Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 56 Base Construction (asking for monthly tickets, recommendation tickets)
After more than ten days of continuous large-scale mobilization of elements, Wang Jiankun has become very skilled in building the base.

Various elements in the soil and rocks are mobilized to the corresponding positions according to the predetermined plan, so the speed is getting faster and faster, and 150 cubic meters of space can be dug out in less than half an hour.

The next step is to lay circuits in the newly dug space.

After the daily base excavation work is completed, it is time to start manufacturing two types of equipment: spring winding machines and spring carburizing and tempering furnaces.

According to the drawings that had been stored in my mind for a long time, I first made a spring winding machine.

By controlling the elements such as iron, copper, carbon, molybdenum, zinc, silicon, and manganese to their corresponding positions, about half an hour later, a device with a shiny appearance was completed.

The precision of this equipment is still very high, and the springs it manufactures are very small. If the accuracy is insufficient, it will affect the manufactured springs.

At the same time, the automation level of this equipment is also very high. Wang Jiankun installed the 8-kilogram roll of steel wire made yesterday onto the shaft disc, pulled out one end of the steel wire and sent it to the feed port for manual fixation, then started the machine. The equipment automatically pulled the steel wire into the equipment, and the steel wire coming out from the other end was rotated into the shape of a spring by several winding heads and then cut by a cutter, and a semi-finished spring was made.

Wang Jiankun ran the equipment for half an hour and produced 1250 semi-finished springs.

The dimensions were measured using the manufactured vernier caliper and micrometer, and all met the design requirements.

The semi-finished springs at this time are not elastic enough, because the steel smelted in the electric furnace loses a lot of carbon elements after hot rolling, so the elasticity is insufficient and it needs to go through the carburizing and tempering process to meet the elasticity requirements.

It then took about 10 minutes to make a carburizing and tempering furnace, connect it to the power supply for heating, put the semi-finished spring into a crucible, then bury it with carbon powder, and then send the crucible into the already heated furnace.

With the door closed, the furnace will run at high temperature for a while and then slowly cool down.

This process is quite time-consuming. It takes a total of 4 hours from the beginning of heating up to cooling down to the temperature that can be used to open the furnace.

Therefore, the capacity of the furnace is relatively large and can process 1 springs at a time. The factory can use this furnace twice a day to keep up with the speed of the previous process.

When the furnace temperature dropped to more than 40 degrees, Wang Jiankun used a transfer equipment to take out the crucible and poured it into the separation equipment to separate the carbon powder and springs.

Then put the spring into flowing oil to clean it to remove the carbon powder, then take it out and put it into a steamer at over 100 degrees to evaporate the grease. In this way, a finished spring is ready.

After waiting for more than half an hour, I opened the evaporator box. At this time, all the grease was evaporated and sucked into the recovery tank.

I took out a few springs and put them into the elastic force tester for testing. The elasticity fully met the design requirements.

Then select 10 springs and put them into the durability tester for durability testing to see how many times the spring force will fail.

According to Wang Jiankun's standard, as long as the lighter can maintain effective elasticity after 10 uses, it should be usable for more than 5 years. For those who use it less frequently, 7 or 8 years is not a problem.

Let the tester continue to work. It should test for 10 hours, and then you can know the number of uses by drawing the elasticity reduction curve.

Wang Jiankun didn't plan to stay here all the time. After setting the parameters for the tester, he took the elevator back to the room on the ground floor to rest.

Wang Jiankun planned to give one set of the measuring instruments he manufactured to the commune's spring factory and the team's lighter factory.

They were asked to conduct complete tests on springs coming out of each batch, and those with defects must not be used. Giving the team a set is also to prevent the spring factory from being lazy and not conducting inspections.

On Thursday morning, Wang Jiankun took the English test. When he arrived at the examination room, Zheng Qian smiled and greeted him: "Hello, I don't mind what happened yesterday morning. Can you teach me how to improve my math grades?"

"Just need me to help you improve your math? No need for other subjects?"

"I'm not bad in other subjects, but math is holding me back."

"According to your current grades, it's impossible for you to get into Peking University or Tsinghua University in the college entrance examination. You do have a chance at Renmin University, so don't you want to give it a try?"

"It's great to be able to go to Renmin University. I haven't thought about going to Peking University or Tsinghua University. In the past two years, our county has had three people go to Peking University and Tsinghua University, all of them were science majors. The best liberal arts major also went to Renmin University."

"That's because the level of teachers in some subjects here is much lower than that in big cities, such as English and politics in liberal arts. Some students with good talents in science can rely on math, physics and chemistry to improve their scores."

