Regarding the eastward expansion, in addition to Wang Feng's doubts, Han Huanzhang is also an opposition party. Han Huanzhang believes that now the shape of Nanyang is very good, and the natives of Nanyang are very scummy and primitive, it is a good time to seize territory, and it is good not to occupy this part of Nanyang.

Liu Wenbin is planning to bypass the Cape of Good Hope and prepare to sail to Europe, and now he suddenly said that he wants to lead the voyage to the Americas, which is also a challenging job, Liu Wenbin said that this kind of work is very popular, the problem is, when he comes back from his voyage to Europe, it is not too late.

As for Tang Kai, they are not helping each other for the time being. In his heart, on the one hand, he can't wait for Ma Fen to go east, so that he can be the boss alone, be a big general or something, and command those minions to destroy the city and pull out the village. And there is a horse who is excited, always pressing himself, which is unpleasant. On the other hand, Tang Kai felt that the crossing group should indeed concentrate its resources on the Nanyang side, in that case, how good the exhibition would be here! America, after all, it's too far away!

Long Jiu watched Ma Fen arguing with the opposition party, Tang Kai was playing soy sauce on the side, in principle, Long Jiu did not belong to the organization on the Kra Isthmus, rely on! It didn't take long for these people to have a separatist color, and they disobeyed and crossed the Party Central Committee, how can this work! Long Jiu himself didn't want to think about it, in fact, he also had a share of responsibility for the creation of this situation.

Long Jiu was not easy to get involved in arguments, so he said:

"You are fighting for each other, and you can't fight for a name for a while, so it's better to pause first. The steam locomotive over there should be almost assembled, so let's take a look at the first steam locomotive put into practical use in this plane, and see how that thing is, and it's too late to make noise after reading it. ”

"Really? Is the steam car really built? Will it work? "Tang Kai had long known that Mao Geng was trial-producing a steam car, but today he heard that it was really almost installed, so he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Of course, I specially escorted the steam engine head this time, and Mao Geng sent a capable disciple to assemble it. Han has a lot of things to do, and I've been staring at this thing, I think it should be almost assembled at this time. "Long Jiu came to the Kra Isthmus this time, firstly to deliver goods and grain and grass supplies, and secondly, to test the head of the steam locomotive.

In fact, in Kaohsiung, the car has already been tried, and it will only be shipped if it can be done.

Long Jiu's interest in the first steam locomotive in this time and space is still quite strong, and Long Jiu really can't suppress his curiosity, so he decided to follow the whole process to see what this baby locomotive looks like when it runs on the tracks.

Yi Bojun led a group of people to assemble a shed on this side of Malay Town, and Han Huanzhang and his party walked for more than ten minutes before they came to this shed.

The shed has a branch rail that connects to the main track, which is why it is assembled in this shed.

The shed was a bit rudimentary, with logs and thatched roofs, and it was originally one of the places where the ox carts were found, but after some cleaning, it was now used as the assembly site for the first steam locomotive.

There was a hint of cow dung in the air, and the shed was brightly lit, probably because there were several whale oil lamps lit.

Looking along the tracks, Ma Fen saw a black machine with smoke windows on wheels, needless to say that this was the head of the steam locomotive, and a group of people were busy around it.

At a glance, Ma Fen was a little disappointed, on the head, this thing is far from the behemoth in Ma Fen's imagination, this thing is a little taller than a person, the horizontal boiler is a cylindrical thing that looks thin and does not pull down, look like that, the length is only more than one meter, absolutely less than two meters, the diameter is only seventy or eighty centimeters at most, compared to the serious eight hundred steam locomotive in memory can not move more than one meter diameter boiler, it is simply not worth mentioning. The whole volume of this machine is very small and short! Thin! Short! I don't have the feeling of a steel monster like a steam locomotive at all.

Looking at it again, there is a huge flywheel in the upper right, which is a bit mysterious. As for the huge flywheel, it is compared to the diameter of a thin boiler, but in fact, the diameter of the flywheel is at most 90 centimeters.

