Chapter 37 Chapter 137 Urbanization, Mechanization, and Commercialization

Chapter 37 1.37 Urbanization, mechanization, and commercialization

The rainstorm eventually faded. Logically, there will be retribution for interfering with nature without authorization.

Two days after the typhoon, various effects began to gradually emerge after the flood and fire disaster. However, Wei Keng's speed of action is always a little faster than nature. Before nature's revenge began to take effect, he had already cleaned up the environment around him.

As soon as the river water receded, the Wei Keng cluster separated into a team and started patrolling with gas-powered cars.

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

Therefore, the bodies must be disposed of quickly to prevent the breeding of various strange mosquitoes.

Secondly, determine the situation upstream of the residence to see if any animals have fallen in and drowned.

Several large wells must not be polluted. A barrier should be built, and then the water source should be clear, and quicklime should be sprinkled in for further disinfection. Then the water should be boiled and stored in a water tank. It should be boiled again when drinking.

Finally, carry some dried fish and search for surviving wild cat-sized animals.

Searching for them is certainly not just for petting. Although Wei Keng drove away the gene community near his area, he still has to build a new ecosystem based on objective facts and control each ecological energy level.

At least Wei Keng himself cannot catch mice by himself. Cats are predatory creatures that must exist after the formation of human cities.

The emergence of human cities has destroyed the natural balance of the local area. A large number of upper food chains have disappeared, so insects such as cockroaches and rodents such as mice are bound to proliferate. At this time, cats that can prey on them without causing danger to humans are the best collaborators of humans! They can conscientiously clean up all creatures below humans.

Until the 27th century, humans still couldn't eradicate rats in the city, so when issuing a dog ban to eradicate stray dogs, they were still very indulgent towards stray cats. Even city managers built some warm basements for them in winter. Because they are useful.

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

Wei Keng grabbed the cat's neck with a big heart: "It doesn't matter, I don't have free-range chickens and ducks here, you can bite them, and if you encounter a mouse, go up and bite it to death."

So, after the flood, there were epidemics, insect plagues, and rat plagues. These natural aunts were ready to teach Wei Keng, the bastard, a lesson. All were pressed into the pit and buried on the spot.

Wei Keng said to himself, "Why am I so skilled? Tsk tsk, for thousands of years, people and nature have to live in harmony, and naturally they have to understand the nature of nature! I also have a heart of Tao."

Then, Wei Keng from each environmental inspection team shamelessly told the workers who came out with him: "Let us take the steps of sustainable development, green mountains are needed, green waters are retained, and GDP grows high."

Summer flows like the rolling water of the Pearl River. Unknowingly, Wei Keng has stayed in this plane for a year.

Two months later.

The water from the dam poured into the pool as the gates were slowly opened, and then it would flow into each block in turn along the gradient of the countryside. The roots of the crops in the farmland were rooted in the soil and absorbed the water in the soil like sponges. In the hottest state of summer, their genes express the state of aquatic organisms.

Before the Pandora era, due to the lack of water, they could use the sun to photosynthesize as much as possible. Summer was the time when all kinds of aquatic plants were most likely to explode. In order to ensure that they would not be dehydrated by the sun, the leaves of land plants would stop transpiration and optical effects when they encountered excessive light radiation. This behavior of not producing when encountering a little heat was 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 stream was absorbed by the farmland, and the air quickly became humid. The soil did not become muddy due to waterlogging. Dozens of square kilometers of farmland almost used up all the water of the 7-meter-wide stream.

Of course, the fruits produced in this way made the farmers who braved the scorching sun feel that their sweat was worth it. It is rich in starch and has a taste of water chestnuts after being cooked. After heating and drying, cutting into slices, and storing in a glass bottle filled with nitrogen, this 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, which had previously huddled in the mountains for safety, lacked everything.

In terms of food, they had been eating mushrooms for generations. This caused the height of the middle and lower classes to become shorter and shorter, and the adult men were all 1.6 meters tall.

Wei Keng was not a person who cared about height. When he first saw them, he thought they were very capable and did not consider anything else. Later, he realized that the pressure brought by their body size might be one of the important reasons why they were so cautious when they met him in the early days.

