"Of course, I plan to set up a pharmaceutical factory in Dragon City, specializing in the production of Los Beast physique improvement potions, you have to work hard during this time, in addition to improving the potions, the preparation of the pharmaceutical factory also has to worry about you.
"I still don't understand, why do you want to produce this potion in large quantities, the Loos Beast does have a strong load-bearing capacity, but no matter how strong it is, it can't be stronger than the train, and the amount of food is equivalent to five adult ploughing horses, and the cost of raising is super high" Zhuo Ya looked up at Roland's eyes, with a pretty face with confusion, "Your Kolas government is not good at building railways and engaging a large group of Loothmon to transport goods to the south, doesn't this contradict the basic national policy of "speeding up industrial construction" introduced by the government not long ago, what do you think?"
Roland smiled, "We do have plans to build a railway, and it is a railway network that connects all parts of the Far East, but it is useless to have a railway, what is more difficult is the train, these improved loesmon are purchased to power railway traffic, and I will use them to pull the carriages." ” Zhuo Ya pursed her lips disdainfully: "Hehe, I don't read much, don't lie to me, the railway is used to run trains, you don't try to produce magic locomotives, spend money on improving and raising Lothmon, and use animal power to pull the train, it's just nondescript, you think of it."
"You don't have much knowledge, I don't care about you," Roland smiled indifferently, "It's not difficult to lay railways, and it's not difficult to produce carriages, the difficulty lies in independently designing and producing locomotives driven by magic crystal steam engines, which is a super complex project, and it can't be done with the current industrial level and talent pool in the Far East." ” "Can't you buy it if you can't make it yourself?"
asked Zhuoya weakly.
"First of all, if I want to buy it, someone has to sell it, the imperial authorities have blocked the trade channels in the Far East, and countries that have the ability to mass-produce locomotives do not dare to openly do business with us, take a step back and say, even if people are willing to sell it, we can't afford it, you are not engaged in industry, you can't imagine how expensive the magic locomotive is."
Roland sighed, and continued, "Since we can't build and buy it, we have to find other ways to use the railway, and there is no way to use the train with Lothmon to pull the train. ” "However, this approach looks good," Zhuoya pondered for a while, but did not come up with the appropriate adjective, "it is the feeling of vanity and humility, like a noble lady wearing a fur coat with a diamond necklace, and the poor girl looks at it with hot eyes, and saves money to buy the same coat, but has no money to buy jewelry, so she has to bring a string of glass necklaces and pretend that it is a diamond for people to see, which is both sad and ridiculous, I feel sad, and you are not afraid of other people's jokes."
Roland could fully understand her feelings, but he didn't find it humble or ridiculous.
"Zhuoya, if you know anything about the countries that are at the forefront of industrial development in Vares, you will not have this kind of inferiority complex, whether it is Feizhen or Hailan, including our evil neighbor Yashan Empire, in the years when railway traffic was just emerging, it also encountered the problem of insufficient locomotive production capacity and frequent failures, and railway operators in various countries also coincidentally chose to replace locomotives with mules and horses as traction beasts, to fill the historical period of insufficient locomotive production capacity, and make full use of railways as much as possible.
We are now at the same stage of history, and our tractors are stronger and more efficient than mules and horses, so there is no need to be ashamed of ourselves. ” Hearing his words, Zhuoya felt a little relieved, raised her head and asked him curiously: "Is it possible to pull heavier goods on the railway with livestock than on flat ground?"
"I'll do the math for you, and you'll understand."
Roland picked up a pen and wrote on the paper, listing a few lines of simple calculations, "A horse's weight is about 400 pounds, and if you use this horse-drawn cart, the weight on the soft road is about five times the weight, that is, 2,000 pounds; On a flat road paved with gravel, it can pull a trailer equivalent to 16 times the load, or 6,400 pounds; On the railroad, the same horse can tow 25,600 pounds, which is 64 times its own weight." "64 times" Zoya was shocked by this exaggerated data.
Roland nodded affirmatively, "This is a formula we have learned from extensive field testing on different road conditions, not only for mules and horses, but also for other camels, including Lothmon. ” Zoya quickly calculated in her mind and muttered to herself: "The weight of the Lothmon is almost ten times that of a horse, and according to the data you provided, it can drag the equivalent of sixty-four times the weight of the load on the railway, that's my God, one hundred and twenty-eight tons" Her eyes widened in disbelief, startled by the results she had calculated.
Roland smiled and clapped his hands, "You're right, the railroad is so magical, two smooth and straight rails, greatly reducing the friction of the road, like a simple and efficient load amplifier, so that the traction capacity of Lothmon can be maximized."
Then he revealed a set of data to Zoya, "According to the standard used by the countries of Vares, the design weight of a train car is about 60 tons, so through simple calculations, it is not difficult to find that one Lothmon can easily drag two fully loaded carriages on the railway, and when we make a group of four Lothmon and place them on both sides of the railway, like a four-horse trailer to pull the train, we can drag eight carriages along the railway.
I'm proud to claim that there's no more efficient and tame train-pulling beast in the entire world of Vares. ” "No wonder you are so anxious for us to develop an alchemy potion to improve the physique of the Highland Beast, the Highland Beast is docile and easy to feed, forage, beans, corn or something can be fed, the only drawback is that it is not tolerant to heat and heat, after injecting the medicine, it obtains the function of changing the thickness of body hair according to the change of ambient temperature, so it is no longer afraid of the midsummer in the south, and it can pull a cart on the railway all year round."
Zhuoya suddenly realized.
"That's why I'm going to build a pharmaceutical factory in Dragon City to mass-produce the potions you developed."
As the saying goes, "if you want to get rich, you must first build roads", Roland recalled that he wrote the "Five-Year Plan Outline", one of the important links is to vigorously develop the transportation construction of the Far East, "In the next five years, the Koras government plans to lay tens of thousands of miles of railways in the country, but it cannot produce magic locomotives that match the railway network in a short period of time, and falls into the embarrassing situation of having railways but no locomotives, but as long as we have enough and improved Lothmon, those pre-laid railways can be fully utilized, It will not leave a large amount of infrastructure investment vacant and wasted. ” S: About the carriage on the railroad tracks 1 rail-drawn carriage A railcar is a means of transportation that relies on horses to pull vehicles and wheels rolling on steel tracks, and was invented by the Englishman John Uhtland in 1775. 2 Data from the Napoleonic period The weight of a pack horse is about 18 tons.
A 1-horse-drawn wagon carries 58 tons on soft roads, 2 tons on gravel roads and 8 tons on railways.
In summary, the carrying capacity of the railcar is equivalent to sixty-four times its own weight, and the data of Lothmon can be obtained in the same way
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