Back to the Three Kingdoms and become a python

Afterwards, Lin Bei told himself, stop looking at these ancient things with the eyes of modern people. Yes, these emeralds are invaluable in modern times, but are there few priceless things that Lin Bei sees now?Like mid-wing boats, if this kind of boat is well preserved and sold in the 21st century, it will be worth tens of millions. If the wooden bowls and tubs of residents in Wanghai City are well preserved, they can also be sold for a lot of money in modern times. The price, but are these useful now?What Zhou Quan said makes sense, it's not as good as a liter of rice.

"Zhouquan." Lin Beidao: "Let the sergeants form a team of two and look left and right to see if there are any strange things. By the way, let's focus on seeing if there are any ores or the like."

"My lord, I don't understand what ore is, and the soldiers probably don't know either." Zhou Quan said honestly.

"Uh... Then just take a look, if you find something strange, come back and report, I will go to that mountain pass."

"promise."

Climb towards the crater alone.Lin Bei recalled the information about the crater fiercely in his mind, and he didn't know much about it. All he knew were some common descriptions on the Internet, such as knowing about volcanic ash, for example knowing that volcanoes can spew gems, for example knowing that volcanoes can Minerals from the ground erupted.

Lin Bei actually wanted to find out if there was iron ore here. If there were iron ore veins under the volcano, the iron ore would be melted by high temperature, and the molten iron would splash out with the eruption of the volcano.And solidified again.

If this is the case, then this kind of iron ore belongs to the top-grade iron ore, because the impurities have been almost eliminated, and iron absorbs oxygen on the ground, and some iron can even be turned into steel. Steel or something, but modern steel in the true sense.

While thinking, Lin Bei approached the crater.The temperature here is not too high, and it can't compare with the fountain area below.Lin Bei saw a thick layer of moss growing on the rocks in the crater.

After climbing up, the original appearance of the crater appeared in front of Lin Bei. It was a crater with a diameter of about [-] meters. Looking at the bottom of the crater, Lin Bei saw that the bottom of the big hole in the crater was green and there were many plants underneath.It seems that some animals are also in it, and there is also a lot of fog.

"About [-] meters deep." Lin Bei estimated the depth from the lower crater to the bottom, which is already very shallow, and Lin Bei directly passed the plants.Focus on the rock walls and bottom.

"It seems that there are no resources worthy of attention." Lin Bei thought a little disappointed.

The sergeants came back one after another and reported their findings to Lin Bei, but there was nothing worth noting. When Zhou Quan came back, he brought back a message that he found a black rock band on his side. Zhou Quan thought it should be iron.

"How big is the black rock band?"

"It is more than four feet long and only a little more than one foot wide."

Even if there is iron in such a small rock belt, there must not be much, but Lin Bei still took a look, and asked the sergeant to stab the black area with a gun. Finally, Lin Bei was sure that it was indeed molten iron. Magma erupted and fell nearby, then solidified.

From this, it can be confirmed that there are iron ore veins under the volcano, but it is frustrating that this kind of iron ore is not easy to mine, because the rock here is too hard.

"Let's go, get out of here, and go to the dense forest to see if there is anything." Lin Bei said.

Entering the dense forest again, Lin Bei and the sergeants did not find anything. Except for trees, there are no herbs here. It seems that the trees are luxuriant, but the resources are actually quite poor. Because of the existence of the fountain, there may be a tourist boom here in the future. , but apart from this, there is not much development value.

At night, Lin Bei and his soldiers rested on this island. Lin Bei was going to set off the next day to look around the island to see if there were any other islands, because generally speaking, volcanic eruptions would cause earthquakes. Earthquakes can cause the leylines to rise or fall, and if the leylines rise, islands can be formed.

There is definitely no shortage of food here on the island, not to mention big fish, there are quite a lot of shells and crabs on the seashore alone, and there are also groups of seabirds. Killing more than a dozen seabirds can make a delicious meal. Lin Bei has a larger appetite, so he went to the sea to hunt a half-meter-long fish. The sergeant made fish soup, which made Lin Bei full. a meal.

On the second day, Lin Bei set off alone, while the soldiers stayed on the island.

Lin Bei's freedom of acting alone is quite high. With the small island as the center, except for the waterway when he came, Lin Bei has to explore in the other three directions, with a range of one hundred miles.

After this exploration, Lin Bei also found several small islands around. One small island was only a few tens of square meters in size, and there was no moss except rocks, but there were more seabirds, and another small island was slightly larger. , in the shape of a mountain spire, also without plants, is a colony of seabirds. Lin Bei saw a kind of big bird here. They are albatrosses.

Later, Lin Bei discovered the third island. When he saw this island, Lin Bei didn't know why, but he felt that he should have gained something. After arriving on the island, Lin Bei found that he had gained a lot.

This island is slightly smaller than Fountain Island. There are no trees on it, only some rare vegetables and grasses. After Lin Bei stepped on the island, he was a little stunned when he saw that the ground was black.

"Is this... coal? Really coal?"

A lot of coal is covered by soil, but more coal is exposed/exposed on the island. The smell of coal is unbearable even to birds. Except for some seabirds stopping at the edge of the island, the whole island is empty and dead. But Lin Bei was extremely happy.

"It's actually an open-pit coal mine, and this kind of coal looks a little bright. It seems to be anthracite coal, which is well-developed." Lin Bei ran around the island, and deliberately turned over several places to check the soil, and finally confirmed the island. Nearly three-quarters of the area has coal, and if the depth is not small, then the coal production here is quite large.

