There was a heavy snowfall just last night, and the haze accumulated in the gray sky finally vented, so today we finally have a rare good weather. The air has been washed and refreshed, and there is no longer the pungent smell of the past, and the black color of the steam boiler factory building
The smoke was completely covered by white snow. The small town that was dark and gray the day before suddenly became brighter and brighter today, with a layer of white clothes. Standing on the street, the blue sky seemed like a bottomless pool.
From the lake, you can clearly see stretches of towering snow-capped mountains on the horizon. Occasionally, huge gray-blue airships will tear through the huge cold air currents in the sky, slowly move across the mountainside, and then sound several high-pitched whistles.
Voice
"These hateful businessmen are not afraid of causing an avalanche on Lilac Peak!" An angry voice came from the side.
People who got up early to shovel snow on both sides of the broad road laughed when they heard the sound. After shoveling the snow, they began to finish their work one after another.
Cassia shook her head and smiled, shoveled the few snow on the road in front of the house into a lump, patted it a few times to compact it, stepped on cheap boots with rubber soles that were already full of snow, and walked towards the door of the house behind her with the shovel.
Putting the shovel at the door, Cassia took off her rubber shoes, gently opened the aged wooden door in front of her, stepped inside quietly, and closed the door with her backhand.
Thick dark curtains cover the windows, and no natural light can penetrate through the fabric. The room is very dark, and only the silently burning stove in the middle of the house contributes weak light and heat, coating the narrow residence with a fine layer of light.
The dim light cannot be detected.
There are heating pipes in the house, and a large copper bell plays a non-stop lullaby.
Cassia's mother was sleeping soundly on the side of the stove, her breathing rising and falling evenly. Because the imperial reclassification was coming, factories all over the town were working overtime, and the textile factory where Cassia's mother worked was also exhausted these days.
He worked overtime vigorously. In the past few days, his mother came back very late at night. The noble men who managed the textile factory would not pity these lowly civilian productivity. In their eyes, lowly civilians were the same as those who were everywhere in the empire.
Countless steam machines are the same, they are just machines that should work non-stop until they are scrapped for the sake of their wealth.
No one would expect those at the top of the empire to be kind to the common people at the bottom. The empire itself is like most of the nobles, and the common people themselves are the same. Their extravagant hope is that these factories can give them the remuneration they deserve on time.
And we don’t find all kinds of strange reasons to hinder it, just deduct a part of it.
On the other side of the stove, under the thick quilt, the petite body of Cassia's sister Lilia also bulged. In front of the neat pillow, a pair of black and smart eyes were staring at Cassia, as deep as a night without dawn.
Pure but like a frozen lake in early spring, but at this moment, it revealed the haziness of not having enough sleep. Because she was afraid of the cold, she held the quilt tightly with her two little hands, letting the warm quilt wrap herself tightly
Only a pair of eyes, a pair of curved eyebrows, and a piece of scattered hair on the forehead were exposed outside the quilt.
Cassia made a silent gesture, signaling her sister to continue sleeping. Lilia nodded, her black eyes blinked and fell into haze again.
Quietly walking into her small room separated from the house, Cassia closed the heavy dark blue curtain and then lit the gas lamp in front of the table. There were several thick books placed on one side of the table.
They are basically books about the history of steam machinery transmission and theology, and the worn marks on them show that they have been read countless times.
On the other side, there is an admission notice written in large golden characters, which reads:
"Cassia Tussos, congratulations on your admission to the Imperial Heavy Industry School, an affiliated institution of our school. Please report to our school on the 1st of the 1096th year of the Holy Calendar."
The signature is: "Saint Dorag Military School!"
The Military School is the output point of the empire's highest force and the largest source of the most elite soldiers in the history of the empire. It is the only school in the empire that can be as famous as Saint Dorag Theological Seminary. If the seminary represents the empire
The highest level of technology, commanders, politicians, businessmen, agents,,,, then the military school represents the highest level of force, soldiers, generals, assassins in the empire,,,,,,
The Imperial Heavy Industry is one of the schools affiliated with the Military School, majoring in mechanical heavy industry and various types of machinery manufacturing. Simply put, it is weapons manufacturing. Firearms, cold weapons, heavy trucks, light and heavy armor, aircraft
Aircraft, cruisers, boats, electrical appliances,,,,,, whether it is equipment that has appeared before people's eyes, or the secret war preparation storage of the military department, most of the parts on all equipment are marked with the Imperial Heavy Industries logo.
This is the strength of Imperial Heavy Industries, and the reason why it is called the Imperial Next-Generation Factory. With the empire’s history of more than 800 years, its heritage and strength are unquestionable.
