Papermaking is destined to be just Chen Ying's wishful thinking. If you don't do it, you will be shocked. Chen Ying asked hundreds of craftsmen in succession, and they had never even heard of it. With the manufacturing process that Chen Yingdao heard, God knows that only when he can make paper in the year of the monkey and horses in the month of the month?

Unless Chen Ying can dig a large number of skilled craftsmen from the rice paper workshop, this idea is just a thought. In this era, it is not as good as in later generations, because now people can buy people, such as Yinhu and Tenants, are inherited from generation to generation, and these core personnel cannot be digged at all, and even if they pry the corners, the price will not be small.

What's more, Chen Ying doesn't have this time.

After throwing his whimsical thoughts out of his mind, Chen Ying went to the construction site to inspect.

Chen Ying originally thought it was very easy to dig a ditch that was nearly 70 miles long, but more than 500 people moved together, and everyone was worthy of the money and food he gave. However, the progress was, except for the first few days, a trench with more than 500 steps in length, but in recent days, the progress has been getting slower and slower.

Chen Ying was displeased. He thought that these civilians were passive and lazy, but when he came to the digging site, he felt confused. These civilian craftsmen did not need to supervise them at all. The digging soil was sweating like rain, and the pulling soil was also sweating like rain, but they could not get up. After thinking for a long time, they still couldn't figure it out.

When Chen Yingjing calmed down and calculated, he realized that he was too outspoken in his work. Since this ditch was not simply convenient for irrigation, it also had to undertake transportation, so the width was twelve and sixteen feet (about 29.61 meters) and two feet deep, and the bottom was six and six feet wide (about 15.51 meters). The area of ​​the entire ditch was 106 square meters. For every meter digging forward, one hundred and six cubic meters needed to be dug out, and 3.71 million cubic meters needed to be dug out during the entire project.

In later generations, such projects were just pediatrics, and all kinds of machinery could be completed in at most over a month. However, in this era, such projects were simply desperate.

Even if five hundred people were used to dig the soil, each person had to dig out more than 7,400 square meters. Even if everyone kept digging the soil every day, the project volume of ten cubic meters was already soaring. However, the transportation work was even more desperate. At this time, the main mode of transportation was deer cart. In fact, to put it bluntly, it was a wooden wheelbarrow, which was awesome for two or three hundred kilograms...

It’s not that these civilian craftsmen did not do their best, but that the project volume was too much, exceeding their limit. One hundred deer trucks were transported continuously, and more than one hundred round trips in six hours (at this time, the soil was dug to the place where the soil was unloaded). According to the calculation of 300 kilograms per truck, only three million kilograms of soil can be transported a day. The density of soil is 1.2, and more than three million kilograms sounds a lot, but in fact it is only more than one thousand cubic meters. In other words, it is just the unearthed amount of 12 meters digging forward from the ditches.

When Chen found this problem, he should have asked Ge Tong and told Ge Tong bluntly: "These civil servants are too slow to make progress. At the current speed, I am afraid that this ditche will not be able to be dug well in ten years. What restricts the speed of digging the canal is the speed of transporting soil. Do you have a better way?"

"This..." Ge Tong was stopped by Chen Ying. He scratched his head and said in confusion: "Aren't it all the time to pull the soil like this? What better way?"

Chen Ying sighed in his heart. He really missed the later generations. Heavy-duty trucks can be used to transport 30 to 50 cubic meters per car. At such a close distance, ten dump trucks can easily complete tens of thousands of transportation work every day. The most powerful thing in land transportation is the train. Based on the standard carriages for transporting coal, each carriage can be used to carry forty trains, which is 16,000 tons.

"Train". The inspiration flashed in Chen Ying's head. Although it was almost impossible to build a steam train in this era. However, Chen Ying thought of the Chidao built in the pre-Qin era. When the Qin Dynasty destroyed Chu, it used 600,000 troops. The materials consumed by the military and civilians every day would be a massive number. With the transportation capacity at that time, such a task was almost impossible.

To this end, the Qin Dynasty began to build a roadway. The roadway of the Qin Dynasty was the same as the railway tracks in later generations. The only difference was that the tracks on the roadway during the Qin Dynasty were also made of wood, and the distance between the sleepers was exactly in line with the steps of the horse. Once the horse pulled the cart on the track, it involuntarily "self-incidence oscillation" occurred, and it had to run quickly and could hardly stop.

Chen Ying's confused mind gradually became clear. He directly used the ditches of the ditches to build a duplex road along the ditches in the north and south. When digging the channels, it can be used to transport the dug soil. After the ditches are completed, it can be connected with the official roads of the Tang Dynasty to form a road transportation network.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying said excitedly: "Deputy Chief Ge, do you know the way of the pre-Qin era?"

When Ge Tong heard this, he was slightly stunned: "Qin Chidao, I have naturally heard of it. In the early years, the young man even made a piece of cake in the yard for Changer to play with..."

Speaking of this, Ge Tong remembered his son who had died at the beginning. However, he was extremely shocked: "Don't you want to build a Qin Chi Road? This is not something that can be built. The cost is too high. Build a Chi Road to Chang'an, and it will be almost the best to build another Chen Family Fort!"

Chen Ying thought that Ge Tong was still a little knowledgeable, but he would be fine if he knew Chi Dao. Chen Ying analyzed the problem to Ge Tong: "Now, we are too slow to build ditches and forts. In the future, we will need to purchase a large amount of stone, iron ore, and coal. These things are very large. If the transportation problem is not solved, let alone making money, the transportation cost alone will cause me a headache, so it is necessary to repair Chi Dao!"

Ge Tong naturally understood the truth, but as Chen Ying said, the two harms are less important. Although it costs money to cultivate the Tao, if you don’t cultivate the Tao, you will lose money by using traditional transportation methods.

More than 200 civilians who transported mud and wood suddenly found that the manager asked them to stop transporting soil to Chenjiabao, and instead spread the soil dug out of the ditch nearby on the river bank on both sides of the ditch. In this way, their workload has been greatly reduced.

However, their slowly discovered that the problem seemed not as simple as they thought.

The wet mud was spread on the river bank, and they were asked to compact it with wooden hammers one by one to form a roadbed about six meters wide, but the work did not stop, but continued. The wet mud dug from the ditch mixed with lime and fine sand to form a specific proportion. Such a three-piece soil was paved on the road surface three feet. After the three-piece three-piece soil was compacted, the carpenter processed the trees cut down into sleepers and fixed the road surface.

Naturally, wet wood cannot be used for sleepers. It is best to use dry wood directly. Chen Ying naturally does not have that much dry wood, but Chen Ying knew that it could use drying rooms and charcoal fire to quickly dry the wood to remove the moisture from the wood itself, which would not affect the use of the wood.
Chapter completed!