The exterior of this off-road Rolls-Royce is different from other vehicles, and the key parts of the body and the positions where people sit are protected by thin steel plates, which are about two millimeters thick, which are rolled by the steel mill with a newly produced hot rolling mill. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Of course, it is impossible for the whole vehicle to be covered with thin steel plates, and the main part is still dominated by hardwood. Among them, there is even a car is a special rosewood luxury type, Xiao Jing originally wanted to leave this Rolls-Royce for the lumber mill for his own use, but after discussion by the Ministry of Commerce, it was decided to give this rosewood Rolls-Royce to Zhu Youxiao, and in the end Xiao Jing had no choice but to give up, after all, he had the only wooden gas version of the Senate, and he was the only one who was the most stylish when he usually traveled.

Depending on the official road conditions that may exist along the route, it is not possible to drive the Rolls-Royce entirely by manpower, so several of the Rolls-Royces in this batch are equipped with engines. Instead of a wooden structure, these Rolls-Royces are built entirely of steel, which in addition to a pedal drive system that can be driven by human power, there is also a six-cylinder Stirling engine, the advantage of the Stirling engine is that it does not require the use of water at all, only needs to heat the cylinders to heat and expand the air inside to generate power. However, the strength of the Stirling engine is still too far behind that of a gasoline engine or a steam engine, so only these loads must be supplemented by manpower or even animal traction when the slope is more than 10 degrees.

Just for the production of these Rolls-Royce, the lumber mill and the steel mill produced a large number of special accessories, which took more than ten days to install, and for the expedition of the northbound detachment, the vehicle factory also prepared a large number of spare parts, especially bearings and other wearing parts, which were enough to travel 20,000 kilometers. To talk about the Oriental Port this spare parts is not to show off wealth, but the hardware factory can now provide the quality of the bearing is not very reassuring, the steel ring is broken or the steel ball is broken is not unusual, the material is not up to par with what to do is easy to leak. Under the leadership of Li Jin, it is already very difficult for the metallurgical department to make this material of steel at this stage, even in the eighteenth century in the old world. However, the patriarchs do not think so, they were born and raised in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, and they are deeply impressed by the high-quality metal materials of that era, and absolutely do not agree with this "shoddy" product. Li Jin had no choice but to turn his head and throw the pressure on Zhang Yuan again.

To solve the material problem, one of the most important is the temperature control and carburizing process of smelting, and the other is steel rolling. Because the smelting equipment is mainly used from the old time and space, although it has a service life, it will not break down immediately in the past few years, so there is still no big problem in the production process, and the remaining problem is naturally the rolling equipment. But at present, Zhang Yuan can only spread the production and research and development work of rolling equipment, he has no way at all, these things move a few tons and dozens of tons, especially a 10,000-ton hydraulic press. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the old world began to develop in 59 years, and it was not put into production until 62 years, and it took nearly four years - that was still carried out with the support of heavy equipment production plants such as Jiangnan Shipyard, and at present, it is simply a fool's dream to force the hydraulic press with the existing industrial capacity of Dongfang Port, rather than peeing against the wind to attack the hydraulic press or rolling equipment, it is better to focus on the production of machine tools, the deployment of power generation equipment, and the increase of mass production of steel.

Since it is unlikely that the steel material will improve in the short term, there is only one option left, which is to provide as many spare parts as possible, and replace them if there is a problem. Anyway, it is normal to replace spare parts for machinery and equipment, and it can also improve the labor proficiency of machine repair workers. Therefore, this time, the convoy of the northbound detachment specially vacated a Rolls-Royce cargo type to transport and provide replacement parts, and the veteran of the good thing specially calculated an account, such a convoy, even if it is to replace a transmission gear every 50 kilometers, can easily drive to Beijing. In addition to the two people in charge of driving, the truck with parts was accompanied by two special investigators, both armed with carbines to protect the parts.

