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Monday, February 23, 1626.

It's already 8 p.m., but in the Parliament Square in the southern district of Manchuria, thousands of southern citizens are quietly waiting in the dark with lanterns or candles. At this moment, the windproof oil lamps that should normally hang on the surrounding lampposts are gone, and only the six-sided glass cover with a wooden frame remains, which looks like crystal lanterns.

In the high-tech park in the northwestern part of the southern district of Manchester, which is closed to ordinary citizens, a 600-kilowatt Huamei second-generation steam generator set has begun to slowly enter operation, and with the transmission line, vigorous electricity has begun to pour into the lampposts around the Southern Parliament Square.

"Let's get started!"

Duan Qiao, the boss of the state-owned power company under the state-owned energy and mining group, who is responsible for the on-site commissioning, issued the final instructions at this time. A flare shot into the night sky, and a mechanic at a distant power control station pulled down the switch.

One, two, three...... In the eyes of hundreds of citizens, a cloud of light bloomed in the darkness around them, and in an instant, the night was erased, and the entire Congress Square was illuminated by a circle of "lit lights".

With the exception of a very small number of immigrants who first settled here, the vast majority looked up in surprise, with a mixture of joy and panic.

Dazzling lights drive away the night, and nature, which has been black and white since the time of mythology, is finally broken by the power of technology. Children are jumping, Europeans are drawing crosses on their chests, and Chinese Americans are blowing out their lanterns or candles in their hands, and they let out a buzzing admiration.

In a confidential factory building in the South High-tech Park, a batch of electric machine tools that have been sealed for a long time and cannot be transformed into steam power have also been quietly started, which makes the technical houses present cheer. These electric machine tools, which were just ordinary goods in later generations, now serve as the "industrial mother machine" of the United States of America, and the tools needed for many technical restoration projects. In particular, precision measuring instruments can be manufactured. Even if their service life is short, they can solve some of the core bottlenecks in the development of the current national industrial technology rehabilitation project. Otherwise, the country will need to spend more time re-climbing some of the basic industrial technology trees.

Duan Qiao, who is over 33 years old, finally took a long breath at this time, revealing a bright smile that has been difficult to have since the first power generation failure a few years ago.

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Due to the severance of modern oil supply after the catastrophe, the magical "fireless lamp" in the eyes of the first batch of citizens who were fortunate enough to settle in the southern district has become history. Now, a few years have passed, and the technical restoration project of steam unit power generation and carbon filament incandescent lamp has finally reached the point of initial practical application.

Carbon filament incandescent lamps with a service life of 900 hours were put into small-scale mass production in January. In the stage where the inert gas extraction technology cannot reach the stage of large-scale practical application, the vacuum bulb can only be used to improve the service life of the carbon filament incandescent lamp. However, the overall processing technology is still relatively rough, and the manufacturing cost of a light bulb remains high.

The construction costs of generator sets and cabling works are even more expensive. Even a significant portion of the cables were dismantled from the ruins of the docks or freighters after the catastrophe and collected precious stockpiles. In order to verify the processing capacity of pure copper cables of origin in this time and space, the copper iron sulfate galvanic battery in the nest of NORINCO was joked by the technical nerves as "Lin's sauce jar", and a large number of scrap iron exposed to the sun and rain was used to replace pure copper, and a hundred tons of pure copper with a purity of 99.9% were made in a month, a considerable part of which became the basic raw material of the power project.

All in all. The technology of this power project involves a wide range, and the application cost of each technical link threshold is extremely high, so it cannot enter ordinary families in China at present, and can only be used as a lighting project for municipal infrastructure.

The southern district of the capital city of Manchester City has been selected as a demonstration urban area for the first phase of the country's power project and has undergone a one-year application test. In accordance with the guiding ideology of the image construction of the national capital, most of the blocks in the southern district have been included in the pilot scope of the electric lighting project, especially several urban squares and congressional government offices. It also requires power supply and lighting for a long time at night.

Rows of street lamps stood quietly on the wide Capitol Square and the streets of the South District, and it was close to the early hours of the morning, but the citizens still hadn't dispersed. Dojo sat on a bench on the side of the street and chatted, as if he wanted to find back all the life that had been deprived of him by the night in the previous years.

At this time, on the 1-kilometre-wide East River, along the east bank of the West District of Manchu, is an upscale residential community. Households are squeezing their heads out of the windows. Looking at the bright spark on the north bank of the East River with novel eyes, he whispered envy.

"Tens of millions of stars shine at the north gate. All kinds of darkness disappear. The Suihuang smiled and watched the music of the world, and the country never sleeps from then on. ”

Although he had seen the charm of this luxurious flameless lamp in the Chinese New Year's Eve celebration one year, he no longer experienced it in the following days, and Chang Kun couldn't help but sigh at the grand scene in front of him.

