【177】 Big trouble(1/2)
"Schmidt, you have a good mind. You give up your ego and make me happy. You are worthy of being a qualified Dragon Scale Party member... But you are still too impulsive. Humph, is the Morgan Consortium going to build a railway here?"
Long Bo's eyes were burning and continued, "How is it that easy? Don't forget, whose territory is this... Now, it's already pretty good for them to solve the troubles around them!"
trouble?
Yes, the elites in Mingyue Village are in trouble!
After the meeting that night and gaining "military power", Pulitzer was pride in counting the list, but who knew that bad news came one after another.
"Reported, two accountants were frozen to death last night!"
"Reported that some shovels became icy and brittle, and the tip broke when excavating! Injuring five workers!"
"Report that the machine stamping the rails is too low to generate steam, and now it is on strike and cannot operate!"..
"Reported that the geology of the ore veins is too hard, the power of the excavator is insufficient, and three drill bits have been scrapped, and the progress is much lower than expected!"
... Such reports flew to Pulitzer's desk like snowflakes, making the elite of the Morgan consortium a little unable to sit still.
Pulitzer frowned, put on a bear fur coat and walked out of the house.
As soon as I went out, the bitter cold wind outside made Pulitzer's cheeks freeze: Damn, how come the weather has become so cold?
It was still the same wooden three-story building. Pulitzer walked in, Jin Clay and others were there. The only difference was that the brazier in the middle changed from one to three!
Each of them was full of flames, just like a bonfire.
"Mr. Morgan is finally here. We wait until the flowers are all faded..." Jin Clay was angry, his hands seemed to be passing on the brazier and refused to move his nest when he was facing the brazier.
"The flowers are not waxing, but are frozen into ice slag!"
Aimo Ang Chen of Citigroup muttered: "Ah Yeh, did you take the wrong medicine? Why did the temperature keep dropping in the past few days, at least 30 degrees!"
Pulitzer sat down, and although there were three pots of fire opposite him, he still didn't dare to take off his bear-skin coat: "What's the degree now?"
"Minety 23 degrees Celsius!"
"Yes!" Pulitzer rubbed his eyebrows and looked at Jin Klay: "The weather is indeed strange! Whether it is a person who is frozen to death or a machine that is frozen to the point where it cannot operate, it is all related to the cold weather of this ghost!"
"You still need to say it?"
West, who was also wrapped in a thick coat, rolled his eyes, "We have discussed it before you come and came to a preliminary conclusion: we should have been misled by the information sent back before!"
"I understand what you said!" Pulitzer nodded and said, "I think this is the reason. I have already obtained a parameter list for stamping machines before I came. Let's take a look. This is our Morgan company a month ago
Specially made.”
"I also have parameter lists. This batch of shovels, shovels and trolleys are specially produced by our Leber Group commissioned by a mold factory."
"This is the parameter list of our customized soil shoveling machinery, you can see!"
...
Not only did Pulitzer prepare parameter lists, but all the people sitting there are elites. He has long ordered people to adjust the parameter lists of equipment that have been wrong. The round table was filled with rows of black and white orders.
After seven people, including Jin Klay, took out the parameter list, no one went to see it. Because the conclusion had already been obtained before that.
Jin Clay said in a deep voice: "The problem is the same. These parameters show that the machinery or tools we customized are manufactured according to the minimum temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius!"
Pulitzer touched his chin and continued, "So... it's not surprising that the machine goes on strike and the tool is damaged! But the strange thing is that everyone's equipment is made according to this parameter.
?”
The other six people nodded.
"If the family is misled, it can still be blamed on the intelligence officer, but our seven families have been misled, then the problem should not be the intelligence officer!" Pulitzer frowned and said, "The intelligence is right.
, the problem can only be in the abnormal climate today! That is to say, before we come, the lowest temperature in Alaska... will never be lower than minus 20 degrees!"
"Mr. Morgan's analysis is good! It's the reason, and the result we just discussed is the same!" Jin Klay agreed, "I think this shouldn't be a joke from God. There must be some reason to make the temperature here.
The son descended."
"yes……"
The flame of wisdom flashed in Pulitzer Morgan's eyes: "Actually, we all missed a little key! Our family also missed this key, and made a big mistake!"
"What's the key? I'd like to hear it carefully!"
Jin Clay and six others had their eyes lit up.
It’s easy to find the key, but most fearful that you can’t even find the key, and you have no idea how to remedy it!
"Hey, our family has one thing in common, that is, they all make a fortune in finance. Rockefeller may be an exception, but apart from Old John, how many elite children in the family know about mining..." Pulitzer sighed and said,
, tell the story in a leisurely manner.
Mining cannot be said to be a major subject, but it involves a lot of knowledge, including geology, geography, fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, environment, smelting... etc., all of which require professional talents to preside over, except for a few.
No one dares to say a large company with mining as its main business: Once the ore veins are discovered, I can dig out the ore inside!