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

Although this steam engine weighs two tons and has a fixed base, it has an output of only five horsepower, but this is a breakthrough from zero!

What does the invention of the steam engine mean? With ships, tractors, or textile machines?

In Wei Keng's eyes, it means the improvement of steel quality! Good steel must be hammered with a hammer. Before the steam engine output power, it was all processed by water power. Such processed parts are very small, at most forging bayonets, barrel parts, etc.

As for larger steel, ingots larger than a wine bottle? It will directly block the turbine.

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

After making the steam engine by himself, it represents Wei Keng's improvement in processing quality! Wei Keng increased the acquisition of minerals in trade. It has reached the level of not refusing anyone. Because the surrounding areas also accept their own steel products.

There is a saying, "Capitalists can go through fire and water for profit."

After these merchants determined that there was food and metal processing capacity in the downstream plains. Finally, they began to transport people. And they also transported some old scrapped machines from their city-state.

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September 4th.

When faced with the eight diesel generator sets sent by the merchants from Menghe City, the corners of Grandpa Wei's mouth twitched.

The merchants who came stared at Wei Keng and quoted the price in one breath, eight single-cylinder steam engines. Oh, Wei Keng can only assemble one per month now. Faced with such a lion's mouth. Wei Keng thought for a while and bargained in half.

The merchant immediately said: "Deal."

Grandpa Wei Keng felt that he seemed to have bargained too little.

After these merchants left, the people in Wei Keng's industrial group disassembled these diesel engines with wrenches and screwdrivers. First, the internal electronic control system was aging, so it couldn't be started, and some wires were obviously overheated and burned. But overall, those cylinders and parts with the highest technical difficulty were still very good.

All were dismantled for cleaning, electroplating liquid, lubricating oil, some small defective parts, and drawings were drawn, so that the forging field over there could use the good steel selected from the scrap car yard for forging.

There are very few people who can repair machinery nowadays. To be more precise, there are even fewer people who can understand the double solid geometric structure of the manual. Although Wei Keng was living in higher education on Earth, he had learned mechanics, chemistry, and simple principles. Even the education in the 27th century gave everyone a practical lesson on assembling machinery in the factory.

Now the system has sent the three-dimensional modeling of the entire mechanical operation to Wei Keng. After Wei Keng's various divisions of work understood the whole machine, the system called up the model of the machine and a series of maintenance and repair tutorials provided by the manufacturer. So far, for this batch of diesel engines, Wei Keng has been in order except that the specific disassembly techniques are still relatively naive and the buckling of parts is a little slow.

Let's put it this way, the current Wei Keng cluster, as a reserve pool of high-level talents, is a pool that all the aboriginal human settlements in Guangdong cannot produce together.

The Wei Kengs next to the diesel engine group were busy until the evening. There were a total of six groups, each with three people. Among them, one used a wrench, one took a pen to record, and one put away the disassembled parts.

The number of disassembled parts is increasing, and the process of parts processing is becoming clearer and clearer. The parts drawings are also stacked into several piles according to classification.

Machinery is the romance of men. A large number of complex geometric bodies, under the conduction of energy. Let these parts that I have rationally thought about, assembled with my own hands, and moved all at once with the pressing of my own buttons. Oh, this moment is a hundred times more enjoyable than xx.

This... Wei Keng has also glanced at women in this plane. Wei Keng: "I'm not afraid of the supervisor. Am I afraid of her? Afraid of her? Haha. Ahem."

The main reason is that I am insecure now, and I have no sense of security. I have to expand, expand, and expand again.

This is just like the early 21st century, when the Eastern economy leaped forward, a generation of baby boomers suddenly collapsed.

At that time, ladies may feel that they have an advantage in the ratio of men to women, and they are constantly choosing, etc., while men's personalities are like Wei Keng, lacking confidence, houses, cars, savings, and more struggles for a few years to have more confidence in life.

[Of course, it seems to be true. 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, they read a series of chicken soups from Yilin and Reader magazines, and went through the college entrance examination, which was fair enough at the time. Therefore, after they graduated, although they worked hard, they lacked the sense of struggle. As a result, they blindly followed the baton in the first few years of work and fattened up the "people's rich" of that era. In the end, what happened~~~~~]

Back to the topic,

The simple Wei Keng now believes that machines will not deceive themselves, and they use their wisdom and strength in their positions. Then the society they live in will not fool themselves.

