In the 104th year of the Holy Gu calendar, as batches of ordinary workers in manufacturing factories went from rusty to tacit understanding on the assembly line, the Ranlun Group began to become more and more mechanized.

What can make this group of workers so attentive is to rely on the economic work reward, as well as the foremen's 'craftsman' (Zhou Papi) attitude to find fault and deduct points and severely punish them, and this group of ordinary workers who were formerly small citizens can fit in the production line in such an orderly manner.

It is not difficult for ordinary people to be transformed into workers, and the development of normal civilization to the feudal stage has this cultural foundation.

In the family unit, someone has to work. In order to earn money to support the family and continue the next generation, it is inevitable to force yourself to accept external constraints. This is the basic culture of a country, a society, that can implement the mobilization of industrialization.

In the 21st century, Africa, the Middle East, that kind of tribal culture is still very primitive. 'Polygamy' from the wealthy classes has guided the culture of the whole society, and this culture has always led men of all classes to regard wives as possessions. With the multiplicity of polygamy, it is impossible to do everything for each child, resulting in a weak concept of child-rearing – that is, a weak sense of male responsibility.

East Asia, and even South Asia, have a family culture, and a large number of strong laborers (men with family culture) have the concept of family breadwinners, who are more receptive to discipline. For a government, "a group of men who need to support their families and protect their wives and daughters" can be mobilized.

Of course, due to Southeast Asia and South Asia, most countries have not been purged by the general war, and there are obstacles to the feudal culture of the upper class. For a long time, the capitalist productive forces could only be brought into play by relying on the intervention and organization of foreign capital forces.

In fact, Zeuyou has introduced advanced upper-level management for Rock Crystal Star, which is strictly speaking, similar to 'foreign interference'.

If this kind of behavior is carried out against a subordinate civilization of normal course, the star civilization needs to strictly observe it. But now in the case of Rock Crystal, the human base is facing a crisis, and the introduction of a social system can be regarded as an emergency rescue.

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Although the newly-born Ranlun Group still only occupies a trade wind city, half of Xiahong Island, and has a land area of only 50,000 square kilometers, the mining area controlled by the sea has reached 320,000 square kilometers. A large number of Gu worms collect resources in the sea area and then transport them to the industrial center of Trade Wind City.

Forty kilometers northeast of Xiahong Island, a new type of power station tower was raised.

Please note that Trade Winds City is located to the west of Xiahong Island, and the sea area there is mostly a mineral site. To the east is the floating family, and the sea area over there has a lot of geothermal distribution. The power station has already been placed in the air, as for the safety of the power station. Zhou You: "It's up to you, whether you dare to fight or not." ”

The shape of the old power station before the tour of the universe: two sets of buildings carrying generator sets, with a huge heat dissipation ball sandwiched in the center.

The new plant consists of three cooling towers arranged in a triangular pattern (refer to the RA2 nuclear power model).

In the old power station, the Gu worm film was used to generate electricity from the temperature difference between the two sides. This is a very advanced way of generating electricity, which can effectively harvest electricity over a large area such as the ocean. However, in the state of ultra-high temperature, ultra-high pressure and supercritical power generation, the water vapor is directly introduced into the mechanical wheel, which drives its rotating shaft to rotate and cuts the magnetic induction line is the most powerful.

The new power station of the turbine is a major milestone for human parts to once again replace the 'inefficient part' of the Gu nest system. Because of this power generation technology, it has surpassed the nuclear power systems of all the ninth-level Gu nests of the Rock Crystal Star.

Nuclear power generates more electricity than thermal power, which is the 'rendering' brought about by the great power of nuclear bombs. In fact, nuclear power is only less polluting and less exhaust emissions.

A swimming pool (1,500 cubic meters) of standard coal (calorific value is equivalent to 7 times that of TNT and density is 1.8 times that of water), which is about the scale of 10,000 tons of nuclear weapons. How many coal-fired warehouses are there for a power station? The power generation methods of nuclear power and thermal power are also to boil water to supercritical, as well as ultra-supercritical.

In the northern part of Trade Winds, this deep power station has a power generation capacity comparable to that of a large thermal power station, enough to power a million-strong city at the end of the 20th century.

Although the world's level 8 and 9 Gu worms use nuclear energy, their structural power generation capacity is less than 1 percent of that of this power station.

To be precise, the Gu worm thing is limited by the biological structure, and it is a congenitally deficient and inefficient extraction nuclear energy structure. Human-designed steam wheels are specifically designed to generate electricity.

When a steady stream of white water vapor bubbles up like marshmallows from the cooling towers in the ocean, electricity is transmitted to the city along a three-meter-thick tunnel at the bottom of the ocean. Throughout the city, the electric lights that used to be low voltage and dim have become brighter. And in the city, more rapid mechanization is about to be ushered in.

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In the 104th year of the Holy Gu calendar, November 4th. In a large machine shop, electric slings on metal beams are moving.

