Chapter 1141 Talent Introduction Plan of the Capital

The engineering team first connected the two sides of the cliff by shooting hemp ropes with bows and arrows, and then gradually replaced the hemp ropes with steel cables and slings.

After the suspension bridge was built on both sides of the cliff, construction was carried out from both sides at the same time. First, the foundations of the bridge piers on both sides were poured with reinforced concrete, and then two steel structure towers were built on the bases of the bridge piers on both sides of the cliff.

At this time, it is necessary to calculate the specific curvature of the arch bridge on the drawings. After the calculation, the arch is evenly divided into several sections. Then, according to the shape of each section, the mold of the arch is made of wood in advance, and then the steel skeleton is tied.

After all this is ready, the arch is poured from the piers on both sides to the middle. The arch is poured in sections, and the side of the arch should leave a protruding steel ring, and then the steel cable is passed through the steel ring to pull this section of the floating arch to the temporary towers of the piers on both sides.

After this section is poured, the mold and steel keel of the next section are hoisted over, and the next section is poured.

During the entire construction process, all the steel keels, casting molds, and concrete were hoisted to the air by the steel cable suspension bridge that was pulled up at the beginning.

After pouring a section, the steel cable was used to pull it to the high tower, until the whole arch was closed in the air in the middle of the canyon. After the arch was completely formed and became a load-bearing structure, the temporary iron towers erected on both sides could be dismantled at this time, and the steel cables previously connected to the arch could also be removed. Because once the arch is completed, the center of gravity of the load is the bridge piers on both sides. At this time, even if the steel cables are removed, the arch can independently support its own weight.

It took a month to pour this arch with a span of more than 120 meters, and then pour a flat bridge board from the cliffs on both sides and place it directly on the arch. This step is relatively easy because the arches on both sides of the canyon are already connected, and people can walk directly from this end.

With the development of industry and education in the Han tribe, the construction capacity of the Han tribe has become more and more advanced. The bridges that were once unthinkable can now be built.

The second section of the Qitai Line is a mountain tunnel, a canyon bridge, and a river bridge. Although it is difficult and takes a long time, it is all carried out in an orderly manner. However, the Tangpan Line in the south is different.

The Tangpan Line Railway, that is, the railway from Tangcheng County to Panshi County, is mainly plains and mountains. However, the construction difficulty is much smaller than that of the Qitai Line, so the construction speed is also very fast.

After the first batch of road construction workers and mechanical equipment, as well as railway construction materials were transported, the Tangpan Line was rapidly extended. Now more than two months have passed, and four-fifths of the entire Tangpan Line project has been completed, leaving only one-fifth of the mountain route. However, it will be completed before the beginning of next spring, so it will not affect Luo Chong's plan to continue to build the capital.

While the two railways in the south were extending rapidly, the quarrying team that had been sent to Panshi County was also busy.

They first used a rock drill modified from an excavator to dig out gaps in the marble mountain, and then used a small amount of explosives for directional blasting, using this method to obtain whole or large pieces of marble.

The marble was first cut from the mountain and then sent to a steam-powered stone processing plant.

The boulders cut from the mountain would be processed again here.

For example, the handrails of the corridors and stairs in the palace are all made of white marble, which requires a stone processing plant to first cut the boulders into stone columns slightly larger than the handrail columns, that is, long stone square anchors, so that the handrail column blanks are made.

After completing the blank step, they have nothing to do. They just need to stack the stone raw materials neatly and transport them directly after the train is repaired.

In addition to these handrails, there are also guardrails in some places, which also need stone processing plants to make blanks first. The specific carvings will have to wait until they are sent to the capital and then carved by the craftsmen in the capital.

What's left are some finished stones, such as the bluestone bricks on the square, white marble bricks, huge Danbi stone blanks, the curbs on the main roads, and the stone strips on the edge of the green belt on the road

. All of the above are stones with fixed specifications. There are also some things that pursue artistry, such as rockery used for garden landscaping. These are all directly selected from strange-shaped stones. The stranger the shape, the more suitable. Once found, they can be put aside and cleaned with water. When needed, they can be hoisted onto the train and transported away.

After more than two months of work, the stone processing plant has accumulated a large amount of stone. It only needs to wait for the opening of the Tangpan Line railway to be transported to the capital at any time.

The winter of the second year of Da Ming was quietly spent in such a busy time. Even the New Year's Day and Spring Festival of this year, Luo Chong spent it with his family in Takuhai County.

