Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 18 The team's construction work is finished and they are preparing to go to Raozhou

1981年7月31日，农历7月1日
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The next morning, Wang Jiankun went to the place where the sawmill parts were hidden and took the parts home.

After breakfast, my grandfather took me to the sawmill.

The sawmill is also close to the road. It seems that the team is considering processing wood for other production teams in the future so that it will be easier to transport.

The shed has been built, similar to the one in the kiln factory, and the ground has been leveled and compacted.

There were already some wood and logs waiting to be processed piled up nearby, as well as several buckets filled with water, which would be used for testing after assembly was completed.

Wang Jiankun looked at the environment and the prepared materials and found them all OK, so he asked his grandfather to arrange for someone to transport the parts of the pot-carrying machine from the kiln factory.

While waiting, I turned to take a look at the rice mill in the distance. The rice mill was a smaller place.

Because the milled rice will be transported directly away, a room will be built to store the pot-carrying machine and rice mill, and another room will be built to store wood and temporarily store bran.

After the inspection, he returned to the sawmill and saw that the parts had already been delivered. Wang Jiankun asked two young men who had graduated from junior high school to help.

With the five sets of machines built and put into use, those with higher education in the team have now been assigned fixed jobs.

If we need to build more machines later, we will have to provide temporary training.

However, considering that temporary training may not be enough, we should start letting these educated people train apprentices now.

I was already very skilled at assembling the pot camel machine, and after assembly I started testing the machine, and there were no abnormalities.

To keep the machine moving slowly, Wang Jiankun asked people to help lift the sawmill parts.

The sawmill is also relatively simple. It has a large iron plate with a groove in it, from which the saw blade protrudes a little, and underneath is a transmission shaft and gear system.

One end of the shaft is connected to the gear, the gear is connected to the saw blade, and the other end is extended to be connected to the upper belt and the pot camel machine.

After assembly, start the linkage test.

First, close the steam valve to stop the power wheel, and then connect the upper belt to the sawmill.

Then open the steam valve, increase the fire power, and the saw blade will start to rotate from slow to fast.

Wang Jiankun checked the rotation of the sawmill and found that the speed reached the requirement and the saw blade was rotating in a plane, which meant that it could be used to saw wood.

Wang Jiankun asked how thick the template should be, and his father said 2 centimeters would be enough.

Wang Jiankun adjusted the distance between the lower limiter and the saw blade, and explained to the two young men how to adjust it while doing so.

After the adjustments are completed, have the two young men lift the log together and place it on the cutting table, while pressing against the limiter and slowly pushing the log forward.

When the wood hits the saw blade, it is cut instantly and the wood chips fly out rapidly into the collection trough below.

Cut it in half, and let one of the young men come to the other side to catch the wood, and then pull it back.

Let go when the wood is pushed to the edge of the workbench to prevent your hands from being cut by the saw blade.

After a piece of the board was cut off, the young man who was pulling the wood let it fall freely to the side, and then held the other side and pushed it back.

The young man over there repeated the same action, and after five cuts, he turned a log into a plank.

The dimensions are all the same 2 cm thick.

If the same work was done manually by sawing logs, it might take more than an hour, but it only took about 1 minutes just now.

Therefore, the power of machines is unparalleled, and people should be good at utilizing the energy and principles contained in nature.

In order to help the two men become proficient in the use of the system, Wang Jiankun asked them to process the five logs used for testing.

Two of them were processed into eight square bars according to the size reported by my father. This time Wang Jiankun did not remind me about the size adjustment and how to process it.

Let the two young men think for themselves. As expected of them having received education, their basic arithmetic and spatial imagination abilities were up to par, and they figured it out in no time.

After testing here, we will go to the rice mill factory for assembly.

I will not go into details about the assembly of the pot camel machine. They are all the same model and were assembled and tested quickly.

The rice mill is not very complicated. You just need to adjust the feed amount or change the blade according to your needs when using it.

Inside is a shaft with diagonal lines, with both ends placed in the grooves of the cast shell and covered with a shell.

