Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1570, Building a bridge is actually very simple

"Good, good~"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the hardworking students, and nodded in satisfaction.

His son Zhu Houzhao doesn't like studying, which made him very troubled. He likes children who love learning.

"Seeing them is like seeing the scene of my schooling when I was young. Time flies, and time flies."

Liu Jian couldn't help sighing as he stroked his gray beard.

I am almost [-] years old, thinking about the scene when I was studying when I was young, I suddenly feel that time is passing too fast, too fast.

"Yeah, it's better now. This college is well built, the environment is quite good, and the classrooms are bright. If you don't study hard, you will be sorry for Liu Jin. You spend a lot of money every year."

Li Dongyang also nodded.

As far as Liu Jin is concerned, what he admires the most is that Liu Jin is so generous and willing in education. He never blinks his eyes when building a school. Tens of millions of taels of silver are poured in every year, and a large number of completely free trials are provided. children go to school.

If someone else had such a huge amount of silver, wouldn't it be good to use it for their own enjoyment?

Therefore, he admires Liu Jin very much. He is not greedy for enjoyment. He has a huge wealth, which is basically used to invest in new education.

"I am also very happy that they have achieved something in their studies. This shows that my money is not in vain, and it also shows that I have more talents in Ming Dynasty."

Liu Jin replied with a smile.

Everyone chatted while visiting the campus, and soon came to a small stream, and saw a group of students busy walking around beside the stream, which immediately attracted everyone's attention, and hurried over.

"What are you doing?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the group of students who were mixing cement and making small wooden boards. At the same time, there were a lot of small steel bars piled up beside them. There were also students running back and forth in the creek, constantly calculating what .

"We're simulating building a bridge~"

Liang Feng looked at Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and others, but he didn't recognize that the person in front of him was the current emperor. While he was busy drawing and calculating data on the draft paper, he also ordered his classmates to get up.

"Dig the foundation first. The foundation is the most important weighing part. It needs to be dug deeper and the steel bars should be thicker."

"Simulate building bridges?"

When Emperor Hongzhi and others heard this, they immediately became interested, and they were not in a hurry to find the dean and professor of the school, but quietly watched the group of students constantly messing around here.

I saw that these students first surveyed a good location, excavated on both sides of the creek, and then dug small deep wells, stretched the bundled small steel bars into them, and then continuously poured cement slurry into them , the foundations on both sides are complete.

Next is to build bridge piers, or the same method, dig a small deep well, insert the bundled small steel, and then help small wooden boards outside, pour cement slurry, and bridge piers appear on both sides of the creek one by one. The one stretches towards the middle of the creek.

At the same time, some students on both sides also started to connect and bind the bridge piers with small steel, then trapped small wooden boards, poured cement slurry, and a section of bridge appeared on the creek from the drawings.

"Everyone, take a break, take a rest, and wait for the cement to dry before continuing."

Liang Feng looked at both sides of the creek, carefully measured and compared them, and then gave orders in satisfaction.

"Is this how you build bridges?"

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes widened slightly. At first, he thought that building bridges was a profound knowledge, and it must be extremely difficult, but now it seems that it is not so difficult.

Looking at the piers on both sides of the news and the part of the bridge that has already been built, Emperor Hongzhi seemed to be able to see it. In a few days, a small bridge will cross the creek.

If the creek is regarded as a big river, the small simulated bridge above it is undoubtedly a bridge across the river, and one can imagine its huge and mighty body.

"Yes~"

"Building a bridge is actually very simple. The key points are the supporting points and stress points. As long as there are no problems with the pile foundation, pier body, and beam body, then building a bridge is also very simple."

"Look, this bridge pier is the stress point and bearing point. How high is this bridge pier? Correspondingly, piles should be driven into the ground according to a certain proportion, dug deep, and watered with steel bars and high-strength cement at the same time. The piers made have a strong load-bearing capacity."

"And, because its foundations are deep enough, it is also very earthquake-resistant."

Liang Feng nodded, seeing that Emperor Hongzhi was very interested, and then looking at Emperor Hongzhi and his party, he thought it was a big business company coming to the school to recruit people, so he introduced it to Emperor Hongzhi in detail.

