"Oh, my god, is this the road construction team?"

Old Mike and Li Siyuan rode side by side, and saw a circular camp composed of hundreds of workers, a large number of machinery, and mules, horses, and carts from a distance.

"That's right, it's one of the three road construction teams on the northern road." Li Siyuan explained in a soft voice, his cultivation is very good, he looks very aristocratic, and the future is even more promising.

Old Mike regretted that his youngest daughter got married early, Li Siyuan was obviously more than two levels stronger than Lu Qiang's rammer who couldn't beat a stuffy fart with three sticks, and he didn't know why his beautiful daughter fell in love with that goods?

The phrase "turnip greens have their own love" popped up inexplicably in his mind, and Old Mac felt the fate between people, which was strange!

"Three road construction teams?"

"Yes, the roads in the north are too long, so it takes three road construction teams equipped with the strongest road construction technology of the era to build them at the same time. A road construction team built from the Cape York waterfront to the south, a total of more than 800 kilometers to the south to Cairns, the second road construction team from Cairns to the south, until the south of Texas Town, more than 1,000 kilometers away, the third road construction team from Brisbane to the north, that is, the road you see now, the road you came all the way was built by them, the goal is to meet in Texas Town, so as to connect the entire northern road. ”

Speaking of this, Li Siyuan held the horsewhip and pointed into the distance and continued; "Old mayor, do you see the telephone pole in front of you, it is the long-distance cable telegraph line of the Australian Telegraph Bureau, wherever the road is repaired, the cable telegraph will be connected, and the business points of the Telegraph Office and Huitong Bank will be laid wherever they are, so as to improve the layout of the entire north."

"Oh, I see, no wonder there are so many people in the road construction team."

"This road, called the Corniche, was built entirely at the earl's expense, as a gift to Queensland's infrastructure, and will benefit millions of people in the future, demonstrating the Earl's generosity and kindness, and we should all treat it with a pious and grateful heart."

"Yes, may God bless Lord Count."

"I'm sorry for the old mayor, I am not a Christian, but a devout Taoist believer, so I prefer to ask the Sanqing Immortal Venerable for his blessing, and I firmly believe that the Earl is the son of destiny, and the future will eventually confirm this." Li Siyuan deliberately emphasized this point.

Old Mike couldn't help frowning, he finally discovered Li Siyuan's fatal flaw, that is, he was a heretic, it seems that his youngest daughter was right not to marry him, and Lu Qiang was better at this point.

There is no doubt that the Earl is a child of destiny, and Old Mac hopes that God will bless him, and he is willing to take up a gun to defend the Earl, and follow the Earl's instructions to fight on the battlefield, even if it costs his life!

But he doesn't like Sanqing Xianzun to also come to mix a bar, there is God and his old man, as a devout Christian must point out this, this is God's business scope, there is nothing to do with Sanqing Xianzun.

But think about it

The major matter of demarcating and erecting a monument is still in the hands of Li Siyuan, and there are also precious state councilor seats.

Okay, just bear with me for now.

Old Mack rode his horse silently, and he suddenly thought of a strange question, why do I think of the phrase "if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan"?

Well, that's not the crux of the matter.

Old Mike's attention was quickly attracted by the equipment of the road construction team, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became, and the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became.

At the forefront of the road construction team are five tractors in diagonal rows, behind which they drag heavy ploughshares, turning the wide road surface deep as if they were working in the fields, and there is no end in sight along the straight and long road.

After a few days of exposure to the sun, the soil becomes dry and devoid of moisture, making it easy for further treatment.

There are four diagonal tractors in the rear, which drive the rapidly rotating implements to break up all the soil into powder to form a high floating soil layer, and then it is the turn of the rollers with solid steel rollers to come out and compact the floating soil over and over again.

The road construction team builds a quarry every tens of kilometers, using diesel generators to drive a stone crusher to extract small stones and stone powder for use in building a strong road.

The stone powder will be laid on the compacted dirt road, and after re-compacting, the soil will be taken from one side of the road and covered with a thick layer of soil and re-compacted.

Then the following process is a tractor loaded with gravel, the road surface is evenly sprinkled with a layer of gravel, compacted again with a road roller, and finally a thick layer of loess is laid on top of it to compact, and the current road is formed.

