After Old Man Wang used it, he found that the wooden rails were really fragrant. Although the wooden rails consumed wood, when the carriage walked on the wooden rails, it was not only fast and carried a heavy load, but also consumed very little effort on the horse. After using the wooden rails, the efficiency was improved.
Three times. And the wood is cut casually everywhere on the mountains near Mayi.
So Mr. Wang connected the coal mines, clay mines, limestone mines, and even the lumberyards with wooden tracks, saving a lot of manpower.
Old Man Niu also learned immediately after seeing the wooden rails. Nowadays, the daily demand for iron ore and coal in the blast furnace is very large, and there is an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages transporting the ore. This is still not enough for the iron smelting plant.
The wooden rails can increase the efficiency of the carriage by more than three times. He even used a self-taught method to wrap the wooden rails with iron sheets inside the ironworks to reduce the friction of the wheels, increasing the efficiency to five times.
It seems that as long as the iron smelting output can keep up, the world's first railway track will be born in this iron smelting plant.
With the efforts of Mr. Wang and Mr. Niu, the world's first wooden rail network was successfully constructed in Mayi City.
Xu Wei looked at the growing wooden rail network and was very happy. If you want to get rich, build roads first. This sentence is in Xu Wei's genes.
Build a small wooden rail network connecting one county first, and later expand it to the entire Yanmen County, Bingzhou and even the entire Han Dynasty.
Xu Wei couldn't understand. It was clear that wooden rail carriages had been successfully constructed in the Qin Dynasty, and their military role and importance in transporting supplies were also revealed.
The daily marching speed exceeds 600 miles. Is there any martial arts emperor who would covet such a marching speed and fail to see the importance of wooden rails to a unified dynasty?
In terms of coverage, economic benefits, and military benefits, its importance far exceeds that of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal. It is not an exaggeration to call it the Dragon Vein. Why did the Han Dynasty not think of replicating it for more than 400 years?
What about this project?
Even the later dynasties built many wonders, but why didn't they think of copying the Qin Dynasty's wooden rail track? This thing really has no technical difficulty at all.
Xu Wei felt very sorry. If the wooden rails had not been lost, China would have ended its feudal era hundreds of years earlier, and its land area would have been several times larger than modern times, right?
The outer city of Mayi has been turned into a large construction site. This should be the only place where Xu Haowei has a bit of a modern impression. It looks like a demolition site.
30,000 people are constantly digging on the construction site. Although the city wall cannot be built immediately, the underground engineering of a city is also very important. Sewers, canals, hardened roads, and moats are all equally important.
"Qu Shuai is going to class again!" The excavation workers on the side saw Xu Wei and greeted him with a smile. After getting along with him for more than half a year, everyone respected the approachable Xu Wei very much and liked to communicate with him.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Yes!"
Another worker asked out of curiosity: "Qushuai, aren't you talking about building a city wall? We have been digging for almost two months, and we haven't seen a single brick even while we are digging holes!"
Xu Weidao: "A sharpened knife will not waste time cutting firewood. The bricks produced in the brick kiln are used to build the ironworks and have become tools in our hands. Without these shovels and hoes, we would not be as efficient as we are now. And the underground facilities are also not as efficient as they are now."
It is very important. With them, our houses in the new city will not be flooded. With underground channels, the filth in the city can also be flushed out, making people less likely to get sick. So don’t underestimate these infrastructures. Construction
These are all to make their lives better in the future!”
Everyone also agreed with Xu Wei's statement. After all, they were building their own new home, so the more detailed the construction, the better.
A worker named Tang Xin laughed happily and said: "Shuai Qu is right, but I think brick houses are no longer needed when there is such a shortage of bricks. I have lived in a wooden house all my life and I don't feel bad at all!"
Compared to brick houses, wooden houses are much simpler. Xu Wei built five hydraulic lumberyards, and turned the felled logs into square lumber of normal sizes, and then the carpenters built them one by one, just like building blocks.
After building a house, plaster it with soil and cement, put wooden boards on top and cover it with straw, and a windproof and rainproof house is ready.
Then all houses were built according to this standard. After standardization, a master craftsman and several apprentices could build a house in a day. The speed of house construction continued to increase, and now there are hundreds of wooden houses every day.
Built.
Xu Wei gave priority to allocating these houses to tribesmen with families. Just dividing the houses made everyone grateful to Xu Wei. Although Xu Wei looked down on these simple wooden houses, for the refugees here, how long did they live?
In ten years, this is the first time I have lived in such a nice house.
So most people think that a wooden house is enough, what about a brick house?
Xu Wei said: "It's much colder here in Bingzhou than in Jizhou. In winter, the wooden houses can't withstand the cold wind. Let's take it first this year. When we have time next year, we will replace all these wooden houses with warm ones."
Brick house.”
"Instead of building tens of thousands of houses, we have to build a new city. One year is not enough, I'm afraid it will take several years!" said a worker named Shi Qi.
Xu Wei replied: "I will think of a new invention to increase the speed of building houses. Don't you have confidence in me yet?"
The crowd cheered: "Of course we have confidence in Qu Shuai!"
This is not a blind imagination of Xu Wei, but the confidence Xu Wei gave them during this period.
At a construction site like theirs at the beginning, it not only takes a long time to cook, but also requires finding ways to get dry firewood, and it's also very smoky.
After Xu Wei saw it, he immediately produced a three-burner stove, briquettes and machines for making briquettes one by one. Now all the kitchens at the construction site are using the new three-burner stoves. A few briquettes can be burned for a day, and there is also a roller.
The kettle made of iron sheets can also help them boil hot water for drinking, which is so convenient.
Whenever everyone had difficulties, they came to Xu Wei, and Xu Wei did not disappoint them. He came up with new inventions to help them solve their problems, such as gantry cranes, wooden rails, their gloves, safety helmets, etc.
Tools and farm implements.
After Xu Wei came to Mayi, he made an average of two inventions every day. If there is a game system to show it, Mayi's technological level has skyrocketed.
There are so many examples in front of everyone, so everyone has full trust in Xu Wei and believes that no problem in this world can stump Xu Wei.
Only Xu Wei knows what kind of genius inventor he is. He just carries the tools of modern application into the world one by one. He is barely a technology porter.