In addition to all kinds of gifts for Zhu Youxiao, the truck also carried a large amount of supplies -- grain, canned food, and drinking water. With the official start of tinplate production, the Port Orient canneries were also established. There are not many types of products in canneries, mainly canned fruits, canned fish and meat. There are many sources of fruits in Oriental Port, and there are quite a lot of fruits in the subtropical tropics of Annam. First of all, of course, is the coconut, which is produced in large quantities, and this pulp-rich and juicy fruit is the most popular, and coconut trees can be found everywhere along the seaside of Vostochny Port. In March and April, the coconuts are ripe, and the farm warehouse is full of harvested coconuts. Of course, no one would go out of their way to fill the cans of coconuts, which are almost perfect cans in their own right, and the convoy carried almost 500 more than 500 coconuts, mainly to prevent them from quenching their thirst when there is no water; The other is papaya, and the elders of the Committee of Agriculture were surprised to find that there was papaya directly in Annan, and they couldn't tell the local people why, but said that it was imported from overseas. Moreover, these papayas are multiplied in many places, and the Committee of Agriculture made a transplantation attempt around May, transplanting thousands of papaya trees into the farm's cash crop garden, and it is not yet known what the results will be, and the results will not be seen until around August; At this stage, these two common fruits do not need to be canned, so the only thing that can be canned is pineapple.

In view of the constant conflict between the salty and sweet parties of the senators, and the inevitable conflict between the senators if only one was produced, the method adopted by the cannery was to make both. Sugar water pineapple is filled by tinplate cans, and it is practical to break it directly with a steel can opener when in use, and the brine has a certain corrosion of tinplate, if it is directly filled, it is likely to be corroded, leaked and deteriorated after a certain period of storage, so the canned pineapple in salt water is directly used in glass bottles. In order to prevent corrosion, a layer of shellac is specially coated between the iron cap and the can, and it is required to store the iron cap upwards when storing.

Canned fish is not as popular as canned fruit, you must know that the 8154 cruiser has always been one of the tasks that must be completed when patrolling, and the Navy Pier has always been one of the fishing unloading docks. At this stage, there is a lack of poultry eggs and meat in the whole port of the East, but the only thing that is not lacking is fish, whether in the market or in the canteen, the only open supply is fish. Not only were the elders who were cheering for eating seafood every day when they landed, but even most of the naturalized people were getting tired of eating fish. At first, the food factory was a little hesitant about whether to produce canned fish, but Tang Shuai's direct sentence made Huang Feihu make up his mind to produce, "Of course we have to produce, otherwise what if there are so many fish?" Do you want to use it all as fertilizer? ”

It is said that there are indeed so many fish in Dongfang Port that they can't eat them all, and many worthless fish are directly sent to crush and then provided to the Committee of Agriculture as fertilizer after being caught, so that Sun Wenbin's compost has been reduced a lot. After all, waste is not a good thing, especially to fish so many fish out of the sea and send them as fertilizer, which is really inappropriate for the Senate, which has always paid attention to economy and revolution, so Tang Shuai took on the supervision of the production of canned sea fish.

In fact, no matter how delicious the food is, it will taste worse when it is canned, and this kind of steamed canned fish will not taste much better. If you want to make canned fish delicious, it is nothing more than to add more condiments to make the taste better. In addition to adding more salt and MSG, soy sauce has become the only way to enhance the taste of canned sea fish. In addition to these, there is another artifact to enhance the taste - tempeh, since the food factory began to produce soy sauce, the production of tempeh has also been put on the agenda at the same time, although the number is not particularly large, about thirteen or fourteen in a can, but for the taste of the whole canned fish The effect is obvious, and now this canned fish is no longer the first unpalatable product of the Senate canning factory, but the second unpalatable.

