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Chapter 445 Heavy Dump Truck (Third update, please subscribe)

Even cannon fodder, not everyone has a chance.

They must have at least 4 years of service experience, and have excellent individual qualities...

In short, there are many restrictions.

When the Nanyang Labor Service Company recruited cannon fodder, the Japanese authorities also noticed this, but they simply chose to turn a blind eye.

"It would be better for the Nanyang people to recruit those guys abroad than for them to go north because they can't have enough to eat."

For the Japanese high-level officials in Tokyo, what they are most concerned about is whether the people will turn north due to unemployment and difficult life. This is also the reason why they are unwilling to leave the occupying forces - the occupying forces can intimidate Xiaoxiao.

On the other hand, when these people go overseas, they can bring a large amount of remittances.

For Japan, remittances from Southeast Asia have long become its most important foreign exchange income - last year alone, more than 100 million U.S. dollars of remittances entered Japan, preventing millions of families from being troubled by hunger. , and also allowed Japan to obtain valuable foreign exchange.

Of course, it also makes all Japanese people believe that Nanyang is a place full of gold.

Although it has long been decided to promote the development of Nanyang science and technology through "technology smuggling", in the past, it was focused on the general direction, and Li Yian did not have much involvement in specific mechanical research. After all, machinery itself is the strength of German engineers.

The purpose is to increase the population to Nanyang as much as possible during the last window period. Employees waving "descendant tickets" can be seen in almost every coastal port and city, recruiting immigrants to enrich the Nanyang labor force.

In fact, they are just being used as cannon fodder.

"Now, with the interruption of Yangtze River shipping and the changes in the situation in Tangshan, the era of large-scale introduction of immigrants has ended, but the construction of Nanyang has not stopped. This requires us to fully consider one issue when designing machinery - how to Reduce the use of manpower as much as possible.”

Don't look down on cannon fodder. How many people are cannon fodder and haven't had that chance yet!

On the way to Surabaya, they also encountered some ships, and those ships were packed with soldiers evacuating from the mainland to Taiwan. When the ships met, the people on the ships looked at each other, their expressions were different, but one thing was certain, What they are facing is an unknown future.

That means more remittances!

Faced with such a good thing, the Japanese government directly chose to let them go, and signed the passport very quickly. Soon, the first batch of "cannon fodder" left by boat, and their destination was Surabaya Special City.

"In Nanyang, even a female textile worker can earn 3,000 yen a month!"

In addition, they also saw several LST tank landing ships, but they were civilian ships flying the flag of the Nanyang merchant ship. The ships were also crowded with people, who were immigrants heading to Nanyang.

……

Not the mainland of Nanyang, but the Special City of Surabaya in Java. They will depart from Surabaya and fly to India to fulfill the contract.

But last month, as the million-strong army crossed the river, the number of immigrants in Nanyang immediately fell off a cliff. From 3 million in March, it fell directly below 137 digits. Such a drop is astonishing. If it continues to fall like this , it will even be difficult to introduce 7 million immigrants this year.

In the conference room of Futian Company, Li Yian said to the company manager Wu Liren and the company's engineers.

In the past few days, hundreds of Nanyang LST tank landing ships have been frantically recruiting people at coastal ports.

"Men can make more money when they go to Nanyang!"

“We have to be prepared for a workforce shortage.”

Faced with a shortage of labor, or even a serious shortage, Li Yian came here and tried to release part of the labor force through machinery.

"Release the labor force, liberate more labor force from heavy manual labor, and let them enter factories and enter industrial production. This is exactly the purpose of my coming here."

When Li Yian finished speaking, he looked around and said.

"Everyone is familiar with the Foton 48 truck. It is the leading truck in Nanyang." The Foton 48 truck is a load-bearing truck independently developed by Foton after learning from American trucks and absorbing German truck technology. Although the load capacity is only 5 tons, but as the first mass-produced truck in Nanyang, it is widely used on construction sites together with the Foton 46 tricycle.

