From Propulsion City To Multiverse

Song Que's inner evaluation of the People's Revolutionary Federation is getting higher and higher. After all, hearing is false, but seeing is believing.

Before, he only learned about the situation of the People's Revolutionary Federation through the Song clan spies, Song Shidao, Song Lu and others, but he had never experienced it personally.

Now he has agreed that the People's Revolutionary Federation can rule the world, all this is a matter of time.

For the Song clan, now is a very critical time. Since they want to join the People's Revolutionary Federation, they should join as soon as possible.

Song Que also made the most sensible choice for the internal arrangements of the Song clan. He planned to take the initiative to dissolve the family and implement a complete separation after completing the handover work in Lingnan.

His family decided to move to Daliuqiu to avoid too much concentration of Song's children in Lingnan.

As a wise person, Song Que could give up fighting the world and take the initiative to return to Lingnan on the original timeline.

Now facing the People's Revolutionary Federation, he also made the wisest choice. Even if the family was dissolved, could the Song family perish?

On the contrary, if they resist the People's Revolutionary Federation, it will be a real disaster for the Song family.

Now it is absorbed by the People's Revolutionary Federation, which is beneficial to the development of the Song clan.

Compared with the aristocratic families in the Central Plains and Jiangnan who couldn't see the situation clearly, Song Que was a rare awakening in the world.

After inspecting a large number of factories in Danshui City, Song Que admired the People's Revolutionary Alliance more and more, especially Zheng Sen, Longsha and others who are the founders. After all, with such a huge strength, they can still maintain restraint. imagination.

At Tamsui Port, Longsa and Song Que boarded the battleship Roar.

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During the whistle, after a black smoke came out of the chimney, it turned to the white smoke again, and the roar turned northward against the wind. .

"The power of machinery can go against the sky." Song Que looked at the chimney with a feeling of being in another world.

Longsa looked calm: "This is just a trivial idea. In the future, our ships will become larger and larger. Wooden ships are already the limit. Next, we will use steel to build the hull."

Song Que has no doubts about steel shipbuilding. After all, there are giant ships that can sail without the need for wind power. Moreover, the People's Revolutionary Federation has also built ships with cement. In his eyes, steel shipbuilding is a possible future.

The Roar was getting faster and faster as it circled the coastline and sailed towards Keelung.

Along the way, they encountered quite a few transport ships, most of which were sailboats.

A total of 6 Roar-class ships have been built, 4 are used as transport ships, and the remaining 2 are incorporated into the Yangtze River Squadron and the East China Sea Second Fleet.

The next batch of Roaring Grades are already working at full strength.

There may be a shortage of other things, but there are a lot of towering trees. During the process of immigrant development in various places, tree species suitable for shipbuilding will be cut down according to their diameters, and then used as the original funds for land reclamation.

At present, freshwater shipyard has enough wood to build 35 Roaring class, and the wood reserve is increasing continuously.

Although the wooden boat consumes a lot of trees, there is no need to worry about the resources of the trees being exhausted in a short time.

Moreover, the People's Revolutionary Federation is only the wooden boat as a transition. The main materials for shipbuilding in the future are cement and steel.

The Roaring class should be the last class of wooden ships.

After all, after the displacement of the wooden boat exceeds 2,000 tons, due to the problem of material properties, not only the giant wood is needed, the structure will become bloated, and the construction period will be further increased.

According to the comprehensive performance of wood, the displacement is about 3500 tons, which is basically the limit of wooden boats.

Of course, Chinese-style building ships can be built larger, with a limit of about 5,000 tons.

The problem is that the speed of the building ship is too low, and it can only sail in inland rivers and offshore seas, and the cost performance is too low.

Instead of wasting wood to build large wooden boats, it is better to build a large number of cement boats in inland waters and offshore, and then install steam engines. Cement boats under 300 tons have many waterways that can be navigated in inland rivers.

For example, if you want to enter the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the future, the most suitable route is not to take the Yangtze River waterway, nor the plank road in Hanzhong, but the waterway of the Pearl River-Xijiang, Honghe-Yuanjiang.

From the perspective of cost performance, the comprehensive cost and transportation efficiency of inland water transportation are the best.

Even with railways, water transport is still the most cost-effective.

Now that the water network in the south is dense, the development of water transportation has more advantages than railways.

After the high-horsepower steam engine is installed, the steam ship can be used as a tugboat to tow six 288-ton cement ships, forming a transportation system similar to a water train.

The width of the Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty was enough for steam ships to sail.

Especially in the canals of Jiangnan and Jianghuai, the width of the river starts from 40 to 50 meters all the year round. Some of them have natural river channels and lake routes, and even flat-bottomed sand boats with a displacement of thousands of tons can pass.

It would be a waste of time to not make use of these canals.

The centipede-type steam cement transport ship can completely use the locomotive scheme to pull a series of ships forward.

Anyway, the speed of the current ships is not fast, so there is no need to worry about collisions and the like. As long as the design of the transport ship, more anti-collision push rods and brake anchors are prepared, and the water train plan is completely feasible.

