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Chapter 108 Tap Water and Tractors (Please Subscribe!!!)

The pass city of Shanhaiguan is not big.

The circumference of the square is only seven or eight kilometers.

On the contrary, the city wall is very tall, 14 meters high and 7 meters thick, far more majestic than the city walls of inland cities.

There are four city gates on the east, west, north, south, and north sides of Guancheng.

What is particularly interesting is that the northeast corner of Guancheng is on the main line of the Great Wall, that is to say, a short section of the Great Wall directly passes through Guancheng.

Guancheng in the northeast has been completely exposed outside the Great Wall. It can be regarded as a corner derived from the Great Wall. It can be a horn with the main line of the Great Wall, which is convenient for defense.

The railway station was built outside the south city gate on the south side, which is close to the inland side, for the convenience of reinforcements.

After leaving the train station, Peng Ke followed Fu Chang with five or six soldiers and entered the city through the south gate.

For this important inner city, Peng Ke's eyes are full of curiosity!
After entering through the seven or eight meter long city gate, the first thing that caught his eyes were the two corner towers located at the corners of the city wall.

On the corner platform, there are turrets respectively.

In the turret, there are all cannons with a caliber of at least five inches!
After a rough count, plus the cannons on the south gate, there are at least 24 giant cannons on this side of the city wall alone!

Well, it fully demonstrated Daming's martial arts.

However, Peng Ke, who was used to seeing cannons, didn't intend to stop any longer, but followed Fu Chang to continue walking into the city.

compared to these armaments.

In fact, Peng Ke is more curious about the people's livelihood in the border town.

Because it is necessary to guarantee all the logistics work of the frontline soldiers.

Therefore, Biancheng was the first to popularize steam technology.

Many steam equipment newly developed by the Mo Academy were first tested in the border town.

The military first policy has always been the goal of Emperor Hongwu's administration.

Compared with the Ming that Peng Ke was familiar with in his previous life, the Ming of this world is more martial.

It may be because of the reason of letting a hundred schools of thought go.

It may also be because the Northern Man caused more damage to China than the Yuan Dynasty in the previous life, which made the Central Plains Dynasty very obsessed with completely eradicating the Northern Man.

So although steam technology has been around for more than [-] years.

But except for the railway, which is a useful weapon for war scheduling, after more than 20 years of construction, it has basically been opened to traffic in the inland.

For other steam technologies, the investment in people's livelihood is not fast, and most of them are researching technologies that are beneficial to the military.

In recent years, however, things have begun to change. Some steam equipment related to people's livelihood, such as rotary tillers and tractors, have gradually become popular.

However, compared with the border towns, the influence of steam technology in the inland areas cannot be compared at all.

Especially in border towns with garrisons, steam technology has been in-depth application for almost ten years!
As soon as Penke entered the city, he saw a machine that used a steam engine to continuously pump water up from the ground.

"Fu Baihu, what is that?"

Fu Chang followed Peng Ke's eyes and smiled sassyly: "General, this is the water supply device in the city."

"Using the steam engine as power, water can be pumped out of the ground continuously for twelve hours a day."

"Originally, this machine was designed by the Mo Academy for fire prevention. Once the northern barbarians attack the city, it can quickly extinguish the fire."

"However, it gradually became the source of water supply for the people in the city."

"There is one such water pumping point in each of the four city gates in the east, west, north, and south, and the pumped water can be transported to each household through pipelines."

"In this way, the common people can also avoid having to fetch water from the well every day, making life much easier and more convenient."

Isn't this the tap water project?

It was only then that Penke noticed that there were many integrated and intertwined pipelines in the city, and these pipelines should constitute the tap water system all over the city.

However, this scene reminded Penke of an empire that flourished more than 1000 years ago.

"Isn't this water pipe made of lead?" He asked with some surprise.

Fu Chang was a little puzzled, not knowing why Pen Ke thought of lead, but he still dutifully said:
"Originally, Moyuan planned to use copper to make it, but after trying it out, they found that the cost was too expensive, so they gave up the idea."

"Now the water pipes in the city are all made of steel."

"Although pipes made of steel are prone to rust and need to be replaced every two or three years, but now Daming has no shortage of iron ore, and the production of steel is also very high, so Guancheng can afford it."

Penke nodded reassuringly.

Although the water pipes made of steel may cause the iron element in the water to exceed the standard, it is unlikely to cause any special harm to the human body.

I still remember that when he was a child in his previous life, the faucets and water supply pipes in his home were all made of iron, and they had been used for many years, and they were already rusted.

But he grew up drinking it, and there was nothing wrong with it.

It's better than Rome, which used lead to make water and drainage systems, and finally led to low fertility
It's a pity that there is no PVC or PP-R material these days, otherwise it would be really clean and hygienic to use it as a water supply pipe.

However, this tap water system that uses a steam engine to supply water can only arouse a little curiosity of Penke.

The tap water supply system, this thing actually has no technical content.

The Romans in 200 AD could do it, and even transport fresh water hundreds of kilometers away to cities.

Huaxia has never appeared before, mainly because of the different life behavior patterns.

The brains of Huaxia people are no worse than anyone else's, but sometimes they don't need it, so they don't study it.

In Guancheng, a small city with a dense population and most of them live in the city, it is very normal to have a complicated water supply and drainage system.

Where there is demand, there will be development.

Not too surprised, Peng Ke just nodded in understanding and continued to go deeper into the city.

But just after taking two steps, a piercing "beep" sound and the sound of mechanical reciprocating collisions attracted him.

Look along the place where the sound came from.

The front of a car is emitting black smoke. Its shape is like a small locomotive that has been reduced in proportion. The body is made of all-metal materials. The chassis is equipped with two large, two small, and four iron wheels. Toot on the road.

On the front of the car, sat a young man, holding the steering wheel with one hand, and skillfully operating the connecting rod and rocker with the other, controlling the stability and direction of the car.

And behind the front of the car, there is a carriage hanging, which pulls bags of grain.

"What is this?" Penke asked in surprise.

"Commander, this is a local tractor in Guancheng. As the name suggests, it can haul goods, and it can also pull a plow to plow the land!"

"If you install a thresher, you can also thresh wheat!"

"This tractor is a kind of agricultural equipment produced by the Mo Academy with reference to the reduction and improvement of the locomotive."

"Not only does it look similar to a locomotive in appearance, but its internal structure is also the same as that of a locomotive. It is composed of a boiler, a steam engine, a frame, running parts, and a tender."

"The way of use is also the same as that of a locomotive. You can perform any work with any device attached to the back."

"Plowing land, threshing, pulling goods, and even carrying people are all possible!"

　Adapted from a real steam tractor.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)