Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 115 Chapter 115 The Secret Factory
"Mr. Roger!" You Lin pushed open the door of Roger's room and called softly, "Your lunch."

The little girl was carrying a wooden tray with some mushy food on top of it.

Potatoes and vegetable leaves are mixed together, and some dried fish is added. It doesn't look so delicious, but it is more nutritionally balanced.

Roger took the tray from the little girl's hand, and asked casually, "Have you memorized everything taught in school? I heard that you have already started to learn equations."

You Lin showed a sweet smile, and replied to Roger: "Mr. Roger, I am the class monitor. If I don't get full marks in some courses, I will be laughed at by those little brats."

"Ha!" Roger nodded in satisfaction, and then continued to ask: "According to Tang Mo's arrangement before he left, are all the work that will be carried out after Beiling's victory are being carried out?"

The little girl nodded immediately: "It's all started. There is a large area of ​​logging in the vicious forest, but the cold winter is coming soon, and it seems that the work will be forced to stop soon."

This is the way it is in this era. The weather is still the main enemy of human actions. No one can take the risk of carrying out large-scale operations when winter comes. This is the law of nature.

The current situation of Tang Mo, or the current situation of Datang Group, can be described in some words: rich and powerful, spending money like water.

This is almost a syndrome called "sudden wealth", which is basically a series of crazy retaliatory spending triggered by the windfall.

From the moment Tang Mo was sure that Beiling had won the war, Tang Mo took out the last bit of remaining assets in his hands and squandered them.

The specific squandering projects include: he ordered to find a flat land in the vicious forest, log it for reclamation, and planned to build a hidden secret factory.

The reason why he chose this location is because he has more and more technologies in his hands, and the scale of the factory is getting bigger and bigger. It is really necessary to expand a new factory area to maintain development.

Another main reason for supporting him and allowing him to choose his factory in such a shabby place as the Vicious Forest is because Tang Mo is going to build the world's first railway here. .

With tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gold coins in his hand, Tang Mo naturally wanted to spend all of this money. Since he wanted to spend it, he had to buy enough things.

Iron and steel was the most strategic resource he could secure in a short period of time, and Bunas and North Ridge happened to not be short of coal, so Tang Mo naturally chose the option of building a railway.

First of all, the cooperation with Earl Fischero is very pleasant, and it can be seen that Fischero is also a good partner for continued long-term cooperation - so Tang Mo plans to deepen the relationship between the two parties to facilitate future trade exchanges.

As a result, the first railway in human history, starting from Bunas Port, passing through the Vicious Forest, and finally connecting to Northridge Wolf City, was put on the construction schedule.

However, it is not easy to build a railway. It is necessary to survey the terrain along the way, confirm the geological structure, and choose the most economical route... All these will take time.

Therefore, a more reliable short-term plan was proposed: first select a site in the vicious forest to build a new factory area, and then use the railway to connect the old and new factory areas.

This solution is more reliable and cheap, and the railway is located in the land that Tang Mo has already purchased, so there are certain guarantees in terms of safety and confidentiality.

The distance has been shortened by more than half, which also ensures that the difficulty and price of the railway construction are within an affordable range. In fact, Tang Mo has indeed shortened the distance between him and North Ridge.

The new factory area is closer to Northridge, so the goods from Northridge can be unloaded at the new factory area, which also greatly saves transportation time and transportation costs, and saves time for both sides.

So before Tang Mo left Bunas, he drew up some plans in advance, including a development plan that would be implemented immediately once his side won the war.

Tang Mo's railway development plan is one of them.

When it comes to railways, you have to mention the width of the track. This is actually not a simple multiple-choice question.There are actually advantages and disadvantages between wide gauge and narrow gauge, and it is not necessarily that wide gauge is better than narrow gauge.

The narrow gauge has obvious advantages in the turning radius, and the turning radius of the train using the narrow gauge is smaller.

You must know that narrow gauge is obviously more economical in terms of materials, and it is more suitable for Tangmo, which is economically strapped in the early stage of development. Moreover, narrow gauge railways also have obvious cost advantages in building railway bridges and drilling tunnels in the later stage.

But with so many advantages of narrow gauge, why do some countries still choose wide gauge?Because the advantages of wide rails in terms of transport capacity are more obvious, wider rails can of course bring wider carriages. In terms of civil transportation, wider train carriages also have more obvious advantages in riding comfort.