As for the first unpalatable, it was surprising to all the patriarchs - canned ham. Canned ham, also known as canned luncheon meat in the old time and space, is a mixture of meat produced through special processing, and these meats come from a wide range of sources, mainly mules, horses, cattle and other livestock killed in previous battles, as well as processed meat such as pigs and chickens that have been purchased. The source of these meats is not easy and the amount is small, so the proportion of starch mixed in them during the manufacture is correspondingly increased, so that these luncheon meats can feel a thick starchy taste in the mouth.

Even many veterans who deeply miss ham sausages and luncheon meat are full of deep resentment when they eat these canned hams, and they continue to criticize how the food factory headed by Huang Feihu concocts these "meat of unknown origin". This kind of verbal criticism has also had a certain impact on the naturalized people, and many naturalized people have now begun to boycott such canned food, feeling that it is immoral for food factories to fool themselves with such "canned meat".

Even so, canned ham has become one of the special types of canned food for the army under pressure. For no other reason, canned ham is rich in fat, salt, water and sugar, which can meet the training needs of soldiers for a day and replenish sufficient nutrients. If raw meat is served directly, then the raw meat may cause unexpected problems during storage and cooking, which will cause greater waste. In comparison, this kind of canned pre-cooked meat products is much simpler, and relatively speaking, the cooking soldiers are much more satisfied with this kind of canned food, just open it with a can opener and then chop it and throw it into a large pot, almost without worrying about spoilage.

However, at this stage, canned ham is still popular to a certain extent in the army, after all, the soldiers train intensively every day and need a lot of nutritional supplements. These "mud legs" from a year ago may not have eaten meat like this in their lives, and even if they are from unknown sources, they can't eat them even during the New Year's holiday, so the army's call for this kind of canned food is still relatively high. However, with the gradual expansion of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of the Senate, it is conceivable that the meat that can be provided will be greatly increased in the near future, and it is difficult to say whether canned ham will still be so popular with the army at that time.

Of course, the northbound detachment carried a large number of these canned sea fish and ham, canned spinach, canned mashed potatoes, and even canned pineapples, each with enough to make people eat for half a month, and also a large amount of coconuts. In addition to these canned foods, there are also special dry food-grinding bricks, which are packaged in oil-paper packaging for ready-to-eat rations, and the shelf life can reach about a year at room temperature. These canned food and dry food were enough to ensure that the whole convoy traveled on the road for a month, and given that it was impossible for the convoy to go to Jingshi without passing through cities and villages along the way, they could also use the money to buy food along the way for supplies, so that it should not be possible to run out of food on the way to Jingshi.

As for ammunition, in order to ensure safety along the way, the entire escort detachment carries a surprising amount of ammunition reserves. Machine gun bullets are divided into 1,629 light machine guns with 1,000 rounds, of course, it is certainly not enough to use these bullets to deal with the Manchu iron cavalry, but on the way north along the way, they are all under the jurisdiction of the Wu Dynasty government, and it is impossible to encounter an enemy of that scale, even if there is a rebellion in Henan and other places now, it is just a refugee with a hoe and a wooden stick as a weapon, and it is simply a part of feeding bullets in front of the machine gun, so the machine gun is mainly used as a deterrent and when breaking through. The ammunition of ordinary soldiers is even more amazing, each revolver is equipped with sixty rounds, because the revolver is too slow to reload ammunition, so this thing is mainly used to save life at the end, so each special investigator is equipped with two revolvers; The 1628 shotguns have 100 shotguns with 100 rounds each, and these shotguns are equipped with buckets that can be loaded with six to eight shotguns to ensure continuous firing; The carbines have two hundred and fifty rounds of ammunition each, and each carbine is equipped with three magazines, which can be quickly replaced in combat to improve the continuity of fire; The hexagonal rifle used as a sniper rifle has 100 rounds per gun, and these guns are accurate in fire and are used to kill enemy leaders and intimidate enemy forces during combat.

The vast majority of the people in the entire northbound detachment are naturalized people, but after all, there is still a need for veterans to lead the team, and several veterans in the northbound detachment personally led the team to the north this time.

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