Chapter 21 Chapter 121 Unexpected Contact

Chapter 21 1.21 Unexpected Contact

About 100 kilometers east of the Zhujiao ruins, there is a human settlement, which is also the closest human settlement to the cluster.

The name of this settlement is Ji'an City, which has nothing to do with the name of the city that people associated with before the Great Destruction. Instead, the people of a village successfully saved themselves during the Great Destruction and found a place with river traffic and hills to build such a city.

Now the whole city is surrounded by a three-meter-high wall, and there are high platforms everywhere on the wall. The black muzzle overlooks the surroundings from the platform. This artillery technology is barely breech-loading, steel rifled barrel, the barrel wall is very thick, and brown gunpowder is used as the propellant. Relying on the base roller on the turret, the surrounding area can be controlled. Overall, this is probably the Krupp steel cannon technology in the mid-nineteenth century.

Civilization has regressed to the present, the social system has begun to blunt, and many technologies can no longer be maintained.

For example, chemical industry! Technically, after preparing potassium nitrate, hydrochloric acid is then mixed in to nitrate glycerin or guncotton.

Each step is feasible! However, many intermediate products are extremely unstable!

In the 21st century, formal chemical factories recruit people with academic qualifications and discipline, as well as good management. Those low-educated small workshop technicians in the private sector can also be cautious and reluctant to prepare some chemicals under the drive of interests, even at the risk of being in jail.

Now, in a situation where some people monopolize resources and most people lose their upward channels, they still have to maintain the production of hazardous chemicals with many key steps. It is only a matter of time before a major accident occurs! So, it is not that people have forgotten knowledge, but that society determines production relations, and production relations restrict productivity. There is no high explosive, so the gun chamber pressure does not need to be high, and the military industry gradually sacrifices performance for stability.

In small and medium-sized city-states such as Ji'an City, the overall reliable military technology has been reduced to the 20th century, and a few craftsman-level technologies, such as refined gears, wires, and optical glass production, have barely reached the workshop level in the middle of the 20th century.

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Now, in the center of this artillery fortress city.

The center of the city is in a building that looks like a tower of the Great Wall.

The windows on the four walls of the building are very small, and there are three sets of skylights on the top for light transmission. The steel plates on the skylights and wall windows can be pulled down to make the room completely airtight.

Inside the building, there are electric fans, incandescent lamps and other equipment. The light from the skylight just shines on several potted plants, two of which are potted kumquats, and the small oranges on them are still green.

On the wooden chair, there lies an old man in a white coat, like a researcher in the 21st century. In this era, clothes that can be preserved for hundreds of years are very unusual, because humans have lost cotton supplies, and most people are already using linen fibers to make clothes.

This is Zeng Longmu, the owner of Ji'an City. He looked at the report provided by the person in charge of the fungus culture room. The report showed that there was an abnormality in the fungi in the culture dish. The owner of the city opened a book and turned to one of the pages. This page recorded the reason for this phenomenon: there were major changes in the gene community in the surrounding area.

He turned to another glass showcase and took out a box of signs, which recorded the names of his beastmasters. He first picked up a sign from his own son, then picked up another sign, and then hung the two signs on the kumquat potted plant beside him, smiling kindly.

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It has been nearly 40 days since Wei Keng crossed over here, and the construction of this territory has become more and more prosperous.

In the settlement, one after another, the indigenous blast furnaces have been built, reaching a height of five meters, using bricks dug out from the ruins of the city. For a blast furnace of this scale, the blowing work is definitely not something that can be carried out continuously by manpower. Well, it is mainly because Wei Keng's hands are sore.

So Wei Keng specially blocked the small river, and used the lever principle and the wheel to make the blast furnace blower reciprocate, continuously pushing the hot air in.

As the hot air blown into the hot coal turned into a jet flame, the furnace temperature reached the level that could melt steel, and the metal objects dug out from the ruins finally melted at this temperature.

This indigenous steelmaking technology wasted a lot of resources in the 1960s and produced a lot of useless scrap steel. Therefore, after the 1980s, some literary intellectuals despised this steelmaking method when they mentioned this era.

But in fact, this steelmaking method can produce relatively usable steel. Back in the 1930s, weapons were obtained in the local anti-aggression war by relying on this method.

The premise of being usable is that the people who used this method to make steel in the 1930s were science and engineering students who had returned from studying abroad. Although it was a local method, all the standards were met.

The people who made steel in the 1960s were farmers who had no awareness of industrial production. They could not understand the meaning of each indicator for the tasks assigned by the superiors. They relied on enthusiasm and quantity in the hope of being praised and approved. Therefore, the height of the small blast furnace was not enough, the inner wall strength was not enough, and even the furnace temperature was not reached, so the steel produced was scrap steel, and there was no technical summary.