Zeyo watched with great interest as the crane assembled the gas turbine engine and the gears of the variable speed machinery, and then connected the propeller shaft. It's a combination of the power of a tank.

In the middle of the line, a creature with scales is being mechanically propped open and fixed to a metal shell frame.

On this metal frame, the mechanical power pack will be stuffed in, as will the engine. Of course, the electric drive system of some Gu worm creatures will not be deleted, and will be precisely integrated with this mechanical transmission.

After the main frame is installed, at the rear end of the production line, the welding of the steel wheels, tracks, turret, and external armor will be completed step by step. As for the final product, it looks ...... It's a purely mechanical chariot.

Codenamed, Armored Bull Tank.

An eighty-five-mm long-barreled cannon with a tonnage of fifteen tons and an engine horsepower of five hundred and thirty horses was installed. Most of the structures are mechanical, but the electric transmission, as well as the turret rotation, are biostructure-controlled. As for fire control aiming - uh, Linlong's compound eye aiming, but it is still equipped with optical lenses to assist.

This is a very flat vehicle, and the unmanned state has reduced a lot of interior space for it. With a weight of fifteen tons, the thickness of its inclined armor is comparable to that of a second-generation main battle tank. And the power pack of five hundred horsepower is also much stronger than the Gu insect giant beast of the same level.

in the proving ground.

The first prototype car drove here, the tracks began to speed up, and on the mud swamp, they pressed out ruts, threw out a large amount of turf, easily knocked into a small sapling, and rushed up the one-meter-high stone pier with a 'boom', and then jumped down, and the turret shook under such a violent shock.

A kilometer away from the site, the Zeuyou Station stands in front of the observation platform.

Under the observation of the matrix field, the vehicle's biological buffer structure has some stress damage, but it is generally good, and it only takes some time to recover. The internal structure is very leather, and there is no structural shaking. As a result, the decision to mass produce was confirmed.

[In fact, the normal test takes one to two years. The Celestial Matrix is only to observe the shaking degree of the key parts in the destructive test, and then try to solve these "problems that can be observed by the matrix". It's just a matter of making sure your own design is 'usable'. And how often the equipment is overhauled, and how often the parts with greater wear and tear are replaced, which will be summarized later. 】

This tank uses a 'combustion power structure' that is very advanced in the 21st century, that is, diesel power plus lithium batteries. And the 'lithium battery' is the tissue on the Gu worm's body.

There is a technology black box here, and the lithium battery made by humans has a life span of charging times. In the case of Linlong, the reducing biological fluid has a certain biorepair ability for "lithium battery tissue", just like 'repairing fat cells'.

As for the approximate lifespan of the armored bull tank......

Zeusyou estimated that it should be possible to run a 500-kilometer overhaul. The design has a mechanical opening at the back of the butt of the chariot, which can be opened to pull out the power pack directly, which is convenient for workers to maintain.

When batches of new equipment were replaced, the tour once again began the exercise of "getting toys to show off".

On Xia Hong Island.

The armored bull mechanical tank is racing on the island, and the twelve-ton twelve-ton twin-rotor second-generation double-bladed helicopter is also 'born' from another arsenal! (The third-generation double-blade is also being designed, ready to weigh up to thirty tons and can carry rocket nests.) ）

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In a social environment where feudal remnants are very heavy.

The strong military supported by the new group was the key to overpowering the traditional prestige of the old school.

The power of the new weapon is the most important way for the relevant industry personnel to realize the importance of their emerging group, and then recognize the gold content of the management positions promoted by the company in this industry.

After the production of the latest armament began, among the 60,000 manufacturers related to the military industrial group, 129 managers were directly promoted by the company, and more than 3,000 cadres were indirectly promoted in the entire organization.

The vast majority of these new management classes now have their wages rising by no more than 10 to 70 percent relative to ordinary workers. Even the wages of journeymen are rising faster than management positions. In other words, the large-scale change of the social status of a group of people does not rely on the traditional model of dividing land and titles. Rather, it relied on the increased productivity generated by the coal-steel complex to support the stability of the power of a new group.

Although the managers of the new class were not economically inferior to the aristocracy, in terms of social status, several factory directors were able to walk with their heads held high in front of the aristocratic officials of the traditional municipal government, and to claim to themselves as 'factory people'. This is the real formation of a new class, not the rapid degeneration of a few new factions into old bureaucrats after climbing up.

If there is a military conflict in the future, and the burning wheel war is won, then these "new position" industrial managers will raise their heads higher, and then overwhelm all the "old position" conservatives, and then meddle in the basic plate that these old guards now want to hold.

In other words, in the future, the high positions held by the aristocracy can be vetoed by the management class in the current industrial chain.

What happened on Xia Hong Island was a big change that had not been seen on the rock crystal star for thousands of years. The entire social system will be completely reshuffled.