When Cassia received this heavy admission notice from the postman, she already understood that this was not only an opportunity for her to make a career, but more importantly, it was also an opportunity for her to make her mother and sister live a better life.
Opportunity.
His father died on the battlefield five years ago. Cassia's father, who was originally a second-class warrant officer, should have an extremely generous family pension. However, after the news of his father's death in battle came, the money was paid by the empire.
, passed through the hands of layers of agencies, and when they arrived at Cassia and the others, only a tiny bit of oil and water was left in the extremely generous pension. They were just a group of despicable and shameless blood flies who lived on carrion. As long as they passed through
The creatures in their territory would swarm over, stretch out their ugly mouthparts to take a sip, and then fall intoxicated at the resting place, with confusion in their compound eyes.
Moreover, it turned out that the residence distributed by Cassia's father, a second-level warrant officer, was forcibly taken back when his father died.
A dead person cannot create any value for the empire. Only by living can you enjoy the rights and wealth of your position. When you die, everything is overthrown, and what is left in the end is just a simple entry in the records of the Imperial Military Department.
And this record is only the storage capacity of the five small gears in the super analysis machine's storage.
Cassia's father's life was finally transformed into five gears made of red copper, finely polished, treated and silver-plated.
Cassia can still clearly remember that when she was kicked out of the house by several government officials five years ago, the residents on the entire floor held their children tightly and came out to watch the three of them silently pack their luggage and walk out of the floor.
Until the scene when they were swallowed up by the building and disappeared. The eyes of these people were deeply imprinted in the mind of young Cassia. There was sympathy and intolerance in them, but most of them were through the eyes, reaching straight to the fear in the heart. Because they
Her husband is also on the front line. What happened to Cassia and the others will happen to them at some point.
Then Cassia followed her mother with a huge suitcase. Her mother carried a heavy suitcase and held Lilia full of tears in her arms. The three of them traveled together to the rear of the empire, a frontier with only winter and summer.
, a small town at the foot of Lilac Mountain.
Cassia felt the weight of life for the first time. While continuing to study in a local school, she worked in a small town steam machinery factory. From the most basic hard work as a coolie, to using the knowledge in books to work as a small
On the path of becoming a mechanic, five years passed in a flash.
Just like the alternation of winter and summer on Lilac Peak, it is silent and traceless.
Picking up a few pieces of bread, swallowing them with last night's cold water, and putting on simple work clothes made of coarse cloth, Cassia quietly went out and started working. By this time, Lilia was already immersed in a deep sleep.
The huge chimneys of the steam factory are constantly emitting thick black smoke, and the two shifts of work in the morning and evening make the factory always the longest surviving creature in the small town.
The factory has never been a clean and tidy place. The roar of huge gears, the air filled with hot steam and thick smoke, the dark and damp ground under your feet, the huge, heavy and thick steam machinery with all kinds of gears hanging on the thick shafts are intricate and complex.
, there is a layer of rust attached to the surface, and the rusty metal pipes can stain the whole palm with just a touch of the hand, the various valve interfaces that are still spewing hot air intermittently, and the dazzling red light that is shining all the time, disturbing.
There are countless indicator lights in people's minds, and more importantly, the curses filled with swear words that can always linger in the ears...,,,,,
This is the driving force and heart that supports the undefeated prosperity of the empire. The popularization and development of industry have reached unprecedented levels. The manufacturing of various types of machinery is the greatest guarantee for the citizens of the empire to survive and reproduce in countless harsh natural environments. It is also the "Creation War"
"After it started, the Shengduolag Empire was able to rise rapidly in the Houxiang Continent in just a few decades, quickly annexing the territories of dozens of surrounding countries with unparalleled momentum, and becoming a powerful country on the Houxiang Continent in one fell swoop.
The huge development of industry has an indispensable role in promoting it.
The factory where Cassia is located is one of the tens of millions of steam factories on the continent of the empire.
The small factory is a matchbox-like building, wrapped in layers of refurbished iron sheets sprayed with blue paint. The steel frame door is wide open, and the hot air erupts into steam at the door, creating white smoke, mixed with heavy engine oil.
The smell of smell and rust soared into the sky.
The workers under the iron sheet were in full swing. Cassia put on a yellow safety hat. The boss of the factory was named Vixey. He stood beside a forging machine with his trademark big head bare, holding a product record book in his hand to calculate the work that should be completed today.
Yield.
"Cassia, we have to go to Manoma in a few days, why don't you hurry up and contribute more to this old factory that is about to die!" Vixey saw Cassia coming in, so he picked it up with a free hand.
