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Chapter 14 Time Error

"Longmen asked us for an intermediary weapon procurement channel? What's wrong with them?" Lao Xia was a little confused about this request. His equipment was all produced by himself, but he figured it out in a flash. It was a test, and wanted to know whether Lao Xia's weapons and equipment were made by himself.

After all, there is a big difference between an agricultural group that has purchased weapons and equipment from other sources and armed a part of its security forces, and an arms group that has independently developed and produced weapons and equipment.

After all, large-scale farming in this world is really impossible without some force. It’s not about the robbers and forces of the Terrans, but that various Originium worms and Originium mutants can flatten your farm. Therefore, agriculture It is common for a group to have certain armed forces, but it is not common to be able to produce independently or mass-produce.

Longmen Guard Bureau, reception room, "We ordered from Rhodes Island. Part of the specific transportation is in charge of the logistics subsidiary under Rhodes Island, and part of it is our Amiya logistics transportation."

"But I heard that one of the adopted daughters of the leader of Rhodes Island is called Amiya?" Old Chen frowned slightly.

"Well, I know that, but she is a rabbit, and I am a donkey." Lao Xia looked puzzled, "This is a pack animal that is good at carrying supplies in the desert in our hometown, because the environment The change is about to become extinct, and this kind of donkey is called the Amiata donkey!" (Really, there are endangered animals, and the place of origin seems to be Afghanistan?)

"Ah, this..." Faced with the detailed information that Lao Xia brought out that was not fake, Lao Chen had nothing to say. A pack animal breed, the name also has a history.

"Even because I gave birth to a donkey with a zebra, it is actually very famous among us, and my logistics company is also such a hybrid. You call it Chimera here. Is there anything wrong with the name Amiya Logistics? "

"No, I'm just talking casually, so how much does Boss Xia know about Rhodes Island?"

"Well, I know they are from Kazdel's side. It may be related to the previous coup d'état and civil war there. However, we are just a cooperative relationship, and it is inconvenient to explore too deeply. However, it is not surprising that they have their own sources of weapons. Where is it? Why did Sir Chen ask such a question?"

"No, it's just curiosity." Lao Xia's reason is indeed impeccable. For those who know the inside story, Rhodes Island is no different from the Kazdel Government-in-Exile. It is not surprising to have your own weapons purchase, or even production and manufacturing channels.

But it is precisely because Lao Xia's reasons are too impeccable, and every questionable point is blocked, Lao Chen feels that he is suspicious. Of course, suspicious is suspicious, and she dare not really do it. After all, Lao Xia With such a large investment in Longmen, if she really wanted to do something, Old Wei couldn't keep her.

What's more, it doesn't matter if he is suspicious or even an arms dealer. Are there few arms dealers with branches in Longmen?Heigang's office is just a docking deck away from Lao Xia's old town. During the previous bidding, the snow monster team and security department were not formed, and Heigang's professional team was hired to take charge of the on-site security work.

In other words, in shopping malls, even in multinational corporations and multinational cooperation, it is not normal for the other party to have no little secrets. Absolutely reliable collaborator", but you have never had any friends since then, including fox friends and dog friends.

Whether it is the Guards Bureau or Lao Xia's employees, there must be meticulous work, and more than half of them can be caught if they insist, but in fact, there is no need for that at all. In a sense, these careful work itself is a special kind of communication Channels, and occasionally they have to deliberately leak some information to them to achieve the effect of strategic deception or strategic intimidation.

"Then, can Boss Xia make a difference?"

"Why do you need me as a middleman for this job? You go directly to Rhodes Island." Lao Xia refused, and it is better not to get involved in this kind of arms trade so far.

What's more, his current manufacturing capacity is difficult even for himself. Whether it is the power armor or the exoskeleton, it is all based on the almost non-renewable parts of the Star Alliance and the machine hours of advanced processing machine tools. Commercial mass production is absolutely impossible.

