Chapter 57, Curious Engineer
Just because you have an engine doesn’t mean you have a car or a construction machine.
Chassis, moving parts, suspension system, transmission system, body design, control system... To build a good car, there are many more things needed besides the engine.
However, the issue of good or bad can be solved later. With a suitable source of power, everything begins.
To put it bluntly, if you use an entire frame, a transmission rod, and some wheels made of alloy plastic steel, and make a three-wheeled tricycle that can run, and then pull a cart at the back, it will be a much better way than using human or animal power.
Now that we have the engine, if we can come up with some designs for vehicles and engineering machinery later, the heavy industry in Gu Hang’s territory will be able to take a big step forward.
Before that, Gu Hang planned to find someone to design a simple vehicle that could move, improve transportation efficiency, and export it. If the production volume was good and the performance was good enough, he could make a three-wheeled truck and equip our troops, which would at least form a motorized infantry regiment.
Gu Hang came to his secret base, where he had dug a basement and built a wall. The loyal and reliable mecha soldiers received strict orders to guard the base and not let anyone in.
Of course, the Governor can come in at will.
Here, the two technologies and four black box manufacturing machines that were extracted earlier are all here.
In addition, a lot of open space is reserved. On the one hand, it is used for feeding and production of the existing four machines; on the other hand, it is also convenient for placing more machines in the future.
He configured the two new machines.
There are also workers in this secret factory. The confidentiality level is high, so they are not allowed to leak any information. They are required to live in the factory and are not allowed to go out without special circumstances. If they go out, they will be monitored.
They poured the raw materials into the finished black box for producing engines. Soon, based on Gu Hang's initial settings, two engines, one large and one small, that met his requirements were produced.
These two engines will be sent to the research institute and handed over to the technician who came down from the Quintet to study.
Anyway, there is no sign of success in developing a self-produced synthetic starch production line. It is difficult to develop it. There is no other way. Gu Hang's industrial and scientific research bases are all shabby. Even if it is a relatively basic technology in the scale of the entire empire's civilization, it is difficult to develop it.
This also indirectly proves how valuable the technological functions within the Gu Hang system are.
To put it bluntly, if Gu Hang wants to meet the biennial tax payment requirements in the future, whether he can make good use of the things provided by the technology panel will be the key.
If Gu Hang had the ability to turn the Angry Owl Star into a small forging world, he wouldn't have to worry about the lowest level of imperial tax at all.
Let’s get back to the present.
We first made two finished products using black boxes, and once the research institute has a specific application plan, we can make more.
The black box of the production line is not in a hurry to move. It will also wait until the application solution can be implemented before starting to produce engines at full capacity.
There's no need to rush these.
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The man who was placed high hopes by Gu Hang, who was supposed to figure out for him how to overcome the technical difficulties of synthesizing starch and come up with an application plan for the 'grindstone' engine, was now scratching his head with a robotic arm, thinking about his secret factory.
Wu Jiarong was really curious.
She was from a forge world, a technical specialist who had once had the potential to be promoted to machinist.
But... the internal strife within the Mechanicus was much more serious than outsiders imagined. She lost the fight, and not only did she fail to get promoted, but all her property and knowledge also became someone else's. By the way, she also lost her personal freedom and had to pay it as an imperial tax.
But since then, she couldn't say that her luck had turned around, but at least the situation didn't get any worse.
After all, she was a technical specialist, not a slave laborer. When the Pegasus fleet needed reinforcements, she was thrown into the Quintet and worked there for ten years.
She had already accepted her fate.
After leaving the Forge World and the Mechanicus system, she was unlikely to have any room for advancement. Even though she was not the only technical specialist on the Quintet, and there were even several technical priests, it was difficult for her to be accepted as a student and have the opportunity to be taken away from the starship and have further development in the future.
In fact, after a long time, she even felt that there was nothing wrong with her current life.
Not too busy, no need to engage in intrigue, just do your own thing, maintain your part of the starship structure - especially the logistics system. She still has a group of slaves and junior specialists who obey her management and deployment.
As for herself, she also has some free time besides work, which she can use to study things that interest her and make some small gadgets, which is quite entertaining for herself.
Life seems to be going pretty well these days.
Just when she had almost accepted her fate, a transfer order came from Brigadier General Ye Licia, sending her to the surface along with several junior specialists, along with the synthetic starch production line and spare parts.
The good days are over.
That's what she thought.
Wu Jiarong found that she couldn't accept her fate. Once she accepted her fate, fate would slap her in the face, and then slap her one level lower, to see if she still accepted it.
Ten years ago, she didn't win the fight and gave up. When she was planning to consider promotion next time, she was hunted down and turned into an imperial tax, never to go back. Now, she no longer struggles and thinks it's good to spend the rest of her life on a starship. She even plans to find a man to marry and have a baby before her body transformation reaches her belly. However, she was exiled to the surface of the Angry Owl Star again.
Anyway, there will always be a lower limit.
But what can we do?
She can only work hard and never complain.
However, after arriving on the surface, she discovered... the situation wasn't as bad as she had imagined?
She knew that Governor Gu had developed this place from scratch, with almost zero industrial and scientific research bases.
But other than that, everything else is good!
She had no worries about food and clothing, and the food she ate was even better than on the starship; although she had received orders from the Governor to study how to realize the synthetic starch technology under limited conditions, she herself did not need to eat synthetic starch.
According to the work point algorithm devised by the governor, her work points were quite high, and the ration amount and quality were both good.
There is sunshine during the day and night breeze at night, but there is none of that on the starship.
The more important point is that she found her long-lost "target" again.
This may sound abstract, but in reality it all comes down to one thing: knowing the meaning of what you are doing.
She saw the refugees from Fuxing City in the camp not having enough food to eat. To be honest, she didn't have much sympathy for them, but it was not a bad thing to help them have food through her research. By then, she could see people's smiling faces, she could get praise from the governor, and she would know that her work was really changing something.
Unlike on a starship, where work is done day after day and year after year, but there is no clear result. There seems to be little difference between maintaining those guns and machines every day and maintaining them at intervals.
Besides, the synthetic starch topic given by the Governor is also quite interesting.
It's challenging, but seems to be within my capabilities.
She is motivated to do good things.
In addition to motivation and goals, she also found something else that had been lost for a long time:
curiosity.
She was very curious about what was going on with the Governor's secret factory.
(End of this chapter)
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