Zhang Bin thought about it, and simply divided the parts of the train into several parts and handed them over to Wang Zheng, Sun Yuanhua and Song Yingxing respectively, so that the three of them could go hand in hand and speed up the development.

He first took out a blank piece of paper, drew a sketch of the track, sleepers and roadbed, and then said to Song Yingxing: "Chang Gung, you are in charge of the train track, and this track is the iron bar you buried in the ground before. However, because the train is much heavier than the flat car, you can't use the previous thin iron bar, but should use this I-shaped track, and the sleeper must be padded below to increase the pressure-bearing area, and at the same time, the sleeper should be raised with stones, the pad stone is mainly to increase the pressure-bearing area, and at the same time can also play the role of shock absorption, heat dissipation and drainage. ”

What is the pressure area, shock absorption, and heat dissipation, these Song Yingxing are really a little confused when they hear this, but he still understands the general meaning.

He looked at it carefully, and then asked, "My lord, what is the specific size of this track?" ”

This really stumped Zhang Bin, who has nothing to remember this thing, he tried to think about it, and then estimated: "This height is about five inches, and you can calculate the other dimensions according to the height." ”

There is one size for reference, and the other sizes are easy to determine, Song Yingxing nodded, thought about it, and asked again: "My lord, how long is a track appropriate?" ”

This Zhang Bin didn't pay attention to it, he could only deduce: "This track is naturally as long as possible, but if it's too long, people can't lift it, so let's try to make it one zhang long first." ”

A zhang long is almost more than 300 catties, four people to lift up is already a bit of a struggle, and then long then to design special auxiliary equipment to lay the track, the test stage, these troubles can still be saved, and so the test is successful, or the laying of the railway is more, when the need for special auxiliary equipment to design is not too late.

Song Yingxing seems to be about the same here, as for what kind of connection and fastening, these naturally have the means at this time, he knows quite well, and there is no need to ask.

Seeing that he was deep in thought, Zhang Bin no longer asked questions or bothered him, but took out a blank piece of paper again, drew the general shape of the locomotive and the general shape of the carriage behind, and then said to Sun Yuanhua: "Chuyang, you are responsible for making the shell and frame, to put it bluntly, these are to build a house on a flatbed car, but this house is built with iron or copper plates, how to build it You can figure it out yourself." ”

This is indeed not complicated, Sun Yuanhua looked at it for a while, and then asked: "My lord, how high is this house to build?" ”

How tall is the carriage?

Zhang Bin recalled for a moment, and then estimated: "It's about eight feet high, it doesn't matter if it's high, but it can't be too low, people should be able to stand up straight when they go in, and it's best to jump a little without touching their heads." ”

When Sun Yuanhua heard this, he nodded thoughtfully, indicating that he understood.

Finally, and the most important part is the transmission device, which Zhang Bin is going to hand over to Wang Zheng to be responsible for.

This is also the most complicated part, Zhang Bin thought for a while, then took out a blank piece of paper, drew two pairs of train wheels, and then drew connecting rods and transmission gears in the middle, and then said to Wang Zheng: "Liangfu, this transmission part will be handed over to you to be responsible, you are familiar with boilers, pipes, steam pistons and valve switches, I won't say much about these, you just look at it, I just tell you about the wheels below." ”

He pushed the painted wheels in front of Wang Zheng and asked him to look at them carefully for a while, and then explained: "The wheels below are all connected by axles, just like the wheels of a carriage, one pair at a time, but these wheels are all iron, not wood, and these two pairs of wheels must be connected together with connecting rods, one pair drives the other pair, and you have to think carefully about the position and fixing method of this connecting rod." ”

Wang Zheng looked at it carefully for a long time, and seemed to have some understanding, he thought about it, and simply asked, "My lord, how big is this wheel?" ”

Zhang Bin didn't know how big the train wheels were, he could only estimate: "It's about three feet, it doesn't matter if it's big or small." ”

Wang Zheng nodded and said, "Okay, my lord, can we start?" ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he looked at him dumbfounded, and asked in surprise, "Have you figured it out?" ”

Wang Zheng shook his head again and again, and said embarrassedly: "This, there are still many things that my subordinates don't understand very well, but I should know these things if I try them, so my subordinates want to start trying them now." ”

It turned out to be this meaning, Zhang Bin nodded and said: "Okay, let's talk about it here today, I will follow Liangfu to design the transmission device during this time, if you don't understand anything, you can ask me at any time." ”

When the three of them heard this, they stood up in a hurry, Sun Yuanhua and Song Yingxing hurriedly arched their hands, and then, like a cigarette, they ran away with a breath, Wang Zheng arched his hand embarrassedly, and couldn't wait to say: "My lord, why don't we go to the workshop to try it now." ”

Try it now?

