Chapter 863: Island Factory
The Aleutian Islands, which are islands deep into the Pacific Ocean, are also the most difficult exploration in the future, the entire exploration plan, the most complicated step, for the time being, Zhuang Ji will not think about it, he is the vanguard, his task is only to lead the vanguard, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula to explore the completion of the exploration, to continue to go deep into the ocean in the future, to provide a good support, this is the most important thing.
His mission, in addition to continuing to explore the surrounding waters and redrawing the charts of the Kuril Islands and Kamchatka, was to lay a good foundation for the Kuril Islands.
This foundation is the base camp of navigation, which has the role of an overview of the whole situation, and at the same time, a series of industries will be built here to provide sufficient help for the next step into the sea.
Navigation is really a large-scale systematic project, which involves many steps, and in the face of inexplicable dangers, it is impossible to overprepare.
In addition to the clipper as a sharp weapon for detection, logistics is also very important, and even to a certain extent, the importance of logistics is even above the clipper.
In the later Age of Sail, relying on Spanish galleons, and even in the early days, ordinary three-masted galleons, it was possible to cross the ocean, discover the New World, travel around the world, and imagine the navy now, vigorously develop the magic version of the Spanish galleon, across the Pacific Ocean, that is no problem at all.
The reason why the clipper boat is prepared is because the clipper boat is more suitable, and at the same time, it is also faster, and under certain circumstances, it can reduce the consumption of time.
Putting aside the problem of ships, the Dinghai Navy has solved the flying clipping ship, and at the same time has produced a fairly mature ship, which can be used as a basis to explore the sea.
The more you go into the ocean, the harsher the environment and the more volatile the problems you encounter, the logistics become the cornerstone of everything, and if you don't have enough logistics, then everything is not to be discussed.
Even if it is a ship, the navigation of two ships, the requirements for logistics are also very high, above the sea, a vast expanse, encountered a storm, or other influences, if there is not enough supplies, then this ship, really has no place to die.
Slowly starving to death in despair, and even cannibalism, abound throughout the history of navigation, and even some well-known European navigators have such a black history.
In the absence of any charts at all, under a strangeness, entering unknown waters, and losing the ability to continue, can only slowly wait for death, people in a desperate situation, all kinds of things that test human nature, also emerge one by one, some people unfortunately disappeared without any sound at all, became part of the missing, some, lucky rescued, there are some, between luck and misfortune, when found rescued, tragedy has happened.
Whether it is Robinson Crusoe, or some works of the Western Renaissance, navigation and adventure are also a topic that cannot be avoided.
This is the epitome of society at that time, but also the embodiment of the value system, under the attraction of the possibility of getting rich, there are countless bones that have been buried at the bottom of the sea, and even eaten up, history, I am afraid that only the successful ones will be recorded, but even if they are successful, for example, Magellan who sailed around the world for the first time, he did not complete the round-the-world voyage, to be exact, he died on the way, and his fleet was finally completed.
Every seafaring talent is a rare wealth in the hands of Zhao Xin, even if the Americas are discovered in the future, to develop the Americas, to obtain what is needed from the Americas, a large number of seafaring personnel are also needed, although these people can be cultivated gradually through long-term training, but the initial scale must be guaranteed to a certain extent, so that it can eventually snowball, rather than gradually exhausting.
Being in the understanding of the sea, and being familiar with some things, it can be said that the preparation for the voyage is to be more complete and complete.
Equipped with a large number of clippers, so that in the age of sails, the most suitable for navigation, the most suitable for exploration, at the same time, some necessary equipment, such as small machinery, telescopes, charts and sextants, all kinds of things.
It also does not miss some soft power, if it is a supply, food is necessary, it is compressed, easy to preserve, and also takes into account the problem of water ingress on the ship, and some of them are also sealed with waterproof materials, even if the ship sinks, without a certain period of time, complete soaking may not be able to make these foods ineffective.
At the same time, there is no way to compress the water, but there is also a way to collect it, for example, on the sail, there is a special place for drainage, once it rains, you can use the huge sail, under normal circumstances, one or two hours, you can fill the water storage tank.
Rainwater is not very clean water, and when there is no other choice, it can only be used, and Dingjun will go one step further, and Zhao Xin can even provide a filtration device.
The principle of the water purifier is to use the method of simulating the soil layer, with more than a dozen layers of filtration means, the harmful substances in the water are filtered one by one.
Under the premise that the technology of this polymer compound has not yet been developed, it is impossible to obtain more efficient or small materials, but it is still possible to use dozens of layers of land, sand and other layers to make some larger filtration devices to make the water cleaner.
These places are all in charge of controlling this huge adventure, but the logistics of solving them on the spot are problems that Zhuangji must solve, and they must be solved quickly.
A ship, the materials needed, not much, a clipper ship has 30 fixed members, as long as it is prepared, it can provide resources for 30 people and survive for 3 months.
There are compressed biscuits and a filtration system, which does not occupy a large number, and there is still room for some other equipment to be placed on the clipper, mainly to help with exploration.
On the island, it is quite difficult to build a factory and produce some necessary logistics materials, and it is quite difficult to transport machinery and equipment from a distance, but there is no way to do it.
For the exploration of the Americas, it was a long exploration process, and this long, in addition to the long and tortuous process, is also a long journey.
