This is a car that doesn’t look like a train, but it also runs on coal.
The subordinates came forward and asked, and found out that it was borrowed from someone else from the coking coal factory on their own territory.
The chief manager trembled and almost made a move to snatch it away. Fortunately, his senses did not fly away. He thought of the information he had received a long time ago. Red Rock City was defeated by the Phoenix King just because of some trivial incident.
They only borrowed this thing for one thing: to transport coking coal from the coking coal factory to the train station to see if it works. Feedback on its use can be exchanged for subsequent mass production purchase discounts.
Relying on his status as the general manager, he asked the guy from the coking coal plant to demonstrate how to start it, and soon left with a smile on his face.
As a smart man, it’s not like the chief executive has never thought about trains, but the threshold for this thing is really high and much more difficult than building rails, so he left it alone.
The steam car in front of me looks like a simplified road version of a small train, with the cylinder pipes and other things hidden behind a cover.
If you can’t build a train, can’t you build a car?
Even if we can't make them so well, we can always make some inlaid with gold and silver and sell them to local and foreign gentlemen to hang out in the city.
Before the caravan from the coking coal plant set off, he sent his subordinates to take the craftsmen to visit, and then returned to the Lord's Mansion to play board games with Lord Dok.
The craftsman came to see him on the fourth day.
"General Manager, this car... is difficult to make."
"Aren't there several boiling water buckets connected together?"
The craftsman explained with a grimace: "Back to the chief manager, I went back and made a similar-looking one myself. It provides very little power."
The chief manager curled his lips and said, "Show me."
He took his men and the craftsman to the blacksmith shop and saw what he had made. It was just iron sheets that were rolled and hammered together to make something similar to the car.
The pressure this thing provides after boiling water can only move back and forth with a ten kilogram weight, and it can't be pushed if it is larger.
After watching for a while, the chief steward pointed to a place where gas was coming out next to the cylinder and asked, "Can we block this place?"
The craftsman quickly shook his hands from side to side: "No, it will explode."
Blackwater City now also has boilers, and some people even bought steam forging machines from the Phoenix Kingdom, so the craftsmen know that the pressure relief areas cannot be touched.
"Then why can theirs make such a big car run?"
"Go back to the General Manager, because their cylinders are made very thick and the materials they use are different."
"Why can't you be thick?"
"Please make atonement, Grand Master."
Estelle is not stupid, and of course he knows the reason, but now he wants to imitate steam cars in order to consume the iron that cannot be sold in the city. It makes no sense if he has to import it from the north.
After thinking about it, he asked his subordinates to take the craftsmen to a workshop with a steam forging machine to find a solution.
The steam forging machine that Blackwater can buy seems to have been made by someone else a few years ago. The forging hammer has only a few tons of power, but at least it is stronger than human power. This kind of forging machine can already use the carburizing method to beat iron ingots relatively quickly. It has been turned into a steel plate. As for how to make the steel plate into a steam engine, it is up to the craftsmen to figure out a way.
For a while, the general manager was busy mobilizing various craftsmen and workshops to help.
Suddenly one day a subordinate came to report: "They are going to build the railway from Heishui to Pangxun."
The chief executive was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, then dismissed his subordinates and continued reading the book in his hand.
I stared at the book for a while, but didn't read a single word. I couldn't calm down anymore, so I simply put down the book and walked to the window to look into the distance.
At the Lord's Mansion, you can only see a corner of the railway through the gaps in the buildings in the city. Today's weather is bad and it's so gray that you can't see clearly.
The railway section from Heishui to Pangxun is also the road that the General Manager had previously considered building. This road is more than 100 kilometers long. If the mountains are not dug, it will pass through two cities with a population of about 40,000, close to Heishui. The population of Falaisi City should not be that large recently.
