Not to mention that one person consumes one kilogram of food a day, even if these people only eat half a kilogram a day, they will almost consume five or six hundred kilograms of meat in more than ten days.
The food exchange went smoothly, and in the end, more than 1,500 kilograms of mushrooms were exchanged. However, this food was still a bit too little, and the old village chief also asked if other things could be traded?
Su Xing thought for a moment and said, "Coal or source stone will also work."
In the end, the villagers used coal and source stone fragments to exchange for more than 1,600 kilograms of mushrooms from Su Xing. Each villager was able to give out some of their excess coal.
In fact, it doesn’t matter even if all the coal is gone, because there is still wood to replace coal for burning, but wood cannot replace food to fill the stomach.
As for the Originium fragments, these things are of no use to them, and they would be happy if they could be exchanged for food.
After the transaction was completed, the villagers quickly hid the mushrooms and kept some of the meat. After all, they still had to deal with the patrol team, so the meat was left for the next patrol team to come.
The mushrooms cannot be discovered. If the meat is gone, then it's gone. But there are still mushrooms. More than 3000 kilograms of mushrooms plus some other food are enough for them to survive the winter.
After the exchange, Su Xing and others left. Now they are heading to the coal mine.
The soldiers were a little silent on the road. They didn't expect that the pickets would do all kinds of evil even in the snowy plains. They originally thought that the pickets were only unique to Chernobyl? Unexpectedly, the pickets in other places were all the same.
W was not surprised at all. After all, she had scouted many places when she came to Ursus. The notoriety of the patrol team was well known to her. It was conceivable how incompetent these people were.
Su Xing and others left the village and continued their journey. On the way, they encountered a patrol team. After Su Xing used his ability to see the souls of these people, his eyes were directly contaminated.
The black on these people was so thick that it could not be dissolved. I wonder how many lives each of them had taken? When they saw Su Xing and others' convoy, they wanted to rob them, with undisguised malice in their eyes.
Su Xing was too lazy to play along with these people, and the place where they were stopped was quite remote, so Su Xing directly let the soldiers deal with it. These pickets just happened to be the soldiers' first actual combat opponents.
They were just some scum anyway, so neither Su Xing nor the soldiers had any psychological burden in killing them.
When they were fighting, W also went up to join in the fun. I don’t know where her interest came from?
Su Xing watched for a while before realizing that she wanted to use the gun. After all, she had no chance to use the rifle after getting it. The appearance of these people was just right for W to try out the gun.
The people on the patrol team were dealt with quickly. After all, they were all good-for-nothings. It was okay for them to deal with ordinary people, but if they wanted to fight against W and the strictly trained soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, they would need to train for a few more years.
After dealing with these patrol teams, Su Xing directly asked them to dig a hole on the spot and bury them. In order to prevent someone from pretending to be dead or having some strange Originium skills, Su Xing also used his ability to check the soul. He only buried it after he found that they were indeed dead.
Come to think of it, if these people had some amazing Originium skills, they wouldn't be here as a patrol team doing all kinds of evil. They would have joined the army long ago.
Next, Su Xing and others finally arrived at Tieshi Village after a long journey of more than a day.
When they arrived here, the intelligence officer was already waiting for them. After seeing Su Xing, he immediately came over and saluted and said, "Marshal, we have explored the mines, and there is enough coal here for us to industrialize.
There just aren’t enough people to mine, so we gathered villagers from several nearby villages to mine, but the number of people is still too small.”
Chapter 45: Concept of Tanks
Su Xing said: "If we don't have enough people, we can slowly recruit them. When mining, we must pay attention to the safety of the workers, and the food must be in place."
The soldier said, "Don't worry, Marshal. There are soldiers stationed in the mines on a rotating basis. If any worker encounters danger or problems, the soldiers can solve them immediately."
Su Xing nodded, and then asked about the situation at the mine.
According to what the soldiers said, Su Xing also understood the current situation of the mine.
The villagers who have been summoned are currently digging holes in the mine. Once the mine is ready, digging can begin.
However, there is still a lack of excavation machines, and it takes a lot of time to dig the mine manually.
"Don't worry about that. I brought a lot of machines with me this time. We have time now, so you can just move them here."
Soon, the mining machines on the trucks were moved into the mine, and after the source stones were filled into the machines, they started to operate.
Su Xing couldn't help but sigh that Originium was really powerful, giving him a feeling similar to the Honkai energy next door.
However, compared to Honkai Energy, Originium is still far inferior. After all, that thing is truly omnipotent, and Originium is still far inferior.
Su Xing then improved the facilities here. He not only brought machines, but also a lot of other supplies.
After getting things on track here, Su Xing prepared to leave. The coal to be excavated here will be used for the steam engine, so he must be fully prepared.
After checking again, Su Xing prepared to leave. After all, the purpose of his visit had been achieved. All he had to do next was wait for the coal to be transported to Chernobyl.
The road is not easy to travel on, and even with trucks, transportation is still quite troublesome.
