Liu Shang was furious by Zhang Qianzhi's laughter, and just when he didn't know how to respond, suddenly a few long whistles sounded from the forest in the distance, and then the locomotive of the train they were riding also responded with a rhythmic whistle. After a while, everyone felt the ground tremble under their feet, and a train full of ores and logs came from the west, staggered past the train that stopped at the fork, and roared in the direction of Changhua Port.

The two cars used the whistle signal as the means of communication, and it was also to avoid any failure of the train leaving Changhua in the process, and did not enter the fork in time to make way for the main track. If the condition is not normal, the train leaving Shiroku will stop in time to eliminate possible hidden dangers ahead. Although the method is simple, but the effect is very ideal, this railway line has been opened for several years, although there have been accidents in the train during the journey due to breakdown, but there has never been an accident in the wrong part of the road. Once a day, in the morning and once in the evening, the train makes a mistake in the middle of the train, day after day, year after year, and does the same.

However, after the whistle sounded, it also alleviated Liu Shang's embarrassing situation, and after the train on the opposite side passed, someone beckoned everyone to get on the train and set off, so that Liu Shang could finally get rid of Zhang Qianzhi's "entanglement" naturally.

Liu Shang felt that all the treatment of food, housing and transportation was very good, but the existence of Zhang Qianzhi made him sit on pins and needles all the time, and he always felt that the other party was like a poisonous snake, wandering around him silently, and he might suddenly bite himself at any time. But his current position and environment, and there is no way to actively avoid the existence of the other party, it is really very uncomfortable.

However, after Zhang Qianzhi returned to the car again, he seemed to have ignored his existence, sat back next to Yu Xiaobao very calmly, and continued to talk and laugh with Qiao Zhiya. Liu Shang saw that Zhang Qianzhi's attention was no longer on himself, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the train was only halfway through, and for the next hour, the train continued to pass through the reckless forest. Just by looking at the dense primeval forest outside the car window, Liu Shang can roughly imagine how difficult it was for the Haihan people to build a railway for trains here, and the Shilu Iron Mine located in the deep mountains is said to have a population of several thousand, and its supplies are basically maintained by this railway, and only the Haihan people can have such a seemingly crazy arrangement.

Among Yu Xiaobao's group, many of them are like Liu Shang, who came to Shilu for the first time, and they are also amazed by the natural scenery along the way. The Sanya Railway, which was originally carved out in the forest, has now been cut down from the woods on both sides of the road to build various industrial facilities along the railway, and has been opened up into various farms further afield.

"The front is the first and only cross-river railway bridge built in China, the Changjiang Bridge. With Qiao Zhiya's introduction, the train has been speeding up the Changjiang Bridge. However, the span of this railway bridge is not large, counting the approach bridge is only about 100 meters, several piers in the middle are built on the rocky beach in the center of the river, the height from the bridge deck to the water surface is only four or five meters, the construction difficulty is not too big. However, in the current era, it is already a feat of bridge engineering to be able to build a bridge that can carry rail transportation in such an environment.

However, with the speed of the train, it was only a short time to cross the railway bridge, and Liu Shang didn't even have time to stand up and look around, he saw the Changjiang River passing under his feet, and as for what the railway bridge that Qiao Zhiya took out to boast of looked like, he didn't see it at all. Liu Shang sighed secretly and sat the butt he had just lifted back into the chair.

After crossing the railway bridge, the train began to slow down slowly, and after traveling four or five miles, you could see the station ahead from the window. A tall iron frame spans the railway, and there are two big characters on the shelf, "Shiroku", indicating that this is the destination of everyone's trip.

After Liu Shang got off the train, he noticed that the platform here seemed to be larger than the Changhua railway station, and the area where ore and logs were stacked took up almost ninety percent of the entire platform area, leaving only a three-foot-wide road for a few passengers to enter and exit. Beyond the platform, you can see a small freight train, one-third the size of the train you are riding, carrying truckloads of ore from the distant hillside.

This scene made Liu Shang refresh the concept of steam locomotive again, and he realized that this thing can not only be used for long-distance transportation, but also for short-distance transportation to improve transportation efficiency. The railroad required to build this freight train was significantly narrower, and the tracks were much thinner, and the construction cost and construction period would naturally be much shorter than that of this regular railway. Even if Liu Shang regarded Haihan as an opponent in his heart, he had to admire the other party's ingenuity in improving production capacity was indeed beyond the reach of the Ming Dynasty.

After everyone got out of the car, they marched to the west pit on the nearby hillside under the leadership of Qiao Zhiya. Although it looked close, it took a long time to get to the place.

What is presented in front of everyone is an oval pit about one mile long and half a mile wide, and the passage more than one zhang wide extends downward along the pit wall, reaching the bottom of at least a dozen zhang deep. Hundreds of miners work at various mining sites in the pit, using hammers, shovels, chisels, shovels and other tools to mine the ore, load it into a truck body laid on the pit wall, and then pull the ore up the pit by a steam winch high up in the pit.

Liu Shang understood at a glance at the height that this ore lifting system was a three-dimensional version of the mini train, but this small train did not have a locomotive, and used a steam winch at a high place to control the ore body to move back and forth on the track by pulling the steel cable. In fact, some mines in Daming also have such devices, but they generally use animal power or even manpower to push the winch to pull the body for transporting ore, and the efficiency is definitely not as good as the tireless steam engine of the Haihan people.

"It can still be used like this!" Liu Shang suddenly felt a little enlightened, it seemed that as long as it was a task that required great strength to complete, it could be completed by using this steam engine, which was nothing more than the huge force generated by it was output in different ways.

