Chapter 364 The Second Market (Please vote and subscribe)
Lingcao and his friends followed the Han tribe's delegation on a small wooden boat. When they came back, the delegation would row the boat back, and the Ling tribe would continue to use their bamboo rafts as a means of transportation. Anyway, they had plenty of bamboo and didn't need a raft.
Luo Chong had been in the new city for half a month. During this half month, he had communicated with Hanyang City once, and Hanyang City had already been on track. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner. According to the report of the rat witch and the elders, another teaching building had been built. The four teaching buildings planned by Luo Chong were now half completed. I believe it will be completed soon.
The construction speed of Hanyang City was very fast, and the new city area was naturally not slow. The planning of the new city area was different from that of Hanyang City. Hanyang City was a square city. The "well" formed by four main streets divided the entire city into nine square city areas, while the new city was a market area, and it was also a rectangular city, which was naturally different from Hanyang City.
The area of the new city market is larger than that of Hanyang City. The two main streets intersect horizontally and vertically to form a "cross", dividing the entire market into four large rectangular urban areas. The four large areas are divided into four small areas by two cross-shaped secondary roads. In other words, there are 16 small urban areas in one market, and each of these small urban areas is slightly larger than the urban area of the Han tribe. In comparison, a market in the new city is 7 districts larger than that of Hanyang City.
And this is obviously not enough. The population of the new city is constantly increasing. In addition to the population of the Han tribe itself, there are also a large number of laborers, with a number of people approaching five figures. In addition, the city cannot be used only for residential construction. Corresponding factories and warehouses are also required.
For example, the windmill wood processing factory and blacksmith workshop have been built, and there is a special area for raising cattle, horses and sheep. There are also warehouses for storing grain and feed. These have occupied three districts. In addition, the residential area of the new city is much larger than that of Hanyang City. Even if the remaining 13 districts are all built as residential areas, the city cannot accommodate nearly 10,000 people living at the same time, so the city must be divided again.
Where should the new city be divided? This is a problem.
Luo Chong originally planned to build a post station village between Xincheng and Hanyang City, that is, a village with a population of about one or two thousand people, but now is obviously not the right time. The target area does not have a large amount of water sources. There are a few mountain springs and streams, but they are not enough to support the growth of rice. How can they survive without food?
Do they have to ask the cities on both sides to send supplies to the middle? This is simply impossible. According to Luo Chong's idea, this village must meet its own food supply, and it is not realistic to grow rice there. Therefore, Luo Chong plans to build this post station village after the corn and soybean seedlings are successfully raised. At that time, corn and soybeans that do not require much water will be promoted locally as the main food of the village.
However, it is still too early to raise seedlings. Without one or two years, it is impossible to form a large-scale planting with only a few seeds. Now there is wheat suitable for planting there, but wheat has a long growth cycle and low yield. In the case of corn, it cannot be used as the first choice.
Since the village cannot be built, the population of the new city must be divided, so we can simply build another market next to the existing market according to the original plan.
The new city is close to the river, with sufficient water resources, and surrounded by large plains. The bushes and grass are very lush, and the trees are sparse. Whether it is grazing directly here or reclaiming wasteland for farming, it is a very suitable place. Besides, the new city was originally planned to be built into a big city, and it is also within the plan to build a few more markets.
The new market town can first build a rammed earth wall. That thing is easy to build and the speed is fast. If there are enough people, a rammed earth wall can be built in almost ten days, but the time for digging the soil is another matter.
Up to now, the wall soil, bricks, and other building materials used in the construction of the new urban area are all obtained by digging the river. After all, even if it is farming, water must be diverted first. The purpose of doing this is to open up more planting areas while building the city.
The plan was quickly finalized. Just a few dozen meters north of the existing market town, another market town was built . The specifications were exactly the same as the one under construction, and it was also divided into 16 urban areas. This would also reduce the pressure of insufficient living space.
After explaining the construction task of the second market town to Dashu, Luo Chong also continued to study papermaking, imagining whether there is any mechanized means to replace the current pure manual processing. The current papermaking progress is too slow. If you want to meet Luo Chong's requirements for universal education, this output is simply unrealistic, so you must find a new way to use mechanized production methods instead of pure manual work, even if only one link uses machinery, the faster the better.
However, this kind of invention cannot be thought of in a day or two. After all, it is a production line of production equipment, which is different from a single tool and is not at the same level of difficulty. However, Luo Chong is not clueless. He has already come up with ideas for improving some of the links.
For example, with bamboo, a conveyor belt can be made of bamboo to make a super long bamboo curtain to convey the copied paper pulp. Then a long fire bed is built under the conveyor belt. When the fire is lit below, the wet paper pulp is input from one end and output from the other end. It is directly evaporated by the heating of the fire bed in the middle. In this way, a lot of time and manpower for peeling and cultivating paper can be saved.
However, there is still a technical problem that has not been solved for this idea, that is, how to evenly spread the paper pulp on this bamboo curtain conveyor belt, and it cannot be broken in the middle, and the speed must be fast enough. If this cannot be done, the previous conveyor belt is equivalent to talking in vain.
To be honest, this was also what Luo Chong came up with after thinking about modern papermaking. Modern papermaking is all mechanized, but there is no such thing as papermaking one by one. What is made is a whole roll. Well, of course, it is not a roll of toilet paper, but a large roll of paper that is one or two meters wide and more than one meter in diameter. One roll weighs several tons.
This means that modern papermaking must have a method of continuous papermaking without stopping, and the conveyor belt and heating and steaming method should be similar to what Luo Chong thought. After all, he has never seen a modern paper mill, so he can only imagine it based on his scarce memory. Moreover, it must be in line with the current production capacity of the Han tribe and can be made with the current production technology.
However, God did not seem to want to give Luo Chong time to continue climbing the technology tree, because a letter from the flying eagle in Hanyang City called him back. The elder told Luo Chong in the letter that the inspection team of the two tribal alliances in the north had arrived
(end of this chapter)
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