Lin's approach was to recruit magicians within the Holy City who already had a foundation in P language and mathematics. Perhaps in terms of loyalty, the new people recruited will not be as good as those trained by the two major forces, but the two major forces are already familiar with how to manage talents, so Lin Duo does not need to worry. Anyway, they must be more concerned about 'taking power' than anyone else.
This also led to a large-scale recruitment campaign that caused a sensation in the holy city of Estali, and attracted all the talents in Lin's mathematics courses who were unwilling to develop only in the field of pure mathematics.
Although the mathematical method construction of spell models is also one of the application and development directions of mathematics courses, there is no money to be made before the results are obtained! As long as you join the automobile manufacturing and R&D center, you will receive a fixed salary, and you can also practice your thinking in using various mathematical methods. It can be said that at this stage, it is the most suitable application field for magicians who plan to continue to develop on the road of mathematics.
Anyone who can get a seat in a classroom with limited seats is not a magician who is short of money. But who can think of too much money? More importantly, what the R&D center provides is an opportunity to apply what you have learned. Compared with the smell of copper, the opportunity is the more interesting part.
People who have been taking math classes for nearly a year are looking forward to proving that their studies are not useless. After all, since the beginning of the course, no one has been able to completely recreate the mathematical structure of the spell model based on what someone did when he first attracted everyone to jump into the trap. But it’s not that no one has tried. It’s just that everyone who has tried will admit one thing. The road to mathematics has a long way to go.
This does not mean that the mathematical problems studied by the Automobile Manufacturing and R&D Center will be simpler than reconstructing the spell model. It’s because what the center wants to do has been proven feasible. What those who join have to do is to replace expensive materials with simple materials, standardize magic work with industrial methods, and then achieve the purpose of mass production. In short, copycat reverse engineering.
In order to do this, there is no standard that must be met to be considered qualified. In other words, there are no standards at all.
The experimental vehicle used to demonstrate the feasibility has already been completed, and it has been set as the ultimate goal of 100%. Then even if the research results are only ten percent, they can be officially sold as merchandise. Anyway, the four wheels can rotate and can pull people or goods from one place to another.
It is even said that some parts must use magic materials, and ordinary materials cannot be found to replace them for the time being. This is also acceptable. At most, the selling price will increase after it becomes a commodity.
Under such a premise, if there are automobile manufacturing and R&D centers with money and technology, the schedule for mass production will soon be put on the schedule.
The first confirmed model was not, as someone imagined, a simplified version of Earth's Ford 1903 Model A that was no different from a horse-drawn carriage with all ordinary materials, but a large truck partially made of magical materials.
The first batch of customers are not outsiders, they are the two big bosses Ka Wei Gong and Nguyen Van Viet. The purpose is also very simple, to transport the iron ore and other materials on their respective sites to the manufacturing and R&D center in the holy city of Estali. There is no reason to use the car to deliver food, but still use horse-drawn carriages and a large number of people to transport it.
In order to be able to pull a large amount of goods, the load capacity and horsepower of the truck are not indicators that ordinary materials can achieve at this stage. As for the engine that uses magic materials, it directly uses the research results of the Silverbeard Dwarf, because it is already considered a mature craft.
Even the Silverbeard dwarves jumped in to help with research and development. The team responsible for building the engine, led by veterans, is the fastest among all the teams to get started with the new technology. Silverbeard dwarves do not work for nothing. In addition to receiving a salary, the research and modification of various parts of the engine are their focus. In order to arm themselves with peace, they are not willing to give up any research opportunities on related topics.
Another part of the big truck that has to use magic materials is the chassis. The R&D center has tried to study welding technology, and of course it has also tried rivet structure technology. However, although the chassis built with the current material materials and manufacturing technology can be used on small passenger vehicles, it cannot support large vehicles. Truck load-bearing index.
The second type of vehicle created is a special type of vehicle - a tanker truck. Because the gasoline used in cars needs to be refined, crude oil cannot be used directly by adding it to the fuel tank, and gas stations are not yet all over the place. Therefore, whether it is a large truck fleet transporting raw materials, it needs a tanker truck to follow it for refueling at any time; the R&D center also needs to transport crude oil back to the refinery for processing.
Although gasoline has to go through the refining process, it is still cheaper than magic stone. It is known that the city that produces crude oil is Lebapu, but that is only because the goblins have uses for oil, so it is exploited. It is not the only oil-producing place in the Gwana Empire. There are also crude oil wells that can be extracted in the open in the territory of Kaweigong.
In the past, the place where black water was exposed was a dead zone where animals could not get close and plants could not grow. The only use of black water that can ignite fire is as a weapon of war. Therefore, as the Grand Duke of the Empire, Duke Kawei dealt with this natural resource by blocking it. Only goblins who are keen on self-destruction have the courage to mine this poisonous and flammable devil's water.
