Throne of Vientiane Civilization

At this moment, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of developing bicycles. In the final analysis, it was because they lacked horses, but they couldn't find any wild horses for the time being.

With no choice, Zhou Xu could only focus on the messenger.

In order to deliver messages faster, each of their villages always has two fast horses for messengers to use.

But in the process of actual implementation, Zhou Xu found that not all the news was so urgent, and it didn't matter if some news came slowly.

Under this premise, Zhou Xu came up with an idea, that is to reduce the fast horses in each village to one, and then arrange two bicycles for each of them.

For important news, a courier will be specially arranged to deliver it on a fast horse.

For less important news, just let the other two messengers send the message by bicycle, and there is no need to be so anxious.

In this era, bicycles manufactured under limited conditions are definitely not as fast as fast horses, but they are also much faster than two-legged or bullock carts, which are sufficient for ordinary communications.

After talking about the production of the bicycle with Zhuang Mengdie, Zhou Xu took advantage of the opportunity to talk to Zhuang Mengdie about another vehicle, rounded up, it can be regarded as a derivative of the bicycle.

"Look, this ox cart, while ensuring the 'cart' part, replaces the front ox with a human-powered structure similar to a bicycle, and combines them together, will it be able to move to a certain extent? to achieve the transportation effect of a bullock cart?"

At this moment, what Zhou Xu was talking about was nothing but a human-powered tricycle.

After returning from this trip, when observing the daily work of the logging team, I found that sometimes the ox cart may not work well.

The working place of the logging team is basically in the logging field outside the village.

For the logging team, the main function of the ox cart is to transport the timber they cut back to the village.

But to be honest, at such a distance, it would be difficult to pull a cow to transport timber. If this is replaced by a rickshaw, wouldn't it be easy to walk? Maybe it's easier than bullock carts.

The same situation also occurred on the mine side, as well as some short-distance transportation work of the construction team.

And Zhou Xu's purpose is also self-evident, that is to free up more ox carts for transportation between villages and cultivation of fields.

From this point of view, just looking at the value that can be displayed at work, the manpower tricycle can provide them with far more benefits than bicycles.

Zhuang Mengdie, who realized this, was also unambiguous at all. Under Zhou Xu's guidance, he drove out the design drawing of the rickshaw overnight.

Started making it the next day.

Since she can do two kinds of vehicles, wooden carts and bicycles, the work at hand is really not unfamiliar.

The only thing that needs more attention is the connection, but it's not difficult in itself. According to the experience Zhuang Mengdie has accumulated along the way, she can easily handle it without Zhou Xu even asking.

Soon the first tricycle was built.

Compared with bicycles, tricycles are flat and stable, but they are easier to ride too much. Basically, it is enough for people to sit on them and pedal.

This first tricycle was undoubtedly assigned to the logging team of Black Moon Village.

After trying it out, I found that although this tricycle is more laborious than an ox cart, it does save trouble!

After all, a cow is a living animal, and when you drag it around, sometimes there are a lot of troubles.

But tricycles are different. You don’t have to take care of the emotions of the tricycle. You can just park it wherever you go.

What's the matter, you tell the person riding the tricycle, if you can speak clearly, he can also understand, how convenient.

In this way, this tricycle, which is more laborious than an ox cart, was unexpectedly welcomed by the logging team.

Afterwards, two new tricycles made by the equipment department were sent to the mine in Salt Lake Village. Not surprisingly, the miners at the mine also found the tricycle convenient and easy.

Zhou Xu was able to use tricycles to complete the replacement with bullock carts in these related departments very smoothly.

In this way, more ox carts can be smoothly put into long-distance transportation.

After all, at this moment, the relocation of the original village and the construction of the new village have already started in the barren mountain village.

In order for the work there to proceed smoothly, the work pressure of the transportation team here is quite high.

Of course, during this period of time, they were not all transporting materials and building materials to the barren mountain village, and materials were undoubtedly transported from the barren mountain village.

On this day, an ox cart stopped outside Heiyue Village. The cart was full of resources transported from Barren Mountain Village, including the red ore discovered at that time.

These ores have different surface shapes, some are flake, some are scaly or granular, and the only thing in common is that all of these ores are red.

Needless to say, this is exactly the red ore that Zhou Xu asked to pick up from near the camp of the Red Stone Tribe before, and it was transported here for him now.

I don't know what kind of ore it is, but Zhou Xu is not entangled. Anyway, first smelt and purify it, and then study it slowly after making it into a metal ingot.

For this set of procedures, the forging department is familiar with it, and the facilities are also complete, and the smelting will start soon.

The red ore might take a long time to burn, so Zhou Xu naturally didn't intend to wait the whole time, so he went back to his residence, rolled out a roll of animal skin, and drew a blueprint.

As for the smelting of the red ore, he didn't care about the process, anyway, it was finally made into metal ingots, so just send it over to him for a look.

After drawing the blueprints, Zhou Xu felt sleepy for a while, and took a nap for a while. When he woke up, it was almost evening.

While getting dressed, he yelled directly towards the door.

"Go and ask how the ore is being smelted. If it has been made into a metal ingot, just bring it over."

The new follower outside heard the order and hurried to the forging department to confirm.

Zhou Xu didn't make him wait too long, and after running to the forging department to inquire about the situation, he returned as quickly as possible.

"Report to the leader, the ore hasn't been burned yet!"

This situation made Zhou Xu frowned slightly, and hurried to the forging department to confirm the situation.

"leader!"

Zhou Dahui, the head of the forging department, saw their leader coming in person, so he hurried forward to salute.

"What's the situation with the ore now?"

While signaling the other party to avoid courtesy, Zhou Xu went straight to the point and quickly explained his intentions.

After hearing this, Zhou Dahammer directly took out the ore from the forging furnace.

"Let's see, chief."

I saw that at this moment, those ores were already burning red and hot, but there was no tendency to melt them.

"The temperature of this forging furnace is actually not enough."

The most direct reason why the ore cannot be burned is that it has not yet reached the melting point.

The forging furnace in the forging department does not turn off the flame, and it keeps burning like this. This also allows the temperature in the furnace to reach the current highest temperature quickly after they start work, saving a lot of time in the middle.

Under this premise, the red ore has not been burned until now, and if it continues to burn, it may be useless.

To solve this problem, the temperature of the forging furnace must be further increased.

With such thoughts in mind, Zhou Xu pondered for a while.

"We need a bellows."