Chapter 99 Civil strife
Regardless of whether he is convinced or not, the facts are irrefutable before his eyes. Apart from lamenting the injustice of God, Luo Shengdong has no other way to restore the growing gap between the two. Luo Shengdong knew very well that the Haihan people didn't care about letting him see these things at all, and even showed them to him consciously, just like they showed him those sharp guns the previous time, because even if he knew these things Even with the existence of steam engines and advanced weapons, there was no way for Ming craftsmen to copy them. This feeling of powerlessness greatly diluted the joy brought by the previous large sum of money, and Luo Shengdong even had the idea of leaving Victory Port overnight.
Although the trial production of the steam engine was a complete success, Chuan Chuanzhong did not forget about it. The prototype currently built still has many problems, including heavy weight, low thermal conversion rate, poor sealing performance... Many projects still need to be improved in the manufacturing process. Moreover, such a large steam engine can only be placed in mines or factories. If you want to use it as propulsion power, currently such a machine is far from meeting the requirements.
At present, it is not a big problem to build this kind of reciprocating double-action steam engine as a fixed power source, but if you want to put it on a ship, you must build a multi-expansion steam engine with a more complex structure. Since the replenishment of fresh water at sea is extremely restricted, and ordinary reciprocating steam engines consume a large amount of fresh water when working, they can only be used by small boats on inland waterways at most. Due to the structural advantages of the multi-expansion steam engine, the steam can re-enter the boiler for heating through the continuous decompression process during the power generation process, thus greatly saving the consumption of fresh water and is very suitable for use on seagoing ships.
However, the structure of the multi-expansion steam engine is much more complicated than the reciprocating type. There are more than three cylinders alone, which increases the difficulty of processing and preparation. According to the opinions given by the expert group, it is not impossible to build a multi-expansion steam engine with the current almost purely manual processing method, but the cost performance is too low. The entire metallurgical workshop plus a group of fitters with different technical levels will probably It may not be possible to produce a qualified product in a month. The most feasible way is to wait until the mechanical processing equipment is installed and the hydropower station is put into operation, and then use the advanced equipment brought to process important parts.
Moreover, putting a steam engine on a ship does not mean that you can just build a multi-expansion steam engine. How to set up the cabin, adjust the center of gravity of the ship, how to calculate the amount of water and coal under actual operating conditions, determine the cruising range of the ship, and the underwater propulsion system. Manufacturing, etc., no subject can be easily solved.
The Executive Committee also knows that this process of climbing the technology tree cannot be rushed. Even if the principles of many things are known, and even if the drawings are placed in front of them, limited by the current objective conditions, what cannot be built will still not be built. As a result, the expert group's opinions were approved by the executive committee, and large-scale steam engine manufacturing was slightly delayed for a while. The next step was to focus on improving the design plan and process flow of the steam engine.
After dawn, Luo Shengdong, who was full of thoughts, left the No. 2 base and returned to Victory Port. All the trade was completed yesterday, and all the goods that should be loaded on the ship have been loaded. Today, he can leave for Wenchang, where there are still There were hundreds of taels of silver waiting for him to get. But Luo Shengdong was a little disappointed that when he left the port today, no leader of the Haihan people came to the pier to see him off. There were only a few Mingren sailors on the pier helping to untie the cables. This was different from what he had seen before. The scenes when we left the dock were very different.
"Being too familiar with these Haihan people, is it a good thing or a bad thing?" Luo Shengdong left Shengli Port with a hint of melancholy.
In fact, Luo Shengdong had a misunderstanding. It was not that no one wanted to go to the dock to see him off. It was just that he received news early this morning that something happened at the farm commune. Several powerful figures from the executive committee rushed over to deal with the emergency. I don’t want to go to Victory Port to see Luo Shengdong off.
When the sky was dark, the farm commune sent a distress message to the executive committee, saying that a "large-scale bloody conflict" had occurred in the commune. He boarded the newly established security company and hurried to the farm commune. Yan Chujie, who was leading the team, remembered that he had forgotten to notify the medical team when he was halfway through. He quickly contacted the base and asked Old Morgan to lead the medical team to catch up as soon as possible.
When the emergency response team arrived at the farm commune village, they found that the conflict here had ended. The open space outside the village entrance was littered with a lot of messy household items, clothes, hoes and sticks, and puddles of blood that had not yet dried up could be seen. Several of the injured were still lying on the ground moaning feebly. The perpetrators had apparently dispersed, which gave the originally nervous rescue team a little relief.
