May, Xianyang.

At noon, the sun is strong, which is the hottest time of the day.

The banks of the Wei River are lush and green. Groups of teenagers, boys, girls and children have taken off their clothes and played in the river or caught fish and shrimps. There are sailboats and fishing boats that are constantly shuttled back and forth on the river. Countless fishermen and boatmen with dark skin on the boat are rowing hard.

"Hey yo~hey yo~"

The riverside pier outside the south gate of the city was also busy, with hundreds of black and thin civilians and prisoners braved the scorching sun to transport huge trees and cement bricks and stones, and the imperial guards holding long spear whips patrol and scolded them.

Although it was so hot that it could hardly breathe, there were still many officials from the Ministry of Works and Academy of Sciences wearing hats and official robes and uniforms holding various drawings and tools in their hands, and were measuring and commanding back and forth, assembling gantry cranes on the already built docks. One of them had been successfully installed and cargo lifting and testing is underway.

"Left~left~two feet to the left, okay, let it go slowly..."

Although she was wearing a hat, Zhang Cang was already soaked in his official robe, and his head was full of sweat, and he almost didn't have time to wipe it. At this time, he was directing a group of craftsmen to push the gantry crane to move forward and backward and left and right to lift a huge wooden cabinet on a cargo ship.

Chen Xu wrote a letter to launch an unprecedented smooth road plan, involving many projects of all sizes. Whether it is a port terminal in rivers, lakes and seas, it is ultimately necessary to install a brand new equipment, that is, a gantry crane. One is to speed up the loading and unloading of goods, and to achieve more orderly, all merchant ships need to enter and exit the port in order and dock at different docks according to the dispatch, so that the old-fashioned loading and unloading methods can be abandoned.

In the past, when merchant ships arrived at the river port, they almost took advantage of the opportunity to load and unload them. Dozens and hundreds of people who were waiting at the dock to resist goods would rush up and down, and then they started to transport goods up and down through simple springboards and gangways. In this way, accidents would often happen in the event of disorder. Either ships collided with each other or people's goods fell into the water because of the crowded water. If the water flowed smoothly in autumn and winter, it would be fine if the river water surged in spring and summer, and the flood would soon be swept away by the river water.

In order to support the construction of the new port terminal, Chen Xu gave a lesson at the Academy of Sciences, which specifically talked about the dispatching operations of later docks and the concept of gantry cranes and containers that can move forward and backward and left and right.

At present, Daqin has qualified steel and mature bearing pulley iron shaft gears and other production processes. It is not difficult to make such a gantry crane that is only ten meters high and seven or eight meters wide. Moreover, it is used as the main beam. At present, Daqin is the most lacking in trees. The Loess Plateau, which has no grass growing in two thousand years, is now lush and primitive forests. Big trees with a breast diameter of one meter are not big. In later generations, big trees with a diameter of two feet in diameter are now unusable. In addition, Shaofu also stipulates that trees with a breast diameter of less than one foot or a height of less than five feet are not allowed to be cut down. They must be kept to grow into a vegetation.

In order to renovate and build countless palaces inside and outside Xianyang, on both sides of the Wei River and even in Yongcheng, Shaofu has arranged for prisoners to cut down large trees in the upper reaches of rivers in the Wei River Basin, and then drift along the water to a timber factory near Xianyang, peeling and drying here and then stacking and storing them for later use. Tens of thousands of trees are harvested every year.

These giant trees are common in diameter three feet and five feet, and the length is eight feet and ten feet is the minimum requirement. However, after steel and cement were introduced in the past few years, the amount of renovation and newly built palace wood was much less. Even this year, all palace constructions have been completely stopped. The giant trees piled up by several large wood factories along the Wei River are as spectacular as small hills. Therefore, the Academy of Sciences has sufficient choices to build a dock, and the giant trees used to make the main beams of the palace were used to make the long-dried wood, which is enough to ensure the sturdy and safe nature of the gantry crane.

As for containers, it is even simpler. It is just a standard wooden cabinet with length, width and height based on the loading capacity of today's large cargo ships.

Because these wooden cabinets are uniform in production, they can be used nationwide. In order to save and facilitate, several container companies will be prepared to operate according to the region in the future. Of course, everything is still under preparation. Several containers stacked on the dock have just been made to verify the gantry lifting, unloading and transport test. Various data still need further adjustments. After everything is tested, the Ministry of Industry will bid and promote nationwide.

In Chen Xu's view, the Qin Dynasty was easier to promote the development of science and technology than any feudal dynasty in later generations.

First, the basis for governing the country by magic. In all dynasties in later generations, the laws of the Qin Dynasty were the strictest. From the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation to all walks of life, there were clear legal constraints. The people of the Qin Dynasty had gradually adapted to the constraints of this legal constraints, because those who did not want to be restricted had already been rubbed by Qin Dada.

