From Propulsion City To Multiverse

It's snowing in winter in the north, and the offensive on the grassland can indeed be stopped.

But it does not mean that the actions of other places of the Human Revolutionary Federation will stop. On the contrary, winter is a good time to go to Nanyang.

The death of Fan Qinghui almost wiped out the top martial arts masters in the north, which made the northern martial arts that might have threatened the Human Revolutionary Union quickly decline.

Hao Jian received information from Borneo, saying that there were several vicious incidents there, and three fortresses were threatened by giant pythons. He took Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan, who were willing to serve as advisors to the black guards, and headed south on a steam warship.

However, from the Bohai Bay to the south of Borneo, even if the wind is smooth and the steam power is added, it will take 12 to 15 days, and the whole journey is about 6,800 kilometers.

The reason why the distance is so far is mainly to reduce the risk of navigation and choose to sail close to the coastline.

Neither the mainland route nor the first island chain route is the closest route. In fact, the closest route is from the east side of the South China Sea to Borneo after crossing the Liuqiu Strait.

The problem is that it is too dangerous to sail like this. Once encountering bad sea conditions, the ship will be destroyed in minutes.

Therefore, they can only go around a little farther, but they are close to the coastline and islands all the way. Even if they encounter rocks, or huge waves, storms, typhoons, etc., they can quickly find the anchoring coast.

In addition to the weather stations that have been deployed in various parts of Nanyang at this time, the weather problems during the voyage are already in a clearly controllable state.

Along with Hao Jian, there are more than a dozen large immigration transport ships.

In fact, there is another great advantage of taking the coastal route, that is, you can supply supplies along the way, and you don’t need to bring too many supplies, which greatly improves the comfort and payload.

For example, the coal supply of steamships is currently from south to north, Beihai Port, Donghai Port, Keelung Port, Hongji Port, Dingnan Port, and Borneo.

This greatly extended the mileage of the steamship.

Even the three major shipbuilding companies are already discussing whether to cancel the sail design of part of the steam fleet.

For example, inland river transport ships, shipyards have reached an agreement that the sails of steam-powered inland river transport ships will be cancelled.

By reducing the hard sails and masts, the payload of the ship will be increased to a certain extent.

However, this is limited to inland steamships within the territory. If it is an exploratory inland steamship, the sails will still be kept as spares.

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Liaodong City.

In order to ensure the stability here, Song Que moved all the 13,000 local people here, plus the 29,000 people in the surrounding area, to Qilu Prefecture before the Liaohe River was frozen.

Wait until the spring of next year, and then move 100,000 people from Jizhou to gradually dilute the aborigines here so as not to become a hidden danger.

at the same time.

After the Liao River was frozen, Song Que sent people to monitor the thickness of the ice in the river every day.

Until December 25th, 4th year of the new calendar.

The thickness of the ice layer finally reached the preset value.

From the newly established Yingkou Port near the estuary of Liaoshui River, the steam icebreakers pushed away the thick ice floes and cleared a channel sufficient for entry and exit.

In fact, thanks to the small global warming period in the early Sui and Tang Dynasties, the thickness of sea ice in the Bohai Sea in winter is not thick.

Moreover, the location of Yingkou Port is obviously near the mouth of the Liaoshui River, but a special location has been chosen. The salinity of the seawater near the port is relatively high, and it is not easy to freeze in winter.

Yingkou Port is actually a temporary port. On the north side of the port, a temporary wooden track has been laid for the atonement camp composed of some captives. The track is 8 kilometers long and connects the Yingkou Inland River Port on the north side.

The Yingkou Inland River Port is located upstream of the Liao River estuary, about 5 kilometers away from the estuary.

The reason why such a strange dual-port system is adopted is mainly because the seaports are not frozen in winter, while the inland freshwater ports in the north are easily frozen.

The location of the estuary, due to the confluence of seawater and freshwater, is prone to unstable ice on the river surface, so the Danshui Port retreats 5 kilometers upstream.

Lu Porridge, who came from Zhoushan Steam Machinery Factory, showed up at Yingkou Port with 20 500-horsepower steam locomotives.

These steam locomotives were designed very strangely, and they were pulled to the inland river port of Yingkou by wooden tracks.

Then Lu Porridge led the technicians to quickly assemble these steam engines and other parts.

The entire steam engine was hoisted to a frame by a hoisting table, and the frame consisted of four strange large cylindrical wheels, and non-slip hinges were wrapped around the wheels.

The steam engine as a whole is not too heavy, and even because some parts are made of aluminum alloy, the overall weight is only about 2.3 tons.

When all the parts were assembled, the whole picture of the locomotive was finally revealed to everyone.

Aluminum alloy wheels, rubber pneumatic tires, and high-strength steel frame form a large car with a width of 6 meters and a length of 8 meters. The big and wide tires are different from the common narrow and thin tires.

Then behind the main car body, a series of carriages are connected.