"Happiness comes too fast. It happens that the steam carriage needs a lot of fuel. Coal is much stronger than charcoal."

Lin Bei immediately named the island Coal Island, and then left with a happy mood. With this harvest, he was going to make persistent efforts and explore the surrounding area. It would be even better if he could find a few more Coal Islands. I think there are too many such resources.

However, Lin Bei's luck was apparently exhausted after he discovered Coal Island. Then he discovered three small islands, one of which was a deserted island with only stones, and the other two were similar in ecology to Fountain Island. There are trees, clawed lizards and moas, but they are only for sightseeing. Who would come so far for sightseeing in this era.

Then Lin Bei found nothing, and then returned to Fountain Island.

As soon as he arrived on the island, Lin Bei hurriedly called Zhou Quan and asked Zhou Quan to write it down: "There is an island more than a hundred miles south of Fountain Island called Coal Island." At the same time, Zhou Quan immediately drew a map,

After the joy, Lin Bei had to consider the practical things, that is how to develop the coal on the island.

Fountain Island is about 230 miles away from Wanghai City, and Coal Island is about [-] miles away. This distance does not seem to be much. Linbei can be reached in three hours, but boats cannot. In addition, due to the size of the sea There are a lot of fish, so small boats are not enough, and big boats must be used as cargo ships.

Then the problem came. Before the steamship was built, it was obviously difficult to build a large cargo ship that could sail.

"Steam ships have to be built, and shipbuilding technology has to be improved. Only by doing this two-pronged approach can it be possible to build a cargo ship that can carry dozens or even hundreds of tons. This time...although the time may be longer, at least the goal is clear."

In any case, this trip to the sea is considered perfect, just a coal island is worth it, Lin Bei immediately ordered to return to Wanghai City.

"My lord." Zhou He bit the bullet and said, "Do you need to build a sentry tower on this island and send soldiers to garrison it?"

Lin Bei looked at the faces of the sergeants, they were a little unnatural. They thought that this place was too far away from Wanghai City. Once they were stationed here, they might not be able to go back for the rest of their lives. Under such circumstances, no one was very willing.

"I don't think the sergeants are very willing. If that's the case, then there's no need for it. But in the future, you might not even be able to rank up."

Zhou Quan and the sergeants shook their heads, no one would want to come to such a ghostly place.

Lin Bei laughed dumbly. When the steamship became the mainstream, its speed reached sixty or seventy miles an hour, and the three hundred miles was only four or five hours. Broken head, but these sergeants obviously did not have Lin Bei's forward vision.

It took a day and a half to return to Wanghai City from Fountain Island. Lin Bei's return did not cause any disturbance. After all, he did not go out for a long time this time. As soon as Lin Bei got on the pier, Bian Ji came to report to Lin Bei, saying that The bikes have been built by craftsmen and given a test ride.

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Chapter 207 Tracked Wheels

"My lord, this bicycle is really a miracle. After the craftsmen made it, they ran on the circular road in the city at such a fast speed that even a horse-drawn carriage could not catch it. In addition, those riders said that they did not use any effort at all. Even if they rode for a day It's just a little tired." Bian Ji's voice was loud, obviously extremely happy.

"How many miles can you run in an hour?" Lin Bei was naturally happy, but his focus was different from Bian Ji's.

"I can run at least forty miles in an hour." Bian Jimei said beautifully.

Of course Bian Ji thinks it is beautiful. The fastest in this era is the famous horse Liangju. Generally, adjectives such as traveling thousands of miles a day or eight hundred miles a day are used to describe horses. The day here does not refer to a day and a night. , but only refers to the daytime, that is, six hours. In terms of hours, a top-notch horse can run eighty miles per hour, but this is still an exaggeration.

The reason why it is said to be exaggerated is because horses in this era do not have horseshoes, and they will be useless after running for a long time. Therefore, ordinary military horses have to rest after running for an hour or two, unless it is an urgent military report and cannot be used.

Moreover, there are too few good horses that can run thousands of miles a day, and the average military horse can run four to five hundred miles a day, which is considered very powerful.

Military horses can only run four to five hundred miles, and carriages are naturally slower. Due to the road surface, the condition of the carriage, and the quality of the horses, it is considered extremely fast for a carriage to travel two hundred miles a day. If the road surface is better, you can run a little more.

However, a bicycle can run forty miles in one hour, and 240 miles in six hours. Of course, this also has something to do with the road surface, the condition of the car body and the physical fitness of the rider, but after a good comparison, you can find that the bicycle is indeed better than the carriage.

Bicycles have many advantages. They can be used by one person, and they have lower requirements on the road surface than horse-drawn carriages. They are more flexible.The most important thing is that the cost of bicycles is also lower than that of horse-drawn carriages. In Bian Ji's view, bicycles have far exceeded the value of horse-drawn carriages.

Lin Beixin said that if an hour is forty miles, then an hour is twenty miles, which is acceptable, after all, it is not a mountain bike of later generations.That kind of bicycle can run one or two hundred miles an hour.

"Did you only run in the city? Have you ever run outside the city?" Lin Bei asked again.

Only then did Bian Ji calm down a little bit: "I have also tried riding outside the city a few times. Although iron is used on the bicycle now, it is still fragile."

"That won't work. If you can't even ride on the roads outside the city, bicycles won't be very effective. What's more, if bicycles can't run, then the carriages in the future will not be able to run even more."