Not to mention that some material problems have not been solved so far, such as superconducting electromagnetic orbits, ultra-high-energy laser excitation materials used by starships, etc., which is why the snow monster team still has many melee weapons.

The only mass-produced long-range weapon is the electromagnetic crossbow that fires steel balls and crossbow bolts, and its power is limited compared to the heavy crossbow of Terra. Next, Lao Xia has to replace them with gunpowder weapons that are less powerful but actually more practical.

When the rare metals from the mine come out, and the manufacturing base on the Longmen side is almost online, they can produce some heavy weapons, such as electric artillery.

And once the manufacturing base here is online, and the purchased and ordered experimental equipment arrives, Lao Xia can consider mass-producing the source stone parts of the melta gun here, and only needs to be compared with the "Talulah" produced by the farm. Combining "tissue culture firing tube" and "origin stone energizer" can obtain the ability to mass-produce melta guns.

Presumably, the conventional armor-piercing weapons can be skipped, and Terra’s anti-armor ability can be upgraded to a higher level. However, Lao Xia does not intend to sell this, because once this thing is flooded, it will be too threatening to his rough-made power armor. up.

So, settle for the next best thing.

The "W tissue culture origin stone fuze" and the grenade launcher made by Mr. Shasha who have not been cleared of suspicion, but can be affirmed, can be sold for sale, and in a sense, the core components are completely dependent on Lao Xia's manufacturing Biomaterials that can control popularity and abuse.

"Well, if there is any demand from Rhodes Island, I hope Boss Xia can deal with it, and Longmen will give you an appropriate reward." "Okay, no problem." Old Xia agreed.

"Establish an Ursus military-industrial complex?"

"It's not established. After that, Dr. Kelsey will transfer a small military factory headquartered in Rim Billiton that originally belonged to Theresia to your name, and through cross-shareholding and complicated share transfers, let it see It looks like the production base of a little-known military-industrial complex in Ursas."

"Otherwise, it's hard to explain how we made weapons on the snowy field. It's best to separate from Rhodes Island and the Xia Group and exist as an independent third-party organization. This will be very helpful for what you want to do in the future." Lao Xia pointed out to Talula in detail.

"You won't be so attached to others after you have a certain power and territory, like a parasitic plant? Not to mention that you will have to explain to ordinary people where your equipment comes from and how it is made , or they'll take it as some kind of weirdo, or worse."

"Worse?" Tallulah didn't understand.

"Ursus is an empire. The biggest difference between it and those previous duchies and kingdoms is that it has reached the apex of feudalism, that is to say, naive nationalism is already brewing and even flourishing. If you can't explain these Given the history of advanced equipment, you are likely to be promoted as the spokesperson of some foreign power-especially if you are still a Draco and not an Ursus."

"...I see." Tallulah is not stupid, or she has systematically studied and trained in this kind of traditional politics and ethnic conflicts, and soon understood what Lao Xia meant.

"No matter what you do, the first point is to ensure that you cannot be regarded as an 'outsider' by most people"

"I see, so, what is it that Rhodes Island will pretend to introduce to Longmen's order?"

"Yes, you told them that the production capacity is insufficient to provide things including power armor and exoskeleton, and you hand over the parts and lists marked with red lines in the information I just sent you to Longmen"

"What if they can work it out?"

"Then we will mass-produce power armor and give the patriots a full facelift, and you can start preparing for a large-scale uprising right away."

"Uh, you mean they can't solve it, right?" This is no nonsense, if Longmen can solve it, either Old Wei has already been hanged to death by Emperor Dayan, or Dayan has already ruled the world.

"Then you mean a complete refusal?"

"No, the list I will send to you later is what can be manufactured and sold. The quantity, suggested selling price and simple information are all on it." The equipment exposed by Lao Xia includes power armor and exoskeleton, which are obviously impossible to sell. An electromagnetic ballista that did not attract Longmen's attention.

