Chapter 697: The Sprout of the Automobile Industry
Lin's approach was to recruit magicians within the Holy City who already had a basic knowledge of the P language and mathematics. Maybe in terms of loyalty, the newcomers recruited will not be as good as the people cultivated by the two major forces, but how to manage talents, the two major forces are also familiar with each other, and they don't need to worry about it. Anyway, they must be more concerned than anyone else about such a thing as 'being in power'.
This led to a massive recruitment campaign that caused a sensation in the holy city of Estari, as well as a convergence of all the talents in Lin's mathematics course, who were not willing to develop only in the field of pure mathematics.
Although the construction of mathematical methods for spell models is also one of the application and development directions of mathematics classes, there is no money to be made before the results are known! As long as you join the automobile manufacturing and R&D center, you will have a fixed salary, and you can also train yourself to use various mathematical methods. It can be said that at this stage, the most suitable application field for magicians who intend to continue to develop on the road of mathematics.
Even if they can take a place in a class with limited seats, they are not magicians who are short of money. But who is afraid of a lot of money, and more importantly, the R&D center provides an opportunity to apply what you have learned. It's the opportunity that's the more interesting part than the copper smell.
People who have been in math classes for almost a year are looking forward to proving that their learning is not useless. After all, since the beginning of the class, no one has been able to completely reconstruct the magic model mathematically, following what someone did when they first attracted everyone to jump into the pit. But it's not that no one has tried, but those who have tried will admit one thing, the road of mathematics has a long way to go.
This is not to say that the mathematical problems studied by the Automobile Manufacturing and R&D Center are simpler than reconstructing the magic model. It's because what the center wants to do is something that has been proven to be feasible. The work of those who join is to replace expensive materials with simple ones, to standardize the work of magic by industrial methods, and then to achieve mass production. In short, copycat reverse engineering.
And to do this, it doesn't say that you have to meet any standards to be qualified. Or rather, there are no standards at all.
The experimental vehicle as a demonstration of feasibility has already been completed, and it is set as the ultimate goal of 100 points. Even if the results of the research are only 10 points, they can be officially sold as commodities. Anyway, four wheels can turn, and you can pull people or goods from one place to another.
It is even said that some parts must use magic materials, and there is no ordinary material to replace them for the time being, so it is acceptable. At most, the price will increase after it becomes a product.
Under such a premise, there are people who have the money and technology to make automobile manufacturing and R&D centers, and the time schedule for mass production is quickly put on the agenda.
The first model to be identified was not a simplified version of the 1903 Earth Ford's Model A, which was no different from a horse-drawn carriage, as one might have imagined, but a large truck that was partially made of magical materials.
The first batch of customers were not outsiders, but the two big bosses, Ka Wei Gong and Nguyen Van Viet. The purpose is also simple, in order to transport iron ore and other materials from their respective sites to the manufacturing and R&D center in the holy city of Estali. There is no reason to sell the car, but he still uses a horse-drawn cart and a large number of people to transport it.
In order to be able to pull a large number of goods, the load and horsepower of the truck are not the indicators that ordinary materials can achieve at this stage. The engine that uses magic materials is directly based on the research of the Silverbeard Dwarves, because it is already a mature process.
Even the Silverbeard Dwarves jumped down to help with R&D. The group led by a veteran who is responsible for building engines is the fastest group in all groups to get started with the new process. The silverbearded dwarves do not work in vain, in addition to receiving a salary, the research and transformation of various parts of the engine is the focus of their attention. For the sake of peace, they are not willing to give up any research opportunities on related topics.
Another part of the truck that has to use magic materials is the chassis. The R&D center has tried to study welding technology, of course, there is also the technology of rivet structure, but the chassis built with the current material material and manufacturing technology can be used in small vehicles for carrying people, but it cannot support the load-bearing index of large trucks.
The second type of vehicle is a special kind of vehicle - the fuel tanker. Because the gasoline used in the car needs to be refined, it is not just crude oil that can be used by adding it directly to the tank, and gas stations are not all over the world. Therefore, whether it is a large truck fleet transporting raw materials, tankers need to follow it so that they can be refueled at any time; The R&D center also needs to ship the crude oil back for refinery processing.
Although gasoline has to go through the refining procedure, it is still cheaper than magic stones. It is known that the city where crude oil is produced is Lebapu, but that is only because of the use of goblins for oil, so it is extracted, and it is not the only oil producing place in the Gwana Empire. There are also crude oil wells that can be pumped in the open pit within the territory of Kavigong.
In the past, the place where the black water was bubbling was a dead zone where animals were not close and plants did not grow. The only use of black water, which can be ignited, is to be used as a weapon of war. Therefore, as the Grand Duke of the Empire, the Duke of Kaveh dealt with this natural resource in a blockade manner. Only goblins with a passion for self-detonation have the guts to mine this poisonous and burning demonic water.