These carriages are also different from ordinary train carriages, but very flat, with a width of 3 meters and a length of 6 meters, but there are no wheels under the carriages, but smooth steel plates made of high manganese steel.

Lu Porridge immediately had enough coal filled, and after heating up the steam engine, he drove a steam locomotive himself.

Quickly rushed into the Liaoshui River.

The icy river did not collapse because of this. The large wheels and skateboard design of the steam locomotive made the weight of the locomotive not concentrated at one point, but spread out.

This kind of steam locomotive is called a glacier locomotive, as the name implies, it is a locomotive that travels on a glacier.

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Lu Porridge raised the speed of the locomotive to the highest level. The glacier locomotive with a total weight of 35 tons has a payload of 20 tons and a maximum speed of about 60 kilometers per hour, but the cruising speed is generally about 40 kilometers per hour.

The glacier locomotive ran for several hours on the icy river, and did not stop for inspection until it was dark.

Obviously this glacier steam locomotive is the masterpiece of Zheng Sen and others.

There are many rivers in the Liaodong area, but the navigable time is usually only about 6 months a year, and there are still nearly half a year in the frozen period.

And this situation gets worse the further north you go.

Then we have to think about how to enter the northern region in winter.

Repairing cement roads and railways can indeed improve transportation.

But this is limited to the plains in the south of Liaodong. Once you enter the higher latitude area, the existence of semi-permafrost is definitely a nightmare for roads and railways.

Therefore, Zheng Sen thought of inland water transport, and inland water transport in the north, winter is an unavoidable problem.

After discussing with Longsha and Tang Feilin, he commissioned Longsha to design a glacier locomotive, which can drive on frozen rivers.

But the problem is not the power, but the unit pressure generated by the wheels and skateboards, which must be within the tolerance of the river ice.

Otherwise, the glacier locomotive can easily crack the ice, causing the locomotive to sink into the bottom of the river.

Therefore, the design of the wheels and skateboards is very wide, and the pressure per unit area is reduced by increasing the contact area.

This is why, the very large transport compartment, the height will be very flat.

In order to ensure safety, normalized ice thickness detection stations must be set up at various locations on the river to ensure that the thickness of the ice layer can allow glacier locomotives to travel.

Judging from the initial operation, the effect of the glacier locomotive is very good.

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As for why there are no similar motor transport vehicles in later generations, there are mainly railways, roads, and high-power internal combustion engines.

This kind of big guy who can only transport dozens of tons of materials is not only inefficient, but also has a big problem, that is, it can only be used in winter.

Maozi has large railways and relatively complete roads, so there is no need to use this inefficient method.

But for the Human Revolutionary Union during the pioneering period, it was no less than a railway to transport 20 tons of materials to the icy and snowy northern Liaoning and Eastern Xianbelia at one time.

In other words, the glacier roads in the north are just ice roads, and they are flatter than railways.

After all, rivers are liquid before freezing and will level themselves, while railways can only be leveled manually.

For more than half a month, Lu Porridge led technicians to train the drivers while assembling the remaining 19 glacier locomotives.

In fact, the glacier locomotive also has an extreme operating mode.

That is to hang some more carriages, which can increase the payload by 40 tons, but the consequence of this is that the speed of the locomotive will drop to 25 kilometers per hour.

For those things that do not consider timeliness, it is possible to increase the transportation volume by adding carriages.

In fact, this speed is not bad. After all, the fastest steam-powered inland river transport ship is about 15 knots.

With these glacier locomotives, Liaodong Prefecture established a glacier transportation company.

The 20 Glacier locomotives could not meet the needs of the entire Liaodong Prefecture. Chen Xin, the supervisor of Liaodong Prefecture, quickly placed an order for 200 Glacier locomotives from the steam machinery factory.

Chen Xin even made inferences, planning to use these glacier locomotives to transform them into bulldozers and road rollers next year to build an artificial ice road.

The artificial ice road doesn't need to be as deep as a canal, it only needs to have a water surface, and then the water will be diverted to freeze when winter comes.

On the contrary, the shallow water surface can combine the ice layer and the soil layer to enhance the pressure bearing capacity of the ice road.

And Chen Xin also thought that although the winter in Liaodong Prefecture is long, if you choose this kind of one-season rice, you can also grow it.

Simply choose suitable low-lying areas on both sides of these rivers and transform them into continuous rice fields. After the rice is harvested, divert water to freeze the rice fields and turn them into large ice roads.

The artificial ice road after the rice field is frozen can be mounted on a large glacier locomotive to temporarily replace part of the railway's functions.

You must know that the current Human Revolutionary League already has a large steam engine of the 5,000-horsepower level, and a 5,000-horsepower steam locomotive can completely drive a weight of about 500 tons.

In this way, the communication conditions in Liaodong Prefecture in winter can be higher than in summer.

