On July 30, 1683, the sky was clear.

Outside the railway station in Heishan Township, where the cold wind blows strongly, the leaves of several industrial windmills are blown to a hula sound, which makes people worry that this huge, heavy solid wooden board will fall down and smash the pedestrians who pass by accidentally.

"In Southern Patagonia, where winds often reach tens of kilometers per hour, industrial windmills are the best and cheapest helpers for people. It's a good thing to have in the hands of the Dutch, and it has helped us, at least Patagonia in part, I don't know how much. After getting a haircut that was blown messy by the wind, Sheng Dehong from the Syphilis Patient Statistical Survey Bureau said with emotion.

Everywhere he looked, there were industrial windmills of varying power, providing an important source of power for this somewhat barren land. It can be seen that Tianzun is not blindly stingy, as the so-called gains must be lost, the barren land certainly makes everyone's life very uncomfortable, but it is also suitable for grazing, and there is not a lot of coal in the field, and the wind energy in the open field has also brought them enough cheap energy.

In recent years, the East Coast has also begun to export some parts of industrial windmills to Europe, mainly for the English and Dutch, and the Blackwater Colony has also imported a lot. Compared with the works of the Dutch, the industrial windmills produced on the east coast have reasonable design, high efficiency of wind energy utilization, excellent component materials, and high processing level, so they have a long service life, which basically forms a crushing situation for the Dutch products, and more or less earns some money for the country.

Sheng Dehong and his entourage took the train all the way to Qingniwa Township, and then waited here for a full day, and then took another relatively old-fashioned train north, and arrived at Heishan Township through the branch line of the Liangyang Railway. It is one of the most important coal producing areas in the East Coast Republic of China, with 60% of the country's highest-quality industrial coal produced here (the other 30% is produced in Heijin Island and 10% in the Yicheng area, and the small coal mines on Xinhuaxia Island are basically in a state of self-production and self-sale), no matter how to elevate its status, it is not too much to exaggerate. Not to mention, the machinery manufacturing industry here is also quite good.

Yes! The industrial base of this township, which belongs to Araukan County, cannot be said to be strong, but it is definitely sophisticated, and the mysterious second heavy machinery factory of Gaine is located here, and it also brings a series of upstream and downstream enterprises to accompany it, which pushes the industrial atmosphere of the whole town to the top at once.

Nowadays, many enterprises in Montenegro Township have also been stimulated by various scientific research tasks and slowly merged into a large-scale joint manufacturing enterprise to improve production efficiency. This enterprise was officially established at the beginning of this year with the approval of the Government Council, and its name is Montenegro Industrial Company, and its main core assets are the Second Heavy Machinery Factory, Montenegro Coal Mine, and Montenegro Iron and Steel Plant (a small factory for the second heavy support).

In addition, I heard that the newly established Black Mountain Industrial Company is also planning to take the small shipyard (Xuefeng Lake Shipyard) located on the shore of Xuefeng Lake, which specializes in the development of iron-ribbed wooden hull boats, and has obtained preliminary permission from the Government Council. Almost at the end of this year, Montenegro Industrial Company will issue about 20% of the shares to the East Coast Company, and in addition to expanding the scale of production, updating machinery and equipment, and hiring talents with high salaries, some of the funds raised are naturally prepared for the acquisition of the Xuefeng Lake Shipyard, which can be said to be a certainty.

There is a very large factory near the railway station in Heishan Township, which is also an enterprise that supports local industrial and agricultural production: Heishan Water Factory. The company, which was originally jointly established by the Southern Railway Company and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, each with half a stake, has a large reservoir in addition to water supply pipelines and water and water treatment facilities.

The reservoir was built in the western mountains, far from Montenegro, and was transformed from a few small lakes and ponds that were originally only connected during the wet season, when the snow melts in the Andes in the spring and summer, and the streams fill the lakes below, which overflow to other places when they are full, connecting the multiple lakes – which is not uncommon in the Patagoniatai region. However, at that time, in order to complete the construction of the future science and technology base in Montenegro Township as soon as possible, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Southern Railway Company invested heavily in successive years to complete it.

