Chapter 1.37 Urbanization, Mechanization, and Commercialization
The heavy rain finally subsided. It stands to reason that if you interfere with nature without authorization, you will definitely have retribution.
Two days after the typhoon passed, various effects of the water and fire disaster began to gradually appear. However, Wei Keng's speed of action was always a little faster than nature. Before nature's revenge began to take effect, he had already surrounded himself.
The environment is kept clean and tidy.
As soon as the river water receded, the Wei Keng group separated into small teams and started patrolling with gas-powered cars.
First, clean up the dead bodies that may appear on the river. Although under normal circumstances, most of the corpses are washed downstream, and most of the surviving corpses will be quickly disposed of by animals. However, the Wei Keng gathering place has become a dangerous place for various genetic communities.
It's a restricted area, there must be no animals nearby to pick up dead bodies.
Therefore, the corpses must be disposed of quickly to prevent the breeding of all kinds of weird mosquitoes.
Secondly, determine the conditions upstream of the residence to see if any animals have fallen in and drowned.
Several large water wells must not be allowed to be contaminated. Barrier belts must be built, and the water source must be confirmed to be clear, and quicklime should be sprinkled for further disinfection. Then take out the water, boil it, and store it in a water storage tank. When drinking, it must be
Have to burn it again.
Finally, I carried some small dried fish and searched for surviving wild cat-sized animals.
Of course, searching for them is not just for hunting. Although Wei Keng has driven away the genetic communities near his area, he still needs to build a new ecosystem based on objective facts and control various ecological energy levels.
At least Wei Keng himself cannot catch mice by himself. Cats are necessary predators after the formation of human cities.
The emergence of human cities has destroyed the local natural balance. A large number of upper-level food chains have disappeared, so insects such as cockroaches and rodents such as mice are bound to overrun. At this time, cats that can prey on them without causing danger to humans are
Humanity's best collaborators! They can conscientiously clean up all creatures below humans.
Until the 27th century, humans were still unable to eradicate rats in the city, so when they issued dog bans and eradicated stray dogs, they were still very tolerant of stray cats. Even city managers even built some warm basements for them in winter. Because
They are useful.
Wei Keng returned with a large number of kittens. Among them, there may be a few unlucky little leopards.
Wei Keng grabbed the back of the cat's neck with great concern: "It doesn't matter, I don't have any free-range chickens or ducks here, so feel free to bite them. If you encounter a mouse, I'll bite it hard."
As a result, after the flood, epidemics, insect plagues, and rat plagues, these lessons that Mother Nature prepared to teach Wei Keng, a bastard, were all buried in the pit and invisible.
Wei Keng thought silently in his heart: "Why am I so skilled? Tsk, tsk, after thousands of years, if man and nature want to live in harmony, it is natural to understand the nature of nature! I also have a Taoist heart."
Immediately afterwards, Wei Keng from each environmental inspection team shamelessly told the workers who came out with him: "Let us take the path of sustainable development, which requires both green mountains and green waters and GDP."
Summer passes by like rolling water in a river. Unknowingly, Wei Keng has stayed in this plane for a year.
Two months later.
Wow, the water from the dam poured into the pool as the gate slowly opened, and then flowed into each block along the pastoral gradient. The roots of the crops in the farmland were stuck in the soil like sponges.
They absorb moisture in the soil. In the hottest state of summer, their genes express the state of aquatic organisms.
Before the Pandora era, because there was no lack of water, they could do their best to use sunlight for photosynthesis. Summer was the time when all kinds of aquatic plants were most likely to bloom. However, in order to ensure that land plants did not get dehydrated by the sun, their leaves would grow when exposed to excessive light radiation.
Stopping transpiration and optical effects, and not producing when exposed to a little heat, are unreasonable in the eyes of Wei Da capitalists! Terrestrial plants should learn from aquatic plants.
With the interception of the dam, nearly half of the water flow of this small river was absorbed by the farmland. The air quickly became humid and humid, and the soil did not become muddy due to water logging. The dozens of square kilometers of farmland used up almost all of the 7-meter-wide river.
of water.
Of course, the fruit produced in this way makes the farmers who brave the scorching sun feel that the sweat they put in is worth it. It is rich in starch and has a taste of water chestnuts when cooked. This fruit is dried by heating and cut into slices.
After being stored in a glass bottle filled with nitrogen, it became a highly favored product by merchants.
Now Wei Keng has opened three rivers to carry material transportation in surrounding cities.
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These human settlements, which had previously huddled in the mountains for safety, lacked everything.
In terms of food, they have eaten mushrooms for several generations. This has caused their middle and lower classes to become shorter and shorter, with all adult men being 1.6 meters tall.
Wei Keng is not a person who cares about height. When he first looked at them, he thought they were very capable and did not consider anything else. Later he realized that they were so cautious when meeting him in the early days, and the sense of oppression caused by their body shape might be important.
one of the reasons.
