Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 59: 200-ton fast transport ship manufacturing

After his younger uncle went offline, Wang Jiankun contacted his older uncle again, but still received no response, so he asked the radio to automatically record calls to his call sign. He then used his superpowers to dig out another space in the underground base.

Then we went to the 4th underground floor to test a scaled-down version of the miniature nuclear reactor. The entire testing process took almost 2 hours.

It was almost 10 o'clock, and Wang Jiankun returned to the room to check if anyone had called him. Sure enough, a call sign with the Guangzhou area code had called him 5 minutes ago, so he quickly called the recorded call sign.

Soon my uncle's voice rang out: "Jiankun, is your radio working?"

"It's available now. The license was issued today. Why did you come back so late? Did you go on a date, uncle?"

"Brat, is this something you should ask? What's the urgent matter with you?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to chat with you."

"Okay, hurry up and tell me. Then go to bed. You have to go to work and school tomorrow."

"I just contacted my uncle, and he said that the person he selected will come to the mainland in about 10 days."

"I already knew this. Anything else?"

"Uncle, it's nothing. I just got my license and want to use the radio to contact people."

"If there's nothing urgent, just disconnect. There'll be plenty of time later."

"Okay then, bye!"

When Wang Jiankun came to the classroom for morning reading on Monday, he found that his classmates were looking at him frequently. Wang Jiankun thought that there was something on his face that was not washed clean, so he touched his face with his hand and went back to his seat.

"Wang Jiankun, you got first place again. You scored 950 out of a total of 942. That's amazing." His deskmate Yu Zirun said to him in amazement.

"I only got two points more than last time. Why are you all looking at me like that?" he said in a pretentious manner.

"Humph, you arrogant Wang Jiankun, do you know how difficult this midterm exam is? The second-best student in the grade only scored 875 points, 67 points less than you. You scored full marks in math, physics, chemistry and geography, and only lost 1 to 2 points in the other subjects. How did you do that?"

"Didn't I tell you that I have a very efficient study method? I asked you to learn from me but you refused. Fang Guihua from our class did well in the exam this time, right?"

"He ranked third in the class and 18th in the grade this time, which is a lot better than last time."

"How's it going? He's made a lot of progress following my study method, right?"

"What? Are you saying that he has improved so much by following your method?"

"Yes, I didn't brag or lie to you before, it was you who didn't believe me."

"Okay, Wang Jiankun, I apologize to you. Can you please teach me?" Yu Zirun said as he pulled his sleeve.

"Sure. You helped me before, so I will help you too. How about this. When the test papers for each subject come out, I will look at your mistakes and give you a set of test questions. You can find time to finish them this week and give them to me. I will give you a study outline and a collection of key points and difficult points based on your knowledge of the knowledge points."

"Okay, thank you, Wang Jiankun." Yu Zirun thanked Wang Jiankun very formally.

"You're welcome, squad leader. We are helping each other."

At the end of the morning reading class, Wang Jiankun picked up some fermented tofu he brought from home, as well as fish with fermented lees, stir-fried pork with pickled mustard greens and other long-lasting dishes, and shared some with Yu Zirun.

As soon as he and Fang Guihua walked to the door, he saw Zheng Qian waiting for him in the corridor.

"Wang Jiankun, this is the chili sauce and sour chili I made at home. I brought two extra bottles. You can have some."

"Oh, thank you so much, you came so quickly!"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to find you if you leave quickly after class. Keep it. I'm going to have breakfast."

"Okay, walk slowly. Come get the information from me before class starts."

"Okay, see you later." After saying that, Zheng Qian ran downstairs.

Because several people in Wang Jiankun's class were looking at her, her face would turn red if she didn't leave.

This time when she returned home, she wanted to bring something for Wang Jiankun, but her family was poor and she couldn't afford anything valuable. However, the dishes her mother cooked were quite delicious, so she thought of bringing some to Wang Jiankun to show her appreciation.

