Out of the cage

The torrential rain finally subsided. It stands to reason that there must be retribution for interfering with nature without authorization.

Two days after the typhoon passed, various effects began to gradually appear after the catastrophe. However, the speed of Wei Keng's actions is always faster than nature. Before nature's revenge began to exert its force, he had already cleaned up his surroundings.

As soon as the river receded, the Wei Keng group separated into small teams and started patrolling with gas-powered cars.

First, clean up any dead bodies that may appear on 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. But Wei Keng's gathering place is already a forbidden area for various gene groups, 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 allowed to be polluted. A barrier zone must be built, and the water source must be confirmed to be clear, and quicklime should be sprinkled in for further disinfection. The water is then taken out to be boiled and stored in a storage tank. It needs to be burnt again when drinking.

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

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

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

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

Until the 27th century, human beings were still unable to eradicate rats in cities, so when the ban on dogs was issued to eradicate stray dogs. Very tolerant of stray cats. Even city managers have built some warm basements for them in winter. Because they work.

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

Wei Keng grabbed the cat by the back of the neck very heartily: "It's okay, I don't have free-range chickens and ducks here, you can bite it anyway, if you encounter a mouse, let me go up and bite it hard."

Ever since, after the floods, plagues, insect plagues, and rat plagues. These mothers of nature are going to teach this bastard Wei Keng a lesson. They were all pressed into pits and buried invisible on the spot.

Wei Keng thought to himself: "Why am I so proficient? Tsk tsk, after thousands of years, if humans and nature want to live in harmony, it is natural to understand the nature of nature! I also have a heart of Taoism."

Immediately afterwards, Wei Keng of each environmental inspection team shamelessly stated to the laborers who came out with him: "Let us take the pace of sustainable development, green mountains are what we want, green water is what we want, and GDP grows higher. "

In summer, it passes like the rolling Pearl River. Before he knew it, Wei Keng had been staying in this plane for a year.

two months later.

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

Before the Pandora era, because there was no lack of water, they could do their best to use sunlight for photosynthesis. Summer is the time when all kinds of aquatic plants are most likely to break out. In order to ensure that they are not dehydrated by the sun, the leaves of land plants will be exposed to excessive light radiation. To stop transpiration and optical action, this kind of behavior of not producing when encountering 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 body, nearly half of the water flow of the small river was absorbed by the farmland, and the air quickly became humid, and the soil was not muddy due to waterlogging. The farmland of dozens of square kilometers almost used up all of the small river with a width of 7 meters. of water.

Of course, the fruits produced in this way make the farmers who braved the scorching sun feel that the sweat is worth it. It is rich in starch and has such a water chestnut flavor when cooked. After the fruit is heated and dried, cut into slices, and stored in a glass bottle filled with nitrogen, it becomes a commodity favored by merchants.

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

...

These human settlements, which were previously huddled in the mountains for safety, lacked everything.

In terms of food, they ate several generations of mushrooms. This caused their middle and lower classes to become shorter and shorter, and adult men were all 1.6 meters tall.

Wei Keng is not a person who cares about height. When he first saw them, he felt that they were very capable, so he didn't think about anything else. It was only later that they realized that they were so cautious when meeting themselves in the early days, and the sense of oppression brought about by their body shape might be one of the important reasons.

As Wei Keng finished debugging 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 with a weight of two tons and a fixed base only has an output of five horsepower, this is a zero breakthrough!

What does the invention of the steam engine mean? Have a ship, or a tractor, or a textile machine?

In Wei Keng's eyes, it means the improvement of steel quality! Good steel must be hammered. Previously, there was no steam engine output power, and it was all processed by water power. Such processed parts are very small, at most they are forged bayonets, gun barrel parts and so on.

As for larger steel, ingots larger than wine bottles? It will directly put the water turbine on the card.

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

After making the steam engine by himself, it represents a qualitative improvement in Wei Keng's processing! Wei Keng increased the acquisition of minerals in the trade. Reached the level of all comers. Because the surrounding area is not rejecting its own steel products.

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

After these merchants determined that there were grain and metal processing capabilities in the lower plains. Finally started to transport people. And also transported some scrapped machines from the old era in their city-state.

...

September 4th.

The corners of Uncle Wei's mouth twitched when faced with the eight diesel generator sets sent by the merchants in Menghe City.

The businessmen who came here stared at Wei Keng, and quoted the price in one breath, eight single-cylinder steam engines. Oh, Wei Keng can only assemble one in a month now. Facing such a lion, he opened his mouth wide. Wei Keng thought for a while and bargained for half the price.

The businessman knocked to death immediately: "Deal."

