92. Transportation

"Yes, it should be. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But how much can I build on my own? For the entire universe, even if I build hundreds of millions of Chaos Towers, how much can I help the universe? Yang Siqi sighed and said, "This one is only a temporary symptom and no cure." Unless someone can cultivate beyond the universe and turn the universe into eternity, otherwise, we will all end up dying. ”

"It's good to be able to help treat the symptoms. We can't just do nothing. Ma Mengshi comforted.

"You're justified." Yang Siqi accepted his wife's comfort.

From an outsider's point of view, Ma Guohua's life should be very comfortable. With a large number of loyal talents under his command, no foreign interference, and the country's strength is getting stronger and stronger, it can be said that there are really few people who are more comfortable as kings.

But Ma Guohua's heart is very anxious, what he is anxious about is not about his descendants, but about being anxious since five years ago.

"Transportation has become the biggest problem restricting the development of the Pegasus Kingdom, and if this problem is not solved, the limit of the Pegasus Kingdom will be like this. However, I couldn't find a solution to the traffic problem. This one is Ma Guohua's biggest heart disease.

Transportation, is the eternal problem of all countries and races, with the development of the economy, the increase in material exchanges, the growth of passenger flow, etc., the demand for transportation is increasing, if the traffic problem can not be solved, then, the economy will naturally stagnate. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, this is not said in vain.

I have to say that magic is still very useful, at least, in the construction of roads, magic plays the role of one person can beat thousands of people. If you go down with a trick of earth magic, the high one will sink in, and the low one will bulge, and the flat ground will appear, and then use a little manpower to tinker with it, and a section of the road can be completed.

Different planets have different environmental constraints. On the Spirit Tree Star, because of the rampant demonic beasts, the number of demonic beasts is far more than humans, and the strength is still very strong. Human beings can only live in groups and use the power of the group to protect themselves, so on the Spirit Tree Star, the smallest settlements have 10,000 people, and they have to build high walls to protect against demonic beasts.

The density of population gathering is large, which increases the pressure of transportation in disguise, and the transportation on the Spirit Tree Star is underdeveloped, and most of the cargo transportation is still the primitive transportation pulled by people and carriages, and the transportation by land is really not very good. Therefore, for the needs of development, most of the cities inhabited by human beings are located at the confluence of rivers, and the survival of cities is maintained through inland river transportation.

Among the cities with good conditions, the population is becoming more and more concentrated, and there are countless cities with a population of more than one million, and there are not a few cities with a population of 10 million, and even cities with a population of 30 million. The sheer size of the population puts a lot of pressure on the transportation of the entire city.

The ships on the Spirit Tree Star still rely on the most primitive sails and pulp, and the speed is naturally not fast, and the cargo capacity is not large. Therefore, there is a huge river in the sky above the Spirit Tree Star, but it is really not very good in terms of utilization.

The amount of a single shipment is insufficient, and it can only be made up by quantity. But for those huge cities, the throughput of all kinds of cargo is very staggering, and the lack of machinery also makes the port unable to carry it. Therefore, all of these have caused the fundamental reason why the cities on the Spirit Tree Star cannot be developed further.

Since the founding of the Pegasus Kingdom for more than ten years, the continuous influx of humans and orcs has caused the original city population to be unable to bear it, but if you want to build a new city, there is no suitable address. Even the many new cities that have been built in the no-man's land between Pegasus City and the orcs have been approaching their limits due to the influx of people.

In a word, due to the lack of land transportation, the city of Spirit Tree Star had to rely heavily on inland river transportation. However, there are only a limited number of suitable addresses for cities along inland rivers, which has resulted in many places with large plains suitable for plantation, but because the rivers are too small or there are no rivers to build cities, they are wasted.

This creates two extremes. One is that the existing cities are overpopulated and are approaching their limits, and some are even exceeding. The second is that there is a large amount of idle land, but it cannot be developed due to traffic problems.

For this reason, Ma Guohua had to come up with a temporary solution: use magic to build lakes and canals.

Find a suitable location on the edge of the mountain range, use the powerful forbidden spell to blast the earth to the land, let the groundwater gush, form a lake, and then use a powerful magician to arrange a water magic array: Tianhe Storm. The power of magic creates large, long-term rainfall, increasing the lake's water storage to a usable stage.

Then use powerful magic to build the Grand Canal until it joins the huge natural river. In this way, it is possible to artificially create an address suitable for building a city, on which a city can be built to relieve the pressure on the population.

This kind of magic is indeed easy to use, but the investment is very huge, Ma Guohua has calculated, to make such an artificial city address, at least more than 30 million gold coins are invested. The most important thing is the use of magic arrays, as well as the salary of magicians, which is a huge expense.

The investment in building a huge city is also very huge, and the wealthy Pegasus Kingdom has such an ability to play, and other kingdoms, don't think about it. Of course, the Temple of Light can give it a try.

However, such a plan can only treat the symptoms and not the root cause. It is not difficult to sink the land, but the difficult thing is how to have enough water to replenish it and form a canal, if there is no stable water source, then the canal is useless. Therefore, the best way is to find the underground river, communicate the underground river, and use the water source of the river. But the underground river is not so easy to find.

Therefore, such a method, within the scope of the Pegasus Kingdom, can only do so one or twenty at most, and no more. But what's the matter with building one or twenty new cities? At most, it will only take three or five years to fill the house.

There is no way, the economy of the Pegasus Kingdom is good, the law and order are good, and all aspects are good, so the influx of a large number of foreign populations is the root cause of the current overcrowding in the Pegasus Kingdom. Now, build a new city, okay, immigrate, Pegasus Kingdom is good.

