My life skills in Daming Liver

Suzhou's railway station is built outside the city. It is a passenger and freight station.

Su Ze got off the carriage. This train station also uses new building materials, with a reinforced concrete main structure and glass windows. The train station is extremely bright. In the late spring of April and May, it looks like a greenhouse. The temperature inside the train station is just right.

It only took five months from the start of construction to the completion of this railway station, a feat achieved with the help of new building materials.

Tang Xianzu led everyone to greet Su Ze at the station. The ministers followed Su Ze and looked at the glass dome of the station with interest.

"Grand Governor, this is the designer of the station, Lei Fa."

Su Ze looked at this young man. He looked about thirty years old. The skin on his hands was chapped and there were traces of ink stains on his fingers. He looked like a down-to-earth craftsman.

"I remember the designer of the Crystal Palace also had the last name Lei?"

Lei Fa immediately lowered his head and said, "That's my father!"

Su Ze looked at the young man in surprise and heard him say: "We were engaged in construction during the Lei family era, and we learned the construction method from the Grand Governor."

"From me?"

Lei Fa said: "If the governor had not annotated the "Fashion of Construction" so that our contemporary craftsmen can understand the architectural books of the Tang and Song Dynasties, our father and son would not have been able to make such progress in construction."

Su Ze then remembered that when he was in Fuzhou, he got a copy of "Building Methods" from the Song Dynasty from the abbot of Nanchan Temple.

During the Song and Yuan wars, the brutal wars, coupled with the Yuan Dynasty plundering a large number of Song craftsmen for the Western Expeditions, resulted in the architectural techniques passed down to the Tang and Song Dynasties being almost lost.

The buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are obviously more imbalanced than the buildings of the Tang and Song Dynasties. This is because there is a gap in technology.

The book "Building French Style" summarizes the architectural experience of the Tang and Song Dynasties in detail, but the book uses code words used by craftsmen of the Song Dynasty.

Su Ze translated the book "Building Methods" into vernacular through the system, and later published the book for free when he was giving lectures at Tiangong Academy.

To this day, this book is still one of the textbooks in the Architecture Department of Tiangong Academy.

Su Ze then remembered that Lei Fa's father was Lei Chang, the architect and designer of the Crystal Palace who convened the Constitutional Convention.

The Crystal Palace is an exquisite architectural work of art that combines traditional architecture and new building material styles. Unexpectedly, the Suzhou Railway Station was also designed and built by the Lei family.

Su Ze patted Lei Fa on the shoulder and said, "It really comes from family education!"

Su Ze pointed to the dome and said, "What if it's summer?"

Lei Fa immediately said: "The windows on the upper floor can be opened for ventilation. In summer, there is also a mechanism-controlled sunshade roof. Just pull it up to prevent the sun from shining in."

Su Ze said with satisfaction: "That's very thoughtful. Let's continue shopping."

Everyone who came with Su Ze visited the train station with a curious look on their faces.

Compared with palace-like buildings like the Constituent Assembly Hall, functional buildings like train stations require more considerations and are more complex to design.

Relying on his Level 7 construction knowledge, Su Ze was able to discuss some relatively complex issues with Lei Fa, while the others looked confused. The Governor was indeed versatile and proficient in everything.

After visiting the waiting hall, the next step is the freight part.

The most important thing about a horse-drawn rail car is naturally the horse. In the freight workshop of the railway station, rows of stables were built. These are the horses used to pull the car.

However, there is a larger building next to the stable, which Su Ze specially ordered Tang Xianzu to build.

Soon, an acquaintance poked his head out of the tall building.

Lu Gang said enthusiastically: "Grand Governor!"

Tang Xianzu looked at his immediate boss with a headache.

Construction of the Xuzhou Railway started first and was completed before the Battle of Xuzhou.

After the completion, Lu Gang stayed in Xuzhou for a period of time to smoothen the freight and land transportation modes of the Xuzhou Railway, and immediately came to Suzhou.

But after arriving in Suzhou, Lu Gang, the chief director of the Railway Department, still asked nothing about anything and handed over all the affairs of the Suzhou-Songzhou Railway to Tang Xianzu, a scholar who was a scholar of political affairs.

Tang Xianzu was also responsible for raising railway bonds, dealing with nail households along the railway, negotiating the railway route with local governments, and supervising the construction and construction of supply stations along the way and stations in Suzhou and Songjiang.

During this period, Tang Xianzu could only sleep six hours a day.

After Tang Xianzu published the Employee Protection Law in the newspaper, he thought about using the newspaper to file a lawsuit with his boss Lu Gang, suing him for illegal employment!

Lu Gang didn't care about the complaints from his subordinates, and still handed over all the work to Tang Xianzu with confidence. He got into this mysterious workshop and didn't know what he was busy with all day long.

Of course Su Ze knew what Lu Gang was busy with. The steam engine that was exhibited at the expo was moved to this factory by Lu Gang. These days, Lu Gang has been trying to move the steam engine onto the train.

However, moving the steam engine onto the train was much more complicated than Su Ze had imagined.

Thanks to Su Ze's plug-in, he has already taken a lot of detours, but it was only recently that he made progress.

This is why Su Ze personally came to Suzhou Station to cut the ribbon. His more important purpose was to see the achievements of the steam engine locomotive.

Su Ze led everyone to Lu Gang's factory. Only then did they discover that there was a section of railway track in the factory, and a strange machine with wheels was parked on the railway track.

Lu Gang jumped onto this strange machine with his face covered in grease. He said to Su Ze:

"Grand Governor! I put the steam engine on the train!"

Su Ze looked at the bulky steam locomotive, which was larger than the steam trains he had remembered.

