Luo Chong and Tang Yao returned home, while the railway construction project in Xingang Commandery was progressing smoothly.
With the help of the trains, more materials could be transported in a single trip, allowing more manpower to be devoted to installing the tracks.
On the fifth day after construction began on the Xinwei Line, the completed railway had already reached seventeen kilometers. Transporting rails by train, eight carriages could carry three hundred rails at once, which translated into fifteen kilometers of track.
There had originally been more than a thousand people preparing the roadbed at the front. They worked much faster than the people laying the railway behind them. The roadbed had already extended thirty kilometers, while less than ten kilometers of railway behind it had been made operational. As time passed, however, the gap grew smaller and smaller.
The entire Engineering Team consisted of slaves from thirty-two Tuen. They were divided into four groups: excavating earth, laying the roadbed, tamping it down, and laying track. The four groups rotated every three days, with the aim of ensuring that every slave mastered all four sets of skills. The Xinwei Line was the Han Tribe's first railway, but it was also an excellent opportunity to train road builders, and Luo Chong would never waste it.
If the scale of the road-building workforce needed to expand in the future, these experienced workers could be scattered like seeds and serve as the backbone of new teams. Those people could then train new teams, which could gradually be expanded.
Besides, although this project was partly intended to train workers, they could not let the training slow construction. Whenever people were rotated into track-laying duty, they would not replace everyone at once, because retraining an entire batch of new workers would take too long. Luo