Chapter 257(2/2)
Damn it! The distance of more than 100 miles made us stumped? So Zhao Wei only dared to think about it in his heart, but Su Liuyi, Lu Xiufu and the others were already eager to try it!
"Build a river! You must build a river!"
Zhao Wei: "..."
Zhao Wei was speechless, "Everyone... can you not think of it as soon as you come out? This river is not something you can do if you say it."
As a result, Lu Xiufu glared at him, "What? The spiritual canal that was opened on the mountain wall, and the ancestors of the Grand Canal that were thousands of miles long have been built. Can the small river ditch be stumped by us?"
"That's it!" Su Liuyi added fire to the side, "This thing is divided, and it's not a long-term solution for half a year! Isn't it only more than a hundred miles? It still needs to be repaired!"
Zhao Wei was anxious, "This is not the case with Lingqu and Grand Canal!"
"You don't know the terrain! The middle is too high! If you want to repair the lock, it must be a large lock of level 5 or above. Unless Yisima Yin can immediately get the steam engine out, how can you turn the river back? It will be brought to the mountains?"
The difficulty of the Panama Canal is not the length, but the height! It is equivalent to making the river water and boats climb up a mountain, so how easy is it?
"It's purely delusion!"
When the two husbands heard this, they became anxious, "Why are they just delusions? Without the steam engine, the water cannot be raised? I use a human-powered water truck to pump up! I also have to pump the river water up!"
"Haha..." Zhao Wei laughed dryly, "Then you smoke... how big is the water truck? A first-level lock is used for a month?"
"What's wrong?" Lu Xiufu glared, "What's wrong with taking a month? Isn't it easier than going around a big circle?"
"I....."
Zhao Wei was shocked!! His heartbeat missed. He suddenly realized a problem...
He seemed to be... trapped by the thinking of later generations!
Yes, he knew the Panama Canal in later generations, and knew that the fifth-level lock needed power to be transported before it could be navigated. He subconsciously believed that it would not work in the Song Dynasty.
But... Lu Xiufu and Su Liuyi didn't think so at all!
What's wrong with using human power to pump water? Even if you carry water up one shoulder pole and one shoulder pole, it is better than going around South America!
Seeing Zhao Wei being stunned, Lu Xiufu simply taught Zhao Wei a lesson, "Let's settle the accounts..."
"First of all, technology is not a problem. Our ancestors are just playing with lock technology!"
"Secondly, we are not short of money! One treasury and one treasury can sleep there!"
"Third, we are not short of labor. Why are millions of Mayans keeping them? We can't just use their army to fight to death, right? Since so many laborers have joined the Song Dynasty, it's not useless! Is it difficult to pull hundreds of thousands of people to build a river?"
"Fourth! We still have explosives! How much explosives do we want for the inexhaustible saltpeter mines? Isn't it easy to blow out a river channel?"
"Fifth, it is the cost issue that Your Highness mentioned!"
"Yes! Even if there is no steam engine, you can only use a water truck to deliver water to the mountain!"
"Even if His Highness said, the fifth-level ship lock and the first lock of the car will take one month!"
"But what's wrong? It's said that there are five gates, but from east to west, or from west to east, you only need to pump water at three locks? As long as you send the boat to the highest point, you don't need to pump water at the remaining two gates, right?"
"Okay!! Three gates, three months!!"
"Three months passed, isn't it faster than a circle? Moreover, it's just a cost of time!!"
"It will take more than half a year to go around Nan Fusang. How much supplies do the fleet need? How much risks do you have to take on the road? How much does it cost?"
"Your Highness can't settle this account, right?"
"And with this canal, the dispatch of that thing will be countless times more convenient. The navy on the west bank can be transferred to the east bank at any time. Doesn't your Highness know how much the benefits are?"
"..." Zhao Wei had nothing to say. In fact, Lu Xiufu didn't have to settle the score. He realized that he was trying to make the problem complicated.
As a result, he was robbed by Mr. Lu for a while and became passive. He wanted to find some face to recover his stammer, "It's the truth...this is the truth."
"But it's not as simple as my husband said, right?"
Zhao Wei looked cunning and counted in detail, "The locks in our Central Plains are all small locks, used for crossing the river! A gate is five or eight meters wide, and the gate is only a little small. Even if it is very heavy, its existing capabilities can barely be lifted and lowered."
"But... this canal needs to be built to cross the sea boat..." Zhao Wei's voice became louder and louder, as if he had grasped the difficulty of the problem, "And there can't be one or two ships passing by at one time!"
"At least dozens of ships! Otherwise, this river would have no meaning!"
"The gate is so big...it's at least a hundred feet wide! It's less than ten feet tall, can you cross the sea boat?"
Zhao Wei simply stood up, "Tell me! One hundred feet wide, ten feet high! Even if it is wood! Such a giant! What are you going to lift and lower it!?"
He slapped the table, "Stubborn! Then stubborn!"
"Just think about something unrealistic! Can this thing be done now??"
After shouting, Zhao Wei was satisfied... I let out a cold sweat, almost scaring these two old men... Is my skilled King Ning called me for nothing?
But I didn't want Lu Xiufu, Su Liuyi, to look at Zhao Wei like a fool, and I was too lazy to pay attention to him...
Zhao Wei also looked at the two of them, and the more they looked, the more they were getting worse, and he thought to himself, wasn't it? Did he say that wrong?
"You, what are you doing when you look at me like this? What am I wrong?"
"Oh!!" Lu Xiufu sighed and said nothing.
He simply picked up the pen and drew it on the paper, "This is the lock of the ship that Your Highness said..."
Mr. Lu drew a big square...
"Just as Your Highness said, a hundred feet wide, and a water depth of at least ten feet... walk dozens of sea boats."
"Yes!" Zhao Wei stubbornly pointed at a side of the square, "It's this lock! How heavy is it? Can it be hung?"
Lu Xiufu admitted, "I can't hold it up...it's not done by manpower."
Zhao Wei slapped his thigh, "Isn't that right!? Why are you still stubborn?"
Lu Xiufu raised his eyebrows, "But...who said he had to hang up all these hundred feet?"
Zhao Wei "..."
As he spoke, Mr. Lu drew more than ten vertical lines in the square and divided one square into more than a dozen rectangular shapes.
"Who has to install all the ships in a prescribed lock?" Isn't it enough to divide the large lock into several small locks? Each small lock is independent. Isn't this a solution?"
He glanced at Zhao Wei, "Can the Hundred-foot gate not be lifted, can't the Hundred-foot gate not be lifted?"
"I....."
Zhao Wei was stunned.
Glazed at Lu Xiufu, staring at the picture...
Snap!
Daxiu shook her sleeves and left with anger, "I don't care, you guys will make the decision!"
So shameful...
Lu Xiufu shook his head and smiled, watched Zhao Wei leave, and sighed...
"Hehe...Technical Ning Wang."
thump....
There was a staggering outside the door and almost landed on the ground.
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Chapter completed!