On the third day of the sixth lunar month, Li Zhi looked at the first "steam locomotive" trial-produced by the steam engine workshop and smiled. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It is certainly feasible to use horse-drawn carriages to pull goods on the railway, but as a traverser, as a traverser who has mastered the technology of the steam engine, Li Zhi certainly wants to get the locomotive out.

However, Li Zhi has been too busy recently, and this time he did not personally lead the team to attack the steam locomotive. He pulled out a team familiar with steam engine manufacturing, and asked Su Laosan, the foreman of the steam engine workshop, to take the lead in tackling the fortifications. Su Laosan was the most capable foreman in the steam engine workshop, and he contributed a lot to the miniaturization of the steam engine.

This time after receiving Li Zhi's task, Su Laosan worked very hard and immediately led more than 20 craftsmen to start researching. Li Zhi promised that if the research was successful, the scientific research team of more than 30 people could get a bonus of 2,000 taels, which made the craftsmen full of enthusiasm.

After tinkering for half a month, Su Laosan built a steam locomotive that could barely be regarded as a locomotive. However, it is obviously not technically up to par, and there is no experience in pipe laying, and this first steam locomotive in human history is somewhat nondescript.

Su Laosan transplanted a small steam engine for trawling and fishing tugs directly to the train, and the locomotive had a huge belly. The locomotive is tall, and the outside of the locomotive is covered with various cranks and levers. Like the steam engine on a ship, the combustion chamber is underneath the steam engine, so the entire steam locomotive is extremely high, a full two stories high.

This is completely different from the cylindrical steam locomotive in Li Zhi's impression.

Li Zhi stood next to Su Laosan's locomotive and watched for a long time without speaking.

Su Laosan was a little nervous, he bent down to stand beside Li Zhi, and said, "Grandpa Guo, this locomotive is our first trial production, and it is still very rough. The main thing is that we ran a steam engine on a steel rail for the first time, and we had no experience and did not dare to change the structure of the steam engine casually. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Let's run and try." ”

With the sound of a whining whistle, the steam locomotive spewed out thick black smoke and scorching white fog, and gradually began to operate.

However, to Li Zhi's gratification, after this ugly-looking steam locomotive burned coal, it was indeed able to drive the carriages behind. The locomotive drove a loading car on the rail to move forward slowly, and the last way accelerated, running more than ten kilometers on the rail.

Seeing that the steam locomotive was moving, Li Zhi nodded. Su Laosan's first attempt to build such a steam locomotive was not easy.

In fact, the technical difficulty of the steam locomotive of the train is higher than that of the steam turbine of the ship, because the steam engine on the ship can be made very large and take up more space, as long as the steam engine is made larger and carried on the ship. Steam locomotives, on the other hand, have to exert their power in a very limited space, which poses challenges to both industrial design and piping layout.

In 1781, Watt's steam had just been improved to drive the runner equipment, and in 1783 the first steamship using a steam engine was launched. The first steam locomotive was not developed until 1814 by George Stephenson. It can be seen that the technical difficulty of the locomotive is much higher than that of the steamer.

The first step is to move the steam engine onto the rails, and it is considered a success. The next task was to continuously improve the steam locomotive, increase the power of the steam engine, improve the piping design, and, with some paranoia, Li Zhi thought that he wanted to change the ugly appearance. The steam locomotives of later generations made people feel a sense of power as soon as they looked at it, and Su Laosan's steam engine looked like a big kettle.

Li Zhi also knew some of the design drawings of the original steam locomotive before crossing over, but after a long time, Li Zhi couldn't remember it. Li Zhi decided to try to recall, and strive to draw some partial drawings to speed up Su Laosan's research.

However, Li Zhi is not too anxious about the speed of scientific research on steam locomotives. After all, the construction of the railway in Liaodong Province takes time. It will take at least a year for the railway to be completed and opened to traffic, as long as Su Laosan can improve and succeed in this year's time.

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Li Zhi sat in the "Qinzheng Hall" of the "Tianjin Municipal Hall", looking at some of the gentry families sitting below, thoughtfully.

The Tianjin Municipal Hall is a government administrative facility newly built by Li Zhi, which is built with a reinforced concrete structure and is built very tall. The building has three floors and houses all the departments of the Tianjin government. On the first floor of the town hall, there is an office hall, and each department has an office window in this office hall. Whatever the citizens need to do, they can do it all in the city hall in one run.

Such a design, of course, is convenient for the public. Of course, this structure tossed the bureaucracy, but in Tianjin and Shandong under Li Zhi, this was not a problem.

The so-called officials are as smooth as oil, and those officials in the government are all roles that see the wind and steer the rudder. In the past, when they met their bosses who wanted to eat and take cards, they naturally followed them. Now that they meet Li Zhi, who is iron-blooded and ruthless and disrespectful to his six relatives, he is the boss, and he sends the discipline inspection team to rectify the situation at every turn, so they naturally have to rein in their hands and feet and do things honestly.

Li Zhi has plans to replace all these treacherous officials at once. However, this involves more than 200,000 officials in Tianjin and Shandong, and Li Zhi has not had so many talents to replace these officials for a while, so he can only use them for the time being.

Under the supervision of Li Zhi's officials and the discipline inspection team, there have been no major problems so far.

In short, Li Zhi's city hall is a brand new convenience facility. Li Zhi set up several halls on the second floor of the city hall to handle matters such as investment promotion and bidding. What Li Zhi is doing here today is to bid for the construction of the roadbed of the Liaodong Railway.

The first phase of the construction of the Liaodong Railway is more than 500 kilometers. The railway network is centered on the newly built seaport south of Jinzhou and expands radioactively across the plains of Liaodong Province.

With these radioactive railway networks, all the tenant farmers and landlords in eastern Liaoning could find railway platforms within 80 miles of their farms and transport grain to Jinzhou Nangang by train. Compared with the original horse-drawn carriage transportation of five or six hundred miles, the transportation cost will be greatly reduced after the railway.

Unlike the development of locomotives, the construction of railway subgrade is not high-tech. The construction of the roadbed defined by Li Zhi does not include the laying of steel rails, but only the construction of the ground gravel roadbed and the laying of cement sleepers.

Such a project Li Zhi is not ready to organize an official engineering team to build it himself. After all, the larger an organization, the less efficient it is to manage. If everything is done by the government, it will eventually lead to a bloated and ineffective official organization. So Li Zhi decided to hand over this simple infrastructure construction to non-governmental organizations for bidding management.

However, what Li Zhi didn't expect was that in addition to the merchant families in Tianjin and Shandong, there were also some gentry families who were greatly weakened by Li Zhi.

Li Zhi looked at a gentleman from Jinghai County surnamed Huang and frowned.

When the middle-aged gentleman saw Li Zhi looking at him, his face was not good, and he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground.