readx;?“ We have to carefully sort out Wen Xinyi's relationship line, although his Wu'an Village is quite far from the sea, he is quite connected with the major pirates in the South China Sea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Li Yuan smiled and opened the material and turned to the third page.

At this time, the Executive Committee and the military department, as well as the senators of the Great Library, were sitting in small meeting rooms, and in the distance in the center of Port Oriente, some of the prefabricated houses erected on the day of Landing were being demolished or removed, and a large conference center was to be built here in preparation for the First General Assembly of the Senate on January 20, 1629.

"How many pirates does Wen Xinyi have ties to?" Yang Minghuan opened the notebook in his hand and wrote a few strokes on it with a newly made pencil from the industrial department. This pencil is easy to solve, because there are already many coal mines in the vicinity of the port of Vostochny, and these mines are associated with kaolin, refractory clay, diatomaceous earth, graphite and even oil shale, although the reserves are still unknown, but now the amount seems to be considerable. The graphite is mined as an associated ore from these coal mines, where the powdered graphite is mixed with clay and then used talcum powder, grease and wax to mix pencils made from bioglue from some of the marine organisms fished by the fisheries department. Because the industrial sector requires an extremely large amount of wood, a large amount of waste paper is recycled and used to wrap pencils in order to save wood. This pencil was cumbersome and heavy at this time, and because there was no professional machinery to sharpen it, the handwriting often varied in different shades, much to the dissatisfaction of the elders. However, this kind of pencil with low cost and cumbersome manufacturing process is very popular with the education department headed by Jiang Yan. At this time, notebooks and pencils could be produced in-house, which was extremely effective in reducing the expenses of the education sector.

"Contact?" Li Yuan laughed twice, "The number one person in this ranking is our Navy Second Lieutenant Zhong Bin." In the past six years, Zhong Bin has sold stolen goods from this channel through several of his shopkeepers, and the amount of stolen goods is probably more than 100,000 taels. ”

Almost all the participants took a breath of cool air, 100,000 taels, which is really not small. "Why did Zhong Bin get at least 100,000 taels of stolen goods just from last spring to now, but when we caught him, there were only six or seven boats left? I remember that at this time in our history, Zhong Bin's power was still quite large, and he also competed with Liu Xianglao, Zheng Zhilong, and Li Kuiqi for activity space on the surface of the South China Sea many times. Li Jieqi clicked on the notebook with a pencil, but accidentally pushed the lead core out of the back of the pencil, and quickly pressed the lead back again.

"We thought it was interesting at first." Bu Zhongfu smiled and explained to the people present, "According to Zhong Bin's audit records, it turned out that ten days before we crossed, he had just had a naval battle with Liu Xiang, and his fleet had more than 150 ships at that time. They fought all day at sea. The pirate fleets of this era were not the property of a single big boss, but rather a multi-faceted model of fund-raising in which many different treasurers brought ships into the fleet. The ships are the private property of these shopkeepers, which leads to the fact that many of the shopkeepers of different forces know each other, and when the price given by the forces is high enough, there will be mutinies. Comrade Zhong Bin encountered this trouble, two of his six fleets mutinied in battle, the arson ships suddenly caught fire in their own fleet and caused chaos in the fleet, and by the time he controlled the situation, there were less than 40% of the ships left under his command, and then under the onslaught of Liu Xiang's fleet, those ships were either sunk or captured, and most of them surrendered directly to Liu Xiang, leaving only six or seven ships to escape. After escaping, he directly robbed the five-masted ship, and then we will know what happened later. ”

"This pirate is still a shareholder?" Li Jieqi felt quite interesting about such a strange system, "It's okay to fight a smooth battle, but if you encounter a fierce battle of equal strength, isn't it a large number of shopkeepers who see the wind and steer the boat and slip away?" ”

"That's true," Bu Zhongfu explained with a smile, "that's why we don't use most of the original sailors, and we still mix a lot of sand in the naturalized navy, so that the soldiers of the navy don't know each other, and whether they want to start a rebellion or want to defect, they have no chance, so that they can command easily." ”

"Ahem," Li Yuan had to cough twice to focus everyone's attention, "Please don't go off-topic, thank you." Zheng Zhilong, who ranks second in selling stolen goods, Zheng Zhilong has also sold stolen goods through Wen Xinyi through several generals under his command, but Zheng Zhilong's line is mainly to sell things, which even includes some of the common medicines such as cool oil and wind oil essence that we provide, which seems to be very popular, because in the warehouse of Wu'an Village, our Planning Commission also confiscated about 1,000 boxes of about 10 grams of cool oil packaged in iron boxes. ”

