The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 401 Letting you pay for the construction of the railway makes you lose money, we are really sorry

"train?"

Li Er knew about horse carts, ox carts, donkey carts, mule carts, and even carts pulled by people, but this train was unheard of.

"Your Majesty knows Qin's orbit."

"Naturally know that." Li Er can be regarded as familiar with military books and history books, "Qin Zhidao and Qin Guidao are the sharp weapons of the Qin people to rule the world."

After a pause, Li Er said with a little doubt, "Your train, isn't it a carriage running on the Qin track?"

"If that's the case, I'm afraid it won't work." Li Er shook his head repeatedly, "The Qin track is made of wood, and it will be severely damaged if it rains. Moreover, the daily maintenance is also very cumbersome and troublesome. If it spans thousands of miles, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources. Three years I'm afraid

Three years later, it will not be done in another three years. "

Li Yunze picked up the tea bowl on the side, "What if the track is made of iron?"

"iron?"

Li Er was stunned, "If the rails are not naturally worn, they will also rust when it rains. The most important thing is, where did Datang get so much iron?"

"Anti-rust is not a problem. Since I said it, there is a solution." Li Yunze took a sip of his tea, "How much iron does Datang produce annually?"

This is considered a state secret, but Li Er still gave the answer, "It can be about 800 million catties."

"More than 5000 tons?" Li Yunze calculated in his mind, "It can almost build Chang'an City as far as Jingyang."

"What?" Li Er was still complacent about Datang's annual production of millions of catties of iron, but when he heard that so much iron could only be repaired in Jingyang, he was naturally very dissatisfied.

"Your Majesty, please go to Li Family Manor tomorrow." Li Yunze instructed, "I will show you the specific matters."

As the saying goes, empty teeth, especially something that has never been seen before, it is better to show it intuitively.

Knowing that Li Yunze was going to show something good again, Li Er immediately nodded in response, "Yes."

At noon the next day, Li Er brought Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng's grandson Wuji, and a group of nobles to Li's Village.

Li Yunze, who greeted everyone, sized him up and said bluntly, "The military weapon that will be displayed soon, are all the reliable people here?"

Li Yixin said that everyone is here, and you say this, can I still call someone to go back?Wouldn't that mean that he would immediately renounce his morality?

"It's natural." Li Erhao waved his hand at the donkey on the slope, "All of them are my confidantes."

Everyone was grateful, and there was a scene where the monarch and his ministers get along.

After these steps were gone, Li Yunze led everyone to a specially renovated house.

This house is very big, except for the big sand table shape on the ground, there is no furniture or other things.

"This is." Looking at the Nuoda sand table on the ground, Li Er and the others were shocked.

"This is Chang'an City." Li Yunze simply stepped onto the sand table and pointed to the lower part with a wooden pole. Chang'an, which resembles a courier box, "is the departure station."

Li Er also took off his boots following his example, and simply walked up.

As for the others, they were worried about stepping on such a beautiful thing, so they could only stand in a circle against the wall and wait and see.

"This is the railway track." Li Yunze pointed to the track of the toy train beside Chang'an City. , Yanzhou, Yinzhou."

The wooden pole in his hand went all the way north along the toy track, and finally arrived at Shengzhou on the bank of the Yellow River, that is, Yulin.

"This distance is as far as possible along the river bank and valley, and the whole construction is about [-] miles. It is expected to use iron"

Having said that, Li Yunze looked around and smiled slightly, "More than 5000 million catties."

"Many, how much?!"

Everyone thought they heard it wrong, and stared at Li Yunze in disbelief.

"More than 5000 catties, there is no upper limit."

Li Yunze has no plan to promote Datang Technology to Zenith Star, and the technology he supplies is controlled on the basis of its own development.

Don't even think about high-speed rail or anything else, even if Li Yunze could get things, he wouldn't be able to find so many professional technicians.

Modern railways are also impossible. All he can provide is the state of the early railways, the simpler the better, and it will not exceed the upper limit of this era.

"It's too costly." Before Li Er could speak, Fang Xuanling, the housekeeper of the Tang Dynasty, shook his head again and again, "To build such a railway from Chang'an City to Yulin, it will take more than 20 years of iron production in the Tang Dynasty. That's simply not possible."

Li Yunze ignored him, but took out a toy train, placed it on the departure station beside Chang'an City, and started it.

Seeing the toy train swaying across the river, passing through the valley, and dragging the long carriage to Shengzhou, Li Er asked with bright eyes, "What is this? What can it do?"

"This is called a train, you can think of it as a kind of mechanical beast."

Li Yunze picked up the toy train and handed it to Li Er, "Using coal as food, it can drag a million catties and travel at a speed of more than a hundred miles per hour."

He emphatically emphasized that "as long as the fuel is sufficient and the road is smooth, we can roughly set off this morning and arrive in Shengzhou before dark tomorrow."

'Hiss~~~'

There was a series of gasping sounds in the room.

