As expected, what the people of the White House Tribe had been worried about soon came to pass. Once those engineering vehicles arrived in Qian Commandery, they quickly demonstrated their immense usefulness, practically overturning the old construction methods.
Two tractors directly replaced a large number of ox carts and horse carts, taking over the transport of bricks and tiles from the kilns to the construction sites. They even took over the transportation of lumber.
There was no helping it. Compared with the ox carts and horse carts, tractors were simply far too efficient. A single load of bricks could match the capacity of several horse carts. How could the horse carts compete?
Fortunately, the ox carts and horse carts were not completely useless. After all, there were too few tractors to replace animal-drawn vehicles across the board, so the ox carts and horse carts took on the transport of earth and gravel at the construction sites.
Compared with the tractors, the excavator and loader had even heavier workloads. Because of their specialized functions, the two vehicles directly took over all the basic landwork in Qian Commandery, including but not limited to laying foundations, leveling land, digging foundation trenches, and excavating water channels.
In terms of basic landwork, the two machines also completely replaced manual labor. Compared with human strength, using a loader to level several hundred mu of land was dozens of times faster than doing it by hand. The efficiency was simply too high.
Take the school in Qian Commandery, for example. The leveling work across the entire campus—including clearing the surface vegetation, scraping away protrusions, filling every depression, and opening roads into the site—would probably have required a hundred people working for half a month if done entirely by hand. But with the bulldozer, it took only three