I brought a Jurassic

Chapter 345 Wang Luo intends to determine the research and development direction in the field of machinery
"With your current learning ability, to be honest, you have basically learned everything I have learned in my life. Even your current skills and hands-on ability are better than many veterans. Not to mention the oil pump, just taking my major in automobiles as an example, you are already very good, especially in diagnosing automobile failures and repairing them at the steel rolling mill. You can be said to be first-class. Since you have learned so much, what are your plans next?

I know you have made achievements in other fields, such as Chinese medicine, which has nothing to do with machinery, accounting, martial arts, agriculture, etc. All your teachers and masters have praised you highly. So don't you want to do something in the automotive field? Otherwise, it would be a waste of your brain."

Dean Ding asked Wang Luo with a smile.

"Teacher Ding, you flatter me. I have only learned a tiny bit of what you have taught me. As for my plan, it must be the automobile major you taught me. I plan to study automobile manufacturing, especially the research of trucks. When I was at the steel mill, I had the honor of participating in the car maintenance of their car team, and I also saw the gap between our country's cars and foreign cars. Their cars during World War II were more advanced than our current cars, especially in terms of engines. They had more horsepower and could pull more. I want to give it a try to see if I can improve this aspect."

Wang Luo expressed his plan.

"Automobiles? Well, that's a very good research topic. I can be considered to have a successor now. With your intelligence and talent, if you really enter this field, your achievements will be limitless, especially for engines. In this regard, our university supports you. Go ahead and research boldly. The school-run factory is well-equipped. As for the material problem, don't worry about it. I will find a way to coordinate with the various departments.

However, Wang Luo, before you study trucks, I have a suggestion. That is, can we make some efforts in tractors? This is what we urgently need at the moment. After all, our country is a big agricultural country. You are also aware of the natural disasters in recent years. Mechanized agriculture is naturally lagging behind manual agriculture. The Dongfanghong crawler tractor currently produced by YTO is good, but it is too big. It is very good in the northern plains, but it is not suitable for paddy fields in the south. It is too heavy and can easily get stuck.

A few days ago, I went to the south and saw that the terrain there is not suitable for large tractors. Many plots of land are small, and the people still use buffaloes to plow the land. The efficiency is too low. At most, they can plow a few dozen acres a day. In addition, the buffaloes are prone to disease and difficult to take care of. "

This is just what Dean Ding said. Our country has been using cattle to plow the land for many years. Now the cattle belong to the collective and are taken care of by special cattle raisers. Even if they are not full, they will not let the cattle go hungry. That is called meticulous care. The cattle raisers know how many acres of land to plow in a day and will never let the cattle get tired. In the past, the land could be plowed in the south, but now it cannot be plowed?

Wang Luo had read an online novel in his previous life. It mentioned that the reason why the farming efficiency in the south was lower than before in this era was not because of the cattle or the people, but because of the tools. At this time, a kind of plow appeared, called the double-wheeled double-share plow.

This double-share plow is completely different in shape and structure from the traditional bow-shaped wooden frame iron plowshare. It is an iron frame with a lever in the middle and a wheel on each side. Two plowshares are installed at the lower back of the iron frame, forming a triangular support with the pair of wheels in front. There is a traction hook at the front of the plow, a control handle or handle at the back, and a gear to control the tillage depth. That's all there is to this plow.

The traction power of a two-wheeled, double-share plow must be strong and powerful livestock, usually mules, horses or oxen.

Traditional animal-powered plows are divided into single and double ploughs. A single plough refers to one animal pulling a plow, which usually only has a plowshare but no plowshare. It is mostly used for shallow tillage such as tilling the soil and digging furrows. For deep tillage such as turning the soil and loosening the soil, two animals are needed to pull it, as one animal cannot pull it.

The double-share plow has one more plowshare than the traditional plow, so the power required is naturally doubled. If two strong oxen are used for traction, the plowshare must be lifted to make the plowed soil layer shallower, otherwise it cannot be pulled, and the purpose of deep plowing cannot be achieved. If you want to plow the land deeply, you need at least three or four strong animals. Even a slight increase in depth is too much for four animals to bear.

When this thing first appeared, in an era before mechanical farm tools appeared, this iron thing with two plowshares simultaneously plowing the land was once considered a "semi-mechanized" rarity and attracted people's attention.

However, people soon discovered that this double-wheeled, double-share plow could not improve the efficiency of farming, and it also had many shortcomings.

First of all, it is heavy. Because its entire structure is an iron frame, its weight far exceeds that of two traditional plows, which increases the power required. It was originally pulled by two animals, but now it is pulled by four animals, which greatly increases the difficulty of operation for the plowman. It is difficult for four large animals to pull the plow at the same time, which greatly increases the difficulty of training. Due to the heavy weight of the plow itself and the two plowshares arched underground, it is very difficult to lift it up every time you turn a corner at the end of the field. Although it has a lifting device, it is not so convenient to operate, and it cannot be done by a man who is not physically strong.

Secondly, due to the large number of livestock used and the length of the plow itself, the area occupied is much larger than that of traditional plows. Therefore, the corners of the land left after plowing are particularly large. In short, it is not light, flexible, efficient, and has little advantage. This determined that it was inevitably regarded as a useless thing in the end.

The most important thing is that the original plows were dismantled when steel was being made three years ago. This double-share plow was still required to be promoted by the higher-ups. Even though it is not easy to use, it still has to be used. Otherwise, there would be no way to cultivate the land, and the people would have no choice.

The double-wheeled double-share plow, as a product of this era—an unsuccessful invention and an inefficient production tool, existed for a very short time, so short that it is almost difficult to find its impression in people's memory. Practice has proved that as a production tool, the key to its vitality lies in its practicality and efficiency. Everything must be tested by time and practice. Survival of the fittest is always an unbreakable law.

