Chapter 445 Heavy Dump Truck (Third update, please subscribe)
Even if you are 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 lose their jobs and lose their jobs. In the difficult life, they turned to the north, which was why they were unwilling to leave the occupying forces - the occupying forces could 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 already become its most important foreign exchange income - last year alone, more than 100 million US dollars of remittances entered Japan, allowing millions of people to Families are no longer troubled by hunger, and Japan has gained valuable foreign currency.
Of course, it also makes all Japanese believe that Nanyang is a place full of gold.
"In Nanyang, even a female textile worker can earn 3,000 yen a month!"
"Men can earn more money in Nanyang!"
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.
Not the mainland of Nanyang, but the Surabaya Special City in Java. They will depart from Surabaya and fly to India to fulfill the contract.
In fact, they are just being used as cannon fodder.
Don’t look down on cannon fodder. How many people are considered cannon fodder and haven’t had that chance yet!
On the way to Surabaya, they also encountered some ships. 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 with different expressions. But what is certain is that they are facing an unknown future.
In addition, they also saw several LST tank landing ships, but they were civilian ships flying the flag of the Nanyang merchant ship. The boats were also crowded with people, who were immigrants heading to Nanyang.
In the past few days, hundreds of Nanyang LST tank landing ships have been frantically pulling people in at ports along the coast.
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.
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“We must be prepared for labor shortage.”
In the conference room of Futian Company, facing the company manager Wu Liren and the company’s engineers, Li Yi’an said.
“Now, with the interruption of Yangtze River shipping and the changes in the situation in Tangshan, the era of large-scale introduction of immigrants is over, but the construction of Nanyang has not stopped, which requires us to fully consider when designing machinery. Consider a problem - how to reduce the use of manpower as much as possible. ”
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.
But last month, as millions of troops crossed the river, the number of immigrants from Nanyang immediately fell off a cliff. From 1.37 million in March, it fell directly below 7 digits. Such a drop is Astonishingly, if the decline continues this year, it will be difficult to attract even 10 million immigrants this year.
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 drawings on the drawing, Li Yian just thought for a moment and said directly to everyone:
"Now Nanyang is implementing large-scale infrastructure construction, factories, Roads, bridges, factories and mines 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, many places require 10-ton or even 20-ton trucks. We We need to use large trucks to replace small trucks to save manpower. Therefore, I want to know whether 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 three. Ten tons, I don’t know if it meets your needs.”
Hearing this, Li Yian couldn’t help but be surprised. 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 and own such trucks. A heavy-duty truck with a huge load capacity.
And it’s a dump truck.
"Can I take a look?"
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. This dump truck is based on the same type of mining dump truck in the United States. It uses the Detroit 8V71 diesel engine produced by United Power Company. It has a rated power of 450 kilometers per hour and a maximum climbing rate of 36 degrees..."
Listening to Milian's introduction and looking at the heavy truck on the drawing, Li Yian was absolutely shocked.
Thirty-ton mining dump truck!
450 HP diesel engine. Everything added together is really amazing.
And such heavy-duty trucks can not only be used 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, supported by two hydraulic rods, can Automatically tilt backwards. ”
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 a heavy-duty hydraulic dump system. Its performance is very reliable and we have carried out Thousands of durability tests, almost never any failures.”
There are actually ready-made hydraulic experts in the factory!
This is somewhat unexpected. In fact, what Li Yian does not know is that the application of hydraulic technology in dump trucks can even be traced back to after World War I. Fruehauf Company started as early as the 1920s. Introducing a hydraulic system to a dump truck and relying on a hydraulic pump to push the hydraulic rod is just not very reliable and can be subject to certain restrictions in promotion.
The technological advancement of 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. He looked at Milian’s fingers with a pleasant expression and asked the middle-aged man:
“Mr. Schwart! I don’t know if you have considered using the hydraulic pressure. Is the system used 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) )