Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 820 "Big Railway" Plan (Please Subscribe!)

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After more than a year and nearly two years of research and development, the latest train developed by Dazhong can use a three-cylinder steam engine to pull ten carriages. The speed has reached 28 kilometers per hour when empty, and [-] kilometers per hour when fully loaded. Eleven kilometers per hour.

But even so, this latest generation of trains still has a big disadvantage, that is, facilities for adding coal and water must be installed along the railway, and it takes a lot of time to add coal and water to the locomotive on the way.

Later, under Li Yan's suggestion, the researchers switched to using three to four locomotives as the power of a train—one to two in the front and one to two in the back. Save the trouble of turning around, you can also pull and push, increase the power, so that it can carry more carriages, and then use the more carriages to load coal and water, so that the train can run faster. Also run a little longer.In addition, this design has another advantage, that is, even if there is a problem with any locomotive, it will not delay the use of the train.

On this basis, set up some supply points along the road.

This allowed the large and medium trains to be barely put into use.

Compared with the immaturity of trains, because of the guidance of Li Yan, a professional who understands steelmaking, Dazhong's railway tracks are still very advanced, even if compared with later generations of railway tracks, they are not too far behind.

Therefore, seeing that the train was barely ready for use, Li Yan immediately ordered: Repair the railway!

According to Li Yan's original intention, it was to build a railway directly from Bianliang City in Tokyo to Yanjing first.

however--

As soon as Li Yan came up with this idea, he was immediately opposed by countless people.

Someone said: "The train is a wonderful skill, how can you get caught up in it?"

Some people say: "Building the railway will lose my danger, harm my farmland, and hinder my Feng Shui. I must not build it!"

Others said: "The construction of railways is a waste of money and waste of national power. It is no different from the construction of the Grand Canal by Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. It may bring disaster to Dazhong!"

and many more……

In short, many people stubbornly prevented Li Yan from building the railway.

Li Yan didn't bother to take a look at these people, and regretted that the rectification movement ended too early!

But then again, there are some objective and realistic factors that even Li Yan has to consider.

For example, the production and transportation of railroad tracks.

Although Li Yan started to reform iron mines a long time ago, and "fiddled" with extremely advanced steel-making technology, he even ordered people to explore new iron mines.

But so far, Dazhong mainly relies on the six major iron mines of Liaodong Iron Mine (Anshan Iron Mine), Xingzhou Iron Mine, Cizhou Iron Mine, Xuzhou Iron Mine, Yanzhou Iron Mine, and Weisheng Iron Mine to produce steel—— The total output of these six major iron mines accounts for more than 90.00% of the country's five.

Let me explain here, not to say that the steel produced by these iron mines is not enough for laying railway tracks, but that the transportation at this stage is really too strenuous.

Therefore, when laying railroad tracks now, the location of iron mines must be taken into account-this can save a lot of time and cost.

In this way, Li Yan's original idea was to directly build a railway from Bianliang City, Tokyo to Yanjing. From the present point of view, it is somewhat uneconomical-at the initial stage, the transportation of rails and sleepers is very difficult. Difficulties, if you forcefully repair it like this, you will have to pay a lot of money, which is really not worth the loss. After the railway is laid out to a certain scale and new iron ore is found, this problem can be solved easily.

Therefore, Li Yan could only give in temporarily—from Xingzhou Xiu to Cizhou temporarily.

The reason why I chose to do this first.

First of all, there are iron mines in both places, which is convenient for starting.

Secondly, this section of road is an important traffic route, and it will definitely be a section of the main road in the future.

Again, the terrain here is flat and easy to repair.

At the same time, Li Yan ordered people to increase efforts to explore new iron ore in Sichuan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Hubei and other iron-producing areas in China.

As for the distribution of iron mines in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the central and southern regions, Li Yan is not very clear, and can only let the local governments explore bit by bit.

In short, Li Yan asked people to search for iron ore across the country, and then built a steel mill where the iron ore was located to produce iron rolling, in preparation for the next step of laying railways across the country.

This is undoubtedly a big chess game. I don’t know how many years and how much money it will take to complete it. It is even possible that after Li Yan’s death, the “nine vertical and nine horizontal” railway network and the farther “Belt and Road” that Li Yan wants to see Dreams may not come true.

Even so, Li Yan withstood all the pressure and forced the matter forward with an iron fist.

In order to better implement his own ideas, Li Yan ordered the establishment of a Ministry of Railways, which he personally took charge of, and appointed a very capable Hu Shijiang as the Minister. Also, in order to ensure that the Ministry of Railways had enough money to In order to build the railway, the Ministry of Railways not only does not need money from the court but also makes money for the court. Li Yan transferred Zhang Que, who is very good at making money and managing money, to the Ministry of Railways as a servant.

While overhauling the railway, Li Yan did not forget the research and development of the train.

In view of the small prospect of steam locomotives, which would be eliminated by more advanced technologies sooner or later, Li Yan formally proposed the concepts of "internal combustion locomotive" and "electric locomotive".

The advantages of diesel locomotives are that they start quickly, have high horsepower, and have high thermal efficiency.The disadvantage is that the structure is complex, the cost of manufacturing and maintenance is high, and the pollution caused is large.

The advantages of electric locomotives are that the thermal efficiency is twice as high as that of steam locomotives, the power is large, the overload capacity is strong, the traction force is large, the speed is fast, the maintenance operation time is short, the maintenance amount is small, the operating cost is low, it is convenient to realize multi-machine traction, and regenerative braking can be used And save energy, and will not cause air pollution, low noise.

From Li Yan's subjective wishes, of course Li Yan hopes to develop electric locomotives.

But this electric locomotive has higher requirements for technology, especially under the premise that "electricity" has not been widely discovered and used.

In addition, although the diesel locomotive has many disadvantages, its advantages are also obvious, that is, the diesel locomotive can carry fuel and water by itself, as long as the standard track is given, it can run at any time without being affected by other aspects. Unlike electric locomotives, which have very high requirements in all aspects, and have limitations in the field of application, they can only be used as a means of transportation on electrified railways.

The most important thing is that Li Yan does not know in which direction the researchers will make breakthroughs and progress, so it is also good to have one more research direction.

All in all, although it was full of controversy and many difficulties, the "big railway" project named by Li Yan himself was forcibly launched under Li Yan's iron fist.

On the day the Ministry of Railways was established, Li Yan said to Wu Shijiang and Zhang Kui: "I want to move the capital by train, and I hope that the two lovers can fulfill my little wish."

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PS: Kawen, it’s amazing. I wrote this chapter after a whole day of writing. I really can’t write Chapter 2, so I’m done with this chapter today, sorry!
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