Originally, Lin Youde thought that after recapturing the genius, the technology tree would rise rapidly. Missiles would be launched today, lasers would be launched the next, and Star Destroyers would be launched the day after tomorrow.
But reality has always been contrary to the word "think". The little girl abducted by Lin Youde was only interested in science related to electromagnetism and Shenji, and she didn't care about other subjects.
The first thing she did after coming to Nanyang was to design a complete generator set for Lin Youde, because her laboratory needed a lot of electricity. Originally, after Lin Youde took control of Helang Yabo, the first thing she did was to buy machines to build a power station.
.Lin Youde does not understand specific technologies, but he is familiar with the history of technological evolution and is even more familiar with the impact of technological changes in each era on society.
At the end of the 19th century, the main use of electricity was lighting, but the status of industrial electricity in the electricity usage structure continued to rise, triggering the so-called second industrial revolution (also called the electrical revolution). Compared with the first industrial revolution, electricity
The biggest advantage of steam power, the protagonist, is that it centralizes the energy conversion links. Factories in the electric age no longer need to have a large number of employees responsible for using and maintaining boilers, and they no longer need to consider the purchase and transportation of fossil fuels such as coal.
As for the trivial details, they only need to pay a relatively low electricity usage fee to the power company to obtain the energy necessary for factory operation.
The issue of energy supply was separated from industrial production and became an independent industrial branch, which greatly reduced the cost of industrial production. This was the primary reason why electricity gradually replaced steam in the early days of the electrical age.
Later, with the development of science and technology, many electric-driven high-precision machine tools and large-scale mechanical equipment gradually appeared, so steam power officially came to an end.
Lin Youde knew that he was now standing at the door of the second industrial revolution. If he wanted to not lose at the starting line, this was the best opportunity. The United States relied on this opportunity to leap into the world's industrial leader. Of course, Lin Youde also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity.
Hitchhiking.
As a result, Los Angeles has become the city with the most sufficient electricity in the Philippines. As a sign of this advanced nature, the street lights in Los Angeles were replaced with electric lights. Compared with Manila, which still uses kerosene lamps and gas lamps, it immediately became more powerful.
That widened the gap.
But the power supply situation in Horangabo became useless in Sophie's eyes.
"The power station I built for Springs has ten times more power than your crappy power station. And what's with this terrible generator design? Who is the person selling your generator?
It’s really shameless that you have the nerve to sell such a wretched thing.”
So Lin Youde had to spend money and choose a large area on the outskirts of Helanggabo to build a new power station for his young daughter.
Originally, Sophie planned to go directly to wireless power transmission, but Lin Youde simply rejected her proposal. According to Sophie, the wireless power transmission technology she mastered has reached the level of practical application, and its safety and reliability are confirmed.
Guarantee. But Lin Youde still disagrees. The biggest problem with wireless power transmission technology is not the technical level. The most terrible shortcoming of this technology is that there is no way to control the person who uses the power. Once it is sent out, anyone can use it. In addition to this, it will
In addition to the copper-smelling problem of not being able to collect electricity bills, it will also seriously affect the power allocation when the power supply is tight - in fact, the power sent by wireless transmission cannot be allocated at all.
For this reason, Sophie and Lin Youde argued for three days, and were finally bribed by Peking Duck to agree to use "stupid, inefficient, and damaging to Sophie Tesla's reputation" wired transmission.
After finalizing the specific details, the power station's factory building started construction, and the generator was split into hundreds of parts with no apparent purpose, which were ordered from different manufacturers. Sophie once again showed her strength: the little girl was very interested in specific details.
She has a thorough knowledge of the production process. She personally specifies which manufacturers to order and which parts to order. She also personally directs the construction of the power station, improving the construction process to shorten the construction period and reduce costs.
This is probably a habit inherited from Tesla. Many of the great inventors and scientists of this era are themselves engineers and are very closely integrated with the production process. For example, Tesla himself worked in Edison's factory for several years.
.This is very different from those scientists in later generations who were free from work and purely engaged in scientific research. Because of this, many of the results produced by scientists in this era were considered for specific applications. They themselves were able to transform the results into production capacity and wealth, unlike later generations.
Those academics in the ivory tower can only hold on to a large number of achievements and continue to receive state funding.
After witnessing his youngest daughter's activity, Lin Youde suddenly felt that his own power might lead to a strange technological tree, with electromagnetism being two hundred years advanced and everything else being scum.
Weird things are weird. It is common for asymmetric development when the strength is not enough. In the last time and space, China also had a weird technology tree. Except for lasers, aerospace and other fields, it spent money and time to reach the world's top level. All other fields relied on
The cottage is here to deal with it.
In order to maximize the use of the strange technology tree, Lin Youde and Sophie proposed some research projects that could quickly strengthen his own power.
For example, radio.
Considering the current level of craftsmanship, Lin Youde's requirements are not high, which is to equip the battalion and company-level command organizations with walkie-talkies that do not require batteries and are powered by a small hand-operated generator. The communication distance does not need to be too far and can cover a battalion.
The combat area is enough.
As a result, Sophie said that it was too insulting to her intelligence, so she decided to use practical actions to slap the face of Lin Youde, who did not understand the amorous feelings. So Lin Youde got a radio system from his young daughter that could be equipped to individual soldiers: Sophie gave
Ordinary soldiers designed a receiving device. After excluding the transmitting function, this device is small enough to be installed in a helmet even with the current level of technology.
