From Propulsion City To Multiverse

Temporarily changing from a cargo transport ship to an immigration transport ship, the comfort level is naturally not very good.

Many landlubbers, in particular, were dizzy.

Fang Dayong in the cabin got used to it very quickly, mainly because he was relatively strong.

In winter, the East China Sea is dominated by a very strong northwest wind, which has a huge speed-up effect on sailing ships going south.

At present, the overall speed of the transport fleet is maintained at about 10 to 12 knots, which is already a high-speed state among sailing ships.

The sea voyage from Yuzhou to Huduzhou is about 460 kilometers, and it takes about one day to reach Huduzhou.

At noon the next day, the transport fleet arrived at the port of Dongyan Town in Huduzhou.

Immigrants rest overnight in the temporary resettlement camp at the port, and then take a boat to Daliuqiu tomorrow.

Standing on the wooden wall of the temporary camp, Fang Dayong saw the general outline of the entire Dongyan Town. Unlike traditional Chinese city walls, Dongyan Town is a bastion-type city.

Dongyan Town is composed of three bastions, Port Fort, Salt Fort, and Seafood Fort. There are 9 equal cannons on it, which are enough to block the area within 3 kilometers from the bastion wall.

Any enemy who tries to land from the port or the nearby coastline will be hit by at least 3 artillery pieces.

For the enemy without artillery, it is almost impossible to safely land in Dongyan Town from the sea 3 kilometers away.

Fang Dayong didn't understand the special defense system of the bastion, he only felt that the city walls of Dongyan Town were very low.

But in the evening, the lighthouse that lit the whale oil lamp made him look sideways involuntarily.

Dongyan Lighthouse is one of the landmark buildings in Dongyan Town, and it is one of the few buildings made of cement and steel bars, with a height of about 23 meters.

From a distance, you can see the bright lights on the top floor of the lighthouse.

In addition to navigation lights, the lighthouse is also the telegraph room of the wireless telegraph, responsible for the scheduling of navigation, weather forecasts and the like.

The weather forecast here is not a real forecast, but a high-speed telegraph communication to know the real-time weather conditions in various places.

For example, Tamsui encountered a strong typhoon today,

The ships of Zhoushan and Hu Douzhou could not sail south, but had to return to the safe haven in time.

Had dinner.

Fang Dayong and others lay down to rest.

three days later.

Keelung Port.

Fang Dayong's family and 1,200 immigrants were resettled here in Keelung Port, and the vacated transport ship was quickly loaded with hundreds of tons of coke and five tons of tar pitch.

Then the fleet took supplies and the remaining 1,200 migrants to Tamsui City, 52 kilometers away.

Yao Bo's family, who were also assigned to Keelung, stood in the resettlement camp at the port, looking around.

This place is much simpler than Dongyan Town, and there are traces of construction everywhere.

Soon local staff came to arrange their whereabouts.

Among them, 752 people are family members. They are divided into a village and arranged in the west of Keelung City. There is a valley plain with an area of ​​over 10,000 mu, where Hegu Village will be set up.

The remaining 471 people were single, and many of them were orphans, widows, etc., and all the old, weak, sick and disabled stayed in Keelung City.

Then 322 young and middle-aged people were selected and incorporated into coal mining companies.

In the wild jungle to the west of Keelung City.

The residents who were assigned to Hegu Village were not immediately assigned to Hegu Village because it was still a forest.

Wang Yaoxin, the captain of the militia in Hegu Village, announced the work-for-relief plan to everyone, that is, everyone will work hard, and the Governor's Office will arrange food and wages.

The refugees also had no objection to this. After all, many of them were empty-handed. If they were thrown directly at Hegu Village, the entire army would probably be wiped out.

Everyone works hard, eats and drinks enough, but pay attention to hygiene, the old and the weak will be arranged to live in a temporary camp. Wang Yaoxin encouraged everyone.

