Chapter 241: Asking for support on the wooden track)
Late at night, Master Zhao, who was driving the carriage, personally added horse materials to the horses in the horse shed, and then inspected the horses again. These horses were all high-quality horses bought from outside. After driving the carriage for half his life, he certainly knew that the good horses needed to be fed well.
Essential materials and hanging salt must not be missing every day, and even ordinary forages cannot be shortened.
"Master, what are you doing? Just let me come here if you feed the horses."
When the apprentice saw it, he hurried over to get the basket and said.
"Tomorrow is the big day for the boss, so you must not lose money."
In this way, the master and the apprentice worked hard for a while, and then, the two of them snatched in the horse shed for a while, and waited until the day was about to set off, and then they rushed towards the station.
The station is in the mine. On the wooden tracks, eight trucks are parked side by side. The truck wheels are made of iron low wheels, and the convertible flatbed trucks are only 70 cm tall from the ground. Because the body is low, loading and unloading goods is extremely convenient.
"Hurry up, load it quickly. A car has 15,000 kilograms, not too much, not too much, ten thousand kilograms..."
On the platform, coal loaders kept pushing trucks of coal onto the flatbed trucks, and they were still muttering there while loading coal.
"Ten thousand kilograms, there are four cars, and a total of sixty thousand kilograms can be used to move them by these twelve horses?"
In fact, the workers complaining there didn't know that according to the original design, each truck could have a full load of 8 tons. Each train was connected to eight sections and was pulled with 12 horses, which could have a load of 64 tons at a time. Now, because of the wooden rails, the truck was reduced by half. In fact, this is also for stability, otherwise, it would be fine to pull one or two more cars.
"Can you pull it? You'll know if you try it?"
Master Zhao shouted casually, his tone seemed a little uncomfortable.
It’s no wonder. After all, not to mention others, he himself doesn’t really believe that twelve horses on the fast road can pull 60,000 kilograms of things.
No one could believe that even Zhang Weiliang, who had witnessed twelve horses on the road to the Zengtie Factory, was a little worried.
"Zhiyuan, can this really be swayed?"
"Didn't you see it?"
"That's different. That's only one mile, but there are hundreds of miles of roads."
"So what? Stop the people and horses and horses and not stop the car."
Shi Yiwen said casually, looking at the "coal transport fast road" in front of him, his mood was complicated. On the one hand, he was proud of building this road in such a short time, but on the other hand, he was a little depressed. After all, his original plan was a railway.
Railway... This is his ultimate goal. He even imagined that he would take one or several trucks from the space and then change the trucks into "locomotives", just like the small local railways in the past, and then the Ming Dynasty's railways achieved "modernization". By then, everything, everything will change. Of course, perhaps it is more likely to be made by that time.
Railways - will change the Ming Dynasty, change the world, and change history.
But...now, the railway has become a wooden railroad. Why does this kind of compromise occur? It is not because of the conservative forces, but because... because of the six ministries and those censors!
Thinking of this, Shi Yiwen felt a little depressed, and even under the pressure of those censors, construction has been accelerated recently.
"As sooner or later, I will clean up those dog things!"
Shi Yiwen thought in his heart, and looking at the four loading cars, another thought emerged in his mind.
"Tell the station to hang up four more cars!"
Shi Yiwen's words shocked Zhang Weiliang and said quickly.
"Hold four more cars, Zhi, Zhiyuan, what's wrong with you? These are eight cars!"
Zhang Weiliang's nervousness made Shi Yiwen laugh and said.
"So what? It's just eight cars. It's just 120,000 pounds..."
When a light "just" was spoken from Shi Yiwen's mouth, everyone else looked at him in surprise, not understanding why he was so "adventurous".
"Ten hundred and twenty thousand kilograms, what if I can't pull it anymore, and then I stop halfway? That's embarrassing and losing it!"
"fine!"
Shi Yiwen said with a smile.
"Didn't we try it in the factory? Twelve horses can pull 120,000 kilograms of goods, but it's just a matter of distance and speed. We can walk slowly, then change the horses a few more times, and stop the horses without stopping the car. Now, what do we need?"
Looking at Zhang Weiliang beside him, Shi Yiwen smiled.
"What we need now is a sensation!"
"sensation?"
Zhang Weiliang looked at Shi Yiwen in confusion.
"If we want to make a sensation, we might as well build the railway directly. Why build wooden rails? Isn't it because, because, don't you want to attract attention?"
Zhang Weiliang's objection made Shi Yiwen smile slightly, and then he said.
"Don't want to attract attention? This idea was indeed the case at that time. Because the road is under construction, we need to reduce external attention and reduce resistance. But now it is different. Since the road has been built, we can pass the market openly. After all, some things cannot be hidden and do not need to be hidden. Not only do we need to hide them, but we can also see the fast road and ability! In this way, we can pull other goods besides coal, don't you think?"
Now, to a certain extent, Shi Yiwen seems to understand why the high-speed rail development in another time and space must be continuously improved in the early stages of the development of high-speed rail, from more than 200 to more than 300. This speedup is to prove its high-speed to the world and prove its advantage in speed. By speeding up again and again, it creates news and creates sensational effects. This is a marketing method. For this "fast road", such "marketing methods" are also needed. Some means are needed to let the world understand it and ultimately desire it.
"The greater the sensation we create today, the easier it is for people to be attracted to it, and the easier it is for the world to accept it. Today they can accept 120,000 kilograms of wooden rails, and in the future they can accept railways and adapt to all future changes..."
Facing Shi Yiwen's explanation, Zhang Weiliang was silent for a moment, then he looked at the big cart on the track, thought for a while, and then said.
Chapter completed!