Therefore, the other human kingdoms are dissatisfied with the migration of their free people to the Pegasus Kingdom (of course, they don't care about such a small loss of population, because these populations are shared among hundreds of kingdoms, which is not too much for these hundreds of kingdoms, but when they are concentrated, it is too much for one Pegasus Kingdom), but the Pegasus Kingdom is worried about how to find a suitable place for the population to live.

There are only two real ways to cure the root cause, and there are two ways to do it. First, the development of giant ships with a capacity of more than 10,000 tons such as the earth, and the expansion of port terminals to improve transportation capacity. This one, for the river, is not a problem at all. On the Spirit Tree Star, most of the rivers are deep and wide because of the large area of the rain collection area, even if the water is not deep enough, it is not difficult to mobilize a group of magicians to deepen the river.

The real trouble is that there is no proper machinery to drive. If the 10,000-ton giant ship wants to be manufactured, it is not too difficult for Ma Guohua, who has obtained the true biography of Yang Siqi. In addition, there are a large number of huge trees on the Spirit Tree Star, even if only wood is used, a giant ship of 10,000 tons suitable for inland river transportation can be made. So, it's not a problem in terms of manufacturing.

The question is, how does this big guy drive? There is nothing down the river, but what about going upstream? You can't let a mage use wind magic all the time to increase the power of the wind, can you? What level of magician does it take to drive the big guy? There are huge engines on Earth that can be powered, but there are no such conditions on Spirit Tree.

To produce a powerful engine like the earth is simply nonsense. This is not just a matter of building an engine, but a system project, even if it is only at the level of a steam engine, it is not so easy to play.

Science and technology civilization, the demand for talents is more, not to mention, just say a variety of maintenance technicians, once all kinds of machinery more, just a variety of maintenance technicians demand is a huge number. A planet with more than eighty percent illiteracy also wants to play mechanical civilization? It's better to wash and sleep first, it's not so early to dream.

Using a magic machine? It's also extremely difficult. One of them is, of course, the source of energy, both the magic crystal and the magic beast core can be used as energy, but the magic crystal mine on the Spirit Tree Star is limited, and the production is not high. Magic cores are even harder to find. Besides, the price is too expensive to be realistic at all. In addition, the manufacturing level of magicians is different, and there is definitely no unified standard for the things they make, which poses the biggest problem for the popularization of magical machinery.

Magical machines also have one of the biggest challenges: they are difficult and unstable to control.

The Pegasus Kingdom's Magic Application Research Institute has created a giant magic engine. Designed to imitate the technology on the earth, the first thing is to create a magic pool, and then design a wind magic circle on the periphery of the magic pool, and use the wind magic circle to drive the propeller. Such a magic engine is enough to drive a 10,000-ton giant ship, and the driving force is strong enough.

However, during the experiment, the problem arose, the wind power of the Wind Magic Array was sometimes large and sometimes small, and it was almost impossible to stabilize the output, and it was not as fast as the earth's engine, which could adjust its speed. What is the use of an uncontrollable engine, no matter how strong the propulsion is?

The stable output of energy and the unified standard of products are the two fundamentals of the great prosperity of scientific and technological civilization. Magic is by no means inferior to the power of the earth's high-power generators, but the power generated by the high-power generators is very easy to control, and at the same time, the output is stable. But what about magic? If it is used for sabotage, it is first-class, and if it is used for construction, it is ninth-rate, and it is not practical at all.

The biggest feature of handmade things is that they have their own characteristics and are not standard. It is not said that non-standard is used as a work of art, and it is certainly much better than the uniform thing made by machinery, which can be used in industrial production, and non-standard has become a fatal weakness.

"I only know how big the parts are when I make them, so I have to fix them myself." The thought of such a possibility made all the magicians of the Magic Application Research Institute collapse. Take the engine, for example, ten or eight are nothing, but what about a thousand hundred? You can handle it. What's even more outrageous is that maybe one breaks down 3,000 kilometers to the east, and you have to fix it. The other one is broken five thousand miles to the west, and you have to fix it. Don't mess with this thing, busy with people.

The second is how to develop land transportation, this Ma Guohua has some ideas, that is, to find a way to develop horse-drawn rail cars, although the most primitive railway transportation, but certainly much higher than the general carriage transportation.

As far as the development of horse-drawn rail cars is concerned, it is theoretically feasible, but if it is really developed, there is no way to do it without more than ten years. In addition, it requires a large amount of steel, and it has to be popularized to the set of manufacturing standards, and the standard production capacity of the industry is not ordinarily high (compared to the Spirit Tree Star), so this one is not so easy to get.

If there is no cooperation in inland river transportation, the horse to the rail car can only run a short distance, if you want to run a long distance, there are many problems, in the territory of the Tianma Kingdom may be relatively easy to solve, once outside the kingdom, hehe, troublesome. The most typical problem is the problem of horses.

With Yang Siqi's strengthened horse (Warcraft is also formed), the physical fitness is naturally much stronger, the number of cars pulled is more, and the transportation volume is also large? However, these strengthened horses can change horses after running dozens of kilometers in their home countries, but what about in foreign countries? How to change? Such a good horse should be used to make a war horse, not to pull some broken car. How about I exchange twenty horses for one with you? I'm afraid that it won't be long before those prepared horses have been swallowed by the various kingdoms.

The biggest problem now is how to solve the problem of the source of energy. If we want to develop science and technology like the earth and then manufacture engines such as steam engines, gasoline engines, diesel engines, electric motors, etc., it will definitely not be developed in 30 or 50 years.

Moreover, the pollution of the environment at the beginning of the development of scientific and technological civilization is too great, and this article also makes Ma Guohua a little big-hearted and small-hearted.

It is precisely because the left is not successful, and the right is not successful, but the problem has to be solved, which makes Ma Guohua's head big and I don't know how many numbers, but there is no good solution.