"That's right. In the English exam, you freshmen don't need to take the listening test. Only we sophomores and juniors need to listen to the school radio in turns."

"You know the school radio, it's more than 10 years old, and the previous listening tapes were recorded by the school teachers themselves. The spoken English was confusing to me. I heard that this time it was recorded by Liu Xiaoting, a young teacher who just graduated. Her spoken English is very standard."

"Oh, it's Teacher Liu who teaches us in Grade 1? How do you know it was recorded by her?"

"I'm the representative of the English class. When I went to hand in my homework, I heard that the English teachers recommended her to record. They all said that her spoken English has been getting better and better recently, just like a broadcaster."

"No wonder, you are the representative of the English class, so your English should be good, right?"

"Reading and writing are fine, but I don't know how the listening test will go this time. Our teacher didn't let us practice listening much in class."

"Then you have to listen carefully, because the broadcast may not be very clear in the classroom."

"It would be great if the school could let us practice listening every day. I heard that some schools have started playing English listening tapes every day, and the tapes are recorded by professionals."

"The school conditions will gradually improve. Teacher Liu should be much better than the previous teacher."

"No need to talk about it. The exam is coming up soon. Can you tell me about math after the exam?"

"Okay! Let's talk after the exam."

After the test papers were distributed, the radio first played the listening test for the third year of high school, followed by the listening test for the second year of high school, both lasting 25 minutes.

Listening to Teacher Liu imitating the tone of the ABC radio announcer, I feel that she has made great progress. She must have worked hard in her daily life, otherwise it would be difficult to make such great progress in more than a month.

After finishing the listening test in the second year of high school, Wang Jiankun was already writing an English composition. He glanced at Zheng Qian's listening test answers and found that half of them were wrong.

Even the top student in the liberal arts grade had this score in listening, so you can imagine how bad the other students’ scores are.

Wang Jiankun decided to wait until the cooperation with his uncle was finalized, and then donate a set of broadcasting equipment in the name of a patriotic Hong Kong businessman.

Providing a batch of specialized hearing aid headphones, about 2 units should be enough.

A batch of this kind of headphones will be manufactured directly using super powers. When the high school graduates graduate, they must return the headphones to the school, and the school will give them to the new students. As for the detailed management methods, the school will be left to formulate them.

There is no need to remind Wang Jiankun about English listening, as it can only be improved by practicing listening more.

After the English exam, Wang Jiankun and Zheng Qian walked out of the exam room and towards the playground, chatting as they walked.

"The listening comprehension just now was so difficult, and I felt like I made a lot of mistakes!" Zheng Qian sighed.

"Just improve slowly. If you make things difficult for others, won't it be more difficult for them? Wouldn't it make you feel better if you think this way?"

"That's right, but some students have already been preparing secretly. The rich ones are ready to buy tape players to practice. It's a pity for us. We are going to fall behind again."

"Things will get better, trust me."

Zheng Qian turned her head and stared at Wang Jiankun's serious expression for a while, then chuckled: "Okay, I believe you. Can you tell me how to improve my math grades?"

"Okay, let's go to the less crowded steps over there and talk!"

"Can you first tell me about the chapters or knowledge points that you feel you haven't mastered very well?"

"Of course. I didn't do well in the solid geometry and parabola sections, so I lost most of my points in these two sections."

"It seems that your spatial imagination ability needs to be improved. So, I will give you a set of test questions this afternoon. You can find time to do them tomorrow and hand them in to me. I will then analyze how to guide you to make up for your shortcomings, okay?"

"Okay, I don't have a physics exam tomorrow morning, so I'll give it to you after I finish it in the morning and take the geography exam in the afternoon. How about I come back to see you after the month-long vacation?"

"I thought so too. The questions are to test your knowledge. There are a lot of them, but don't look up the book. Just do it according to the exam standards!"

"Okay, I will. I'll treat you to a meal. Go get the lunch box."

"I have something to do at the post office later, so I won't go to eat with you. See you in the afternoon."

"You don't mind me treating you in the cafeteria, do you?"

"No, it's true. I'm an honest person. You'll understand when you deal with me more in the future."

"Okay, see you next time!"

"goodbye!"

After leaving school, Wang Jiankun did go to the post and telecommunications bureau.

He needs to report the radio station and ask the post office to send someone to verify it. After the amateur radio license is issued, the post office will register the call sign and assigned frequency.

Because Wang Jiankun often came to make phone calls and send telegrams, everyone in the post office knew him.

Wang Jiankun asked a lady at the service desk whether the director was in the office. After receiving a positive answer, he walked towards the director's office. After knocking on the door, he heard a voice from inside inviting him in, and Wang Jiankun pushed the door open.

