Chapter 1068 Construction of Heyuan County
In the eyes of the craftsmen and researchers of the Han tribe, it is a well-known fact that their leader has an unparalleled talent in the field of mechanical manufacturing, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is so wise that he is close to a demon.
This is not only because Luo Chong has led everyone to develop many practical and good things, but also because Luo Chong has never made mistakes in his judgment on the direction of research and development of various instruments. As long as everyone strictly follows the leader's instructions, most of the time it will go smoothly.
Therefore, in the eyes of the people of the Han tribe, Luo Chong is just like a god with a cheat. He can really look forward 500 years and look back 500 years.
However, Luo Chong does have a cheat. His experience in his previous life that exceeded this world by thousands of years is his biggest cheat.
Therefore, when Gu Cheng heard Luo Chong talking about the future development direction of watches, and the idea of ​​condensing watches to the size of a coin, which can be worn on the body at any time, or even on the wrist, he couldn't help but get excited.
How lucky would it be if such pocket watches and wristwatches could be made in his hands? !
"Thank you for your guidance, Chief. I will make these things as soon as possible." After a moment of excitement, Gu Cheng immediately bowed his hands to thank Luo Chong. He didn't say anything nice, but he really admired this chief.
"No hurry, no hurry!" Luo Chong waved his hands without raising his head, and his right hand quickly drew something with a pencil on a piece of white paper. After a moment, he drew the "concept sketches" of the small alarm clock on the table, as well as the pocket watch and wristwatch, and then put them in front of Gu Cheng and said.
"Hey, this is what I imagined the three types of clocks to look like. The larger one can be called an alarm clock, the small one with a chain is called a pocket watch, and the one worn on the hand is called a wristwatch. They can all be the size of a coin, and the thickness can be appropriately thicker, otherwise there will definitely not be enough space for so many parts.
"In the future, we will set up a clock factory to specialize in the production of various clocks. Among them, table clocks and wall clocks are definitely more for home users, pocket watches and wristwatches are personal items, and as for this small alarm clock, it is suitable for students to use to remind them of their work and rest time.
"Given your experience in developing mechanical clocks and self-ringing clocks, these things will definitely not be difficult for you. It's nothing more than miniaturizing various parts and then assembling them. The difficulty of this job lies in how to process qualified pocket-sized parts, such as gears.
"The gears in the watch may be the size of a bean. The teeth on it are probably not clear without a magnifying glass. It is definitely difficult to process such precision parts.
"So you don't have to worry about this for the time being. First, get the matter of the capital clock tower done. Then you can go to the second institute to customize a set of ultra-small high-precision machine tools. Although they are not good at making clocks, they are incomparable to your first institute in terms of mechanical processing. You can also communicate and learn from each other at that time."
Luo Chong gave Gu Cheng the sketch he drew casually and explained his future development direction. Gu Cheng was naturally grateful. He quickly bowed and said, "Thank you, leader."
Even if it was a thank you, the answer was also crisp and clear. Luo Chong also liked such people. He worked seriously and spoke without hesitation. Such people are very likable.
"Okay, both of you remember your respective tasks. Ao Fei, you go to summarize the teaching materials, and Gu Cheng, you need to finish the clock tower matter first, and then study the other things.
"Also, um... Ao Fei, when you go back, tell the other groups in your school to also compile a set of teaching materials. You will be responsible for this matter, and you will collect them all and send them to me when the time comes." After explaining things, Luo Chong suddenly remembered something and gave the two of them another instruction.
"Yes, I obey your command!" Ao Fei hurriedly bowed to accept the task, and Gu Cheng also bowed beside him, but this time he didn't say anything.
"Okay, okay, you guys go back first, I won't keep you for dinner. "Luo Chong waved his hand again, jokingly speaking.
The two did not care about what Luo Chong said, and walked out together after saying goodbye.
Luo Chong looked at the self-ringing clock in the study again, and called the guards to help him put the clock in the study. He liked it very much.