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

The electrical energy reached the newly assembled circuit, and the steel in the factory could undergo more complex heat treatment, and the machine tool did not need to be connected to the high-pressure steam pipeline to supply pressure. The electricity made the wheels of these machine tools rotate with a buzzing sound. What Wei Keng had to worry about was that after the metal broke, the speed of the fragments might be like a bullet.

At the smelting plant, various scrap metal raw materials were dug out from the ruins and sent into the newly assembled electric furnace to start processing new products.

After spending four months, Wei Keng looked at the latest nickel steel cylinder block, crankshaft and other key parts he had processed. It seemed that he could process the Stirling engine.

This diesel generator set was really a technological pendant given to him by the natives here.

Wei Keng: "I want to mechanize! The tracked car moves."

Wei Keng was sure that his current mechanical level was almost comparable to the processing level of mechanical factories in city-states such as Ji'an City. They could 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 were the raw materials for refining in these cities. A year ago, Kaomu's armored vehicles attacked with a lot of smoke and advanced like asthma, but even if this biofuel did not work well, they had to consume chemical raw materials such as caustic soda when making this diesel.

Wei Keng is now targeting straw refining, which is to heat the material 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 that it is diesel. According to the standards of the 21st century, it consumes a lot of fuel, the output is not good, and the performance is easy to clog the machine.

In Wei Keng's eyes, synthesis is better than collection. Use water gas or methane for hydrogenation, and then filter it. Even if the fuel that comes out is of poor quality, I should be able to accept it.

After looking at this complicated plan, the first problem is the chemical reactor. I have to build one myself. It doesn't need to be big, and it can't be too big.

Complete a three-cubic-meter reactor. This kind of thing may be an experimental product of the early chemical industry during World War I. It doesn't pursue the ultimate lifespan. After producing it for more than a dozen times, check whether hydrogen corrosion occurs 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. It inspired Wei Keng's tenacity,

and he built the most primitive small chemical equipment. The smaller the size of the chemical equipment, the lower the challenge in terms of materials, and the simpler the numbers in the formula.

The difficulty in chemical engineering is not the principle technology, but a series of early production regulations and the discipline of personnel. Many operations require some procedures that seem unnecessary and affect the speed of work, but they can prevent one in ten thousand accidents. For example, before discharging the material, you may be able to complete the operation in two or three steps, but there are forty steps in the regulations.

Now Wei Keng has separated a large group and started to study this industry. What about this? Wei Keng found that this time, it seems that he doesn't have enough people.

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In February of the 134th year of the Pandora era, when Wei Keng was still thinking about a series of chemical supporting facilities,

The merchants found the reactor that Wei Keng wanted this time, but of course they couldn't transport it this time. Directly responsible for taking Wei Keng over.

When Wei Keng came to this abandoned brick and tile house, 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! He is an outsider, and he can run to the ruins of a parking lot to pick up stainless steel. The locals here actually know more warehouses.

After Wei Keng destroyed the gene colony in the area, these merchants took the locations of factories and factories recorded by their families before the Pandora era, and directly brought the team to transport these "useless" equipment in the abandoned warehouses here, and then replaced them with dozens of sacks of salt and steel tools and left.

In this regard, Wei Keng was at a loss: "Should I tell them that these are all things on my territory, and you can dig up at most 500 plus a banner?"

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

If I sparked a gold rush, these merchants in the city-state would take me to dig treasures again and again in a short period of time, and my productivity in terms of numbers would have reached the limit, and I would not be able to convert productivity to exchange for them.

But if Wei Keng refused to accept it, these merchants, driven by the strong demand for goods and the selfish desire to make money, might smash the equipment in the previous generation of warehouses swallowed by the jungle into tatters, and let Wei Keng accept it at the price of scrap! Because even if they ruined these equipment, they would not want to be benefited by others digging for treasure.

This will bring great disaster to the pre-Pandora industrial heritage.

Once economic activities begin, there are sometimes uncontrollable factors!