Jagged Warlord

The summer in Beijing is still very hot, a car parked unhurriedly at the back door of a courtyard house in Northwest Hutong.An old man with a white beard got out of the car,

"Mr. Julian, please." The two men in black guarding the door made a gesture of please, and then opened the door, "Our boss is already waiting for you inside."

"Thank you." The old foreign man with white beard took off his hat and saluted, then leaned on a cane and wobbled into the courtyard.

There is a gazebo in the center of the courtyard. The shelves of the gazebo are covered with vines, and a young man in a tank top and shorts is flicking a pile of ice cubes in the pavilion.I saw him pick up a glass of sour plum juice and pour it on the ice cubes, and the sour plum juice flowed into a bowl along the ice cubes.This person is none other than Prime Minister Li Mohan.

"Oh? You're here? Please sit down." Li Mohan picked up a bowl of sour plum juice when he saw the old foreigner, "Sing about the sour plum juice I made myself."

"Thank you." The white-bearded old man's movements suddenly became vigorous, and he removed the beard and the fake mask sticking to his face in two or three strokes.His true face was revealed, and it turned out that he was the German Minister to China Xin Ci who was supposed to return to Germany.

Li Mohan looked at the props that Xin Ci used to make up, and said with a smile: "I never thought Mr. Minister's make-up skills are so brilliant."

Xin Ci smiled slightly, and took a sip of sour plum soup, "Ah, it's really enjoyable to drink such iced sour plum soup today." After finishing speaking, Xin Ci put down the bowl, pointed to the pile of makeup props, and said, "For the benefit of Germany , I had to."

"That's right." Li Mohan also poured himself a bowl of sour plum soup, "From a personal point of view, I am very willing to make friends with Germany and Germans. However, from the perspective of national interests, I have to make friends with Germany. Declare war."

Xin Ci shrugged his shoulders, drank the remaining sour plum soup in the bowl, and said, "Well, I have to admit that you have a unique perspective on the development of the situation. It is impossible for Germany to win this war. Leader of a weak country, you are right to bet on the Allies."

Li Mohan raised the bowl containing the sour plum soup and made a gesture of toasting, "Cheers to mutual understanding."

"Cheers." Xin Ci clinked glasses with Li Mohan with a bowl.

Li Mohan said: "Nevertheless, this does not hinder the direct exchanges and cooperation between our two countries. Especially after the war, out of geopolitical considerations, the French will try their best to weaken Germany, while the British will do their best to weaken Germany out of traditional European balance of power considerations. The French will not be too indulgent. Nevertheless, a large number of military-related factories in Germany will close down, and a large number of soldiers and workers will lose their jobs. These soldiers and workers are exactly what our country urgently needs."

Xin Ci said: "Your country needs too many things, even if Germany is emptied, it may not be able to satisfy you."

Li Mohan smiled and said, "That's not enough. For example, the submarine you bought for me and those experienced sailors. I might as well tell you that ten of my submarine troops are already capable of combat."

"So fast?" Xin Ci was surprised.Of course, there was a reason for his surprise. After all, China, a country with a weak industrial foundation, built ten German U-boats in service in less than a year and trained qualified crew members. , which is indeed somewhat unbelievable.Of course, the number of U-shaped submarines that Li Mohan copied through the copy function of the counterfeit mobile phone far exceeded Xin Ci's imagination, but qualified crew members could not copy them. Therefore, only ten submarines could fight at full count.

Li Mohan smiled and said, "Aren't the Chinese stupid? It's just that they've been standing still for too long."

Xin Ci smiled and said, "I believe this." After speaking, Xin Ci picked up the teapot and poured himself a bowl of sour plum soup. "I heard that your Excellency Prime Minister's military operations in the south are going well?"

"This is the case at present." Li Mohan said, "When I unify China, the areas of cooperation between our two countries will be more extensive, and China will become a booster for Germany's post-war economic recovery."

Xin Ci raised the bowl and said, "I also believe in this. For future cooperation - cheers."

"cheers."

Li Mohan drank the sour plum soup in the bowl. He picked up the handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of his mouth, then stood up, "Come on, I'll take you to see the interesting things in the store."

"Oh, after I came to China, I saw a lot of interesting things." Xin Ci also stood up, and put the pile of props on her face again.

Li Mohan took Xin Ci into the car and went all the way to Changping area.There is a small-scale iron factory near Changping. The iron factory is making large pieces today. Four blast furnaces built with "day"-shaped refractory bricks are arranged on the four sides of the high ground, and a tall grass is built in the middle recess. The shed is used to keep out the snow, and in the ditch under the thatched shed is a huge pottery formwork reinforced with iron chains. The outlet of the molten iron in the blast furnace has a groove paved with refractory bricks leading to the ditch under the thatched shed. There are eight smaller stoves of different styles scattered around the combined Japanese stove.

The smaller one is the Zengzi Furnace, which has two floors. The upper layer is for coke, and the lower layer is for pig iron. The fire door is sealed with an iron baffle. Going down to the lower floor, slowly roasting and melting the pig iron block below. The workers who are operating at the same time see the pig iron block slowly turning white, and use the iron tongs to pinch the iron block. Other workers on the side beat the iron block into thin iron bars or Thin iron rod.

Four Japanese-shaped furnaces one size larger have also been ignited, and the thin iron rods, which are made from pig iron and made into wrought iron, are taken out of the Zeng-shaped furnaces and placed in the front furnace of the Japanese-shaped furnaces, that is, the low edge crucibles of the steel furnaces. At the back is a charcoal furnace filled with coke that has been ignited but has not been blown. I saw the workers filling the steel furnace with wrought iron, and the workers waiting there started to blow.

