Chapter 57, Curious Engineer
It doesn’t mean that once you have an engine, 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 things needed besides the engine.
However, the problems of good and bad can be solved later. With a suitable source of power, everything can start.
To put it bluntly, if you take the entire alloy plastic steel frame, the entire transmission rod, and all the wheels, make a three-wheeled trampoline that can run, and pull a cart behind it, it will be much more advanced than using human or animal power.
Now that the engine is available, if some design plans for vehicles and engineering machines are drawn up 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 also create some exports. If the output is good and the performance is sufficient, we can build a three-wheeled small truck and equip it with our troops. It will also be a motorized infantry regiment.
Gu Hang arrived at his secret base, where he dug a basement and built walls. The loyal and reliable servitor soldiers received strict orders to guard the place and prevent anyone from entering.
Of course, the Governor can come in at will.
Here, the two technologies and four black box manufacturing machines that were pulled out before are all there.
In addition, a lot of open space has been reserved. On the one hand, the existing four machines are left for feeding and producing; 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 level of confidentiality is high and they are not allowed to leak anything. They are required to live in the factory and are not allowed to go out unless there are special circumstances. They will also be monitored when they go out.
They poured the raw materials into the finished black box of the engine. Soon, under Gu Hang's preliminary 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 got off the Quintet to figure out.
Anyway, there is no clue as to how to conquer the self-produced synthetic starch production line, and it would be a bit difficult to build it. There was no way around it. Gu Hang's industrial and scientific research foundations were in shambles. It was difficult to develop even relatively basic technologies on the scale of the entire empire's civilization.
This also proves how valuable the technological functions in the Gu Hang system are.
To put it bluntly, if Gu Hang wants to meet the biennial tax payment in the future, whether the things provided by the technology panel can be used well will be the key.
If Gu Hang had the ability to turn Raging Owl into a small forging world, then there would be no need to worry about the lowest level of imperial tax.
Back to the present.
Two finished products were first made using black boxes. Once the research institute has a specific application plan, more can be made.
The production line black box is not in a hurry to start. It will also wait until the application solution can be implemented before starting to produce engines at full capacity.
There is no need to worry about any of this.
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The person who had high hopes from Gu Hang, who was going to help him figure out how to overcome the technical difficulties of synthetic starch and come up with an application plan for the 'Whetstone' engine, was scratching his head with his robotic hand, thinking about his secret factory.
Wu Jiarong was really curious.
Hailing from a forge world, she is a technologist who once had the potential to become a machinist.
But... the internal fighting within the Mechanicus was much more serious than outsiders imagined. When she lost the fight, not only was she unable to be promoted, but all her property and knowledge became the property of others. By the way, she also lost her personal freedom. It was paid as imperial tax.
But since then, she can't count the fortunes, but at least the situation has not continued to be miserable.
After all, she was a technical specialist, not a slave laborer. When the Pegasus fleet needed additional personnel, she was thrown into the Quintet and worked there for ten years.
Originally, she had already accepted her fate. After leaving the Forge World and the Mechanicus system, it was unlikely that she would have any room for improvement. Even on the Quintet, there is more than just her as a technical specialist, and there are even several technical priests, but it is difficult for her to be accepted as a student to fight for further development opportunities if she is taken away from the starship in the future.
Even after a long time, she still felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong with living like this.
It’s not too busy, there’s no need for intrigues, just do your own thing well and maintain your part of the starship structure—especially the logistics system. There are still a group of slave workers and junior specialists under her command, who obey her management and deployment.
As for herself, after work, she also has some free time, which she can use to study things that interest her, make some gadgets, and entertain herself.
Life seems to be going well.
Just when she had almost accepted her fate, a transfer order from Brigadier General Yelicia sent her, along with several junior specialists, to the surface with the synthetic starch production line and spare parts.
The good times are over.
That's what she thought.
Wu Jiarong found that she seemed to be unable to accept her fate. As soon as you accept your fate, fate will immediately slap you and slap you one level lower to see if you still admit it.
Ten years ago, she failed to win the fight and gave up. When she planned to consider promotion next time, she was exterminated and became an imperial tax from which she could never return. Now, she no longer struggles and feels that she will spend the rest of her life on the starship. It was pretty good to have sex, and I even planned to find a man to marry and have a baby while my body transformation had not yet reached my belly, but in the end, I was sent to the surface of the Raging Owl again.
Anyway, there is always a lower limit.
But what can be done?
She could only work hard without complaining.
However, after arriving on the surface, she found...it seemed that the situation was not as bad as she thought?
She knew that Governor Gu could almost be said to have developed this place from scratch. The industrial foundation and scientific research foundation are almost zero.
But other than that, everything else is great!
She has no worries about food and clothing, and the food she eats is even better than on the starship. Although she has received the governor's order and is studying how to realize the synthetic starch technology under limited conditions, she does not need to eat synthetic starch herself.
According to the work point calculation created by the Governor, her work points are quite high, and the ration quota and quality are both good.
You can get the sun during the day and the night breeze at night, but you don't have these things on a starship.
And more importantly, she found her long-lost ‘goal’ again.
This thing may sound fictitious, but in practice it only means one thing: knowing the meaning of what you do.
She saw the refugees from Fuxing City in the camp who didn't have enough to eat. To be honest, she didn't have much sympathy for them, but through her own research, it was not a bad thing to be able to provide them with food. When the time comes, she can see people's smiling faces, she can get praise from the governor, and she can know that her work is really changing something.
It's not like being on a starship, day after day, year after year, but no clear work results are seen. There seems to be little difference between daily maintenance and interval maintenance for those artillery and machines.
Besides, the synthetic starch topic given by the Governor itself is quite interesting.
It's challenging, but it seems to be within my capabilities.
She is motivated to do well.
In addition to motivation and goals, she also found another thing that had disappeared for a long time:
curiosity.
She was so curious as to what was going on in the Governor's secret factory.
(End of chapter)