Chapter 932 Confirming the starting point for exploration
One hundred and seventy-six kilometers, and running in eight hours, what does this mean?
This speed is estimated by the research institute. After all, it has never been actually tested before. According to the design theory, it is calculated by multiplying the movement speed of the cylinder piston by the diameter of the power wheel, which is about fifty kilometers per hour, which is twenty-five kilometers per hour.
This speed is about the same as the speed of an electric bicycle. It is not really that fast. The speed of a war horse when charging can reach seventy-five kilometers per hour in a short time, but you can't stop it from pulling too much! How many horses can you use to pull so many things and run at this speed?
Moreover, large items such as steel bars and steam mixers cannot be loaded with horse-drawn carriages. The standard steel bars of the Han tribe are six meters long. What kind of carriage can be six meters long? But two steel bars can be loaded with the length of a train carriage. The length of this narrow-gauge train carriage is twelve meters. If it is a wide-gauge heavy-duty railway, a carriage can be twenty-five meters long. It's a pity that the steel rails for heavy-duty railways are not yet available.
In order to better compare the speed, Luo Chong also arranged a team of horse-drawn carriages that transported iron ingots for civilian use to various counties and prefectures. In addition, dozens of Luo Chong's personal guards also rode war horses to follow the train.
As soon as the train started, the personal guards rode out on their war horses. In a blink of an eye, only the dust was raised along the way. The team transporting iron ingots also started to set off. At first, they were slightly faster than the train, but when the train picked up its normal speed, the horse-drawn carriages were immediately left behind and soon disappeared.
In the passenger car of the train, everyone was chatting with each other, discussing the various advantages of this train and their own riding experience.
Because the track was too short, there was a joint every 100 meters, so the vibration sound when running was particularly obvious, and the sound of "what's more, what's more" was heard one after another.
But everyone had only been on the train for ten minutes, and the excitement of seeing and riding a train for the first time had not yet worn off, so they still didn't think there was anything wrong with the sound, and even thought the clanging sound was nice.
"Hey, why does this train clang when it runs? Is there something wrong?" A representative from the Liuyang County Shipyard asked in confusion in the front carriage.
This thing clanged non-stop when it ran, and he thought it was something wrong, as if it would fall apart at any time, but he certainly couldn't say this out loud, after all, it was the first official test run, and saying that the new train was going to fall apart was probably asking for trouble.
A craftsman from the Power Research Institute in the same carriage said, "No, no, the vibration you heard is just the sound of the wheels hitting the track. The wheels of this train are made of iron, and the track is also made of iron. How can there be no sound when iron hits iron? It is normal for the sound to be a little
loud." "That's right. Each rail we produce is 100 meters long. When the wheels roll over the joints of two rails, such a clanging sound will be made. So every time you hear a clanging sound, it means that we have run 100 meters. So you know how fast this train is!" Another researcher from the Second Institute also added.
"Oh? So that's how it is? Every time it rings, it means we have run 100 meters?! So this train is really fast!"
Someone immediately sighed. To be honest, although they were sitting in the car, they were always looking outside. The scenery on both sides of the railway quickly receded, making them feel that the current speed must be very fast, but how fast it is, they have no idea in their hearts. Now they heard the relationship between this vibration and speed.
Many people immediately sat down on the benches and closed their eyes to listen, counting their breaths and the clanging sound every time they passed the rail joints.
Most of the people in the carriage sat there without talking or opening their eyes, as if they were sleeping. In fact, they were calculating the speed of the train.
Whoosh-bang-whoosh-bang-
everyone listened to the whirring sound of the wind in their ears. Every two breaths or so, they could hear a vibration sound, which meant that within two breaths, the train had carried so many people and goods for a hundred meters. It was indeed super fast. However,
compared with the excited people, Luo Chong, who was sitting in the second to last carriage, did not look happy at all.
Tang Yao sat sideways next to Luo Chong. She stretched her head to look out of the window of the carriage and asked Luo Chong curiously.
"Why do you look unhappy? Is there something you are not satisfied with?"
"Nothing unhappy, I just think it's a bit slow." Luo Chong pretended to close his eyes and rest, and replied without opening his eyes.
Tang Yao was surprised. "Is this car still slow? But I feel it's very fast. Don't you forget how many people are sitting on this car and how many things it's carrying?"
She heard that the cement in front is actually stone powder. Don't you know how heavy stone is? The steel bars in front are real steel. It would take years for their Tang tribe to refine the steel in this car, let alone make it in this shape.
A car can carry so many things and run at a speed no less than a war horse. Is this still called slow? !
She really couldn't understand what Luo Chong was thinking.
"It's okay." Luo Chong still didn't open his eyes, but just replied perfunctorily.
How should he answer this question? He couldn't say that I took a train in my previous life and it took me six hours to get from Beijing to Shanghai, but now the train I'm on can't run more than 200 kilometers in eight hours! If this is not slow, what is slow?
Even the green train that Luo Chong took when he was a child could easily reach a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, right? !
Eight hours! To be honest, it would be a long distance in modern times, but the train of the Han tribe now takes eight hours to run from this "county" to the next "county"? ! Isn't this slow? !
Tang Yao couldn't understand Luo Chong's idea at all. She didn't want to think about it. She folded her arms and leaned on the window, tilted her head and looked at Luo Chong and asked.
"Luo Chong, after we get married, will you let people build railways and trains in our place?"
"Of course, the rubber and iron ore and various stones in your place are all hidden in the mountains, especially the stones in Panshi County. Without this narrow-gauge train, how can you transport them out?
In addition, our research institute recently discovered that if we want to make steel rails for heavy-duty railways, we must use the iron ore in your place. If there were no coal mines nearby that can match iron smelting, I would have planned to build a second steel smelting base in your place."
As he was talking, Luo Chong suddenly opened his eyes. He suddenly thought, yes, why did he forget this!
Luo Chong quickly glanced at the entire carriage, then called out to You Fu, "You Fu, come here."
You Fu was standing at the back door of the carriage, looking outside. When he heard Luo Chong calling him, he immediately came over, bowed to Luo Chong, and asked, "Chief, what do you want me to do?"
"I asked you to choose the starting point for this exploration. Have you chosen it?" Luo Chong said straight to the point.
"Well, not yet. Does the chief have any suggestions?" You Fu hesitated and said.
"Then don't choose. This time you start from the Tang tribe, with the Tang tribe as the base point, and search outward in a fan shape in the northeast, west and three directions. I want to find a coal mine closest to the Tang tribe.
If there is no coal mine nearby, we want to make steel in the south, and we must ship coke from the coking plant on the lake island in the north. The distance is too far, and the cost and time are not reliable. Therefore, finding a coal mine closest to the Tang tribe is the most important thing. You must keep this in mind and look for it as the most important goal."
Luo Chong said very solemnly, and You Fu did not dare to be careless. He immediately corrected his attitude and replied meticulously, "Yes! I remember, the first goal is the coal mine closest to the Tang tribe!"
Today is over
(end of this chapter)
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