After all, their own ballista is not much less powerful under the operation of warlocks. After all, don't think that it is really easy to use with a high-end term of "electromagnetic".

In fact, to put it bluntly, it was a compromise made by Lao Xia when there was a surplus of origin stone resources and a shortage of gunpowder, steel and other resources.

In order to protect the track, the voltage is not high; the track is too short, the recoil is too strong; the acceleration is too small, the acceleration distance is not enough, the initial velocity of the boring ammunition is not high, and the weight problem caused by the bomb supply and battery problems of electromagnetic weapons , accuracy problems caused by smoothbore, etc.

In fact, it may not be as easy to use as Laoganma, but it is true that it is easier to use than Terra’s ballista. No matter how heavy it is, it is lighter than the ballista. No matter how funny the rate of fire is, it is much faster than the ballista, and its power is not bad. , even slightly stronger, and the same accuracy.

"However, even if it is a problem of production capacity, we can't completely stop selling it."

"Then pack the hands-on gadgets made by Skadi in a more beautiful way, and give them to them, um, no, wait, you send the goods to me through Amiya logistics first, I will Just make some adjustments." Lao Xia suddenly thought of a very critical and terrible matter that he hadn't dealt with for various reasons.That is "timing".

Electronic equipment of different time systems must be converted in automation. The more high-precision equipment, the more serious this problem is, not only in agriculture, but also in industry and software.

Since the machines on Ursus are purely stupid and crude equipment operated by manpower, and the slightly more advanced ones are Lao Xia's own, and Rhodes Island does not share the system with Lao Xia, so he The "EST system" has been used, that is, the Earth Standard Time system.

The equipment on Terra, such as the equipment on Rhodes Island, is adjusted by Ke Luxie and uses the ancient Terra time system. The OTTS system is completely different from the existing TTS system of Longmen.

This is not a joke. Whether it is communication, logistics, automation, operation, etc., if the conversion and docking cannot be adjusted in time, it will be a big deal.

To give the most obvious example, if Terra’s time system stipulates that a day is 25 hours, and Lao Xia is still 24 hours in the earth’s standard time, then when Lao Xia and Shi Huaiya make an appointment at 10 am the next day, and What would happen if both of them arrived on time?

That is, for Shi Huaiya, Lao Xia came at nine o'clock, and for Lao Xia Shi Huaiya came at 11 o'clock. If it's just a date, at most two people will quarrel, if it's communication and automation. ... Then it's not a question of quarreling.

It’s like in the Alien Factory or the Dyson sphere, the 3-speed conveyor belt and the 1-speed conveyor belt are cross-spliced ​​together, without multi-level deceleration or speed-up buffering, the game is stuck at most, and then the entire automated production system collapses. Inside...not to mention anything else, the vehicle alone can make a badass appearance on the road.

This is still the difference in the time service system with an accuracy of hours and minutes. If it is a high-precision equipment and electronic system, it is required to be down to the second-just defining the time of Terra as "one second" can give Lao Xia a headache. Bald.

It is also because of this hard problem that the Star Alliance uses EST Earth Standard Time for time service no matter in any colony, no matter how many hours a day the planet rotates. Therefore, in the time expression of the Star Alliance, it will be expressed by two numbers, one One is the standard time EST for docking systems at all levels, and the other is the local time for daily life planning.

Whether it is star port management, logistics, work and rest time, they will be planned according to EST. Otherwise, if a place uses a local time system, to put it bluntly, you have to prepare tens of thousands of sets of calendars. You just memorize the calendar You have to memorize it for a few days before you can figure out what the local day is.

And based on this habit, even in Terra, Lao Xia’s programming, manufacturing and planning are still based on EST, and the generally illiterate Ursus infected people and farmers can’t figure out how the boss calculates wages , date and time based on what.

After all, agricultural production depends on the sky, just like serving the calendar only needs to be accurate to the sky. Their calculation of time is based on the position of the sun and estimated based on experience, and there is no problem at all.