But now—

The military authority of the new class of Burning Wheels continued to rise, and the power of the traditional aristocratic class in Trade Winds City, such as Yu Fatzi, was not damaged, but also increased. After all, the main contradiction of Ranlun now is external, and the biggest consensus from top to bottom is external expansion. Therefore, at this time, the floating family on the east side of Xia Hong Island is now the biggest damage.

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At the time of the military exercises of the burning wheel.

On the Eastern Peninsula, the floating Gu worms also had to float in the three-thousand-meter sky.

These giant creature airships produced by Gu Nests come in different sizes. Compared with the standardized double-edged clusters of the Western Peninsula, it is a little less 'industrial'.

Looking down, here in Cloud Sky City, a large number of civilian shacks are composed of color squares, like plastic bags of different colors in the garbage heap. Of course, most of these slums were empty, and the doorways were black and hollow, and in the sea breeze, 'woo-woo' ghosts.

Just inside this super garbage dump is the walled upper world, where there are patches of elegant white residential areas with public gardens. There are also office buildings.

In the streets now, two-meter-tall, four-legged spider-like metal war insects patrol the rocky roads. The shiny metal casing, like a colored glazed gemstone, moves around the city.

Among them, around a hill castle fortress, the number of Rongwei war insects is the most dense. Here, it is the governor's palace of the floating mica family on the island.

In the Chamber of the Doge's Palace.

Now the newly appointed military head of the Floating Mica family, Count Bora, sat in the main seat, while the people on either side of the conference table were silent.

Old-fashioned film rollers rotate under the projection of bright light, and a white screen shows the joint drills of tanks and combat vehicles in Trade Winds City.

On the film, the tank crashes through a stone wall, silently illustrating the power of the internal combustion engine. Although the volume is not as good as the hundred-ton war giant worm, it is full of impact, dragging smoke and dust all the way, and it can definitely knock a carriage of the same volume to pieces.

After the film was played, Count Bora's hoarse voice rang out in the council hall: "The one on the west side, a month ago, publicly stated that he would not add tankmen, and we were all relieved then. Obviously, we have all been deceived, and he is now trying to update all the ordinary tankbeasts into this kind of war beasts with a larger caliber and thicker armor. Let's talk about how we can deal with the malice of that person. ”

The waiter on the side rotated the film and the slide began to play.

The map of the whole island is pulled out from behind the Count, and the entire map is covered with layers of blue lines (the defensive line) in the east, and behind the defensive line is a circle (the assembly marker of the floating family Gu worm troops).

Ever since the Celestial Swim landed on the island, the Floating Cloud Clan has been constantly stacking their defensive lines, shouting in the air, warning the west not to move.

On the side of the cruise, he sang a double reed, shouting "peace, prosperity, and win-win", with a performance of 'only promises', and the escalation of the military show has not stopped.

At the beginning of 104 years, in order to speed up the run-in of the troops, the company pulled out dozens of tanks and several squadron fighters every month to conduct a 'joint assault' exercise.

Although the number of troop exercises did not reach the level of a large-scale attack, that is, one or two regiments, and it was also reported to the opposite side, so that the floating family would not be strategically miscalculated. (Actually, there is nothing wrong with this gang of stacked defenses, it is nothing more than stacking the defenses thicker, and they will never launch a counterattack attack.) ）

However, during the exercise, the large-scale carrying capacity shown by Trade Wind City, and the scene of moving thousands of tons of materials quickly with the advance of the assault corps, made the spies sent by the floating mica family swallow.

Since the beginning of 105.

The various warnings of the Floating Sky Family have become more and more inward-looking, so that today, their "warnings" have lost their effect, but it is difficult to ride the tiger, and they cannot retract the high posture of their previous tone. Because once the weakness is revealed, the original prestige of floating in Xia Hong Island will avalanche. They can only go all the way to the dark, constantly stacking up their forces and building a defensive line. The core purpose of his behavior is no longer to defend against the attack of the Celestial Tour, but to maintain confidence with the posture of "I have something to do and something to countermeasure".

At the meeting, these richly dressed and well-dressed aristocrats made a large number of nonsensical suggestions.

The earl looked at these incompetent people and said helplessly: "It seems that the Flame Locust family has introduced a good neighbor to us. ”

The Count's words emphasized the Flame Locust family, and his tone changed subtly.

Originally, the two major families of Flame Locust and Floating Sky confronted each other, and they didn't mind crushing the dust ringworm attached to each other's bodies. However, the Celestial Tour is strong enough, strong enough that the Floating Family wants to avoid the risks.

At the same time, the earl believed that the Burning Locust family no longer had absolute command over the increasingly powerful Celestial Tour.

The words of the Earl made the people in the conference room who were extremely capable of observing words and colors breathe a sigh of relief, and they all said: "The Earl is far-sighted" and "Divide and disintegrate the allies of the locusts"......