The Alaska place is even more special. Before Schmidt, no one had ever dug a mine in this "American ice bank"! The environment, temperature, geology, etc. of the mining environment here are all the same
Mystery! The parameters passed back by various family intelligence personnel were, after all, provided by Schmidt, and there was no reference for comparison at all, so the parameters said, "This will never be lower than minus 20 degrees."
I think it is the truth without thinking!
"Actually, if you think about it carefully, this flaw can be easily seen. Although we have never been to Alaska before, it is at the same latitude as Canada. How could the temperature be no less than minus 20 degrees?"
When Pulitzer said this, everyone understood it. When he suddenly realized it, he was also very upset by his negligence.
The key is that there is no experience and no comparison!
"Another point. Even without reference, such a flaw is obvious, but we all turned a blind eye to it, and the intelligence personnel believed it... Why?" Pulitzer continued: "Then there is only one possibility to put this 'temperature parameter'
The intelligence officer who sent it back was absolutely confident that Alaska would not be below minus 20 degrees. At least... it was in the mine!"
"Yes, what Mr. Morgan said makes sense!" Jin Clay slapped his head: "I remember, we Rockefeller had regulations. Any parameters in the intelligence must be passed back to the family, and there must be rigorous evidence.
You can't speak nonsense! Yes, it is precisely because of this reason that the family firmly believes in these parameters and uses them as a standard. A batch of machinery and tools that are suitable for the Alaska environment are customized!"
Customized machinery must be easy to drag and consume less energy. After all, Alaska is now inconvenient for transportation. The lighter the energy, the less fuel it consumes when starting, which means that more machinery can be brought into the mining area and the efficiency of mining is also
It will be higher!
This is also the reason why temperature parameters must be included in the scope of customization considerations!
Pulitzer said in a deep voice: "Who is still with the intelligence personnel who were operating in Alaska? If so, call out and ask clearly!"
From Jin Clay down, the six people in charge all looked embarrassed: "...I have sent someone to call! Uh. Where are the intelligence personnel of the Morgan Consortium?"
Pulitzer turned his face and hummed unnaturally: "These intelligence personnel made great contributions and went back to the family to rest..."
Make a great contribution to a ghost!
The six responsible persons sneered and raised their contempt middle fingers in their hearts!
The intelligence personnel of each chaebol were actually those who signed the mining area allocation agreement with Schmidt in the early stage. Since the content of the agreement signed was not favored by Pulitzer and other chaebols, most of them were driven away.
Go back to the headquarters and accept the punishment! Therefore, it is a complete nonsense to make a great contribution!
However, the two consortiums, Gordman and Leber, were still following the team because of their seniority, but they were not favored by West and others and were left in the three mining areas in front.
inside.
West said: "It will take some time for people to come here. We cannot be idle at this gap, we should go to the scene to check it out!"
Pulitzer nodded in agreement, and the man had already stood up: "You should go and have a look in the field. You always sit here and wait. Can you think of the sudden drop in temperature? If you walk around, your feet will not freeze, hehe!"
Under Pulitzer's leadership, seven people in charge came to the site where the faulty machinery was placed.
The scene was three kilometers away from the north entrance of Mingyue Village. There was a half-digged mine cave, but it was empty inside, full of chaotic traces when evacuating. Needless to say, it was evacuated by the guards when evacuating.
This mine is no longer the same as the gold mines abandoned by the guards before. This is an experimental mine for exploration. It can only be sampled ore and cannot be excavated on a large scale! Otherwise, there will be a risk of the hole collapse and burying people.
Generally speaking, there are good veins near the experimental mine caves. As long as the sampling and analysis are done, the mine for production can be dug.
This is true for the base villages on the front line of southern Alaska. There are basically one village in one village, and there are even two to three larger villages. For example, the small gold mines used for production are very rare, as if
I have already decided that I would give this group of consortiums a gift.
Three hundred meters away from the experimental mine, a three-meter-high steel machine, like a mighty ancient warrior standing by a hill, the weapon in the hand was two hard and sharp drill bits, but unfortunately, this warrior
'had been 'freezed', covered with white frost, and the weapons in the 'hand' were also stagnant in the air, extremely stiff, and felt a sense of helplessness and desolation with unfulfilled ambitions.
"This is the third excavator that has been frozen..."
The person guarding the steel machine saw Pulitzer and other big men coming, and quickly sucked his snot that was almost frozen, came up and explained with a bitter face.
"Is it totally useable?"
The big guys don't understand the actual technology, but when you look closer, the excavator is really frost. Not only does it have ice on the outside, but the exposed transmission shaft and other parts inside are also snow-white, with ice slags attached to it.
It seems that unless you clean up a warm house, you would want this "Iron Warrior" to move again, it would be a delusion!
"The steam engine can no longer be started, no matter how much coal you add, it will be in vain! Alas..."
The person guarding the machinery pointed to the black coal pile in the simple shed beside him, looking helpless. In fact, even the coal pile was mixed with many white ice beads, which looked black and white, which was very harmful.
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There is no way. Who made the weather so cold!
Pulitzer and others looked at each other and understood in their hearts: the excavator had completely lost hope, and the open air was covered with wind and snow, so it would be strange if it could recover!
To be continued...