With the roar of the bandsaw machine, the hardwoods that once took half a day to saw, are easily turned into rails.

As soon as the rails were sawn out, they were carried to the tar pool over there, soaked in coal tar for two days, and then dried before being transported directly to the construction site.

At this time, the atmosphere in the entire timber factory was weird, and the nearly two hundred craftsmen in the factory all fell into silence, and the appearance of the circular saw machine completely subverted their perception of power.

Once upon a time, the most time-consuming and laborious work became unworthy because of the intervention of machines.

"This, this is inevitable, it's too fast......"

Swallowing his saliva, Carpenter Li suddenly found with some sadness that his original most proud kung fu was not worth mentioning at all, even ridiculous, in front of this band saw machine.

"Brother Li, let's, let's don't, don't from now on, we can't find a job to do."

seems to be a casual sentence, but it expresses the worry between them - in the future, do they still have work to do?

"Who—Who knows......"

Carpenter Li's tone was a little hesitant, there was no trace of blood on his dark face, and the hand holding the cigarette pouch was trembling.

Noticing the change in the surrounding atmosphere, Shi Bianwen immediately spoke out to reassure him.

"Don't worry, don't say it's one machine, even ten or twenty machines, and they won't be able to steal everyone's jobs."

In fact, from the very beginning, Shi Yiwen thought about the impact of the bandsaw machine on the workers, it would replace many workers, but it was limited to that. The increase in productivity by machines will be accompanied by a large number of unemployment and a large number of old craftsmen "converting".

"Not only will it not rob everyone's buddy, but it can even make everyone earn more wages, after all, from now on, the most time-consuming and laborious sawing wood has been changed to machine drying, you don't need to use a day or even a few days of time, first sawing wood, and then building wood, what do you need to build in the future, you can directly use the wood sawed out of the factory, so that the big guy can have more time to do carpenter work, right?"

When Shi Yiwen said this, everyone who was still full of worries could be considered to have figured it out, but Carpenter Li said casually.

"It's just that, in the past, this work was done by children, and they were sawing there all day long, but now it's okay, and I can learn more crafts."

"Look at what you said, this saw doesn't pull, how can it be sawed straight......"

"With a sawing machine, you are still worried about whether the saw is straight or not, you see this saw...... How straight! It's like a ruler measuring it out. ”

……

Along with the workers' words, Shi Yiwen smiled, he knew that these carpenters had at least accepted it now, and as for the future...... Who knows what will happen in the future?

Looking at the bandsaw in operation, a few more will be installed here in the next few days, and when the required wooden rails are completed, what will be the future of this factory?

Suddenly, Shi Yiwen stood there stunned, this is a real problem he has to face, this timber factory can't just produce wooden rails forever, after all, wooden rails will eventually be replaced by rails, as for the demand for sleepers, it is only a few tens of miles away at the moment......

"Otherwise, let's build a shipyard!"

Looking in the direction of the Lugou River, Shi Yiwen muttered to himself.

It seems to be a good idea to set up a shipyard, from the Lugou River directly to the triangle, and then into the Wei River to Dagu, and then you can go directly to the sea, the Wei River, that is, the Haihe River of later generations, and the 21st century, the Wei River in this era, the Lugou River, are all wide rivers and wide waters, in fact, in the 50s of the 20th century, thousands of tons of ships can still sail directly to Tianjin. As for the current Lugou River...... The water is seven or eight meters deep.

"You can really think about it!"

It can be seriously considered, of course, now for Shi Yiwen, the most important thing is to build the "wooden rail express road". After solving the problem of timber, the speed of construction is much faster, but it only took ten days of effort, the road and bridge that has been restricting the opening time to traffic was finally built, the bridge across the Lugou River is different from the traditional arch bridge, although it is also a pier made of stone masonry, but the structure of the bridge is a wooden "Hao truss", although it is a wooden bridge now, in the future, as long as necessary, the iron truss bridge can be replaced at any time.

"Six months, it is a miracle to be able to build this bridge......

Standing on the bridge, Shi Yiwen said to Li Ruizhi. In fact, it was the most time-consuming to build the piers, and the wooden truss bridge took only a few days.

"It's really fast, but this wooden bridge doesn't last."

Li Ruizhi reminded once again that not only wooden bridges, but also wooden rails are not durable.

"It's okay, let's use it for a few years first, and then we'll change it to an iron bridge later."

In another time and space, the original Pacific Railway on the other side of the ocean, except for the rails are iron, the bridges are all made of wood, giving full play to its rich forest resources, and even the piers up to dozens of meters high are also built of wood, and then slowly transformed into iron bridges, sometimes, I have to admire the calculations of those capitalists, after all, wood is the cheapest raw material.

Since the Pacific Railway can use wooden bridges, it is naturally possible here, but because the timber is transported from Liaodong, the cost is indeed a little higher.

"Zhiyuan, when will our road be opened to traffic?"

Compared with Shi Yiwen's cranky thoughts in his heart, Zhang Weiliang is obviously more concerned about the issue of opening to traffic, after all, although he has seen the "train" on the wooden track in the factory, but the test run in the factory is not equal to this road, not running a few laps on the road, no matter what, after all, what Shi Yiwen said at the beginning is that on such a road, tens of thousands of catties or even hundreds of thousands of catties of goods can be pulled.

"You have to pick an auspicious day for the zodiac!"

Shi Yiwen said with a smile,

"Now the factory has produced more than 40 flatbed trucks, in my opinion, you can also build a few more passenger cars, Mentougou is not easy to say, in the future Zhangjiawan to the capital, there must be this demand, passenger and freight transportation is not delayed."

"What Zhiyuan said is very true, transporting goods is transporting goods, pulling people is pulling people, and you can earn silver."

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, no one will reject doing business to make money, whether it is a clan or a minister, an official gentry or even a eunuch, all of them are directly or indirectly engaged in business, and the same is true for individuals.

"That's it, ...... here"

Looking in the direction of the capital, Shi Yiwen said.

"I look at the opening ceremony, I can change the way!"

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