"Hello, Director. My radio license is about to be issued. Please arrange for someone to go to my place to check whether the radio station and antenna meet the requirements."

"Okay! I'll send someone to go with you and take a look." "Director, how about 10 a.m. tomorrow? I have exams these days and I'll take one tomorrow morning. How about I come here after 1 a.m. to ask someone to go over there?"

"Well, that's fine. Your exam is more important. Tomorrow morning, you can come and see the person in charge, squad leader Hong Wenhua. He is specifically in charge of the equipment. He knows about this. I will ask him to go with you to check it tomorrow."

"Okay, thank you, Chief. You are busy, so I will leave first."

The director nodded, and Wang Jiankun left the office and closed the door gently.

I asked about Squad Leader Hong's hobbies and found out that he likes smoking. I'll have to buy some cigarettes for him tomorrow when I invite him out, and then I should give him a green lighter as well.

He went to the market and bought some fried rice cakes. In recent days, Wang Jiankun did not go to the market early every morning. He would buy breakfast from the temporary stalls in the market and go directly to the examination room after eating.

This month, people from a nearby production team came with carts loaded with pots, pans, and utensils to set up stalls. At first there were only two, but now there are 7 or 8.

This shop that makes fried noodles and fried rice cakes seems to be the most hygienic and tastes great too. I have eaten there three times already.

After eating, I rode my motorcycle to the base and used my superpowers to synthesize the test paper directly, so I didn't waste time running to the recycling station to print it out with a printer.

I had a good rest and slept for half an hour at noon before going to the examination room. I gave Zheng Qian the test paper made of 12 A4 papers.

Looking at the snow-white A4 paper and the font that looked like a book, Zheng Qian was a little confused and asked, "Wang Jiankun, where did you get these test questions? Did you go to the printing room of the county party committee and county government to print them out?"

"No, just use it without worrying about how it came about."

"Well, it seems you are quite mysterious."

Wang Jiankun took the politics and history exams in the afternoon and finished them very quickly, in less than an hour. After finishing, he did not hand in the paper early, but sat in his seat thinking about how to build a miniature nuclear reactor tonight.

Zheng Qian saw that he was in deep thought and did not disturb him, but continued to work on her test paper seriously.

After the second exam, Wang Jiankun went to the cafeteria to have lunch with Zheng Qian.

Seeing Zheng Qian gritting her teeth and buying a bowl of steamed chicken shells to treat their dinner, Wang Jiankun knew that her family situation was probably very ordinary. However, considering how hard-working and cute she was, he could consider including her in his talent training plan.

After dinner, the two waved goodbye, and Wang Jiankun returned to the underground base and dug out 150 cubic meters of space as usual.

After ventilation is completed, go to the fourth floor and start building a miniature nuclear reactor.

Although Zhizi has done countless simulations and considered various emergencies and tested them for Wang Jiankun, he still doesn't dare to build the complete version directly. Instead, he plans to make a smaller version first to verify the various technologies.

Tomoko also said that he didn't trust it and called him a coward.

Wang Jiankun said that it was immortal after all, and maybe it could regain its freedom after Wang Jiankun died.

Chieko said it was impossible, the space would not be broken with the death of Wang Jiankun's body, and Wang Jiankun must be able to open it actively.

Wang Jiankun trusted it for the time being, but still didn't dare to take any risks. If something went wrong, it would affect many people.

The size of the reduced version is about one-tenth of the full version, with a designed power generation capacity of about 50KW and an output power of about 40KW.

First, the internal core is manufactured, using a large amount of carbon elements.

Because of the need for precise control, the speed is relatively slow. The carbon element slowly grows upwards under his precise control. After about half an hour, the six prisms with six hexagonal cross-sections inside are manufactured.

The next step is to manufacture the first layer of the shell, controlling the various collected metal and non-metal elements on the edge to form a hexagonal prism shell.

There are various openings on it, including the neutron source opening, the circular hole for helium, the inlet and outlet for packing withdrawal, etc.

Install the six black hexagonal graphite prisms on the edge into the metal shell one by one, then install the upper and lower covers, seal them with super power welding, and the core of the reactor is ready.

Although the structure is simple, Wang Jiankun did not dare to be careless and was very dedicated to the manufacturing process.

The next step is to manufacture various accessories, such as the structure for installing and fixing the neutron source and controlling the switch, the input and output structure of the nuclear fuel ball, and various pressure, temperature and other monitoring equipment.

After it is manufactured and fixed, a protective shell is made. The outer layer is a thick cement layer, the middle is lead, and the innermost layer is a layer of cadmium.

