The weather was very cold, but it could not stop the enthusiasm of the people, and the cement sleepers were carried to the ballast by the workers shouting the trumpet, and then, more than 20 people would carry the rails over, put them on the sleepers, and then start calibrating and fixing.

"In just a few months, more than half of the project has been completed, and this speed is really unbelievable." The uncle who was wearing a robe shook his head and said with emotion

"The main reason is that we are not short of labor, and the other reason is that this railway happens to rely on the cement straight road. The material is extremely easy to transport. In addition, the material work in the early stage should be well prepared, otherwise, it is difficult to make such achievements in such a short time. The samurai said excitedly and proudly as he pointed to the more than 1,000 workers who were busy.

"It's a pity that there is less than one-fifth of the current engineering materials left, and at most it can support more than 100 miles, and the rest can only be cast after the spring thaws."

The main thing is cement sleepers, which are poured, and when the cement is poured, if the weather is below zero, then the things made will collapse like sand. Therefore, the sub-zero temperature is not enough, and we can only continue to make cement sleepers after the spring of the next year.

"When will it be completed next year?" I nodded, grabbed the reins of my horse, rolled over and jumped off my horse, and walked to a railroad track that had been attached, and stepped on it, so immovable and sturdy that I could see that it stretched far to the end of the horizon.

There, is the direction to Yan'an, this more than 1,000 miles of journey, before the establishment of the Chinese Empire, or before the construction of cement straights, the common people to go out from Chang'an to Yan'an County, at least it took ten days of effort.

Nowadays, it only takes two or three days to ride a stagecoach, but in the future, half a day's work can be reached, and such a speed is really beyond everyone's imagination. The important thing is the effect of a lot of repetitive propaganda, and many people are asking what the train is really like, is it really a steel monster who only drinks water and eats coal?

Not only can you move while eating those things, but you can also pull thousands of people to run on such rails, which is just like the wooden ox and flowing horse invented by the prime minister Zhuge in the Three Kingdoms period, and no one can even prove what it looks like.

Although I think it's bragging, the problem is that the rails have already begun to be laid, and some time ago, Ben Gongzi ordered that the No. 2 and No. 3 locomotives used for the test be placed in the train game park located in the southwest of Chang'an City.

Well, that is, for those ordinary people to see the fresh, but also to ride, of course, no one is allowed to come within two feet of the locomotive, after the end of the daily display, these old-fashioned experimental steam locomotives will be locked back in the warehouse.

I'm pretty sure that none of the surrounding vassal states had the technology or ability to make such a high-tech machine for this era, but safety came first. Being able to delay the development of those guys by one day will give the Huaxia Empire an advantage of one more day.

"Back to Your Majesty, it will be completed in the middle of next summer, but the stations in various places are still under construction, and it will not be until mid-autumn that all the stations can be opened." The samurai thought for a moment and gave the answer.

"Well, it just so happens that the new test locomotive will not be completed until the beginning of spring next year, and after nearly half a year of testing, I think there should be no problem, just for trial operation." I nodded in satisfaction.

"By the way, there are a few stations in total." Wei Yunqi next to him asked curiously.

"The land of Jingzhao is along the railway line of Jingyang, Sanyuan, Huayuan, Yijun four counties, Shangjun has Nei, Sanchuan, Shangluo, and then to Yan'an County. It can be regarded as a straight-line distance, and in the end, a total of nine stations were set up in Chang'an. The samurai laughed.

"At that time, each station will stop for five square clocks and wait for people to go up and down, and the nine stations together will be three quarters of an hour's work, and each station will have a separate parking lane. So it won't affect the smooth flow of the railway, but their speed won't exceed eighty miles per hour......"

The samurai's explanations gave more people a glimpse into how the train would operate in the future. "After the end of the trial operation, it will be increased to the limit speed of the test vehicle No. 5."

"Extreme speed?" A court boss didn't understand what the limit speed was.

"That is, the speed of the original design of the test vehicle No. 5 is one hundred and sixty miles, which is twice that of the test vehicle No. 4." I glanced at the group of scientific illiterates. "However, its normal speed will be about one hundred and forty miles."

"One hundred and forty miles, one hour is two hundred and eighty miles, that is, more than two hours, and less than two and a half can reach Yan'an County. Oh my God, this, so soon, aren't you afraid of being blown away by the wind? Luo Shixin said in a fuss.

", we'll all be sitting in a carriage with windows when the time comes, where can the wind blow?" Li Xuanba gestured his middle finger at Luo Shixin with disdain, and said with disdain.