However, this kind of problem is not easy to solve. Although it can be solved by paving roads, paving roads costs money, and even if the roads are paved, they are not necessarily foolproof.
After all, there are other dangerous species in Terra, and it costs a lot to maintain the roads.
Moreover, Su Xing has invested most of his money in industrialization, and there is really no extra money left to pave the way.
Su Xing thought about it and felt that things like paving the road should wait. The top priority now was to carry out industrialization while also preventing the upcoming army of the nobles.
The marquis will certainly not be willing to see his army lost in Chernobyl, and the next attack may not be far away.
Before that, Su Xing must arm himself. Now the army Su Xing has is only tens of thousands of people, which is still too small.
But this is only temporary. The army is very important to Su Xing now, but after he builds the automatic rifle and the king of land warfare, the 'tank', the army will basically have little significance. At that time, it will be the era of mechanized warfare.
However, it is still difficult to build a tank, not because of technical reasons, but because of energy issues.
The tanks on Earth use diesel, but there is no diesel on Terra. They use Originium as energy to drive them. There are many problems that need to be solved in order to safely place the Originium on the tank.
You should know that Originium is similar to gunpowder. Its energy properties are unstable and it will explode if you are not careful.
Of course, the Pure Originium is an exception. Its stability is much stronger than that of ordinary Originium, and it will not explode easily even if it encounters a collision or impact.
However, on the other hand, the price of the purest source stone is not comparable to that of ordinary source stones.
Pure Originium can be said to be something with relatively high technical requirements in Terra. Only large forces like countries can produce such things. Even if they are a little worse, they must at least have a mobile city.
Moreover, it is a large mobile city. Some small cities can forget about it because the technology contained in it and the machines needed for extraction are difficult to obtain.
The purest Originium is extremely precious and has a wide range of uses. This type of Originium crystal is used in huge quantities in industry and is indispensable to every country and mobile city.
It can be said that the status of pure Originium on Terra is similar to that of gasoline and diesel processed from petroleum on Earth, or even more important.
Su Xing didn't know how to refine the purest source stone, but if he wanted to, it was not impossible. The purest source stone was made by extracting the essence from the source stone and then purifying it through a series of processes.
Now that we know the principle, it is not difficult to solve it.
The difficulty of making Pure Originium lies in the equipment for refining it. This kind of thing cannot be made by simply knowing the principle. Countries still keep a close watch on this kind of thing, and the technology will not be leaked out, so the manufacture of Pure Originium is so difficult.
However, these are not a problem for Su Xing. There are machines for refining Originium in Chernobog. After disassembling it, Su Xing also understood the structure of this equipment. If he is given enough time, he can also manufacture it, and it will be better than Chernobog's equipment.
Su Xing shook his head. These things were not what he needed to consider right now. What he was thinking about now was what energy would be used after the tank was manufactured?
Su Xing was considering using the Pure Originium. If the consumption of the Pure Originium was not too high, it would be fine to use it as energy, but if the consumption was too high, he would have to give it up.
This thing is just like a bullet. If the cost of a bullet is the same as that of a gun or half of that of a gun, then the gun will never become a weapon that changes the war.
The average person simply cannot afford this price. In an army of a thousand people, only a few or a dozen people can afford a gun, let alone everyone having one.
Su Xing also thought about whether he could make electricity? But if electricity is to appear, it needs to be converted from other energy sources, including but not limited to coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear fuel, solar energy, ocean energy, wind energy, biomass energy, etc.
There is coal, but currently it is used as an energy source for steam engines for industrialization and there is no time to use it for power generation.
As for the others, either they don’t exist or they are too troublesome or other methods are not suitable for Ursus.
For example, ocean energy and solar energy. There is no ocean in Ursus, so relying on hydropower to generate electricity is too slow.
Solar energy can work, but the technology of the solar panels must be very strong, otherwise the converted solar energy will be too weak and it will be the same as nothing.
Of course, there is a one-step method, that is controlled nuclear fusion, which is similar to the sarcophagus. Once controlled nuclear fusion is completed, we will have an endless supply of energy.
However, it would take a long time to achieve controlled nuclear fusion even on Terra. In addition to the different worldviews of different worlds, the knowledge of the two worlds is also different.
If you want to achieve controlled nuclear fusion, you must learn all of Terra's knowledge system and then find compatible areas.
Although his brain is smart enough, he cannot create controlled nuclear fusion out of nothing.
Chapter 46 Improving Crops
Su Xing sighed. Let's take our time with controlled nuclear fusion. It's a bit too ambitious to think about it now.
As for the tank's energy source, let's wait until the tank is built. It's still a bit far-fetched now.
Before Su Xing left, he took away a truckload of coal, which was dug out after the mine was completed. Su Xing simply took it back with him.
Su Xing also experimented with the coal that was dug out, and found that the heat generated by combustion was sufficient, indicating that it was relatively high-quality coal.