Master Wei Keng felt that he had bargained less.

After these businessmen left, people from the 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 wires were obviously overheated and burned out. But overall, the most technically difficult cylinders and parts are still very good.

Remove them all for cleaning, electroplating solution, lubricating oil, and some small defective parts, draw a picture, and let the good steel selected by the scrap yard over there be forged 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 has 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 three-dimensional modeling of the entire mechanical operation to Wei Keng. After Wei Keng's various division teams fully understood the machine, the system called out the model of the machine 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 that the specific disassembly method is still relatively tender, and the buckle parts are a little slower.

Let's put it this way, the current Weikeng cluster is a high-level talent pool, which cannot be produced by all the aboriginal human settlements in the whole of Guangdong.

Wei Keng and the others next to the diesel unit were busy all night. There were six teams in total, each with three members. Among them, one uses a wrench, one holds a pen to record, and one puts the dismantled parts together.

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

Machinery is a man's romance, a large number of complex geometric bodies, under the conduction of energy. Let these parts that I have thought about rationally, assemble with my own hands, and press the button, and all of them will move with a swipe. Oh, at this moment, it is a hundred times more refreshing than xx.

This... It's not that Wei Keng has never looked at women in this plane. Wei Keng: "It's not that I'm afraid of the supervisor. I'm afraid of her? Afraid of her? Hehe. Cough."

The main reason is that it is precarious 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 during the leap in economic development in the East in the early 21st century.

At that time, women may feel that the ratio of men to women is dominant, and they are constantly choosing and waiting, while men's personalities are like Wei Keng's, lack of confidence, houses, cars, savings, a few more years of struggle, and more life. confidence.

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

Back on topic,

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

...

"Da da da", with the electric ignition similar to a gas water heater, the gas generated by the gas generator is introduced into the diesel engine, and the diesel-to-combustion engine finally starts.

The electric energy reaches the newly assembled circuit, and the steel in the factory can undergo more complicated heat treatment, and the machine tool does not need to be connected to the high-pressure steam pipe to supply pressure. Electricity caused the wheels of these machine tools to make 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.

On the other side of the smelting factory, various scrap metal raw materials were dug from the ruins, and sent into the newly assembled electric furnace to start the processing of new products.

After spending four months, Wei Keng looked at the key parts such as the latest nickel steel cylinder block and crankshaft that he had machined. This, it seems that he can process the Stirling engine.

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

Wei Keng: "I want to go mechanized! Let the tracked car move."

Wei Keng was sure that his current level of machinery was almost comparable to the processing level of machinery factories in city-states like Ji'an City. As for them, they can only maintain the mechanical technology of producing tractors. And their tractor fuel?

...

Around Ji'an City, Wei Keng found a large number of castor-like herb plants, which are the raw materials for oil refining in these cities. A year ago, Kaumu's armored vehicle carried a lot of smoke when it was assaulting, and it was like asthma. But this kind of biofuel is not good, and they also consume caustic soda and other chemical raw materials to make this diesel.

Wei Keng is currently 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 filtered, even if the final fuel is inferior, I should be able to accept it.

After deciding on this complicated plan, the first problem is the chemical reactor. I want to build one myself, and it doesn't need to be big, nor can it 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. Do not pursue the limit life, just check whether there is hydrogenation corrosion inside after producing more than a dozen times.

Oh, the technical difficulty of this thing is a bit of a challenge in Wei Keng's eyes. But think about it, during the First World War, junior high school students were the main engineers of the factory. Inspired Wei Keng's resilience,

And what I built myself was the most primitive small-scale chemical equipment. The smaller the chemical equipment, the lower the material challenge and the simpler the numbers on the formula.

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

Now Wei Keng has split up a large group and started to delve into this industry. What about this? Wei Keng realized that now, he seemed to be short of people.

...

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 transport it this time. Directly responsible for bringing Wei Keng there.

When Wei Keng came to this abandoned brick and tile building, he dug out the chemical equipment protected by 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 certain parking lot to pick up stainless steel. The locals here actually know more warehouses.

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

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?"

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

If you sparked a gold rush, and the merchants in these city-states repeatedly took themselves to dig treasures in a short period of time, the productivity of their own numbers had reached the limit, and there was no way to convert productivity to exchange for them.

But if Wei Keng refuses to accept it, these merchants, driven by the strong demand for commodities and their selfish desire to make money, may smash the equipment in the previous generation of warehouses engulfed by the jungle into tatters, and sell them at the price of scrap. Wei Keng takes it! Because even if they ruined these devices, they would not be willing to be benefited by others.

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

Once economic activity starts, sometimes there are factors that are difficult to control!