Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Track

"Squeak-boom!"

A big tree with two people hugging each other fell like this.

Kaichi passed by the fallen tree, and did not stop, walking forward, the wind blade in his hand did not stop, and continued to cut the nearby trees, and everywhere he passed, all the trees were cut down by his wind blade one by one.

Jia Yi was building a road from the mine to the selected smelter, and in order to meet the deadline, he started to do it himself. In order to cut trees more efficiently, he also made an improvement to his wind blade, the original wind blade was a piece of willow leaf-like static knife, he changed the wind blade to a round, toothed and high-speed rotation, in this way, the wind blade's armor-piercing ability was greatly improved, and the cutting of trees was more efficient, just like a chainsaw.

These felled trees were picked up by the people behind Jiayi, pulled up by horse-drawn carts, and those that were close to the mine were piled up to the mine, and those close to the smelter were piled up to the smelter, which was very useful.

"Jiayi, these trees have been cut down, but how to repair this road? You don't really want to hire a team of mages to come over and help you repair the road, right?" Selena Tingting on the side walked over and deliberately made a disgusted look at Jiayi, "Do you think everyone will be like you, a mage will come over to cut down trees and build roads." ”

Jiayi's current image is really not very good, although there is magic to help him maintain his body temperature, and he also uses magic to cut down trees, but after almost a whole day, he is now sweating profusely, his hair is attached to his forehead, and there are leaves mixed in the middle of his hair, which looks a little embarrassed, at least it is very different from the mage in people's impressions.

"I'll just say it casually, even if you take the money, someone has to be willing. You can find ordinary workers to build roads, but when you build a blast furnace, you really need to find a teacher to support you. ”

Kaichi ruffled his hair and exposed his forehead. He once joked with Selena that he would borrow a team of mages to repair the road like his teacher, but in the end he didn't implement it, and he went into battle himself.

"You organize people to dig up the stumps on the ground, and then you dig up a layer of ground and cover it with gravel and slag from the mine. You're building roads here, and I'm going to start building a blast furnace by the river. ”

"The ore is very heavy, and it won't take long to build a road like this, and it will be crushed. Selena reminded Jia Yi that since Jia Yi decided on the plan, she has not been idle, and has spent a lot of time researching the project.

Jia Yi smiled for a moment, took off the backpack on his back, took out a drawing from it, handed it to Selena, and said, "Of course it won't be that simple, this is the drawing I made, you can just do it according to this." ”

Not at this time, Jia Yi wants a storage ring more and more, although the backpack is very convenient, but it is not convenient to carry it on the back every day, especially when taking things, it makes people feel very low, far less than quietly taking out the chic from the storage ring. However, a junior gray-robed mage still used a storage ring to make a bit of a show, and most importantly, there was no money.

Even Imu, only when they discovered the magic stone mine did they have the financial resources to buy a storage ring, although the magic stone also has a share of Jiayi, but Imu only gave him the one as an experimental material, and the rest is kept by Yimu, and only a small part is taken at a time. The Chamber of Commerce also makes a lot of money, but most of it is also used to buy magic materials, and improving its strength is the right way.

Anyway, Jiayi's expectations for storage rings now can only be a good wish.

Selena took the drawings and opened them to see that there were many sketches of the engineering drawings, the top one was a rendering - a layer of crushed sand and gravel was laid on the ground, and there were many pieces of wood on top of the stones, and above the wood, there were sections of wooden tracks, which looked like a ladder, if it were not for the fact that the map indicated that it was indeed the road surface.

"Kaichi, what is this?" Although the drawing was clear, Selena couldn't understand what it was, and what was the use of laying such a ladder-like thing on the ground.

Jia Yi said: "This is the track, half of this road is an ordinary road, tamp the roadbed, paved with stones, slag, etc., the other half should be padded with sleepers under this foundation, and then lay a track on it, in the future, you can use a horse-drawn carriage to run on the track, so that it is much more labor-saving, and even several carriages can be combined together, so that the horse runs, so that the transportation of ore is not a problem." ”

"Will this work? Won't wooden tracks break easily?"

"So our tracks should be made exactly according to my specifications, if one section is broken, it can be replaced quickly, and when our iron production comes up, we can also replace all the iron tracks, so that it is not easy to break. ”

What Jia Yi said is actually the railway, but only wood can be used here, and iron does not have this production at all. And the first tracks appeared, in fact, in places like lumberyards and mines. Although the wooden track is not as durable as the steel rail, in fact, the cargo capacity at this time is not as high as the train at all, and at most it takes some more maintenance work, and the use is not a problem.

"Hah, the iron tracks, be careful that they were all stolen when you got up the next day. Selena sneered, and she said that it is very likely that at this time, iron is still very precious, and if there is really an iron track in the field, then it is no less than a piece of gold falling to the ground, and someone will definitely take the risk of disassembling the track for money.

There is something called an adventurer in this era, almost indistinguishable from a locust.

However, although Selena still had some doubts about this, she still started to build the road according to Jiayi's idea. Jiayi, on the other hand, began to draw in the place he had chosen and planned his own smelter. The smelter designed by Jiayi is essentially a small workshop, so it is not called a factory.

Jiayi's sketching has a small foundation, although he was born in the wilderness, he is probably at the level of a lover on the earth, and any college student in the painting class can use it to hang him, but at least the things drawn are already very similar. In particular, thanks to his strong mental strength and his hands as steady as iron gates, the lines drawn are very steady, although the characters and landscapes he paints are a little dull, but there is a magnificent mathematical beauty.

Although from an artistic point of view, it is not yet in the current - of course, by the standards of the earth, but if it is used to draw engineering drawings, Jiayi's level is already very good, and it is not modest to say that in this era, no one can compare.

According to the topography, Jiayi first began to design the location of the waterwheel, and then not far from the waterwheel, selected the location of the blast furnace, on a slightly higher hillside, the foundation is stable, and it is also far from the water, so there is no need to worry about the river overflowing when the water is heavy.

Having chosen a location, he began to treat the wood first, using magic to dehydrate the wood, so that the treated wood was no less than the wood that had been dried naturally for three or five years, but the time required was much shorter, otherwise the wood would have to be purchased.

After processing the wood, he took out the drawings he had drawn and looked at them, and began to make the waterwheel, because the waterwheel is the easiest. In fact, the drawings were drawn by himself, and he completely remembered them in his mind, but he still subconsciously took them out and took a look, probably because of the habits of his previous life.