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Ginger is old and spicy!

Even now, when the railway has begun to build the roadbed, Shi Yiwen still has to admire Zhang Rong's old treacherous slippery.

After he explained the principle of the railway that day, Zhang Rong was silent for a while, and finally just said something.

"It's not easy."

Then he looked at him and said.

"Not because of the railway, but because of the road, throughout the ages, the local gentry built bridges and roads, it is also a common thing, but people build small bridges and short circuits, and now you want to build such a new road dozens of miles long, not to mention this "fast horse coal railway" sounds rare, so dozens of miles of road, how many people do you need? How much movement is there going to be? Maybe this side has just been repaired, and there will be an impeachment of the official there, and those people have nothing to do when they are full of food all day long, maybe they will join the old man at that time, saying that the old man competes with the people for profit. said that the old man forcibly seized the land......"

Shaking his head and sighing, Zhang Rong, who had suffered a lot from those people in the early years, pursed his lips, and then squinted and thought for a while.

"You just said that the coal mines in Mentougou have been bought by you? In that case, things would be easier to do, you can do this......"

Sometimes, if you want to achieve great things, you have to use some means, even if those means are not visible, even if those means cannot be revealed, but those means are necessary.

It was also from that day onwards that the coal in Mentougou became even more difficult to transport, and even a light rain caused a large number of mudslides to block the road. Let the coal blacks who transport coal can only look at the mountains and sigh.

After the coal in Mentougou could not be transported, the price of coal in the capital immediately rose. Well, rising and rising, naturally rising to the imperial court and rising to the front of the cabinet, they had to find a way to solve the problem of the people raising the fire to cook, on the one hand, they released the government's coal storage to stabilize the price of coal, on the other hand, the "road and mining company" on the matter of land acquisition and road construction, will no longer ask, after all, this road is to transport coal.

In the lakeside pavilion in the back garden of the British Mansion, Zhang Rong, who was originally playing chess, suddenly threw away the chess pieces, and then said.

"No, no, it's really not interesting to play chess with your stinky chess basket."

Shi Yiwen, who was originally driving a donkey to the shelves, immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard it,

"I said I don't know how to play chess, Guogong wants me to accompany me, you see, it makes you unhappy."

"It's not that you're unhappy, it's just weird, you're so smart, how can you not play chess."

Zhang Rong looked at Shi Yiwen and asked.

"Because I haven't studied."

Raising his head and looking at Shi Yiwen seriously for a moment, Zhang Rong smiled.

"It is often said that people are judged by chess...... The old man also wants to try ......"

Zhang Rong's directness surprised Shi Yiwen and asked rhetorically.

"That country company thinks that playing chess can show a person's heart."

Putting back the chess pieces one by one, Shi Yiwen said casually.

"Accurately?"

was stunned, pondered for a moment, and then Zhang Rong shook his head and smiled.

"Not exactly."

Then he looked at Edwin and said,

"Zhiyuan, do you know, you said that you want to build the fast horse railway, what did someone say?"

"Ridiculous?"

"Ridiculous, and ridiculous!"

Looking at Shi Yiwen's face, Zhang Rong said.

"Paving the railway, such a thing, I'm afraid few people believe it, but it is certain that even if our first assistant is anxious about the coal in the capital now, he is willing to block it for us, but if he really lays a railway, I don't know how much turmoil it will cause, so ......"

glanced at him, then Zhang Rong frowned and said.

"Is there any way? Before the railway, sometimes it is best to take a slow picture. ”

Slowly drawing is the best policy!

I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

Zhang Rong's words that day made Shi Yiwen begin to reflect.

"Fast Horse Railway" is also "Railway", in the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century, a railway was built...... Indeed, some of the movements are too big.

"It's too much movement."

After thinking about it, Shi Yiwen did not replan the road - the railway became a wooden track.

The so-called wooden rails are quite similar to the railroad, except that the rails are replaced with wooden rails, and that's it.

However, its construction method is more like the traditional rammed earth road - first ramming the roadbed, and then laying sleepers on the roadbed, adding wooden tracks to the sleepers, and the car runs along the track, and there is no difference from the laying principle of the rails, the only difference is that the texture of the wood determines its life is not long, but for Shi Yiwen who wants to build a railway, this wooden rail road can be used as an attempt, but also as a technical test.

Compared with the railway paved with gravel in later generations, this wooden rail road is a little difficult, so the roadbed is just rammed with stone rolling, not particularly strong, but only usable, as for the sleeper is directly laid on the roadbed, the material of the sleeper is the most common pine, as for the wooden rail that acts as the rail, it is necessary to use hardwood, whether it is a wooden rail or a sleeper, it is needed, the softer sleeper can be closely combined with the rammed very hard roadbed, so that the track is stable, The wheels of the carriage could move quickly and smoothly on it.

In fact, this was the case with the early railways, and even until the mid-19th century, many railways were laid directly on dirt embankments.

"Let's build this road first."

Outside Wanping City, Shi Yiwen pointed to the official road leading to the capital and said to Zhang Weiliang.

"At present, the easiest to build is the road from the mountain to the capital, these roads are flat, as long as the roadbed is compacted, directly paved with sleepers and rails, in this way, these more than 30 miles, at most a month can be repaired."

Because the roadbed is only a primitive mud-based roadbed, according to Li Ruizhi's estimates, the 30-mile road can be built in a month at most.

"It's just when the bridge was a bit wasted."

Pursing his lips, Shi Yiwen looked towards the Lugou River, and it was this river that hindered the opening time.

"This section, let's use a carriage to transfer it first."

Listening to Shi Yiwen's words, Zhang Weiliang looked at him and asked.

"Are you sure you want to change the wooden rails?"

"Actually, it's the same. Due to the use of rails, the friction of the wheels is greatly reduced, so the carriage can pull a lot of goods at once, and there is a difference between rails and wooden rails. But it's not that big. ”

Nodding, Shi Yiwen explained.

"With rails, the movement is too loud, but the life of the wooden rails is too short, so I plan to wrap a layer of iron sheet on the surface of the wooden rails to improve its service life. This step by step ......"

Perhaps, this is also a compromise!

Shi Yiwen secretly thought in his heart that because of the change of the tracks, the iron wheels of the small wheel flatbed trucks manufactured by the Lugou Iron Factory have also undergone some changes.

But such a compromise may be necessary, after all...... Sometimes it's the truth to make a fortune in silence.

However, can it be bored?