Pointing to the pattern on the drawing, Li Yian just thought for a moment and said directly to everyone:

"Now Nanyang is implementing large-scale infrastructure construction, including factories, roads, bridges, factories and mines, which all require a large number of heavy-duty trucks. Although the Foton 48 truck can meet construction needs to a certain extent, it is only to a certain extent. For example, in many places We need 10-ton or even 20-ton vehicles, and we need to use large trucks to replace small trucks to save manpower, so I want to know if our company has the technical strength to produce these heavy-duty trucks."

Why build heavy-duty trucks?

It's because heavy trucks have a larger load capacity and can save more manpower.

Everyone looked at each other after hearing this, and they didn't seem to be surprised. Milian, the company's chief engineer, looked at Li Yian with a confident look and said:

"Sir, the heavy truck you are talking about is the heavy-duty mining dump truck we are developing. The maximum load capacity is 30 tons. I don't know if it meets your needs."

Hearing this, Li Yian couldn't help but be startled. After staying in this era for so long, all he saw were small trucks. He didn't expect that the company had begun to design heavy-duty trucks with such a huge load capacity.

And it's a dump truck.

"May I take a look at it?"

Soon, Milian's assistant hung the drawings on the drawing rack.

"This heavy-duty dump truck under development is specially designed by us for mines including open-pit coal mines. It is seven and a half meters long, three and a half meters wide, three and a half meters high, and has a dead weight of 21 tons. The dump truck is named after The same kind of mining dump truck in the United States is used as a sample, using the Detroit 8V71 diesel engine produced by United Power Company, with a rated power of 450 horsepower. The maximum speed can reach 55 kilometers per hour, and the maximum climbing rate is 36 degrees..."

Listening to Milian's introduction and looking at the heavy truck on the drawing, Li Yian was absolutely shocked.

A mining dump truck with a load capacity of thirty tons!

450 HP diesel engine. Everything added together is really amazing.

And such heavy-duty trucks can be used not only in mines but also on infrastructure construction sites. After all, Nanyang now needs a lot of heavy-duty trucks to complete infrastructure construction.

"Because this is an engineering truck that needs to travel in non-paved areas, it must have strong off-road capabilities. Finally, its body can automatically tip backwards with the support of two hydraulic rods. "

This is a heavy-duty off-road dump truck with all-wheel drive!

One such truck can carry six trucks. Can save a lot of human resources. The important thing is that it is a dump truck, which means that no manpower is required to load and unload the muck on the truck.

Surprised, Li Yian suddenly looked at Milian and asked as if he thought of something.

"You mean it uses a hydraulic rod, right?"

Hydraulic!

Just this simple word made a thought flash in Li Yian's mind.

"Yes sir, Mr. Schwart is a hydraulic machinery expert. It is with his efforts that we completed the design of the heavy-duty hydraulic dump system. Its performance is very reliable. We have conducted thousands of durability tests. , almost never any glitches.”

There are actually ready-made hydraulic experts in the factory!

This was somewhat unexpected. In fact, what Li Yi'an didn't know was that the application of hydraulic technology in dump trucks can even be traced back to after World War I. Fruehauf Company began to introduce hydraulics in dump trucks as early as the 1920s. The system relies on a hydraulic pump to push the hydraulic rod, but it is not very reliable and can be subject to certain restrictions in promotion.

Technological advances in military equipment during World War II allowed engineers to develop more reliable hydraulic systems. After the war, new hydraulic systems began to be used in civilian equipment.

Surprised, Li Yian immediately regained his composure, looked at the middle-aged Mirian with a pleasant look and asked:

"Mr. Schwart! I wonder if you have considered using the hydraulic system in other engineering vehicles?"

Schwart was stunned when he heard this, and continued with a slight hesitation:

"Sir, I don't know what type of engineering vehicle you are referring to?"

(End of this chapter)