Well, there is also this off-axis shutter camera, which is not bad. It's a pity that the Han tribe has no plastic film or color photo paper at present, and still can't reproduce things like the Leica camera in the previous life. It's a pity. I don't know if he will have the opportunity to see color photos in this life. The day he died.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then he threw himself into work again.
On the other side, after Ao Fei and Gu Cheng returned to the comprehensive research institute on the lake island, they immediately began to deal with the tasks assigned by the leader.
Ao Fei first conveyed the order to organize the teaching materials to each group, and then led his team to organize the scientific research results of their optical group over the years.
Gu Cheng got a conceptual sketch of Luo Chong and the future development direction of watches. He was also very happy, but he didn't have time to do these things at the moment.
He first asked someone to help He found a few big guys in the construction industry, and then told them about the bell tower that Luo Chong mentioned, and asked them to come up with a plan for building the bell tower and make a copy of the building drawings.
This is what he must do now, because only after he knows the actual size of the bell tower, that is, how big the shell of this super-large clock is, can he know how big the parts should be installed in it.
The temporary bell tower team worked hard and finally drew several styles of bell towers, but Gu Cheng did not make a decision directly. He carefully asked someone to send several building plans to Luo Chong for Luo Chong to choose.
After all, this matter was announced by Luo Chong, and the bell tower was also proposed by Luo Chong to be built, so naturally they had to satisfy Luo Chong first, and wait until Luo Chong made a choice before they could continue the next step of the work.
At the same time, the ship that was transporting hunting rifles to Heyuan County in the north finally arrived there. Qu Bing had already returned to the Yanchi camp with the large army of the Shen Ce Guard and the 1,000 militiamen. On the way, they encountered several sneak attacks by giant apes again. Although they were all killed by the Shen Ce Guard, everyone was not happy at all.
All signs indicate that there must be a large number of giant apes in the forest, but the Shen Ce Guards cannot let them hunt here every day, so this matter still depends on the local people to save themselves.
Apart from anything else, a solid city is indispensable. No matter what, the people must be given a place to live first, and they cannot sleep uneasy.
The two thousand hunting rifles sent by Luo Chong were jointly accepted by You Ye and Qu Bing on the day they arrived. You Ye was responsible for summoning young and strong people to come for training, and Qu Bing brought the regular soldiers of the Shen Ce Guards to train the militia to use firearms.
As for the formal establishment of Heyuan County and the construction of the city, it was of course the responsibility of You Ye, the governor of Heyuan County.
Although there are not many people in Heyuan County at present, there are only about 7,000 young and strong men, of which 2,000 are receiving training from the Shen Ce Guards, and the other half have to work to maintain their daily lives, but Heyuan County still has no shortage of labor for building the city.
The reason is that since the 30,000 male and female slaves were sent back to the tribe at the beginning of this year, the Shen Ce Guards captured a lot of slaves again in the third phase of the battle against the enemy. Luo Chong said that these slaves do not need to be sent back, which means that You Ye can decide the life and death of these slaves by himself.
Even Luo Chong, the leader, has said so, what else can be said? Just let these slaves build the city.
After the city of Heyuan County is built, if there are still living slaves, they can also be sent to the asphalt lake in the west. These slaves can be used to mine asphalt, squeeze out their last value, and mine a lot of resources for the tribe. Anyway, no matter how it is handled in the end, You Ye and his team will not suffer any loss.
Although Luo Chong said that the county seat of Heyuan County should be placed in the salt pond area, You Ye was not stupid enough to nitpick and insist on building the city around the salt pond. The land around the salt pond, anyone with a little brain knows that it must be saline-alkali land. How can such land grow food to feed the people in the city?
Therefore, Youye chose to build the city in the southeast of the Yanchi area. There is a large plain there. The surrounding land is enough for tens of thousands of people to cultivate. The food grown can feed 100,000 people. There is also a fresh water source nearby that can be used to irrigate farmland. Not far away is a branch of the mountain range in the hunting ground. There are mountains, water and trees, so there is no need to worry about firewood and timber. Even if there is no straw, the people here will not lack firewood. Moreover, the massive amount of wood needed for building the city can also be obtained from here.
