Chapter 384 This Is an Antique!
The enemy is about to attack, but the steam battleship of the "Aurora Legion" has not been completely remodeled yet. With the help of smuggled diesel, Zhou Qingfeng was able to return to Nassau by speedboat, because the shipyard had a problem waiting for him to solve.
"I'm sorry, Legion Commander, something went wrong with our transformation plan." Dr. Lei Zuo looked apologetic when he saw Zhou Qingfeng. In the dock behind him, 90% of the transformation tasks of the transformed steam battleship have been completed, and the armor and weapons have been completely transformed. Now there was only one last bit of trouble - a problem with the newly built boiler.
"Our workers have been manufacturing low-pressure boilers. However, when manufacturing new power systems, the supporting high-pressure boilers have weld problems. The welding equipment in our hands is not very good, and it may be caused by the lack of skilled workers. Now continuous manufacturing Neither of them can be used. The launching time of the warship will be delayed by at least half a month.”
When Zhou Qingfeng and Lena Fox searched for things from the North American continent, it was impossible to collect the entire industrial system completely, and there were inevitably some omissions in the process. In modern industry, welding is an important link with many branches, and the welding equipment they have collected now cannot be used to manufacture high-pressure boilers.
"We can't afford to delay for half a month." Zhou Qingfeng denied the plan to postpone the launch of the warship, and he asked: "Tell me the specific data and imitation model of this high-pressure boiler, maybe I can find a machine that can be used."
"Can you find a high-pressure boiler? What I want is a coal-fired high-pressure boiler, not an oil-fired high-pressure boiler. Coal-fired high-pressure boilers are now rare and have been eliminated for decades. They can only be found in special museums." See you." Dr. Lei Zuo was very surprised. But if you, the legion commander, can get a usable high-pressure boiler, then things will be much simpler.
"Let me try it." Zhou Qingfeng wasn't sure, he just said nonsense, "I have a little impression, maybe I can find it in our warehouse."
The warehouse of the "Aurora Legion" in Nassau is full of various supplies from Florida, maybe there is really a coal-fired high-pressure boiler that Dr. Lei Zuo needs. But Zhou Qingfeng obviously didn't want to search the warehouse. After he got the relevant boiler data, he ran to a remote warehouse by himself and returned to the real world.
Recently, Zhou Qingfeng has used Yuan Mei's network several times to purchase seven to eight hundred tons of old clothes, and these old clothes have been of great help. This time he came back to a dilapidated warehouse in the suburbs, and still had to rely on Yuan Mei to help him find a suitable high-pressure boiler.
"Sister Yuan, I want to ask you something. Help me find an old-fashioned high-pressure boiler that burns coal. No, I don't want a new one. It must be a second-hand one. It is best that it is a discarded but usable one. You know a lot of people, help me ask."
"Okay, I'll definitely help you." After doing business with Zhou Qingfeng for used clothes a few times, the young woman Yuan Mei's self-confidence exploded suddenly. In a few days, she had hundreds of thousands of funds on hand, which was unimaginable in the past. Now Zhou Qingfeng's business is her business, and she will do her best without any reason.
It was already night when Zhou Qingfeng called, and Yuan Mei was preparing to rest. Her husband Guo Jiaming approached with a shy face and said: "Honey, you see that you are four months pregnant, you should be able to prescribe meat for me. The doctor said that as long as you are three months pregnant, you can do that..."
Yuan Mei married into Guo's family with the heart of repaying her kindness and suffering, but in the past she was obedient to her good-for-nothing husband. But the last time she told Zhou Qingfeng what was in her heart, her state of mind changed drastically. Seeing Guo Jiaming approaching with a smile at this moment, she felt goosebumps all over her heart, how disgusting it was.
"Don't bother me, I'm going to do business." Yuan Mei got out of bed after putting on some clothes for herself, and didn't have a good look at Guo Jiaming. She looked at the type of high-pressure boiler sent by Zhou Qingfeng on her mobile phone. Although she couldn't understand it, she immediately contacted various friends.
Those who collect waste are often well-informed, and they must be able to find out the recycling value of any junk. Someone really told Yuan Mei that the current high-pressure boilers all burn oil. If you are looking for a coal-fired high-pressure boiler,
Just look for an old coal-fired locomotive, maybe you can find it.
It was almost ten o'clock at night, but Yuan Mei still contacted the depots of the railway department one by one. It really let her know that there is a railway machine repair shop in the city next door that might have this thing.
Not long after, Zhou Qingfeng ran over in his Mercedes-Benz pickup. And Guo Jiaming saw that his wife hurriedly followed other men to leave overnight, he hurriedly shouted: "My wife, what should I do if you leave?"
"The family has money, so you can figure it out. I'll go out." Yuan Mei just sighed, and the Mercedes-Benz pickup just took her away, and rushed all the way to a machine repair shop more than 100 kilometers away.
I found a machine repair shop in the middle of the night, only to find that the factory had gone bankrupt. After selling a bottle of liquor to the old man at the gate, the two easily entered the large warehouse in the factory.
"These things have been parked here for decades. I'm afraid the coal-fired locomotive you want can only be found here. No, this one. Upstream steam locomotive, a product of the 1960s, used It wasn’t until the 1980s that it was withdrawn, and then it was left untouched.”
Dozens of locomotives are parked in the dilapidated warehouse, the place is extremely deserted, dust is everywhere, and it is full of traces of dust. Zhou Qingfeng looked at it with a flashlight, and asked the old guard: "Master, I want to get this thing away, who do I need?"
The old guard sneered and said: "No one took care of this place ten years ago. I just opened a field here to grow vegetables. You want this thing..."
The old man seemed to be thinking about the price, but Zhou Qingfeng said directly: "I will give you 50,000 yuan, you can help find some people to check this locomotive, make sure that the boiler can work normally, and then remove the boiler separately, I will find a car Take it away. But I have time to ask, and all the work will be done in one day."
"Take it down after overhauling in one day?" The old man was a little hesitant, but Zhou Qingfeng's asking price of 50,000 yuan was far beyond his imagination. To be honest, these old antiques look crude, but they are very solid, big and clumsy, there is nothing particularly delicate, and they will not break after a hundred years.
In the end, the old man did not object, and after receiving a deposit of 20,000 yuan, he called a dozen workers in their forties and fifties before dawn, and began busy repairing the boiler on the locomotive.
Zhou Qingfeng was busy throughout the day, helping to dismantle the boiler together. Facts have proved that although this boiler has been produced for decades, its structure is intact, its body is durable, and its functions are normal.
When Zhou Qingfeng really got this boiler, which was worthless in real time and space, into the wasteland, the Nassau Shipyard was going to be a sensation. Including Dr. Lei Zuo, a large number of industrial manufacturing personnel were stunned, "Your Excellency, Legion Commander, you really went to the warehouse and found a coal-fired boiler? This is an antique that can enter the industrial museum!" (To be continued.)