Chapter 526 Encountering an ordinary carriage at sea, you can easily see the industrial and technological achievements of Liaodong.Considering the cold climate of Liaodong and the effect of sound insulation and noise reduction of Quanxu, in the design and manufacturing, the hollow design of the envelope was adopted, and some fillers were added to the two layers of iron sheets.Naturally, these fillings are not polyurethane resins, but inexpensive chaff and crushed wheat straw, which were common building materials for thermal insulation in ancient times.Or the air conditioning from the Quanxu prefabricated house is naturally not extravagant, but the ventilation problem can only rely on the vents of the windows and roofs, as the train begins to get faster and faster, through the glass of the windows, you can clearly see the outside scenery.Liaodong's glass production technology has also matured.Colorless glass is mainly because of the impurities in quartz sand and limestone, after being purified by Quanxu's reminder, glass can be manufactured, but the large flat glass still lacks a certain strength, and the glass on the train window is two feet long and more than one foot wide.Sixteen fully loaded carriages are naturally full.The biggest difference between the first class and the second class is that there are only two seats in each row, four people in a row, and ninety-six people in a carriage.Everything else is the same as second-class seats.As for the so-called VIP seats, they should be considered soft-packed carriages.Each private room can seat up to four people or sleep four people.Anyway, Quanxu's railway fares are different according to different grades.The second-class seat is fifty wen per person, the first-class seat is one hundred wen, and as for the VIP seat, it is one or two silver, and it is per person.Sanniang still likes to dance with guns, she looked at the full number of passengers in the first-class seats, and asked curiously: "Xianggong, how many people can this car pull?"
”"This?
It's hard to say!
”Quan Xu really has no way to answer, there are only one hundred and forty-four fixed seats in a carriage, and there is no problem to squeeze two or three hundred people, Quan Xu will go home during the Spring Festival in the future, and he will not have to walk at all, he will be squeezed into the car directly.He really didn't calculate how many people could be squeezed in a carriage: "However, at least one or two thousand people may be pulled!"
”"Look, White Horse!"
On the small dirt road next to the railway, there was a very sassy man, riding a white horse, racing against the train, and after only a quarter of an hour, the horse was gone."
Xianggong, where this railway is built, can our whole family army fight there?""
Of course, the biggest problem restricting the expedition of the whole family army now is logistics supply!"
Quan Xu smiled faintly: "If it's an area close to the coast, it's okay to say, even if there is no dock, you can use a small boat to transfer, even if it's just a hundred-stone boat, it can also meet the consumption of the army!"
”Sanniang's eyes flickered: "Will we build the railway to the capital?"
”"I'll fix it later!"
Jeon Wook's gaze became dark.Close to the Quanxu special train is the VIP special train, Cheng Jingxian sat on the VIP seat, comfortably enjoying the fruit sent by the concubine.Cheng Jingxian looked out the window and sighed with emotion: "Where is the Hanting Station now?"
”"Hanting Station has just passed, we still have two quarters of an hour to reach Lushun at most!""
That's fast!"
Cheng Jingxian looked at the chief steward sitting opposite him and said: "Comber, tell me to go down, in the future, our Cheng Ji business's man is in charge, but whenever we go back and forth from Jinzhou to Lushun, we will take the steam engine train, which is fast and convenient, the key is that this is our own business, this railway, I can invest nearly 500,000 taels of silver!"
”The chief steward named Comber said with a smile on his face: "Young master, this business is really worth it, let's transport grain to the Central Plains, from Jinzhou to Lushun, this section of the road also costs a lot of money, with this railway, it is said that one trip can transport more than 20,000 stones?"
”"Not only that, this railway will be built farther and farther, and it will be convenient for us to transport grain and flax in Shenyang and Jianzhou in the future!"
Comber seemed to think of something: "Young master, is that iron mine ready to be touched?"
”"You can do it, go to the Central Plains to beckon, mine it, that's the money!"
Cheng Jingxian sighed a little, this iron mine was discovered when he just went to Jianzhou, because the distance is too far, and there is no coal mine around, if you want to mine it, the transportation cost is too high, so he bought the mining rights of this iron mine for ten years for less than 50,000 taels of silver in the way of picking up leaks.Originally, Cheng Jingxian thought that the 50,000 taels of silver would be wasted, but he didn't expect that when the railway appeared, it would be possible to mine the iron ore there, and now all the steel mills in Liaodong have received orders for rails, as long as the quality can meet the standards and the price is low enough, it is possible to get an order to build a railway.In Quanxu's planning, all states and counties in eastern Liaoning should be connected to the railway, and the steel required is difficult to calculate.In fact, almost nine out of ten passengers did not need to go to Port Arthur, their real purpose was to experience the comfort of the steam engine train.The opinions of the people are also varied, some people dislike that there are too few VIP seats, and they can't buy them at all, and some people propose to add first-class seats on the train.Just as Quanxu was enjoying the achievements brought by the steam engine train, a small steam engine more than two meters high began to be tested in the compound of the steam engine project in Jinzhou City.Sun Yuanhua took dozens of technicians and hundreds of apprentices to unload a machine tool from a heavy-duty horse-drawn carriage, docked the machine tool with the transmission system of the steam engine and the transmission system of the machine tool, checked it again and again, and opened the machine bracket after confirming that it was correct.The machine is like the gearbox of a car, because the machine tool does not run forever like a train, and it needs to be stopped when it should be stopped, and it should be turned a few times, but not one more turn.After debugging, the steam engine begins to pressurize, begins to transport, and after the steam pressure output is stable, the machine tool head runs rapidly without warning as the rotating gears of the machine tool are connected together."