From Huludao to Hokkaido, this already explored nautical chart has been quite long, about 5,000 kilometers, more than 2,000 kilometers of the Kuril Islands, 1,000 kilometers of the Kamchatka Peninsula, plus nearly 3,000 kilometers of the Aleutian Islands, that is to say, even if the Aleutian Islands have just crossed, there are tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Aleutian Peninsula.
Not to mention the arrival of the Aleutian Islands in the future, even at present, the location of the Kuril Islands, from the country, is quite difficult, relay transportation, maybe can transport some, irreplaceable, and the number is relatively small, for example, compressed biscuits and the like, these must be made of grain, processed and compressed before they can be realized.
There is equipment on the island that can be placed to process these things, but there is not enough food, so instead of sending the food over and processing it, it is better to bring it directly and compress the biscuits.
According to a person's daily 150 grams of compressed biscuits, the consumption of a ship for 3 months is four or five hundred kilograms, even if it is 1,000 ships, it is only 500 tons, and a Spanish sailing ship can accommodate it.
Compressed biscuits are OK, all the quantities used are not much, and the volume is relatively small, but some are not.
For example, canned fish, the Kuril Islands, although not as good as the natural fishing grounds in Hokkaido, is also a place where cold and hot air currents intersect, fish are also very developed, as long as you give the base camp, send a group of fishing boats, you can have enough harvest, when the time comes, get the fish processing machine over, nearby production, can play a role.
Some other logistical materials, batteries, coal, and others, these can be solved by finding a way, and setting up a factory on the island base is the best choice.
Factories in Hokkaido, Chubu No. 1, and the entire Kuril Islands are built wherever factories and mines can be built.
The island factory, which itself is the strength of the Dinghai Navy, started on the island, more than 300 square kilometers of land, squeezed into tens of millions of people, a large number of factories and mines, which provides a huge test for the design and accommodation capacity.
How to accommodate enough factories and mines in a small area, and produce enough products has always been what Dinghai is good at, but in this newly built island factory, it is different, take Central No. 1 as an example, almost every factory has higher production efficiency, and it can be said unceremoniously that these factories built in Central No. 1, their technical level is the best in the entire Dinghai Navy, and it is first-class quality.
The development of the Ding Navy to the present, but it is only six or seven years, but his industrial strength, after two jumps, the first time, is on the Ding Navy, Zhao credit card system and the efforts of countless people, for the Ding Navy to open the industrialization laid the foundation, upgrading, are all under a certain extent, it is impossible to push to start over, that the cost is too great, and there is too much waste.
Unless the efficiency is improved several times, or even more, the transformation will be carried out, otherwise a little, 30%, 50% improvement, basically, will only accumulate experience, not to transform the machine factory upgrade.
After the occupation of Liao, almost in Liao, an industrialized country was reproduced, and some of the newer knowledge and equipment of research were used, and in the process of completing the transformation of Liao, the production efficiency of the navy was increased by more than 2 times.
It only took more than half a year for Liao, when some factories were finally put into use, they had completely exceeded the Dinghai Navy, and the efficiency of the industry was very high, and the number of users was also decreasing.
In fact, in all aspects of the system positioning, coupled with Zhao Xin's continuous forward guidance, the scientific and technological development of the entire Dinghai Navy is very fast, especially the basic development of the steam engine, even if it is similar to rubber, or rubber plants, it is considered to provide a relatively stable rubber, although the number can not be compared with the market, similar to rubber, all over the entire production and life of all aspects, but the number of steam engines, has been from the beginning, the monthly output of dozens, It has been raised to tens of thousands.
Although the largest, steam locomotives, steam engines for mines, and steam engines for large factories, are still around 500, all kinds of small steam engines are almost in full bloom.
Except for some places that only use manpower, which can be directly transformed with a steam engine, others, such as steam-powered projects, basically, cannot be directly transformed, but can only be done step by step, and even take care of the aspect of productivity.
At the level of the steam engine, it has completely replaced manpower and implemented automated production, for unfamiliar people, the efficiency is accelerated, which represents danger, and the higher the degree of automation, the more so.
In Shenyang, the popularization of the steam engine took time and proceeded slowly, but in the layout of the island, a more efficient factory could be realized.
However, in Hokkaido, on the islands, the higher the production efficiency, the better, on the islands, the living conditions are poor, large-scale immigration is impossible, the efficiency is first-class, and this exploration project has also been fully supported by the entire Dinghai Navy, in this case, there is no shortage of money,
All kinds of the latest technological means, even machinery and equipment, have been continuously sent to the island, especially on one island, and some coal mines have been discovered, especially so.
The same is true of the Kamchatka Peninsula, which was buried by the snowfield, thousands of years of land, his resources, are stored in the lowlands, some geological experts after a little exploration, they found several reserves of quite rich coal, these coal, can become the raw materials of industry, provide a huge impetus for industry, and therefore can be developed, although it is only temporary mining now, and not used, but in the future, after the completion of the first phase of exploration of the Kuril Islands, it must be the second stage of development, Only by stabilizing this place will the next step, the Aleutian Islands.
Both the Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka Peninsula are relatively close to the Dinghai Navy, and they are both large-scale islands.
Even the smallest Kuril Islands, also have several, the island area of more than 1,000 square kilometers of large islands, there is a certain support, large-scale construction of a series of factories, and a sufficient number of immigrants, and then you can start construction, it is expected, through careful calculations, the entire logistics factory, can solve the expedition fleet of about 70% of the supply of logistics materials, this does not include water, if you add water, at least to increase more than 20%, this for long-range logistics pressure, will be reduced to a minimum.