When he returned to Helangyabo, Lin Youde himself was shocked by the changes in the base camp.
First, the entire city becomes more steampunk.
As the city with the largest power generation and electricity consumption in the world, Heranggabo’s degree of electrification is unparalleled. A complete tram system has been built in the city, and the march music from the electric speakers resounds throughout the city every morning.
At the same time, a tram full of workers was crossing the city.
All intersections on the tram lines are equipped with electric traffic lights and blocking poles, and there will also be ding dong ding dong warning sounds.
Since the factories in the city basically adopt the three-shift system commonly practiced by Guangdong enterprises in the past time and space, they basically operate around the clock every week except for regular equipment maintenance time, so the whole city is crowded with people and brightly lit all day long.
, becoming a veritable city that never sleeps.
All lighting in the city of Heranggabo uses electricity, and even the poorest families use electric lights. Things like gas lights have been completely driven out of this electric city.
In addition to electric lights, the city's telephone system has also been completed. Most factories, large supermarkets and public administration agencies have telephones, and public telephone booths are also set up on the streets.
Electrically operated rolling billboards and billboards are also installed on the main streets. Compared with the old-fashioned foreign signboards, they are extremely fashionable.
The most famous sight in Helanggabo is the lightning that strikes the time at 12 noon every day. In this era, due to the limited accuracy of mechanical clocks, many cities used cannons to tell the time to let the residents of the city "check the time". Helangyabo
Naturally, this electric city cannot use such an unfashionable way of telling time as firing off cannons. So every day at twelve o'clock, there will be 12 huge lightning bolts running through the sky of the city, and the deafening thunder can be heard far away, even Subi
It can be heard faintly from the fortress island on the Bay of Kes.
In five years, Langgabo has developed into a world-class industrial city. Foreign envoys in Langgabo believe that if China has a few more cities like this, the European powers will be able to completely withdraw from Asia.
Americans are even more impressed by Lin Youde's Helangabo. They believe that "Britain is leading the steam age, while the Chinese are leading the electric age." Chicago, which has a close relationship with Lin Youde, has begun to imitate Helangabo.
The model began to electrify the whole city. New York and Atlanta in the south also began to have this tendency. Since they only have one Nikola Tesla, whose ability is somewhat inferior to Sophie, they can only continue to hire followers from Lin Ji.
Sophie trained as an electrical engineer.
In just five years, Lin Youde relied on his golden fingers and the knowledge he brought back from the future to realize the reverse export of talents.
In fact, this is normal. The pace of scientific and technological progress in this era has not yet been completely controlled by senior intellectuals. Many technological innovations are completed by front-line engineers, so the spread of technology is almost unstoppable - there are only a few senior intellectuals, of course.
It’s easy to control. There are so many engineers and grassroots technicians, and everyone has the relevant skills. It’s unrealistic to prevent everyone from changing jobs.
Lin Youde didn't care either. He had poached so many people from abroad, and it seemed that he would poach more people, so it didn't matter if some of them returned.
The technological innovation of Helang Yabo is still continuing. The quality of the scientists gathered here for the convenience of using the divine arithmetic is uneven. But the problem is that the divine arithmetic is a "wonder", and now it seems that the bonus of this wonder is provided to the land controlled by Lin Youde.
All the scientific researchers on the Internet are not limited to the scientists hired by Lin Ji, so the Science City near Shensuan has produced a lot of results in the past two years.
In order to improve their priority in the sequence of using divine calculations, most scientists secretly sold their results to Lin Ji, but there are also many scientists who disclosed their results for one reason or another, or secretly gave them to themselves.
The motherland has prepared a detailed report….
In addition to the wonder bonus, Lin Ji's own scientists also have Lin Youde's skill bonus, which is more efficient, but they are all focused on electricity-related aspects.
In mid-1903, a technical team within Lin Ji that had nothing to do with Sophie improved the carbon arc welding invented by the Russians and completed the development of a practical manual arc welding process. Subsequently, they followed Lin Youde's instructions.
Research on gas shielded welding and tungsten arc welding began. At the same time, this group that achieved results was officially expanded into the "Naval Welding Technology Research Institute."
The reason for the existence of this group is that Sophie herself felt that Zhu Rong needed welding, so she ignored Lin Youde's request to "research simpler and more suitable welding processes for industrial production", so Lin Youde had to organize another research
team, and spent a lot of money, and now the decision has come to fruition.
However, due to issues of the times, the strength is indeed not as good as riveting, and the larger the workpiece, the greater the difference in strength. In the last time and space, the strength of electric welding was not completely solved until the 1930s. The ship management of the old Japanese Navy
The Japanese Navy was very fond of new technologies for a period of time around the 1930s, and all warships adopted new processes such as electric welding. As a result, the poor strength of electric welding caused the Japanese Navy to suffer heavy losses in the mid-1930s.