When she arrived at school yesterday afternoon and saw the posted report card, she was shocked. She actually got full marks in math, and the score was more than 10 points higher than the second place. Last time, she was only 3 points higher.

Then I went to the first year of high school to look at Wang Jiankun's grades. His name was ranked first, with first place in total score and score in each subject, and several full marks. His total score was much higher than the second place.

Zheng Qian understood that Wang Jiankun had not boasted to her during the exam and that he was truly capable of tutoring her.

So she came to the door of Wang Jiankun's class for evening study. She came twice but didn't see him. After asking around, she found out that Wang Jiankun could move freely during evening study and the teacher didn't care whether he came or not. So she hurried over as soon as the bell rang for morning reading today.

Seeing that Wang Jiankun did not dislike the food she sent, her worries were relieved a lot. Before, she thought that it would be enough to be admitted to Renmin University or Huazhong University of Science and Technology, but now she sees the hope of being admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University, how can she not be serious about it.

If I can really improve my grades significantly by following Wang Jiankun's study method, I will definitely repay him well.

Wang Jiankun didn't think too much about it. He just felt that she was a good seedling and it would be bad if she was delayed. Helping her within his ability might be a boost to his future development.

I am destined to develop in the direction of scientific research, so I need to find more helpers for liberal arts subjects such as administration and economics.

On the way, Fang Guihua curiously asked him, "Jiankun, who was that girl just now? Why did she give you chili sauce and sour chili?"

"I have a friend named Zheng Qian, who is ranked first in the liberal arts in her second year of high school. She wanted me to help her improve and gave me something to thank me."

"Oh, you can tutor sophomores? You haven't learned all the high school knowledge, have you?"

"Yeah, I've started to learn some things for college on my own, so you guys have to catch up quickly. Maybe I'll take the college entrance exam next year."

"Didn't you say you would take the college entrance exam with us in your second year of high school? Can you still guide us after you take the exam?"

"Let's see how things develop. We can exchange letters then. I'll send you a package. I don't want to go to college so early. I was relaxed in high school and had the freedom to study in the evening. Now colleges are very strict."

"Well, Lang Junjian and Yu Minhua wanted to find you when they were chatting last night. They wanted to ask you for study materials."

"Sure. Let's go to their dorm after breakfast. How did Hu Chunming and Cheng Riming do in the exam?"

"They have improved a lot. Hu Chunming is 42nd and Cheng Ming is 49th."

"That's not bad. Keep up the hard work. You guys should strive to get into the top 10 in the final exam. Next year, we hope that all the top students will come from our Zheyuan Commune."

"Okay, but will the teacher and classmates notice something is wrong?"

"It's okay. We can usually gather at my recycling station. Your classmates won't be able to tell. Your transcripts won't tell you where you're from. As long as you don't spread the word, I'll handle it myself."

After finishing their breakfast, the two went to the dormitory to find four other classmates, who were eating breakfast together around an orange tree.

When they saw Wang Jiankun coming, they all greeted him. Lang Junjian and Yu Minhua both asked Wang Jiankun if he could join them to study together.

Of course Wang Jiankun agreed. He talked to them about the mistakes they made in the exam and asked them about the knowledge points they had not grasped well enough. After he had an idea in mind, he promised them that he would give them each a set of test questions at noon tomorrow and try to give them to Fang Guihua after they finish them on Saturday. On Sunday, he would give them a study guide based on their answers, and would attach test questions.

They both agreed readily and said they would listen to Wang Jiankun from now on.

In this way, all the top students who passed the exams in the commune were brought together by Wang Jiankun. The small group that Wang Jiankun was going to form was called the Chuan Xi She, borrowing two words from Wang Yangming's "Chuan Xi Lu", and was going to emulate Wang Yangming and spread his ideals.

When he returned to the classroom, he saw Zheng Qian already waiting for him. Without further ado, he went to the drawer and took out the prepared materials and gave them to her.

