Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1781, Efficiency of Construction Machinery
On a steep river in Jingjiang, several steam cruise ships are busy and moored in the river, as if they are doing underwater operations.

"This place has a lot of hidden reefs and rocks, and it has always been a very dangerous place. Especially in these places, there are many hidden reefs in the river, and it will be very dangerous if you accidentally drive into it."

Xiong Youdi stood on the deck of the steamship, pointed to a water area not far away that seemed to be calm without any big waves and said.

"Hmm~"

Xia Shi, who was wearing a sixth-rank official uniform, nodded slightly, and then ordered the people around him: "Prepare to install explosives, and blow up all the reefs, rocks, and the like."

"Yes, my lord!"

The officials next to him nodded quickly when they heard this.

Soon, there were shirtless water ghosts and officials in a small boat heading towards the place where Xiong has land. This kind of small boat is very different from traditional small boats.

Because this kind of boat is driven by a diesel engine to drive the propeller, it is a new type of boat designed by Tianjin Shipyard.

Fast speed, flexibility and convenience are its biggest advantages. It does not require people to use paddles to row hard, and only needs to control the propeller at the tail to drive quickly on the water.

After arriving at the predetermined area, several water ghosts tied ropes to their bodies, carried bags of explosives, and wore diving goggles on their eyes, and dived directly into the water to install the explosives.

These explosive packages are all specially made, wrapped and sealed with rubber, and the way of detonation is also a timed detonation method. After being installed on the reef, you only need to pull the lead wire on the explosive package, and it will start a countdown and detonate at a fixed time.

One by one, the water ghosts quickly resurfaced and were pulled onto the boat. The boat quickly came to the water area, and everyone waited quietly.

After ten minutes.

"Boom~"

Accompanied by loud noises, the originally calm level suddenly set off huge water columns, and the powerful energy impact formed huge waves on the river surface.

It can be clearly seen that there are a lot of broken rocks mixed in the water column, these are reefs, rocks and the like that have been blown up.

It is not the first time that something like this has happened. When building a port, it is often necessary to use water ghosts to use explosives to blow up reefs, rocks, etc. The experience and methods are quite mature.

"A lot of fish!"

As the dynamite package exploded underwater, terrifying shocks spread through the water, and immediately a large number of fish maws appeared on the surface of the river, all white, and Xiong Youdi, who had been hunting fish all his life, couldn't help crying out.

Because you can see that there are many big fish among them, the big ones even weigh tens of catties, and there are a lot of them. You can see a lot of fish with pan-belly on the surface of the river at once.

The ecological environment of the Yangtze River in this matter is very good, and the fishery resources are very rich. Once the powerful explosives are blown up, a large number of fish will be blown out.

"Haha, quickly catch some fish and bring them up, we will distribute fish to everyone at noon."

When Xia Shi saw it, he laughed immediately. In the past, when the port was built, blowing up reefs, rocks and the like could bring out a lot of fish, but it was still not as good as in the Yangtze River.

Here in Haoxue Town, Jiangling City, a large number of people gathered together to watch the excitement.

"Oh, this car is incredible, this strength is really great!"

"In this way, slowly, a cart of gravel came over all at once."

"Isn't that right? This truckload of dirt is at least more than 10 square meters. If you use your shoulders to pick it up, it will take at least hundreds of people to jump through it. It's just a truckload and it's gone."

"Yeah, yeah, these machines are too powerful, and a truckload of things can be loaded very quickly. If it is carried by hand, I don't know how many people will come."

"There is also that bulldozer, which is really powerful. It pushed a road out at once. So much soil was quickly flattened. If I were to pick it up with a dustpan, I don't know that it will be possible in the year of the monkey and the month of the monkey. The selection is over."

"The excavator is also very powerful. The shovel digs a large piece of soil, and it can fill a large car with just three or two strokes."

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Many spectators who eat melons are watching with great interest, because beside the Yangtze River, dozens of trucks produced by the Mercedes-Benz Automobile Factory are busy transporting soil, sand and gravel, and there are also more than a dozen forklifts and excavators. Very busy.

This is the first time everyone has seen such a scene of extensive use of machinery for work.

