Chapter 516： More powerful tools

On the edge of the industrial zone in the eastern part of Cecil City, in a research facility at the Machinery Manufacturing Institute, Gao Wen is gathering with Rebecca and Nicholas eggs.

The sleek iron ball star floats in the middle of the room, next to him, a complex and exquisite metal model is floating with him, the metal model is obviously the chassis of the vehicle, under the high-precision processing ability of Nicholas eggs, its Each gear and connecting rod is the most accurate reduction, and a variety of operational demonstrations are carried out with magnetic field traction.

"This is the general traction chassis after the stereotype. Of course, it is just a model. How to achieve it requires technical staff to work hard." With a hint of metal vibrato coming from the iron star, he spoke while rotating the model. Let Gao Wen see the details inside. "Based on the previous design, we have re-adjusted the connection between the magic net unit and the power ridge, and added a layer of shock absorption, which makes the chassis more complex and The road is bad, and the shock absorbing structure can be removed. After being removed, it can be replaced with an additional magic net unit to make the chassis more powerful, so that it can be used as a tractor for construction machinery in a relatively flat area."

Gao Wen looked at the model of Nicholas' egg and listened to the other person's explanation. He nodded lightly: "...not bad."

The magic car was born, and the first problem it faced was the poor road conditions and maintenance difficulties of this era.

There is no flat and sturdy highway in this era, and there is no service area and car repair shop in the vast wilderness between the city and the city. Although the road construction project in Cecil has not stopped since Rebecca tossed out the cement. However, even with the convenience of magic, the road facilities in the south are currently at a serious stage of imperfection. There are only three roads in Cecil that have realized “modernization”, and there is a section from Cecil to Kant. There is also a similar road between Cecil and Tanzan, and the road to the Glan area has just been completed a few days ago. In addition to this, there are basically only the former Southern aristocrats. The messy roads built.

In these messy roads, the best situation is the “temporary road” from Tanzan to Hosman, but that is only for the mages and the engineers holding the magic terminal to use “fossils for mud” and “chemicalization”. The mud-rock technique has been subjected to emergency leveling and reinforcement. It is temporarily used to transport people and materials, but in the long run, it is not up to standard for Gaowen from durability to scale.

As a residue of the past, the "road" is a big problem in front of Gao Wen. The nobles have their own methods in their own territories. The roads they build are varied, not only in terms of quality and scale, but also in planning. Sometimes, in order to prevent the looting of the neighboring nobility, they even destroyed the area where the roads between the two territories met, and used magic to create a large number of artificial potholes, sand and quagmire. Now the south has been unified. The former lords withdrew from the stage, but these irritating things were left to the builders of Cecil.

Fortunately, this world has incredible magic technology, and the magic guide terminal used for ordinary engineers has also been popularized. It is supplemented by various spells such as "fossil for mud", "mud stone for stone", and "weight loss". Next, the road construction project in the South is progressing smoothly, but even so, considering the actual situation in most remote areas and the situation outside the South, the early magic car chassis must still consider how to deal with the bad road conditions.

“The general chassis needs to pay attention to the maximum applicability, so we redesigned its size according to the average width of most roads in the south, which is basically slightly narrowed.” Rebecca took the Nicholas egg and said "The widest point is no more than one meter eight..."

Gao Wenxin said that this is one meter eight. This is the width of the world's largest double-roamed carriage. Strictly speaking, it is the limit width of two horses plus a set of harnesses. Although the roads built by the nobility are varied, their widths are roughly similar. Except for trails and township roads, the narrowest "official" roads will not be lower than this number. If the number is narrower than this, the large double-horse carriage will Unable to pass.

The road construction in Cecil is carried out on the basis of the old roads. The personnel and materials needed for road construction are also transported by horse-drawn carriages. Therefore, each lane of the newly-built cement road is also affected by this number, basically one. The width of a large troika plus a "safety margin" of about one meter, on the basis of which the size of the magic guide must also meet the requirements for safe driving in such a lane.

According to Gao Wen, similar things have happened on the earth. The original carriage width affects the standard of roads. The road standards affect the size of early cars and trains. The size of cars and trains affects all roads and railways built in the early days. The size of things such as transportation tools, cargo boxes, etc...

Two completely different worlds, after all, are at the same time.

Suddenly remembered the hometown that has been for many years, Gao Wen can only silently feel, and in his sigh, his thinking gradually spreads out.

The magic car has it. This is an epoch-making means of transportation. Of course, they are many times stronger than the current carriage. With these powerful and tireless vehicles, the development of the South will definitely take a big step forward, but if Only them are still far from enough.