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Longsha and Song Que came to Keelung Port in a low-key manner.

This heavy industry city of the People's Revolutionary Federation is currently the largest coal, copper, manganese, nitric acid and cement manufacturing base in the People's Revolutionary Federation.

Although Longsa attaches great importance to the treatment of industrial waste gas and waste water, there are still a small amount of harmful components in the continuously exhaled smoke.

Fortunately, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide in the exhaust gas will be used to extract sulfuric acid and nitric acid, so there is no acid rain in Keelung.

Moreover, in order to reduce industrial pollution, agricultural production is not allowed around the Keelung Industrial Zone, but a large number of flowers and trees are planted, all of which can purify the air and resist pollution.

This is one of the advantages of government-run industries. In many things, costs can be ignored, unlike private enterprises that are mercenary.

For example, in the current asbestos mining field, because many heavy industries of the Human Revolutionary Federation require fire cloth (ie, fireproof cloth) as protective clothing for workers, it is difficult to find a substitute for asbestos at this stage, so asbestos has to be mined.

Although Longsa uses the least harmful chrysotile, the harm of this kind of thing to the human body is still extremely terrifying.

Therefore, the mines that mine asbestos not only use a full range of closed operations, but the protection of miners is also extremely comprehensive, not only with filtering gas masks, but also full-body whale skin protective clothing, and the mines are constantly sprinkled with water to reduce dust.

After the mining is completed, the workers must wear protective clothing and protective masks and undergo a comprehensive cleaning in the shower room.

Immediately after entering a special locker room, the protective clothing will be taken off. The protective clothing will be sent to the secondary cleaning, and the miners will have a secondary bath.

The asbestos processing factory has similar protection management.

This is the advantage of government-run factories, which can be done regardless of cost. If private companies mine asbestos and make fireproof cloth, they don't care about the life and death of workers.

If it weren't for the fact that there were no alternative materials, Longsa would not have used asbestos.

The management of the manufactured fireproof cloth is also extremely strict. Before the fireproof cloth is aged, these fireproof cloths will be recycled and then be destroyed centrally (high temperature smelting).

In the control of industrial pollution, the People's Revolutionary Federation has made every effort to deal with it. It has been strictly managed from the beginning, and coupled with technical treatment, there is no serious industrial pollution problem now.

After all, if you let it go now, the price to be paid at that time may be hundreds or thousands of times, and it will have irreversible consequences for the lives and health of the people.

Longsha, Zheng Sen and others are not first-generation chemists, but super human beings with rich experience, and they will not make the mistake of polluting first and treating them later.

For example, the exhaust gas of iron and steel plants will recover waste heat, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, etc. The waste residue can be sent to cement, and the waste liquid will be subjected to chemical sedimentation and multiple filtration.

The conditions of the People's Revolutionary Federation were actually better than those of China in the 20th century, and the external conditions were different.

Right now, the People's Revolutionary Alliance is in the process of industrialization, and they have rich experience in industrial construction, so they can naturally avoid many pitfalls.

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Gu Shui

Song Que, wearing protective clothing, looked at the large vat of slightly smoking liquid in the copper-clad ceramic vat.

"This is concentrated nitric acid, which is one of the raw materials for making explosives."

"Chemistry is really amazing."

Longsha explained: "This thing can also be used as fertilizer."

"Chemical fertilizer?" Song Que was puzzled.

"Things that can increase the yield of crops are similar to manure, but the effect is more efficient and fast. The rational use of chemical fertilizers for one acre of Zhancheng rice can increase the yield several times."

"Double the output?" Song Que's worldview was refreshed again.

Longsha suggested: "Would you like to go to the new immigrant village near Keelung to see, there should be Champaign rice just about to be harvested."

"Okay."

After leaving the chemical plant, the carriage went all the way west.

Passing through Hegu Village, Song Que lifted the curtain and looked at the fields of soybeans, the poles were already full of fruitful pods.

"This is a village established at the beginning of last year. The next village was immigrated in September last year. Their Champaign rice is almost ready to be harvested."

Unconsciously, after walking another three kilometers, the carriage stopped at the village gate of Heguxi Village.

Militia captain Li Guangzong and others are leading the militia to harvest Champa rice on the farmland.

Longsha didn't disturb the others, but just sent someone to let the village's preacher go as usual, and she took Song Que to a paddy field.

The temperature in Keelung in February is already very high, around 26 degrees Celsius at noon. In East Asia in this era, the zero-degree isotherm is on the line of the Yellow River.

Almost 90% of the area of ​​Liuqiu is in the tropics, that is, Keelung is in the subtropical zone, and it is not obviously subtropical, and the winter is similar to that of Lingnan in later generations.

Therefore, Champaign rice can be grown all year round in Liuqiu.

Looking at the golden ears of rice, Song Que didn't need to weigh them, he knew that the yield per mu of rice in Zhancheng was very good.

Song Que smiled and shook his head:

"No wonder you are willing to occupy Liuqiu and Jian'an and other places first. Zhancheng rice can be grown three times a year in the southern land, and fertilizers can increase production. As long as the southern land is developed, the grain produced in one mu of land is equivalent to six mu in the northern land. The food, why does the world worry about it?"

