Chapter 424: The Unbelievable Train

Hang Min hurried to the East Palace with a large group of people from the Road Traffic Division.

First Hearing.

Zhu Jianji went straight to the point, "Hang Shangshu, the construction of Heijing Road may have to be suspended for about a month, and the construction of official roads is a better strategy." ”

And so it goes.

Hang Min immediately grasped the main point, "Your Highness, the question is how much steel is needed for this, the current output of the Ministry of Industry Steelmaking Plant does not seem to be able to meet this demand, in addition, the Steam Engine Research and Development Institute has not yet achieved final results, I am afraid it is a little early to get the train that His Highness said." ”

Over the years, as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, following Zhu Jianji to engage in industry, Hang Min can basically be called half an industrial person, and continued: "And the cement official road is likely to be unable to bear the load. ”

According to His Highness, the train is an iron-clad machine.

That's how heavy it is.

I can't bear it at all.

Zhu Jianji said: "I have considered these problems, the research and development of the steam engine has been many years, and the current progress is estimated to be two or three years later, the prototype can be developed, and then the experiment and optimization will be a year and a half, and within three years at the latest, the steam engine will be able to whimper and blow the horn for the times." ”

Hang Min nodded, "That's right." ”

Zhu continued: "In fact, the problem is that the production of steel cannot keep up with the demand, and the difficulty in increasing steel production lies in the scale of iron ore mining, transportation and smelting. ”

Hang Min said: "The key is to take a part of the output out to ensure the expansion of Dongfeng firearms." ”

Zhu Jianji pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "The problems need to be solved one by one, and the top priority is to get the cement produced by the cement base to build the official road as the rail foundation, whether it can bear the load, and there is a problem that needs to be solved, that is, how to deal with the vibration of the train when the cement official road is used as the rail foundation, that is, how to solve the buffer force." ”

Gravel is laid underneath the rails.

But if the railroad tracks are laid directly on the cement official road, there is no way to lay a buffer zone, which is the same as decorating the house and pasting floor tiles, without that gap, the impact is great.

Hang Min saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was resolute, and he couldn't say anything, so he could only do his best to share the prince's worries, and said: "The problem of the cement official road can only solve the load-bearing, as for what cushioning vibration, it probably has to be solved from the train itself." ”

Zhu Jianji's eyes lit up, "Yes, just reduce the weight of the train itself!" ”

After thinking for a while, "The chassis of the train can be made of steel, but the body frame can be made of lighter wood, in short, we must do everything possible to reduce the weight of the train, so that the idea of running the train on the official road can be realized!" ”

Hang Min was silent for a while, "Then Your Highness needs to bother more, after all, the train you designed has not only been seen and heard of by Weichen, but no one knows what it is." ”

Zhu Jianji hummed, "This is natural, I will personally design it, and then hand it over to the Department of Road Traffic for research and development, and what the Ministry of Industry has to do at the moment is to quickly get the load-bearing data of the cement official road." ”

He said to Zhang: "Let the rest of the Road Traffic Division come in." ”

The rest of the people came in and saluted.

After Zhu Jianji was exempted, he said the thoughts in his heart in one breath, and the people in the Road Traffic Department looked at each other, and the Academy of Engineering was developing a steam engine, everyone knows.

But the steam engine was used to build this train, and everyone doesn't know it.

At first I thought it was for use on a ship.

After all, the steam engine research and development project is aimed at Dengzhou Shipyard.

When the envoy of the Department of Road Traffic heard this, he said: "Dare to ask Your Highness, what is this train like, and can it bring any qualitative improvement to my Daming Transportation?" ”

Zhu Jianji waved his hand and motioned for Zhang Rang to grind the ink and lay the paper.

He said to everyone: "Wait a minute, Gu will tell you what the train looks like, and what will be the benefit to the improvement of Daming's transportation, now let's talk about Gu's thoughts first." The railroad tracks must be paved, the trains must be built, and the cement roads must also be repaired, and as for the significance of their appearance, you will all understand later, and Lone will not boast about it. Let's talk about the existing problems, first of all, the construction of Heijing Road, after a month of suspension, we must catch up with the construction period as soon as possible, we can requisition more Jingxiang displaced people, but to ensure the safety of the people, time is on our side of the Ming Dynasty, in addition, the Road Traffic Division in this month, as long as the thing to do is to get the data of the cement official road load-bearing, in addition, to learn and master the construction method of weaving a steel mesh cage in the cement official road, so as to improve the load-bearing of the cement official road has been serviced. ”

Someone from the Road Traffic Division hurriedly received the order.

Zhu Jianji looked at Hang Min again: "The Ministry of Industry here, to strengthen the mining and transportation of iron ore resources, this is a complementary thing, first use my Daming's iron ore resources, build a corresponding scale of transportation, and then use the human resources of Annan and other places to mine Annan's iron ore as much as possible, smelt on the spot or transport it back to Daming by train, improve the steel production of my Daming, so as to ensure the steel demand for domestic construction." ”

After receiving Annan next year, any resource problem can be easily solved.

Resources for Annan......

No need to show mercy!

Just plunder as much as you want.

Hang Min hurriedly received the order, and said: "After Weichen goes back today, he will let the Ministry of Industry Steelmaking Plant increase the scale of the branch in Shanxi, and at the same time, please ask His Highness to issue an order to let the major mines increase the mining efforts, in addition, the coal mining in Shanxi also needs to be increased accordingly...... In this case, Wei Chen went back to gather his colleagues in the Ministry of Works, came up with a feasible plan, and asked His Royal Highness to judge at that time. ”

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Zhu Jianji hummed.

Road construction is not only about building roads, but also about arranging jobs and increasing economic demand along official roads.

Steelmaking is not just about steelmaking, it can promote the development of related industries.

For example, in the past two years, Shanxi's open-pit coal mines have been mined, and they have some scale, of course, this is only an open-pit coal mine, an underground coal mine, Zhu Jianji does not plan to mine.

When the train is ready, he will go to Annam to mine various minerals, and first use foreign resources to develop the Ming Dynasty.

What is domestic is left to posterity.

It happened that Zhang Rang had polished the ink and laid out the rice paper, and Zhu Jianji picked up the pen and drew the train on the rice paper, and he could also draw the smoking chimney, and handed it to Hang Min for them to circulate.

And said: "This carrying capacity, as long as the cement official road can afford it, can carry hundreds of soldiers or a large number of materials at one time, and can arrive in Guangxi from Gyeonggi within three or five days." ”

After Hang Min and the people from the Road Traffic Division saw it, they were all stunned.

Is this a car?

Such a long car?

To pull such a long car, but also to carry hundreds of soldiers, or a large number of materials, how heavy is this, not to mention whether the cement official road can bear the load, the key is to pull the "horse" of this car, how much strength is needed?

Fantastic!