Chapter 334: The Age of Electricity
Liu Shu walked for a while, Yang Yuanzhao asked Dahan to Baotou before the bookstore, as well as the person in charge of the newspaper printing chamber to find, Baotou Daily has now reached 100,000 subscriptions, therefore, the printing volume is very large, with the help of the world's more advanced printing press, plus the Baotou Research Institute for the partial transformation of the machine, Baotou Daily printing effect is good, has become a newspaper per day, although the format, reduced to 2 sheets of 8 open, but the price of a single newspaper has been reduced, advertising costs are also rising.
The rise of advertising costs, a certain amount of time, has reduced the total cost of the newspaper, and now the price of the newspaper, a certain amount of money, has been within its own cost, low price and effectiveness, so that the influence of Baotou Daily has gradually expanded.
Soon, a typical Shanxi businessman-like person, and an old literati-like person, came to Yang Yuanzhao's office, they are also some relatively well-informed, when they see Yang Yuanzhao, of course they don't see Yang Yuanzhao as a rich man or a rich man, they know that the entire Baotou City is under Yang Yuanzhao's control, and Yang Yuanzhao can be said to be the uncrowned king of Baotou.
Simply instructed them a few words, especially the previous bookstore, he can only be called a handicraft workshop, but after all, the book has been published, asked how the books should be printed in the past, what kind of tools are needed, and sent them back, the textbooks have not yet been compiled, and now it is too early to say that the printing, today is mainly to ask, the textbook is a total of 7 books, a total of 150,000 sets of () words, how long will it take.
The words of the merchant in charge of printing made him slightly surprised, it would not take long. One week is enough, then there is still more than a month before the start of school. That is, a maximum of 5 weeks. Yang Yuanzhao needs to get the teaching materials out.
Textbooks, Yang Yuanzhao will refer to the textbooks currently used in Taiyuan, as well as the textbooks used in other cities in China, as well as the textbooks purchased by Harpy from other countries, of course, they are all translated and compiled from the perspective of future generations, among them, mathematics, physics. Chemistry and other textbooks will be handed over to some educators to sort out and determine, and in the process of recruiting teachers, they also recruit some people who have a certain interest in primary education and general education, and these people will not help Baotou much less than those teachers before.
The only thing that needs to be completed by Yang Yuanzhao himself is the Chinese textbook, to be exact. It is a first-grade Chinese textbook, mainly based on Chinese pinyin and simplified Chinese characters.
Hanyu Pinyin, as an introductory textbook, Yang Yuanzhao once learned. But he forgot about it, he didn't even remember how this was taught, but he had a Xinhua dictionary. With the help of the Xinhua dictionary, you can recall some things. For example, initials and finals. Some spelling rules of Hanyu Pinyin and the like, these are other than ordinary first-grade students, it should be enough, as a learning tool, it is much easier to memorize Pinyin than to memorize simple Chinese characters, and now the only thing to consider is to cultivate a group of people who can teach Hanyu Pinyin, which I am afraid can only be Yang Yuanzhao himself.
With the wisdom of adults, especially if you know a lot of Chinese characters, it should be easier to learn Chinese pinyin, but I haven't been in contact with it, and I really can't say it, the current teacher, nothing else, only Yang Yuanzhao personally went into battle.
Baotou's recruitment of teachers is still ongoing, but in March, a major event happened in Baotou, and the night sky in Baotou finally lit up.
After a period of intense construction, 30 huge power plants were completed, and Baotou's municipal planning was completed in March, a power grid from the ordinary power grid, to the substation, the booster station, almost all solved, 220 volts of alternating current, through the guò power grid, into thousands of households, Baotou's night camel is lit, and there is no need for kerosene lamps, it is a variety of electrical appliances.
In itself, the newly built room, in an instant, lit up with thousands of lights, bright as day, with reference to some of the later generations of community design, especially in which the garden was set up, this era, the traditional skills have not faded, there are still a lot of gardens arranged, Baotou and Beijing is a dimension, closer to the inland, but a number of gardens and flowers, so that here has become very different.
Inside the water heater, you can have hot water 24 hours a day, some simple kitchen equipment, such as electric stoves, this is just composed of resistance wires, with the help of electricity heating, and then heating, such a structure, compared with the induction cooker of later generations, is a lot simpler, as long as you find the right resistance wire, the rest is just a simple circuit, there is no difficulty at all, and electric kettle, and a series of equipment, in drinking water and heating, changed a qiē.