Ma Fen raised his thoughts with contempt, and said disdainfully:

"This little arm and leg is also called the steam head? How many carriages can it drive? How many miles can you run? Can it be faster than an ox cart? ”

As soon as he heard this, Yi Bo, who was lying on the car and directing the debugging, stopped doing it, he jumped out of the car, and was about to refute this wanton derogatory remarks, but he happened to see Long Jiu and five other people. With a grim expression, Yi Bojun immediately realized that this might be the five "returnees" of the Kra Isthmus mentioned by the Venerable Master, which he could not afford to offend.

Yi Bojun adjusted his mood, rubbed the oil stains on his hands, and said with a reluctant smile:

"It turned out to be Mr. Long, this steam locomotive has been almost debugged, and it will be tested tomorrow." Yi Bojun said in his heart, test it tomorrow, and you will know how powerful this machine is.

"Look, is it going to be a test tomorrow? Do you want to try again on a new day? Long Jiu knew that these guys couldn't test the car right away, so he deliberately wanted to hang his appetite.

Han Huanzhang circled around the machine, nodded and praised:

"This machine qì, don't say anything else, just say this steel rivet, it's very sensitive, but it's too common to paint black, if it's painted red, it's exciting. However, Maote's artistic accomplishment is limited, and Lao Qiu is also a half-ass, so we can't be too demanding. Right! The key is to be able to run, and being able to run is the last word. ”

"Hehe, look at this wheel, it's exquisite!" Wang Feng noticed four wheels that seemed to have a zebra pattern.

As soon as he mentioned it, everyone noticed that the rim of the wheel was inlaid with a protrusion one by one, and it felt very elastic when pressed, and it should be an elastic fabric or something.

"I also took into account the shock absorption, which is good, but I don't know what will happen when I run." Liu Wenbin praised.

"It's a donkey or a horse, pull it out for a walk, and you know it only after you try it with real guns and live ammunition." Ma Fen obviously didn't have much confidence in this little locomotive.

At this moment, I saw Han Huanzhang stretching out his palm, his fingers pinched together for a while, and then opened again, so he made a fuss for a while, and then smiled:

"Long Jiu, I pinched my fingers, tomorrow is a good day, and the test drive couldn't be better."

"That's right! Couldn't be better! Liu Wenbin agreed.

Ma Fen glared and said:

"I'm most annoying to you, I'll test the car tomorrow, Benima pretends to be a ghost."

When he returned to the conference room, Wang Feng couldn't help but say one thing:

"I sent a letter to Mao Geng last time, giving Mao Geng a little bit of construction, it is about building a steam car, I provided some parameters, and I don't know if my parameters are reflected in this steam car."

"You kid still know the parameters of a steam car?" Ma Fenxin said that if there was a steam car, it would be good. Could it be that this steam locomotive can be changed to a steam car if it is changed!

"This, I also saw it on the Internet, we are also a peripheral person of the 'multi-riveting steaming party', and occasionally found a steam car driven by the Soviet Union in the late forties and early fifties, and in curiosity, I wrote down its parameters. I remember the parameters: the unloaded weight is close to 8 tons, the effective load is 6 tons, the boiler water is 38o liters, 4oo kg of wood fuel, 1oo horsepower, 4o kilometers per hour. ”

"Are you sure? When did Maozi run out of oil! After World War II, he was so downcast that he wanted to build a steam car! You squirt! In Ma Fen's impression, the world is short of oil, and Maozi will not be short of oil, so he really can't afford to engage in steam cars.

"Really, it's true, Lao Maozi was short of fuel for a long time after World War II, so he started the idea of a steam car. It is said that Maozi's steam car is still very good, but the maintenance is complicated, and later after Maozi's oil production came up, it was eliminated. "This is true, in real history, the Soviet Union specially launched this "NI-O12" steam car, don't say it, running in Northwest Lia, at least it is quite warm.