Before leaving, she asked Wang Jiankun if he could also teach her other subjects. Wang Jiankun, who was always willing to help others, asked her to come on Saturday to deliver the test papers and then pick up the papers for other subjects.

In this way, Wang Jiankun once again crushed all his classmates with his academic performance and accepted four new disciples, which greatly expanded his team of talents.

It’s just that squad leader Wu Xiaoyi seems to be avoiding him for some reason and didn’t even come to talk to him this time.

In the morning, Wang Jiankun asked Zhizi to help prepare the study materials and test questions for the six disciples, and then prepared the drawings of the electronic watch production line and the corresponding supporting equipment, water and electricity requirements, production layout, etc.

I also asked Chieko to help make the SOP and draw a material flow diagram. I planned to go to the base at noon to draw up the entire set of information and send it to my uncle to make it easier for him to find a factory.

After lunch in the cafeteria at noon, I rode a motorcycle to the underground base. I first used my superpowers to hollow out the last bit of the third floor, and then made the drawings and materials for my uncle and the learning materials for my seven disciples.

Then he used his superpowers to make the accessories for modifying the radio station and packaged them with waterproof and anti-collision materials.

Then I made three aluminum alloy trolley cases of different sizes and put the drawings and radio modification accessories in one of the cases.

Bring all these to the scrap recycling station, and ask my father to give them to Cheng Xing when he delivers the goods to Raozhou tomorrow. Cheng Xing will then transport them to Guangzhou by rail.

Wang Jiankun originally wanted to send the package to Guangzhou by post, but he was afraid it would take too long.

So I contacted Cheng Xing by texting. He happened to be sending a batch of lighters to Guangzhou to his brother Cheng Yong the next night. So I asked him to take some things with him. He readily agreed and said that he would definitely let the escort take good care of it and deliver it safely to his uncle.

When I returned to school in the afternoon, I first gave my deskmate Yu Zirun's study materials and test questions.

Because the materials were specially prepared according to her learning situation, I asked her to keep them well and not give them to anyone else.

Then he asked Fang Guihua to take all five copies of the information and distribute them.

This time, each piece of information had a heading titled "Chuan Xi She" on it, telling them that they were already members of the Chuan Xi She and that they should help each other and improve their grades together in the future.

After finishing these disciple matters, Wang Jiankun began to discuss the manufacture of transport ships with Chieko.

When I chatted with Du Weiqiao and Yangzhou merchants before, I got a general understanding of the current situation of inland river transportation ships.

They are mainly divided into three categories with more than ten sizes, namely passenger ships, which are specially used to transport people, tugboats, which are specially used to transport cargo, and unpowered wooden boats with oars or sails.

The passenger ships include large river ships that can carry 2 to 3 people at a time, transporting passengers back and forth from Shanghai to Chongqing.

There are also smaller ones that can only carry more than 30 people, which are mainly used to transport passengers across the river or between two adjacent cities along the river.

There are large tugboats that can tow 3 to 5 large ship holds of more than 40 meters, and there are also small tugboats that can tow more than 10 meters, depending on the horsepower of the tugboat's diesel engine.

Among the above two types of motor ships, the passenger ship is faster and can reach a speed of 8 to 10 knots, while the tugboat is slower and can only reach a speed of 4 to 6 knots.

However, although the speed is slow, it can sail day and night in most sections of the river, so the speed is still acceptable.

Combining the information obtained above and some data that Zhizi had found in his mind, Wang Jiankun decided to build a 200-ton passenger and cargo high-speed transport ship K200, with a length of 25 meters, a width of 6.8 meters, a draft of 2 meters, an empty speed of 30 knots, and a speed of 120 knots when fully loaded with 25 tons of cargo.

Before manufacturing the complete model, Wang Jiankun plans to build a smaller version of Test No. 1 first.

One is to test various performances and familiarize oneself with ship driving, and the other is to use Test No. 1 to transport special metals such as copper, chromium, molybdenum, manganese, etc. for building large ships along the Le'an River to Poyang County, Raozhou.