As Wei Keng finished debugging the equipment in the factory, he successfully completed the casting of the steam engine crankshaft and sealed piston. In this world, Wei Keng successfully forged his own single-cylinder vertical steam engine.
Although this steam engine weighs two tons and has a fixed base and only has an output of five horsepower, it is a breakthrough!
What does the invention of the steam engine mean? Is it a ship, a tractor, or a textile loom?
In Wei Keng's eyes, it means an improvement in the quality of steel! Good steel must be hammered with a hammer. Previously, there was no steam engine output power, so it was all processed by water power. Such processing parts are very small, at most they are
Forged bayonets, barrel parts, etc.
As for larger steel, a steel ingot larger than a wine bottle? It will directly jam the turbine.
But it's different with a steam engine. When the steam engine rotates, when it encounters resistance, the water flow does not escape when it reaches the upper limit like a hydraulic turbine. Instead, the pressure in the boiler increases sharply, increasing the output.
After building its own steam engine, it represents the improvement of Wei Keng's processing quality! Wei Keng has increased its acquisition of minerals in trade. It has reached the point where it accepts all comers. Because the surrounding areas are also open to its own steel products.
Refuse.
There is a saying that says, "Capitalists will go through fire and water for profits without hesitation."
After confirming that the downstream plains had food and metal processing capabilities, these merchants finally began to transport people. They also transported some scrapped machines from the old era in their city-states.
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September 4th.
Facing the eight diesel generator sets sent by Menghe City merchants, Uncle Wei's lips twitched.
The businessman who came stared at Wei Keng and quoted the price in one breath, eight single-cylinder steam engines. Oh, Wei Keng can only assemble one in a month. Faced with such a lion, Wei Keng thought for a moment and chopped
Half the price.
The businessman immediately said: "Deal."
Mr. Wei Keng felt that he seemed to have undercut the price.
After these businessmen left, people from the Wei Keng Industrial Group used wrenches and screwdrivers to dismantle the diesel engines. First of all, the internal electronic control system was aging, so it could not be started. Some of the wires were obviously overheated and burned. But overall
, those cylinder blocks and parts that are the most technically difficult are still very good.
Take them all apart and clean them, remove the electroplating fluid, lubricating oil, and some small missing parts, draw pictures, and let the forging yard over there use good steel selected from the scrapyard for forging.
There are very few people today who can repair machinery. To be precise, there are far fewer people who can understand the two-dimensional geometric structure of the instruction manual. On Earth, Wei Keng, although he is dawdling in higher education, is not interested in mechanics, chemistry, etc.
, all simple principles have been learned, and even education in the 27th century has given everyone practical lessons in assembling machinery in factories.
Now the system sends the three-dimensional modeling of the entire mechanical operation to Wei Keng. After Wei Keng's various division teams fully understand the machine, the system calls up the machine model and a series of maintenance tutorials provided by the manufacturer. So far.
, for this batch of diesel engines, except for Wei Keng’s specific disassembly techniques which are relatively new and fastening the parts a little slower, everything else is in order.
Let's put it this way, the current Weikeng cluster, as a reserve of high-level talents, is more than all the aboriginal human settlements in Guangdong combined can produce.
The guards next to the diesel engine unit were busy until the evening. There were six teams in total, with three people in each team. Among them, one used a wrench, one held a pen to record, and one placed the dismantled parts.
The number of dismantled parts is increasing, and the process of parts processing is becoming clearer and clearer, and the drawings of parts are also stacked into several piles according to classification.
Machinery is a man's romance. A large number of complex geometric objects, under the conduction of energy. Let these parts that you have thought about rationally, assemble with your own hands, press the button, and all move in a flash.
, Oh, this moment is a hundred times more enjoyable than xx.
Well... it's not like Wei Keng has never taken a look at women in this plane. Wei Keng: "It's not that I'm afraid of the supervisor. I'm afraid of her? Afraid of her? Haha. Ahem."
The main reason is that things are precarious now and I have no sense of security, so I have to keep expanding, expanding, and expanding again.
This is just like the sudden collapse of a generation of baby boomers during the economic development transition of the East in the early 21st century.
At that time, the ladies may have felt that they had an advantage in the ratio of men to women and were constantly making choices, while the men's personalities were just like Wei Keng's. They lacked the confidence, houses, cars, and savings to have a few more years of hard work and a better life.
confidence.
[Of course, it seems to be true. The young people of that generation, because society was relatively simple when they were young, believed too much that hard work would be rewarded. In addition, a series of chicken soup from Yilin and Reader magazines were enough for the time.
It was a fair college entrance examination, so after I came out, I worked hard but lacked a sense of struggle. As a result, I blindly followed the baton in the first few years of work and enriched the 'people's rich' of that era. In the end~~~~~]
Back to the topic,
The simple Wei Keng now believes that machines will not deceive him, and he must use his intelligence at his job. Then the society he lives in will not deceive him either.