The roar of the machine and the super high efficiency also shocked everyone.

In everyone's long-standing concept, it is very hard to do engineering, and it is very tiring to carry it on the shoulders, and it often requires a lot of manpower.

It is not uncommon to have thousands or tens of thousands of people.

In the past, when building dams in Huguang, the number of civilians recruited from the surrounding area was calculated in tens of thousands, and sometimes more than [-] civilians might be recruited at once to build the embankment.

The scene of [-] people building the embankment is very spectacular. When you look at it at first glance, there are crowds of people everywhere, and the team carrying the soil can stretch for several miles.

Many embankments on this side of Jingjiang were built slowly year by year by a large number of people in history, little by little, and only then did Jingjiang's current embankments gradually come into being.

However, now, the way the Ministry of Industry is overhauling the river embankment is an eye-opener. A large number of cars, excavators, and bulldozers are on the field, and the construction machinery is roaring, and the traditional pickaxe is not seen. , dustpan, shovel, hammer, stick and the like.

Moreover, everyone was worried that the imperial court would recruit everyone to serve in corvee and participate in the construction of the embankment, and many people were even ready.

Who knows, the imperial court didn't intend to let the common people participate in it at all, nor did they say that everyone should serve corvee, but hired a lot of people to do some auxiliary things, such as carrying cement, mixing mortar, loading and unloading goods, etc. Yes, pay back the wages.

And the wages are quite high, eight taels of silver a month, which is paid according to the signs of construction workers in the city, and the wages are also high for manual work and hard work.

As for the work of excavating soil and transporting sand and gravel, all of them are done by machinery.

Powerful forklifts, excavators, and cars are very efficient. Where there were no roads before, a new road was opened with a forklift.

Due to the powerful digging capacity of the excavator, a large amount of soil, sand and stones were quickly excavated by the excavator. In just a short while, a hillside like a hill was dug out.

In addition, there is a pile driver specially used for pile driving. With the sound of thumping, the deep piles are laid one by one, and then steel bars are added to it, and concrete is poured. The foundation is ready.

Then along the foundation, layer after layer of reinforced concrete is continuously laid for pouring, and an extremely strong dam is completed.

Now is the second half of the year, the weather is fine and there is less rainfall, it is the most suitable time of the year to build the embankment.

"Unbelievable, incredible!"

"The efficiency of these engineering equipment is so high!"

"Based on this kind of work efficiency and speed, it doesn't take too long to build the embankment, and it can be repaired this year."

Huguang Chief Envoy Zhang Si'an also came. He has always been very curious about the construction machinery that Zhong Fan mentioned. What kind of construction machinery can make Zhong Fan feel that it will not take too long to repair the embankment.

Finally saw it today.

I was also deeply impressed and amazed by the power of engineering equipment.

The excavator and the shoveling power are infinite, digging the soil is like digging tofu, even if you encounter big rocks, big rocks, etc., you can easily dig them out.

If you use the traditional method, I am afraid that when you encounter some big rocks and big rocks, it is often difficult to deal with these big rocks and big rocks. It will take a lot of manpower and time to move the stones away, or The stone was chipped and moved away.

"Haha, this is the power of the machine!"

"These are all machines that have only been researched in the past two years. They are driven by powerful internal combustion engines. Dry engineering is the most suitable and the fastest efficient."

"At the same time, it is also the most economical in manpower and financial resources. Otherwise, if we want to build this Jingjiang embankment, we must at least recruit more than [-] civilian workers."

Zhong Fan couldn't help laughing when he heard what Zhang Si'an said.

To be honest, when he saw these machines for the first time, he was also deeply amazed by their powerful efficiency. With the appearance of such machines, even the most difficult projects became easier and simpler.

The imperial court dared to talk about large-scale construction of railways, roads, ports, river lifts, reservoirs, etc. Do you think it was proposed casually?
Without this strength and technology, no matter how much money you have, you would not dare to propose it. But with these powerful machines driven by internal combustion engines, whether it is building bridges and paving roads, or building reservoirs, dams, etc. It's very simple and easy.

PS: Will it be too much, the excavators are out~~
(End of this chapter)