Chapter 1: Left and right fire, Lei Gong helps me

Author: Carp and Carp Immortal

Chapter 1: Left and right fire, Lei Gong helps me

It was the fourth year of Shaoping, the Victorian era in Rome. The Qing Dynasty did not exist, Napoleon did not exist, and the British Empire did not exist.

The Ming Dynasty and Rome, two ancient empires, united in the distant past, and ruled the world unstoppably. For the people, this was a peaceful and prosperous era of "using swallows to enjoy themselves, and being drunk and full." For the country,

This is a peaceful world where "the country has no military power, and all directions are in harmony".

The two sides have the Great Wall that runs across the continent in the old world as a hard dividing line. However, in the new world, the dividing line between the two sides is not that clear.

There is a long neutral zone between the San Francisco Bay Area of ​​the Ming Dynasty and the Great Lakes of Rome, which is sometimes called the "Great Plains". It is full of deserts and water slums. It has different rain and heat, and it is not fixed in time for water and drought, and it often sweeps across the mainland.

The cold current rages.

This kind of agricultural hell was not valued in the pre-industrial era in the past, and only in recent years have large gathering areas such as "Las Vegas" with "special" effects.

San Francisco Guard, San Francisco, is the easternmost metropolis of the Ming Empire.

This land is called "Yangzhou" because it is the first to bathe in the sun - according to Rome, it is Asia and California.

The red bridge flies on the dark blue harbor. Maya, Mexica, and Tavantinsuyu enshrine the "Dragon God Great Pyramid" that is brightly circulated day and night. The San Francisco Guards are complemented by the pyramids.

The "Kinmen Building" is 187 meters high in the city.

This building with red bricks and green glazed tiles is the tallest skyscraper in the entire New World and the resident of the Yangzhou Governor's Office.

At the gate of the Acropolis, Shangluo sat behind his workbench in Shang's watch shop.

The early summer sun shines in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, shining on the golden brass bells in the store. The golden light spreads on the shells of the clocks, making the store look warm yellow. The wood fragrance and gear oil in the air are filled with the air

The smell is professional and reassuring.

After soaking a cup of tangerine peel water, Shangluo was checking today's work schedule. At a young age, he had soaked a full 5 wolfberry pieces and even planned to soak a few more pieces of Yangzhou ginseng.

"Ah, it's another day of peace in the world."

Looking back on his 16 years of life as a craftsman so far, he is very satisfied. Compared with his previous life, there is no need to work overtime, no need to stay up late, no attendance, and no performance. As long as you complete the errands assigned by the court on time, you can get a

A stable salary.

The most important thing is that the court is very rich. The court pays a lot. The court pays a lot. It counts as much as the allowance for business trips in Yangzhou. It has a considerable income of up to 52 taels per month, so you can buy a car.

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Apart from having to go to Yangzhou to work as an official businessman a few years ago, he had nothing to be dissatisfied with.

Shangluo himself actually doesn't need to work. Craftsmen are calculated based on household registration, and one person is enough for each household. And this is the turn of minors who are less than 16 years old to do the job, and they will only be considered adults if they get at least 20 years old.

——Not everyone has 52 taels per month, this is the price of the old merchant.

Two months ago, the old merchant suddenly received a call and took the nearest military plane and left Shangluo alone. Now Shangluo’s main job is to look at the store and do some daily maintenance work.

As an outstanding dropout at the Wutaishan School in Nanjing, his craftsmanship is quite good. If he had not come to Yangzhou for business trips in the past four years, but continued to graduate from the school and other craftsmen until he graduated at the age of 16, his craftsmanship would probably be better if he had not been able to do so.

He went directly to the royal craftsmanship, and the old merchant's craftsmanship books were also hung there.

"They are about to graduate." Shangluo looked at the ceiling, and there was still light on. It was a seiko light bulb made by Nanjing Liuli Factory. It has never been broken once in four years.

The teaching institute is a place to cultivate craftsmen who can create fine bulbs, and is also a public school specially set up for the offspring of craftsmen. Correspondingly, military households also have training institutes. This is very important, because the identities of both military households and craftsmen are now

It cannot be passed on to children only by themselves, and children must be admitted to other examinations before they can become new military and craftsmen.

The Wutai Mountain Teaching Institute in Shangluo is more special. It trains military craftsmen and the Wutai Mountain Teaching Institute next door that trains the imperial guards is a brother school. Shangluo's father also graduated from there and is now sent to the San Francisco Guard on business trip, which is a family on weekdays

The watch shop that earns extra money is also open at the gate of the Acropolis.

The store that earns extra money can only be opened at the gate of the Acropolis. Because the Acropolis only comes from the "Kinai", that is, the people of the two capitals and 13 provinces can enter at will. If you can't do business when opening it, otherwise he will have to

Apply for a temporary license plate separately for each appointment customer.

"Well, I've almost finished drinking." He glanced at the work log and arranged for himself the work of dismantling and wiping the clock. He started working from 12 noon for a while and worked until he closed at 6 pm.

This is how he works. I don’t know why, since he went to the Wutaishan teaching institute, he always felt that he had an unusual “inspiration” when manipulating mechanical parts. As long as he is familiar with every part, the structure of the entire machine will

It will be cleared up suddenly, and the principles of operation from the surface to the inside seem to be exhausted.

