Chapter 77                             

The ships used in the Yellow River are not large, but they have considerable requirements for wood. They even need to support them. Not to mention the routes in Zhou Mengchen's mind, there are only more than a thousand ships between Sanmenxia and Hukou. This is the most basic one.

Without this number of ships, it would be impossible to achieve the transportation throughput that Zhou Mengchen wanted.

Zhou Mengchen's heart moved and said, "Xu Gao, do you have no solution?"

Xu Gao said, "I am stupid, please give me some advice."

Zhou Mengchen said: "You must use trees to build ships?"

Xu Gao was stunned, thinking something in his heart, but he couldn't figure it out. He naturally had learned the law of buoyancy. He seemed to think that shipbuilding had nothing to do with trees, but what to use except wood? He couldn't figure it out for a moment.

Zhou Mengchen had already decided in his heart to replace the raw materials for shipbuilding with iron.

Many things, benefits and disadvantages are mutually transformed. Just like there are no big trees in the northwest and lack of wood. If you get wood from other places, such as Liaodong, the freight will exceed the price of the wood itself. But iron is different. With the birth and continuous improvement of new technologies, the price of iron will only get lower and lower for a long time in the future. Moreover, the origin of iron is Shuozhou, not just Shuozhou. Because Zhou Mengchen knew that Ordos has a large number of open-pit coal fields, and Zhou Mengchen didn’t know whether there is Shuozhou coalfield.

But Zhou Mengchen knew one thing, that is, Ordos is close to the Yellow River. Moreover, there is a large iron ore in Baotou. Therefore, it is very likely to establish a large iron smelting base in the Hetao area. At that time, due to the Yellow River water transportation, it may not be impossible to push the iron price below the wood price.

However, iron instead of wood to become a material for shipbuilding, and it has to face not only material problems, but also many other problems.

The simplest rust problem. A wooden ship will be used for hundreds of years after maintenance, but it will depend on the situation if it can be used for an iron ship. At least the mandatory scrapping period of national ships does not exceed more than forty years.

The corrosion of water on steel can be seen.

This is still the later generations. There have been many ways. Moreover, steel has been updated and iterated many times, and Zhou Mengchen doesn’t know how many years can the steel today last. However, if the steel supports it too short, it will not be economical.

This depends on the efforts of the disciples.

Zhou Mengchen decided to click first and let him think about it himself. After all, what he thought of would be more impressive than others told him.

Zhou Mengchen put this matter down first and had arrived at the station.

The station here is extremely simple and has nothing. Although Zhou Mengchen wanted to build a double line, he finally stopped. There was only one steam locomotive on this single-line railway. It was a problem to turn the vehicle. There was a circular road at the end of the railway, so that the steam locomotive could turn around and turn around.

Apart from that, there is no such building?

There is no platform, no waiting hall, no street lights, no dispatch room, no railings, and no fences. It doesn't look like a station anyway.

Looking at this place, I suddenly felt that there was still a long way to go on the issue of railways.

Immediately someone brought a small stool and asked Zhou Mengchen to get on the car on the stool.

Zhou Mengchen did not get on the train directly, but circled around the railway and the train and checked carefully.

Overall, there is only one impression that Zhou Mengchen gave, that is, it is simple and very simple.

The train is also very simple.

The carriages are very consistent with Zhou Mengchen's idea, but above the carriages are empty and there are only many chairs. The middle is the Taishi Chair. It is obvious that Zhou Mengchen is sitting. It is just that Zhou Mengchen looks at the people around him. Haven't they considered that the chairs and vehicles are not one, what should I do if I encounter sudden brakes?

Yin Zongyi immediately stepped forward and introduced: "Teacher, this motorcycle was designed by me. It can pull seven carriages, load hundreds of thousands of kilograms of goods, and run freely."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Not bad."

How much does a hundred thousand kilograms of goods mean? This load is very small in later generations. However, Zhou Mengchen seems to have made a breakthrough of zero, especially when Zhou Mengchen saw the wheels of the royal palace movement on the steam locomotive, he knew that Yin Zongyi could do this, but in fact, he had greatly promoted the steam engine one step forward.

At least it is not a steam engine that can only be used to lift water at the beginning. It can be a continuous and stable power source.

Unlike before, each machine needs to be designed separately.

In Zhou Mengchen's opinion, the efforts of Yin Zongyi, the disciple, in the steam engine, were enough for him to be the Wat of the Ming Dynasty. Although there were still problems of this and that, those things were all things in the future. Yin Zongyi still had enough time to grow.

After being praised by Zhou Mengchen, Yin Zongyi was somewhat happy.

Although Yin Zongyi has been practicing outside for so many years and has cooperated with Shanxi merchants, his family has already had more than 100,000 taels of money, and the Yin family has been listed as one of the richest people of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the upward situation is very obvious. However, the more respect Yin Zongyi has towards Zhou Mengchen.

On the one hand, it was because Yin Zongyi knew that only by holding Zhou Mengchen's thighs could he protect his family's business. Although Yin Zhengmao has been promoted now, Yin Zhengmao's official position is far from enough to protect Yin Zongyi's development situation.

In recent years, Zhou Mengchen has no longer been the small official in the Ministry of Works. He is not only famous all over the world, but also has great military achievements. Such a person has brought a greater halo.

On the other hand, he admired Zhou Mengchen academically.

Many things are understood by experts.

Zhou Mengchen no longer follows specific scientific research. However, he has never been stingy with his disciples. Of course, this kind of guidance is like Zhou Mengchen treating Xu Gao, and it is more guiding. In Zhou Mengchen's view, Yin Zongyi can be the Watt of the Ming Dynasty.

But in fact, this Watt was also pointed out by him. He gave Yin Zongyi enough guidance to all the difficulties in the steam engine.

At that time, Yin Zongyi might not understand, but after a long time, after breaking through, after looking at Zhou Mengchen's guidance, he would suddenly understand. It turned out that the teacher had explained it to me a long time ago. It was just that I was too stupid and didn't understand.

In this regard, many disciples left Zhou Mengchen, or when they were independently studying the topic, they suddenly realized that the teacher had eyes that saw through everything. I was nothing if I left the teacher.

Of course they are not nothing or nothing.

But one thing we have to admit is that as the first generation of scientific researchers, they have many pitfalls to fill, which is not something that Zhou Mengchen can do alone. The establishment of a scientific research system requires not only geniuses, but also enough talents to pave the way little by little.

Zhou Mengchen's scientific research actually has a bit of repeated experiments. Therefore, the speed is very fast, but this is abnormal in itself. It's just that Zhou Mengchen's disciples don't know, so they can't achieve the teacher's efficiency and just think that they are abnormal.

Yin Zongyi may be able to be proud of his achievements in front of others, but if he receives a praise in front of Zhou Mengchen, he will be as happy as a child.

"Teacher. Let's get on the bus." Xu Gao said: "I want to ask the teacher to see this railway."

Zhou Mengchen nodded and said, "Okay."

Immediately someone brought a stool and put it underneath. Zhou Mengchen got on the stool and got on the car. After Zhou Mengchen got on the car and sat down, he couldn't help but complain: "Xu Gao, you should build a platform outside to be on the same level as the ground here. In this way, isn't it convenient to do anything?"

After hearing this, Xu Gao slapped his forehead and said, "The teacher is right, I was negligent. I was negligent." Then he immediately picked up a notebook and recorded it with a pencil.

This is also the habit of Zhou Mengchen's disciples. They are used to using pencils to record things at any time.

"Sir, can you drive?" someone saluted outside the carriage and said.

Zhou Mengchen nodded and said, "You can drive."
Chapter completed!