How to try?

Is it so fast?

When Zhang Bin heard this, he stood up curiously and followed Wang Zheng to the workshop.

At this time, because of the lack of copper, the production of the cannon factory almost came to a standstill, and there was no one in sight in each workshop, Wang Zheng walked directly to a relatively empty processing workshop and shouted loudly: "Lao Liu, Lao Liu." ”

"Eh, here, here." As soon as he finished speaking, an old man in his fifties ran over in the distance and said eagerly: "Lord Wang, do you have any work to do?" ”

Wang Zheng patted him on the shoulder and said, "You kid, I know you can't be idle, don't worry, there are many things, you are busy." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his face was full of black lines, this old man is at least fifty, and he even calls him a kid!

However, it is not too much for Wang Zheng to call him a kid, because Wang Zheng is in his sixties at this time, but Zhang Bin feels that it is strange for an old man like him to be called a boy.

Seeing Zhang Bin's expression, Wang Zheng thought that he had neglected Zhang Bin, so he hurriedly introduced: "My lord, this is Lao Liu, the manager of the processing workshop, who is quite diligent; Lao Liu, this is the Governor, you should have seen it. ”

Lao Liu heard that he didn't plant the ground at the wrong point, he really didn't pay attention to the young junior next to Wang Zheng, he was only an apprentice led by Wang Zheng, and then took a closer look, sure enough, it was the Governor, his legs and stomach trembled, so he knelt down and saluted, Zhang Bin hurriedly supported him with both hands, and said with a smile: "No need to be polite, no need to be polite, I am also here to help Lord Wang, and you don't have to care about these vulgar etiquette when you work." ”

When Lao Liu heard this, he rubbed his hands awkwardly, and he didn't know what to do.

Wang Zheng still patted him on the shoulder cordially and said, "Since my lord said so, you don't have to be so restrained, hurry up, go and call a team of repairmen to come over and let them bring the tools to work." ”

When Lao Liu heard this, he hurriedly nodded and went away, and Wang Zheng took Zhang Bin to a rail flatbed.

This thing is paved with wooden planks on top, and the wheels below are not big, does Wang Zheng want to try this?

Zhang Bin looked at Wang Zheng curiously, not knowing what he wanted to try, but he didn't say anything to stop it, after all, he was here to help, and the main design work had to be completed by Wang Zheng and them, so that they could know the train well, if he interfered in everything and did everything by himself, it would not be good for them.

Wang Zheng was now circling the flatbed truck, and he bent down to look at the wheels underneath for a while, and then walked to the iron bar on the ground and stepped on his feet vigorously, with a thoughtful expression, completely forgetting that there was a governor next to him.

Zhang Bin didn't interrupt his train of thought, just looked at him curiously, wanting to see what he wanted to do.

Wang Zheng was still thinking about it there, but there was a harsh noise in the distance, Zhang Bin couldn't help frowning, and turned his head to look over.

It turned out that Lao Liu came with more than a dozen young men, and the noise was not deliberately made by them, because they pushed a small flatbed truck, and the things on it may be very heavy, so the wheels are also iron, and the iron wheels are naturally very noisy when they roll over on the stone road.

Soon they came to the front, probably Lao Liu told them something, as soon as they came, they did not go to Wang Zheng's side, but lined up next to Zhang Bin, lined up neatly, and then arched their hands and said in unison: "See Lord Governor." ”

Zhang Bin is so dizzy, he didn't come to inspect the army, why is the platoon so neat?

Wang Zheng said even more angrily: "What are you doing over there, hurry up and come over to help!" ”

Zhang Bin waved his hand and asked them to hurry up and help.

These young men may have been with Wang Zheng for a long time, and they are not so restrained in front of Wang Zheng, they saw that the governor didn't say anything, so they all gathered around and said, "Lord Wang, how do you get it?" ”

Wang Zheng directly pointed to the track flatbed lane in front of him: "Turn this flatbed over over." ”

Although most of this flatbed car is made of wooden planks, the iron frame and iron bracket are not small, coupled with the huge size, the weight is afraid that there are no more than three or four hundred catties, but these young men are all strong people, more than ten people surrounded and shouted for a while, and the flatbed truck was lifted up and turned over.

