"Bishop Rurika, long time no see!" "Charles had just gotten out of the rental carriage when he found Cardinal of the Temple of Harvest and Forge and chief designer of the Rurika Engine Design Bureau waiting for them at the door.

Rurika stepped forward and hugged Charles, and he said happily, "Long time no see, Charles." I'm hoping you'll come here sooner. ”

"I'd like to come sooner too. Charles introduced Rurika, "This is my friend Diana. ”

"I've been looking up to your name for a long time!" Rurica shook Diana's hand, "Those guys who do 'brains' have mentioned you many times, but I didn't expect you to be a little beauty, many people think you're an old guy like us." ”

"The seniors praised it. Diana modestly said, "I'm just a little clever." ”

"There is often great wisdom in small wisdom. Rurica led the two into the design bureau gate.

The design bureau occupies a large area, and not far from the gate there are several buildings with four or five floors.

What attracted Charles the most was that there were suspension bridges connecting each floor between the buildings, and many staff members hurriedly walked across the suspension bridges.

Rurika said with a smile: "Young people are always in a hurry, and in order to save a few steps, they propose to build a suspension bridge between the buildings, and I like it." ”

Walking into a building, through the window of the corridor, you can see many people concentrating on drawing drawings in front of the drawing table with the desktop slanted.

Rurika had planned to invite Charles in, but Charles shook his head and refused, because it would have been a great sin if he disturbed the staff and caused their hands to shake a little.

In his last life, when he was drawing engineering drawings in the drawing room of the university, he had seen someone die and be beaten.

Rurica whispers: "They make drawings of the finalized products, and when they are finished, they send them to the factory. ”

Then Diana asked, "Why is the drawing room on the first floor, it's easy to be disturbed?" ”

Charles patted her on the shoulder and said, "If you come to help them move the drawings every day in the future, I don't mind setting up the drawing room on the roof." ”

After the three of them walked up to the second floor, a faint quarrel could be heard in the hallway.

Through the window, several people can be seen discussing issues intensely in front of several blackboards, on which patterns and formulas drawn by Charles cannot be understood.

Rurica explained to Charles, "They are discussing how to increase the energy density per unit area of the magic array, which is a big topic for us at the moment. ”

In the next room, several researchers were studying a row of metal cylinders, ranging from large to small.

"Now that the matryoshka type engine test machine has been built, although it is only two layers of hair dryers together, it is also a huge breakthrough, which means that the engine can output more power with the same dimensions. ”

It wasn't long before they made their way from a suspension bridge to another building next door, which Rurica explains: "The main focus is on aerodynamics, which is the basis for the study of wind turbines. ”

Charles nodded, he had only heard of aerodynamics, fluid mechanics or something, and he himself only knew some simple hydraulics, calculating a little head loss along the way and the like.

In his hometown, with the efforts of Huygens, Newton, Euler, Navier, and Stokes, the foundations of classical fluid mechanics were formed at the end of the nineteenth century, laying a solid foundation for the birth and development of airplanes, and began to develop rapidly after entering the twentieth century, and finally aerodynamics developed from fluid mechanics and formed a new branch of mechanics.

Now the Rurika Engine Design Bureau has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the study of this basic discipline, and Charles has even seen a lot of dragons here, presumably it is a matter of time before this discipline makes a breakthrough.

Charles and Diana, led by Rurika, spent an hour touring several research buildings, and the researchers in the design bureau were unleashing their wisdom and sweat in this blank field, and many new ideas and technologies were constantly bursting out here.

The two of them came with only eyes and ears along the way, quietly listening to Rurika proudly talk about recent achievements, and they had the awareness to shut up in areas they were not familiar with.

At the back of the research building is a test area the size of several football fields, where the roar is heard one after another. On the other side of the test area is a row of factory buildings.

In the small fortresses made of sandbags, large and small engines are spraying air into the sky, and they are doing all kinds of tests and experiments.

"Impellers that rotate at high speeds are dangerous in the event of an accident. Rurika said as she put on her helmet, "In the beginning, there was an accident that almost caused casualties. ”

The floor in the test area is paved with cement, which reduces the impact of dust on the engine.

The air flow here is very strong because of the work of the engines, and it is cool and swishing on the body in this weather.

"At the moment we have a very little data about the engine, such as the relationship between wind speed and pressure and the size, number, shape and spindle power of the impellers, and now our main task is to obtain enough data through experiments, and then derive the relevant empirical formulas and study the principles," Rurica explained to Charles. ”

Charles and the others continued to nod, and then after seeing a few experiments, they followed Rurica to the side of the processing plant, which was the focus of Charles and Diana's visit today.

Carving an intricate magic circle into a metal cylinder was not an easy task, and required full concentration, and Charles consciously stood only in the doorway, with Rurica explaining the situation in the processing factory.

There are a number of brand-new machines in the processing plant that rough the raw materials, then the elite fitters make the initial adjustments, and finally the epic fitters fine-tune and carve the magic array.

The all-important impeller requires all the hands of an epic fitter.

"It doesn't seem to be very productive. Charles whispered with a frown.

"yes. "The precision required is simply too high, and there are so few workers at the cutting edge." ”

"What if the machining accuracy of the machine tool could be next to that of the top workers?" Charles asked, "so that the output could go up, right?"

"Huh?" Rurika frowned, "what can you do?"

Charles replied, "That's the problem I'm here to solve." ”

"Oh?" Rurika was a little surprised, he only knew that Charles had asked him to help find a place to open the company, but he didn't ask too much about the details.

He didn't ask Charles about the solution, and it was annoying to ask about other people's unopened technology, saying: "If you can really get the machine to that level, Demitov and Prokharov will be very happy, and even if you marry their precious granddaughter, they will definitely agree." ”

Now Charles also has a certain understanding of the upper echelons of the Temple of Harvest and Smithing, and the two cardinals mentioned by Rurica are the same as him, and these two are now in charge of the research and production of machine tools.

Charles shrugged his shoulders and said: "That's a pity, I only pay and face for this company, and the specific technical problems have to be completed by Diana and others." ”

Rurica glanced at Diana and quickly guessed what Charles was going to do. The handful of people who can stand at the top of the pyramid of power and scholarship are not stupid, only the position they stand in and the blind spots of knowledge.

"This approach is theoretically possible. Rurica said as she thought about it.

Charles took the opportunity to say, "Since His Excellency the Bishop thinks it is feasible, then I will trouble you to help." You have a lot of connections, and we lack everything but money, especially people. ”

Rurika smiled and patted Charles on the shoulder, and said, "You will really seize the opportunity, I will help you with this, tomorrow you come to the temple, and I will introduce you to Demitov and Prokharov." ”

"Thank you so much!" Charles said with a smile, "It just so happens that we are going to the temple tomorrow to file a patent." ”

Rurica smiled and said, "Nacheng, we will wait for you at the temple tomorrow morning." ”

According to Charles's plan, their company's products needed customer support, and the Rurika Engine Design Bureau was one of the two earliest customers he selected, the other being the Royal Springfield Arsenal.