From this aspect, it can be seen that the wide-gauge actually has greater advantages on the vast plains, frozen soil, and straight roads. On these terrains, the advantages of the wide-gauge capacity are infinitely expanded, and its turning radius is large. The disadvantage of more expensive tunnels is all but overshadowed.

But when Tang Mo built the railway, he naturally hoped that his railway standards could be used forever, so this set of standards must take care of other terrains as much as possible.

In other words, Tang Mo had to consider bridges, tunnels and other issues as much as possible, so it was impossible for him to create a two-meter wide gauge by himself to show his "foresight and foresight".

Tang Mo needs to consider these advantages and disadvantages, so for Tang Mo, it is not wise to blindly choose the wide gauge. The most important point is - he must suppress the cost of this first railway in human beings within a reasonable range Inside.

After all, although he is now rich and powerful, he has not reached the point where he can squander it at will-under such prerequisites, it is obviously too crazy to blindly build an expensive broad-gauge railway.

Therefore, Tang Mo tended to choose the standard rail width—the rail width used by Huaxia!At least, this vast land with a width of more than 960 million square kilometers has shown strong adaptability in many terrains such as mountainous and rivery plateau basins!

When it comes to infrastructure construction, if you can't make a decision, you should naturally ask the infrastructure madman!After all, any idea that has been tested by the infrastructure madman can be used directly...

Therefore, in the foreign world, the first railway track is not a narrow gauge, but a standard width track, and its experience comes from a distant ancient country that does not exist in the foreign world...

In addition to starting to build a new factory area and cleaning up a dedicated railway, Tang Mo's third expansion plan is to build a private port for himself on the other side of Bunas!
After all, he is also a merchant with a fleet now, and the maritime transportation trade will naturally be started.

In addition, he didn't want to be restricted by the narrow size of Bunas's port when purchasing overseas steel, oil and other materials in the future, so he decided to build a port in advance to facilitate future expansion or connection.

Ever since, a brand new port has also begun to be built, this time the construction is different from the previous port construction.

First of all, Tang Mo started to use cement on a large scale to build his new port, so as to ensure the stability of his port.

It has to be said that Bunas is a good natural port with deep water and no freezing. There is even a small highland not far away where forts can be built. The only reason that restricts its development is that there is a large port that developed first in the south.

The Kingdom of Wright does not pay much attention to sea trade, so after the port construction is compared, the purchase volume of Bunas itself will not increase, and naturally there will be no trade volume. Sea ships do not come here often, so the scale will not increase. .

This is a vicious circle, and Tang Mo's appearance, in a sense, broke this trade circle.

He needs too many things, and the total amount is huge - in the past, a country could not consume much steel, but now Tang Mo is going to lay it on the ground directly.

Datang Group's purchase list includes bristles, leather, steel, brass, lime, gunpowder, and various chemical agents.

The reason why they didn't purchase food was because Northridge had stockpiled a lot of food last year, and it was able to supply Bunas recently.But if Tang Mo's factory continues to develop, it will be a matter of time before he purchases grain and meat horses.

In order to facilitate future development, Tang Mo even asked businessmen to bring him soil samples and seeds from various places. In addition, he also purchased books from various countries at high prices, including novels, travel notes and poems.

In the territory Tang Mo bought, hardworking workers also cultivated it. Although it was destined to yield little profit, it made the place look more lively.

In short, Tang Mo hasn't returned to Bunas yet, and during the month he left, Bunas's development has actually not lagged behind at all.

Matthews and Parker manage the factory, and have expanded the entire factory area to places that were unimaginable before.

The current Datang Group already has more than a dozen factories, dozens of steam engines, and half of the factories have electrical equipment.

What's more interesting is that after the steam engine was put into production, another problem that plagued Datang Group was unexpectedly solved - heating!
The thermal insulation performance of those factory buildings built "to make do" in order to catch up with the work is actually very problematic. According to previous estimates, these factory buildings cannot continue to be used after the arrival of winter.

But now, after Matthews, Roger and others worked out the equipment for pipeline production and processing according to Tang Mo's blueprints, the cooling waste water from the steam engine came into play.

Hot water flows through these pipes, making the whole factory hot like a huge furnace. After temporarily thickening some of the surrounding walls, these factories continue to be used in winter without any problems at all.

(End of this chapter)