The next day, the six traversers arrived at the shed early.

After filling up with water, a small coal cart was hung up, and the front of the steam locomotive began to fire. Steam locomotives have such a problem, and they have to be heated for a long time to get enough high-pressure steam before they can start.

By the time everyone was impatiently waiting, it finally started.

I saw that the piston started to run, and the smoke window began to emit white steam, but the wheels did not turn.

It turned out that the design of this steam locomotive was different from the steam locomotive that was used in later generations, and the piston, crank connecting rod and flywheel mechanism of this steam locomotive were all installed above, and the clutch needed to be closed, and the clutch was used to drive the rear wheel axle, and the whole car would run.

Well, as soon as Wang Feng said this, everyone felt that this was really a bit of a car.

I saw that the flywheel was spinning faster and faster, and the front of the steam locomotive finally began to move, and the wheels on both sides were stuck on the outer edge of the protruding concrete rail, rolling forward along the track, only to see the front of the car increase little by little, faster and faster, and later, under the stunned onlookers of a large group of people, the front of the car gradually turned into a small black dot, and then ran away.

"This degree, there are thirty or forty kilometers!"

"I'm afraid it's more than 50 kilometers."

"It doesn't mean anything with this degree on the empty load, try to run it with a full load and see how fast it can run." Ma Fen admits that the impact he has received is a bit big, and the power of this inconspicuous machine should not be underestimated, but he doesn't know what will happen when it is fully loaded.

When the test car was carried out again, three carriages were hung, all of which were wooden carriages, only the axles were iron, each carriage was two meters wide and four meters long, the first two carriages were loaded with three tons of coal, and the back carriage was placed on benches, and Ma Fen, Long Jiu and Wang Feng were the first passengers.

This time, it was not so easy, I felt that it took a lot of effort for the front of the train to start slowly, and then little by little, Yi Bojun hit the valve to the maximum, and the degree could not be fast.

Wang Feng looked at the time, calculated the distance, there was a stone monument of distance next to the track, Wang Feng calculated, the average time was about 35 kilometers.

"At 35 kilometres, it's already pretty good. Mao Geng did a good job! Ma Fen was convinced this time.

The test run lasted until the afternoon, and the six people were very excited.

When he sat down again, Wang Feng grinned and said:

"With the steam car, we can finally show it here."

"Don't jump to conclusions, we might as well calculate the capacity first." Long Jiuke was not so optimistic.

"A trip to transport six tons, 12o kilometers, including loading and unloading, do not need to run a one-way trip in four hours, you can take a round-trip, a day in one direction of ten trains, is sixty tons, a month 18oo tons, I estimate that digging potential, two thousand tons is no big problem." Wang Feng calculated quickly.

Long Jiu smiled:

"You're underestimating the capacity, Maute is building a bigger horsepower locomotive, this one is a single-barrel boiler, next time it will be a double-barrel boiler. Perhaps, the new car can tow seven or eight carriages at a time, twenty or thirty tons at a time, and seven or eight thousand tons a month, and if it starts again at night, it will be more than 15,000 tons of capacity, the problem is that the trade between the Great Song Dynasty and the Middle East and Europe in previous years is only 10,000 tons a year. ”

Everyone heard that the main product of the Great Song Dynasty's foreign trade was nothing more than silk porcelain, which was a bit heavy, but how heavy silk could it be! The volume of international trade in these years is really too small.

"Don't worry about this, in the future, we will export cement and steel, and soon, the capacity will be running at full capacity, and then we may have to increase the capacity again." Han Huanzhang felt that the future was bright, and the day when the Kra Isthmus would become popular all over the world was not far off.

"However, the steel and cement we have now are not enough even for ourselves, oh, I mean, not enough for the Great Song Dynasty."

"What do you mean!?" Han Huanzhang felt that Long Jiu was using the question to wave.

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