Yan Chujie ordered the security team to spread out to maintain order, and let people with first aid knowledge perform basic treatment on the injured. At the same time, he asked people to find people from the commune management committee. When the management committee sent a distress message in the morning, Yan Chujie had already asked them to ensure their own safety as soon as possible and not to act rashly until the rescue team arrived. The Executive Committee does not want anyone to step forward to be a hero when the situation is unclear. If someone is accidentally killed or injured by these simple-minded Ming Dynasty farmers, it is not worth it. Several members of the management committee were quickly found. Their residences in the commune were built separately and were independent of the entire commune village. After the incident happened, they followed the Executive Committee's request and stayed in the house until the rescue team arrived.
Gao Huan, the supervisor, was still trembling when he spoke. It seemed that he was frightened by the situation at that time: "I went out in the morning... and saw two groups of people fighting at the entrance of the village, and they were all violent. Hands... I yelled a few times and no one listened to my greetings, so I came back and called you..."
Another person in charge of civil affairs never went out from the beginning to the end. He had no idea what was going on outside, so he couldn't tell anything.
The only one left was the member of the military and police department who was expected to be responsible for public security. The member of the military and police department stationed in the farm commune was a dark-skinned Mongolian man named Harugong. He served in the First Cavalry Battalion of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, which was also the only established cavalry unit in the country in later generations. In view of Harugong's special experience, the Military and Police Department has already decided that he must be the cavalry instructor of the naturalized civilian army in the future, and assigned him to be stationed in the farm commune. One of the reasons is because he spends a lot of time dealing with horses. Horses currently raised by the farm commune can also be cared for and tamed.
Regarding the reason for participating in time travel, Harugong may be regarded as a special category among the people who travel through time. His ancestor is said to be the Orona family of Mongolia. He had several high-ranking officials in the Yuan Dynasty. Later, he changed his Chinese surname to Ha in the Ming Dynasty. Harugong chose to participate in time travel because he wanted to come to this era to look for traces of his ancestors. Although hundreds of years have passed since his family's most glorious period, Harugong believes that he might be able to meet one of his ancestors in this time and space, and stage a journey to find his roots across time and space.
Harugong, who had been a soldier, was obviously much calmer than his two colleagues. He calmly recounted what happened in the morning: "...I heard Gao Huan come back and shout that there was a fight outside, so I went out to take a look with my gun on my back. , I also recognized a few guys, it was probably a fight between old and new immigrants... As for the number of people, there were about twenty-four or five people participating. Considering safety issues, I didn't step forward to stop them, so I went with a gun. I was guarding the barn, fearing that someone would take the opportunity to cause trouble and cause damage. I didn’t come back until the gang was finished.”
"These guys..." Yan Chujie breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. If it was just an internal fight between the old and new immigrants, it would be relatively simple in nature. He was afraid of an invasion by foreign enemies or an attack on the traversers. . As for these immigrants, it is not a big deal if a few are killed or injured.
This is not because Yan Chujie is too ruthless and regards human life as nothing, but this kind of fighting is nothing new among the people. He gnawed a few handfuls of green seedlings for the sake of cattle, the direction of the stream, and whose land should be included in the fields. It may lead to a village-scale armed fight. Although the commune has a management committee, the management body with only a few people has to take charge of a large group of villagers who have no concept of the rule of law in their heads. It obviously lacks sufficient deterrence and even dare not come forward to dissuade them even if a fight breaks out. Of course, there are objective reasons for this. After all, the military and police departments have limited strength, and the newly trained security companies are basically deployed in areas with frequent public security problems such as Victory Port and No. 2 Base. However, there are a series of rules and regulations in the commune. Constraints on commune members, on the other hand, are places where social order is relatively stable, so the Military and Police Department has not deployed strong institutions in communes.
Now that something like this has happened, it is impossible for the Military and Police Department to turn a blind eye. If it is not dealt with seriously, then the Military and Police Department may leave and the commune will start fighting again. At this time, the medical team led by Old Morgan finally arrived at the farm commune and began to treat the wounded. The medical team soon tallied up the injuries caused by this large-scale brawl: two people died and five people were seriously injured, two of whom may be disabled. No minor injuries were found at the scene because these guys had probably run home and hid. But now he couldn't hide even if he wanted to. Yan Chujie had already led his troops to investigate one by one. The injured guy didn't need to be interrogated at all. He was arrested first.
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