There is a flow of population in Blackwater City to the Phoenix King's territory, and the General Manager does not dare to cause trouble to the Phoenix King. However, Blackwater itself, with the help of the railway, has significantly improved its average living standard compared to the surrounding areas, so it can easily absorb the population from the surrounding areas. , to maintain its own population from declining and even increasing on average every year.
However, in addition to basic rail and labor input, self-built railways also have many things to worry about, such as bandits and operational regulations. Moreover, it is difficult to achieve profitability without trains. If the price increases, it may arouse the hostility of the Piercing Lord of Pangxun City.
Lord Dok can be more imposing in front of other lords, but in the surrounding areas he only dares not touch Lord Impaler, because Lord Dok was dismembered by that woman.
Now that the Phoenix King has decided to extend the railway, the general manager no longer needs to worry about these issues, he can just focus on making money.
But is it really possible to make money safely?
If you think about it carefully, in fact, Blackwater City does not belong to the Phoenix King except in name. There is no need to pay taxes there. Every aspect of the city has been controlled.
The main currency in circulation in Blackwater City today is Phoenix coins. In addition, due to the selective cooperation of merchants in the Phoenix King's territory, the proportion of slaves in Blackwater City has dropped significantly, and even the proportion of slaves in the coal mines is less than 20%.
In terms of production, some of the newer workshop products in Blackwater City use steel parts from the Phoenix Kingdom. What's more, the yellow steel bullets used in the lord's military crossbows were purchased from Wind Valley, and they actually required special approval from the Wind Valley municipal government to purchase them!
There is also language. Many people who make a living at the station can speak a few words of Qin dialect. The smarter ones can even work full-time at the station.
It had been brewing for several years, and once the Phoenix King's army came over, the chief manager didn't dare to think about what would happen.
There is no need to fight, as long as the trade of goods is stopped, Blackwater City will collapse on its own before too long.
There is no right or wrong in many things in the world, and no solution can be found. The general manager has long accepted the reality, but now he is a little disappointed when he hears that the railway from Heishui to Pangxun is being built.
The extension of the railway without taking Blackwater into the territory means that the territory and the city are not that important in the eyes of the Phoenix King, and the bargaining room for Blackwater City is reduced.
"Forget it, let's just build cars. Only by living a good life can we really do that."
I continued to promote the car-building project and spent more than two months, but finally saw the results.
It can't be compared with the car borrowed from the coking coal plant. The car builder found out that the car from the coking coal plant has 80 horsepower. They made a car of about the same size. Calculated based on the capacity and speed, it has about less than 20 horsepower. Give it to the master. The cars we drive have smaller horsepower.
However, even if it has twenty horsepower, it is still much more powerful than an animal if it has enough torque. Its plowing capacity is equivalent to three two-headed oxen. Ordinary oxen need about four or five to be as efficient.
Small cars relatively sacrifice torque, and using smaller horsepower to provide better speed requires sacrificing traction. The local craftsmen don't know the concept of traction. Anyway, don't think about transporting goods. Just bring more hatchback luggage, and you can't go out of the city, otherwise the car will be stuck after two pits.
The wheels do not use the coking coal factory method of laminating cork and adding a resin layer.
The high-torque trucks used to plow fields directly use steel wheels, so there is no need to worry about crushing things in the fields; the old man's trucks use wooden wheels inlaid with iron.
By the way, there is another innovation. In order to be in line with the identity of the gentleman and at the same time reduce the burden on the car body, the car was changed from burning coal to fuel, that is, burning oil directly to boil water. As for buying it back, it will burn the oil in Quanquan City. Or just burn the fish oil, then no one will care, and the results will be the same.
In order to make the gentlemen willing to buy it, the car also uses bullets imported from Fenggu. The destination of each bullet must be recorded, otherwise the supply will be stopped. It is very disgusting, but there is no way.
There was no need to advertise the car when it was made. The general manager took the car and drove around the city. The entrance to the Blackwater Iron Works was blocked by the housekeepers of various masters.
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