Chapter Ninety-Two: Stay Alive

The production of any invention cannot be made only by closing the door and imagining it out of thin air, and on the premise that there is no basis for theoretical study, everything can only rely on labor practice and have the foundation of predecessors as support. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The reason why Jian Chen dared to let this group of people think about it is because this kind of basic support has actually appeared, and what is needed is an integration of ideas.

There are many types of structures that want to make the force of rotation reciprocate up and down, or that you want the force of reciprocating up and down to rotate.

But at today's level of technology, the simplest and most practical is the planar linkage structure. And it is also applied to some gadgets or toys in Summer City, not out of thin air.

In his previous life, there was a very fundamentalist term for the aesthetics of mechanical violence, which was called multi-riveting.

Four words in total. Multi-turret, rivet connection, steam-powered, rigid suspension. For this era, there are three words that are simply not close to the edge, but there is one word that already has a foundation, that is, the rivet of rivets.

The rivet is the basis of the connecting rod structure, the rivet on the connecting rod is different from the normal nail, the nail is for fixing, but the rivet on the connecting rod is not only fixed, but also requires that the connection can be rotated and twisted.

For example, a kind of wooden windmill used for play or decoration in Xia Cheng, if the blades of the windmill want to turn, it is not possible to fix nails on wooden sticks, it is dead. If you want to turn, there must be a gap between the rivet connecting the stick and the blade to allow the blade to rotate - in other words, this nail is double-ended, like a dumbbell, the two ends are thick and thin in the middle, and the blade is stuck without falling, and there is a gap for the blade to rotate around the rivet.

There is also a kind of teaching gadget in the school, parallelograms and triangles connected by rivets, so as to tell children that the triangle is stable, and the parallelogram can be twisted, and can be twisted from a square into a strange long diamond. If this was fixed with wooden wedges and tenons, it would not be able to move, so Chen Jian used simple copper rivets. This is a simple linkage.

With enlightenment, it may not be thought of, it may not be usable when it is thought, and what can be used may not be practical, and Jian Chen does not think that the clansmen are all geniuses, just a few words from his own can open their minds.

But after thinking about it, even if you don't understand it, when you take out the real thing, with the previous hard thinking, at least it will be suddenly enlightened. I will remember it more deeply, and I will make new discoveries because of my previous thinking, so that I will not be frightened and only praised.

The rewards he said may not be able to be obtained, but they are just a means he used to establish a tree, and no one really thought that he would need to act in a play with someone in the future.

Leaving a name in history, the statue is forever molded, which is a higher-level pursuit.

For those who stand by the waterwheel and think, there are already people who are beginning to pursue this higher level of self-realization. At least a lot of people there are able to secure their own food, clothing, and shelter.

On the same island, the vast majority of other people on the island are still working hard to be able to feed themselves, clothe and reproduce, and they have not yet thought about the material conditions for these problems.

At night, after work.

In a small inconspicuous hut, two free slaves stood guard at the door, and fifteen or sixteen people had gathered in the room, without a fire, as if they had fallen asleep.

Although there was no fire and no faces could be seen, Keze knew that these people were the most trustworthy people.

The struggle of the previous days failed.

It's not a protest on the surface, but a secret effort to persuade the fugitives of Onozawa to work slowly, otherwise there will be more and more rations every day.

He thought that when he was still in Onozawa, he responded to every call.

But I didn't expect that Ji Xia didn't need to make a move, and that woman solved their struggle in a few simple ways.

There are whistleblowers, some who are obedient and secretly working hard to make billets for the future foreman, and some who directly oppose that people have less work for them to eat.

In the end, the group that listened to Ze got the least benefit. Even though he knew that Ze was for the good of all of them, he still trusted Ze, but his will was depressed after all.

The most unexpected thing was that someone was informant, but Jian Chen didn't seem to care at all, neither reprimanded him, nor locked him up, let alone hired him to starve to death.

On the contrary, during a chance meeting during a certain day, he asked Ze with a smile: "Is it different from when it was Onozawa?" If you want to resist, you'll have to think of something else. I'm reasonable, I didn't say that you were not allowed to resist before, and I didn't say the consequences of resisting, but it will be different in the future. In the future, there will be rules, and those who should be caught will be killed. ”

Ze remembered that Jian Chen was smiling at that time, his face was full of mockery, as if he was laughing at the low end of their methods, and he didn't care.