After a little bit of literacy, the products are more abundant, and props such as mechanical clocks are also based on Lao Xia's standard time.

As for Longmen, because all the engineering equipment and control equipment of Longmen are used, and the clocks of Longmen are also used by employees and contractors, Lao Xia will not be able to react for a while.

However, thanks to Lao Wei's ordering plan, Lao Xia realized this, otherwise he would have a lot of fun when the factory building on the Longmen side is set up and enters the manufacturing process.

Therefore, he must adjust the timing system of the equipment to be sold to adapt to the current TTS time system of Terra, otherwise, just a countdown of the fuze can kill every father-because the "second" scale The standards are different, and it may appear that one second defined by Terra is two seconds defined by Earth—then if the police still throw explosives according to the 2.5-second timing that Terra is used to...

"The difference is 100 seconds per 1.7762 seconds. Fortunately, the error is not big." Lao Xia wiped off his cold sweat. At least as far as the equipment of his export version is concerned, this error will not cause him to be blown up. It is better to honestly replace all of them with their own timing system.

"But the error of one day is a bit big..." Terra's rotation is about 0.4 hours slower than that of the earth, which means that every 60 days there is an extra day of the earth's rotation, that is, if it is converted into the earth's date , that is an extra day almost every two months, except for February, which has 2 days, and a leap day comes out every 31 years or so.

However, what should be adjusted still needs to be adjusted. This is a very fragmented and delicate work. The good news is that once the conversion process is determined, it will be much simpler. The troublesome part is how to determine the difference between the two time systems. .

"Fortunately, I don't care about the four seasons..." Thinking of the significance of the calendar to agriculture, and the long-term use of non-local calendars to guide agricultural production, Lao Xia had a headache for a while. Fortunately, he used all Star Alliance Crops, the four seasons are like floating clouds to him, and off-season planting is the daily routine.

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In other words, those who travel to other worlds and engage in industry, and directly resell electronic products and advanced products on Earth, have they never thought about the problem of this timing system?

Furthermore, if the unit of time is different, the unit of space may not necessarily be the same. A meter in their mouths is not necessarily a meter~

Those many things, especially communication base stations, are basically useless, unless you use all your own equipment and leave the local system completely alone—the local people’s 12 o’clock in the middle of the night, you also treat people at [-] o’clock in the morning Grab it and go to work.

And without professional equipment and relevant knowledge, it is difficult to determine how many hours a day is... The error is accumulated over the years, and it may happen that it is 12 o'clock in the middle of the night one day, and your clock shows that it is already noon the next day The phenomenon.

Chapter 15 Iron Rider

Ursas Snowfield, Farm, Workshop Street.The still cold weather did not stop the fiery production scene here. Although the chief engineer and technical officer were absent, and even the supervisors were absent, the infected workers were still sweating profusely.

After all, during the whole year, only these few busy farming hours are used to start manufacturing, producing agricultural tools, tools and various supplies needed for a year, as well as crossbow arrows for electromagnetic ballistas, iron and lead bullets for electromagnetic machine guns, etc. consumables.

Moreover, the equipment maintenance of the shield guards and the manufacture of isolation equipment all need to be manufactured on Workshop Street, but without Lao Xia, advanced equipment such as origin stone generators cannot be self-made.After all, the workshop in the middle of the farm is still forbidden for outsiders to enter, and the advanced equipment inside is still incomprehensible to the locals, let alone the mysterious product of operation.

To be honest, the equipment in Workshop Street is quite complete, including turning, boring, and milling, as well as grinding machines and drilling machines. There are six simple electric furnaces, each of which can produce 50-60 tons of molten steel each time, rolling mills, and annealing kilns. Things like this are slowly being added these days.

