God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

Chapter 872: Completely Exploded
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In this way, the two parties reached a very harmonious cooperation.

Lu Jun can also bring people to the Gongsun family's shipbuilding factory to help build and improve this steel battleship.

Different from the large steel battleship that Lu Jun himself conceived, the order received by the Gongsun family had quite complete drawings and corresponding structural construction.

Even the sizes are clearly marked on the drawings of many parts, and the margin of error is extremely small.

Lu Jun looked at these errors, briefly compared the tools and sizes used by Taishan, and easily switched over.

This kind of error within millimeters is nothing to Lu Jun.

Any skilled worker can produce precision within this range, especially their Jiangdong workers, who are born with precision, just millimeter level, with minor problems.

However, even if the two companies work together to build, many problems will inevitably arise.

Some problems are not shown in the drawings at all.

Fortunately, as the order placer, I don’t have too many requirements on the delivery time of the order. I just say that I will do my best.

But the more relaxed the request, the greater the pressure on Lu Jun and Gongsun Yu.

After all, it is thousands of tons of steel, and it consumes a lot of money. If it is not done well in the middle of the work, wouldn't it be over?
Although the ship's steel can be remelted and reused, the time and cost involved are unacceptable to the two of them.

Even halfway through the construction, Gongsun Yu wanted to give up, just return the deposit, pay a sum of money, and end it like this.

But Lu Jun gave up. Things always have a beginning and an end, let alone a steel battleship like this.

Only by personally experiencing the difficulty of manufacturing such a steel battleship can he lay a sufficient experience foundation for his own battleship.

Gongsun Yu, who was still in a normal state of mind, had no idea that Lu Jun not only wanted to complete this steel battleship, but also wanted to build a larger steel battleship that would go down in history.

But we have already started half of the work. After working for nearly several months, we have solved a lot of problems. The entire family's ship technology has improved a lot. I really want to give up.

The thin liquidated damages are second, and the time cost invested is really gone.

There were also some unwilling Gongsun Yu who had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue making it together with Lu Jun.

The steel plates of ships are better. Whether they weigh hundreds of kilograms or several tons, they can be easily handled, even if there are a few steel plates that weigh more than ten tons or even dozens of tons.

Just ask an expert at the inner-qi separation level to help you get it done.

A series of problems such as the shape, keel, appearance, deck, etc. of the ship were solved.

However, it was only when the ship was halfway through that Lu Jun discovered the real problem.

That is the power of the ship, which seems difficult to solve.

Although a steel warship with a length of more than 15 meters, a width of more than [-] meters, and a weight of more than [-] tons can float on the sea, how should it move?

Whether it is manpower or wind power, it is difficult to deal with such a problem. As for using the secret technique of cloud and air, it is difficult to maintain a long-term movement. This is not in line with the operational thinking and combat ideas of normal warships.

A mere [-]-ton warship would face such a situation, so wouldn't it be even more difficult for a steel warship approaching [-]-ton in his mind?
Fortunately, Lu Jun didn't think about it for too long. While searching and reviewing steel in the Qingzhou mine, Lu Jun found a huge substitute.

A large steam engine burning coal came into view of Lu Jun.

Lu Jun was very interested in this large steam engine that was rarely used.

This was said to be a failed experiment in the construction center, but it still demonstrated its capabilities.

It can drive some minerals in a fixed area and transport them along some tracks to speed up the transportation of ores.But its coal burning speed is also very fast.

And the speed of burning coal is no different from burning money, and the power and power generated are really not as qualitative as those of them who are not suppressed by their vitality.

At least the things driven by steam engines, even if they are hundreds of tons at a time, cannot change a situation because they consume too much.

A few hundred tons of ore only requires thousands of soldiers to make one trip.

Mine officials preferred the use of soldiers, especially those smelting adaptive ones, to the speed at which steam engines consumed coal.

Coal itself has a great effect. Whether it is used for heating or burning, it has a certain value.

And with the changes of seasons, the price will continue to fluctuate, coupled with the long distance.

The price of coal is already close to [-]% of steel. In this case, what the steam engine burns is not coal, but real money!

Any official who can calculate will not turn on the steam engine when he has nothing to do.

After all, a large steam engine is equivalent to hundreds of soldiers who are not suppressed by the clouds. What is its use?It's totally useless.

Compared with starting a large steam engine that requires nearly ten tons of coal in one day, which is equivalent to consuming one ton of steel, it is cheaper to let soldiers carry ore.

After all, the salary cost of a legion soldier for a day will not exceed 50 yuan, while a large steam engine will cost 150 million yuan if it is turned on for a day.

The amount of ore transported by the two sides can even reach a gap of dozens of times.

Moreover, soldiers are more flexible, more convenient, and can also mine.

The large steam engine, which was fixed in place and motionless, still required soldiers to put the ore in a designated place and get another designated place to unload it. Not only did it fail to save time, but it also delayed more time.

Under this circumstance, the large steam engine has become garbage in the eyes of many mine officials. Its only function is to occupy a piece of land to show that it has arrived here.

This is why Liu Tong complained to Chen Xi after the experiment.

Although material costs are relatively small here, they basically only count labor costs.

But if you only count the labor cost, you can crush the steam engine. So what is the point of the steam engine?

It can be said that if the consumption of the steam engine cannot be controlled, even if the steam engine is restrained by etching, the heat energy can be restrained to produce a very high thermal efficiency ratio, but it does not change the fact that it is difficult for the steam engine to operate without cloud suppression. More than manpower.

And in the mine, who would turn on cloud suppression to slow down their mining speed if they have nothing to do?

Especially these soldiers with adaptive talents, carrying their own mining equipment, work fast and in large numbers.

Soldiers weighing about a hundred kilograms are fine, but there are some adaptive soldiers weighing two hundred kilograms that can transport ore at the marching speed of light infantry.

In this case, the steam engine was completely exploded.

Liu Tong, who didn't know anything about the heaven and earth essence steam engine, could only be disappointed after researching the steam engine.

Professional matters still need to be handled by professionals.

As for when he can go to Nanyang County and invite the Nanyang Zhang family over, it is not clear.

After all, Zhang Heng's descendants also have their own pride in their hearts.

Anyway, the letter has been sent, I don’t know if it will arrive.

(End of this chapter)