Just like a cook who can follow the laws of nature, there is no complete cow in his eyes, only the bone structure of the cow. Just like an oil seller can pour a gourd oil from the hole of a copper coin without wetting the copper coin - nothing else, but you can do it.

But he seemed to be very familiar with his skills, as if the principles of the operation of these clock structures were already in his mind, and he could be familiar with them as soon as he started. This was also the reason why Shangluo was considered able to enter the craftsmanship supervisor at that time. He was indeed a genius.

After coming to Yangzhou, Shangluo did not continue to teach in the teaching center. But somehow, he could feel that his craft was getting more and more sophisticated, and even vaguely felt that there was something that seemed to be called "qi".

Things flow between gears.

This may be the object of Investigation, although it is not Investigation. Compared with the boringness of Investigation, the alarm clock is quite fun.

At 12 o'clock, the bells in the watch shop are calling out the time together. The mechanical gears, cycloid wheels, oscillators, and brass movements run in the brass case. The mechanical parts are simple and harmoniously moving to perform Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"

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He put the tangerine peel aside and prepared to turn on the lamp on the table to fill the light. The warm yellow light in the room was a little dim, so he still had to increase the brightness when working.

Shangluo put his hand on the switch of the desk lamp.

Shangluo tossed the switch.

With a "bang", the table lamp broke and the light bulb on its head exploded. The Seiko bulb that had not been broken for 4 years has now become powder, and the glass residue has fallen into the teacup.

"Good guy, what kind of magic skills have I developed?" He looked at his hands in disbelief. He always felt that his "inspiration" might be a sense of qi, and he could feel the aura.

"If it is spiritual energy, then there should be spiritual roots? Then what kind of spiritual roots are I? The one who exploded the light bulb was the thunder spirit root?"

Suddenly, the phone rang. Shangluo, who was thinking about practicing the thunder method, heard the phone and had to get up to answer.

Ten seconds later, he put down the phone.

"What's going on? I thought I could practice immortality. It turned out that something happened to the power plant. I felt strange. It's less than 10 years since the generator was invented. Why did I use the civil power grid so quickly? Fortunately, this doesn't cost money.

Otherwise, if the power is cut off every few days, I will not pay the electricity bill."

This time the power outage is more outrageous than the previous few times. The previous few times just turned off the lights suddenly, and this time even the light bulb exploded. Who knows what will be blown up next time?

But the call was not an apology. The call was asked to go back to save the venue - this is why the store was not opened too far from the Acropolis. If there is an urgent matter like now, the old merchant can rush over immediately. Although the old merchant is not there

, the other side said that they would come over to invite someone no matter what. Shangluo was going to find a reason to make excuses when they met.

After a while, an off-road military vehicle stopped at the door.

"Mr. Shang is here?"

"He's out." Shang Luo poked his head out of the inner room. He was far away from the workbench, afraid that someone would see that he could indeed work.

"You are. Ah, you are Mr. Xiao Shang, are you? The one who is very famous in Wutai Mountain Military Crafts Training Institute. I heard that you have a slight and delicate heart?"

"Well, someone said that."

That was when I was a kid.

Shangluo remembers that sometimes he would be confused by "studying things", and he would even rumor something, but his teacher joked that it was "little bigan" because bigan with "seven orifices and exquisite hearts" could also communicate with all things in the world.

If Bi Gan had an alarm clock at that time, and with his talent as "Seven Orifices and Deep Heart", he could be at least an eighth-level fitter.

"That's right, hurry up and go with me. If I can repair it, I can remember a good record in my resume. We don't understand how that thing is transferred, and the old military craftsmen in the garrison are not very good at it.

I understand. Generators are new things, only available in recent years.”

Shang Luo originally wanted to refuse, but the guard soldier walked in and pulled him into the car: "It's okay! Let's go and take a look! Take a look! I won't blame you if I can't repair it!"

As he said that, he pressed Shangluo to the back seat. The off-road vehicle fell and drove back to the Acropolis, driving all the way to the power plant in the Craftsman District.

The car drove unobstructed along the way, and the car drove to the gate of the computer room. The door was open, and the roar of these machines as soon as they got off the car made his eardrums hurt. The steam engine was operating normally, but the lights in the factory were also turned off.

It was a tower high-speed steam engine that had just been invented for less than two years, capable of outputting powerful power at a high speed of 450 rpm. Every cylinder and piston was built by professionals, even in the entire empire, less than 200 rpm.

The boiler installed in the factory next door is also high-end product.

This power plant is one of the first power plants built in the world, and in the true sense - before this, electric lights have been widely used. But like the steam engines in the factory, buildings that use electric lights will also be prepared by themselves.

A small steam engine is combined with a generator to generate electricity.

The power plants here in San Francisco are experimental in nature because they are experimenting with two new technologies: "power grid" and "long-distance transmission". With the power grid, power supply can be concentrated in the power plant, and there is no need to use electricity.

A generator is ready. This is a new technology with revolutionary significance, and new technologies will naturally have new problems.

"So the question is that big guy?"

"No, it's small." The Wei Sui Bing pointed to a much smaller machine next to the steam engine connecting rod. The red and blue cables were connected from above to the outside. That was the generator, the generator at this time

It is forbidden to remain motionless, and a yellow paper talisman is pasted on it.

Three old fitters were standing in front of the generator, holding their hands together and chanting. On the red bench in front of them were three listening green cans of Wangzai milk and three cigarettes. The three of them were chanting something while talking to the red bench.

bow.
Chapter completed!