Chapter 418: The Problem of "Employment Shortage"

"If a worker wants to be good at his work, he must first sharpen his tools." Cheng Liangqi and others, as the ancestors of the Yuanying, have advantages far beyond ordinary people in these projects, although they rely on their powerful mana. However, they have been burdened by tools for a long time, and they could not really exert their full capabilities during the construction of those previous projects. But now, with the engineering machinery refined by Ye Zan, Cheng Liangqi and the others can truly display their powerful advantages as cultivators.

Not to mention anything else, just digging the earth, which seems to be the simplest thing. The excavating machine that Ye Zan refined was more like a simple huge bucket, as if there was no special technology in it. However, before this excavating machine, when Cheng Liangqi and others were excavating earth, they could only use the technique of moving mountains to dig with their giant palms of magic power. There is no magic weapon or magic weapon like a huge shovel in the monastic world, and the secular world can't forge such a huge shovel as a tool for them.

For such a simple job, if there are tools or no tools, the efficiency will be much worse.

Besides, the work of tamping the foundation is the most basic part of all projects, and it seems to be a job with no technical content. Moreover, people like Cheng Liangqi also have the magic weapon of smashing such as Panlong Jinyin, which should be regarded as a tool available. However, tamping the foundation is not something that can be done by sacrificing the Golden Seal of the Coiling Dragon and smashing it against the ground, at least it requires some skills. Otherwise, if it is really smashed hard, it will easily cause damage to the ground, and it will be troublesome to smash the foundation to pieces.

The dynamic tamping machine that Ye Zan made was not only a piece of construction machinery, but also set a standard for Cheng Liangqi and others. Using this powerful tamping machine, they can't use too much force. As long as they drive the machine with mana, they can tamp a standard foundation with standard strength.

Cheng Liangqi and others, after reading the operation guide booklet and watching Ye Xiao's operation demonstration, quickly fully mastered the operation of these construction machines.

"It's unbelievable. These magic tools are simply magic tools in this field!" Cheng Liangqi sighed from the bottom of his heart after he personally operated the shield machine and quickly dug a new tunnel.

The other Yuanying ancestors also operated different machines. After a period of construction, when they looked back at the progress of themselves and others, they all agreed with Cheng Liangqi's words. In their view, with just these few magic tools, the progress of the project can definitely make a huge leap forward, and it won't take long for the rail transit construction plan of Datang Kingdom to be completed.

"It's a pity, if we had used such a magic weapon from the very beginning, I'm afraid I have already completed all the planned tasks." Someone said regretfully, as if there were no more projects to let It's a pity that these few magic weapons are showing their strengths.

Ye Zan's rail transit construction plan for Datang Kingdom has many considerations, and he does not intend to let the rail transit network cover all areas of Datang Kingdom like a spider web.

After all, the vast majority of people in this world do not have much demand for travel or even long-distance travel. Moreover, for short-distance travel, vehicles and horses are enough to meet people's needs, and there is no need to replace all travel methods with rail transit.

Therefore, what is currently being built according to the plan is a main line similar to that of China Unicom connecting the north and the south. The territory of the Great Tang Kingdom is not small, but Ye Zan only designed ten main lines radiating around the capital of the Great Tang Kingdom. Cheng Liangqi and others have completed the construction of four of the main lines before, which means that there are still six main lines left. It seems that there is quite a lot of work left, but with these few magic tools, Cheng Liangqi and others are almost certain that they will be able to complete more projects in a shorter time than before.

Hearing the man's words, Ye Xiao smiled and said: "Elder Huang, don't worry. A few days ago, several countries around the Tang Dynasty sent envoys to our sect for the rail transportation. Elder Ye has already agreed. They will build rail transit for their countries when the construction of rail transit in Datang Kingdom is completed. So, elders, you will still be busy in the future."

"Uh..." Elder Huang was speechless when he heard this. He also just said that casually, somewhat flattering Ye Zan, but he didn't expect that he really had the potential of a crow's mouth.

Cheng Liangqi and the others couldn't help but smile bitterly in their hearts. It's possible that people like themselves will continue to do these things in the future! Although they obeyed Ye Zan's orders and obediently came to build Datang, it didn't mean they were really willing.

Ascetics think that they are superior to ordinary people. This is an inherent concept that has been formed for tens of thousands of years. Let alone ascetics, even among ordinary people, there are scholars who look down on the uneducated, rich people look down on the poor, etc., all kinds of contempt or discrimination. For example, let scholars move bricks, how many scholars would be willing to do it? If a rich man is asked to do coolies, he may just use the money to hire someone to do it.

