Chapter 912: The Road Roller Exerts Its Power

The Western Development Group is now looking more and more decent. Although the main logistics force left early after helping them set up the most basic survival facilities, Ce has his own clear plan.

First is food. During this year, Huaxia will provide them with enough food. They do not need to worry too much about the issue of food; they only need to focus all their efforts on construction.

Therefore, their top priority now is to build houses and dig enough water wells. As for the city wall, it has already been mentioned; they currently do not have the conditions to build a city wall.

With Wuzhong the Carpenter here, at least simple earth-and-wood structure houses are not too difficult to build. However, they must now hurry to find suitable soil and then build a kiln site to fire bricks and tiles, as well as some pottery necessary for daily life.

For those tribal Residents, they have merely enjoyed a period of relatively affluent life and returned to their original state, or perhaps even lived much more comfortably than before.

But for Ce and the others, it is different. They grew up in Huaxia and have always used the best things of this era. Yet now, they have to cherish even a single pottery bowl or pottery jar, because without the ability to produce pottery, every one of these items is one less if it breaks. The cost of shipping them here from Huaxia is simply too great.

Fortunately, clay is not a very rare resource. Although there are differences in quality, as long as it is not the high-quality kind used for firing porcelain, the soil for making pottery for daily use is still easy to find.

But they also face a serious problem, which is that the forest is a bit far from them. Although it is not a journey that requires walking for a whole day, a round trip still takes most of the day. Moreover, the road is not flat; since their camp site is chosen on slightly higher ground, hauling wood up is a very difficult task.

Building houses requires wood, and firing kilns for cooking also requires wood. There are no coal resources here like in Huaxia City, so everything related to fire can only be wood.

Therefore, for a long time, except for those herding and hunting, everyone else is on the road to cutting down trees.

To make transporting wood easier and faster, Wuzhong had people use thinner wood to lay a wooden track all the way from the forest to the camp, allowing the logs to be dragged and rolled over.

But this is still far from enough, so he installed a wooden Pulley System at certain intervals, which could save more manpower.

The installation of the Pulley System also opened everyone's eyes, and at the same time, they were full of respect for Wuzhong. How could those savages have imagined that such a few pieces of wood combined with rope could exert such great effect?

Even though the facts were right before their eyes and they had been using them for so long, they were still unable to understand the principle, so they attributed everything to divine power. If it weren't for Wuzhong's firm refusal, he would probably have been elevated to a divine position by those ignorant people by now.

Ce and the others knew what this was, after all, the use of the Pulley System is very widespread in Huaxia. However, they had indeed learned very little knowledge in this area because what they learned was more refined and specialized, so they only had a slight impression of engineering things.

They only felt that there was one mistake, which was that they should have brought more iron pulleys from Huaxia. No matter how well the wooden pulleys and wooden tubes were made, the effect was still far inferior to iron pulleys, and the huge number of wooden pulleys all had to be made by Wuzhong alone.

This descendant of a high-ranking Huaxia Noble was here in the wilderness, carving wood every day, without any of the treatment that his status should have.

It was just like the situation of those carpenters when Huaxia first started construction; as soon as they woke up, there was endless work for them to do, working all year round without rest, never finishing. Baifeng provided many measures, but the effects had not yet appeared, and more work and greater pressure came again.

The herding went quite smoothly. The water and Grass here are lush, and even without much feed, the cattle and sheep can grow very strong. With enough space and freedom, they feel that the vitality of the cattle and sheep has improved a lot.

The only trouble is the wild beasts that come to steal. Wolf packs follow the smell of sheep, and tigers and bears are also unwilling to let go of the abundant food here.

Thus, the struggle between hunters and wild beasts began from the moment the first wolf appeared. No matter how hard the hunters tried, they might be attacked by wolf packs at night. If a sheep died, then a wolf must use its meat and fur as compensation.

However, for the wolf packs, such losses seemed acceptable, and they were never willing to leave, or rather, wolf packs from different tribes kept coming here.

If they didn't have these powerful Weapons given by Huaxia, these still primitive hunters might not really have the confidence to resist the huge number of wild beasts. If they had encountered such a situation before, they would probably have chosen to leave this territory and choose another place to survive. After all, competing for food with fierce beasts is too dangerous, because they themselves are also on the other's menu, or they are each other's food, it just depends on who can gain the upper hand in the game.

They were building frantically on their own territory. Ce never thought that he would be able to return to Huaxia in a short time. If possible, he didn't even want to go back in Winter; he wanted to stay here and hold the line with everyone.

But they never thought that the road from Lema City to the Western Development Group's station had gradually become smooth under the day and night development of thousands of Laborers. Although it was built from scratch, it was not impossible to connect it by the end of the year.

Especially the appearance of the Road Roller, which greatly accelerated the speed of construction. The road surface that used to require a Stone Pestle to hammer solid bit by bit now only needs to be rolled a few times by the Road Roller.

And two different shapes of Road Roller were made to test the effects separately. The polygonal and multi-protrusion Road Roller proved in practice that the combination of the two has the best effect.

Passing the multi-protrusion one twice first can achieve basic compaction, and then passing the polygonal one twice can make the road surface flatter.

During the process, it only needs a few cattle to drag it, and people and cattle can take turns, which is several times faster than pure manual tamping.

Therefore, the top priority now is to produce more of such Road Rollers. If there is no time to chisel the stone, then just use Cement to cast them. Cement casting is faster and the cost is lower. On a small section of road, multiple Road Rollers can work at the same time.