Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 1013 Power of Technology
In the middle reaches of the Congo River, thousands of ships are mooring quietly in the largest river channel, and two steel piers have been built.

These two piers are not big, and each can accommodate two armed merchant ships docking side by side.

However, these two piers are quite solid, and the machines that cut down trees can't be shaken even if they drive up.

It really deserves to be made of steel and iron, hard enough!

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help admiring: "Bo Gong, this kind of wharf is really good, how about we build a factory in Xinma City to produce this kind of wharf.

In this way, we can increase the speed of building port terminals by more than ten times. "

Uh, this.

Du Linzheng said helplessly, "Your Majesty, this kind of pier is actually not as durable as a reinforced concrete pier.

Because steel is prone to rust after soaking in water for a long time, especially in sea water, it will rust faster.

Wei Chen estimated that this kind of pier would only take a few years to build on the seashore, and even if it was built in a river, it would last more than ten years at most. "

There is always a solution to this.

Taichang insisted: "We can ask Chang Geng to study anti-rust steel or anti-rust paint, but if it doesn't work, we can build the pier first and then slowly pour concrete.

In short, this kind of terminal is very good, and we must vigorously promote it. "

Well, your Majesty, you have the final say.

Du Linzheng hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

After a few trees felling machines were driven up, Aluka and Asipa started to land with the soldiers of the Amazon Tribal Alliance.

Because the open space next to the piers on both sides is not very large, if you want to drive all the logging machines, you have to cut down all the surrounding trees and clear a large open space.

The soldiers of the Amazon Tribal Alliance should not be too familiar with this job.

They came out of the tropical rainforest. There are countless trees in the Amazon jungle. They don’t know how much they have cut down. For them, cutting down trees and logging is just commonplace for them, and they are also familiar with harvesting with machines.

The trees on the bank fell down in rows, and more and more large machines drove ashore.

At this moment, the machines for cutting and logging trees can not only cut down trees, but also machines that specialize in removing branches and leaves and cutting off tree trunks, and even machines that specialize in processing wood cubes and boards.

After the towering tree was pulled over by the soldiers of the Amazon Tribal Alliance, the branches and leaves were quickly removed and turned into pieces, and the pieces of logs were quickly turned into planks and squares.

Looking at the neatly piled wooden planks and squares, Taichang couldn't help sighing secretly that Daming's technology was developing so fast that sometimes he couldn't keep up.

Of course, it is not difficult to develop such a machine for processing wood boards and squares, that is, to combine a sawing machine with a tree-cutting machine.

He didn't make any noise anymore, it seemed that he, the emperor, was too ignorant.

However, he soon couldn't bear it anymore.

Because after Aluka and Asipa discussed with several directors of the Ministry of Industry, they even ordered people to lift a pile of iron shelves from the armed merchant ship, put them on the selected open space, and smash them in.

What is this for, repairing bridge piers?

Question, the landing pier is at least one mile away from the place where the bridge is being built. How did they start building the bridge pier from here?

The soldiers of the Amazon Tribal Alliance were really quite agile. After smashing rows of iron frames into the soil, they carried the processed wooden squares and nailed them up.

Those iron frames seemed to have many holes for iron nails in advance, and they nailed them very fast. It didn't take long for the wooden square and the iron frame to be connected forty to fifty feet long.

What the hell is going on?
Taichang couldn't help asking: "Bo Gong, what are Aluka and Axipa building?"

Du Linzheng quickly explained: "Your Majesty, they are building the landing gear of the hot air balloon.

Because this tropical jungle is too troublesome to explore, and people can't tell the east, west, north and south when they get in, so Wei Chen is going to use a hot air balloon to explore the way.

After all, the jungle is not all flat land, and there are still mountains in some places. If we build the road directly facing the mountain, we will have to make a semi-circular arc to get around.

Not to mention the trouble of repairing it like that, it is also inconvenient for large troops to come and go.

There are also swamps and lakes, and we cannot directly repair them.

After the hot air balloon is detected, we can roughly adjust the direction according to the terrain, and there will be no sharp turns when repairing. "

It turned out that this guy even brought the hot air balloons.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but nodded slightly and said: "Well, yes, I'm well prepared."

Unexpectedly, Du Linzheng prepared more than that.

After the two hundred logging machines landed ashore, two armed merchant ships with hoists each approached.

Immediately afterwards, another Spike warship approached the armed merchant ship, and the hooks on those armed merchant ships directly extended to the deck of the Spike warship.

After a while, a string of things like waterwheels were hoisted on those Spike warships.

This is assembling the Spike Warship to clean up the river!

Taichang can be seen at a glance, because Xibo Province has also assembled a lot of special-purpose Spike warships of this kind.

However, when they assembled in Xibo Province, they always used the hoist installed on the dock, but this time they used the hoist installed on the armed merchant ship.

This scene is quite familiar to him.

He couldn't help but show off, "Bo Gong, is this a warship with fangs that specializes in clearing rivers?"

Du Linzheng nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, there are not many places suitable for building large docks in the river, so Wei Chen specially brought a hundred Spike warships to clean the river.

When this kind of warship comes over, you can't put the bucket on it, because that will increase the resistance of the water, and if you put the bucket on it, the speed of the Spike warship will become extremely slow.

