bestfiction Chapter 613 The Shock Brought by the Excavator
Chapter 613 The Shock Brought by the Excavator
Seven days later, Nei Shi Teng came out of the Qilin Hall and reported to Ying Zheng with a happy face:
"Your Majesty, with the joint efforts of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, a steam excavator has now been successfully manufactured."
When Ying Zheng heard this, his eyes immediately lit up. He had been looking forward to the steam excavator for a long time, and he did not expect to manufacture it so soon.
"it is good!"
"Order to ask Gongshujie to transport this steam excavator to the open space behind the palace. I want to see the effectiveness of this steam excavator with my own eyes."
Hearing Ying Zheng's order, Gong Shujie and several ministers from the Academy of Engineering quickly respectfully promised.
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Soon.
Ying Zheng, Ying Yu, and all the civil and military officials came to an open space behind Xianyang Palace. Apart from a few houses that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, there was a large area of grass and stone roads.
After waiting for a while, the personnel from the Academy of Engineering drove the steam excavator here.
"Your Majesty, there are experimental sites in the Academy of Engineering and Academy of Sciences, why did you come here?"
"This used to be a place where beggars and refugees lived, but as my Daqin policy got better and better, now there are almost no beggars and refugees in Xianyang City, and this place has been abandoned."
"This place is very windy. Your Majesty, you are the monarch of Great Qin. How can you condescend to come to such a place?"
Ying Zheng didn't care about the discussion of the officials, he just waved his hand slightly and said:
"The development of my Great Qin is booming now, and Xianyang City, as the capital of Great Qin, represents the face of my Great Qin."
"This place is so close to the imperial palace, but it is so dilapidated, which hurts my Daqin's face, so I decided to redevelop this land, and try the effect of this steam excavator by the way."
After the words fell, Ying Zheng looked at Ying Yu:
"I remember that the prince said in the hall that day that this excavator can not only excavate mountains and quarry stones, but also renovate and rebuild land and houses."
Looking at the smiling Ying Zheng, Ying Yu nodded slightly: "Yes, Father!"
"If you want to rebuild this land, Erchen suggested to demolish all the abandoned houses and stone roads full of weeds first."
"In the past, if the demolition was done by manpower, it would probably take a few days, but now with the steam excavator, it can be completely demolished in less than half a day."
"Even the land can be completely excavated, and then filled with gravel here as a roadbed and foundation."
Ying Yu smiled lightly and made his own suggestion.
"In that case, let's go."
Seeing that Ying Yu was so confident, the joy on Ying Zheng's face became even more intense. Of course he knew that Ying Yu would not lie to him.
The reason for doing this is actually to establish prestige for the crown prince Ying Yu.
"Yes! Father!"
Ying Yu responded, and then stepped forward to explain a few words to the man driving and operating the steam excavator.
Afterwards, that person drove and operated the steam excavator, and took action according to Ying Yu's instructions.
I saw him controlling the steam excavator, and the huge claw arm in front of him slowly fell and touched the stone road.
With a "click", the fast stone road was pried over by the claw arm.
In less than half a day, the abandoned houses, abandoned stone roads, and large expanses of soft and wet soil on this land became extremely fragile and turned into ruins in front of the steam excavator.
"Come here, call some craftsmen to clean up the land and pave a brand new stone road. From now on, this place will be another training ground in Xianyang City."
Ying Yu looked at the land in front of him and said slowly.
"Yes! Your Highness!"
"Weichen will do it now!"
Hearing Ying Yu's order, a minister recovered from his astonishment, responded quickly, and turned to leave.
It wasn't until this time that Ying Zheng and the courtiers gradually recovered from their surprise and shock.
As the saying goes, hearing is believing, seeing is believing.
Although this steam excavator was invented by Ying Yu, they have only heard about its effectiveness, but have not really seen it.
Although Ying Zheng and all civil and military officials believed in Ying Yu, they were still a little uncertain in their hearts.
After all, this can easily be used to excavate mountains and quarry, and even excavate landfill equipment, which they have never heard of or seen.
Now that they have seen the function of the steam excavator with their own eyes, everyone is deeply shocked.
At this moment, everyone present was very clear in their hearts how important the appearance of steam excavators was to the construction of the Daqin Railway, to the improvement of Daqin's environment, and to the development of Daqin's industry!
"Good! Good! Great!"
Ying Zheng looked at the steam excavator in front of him, and said three "good" words in succession, which was enough to show the joy in Ying Zheng's heart.
"Your Majesty, this steam excavator is more powerful than what His Royal Highness said. I suggest that the Academy of Engineering should focus on this steam excavator, and strive to mass-produce it as soon as possible and spread it throughout the country."
Nestern on the side took a deep breath, and then suggested a little excitedly.
The shock in the hearts of many ministers present at this moment has not dissipated for a long time. Everyone is very clear in their hearts what the appearance of the steam excavator means to Daqin.
The construction of railways, the mining of ore, and even the construction of roadbed foundations, or the demolition of houses, or the renovation of land, the reconstruction of roads, etc.
In the past, Daqin was carried out by manpower. Although the population of Daqin has been greatly improved now, the population is constantly increasing, and the labor force has also greatly increased.
Relying on manpower to work is not a long-term solution after all. Manpower needs to consume a lot of material and financial resources, as well as time.
And because of Ying Yu's various inventions, various industrial equipment, and the emergence of machinery, the pressure and work intensity of Daqin workers have been greatly reduced.
Now the emergence of steam excavators will liberate the hands of many workers, and will free up more labor in Daqin to do other things and solve other things.
Not only that, the emergence of steam excavators has made Daqin's infrastructure construction simpler, more labor-saving, and more time-saving.
For Daqin, this is definitely a good thing with advantages and no disadvantages.