Chapter Seventy-Three: The Road (Asking for Votes)
The Mad Demon Chamber of Commerce has been building roads, and since Reinhardt signed the contract for the construction of the Tower of Babel, the concrete road has begun to extend towards Rosetown, but it really can't be fast.
It is not manpower that restricts the speed of road construction, but the speed of cement transportation, Luo Qiu has taken a very extreme method, let the skeletons line up, relay to carry cement, like a conveyor belt, but the biggest problem is not enough bags.
You can't hold it in your hand, can you?
In the past, leather bags were used, but after starting to make paper, Luo Qiu also made sacks by the way.
There is a sisal-like plant in the swamp, the fiber is coarse, and it is soaked with polysoil to remove the green and then soak it out, commonly known as hemp. These coarse fibers can be dried directly into hemp rope and then woven into sacks.
Weaving is actually a very troublesome job, which ordinary skeletons or zombies can't do, and in the end it is up to Lina and the freed slaves.
However, because of the lack of manpower, the output was not very high, and in the end, Luo Qiu came out.
Rubbing hemp rope can be used with skeletons, how many or as many as you want, so he put his energy on the loom, Lina used to use a single loom, Luo Qiu changed it to a large loom, and the power part was changed to be provided by the skeletons, mainly a big flywheel, the skeletons climbed up and stepped on, and then changed a batch after a few hours, so as to provide a steady stream of power.
Changing from hand-weaving to large-scale machine production, the output increased instantly, and the wise lich did not need to sit in front of the loom, but only needed to troubleshoot the loom.
Each lich takes care of one loom, and thirty looms can provide 10,000 sacks per day for the steel bone collar, which is actually quite a high yield, but compared to the huge skeleton base, no amount of sacks is enough.
As a result, sacks have become the main reason for limiting the speed of road construction.
In the past, Mobuck boasted that it only took a month to repair the Skeleton Avenue, and that was because the cement production area was close to each other, and the preparation time was not counted, and the preparation time had to be added for another ten days.
As the road got farther and farther, so did the distance it took to build the road, and it took twenty days to get to Rosetown.
Hey, didn't you say it was getting longer and longer? How could it be faster than the Avenue of Bones? That's because there were more skeletons thrown in, more than two million, and a lot of sacks.
Reinhardt and Carter stood on the dirt road south of Rose Town, completely stunned as they watched the massive army of infrastructure come over.
Rows of skeletons ran forward, and when they reached an area, some of them stopped, leveled the ground with the bone tools in their hands, cut down the weeds, cleared the large stones, and dug the ground from the side to raise the roadbed.
Because there are so many skeletons, each skeleton may be responsible for less than two square meters, and it takes a few minutes to get it done, and then they gather again, run forward, run to the front of the road, and repeat the previous work.
An undead saint floats in the air in a shadow cloak, patrolling the construction site back and forth, and when he sees a skeleton making a mistake, he will let out a sharp soul scream to warn and correct him.
Although ordinary skeletons do not have intelligence, they can form instinctive reflexes through repeated processes, and become more and more proficient, so the speed of this rolling advancement is getting faster and faster.
Behind the pile of high roadbed, a huge steel drum is dragged by two thousand skeletons and moves slowly, its total weight may reach more than 100 tons, and the hollow interior is filled with iron sand, and beyond it, the roadbed is flattened and tight.
It's just that this thing is too cumbersome to transport, and the iron sand inside must be pulled out, and then the weight reduction circle of the drum must be activated, and then dragged away by the skeletons.
Of course, there are not many times when it needs to be transported, and as long as the road is being repaired, it will roll along the roadbed all the way to the front.
Looking at the roadbed that was flattened in an instant, Reinhardt's eyes widened, and he even ran over and stepped on it a few times.
"This ...... This...... What kind of cement is used for this? Isn't this just the road? "Reinhardt is going crazy, all the roads in this world are dirt roads, and they are not as strong as this roadbed.
Only the main roads near the big cities will be reinforced by earth magicians, but as time passes, the magic effect wears off, and it may not be as good as this roadbed.
Such a high standard is actually a roadbed? Rose Town doesn't need to pave such a good road to the steel bone collar, right?
"Let's go, let's go" There was a roar behind him, and when he looked back, a huge water element was slowly coming from a distance, it was walking very slowly, trying to let its own footsteps soak every part of the roadbed.
As it moves, the water on its body is absorbed by the roadbed, and the volume of the water element keeps shrinking.
On both sides of the road, there were countless skeletons lined up in two columns, and the iron buckets kept coming, which contained buckets of water, and the water in the buckets was splashed directly on the body of the water elemental, maintaining its shape.
After the water element had passed, another roller roller ran over it, pressing the soaked foundation even more solidly.
Reinhardt doesn't know what to say anymore, the roadbed that is pressed for the first time is already a very high standard road in this world, and under the absolute weight, the tamping effect is far more than ten times higher than that of manual work.
Add water and press again, and then it is basically a permanent road surface, but this is not over.
The thatch and sisal fibers were mixed with cement and yellow mud and fine sand, and under the spell of the Lich Kings, they turned into mudstone giants and pounced on the roadbed.
Smoothing, cutting out the expansion joints and anti-skid grooves, covering with thatch to moisturize, and after the cement is dry, a cement road will be repaired.
Luo Qiu didn't have the luxury of using reinforced concrete, and he couldn't use it, and the standard of the cement road for the horse-drawn carriage with a maximum load of less than one ton was far exceeded, as Reinhardt said, the one that was pressed once was actually considered a road.
Not only Reinhardt, but in fact, everyone in the steel bone collar thinks that the standard is too high and too wasteful.
But Luo Qiu wanted to smack them up, the big foodie country crossed over, this is already the minimum standard that Luo Qiu can accept, and it is not as good as the village, what face does it say that the standard is too high.
"If there is a road, transportation must also be carried out, and it just so happens that spring steel is also available, so let's get on the four-wheeled carriage. Luo Qiu turned to Mobuck and said.
Mobuck said distressedly: "Your Majesty, there is a shortage of manpower." ”
The technology of the four-wheeled carriage is not very high, as long as the steering problem is solved, Luo Qiu's caravan this time, all the vehicles are four-wheeled. With spring steel, shock absorption, and steering can be upgraded again, and the load-bearing capacity can be greatly improved.
But manpower is a big problem, road construction is rough work, but mechanical manufacturing is fine work, definitely not skeleton zombies can do it, need mature industrial workers
"Hands, hands. Luo Qiu muttered with a headache, and his face became a mess of sorrow.