Now, the Southern Railway Company has withdrawn its shares (the shares were sold to the government in exchange for funds to build Denglai's Jiaoyan Line Railway), and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has injected 60,000 yuan into the plant, so that the plant has improved its technology and applied many new water treatment processes in the East Coast Republic in recent years (this is all after the large-scale production of bleach and chlorine), making the technology of the Black Mountain Water Plant second to none in China.

If you look at it from a distance, the most eye-catching buildings of the Black Mountain Water Plant are probably a few super-large steam units. These steam engines are the second in the "Southern Giant" series mass-produced by the Tieling Boiler Factory, a subsidiary of the Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium, which is the largest, most technologically advanced and oldest steam engine manufacturer in the East Coast Republic of China, ten years ago.

The Southern Giant-2 steam engine has a cylinder diameter of 2.2 meters and a stroke of 3.5 meters, producing a maximum power of 220 horsepower when completing 8 reciprocating strokes per minute. The most typical appearance of the pump is the two parallel beams about 10 meters long each, which look like a kowtow machine when pumping water steadily (currently on average about 2,500 litres of water per minute per device).

Among them, the two beams, which can be regarded as important equipment, are all steel beams made of repeated forging with water presses, which are exceptionally strong and have a long service life. In fact, as early as the beginning, this kind of beam was cast with iron, but in order to ensure its structural strength, it was often cast very thick, very heavy, and the amount of iron used was also very large, which was very uneconomical. Later, with the increasing popularity of large hydraulic presses, it became possible to forge this kind of beam at low cost, so the current "Southern Giant" series of steam pumps are all steel beams, at least forged iron beams.

The construction and installation of the "Southern Giant" series is also a big project for the East Coast, which is now developing with each passing day. The amount of steel consumed by a steam pump may be larger than the total amount of iron used in some European cities in a year, and the size is relatively huge, and there are many things to consider when installing, in short, it is a good reflection of the level of engineering construction and installation on the east coast today - without the many engineers and skilled workers trained in the past 50 years, such a project is impossible to complete, even if you have the so-called technology or drawings, no one is all empty talk, and the training of people is precisely the most need cycle, It's not unusual for two generations to have a small success.

Since the beginning of this year, Sheng Dehong has focused on studying many new technologies and applications on the east coast out of work, and has paid great attention to this large steam engine. He vaguely heard that the "Southern Giant" series is now favored by many large city water plants, including Dongfang County, Ping'an County, Qingdao County, and Zhenhai County. The water and sewerage facilities at these plants were built earlier, and the steam engines used in the pumping stations were less powerful, which gradually failed to keep up with the needs of urban development, so they continued to replace large equipment.

Qingdao County, the largest city on the east coast with a population of more than 100,000, has begun to negotiate with the Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium to introduce two "Southern Giant" series to provide the most core power source for the second phase expansion project of Qingdao Water Plant. It is reported that Qingdao Water Plant is ordered to be more huge and advanced, its cylinder diameter has reached 2.85 meters (the stroke is also 3.5 meters), and eight boilers provide steam for it, which can solve the problem of insufficient water supply for industry, agriculture and civil use in Qingdao County in one fell swoop. Moreover, the "Southern Giant" steam pump of Qingdao Water Plant also reserves room for upgrading, that is, once the pressure in the cylinder is too high in the future, you can continue to install the second or even the third cylinder, that is, the compound and triple cylinders, which are generally more advanced.

Of course, the East Coasters achieved much more than that with the steam engine. In fact, benefiting from the continuous improvement of material technology and processing level, the people of the East Coast began to build many small high-speed steam engines, such as the high-speed steam engine used by TEPCO to generate electricity for small experimental generators.

