Release that Witch

"Half-year time... I have repaired this track to the depths of the wild?" After listening to Roland’s plan, Barov, who has seen many "miracles", still dared to widen his eyes. It’s just a matter of more than half a year to build a normal road connecting the borders and long songs. Now the distance is at least five times that of Wang Guo Avenue. Are you sure Mr. Carl can do it?”

The scene also sounded a whisper, and Wang Guo Avenue was the first super-large project initiated by Roland after taking over the long song fortress. It used 2,000 workers and was regarded as unnecessary in many people's eyes. The new road has to go further, and with the limitation of the construction period, it is difficult to satisfy even if all the workers in the winter city are not invested.

Construction Minister Carl Vabert himself did not speak a word, as if thinking about the feasibility of the plan.

Roland knows what these officials are thinking about. After all, there are still many urban construction projects. It is impossible to put all the resources on the railway. But in fact, it is more than the cement gravel road that needs to be graded and repeatedly crushed. The laying of the roadbed meteorites is much more convenient.

As for the seemingly complicated rail installation, it is the quickest part.

He witnessed Anna's black fire soldering demonstration, a component like a track that connected two breakpoints at a time, averaging less than ten seconds. Compared with the traditional bolt or hot-melt connection, not only the quality is better, but also a lot of manpower and materials are saved. In addition to the lack of the feeling of the old train, the sound can be described as perfect.

In fact, the experimental track in front of everyone is a quasi-seamless rail. In addition to the joints left against the steel's own temperature stress, the entire top surface forms a smooth straight line, and the wheel barely feels tremor when it rolls over it.

At that time, Anna only took half a day to complete the process.

This is why Roland is confident that the construction period will be so short.

In other words, the workers spend ten days laying out the road base. The leaves may take five days to place the sleepers and rails. Anna can weld all the days in one day. If you don't deliberately accumulate the quantity, that is, take the wheat in the morning and go back to the castle to eat lunch at noon.

It’s just that he didn’t elaborate on this. After all, not everyone knows the witch’s ability, and the other half is only a rough estimate. When he first arrived in the Winter City, he went straight to the wolf woman and the meeting. They couldn’t find Tilly to ask the witches who came to sleep in the island. If there is a suitable ability, the railway progress may be faster.

Seeing Roland did not say much, the officials turned their eyes back to the train.

The train itself is undoubtedly much more antique than the modern railway. A complete front is divided into two sections. The first half consists mainly of the fourth-generation steam engine and transmission, and the second half is the coal storage vehicle. The cab is in the middle. In addition to controlling the speed and sounding the whistle, it is also the driver's responsibility to add coal to the boiler by manpower.

Although the train is affected by the expedition, it is still in the semi-finished stage, but it is still much more perfect than the other world's first steam locomotive. For example, steam directly works on the crankshaft rather than through the flywheel belt, and on both sides of the wheel, the linkage mechanism without dead ends is used instead of the single-wheel drive by the gear set.

At the time of design, Roland simplifies all kinds of cumbersome functions, almost directly put together several major components together. If it is later, its inadequacies are more like stars - the brakes need to be twisted by human power. The winch and the cab are rigidly connected to the girders. The driver can fully feel the "swaying" of the steam engine, without any electrical equipment, and inform the crew that they need to rely on whistle or scorpion, etc. But here, it is already It is the best solution that can be solved without the existing technology of Winter City.

Just like the original steam engine, first solve the problem, and then improve step by step.

"Your Majesty, this thing... can drag multiple goods?" Chemical Minister Kemer Stoul curiously said, "How about the cement boats in the river?"

"I think it should not be a problem to transport five or six ships at a time," Roland proudly saw the people once again revealing the color of surprise. "But this is just the beginning. As technology advances, it will drag on a hundred cement ships." The goods are not a problem."

"One...one hundred?" Barov swallowed. As the head of the city hall, he could fully understand what this quantity meant.

"So... speed?" Pelos's voice shook a little.

"This is not easy to say, it depends on the actual test results, but it will not be slower than the cement boat."

However, the windless automatic paddle wheel cement ship is already a very fast transportation tool in their eyes. It should be known that the land transportation of this era is mainly based on the carriage or livestock, on the uneven soft road. Efficiency can be imagined. Slightly running faster, vehicles without any suspension system can survive to the broken shaft, so shipping is the main means of delivery of the Grey Fort Kingdom - and in the river, the steamboat without the wind is obviously unable to sail The advantage of comparison.

When the train's carrying capacity is only stronger, and the speed is not lost, a group of people have completely lost their silence.

Roland couldn't help but smile. If it was two years ago, he would only be used as a madman by others. Looking at these officials’ subconsciously wanting to deny, but with the look of what should be done, he couldn’t help but feel quite comforted – even though those descriptions were based on the fact that the ship’s technology was in place, Now that the war is coming, it is not bad to strengthen the confidence of everyone.

Moreover, he is not without aim.

This is only the first generation of industrial products under the source of power.

After the second generation of source power, that is, after the advent of the internal combustion engine, the epoch-making means of transportation will become the king of land transportation.

"Your Majesty, can you show us something?" After a while, the boss always opened the door.

"For the time being, it is currently missing a few key parts and it has not really been completed. It will take about a week to wait until everything is debugged." Roland shook his head.

“The plan you handed over to the Ministry of Construction before the expedition was to use the track to connect the mine to the dock, right?” Barov asked again.

"What's wrong?" He noticed that the other party seemed to have something to say.

"If it is as you said, it will definitely have a positive impact on the war propaganda of the city hall," Barov said in his mind. "Can you let your collar on the day the train runs?" Did the people watch this incredible scene with their own eyes?"

Roland immediately understood the intention of the general manager. It seems that in the past few years, the boss has also realized the importance of guiding the people.

"Just do what you said." He raised his mouth.