Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 173 A Glimmer of Hope for the Peace Egg

Zhao Lidong's summons forced Ren Zhong to take back many of the increasingly bold operations in the main world.

Especially in terms of nuclear knowledge, which is very sensitive in the main world, Ren Zhong reviewed his reckless bounty action and decided to focus on collecting public knowledge. In the main world, he has no privileges and no connections.

Unless he hides in the world of Bright Sword forever and never comes back, Ren Zhong cannot violate the rules of the main world at all.

Thinking of his potential risks, Ren Zhong injected most of the funds in the two banks behind his offshore company into an investment company in Hong Kong Island and transferred them to a Chinese bank for custody.

Through the investment company, another 10 billion yuan was transferred to three companies in the mainland. According to Ren Zhong's new plan, investment began to purchase agricultural aircraft, agricultural tractors and agricultural tricycles.

The battery factory run by Wang Wenhui has now opened up the situation and should be able to break even within the year. It is currently investing in the development of a new generation of safe electric vehicle batteries using lead-acid batteries. It has also begun researching lightweight solutions for lithium iron phosphate. From now on, it seems that if it invests tens of millions to hundreds of millions to develop these two products, it will not be a problem for Lisai Battery to eventually break even.

After all, Ren Zhong does not require blind expansion of scale. If it continues to proceed steadily in this way, there is still a chance to survive in the huge electric vehicle aftermarket. Wang Wenhui is also very concerned about this and has always put himself in the front line of marketing and R&D, studying the advantages and disadvantages of the main products on the market together with R&D. In addition, with the R&D funds provided by Ren Zhong, he invited several real experts to lead the R&D. The market direction did not deviate, and Lisai gradually began to develop in the direction of branding from a third-party brand.

Ren Zhong is now preparing to replicate the successful model of the battery factory and develop the newly invested agricultural aircraft, agricultural tractors and tricycles according to this model, so that they can be self-sufficient in the main world and then invest part of the funds to produce the core engines themselves. In this way, the developed technology can be shared in the world of Bright Sword.

Separate the engine business and acquire a small diesel engine company, forming a series of single-cylinder, two-cylinder and four-cylinder diesel engines. The horsepower range of the simple low-end naturally aspirated versions can cover the range of 10 horsepower to 80 horsepower. In this way, the power problem of motor vehicles in the world of Liangjian will be basically solved.

After all, an agricultural tricycle with 15 horsepower can carry 2 tons of cargo, and an agricultural tricycle equipped with an 80-horsepower powerful four-cylinder diesel engine can easily pull a few tons of cannon.

This is one aspect. On the other hand, with the expansion of smelting scale, mine transportation can no longer rely on manpower, and transportation vehicles must be developed. An agricultural tricycle can carry two tons and run more than 50 kilometers, which is as efficient as manual transportation by hundreds of people.

As a small-scale refining facility with a daily output of 10 tons of oil is about to be put into production, Ren Zhong's vehicle production has not yet been put on the agenda, because the process of producing olefins in the oil refining process has not yet been mastered. This is the main raw material for synthetic rubber. Without this thing, it will be useless even if Ren Zhong produces the frame.

Under the current conditions, Ren Zhong simply cannot get natural rubber from Southeast Asia, and Ren Zhong cannot solve the tire problem in the border area.

Therefore, Ren Zhong planned to take the technical route of synthetic rubber from the beginning. In the process of oil refining, he not only needed to obtain fuels such as gasoline, diesel and aviation kerosene, but also important raw materials for rubber synthesis such as olefins.

It is not something that ordinary people can do to build an industrial system from scratch. Ren Zhong travels between two different worlds every day. Relying on the complete knowledge system of the main world, he can gradually evolve the border area into a complete industrial system.

However, people in the border areas now still think that Ren Zhong is only engaged in some explosives production and weapons processing. Basically, no one expects that Ren Zhong’s ambitions have grown to include the comprehensive development of land, sea and air.

In the Dawn Institute, the core contents of different research centers are not public. Except for the core backbones and Ren Zhong of the research centers who can understand the latest developments, other people actually have no idea what the Dawn Institute is doing.

It was just that because Ren Zhong was solely responsible for bearing the expenses of the entire institute and would take Dayang across the ocean whenever he had time, Ren Zhong had enough confidence to turn the Dawn Institute into his own independent kingdom.