Second, theories of hundreds of schools are very prosperous. Schools with deep influence among the people, such as Confucianism, Law, Taoism and Mohism, have their own audience and voice. Confucianism that emphasizes rule of man and morality does not have the upper hand, so the resistance to promoting science is very small.

Third, the Qin Dynasty attached much importance to craftsmen than any dynasty. Anyone with a skill can get recognition from the court. Those who are enrolled as workers can inherit the family and get a stable life guarantee, and even reward innovations and inventions.

Another important factor is that after the unification of the Great Qin Dynasty, the unity of weights and measures was strictly implemented, and there were strict regulations on all kinds of objects in the world. Whether it was civilian, military, or even axes and hatches, the Ministry of Works has issued strict regulations. Craftsmen cannot make randomly. Under such strict laws, it is very easy to unify the size and style of something in the Great Qin Dynasty.

Because Qin Dada likes the most is unification.

He wants to unify everything that is not conducive to the development and stability of the Qin Dynasty.

Therefore, in the eyes of a group of officials from the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Works, the container proposed by Chen Xu is definitely the most whimsical and convenient and practical transportation method.

To transport a container from Lingnan to Liaodong, you only need to load and ship it in Lingnan to a port near Panyu, then directly lift it on a sea boat to transport it to Liaodong Bay, and then transfer it specifically to create a four-wheeled carriage that can transport containers. From beginning to end, you no longer have to load and unload the goods in bulk at the dock warehouses in various places, which is not only convenient, but also safe.

In addition, several containers of different specifications can be customized according to the type of goods, which can be stacked neatly in combination or transported separately, which can greatly speed up and facilitate the transfer of vehicles and ships and dock loading and unloading.

In order to cooperate with the promotion of containers, special improvements should be made for cargo ships sailing in the rivers and seas to facilitate up and down lifting of gantry cranes and security bundling, etc.

At present, these are all the key research teams of the Academy of Sciences led by Zhang Cang to verify and finalize them as soon as possible.

Therefore, during this scorching heat, Chen Xu returned home leisurely with a group of beautiful wives and concubines and daughters, but the entire Qin Dynasty, from the emperor to the civilians, was filled with blood and hard work.

"It's so hot, go and call Xishi the ice powder here!"

After watching several containers successfully loading onto the ship, Zhang Cang walked to the side of the dock and sat on the ground under a big tree. While taking off his straw hat and fanning hard, he asked a craftsman to quickly call a young woman next to him who was carrying a load to sell ice powder.

While Zhang Cang and several craftsmen were drinking ice powder under the shade of the tree, there was also a group of craftsmen on the boat who were also sweating profusely in the scorching sun and sweating profusely, in order to design the best fixing and hoisting plan.

"Rest, go down and rest for two minutes!" Soon the people on the boat also went down the gangway, rushed to the shade of the tree, took off their straw hats and took off their coats, and each of them also asked for a bowl of jelly on the ground and sat down and drank it.

"Another bowl, this ghost weather is so hot!" Hu Kuan took a few bites of jelly and felt that he didn't quench his thirst at all, so he handed the pottery bowl to the woman.

"In such a hot day, you guys are still busy. It's not something that nobles should do!" The little woman was in her early twenties, wearing an ordinary gray-white skirt, with a pretty appearance and plump figure, and her movements were very quick tone.

"If we don't quickly get the container and ship data, wouldn't Marquis' plan for the smooth road... I'll tell you, a woman, what's going on, and add more jealous..." Hu Kuan changed his words halfway.

"Hehe, Dean Hu said yesterday that Bingfeng Xishi is charming and has a nice voice, why don't you want to say it today! I actually want to hear it!" An official next to him said loudly.

"Hahahaha..." A large group of people under the willow tree laughed and cheered.

The little woman selling jelly lowered her head and served jelly, her cheeks were blushing and her eyes were filled with spring water. Hu Kuan shivered slightly and felt much cooler.

"Don't make a fool of yourself, but this jelly is really delicious. Don't leave. I'll come to drink it later. I don't have enough staff. Please finish drinking it quickly and continue working..." Hu Kuan drank a bowl of jelly again, then threw down the pottery bowl and picked up the hat and put it on.

"Oh, what President Hu said is that if there were more than 51,000 more people, the dock would be completed in half a month. Now that I do this, I am afraid that it will not be completely repaired until the autumn is coming..." Zhang Cang shook his head and stood up, put on his hat and shook his sweaty official uniform for a few times.

"Woooo~~"

Just as a group of officials and officials stood up again to work in the hot and scorching heat, suddenly a few long sounds of cow horns came from the west of the city, and then there seemed to be a faint sound of horse hooves rolling like thunder and noise.

The group of people stopped their movements and visited them, but they could only see the tall Xianyang South Gate Tower.
Chapter completed!