Chapter 1146 Rapid Development

in the Third Year of Da Ming In May of the third year of Da Ming, it was the hottest time of summer, and the first batch of immigrants from the eight counties of Hanyang who moved to the capital also arrived.

This first batch of immigrants were all from the three research institutes. Now all three research institutes have moved to the south to work. The Comprehensive Research Institute is placed to the west of the imperial palace. The Power Research Institute and the Biological Research Institute are also there. However, the people from the Power Research Institute are now all working in the manufacturing industrial park in Takumi County, responsible for planning and building industrial facilities there.

When this group of people first arrived, Luo Chong called Lin Fei to make some arrangements. He didn't say anything else, just said that in the future, the high-speed trains, heavy-load trains, high-speed railways, and steam-powered ironclad ships of the Han tribe will all be manufactured there.

You can see what you need and make whatever you need. I will fully support you.

Lin Fei and a group of researchers from the Power Research Institute were very excited at the time. Heavy-load trains, high-speed railways, steam ironclad ships, these high-end and classy things, are all produced here?

What is there to hesitate about? Anyway, the leader has said that he will give full support and give whatever you want, so why not get everything you need first? !

Of course, the three research institutes also brought a large number of family members, who were also settled in the capital. Students first went to school in the capital, and teachers taught in the capital. As for the other family members, because the land outside the capital was too far away, they could not farm, so they could only be temporarily arranged to build the capital together, doing whatever they could, which would also speed up the construction of the capital.

When it was August in the early autumn of the third year of Da Ming, the second batch of immigrants in the capital also came. These were all from Qiongzhou Island. Because 4,000 people were moved from You Qiao to Qiongzhou Island, and tens of thousands of prisoners of war were released home, the population of Qiongzhou Island surged, so Luo Chong just transferred 5,000 people from Qiongzhou to supplement the capital.

However, these people were not assigned to the city for the time being, but to farm in the suburbs outside the city.

In the winter of the third year of Da Ming, the heavy industrial base of Qi'an County finally ignited the first fire.

The coal mines began to be mined, the coking plant began to produce coke, the steel mill began to smelt steel, and the rolling mill next to it was also continuously transporting a large amount of steel to the south.

From this day on, the steel bars needed for construction projects in various parts of the south no longer had to be transported from the north.

Until the end of winter of this year, before the New Year's Day, the railway of the Qitai Line was finally connected. In fact, such a narrow-gauge railway does not even need to be broken down. If it were not for digging caves and building bridges, this short 400 kilometers should have been repaired long ago. It was because of the bridge and tunnel that it was delayed until now.

After the opening of this railway, a large number of mining equipment was immediately sent from the north, which was sent to Taigang County along the railway. Manganese iron ore was officially mined here, and then pulled back along the railway and sent to Qi'an County to be smelted into molybdenum alloy steel that can be rolled into heavy-duty rails, and then the equipment of the rolling mill was used to roll out heavy-duty rails weighing 80 kilograms per meter.

Until this moment, the Han tribe finally had the ability to lay heavy-duty railways.

With the heavy-duty rails, the two road construction teams that had completed their tasks were transferred to the capital without stopping. The road construction team originally had 1,600 people, and later joined 2,500 retired Bao Taowei people, and later joined 4,000 bridge workers. Now the size of the entire road construction team has reached more than 8,000 people.

With this road construction team of more than 8,000 people, Luo Chong immediately assigned them a new task to build a new Haidu Line heavy-duty railway.

The Haidu Line is the railway from Tuohai County to the capital. Because the Tuodu Line is a bit difficult to pronounce, the middle word is taken, called the Haidu Line, the railway line from the coast, the estuary to the capital. There is no problem understanding it this way.

The Haidu Line Railway is next to the original narrow-gauge railway line, which makes it convenient to use the original old railway line to transport various railway building materials directly to the construction site.

Unlike the previous narrow-gauge railway, the narrow-gauge railway only needs to pad the roadbed and compact it, and then you can directly lay sleepers and nail rails, but the heavy-duty railway is different.

Because heavy-duty railways carry a very heavy load, they have higher requirements for the roadbed.

Under the heavy-duty railway, it is necessary to drive piles in rows, with a diameter of 30 centimeters and a depth of 10 meters. At least four piles are driven horizontally. After the holes for the piles are drilled, the steel cage is inserted and concrete is poured. This is a reinforced concrete pile that is nailed ten meters deep into the ground.

Four concrete piles are driven in a row, and one row is driven every 1.2 meters. All the land along the line must be driven with such piles, and then the steel cage is tied on top of the piles, and then the road surface is poured with concrete.

After the road surface is poured, soil needs to be added to raise the foundation, and then the road surface is poured, and soil is added again until the cross-section of the railway roadbed is piled into a trapezoid, then sleepers and rails can be laid on the top, and finally ballast, that is, gravel, can be used to cover the sleepers.

After the road above is built, drainage channels need to be built on the slopes on both sides of the trapezoidal foundation, and grass and trees need to be planted to prevent soil erosion of the foundation, and vegetation is used to consolidate the soil of the foundation.

Fortunately, the new Haidu Line is all plains, and there is an original narrow-gauge railway not far away to transport building materials. In addition, there are enough manpower and good equipment, so the construction speed of the project is not slow.

It’s just that the cost of this road is a bit scary .

While the first heavy-duty railway of the Han tribe is being built here, a group of researchers from the Power Research Institute in the industrial zone next to Takumi County are also busy building factories and manufacturing heavy-duty locomotives.

They are all excited and sleepless now. The first heavy-duty railway of the Han tribe has begun to be built. They can’t wait until the road is built before their cars are built, right? That would be a big joke.

At the end of winter in the third year of the reign of Emperor Taizong, the capital welcomed the third batch of immigrants. They were all outstanding students who had passed the entrance exams from the eight counties of Hanyang. Of course, there were also their families, totaling about 8,000 people, and this time they all moved into the capital.

Those students who passed the entrance exams would continue their studies at the universities in the capital, and their families would also begin to join the construction of the capital.

Others started small businesses in the capital and began commercial activities.

The people who had immigrated to the capital this year also spent the first New Year's Day in the capital here. In the fourth year

of

the reign of Emperor Taizong, the manufacturing industrial park in Takumi County increased its construction efforts, and some urgently needed projects began construction immediately. Those that were not urgent, such as shipyards for building steam ironclad ships, had to be put on the back burner.

The first thing to be built was the machinery processing plant and the glass factory. There was a reason why the glass factory was built first. The imperial palace in the capital was about to be completed. Because of the railway, all kinds of building materials could be basically met. In addition, the immigrants last year helped to build the palace, which accelerated the construction speed. The only building material still missing was glass.

However, this also meant that the construction of the palace had reached the final decoration stage. After all, the glass had been installed, so the only thing left was the final decoration.

The center of the Han Empire was about to be built.

(End of this chapter)