A forging machine driven by Originium power rattled against metal lumps, and gradually turned into a piece of high-quality steel armor. Without Lao Xia, it was impossible to manufacture high-precision Originium motors and power joints, which made it impossible to manufacture power armor. and exoskeletons.

However, the protective suits and non-powered exoskeletons of ordinary heavy equipment operators can be manufactured. With the strong physique of the Terrans, especially the Ursas, it is only a bit worse than the powered exoskeleton. The physical exertion quickly increased.

The sounds of forging, cutting and welding on the assembly platform are intertwined into a noisy sound wave. Metal debris is everywhere. When the small electric furnace is tapping the steel, the temperature soars to more than 50 degrees, even in the ice and snow of Usa On the Si snow field, these burly men with greasy and kinky muscles were sweating profusely with their shirts off.

"Master Ke, what do you think of this?" The engineer of Rhodes Island's power department, code-named Yike, whose real name cannot be disclosed because of the arrest warrant, looked at the parts that had been put on the grinder for polishing, "Well, it's qualified."

This is about 2 meters long, flat square metal, although it looks very similar to Lao Xia's electromagnetic gun design, but this is not the rail of the electromagnetic gun, because of the relationship between resistance and impurities, if it is really energized and fired, Possibly it's gone faster than a cannonball.

At present, in the absence of Lao Xia here, these simple electric furnaces can only produce carbon steel, and mainly molten steel with varying levels of carbon content that is difficult to control and is similar to that fired by folk blacksmiths.

Then these crude steels are returned to the furnace, after carbon neutralization, the carbon content is adjusted in place, and then they can be used as high-quality carbon steel materials for forging treatment. A commonly used alloy material of Agor.

What Yike asked them to produce was another kind of material, although the entire metallurgical workshop still lacked a lot in technology, such as annealing, tempering, quenching and tempering, etc., a lot of post-processing and heat treatment, as well as raw material pretreatment. There are gaps in the processing procedures.

However, what Yike gave was originally a kind of metal alloy made by local methods. The alloy obtained after adding different iron fragments and Terra's special minerals for tempering, the mechanical strength is not strong, but it is better than that it can transmit the origin stone technology. To be more precise, it is possible to conduct Originium particles to form a Originium energy phenomenon similar to electric current.

This is a characteristic energy conduction system belonging to the ancient Terra civilization, and it is also the conduction system used by Rhodes Island. Instead of using the source stone as a module for the engine to output kinetic energy or electric energy, it directly uses the source stone particles themselves as the conduction or even calculation carrier.

"The strength is still not enough, but the basic indicators have been reached." Originium particles can be released through this material and directed to certain reactors or containers, doing work, storing, computing, or producing skills similar to Warlock Originium function.

It is very advanced, so advanced that it is difficult for Ke Luxie to understand the principles inside, and Yike seems to understand it on the surface, but he said that he actually does not understand it very well. He just found some information from the ruins by accident. , After a long time of research, I got some gains.

"Sarkaz calls it witchcraft, but it is indeed a science. In fact, this ancient technology exists in modern equipment, such as drones operated by warlocks remotely, walking mechanisms that move cities, and staffs The fine conductive structure, that is, etching technology, etc., are all developed from this."

"It's just that after everyone got the convenient answer, they all discarded the cumbersome process, and without the process, you can't know why." The stranger complained mercilessly, "So, from the source stone engine Since its invention, Terra’s technology has not only made little progress, but has even regressed a lot.”

"It's as if you are used to Boss Xia's micro-engine, precise and easy-to-control ultrasonic joints, and excellent force feedback somatosensory operating system. As a result, once Boss Xia leaves, you can only make shells, no, even shells It's all a little difficult."

"Okay, let's send it to assembly, this is just a test equipment."

"Let, me, come?" A dull voice sounded, it was Muyan who had nothing to do and was called over.

"Well, your Originium skill is very powerful, even soil with few Originium particles can be used as a conductor, but this is also a heavy load on your body, just to test this power equipment I designed. "