Although he had a smile on his face, Ze Ke didn't take Jian Chen's words as a joke at all, and this person was not soft at all when he killed people.

After that day, Ze had been thinking about what to do in the future, until today there was news from all over the island: from now on, everyone will be separated according to the workshop, and everyone will focus on one thing, and tomorrow the workshop will be assigned.

So after getting off work at night, Zefan didn't eat, but he found him, and asked him to call a group of people he trusted the most and gathered in the hut.

"You've all heard about it, Ji Xia is going to divide the workshop, and in the future, it will no longer be anything to do together, but their respective workshops will only take care of their own affairs."

"I heard. Ze, what to do? Last time, we were completely defeated in the hands of that woman, and everyone's hearts were not aligned at all. Obviously, the daily ration can be much less, and there is no need to be so tired, not to mention, there will be more corn per day than now. The result? One by one, they only stare at the little thing in front of them, and there are also informers! Phew! ”

He scolded, realizing that his voice was a little louder, and hurriedly lowered his voice.

Ze laughed and said, "Don't be angry. Well, you don't have to feel ashamed to be at the hands of that woman, I don't think so. I've heard people talk about this woman, the little thing we did before, that woman did it a few years ago, but it's much more beautiful than what we did, and that woman did it. ”

He scolded a few more words, but after all, he could afford to lose, and since his skills were not as good as others, he didn't say anything.

Ze Rang stopped scolding and asked softly, "Do you think that the people of Xiacheng can afford to support so many people just by growing food?" ”

"I can't afford it."

"And where did they come from?"

"Let's workshop."

Ze slapped his thigh and said, "That's right, workshop!" Who will work on the workshop in the future? Are the people in Xia Cheng busy enough to come to so many workshops in Yucheng? ”

"In the future, it will be us who will work, and the people of Xiacheng will use it as a workshop to exchange for all kinds of things they want, which is the key to their good life, and it is also the root of Yucheng."

"It's like making bricks, never coming to the meeting, from dozens a day to hundreds a day, becoming more and more proficient. It's the same with the workshop, do one thing full-time, and the longer you do it, the faster you can do it. But it can take months or even a year or two to train a workshop worker! ”

"At that time, we are all good hands in the workshop, and when the Xiacheng workshop is the busiest, when the workshop needs the goods the most, we will all stop doing it, forcing Ji Xia to agree, promising us more corn every day, forcing him to promise that our children are the same as the children of Xiacheng. If you don't agree, we won't work! ”

"He is cunning, but he does what he says, and that can be believed. As long as he says yes, he will definitely do it. ”

The room suddenly became lively, but then the cold water also splashed down, and it was sloppy.

"Ze, can he agree? What if you don't agree to send those black-clothed guards to kill us? I'm not afraid of death, but as soon as we die, everyone's minds will be scattered. ”

The excitement of everyone was suddenly suppressed by these words, and the room fell into a brief silence, but then Ze's laughter was heard.

"Ji Xia is a person who is reasonable, will be profitable, and will calculate. Once all the workshops in Yucheng are built, if we stop working for a day, how much will they lose in Xiacheng? The little corn he gave us was just a hair from a cow compared to what he got in the workshop. ”

"Besides, after half a year, we have been in the workshop for half a year, and we are already proficient. If we don't do it, Ji Xia can only buy slaves again, how much corn does it cost to buy a slave? The slaves we bought are stronger and smarter than us? After buying it back, it will take at least half a year for them to do it as fast as we do. How many things does this cost? ”

"Ji Xia told us at the beginning, this thing is a matter of your affection and me, each according to his ability. He has the ability to force us to take that little corn every day, and he won; If we had the ability to let him take out more corn every day, he would gladly admit defeat. ”

"In that case, can he agree to the fact that we have asked for less corn than he wants to buy slaves, for slaves to make corn for ripe hand, and for the losses after the stoppage? For example, if we want five catties of rice, but if he doesn't promise that he will lose 100 catties of rice, which side will he choose? ”

He didn't refute anymore, thought for a while, clenched his fists and said, "Good way!" ”

Ze walked to the side of the man in the dark, patted the person next to him to make a place for him to sit, and said in a low voice: "But it's not as simple as five catties and one hundred catties, someone needs to be able to calculate his losses and our requirements." Ji Xia sent people to teach in a room every night, and anyone could go and listen, including us. Among them, there are words, calculations, these things, you can't learn these things, even if you can't figure out how much we ask for the most appropriate. ”

"Among the eighteen of us, hey, your head is the best, it's one thing I tell you, no matter how tired you are, no matter how windy or rainy, even if you're tired and fall apart, you have to go to that room to learn! Learn arithmetic, learn to read. This is a major matter related to the thousands of people in Onozawa. ”

Or worried that he didn't understand, Ze squeezed his arm hard and said, "This is more important than getting salt for Onozawa in the first place." ”

"Hmm."