Because there was a truck transporting coal, the remaining soldiers had to squeeze together with those on other trucks. Fortunately, the space in the truck was large enough, and Su Xing did not bring too many people with him before, so these soldiers were not too crowded together.
Su Xing looked at the village behind him. This place could be considered a base for his organization. The status of coal in Chernobyl would become higher and higher in the future. Maybe it could be on par with Originium?
W looked at the scenery in the distance, but what he was thinking about was the situation of Hedley and Inès. He didn't know how they were doing now.
When he was originally sent to the Reunion Movement, he was going to leave after Tallulah attacked Chernobog. Unexpectedly, Tallulah's attack plan was directly destroyed, and the infected people who committed crimes in the Reunion Movement were also killed by the People's Liberation Army.
Now no one knows where the remaining remnants were taken by the Patriots? Did Hedley and others follow the Patriots or run away to other places?
And I heard that Theresis's relationship with the dukes in Londinium is becoming increasingly tense. I wonder what this regent is trying to do?
Su Xing was also thinking about what was going to happen this year. A lot of things happened in 1097. In the summer, the storyline of Dosores began, and in the autumn, it was the Dusk storyline of Warrenmuth.
On October 10, the second major partition event occurred in Casimir. At the same time, the eight dukes of Victoria began to march towards Londinium. Theresis also staged a coup in November, and the Londinium plot began.
A lot of things happened this year, but Su Xing didn't have time to get involved. After all, Ursus hadn't been overthrown yet, so how could he have the time to get involved in Victoria's affairs?
The two people in the car each had their own thoughts and were silent all the way.
.............
The convoy stopped and went for more than a day, and Su Xing and others finally returned to Chernobyl.
Looking at the mobile city in the distance, Su Xing knew that after returning this time, Chernobyl would enter a period of rapid development.
At the same time, Su Xing also knew that the peaceful days were coming to an end, and after a period of time they might have to confront the country of Ursus.
After entering the city, Su Xing sent the coal to where the steam engine was located, ready to see if the coal could drive the steam engine?
After all, there are Originiums in the air of the Terra world, and Su Xing doesn’t know whether the steam engine will be affected here?
As Su Xing put the coal into the steam engine and ignited it, the steam engine started to run and white steam began to come out of the steam engine.
After watching the steam engine start to run, Su Xing stayed here for a while. After confirming that there was no problem with the steam engine, Su Xing began to mass-produce transport trucks. At the same time, he improved the tires and chassis of the trucks so that they could better adapt to the roads in the snowfields.
With the commissioning of steam engines, the industrialization of Chernobyl began.
Steam engines were introduced into production as they were mass produced, and Chernobyl's productivity began to rise rapidly.
With the operation of the steam engine, the handicraft industry in Chernobyl suffered a huge blow. Su Xing had been prepared for this. The unemployed people could be transformed into workers and learn to read and write while learning to operate the machines.
There are also some people who cannot accept this fact, refuse to become workers, and even blame machines for taking their jobs.
Su Xing was too lazy to pay attention to such people. The changes of the times would not give people the opportunity to prepare, and he would not stop using the steam engine because of some people's protests.
The decline of handicrafts after industrialization is inevitable, because how can human speed match the speed of machines?
The only ones who are unaffected are those individuals at the top; it is only a matter of time before ordinary people are eliminated.
After Chernobyl entered the industrialization stage, Su Xing let it go temporarily. Next, he needed to improve crops, as mushrooms alone would not be enough food.
Su Xing came to the crop block, which was where he specialized in improving seeds and vegetables. With the steam engine, the crop block was quickly built. After Su Xing arrived here, he went directly into the constructed laboratory.
You can see a lot of seeds placed in the laboratory, and some finished crops are placed on top.
Su Xing thought about it and decided that the next seeds to be improved would be potatoes and sweet potatoes. These two are representatives of high yields. As long as they can be successfully transformed, there will be no need to worry about food problems.
Fortunately, Terra has these two crops, otherwise it would not be able to survive on mushrooms alone. After all, mushrooms have no other use except to satisfy hunger.
You should know that mushrooms cannot provide the nutritional value needed by the human body, they can only keep people from feeling hungry.
But even so, it cannot change the power of mushrooms. Because of their fast growth and rapid maturity, mushrooms can be harvested in just a few days. Compared to crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes that take several months to mature, mushrooms have a natural advantage.
However, the disadvantage is that it has no nutritional value, tastes bad, and can only fill your stomach.
For the lower class people in Terra, mushrooms are the best food. They are cheap and can satisfy your hunger.
But for Su Xing, who has eaten a lot of delicious food, mushrooms are hard to even eat. After eating stir-fried dishes with all kinds of seasonings added, Su Xing would really feel depressed if he had to eat these bland and tasteless things.
Su Xing felt a bit tortured during the time he came to Chernobyl. The crops here were really not tasty at all, and his mouth was full of taste. As a foodie, he really couldn't stand it.
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