Complete large ships can only be built there, and then from there they can enter the Yangtze River via the Poyang Lake waterway.

During the dry season in winter, the water depth of the Le'an River from Wuyuan County to Poyang County is only about 2 meters in some places. A complete ship cannot pass through and will run aground.

Test No. 1 is expected to be 40-ton class, with a load capacity of 24 tons, a length of 15 meters, a width of 3.3 meters, and a draft of 1.2 meters.

It is no problem to pass through shallows slowly. If it doesn't work, use your superpowers to dig a section of the river, and the workload will not be large.

After class that afternoon, Wang Jiankun ate a bowl of glutinous rice dumplings at the market in front of the school gate.

It was a stall run by an old lady. She said the products were made from glutinous rice and sesame seeds that had just been distributed to her family.

Maybe because white sugar is hard to buy, the filling of the glutinous rice balls is not very sweet, but the glutinous rice is ground very finely and the sesame seeds are fried fragrantly, so it tastes very good, glutinous and fragrant.

After eating, Wang Jiankun rode his bike towards the west gate of the county town. After exiting the west gate, he rode along the river for a while until he was near Xingangshan Town before returning.

Along the way, Wang Jiankun constantly used his superpowers to project the river and the terrain nearby into his mind. He was looking for a location to build Experiment No. 1.

After surveying the terrain, Wang Jiankun returned to the underground base and tested the scaled-down nuclear reactor as usual.

During the test, Wang Jiankun asked Chieko to design several 80-centimeter-long Experiment No. 1 models, which were then placed in a temporary pool on the third floor for testing.

Because the purpose is to test the ship's ability to resist wind and waves, speed and other performance, electric motors and batteries are used as the power system. After the ship type is determined, the gasoline engine version of Experiment No. 1 will be manufactured.

Most ships are powered by diesel engines, one reason being that diesel is cheaper, and the other being that diesel has greater torque and provides more power.

However, if a diesel engine is to run at high speed, it needs a larger gear system, and the noise will be very loud. There is no need to use a diesel engine on a small ship, and Wang Jiankun is not short of the money for gasoline.

There is nothing much to say about the testing process. Tomoko adjusted the structure of the boat at any time according to the test results, and gradually modified the inappropriate parts. Wang Jiankun directly used his superpowers to transform the ship model according to the modified drawings, and then put it into the water tank for testing.

At around 10 o'clock, a ship model with the least resistance below the waterline and the best ability to resist wind and waves was finalized.

Wang Jiankun asked Zhizi to enlarge the finalized aircraft model, make blueprints, design the power system and driving system, and then go to Le'an Jiangli for testing in a few days.

If the general solution of the NS equation is proved, Wang Jiankun will not have to test each ship type and size one by one.

Because it is derived based on empirical formulas and simulations, when the size is enlarged, the error will become larger. If some key positions are not tested, design errors may occur, or situations may exceed empirical values, resulting in serious consequences.

Before going to bed, Wang Jiankun contacted his elder uncle and younger uncle via radio, telling them that someone would take the radio parts and factory layout information to Guangzhou tomorrow, and that the information would arrive the day after tomorrow. He asked his elder uncle to remember to receive them and find a way to transfer some of the parts to his younger uncle.

And I also told them the results of my midterm exam.

The two uncles were very pleased to see that their nephew had such good grades and strong hands-on and other abilities.

In the next two days, Wang Jiankun spent time in the morning and at noon digging the second floor of the underground base. At this time, the range of his superpowers increased a little. He could project objects within a range of 2 meters, and his ability to mobilize elements reached 90 cubic meters per day.

At night, he went to a bay downstream of Meilin Commune to build a temporary dock.

There are no fields around this bay, and it is surrounded by bamboo forests. Almost no one comes here in winter, so it is a perfect place to build a temporary pier.

