out of cage

Chapter 37 1.37 Urbanization, Mechanization, Commercialization

The torrential rain finally faded. Logically, if you interfere with nature without authorization, there will be retribution.

Two days after the typhoon passed, various effects began to appear gradually after the catastrophe of water and fire.However, Wei Keng's speed is always a little faster than nature.Before nature's revenge began to exert its force, he had already cleaned up the environment around him.

As soon as the river receded, the Wei Keng group formed a team and started patrolling with gas-powered trolleys.

First, clean up the dead bodies that may appear in the river.Although under normal circumstances, most of the carcasses are washed downstream, and most of the surviving carcasses are quickly disposed of by animals.However, the gathering place of Wei Keng was already a forbidden area for various genetic communities, and there must be no animals nearby to pick up dead bodies.

Therefore, the corpse must be disposed of quickly to prevent the breeding of all kinds of weird mosquitoes.

Second, determine the conditions upstream of the settlement to see if any animals have fallen in and drowned.

Several large wells must not be polluted, and barrier zones must be built, and then make sure the water source is clear, and sprinkle quicklime for further disinfection.The water is then taken out, boiled, and stored in a cistern.Burn it again when drinking.

Finally, carry some small dried fish and search for the surviving wildcat-sized animals.

Searching for them isn't just for masturbation, of course.Although Wei Keng drove away the gene communities near his area, he still had to build a new ecosystem based on objective facts and control each ecological energy level.

At least Wei Keng himself can't catch mice by himself. Cats are prey creatures that must exist after the formation of human cities.

The emergence of human cities disrupted the local natural balance.A lot of the upper food chain has disappeared, so insects such as cockroaches and rodents such as mice must be flooded.At this time, cats who can prey on them without causing danger to humans are the best collaborators for humans!They dutifully clean up all living things below humans.

Until the 27th century, human beings could not eradicate the rats in the city, so when a dog ban was issued to eradicate stray dogs.She is very tolerant of stray cats.Even city managers build some warm basements for them in winter.because they are useful.

Wei Keng returned with a large number of kittens.Among them, there may also be a few unlucky little leopards.

Wei Keng grabbed the back of the cat's neck with great heart: "It doesn't matter, I don't have free-range chickens and ducks here, you can bite, if you encounter a mouse, give me a bite."

Thus, after the flood, plagues, pests, and rat plagues.These natural aunts are going to teach Wei Keng a lesson for this bastard.All were pressed into the pit and buried in the invisible.

Wei Keng said inwardly, "Why am I so skilled? Tsk tsk, after thousands of years, in order to live in harmony with nature, naturally we must understand the nature of nature! I also have a heart of Taoism."

Immediately afterwards, Wei Keng of each environmental inspection team shamelessly recounted to the workers who came out with him: "Let's take a sustainable development step, what the green hills want, the green water keeps, and the gdp grows taller. "

In summer, it flows like a rolling ball of water.Before he knew it, Wei Keng had been staying on this plane for a year.

two months later.

Wow, the water from the dam is poured into the pool as the gate slowly opens, and then flows into each block along the gradient of the pastoral field. The roots of the crops in the farmland are like sponges. absorbs moisture from the soil.They are in the hottest state in summer, and their genes express the state of aquatic life.

Before the Pandora era, because there was no shortage 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 break out, and land plants, in order to ensure that they would not be dehydrated, their leaves would be exposed to excessive light radiation. To stop transpiration and optical action, this kind of behavior that does not produce a little heat is unreasonable in the eyes of Wei Da capitalists!Land 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 wet and wet, and the soil did not become muddy due to flooding, and almost all the farmland of dozens of square kilometers was used up by 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 is worth it.It is rich in starch and has a water chestnut flavor when cooked.After being heated and dried, cut into slices, and stored in nitrogen-filled glass bottles, the fruit has become a commodity favored by merchants.

Now Wei Keng has opened up three rivers to carry the material transportation of surrounding cities.

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These human settlements, who had previously huddled in the mountains for safety, lacked everything.

In terms of food, they ate several generations of mushrooms.This has led to their lower and middle classes getting shorter and shorter, and adult men are all 1.6 meters tall.

Wei Keng is not a person who cares about height. When he saw them at first, he thought they were very capable and didn't think about anything else.Only later did they realize that in the early days, they were so cautious when they met themselves, and the sense of oppression brought about by their body shape may be one of the important reasons.

