The royal city is not in a very good condition, in fact it has suffered losses.
The magic array arranged by the mage in the prop shop did not seem to consider earthquake resistance. Perhaps the earthquake resistance was not strong enough, and the shock wave after the impact was only blocked a little.
Fortunately, the tree has big roots and deep roots. Wang Qi had considered earthquake resistance and wind resistance when making the structure. Moreover, the impact point was located in the north-east, so the intensity of the shock wave was greatly reduced by the volcano.
The main damage was to some roofs and walls of the buildings on the ground. The buildings on the trees were formed in one piece, but there were only some tear marks, which took a few days to grow out, and at most there were some wood grain misalignments.
The point of impact was literally within a thousand kilometers.
Based on rough calculations based on the propagation time difference between earthquake propagation and supersonic shock wave, the main impact point is 500 to 600 kilometers away from the Royal City, and there are two secondary impacts.
This time Li Xiang made a meritorious service. She had a special mission: to stay in the tree and observe before the impact.
In fact, on the last night, we could roughly calculate the impact point, with an error of no more than 300 kilometers. Considering that supersonic shock waves also take some time, and earthquakes do not have a very good effect on the inside of trees, Li Xiang was left above for final observation, and after confirming the first contact, he slipped underground through the secret passage of the palace.
Wang Qi himself wanted to stay and have a look, but there were too many people trying to persuade him, so he didn't insist on having his own way.
According to the picture Li Xiang drew afterwards, there were a total of seven pieces that invaded the atmosphere and could see the heat accumulation at the front end with the naked eye.
In fact, judging from the seismic senses underground, only three pieces had enough impact to reach the ground. However, compared with the main impact, the other two pieces were just supplementary. The others should have exploded before touching the ground.
There is no way to calculate it in detail. If I estimate it, I feel that the main impact equivalent is only ten zeros based on the tonnage of TNT, which is not less than one digit. It is much better than the expectation of sixteen or seven zeros.
There were volcanic ash and red rain in the few days after the impact, which is not surprising. Even if there is no red rain, there will be black rain. The red rain at least does not have a high viscosity, it is just water with a slightly abnormal color.
Now that the volcanic ash content in the sky has increased significantly, crop production is expected to decrease. Given the limited amount of volcanic ash, I hope it will get better quickly.
Of course, the specific situation needs to be investigated before we know it.
In the past few days, Wang Qi, in addition to handling official duties such as disaster relief, found excuses to add points to several exploration expedition members. Since there may be extreme high temperatures in the north, this time the points to be added are mainly for resistance, and the rest can only be handed over. Get it yourself for the expedition team.
The disaster... is a bit serious.
But it’s actually okay because people are still there.
Within a week of the collision, Wang Qi had obtained statistics from various towns. The total number of deaths was less than 200, a quarter of which were city guards responsible for guarding the gates. The garrison is in the royal city and the underground cave complex. The caves there are deep enough and more mature. They have been baptized by earthquakes from time to time. The rest are solid structures, but nothing happens.
In the face of the disaster of celestial collision, this loss is approximately zero for the total population of the entire force, which is approaching 170,000. Of course, the main credit goes to the comet. If the impact point was closer to 100 kilometers, the loss plus two zeros would not necessarily stop it.
Construction losses can be used as a lending channel.
The two official banks have not opened lending business, so lending mainly relies on various infrastructure projects such as railways, and rebuilding the city is of course a big part.
It will be distributed according to the quota for each household, plus a very small capitation fee, so as to directly cover the housing reconstruction and repair costs of most citizens in various places.
The amount of reconstruction work is huge, and half a year is enough. This is an opportunity to push cement.
Preparations in this area had already begun before the collision. After all, it was impossible for everyone to just focus on evacuating, so some key work was not interrupted.
The equipment prepared for the cement system is a steam ball mill.
Its principle is very simple, that is, a cylinder is filled with many iron balls and rotates at a fixed speed. If the object to be ground is thrown in, it will be slowly smashed into powder by the iron balls.
The only thing that is considered a subject is speed calculation and adjustment.
If the rotation speed is too fast, the ball will cling to the cylinder wall with the centrifugal motion, and the grinding effect cannot be achieved. If the rotation speed is slow, the ball cannot fall from a near high point, and the grinding effect is also impaired.