Just at this time of the Chinese New Year, Ye Ying finally received good news. The entire population of the Qiao tribe, totaling more than 7,000 people, and some tribes that intermarried with the Qiao tribe, totaling more than 4,000 people, totaling more than 12,000 people, are now all under the management of the fleet and will arrive at the western shore of the capital soon. Ye Ying wrote to Luo Chong to ask how to arrange these people.

More than 12,000 people, based on an average of four people per family, that is 3,000 households, which is not a small number.

Ye Ying's idea is whether to stuff all these people directly into the capital. Anyway, there are not many people in the capital now, just to fill the population vacancies in the capital, but Luo Chong doesn't think so.

These people can't speak Chinese, can't farm and raise livestock, and there is no craftsman. What do they want to stay in the capital for?

Therefore, Luo Chong issued an order to divide these people into two batches, one batch of 4,000 people, and send them directly to Qiongzhou Island, mainly to Guanhai County and Chaoyang County, that is, the eastern and southern coasts of Qiongzhou Island.

The population in this area is small, and now it is just right to use these people to immigrate to the border.

The remaining 8,000 people will all be sent to the eight counties of Hanyang in the north.

This is where the new people are arranged, and the population of the capital comes from.

Luo Chong directly ordered that a total of 3,000 immigrants be drawn from Yashan County in the northeast of Qiongzhou Island, Jiahai County in the northwest, and Xinhua County in the middle, and they will be moved to the capital to live after the new year. Those who are willing to sign up to come to the capital can get houses and land in the suburbs of the capital, and use these people to build large farms outside the capital.

However, such a small number of people is definitely not enough to fill a capital.

From a long-term perspective, before Luo Chong's death, the population of the Han tribe will definitely exceed the 10 million mark. At that time, the capital of the Han tribe will have at least 500,000 people, and even millions of people if there are more, but there will definitely not be so many in a short time.

So what does the capital need in a short period of time?

First of all, the capital must be a political, cultural, and military center.

To meet these three conditions, first of all, a large number of officials are needed. So, for those who need to be promoted in the future, their families or clans can be moved to the capital in advance. This alone can move a lot of people.

Then there is the cultural center. What is a cultural center? It is education, schools, and research institutes.

Several research institutes in the Han tribe can be directly moved to the capital as a whole. All researchers, including their families, move here together, which is a lot of people.

Then there are teachers. New schools will definitely be built in the capital. From elementary school to university, there must be schools in the capital, so a large number of teachers will definitely be needed.

However, this cannot be done in the short term. Before the population scale of the capital is up, it is not known whether the children of those immigrants can fill a school, so at the beginning, not so many teachers are needed.

Then there are those super universities in the capital, top institutions of various disciplines. Teachers for such schools cannot be recruited from the public, so researchers in the research institutes can be asked to work as part-time university teachers, doing research and teaching at the same time.

And those elementary and middle school teachers are recruited from ordinary teachers in the eight counties of Hanyang in the north.

From now on, we can set up a professional title evaluation mechanism among teachers, such as excellent teachers, elite teachers, etc. It doesn't matter what they are called. The key is to divide them into levels, and then evaluate their professional titles every year based on the grades of the students taught by the teachers, as well as the teachers' own behavior.

For example, junior teachers, intermediate teachers, senior teachers, excellent teachers, elite teachers, etc., and then set up a set of evaluation methods.

Finally, a group of excellent teachers and elite teachers will be selected every year, and all of them will be sent to the capital to settle down. When they come, they must bring their entire family with them, so that the population

of the capital will increase every year. Another thing is the construction of schools in the capital. After various higher education institutions are built, the capital can start recruiting students. All students who can be admitted to top universities can be granted household registration in the capital, allowing their families to settle in the capital.

In this way, with the increase in the population of the Han tribe and the gradual improvement of the education system, more and more students will be able to be admitted to top universities in the future. If the universities in the capital can recruit 2,000 people every year, these 2,000 people will move here with their families. Calculated based on four people per household, about 8,000 people can be migrated.

Since the north has been stable for so many years, the people are more active in having children, and there are basically no families with only four people. So let alone 8,000 people, it is possible that more than 10,000 people will come out.

Of course, it is definitely impossible in a short period of time, but this can be regarded as a long-term plan for the capital's population absorption.

After a period of time, when the capital has a certain scale and the population reaches tens of thousands, the living problems of so many people will also need to be solved, and investment can be attracted from all over the country to attract wealthy families from all over the country to open stores and do business, invest in factories, etc.

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