Swindell's thinking mode was as crazy as Reggie's. He was the first to see Reggie's intention. What Reggie wanted was not a new type of roller, but a vehicle powered by a steam engine.
Swindell was not only able to understand Reggie's thoughts, but also tried accordingly, but he failed.
"Sir, this really doesn't work. I have made something like this before. I first used wooden wheels from a carriage. When the steam engine drives the wheels to rotate, the powerful force will quickly deform the wheels and axles."
Reggie said: "I said, we will use iron wheels."
"Iron wheels are even more useless!" Hurley also participated in Swindell's experiment. "Iron wheels will slip and it is difficult to control the direction. As long as it encounters a small stone, the car will fall to the ground. You know...
A steam engine weighs so much, and it would be fatal if it overturned. If I hadn't been there that day, you might not have seen the Grand Master of Magic."
Calaf said: "If you want a steam engine to move forward, it must be equipped with the heaviest and most stable wheels, just like the stone rollers of a road roller to smooth out the rugged roads."
Reggie smacked his lips, shook his head and said, "So, you still need more experience. I don't want any bumps, I want the smoothest road."
"There are always rocks on any road," Hurley said.
"Hahahaha!" Reggie let out his trademark laugh, "But there won't be so many rocks on my rails."
He took out a model. In the eyes of the "threesome", this model was very crude. It was just a wooden block with wheels on two sticks, but this simple model perfectly demonstrated Reggie's
Design intent.
"The car is walking on the rails, and the wheels are stuck on the rails. It will not roll over, and there is no need to control the direction. The train will automatically walk along the rails. Do you think this is a great initiative?"
Reggie slid the car repeatedly on the wooden stick, waiting for the appreciation of the "threesome", but what he waited for was the ridicule of Hurley and Swindell.
Calaf did not smile; he blushed, blushing for his lord.
"Sir, what use can such a car... be used for?"
"Do I need to explain this? I can run the car along the railway track to the pier!"
Hurley laughed and said, "Where are the tracks? Are they going to grow out of the ground?"
Swindell said: "Don't you want to build the rails all the way to the dock?"
"Yes." Reggie nodded seriously, and no one could laugh this time.
A ten-foot track requires two hundred pounds of fine iron, and one mile equals five thousand feet.
"One mile of railway track requires one million pounds of iron. It is a total of forty miles from the city gate to the dock. You wouldn't have thought..."
Reggie sighed and said, "You are too careless. Take a closer look at this magical car. Didn't you find your mistake?"
Swindell thought for a long time, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with his calculation, until Reggie said loudly: "You are missing, I need two parallel rails, you are missing half, hahahaha!"
A 40-mile-long railway track requires 40 million pounds of iron. Doubling that would require 80 million pounds...
At this moment, even Calaf thought Reggie was crazy.
Hurley liked Reggie's crazy look, and especially liked to pour cold water on him when he was at his craziest.
"What if I get on your train and don't want to go to the pier?"
Reggie was startled and said, "Then where do you want to go?"
"I want to go to Zhilin City to find a girl."
"Then you have to wait a moment. I will build two more tracks from the fork to Zhilin City."
"Did you hear that? He also wants to build the railroad tracks to Zhilin City!" Hurley laughed loudly.
"I not only want to build the railway track to Zhilin City, but I also want to build the railway track all the way to Sangro Port!" Reggie laughed louder than Hurley.
"Do you know how far away from here is Sangro Port? Hahahaha!"
"More than two thousand miles, is it really far? Muhahaha!"
The two of them laughed at each other for a long time. Kalaf coughed and said, "Sir, please listen to our idea first. We want to make a flying steam engine."
Swindell gave the drawings and models to Reggie. Reggie looked at them for a long time, nodded and said: "Steam airships are such a good idea. Just do it if you think of it. I believe you can succeed. It doesn't matter if you fail. Shattering Snow City
Great bachelors and engineers don’t need to be timid.”
Hurley said: "We are not afraid because we have no iron material. You have ruined all the iron material."
"How can this be called a waste?" Reggie curled his lips and said, "We have endless iron materials. Golden Light City belongs to us. I can give you a mine."
"The mines in Jinguang City are indeed very large, but this is Snow City," Hurley said. "A carriage can only transport a thousand pounds of iron stone every day, and a thousand pounds of iron stone can only be exchanged for two hundred pounds of good iron."
, and you use 20,000 pounds a day, and the horsemen transporting iron and stone will be exhausted by you."
Reggie smiled and said: "That's why we need trains."
It seemed that Reggie had made a lot of determination on the train. No matter persuasion or ridicule, it didn't mean much to him. The top priority was to get enough materials.
Kalaf knew Reggie well, so he had to follow his temper at this time: "Sir, the train is the miracle of Snow Breaking Country. We will devote all our efforts to your great initiative. However, the steam airship is also a very useful invention. We hope
You can..."
"Don't you just want iron materials?" Reggie wrote a document and gave it to Calaf. "Take this and go to Noros. He will give you everything you want. The iron materials are indeed a bit tight now. Wait.
Once the iron and stones from the White Tower Country are brought here, life will be easier."
The iron stone merchants from the White Tower Kingdom will appear twice a month, each time bringing two million pounds of high-quality iron stone. Reggie purchases a large amount and never cares about the price, even if there is a storm, the White Tower
Chinese businessmen are rarely late.
But this time it seemed a little special. Reggie waited for twenty days but did not see a single White Tower merchant ship.
Not only the iron and stone merchants, but also the grain merchants and wine merchants, as well as the ships transporting slaves, have not appeared in the past twenty days. It seems that something happened in the meantime.
After waiting for another three days, several merchant ships finally appeared on the dock. The excited Nipoli went to the dock to greet them in person. He was even more nervous than Reggie. If there was a problem with the trade with the White Tower Country, the Snow Breaking Country would lose a lot of money.
resources and a lot of wealth will be lost.
Seeing several merchants approaching on the merchant ship, Nipoli was stunned for a moment, then rushed forward.
"Brooke, my brother!" Nipoli smiled unnaturally, "Why are you here?"
It wasn't that he didn't welcome his brother's arrival, but he just had a very bad feeling that Brooke's business was booming and he wouldn't be in the mood to go sightseeing.
"Nipoli, come and see, mother and Helen are here too."
The whole family came, which proved one thing: Brooke came to escape.
Nipoli tried his best to keep a smile and brought the family closer to the city. He didn't want to shame the family or spread bad news.
It wasn't until he returned to his residence that Nipoli asked what happened: "What happened?"
Brooke said: "The God of Punishment has occupied the White Tower Kingdom, and Lord Victor has become the public enemy of the White Tower Kingdom. I have temporarily handed over the business to the Emir. If we don't leave the White Tower Kingdom, our family's lives will be in danger."
"
"Emil, that greedy guy?" Nipoli frowned, "I gave him the business, I'm afraid he won't come back."
"I will definitely not come back, but at least I can buy it back," Brooke said. "If you don't give it to him, he will be destroyed by the God of Punishment. Everyone related to Lord Victor will be pushed to hell.