The ball mill can be used to process the raw materials for cement manufacturing and the lumps that appear after cement sintering. It can also be used to grind granite all over the floor to make artificial sand. Of course, the granite must be smashed with a human hammer to make it smaller.
As for how to make the steam engine rotate... To make the piston move in a steam furnace, just add three movable connecting rods, which is much easier than an electric motor.
It can even be realized without a piston, but in order to prepare technical reserves for the steam train that may be built later, Wang Qi still chose the piston type.
The machinery factory has its own steel furnace and casting manufacturing capabilities. Although the yield rate of the pistons produced is low and there are more or less leaks, it is enough to cope with the use and is definitely better than manpower.
More than ten days after the disaster, the machinery factory took out a ball mill and crushed the cement lumps that had been cooled down in furnace No. 1 before the disaster. Elena, who had seen this thing before, came to the site to confirm the effect, and then took it out to make cement. factory.
Cement should be a high-end product given the productivity of this world, but Wang Qi doesn't like high-end products, he just likes to be like cabbage. In addition, in various disciplines, the upper limit of cement is indeed relatively limited, so there is no need to fiddle with it like the steel series.
The cement factory is not going to be run by the government. The big companies in Hongshi City make a lot of money from foreign trade, so it is not appropriate to hand it over to them, so it can be treated as a municipal enterprise in the new city.
Xincheng Municipal Government retains 30% of the shares and the right to remove the factory director, and the rest is given to Xincheng people.
In the financial era, stocks were a pest, and they became a blood-sucking tool of finance against entities. However, for now, the joint-stock system does have its advantages. Through share dividends and bonuses, it can at least make workers more motivated.
Not only cement plants, but also iron plants also have share dividends, but the purpose is to make less money.
Iron was sold for only one yuan per kilogram, which actually made a lot of money.
Each ton of iron currently consumes 300 kilograms of coking coal and half a ton of coal. The consumption is relatively large because there is no electricity and pure oxygen, and the furnace temperature has not dropped below a thousand degrees.
However, the consumption of iron ore will not be particularly large due to insufficient technical strength. It is all purchased by Heishui City, and each ton of iron consumes 1.6 tons of ore.
The total cost of all materials is only 260 yuan per ton.
The daily output is 130 tons. The smelting department, coke department, and transportation department add up. The total daily wages of about 800 people are 2,000 yuan, and the total cost is 35,800 yuan. 130 tons of iron will be sold for 130,000 yuan!
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It's really impossible to calculate. If you do it, you'll be scared to death.
Of course, the actual income is not that much, because the iron factory is limited by fuel supply and does not work around the clock, and most of the iron has to be used to lay the railway and make various tools for the railway. With money.
What is actually sold is only about 30 tons per day, of which one-third is consumed by machinery factories.
But just selling this little bit has already covered the entire cost!
To put it bluntly, the upstream and downstream are still weak.
The upstream coal and coking coal companies do not know the cost of the ironworks and cannot find a second customer of this size. They have nowhere to go without the ironworks and dare not bid. The downstream manufacturing capacity is not good, and no one consumes the iron after it is smelted.
Including waiting for fuel not to start, the annual output is only more than 20,000 tons. It is still far away from the annual output of more than 40,000 tons of No. 2 furnace when it is fully loaded. What will happen if it goes up further.
The improvement plan for No. 3 furnace had long been sent to Wang Qi by the director of the ironworks, but construction had not started because of poor fuel supply and consumption.
The investment in railway construction is already sufficient. After all, the territory is small and the manpower that can be mobilized in this area is limited.
Next, we will wait for the underground cave from Phoenix City to be repaired, and then build a parallel double track from Phoenix City to Red Rock City. This time we will use cement sleepers, and we can also give some money to the cement factory.
"The Beauty of the Sun and the Moon"
But no matter how much trouble we make on this little bit of land, if it lasts for half a year, the ironworks will have to be semi-stopped, and the railways will still have to be laid out. Once the transportation capacity is increased, various problems will be easier to solve.
As for those who steal the rails from abroad... given the current road conditions, making the rails a little longer and stealing the rails to transport overseas would be a highly technical job. It would not be easy to handle without the help of a magician.