"So, in one day, you can travel nearly 3,300 miles?" Once again, my uncle was deeply shocked. "From Chang'an to Jiaozhi, that is, less than a day?"

"Of course not, the estimated length of the railway from Chang'an to Jiaozhi is about 3,800 to 4,000 li. Moreover, it is necessary to stop at the station to add water and coal, and test the No. 5 car, which can travel more than 500 miles before adding fuel and water once. However, for the sake of safety, there will be a stop between 350 and 400 miles, and it will take about two quarters of an hour to add up to the water each time, so it should take a day and six hours in total. The samurai quickly explained.

"That's much better than a horse-drawn carriage walking for half a month." Uncle is still blindly excited, there is no way, it seems that he loves and hates Jiaozhi, and what he loves is that he has been there for several years, and he has feelings after all.

And hate, naturally, hate, Jiaozhi is a long distance, and the hardships of the long journey are really inhumane to outsiders. After my uncle was demoted, when he first arrived in Cochin, he wrote to me that he had been gone for three and a half months.

Three and a half months, and it's fast, according to my uncle, he still rides a horse every day for nearly 100 miles, just like this, around the mountains and rivers to the intersection

And without a horse, then, with just two legs, it is absolutely impossible to go from Chang'an to Jiaozhi in less than half a year. Because the road conditions in this era were so bad, sometimes they came across a river, so they had to go around from this side of the river to the place where there was a ferry, and then they could wait for the boatmen to cross them.

Well, this is not bad, in case you encounter bandits and bandits, then it is not impossible to explain this journey in this life. This is the reason why the ancients of this era were rarely willing to leave their homeland.

"By the way, I heard that the railway station in Chang'an is to be located in the east outside Chang'an City, so why do you have to set it up outside the city?" Han Shige asked the samurai in confusion.

"Where can it be located outside the city if it is not located?" The samurai said with a stunned expression. "If the train is set up in the city, will it not be a hole in the wall? Besides, it is strange that the movement of the train is so big that it is tinkering in the city and not being scolded by the people. The first time we saw this thing, we all made a fuss, and if it was ordinary people, I was afraid it would be even more unbearable......"

"Yes, what Qing said is also quite reasonable, and there is another important reason is that it is located in the northeast of Chang'an City, which is close to the river, and if it is goods, it can be transported directly by water after getting off the train." That's when I explained. "And in the future, Chang'an City will definitely become a hub for trains to rely on exchanges, covering an extremely wide area, and it is really not suitable to set it up in the city."

After the success of the 70-ton open-hearth furnace at the smelter in Chang'an, the construction of Jiaozhi has also begun, and there are four giant open-hearth furnaces, two 70-ton and two 100-ton open-hearths. On the Chang'an side, as well as the Bashu region, all the old smelting furnaces with high energy consumption and heavy pollution were destroyed.

In the future, Chang'an, or the Guanzhong region, will only be left with a large smelter with a daily output of 2,000 tons. All the original steel plants will be bulldozed to centralize the factories and workers for easier management.

In addition, a super-large smelter with an expected daily output of 5,000 tons will be built in the Jiaozhi area and in the Ma'anshan area of Bashu in five years. Move the pollution out to reduce the pollution of the Guanzhong Plain, well, this son does not want to live in a hazy environment.

In addition, a steel smelter with a daily production capacity of at least 2,000 to 3,000 tons will be built on Luzon. In this way, in five years, the daily output of steel in the Chinese Empire will be able to reach more than 14,000 tons per day, and the annual output will be about 6 million tons. Obediently, I remember that during the first industrial revolution, the annual steel production of the British barbarians seemed to be more than 70,000 tons.

Today, the steel output of the Chinese Empire has already exceeded 100,000 tons. Therefore, with the wide promotion and application of giant open-hearth furnaces in the future, it is natural that the annual output of millions of tons of steel will not be a dream.

Well, this proves the benefits of China's vast land and abundant resources from another level. The rapid production of steel is necessary to meet today's demand for steel. In the case of railroad tracks, according to the results of research.

With a weight of 60 kilograms per meter of rail, its durability and load-bearing capacity are optimal. Of course, the heavier the better, but the problem is that it consumes too much steel.

For example, just to build a railway track from Chang'an to Yan'an, 60 kilograms per meter, and from Chang'an to Yan'an is 650 miles long. Then a single line of rails would require 39,000 tons, and if you want to return to the line, then you have to multiply this number by two.

In other words, 156,000 tons of steel are needed to lay a double line on this road. Originally, I thought about going straight to the double line, but I was taken aback by this terrible consumption, so I had to lay a single line for the time being.