Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 709
Taichang originally thought that with the help of felling machines, the speed of clearing the forest would be astonishing.

Now it seems that he was wrong, and Li Shuchu's estimate was correct.

At least, the timing of felling trees is more accurate than him.

He was a little careless, so he just imagined how fast the trees were cut down, and he didn't count the number of trees at all.

Li Shuben must have roughly counted them in the woods.

The number of trees in this primeval jungle is really scary.

He didn't calculate it at all before, but now, he stood here and looked at it for a while, and he roughly knew it in his heart.

The kind of tree that is about the thickness of an arm and can be cut off with a swing of a knife is not counted. The number of big trees that need to be cut down by a machine is so large that it scares people to death.

There are roughly two types of big trees here. One is the super big tree with a diameter of more than three feet and a height of at least ten feet. This kind of big tree can roughly occupy a place with a radius of about three or four feet.

There is also a big tree with a diameter of about one foot and a height of about ten feet. This kind of tree can roughly occupy a place with a radius of about one foot.

Moreover, these trees are basically densely packed, one next to the other, and there are basically no gaps in the middle.

Calculated in this way, if there are all big trees with a diameter of more than three feet, then there are about ten trees in an acre of land, and if there are all big trees with a diameter of about one foot, then there are a hundred trees in an acre of land.

Of course, these trees are all intertwined with each other, not neatly grown, surrounded by trees of the same size.

On average, one mu of land contains about five or six trees with a diameter of more than three feet and about fifty trees with a diameter of about one foot.

One square kilometer is [-] mu, and the number of these two kinds of trees is about [-].

And the area more than fifty miles wide and nearly a hundred miles long is about seven or eight hundred square kilometers.

In other words, for these two kinds of big trees alone, they would have to cut down six or seven million trees!

What is this concept?
One machine can bring down about 1 such trees in an hour, and ten machines can bring down about [-] such trees in a day.

Calculated in this way, it would take at least five hundred days to clear this primeval jungle!
After Taichang made a rough calculation, he couldn't help frowning.

It definitely won't go on like this.

Just kidding, just felling trees for more than a year, it will take at least ten years to develop this place.

Where did he get so much time.

It seems that more such tree-cutting and logging machines need to be built, at least a hundred of them must be built!

In this way, the jungle can be cut down in about fifty days.

Moreover, these machines will not be wasted, and they will be useful for cutting down trees to open roads in the future.

However, this tree-cutting machine does not mean that there are as many machines as you want, because it is tens of thousands of miles away from Xinliaoyang City, and it takes at least 20 days to go back and forth.

Moreover, there is no ship dedicated to transporting such large machines at the moment, and a remodeled armed merchant ship can also accommodate two such machines obliquely.

How to do it?

Taichang thought about it carefully for a while, then called over the official from the Ministry of Industry who directed the felling of trees, and asked seriously: "At the moment, Xin Liaoyang City is still building this kind of tree-cutting machine. How many will be built?"

The official of the Ministry of Industry hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, according to your will, the new Liaoyang City is indeed continuing to build this kind of tree-cutting machine, but after all, that side is specialized in making mining machines. One of the logging machines can be changed in a day.”

This speed is a bit slow.

It takes 20 days to go back and forth, even if the modified armed merchant ships are enough, about [-] units can be transferred in one trip, and the speed must be accelerated.

Taichang thought for a while, and then said decisively: "You rush back immediately with fifteen armed merchant ships, and let Xin Liaoyang City speed up the production of this tree-cutting machine, at least two a day. These fifteen armed merchant ships will also be remodeled, and at least forty logging machines will be brought over in one trip.”

Ah!
Your Majesty, didn't you just send someone back yesterday to say that you want to change this machine?

The official from the Ministry of Industry was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Your Majesty, is the machine you are talking about now the one you are using, or is it the one with three saw wheels and a crane trailer?"

This seems to have to be changed again.

Because judging from the situation at the scene, the speed of cleaning the branches and leaves with black iron knives and axes may be a little more troublesome with machines.

And if the trunk is sawed into pieces, the tree-cutting machine has to stop, which delays time instead.

As for the cranes and trailers, it was even more time-consuming. In fact, as long as there were enough people, the speed of pulling the tree trunks was still very fast.

Moreover, there are tributaries of the Amazon River everywhere here. If it is far away from here, a temporary dock can be built nearby, and then these tree stumps can be pulled to the Spike Warship and transported back.

Taichang thought for a while, then seriously said: "Forget about the saw wheels and crane trailers for removing branches and leaves, there is no need to add them. As for the saw wheels for sawing trees into pieces, there is no need to install them on every machine. There is one out of ten machines." It is enough to install such a saw wheel on each machine, but the modified machine must be equipped with such saw wheels on both sides.”

Uh, change it like this?

The official from the Ministry of Industry memorized it carefully, then cupped his hands and said, "I remember it."

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Okay, hurry up and go back with the merchant ship. After you rush back to Xinliaoyang City, let them send over the [-] units that were built, and then send another [-] units after ten days. Stop sending, let’s make up a hundred units first.”

The official from the Ministry of Industry hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand." Then he ran back to the machine to give a hasty confession, and then rushed back to the port wharf, ordered fifteen armed merchant ships and set off.

Taichang stood there thinking for a while, then raised his binoculars to scan the scene of felling trees.

With this sweep, a strange look appeared on his face.

Because of this short period of more than an hour, a lot of wood has been piled up on the edge of the forest.

He was just thinking about the astonishingly large number of trees, and it took time to cut them down, but he forgot that after the trees were cut down, they were all timber.

How much wood can be harvested from this felling?

A tree with a diameter of more than three feet has at least four cubic meters, and three trees with a diameter of about one foot add up to one cubic meter. That is to say, at least 30 cubic meters of wood can be collected from one mu of land.

One square kilometer is about 4000 square kilometers, and seven to eight hundred square kilometers is three to forty million square kilometers!

My God, so much wood is more than enough to build tens of thousands of ships!
What's even more frightening is that this is only one ten-thousandth of it. There are at least seventy-eight million square kilometers of virgin jungle in South America!
How much wood is this?

Even if one percent of the wood is harvested in a year, that is three to four billion cubic meters!

In other words, the wood here is simply inexhaustible, because the trees can be planted again after they are cut down. If one tree is cut and ten trees are planted, the cycle of one hundred years will only increase the number of trees here.

Moreover, it is also possible to cut down all the trees with low economic value, and then plant red sandalwood, pear, rubber tree, acacia, laurel, and even fruit trees with high economic value.

In this way, after a hundred years, there will be all valuable trees here, and the value is simply inestimable!

Maybe it's time to start planning.

The roads in the forest cannot be opened indiscriminately, and it is necessary to facilitate the felling of trees and the transportation of timber. Even, one has to consider how to pick, store, and transport the rubber, cinnamon bark, and fruits produced by rubber trees, laurel, and fruit trees in the future. It is convenient to go out and sell.

Also, the planting of herbs here has to be well planned.

If the planning is good, this place is simply an inexhaustible treasure house!
Wood, herbs, rubber, spices, fruits, etc., don't know how much they can be worth.

This time, it's time to make a fortune again!

(End of this chapter)