Chapter 1149 Is it not too much for me to occupy all the grasslands?
After the meeting, the officials quickly returned to their current positions, mainly responsible for handing over the aftermath and guiding the newly promoted officials.
Luo Chong was not idle either. He first asked Xiaodie to lead people to make new official uniforms, which would be used to distribute to officials. He, Xiaodie, Zhan Ying, Tang Yao and the children also had to make a few new clothes, such as dragon robes, phoenix crowns and bridal robes.
On the other hand, Luo Chong also urged the construction of the Haidu Line heavy-duty railway. He hoped that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the only heavy-duty railway line in the Han tribe would be open to traffic. The Haidu Line heavy-duty
railway began to be built last summer. It has been under construction for a whole year now. I believe that if they are given another half a year, it should be almost completed by the New Year's Day this year.
The research and development of heavy-duty locomotives is simpler than expected.
In fact, several years ago, when the Han tribe just had trains, the institute had conducted research and development on heavy-duty locomotives. If speed was not pursued, it would be enough to just scale up the current Endeavour by more than twice.
However, the institute has accumulated so many years of experience in locomotive manufacturing and use, and they are actually capable of making better steam-powered locomotives.
Luo Chong even went to those factories to guide their research and development ideas when he was free. For example, for heavy-duty locomotives, in addition to the models they scaled up according to the Endeavour, Luo Chong also gave them a high-speed train head carved from wood, which was the kind of bullet-shaped locomotive head.
In fact, this thing is the same when it uses steam power. The bullet head in front is nothing more than an extended fairing, which is very simple for them.
The research and development of the carriages brought some difficulties to the institute, but they were all solved by Luo Chong.
In the past, the Han tribe only had freight train carriages and passenger and freight carriages, but this time the heavy-duty locomotive was different. In addition to the freight carriages, Luo Chong also asked them to make passenger carriages specifically for pulling people.
The four-meter-wide carriage is very spacious. It can accommodate six seats horizontally and leave an aisle in the middle. It has one more seat width than the standard track trains commonly seen today.
Another problem with passenger carriages is the connection between the front and rear carriages. Luo Chong had discovered this when he took people on a narrow-gauge train before. The front and rear carriages could not be connected, which made eating and going to the toilet a problem.
Now these problems have been solved. The front and rear ends of the passenger carriages have doors, and there are hooks on the chassis outside the carriages to connect them. Rubber windshields are also installed at the joints of the two carriages.
It is a foldable and retractable mechanism like an accordion. The windshield is made of rubber and iron bars to connect the joints of the two carriages. The front and rear doors of the two carriages are made of two movable steel plates, so that people can pass through them. It is very convenient to walk from one carriage to the next, and small carts can also pass through. At that time, the attendants can push the carts to sell things in the train.
In addition to the windshield connecting the carriages, each carriage has a washroom and toilet at both ends. The toilet is closed, while the hand-washing area is open. Just outside the toilet, two ceramic wash basins are built along the aisle of the carriage, with stainless steel faucets installed on them and connected to the water tank with rubber hoses.
At the other end of the carriage are the hot water room and the crew room. The hot water room and the crew room are located on both sides of the carriage door, providing hot water and services to the passengers on the train.
In addition, there are differences in the layout of the carriages.
The Han tribe's broad-gauge railway passenger train has a left-right symmetrical layout inside the carriage, with an aisle in the middle and benches on both sides that can seat three people. The two groups of seats are opposite to each other, in a face-to-face structure. There is also a long table in the middle, which looks like a booth in a restaurant. This booth is six seats facing each other, which can be sold to six people.
Behind this booth is the second group, the third group, the fourth group, and so on. Some seats are face-to-face, while others are back-to-back. On the side of the carriage wall above their heads is a luggage rack for carrying some carry-on luggage.
