants to initiate a foreign war if it maintains its position for a long time, the power it can mobilize should be less than one-tenth of the city's mobilizable power.
But even if he was so optimistic, Wei Keng was still uneasy - he would die if he fought in a war, and he was very afraid.