On September 26, 1935, the Japanese naval fleet that was conducting exercises encountered strong winds and rain. As a result, many new destroyers with welded hulls were damaged to varying degrees. Among them, the "Hatsuyuki" and "Yugiri" ships were directly broken.
The bridges of the four ships including "Kikuzuki" were directly blown away (you read that right, the entire armored fort was blown away), the deck of the aircraft carrier Hosho was crushed by the collapsed mast, and the outer armor of the heavy cruiser Myoko was damaged.
It was loose. Fortunately, riveting was used as a supplement to the welding during construction, so no tragedy occurred.
Since then, the new ships of the Japanese Navy have all been converted back to riveting...
Of course, Japan's own technological level is there. During the old Japanese Empire, they only mechanically learned new Western technologies, and there was basically no innovation. The weapons that the Japanese army could come up with during World War II were only the Zero War and the 93 Acid God Thunder.
. So this kind of mistake is also due to Japan's own reasons. At the same time, the navies of other countries also adopted a large number of electric welding technology, and this kind of thing has never happened in other countries.
However, this incident can indeed show that the electric welding process is indeed unreliable just a few decades after its birth.
However, any process is gradually accumulated and improved during the production process, and it is impossible to gain weight in one bite.
What's more, the effect of practical arc welding on welding small workpieces is indeed acceptable.
So Lin Ji began to use electric welding technology to produce steam engines for small ships and locomotives, and the production efficiency improved a lot.
In addition to industrial production, Lin Ji's technological improvements in agriculture have also achieved many results.
In the last era, Yuan Longping single-handedly ensured the food supply of the vast China, and his achievements are certainly indelible. But after he learned about Yuan Longping's research process on rice seed improvement, in Lin Youde's heart, the father of hybrid rice became
He left the altar and became a great mortal - no matter how great a mortal is, he is still not a god.
Yuan Longping's greatness lies in his ability to persist in conducting breeding experiments in that politically turbulent environment, and there is nothing too sophisticated about his research itself.
In fact, humans have been doing species optimization for thousands of years. Nomads breeding fine horses through artificial selection is a typical artificial optimization behavior.
In other words, as long as the general principles of Yuan Longping's research are known, they can be replicated even in the time and space of 1900.
So Lin Youde copied it.
In 1898, Lin Youde ordered the establishment of the Linji Agricultural Research Institute and began to cultivate hybrid rice. The manpower and material resources Lin Youde invested were hundreds of times what Yuan Longping could obtain at that time. In addition, after entering the twentieth century, Lin Youde provided more and more
With many plug-in bonuses, the first batch of rice seeds with relatively stable plants have been cultivated...
And Lin Ji implemented an advanced crop rotation system in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. He rotated fallow fish and rice, and the agricultural output of the three provinces increased immediately. Not only was the food self-sufficient, it could also be exported to other provinces at low prices, and the old landlords in each province collected it.
The grain cannot be exchanged for money, and land rent income has dropped sharply. There is no choice but to find another way out, so China's capitalism has been accelerated again.
At this time, the three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Guangdong were not rich, but filled with oil and water.
Then the three provincial governments and parliaments were all supporters of Lin Youde. Following Lin Youde's strategy, they fiddled with the accounts a little and adjusted the taxes sent to the federal center to 40%. In two quarters, the taxes paid by the three provinces were more than the entire south of the Yangtze River.
The other provinces combined paid more, which suddenly alleviated the federal central government's financial difficulties.
After regaining some financial relief, the federal central government began to tighten control over the provinces. Chen Qimei followed Lin Ji's Special Branch and established the Federal Central Bureau of Statistics, sending agents to penetrate into each province to begin a thorough investigation of the financial status of each province - of course they were very concerned about the southern
The three provinces turned a blind eye to their accounts.
Subsequently, the construction of the border defense force gradually began - without Lin Youde handing over this large sum of money, Sun Wen would really have no time to take care of this for a while.
To build a border defense force, we needed guns, so Lin Youde received another large government order.
The provinces were actually well aware of Lin Youde's tactics, so they began to strengthen their own strength. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions shouted the slogan of building Shanghai into the second Helang Yabo and began to build power plants for electrification; Yuan Shikai in the Northeast did not
Although he said nothing, he still spent money to establish two enterprises, the Northeast Investment Investment Company and the North Korea Investment Company, and began to carry out infrastructure construction.
Shanxi and Sichuan and other places are busy building railways. There are no railways in these places, and the products they have cannot be sold.
In short, in the first year after the establishment of the Federation, a vigorous wave of construction began throughout China.