The problem lies in the power supply. The best battery of this era cannot be put into the helmet, and if it is carried in a backpack, there is a wire connected to the helmet which is really painful.
The little girl used wireless power transmission to solve this problem. She integrated the low-power wireless power transmission system with a hand-operated generator and a battery to make a backpack. The soldier responsible for carrying it had to shake the handle every thirty minutes to recharge the battery.
Fully charged, she also designed an additional product: the soldier responsible for carrying the battery backpack can throw an electrode near the target, and then use the Tesla gun to discharge the electrode, injuring those between himself and the electrode and near the electrode.
Everyone.
When testing this add-on product, Lin Youde discovered that as long as the electrode is thrown near the eye-catching spot of the bunker, the discharge will spread to the barrel of the machine gun, and then follow the barrel and other things to electrocute the gun into ** - due to the electricity
It is limited, and it is very difficult to electrocute him, but it is no problem to temporarily shock him, and it can also demoralize the enemy. If you are lucky, you can even detonate the primer of the explosive bullet.
So a strange unit soon appeared in the Nanyang Army: the Thunder Soldier. Lin Youde regarded it as the supplementary firepower of the rocket launcher group. If an electrode was thrown into a bunker or barricade, this guy could be used as a flamethrower. The disadvantage was that
After shooting once, you have to hold your head and shake the handle for ten minutes to recharge.
Lin Youde was very happy. This guy was just a degraded version of the Magnetic Infantry. When it would be improved enough to be used in actual combat, he would simply shave his head, and then change the name of the country to the Chinese Soviet Republic, and the national anthem to the Soviet March.
, and finally the red flag was planted in every corner of the world, and the glory of revolutionary teacher Lin Youde shone across the world. What, why do you want to shave your head? Isn’t this a matter of course? Revolutionary teachers are all bald, such as Lenin, Yuri, etc.
Kane - Well, the last two are more like stick men.
But this is all a matter of the future. Right now, the Thunderbolt Soldier is only used as a power supply for the squad radio. Its main task is to crank the handle to generate electricity. Apart from the stun gun, the weapon only has a box cannon.
Sophie designed a communication backpack for the squad leader. The backpack has its own battery and can be used for a period of time even if the lightning soldiers are dead. This backpack has the function of receiving and sending messages at the same time. The squad leader can use this to issue orders to the soldiers, which can be slightly improved.
After the transmitting power is increased, this thing can directly communicate with the company headquarters or even the battalion headquarters.
Equipped with command organizations above the company level, this is the kind of thing Lin Youde originally hoped for.
After this set of tools was distributed to some troops for actual use for a period of time, the officers reported to Lin Youde that during the exercises, the radio was often in chaos, and the soldiers could not distinguish which order was from their squad leader.
Lin Youde analyzed it and felt that it was too wasteful to put the signaling capability below the squad level, because the density of troops on the battlefield in this era was much higher than a hundred years later, and the signaling capability only needs to be placed at the company level command organization
That's enough. You can add more cavalry units as appropriate, because cavalry are mostly used as scouts.
In this way, although the Nanyang Army's First Town and the Hailufeng Mixed Association are still using terrible artillery, they have the best communication and command capabilities in the world. Don't underestimate this ability. After getting this system, the time traveler Lin Youde
, immediately ordered that the item of calling for artillery attacks be added to the troop training, and that the company-level troops be assigned artillery fire calibration officers who would be responsible for the artillery fire calibration.
Sophie's strength made Lin Youde fall in love with this forcibly abducted daughter even more. The man who ruled Lin Ji's business empire even had the idea of building a Disneyland for his little daughter. But then he thought about it and thought that this little girl probably wouldn't
Lin Youde liked the things in the amusement park, so he built a super kitchen for his little daughter, hired the best chefs from Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing to form a team of two hundred chefs, so as to satisfy the bottomless pit of the foodie girl's stomach.
And being served by Manchus and Han people day after day made Sophie finally willing to call Lin Youde "Dad", which was a treatment that even Nikola Tesla could not get.
By October 1898, Helangyabo became the city with the most electricity in the world. Lin Youde moved his base camp here directly. According to his youngest daughter's design, he built a tall telegraph tower, which could directly transmit electricity to Guangzhou.
Lin Ke Branch issued coded instructions without relying on wired telegrams from the telegraph office.
Due to the abundant electricity, the new factories in Helanggabo switched to electric motors - of course this is a new gadget designed by Sophie. The efficiency of the heat engine is several grades higher than that of contemporaries. This has greatly increased the textile output of Helangyabo.
Soaring, coupled with Lin Youde's skill bonus, Lin Ji quickly squeezed out the textile factories affiliated with Xiang Qiyi's Heshengtang and controlled the entire Philippine textile market.
Xiang Qiyi was so angry that his nose was crooked, and he also started to carry out an electric revolution in Manila, but how could he be the opponent of Lin Youde who had opened a golden finger and recruited bug talents?
Lin Youde, who realized the importance of Sophie, took 100,000 silver and threw it at Sky Academy Lan's face, asking her to escort Sophie. Then the unscrupulous witch ran to Sophie and shouted: "Please drive me to your heart's content!"