Chapter 1129 Ye Ying's trading fleet set off
Regarding the method of cracking rocks with fire and water, it cannot be said to be useless, but you have to see who you compare it with.
If it was used in the pre-Qin period when the Dujiangyan was being built, it would definitely be advanced, at least much stronger than manpower.
But compared with the current Han tribe, it is different.
Let alone the explosives of the Han tribe, even if there were no explosives, it would be estimated that the efficiency would be faster and cheaper than the method of fire and water.
Fire and water require a lot of firewood and a lot of time. If you don't burn it for seven or eight hours, how can you burn the stone to boiling hot? If the stone can't reach the temperature, you pour water on it, which is just cooling the stone and has no effect.
So, this method is not as good as using explosives, even black gunpowder is stronger than this.
Therefore, You Fu and Yang Xin discussed it and immediately gave up the method of fire and water.
There is no gunpowder on the construction site for the time being, so just use a rock drill to slowly dig, and the speed is not much slower than fire and water.
As for gunpowder, You Fu also thought about imitating the construction site of the cross-sea bridge and producing black gunpowder by himself, but after thinking about it carefully, You Fu gave up.
Their situation is different from that of the cross-sea bridge.
The bridge is a dead project, the bridge is there, and the bridge will not move.
The mountain where the quarrying is is next to the camp and will not move.
In addition, there are tens of thousands of workers at the bridge construction site to provide feces and other excrement, so they can extract saltpeter from the ground by refining the soil.
None of the above conditions are available in the tunnel.
First of all, they don’t have so many people. How can they collect saltpeter without a population?
Secondly, the construction site. The construction site of the railway is always moving forward. There is no fixed base at all. How can it be refined and made? So it can only be transported from the rear.
Fortunately, the Han tribe has a perfect system and first-class organization. The execution of officials at all levels is super strong. The Han tribe has a policy of household registration and joint guarantee of ten and five. The imperial power entering the household is not a joke.
In just a few days, the personnel dispatched from various places have arrived one after another.
On the southern sea, several cargo ships carrying 2,500 soldiers of the Baotao Guard and 1,000 quarry workers transferred from the cross-sea bridge have all landed at the dock of Takuhai County.
After receiving the advance mining equipment and food supplies in Takuhai County, the 1,000 quarry workers immediately took a ferry to the other side of the Liuyang River, departed from Tangcheng County, and went to the quarry in Panshi County by land to provide sufficient stone for the construction of the capital.
Although the train has not been completed yet, they can first mine the stones, process them into roughcasts, and then transport them to the capital after the train is completed.
The 2,500 Baotao Guard soldiers have now all been reorganized into engineering troops. Luo Chong gave them an order to divide the 2,000 people into three groups, 1,000 of which immediately took a ship to Chengkang County, landed there, and then took a train to Qi'an County to meet with the first railway construction team and temporarily be incorporated into the first team sequence.
Another thousand people immediately boarded the ferry to land at the Tangcheng County wharf on the other side of the river, set up camp, and waited for the arrival of follow-up equipment and the second construction team.
The last 500 people of the Baotao Guard were all on vacation for a total of two months. After two months, they returned to the team and took turns to take vacation.
Just after the Baotao Guard landed at the wharf on the other side, less than three days later, the 800-man road construction team from Youfu arrived.
The professional road construction team of 800 people and the professional soldiers who had just retired were immediately mixed together. The workers of the road construction team instructed these engineers on how to lay the railway.
At the same time, a mixed fleet heading south from the north also quickly sailed towards the south.
Several heavy equipment ships transformed from sunken sand ships slowly docked at the dock of Chengkang County. The ship's side and the stone trestle of the dock were connected with steel plates, and several heavy equipment drove down from the ship one by one.
This time, two tractors, a loader, a vibrating roller, and two rock drills converted from excavators were transported, and two buckets were attached. If the excavator is needed, just replace the pneumatic pick in front of the mechanical arm with a bucket and it can be put into use immediately.
In addition, there are some equipment that has not been unloaded. There are also four tractors, two excavators, two loaders, and a roller on it. These ships just docked in a hurry, replenished some fresh meat and vegetables, and immediately continued to rush south.
The remaining equipment on the ship was to be distributed to the Second Road Construction Team and the quarry in Panshi County.
In addition to the heavy equipment that could run on its own, there were a large number of other tools, such as a steam-powered table saw that could be used to cut stone bricks; an air compressor driven by a steam engine, and matching pneumatic picks and hammers, which were used to chisel stones, as well as a large number of steel chisels and crowbars.
There were also a dozen craftsmen from the capital who were responsible for guiding the mining tasks in the quarry, because only they knew what kind of stone the capital needed.
In addition to transporting these heavy equipment, this mixed fleet from the north also had a large number of auxiliary materials and tools, which were also transported by ship, such as the explosives and fuses needed by Youfu, the rails needed for the Qitai Line and Tangpan Line, and a large number of railway construction tools and accessories. There were also a lot of steel bars and cement left, which were also to be distributed to several construction sites.
There are only three places that need this stuff the most now. One is the mountain railway of Qitai Line, the other is the capital in the south, and the cross-sea bridge in the southwest. These construction sites are all big consumers of steel bars and cement.
After these things arrived in various places one after another, a few days later, the two trains that Luo Chong asked Dali to get were also delivered to the dock of Takuhai County.
The locomotives of these two trains were transferred from the mine, but the carriages and frames were new. These parts were produced a lot at the beginning, and so many were produced at the beginning. They were originally used as spare parts for maintenance and replacement.
But what people didn't expect was that now it is not used for maintenance and replacement, but directly assembled into a new train.
There is only one train running on the loop line of the capital, which greatly wastes the transportation capacity, so one train is transferred to be used as a supplement, so that more materials and equipment can be transported to the capital.
The other train is directly allocated to the Tangpan Line project, which is also the experience of the Han tribe in repairing trains for many years.
When the Han tribe built the first new guard line, they suffered from inexperience. The trains were laid farther and farther, but the rails and sleepers needed to be transported by carriages and manpower. Dozens of people worked together to carry a rail with a wooden pole. They were exhausted and could not transport more than a few rails a day.
Later, the Han tribe had experience. They first laid a few hundred meters of railway at the starting point of the station, and then immediately got a train to go up. The sleepers and rails needed for subsequent projects were all loaded on the train. The train followed wherever the engineering team built, saving them from worrying about transporting materials.
So before the railway was built this time, Luo Chong directly asked someone to transfer a train, which was originally intended to serve the road construction team.
Just as the various projects of the Han tribe were being built in an orderly manner, Ye Ying, the general flag officer of the Jinwu Guard, also followed Luo Chong's orders and led two hundred Jinwu Guard soldiers, Qiao Yan and elders of the Qiao family, and some young and strong people who were familiar with the situation in the tribe, to Takuhai County.
Dashu raised ten large and small ships for them in Takumi County to form a trading fleet. The four three-masted ships were also filled with countless goods, all used to make friends with strange tribes and trade, in exchange for the people of the Qiao family.
White salt, ceramic utensils, iron pots, iron axes, kitchen knives, hatchets, shovels, scissors, books, calendars, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, cloth and needles, as long as they can be used in daily life, even if the Qiao family has no idea what they are, Ye Ying also brought a lot.
Even if this fleet cannot bring back many people, it must spread the influence of the Han tribe to the surrounding areas, and provide a good foundation for the Han Empire to continue to expand its territory and rule the entire continent in the future.
(End of this chapter)
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