"Daddy, why are the lights on the north shore so bright? Is it really a fairy art? ”

By the window, Chang Kun's second daughter Chang Ziting stood beside her father obediently, and couldn't help but stretch out her hand to point to the lights on the other side of the East River, revealing a curious look.

The eldest daughter Chang Ziyan has officially married Lieutenant Bai Jun of the United States Navy in China under the Lantern Festival not long ago, Chang Kun is heart stone finally fell to the ground, on the day his daughter returned to the door, Chang Kun drank nine glasses of wine at the family banquet. Now the second daughter Chang Ziting is also about to complete the primary school of the national junior high school, and then she will enter middle school, and the overall results are still very good.

For this reason, Chang Kun also specially asked someone to inquire about this army officer named Shen Mo, I heard that the other party was promoted to lieutenant for many military merits in last year's Butterfly Island expedition, and he was awarded a gold medal at the award ceremony a few months ago, and he was only 21 years old.

There is "brother-in-law" Lu Shengqiang in front, and the eldest son-in-law Bai Jun in the back, and now there is an army lieutenant who is silent and has a lot of affection for his second daughter Chang Ziting, which is a strange thing that the Chang family is not happy!

Coming back to his senses, Chang Kun doted on his second daughter's hand, gently patted the back of the other party's hand, and said earnestly: "The skills of the national dynasty are exquisite and extraordinary, and the master craftsman is able to hide the dragon and crouching tiger." It can be called the Luban of the world. The dynasty is both civil and military, and like the officers and generals of the king's army, they can become famous and prosperous overnight...... Ting'er also has to study Chinese culture intensively, self-cultivation and morality, so that she can shine on the lintel! ”

After beating around the corner, the topic naturally turned to some of the good news that is circulating now, Chang Kun is eager to fully package the second daughter Chang Ziting now, so that she can send it to Shen Mo's home.

"Daddy......" met the silent Chang Ziting, a lieutenant of the army, at the wedding banquet of the eldest sister Chang Ziyan not long ago, and immediately heard the meaning of his father's words. Suddenly his neck turned red with shame, and he fled from the living room like a panicked deer.

"Hehe, the master was training Ting'er just now?"

After a while, Chang Lu's family, whose status in the Chang family was becoming more and more secure, walked in and approved a fur coat for her husband with a smile. Then gently squeeze the other person's shoulder.

"We are working hard to teach our girls to become adults, don't we just hope that they will have a good home? Ting'er is talented, smart, and dignified, and is not under Yan'er, and it is natural to have natural blessings, but as parents, we can't slow down our tutoring. Chang Kun pinched his little beard and shook his head, looking like a father.

"Sir. I inquired, although Shen Gongzi was quite interested in my family Ting'er, it seemed that they were all recommended by others, not willingly. If Ting'er can enter university in the future. I'm afraid it's better to get married? Chang Lu thought about it for a while, but still told the gossip he had obtained.

"University? I have also heard that, according to my colleagues in the Ministry of Culture and Education, the establishment of the university was approved by the National Assembly this year. To nurture talents. The university is the most important house of the country, and Ting'er is a woman. I'm immature in knowledge, I'm afraid I won't have a chance, right? ”

Hearing that Chang Lu's intention was to let the second daughter in the family increase her value and "sell at the price", instead of hanging herself on a rope and remarrying a soldier, Chang Kun pinched his beard and hesitated, and even began to walk around the living room.

"I think the Ivy League institutions of higher learning are okay, and it is also the qualification of the university to enter the higher class after three years, and the gorgeous children who can enter the Ivy League, which family and which household are not gorgeous and high-end? Isn't our Chang family qualified enough in Huamei? Chang Lu hurriedly followed a few steps, unfolded the inside story he heard one by one, and struck while the iron was hot, "I heard that there is no limit to men and women in the Ivy League, and non-top students from national schools are not allowed to enter, didn't the master also intend to let Yan'er enroll?" I think Ting'er is also excellent in her studies, so she can't miss it anymore! Why don't I go find Shengqiang? ”

In other words, he was slightly dissatisfied with the fact that his husband was worried that his eldest daughter would delay her marriage if she continued to study, so that her eldest daughter would give up enrolling in the Ivy.

"Hmph, in the woman's opinion, Chang is not confused about the children's family affairs, and he has his own discretion for the husband!" Hearing the meaning of this Chang Lu's family, whose mother is more precious than her son, Chang Kun was a little unhappy in his heart.

"Yes, master......" Seeing that her husband was unhappy, Chang Lu quickly shut up, and then quietly left the living room.

"Studying in an Ivy League university, you will have a college body in a few years, and you will have a better marriage......" Although he was very tough on his little wife, what the other party said just now was indeed very attractive.

The eldest daughter Chang Ziyan has married Bai Jun, how can this Chinese American high-ranking family be a soldier? It seems that the marriage of the second daughter Chang Ziting really has to be carefully calculated, and she can no longer be in such a hurry as before.

The wall clock on the wall rang the bell at zero o'clock, and the southern district of the capital city of Manchester City was still immersed in a sea of lights and stars.