Of course, cutting trees is cutting trees, but the Han tribe cannot let the people cut them indiscriminately. The places where the people are allowed to cut wood are all pre-demarcated areas, specifying which mountain it is, and when cutting wood, they can only cut branches, and it is definitely impossible to cut down the tree directly.
There are also strict requirements for official timber felling. From now on, the forest has become the public property of the tribe. Taxes must be paid for felling timber, and only trees can be felled according to specifications. Trees that are not thick enough cannot be felled, small trees cannot be felled, and damaged trees must be removed on their own initiative. In short, they cannot be cut down indiscriminately. Even if they cut down trees, they can only cut what they need.
Youye still attaches great importance to the construction of Heyuan County. He has been following his elder brother Youfu since he was a child. Later, after joining the Han tribe, he decided to take people on a boat to explore the north, which took several years.
With the continuous growth of age, and Youye's years of experience in the north, he has won over the tribe to join, led people to farm and live, and organized foreign wars with Qubing. After a few years, his unruly temperament has finally settled down.
Now that the leader has given him a frontier official as the governor of Heyuan County, he began to concentrate on managing Heyuan County.
The initial infrastructure construction is only the first step. It is a hard condition for the people to survive and maintain the rule of the tribe. How to make the people live a good life in the later stage is more important.
In Youye's plan, due to the climate and geographical reasons, farming in Heyuan County is definitely not very promising. The farming here can be used to maintain the lives of local people, but that's all. It's enough to eat and drink, but there is basically no surplus. It is basically impossible to use the surplus food to make wine.
So he puts the main focus of his business on the breeding industry. There are a lot of yaks and alpacas here, which can not only provide beef, but also textiles and leather, as well as furs provided by various prey in the forest. These are all specialties that can be sold at a high price in the south.
But these are not enough. Youye also wants to make full use of the geographical advantages of Heyuan County. What are the advantages of Heyuan County? That is, it is cold enough. There are at least six months of cold winter a year. During this time, the people have almost nothing to do. People are prone to chaos when they are idle, so he has to find a way to use these surplus labor to create wealth, instead of letting them have nothing to do.
After much deliberation, Youye decided to build the largest frozen warehouse in the entire Han tribe in Heyuan County, which can also be called an ice cellar, to store and sell ice.
The Han tribe did not have refrigeration technology, so storing ice was very important to the Han tribe. In the past, there were ice cellars in the eight counties of Hanyang, but they were not very large in scale, and the amount used in various parts of the Han tribe was not very large.
But Youye felt that selling ice was not without opportunities. Since the official war against the cannibals, he had been in contact with Qubing for a long time. Through daily chats, Youye knew that Luo Chong had developed very rapidly in the south and central regions, and all walks of life were booming. Apart from anything else, the fishing industry on the coast alone was an industry that needed ice very much, and they did not produce ice locally, so they could only transport it from the central region.
However, the land in the central region was fertile, and during the winter period, there were many industries that could be operated, and the people could make money by doing anything. Who would want to go out to mine ice in the winter?
The eight counties of Hanyang were not interested in making this money, but Youye was interested. Anyway, they had a long winter and there was plenty of ice. If they dug some ice cellars to store it, there would be no loss even if they could not sell it. It was just a waste of manpower. Moreover, these manpower were idle in winter. It would be a waste if they did not use them.
After thinking about it, Youye thought it was possible. The main reason was that the Han tribe now had flying fish boats. It would not take more than one month to get from Heyuan County to Qiongzhou Island in the south. With such a transportation speed, it was technically feasible to use it to transport ice.
However, he was still not at ease. He called Qubing, who was responsible for training the militia, and told him the idea again.
"Well, your idea is good, and according to my idea, the scale of your ice cellar can be even larger. I received some news from my hometown. The demand for ice in the tribe may increase sharply in the future." After listening to it, Qubing suddenly broke a bombshell to Youye.
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is written in the beginning. I was locked in a metal pigeon cage. If I failed the final exam, I would be sent to the mantle mine and called a mining tool? Fortunately, I became stronger when I did good things, punishing evil and promoting good, and was called a living creature in another world.
(End of this chapter)
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