Ze said again: "The rest of us, we have to think about why we failed last time." If you want me to say, there are too many people and too anxious hearts. ”

"This time, we can't rush. The eighteen of us can't think about affecting the thousands of people in Ohnozawa at once, we have to come little by little. Let's win once in a small area, so that others can know the benefits after winning, and their hearts will not be at peace. ”

"Besides, eighteen people, one person can make friends with three or five people, but one person can convince hundreds or thousands of people. So eighteen of us are going to a workshop, and we have to learn and do it well, at least until we figure it all out, don't resist, don't let Ji Xia take precautions in advance, and when the time comes, we will be ruthless! ”

When everyone thought about it, it seemed that they could really do it, and they gritted their teeth one by one, so as not to scream out themselves.

However, Ze sighed and said, "This time is different from the last time, it is going to die." At that time, even if Ji Xia was forced by us to agree, but a few of us will inevitably die at that time. He promised at the time that there would be a way to kill us afterwards. I'm in my thirties this year, and I won't live for a few years, but I have to think about the group of people who followed me out of Ohnozawa, for the sake of our children's descendants, even if I am defeated and even if I die, the rest of the people will know what to do in the future, and Ji Xia is not good at breaking his promise in public! ”

"This time, whoever doesn't want to do it, go now. We've been together for a few years, and I can trust you all to come out of this room and forget what I said before, and nothing will affect you. ”

After a long time behind the words, a person in the dark shadow whispered: "Brother Ze, I still have women and children, I ......"

Before the sound dissipated, a little fire suddenly flashed, and he took the flint and polished a little light, wanting to see who this person was, and when he opened his mouth to scold, he was punched the arm by Ze, extinguishing the spark.

"Wow, shut up for me."

With a heavy breath, Ze smiled, "Who else?" Let's go, I don't blame everyone. ”

Four more men stood up, this time saying nothing, but lifted the curtains, saluted the house, and left.

Of the eighteen people who Ze trusted the most, only thirteen were left in the end, and the dreary atmosphere in the room was overwhelming.

In the darkness, he suddenly laughed: "Cutting off the head is only like the wind blowing the hat." It's long time gone to die, but I'm going to see what this Ji Xia is going to do. ”

The rest of the people in the room laughed and said, "Hey, that's right, it's nothing more than death, and cutting off your head is only a hat for the wind!" If you don't die, if you want to die, you have to do a big thing! ”

"By the way, Ze, which workshop are we going to tomorrow?"

After Ze called the two people outside to come in, he whispered, "Smelting workshop." ”

"I heard that Ji Xia is going to look for a mine in a few days, and he will soon set up a smelting workshop."

"The smelting workshop is the most tired, and the most need for strength, a few of us have done the work of building pottery kilns, which is just right. Ji Xia canceled the pottery kiln workshop, and there was an additional smelting workshop, and you also know how many things copper can be exchanged. ”

"It's like a wolf's waist, the most important but also the most vulnerable place, here we are!"

"This time is different from last time, let's go and do a good job, do more, and send more Taobei. If someone can't do the work, let's help do it; Someone has been beaten, let's help resist; Somebody is sick and hungry, let's squeeze out some corn for him. ”

"Look for them one by one, listen to their complaints one by one, listen to their reluctance, talk to them little by little, talk to them little by little. Don't have much, but only those who can be trusted, and thirteen will become thirty, and thirty will become a hundred. ”

In the dark night, thirteen pairs of arms pressed tightly together, and Ze Lang said: "When we are beheaded, it is the time when the big thing is done, and the other people on our island can live better, but they forget about us, that is, they are said by Ji Xia to think that we have no conscience and actually resist, so what's the matter?" (To be continued.) )