Due to the simple origin of the personnel and the fact that the Dawn Research Institute was guarded by the Eighth Guard Regiment outside, it was actually isolated in the border area, which was already a very closed small space.

Although the Dawn Institute has produced many things, it is still basically unknown to the outside world. However, among scholars, the Dawn Institute has begun to gain some fame. Some experts and scholars know that some of their colleagues work there, but naturally no one discloses what they do specifically or how the progress is.

I just know that there is an excellent research environment here. Ren Zhong has no intention of becoming famous in the world of Sword and Fairy. He is very low-key. Except for being well-known in the upper echelons of the border area, he is basically unknown in the middle and lower levels of the border area.

This also makes it easier for him to travel safely in this space and time.

Even though the border area has raised its security to the highest level, the 8th Guard Regiment was stationed at the Dawn Research Institute in the name of farming. In fact, the entire 8th Guard Regiment was fully armed, which was not the routine operation of a normal farming force at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was early November, and Ren Zhong was moving around as usual.

When he arrived at the Physics Research Center, Professor Wu Jianxiong saw that Ren Zhong was somewhat excited and invited him to the conference room.

"Mr. Ren, we have mastered the design of the heavy water extraction device. Now we need a lot of electricity to build a heavy water refining plant. No, one is not enough. The production capacity of one is too low. I need at least four!" Professor Wu Jianxiong said excitedly.

"Have you successfully developed the water electrolysis device?" Ren Zhong was a little surprised. According to his information, pressurized water reactors require a large amount of heavy water, and now there is basically only one way to refine heavy water, which is to electrolyze water. However, large-scale water electrolysis devices are not easily available. Fortunately, Ren Zhong can obtain the principles and basic designs, which is why physicists like Wu Jianxiong are mainly responsible for the design.

I didn’t expect it to be completed in just a few months.

"Yes, we have developed it, but the energy consumption is extremely high," said Professor Wu Jianxiong.

"It's okay, we can hold on." Ren Zhong didn't ask how high it was, because he had checked the information long ago. It takes three times more electricity to refine one kilogram of heavy water than to smelt one ton of aluminum. In other words, one kilogram of heavy water consumes more than 1 kilowatt-hours of electricity!
This is definitely not something that ordinary people can afford.

Ren Zhong has been preparing for this. After Li Jixiang conquered the 5MW mixed-flow generator, Ren Zhong has been producing this type of generator and prepared more than a dozen cascade power stations for them. Now the dams have been built.

Not only the Yanhe River, but also many on the Luohe River. Of course, when building, Ren Zhong did not say that it was for the heavy water plant, but to build water conservancy projects to turn the banks of the Yanhe and Luohe Rivers into granaries. In fact, he has been developing along the two river basins in this direction, replicating Ren Zhong's successful experience of 10 acres of fertile land in the Yanhe River.

"We can now build a 65MW hydroelectric power plant to provide energy for heavy water." Ren Zhong said confidently.

"That's great. We can reach the next node target very quickly." Professor Wu was stunned for a moment before she became happy when she heard that the power supply was far beyond her imagination. She did a simple calculation and found that it was much stronger than she expected. After it is fully built, the daily production capacity will exceed 30 kilograms, so it will take only half a year to produce 5 tons of heavy water.

"In fact, we still have a long way to go," Ren Zhong said, not as optimistic as Professor Wu. "Heavy water enrichment and extraction is only a small step. The next challenge is how to complete uranium enrichment."

Professor Wu fell silent after listening to this. Ren Zhong provided several ideas for uranium enrichment in the Manhattan Project, including electromagnetic separation, gas diffusion, and thermal diffusion. However, there were no specific process descriptions and data, only some relatively rough principle explanations. Therefore, it would indeed take a long way to increase the purity of uranium-235 to 89%.

"Mr. Ren, what's the situation at the uranium mine?" Professor Wu asked.

"They have found the veins and are now confirming the main mining sites," Ren Zhong replied. "Our initial extraction methods of leaching and flotation can only produce the abundance required for nuclear reactors. Next, we must solve the problem of high-enrichment purification before we can hope to use it to ignite the sun and see the dawn of peace."

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