There is a funnel on the upper part for placing processed grains, and a small gap for installing the knife. By adjusting the distance between the knife and the axis, you can control whether it is ground into polished rice or ordinary white rice.

The white rice mentioned here is actually not very white. It still contains some husks and germ, and is slightly yellowish.

Polished rice is rice that has had the husk and germ removed, and it looks much whiter.

Most families still eat white rice, but some families will process some refined rice to grind into flour or feed it to children.

The lower part is the support frame and the place where the chaff is discharged.

After assembly, you still need to test the machine.

After connecting the pot-camel machine, Wang Jiankun instructed a young man to open the valve. After the speed stabilized, he asked another young man to pour half a basket of rice into the funnel and put another empty basket under the discharge port.

Wang Jiankun first adjusted the distance between the blade and the axis by himself, loosening it a little, and then asked the young man in charge of pouring the grain to slowly open the switch under the funnel.

As the opening at the bottom of the funnel gradually becomes larger, more and more rice grains enter the shaft. The rotating force and the oblique threads push them towards the cutter, and the husks are ground off bit by bit.

A yellow and white substance comes out of the discharge port. That's because the cutter is far away from the axis and most of the husks are not ground off.

Wang Jiankun grabbed a handful with his hand, and found that more than half of it was not sharpened, so he turned the knife towards the axis.

Grab another handful and white rice will come out, which means the knife is adjusted correctly.

Polished rice cannot be processed in one go. 100 meters must be processed again and the amount of knife feed must be increased. Otherwise, if the knife feeds too much at one time, two situations will occur.

One situation is that the shaft is stuck by millet and cannot move. In this case, you must quickly close the steam valve to stop the machine.

Another situation is that the millet is crushed and most of it is broken rice, which looks bad and tastes bad when cooked. The broken rice will also leak into the bran, reducing the rice yield.

Wang Jiankun explained the key points of the knife attack to the two young men, and then asked them to practice.

First loosen the knife a little, then grab the rice at the outlet while cutting and observe it.

If there are a lot of broken rice, loosen the knife a little; if there are a lot of husks on the rice, tighten the knife a little.

Once it is adjusted to the right position, pour the part that comes out from the front back into the funnel for processing again.

After trying two loads of millet, the two men were able to operate the millet normally and grind it into fine rice or polished rice.

It was already noon when we finished testing the rice mill, and everyone waited until the boiler was turned off before going home one after another.

On the way, Wang Jiankun suggested that the timber mill and rice mill here should be put into use as soon as possible.

The millet at home can be brought over in the afternoon and asked to be milled by the two young men, and the accountant should be asked to calculate the charges.

For example, to process a load of millet, people within the team can use money or work points, but those outside the team can only use money.

Nowadays, every household processes millet by pounding it manually or using a stone mill, which takes a lot of time for the women in each household.

If you come to the rice mill to grind a load of millet, it only takes half an hour.

The time saved can be used to take care of the crops in the private plots, or to work in the team, such as chopping wood.

My mother also has more time to take care of my younger sister and urge her to study.

My father nodded in agreement and said that he would arrange everything in the next few days.

The lunch was quite sumptuous. I made some steamed pork with rice flour and added red yeast rice. It was red and shiny, which really whetted my appetite.

After dinner, Wang Jiankun asked his father to go to Fengshan to bring the glass and springs for 1400 sets of table clocks to Master Quan, and get yuan from Master Quan.

My father originally wanted to let Wang Liping go, but when he heard that there was so much money, he became worried and said that he would go later.

Wang Jiankun had nothing to do in the afternoon, so he decided to go to the mountain to explore the elemental conditions and see if he could hunt any prey.

My father had already taken the glass and clockwork to Fengshan, and my grandfather went to arrange trial production and construction of several factories.

Wang Jiankun walked towards the mountain ahead with an air gun.

We met several groups of woodcutters on the way. Whenever they came across a patch of thicker trees, they would chop them down with sickles.