Because the Han tribe does not have sponges yet, these benches are currently only covered with a thick layer of felt, and then the outside is a removable fabric sofa cover, which is convenient to remove for cleaning and replacement. This way, shock absorption is used to increase a little comfort.
This is a point that must be considered, because there is no welding technology for the current railway tracks. It cannot be said that there is no welding technology, but if all the rails are welded into a whole, then due to the influence of thermal expansion and contraction, the rails will be extended in the summer and begin to become tortuous.
But if the rails are not welded together, when the train runs, when the wheels pass through the joints of those rails, it will make a clanging noise. If you sit on solid wooden benches at this time, without shock absorption, your butt will be numb.
Especially the Haidu Line, which runs from the Liuyang River in Takumi County to the railway station in the capital, is 367 kilometers long. Even with this enlarged version of the Endeavour, it would take more than ten hours, not to mention a day and a night. Sitting on a solid wooden chair for such a long time, I am afraid that the whole person will be shaken apart when he arrives at the destination. However
, this kind of train is only temporary. There is only one at present. The Power Research Institute is rushing to make the second one under Luo Chong's order. There are only two locomotives of this model, which are considered trial products. Let the train run on this railway line first, and wait for the development of faster high-speed rail models in the future, and then mass production will be carried out.
After watching the manufacturing of the wide-gauge train, Luo Chong went to check the preparations for other aspects.
When the country was founded, it was necessary to offer sacrifices to the sky, and to pile up an altar in the suburbs outside the city with loess in the shape of a pyramid without a tip. There are also the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth, as well as the Altar of Sheji in the city. Sheji is the god of land and grain. This is a symbol of agricultural civilization and cannot be discarded. They all need to be offered sacrifices.
And the most important thing is the Imperial Ancestral Temple, which is the place where the emperor's ancestors are worshipped. It is the emperor's family temple and also the ancestral temple
of the emperor's family. However, there is a saying about this. The emperor's family has the Imperial Ancestral Temple. If the land is divided and the king is made king, then he can also build a family temple. Others cannot use the word temple. No matter how high your official position is, whether you are a marquis or an earl, your family can only be called an ancestral temple.
The ancestors in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the gods of the land and grain, the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth, the large mound outside, and the altar for offering sacrifices to the sky, just the preparation of these sacrificial sites is a lot of work.
In addition, in addition to sacrifices, such a grand founding ceremony must have a military parade, right? After all, the Han tribe is now a country with a Type A division, that is a hot weapon army of nearly 20,000 people.
And if you have a military parade, you have to invite people to come and watch the ceremony, right? !
So Luo Chong sent invitations to the clan leaders who had joined the Han tribe, as well as the only neighbor of the Han Empire, Su Ritu, who occupied the northwest of the grassland, and the leaders of several other grassland settlements, because apart from them, the Han tribe had already conquered all the places it could conquer, and there was really no one else to invite.
However, even if Su Ritu and a few small leaders were left, Luo Chong did not intend to let them go.
The military reform of the Han tribe began in the third year of Da Ming. Now more than a year has passed, and the military reform has long been completed. Now Luo Chong has four cavalry regiments equipped with all firearms, adding up to nearly 10,000 people.
With these 10,000 elite musket cavalrymen, riding on horses and holding machine guns, Luo Chong wants to include the entire grassland in the territory of the Han tribe. There should be no objection, right?
After visiting the military parade and watching the founding ceremony, Luo Chong will immediately ask them to bow down. Don't bow? Then send troops to sweep across the entire grassland and turn the entire grassland into a pasture in the back garden of the Han tribe.
Luo Chong happened to be a little worried.
To the west of the capital is Honghu Lake, but the Han tribe currently only occupies the southern half of the west bank of Honghu Lake, and the northern half of the west bank is in the hands of Su Ritu. If he had a boat, he could land from the backyard of the palace in two days and directly raid his own lair.
In this case, can Luo Chong sleep well? Then just take back the other half of the grassland.
(End of this chapter)
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