Technology: Breaking the monopoly global hegemony

Chapter 2152 Underground
Building a city from scratch, especially in Daxia, certainly would not be smooth sailing.

Despite the huge investment and astonishing construction speed, and although Jiuzhou Technology has already passed the review and the Kunlun city construction plan has long been officially approved, Kunlun City still faces many challenges and transformations if it wants to become a city in Daxia.

These blank areas that Jiuzhou Technology, or the existing general exploration technology, cannot model are the "three-acre land" left by the Daxia officials.

Jiuzhou Technology has no idea what equipment the authorities have placed in these places or what project plans they have arranged.

Among them are core areas, and there are also some areas that seem not so core, but may be the areas that Kunlun City will focus on supporting in its future development.

There are corresponding plans for high altitude, low altitude, ground and underground.

"Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly, let alone such a big business. Xuanwu, contact [Queen Mother of the West] to obtain core data authorization, open the real-time city modeling, and let me see the progress of our underground construction team."

"Received. Your authorization information is being transmitted. Accessing the [Queen Mother of the West] data connection channel..."

When the smart city system planning and technological achievements of the entire Kunlun City began to be taught and passed on, the Daxia officials and the [Kunlun] city project staff of Jiuzhou Technology were speculating whether the company had developed special AIs such as [Queen Mother of the West] in addition to Kunlun god AIs such as [Ying Chao].

After all, according to legend, the Queen Mother of the West of Kunlun can grant people elixirs of immortality, and is sought after by many emperors on earth. She even evolved into a legend of being the first of female fairies.

Although intelligent AIs such as [Kaiming], [Luwu], and [Yingchao] are classified as functional AIs by Jiuzhou Technology, they can better assist staff in managing and operating the city among the various branch functions at the core of the system.

But this group of AI is like "generals", and ultimately there must be a higher-level commander.

Gu Qing has told the company's top management more than once that Kunlun City is an integral city of Daxia, and that it is necessary to attach importance to the construction tasks of this city and give the green light to the projects in this city.

However, the intelligent AI [Queen Mother of the West] he created based on the intelligent AI technology he has mastered and can flexibly use over the years has "problems".

Not only does it have stronger data collection and organization capabilities and hacker defense capabilities than [Xuanwu], it also has a more proactive destructive tendency than [Xuanwu].

It was like the same question. When Gu Qing asked how to deal with a problem somewhere, [Xuanwu]'s answer was to investigate, collect information, analyze... and finally deal with the local problem at the lowest possible cost.

However, the solution adopted by the Queen Mother of the West is only similar to the previous one, but the direction chosen in the end to solve the problem is to avoid future troubles as much as possible.

They are also more sensitive to identity and authority. [Xiezhi] and [Xuanwu] will interact with Gu Qing outside of work, but [Queen Mother of the West] is very "old-fashioned" and will never interact with him outside of work.

Of course, as the creator, Gu Qing knew that the reason for this difference was because of the "divine" logical rules he edited for the intelligent program AI [Queen Mother of the West].

It is precisely because the logic rules and authorization are more serious that even [Xuanwu], the most senior and loyal AI under his seat, must abide by the most rigid and inflexible processing logic when he wants to interact with [Queen Mother of the West]. Every time, Gu Qing must personally authorize it.

After a short delay, [Xuanwu] fortunately fulfilled its mission and obtained more detailed city data.

In the latest version of the virtual modeling, there are tunnel boring machines, massive excavation equipment, engineering robots, and module installation equipment working underground in Kunlun City.

The shield machine is a benchmark for Daxia's engineering industry.

This tunnel boring machine using the shield method can be used for tunnel construction in rock strata as well as for tunnel excavation in soft soil strata.

In the construction of a subway project, the excavation volume of shield construction can easily account for 45% of the total construction volume. After all, although the cost of the shield machine is high, it can increase the efficiency of subway underground excavation by 8 to 10 times, and during the construction process, there is no need for large-scale demolition on the ground.

In addition, there are many advantages such as no need to block traffic, no noise during the entire construction process, the ground is stable and does not sink, and it does not affect the normal life of residents.

Large-scale shield machines have extremely high technical added value and complex manufacturing processes. Thirty years ago, only a few companies in Europe, the United States and Japan were able to develop and produce them.

A tunnel boring machine imported from Germany costs about 5000 million yuan, and including the subsequent maintenance, it is an even larger investment.

Later, Northern Heavy Industries Group acquired the core technology of a full range of tunnel boring machines, and then studied, specialized in, and upgraded this technology. Only then did the domestically-made tunnel boring machines achieve the glorious achievement of undercutting the global tunnel boring machines at a discount price.

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Of course, although the production cost and operation and maintenance cost have come down, the cost of a top-level shield machine is still in the tens of millions. In fact, due to the appreciation of Daxia's currency and its technological advancement in recent years, the shield machines produced by Daxia's local Northern Heavy Industries Group and sold abroad are now high-end and high-priced equipment in the industry.

At this moment, in the virtual modeling in front of Gu Qing, there are more than thirty tunnel boring machines underground in the Kunlun urban construction project, carrying out excavation work according to the plan.

The huge cylindrical steel component is pushed forward along the axis of the tunnel while excavating the soil. The shell of the cylindrical component serves as a temporary support for the excavated tunnel section that has not yet been lined. Inside this cylindrical component, intelligent robots are working with the equipment to "pour" the solid layer and install special metal plates.

The outer shell of the shield machine bears the underground water pressure, and behind the road it is excavating, the tunnels and reinforced modules, although not allowing the subway to pass, are enough for various intelligent robots to work.

In Gu Qing's initial plan, the city of Kunlun was a futuristic technological city that could temporarily float in the air when necessary.

Because it has to support soil, rocks and buildings, the material of the underground reinforcement module is particularly important.

If it weren't for the local specialties sent back from the moon, which enabled Jiuzhou Technology's material research and development and manufacturing level to make new leaps and bounds, Gu Qing would not have started the Kunlun city construction project so quickly.