With the pull of the bellows, the flames of the charcoal fire passed through the fire wall in the middle of the sun-shaped furnace and began to roast the wrought iron. After a while, the color of the wrought iron turned dark red. The workers on one side must be old masters. , At this time, take out the cast iron bars that have been prepared a long time ago, put them in the steel furnace, and under the blazing flames, the cast iron bars will melt in a short time, and the melted pig iron water will be mixed with the dark red wrought iron materials , The molten iron immediately boiled, and some dross floated on the liquid mixed with melted pig iron and wrought iron. The old master took out the dregs with an iron spoon and threw them aside. As soon as the hot dregs touched the wet ground that had just thawed, a burst of mist rose. .

The master judged the heat based on experience, and continued to add pig iron to the mixture of wrought iron and pig iron that was mostly melted, and began to stir the half-melted iron in the crucible with an iron rod. After a while, the iron material melted completely, and the dross inside began to boil on the surface of the molten iron. The master craftsman continued to fish out the dross floating on the molten iron, and when he saw that the molten iron in the crucible was almost hot, he yelled, "It's ready to be made into steel." ", and the three old masters who operated other furnaces also shouted "It's become steel" one after another.

The workers nearby had already burned the trench made of refractory bricks red, and the pottery models placed in the trench under the thatched shed were also heated with charcoal fire underneath. The large pottery fans were buried in the sand, which is more important than keeping warm. It was to provide support for Tao Fan. After hearing the words of the four masters, they cooperated with each other to open the plug of molten iron with iron tongs, half lifted the crucible, and the molten iron in the crucible remained in the groove along the reserved notch, and then along the The groove flows into the pottery mold below, and the pottery mold overflows after a while. At this time, the workers block the groove paved with refractory bricks for flowing molten iron.

At this time, the workers gradually weakened the firepower of the charcoal fire used for heating under the pottery fan until it was completely removed, and then hooked the iron chain on the pottery fan with a manual pulley block to lift the pottery fan together with the molten iron poured into it and put it on the open space outside. As it slowly cooled down, all the workers, including the old masters, obeyed the command of a middle-aged man wearing a civilian army uniform coat. Under his command and dispatch, although the scene looked chaotic and there were many people, there was no any disturbances.

"Li, are you going to let me relive the Middle Ages?" Xin Ci looked a little puzzled.In the twentieth century, you can still witness the scene of cast iron and steelmaking in the Middle Ages. In Germany, you can only see some picture records in this area by looking up materials in the Iron and Steel Museum.

"Of course not." Li Mohan said, "Do you know what these smelted steels are used for?"

"I think I can only make some primitive swords. But your army has not used them for a long time." Xin Ci shook her head

"Wrong. It's making diesel engines." Li Mohan said seriously

"Li, you are joking." Xin Ci said: "The steel produced by this primitive method does not meet the needs of modern industry at all."

Li Mohan smiled triumphantly, and said, "You don't know, what is made in this very primitive steelmaking workshop is the important parts of the latest products, the flywheel and base of the diesel engine."

"Diesel engine? It's absolutely impossible." Xin Ci shook her head like a rattle.

The diesel engine Li Mohan mentioned refers to a 12-horsepower single-cylinder large flywheel diesel engine, which has several characteristics: first, it is super easy to use for maintenance, this machine is a single-cylinder design, starts without a battery, does not have any wiring settings, and has no sensors.When starting, you only need to open the decompression valve, and you can shake it quickly by hand. When the speed reaches the speed you think in your heart, just release the decompression, and the machine can start to run by itself.And super fuel-efficient, only 20 liters of fuel tank can supply a 12-horsepower tractor to run for 6-8 hours under the condition of towing.

The second is to be able to eat coarse grains. Although this engine can only be fueled with diesel, as long as it is a liquid that can be called diesel, it can burn it for you.

Third, the shape of the machine is simply neat.Especially the design of the fuel tank, directly on the machine, can not only reduce the vibration of the machine, but also ensure that it will not freeze under high-frequency vibration after adding unqualified diesel in winter.

The fourth outboard large flywheel is surprisingly heavy and versatile.It doesn't need to hook up a complex gearbox, let alone a pto output.The weight of its flywheel can ensure that the single-cylinder diesel engine can run under its special high compression ratio. The three extra V-shaped belt grooves on the flywheel are a super classic design. By changing different belts, you can use the diesel engine to drive , water pumps (generally watering the ground and pumping water), driving tractors, agricultural tricycles, noodle making machines, corn grinders, and machines that can be made into casual Penghua food by adding corn or rice through simple pipes!Anyway, let's put it this way, as long as the device can be carried by the strap, it can carry it.

However, restricted by the current level of China's industry, Li Mohan could only keep things simple and gathered a group of Zituyang engineers to further simplify the relatively simple engine itself.The result of the simplification is that the horsepower of this diesel engine is reduced to 8 horsepower, but it inherits all the advantages of the 12 horsepower single-cylinder 195 large flywheel diesel engine.Except for the machine body, cylinder block and piston bearings that require fine machining, most of the other parts can be directly cast, especially the heavy parts such as the flywheel base, and even the steel smelted by the iron copying method and steel pouring method that existed in the Song Dynasty. Can cast.

After listening to the introduction, Xin Ci immediately became petrified. Is this the wisdom of the Chinese people or~~ Xin Ci thought for a long time but couldn't think of a suitable word to describe it.