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"Click, click, click", with the electric ignition similar to a gas water heater, the gas generated by the gas generator was introduced into the diesel engine, and the diesel-to-combustion engine finally started.
The electricity reaches the newly assembled circuits, and the steel in the factory can undergo more complex heat treatments, while the machine tools do not need to be connected to high-pressure steam pipes to supply pressure. The electricity makes the wheels of these machine tools rotate with a buzzing sound, Wei Keng
What you have to worry about is that after the metal breaks, the speed of the fragments may be as fast as a bullet.
At the smelting factory, various scrap metal raw materials were dug out from the ruins and sent to the newly assembled electric furnace to start the processing of new products.
After spending four months, Wei Keng looked at the latest nickel steel cylinder block, crankshaft and other key parts that he had processed. It seemed that he could process Stirling engines by himself.
This diesel generator set is really a technological accessory given to them by the indigenous people here.
Wei Keng: "I want to go to mechanization! Let the tracked car move."
Wei Keng determined that his own mechanical level is now almost comparable to the processing level of machinery factories in city-states such as Ji'an City. As for them, they can only maintain the mechanical technology of producing tractors. And their tractor fuel?
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Around Ji'an City, Wei Keng found a large number of herbaceous plants similar to castor, which are the raw materials for oil refining in these cities. When Kao Mu's armored car attacked a year ago, it brought a lot of thick smoke and moved forward like an asthma attack, but
Even though this kind of biofuel is not easy to use, they also consume caustic soda and other chemical raw materials when making this kind of diesel.
The straw refining that Wei Keng is currently focusing on is to heat the substance to 650 degrees in a sealed reactor to liquefy it. This is mixed with a large amount of carbon powder, which can hardly be called diesel. According to the standards of the 21st century,
It consumes a lot of fuel, the output is not good, and the performance can easily clog the machine.
In Wei Keng's eyes, synthesis is better than collection. Hydrogenate it with water, gas or methane, and then filter it. Even if the final fuel is of poor quality, he should be able to accept it.
After settling on this complicated plan, the first problem is to build a chemical reactor yourself. It doesn’t have to be big, and it can’t be too big.
Complete a three-cubic-meter reactor. This kind of thing may be an experimental product of the early chemical industry during World War I. We don't pursue the ultimate life span. We produce it more than a dozen times and then check whether hydrogenation corrosion has occurred inside.
Oh, the technical difficulty of this thing is a bit challenging in Wei Keng's eyes. But think about it, during World War I, junior high school students were the main engineers of the factory. This inspired Wei Keng's resilience,
And what I built myself was the most primitive small chemical equipment. The smaller the chemical equipment, the lower the material challenges, and the simpler the numbers in the formula.
The difficulty in chemical engineering is not the principle technology, but the early series of production regulations and the discipline of personnel. Many operations require procedures that may seem unnecessary at ordinary times and affect the work speed, but they can prevent one in ten thousand accidents. For example,
Before discharging the material, you may be able to complete it in two or three steps, but there are forty steps in the regulations.
Now Wei Keng has separated out a large group and started to delve into this industry. What about this? Wei Keng found that now, he seemed to have not enough people.
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In February of the 134th year of the Pandora Era, when Wei Keng was still thinking about a series of chemical supporting facilities,
This time, the merchants found the reactor that Wei Keng wanted. Of course, they couldn't transport it this time. They were directly responsible for bringing Wei Keng there.
When Wei Keng came to this abandoned brick building and dug out the chemical equipment protected by steel frames from dozens of broken bricks, he also found dozens of large boxes of spare parts.
Wei Keng realized a fact! He was a migrant, and he could go to the ruins of a parking lot to pick up stainless steel. The locals here actually knew more warehouses.
After Wei Keng destroyed the genetic community in the area, this group of businessmen took the locations of the large and small factories recorded by their families before the Pandora era, and directly led the team to transport these "used-to-useless" equipment from the abandoned warehouses here.
Come, then put on dozens of sacks full of salt and steel utensils and leave.
Regarding this, Wei Keng couldn't laugh or cry: "I should tell them that these are all things on my land. Can you dig up to 500 yuan and a banner at most?"
Mr. Wei is not that stingy, but ah, a new problem has arisen.
If you trigger a gold rush, and merchants in these city-states take you to dig for treasure again and again in a short period of time, your productivity has reached the limit due to your numbers, and you cannot convert your productivity into exchange for them.
But if Wei Keng refuses to accept it, these businessmen, driven by the strong demand for goods and the selfish desire to make money, may smash the equipment in the previous generation warehouse that was swallowed up by the jungle into tatters and sell it to them at the price of the scrap.
Wei Keng takes it! Because even if they waste these equipment, they don't want to benefit from others digging for treasure.
This will bring huge havoc to the pre-Pandora era industrial heritage.
Once economic activities begin, sometimes there are factors that are difficult to control!