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Liu Shang was furious by Zhang Qianzhi's laughter, and just when he didn't know how to respond, suddenly a few long whistles sounded from the forest in the distance, and then the locomotive of the train they were riding also responded with a rhythmic whistle. After a while, everyone felt the ground tremble under their feet, and a train full of ores and logs came from the west, staggered past the train that stopped at the fork, and roared in the direction of Changhua Port.

The two cars used the whistle signal as the means of communication, and it was also to avoid any failure of the train leaving Changhua in the process, and did not enter the fork in time to make way for the main track. If the condition is not normal, the train leaving Shiroku will stop in time to eliminate possible hidden dangers ahead. Although the method is simple, but the effect is very ideal, this railway line has been opened for several years, although there have been accidents in the train during the journey due to breakdown, but there has never been an accident in the wrong part of the road. Once a day, in the morning and once in the evening, the train makes a mistake in the middle of the train, day after day, year after year, and does the same.

However, after the whistle sounded, it also alleviated Liu Shang's embarrassing situation, and after the train on the opposite side passed, someone beckoned everyone to get on the train and set off, so that Liu Shang could finally get rid of Zhang Qianzhi's "entanglement" naturally.

Liu Shang felt that all the treatment of food, housing and transportation was very good, but the existence of Zhang Qianzhi made him sit on pins and needles all the time, and he always felt that the other party was like a poisonous snake, wandering around him silently, and he might suddenly bite himself at any time. But his current position and environment, and there is no way to actively avoid the existence of the other party, it is really very uncomfortable.

However, after Zhang Qianzhi returned to the car again, he seemed to have ignored his existence, sat back next to Yu Xiaobao very calmly, and continued to talk and laugh with Qiao Zhiya. Liu Shang saw that Zhang Qianzhi's attention was no longer on himself, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the train was only halfway through, and for the next hour, the train continued to pass through the reckless forest. Just by looking at the dense primeval forest outside the car window, Liu Shang can roughly imagine how difficult it was for the Haihan people to build a railway for trains here, and the Shilu Iron Mine located in the deep mountains is said to have a population of several thousand, and its supplies are basically maintained by this railway, and only the Haihan people can have such a seemingly crazy arrangement.

Among Yu Xiaobao's group, many of them are like Liu Shang, who came to Shilu for the first time, and they are also amazed by the natural scenery along the way. The Sanya Railway, which was originally carved out in the forest, has now been cut down from the woods on both sides of the road to build various industrial facilities along the railway, and has been opened up into various farms further afield.

"The front is the first and only cross-river railway bridge built in China, the Changjiang Bridge. With Qiao Zhiya's introduction, the train has been speeding up the Changjiang Bridge. However, the span of this railway bridge is not large, counting the approach bridge is only about 100 meters, several piers in the middle are built on the rocky beach in the center of the river, the height from the bridge deck to the water surface is only four or five meters, the construction difficulty is not too big. However, in the current era, it is already a feat of bridge engineering to be able to build a bridge that can carry rail transportation in such an environment.

However, with the speed of the train, it was only a short time to cross the railway bridge, and Liu Shang didn't even have time to stand up and look around, he saw the Changjiang River passing under his feet, and as for what the railway bridge that Qiao Zhiya took out to boast of looked like, he didn't see it at all. Liu Shang sighed secretly and sat the butt he had just lifted back into the chair.

After crossing the railway bridge, the train began to slow down slowly, and after traveling four or five miles, you could see the station ahead from the window. A tall iron frame spans the railway, and there are two big characters on the shelf, "Shiroku", indicating that this is the destination of everyone's trip.

After Liu Shang got off the train, he noticed that the platform here seemed to be larger than the Changhua railway station, and the area where ore and logs were stacked took up almost ninety percent of the entire platform area, leaving only a three-foot-wide road for a few passengers to enter and exit. Beyond the platform, you can see a small freight train, one-third the size of the train you are riding, carrying truckloads of ore from the distant hillside.

This scene made Liu Shang refresh the concept of steam locomotive again, and he realized that this thing can not only be used for long-distance transportation, but also for short-distance transportation to improve transportation efficiency. The railroad required to build this freight train was significantly narrower, and the tracks were much thinner, and the construction cost and construction period would naturally be much shorter than that of this regular railway. Even if Liu Shang regarded Haihan as an opponent in his heart, he had to admire the other party's ingenuity in improving production capacity was indeed beyond the reach of the Ming Dynasty.

After everyone got out of the car, they marched to the west pit on the nearby hillside under the leadership of Qiao Zhiya. Although it looked close, it took a long time to get to the place.

What is presented in front of everyone is an oval pit about one mile long and half a mile wide, and the passage more than one zhang wide extends downward along the pit wall, reaching the bottom of at least a dozen zhang deep. Hundreds of miners work at various mining sites in the pit, using hammers, shovels, chisels, shovels and other tools to mine the ore, load it into a truck body laid on the pit wall, and then pull the ore up the pit by a steam winch high up in the pit.

Liu Shang understood at a glance at the height that this ore lifting system was a three-dimensional version of the mini train, but this small train did not have a locomotive, and used a steam winch at a high place to control the ore body to move back and forth on the track by pulling the steel cable. In fact, some mines in Daming also have such devices, but they generally use animal power or even manpower to push the winch to pull the body for transporting ore, and the efficiency is definitely not as good as the tireless steam engine of the Haihan people.

"It can still be used like this!" Liu Shang suddenly felt a little enlightened, it seemed that as long as it was a task that required great strength to complete, it could be completed by using this steam engine, which was nothing more than the huge force generated by it was output in different ways.