The young man in Hegu Village, his first job is to build a road from Keelung City to Hegu Village, the length of which is about 5.7 kilometers.

On the second day, Wang Yaoxin and four other soldiers brought in tools such as shovels, shovels, hoes, saws, axes, carts, and four cattle.

The leveling work of the first 500 meters was carried out very quickly, and the two oxen pulled the roller rollers, constantly rolling the roadbed.

Then Wang Yaoxin, who was wearing a silk mask, and others used wood to boil the asphalt in the iron barrel, mixed the gravel from the explosives and the river sand mined from the river into the asphalt solution.

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Wang Yaoxin and six people carried a large bucket of asphalt and dumped it on the roadbed covered with gravel.

The human rolling wheel is rolling on it, and others are holding shovels, shoveling up the remaining asphalt mixture in the iron bucket, and laying it in the gap or a relatively low position.

These pitches are by-products of the Keelung Coking Plant. During the coking process, by-products equivalent to 5-8% of the coal mass will be produced, including crude gas, crude oil, and coal tar.

Coal tar accounts for 90% of the by-products. Coal tar is subjected to secondary treatment in a fractionating tower to separate asphalt (accounting for 50-55%), rich oil and other products.

That is to say, using 100 tons of coal for coking will eventually produce 2.5 to 3 tons of asphalt.

At present, there are three coke ovens in Keelung Coking Plant, which can produce 600-800 tons of coke and 15-24 tons of asphalt every month.

It is still the initial output, and with the expansion of Keelung Coal Company, this output will continue to rise.

After all, the iron-making capacity design of the Danshui Iron and Steel Plant is planned to increase to an annual output of 5,000 tons this year. To match the iron-making capacity with an annual output of 5,000 tons, at least 10,000 tons of coke is required.

It can be seen that the output of coal tar by-products of Keelung Coal Company will also increase in the future.

Asphalt is used to build roads, and it can also replace part of the cement consumption.

As for the Keelung Cement Plant, which has just started construction, its designed capacity this year is 5,000 tons of cement.

What can 5000 tons of cement do?

In Zheng Sen's eyes, the output of 5,000 tons of cement is too little. If it weren't for the fact that the supporting facilities have to be started from scratch, he would not use this backward cement kiln.

Therefore, the roads in immigrant villages such as Hegu Village are designed to be very wide, with a roadbed width of about 12 meters, and 10 meters on both sides, which are used as drainage ditches and green belts, which are reserved for future expansion. .

As for the asphalt and cement road surface, as long as the material is sufficient, it will be used, and the rest of the road will be temporarily leveled and compacted.

Anyway, the roadbed can also pass through horse-drawn carts and ox carts.

After repairing to a position 2.4 kilometers away from Keelung, they encountered a small river.

Wang Yaoxin, who had been prepared for a long time, first ordered some people to repair the road across the river. He brought Fang Dayong and others, and bought some steel rings, steel bars, and iron wires made of ground steel from the supply and marketing cooperative in Keelung City.

After he came back, he asked Fang Dayong to make eight cylinder wooden molds, four big and four small.

After Wang Yaoxin tied up the steel bars, he put the model on the steel bars, and then poured concrete. After waiting for a week, the reinforced concrete pipes were completely dry.

At the bottom of the creek channel, some stones had been piled up first, and then he led people to push four reinforced concrete pipes into the creek one by one.

Then insert stone strips and add cement to build a stone-concrete slab bridge.

This bridge building method was previously promoted by Zheng Sen in Danshui, and it is mainly suitable for small rivers.

And those river courses that can be used as inland canals are not allowed to build such stone-concrete slab bridges.

Before they knew it, they finally completed this 5.7-kilometer rural road at the end of March. Of course, 80% of this road is dirt road, but the traffic between the two places is already passable.

Wang Yaowu began to lead the villagers to prepare for spring plowing and building houses in the village. After all, with the arrival of April, Liuqiu began to enter the rainy season.

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