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On the second day, more than 200 kilometers away, on the snowfield northwest of Porter City, a huge snow season army military exercise was underway.

A light infantry battalion and a field artillery company constituted the entire strength of the exercise, and nearly 500 army officers and soldiers carried out simulated marches and battles on the established exercise route.

Accompanied by more than 100 infantrymen, more than a dozen sleigh fighting vehicles dragged forward by six strong horses crawled slowly on the snow-covered ground like moving giant beasts, and the widened sled boards allowed the snow chariots to reach a maximum speed of 10 kilometers per hour. On the tall front of each snow chariot, an organ machine gun roams the barrel left and right, and in the middle of the vehicle carries eight heavily armed army soldiers in winter combat uniforms.

As the large team approached a primeval snowy forest, a flare rose into the sky. In an instant, almost all the snow tanks slowed down and stopped at the same time, and then one soldier jumped out of the vehicle and formed a battle formation under the command of the non-commissioned officer. The organ machine gun at the front of the vehicle then began to fire live fire at a slow rate of fire in the direction of the simulated enemy, covering the infantry as they dismounted.

Amid the sound of machine-gun fire, the infantrymen hunched over their rifles, formed an arc-shaped skirmish line in the knee-high snow, and pounced on the primeval snow forest where "a large number of enemies" had appeared in the distance.

The four Wissworth field guns of the field artillery company also began to fight and line, and the artillerymen took turns to unfold the open-leg gun mounts and hoes, and then drove long, thick nails into the soil under the snow. However, in the ice and snow, the artillerymen's movements were clumsy and slow, and the soldiers in charge of the range-measuring readings had not set up the rangefinders for a long time, and the entire artillery company seemed to be in a hurry.

After many performance improvements and trade-offs, the 24A Army 75mm field gun was finally charged with a total combat weight of less than 1 ton. The gun shield was canceled, many non-critical gun mount structures were replaced with wooden, and the length of the barrel was comically truncated to 60% of the prototype, which directly led to the extremely poor ballistic performance of the 75mm army field gun of the 24A type, and the performance of the howitzer was used as a howitzer, not only the hit spread was large, but the maximum firing range was not even 3000 meters.

The Army's artillery unit, which is only one company, has been nagged by some people in Congress for its immature and criticized combat effectiveness. However, the Army's blind pursuit and resentment of exclusive field artillery firepower is not entirely aimed at the Navy's jealousy. From the perspective of long-term development, military conflict is absolutely inevitable as the country expands its territory into the interior in the future. In operations deep inland, naval artillery firepower cannot dominate the world, and mortars alone will eventually seem to be insufficient, especially if they may face the fortresses of England or France in North America. In any case, the 75-mm field gun was also significantly more powerful than the 60-mm light mortar.

"Lieutenant, can you shoot?" With a worried expression, a European sergeant major walked up to the commander of the field artillery company silently, and pointed to the exercise site that was about to end the battle with a little embarrassment, "The soldiers have worked hard, but maybe the other companies don't care about waiting for us to get all ready......

"Still shooting a fart, don't you see the signal that the exercise is ending?" Silent cried with a sad face, kicked up a snowflake, and scolded silently.

Shen Mo, who was transferred to the only artillery company of the army as the commander after the end of the Butterfly Island East Island Cleanup Campaign, was also aggrieved. Obviously, in his opinion, his appearance on Butterfly Island is not bad, why was he assigned to such an unpopular unit as a commander?

The Army Command is a kind of good intention to take precautions to carry out the cultivation of artillery with thick and thin hair, and Shen Mo is too lazy to understand, because he really feels that it is on fire now.

In addition to the terrible artillery battery, the table of the expensive snow sled chariot is not easy to evaluate correctly, this kind of 17th-century version of the infantry fighting vehicle with a wide board sled in the snow season and changing wheels in other seasons is a bit nondescript no matter how you look at it. In this primitive landform of the North American interior, even the army command is a little confused, but at least in the snow season, in the plains around Porter City, the troops stationed at the Army Base in Porter City can be regarded as "mobile troops".

During the entire military exercise in the snow season, except for the field artillery company, basically the participating units met the expectations, especially the pure Indian infantry company commanded by Lieutenant Moqi, which performed exceptionally well in the exercise, which is probably related to the experience of the infantry company having been stationed in Porter City for almost two years, and the officers and men of the company are very adaptable to the local environment and climate.

As the brother-in-law of the Minister of Immigration, Li Xiang, Lieutenant Mo Qi naturally takes his current military status very seriously, but in addition to training and resting in the station, the entire company has not participated in a real battle since its formation, which makes the young Delaware who are full of blood and strength quite depressed.

However, this situation was not ignored by the Army Command, and from the long-term military security strategy, peace with the North American Indian Iroquois Alliance could not last long, and it was necessary to maintain an army unit in Porter City that specialized in fighting in the northern cold zone.

(To be continued)