As Wei Keng completed the debugging of the equipment in the factory, the steam engine crankshaft and the casting of the closed piston were successfully completed.In this world, Wei Keng successfully forged a single-cylinder vertical steam engine of his own.

Although this two-ton steam engine with a fixed base only has an output of five horsepower, this is a breakthrough of zero!

What did the invention of the steam engine mean?With ships, or tractors, or textile machines?
In Wei Keng's eyes, it means the improvement of steel quality!Good steel must be hammered with a hammer. Previously, there was no steam engine output power, and it was all processed by water power. Such processing parts are very small, at most forged bayonet, gun barrel parts and so on.

As for bigger steel, more than an ingot the size of a wine bottle?It will directly put the turbine on the card.

But with a steam engine, it is different. When the steam engine rotates, when it encounters resistance, it does not slip away when it reaches the upper limit like a water turbine, but the pressure in the boiler increases sharply, increasing the output.

After the self-made steam engine, it represents the improvement of Wei Keng's processing quality!Wei Keng increased the acquisition of minerals in the trade.to the point of non-rejection.Because the surrounding area is also open to its own steel products.

There is a saying that goes, "capitalists can go through fire and water for profit".

These traders after determining that there is grain and metal processing capacity on the lower plains.Finally started to ship people.And they also transported some old-fashioned machines in their city-state.

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9 month 4 number.

Facing the eight diesel generator sets sent by the businessmen in Menghe City, the corners of Uncle Wei's mouth twitched.

The merchants who came stared at Wei Keng and quoted the price in one go, eight single-cylinder steam engines.Oh, Wei Keng can only assemble one in a month now.Faced with such a lion, he opened his mouth wide.Wei Keng thought about it for a while and cut the price in half.

The businessman knocked to death immediately: "Deal."

Mr. Wei Keng felt that he seemed to haggle less.

And after these businessmen left, people from Weikeng Industrial Group used wrenches and screwdrivers to disassemble these diesel engines. First of all, the internal electronic control system was aging, so it could not be started, and some of the wires were obviously overheated and burned out.But overall, those cylinders and parts with the most technical difficulty are still very good.

All removed for cleaning, electroplating solution, lubricating oil, and some small defective parts, draw a picture, and let the steel selected from the scrap car yard be used for forging in the forging yard.

There are very few people who can repair machinery in modern times. To be precise, there are far fewer people who can understand the double-dimensional geometric structure of the manual.On Earth, although Wei Keng was dawdling in higher education, he had learned mechanics, chemistry, and simple principles. Even the education in the 27th century gave everyone practical lessons in assembling machinery in factories.

Now the system sends the solid modeling of the entire mechanical operation to Wei Keng.After the various divisions of Wei Keng fully understood the machine, the system called up the machine model and a series of maintenance tutorials provided by the manufacturer.So far, for this batch of diesel engines, Wei Keng has done everything in an orderly manner except for the specific disassembly method and the slightly slower deduction of parts.

Let's put it this way, the current Weikeng cluster, as a high-level talent reserve, cannot be obtained from all the aboriginal human settlements in the entire Guangdong region.

The guards next to the diesel unit were busy until the evening, with a total of six groups of three people in each group.Among them, one uses a wrench, one holds a pen to record, and one places the removed parts.

The number of dismantled parts is increasing, and the process of parts processing is becoming clearer and clearer, and the drawing of parts is also stacked into several stacks according to the classification.

Machinery is the romance of men, a large number of complex geometric bodies, under the conduction of energy.Let these parts, which I have thought about rationally, be assembled with my own hands, and as I press the button, all the brush strokes will move, oh, this moment, it is a hundred times better than xx.

This... Wei Keng didn't miss a woman on this plane.Wei Keng: "It's not that I'm afraid of the supervisor. I'm afraid of her? I'm afraid of her? Haha. Ahem."

Mainly because it is precarious right now, and I have no sense of security, so I have to constantly expand, expand, and expand.

This is like the sudden collapse of a generation of baby boomers when the Eastern economy leapt forward in the early 21st century.

At that time, the ladies might think that the ratio of males and females had the upper hand, and they were constantly choosing and waiting, while the men's personalities, just like Wei Keng, lacked confidence, houses, cars, savings, and struggled for a few more years to live more. 's confidence.