After being exposed to the sun for a few days, remove the branches and leaves and drag the main trunk to the kiln factory.

There were also people who specialized in cutting down pine trees. They would take the straight ones suitable for making wood back to make boards, and cut the crooked ones into several sections and take them back to use as fuel for the steamer. Wang Jiankun tried to avoid these woodcutters as much as possible, and the animals would not move around in places where people often went.

So he gradually left the place where there were woods and went to a place where no one had ever been.

At this time he came to a shady hillside.

The hillside is mainly covered with weeds and low shrubs.

The soil is mainly red soil, which means it contains relatively high levels of iron and aluminum.

Logically speaking, aluminum is very expensive now, so it would be a good idea to refine some and sell it or make some daily necessities such as aluminum pots and kettles.

However, Wang Jiankun is unable to explain the source, so now he can only try to make some products that are more in line with the current level of productivity.

Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to explore the hillside and found that there were rocks 5 meters below.

Now as Wang Jiankun continues to use it, he no longer needs to touch it with his hands to shoot.

As long as any part of the body is in contact, the elements within a cube with a side length of 20 meters centered on the contact surface can be projected into the mind.

And as of today, he can mobilize 1 cubic meter of elements in a day.

Because there is rock underneath, there must be many constituent elements, so Wang Jiankun increased the intensity of the exploration.

Not long after, Wang Jiankun completed the exploration of the approximately 200-acre hillside and discovered a small copper mine underground, along with a small amount of gold and silver.

It is roughly estimated that there are about 200 tons of copper, about 2 tons of silver, and about 20 kilograms of gold within the projection range.

So many precious metals made Wang Jiankun's heart pound.

The desire to extract it was hard to suppress no matter what.

So Wang Jiankun extracted 1 kilogram of gold.

Wang Jiankun planned to make it into the shape of the gold bar described in the newspaper and take it home to hide it first.

As for the other underground materials, you should figure out how to use them before extracting them, otherwise it will cause trouble.

After putting away the gold bars, Wang Jiankun came to a rabbit hole.

Just now when I used my super powers to explore the underground space, I found a hole underground and there was an object moving inside that looked like a rabbit.

After careful identification, I found that there were four little rabbits and two big rabbits inside. It seemed that they were a family of rabbits.

In order to capture them alive, Wang Jiankun once again used his superpowers to tie small iron rings on each rabbit, which then turned into iron wires that stretched out of the hole.

Wang Jiankun first made a cage with rattan, and then pulled the iron wire. The rabbits were pulled out of the hole and then caught in the cage.

Pulled out of their safe hole, the two big rabbits were very restless.

Wang Jiankun had no choice but to use vines to tie the four legs of the two big rabbits together, and then they became much more obedient.

The trip was fruitful, except that there was a large amount of underground wealth there, which made Wang Jiankun think from time to time about how to make it appear in the world in a reasonable way.

When I got home, my father was also home.

Seeing Wang Jiankun coming back with a cage filled with wild rabbits, he asked hurriedly, "Where did you catch a nest of wild rabbits?"

Wang Jiankun replied: "In the big mountain in front of the production team, there were no trees, only weeds and low shrubs. We happened to find a nest and caught them all."

"That's good luck, but I'm afraid I can't keep these little ones alive. Wild rabbits don't eat the grass they're fed."

"Let your sister raise it for fun first. If you can't keep it alive, just throw it away."

My sister said, "Let me raise him. I will definitely raise him and make him fat so that we can eat his meat."

"You eat little rabbits too? I thought you were going to keep them to play with you."

"Rabbit meat is so delicious, of course I have to eat it. I have other friends to play with."

"Okay then. These four little rabbits are yours to raise. They have opened their eyes and can eat grass. Find a quiet place to raise them."

"Brother, please help me build a nest. It's behind the kitchen. It's quiet there."

"Okay, I'll go put my stuff down and build you a rabbit hutch."

So Wang Jiankun gave the two big rabbits to his father and asked his sister to look after the four little rabbits.

