Lu Ming

Chapter 609 Crowley's Fantasy Journey ([-])

The rotary kiln with a diameter of 2.5 meters and a length of 40 meters rotates slowly in the diffuse white steam, making a huge roar of wind and fire.The majestic movement was accompanied by the flames spewing out from the kiln head and kiln tail from time to time. It looked like an earth dragon rolling and breathing in the clouds, and the natives would kneel down.

This rotary kiln, which appeared in the 17th century, is undoubtedly Zenith Star technology.But before that, it really took a lot of effort to get the "Earth Dragon" to be born.

Rotary kiln belongs to common construction machinery in later generations.This thing looks bulky and powerful, but it is actually a large steel cylinder with refractory bricks inside. It is not difficult to manufacture, and its technological content may not be as high as that of an agricultural harvester.

However, in the [-]th century, the steel plates, steel plate rolling, sheet metal, welding and other technologies and materials needed for a rotary kiln all caused headaches for travelers.The final product is the product of the "expert group" using a lot of "imported" resources and tackling key problems many times.

No way, the weak industrial base is like this.Travelers have come to this plane for only 5 years, except for the regular receipt of "imported" materials that are pitifully small for the industrial system, everything else needs to start from scratch.

To this day, the industrial system of Traveling Country can only be said to be a barely built "workshop system".The many workshops that are still at the level of the cast iron industry, both in terms of quantity and quality, are still at the level of black Africans in later generations, and they are not high-end at all.

Those who are also poor and poor are also encouraged by the cultivation of seedlings, so the traversers are much more miserable.Travelers who only have advantages on paper, even if they have a full set of information on the launch vehicle, the reality is that every iron nail has to go to the mountains to dig mines and burn kilns to break through the entire metallurgical industry system.

To make matters worse, with the passage of time, some high-end industrial equipment, such as electric furnaces, which were promoted in the early days by seedlings, have now fallen into a low-speed operation state due to the depletion of accessories and the encroachment of imported materials on the whole system.

In this way, building a rotary kiln can take a lot of effort.The increasingly scarce production of electric furnace steel, the shortage of rolling and sheet metal equipment, and the imported welding equipment and consumables that are actually out of stock are just to build a leading model enterprise to act as a facade to deter the indigenous people. Otherwise, the rotary kiln Is it not good for no one to burn shaft kiln cement honestly?
In contrast, a circle of large-scale welded steel plates were transported from Tainan to Zengcheng Wharf, and then carried into the factory with a lot of manpower and animal power, and finally the 40-meter-long kiln body was spliced ​​and welded by the crossing people. Not so important anymore.

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"Hehe, it seems to be still effective. Master Guangzhou knelt down to greet Lord Dragon, yes, this stalk is not bad!"

Ding Liqiu, the mayor of the Special Administrative Region, was wearing an official-style jacket and trousers. His legs were uneven, his hands were folded in front of his stomach, and his eyes were smug. " face.

Not far from Ding Liqiu, the attendants were helping several masters from the ground, and helped them to the outer ceremony shed, serving tea and towels to wipe the faces of the masters.

This scene made Ding Liqiu very satisfied.

As the mayor of the special zone, how to "united front" the local gentry is an important long-term work project for Ding Liqiu.How to subtly change the attitudes of all social strata towards the traversing forces, how to "turn enemies into friends", or at least "shock" the local conservative gentry, all these require long-term and massive work.

Showing strength is undoubtedly a shortcut.

After several years of development, some people who have been engaged in administration for a long time have realized this effective method: industrial observation can change the concept of indigenous people in a short period of time, which can be called a brainwashing artifact.

Power is power, and it is far stronger than pale propaganda.The structure of the human brain determines that a momentary shock will permanently change the previous way of thinking.

This is also one of the incidental reasons why the cabinet decided to start a rotary kiln cement plant at any cost.

Seeing the triumphant look of Ding Dafu Terrace from the sideways, Zou Guoqing, who also came to attend the groundbreaking ceremony, was upset.

Zou Guoqing can be regarded as the highest-ranking traveler in the interior today.This gentleman is the minister of industry and a member of the cabinet: "Old Ding, do you know that there are two bombs and one star? This is it for today. In order to save such a large pillar for you, the life of the electric furnace at the industrial port and the imported welding materials have all been used up. "Don't forget the well digger when you drink water, you have to show something when you look back, otherwise there will be no future!"

Ding Liqiu rubbed his teeth.He is not a fool who knows nothing about industry, and as a high-level traveler, he knows a lot of inside information.