This way neutrons and other radiation won't leak out.

Looking at the 1-meter-high cylinder in front of him, which was gray and inconspicuous, it took Wang Jiankun more than 5 hours to find it.

Looking at the watch, it is almost 12 o'clock. There is no time to manufacture the other helium circulation equipment, turbines, generators, etc., and they will have to come back tomorrow night.

Wang Jiankun had to take a physics exam on Friday morning, so he slept until 7 a.m., ate a bowl of wonton at a makeshift stall in front of the school, and then went to the exam room.

The exam started at 8 o'clock and Wang Jiankun handed in his paper at 8:40.

When the invigilator saw him handing in his paper so early, he thought he had given up and wanted to persuade him to check it again. However, after taking it and looking at the simple test paper with every blank filled in, he didn't say much and told him to go out and be quiet and not to wander around the teaching building and disturb others.

It seems that this is a very responsible teacher, Wang Jianjiankun thought after walking out of the classroom.

I rode my bike to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a pack of Yunnan Yunnan cigarettes wrapped in newspaper. I also bought a separate pack and opened it and put it in my pocket.

It is easy to deal with the King of Hell, but it is difficult to deal with the little ghosts. His grandfather taught him some knowledge in this regard.

Although Wang Jiankun has a relationship with the leader, if he doesn't manage the people working under him well, bad things might happen.

The radio that Wang Jiankun bought was not a mass-produced radio. If the person who came to inspect said it was not in compliance with the regulations, it would be troublesome. He would then have to ask the leader to send someone else to inspect it, which would not only delay things but also require him to go through more favors.

Before 10 o'clock, Wang Jiankun went to the post and telecommunications bureau to find squad leader Hong.

There were three people in the equipment installation and maintenance office. Wang Jiankun went in and offered cigarettes first, then found squad leader Hong and asked him to take a look at his radio station and antenna.

Squad Leader Hong must have received instructions from the director. He stood up, took the equipment box, and left the office with Wang Jiankun.

"Xiao Wang, it's not that far away, how are you going to get there?"

Squad leader Hong looked quite young, and said in a somewhat intimate tone: "Brother Hong, it's not far. I have a motorcycle. Can you ride on my motorcycle?"

While speaking, I put the unfinished pack of cigarettes in his hand.

"Okay, it seems that Xiao Wang's family lives a good life!" He put the cigarette in his trouser pocket with a wave of his hand.

Seeing this scene, Wang Jiankun felt that it was right to send cigarettes, and replied modestly: "No, I just want to make a living. Captain Hong, let's go now."

"Okay, you lead the way."

So Wang Jiankun took Squad Leader Hong to Yuyu Garden on a motorcycle.

I first went to the room to check the radio, and then went to the mountain to check the antenna. At this time, Wang Jiankun had opened a more accessible road leading to the back mountain near the house.

Squad Leader Hong looked at the antenna and measured its dimensions.

Then he went back to the room and asked Wang Jiankun to connect the power supply. He took out the tools and frequency meter from the box and measured it. He found that it complied with the relevant regulations, although the appearance was different from those sold on the market.

"Xiao Wang, did you ask someone to modify this radio?"

"I asked a retired communications soldier to modify it. My uncle is a good friend of his."

"Oh? It seems that your family is not simple. Okay, I have finished the inspection. It is OK. I will report the situation to the leader truthfully when I return."

"Brother Hong, take these lighters and cigarettes. I'm sorry to bother you running back and forth."

Wang Jiankun handed him a cigarette wrapped in newspaper and demonstrated the lighter.

When Squad Leader Hong saw that the lighter lit up as soon as he pressed the button, he hurriedly took a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then lit the lighter like Wang Jiankun did.

He put the fire close to the cigarette butt and inhaled slowly. After inhaling the smoke, he put out the lighter. He looked at the lighter while smoking and lit and extinguished it several times.

"This lighter is great. I saw the director use it before. I've always wanted to buy one but I just couldn't find a place to buy it."

"Brother Hong, take it and use it. This lighter suits you best. Matches are not as convenient as this lighter when you go out."

"It is indeed convenient. Matches are often wet with sweat in the summer and easily blown away by the wind in the winter. A box of matches can only be used a few times. Don't worry, I will report to my leader and there will be no problem. You can send the message after your ID is issued."

"Okay, thank you, Brother Hong. I'll take you to the post office."

"Okay, let's go. If you need me in the future, come find me at the post office."

After sending Team Leader Hong to the post office, Wang Jiankun went to a makeshift stir-fry stall to eat a portion of fried rice noodles before returning to Yuyu Garden to rest.

(End of this chapter)