But when the uses of crude oil were discovered, the two big guys started the operation of extracting oil. Of course, Mr. Kawei exploited the oil wells in his own territory, while Ruan Wenyue searched for relevant resources from areas outside the Gwana Empire, cooperated with local lords, and invested in mining.
Ruan Wenyue's idea is very simple. If the car must have oil to move, he cannot leave this lifeline in the hands of others. It's like fighting a war with soldiers, but if the soldiers don't have food and grass, they won't be able to fight no matter how strong they are.
Lin could only admire this intuitive approach. He was able to see the key points of the automobile industry at a glance, and started planting flags in the energy business at an early stage. This vision was quite accurate.
The distillation equipment for oil refining is also built in the holy city of Estali. The reason why it is not located at the oil well site, where the crude oil is roughly processed, reduced in volume and weight, and then transported to the Holy City is because any processing operation is carried out out of sight, and problems cannot be solved immediately.
Lin had already made an agreement with the two bosses that when the technology matured, they could start a new one wherever they wanted. Just don't abandon the manufacturing and R&D center in the holy city of Estali. After all, doing this can greatly reduce the waste generated during transportation. But in the early days, when the technology was not yet mature, the focus was still on R&D.
Having said that, the most fearful thing about research is that it will be fruitless, but when the results come out, everyone wants a piece of the pie. It would be fine if the automobile manufacturing and R&D center kept silent about making a fortune. When the two transport fleets of Ka Wei Gong and Nguyen Van Viet appeared, they immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.
However, because there were many unresolved issues in the early stages of development, the cars could not be sold directly to the market. One of the most troublesome difficulties is the failure rate. The failure rate of parts made from magic materials has almost been solved after the silver-bearded dwarves conducted various tests and replaced them with more advanced magic materials. But after replacing it with ordinary materials, research in this area is equivalent to starting from scratch.
In order to cope with possible breakdowns on the road, drivers who drive vehicles must have basic machine knowledge, at least knowing how to repair or replace damaged parts. In other words, in the future, drivers must not only have a driving license, but also be an engineer with an auto repair license.
In addition to refueling, the planned gas station may also have the function of repairing cars to replace the current problem that no other place except the R&D center has the ability to repair cars.
In actual use experience, sometimes roadside breakdowns cannot be solved by drivers with simple maintenance knowledge. In this case, there are two methods that can be used. If the vehicle can still move, but the engine cannot start or the transmission system is damaged, you can use a companion vehicle to tow the faulty vehicle. The speed may be slower, but the disabled car can still be towed to its destination.
If the vehicle is so damaged that it cannot even be moved, it is impossible to scrap the vehicle on the spot. At this time, it is necessary to send a maintenance team from the R&D center to the location where the vehicle broke down and repair the vehicle directly in the wild.
The frequency of vehicle breakdowns was quite frequent in the early days, and even front-line drivers and dispatched maintenance personnel were questioning whether it was necessary to use such a machine with low reliability. Such doubts once made the two big guys who had joined the automobile manufacturing industry come to ask a certain magician who had almost left the matter behind.
Lin didn't explain much, just made a simple statistical chart. The carrying efficiency and carrying cost of the old horse-drawn carriages, and the old method is largely regarded as zero risk; the carrying efficiency and carrying cost of the new vehicle, and then the risk cost is calculated according to the existing failure situation. Once the two sides were totaled and looked at the unit transportation cost, the doubts of the bosses were immediately thrown away.
The transportation energy of trucks is so amazing. To transport the same amount of goods, the number of old-fashioned horse-drawn carriages and civilian workers would be more than ten times greater, and the time consumed would also be several times greater. Not to mention that the old horse-drawn carriage mode of transport was not entirely risk-free.
Secondly, every maintenance is actually testing the results of manufacturing, and will also become the focus of improvement in the next batch of vehicle manufacturing. The manufacturing process will improve, and the material strength of ordinary materials will also slowly improve with the accumulation of alloy processes and data. This is most obvious from the analysis of fault records. The parts that will produce non-artificial damage tend to decrease over time.
Therefore, even if the front-line personnel complain that the people in charge of management only count the transportation capacity, as long as their brains are not caught by the door panel, they will not be able to go back to the old way. Under this situation of internal digestion of initial production capacity, the automobile manufacturing and R&D center received its first external order. From the Gia Long Chamber of Commerce, branches other than Nguyen Van Viet ordered ten trucks and a matching oil tanker.
The reason why this order is regarded as an external order is because under the leadership of Ruan Wenyue, he gave his distant relative a heavy blow. Without hesitation or mercy, as if he wanted to clear away all the accumulated resentment in the past.