At the conference to be held in the second half of the year, some national policies of the crossing country will propose changes, and it is likely to revise the industrial development route in the middle: sinking to lay the foundation, and follow the steam rivet route.

In this way, the supply of imported welding equipment and materials will definitely be cut off. In fact, the supply has been cut off for a long time, and the remaining materials are a one-off sale. Where is it not used?

"I said, it's just an iron cylinder. Why, why are there two bombs and one satellite? National Day, don't make random comparisons!"

Zou Guoqing said "Hey" when he heard this, and put on a conversational posture: "Old Ding, you don't engage in industry, and you don't understand some situations. In fact, two bombs and one star and our iron cylinder are both Made by hand."

"That's right, they are all the highest technology of the time, and they are all handmade by senior workers."

Seeing Zou Guoqing's determination, Ding Liqiu said helplessly: "Even if everyone has 'top' technology, but this thing can't go to the sky, and can't blow up people, why should it be used as an atomic bomb?"

Zou Guoqing slapped his thigh: "Spiritual atomic bomb! Didn't those retired officials you fooled here get scared to pee? I think your big teeth are going to laugh out loud? Don't think I don't know that you guys are usually What are you doing, I'm a member of the cabinet after all. Hmph, isn't it just to instigate rebellion?"

When Ding Liqiu heard the word "cabinet member", his face changed, and finally he smiled. The face of the cabinet boss is to be given: "Look at what you said, brothers have been busy for so long. In my eyes, I have something to talk about later!"

Zou Guoqing saw that the adults in Futai were "knowledgeable", and then he showed a smile on his face: "Old Ding, how about this, I will call people to add some sound and light effects to this thing later, the steam locomotive type, wheezing, make sure there will be a scare!" How about one?"

"Then what are you going to do? Just say it, don't mess with those who don't make sense."

"Hey, isn't this going to be a meeting? By then, I have a few proposals. If you look at it, raise your hand. Yelling, yelling."

"Well, this. I want to study and study."

The bosses are laying out around the "earth dragon", and the natives also have their own thoughts.

"Indigenous" is a neutral word.The aborigines here include not only the masters from Guangzhou, but also Bai Shenming and other progressive gentry.In addition, the natives naturally also include foreign businessmen like Crowley.

Unlike the natives of the Ming Dynasty, in the cultural totems of the gringos like Crowley, the creature "dragon" is not in the form of a long snake, but in the form of a large lizard.So just now no foreigners associated steel kilns with Jackie Chan.

But this did not lessen the shock of some foreign businessmen.

When they saw the iron pillar rolling and roaring on the huge steel platform, some people also sat down on the ground, and some people pulled out the cross on their chest in horror and shouted: "Lord, please give me strength to fight against evil!"

The good thing is that, probably thanks to his culture, Crowley believed from the very beginning that the giant in front of him was just a magical steel machine, so he maintained his composure in the chaos, standing out from the crowd, and still looked very good. Elegant, very aristocratic.

What Crowley didn't know was that just now, in an inconspicuous corner, an inconspicuous follower who looked like a follower recorded all his performances in a small book in his hand.

The last program of the groundbreaking ceremony is to inspect the finished product.

From the ratio of raw materials to the success of calcination, about 5 hours later, the guests who came today saw the delicate and smooth standard cement with residual temperature from the carts pushed over one by one.

At this moment, the progressive gentry, including Bai Shenming, who held on to the ashes in his hands for several years and invested most of his fortune in the cement factory, felt overwhelmed.During the period, many people lost their composure on the spot, some yelled, and some wept silently.

The opening ceremony of the model cement factory that day had different effects on different indigenous groups.

For those old gentry groups who have never been exposed to industrialization, there is no doubt that the impact is the strongest.

This kind of "united front" method that is completely divorced from the traditional sense shocked everyone in charge, and made a lot of consideration afterwards.

This is exactly what the traversers hope to see: you can become more extreme and "reactionary" after seeing the power, but you cannot remain indifferent, you must think, and you must change.

Facts have proved that most people are still realistic, and Tie Hanhan who is against such a powerful force is still a minority after all.

There was also a consequence of the groundbreaking ceremony.

After that day, a rumor quickly spread in Guangzhou: it was said that a certain "Master Cao" was actually the reincarnation of Arhat, the Dragon descending from the West.Not long ago, the descendant Arhat first locked up a vicious earth dragon in Zengcheng, and then called thousands of laborers to feed the earth dragon on a mountain every day.The excrement that the earth dragon swallowed from the top of the mountain is the cement sold in the world!
That's right, cement is earth dragon dung!

(End of this chapter)