Chapter 1062: Speed ​​up the pace of building the capital

Sure enough, what the Baiwu people were worried about soon came true. After those engineering vehicles arrived at Qi'an County, they soon played a huge role and almost overturned the original construction model.

The two tractors directly replaced a large number of ox carts and horse carts, and took on the transportation of bricks and tiles from the kiln factory to the construction site. Even the transportation of wood was contracted by the two tractors.

There was no way. Compared with those ox carts and horse carts, the efficiency of tractors was too high. One cart of bricks could replace the number of several horse carts. How could horse carts compete?

Fortunately, those ox carts and horse carts were not completely useless. After all, the number of tractors was too small and could not fully replace the role of animal-powered vehicles. Therefore, these ox carts and horse carts took on the earthwork transportation business on the construction site.

Compared with tractors, the tasks of the excavator and loader were heavier. Because of the special functions of these two vehicles, they directly contracted all the land foundation operations in Qi'an County, including but not limited to padding the foundation, leveling the land, digging foundation trenches, digging canals, etc.

In terms of land foundation operations, these two machines directly replaced all manual labor, because compared with manpower, the speed of leveling hundreds of acres of land with loaders is dozens of times faster than manual leveling, and the efficiency is really too high.

Take the school in Qi'an County as an example. If all the land leveling work in the entire campus is done manually, including clearing surface vegetation, flattening protrusions, leveling all depressions, opening up access roads, etc., it may take a hundred people half a month to do it, but it only takes three days with that bulldozer. What is the concept?

And the digging of the foundation trench, a shovel of digging with an excavator can replace the half-hour digging of a worker with a shovel, this is the difference in efficiency.

Even the newly opened train between Chengkang County and Qi'an County is not idle, constantly transporting a large amount of sand, cement, gravel and other construction materials from the dock to the inland hinterland of Qi'an County, greatly improving the construction speed of Qi'an County.

This situation is naturally good news for the Han tribe, which is in the process of construction. However, as the people of the Baiwu tribe worried, these strange machines from the Han tribe took over the jobs that should have belonged to them.

However, the people of the Baiwu tribe were not abandoned. After all, Youfu still hoped to recruit these people through employment relationships. How could he easily abandon them? It is

true that construction machinery took over a lot of their jobs, but what kind of jobs were they? Leveling the foundation? Transporting earth? Digging foundation trenches? These are all hard labor without any technical content. What if they were all replaced?

In view of this situation, Youfu directly transferred most of the Baiwu tribe workers to technical jobs, asking them to build walls, lay roofs, dig wells, lay floors, or help out at the wood processing plant. They can help out while learning some carpentry work.

The attitude of the Baiwu tribe has not changed badly. They can be freed from heavy physical labor without technical content and specialize in doing some high-tech jobs. They can also learn more technology, right? Therefore, the workers of the Baiwu tribe had no complaints about You Fu's arrangement.

At the same time, with the continuous output of the New Steel County Research Institute of the Han tribe, various construction machinery were inspected and shipped out of the factory one after another, and then allocated to construction sites in various places.

The first batch of tractors produced in the second year of Da Ming was distributed to Chengkang County and Qi'an County, with four units distributed to the eight counties of Hanyang, four units to Qiongzhou Island, four units to Tuohai County, and eight units directly to the construction site in the capital. Tang Tribe did not get any for the time being. Although Tang Tribe was actually under the control of Han Tribe, it was still Tang Tribe in name, not subordinate to Han Tribe.

In addition, the grassland did not get any either. In fact, there were plenty of cattle and horses on the grassland. Not only could the three counties of Honghu not use them all, but they also exported a large number of them to the counties of Han Tribe. Under such circumstances, they had too much animal power to use up, and they did not have any demand for infrastructure, so they did not have any demand for construction machinery.

After all, the grassland is boundless and flat everywhere, just like it has been pushed by a bulldozer. Now the Han tribe already has three cities on the grassland, and there is no plan to build a new city for the time being. In addition, horses can run everywhere on the grassland, and there is no need to build roads. It is different from the mountains and forests on the Han tribe side, where even carriages can run around freely, and they can't use engineering machinery.

The institute also has other outputs, such as excavators and loaders, which have also been transported to various places. For places like Chengkang County and Qi'an County, the infrastructure pressure is not the greatest, so these two counties have only one of each.

For projects at the level of the capital palace, four of each are directly equipped, four excavators, loaders, and rollers, and eight tractors, which are temporarily used for the construction of the capital.

However, this is only part of the palace project. In fact, if it is the comprehensive construction of the capital, these engineering machinery alone is far from enough, and there is no saying whether this thing is enough or not. It can only be said that without further increase in machinery, the construction period will of course be greatly extended.

Finally, the most important project of the Han tribe is the cross-sea bridge project between Qiongzhou Island and the mainland. The bridge body of the cross-sea bridge itself does not actually have any use for excavators and loaders. After all, these things are not used in bridge construction, but they are very useful in material preparation and transportation.

For example, the gravel needed for mixing concrete was previously loaded and unloaded by hand with a shovel, but with the loader, the gravel lifted by the bucket is in tons.

There are also quarries on the coast. The work of digging stones is currently replaced by excavators, which saves a lot of low-level coolies on the construction site, freeing these people from heavy unskilled labor, allowing more manpower to do things related to the construction of the bridge body, such as tying steel cages and nailing wooden casting molds. These jobs require a lot of manpower, but cannot be replaced by machinery.

In this way, with these machines and manual job transfers, the speed of bridge construction can be accelerated.

After all the mechanical equipment produced is equipped to various construction sites, the next second-tier equipment group that needs to be considered is the mines. To be honest, mining also requires these basic engineering machinery. When the mines are equipped with these equipment, they can also replace a large number of slaves with machinery, and then send these slaves to the capital to speed up the pace of the Han tribe to build a capital and establish a country.

(End of this chapter)