He returned to the room, hung the air gun on the wall, and then used his superpowers to remove a layer of soil under the bed, leaving a small hole. Wang Jiankun put the gold bar in and moved the soil back.

At this time, my sister was teasing a few little rabbits on the vegetable leaves at the door. The little rabbits might be hungry and actually opened their mouths to eat what my sister fed them.

It looks like it might actually be possible to support it.

So Wang Jiankun went to the kitchen, picked up the extremely sharp sickle, found some miscellaneous wood as thick as his arms, and took them all to the back.

Since they are little rabbits, just build a fence to enclose them first. If you can really keep them alive, you can do better then.

The sickle worked quickly on the wood. One end was sharpened and inserted into the ground. Soon a fence of one and a half square meters was built. My sister could step in, but the little rabbit couldn't jump out.

Wang Jiankun also dug a hole to imitate the habits of a wild rabbit and put some weeds in it.

I went to find some thatch and used miscellaneous wood as the frame to make a roof over the fence.

Wang Jiankun told his sister to remember to cover the roof after feeding the baby every time, in case the baby jumps out.

Try to disturb them as little as possible and leave after feeding them grass.

The younger sister nodded and agreed, but Wang Jiankun didn't know whether she could do it.

But it doesn’t matter if I can’t do it. I can just raise it to death and dispose of it. I’m just worried that my sister will be sad then.

In the evening, there is a rabbit meat feast, including stewed rabbit meat, fried rabbit meat with chili peppers, and steamed rabbit meat with rice flour.

Wang Jiankun enjoyed the meal very much, and his sister also said that she would raise the rabbit well and have another feast of rabbit meat when the rabbit grows up.

After the meal, my father gave 1400 yuan to Wang Jiankun and told him that Master Quan was going to Raozhou tomorrow.

Master Quan went to the county town and Dexing a few days ago, but couldn't find anyone selling electric motors or a factory making electric motors, so he planned to go to Raozhou to have a look.

He also asked his father to tell Wang Jiankun that if he wanted to go too, he should go to Fengshan early tomorrow morning to join him.

Wang Jiankun said that he also wanted to go there to see if he could buy some machines to make modifications and improve the productivity of the production team.

Grandma and mother said that Raozhou was too far away and Wang Jiankun was still young, so it would be better to ask Master Quan to help buy it.

My grandfather expressed his support, saying that boys should be bold and daring. He himself went to southern Jiangxi to join the New Fourth Army when he was 16 years old.

If he had not been injured and unable to keep up with the main force, he might have been a general now.

Grandma laughed and scolded: "A good man never brags about his past achievements. Look at you, my grandson is my grandson. If you don't feel sorry for him, I do."

Wang Jiankun interrupted and said, "I'm not going to Raozhou alone. I'm with Master Quan. Besides, I'm going to the county town to attend high school soon. In a few years, I'll go to BJ to attend college, which is even farther away. I'll just take this as a training opportunity."

Seeing how much he wanted to go, his family agreed and told him to follow Master Quan closely and not act alone.

In the evening, Wang Jiankun thought about how much money he should bring with him. This time he planned to buy some mechanical products and then imitate them.

I thought gold should be more valuable now, but carrying gold bars with me would be too conspicuous and would attract the attention of thieves.

After thinking about it, Wang Jiankun decided to make a belt out of gold and cover it with a layer of rubber.

When you tie it around your waist, thieves won’t notice it.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. With the help of Wang Jiankun's superpowers, the gold bars buried under the bed slowly turned into the shape of a belt. Then Wang Jiankun mobilized elements such as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen to attach to the surface of the belt and combined them into rubber.

In this way, a black belt was formed, and it should be possible to exchange it for money when I find a gold shop in Raozhou.

Just pack your clothes in a small bag. It should be enough for 3 days this time, and you should be able to wash your clothes if you stay in a guesthouse.

Because he had to travel early tomorrow morning, Wang Jiankun decided to go to bed early.

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