Chapter 1: Left and right fire, Lei Gong helps me

Author: Carp and Carp Immortal

Chapter 1: Left and right fire, Lei Gong helps me

It was the fourth year of Shaoping, the Victorian era in Rome. The Qing Dynasty did not exist, Napoleon did not exist, and the British Empire did not exist.

The Ming Dynasty and Rome, two ancient empires, united in the distant past, ruled the world unstoppable. For the people, this was a peaceful and prosperous era of "using swallows to enjoy themselves, drunk and full." For the country, this was a peaceful world where "the country has no military power, and all directions are in harmony."

The two sides have the Great Wall that runs across the continent in the old world as a hard dividing line. However, in the new world, the dividing line between the two sides is not that clear.

There is a long neutral zone between the San Francisco Bay Area of ​​the Ming Dynasty and the Great Lakes of Rome, which is sometimes called the "Great Plains". It is full of deserts and water slums. It has different rain and heat, and the water and drought are irregular. There are often cold currents sweeping across the mainland.

This kind of agricultural hell was not valued in the pre-industrial era in the past, and only in recent years have large gathering areas such as "Las Vegas" with "special" effects.

San Francisco Guard, San Francisco, is the easternmost metropolis of the Ming Empire.

This land is called "Yangzhou" because it is the first to bathe in the sun - according to Rome, it is Asia and California.

The red bridge flies on the dark blue harbor. Maya, Mexica, and Tavantinsuyu are here to enshrine the "Dragon God Great Pyramid" that is brightly circulated day and night. The pyramids complement the pyramids. The "Kinmen Building" with a height of 41 floors and 187 meters in the Acropolis of San Francisco.

This building with red bricks and green glazed tiles is the tallest skyscraper in the entire New World and the resident of the Yangzhou Governor's Office.

At the gate of the Acropolis, Shangluo sat behind his workbench in Shang's watch shop.

The early summer sun shines in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, shining on the golden brass bells in the store. The golden light spreads on the shells of the clocks, making the store look warm yellow. The smell of wood fragrance and gear oil in the air are professional and reassuring.

After soaking a cup of tangerine peel water, Shangluo was checking today's work schedule. At a young age, he had soaked a full 5 wolfberry pieces and even planned to soak a few more pieces of Yangzhou ginseng.

"Ah, it's another day of peace in the world."

Looking back on his 16 years of life as a craftsman so far, he is very satisfied. Compared with his previous life, there is no need to work overtime, stay up late, no attendance, and no performance. As long as you complete the errands assigned by the court on time, you can get a stable salary.

The most important thing is that the court is very rich. The court pays a lot of money. It is so much that the allowance for business trips in Yangzhou, and it has a considerable income of up to 52 taels per month, so you can buy a car.

Apart from having to go to Yangzhou to work as an official businessman a few years ago, he had nothing to be dissatisfied with.

Shangluo himself actually doesn't need to work. Craftsmen are calculated based on household registration, and one person is enough for each household. And this is the turn of minors who are less than 16 years old to do the job, and they will only be considered adults if they get at least 20 years old. Not everyone has 52 taels per month, this is the price of old merchants.

Two months ago, the old merchant suddenly received a call and took the nearest military plane and left Shangluo alone. Now Shangluo’s main job is to look at the store and do some daily maintenance work.

As an outstanding dropout at the Wutaishan School in Nanjing, his craftsmanship is quite good. If he had not followed Yangzhou on business trips in the past four years, but continued to graduate from the school and other craftsmen until he graduated at the age of 16, his craftsmanship would probably be directly in the royal craftsmanship, and the craftsmanship of the old merchants would be there.

"They are about to graduate." Shangluo looked at the ceiling, and there was still light on. It was a seiko light bulb made by Nanjing Liuli Factory. It has never been broken once in four years.

The teaching institute is a place to cultivate craftsmen who can create fine bulbs, and is also a public school specially set up for the offspring of craftsmen. Correspondingly, military households also have training institutes. This is very important, because the identities of military households and craftsmen are now limited to themselves and cannot be passed on to their descendants. The offspring must also be admitted to them to become new military households and craftsmen.

The Wutai Mountain Teaching Institute in Shangluo is more special. It trains military craftsmen and the Wutai Mountain Teaching Institute next door that trains the imperial guards is a brother school. Shangluo's father also graduated from there and is now sent to the San Francisco Satellite on business trip. This watch shop that earns extra money on weekdays is also open at the gate of the Acropolis.

The store that earns extra money can only be opened at the gate of the Acropolis. Because only the people from the "Kinai", that is, the two capitals and 13 provinces, can enter at will. If you can't do business, otherwise he will have to apply for a temporary license plate for each client who makes an appointment.

"Well, I've almost finished drinking." He glanced at the work log and arranged for himself the work of dismantling and wiping the clock. He started working from 12 noon for a while and worked until he closed at 6 pm.

This is how he works. For some reason, since he went to the Wutaishan School, he always felt that he had an unusual "inspiration" when manipulating mechanical parts. As long as he was familiar with every part, the structure of the entire machine would be suddenly understood, and the principles of operation from the surface and inside seemed to be exhausted.

Just like the cook who can follow the laws of nature, there is no complete cow in his eyes, only the bone structure of the cow. Just like the oil seller can pour a gourd oil from the hole of the copper coin without wetting the copper coin - nothing else, but you can do it.