That is Shengzhou, more than 1000 miles away!

"And this." Li Yunze returned to Chang'an City with the toy train, got on another track and drove eastward to Luoyang City.

"If you go from Chang'an City to Luoyang City, you can start at dawn in the morning and arrive at night when it gets dark, so you can arrive early at dusk."

The sound of breathing in the room became louder.

The people here have basically been on the battlefield, and they know how terrifying such a speed is.

Not to mention being able to carry a large amount of personnel and supplies, this is a magic weapon descended from heaven.

What is a military weapon, there is no doubt that this is it.

If other people say such words, in the eyes of everyone, it is a fool's dream, just sneer at it.

But what Li Yunze said, they all believed that they would be able to do it.

"This is really." The most excited is Changsun Wuji, his family is in the iron smelting business, and the wealth is abundant.

"If this railway can be built to the Western Regions."

"We should go north first, and go deep into the prairie."

"Pure nonsense, it should be heading east to Jiangdong."

"I found a big copper mine in the south, so I should build it to the south"

Many nobles opened the chatter box, discussing where the railway should be built.

As for Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others, their expressions were very ugly.

The benefits of this thing are definitely there, but the problem is that "the cost is so great that it may not be possible to build one after 20 years of work. The manpower and material resources required are simply incalculable, and the national power of Datang will be emptied!"

"This thing is very good, but it is not necessarily good when it is used. Just so many irons are laid down, and countless soldiers have to be used to patrol day and night. It is iron!"

"It's okay to walk through the mountains and rivers, but you can walk through the fields, houses, villages and towns, and even the ancestral tombs. What should I do?"

"It's not right, it costs too much, there are too many things, and there are countless troubles. Apart from the convenience of using troops, there is no benefit."

To sum up, civil servants are basically opposed to it because it costs too much and there are too many things to do.

The generals are all in favor, because they don't need to worry about it, but it can greatly facilitate the dispatch of troops and transport materials, of course they must agree.

This is a typical example of the ass deciding the head.

If it were the nobles who were the prime ministers and ministers of this and that, they would immediately complain.

After some quarreling, everyone's eyes turned to Li Er.

On such an important matter, the only one who can really make a decision is their emperor.

Li Er, who had been staring at the sand table and playing with the toy train in his hand, finally raised his head to look at Li Yunze who was silent, "What if you don't have enough iron?"

"During the dinner yesterday, I already promised those tribal nobles." Li Yunze said with a smile, "I always talk like a spittle, and since I say it, I have to do it. How about this, the road from Chang'an City to Shengzhou The cost of building the railway is mine.”

Not surprisingly, the audience was shocked again.

That is the iron output of the Tang Dynasty for more than ten or twenty years, what a huge investment.

As expected of Li Caishen, he is too rich.

Li Er nodded slightly, "How should we deal with the ancestral tombs in the fields, houses, villages and towns?"

"Buy it with money." Li Yunze said immediately, "As much land is requisitioned, it will be compensated twice as much. If the house is requisitioned, it will be compensated for other people's house, and it must be built better and more beautiful. Inviting someone to relocate the grave is not only a matter of re-selecting a geomantic location. , but also give enough compensation money. More
Jia wants to make it clear to everyone that this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. "

"Let the common people know that if there is a train in their hometown, they can set off with local specialties in the morning, arrive at Chang'an City or other places for sale at noon, take the car home in the afternoon, and eat at home in the evening. Dinner."

Li Er became more and more satisfied, but he still asked calmly, "You have paid for the money and supplies needed from Chang'an City to Shengzhou, but what if you want to repair other places?"

"Of course it is to improve the productivity of Datang, especially the productivity of iron." Li Yunze simply stated, "I will provide related technologies."

The eldest grandson Wuji over there was already so happy that he couldn't control himself.

Li Er's question is not over yet, "You have paid so much for Datang, I can raise your title, but this is far from enough."

He asked in a deep voice, "How should I reward you?"

"It's simple." Regarding this matter, Li Yunze had long been concerned about this matter, "I will be given the 20-year operation right of the Changsheng Railway to pay back the cost. Except for transporting the army and military supplies, other people and things have to pay. Specifically How much I decide by myself, two
Tax exemption for ten years. "

Anyone who has read modern history knows how profitable railways are.

Especially when passing through densely populated places, it is the rhythm of lying down and counting money.

Except for Li Yunze, no one in this room has read modern history, so naturally they don't understand it.

When Li Yunze made this request, they subconsciously thought that Li Yunze was a good person because he had endured hardship.

The railway is the pioneer of the industrial revolution. If Datang wants to evolve into an industrial Datang, the railway is indispensable.

In fact, this matter is not over yet, because Li Yunze deliberately showed Li Er the railway line from Chang'an City to Luoyang.

Sure enough, Li Er, who pondered for a while, asked a little embarrassedly, "Since Chang'an can be repaired from Shengzhou, how about repairing from Chang'an to Luoyang?"

(End of this chapter)