In the world of science and technology, Gu Huaguo once vigorously promoted a concept that "there is no distinction between high and low in work". But in fact, a concept is nothing more than a concept. People will naturally have their own judgments in their hearts about the high or low of a job.

The same is true for Cheng Liangqi and others. Even if they follow Ye Zan's orders to do these things, they still think in their hearts that these things should not be done by a monk like himself. Originally, they thought that after the affairs of the Great Tang Kingdom were done, they could go back to Yu Qingzong to concentrate on cultivation. But he never expected that the surrounding countries would also want this kind of rail transit, and Ye Zan actually agreed.

However, no matter what they thought in their hearts, Cheng Liangqi and the others left their mark on the Daoist book after all, so naturally they did not dare to disobey Ye Zan's order.

At this time, Ye Xiao seemed to see what Cheng Liangqi and the others were thinking, and said to them with a smile on his face. "Elders, don't worry, it's impossible for you to do the construction of the rail transit all the time. Although the amount of work will be huge in the future, the sect will send other people to replace you on a regular basis. Because this matter affects your practice."

Ye Xiao's words were actually spoken by Ye Zan through his mouth. Even though he was far away in the Yuqing Sect and did not face Cheng Liangqi and others, Ye Zan had already anticipated his thoughts on them. This is not some magical calculation, as long as you understand the psychology of the group of ascetics, you will know that it is not unusual for them to have such thoughts.

However, this is indeed a problem that must be faced.

After all, this Shenhua domain is too big, and the rail transit is different from Qianli Transsion.

The communication tool of thousands of miles of sound transmission is useful to ordinary people, but it is equally important to ascetics. Even though it hasn't been a few years since Thousand Miles of Sound Transmission appeared, it can be said to be quite popular among ascetics in the Shenhua Realm. Almost no one can resist the convenience brought to him by this advanced communication method. If one day, the sound transmission of thousands of miles suddenly becomes unavailable, maybe the ascetics will really be quite uncomfortable. Therefore, in the promotion of Thousand Miles of Sound Transmission, each sect put so much effort into it.

However, rail transit is different. Although this mode of transportation is advanced, it is not of much use to ascetics.

In terms of speed, the speed of the rail train is very fast, but it is only compared with the original transportation method of ordinary people, and it is not at all comparable to the means of flying in the sky with the sword of the ascetic. In terms of transportation capacity, even if not everyone has the Qiankun ring, the treasure bag is still very popular. If you have any goods, you can just take them away with the treasure bag, and there is no need for rail trains. Although the capacity of the treasure bag is limited, how much goods does the ascetic need to transport? And what an opportunity to have to ship large quantities of goods!

If you have to talk about the usefulness of rail trains for ascetics, maybe only those who are below the Golden Core level and who don't know how to fly with swords will get convenience from this rail train when they need to travel long distances.

Therefore, from these two aspects, ascetics have almost no demand for rail transportation.

People are like this, they are willing to put in effort to do things that are beneficial to them, and practitioners are also human beings. Since this rail transit is almost useless to ascetics, they will naturally not spend as much effort on it as they did with Qianli Transsion.

Of course, from Ye Zan's point of view, it is actually not that difficult to make the speed of the rail train reach the speed of a monk flying with a sword.

But the problem is that Ye Zan's purpose of developing this rail transit is to obtain merit from mortals, and mortals are the main beneficiaries.

On the one hand, mortals don't need such a high speed, on the other hand, even if they reach that speed, ascetics probably won't choose this way of travel. After all, ascetics pay attention to staying away from the world, and basically rarely have the opportunity to go to the world. Therefore, considering cost and demand, Ye Zan set the speed of rail trains to the current speed standard.

Therefore, this rail transit will be extended to the entire Shenhua domain in the future, and there is no need to count on other sects to help, everything must be done by Yu Qingzong himself.

Regarding this problem, Ye Zan had to make plans early. Apart from cultivating talents on the Zongmen side, it is also necessary to find foreign aid. After all, even if Yu Qingzong tried his best to cultivate talents, he could not cultivate a large number of Yuanying ancestors in a short period of time.

When it comes to foreign aid, Ziyangzong and other five second-rate sects in the surrounding area promised to send people to participate in the construction of the rail transit. However, there are two problems here. One is the promise they made, that when the rail transit expands to their side, they will send people to help. Another problem is that the number of Nascent Soul Patriarchs of their five sects is actually not many, and it is impossible to send all of them to help.

Therefore, in the future, the railway transportation will spread all over the Shenhua territory. For such an extremely huge project, the participation of five cases can be said to be a drop in the bucket. Fortunately, after the completion of the project in Datang Kingdom, the next projects will happen to be in several countries where the five sects are located, which can alleviate the "labor shortage" a little bit.