But he seemed to be very familiar with his skills, as if the principles of the operation of these clock structures were already in his mind, and he could be familiar with them as soon as he started. This was also the reason why Shangluo was considered able to enter the craftsmanship supervisor at that time. He was indeed a genius.

After coming to Yangzhou, Shangluo did not continue to teach in the teaching center. But somehow, he could feel that his craft was getting more and more sophisticated, and even vaguely felt that something seemed to be called "qi" was flowing between the gears.

This may be the object of Investigation, although it is not Investigation. Compared with the boringness of Investigation, the alarm clock is quite fun.

At 12 o'clock, the bells in the watch shop both reported the time. The mechanical gears, cycloid wheels, oscillators, and brass movements operated in the brass case. The mechanical parts were simple and harmoniously moved to perform Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".

He put the tangerine peel aside and prepared to turn on the lamp on the table to fill the light. The warm yellow light in the room was a little dim, so he still had to increase the brightness when working.

Shangluo put his hand on the switch of the desk lamp.

Shangluo tossed the switch.

With a "bang", the table lamp broke and the light bulb on its head exploded. The Seiko bulb that had not been broken for 4 years has now become powder, and the glass residue has fallen into the teacup.

"Good guy, what kind of magic skills have I developed?" He looked at his hands in disbelief. He always felt that his "inspiration" might be a sense of qi, and he could feel the aura.

"If it is spiritual energy, then there should be spiritual roots? Then what kind of spiritual roots are I? The one who exploded the light bulb was the thunder spirit root?"

Suddenly, the phone rang. Shangluo, who was thinking about practicing the thunder method, heard the phone and had to get up to answer.

Ten seconds later, he put down the phone.

"What's the matter? I thought I could practice immortality. It turned out that something happened to the power plant. I felt strange. It's less than 10 years since the generator was invented. Why did I use the civil power grid so quickly? Fortunately, it doesn't cost money, otherwise I wouldn't pay the electricity bill if the power ends were cut off every few days."

This time the power outage is more outrageous than the previous few times. The previous few times just turned off the lights suddenly, and this time even the light bulb exploded. Who knows what will be blown up next time?

But the call was not an apology. The call was asked to go back to save the venue - this is why the store was not opened too far from the Acropolis. If there is an urgent matter like now, the old merchant can rush over immediately. Although the old merchant is not there, he said that he would come over to ask for someone no matter what. Shangluo was going to find a reason to make excuses when he met.

After a while, an off-road military vehicle stopped at the door.

"Mr. Shang is here?"

"He's out." Shang Luo poked his head out of the inner room. He was far away from the workbench, afraid that someone would see that he could indeed work.

"You are. Ah, you are Mr. Xiao Shang, are you? The one who is very famous in Wutai Mountain Military Crafts Training Institute. I heard that you have a slight and delicate heart?"

"Well, someone said that."

That was when I was a kid.

Shangluo remembers that sometimes he would be confused by "studying things", and he would even rumor something, but his teacher joked that it was "little bigan" because bigan with "seven orifices and exquisite hearts" could also communicate with all things in the world.

If Bi Gan had an alarm clock at that time, and with his talent as "Seven Orifices and Deep Heart", he could be at least an eighth-level fitter.

"That's right, hurry up and go with me. If I can repair it, I can remember a good record in my resume. We don't understand how that thing is transferred, and the old military craftsmen in the garage station can understand it very much. Generators are new things, which have only been available in recent years."

Shang Luo originally wanted to refuse, but the guard soldier walked in and pulled him into the car: "It's okay! Let's go and take a look! Take a look! I won't blame you if I can't repair it!"

As he said that, he pressed Shangluo to the back seat. The off-road vehicle fell and drove back to the Acropolis, driving all the way to the power plant in the Craftsman District.

The car drove unobstructed along the way, and the car drove to the gate of the computer room. The door was open, and the roar of these machines as soon as they got off the car made his eardrums hurt. The steam engine was operating normally, but the lights in the factory were also turned off.

It was a tower high-speed steam engine that had just been invented for less than two years, which could output strong power at a high speed of 450 rpm. Every cylinder and piston was built by professionals, even in the entire empire, with less than 200 boilers installed in the factory next door. The boilers installed in the factory next door are also high-end goods.

This power plant is one of the first power plants built in the world, and in the true sense - before this, electric lights have been widely used. But like the steam engines in the factory, buildings that use electric lights will also have their own small steam engine and generator to generate electricity.

The power plants here in San Francisco are experimental in nature because they are experimenting with two new technologies: "power grid" and "long-distance transmission". With the power grid, power supply can be concentrated in the power plant, and there is no need to bring your own generators in the places where electricity is used. This is a new technology of revolutionary significance, and new technologies will naturally have new problems.

"So the question is that big guy?"

"No, it's small." The guards pointed to a much smaller machine next to the steam engine connecting rod. The red and blue cables were connected from above to the outside. That was the generator. At this time, the generator was prohibited from moving, and a yellow paper talisman was pasted on it.

Three old fitters were standing in front of the generator with their hands folded in front of the generator and chanting. On the red bench in front of them were three listening green cans of Wangzai milk and three cigarettes. The three of them bowed to the red bench while chanting something.
Chapter completed!