In order to conceal the truth, Wang Jiankun also made a lot of lifelike bamboos around the dock, and changed the roads as he went along, so that even if someone came, they would not be able to find him.

Because it is difficult to come down, it is a very high steep slope, surrounded by dense bamboos.

After the dock was built, Wang Jiankun spent another night transporting more than two tons of metal and 200 kilograms of gasoline for the manufacture and testing of Experiment No. 1.

Friday night was the tenth day of the tenth month in the lunar calendar, and the moonlight made the earth look as white as snow.

Wang Jiankun, wearing his specially made cold-proof cycling clothes, rode a motorcycle to the temporary dock.

He carried the motorcycle into a small cave that he had dug temporarily using his superpowers and hid it there. Then, according to the plan that he had demonstrated many times in his mind, he began to build Experimental Transport Ship No. 1.

The first step was to create a hull that could float on the water. The superpowers were used to extract all the iron elements from the underwater section from the dock to the Le'an River, and then combined with the manganese, chromium, molybdenum and other elements that were transported to the cave to form the hull of Experiment No. 1 in a certain position and proportion.

On the water surface illuminated by the moonlight, a very thin and shiny hull slowly took shape, then gradually became thicker and slowly sank into the water.

When the bottom hull no longer changes, the draft reaches 50 cm.

Wang Jiankun then manufactured underwater propellers, tail rudders, and drive shafts.

Then the speed gearbox, gasoline engine, fuel tank pipe, water tank pipe, bottom circuit and other facilities of the bottom warehouse are manufactured.

Before making the bottom deck, Wang Jiankun filled the space in the bottom warehouse used to hold heavy objects with iron and silicon elements collected from the riverbed.

Then the bottom deck is laid, followed by the cargo hold and the middle passenger cabin.

Because it was Experiment No. 1, the ship was only 15 meters long, so the cargo hold and passenger cabin were not large, and Wang Jiankun did not plan to let outsiders in to see it, so it was built very simply and quickly.

There are only 8 berths in the cabin, with two upper and lower berths on each side. People can only sit on the berths, and the aisle is only 50 centimeters wide, which can only accommodate one person to walk. Two people have to pass each other side by side or move to separate beds.

The lower cargo hold is not very big, about the size of two truck beds and 2.2 meters high.

Then the cockpit and front deck are manufactured. The upper level of the cockpit is 2 meters higher than the front deck, and the lower level is used as a kitchen, bathroom and temporary resting place.

In order to reduce the weight of the upper level, Wang Jiankun used a lot of aluminum alloy in the middle cabin and the upper cockpit, which now shone silver under the moonlight.

Considering that there would be many ships sailing on the river in the future, Wang Jiankun covered the entire ship with a layer of gray paint, and made it very uneven. From a distance, it looked like an ordinary passenger and cargo ship, except that it was faster and had a more special shape.

In order to sail at night, several searchlights were built above the cockpit and a track light was also built at the stern.

After the basic structure was built, Wang Jiankun added gasoline. Since the lubricating oil was needed in small quantities, Wang Jiankun directly used his superpowers to synthesize it.

Gasoline can actually be synthesized, but in order to save time and energy, I bought gasoline to fill it up.

After all, gasoline is a consumable, and it is not cost-effective to produce it by expending your own energy.

After filling up the gas, I also filled up the water tank, then started the gasoline engine and tried it out at the dock.

Because it is made with super power and the control precision is at nanometer level, the noise of gasoline engine is very low.

After a few minutes of testing, no abnormalities were found. Then the gear system was connected and put into the idle position. The propeller turned very slowly, and the ship moved slowly out of the dock under the drive of this force.

After idling for two laps back in the bay and making sure that there were no problems with the power system and steering system, Wang Jiankun slowly increased the gear.

The output power gradually increased, and after the speed slowly increased to 5 knots in the return bay, Wang Jiankun turned the rudder and aimed the bow towards the main waterway of Le'an River.

(End of this chapter)