"Our cool oil is still wrapped in oiled paper, right?" Du Yande hurriedly looked at Sun Wenqing, Sun Wenqing had to smile bitterly, "I went to the metallurgical department for this matter, Comrade Li Jin said that it is easy to rust if it is used to make iron boxes, unless it is tinplate, but tinplate needs tinning, and it is not difficult to produce, but there is not enough production equipment to produce small iron boxes." ”

Li Jin also accosted beside him, "Tinplate is tinned with thin steel plates, this thing is not difficult to make now, although the quality of the steel we make now is not easy to control, but the steel production is still no problem." It only needs the industrial sector to solve the problem of the punch. ”

Zhang Yuan sighed and touched the tip of his nose and said: "I really want to make punches, but our existing punches are all in the mint, unless the hydraulic punch is used to do it, it is almost the same, now because of the large use of electricity for production, whether it is textile, light and heavy industry or life, now the need for electricity is getting bigger and bigger, which has often occurred in recent times, which has caused a great adverse impact on our production." ”

Pan Dai is usually very happy when he talks about electricity, but at this time he is at a loss, he only has a handful of power generation equipment at hand: wind power because the wind power on the seaside is not too big, and the power of the wind turbine brought by it is not high, so it cannot come in handy; Although solar energy is very polluting and non-consumption, the power generation efficiency is quite low, and the weather seems to have a cloudy trend in the near future, and the cooling is more obvious, and solar energy is powered by batteries when there is no sun, and the battery life is limited. The most stable of the rest is naturally the oil-fired generator, which is powerful but relatively bulky; Gasoline generators are not very powerful, but they are relatively lightweight, easy to carry around, and can be used almost anywhere, but fuel consumption is a big headache. At this time, although oil shale has been discovered, it is not suitable for rash use of oil shale extraction equipment in the case of unknown reserves and unknown ore content, so in the short term, whether it is gasoline or diesel generators, it is not suitable for large consumption; The only ones left are hydroelectric generators, and although two 200 kW generators have been installed, these points are simply not enough, and they are often only surplus at night, and most factories have to divide production time slots during the day.

At this time, Pan Dai regretted recommending the use of a large number of motors for industrial production. However, he has reported this matter to the Executive Committee several times, and he still has several 200 kilowatt hydroelectric motors and a single hydroelectric motor with a capacity of 1,000 kilowatts, but now he can't find a suitable river section to install. However, according to the information reported by the topographic survey team, there is a difference of about 15 meters in the upper reaches of the river near Beiqiaotou Town, and he has asked Yuan Fang to take the naturalized surveyors to carry out surveying and mapping, and it is estimated that this month he will be able to conclude whether it is suitable for building a hydropower station. However, this hydropower station is different from the previous shoddy hydropower channels, and once construction begins, it may take more than a year to complete. Until then, the power sector will have to find other sources of energy to get it.

"Comrade Zhang Yuan, I am afraid that the steam engine design project will be restarted, and the prime mover may still have to climb up again from the science and technology tree." Yang Minghuan flipped through the notebook and suggested.

Zhang Yuan nodded, "The difficulty of the steam engine project is more important than the material problem, the steam engine itself is not too big a problem, the key lies in the boiler and pipes, the evaporation of the boiler we leaked last time was about 800 kilograms, if it was a boiler of about one ton, I am afraid it would explode that day." ”

"I said," Liu Yeqiang, who was sitting next to him, suddenly asked, "Why can't you use a flash boiler?" ”

Zhang Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up, the principle of the flash boiler is very similar to a gas water heater, which is heated through many serpentine pipes, unlike the traditional hot water boiler that takes 30 to 90 minutes to supply steam after cold start, and the flash boiler can produce steam in five to seven minutes. Moreover, the flash boiler occupies very little space, requiring only a quarter of the floor space of the hot water boiler, and the water consumption in the furnace is much less. As long as the problem of soft water can be solved, it is basically difficult to break down. "Great idea! When I went back, I went to search for information on flash boilers to see if they could be manufactured under existing conditions. However, the material aspect needs to be solved by the comrades of the metallurgical mouth. In addition, we also need to apply to the Executive Committee for flaw detectors to inspect these pipelines. ”

Yang Minghuan nodded and said: "There is no problem with the flaw detector, then the problem of materials will be entrusted to Comrade Li Jin." ”

Li Jin nodded with a smile and said: "The furnace that came out of our open-hearth a few days ago is low-carbon calming steel, and the carbon content is more suitable for boiler steel. However, I would like to remind you that we don't have many welding rods, and it can be expected that welding rods will not be made in a few years, so I am afraid that you will need to strengthen your riveting skills.