Following his explanation, Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Zhang Mao, Liu Jin, etc. also listened with gusto, and would ask again when they encountered something they didn't understand.

Liang Feng and others were also very enthusiastic in explaining to Emperor Hongzhi and others. Words such as tension, stress, load-bearing capacity, river flow velocity, sand content, geological structure, etc. also kept popping out of their mouths.

So much so that Emperor Hongzhi and others were stunned and stunned when they heard it, and there was so much knowledge in the design of the seemingly simple bridge.

"If we talk about building a bridge over the Yangtze River, do you think it can be realized?"

After listening in detail, Emperor Hongzhi asked after thinking about it.

"Build a bridge on the Yangtze River?"

"It's completely feasible. The Yangtze River is actually a wider river with a larger water flow. In terms of other conditions, there is nothing too difficult."

"The most difficult place to build a bridge is actually the area in the earthquake zone. If you build a bridge in these places, you also need to consider the factor of the earthquake in it, so it is really difficult to build."

"In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the terrain is flat and the water flow is relatively stable. It is completely feasible to build bridges, but the cost of building bridges on the Yangtze River will be very high."

Upon hearing this, Liang Feng said with certainty after thinking about it.

"You mean we are fully capable of building a bridge over the Yangtze River?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Jian quickly asked again.

"Grandpa, we all learned bridge-building techniques. Although we are not as good as the teacher in this area, we are at least professionals in this area, and we still have a say in this area."

"It is not difficult to build a bridge on the Yangtze River. The only difficulty is to raise funds. If you want to build a bridge on the Yangtze River, it will cost at least tens of millions of taels of silver. If you need to increase the height or have special requirements , and the cost will increase exponentially.”

"Now there is not even a bridge over the Yangtze River. I guess if the Yangtze River Bridge is really going to be built, the bridge will definitely be connected to the train at that time. This bridge for both trains and roads, if you calculate it casually, I guess it will It costs tens of millions of taels of silver."

"Such a huge capital requirement is the biggest problem in building the Yangtze River Bridge."

Liang Feng obviously has a level, and after a casual calculation, he concluded that the biggest problem in building the Yangtze River Bridge is not a technical problem, but an economic problem.

The investment it needs is too huge, tens of millions of taels of silver, such a huge investment, except that the imperial court can get it, can only raise funds through the listing on the Tianjin Stock Exchange.

"Are you so sure?"

Li Dongyang asked again after listening.

"Hey, what's the matter, isn't it just building a bridge over the Yangtze River?"

"We have already built a bridge over the Yellow River, so why is it so difficult to build a bridge over the Yangtze River?"

"I don't know how many big rivers there are in this world. My Ming Dynasty has a vast land and many rivers. There are thousands of rivers, big and small. I don't know how many bridges will be built in the future."

"It will be a matter of time before we build a bridge on the Yangtze River. Do you believe that we will be able to build a bridge on the Yangtze River in a few years?"

Liang Feng responded to Li Dongyang with a smile.

They studied building bridges in the college, and they also know very well about the current construction industry in Daming. Daming is now developing infrastructure, such as roads, railways, reservoirs, river lifts, bridges, ports, wharves, etc., all of which belong to the field of infrastructure. It's very hot now, and construction is happening everywhere.

Hearing Liang Feng's words, Li Dongyang and Liu Jian immediately had nothing to say.

Not in my own professional field, it seems that I can't argue with the other party no matter what. Looking at the unfinished little bridge in front of me, I feel that what they said is very reasonable.

For them, the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge seems to be really not too difficult.

"I believe, of course I believe~"

"My Ming Dynasty is thriving, changing with each passing day, and the weather is myriad. In the future, everything is possible."

At this moment, Emperor Hongzhi's confidence increased greatly.

These are just the students in the college. They are so confident in the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge. If you look at the professors and teachers in the college, they will be even more confident.

It seems that there is no big problem technically in building the Yangtze River Bridge.

(End of this chapter)