Wang Zheng squatted down, looked carefully at the wheels below, and then frowned and said, "It's all dismantled." ”

When the young men heard this, they directly took the tools and surrounded them, and removed the four wheels on them in three strokes and two clicks.

Wang Zheng stepped forward and picked up a wheel to look at it carefully, and then ordered: "Lao Liu, take six people to get the axles of two sets of wheels, and bring the brackets." ”

When Lao Liu heard this, he hurriedly beckoned the six young men to walk out quickly.

Wang Zheng said to the remaining six young men: "You go and get a set of boilers, steam pistons and gears for a large lathe, and some more pipes." ”

When the six young men heard this, they also walked out quickly, and only Zhang Bin and Wang Zheng were left here.

At this time, Wang Zhengcai held the wheel and said to Zhang Bin: "My lord, do you think you can use this wheel to make do with it first?" ”

Zhang Bin didn't know what he was going to try, but he was only responsible for answering difficult questions, and as for how to try out and design, it was Wang Zheng's business.

He nodded without hesitation and said, "You can do it, and ask me if you don't understand." ”

Hearing this, Wang Zheng nodded, holding the wheel and falling into deep thought.

After a while, there was a shrill noise in the distance, and there was no need to ask, it was Lao Liu and they were pushing a small flatbed cart over.

Sure enough, after a while, Lao Liu came over with six young men pushing a small flatbed cart, on which were two long iron rods with gears and a bunch of brackets.

Wang Zheng commanded them to carry the iron rod to the middle of the iron bar on the ground, and then took a stone pen and made two marks on it, and then ordered: "Cut off both ends, put a wheel on the other end, and fix it." ”

When Lao Liu heard this, he immediately took the six young men and ran to a large lathe with two axles, and he didn't know what tool he had taken, the axle was clamped up, and it was soon truncated.

At this time, six other lads also came over with a set of boiler and steam piston parts.

Wang Zheng checked the connection between the axle and the wheel slightly, and then ordered: "Use the bracket to fix these two axles under the flat car, and pay attention to the position of the wheel." ”

Hearing this, everyone hurried around the overturned flatbed truck, and after a clanging noise, the two axles and brackets were fixed to the bottom of the flatbed.

Wang Zheng checked it, and then ordered: "Turn the flatbed over and stick it in the middle of the iron bar." ”

When everyone heard this, there was another shout, and the flatbed was quickly turned over again and returned to its original position.

Wang Zheng stepped forward and pushed a few times, tried his strength, and then nodded: "Okay, dig a hole in the front gear and expose the gear." ”

When everyone heard this, they picked up the hammer and the hammer and worked on it, and soon a big hole was dug out of the top of the flatbed, and the gears on the axle below were exposed.

Wang Zheng carried the gears used for a large lathe and made a comparison, and asked them to process a seat, fixed the gears above the holes, and snapped them with the gears below, and then waved his hand and said: "Okay, the boiler is installed, the steam piston is connected to the gear, the pipe is connected, and a valve is installed in the middle." ”

Zhang Bin felt a little complicated about this series of operations, but these young men didn't have any doubts at all, and just covered their heads!

It seems that they are used to working with Wang Zheng, and they are quite familiar with the set of steam pistons and gears, and they don't need to be commanded at all, they know what to do.

Wang Zheng stood aside and watched with a fanatical face, but Zhang Bin looked into the distance along the iron bar on the ground with a worried face.

He already knows what Wang Zheng wants to do, this thing just wants to make do with this first to make a car that can run on the track by himself, the idea is good, but this land is a little small, the iron bar on the ground is less than a mile long, it seems a little dangerous.

Wang Zheng didn't seem to think of this, he just stared at those young men with excitement on his face, waiting for them to finish.

In less than half an hour, they installed the boiler and steam pistons, connected the steam pipes, and waited for the ignition to start.

Wang Zheng danced excitedly and said, "Hurry up, hurry up, pour water, pour water, and then carry bundles of dry firewood over and boil the water." ”

This guy is really going to drive like this, Zhang Bin hurriedly grabbed him and dissuaded: "Liangfu, wait a minute." ”