In general, it is not a problem of method, but a lack of qualified talents in industrial production. ——Wei Keng: So a bunch of literary youths are scolding, do you have the quality of steelmaking?

Wei Keng wants to make steel now, which is useful to him, and all related processes have entered the summary state.

The copper and iron dug out from the city are classified, and the steel goes into the No. 1 large furnace, and the copper goes into the small furnace.

After the steel is refined, it flows directly from several outlets into the shell casting area for casting! The other outlet flows into the forging area. After forging, it is drilled with a drill bit, and then extruded. Finally, it becomes a 30-centimeter-long iron can as thick as a mineral water bottle, and then the bracket is welded below. Oh, forget about the angler. There is a visual ballistic marking system provided by the system. This is a grenade launcher! Simple steel pipes, cast iron charging iron blocks. Simple and convenient to use!

After confirming that these explosion-resistant iron frame steel pipes have been batched out, Wei Keng immediately announced: "I don't want to use the slingshot thing anymore."

As for the copper refined in the small furnace, it is forged into copper skin while hot, and then cut into specific specifications.

After heating and extruding, it becomes a copper pen cap and copper pen head. The copper pen head needs to be counterweighted and filled with lead liquid.

These clanging things were sent into the chamber machine by the measurement team to try to push, and then taken out and tried to process with a file.

These copper pen caps are filled with black particles, and then the "pen head" is inserted, and then a large stapler-like rack is used to squeeze and knead the front to prevent the pen head from falling.

In fact, the most complicated technology is the thing at the bottom of the copper steel cap. The tutorial provided by the system is very complicated.

Fortunately, there are hot springs and sulfur in this place, and sulfuric acid can be prepared with sulfur, and hydrochloric acid can be prepared through salt to prepare sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid and pyrolusite can be heated to generate yellow-green gas, and this yellow-green gas can be used to prepare a bleaching powder through potassium hydroxide.

Then, you can make firecrackers. Just find realgar (omit one hundred words)

The thing in the thermometer is nitrated? Too dangerous, to prepare that thing, formal industrial technology is needed. All the operation steps need to be below 80 degrees, and you can reach that condition by just rubbing your hand.

Rows of "Border Area Made" rolled off the production line from Wei Keng's adobe workshop.

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After a day of industrial production, the water used to cool down the equipment passed through the dried bamboo tubes and poured onto every Wei Keng who had soaked in the pond. After finishing the bath and drying the water, they smeared the crushed Panax notoginseng leaves in the jar on their bodies.

These days, the Wei Kengs have been harassed by a group of female mosquitoes that demand their blood and sperm to give birth to their offspring. In fact, those who have sucked Wei Keng's blood have died. There is an urgent need for straw curtains in all adobe houses.

The only drawback now is that Wei Keng, who is focusing on heavy industrial production, is very inefficient in weaving straw mats.

Wei Keng: "If a group of girls come and weave straw sandals and straw mats for me, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

Oh, Wei Keng didn't say this to the supervisor. Although his emotional intelligence is a bit low, he still feels that he and this girl seem to have some differences about this plane because he is unwilling to cooperate with certain things. When there is a disagreement, the goal should be not to quarrel. As for telling some jokes, it will not produce good feelings but only disgust.

Wei Keng judged the relationship between himself and the supervisor in this way: In the words of the 21st century, the personalities of both parties are not suitable? The consumption concepts are not suitable, and the living habits are not suitable. In short, he is too rustic and can't get along with the flight attendant.

However, in the dimensional space bubble, the supervisor Bai Linglu is constantly flipping through Wei Keng's action records of these days. Of course, some unsightly scenes, such as standing in a row of golden water columns in the morning to open an arched corridor, she directly turned on the intelligent coding system.

The girl's impression of Wei Keng has changed greatly, and now there is a positive evaluation: "Very decisive hands-on ability, try his best to consider the surplus, and now it is very reliable."

Take the current project of saltpeter treatment that she is flipping through. The plan set by Wei Keng is only to complete the initial output of three kilograms per day. But when executing the plan, set as high a standard as possible, directly block the river, and then catch a large number of fish, add the internal organs to the saltpeter pile, ensuring the output of fifteen kilograms of pure saltpeter per day.

Although this is just a small part of the plan, Wei Keng will definitely complete the goal once he sets it, which makes Bai Linglu feel that the overall plan of this plane is executable.

Then the question is, how to make Wei Keng agree to stay here?

Bai Linglu: "He doesn't talk to me now, what should I do?" She didn't send this trouble to the gravity well.

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Wei Keng wanted to stay in the ruins for a hundred days and then leave, but it is inevitable to encounter some unexpected collisions here.

Forty days after arriving in this plane

A boat passed by upstream and stayed outside Wei Keng's residence. This sneaky look was like a sneaky spy.

For this reason, Wei Keng must be hospitable and let them get off the boat for a drink.

Bullets hit the river surface, warning them to stop the boat.