Finally, this thick layer of loess, the place where the soil is taken is attached to the side of the road, and the soil is taken after the tractor is turned deeply, and after the soil is taken twice, a deep ditch will be formed on the side of the road, which is an important measure to prevent the road from being waterlogged.

Finally, erect half-foot-high signposts at intervals of one kilometer on the road so that people can know exactly where they are. How far are you from your destination? Very simple and straightforward.

The road built in this way presents an obvious sandwich structure, with three layers of loess, one layer of stone powder and one layer of stone, a total of 5 layers, layer after layer superimposed on each other, very solid, and the road construction speed is very fast.

The specific speed of road construction depends on the speed of crushing of gravel, a road construction team has dozens of tractors, a minimum of 30 kilometers of work face at a time, and 30 kilometers of road can be completed in just 10 days, so the progress is very fast.

And all the workers live in mobile caravans, and the living facilities and so on are also in the caravans, moving forward with the construction site, so even the trouble of building a camp is saved.

This mechanical road construction method greatly improves the efficiency and saves incalculable manpower.

Take 5 tractors for example; It is easy to complete the task of turning 30 kilometers deep every day, and only 5 tractor drivers are needed.

How many people do you need to dig such a long section of the road by manpower?

3,000 people work hard for three days may not be able to dig up, this is not a complicated calculation problem, each person 10 meters long and 20 meters wide is an area of 200 square meters, deep digging 80 centimeters is 160 cubic meters, a strong man needs to complete more than 50 cubic meters of excavation tasks every day, when it is really tired to soft hands and feet are not necessarily dug out.

3,000 hard work for three days is 9,000 laborers, and 5 tractor drivers can easily do it in one day, and the efficiency is increased by 1,800 times.

The soil crushing machine towed by the tractor has almost the same wonderful use as the solid roller, and the saving effect is also thousands of times, and the work done is more neat and beautiful, and the quality is reliable.

After all, it is a mechanical road construction, and round after round of deep turning and compacting must not be cheated in the slightest, nor can it cut corners, nor can it be cheated and slippery like manpower road construction, so as to ensure the quality of road construction.

Seeing this, Old Mac felt deep admiration;

Oh my God! Lord Earl is the angel who spreads the holy light, the holy light from heaven shining on the earth, the savior of the chaotic order in Australia, and the heir of the holy and noble Oriental royal bloodline, who will surely bring the gospel of the Lord.

Old Mac was convinced of this.

One final thing must be emphasized; There is nothing to do with Sanqing Immortal Venerable here.

"Amitayus Buddha, good, good!" Li Siyuan's pious bow smashed Old Mike's expectations to pieces.

Lao Mike's ranch is about 13 kilometers southwest of Qingdao Town, and the pastures of his eldest son-in-law Zhao Qishan and younger son-in-law Lu Qiang are close to each other, with a combined area of more than 30,000 acres.

The ranch consists of a mountain range of about 600 meters high, more than 10 lakes of all sizes, and seven streams running through it, except for a small half of the hilly area, most of which are gentle slopes and plains, and in the hilly area there are endless forests.

This kind of terrain is not a good way to cultivate, and it is excellent for pasture.

Old Mike discussed with everyone, and simply built Mike Ranch first, and everyone lived together to graze and live, and slowly built their own homes after freeing their hands.

For more than ten days

The cowboys were in full swing, cutting down trees in the forest, cutting off the branches with axes, and dragging them out of the forest with strong horses and piling them up in the lumber yard.

Then the wood is sawn with a chainsaw, stacked layer by layer, exposed to the sun for a few days, and finally a triangular pergola is built to block the sun and let it dry slowly.

The scraps of wood are used to build corrals, and little by little they work hard to build their beautiful home.

"Stop, pause." Old Mike sat on the tree with his legs apart, put down the chainsaw in his hand and gasped for a few breaths, and then wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuffs, looking too tired.

Zhao Qishan, who was sitting under the big tree, also let go of the chainsaw in his hand, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed one over and said; "Daddy Mack, don't do it, let's go build a corral with Hudson later, this wood-sawing job for us young people to do."

"Hmph, I'm not old yet." Old Mike retorted unconvinced, turned his head to look at the mountains of wood in the lumber yard, and saw that there was not a fraction of the sawn planks, and he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle.