It worked!"
Everyone's eyes widened again: "This kind of speed is beyond the reach of any water flow!"
”"It's not very fast, we can go through the gear set and accelerate!"
Sun Yuanhua said excitedly: "Steel is the hardest thing we can think of, in order to make a hole in the steel or carve a few circles of threads, I don't know how much effort it takes!"
But now this time is about to be a thing of the past!
”A master of a hardware factory personally picked up a steel rod the thickness of a teacup and elbow-long and fixed it on the machine tool, and then pushed the drill bit to drill it down.With the piercing sound of metal friction resounding throughout the audience, it seemed that a person from a division was scraping the bottom of the pot, sparks were splashing on the machine tool, steel filings were flying, and the thick and long steel rod was drilled through a little bit, drilled through, and changed from a steel rod to a steel pipe!
After drilling through it, someone turned off the machine again, replaced it with a boring knife, and then there was a metal friction sound comparable to a master scraping the bottom of a pot, and a large ball of steel chips flew out of the steel pipe, and the inner chamber was roughly expanded, turning into a steel pipe with a wall of no more than one centimeter!
Then it was replaced with a wire knife, and this time the movement was a little smaller, and clumps of metal as thin as a hair were dug out, and the steel pipe became a screw......
Probably because this is not intuitive enough, under the command of Sun Yuanhua, everyone replaced the machine tool with the sharpest cutter head, and then drove the speed to the maximum, and then put a steel ingot weighing hundreds of pounds on it.With a tooth-aching cutting sound, the steel ingot, which had previously taken an unknown amount of effort to cut, was cut in half!
Quan Xu knew that after the appearance of this steam engine transmission device, the steam engine was widely used, not only to drive machine tools, to process various metals, but also to drive textile machines, grinding discs, water pumps and other machines that need power!
Even if it was a steam-engine steamer, it was not impossible.With the mature use of the steam engine, Quanxu's 12,000-material ship was completed in Liaodong Shipyard, and after the completion of the Sea Shark 4, the construction of this wooden sailing ship needed to be stopped.The steam engine has become the most sought-after goods in Liaodong, which is needed by coal mining plants, steel mills, cement factories, and shipyards.Fortunately, the manpower shortage in Liaodong is still urgent, otherwise, the appearance of the steam engine alone will add hundreds of thousands of laid-off workers.The liberated workers can participate in infrastructure construction, or they can continue to work in railway construction, and so on, and they will not be unemployed anyway.Just as Jeon Woo and his family were enjoying the joy and convenience of the steam engine, three huge Galen ships appeared in the northeast of the Sea of Japan.It was a small and two, three Galen ships, the largest Galen ship had a displacement of up to two thousand tons, and the two small Galen ships in front also had the appearance of fifteen or six hundred tons.The flotilla was led by Sir Madrid of Spain, Naval Rear Admiral Fuente, whose purpose was to explore Australia, and the expedition was a complete success.Now his ship is full of ores, crop seeds, and plant specimens, which he has painstakingly collected on the Australian mainland and on various islands, and they will be powerful evidence of the richness of this virgin land to all.He even brought a few kangaroos, two thylacines, two bandicoots, two platypus, and a seal.Unfortunately, the seal was so good at serving that it died before it could enter the Banda Sea, but kangaroos, bandicoots, platypus, and penguins were well under the care of several Australian aborigines, and it is believed that they will return to Spain alive.Unfortunately, when he arrived in Sumatra with his weary expedition, Sir Fuente received a request from the Governor of Kart.After Clart's patient persuasion, and for the sake of His Majesty the King, he decided to support the decision of the Governor of Clart, unloaded his booty at Sumatra, and headed for the Far East with five thousand muskets, sixty-four guns, and one hundred and forty-three army soldiers, under the guidance of his guide Bao Jing."
Damn kingdom interests, my pathetic vacation!"
Just when Fuente was thinking about it, the news came from the lookout: "There is a great ship!"
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