But when the use of crude oil was developed, the two bigwigs coincidentally launched an operation to extract oil. Of course, Kavi Gong exploited the oil wells in his own territory, while Nguyen Van Viet sought relevant resources from outside the Gwana Empire, cooperated with the local lords, and invested in exploitation.
Nguyen Van Viet's idea is very simple, if the car must have gas in order to move, it is impossible for him to hand over this lifeline to others. It's like fighting a war by relying on soldiers, but if a soldier has no food and grass, no matter how strong he is, he can't fight.
For this intuitive approach, Lin can only feel admiration. It is quite accurate to see the key to the automobile industry at a glance and start planting the flag of the energy business at an early stage.
And the same distillation equipment for oil refining was built in the holy city of Estali. The reason why the crude oil is not located in the oil well area, and the crude oil is processed to reduce the volume and weight before being transported to the holy city because any processing work is carried out out of sight, and if there is a problem, it cannot be solved immediately.
Lin had already agreed with the two bigwigs that when the process matured, they would start a new stove wherever they wanted, and they would just not give up the manufacturing and R&D center in the holy city of Estari. After all, by doing so, you can drastically reduce the waste generated during the shipping process. However, in the early stage, when the technology was not yet mature, the focus was still on the research and development site.
That being said, research is most afraid of no results, but when the results come out, everyone wants a piece of the pie. If the automobile manufacturing and R&D center made a lot of money, it would have been forgotten, and when the two delivery teams of Ka Wei Gong and Nguyen Van Viet were unveiled, they immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.
However, because there were many things that could not be solved in the early stage of development, the car could not be sold directly to the market. One of the most troublesome difficulties is the problem of failure rate. The failure rate of parts made from magic materials has long been solved after the various tests and replacement of more advanced magic materials by the Silverbeard Dwarves. But after replacing it with ordinary materials, this research is equivalent to starting all over again.
In order to cope with breakdowns that may occur on the road, drivers of vehicles must have basic machine knowledge, at least how to repair or replace damaged parts. In other words, in the future, drivers will not only have a driver's license, but also an engineer with a license to repair auto mechanics.
In addition to refueling, the scheduled gas station may also have the function of repairing cars, so as to replace the problem that there is no other place to repair cars except for the R&D center at this stage.
In terms of actual use experience, sometimes roadside breakdowns cannot be solved by drivers with simple maintenance knowledge, and there are two methods that can be used. If the vehicle is still able to move, but the engine cannot be started, or the drivetrain is damaged, then the vehicle of the same vehicle can be used to tow the faulty vehicle. Maybe the speed will slow down, but you can still tow the breakdown car to your destination.
If the vehicle is damaged and cannot even be moved, it is not possible to scrap the vehicle on the spot. At this time, it is necessary to send a maintenance team from the R&D center to the vehicle breakdown site and repair the vehicle directly in the field.
In the early days, vehicle breakdowns were frequent, and even front-line drivers and maintenance personnel were questioning the need to use such a machine that was not reliable at all. This kind of questioning once made the two bigwigs who joined the automobile manufacturing business come to ask a magician who was almost out of the way.
Lin didn't explain much, just made a simple statistical chart. the efficiency and cost of carrying the old wagons, and to a large extent the old method was regarded as zero risk; The carrying efficiency and carrying cost of the new vehicle, and then calculate its risk cost based on the existing failure scenario. As soon as the two sides were combined, looking at the unit transportation cost, the doubts of the bigwigs were thrown directly out of the clouds.
The transportation energy of trucks is too amazing, and to transport the same amount of goods, the number of old horse-drawn carriages and people mobilized is not only ten times, but also several times the time. Not to mention the old horse-drawn carriage mode of transportation, which is not completely risk-free.
Secondly, every repair is actually a test of the results of manufacturing, and it will also become the focus of improvement in the next batch of vehicle manufacturing. The manufacturing process will progress, and the strength of the material using ordinary materials will also slowly improve with the accumulation of alloy technology and data. Nowhere is this more evident than in the fault logs. Non-man-made damage will be generated, with a tendency to decrease over time.
Therefore, even if the front-line personnel complain that the people in charge of management can only count the transportation volume, as long as their brains are not caught in the door panel, it is impossible to go back to the old way. In this initial situation of internal digestion of production capacity, the automotive manufacturing and R&D center received its first external order. From the Gia Long Chamber of Commerce, 10 trucks and one matching tank truck were ordered by branches other than Nguyen Van Viet.
The reason why this order is regarded as an external order is because under the leadership of Nguyen Van Viet, he knocked his distant relatives hard. Without hesitation, without mercy, as if to clear the grievances accumulated in the past at once.