Everyone remembered the steam engine displayed in the center of the exposition.

Fang Wanghai glanced at Su Ze. He knew that his son-in-law had been promoting steam engines, but not many people were interested in steam engines.

Strictly speaking, it’s not that they are not interested, many people are still very interested in the principles of steam engines.

But workshop owners are generally reluctant to use such machines.

Today's steam engines are still very large, and regardless of the price of the steam engine, if you want to use steam power, you need to rebuild the factory.

There was also a need for a mechanic who could repair the steam engine, which also had to burn coal and water every day.

After encountering obstacles in selling to the private sector, Su Ze began to sell steam engines in government-run workshops.

This actually made Su Ze discover the use.

Mine.

These government-run mines soon discovered that steam engines really worked.

Especially in coal mines, using steam power is much more convenient than human and animal power, and it is also safer.

The steam engine also served as a water pump to remove stagnant water from the mines.

Some mines are also equipped with crawlers or mine cars, and steam engines are used to pull the ore out of the mines.

Moreover, the power of the steam engine is very stable, there is no need to be close to running water, and there is no fear of dangerous environments.

It seems that Lu Gang was sent here by Su Ze to study how to install steam engines on trains and replace horses as the power of trains.

But when you think about it, steam engines are indeed pretty good.

A stable source of power, unlike the unexpected situations that may occur when a horse is running on the track.

It only needs coal and water to drive, and it does not need to drink water, eat grass and poop like a horse.

But the premise is that the steam engine can operate stably.

If the horse-drawn train stalls, you only need to change horses to pull it again.

But if such a giant steel beast is lying down, it cannot be pulled by a few horses.

"Grand Governor, why don't you give it a try?"

Su Ze saw that the track in the workshop was in a ring shape and saw traces of the track. He knew that Lu Gang had tested it several times.

"Grand Governor, you'd better not go up there."

At this time, Shen Shixing hurriedly came out to dissuade him. Who knew whether this big guy was safe or not? What if something unexpected happened? Su Ze alone had control over the entire Southeast. No one else had the prestige of Su Ze to control the Southeast. A huge carriage.

Only then did Lu Gang realize that his statement was inappropriate, but Su Ze still said: "What danger can a steam train pose?"

Everyone looked at the steam engine head that had begun to spit out white smoke, like a giant beast breathing fire. He Xinyin stood directly in front of the steam engine head and said to Su Ze:

"Great Governor, the son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall, so you can't get on the bus."

Seeing everyone's advice, Su Ze had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​boarding the front of the steam locomotive.

I only saw Lu Gang putting coal into the steam engine. As the flame began to rise, the pressure in the cylinder also began to rise.

Lu Gang opened the valve and pulled the whistle, and a stream of steam rushed out from the official road, making a sharp hissing sound.

Driven by the connecting rod of the steam engine, the wheels gradually began to rotate.

This steel giant finally moved.

The speed of the steam engine was not very fast, not even as fast as the horse-drawn rail car.

But compared to horse-drawn rail cars, steam engines shocked everyone more.

Before the advent of the steam engine, who could have imagined that pure steel could move with coal and water?

But all this has already happened before our eyes!

And some people see further.

Fang Wanghai saw that the railway network connected the entire Central Plains and even the entire world. Goods could be transported freely on the rails. The cost of land transportation was even lower than that of sea transportation. At that time, all markets would be connected by rail.

Shen Shixing saw that people could board the train and start traveling thousands of miles at any time. Reading thousands of books was not as good as traveling thousands of miles, and traveling thousands of miles could be completed easily while lying in the carriage.

He Xinyin saw that government orders could be quickly transmitted to every inch of the empire through railways, and news that happened in Nanjing during the day could appear in newspapers in Hangzhou at night.

And Su Ze saw a future world of steam and steel.

Today's steam engines are still very slow, require a lot of coal, and require mechanics to be ready for repairs at any time, but sooner or later, railways can push the entire era forward and completely push Chinese civilization into the industrial age.

The steam locomotive made several turns in the workshop. Lu Gang opened the exhaust valve, gradually extinguished the boiler, and then began to slowly pull the brakes to slow down.

After the train stopped, Lu Gang jumped off the train and said:

"Grand Governor, did you see it?"

Su Ze nodded and asked, "How is the stability?"

Lu Gang rubbed his head and said: "The stability is still not good. The air leaked accidentally during the last test. It took a long time to fix it."

"We have to wait until the steam locomotive is stable before we can go on the rails for testing."

After visiting the steam locomotive factory, Su Ze and others came to the office building of Suzhou Station.

This is a row of new-style two-story buildings with white walls and red tiles. All the buildings have a similar style, as if they were made from the same mold.

This is the dormitory for the office staff of the railway station, and it is also the office where Tang Xianzu prepared the Su-Song Railway.

Su Ze walked into the room where Tang Xianzu worked. There were maps hanging on the wall and various documents on the table like a mountain. Tang Xianzu not only read these documents, but also wrote his own opinions on how to deal with them.

Seeing the thick dark circles under Tang Xianzu's eyes, Su Ze looked at Lu Gang and said:

"Okay, our Guanzheng Jinshi in the southeast are being squeezed by you like this, right?"

Lu Gang shouted: "The Governor is wronged! I am training young people! Didn't you train me like this back then?"

Everyone laughed. When it comes to being a boss and squeezing his subordinates, who can compare to Su Ze, the governor of the southeast.

Su Ze also blushed rarely. He looked at the map filled with lines drawn by Tang Xianzu and asked:

"Tang Jinshi, which section of the next railway do you think should be built?"