[Of course it seems to be the case. That generation of young people, because the society was relatively simple when they were young, believed too much that hard work would definitely be rewarded. In addition to the series of chicken soups from Yilin and Reader Magazine, it was enough to say that after the time. Fair college entrance examination, so after I came out, despite my hard work, I lacked the sense of struggle. As a result, I blindly followed the baton in the first few years of work, and fattened the 'people's rich' of that era. Finally~~~~~]

Back on topic,

The simple Wei Keng now believes that the machine will not deceive himself and use his intelligence and strength in his post.Then the society you live in will not fool you.

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"Da da da", with the electric ignition similar to the gas water heater, the gas generated by the gas generator was introduced into the diesel engine, and the diesel-to-fuel engine finally started.

Electricity reaches the newly assembled circuits, and the steel in the factory can undergo more complex heat treatments without the need for high-pressure steam lines to supply pressure on the machine side.Electricity made the runners of these machine tools hum, and Wei Keng was worried that after the metal broke, the fragments might be as fast as bullets.

At the smelting factory, various scrap metal raw materials were dug 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.

This diesel generator set is really a technology pendant given to them by the indigenous people here.

Wei Keng: "I'm going to be mechanized! The tracked car is moving."

Wei Keng was certain that his current level of machinery was 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 process of producing tractors.And their tractor fuel?
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Around Ji'an City, Wei Keng found a large number of castor-like herbs, which are the raw materials for oil refining in these cities.A year ago, Khaomu's armored car carried a lot of smoke when it attacked, and it moved forward like an asthma. However, this kind of biofuel is not easy to use, and they also consume caustic soda and other chemical raw materials when making this kind of diesel.

Wei Keng is now focusing on straw oil refining, that is, heating the substance to 650 degrees in a sealed reactor to liquefy it. There is a lot of carbon powder mixed in it, which is hard to say it is diesel.By 21st century standards, the fuel consumption is high, the output is not good, and the performance tends to clog the machine.

In Wei Keng's eyes, synthesis is better than collection.Hydrogenation with water gas or methane, and then filtering, even if the final fuel is inferior, you should be able to accept it.

After looking at this complicated plan, the first problem is the chemical reactor. If you want to build one yourself, you don't need to build it, and you can't build it too big.

Complete a three cubic meter reactor.This kind of thing may be an experimental product of the early chemical industry during the First World War.Don't pursue the limit life, just produce a dozen times and check whether there is hydrogenation corrosion 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.Inspired Wei Keng's tenacity,
And it is the most primitive small chemical equipment built by itself.The smaller the chemical equipment, the lower the material challenges and the simpler the numbers in the formula.

What is difficult in chemical industry is not the principle and technology, but the discipline of a series of production regulations and personnel in the early days.Many operations require some procedures that usually seem unnecessary and affect the speed of work, but can prevent [-] in [-] accidents.For example, before discharging, you may be able to complete two or three steps, but there are forty steps in the regulations.

Now Wei Keng has formed a large group and started to study this industry.What about this?Wei Keng found that now, it seems that he is not enough.

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In February 134 of the Pandora era, when Wei Keng was still thinking about a series of chemical equipment,
This time, the merchants found the reactor that Wei Keng wanted, but of course they couldn't bring it over this time.Directly responsible for taking Wei Keng over.

When Wei Keng came to this abandoned brick building, he dug out the chemical equipment protected by these steel frames from dozens of broken bricks, and found dozens of large boxes of spare parts.

Wei Keng realized a fact!I am an outsider, and I can go to the ruins of a parking lot to pick up stainless steel. The locals here actually know more warehouses.

When Wei Keng destroyed the gene community in the area, these merchants took the locations of large and small factories recorded in their homes before the era of Pandora, and directly took the team to transport these "useless" equipment in the abandoned warehouse here. Come, then put on dozens of sacks full of salt, and the steel utensils leave.

Regarding this, Wei Keng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I should tell them that it's all on my territory. Can you dig up to 500 yuan plus a pennant?"

Mr. Wei is not so stingy, but ah, a new problem has arisen.

If they sparked a gold rush, the merchants in these city-states would bring themselves to dig for treasures again and again in a short period of time. Their productivity had reached the limit in terms of numbers, and they could not convert their productivity into exchange for them.

However, if Wei Keng refused to accept it, these merchants, driven by the strong demand for commodities and their selfish desire to make money, might smash the equipment in the previous generation warehouse engulfed by the jungle into tatters, and sell them at the price of waste. Wei Keng take it!Because even if they waste these devices, they are not willing to be benefited by others.

This will bring huge havoc to the pre-industrial heritage of the Pandora era.

Once economic activity begins, there are sometimes elements that are difficult to control!
(End of this chapter)