CHAPTER 302: CHAPTER 177: SHE IS THE DEVIL (10,000 WORDS)

He must increase transportation capacity in order to completely lift the territory’s limitation on using anthracite.

Lynn took two large gulps of well water again, just about to get up and return to the felling battle.

Red’s reminder echoed beside Lynn.

"Master, all the construction workers and apprentices from the Papermaking Workshop have arrived."

Lynn turned back to see a large group of figures approaching from afar, led by the guards, to the edge of the forest.

The Papermaking Workshop has now entered on-the-job training.

There is now nothing for these construction workers and carpenter apprentices to do.

At this time, when the territory needs development the most, Lynn wasn’t going to let them stop.

Two hours ago, he directly sent the guards to the Papermaking Workshop to transfer these people over.

Seeing the puzzled faces, Lynn stepped up on a pile of logs and called out: "Everyone!"

"The work at the Papermaking Workshop is temporarily on hold."

"Now what you need to do is follow me to the edge of the forest, continuously swinging the iron axes and pulling the iron saws."

"To topple down those trees that have been growing for decades or even hundreds of years!"

"I need logs, lots of logs!"

Listening to Master Lynn’s words, the already puzzled townsmen became even more confused.

Lynn continued speaking.

"Because the whole territory is about to speed up—building wooden tracks, and producing track mining carts!"

"Once the construction is complete, the town’s transportation capacity will replace the draught power of cattle and horses!"

Some townsmen with experience in mining couldn’t help but exclaim.

They’ve seen some mining carts, but those carts all require human or animal power to pull them to move.

Master Lynn says to produce mining carts that can replace draught power?

Lynn didn’t continue to explain anything to these townsmen.

If they can understand, it’s naturally better.

If they don’t understand, it doesn’t matter.

Right now, what they have to do is keep shedding sweat to fell the logs needed for laying the wooden tracks.

As for the subsequent processing.

Lynn directly had the carpenter apprentices with woodworking experience handle the processing and production.

Then.

Lynn began to assign tasks to the 600 townsmen who had just arrived.

Eight hundred construction workers were all assigned to the first site of felling by Lynn.

Physically strong and robust men were divided into pairs, cooperating in felling trees.

Then, two physically weaker or thinner men or women were assigned to clear branches from the tree trunks and assist in carrying.

The eight hundred construction workers could be split into two hundred groups.

With collaborative division of labor, each group could fell at least four trees.

In at most fourteen days, felling can be completed!

The two hundred carpenter apprentices at the Woodworker Workshop immediately used logs to construct the Wood Workshop on site.

This saved transportation time for red bricks and quickly enabled the Wood Workshop to be constructed and put into production as soon as possible.

With Lynn’s order, everyone dispersed.

The workers in charge of felling formed groups of four, holding iron axes and iron saws, heading to the forest’s edge.

The carpenter apprentices also took action.

After Lynn determined the location for the Wood Workshop, the carpenter apprentices began clearing the logs piled on the ground.

Shortly after.

Apprentices who went back to the town to fetch iron tools also returned.

The two hundred carpenter apprentices began to construct the Wood Workshop.

Many of these carpenter apprentices had been following Colin from the start.

Building the Salt Factory, constructing various workshops, and constructing the dock shipyard, and so on.

Moreover, the construction of the Wood Workshop wasn’t considered difficult.

With the cross pickaxe and iron hammer digging foundations, and iron nails and large coach screws as fixtures.

By evening, the main structure of the Wood Workshop, covering over five hundred square meters, was completed.

The workshop layout was also extremely simple and clear.

Just needed to construct forty wood processing workbenches from logs.

The two hundred carpenter apprentices were divided into groups of five, twenty groups tasked with processing and making appropriately sized sleepers, twenty groups making track wood.

The processing didn’t require much skill either.

First, select logs that are straight and free from obvious decay or worm infestation.

Then, cut according to the length and size required for sleepers or track wood.

Then, remove the bark from the surface of the logs, aiming to keep the bark intact for later use as raw material for the Papermaking Workshop.

Next, perform initial shaping of the logs to remove excessive curves, shaping them into the rectangular form of sleepers or track wood.

Then, perform fine processing and polishing on the initially shaped logs, using an iron planer to smooth the sleepers’ surfaces until they meet the needs for track laying.

Finally, dry the entire processed sleepers.

Lynn also considered carbonizing these logs.

But given the current limited conditions, he had to abandon the idea.

Lynn thought again, deciding it’s not much of a concern.

Even sleepers not carbonized could still last for years!

In case of damage, they could just repair it.

Perhaps after a few years, the territory’s tracks would already become iron tracks...