"Teacher Ding, do you mean to find a power tool for the double-share plows in each commune?"

Wang Luo didn't bother to be polite with Dean Ding and just told him directly.

"Haha, I can't hide it from you. It's true. You saw them ploughing the land when you went to support the harvest in the countryside last year. Now, there are many double-share plows in various communes, not only in the south but also in the north. You said to recycle them, but I'm a little reluctant. After all, they are made of good steel and iron, and they are made by hand. If you use them, the efficiency is too low, and a lot of people and animals are wasted. It's not cost-effective. So the Ministry of Agriculture wants to modify this plow and add a power to it to see if it can be formed. Including our University of Technology, many schools' mechanical departments have received this task. It just so happens that you want to study automobiles, so I won't bother two people. I'll let you operate it. I believe in your ability."

"Teacher Ding, I have no problem with this, but shouldn't there be a professional organization like the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute to produce products in this situation? How come this task is assigned to each university?"

Wang Luo asked in confusion. "That's how it was done before. Universities can get some R&D tasks, but not too many. It's all thanks to you. You single-handedly developed our country's first oil pump. This is a task that the Petroleum Machinery Research Institute has been working hard on for a long time but has not completed. This is what Director Ma reported. In addition, the country has considered the integration of industry, academia and research that you proposed a few days ago. Combined with the current problem of talent shortage, it is considered that it is very feasible for universities to carry out scientific and technological research and development, so we plan to give it a try. It just so happens that the double-share plows of various communes have become a burden, so we simply take it out as a pilot project to see if it can take shape."

Dean Ding told Wang Luo about the decision with a smile.

"I see. I'll take on this task, but I need some teachers, classmates and the like to help me, especially some professional technical workers. We in school can make drawings and design products, but we still need their help in some mechanical processing."

"Don't worry about these. There are many people with strong hands-on skills in our university's factory. I will transfer them to you. If you have any questions, just go to them directly. In addition, the power equipment developed for this double-share plow must have a simple structure and convenient maintenance. It is best for our people to learn it immediately and operate it easily. You can report to the school-run factory now. As for your R&D team, you can form it yourself, and the school will fully support it."

"Okay, I'm leaving now, Mr. Ding."

With the support of Dean Ding, Wang Luo then began to invest in the research and development of agricultural machinery engines. The University of Technology attached great importance to this research and development work. For this purpose, it specially selected a group of junior and senior students and teachers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering to help, provide some daily guidance, and by the way, give practical courses to these college students who have not yet entered the society.

The team was quickly formed. The president of the University of Technology, President Lin, and Dean Ding came over to cheer them up and to support Wang Luo. Wang Luo was a genius. He learned all the knowledge accumulated by Dean Ding throughout his life in just a few months. He was also a great man who developed the oil pump on his own. He was good at theory, drawing, and practice, but he was still too young and they were afraid that he would not be able to control the situation. Although some of the students in universities nowadays are recommended, most of them are admitted through examinations. Which one of them is not a great man? They are all chosen by heaven. Even if they are so amazing, Wang Luo is indeed a younger brother in front of a group of juniors and seniors. It was different when he worked in the steel mill. The workers worked for wages, and Wang Luo could not play a leading role. But it might be different here.

"You guys seem to be having a great time chatting. Can you tell us two old guys what you're talking about?"

Unexpectedly, after they entered the workshop, they saw a very harmonious scene. All the students surrounded Wang Luo and listened to him talking vividly, without any objection to him because of his age.

"Principal, Dean."

Seeing the two people come in, the students greeted them politely.

"Just chatting, whatever is fun to talk about."

After saying hello, Wang Luo replied.

"No, principal, dean, I didn't expect our junior to be so knowledgeable. I originally thought he only had his own unique insights in mechanics, but I didn't expect him to know so much. He knows martial arts, history, military affairs, and even music. We, the so-called top students, feel so far behind him. He is indeed a talented person who is both literary and martial."

A frank senior sister brought out the topic that Wang Luo had just discussed with them.

"Haha, your junior fellow is really amazing. Your dean and I have known this for a long time. I happened to meet him the other day. When he first entered the school, he talked about Mr. Xun's article with a teacher from the Tsinghua University School of Literature who came to our school for something. His insights were very unique, so much so that the teacher wanted to pull him to the Tsinghua University School of Literature to take classes with students from the school."

Principal Lin said.

Of course, this was just Wang Luo being bored, so he chatted with the teacher and played with some opinions from later generations on the Internet.

"Ah, Wang Luo, you are amazing. You even understand literature. Aren't you an engineering student? No, you seem to be studying accounting, but that's not right either. You seem to be studying agriculture. Oh, this is a huge cross-disciplinary area. The liberal arts students of Tsinghua University have always been enemies with our engineering department, and you can convince their teachers. Amazing, amazing."

"What? It's just nonsense. I had nothing to do, so I just happened to run into a teacher from the College of Literature at Tsinghua University and talked about some novel viewpoints. How can we catch up with their professional talents?"

Wang Luo waved his hand modestly.

Although Wang Luo is modest, he is perceived differently by these students. They originally thought that although Wang Luo designed the oil pump and had already produced a prototype, that was probably just a coincidence. The reason why Wang Luo is so popular is that whenever he comes to the University of Science and Technology, he never comes empty-handed and often brings delicious food to share with everyone. However, when it comes to academic issues, he is considered semi-self-taught in just three months, so he certainly cannot catch up with students like them who have been studying for several years. Academic issues have always been controversial.

(End of this chapter)