257 6.51 Show And Tell Children... (2/2)
”We wanted to harness the Wind Technology to generate electricity and these steam engines would be our backup resources. Do you get what I mean? We don't need Mills or anything at this moment, Can you do it?”
The mechanical engineers took my sketchpad and began to write some symbols that represent wattage and ohms and all sorts of things which I'm ignorant about and lastly after 10-15 minutes of brainstorming by the Mechanical Engineering guys, they soon came out with a feasible solution. Yes, they can do it.
It is going to be a 3 bladed windmill at a height of 50 meters with a moveable top head which they called a smock. It will follow the direction where the wind is blowing by the help of tailwind blades. The single rotation of the blade would be able to turn the spindle block within and generate enough electricity to light up at least 500 light bulbs.
”As you can see, Your Excellency, our light bulbs are only about 10-15 Watts and these Wind Technology would generate enough power to light up 500 light bulbs. These generators would generate 5kw of power. That's pretty decent. To regular the power, each of the generators would pass through a terminal that regulates the flow of electricity. So when the switch is thrown open, the surge of electricity would not be blowing off the light bulbs.”
”That's great. Can you build them and also build these generators from scratch?” I asked and the answers were astonishing indeed. ”We are the ones who build these steam engines, Your Excellency.”
”Do you have families?” I asked them and 1 had while the other 5 were still single.
”Would you like to put up with a temporary residence here, and offer you a piece a house where you could stay and eventually set up your own families?”
I asked them the ultimate question. The men knew of how brainy I was from Townsend Harris when he gathered the men and briefed them en route here. He warned them not to be obnoxious and remain humble. Since the men had been briefed, they were surprised that I could come up with a drawing of a Wind Machine that could generate electricity well.
Furthermore, they were rather questionable about my age against my experience and they almost thought that I was a dwarf which was actually older than I actually looked.
The ultimate was passed and another one came out. ”How does 10 gold coins a month sound to you? A single gold coin may be worth 1.5 times against your greenbacks, so basically, you would be earning 350 dollars based on your greenbacks. That's a whole cartload of money for a month's pay...!” I said and the moment I mentioned about greenbacks and the gold, they were ecstatic and all said 'YES'! ' simultaneously.
”Mr Townsend, these 6 men would be the permanent residents of Japan and also part of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha. We only need men and women who would be suitable to contribute to the economy, not just men and women who can just take up residency here in Japan.”
”Regard this as a lesson to you and make a note to those who wanted to be residents here. Contribution to the economy is of greater influential that those with wealth. If you want to know wealth, study how much we would earn in a single transaction. Your eyes would bulge out indefinitely.”
”Alright men, please give us your name, family name, age, date of birth, and your original hometown and trade profession here with our gentlemen here, Hiko-sama. You would be the first 6 that we brought in voluntarily to be part of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha. As to the one who has a family, bring them along. A one-bedroom unit for the singles and 2 bedroom unit for the family.”
The other men that made up of the ship's members all looked in surprise that I could work so easily with the foreigners but with very strict rules and regulations.
”To all new immigrants of New Kitakata Town, please make sure you behave yourself. If your unsure of any single thing, please ask Yours Truly here. I will personally groom you to be a good citizen here. Don't expect you know everything and in the end, you knew nothing. Don't assume... Don't make an ass out of you and me. Is that clear?”
”Yes, Yours Truly....”