No way, we can only drive to the scene and assemble. "

Taichang thought he understood this kind of Spike warship very well, but in fact he still didn't understand it very well.

Because after installing the digging bucket at the back, they installed something about half the length of the bucket on the left and right, and that thing looked similar to a waterwheel.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help being surprised and said, "Why are there still buckets on the left and right?"

Du Linzheng quickly explained: "Your Majesty, that's not a bucket, that's a waterwheel.

We dug up the silt from the bottom of the river and then washed it with a water truck. The mud will flow out through the drainage holes opened on both sides, and then be washed away by the river water. The rest is river sand and pebbles.

This will not only allow the Spike warships to clean up the river to work longer, but also baskets of river sand and pebbles can be hoisted ashore to mix concrete. "

Uh, the Spike warship that cleared the river has been improved again!

Taichang couldn't help but blush when he heard this.

Well, he was a little out of step.

Daming's technology is developing so fast, he has never seen many things.

When this technology is applied in production, or in other words, in various fields, the explosive strength is quite terrifying.

In one day, they actually built two piers and two hot air balloon landing gears.

Moreover, all the [-] tree-cutting machines have already landed, and they cut and drove all the way to the place where the bridge was planned to be built.

Early the next morning, the hot air balloon slowly lifted off. In less than a day, the terrain with a radius of [-] miles was surveyed. Du Linzheng began to plan the route and was ready to officially start road construction.

The machines for cutting trees were not idle either. The trees on both sides of the bridge fell down in pieces. In less than a day, rows of temporary warehouses began to appear on the shore.

There are also those Spike warships that cleared the river. They even dug deep in the river between the steel wharf and the bridge construction site. Also, in less than a day, rows of ordinary wharves began to lay down piles. The piles stretched from the steel pier to where the bridge was built.

About ten days later, a mile-long wharf was formed on both sides of the river, and thousands of ships had mooring places.

The river banks on both sides have been cleared out of an open space with a radius of nearly ten miles. The densely packed simple warehouses and temporary barracks are row after row, and the number is countless.

And the river sand and pebbles, like hills and hills, filled the open spaces beside the piers on both sides.

The soldiers of the Amazon Tribal Alliance even made thousands of flat carriages, which were specially used to pull cement, steel bars, sand, gravel and wood.

The terrain within a radius of thousands of miles has also been surveyed, and Du Linzheng even drew the planning map.

Looking at the densely packed planning map, Taichang couldn't help sighing: "It's really not easy to build this road."

Originally, he thought that it would be enough to pull the tree-cutting machine over and cut directly on both sides. After the tree was felled, the roots would be dug out, and then the road surface would be filled and solid.

Because the original Pernambuco and the later Siberia basically did this.

But now he can't do that, because this is the rainforest, even if it's not the rainy season, it rains a few times in ten days.

When building roads in this kind of place, not only the road surface must be considered, but many other issues must also be considered.

For example, when storing materials, cement should not be exposed to rain. If it gets wet, it will become a bag of cement blocks.

In fact, the steel bars can't be exposed to rain. If they are exposed to too much rain, they will rust badly.

Another example is the problem of food and accommodation for 25 soldiers.

These soldiers can't live on the boat all the time. Once the road is built, it will be hundreds of miles away.

Du Linzheng has considered all these, and he has set up a temporary camp every [-] miles or so. Those temporary camps include places to store cement and steel bars, places to temporarily store wood, and barracks for soldiers to rest. up.

There is also a large camp on the north and south edges of the planning map, where even the landing gear of the hot air balloon is planned.

There is no way, the flying distance of this hot air balloon is limited, no matter how much Cheng Jiashuo improves, it can barely make the hot air balloon fly a thousand miles in the sky.

This time, it will become five hundred miles.

So, at this moment, they have just finished exploring the area of ​​[-] miles from the north to the south. If they want to continue to explore on both sides, they have to build a hot air balloon landing gear so that the hot air balloon can fall down to replenish fuel and water.

Taichang understood all these things, but the only thing he couldn't figure out was why Du Linzheng set the width of the Central Africa Avenue at twenty feet.

That guy, twenty feet is not an ordinary width, and a square formation of a hundred people can pass through it. Naturally, it is impossible to form such a wide square formation when marching.

He was rather curious: "Uncle Gong, why do you need to build this road twenty feet wide? Isn't it a waste of time?"

Du Linzheng quickly explained: "Your Majesty, I can't do anything about it, the road is so wide, because it will take more than ten days for the cement to dry completely.

But at our advancing speed, it is definitely not a problem to build [-] miles of roads on both sides every day.

In this way, there will be situations where the road is not yet dry, but a large amount of steel, cement, sand, wood, and even grain will need to be transported.

In this case, we can only lay reinforced concrete on one side first, and reserve the other half as a channel. After the half is dry, we can use this side as a channel and pave the other side with reinforced concrete.

Twenty feet is considered narrow. After all, we need to transport too many supplies, and there are many carriages coming and going. "

Well, it seems that cement roads were built in the same way in later generations, he just didn't realize it for a while.

Hearing this, Taichang nodded slightly and said, "Okay, let's start construction tomorrow. We will try to build the China-Africa passage within three months."

(End of this chapter)