Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 57

Chapter 57, Curious Engineer

: Just because they have engines doesn’t mean they have cars or engineering machines.

Chassis, moving parts, suspension system, transmission system, body design, control system… To build a good car, there are many things needed besides the engine.

However, the problem of good or bad can be solved later. With a suitable power source, everything starts.

To put it bluntly, if you use alloy plastic steel for the entire frame, the entire transmission rod, and some wheels, and make a three-wheeled trampoline that can run, and pull a cart behind it, it will be much better than using human or animal power.

Now that we have the engine, if we can come up with some design plans for vehicles and engineering machines later, the heavy industry in Gu Hang’s territory will be able to take another big step forward.

Before that, Gu Hang plans to find someone to design a simple car that can move, improve transportation efficiency, and export it. If the output is good and the performance is good enough, we can make a small three-wheeled truck and equip our troops, which will be a motorized infantry regiment at best.

Gu Hang came to his secret base, where a basement was dug and a wall was built. The loyal and reliable mecha soldiers received strict orders to stay here and not let anyone in.

Of course, the governor could enter at will.

Here, the two technologies and four black box manufacturing machines that were previously extracted are all there.

In addition, a lot of open space has been reserved. On the one hand, it is left for the four existing machines to feed and produce; on the other hand, it is also convenient to place more machines in the future.

He configured the two new machines.

There are also workers in this secret factory. The confidentiality level is high, so they are not allowed to leak the news. They are required to live in the factory and are not allowed to go out without special circumstances. They will also be monitored when they go out.

They poured the raw materials into the finished black box for producing engines. Soon, under Gu Hang’s initial settings, two engines, one large and one small, that met his requirements were produced.

These two engines will be sent to the research institute and handed over to the technician who came down from the Quintet to figure out.

Anyway, there is no clue about the breakthrough of the self-produced synthetic starch production line, and it is a bit difficult to make it. There is no way. The industrial and scientific research foundations under Gu Hang are shabby. Even if it is relatively basic technology in the scale of the entire imperial civilization, it is difficult to come up with it.

This also indirectly proves how valuable the scientific and technological functions in Gu Hang’s system are.

To be frank, if Gu Hang wants to meet the biennial tax payment in the future, whether the things given by the technology panel can be used well will be the key.

If Gu Hang has the ability to build the Angry Owl Star into a small forging world, then the lowest level of imperial tax will not be a problem at all.

Let’s talk about the present.

Two finished products were first made with black boxes, and when the research institute has a specific application plan, more can be made.

The black box of the production line is not in a hurry to move first. Similarly, when the application plan can be implemented, it will start to produce engines at full capacity.

There is no need to rush these.

…

The person who was placed high hopes by Gu Hang, who was supposed to figure out how to overcome the technical difficulties of synthetic starch and come up with an application plan for the “grindstone” engine, was scratching his head with a mechanical hand and calculating his secret factory.

Wu Jiarong was really curious.

She came from a forge world, was a technical specialist, and had the potential to be promoted to a mechanic.

But… the internal strife of the Mechanicum was much more serious than outsiders imagined. She lost the fight, not only did she fail to be promoted, but all her property and knowledge also became someone else’s. By the way, she also lost her personal freedom and was paid as an imperial tax.

Although she couldn’t be considered lucky after that, at least her situation didn’t get worse.

After all, she was a technical specialist, not a slave laborer. When the Pegasus Fleet needed personnel reinforcements, she was thrown into the Quintet and worked there for ten years.

She had already accepted her fate.

After leaving the Forge World and the Mechanicus system, it was unlikely that she would have any room for advancement. Even though there were more than one technical specialist on the Quintet, and there were even several technical priests, it was difficult for her to be accepted as a student and strive for the opportunity to be taken away from the starship in the future and have further development.

In fact, after a long time, she felt that there was nothing wrong with her current life.

It was not too busy, there was no need for intrigue, she did her own thing, and maintained her part of the starship structure – especially the logistics system. She still had a group of slaves and junior specialists under her, who obeyed her management and deployment.

As for herself, she also had some free time after work, which she could use to study things she was interested in and make some small gadgets, which was also quite entertaining.

This life seemed to be not bad.

And just when she had almost accepted her fate, a transfer order from Brigadier General Ye Lishia sent her and several junior specialists to the surface of the earth, along with the production line and spare parts of synthetic starch.

The good days were over.

That’s what she thought.

Wu Jiarong found that she couldn’t seem to accept her fate. As soon as she accepted her fate, fate would slap her in the face and slap her one level lower to see if she still accepted it.

Ten years ago, she didn’t win the fight and admitted defeat. When she was planning to consider promotion next time, she was hunted down and became an imperial tax and could never go back. Now, she no longer struggled and thought it would be nice to spend the rest of her life on a starship. She even planned to find a man to marry and have a baby before her body transformation reached her belly. But she was sent to the surface of the Angry Owl Star.

Anyway, there will always be a lower limit.

But what can she do?

She can only work hard and never complain.

However, after coming to the surface, she found that… it seemed that the situation was not as bad as she imagined?

She knew that Governor Gu could be said to have developed this place from scratch. The industrial base and scientific research base were almost zero.

But other than that, everything else was good!

She had no worries about food and clothing, and the food was even better than on the starship. Although she had received the order from the governor to study how to realize the synthetic starch technology under limited conditions, she did not need to eat synthetic starch herself.

According to the work point calculation method developed by the governor, her work points were quite high, and the rations were of good quality and quantity. She

could get the sun during the day and the night breeze at night, which were not available on the starship.

More importantly, she found the long-lost “goal” again.

This thing may sound empty, but in reality it is actually just one thing: knowing what the meaning of what you do is.

She saw the refugees from Fuxing City in the camp who were not getting enough food. To be honest, she did not have much sympathy for this, but it was not a bad thing to be able to feed them through her own research. At that time, she could see people’s smiling faces, she could get praise from the governor, and she could know that her work was really changing something.

Unlike on the starship, day after day, year after year, there was no clear work results. There seems to be little difference between maintaining those artillery pieces and machines every day and maintaining them at intervals.

Besides, the synthetic starch project given by the Governor is also quite interesting.

It is challenging, but it seems to be within her ability.

She is motivated to do a good job.

In addition to motivation and goals, she also found another thing that has been lost for a long time:

curiosity.

She is so curious about what happened to the Governor’s secret factory.

(End of this chapter)