The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 148 Steam Roller

Does Feng Yu like to hang out in bars? No, unless it's necessary!
So Bo Rui was unable to wait for Feng Yu. Instead, because he was preoccupied, he drank one cup after another and got himself drunk without realizing it.

In fact, Feng Yu had nothing to fool Bori with. The irrigated fields on the wilderness were there, and he didn't believe that the dwarves would not come.

He has a lot of things to do now, in addition to the work at the research institute, there are also matters related to the new mining area.

A portion of the iron ore that Old Man Anthony discovered when he was clearing the wasteland some time ago has been dug up, and Master Mason was brought back to conduct an on-site investigation.

The result was very encouraging. It was a rich mine with considerable reserves. However, it was a bit far from the camp, so the old problem still existed: mining and transportation were both troublesome.

Feng Yu has deeply realized that with the rapid development of Xiangpu City, road traffic problems have become a major problem restricting the development of the camp.

The current camp not only needs a road between the camp and the new iron mine, but also a hard road between camps. Otherwise, the already dusty wilderness will inevitably be filled with smoke and dust due to the hustle and bustle of traffic.

Moreover, dirt roads will deform over time. Although there is not much rain in the wilderness, when it really rains, traffic will be paralyzed.

But now there are not enough people. Feng Yu is waiting for the arrival of those migrants. That is a large group of tens of thousands of people. If some of them come out, Feng Yu's road construction plan will be settled.

Now he has ready-made houses and farmlands in one hand and lots of money in the other, so he doesn't have to worry about not being able to find a large number of workers.

As a reserve dwarf king, Bori naturally has to have a deep understanding of the root cause of the changes in the Cattail City camp, that is, Darren Fengyu, the friend from another continent mentioned by Dick.

Feng Yu also understood Bori's intention, but he had no bad intentions towards the dwarves, so he was naturally not afraid to confront the dwarf successor face to face.

No matter how isolated the dwarves were, they knew about the situation on the continent of Green. Feng Yu did not go into detail. The reason of stockpiling food, salt, and weapons alone was strong enough.

Regardless of whether Borei believes it or not, Feng Yu's plan is beneficial to the dwarves now. Feng Yu is not afraid that the dwarves will not come to the wasteland, unless they do not want the Great Wasteland as their "temporary granary".

Feng Yu didn't tell them that he planned to settle down in the wilderness instead of storing food for a short period of time. He was afraid that no one would believe him if he told them, and that other problems might arise.

Bo Rui didn't leave for the time being. The weather was getting cooler and there was nothing to do in the Snow Summit Mountains. He wanted to stay here for a while to get a deeper understanding of the changes in the camp and Feng Yu's purpose.

Feng Yu welcomed this very much. He didn't like people telling him what to do, but if he just wanted to walk around and take a look, then that was fine.

China missed out on a lot of things because of its previous isolation and subsequent continuous wars. Later, its industry was able to develop rapidly, and it was able to stand on the shoulders of others and start from a high point.

Why do I say so? Because China started with the application of internal combustion engines and electricity. From the very beginning, it had a complete industrial system.

But in terms of real industrial development, China actually missed a very romantic era, the steampunk era.

The history of the earth's industrial development, since the emergence of the steam engine, has unfolded a glorious but now-fading picture, which is the steam age.

Steam machinery, trains, ships, and cars are all products of that era.

Let’s not talk about trains. As for why a ship is called a ship, it is because the earliest steam-powered ships were driven by steam engines driving paddle wheels on both sides of the ship.

The reason why a car is called a car is because the earliest cars were steam-powered and emitted white steam.

Steam vehicles of that era were divided into cars, trucks, tractor locomotives and tractors according to their power and purpose.

That’s why there is a saying that China’s industrial development missed an era, because we skipped the era when steam engines were popular.

With the current industrial base of the camp, Feng Yu originally planned to jump directly from the steam machinery era to the electric machinery era, but he found that this was not feasible because there was no big brother to provide the camp with a complete industrial system.

So he wanted to develop steam machinery such as steam cars, not because he liked the steampunk style, but to accumulate industrial infrastructure and manufacturing experience.

Because of the bug profession of alchemist, Feng Yu can rely on alchemists to make small things such as ball bearings with a certain precision, which gives him the ability to build complex steam-powered machinery such as steam locomotives.

It doesn't have to be a large scale, but the accumulation of basic experience in manufacturing is very necessary.

He also had no intention of making a flashy steam coach to steal the business of ibex and mountain goat. Instead, he led the researchers from the institute to build a steam roller.

It is not realistic to build a hard road surface because there is no asphalt. If you want to pave a hard road surface, you need stone powder. If you want the stone powder road surface to be used for a long time, not only a large amount of stone powder is needed to be piled up to a certain thickness, but also some steel bars are needed in the stone powder to enhance the tensile strength.

Regardless of whether it is stone powder or steel bars, they are not high-yield products in the camp, otherwise Feng Yu would not be forced to build a mud house, but would directly build a building.

Therefore, the initial pavement materials were industrial waste, slag and mine slag, which were very common in the camp.

After these two things are crushed into small pieces, they are used to pave the road, and then compacted by a roller to become a good slag road.

Because of its clumsy steam power source, the steam roller does not need a counterweight and is not light, so it moves extremely slowly, which is frustrating to watch. However, it is good for rolling roads, at least it is much better than manual tamping.

However, even though this steam roller looked ugly and clumsy in Feng Yu's eyes and made him want to cry, it was still a very shocking thing to the people in the research institute and the camp.

The biggest reason is that this thing does not look like a ship. It is on the shore, next to people, and it is very tall, about three and a half dicks tall.

When the steam roller was driven out for testing, Borri stood beside Dick, staring at the huge machine spewing out steam and vibrating as it passed in front of him.

"I... don't know what to say. Mother Earth, is this really made by our dwarven craftsmen?!"

Dick looked at the steamroller and said, “Not only dwarven craftsmen, but also elf and halfling designers, alchemists, machine tool operators, and so on.

This was made by the Cattail City Camp with great efforts.”

"But why is it so slow?"

"Darren said this thing is used to compact the road surface, so it doesn't matter how fast it can run, as long as it is heavy enough."

(I have cervical spondylosis and frozen shoulder, and have been receiving intravenous drips for six or seven days. I have used up all my manuscripts. I stopped updating yesterday. I am really sorry.)

(End of this chapter)