The next morning, Zixia Island and Macao both sent telegrams saying that ----We will immediately select the teenagers and send them as soon as possible."

In the afternoon of the same day, Sun Lao sent another telegram, and the content went one step further.

After discussing with Xiao Pingguo and others, he suggested that the local companies should openly recruit apprentices for major companies, as long as the language is passed, but they need to be promised a relatively good salary, and then recruit a group of young people from all over the country to send them to be both laborers and apprentices.

As soon as this suggestion was put forward, Lao Ba Wang Xue and several people immediately called back to agree, and said that we held an emergency meeting on this, and after discussion, it was decided that young people from Wanshan Island, Zixia Island and Xin'an City would be given special treatment in terms of salary, if they were apprentices, one or two silver a month, plus food and accommodation, and a performance commission at the end of the year, this condition should be very attractive to those children of ordinary families.

In the evening, the telegram from Erosh arrived, and Xiao Ai said that there are currently thirty-five young crew members who are interning on the Feminist, the Assassin and the Captain Timo, and after screening, fifteen of them can be sent with the Nicole, they are all young people we collected from Macao and other places a while ago, and originally wanted these young people to be the backbone of the Macau Navigation School, but since the family needs it very much, of course we have to take care of the overall situation, and now send fifteen people over, they are all through sailing practice!

The telegram also said that the Wanshan Island Navigation School is currently running smoothly, and that there is foreign aid in our current situation -- recently, Phillips, the former Captain of the Dawning and a former Pimont subordinate, returned to Macao after retirement, and at the instigation of the Substitute Doctor, Captain Phillips came to Little Wanshan Island to serve as the head instructor of the Navigation School.

Phillips has a good relationship with the Australians, and he has no personal relationship with Dai Xiaoshan, so Dai Xiaoshan spoke, and the old captain was happy to arrive---- he is now full of energy, because the silver he earns now is twice as much as he earned when he was a captain, so, we are rich and capricious, as long as we are willing to spend money, the talent will come, and Mr. Captain is currently picking an apprentice from the orphanage......

On the third day, Li Junming's telegram also arrived, saying that six teenagers had been recruited, all of whom had participated in the cultural training of the night school, and after completing the work of the family, mainly promising to earn more money, and preparing to go to school in Zhuyuan with the Nicole in the month.

Subsequently, Xiao Pingguo sent another telegram saying that more than 20 people from the indigenous tribes outside Xin'an City were recruited, and more than half of them were unknown in age, and they didn't look big anyway, and they would soon be delivered with Nicole, so please be ready to receive them......

Lao Ba is glad that if the crew's problems are solved, the students of Zhuyuan can devote themselves to more needed places.

Soon after, Holley Quanzhenhai's rolling mill equipment was commissioned, and it began to try to roll light rails – a kind of light rail that is only 15 meters long in a single section, which is the largest size that can be rolled out of a micro rolling line today, and the other dimensions of the rails are the same as the standard rails of the old world.

At the same time, the heavy industry workshop in the new factory area of Shuguang Machinery Factory was completed, and a branch railway track was extended from the main line of Line 9 to here, and a small steam locomotive is currently being built in the workshop.

Chengdong named this locomotive as the Dawning Type I, which is still a water tank type, that is, the kind of locomotive without a coal water wheel, obviously this locomotive has limited power and continuous operation capacity, and is only suitable for short-distance transportation.

Although this locomotive is not very advanced in terms of technology, but Chengdong they have absorbed the experience of their predecessors, so in some specific performance indicators, there should be a breakthrough in theory, to sum up, the Dawning 1 steam locomotive and the Stephen tank locomotive compared with the speed and traction should be improved.

According to Boss Luo's design indicators, the small steam locomotive has a theoretical total towing load of 120 tons – on horizontal tracks, it "should" be able to reach speeds of 40 kilometers per hour.

According to Boss Luo's estimates, if the slope is not more than five degrees, the approximate speed can reach 25 to 35 kilometers per hour, and if it is more than five degrees uphill, the speed may only be about 15 kilometers per hour.

This is the case with locomotives, so the manufacture of wagons has to be adapted to locomotives.

At present, the machine factory has built two flatbed rail cars, each with a theoretical design load of 18 tons and an actual safe load of 12 tons.

Theoretically, the whole train can be composed of locomotives and ten wagons, and for railway transportation, this load capacity is naturally very light, so it is no problem to use light rail with the tracks.

In this way, the railway bed and sleepers can also be simplified and lightened, and some sections do not even need to be paved with gravel as long as the roadbed is tamped.

According to the total weight of the train plus the total load capacity, the roadbed can also be repaired with the roadbed standard of the simple highway, as for the sleepers, the cement plant is currently working overtime to produce reinforced concrete sleepers to replace the traditional sleepers.

This point has been well discussed, and the use of sleepers not only consumes a lot of wood - the island already lacks wood, and it needs to be transported from Zixia Island or Timor Island, which is too uneconomical.

What's more, sleepers also need to be anti-corrosion, Mr. Zhao said that there is some asphalt in the coal coke chemical industry, but if it is used in sleeper anti-corrosion, it is obviously not enough, and special equipment is needed, it is too troublesome, and it is really better to use cement to make road sleepers.

And the life of concrete sleeper is also long, of course, because the load of the railway is not large, so the reinforced concrete sleeper can also be lightweight---- the current cement sleeper is only 50 kilograms of weight, which belongs to a very light material in railway construction, and the labor intensity is not large.

Of course, the demand for road sleepers is very large, according to the design of Cao Limei and Cheng Dong, one kilometer of railway track needs 1,200 small sleepers, which is equivalent to about 60 tons of cement, and about 6 to 7 tons of steel bars, so the whole railway is repaired, just cement needs about 1,000 tons, and steel bars need about 100 tons.

It is good to say that Holley has long been producing reserves, but now the cement plant produces six to seven tons of cement per day, and now it produces three shifts day and night, and Lao Ba mobilizes Han labor to take turns to fight, and can only produce about 20 tons per day, so the main content of the current construction preparation is to produce cement and steel bars.

As a result, the railway track laying project has been delayed until November, of course, during this period of time all aspects have not been idle, according to the overall construction plan, the first to start construction is the roadbed, in order to improve the efficiency and reduce labor intensity, we decided to open the seal in the cave again six bulldozers, six excavators and six rollers and five tons of truck cranes, these equipment was unsealed and reused, so that the Han people on the island once thought that they had met the gods again.

At present, the coal and coke chemical industry also reserves some diesel fuel and a very small amount of gasoline with impurities exceeding the standard, which is the result of the operation of the coal and coke retort furnace for half a year.

It's just that Zhao Xihe warned that due to the large number of oil impurities, these engines may have to be overhauled after use, otherwise they may be scrapped.

At the same time, Boss Luo also said that due to the lack of replacement parts for these vehicles, we must be prepared for the long-term failure of these engineering vehicles to operate normally - although the machinery factory can currently produce some parts to replace, but in terms of quality, I am afraid that they can not be replaced.

After listening to these opinions, Lao Ba attached great importance to it and immediately submitted the issue to the Senate for discussion, and the majority opinion was: If you can use it now, you should use it vigorously, and if you can't use it in the future, you won't need it! Who expects it to last a lifetime?

In short, solve the problem in front of you first!

What's more, with railways in the future, the main transportation tasks are completed by railways, and these engineering vehicles, including tractors, will not be used often, and now is the time to let these equipment play a role.