It's a pity that the rice cooker, those electronically controlled products of later generations, cannot be produced with the help of current production, but the most primitive, with the help of mechanically controlled electric pressure cookers, can still be made, but it must be precise, for example, how much rice, how much water, once the ratio is wrong, there will be sandwiched rice, and the kind of automatic control zhì in later generations, and considering the taste and aroma, it cannot be compared at all.
The emergence of the rice cooker, all of a sudden, has attracted the attention of countless workers, Baotou in this era, has the prototype of an industrial city, a large number of workers, but also high-income workers, many of them are dual-income, cooking has always been a big thing, therefore, on the street of Baotou, there will be so many restaurants, these restaurants, a certain Cheng dù above to solve the problem of double income, Baotou development has only been how many years, most of the workers, has not yet developed the habit of waste and big business, before the restaurant, It's just a last resort, now with an automatic electric pressure cooker, you can steam the rice before going to work, or after work, and then go to work on the vegetables, and when the dishes are ready, the meal will be ready.
Time has become the biggest pursuit of Baotou, any one that can reduce time and increase efficiency will be sought after by everyone and won considerable praise.
Electricity, this new energy source, is changing the power of Baotou in all aspects, whether it is production or all aspects of life.
There are still a lot of electrical appliances, which have not yet been taken out, fortunately, electric fans, electric fans, refrigerators, etc., the first two are easy to solve, a motor plus some blades, at most on the blades have been quite designed, but the latter, in this era, has a prototype, although it is just an idea, but it has the physical object of later generations, and there is such a genius scientist as Truss, after removing the circuit board and electronic control, the refrigerator was reluctantly manufactured, to be exact, a freezer, With the help of freon and compressor, the temperature is lowered, the temperature is uncontrollable, and it will float on a certain range of dù, just like that, it is already very good.
The appearance of various electrical appliances has become the most important thing in Baotou, but in March, these are not destined to be the hottest and most eye-catching things in Baotou.
In the later stage of the construction of the power plant, especially when the power supply network and substation were completely completed, Yang Yuanzhao specially found Truss, who had studied every step of the alternating current in a state of empty window, for the master of genius, this empty window would not last long, and he would soon find something he was interested in.
Of course, Yang Yuanzhao will not let Taras go down, God knows what he will be interested in, Truss has a wide range of interests, mechanical, electrical, and even other fields, he has strong attainments, if the research and development is helpful to Baotou, this is easier to do, in case of developing an accumulation, similar to Woden Crevert Tower, Yang Yuanzhao absolutely respects the insensitive, that thing is too dangerous, and it is completely uncontrollable, once a problem occurs, on the Baotou side, it will cause a 50 hydrogen bomb scale explosion, He really became a toiling for decades, and returned to the pre-liberation period overnight.
Not only is the industrial foundation he built for Baotou, but also the industrial workers he has cultivated with a lot of investment, especially the latter, if it is finished, he will not be able to do the same thing within 10 years, which is the seed of the Westernization Movement for 20 years, slowly cultivated.
For Taras, it was necessary to find him a project that could be paid attention to for a long time, and the previous alternating current was, Yang Yuanzhao decided to guide him to the radio after careful consideration.
Radio is also an important research direction of Truss, and even said that the United States AC patent is Truss's, not Marconi's, and later because of various pressures, especially Marconi with the help of Edison, applied for Truss's patent invalidation, until 1943, after Truss's death, the U.S. government re-established Truss's patent for radio, but unfortunately time has passed.
Of course, in terms of the development and contribution of radio, Truss is definitely huge, so after the basic systematization of power was completed, Yang Yuanzhao of course let Truss devote himself to the radio field.
Not to mention the huge role of small radio transceivers in military affairs, which really allows a unit, or even a region, to form a joint force, even if it is because of the radio broadcast, it is also a more important propaganda position than newspapers.
Baotou's literacy rate is high, and the newspaper has a huge influence on the platform, but in the whole of China, the illiteracy rate is still very high, with radio broadcasting, for occupying the commanding heights of the entire propaganda, and even at another level, occupying a certain public opinion propaganda position, which is very beneficial to the expansion and development of the whole Baotou, not to mention anything else, if you can popularize radio in most cities, not much, only use it in some lively places to popularize some, Baotou's voice, It can easily spread throughout the country without relying on the current way. (To be continued......) R1292