The merchant who got off the boat stammered and claimed that he was from Ji'an City. Seeing that there was a new human settlement here, he was ready to do business.

To do business, Wei Keng certainly wanted tea, cotton cloth, and tung oil. He wanted them all.

I originally traveled through time to become a time and space merchant, and I still have a lot of small yellow croakers. Of course I have to buy them. I buy them to make tea to treat constipation, set up mosquito nets, and brush waterproof cloths.

Wei Keng invited these panicked suspected merchants to the camp to discuss business, but after these guys entered the camp, they kept shivering. Wei Keng couldn't hear the Cantonese dialect clearly, so he had to rely on the translation system, which made communication even more difficult.

The reason why these merchants shivered is not difficult to understand. A human settlement suddenly appeared in the place that was originally a ruin, and after entering, they found that these humans looked exactly the same.

In the Pandora world, there are all kinds of weird gene communities. Some gene communities are not short of human-like individuals. They are called fusion people. Although some individuals look similar to humans, they have very strange actions in life for normal people. For example, they are human for one year and beasts for ten years after pupation. These gene communities only use the thinking ability of the human brain. As for human morality and social habits, they have never existed.

Wei Keng is now like this weird gene community, and because he looks exactly like a human, he has stimulated the "uncanny valley" effect.

Of course, for this reason, Wei Keng resolutely argued: "If there are a thousand identical beauties, you will definitely not have the uncanny valley effect. The small yellow croaker in my hand is much more attractive than a beautiful woman. Please show your capitalist greed, the kind that can sell a noose with ten times the profit."

The system reminds again: These guys may not be businessmen, at least not pure businessmen.

They were being hypocritical when they were talking about business, and they didn't bargain with Wei Keng about the parameters of tea and cloth. Whatever Wei Keng said was what it was, and it was obviously perfunctory.

That night, when Wei Keng deliberately left a hole, they escaped. As a result, they fell into the dry toilet and almost choked to death, which shows where the hole Wei Keng left was.

"Ah, mother, father..." In the tunnel, the mentality collapsed and thought that they were swallowed by something. They cried and screamed, and the stench kept coming up.

Wei Keng squatted on the edge of the dry toilet, threw the rope down, pinched his nose and said: "Everyone, since you are here to do business, why do you act without saying hello repeatedly in our area? This is probably not the way to be a guest."

Wei Keng's shouting made the people in the pit feel a little relieved. They should have realized that they were not in the belly of some evil beast. Look, there are still dry leaves for wiping butts thrown by Wei Keng in the dry toilet.

Wei Keng's questioning went unanswered for several minutes. Just when Master Wei Keng wanted to unbutton his pants and rinse them with hot water,

Finally, a tough voice shouted: "We are not guests, you are the uninvited guests." Then a pile of shit was thrown out, almost hitting Wei Keng who was shouting.

Wei Keng was silenced and stopped arguing. After pulling them up, he simply poured a basin of water on them and unfolded a map on a wooden board a few meters away from them.

Wei Keng warned these merchants: "Do you see this map? With this river as the boundary, your city's armed forces are not allowed to cross it within six months. Don't say I didn't warn you." Then he threw a small and simple wooden board map.

In the team that crawled out of the filthy tunnel, a few soft eggs accepted the map provided by Wei Keng with snot and tears, and then this group of people rushed into the jungle without looking back, as if there was a ghost behind them and they didn't dare to stay for a moment.

Weikeng and others looked at the direction they disappeared, lowered their heads and thought carefully, as if they felt that the current situation was very unsafe. So a team was sent to follow them from a distance to determine their return route. Of course, it was also necessary to determine the relevant intelligence of Ji'an City.

A week later, some members of the reconnaissance team returned, and another part was sent to rotate reconnaissance.

In Wei Keng's eyes: This is a somewhat remote city with cement walls, but the cement outer walls are pure black, and some wet places are covered with moss.

The reconnaissance team touched the nearby hilltops and highlands to observe the situation of this dilapidated human settlement.

Based on the number of animal-powered carriages parked in the open area, combined with the road conditions on the map, it was inferred that the force sent after its full mobilization should be mobilized: a team of about a thousand people should be able to carry heavy weapons such as artillery to attack the area where they are entrenched.

Of course, this offensive force is the upper limit of the most ideal situation.

Even the Mongolian system during the Genghis Khan period could not put its strength into one direction when there were abundant reasons for combat.

Judging from the lushness of the shrubs outside the city, the soldiers in the city have not had large-scale marches and other military training for a long time.

Under the current circumstances, even if the highest center of the city has the highest authority, if it wants to take the initiative to launch a foreign war, the forces that can be mobilized should be less than one-tenth of the forces that the entire city can mobilize.

But even if he is really so optimistic, Wei Keng is still uneasy. ——War means death, and he is very afraid.