Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 90 The first machine tool goes online

A hydroelectric generator is almost the simplest type of power generation equipment.

The water wheel drive part of the 50KW unit that Ren Zhong needs to clone is a casting, which can be completely produced in the world of Liang Jian.

The core parts that really need to be produced on the main plane are the rare earth permanent magnets on the rotor, high-quality cold-rolled silicon steel sheets, and pure copper enameled wires.

Ren Zhong has already asked Chengxin Machinery Factory to handle these tasks and brought them to the world of Liangjian.

Therefore, most of the castings Ren Zhong had to make in the world of Liang Jian. Machine tools and hydroelectric generators were a major test for Ren Zhong.

However, the big machine tool has been sculpted. Although the final result has not been seen yet, Ren Zhong feels that it is not much different. After all, he has strictly inspected the size and fineness of the entire model according to the design requirements, and there are no flaws in the casting.

After returning to Yangcun from the blast furnace, Ren Zhong continued to arrange people to make models, while he began to select a narrow place in Yangcun to build a small dam.

To raise the water level of the slow-flowing river, according to the flow rate of this river, which is less than 1 cubic meter per second, the water head needs to be more than 8 meters to have enough impact force.

In this way, Ren Zhong needs to build a dam about 10 meters high.

According to the terrain elevation difference of Yangcun, Ren Zhong chose a place with a drop of 100 meters 5 meters downstream from the big cave. In this way, it was only necessary to build a dam of about 5 meters, which greatly reduced the workload. Moreover, the lower the dam, the smaller the risk.

Ren Zhong asked someone in the main plane to make a simple design for the dam. Here there were only buildings made mainly of stone, not even concrete. Ren Zhong used stone slabs and clay as the main raw materials to build the dam, as long as its performance was usable.

A five-meter dam on a small river will not have much impact on the downstream even if it collapses.

The main plane was designed so that it could be directly flooded over during floods, and even the flood discharge facilities were omitted.

With this design, it would be right to leave the rest of the work to Li Yunlong.

During this period, Lao Li stayed in Yang Village with peace of mind. On the one hand, he did the land reclamation and farming work assigned by Ren Zhong, and on the other hand, he took on new projects from Ren Zhong from time to time. This just happened to consume all Lao Li's abundant energy on these things.

Anyway, after returning from Heyuan where he had been wandering for more than a month, Lao Li's desire to kill the enemy had weakened a lot. He knew the importance of food. Now, during this period of famine, the Independent Regiment was actually living on a half-starved stomach. If it hadn't been for finding some of the Japanese's reserve food by destroying artillery towers and strongholds in Heyuan, the Independent Regiment would have been unable to survive.

When Ren Zhong first watched "Bright Sword", he didn't quite understand why Li Yunlong launched the Yelangyu ambush. However, after living with the Independent Regiment for so many days, Ren Zhong understood that many things were forced out.

If the Japanese baggage train was not intercepted, the soldiers would not even be able to guarantee food. Most of the food, drink, weapons and ammunition of the Eighth Route Army were taken from the Japanese puppet troops, and now they did not get any supplies of preserved fruits at all.

The team was short of food and ammunition, and could only rely on hand-to-hand combat to gain living space, which led to this brutal battle in which they killed 3,000 enemies but lost 800 of their own.

If it were now, and you asked Lao Li to engage in such hand-to-hand combat, do you think he would do it?
Li Yunlong is not a fool. Why would he lead a reinforced battalion to engage in hand-to-hand combat when a sniper squad of less than 30 people or a cavalry company could solve the problem with a few charges?

Another week has passed.

The machine tools and generator castings are completed.

There are only a few castings for the machine tool, and the largest base is relatively difficult to make, so Ren Zhong put it first. The remaining parts are smaller castings, and model making is much faster. The same is true for the generator. After the outer shell is cast, the remaining parts are small parts.

Gao Kaiming and his team worked overnight according to the blueprints. They wanted to see the new machine tool in operation more than anyone else.

People who have not experienced what their generation went through will never understand their obsession with an advanced machine tool!

The turbine runners and generators were installed one by one, and after careful inspection of the various wiring harness connections to ensure that there were no problems with the wiring.

Ren Zhong raised his hand and said, "Open the gate and release the water!" The simple sluice gate made of two pieces of wood was raised halfway with great effort. The river water that had been blocked for several days suddenly rushed down the canal, forming a huge impact force that began to push the turbine wheel to rotate rapidly. A light bulb connected to the generator lit up immediately!

Power generation successful!

Then Gao Kaiming's excited voice came from the cave. "Report to Boss Ren, the machine tool has been successfully started and the drill bit test is in progress!"

When the people at the dam heard this, they immediately cheered.

This means that the hydroelectric generator and machine tool were successfully tested in one go!
The current hydraulic generator, judging by the amount of water released, is only operating at less than 20% of its generating capacity, as the load of the machine tool is only 7.5KW. Ren Zhong can only control the flow rate to keep the generator output power at around 8KW. There is no other excess load at present, and it will take at least another month before the next machine tool is successfully produced.

But in the world of Bright Sword, the one-time successful production greatly boosted everyone's confidence.

Ren Zhong began to arrange large-scale production of machine tools, and the second machine tool was the urgently needed punch press!
This is a key equipment for producing mortar shells. With the machine tool, it will be much easier to produce punching machines locally. Although the task is heavy and it is inevitable that some high-precision bearings and punching machines will need to be brought in from the main plane, the quantity is not that large.

This has greatly reduced Ren Zhong's burden of carrying goods. Now Ren Zhong operates at full capacity every day and only carries corn seeds instead of spare parts.

After the machine tool came out, Ren Zhong's space for development suddenly expanded. According to his idea, 56 semi-automatic machine should be put on the agenda.

At this moment, Zhang Wanhe and the brigade commander delivered the calligraphy and paintings one after another!

The two sides collected more than 130 pictures in total!

After receiving so many paintings, Ren Zhong was a little confused.

He took a quick look and found the paintings of horses by Beihong, which were treasured in the main plane! There were more than one painting. Zhang Wanhe collected three paintings by Master Beihong, and the brigade commander collected five large paintings by Master Beihong.

Even though Ren Zhong didn't know the current price of these paintings, he knew they were worth a lot of money. Just these few paintings were worth it!

It is much more valuable than any of his previous paintings auctioned.

In order to reduce the impact on the main plane's art market, Ren Zhong decided to try privately this time.

After bringing the paintings back to the main plane and storing them in a specially purchased giant safe that could not be moved manually, Ren Zhong selected a work by Master Beihong and a work by Master Daqian, took photos, and then contacted Ms. Ma Shuhan from the art company whom he met at the auction in Hong Kong Island.

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