In the past, in order to power small power generators, the East Coast people used belt drive to draw power from the transmission shaft of large low-speed steam engines, and then drive high-speed generators. However, this method is more dangerous, and because the speed regulation accuracy is not high enough, the voltage generated is very unstable, which greatly affects the follow-up research and debugging work. Now there is a high-speed steam engine, its transmission shaft is directly connected to the generator, the speed of the two is the same, the two machines are installed on the same base, forming a relatively compact and safe (when the belt drive was originally needed, it occupies a lot of space, and it is not safe, there have been many accidents, it is a bloody lesson) system, which has brought great help to the research of the East Coast Power Company.

In addition to the high-speed steam engine used in the power generation device, the East Coast people have also made great progress in the high-speed steam engine for machine tools, and more than ten derivative models have been developed over the years, laying a solid foundation for the upgrading of the machining industry. Among these complicated models, there is a "very interesting" steam engine that attracts the most attention, that is, a steam engine with three cylinders fixed in a vertical plane in a radial shape, the angle between each cylinder is 120 degrees, the power is generally a few horsepower to dozens of horsepower, and the speed is always more than 500 revolutions per minute, which is very amazing.

It can be said that this kind of high-speed steam engine is the core thing on the east coast at present, and it is also the piece that most reflects the technical strength. It is much more powerful than the boring big steam engine with horsepower that some people shout at their throats, and the so-called thousands of horsepower is not unneeded for the East Coast, but it is not as important as the high-speed steam engine in front of them. This kind of new equipment, which can greatly reflect the strength of basic industry - many people do not understand how important the strength of basic industry is, and blindly go to Malaysia for the sake of political performance or face, which is severely criticized on the east coast - has the incredible ability to turn stones into gold, like the engraving machine and other precision scientific instruments, which is ignored or forgotten by many people, but if it is not, nothing can be done.

"The desolate Patagonia hides an unknown number of sophisticated technologies." Sheng Dehong walked into the far gate of the Mei Organ compound not far away, shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't know how many spies and fine works from foreign countries have been blinded by the endless wind and the wind and sand, wandering in the lonely and quiet Patagonian wasteland, hesitating, not knowing what to do next, how to approach the legendary town full of treasures. Patagonia has one day become a natural barrier for us, and the princes of the Executive Committee have really taken great pains to set the scientific research base that is related to the future here. Well, the investment is also quite huge, which shows that the determination of the retired old men is really great! ”

Compared with Xingnan Port, where the personnel are relatively complex, the environment here in Montenegro Township is actually not so complicated. This is a new town completely because of all kinds of factories and scientific research institutions, and the relationship between the residents of the town is very simple, that is, the relationship between superiors and subordinates, the relationship between factory managers and workers, the relationship between the leader of the scientific research project team and the team members, and so on. It is too difficult for an unrooted outsider to approach this inland town in the depths of the barren area, and to have a suitable identity without revealing it, let alone stealing relevant secrets in front of many "dog-nosed" syphilis patient investigators from the Bureau of Statistics and Investigation, which is too unrealistic - the town has been established for many years, and only a few spy infiltration incidents have occurred, as evidenced by the fact that the people on the east coast are too close to this place, so that it is really difficult for all kinds of "underground heroes" to be useful.

However, even if the work here is relatively simple, the new director of Shengde Hongsheng does not dare to take it lightly, he has seen too many officials who have been negligent in accidents over the years, and he does not want his good future to be ruined by an inexplicable leak. Therefore, he plans to work out a feasible secret and anti-espionage plan in detail in the next few days, involving the cooperation and coordination between the local Mei organs, the public security bureau, and the security departments of each factory, and use this relatively tight three-level network to block all suspicious elements -- or even if it cannot be stopped, it is necessary to systematically reduce the possibility of such a terrible thing occurring.

Many of the technological achievements of the "black science and technology base" in Heishan Township are the hard work of two generations of scientific research workers in the East Coast Republic of China, and they cannot be taken away by some outsiders with ill intentions, which is unacceptable to all the people of Dong'an!