The main purpose of charging for juice is not to recover Phoenix coins. While saving management manpower, charging for juice can also help Wang Qi grasp the unemployment and material supply situation in the city in real time. It can be said that it kills multiple birds with one stone.
For juice to reflect the unemployment situation in real time, citizens need to have more food choices.
In this regard, in addition to the agricultural land outside the city that is being expanded and some people voluntarily going to the outpost area to open up wasteland, there must also be promotion in other directions from the official level.
Such as livestock rewards.
When they came to the dark land, several tribes brought their animals...basically all kinds of insects. Xiaoqiang, who was once disliked by Wang Qi, was the big one.
If Wang Qi had not planted juice trees earlier, these bugs would have been killed long ago. However, due to the lack of vegetation coverage and the prohibition of over-exploitation of the Ice Forest, there has been no opportunity for the development of animal husbandry.
Now that everything is gradually on track, we finally have time to take care of this group.
The incentives for the animal husbandry industry this time are first and foremost pure subsidies.
According to the livestock held by each ministry, the meat weight is converted into a direct subsidy of 0.1 yuan per kilogram of meat.
The amount is very small, but this money is given by Wang Ting for free, and there is no need to kill insects. In fact, a limited amount of start-up capital is given based on this.
The remaining parts require internal fundraising and personnel arrangements by tribes that hold livestock breeds to form several prototypes of small livestock farms.
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In fact, tribes are already doing this, and this time it is just official promotion to speed up the expansion of animal husbandry.
With manpower and funds, the rest will be easy. In fact, Xiaoqiang does not need any serious food at all. The natural fermentation of sawdust is a good food source. The main contradiction before was that it could not provide Xiaoqiang with a large enough area that was dark and humid. The environment has limited the increase in the number of this tenacious livestock species.
Xiaoqiang is an important scientific research achievement of mankind before the world disaster. Although there are some mutations, it is still a very advantageous livestock population. The biggest advantage is that the breeding space is small. It only needs a fermentation tank to carry out large-scale breeding. It is also the only one that has obtained A batch of breeding farms were established in the city.
As for other types of bugs, the holders argued hard and were eventually arranged to build a farm outside the city, but they were allowed to build an auxiliary factory inside the city for temporary transfer during the war.
But since they want to go outside the city, there is no need to stick to the city wall. Like farmers who have no land to farm, they also choose to go to the outpost. Being closer to the resource area can save a lot of costs.
In view of the increasing flow of personnel at the outpost, Wang Qi took the time to make another trip and use artifact seeds to revamp and expand the outpost.
Someone built a house here, built around the outpost city wall, and it seemed that they planned to retreat to the outpost in case of trouble.
Very good, saves a lot of trouble.
To increase the function of the outpost, in addition to expanding the scope of the city wall, it is also necessary to increase the number of personnel stationed in the outpost itself. However, the local creatures can use magic, and the effect of infinitely filling people inside may not be very good.
The number of city defense troops at the final outpost only increased from one hundred to one hundred and forty.
The revised outpost gate faces the town, and the town gate needs additional guards.
It will take time for the outpost seeds to develop, and Wang Qi will have other business after planting.
He circled a piece of land outside the outpost and inside the future town: "Build a house here, enough for thirty people to stay and work. The funding will come later, and the outpost will be responsible for hiring citizens to build it, and then transfer it to Urban Management Bureau.”
When there are more people, you have to worry about whether there are outlaws who come here specifically to cause trouble. The city defense troops are all sharp-edged people, and there is a language barrier. It is impossible to replace the work of the urban management bureau, so they have to allocate manpower to establish a branch.
After making arrangements to upgrade the outpost, he heard the best news for Wang Qi when he returned to the city: the ceramic crucible was fired.
In the iron smelting industry in the industrial era, crucibles were generally used in steelmaking, because the iron smelting furnaces at that time could already produce molten iron without interruption, and there was no need for crucibles at all.
However, a detailed analysis of the specific situation shows that even iron tools are not widely available in the current conditions.
Not to mention coking coal, pure oxygen, formula cosolvents, etc.
The iron smelting method used by blacksmiths should be called forged iron more accurately.
The forged iron is heated in the furnace to the incandescent state, and then the tongs are taken out and beaten. The deformation and heating effect of the beating can keep the incandescent state for a few minutes. If the sharp blade clan is used to knock it, it may last for more than ten minutes. The iron must be sent repeatedly during the entire forging process. Return to the furnace for reheating.
There is a serious problem with the forged iron method. Before the ore turns into pig iron that can hold its own shape, high-heat fragments will collapse at any time due to hammering, which is very dangerous. Therefore, the iron blocks forged by the forged iron method are very small each time and are completely inefficient. 20 kilograms per day for the furnace is already the limit.
