On the third day of June, Li Zhi looked at the "steam locomotive" trial-produced by the steam engine workshop and smiled.
It is certainly feasible to use horse-drawn carriages to pull goods on the railway, but as a time-traveler who has mastered steam engine technology, Li Zhi of course wanted to get the locomotive out.
However, Li Zhi has been too busy recently, so he did not personally lead the team to tackle the steam locomotive this time. He pulled out a team familiar with steam engine manufacturing and asked Su Laosan, the foreman of the steam engine workshop, to take the lead in the task. Su Laosan was the most popular person in the steam engine workshop.
The capable foreman made great contributions to the miniaturization of steam engines.
This time, after receiving the task from Li Zhi, Su Laosan worked very hard and immediately led more than 20 craftsmen to start research. Li Zhi promised that if the research was successful, the scientific research team of more than 30 people could receive a bonus of 2,000 taels, which made
The craftsmen are very motivated.
After tinkering for half a month, Su Laosan built a steam engine locomotive that could barely be regarded as a locomotive. However, the technology was obviously not up to par and he had no experience in pipe laying. This first steam locomotive in human history was a bit nondescript.
Su Laosan directly transplanted a small steam engine used for fishing trawling tugs onto the train. This locomotive has a huge belly. The locomotive is very high, and the outside of the locomotive is covered with various cranks and levers. Just like the steam engine on the ship,
The combustion chamber is below the steam engine, so the entire steam locomotive is extremely tall, as high as two stories.
This is completely different from the cylindrical steam locomotive in Li Zhi's impression.
Li Zhi stood next to Su Laosan's motorcycle and looked at it for a long time without saying anything.
Su Laosan was a little nervous. He bent down and stood next to Li Zhi and said: "Master Guo, this locomotive is our first trial production, and it is still very rough. Mainly because it is our first time to run a steam engine on rails.
Without experience, I dare not change the structure of the steam engine casually."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Let's try running."
Amidst the whirring of the whistle, the steam locomotive spewed out thick black smoke and hot white mist, and gradually started to move.
However, what pleased Li Zhi was that after this ugly-looking steam locomotive burned coal and ran, it could indeed drive the carriage behind it. The locomotive drove a loading carriage on the rails forward slowly, and finally accelerated all the way.
, and ran for more than ten kilometers on the rail.
Seeing the steam locomotive moving, Li Zhi nodded. It was not easy for Su Laosan to build such a steam locomotive in his first attempt.
In fact, the technical difficulty of a train's steam locomotive is higher than that of a ship's steam turbine, because the turbine on the ship can be made very large, and it doesn't matter if it takes up more space. As long as the steam engine is made larger and moved onto the ship, it will be fine. And steam locomotives
It is necessary to exert power in an extremely limited space, which poses challenges to both industrial design and pipeline layout.
In the original history, in 1781, Watt's steam had just been improved to drive the runner equipment, and the first ship using a steam engine was launched in 1783. The first steam locomotive was not successfully developed until 1814 by George Stephenson.
.It can be seen that the technical difficulty of locomotives is much higher than that of ships.
The first step is to move the steam engine onto the rails, which is considered a success. The next work is to continuously improve the steam locomotive, increase the power of the steam engine, improve the pipeline design, and Li Zhi is somewhat paranoid that he must change this ugly
The appearance of later generations of steam locomotives gives people a sense of power at first glance, while Su Laosan's steam engine looks like a big kettle.
Li Zhi also learned about some original steam locomotive design drawings before traveling through time, but after a long time, Li Zhi couldn't remember them. Li Zhi decided to try to recall them and try to draw some partial drawings to increase Su Laosan's research.
However, Li Zhi is not too anxious about the scientific research of steam locomotives. After all, the construction of the railway in Liaodong Province takes time. It will take at least one year to complete the railway and open it to traffic. As long as Su Laosan can successfully improve it within this year, it will be fine.
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Li Zhi was sitting in the "Qinzheng Hall" of the "Tianjin City Hall", looking thoughtfully at some gentry families sitting below.
Tianjin City Hall is a newly built government administrative facility built by Li Zhi. It is built with a reinforced concrete structure and is very tall. The building has three floors and houses all the departments of the Tianjin government. There are offices on the first floor of the city hall.
All departments have service windows in this office. Whatever matters citizens need to handle, they can be done in the city hall in one visit.
Such a design is of course convenient for the citizens. Of course, this structure troubles the officials, but in Tianjin and Shandong under Li Zhi's rule, this was not a problem.
The so-called officials are as slippery as oil, and those officials in the government are all able to adapt to the changing circumstances. In the past, when they encountered a boss who wanted to take bribes, they would naturally follow suit. Now they meet the ruthless and ruthless Li Zhi as their boss.
, they send disciplinary inspection teams to rectify the situation at every turn, so naturally they have to restrain their hands and act honestly.
Li Zhi had the plan to replace all these cunning officials at once. However, this involved more than 200,000 officials in Tianjin and Shandong. Li Zhi did not have so many talents to replace these officials at the moment, so he could only use them temporarily.
With.
Under the supervision of Li Zhi's officials and the disciplinary inspection team, no major problems have arisen so far.
In short, Li Zhi's city hall is a brand-new convenience facility. Li Zhi set up several halls on the second floor of the city hall to handle investment, bidding and other matters. What Li Zhi is doing here today is to build the roadbed for the Liaodong Railway
Construction bidding.
The first phase of the Liaodong Railway is more than 500 kilometers long. The railway network is centered on the newly built seaport in the south of Jinzhou and expands radially to the entire Liaodong Province plain.
With these radioactive railway networks, all the tenant farmers and landlords in Liaodong can find a railway platform within 80 miles of their farmland and transport grain on the train to Jinzhou Nangang. Compared with the original horse-drawn carriage transportation of five or six hundred miles, there are
With the addition of railways, transportation costs will drop significantly.
Unlike the construction of locomotives, railway subgrade construction is not high-tech. The subgrade construction defined by Li Zhi does not include the laying of rails, but only the construction of ground gravel subgrade and the laying of cement sleepers.
Li Zhi is not prepared to organize an official engineering team to build such a project. After all, the bigger an organization is, the lower the management efficiency will be. If everything is done by the government, it will eventually lead to a bloated official organization and ineffective command. Therefore,
Li Zhi decided to hand over this simple infrastructure construction to private organizations for bidding management.
However, what Li Zhi did not expect was that in addition to the merchant families from Tianjin and Shandong, the groups that came to participate in the bidding also included some gentry families who were greatly weakened by Li Zhi.
Li Zhi looked at a gentleman named Huang from Jinghai County and frowned.
When the middle-aged gentleman saw Li Zhi looking at him with a bad look on his face, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a plop.