Put the number plate on the forging machine, and then throw it to Cassia.
Cassia took the sign and smiled as she walked, showing a row of white teeth. The die forging machine next to her fell heavily, and the whole factory shook with it. Although there was an anti-shock device under the huge machine that was more than ten meters deep into the ground.
, but when the iron block weighing dozens of tons lifted by the steam turbine falls, its force cannot be completely offset by human machinery.
Then several lines of thick white mist spewed out from the valve, as if the pressure of the deep sea caused it to spray out several meters away before stopping. The steam turbine started, the huge iron block was lifted, and dozens of people immediately surrounded it. Several lines were as thick as an adult's thigh.
The iron chain lifted up a roughly formed giant gear and slowly moved it to the machine for the next process.
After further fine machining, and finally flame treatment to eliminate internal stress, this gear can be shipped to the front of the empire as a standard piece.
Cassia nimbly shuttled between several machines, and finally arrived at the bottom of the factory building. There was no huge machinery standing here, and there was almost no vibration. There were just patches of indicator lights.
Before arriving at her post, Cassia put on thin white gloves, took out the key hanging around her neck and opened the locked drawer. Inside were densely packed precision tools and a password inlaid with hundreds of precision gears.
card.
Lifting the soft white cloth covering the table, underneath is a perpetual calendar mechanical watch that has not yet been completely assembled. There are still thirteen small parts left, and the watch is considered complete.
Cassia came into contact with watchmaking when she still had the memory of her father. As a second-class warrant officer, his father had a basic military-made perpetual calendar watch, which he used to check the date, month, year, central sea current direction and astrology at any time. The astrology can be roughly inferred.
The weather trends in recent days are very important information for merchants and armies who use airships to sail. Because airships that fight against the forces of nature end up turning into wreckage.
At that time, when his father came back, Cassia would use a magnifying glass to observe the densely packed and wonderfully functioning gears on the dial with great interest. Later, several books on clock precision accumulated Cassia's entire knowledge of clock assembly.
Being able to get this relatively easy and well-paying job was definitely helped by my childhood interests.
The installation of the thirteen gears took Cassia almost a day. It was not until dusk fell in the small town that Cassia completed the final installation.
Finally able to wipe the fine sweat from her forehead, Cassia didn't have time to rest. She then took out the password card from the drawer, pulled out the steam outlet connected to the rubber tube next to the table, and inserted the red copper interface into it.
In the password card interface.
The gears condensed in the password card started to rotate rapidly the moment it was connected to the steam outlet, as if it had endless vitality. Then Cassia inserted it into a card slot in front of him. It was the Type Zero Difference Machine, the last machine in the empire.
The computing power of this model of difference engine is at the peak of the difference engine and is at the foot of any analytical engine. But for such a small factory, the performance of the zero-type difference engine is completely sufficient.
A calculation branch of the Zero Difference Engine was activated, and the password card was loaded with the program for the perpetual calendar watch to adjust the accurate time, month, year and astrological currents. Artificial adjustment of time will cause a large error, and this error will be naturally infinite.
Zoom in. Therefore, the adjustment of such fine clocks has always been replaced by reliable procedures.
The machine in front of the table began to operate. Six golden inner hexagonal copper pillars were oriented at the tip of a hexagram. Cassia picked up the watch. The six transmission pillars fit into the clock without any gaps, and then began to rotate slowly. The display on the clock began to change.
The precise adjustment of a watch takes about one night. There is no accumulated work at the moment, and Cassia plans to go back to spend time with her sister Lilia.
A few days passed quietly like this.
One afternoon a few days later, the atmosphere in the factory never changed. Cassia held tweezers in her hands and was installing a certain gear with the help of a magnifying glass.
The metal instruments stacked on the table suddenly began to vibrate, and then made a rustling sound of rubbing against each other. Then the vibration did not disappear, and the amplitude began to gradually increase. Finally, the entire factory became quiet at this moment, and only the valves had high pressure.
The sound of gas gushing sounded alone.
Vibrations with a certain strange pattern spread through the earth's veins to every corner of the small town, truly spreading through the earth into everyone's body.
So, after this moment of sudden silence, the quiet atmosphere of the small town, which had turned into a still life painting, finally regained its vitality in the sound of an extremely high and clear whistle that seemed to penetrate the air and tear apart countless buildings.
The sound of the whistle was like lightning in a black stormy night, lighting up the entire town in an instant.
People in the factory began to cheer and curse, and residents in the small town began to celebrate with cheers.
The only imperial rearrangement of the year has finally arrived. On this quiet afternoon of January 1096 of the Holy Calendar. (To be continued)