In order to change the situation where a group of blacksmiths work together, achieve real mass production under existing conditions, and smelt iron ingots without repeatedly taking out iron ore, the crucible is almost the only way out, at least to ensure a stable high-temperature heating environment The molten iron splashed everywhere.
The key point is still the lack of co-solvent, so we can only use local methods to co-solvent, such as plant ash, clay powder, etc. These things only have a certain effect on generating slag and removing sulfur, but they have little effect on lowering the melting point of iron ore. The quality of the finished pig iron is also average. .
Ceramic crucibles and porcelain plates are not the same thing. In order to be used in a furnace, the crucible must be thick enough to ensure that it is not damaged when pouring high-temperature and high-density molten iron. Every increase in thickness during this period is a round of technological upgrades, even if There is no problem with the ratio, but there may be foreign matter residues, firing defects, etc. So when he first arranged this matter, Wang Qi didn't expect it to be effective soon.
Although ceramic crucibles have been made now, they are not of sufficient size, and their help in increasing production capacity is very limited.
However, a wave of rewards was given, and a special amount of 500 yuan was allocated to the current person in charge of the iron factory and the potters, hoping that they would continue their efforts.
The melting point of a ceramic crucible can easily exceed 2,000 degrees. It is okay to go as low as 1,750 degrees, which is the melting point of quartz. The biggest advantage is that it has good high-temperature performance and is much stronger than a clay crucible. It is hoped that it can be made into a pot that can hold hundreds of kilograms of molten iron. size, and clay is absolutely out of the question.
Now that the crucible has found its way, the blast furnace can also be put on the agenda.
For the furnaces used in the ironworks, Wang Qi only added primary hot air technology to their original basis, which used waste gas to preheat the incoming air, which was similar to the one he had built for Timovich.
In order for the iron factory to truly achieve economies of scale, Wang Qi needs to put some more thought into it.
As always, if you have never built a blast furnace, you will always see pigs running away. You don’t know anything about the general demand for iron-making furnaces.
Going a step further than hot air technology, it is powered hot air, which tries to inject air into the air passages and further accelerates the release of energy from the fuel by increasing the wind pressure.
If there is no electricity, we have to use manpower.
The air box can only be adapted to small furnaces. When the scale is expanded, a real fan is needed. In order to ensure stable wind pressure, the fan blades are designed directly by ourselves. The mature low-speed ducted fan shape is used to let small seeds grow in batches.
The power shaft is ordered to be made by a blacksmith. Raw materials are now very scarce. The quality of the iron produced by the iron factory is very poor. It must be forged again to remove impurities and carburized into steel.
The power source is naturally a bicycle configuration. This is a relatively stable state of human energy output. There are three in a shift, changing every twenty minutes, five groups of shifts. The basic attributes of the blade are so much higher, and the power is definitely enough when the production scale is limited. .
The wind pressure given by basic materials and wooden fan blades is very limited, but it doesn't matter. As long as the fan blades are large enough, it is enough to achieve multi-stage wind pressure increase through the duct design. Lengthening the duct will also help to keep the wooden fan away from high temperatures. district.
Achieving power hot air also requires supporting technologies, including coal blowing technology and coke burning technology, which only burns faster and the cost is much higher.
If coal is not blown, the rising whirlwind in the furnace formed by high-pressure hot air will fly up a furnace of fuel and burn it out in just a few minutes. In such a short time, the temperature in the furnace may not be evenly burned.
It doesn't matter if there is no magic. Just use the potential energy of gravity and divert some airflow from the air inlet pipe. I just don't know if the blacksmith can make this pipe well, otherwise it will be troublesome to repair it.
With this set in place, if the furnace is not high enough, you will see a jet-like fire several meters high at the chimney mouth, which is a waste of heat energy, so it is called a blast furnace.
Of course, the production capacity of Wang Qi's thing is incomparable to that of a real blast furnace, so it just pretends to be better than the manual one. After it is put into use, we can slowly collect problems and improve it slowly.
The division of labor is still the same. Wang Qi is in charge of Shu's part and various chores. Li Xiang takes his place, finds the finance department to approve the expenses, coordinates the steel plant to recruit personnel for construction, and goes to the site from time to time to supervise and explain the drawings to the construction workers on site to ensure that the project is carried out smoothly. A big deviation occurs.
The blast furnace was made slightly taller, and without reinforced concrete it was made very solid. Stone bricks on the surface were almost three meters thick, with cavities reserved to act like refractory bricks, even if the granite on the inner surface melted. No need to stop at all.
The amount of work is not small, but the iron still cannot be delivered before the juice charging day.
Many urban management officers were deployed to prevent trouble, but the citizens seemed to naturally accept the fee setting. Some people would complain in front of the juice machine, but there were no violent incidents.
It seemed that the loan strength was sufficient for the time being, but a group of people had been forgotten. After receiving the following feedback after charging, Wang Qi remembered it.
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