Longsa did not deny it, she said something about last year:

"Liuqiu's grain production last year was really good. The 1.15 million mu of rice fields produced a total of 3.25 million stone rice and 960,000 stone beans."

"How much is the official treasury?" Song Que asked with concern.

Longsha converted the units: "Rice is about 1.27 million stone, and beans are 520,000 stone."

Song Que was silent. He knew that if there were no revolutionaries for these grains, they would be eaten by the landlords, and the peasants would not even think about food and clothing.

When he came to the village, he looked at the cement warehouses built by the villagers. Some of the dried rice was piled up like mountains in the warehouse.

In the past, such a scene could only appear in the home of the landlord.

Longsha said, "In the old days, Wang Xietang, Qianyan, flew into the homes of ordinary people."

Hearing this poem, Song Que was stunned for a moment, then he looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hahaha... This is the Great Harmony of the World, I agree with you."

Longsha shook her head: "The great cause of humanity has not yet succeeded, and it cannot be called the Great Harmony of the World."

"Being able to witness the advent of such a great cause, I, Song Que, have lived my life in vain, so let me do my part!" Song Que has decided to join.

"Welcome, we can call each other comrades in the future."

"Comrade... like-minded?" Song Que immediately understood the meaning of the title.

Following Song Que's official decision to join the Revolutionary Alliance, he visited Keelung for two days, then took a steamboat to Jian'an House, where he met Tang Feilin, who was based in Southeast Prefecture.

The two quickly completed the communication.

For Song Que's initiative to take refuge and his cooperation, Tang Feilin also reciprocated.

Song Que was appointed as the deputy minister of the military, Song Zhi was the governor of Guangnan Prefecture, and Song Lu was the deputy governor of Lingnan Prefecture.

Guangzhou is now Guidi and Vietnam.

Lingnan Prefecture is the Cantonese region except eastern Guangdong, plus Qiongzhou Island.

This restructuring work will be completed in the next three months. Song Que is temporarily responsible for the military in Lingnan and Guangnan.

In order to ensure the safe and stable transition of Lingnan, Zheng Sen transferred Hao Jian, plus Song Que, two great masters, a large number of Ke Dao martial artists, and Liu Qiu Squadron to help out, it was basically foolproof.

If there are still waves in Lingnan, then Zheng Sen will doubt the ability of Zheng Sen and Hao Jian.

Song Que, who was secretive, and after meeting with Hao Jian, who went south, felt that the People's Revolutionary Federation was terrifying, and he was another master at the master level.

Moreover, each of the more than 300 black-clothed guards started as second-rate experts. With the help of firearms, the People's Revolutionary Federation could severely damage Lingnan.

Song Que felt extremely grateful for his present.

After the two met, they quickly returned to Panyu with the Liuqiu Squadron.

As soon as he returned to Panyu, Song Que received a letter from Song Zhi.

"It seems that Comrade Song Zhi is very efficient!" Hao Jian laughed and joked.

Song Zhi's speed was indeed very fast. It was only ten days before Song left Lingnan. He convened the Lingnan Alliance in Yulin County, and then with the 20,000 troops in his hand, he suppressed hundreds of thousands of tribe soldiers.

Song Zhi killed 23 of the 35 chief chieftains in Lingnan on the spot, and the remaining 12 were escorted to Panyu under house arrest.

The soldiers brought by the chieftain were initially controlled by Song Zhi.

After all, the division of fields and the tax per mu and catty were a huge temptation for ordinary people in the feudal era.

Most of the Tusi's subordinates are poor ghosts. In ancient times, every place was like a bird. It is not the patent of the Central Plains that a good man should not be a soldier, and it is the same in other places.

In the tribe, these low-level soldiers are the personal belongings of the chieftain aristocrats, and if they are not poor, they will not be the main soldiers.

Song Zhi's strategy was very precise. He dealt with officers from nobles and landowners with thunderous means. As long as the publicity work was done well, a large number of the remaining soldiers could be attracted.

With the arrival of the more professional Hao Jian, the toasts all over Lingnan entered the countdown to destruction.

Song Que personally sat in Panyu and stabilized the whole of Lingnan.

Hao Jian and Song Zhi took their subordinates to clean up Guangnan Prefecture, where there were many chieftains.

As for the Qiongren toast on Qiongzhou Island, it was the most cowardly this time. Therefore, Qiongzhou Island was not cleaned up, but five local toasts were placed under house arrest.

Anyway, don't worry about Qiongzhou's troubles. After all, this place is surrounded by the sea, and there is no room for resistance in the face of the powerful navy.

The matter of Lingnan being annexed by the People's Revolutionary Federation did not spread to all parts of Jiangnan until a month later due to the inconvenience of transportation in this era and the chaos in various parts of Jiangnan.

At this time, the situation in Lingnan had been controlled by Hao Jian and Song Que.

There is no way for the heroes in Jiangnan to take advantage of the fire, not to mention that another major event occurred in Jiangnan at this time, causing further turmoil in Jiangnan.