The south is not big, but the small is not too small. The narrow shape of the territory makes it difficult for traffic. At present, in order to build four industrial new towns on the “Cross-Axis”, Gao Wen needs to deploy large quantities of materials and personnel from all over the South, including the ore in the Tanzania-Cessil area, the wood in the Gülen area, and the stone in the Peipo area. The magical materials, as well as the huge immigrants brought about by the population migration project, are basically carried out by several river transport channels centered on the Baishui River. However, the river transport has natural limitations, with several cities. The scale has become larger and larger, especially the “cross axis” has begun to extend in both directions. Some raw materials far from the river channel will be on the right track sooner or later. Gao Wen must find a way to find more efficient means of transportation.

The advantage of the magic guide is that it is flexible and convenient. It is quite suitable for dealing with the transportation of short-distance and small-sized goods. However, when dealing with the development pressure of the whole south, their power will definitely be stretched.

Of course, people in this era of the world probably won’t think so, because the magic car is the most advanced and powerful means of transportation they have ever seen, but Gao Wen has seen those things that are better than the magic car. On the rails, it is capable of transporting thousands of tons of goods at a time, such as the strong and powerful land transport king of the industrial society.

train.

Compared with that thing, the magic car in front of it will naturally look dwarfed in transportation capacity.

After all, the magic car is not entirely for the purpose of solving the transportation problem in the South. It is only a supplement in this respect. Its real significance is to open up the subsequent major changes in transportation, in order to replace the traditional carriage, in order to manufacture agricultural Machinery, manufacturing engineering machinery, and even preparing for military vehicles.

Gao Wen knows that the trains on the earth were born much earlier than the practical cars powered by internal combustion engines (not counting the early steam engine-powered experimental locomotives) because of the trains used on Earth. The “stupid black and thick” steam engine is far lower than the precision, compact and efficient internal combustion engine at the starting point of the technology. At the same time, various front-end technologies (tires, batteries, electric plugs, etc.) used in automobiles have also experienced a relatively long period of time. In the period of development, all of this is determined by objective historical facts, but in this world, the laws of development of many things are destined to be different from the earth, and the order of many things is naturally different.

The steam engine could not be realized, and the rotor-type magic engine was born. The world jumped into a high-efficiency power source similar to the "internal combustion engine" or "electric motor", at the same time, due to the accumulation of technology in the world itself. Gao Wen’s conscious guidance makes the “magic car”, a sophisticated vehicle, appear in the world earlier than the train, but this does not mean that the world does not need a train.

In fact, the South is now in need of it, and it also has the technical foundation to develop it.

Living here for so long, Gao Wen has learned to abandon some old ideas and realize the real situation hidden in the dark and obscured appearance of this special era. The world’s technical reserves are far richer than he imagined, the starting point of technology. It is also far higher than what he has seen, except that these techniques are concentrated in the hands of a few people, or in the form of fragments scattered in the hands of the zero-star intellectuals (this "technology over-concentration" and "technical fragmentation" phenomenon is The result of the collapse of the ancient Gangbang Empire, which led to the society here seems to be far behind the height of its real technology.

After trying to understand this, Cecil's technology development speed is naturally not difficult to understand: in many cases, those technologies are not developed from scratch, but only in the production of existing "upper" technology. Reconstruction and transformation of the technology of the broken state, even if the truth is true, if Gao Wen’s "scientific thoughts" are copied and thrown into the country where Tifeng is rich and talented, their development speed will only It is faster than Cecil.

Even so, Gao Wen will recognize and respect the talents and efforts of those researchers, and maintain the highest level of trust in his own research department. He knows that science is progressive with the fragmentation of broken technology. Reconstructed, with the development of various theories in the field of magic technology, one day sooner or later, this land will get rid of the shadow of the ancient Gangyan Empire, and step into the field where the great magician men of the Starfire era have not been involved.

"Ancestors? Ancestors?"

Rebecca’s voice suddenly came from the side, awakening Gao Wen from his thoughts.

"What are you thinking about?"

Rebecca got in front of Gao Wen with a look of concern and curiosity on his face.

Gao Wen realized that he had thought too much too far, and he was already a little distracted. So he quickly coughed and adjusted his expression, and then he thought and said: "Rebecca, you know, in fact, the magic car is not the most Strong land transport..."

Rebecca squinted: "Do you mean... the bigger magic car?! With a multi-row engine dragging a bigger car?"

"...not quite the same, it is indeed a bigger car, but its operating mechanism is completely different from that of the magic car," Gao Wen organized an easy-to-understand vocabulary to describe the one that never appeared in this world. Things that have passed, "You can imagine a car like this: it has a 'magic engine' that is ten times, dozens, or even hundreds of times more powerful than the magic car. This magic engine is pulling a dozen. The carriage is running on the ground..."

Rebecca widened his eyes: "How is it possible! The ground will collapse! And what about the turn? What should I do if I bump into a bump?"

“So it needs to be on the track. The so-called rails are trenches or rails made of steel on the ground. They can disperse the pressure from heavy cars, reduce the wear of metal wheels and improve train stability...”