After all, there are a large number of swamps in the three major plains of Liaodong at this time. These swamps will be frozen hard in winter, and they can be transformed into ice road traffic networks.

In summer, these swamps are difficult to pass through. Ships are afraid of running aground and getting entangled in aquatic plants, and carriages are afraid of getting stuck in the mud.

Chen Xin quickly formulated a traffic planning plan for Liaodong Prefecture.

In this plan, he proposed the ambitious Liaodong Canal Project and Liaodong Ice Road Project.

It is necessary to dredge the Liaoshui River and the Songhua River, dredge the Heishui River and the Yalu River, and at the same time build an icy road transportation network covering the Liaonan Plain, Songnen Plain, Sanjiang Plain, and Jiangbei Plain.

It seems that the amount of work is huge, but in fact, the construction of the ice road kills two birds with one stone. On the one hand, it will be developed as a summer paddy field first, and the water will be diverted and frozen in winter.

It is only necessary to plan the route in advance when reclaiming the rice fields, and there will be no major problems.

Chen Xin even used a road roller to dig out a simple road along the Liaoshui River, and then used a steam pump to pump water under the ice layer of the Liaoshui River, forming an experimental ice road.

Then we arranged for horse-drawn sleds, dog sleds, and reindeer sleds to run on this simple ice road.

The running effect is very good, among which horses and reindeer have the best pulling force, especially northeast reindeer, two reindeer can pull a total weight of 800 kg, and they are also very adaptable to cold climates.

In this era, the range of activities of Northeast reindeer has not completely withdrawn from the Liaonan Plain.

In addition, in the vicinity of Central Xianbelia, there are deer tribes among the forest tribes, and they use reindeer sleigh carts.

In order to prevent these reindeer from being hunted, Chen Xin immediately set up the Northeast Reindeer Farm to raise more than 100 reindeer found nearby.

In addition, the North China Plain also has the conditions to build artificial ice roads.

However, Northeast reindeer are not suitable for the climate in North China, and it is best to use elk.

Elk is a species unique to East Asia, and it is a very helpless reality that later generations will have to reintroduce it from abroad.

Now the Human Revolutionary Association has become more and more comprehensive in the research and protection of species in various places. At this time, there are still about 6,000 to 7,000 elk in the Huaihe and Yangtze River basins, which is a very dangerous number.

If some elk can be transformed into means of transportation, it will be very beneficial to the development of this population.

It is a very effective supplement especially for mountainous areas where the transportation capacity is very needed.

The Human Revolutionary League quickly gained a firm foothold in Liaodong.

But this winter is a very difficult day for the various tribes in Liaodong.

In the past, the reason why they were able to repel the Central Plains Dynasty was mainly due to the harsh climate here. The bitter cold refers to Liaodong, Monan, and Mobei.

But the people of the Human Revolutionary League seem to be more adapted to the climate of Liaodong than they are, which makes them doubt life.

In fact, the climate of Liaodong is similar to that of the Hetao Plain.

Moreover, the Human Revolutionary Federation, which had been prepared for a long time, naturally studied how to deal with the severe weather in the north.

Down jackets, leather jackets, cotton armor, heating stoves, and high-calorie foods ensure the personnel of Liaodong Prefecture.

Even the captives who were assigned to the atonement camp had a set of thickened cotton coats.

In addition, there is an open-pit coal mine in Liaodong Prefecture, and 3,000 captives are digging coal mines to supply the entire Liaodong Prefecture.

Especially with the extensive use of sleigh cars and glacier locomotives, the transportation capacity of Liaodong Prefecture has achieved a qualitative leap.

White sugar from Liuqiu Prefecture and Guangnan Prefecture, canned fish from Jiangdong Prefecture, cotton-padded jackets and down jackets from Xuzhou, as well as some transportable vegetables and fruits are continuously supplied to Liaodong Prefecture, Lelang Prefecture, and Monan Prefecture.

Many prisoners even felt a sense of reluctance to leave.

In fact, this is also very normal. There are no ordinary herdsmen in the grassland tribes. They only have two classes: nobles and slaves. The daily food of the herdsmen is edible herbs, some grains, and dairy products.

Eating meat is the patent of nobles.

As for the captives in the Atonement Camp, if it is a working day, they usually have three meals a day.

The three meals a day are not pig food, but rice, dried salted fish, wild vegetables or winter melon, and occasionally fresh fish and baked buns.

After all, this is heavy physical work, and if the food cannot keep up, the life span of these captives will be shortened rapidly.

The captives who can be included in the redemption camp are actually qualified for reform, but they themselves have not serious criminal records.

And the captives who were full of crimes had already been cut with a knife, so as not to waste rice.

With such a good meal, plus a reduced sentence and some daily rewards, these prisoners worked very hard, and even very eager to join the Human Revolutionary League.

As for the original tribe, as a shepherd slave or an ordinary soldier, basically there is not much sense of belonging. After all, many tribes rob all day long.