He took the cigarette and thought for a moment and said; "Zhao, I think we should add a disc saw and a tractor, which can help us easily cut all the wood into the planks we need, and also transport the hay, you know, we don't just build this wooden house, there is a lot of heavy work waiting for us."

"How much money does it cost to buy a tractor?"

"I've done the math, it's £27 for a disc saw and £145 for a tractor, which is very expensive, but it helps us build a wooden house all at once, instead of three damn shacks, so we can hire 10 fewer people and save a lot of time."

Zhao Qishan thought about it seriously and had to admit that Old Mike's words were reasonable.

The construction of a wooden building not only requires a large number of planks, but also a large number of wooden strips and wooden squares, which is the most labor-intensive work, and more than 10 men can't drive much in a day, and they are tired.

If you buy a tractor and a disc saw, you only need to nail a disc saw table with wood and push the big wood up, and the work of opening the wood is very easy.

Whether it is a square or a strip, it can be easily done on the disc sawing table.

The power of the disc saw comes from the tractor, as long as the connecting belt is put on, it is convenient and simple.

Moreover, the tractor is simply the all-round operator of the farm, not only can transport forage, wood, planted fruits and vegetables, grains and other things, but also can be turned into the best little helper in the field immediately after unloading the truck.

Ploughing, deep ploughing, ploughing, hoeing, sowing and fertilizing are all in the line, it is definitely a good helper for large-scale farms, and you can easily plant 100 acres of fields.

The tractor is indeed good, everyone can see it, but the price is too expensive.

A basic tractor costs 145 pounds, only equipped with basic carriages, need to lengthen carriages and flat carriages and the like to add money, plus all kinds of agricultural machinery and equipment also need to add money, this more than ten pounds, that twenty pounds, all kinds of agricultural machinery and tools are equipped with more than 200 pounds.

£145, what does that mean in this day and age?

£4.5 a tonne of high-quality steel, which can buy 32.2 tonnes of steel, can buy a two-storey bungalow with a front and back garden, which is really too expensive.

Zhao Qishan didn't know that the reason why the price was so expensive was because of the pioneering new technology of the series of diesel engines in this era, which would monopolize the market in this field and obtain excess monopoly profits for a long time foreseeable.

The Cargill Steam Machinery Company of Detroit and the Australian General Machinery Company have benefited enormously, and orders have been pouring in from all over the world, especially on traditional British, French, Dutch, Spanish and German farms, where the demand for tractors and implements is extremely strong.

Steam tractors appeared very early, but they were very bulky and ineffective, and they fell into the field as soon as they entered the field, and they received rave reviews on European farms, and they were hardly popularized.

In today's agricultural field, the most produced is the steam hook machine, which is a kind of steam machinery fixed in the field, ploughing the land through the hook rope, the number of steam hook machines exported to Europe in Detroit every year is about 1500~1800 units, and the number of self-use is more.

After the debut of diesel tractors, these old products collapsed in the market, and today they have nearly zero sales.

meanwhile

The series of diesel units have a wide range of applications, which is not only the power base of small and medium-sized enterprises, but also one of the auxiliary power of large enterprise equipment, almost making the cumbersome and impractical steam machinery fall into the water.

"Daddy Mack, have you decided?"

"Yes, we need a tractor and we need a disc saw, which will allow us to hire 10 fewer workers and save £50."

"Okay, I'm fine." Zhao Qishan took a hard puff of cigarette, turned his head to look around, and saw that everyone was sweating like rain, with an inexplicable smile in the corner of his eyes, and said; "I don't think anyone else will object, Brother Limin will raise his hands in favor, the past few days can make everyone tired, think about it for 10 months or even more than a year to work hard like this, it's really overwhelming!"

"Hahahaha......" Old Mike burst out laughing.

His eyes looked around at this beautiful hill, backed by a tall mountain range, with a clear stream flowing not far on one side, and a large gentle slope in front of it, which could be reclaimed for growing vegetables and fruits.

Pig pens can be built next to the lake, and the manure of fat pigs can be thrown into the lake along the manure trough, which is also easy to clean.

On the other side of the lake, you can build a cowshed and raise some chickens, ducks and geese, and in a few years, it will become a beautiful and rich pasture.

Thinking of this, Old Mike's heart was already drunk......