Chapter 1111 Train Operations: Pure Profits
"Why is the train so good? Is it worth spending 10 million yuan?" Li Tan is young, but he is willing to understand.
"The machine head I made is used exclusively for loading cargo from Chang'an to Luoyang. It doesn't stop in the middle, and it takes six hours to get there..."
Li Yi introduced Li Tan to how good the train was.
He told Li Tan that a train has twelve carriages, and each carriage contains one hundred and fifty shi of goods.
A trip costs 1,800 stones and takes six hours.
It takes several hours to load the goods from Luoyang, and another six hours to run back to Chang'an.
No, the empty carriage is loaded first, the front of the carriage is changed directly, and then the carriage is turned around and comes back again, and coal and water need to be replenished.
According to the current coal prices and water charges, as well as maintenance costs and labor costs.
One trip costs less than two centimeters, and loading and unloading will cost extra.
At Li Yi's time, trains were more economical, had advanced equipment, were low-cost, and were much better than steam engines.
When transporting a hundred tons of cargo, depending on what kind of cargo it is, the price of different cargoes varies from a few cents to a few cents per kilometer.
A normal run of 100 kilometers costs more than 300 yuan.
It includes profits and various expenses, depreciation expenses, infrastructure expenses, etc.
The car built by Li Yi weighs about 200 tons when fully loaded and its own weight is included.
Labor and coal are cheap, and the approximate cost after conversion is two yuan per trip.
One yuan at that time was not the same as one yuan now. People in Jingzhao Mansion of the Tang Dynasty could earn 30 yuan a day, which made them a high-income group.
Something worth 1,800 shi, plus loading and unloading fees, from Chang'an to Luoyang, an additional 300 yuan?
One stone, one hundred and twenty kilograms, one sack, does it cost 150 yuan to load 1,800 sacks into the truck? How much does a dock porter carry in a day? How much money do you make?
Li Tan opened his mouth slightly after hearing this. He couldn't believe that two cents of money could deliver something worth 1,800 shi to the place in six hours.
"How much does it cost to use a horse-drawn carriage to travel along the Chi Road?" Li Tan didn't know the freight price.
"From Chang'an to Luoyang, the horse-drawn carriage traveled along the galloping road, with a single horse pulling five stones, including its own fodder and water.
If it is too heavy, the carriage of eight stones needs to be strong enough.
It takes four days to walk, with rest in between.
Two horses pull five stones, two days' journey, with rest in between.
Nowadays, two horses are used to transport military supplies from Luoyang to Chang'an. There is a post station for changing horses when they arrive at the place in one day. "
Li Longji knew the situation. Two horses pulled the five-stone load, changing horses at the inn in the middle, and transported it to Chang'an one day and one night.
Instead of replacing it every ten miles, it has a smooth running path and is easy to run. It should be replaced every twenty or thirty miles.
Ordinary people can't afford to change it. The horse they are changing is a rental horse. Otherwise, how can I change my own horse?
If a horse is running slowly and there is a fast car behind it, the slow car needs to make way to the nearest place on the track.
There is a place every hundred feet, wait for the express train to pass and then come back.
Otherwise, don't take the pedestrian road and walk on the side road.
Li Tan did a little calculation and immediately understood how powerful the train was.
"With two cents and three hundred coins, a merchant can transport 1,800 shi. Will the merchant go crazy with joy?" Li Tan felt that the merchant's life was easy.
"We will cry like crazy. The two cents and three hundred dollars are the cost for us to send things, not to the merchants.
Railway is not money? Trains are not money? From Chang'an to Luoyang, we have to stop three times.
One is to facilitate local people to carry goods and ride, and the other is to add coal and water, so they cannot travel 800 miles at once.
If you travel two hundred miles at a time, the coal and water will be almost used up. You can't carry more, as carrying more will take up your own weight.
In this way, you can hang a few more passenger cars and buy tickets to ride, just like buses in the city. "
Li Yi shook his head and ran in a row with both hands. Are you kidding me?
There is a charge of fifty cents for a trip. If it is too expensive, you can transport it yourself by horse-drawn carriage. There is no charge for the Chi Dao.
How much does it cost to send something worth 1,800 shi from Luoyang to Chang'an by carriage?
Yes, there are boats. When the Yellow River is not in dry season or frozen, we can transport it slowly.
From Luoyang to Chang'an, it's all the way against the current.
Negotiate the price with the boatman, and if you get it to forty-nine min, it will be cheaper than one min.
Thinking of water transportation, Li Yi muttered: "How much does it cost to transport two thousand stones from Luoyang to Chang'an?"
Princess Yongmu said: "I know that Sixty Min requires trackers, sails, and oars.
It's cheaper and smoother to go back, just give me 20 yuan. "
"So expensive?" Li Yi calculated that 60,000 yuan would be used to transport two thousand stones, and one stone would cost an additional 30 yuan.
Li Dan interjected at this moment: "The freight is cheap, why did the previous emperors go to Luoyang to eat? It sounds like they are happy in Luoyang, but in fact they can't eat."
"Then our train will take seventy minutes from Luoyang to Chang'an and twenty-five minutes from Chang'an to Luoyang, giving shipping a way to survive."
Li Yi adjusted the price again, making ninety cents per trip, three trips in two days, one hundred and thirty cents a day.
Including passenger transportation, we can earn 50,000 yuan a year, one locomotive at a time.
The railway was built to Lianyungang, and sea transportation was opened. One hundred locomotives, five million yuan a year, and the money was recovered in two years.
Li Yi calculated that he was fully loaded and had goods at any time.
The actual situation is impossible. Is there so much cargo to be transported from Chang'an back to Luoyang or to Haizhou? Are there so many people riding it?
It is impossible to transport 540,000 shi of goods from Luoyang to Chang'an every two days. The key is what to transport? Stone?
If the coal and iron were transported to the imperial court, Bi Gou would charge seventy min at a time. Bi Gou wouldn't give them, right? He didn't even give Qi Min.
Li Yi checked the information and found the first railway. It was said that there were 160,000 passengers a year at that time, and it was only 30 miles long.
Half a yuan of money is equivalent to five hundred coins for the top seat, two hundred and fifty coins for the middle seat, and one hundred and twenty coins for the bottom seat.
Calculate how much passenger transport earns in a year. At that time, the investment of the Sun Never Sets was only more than 200,000 taels of silver.
Then the Qing government saw that it was not going to work and suffered a loss. If you do this, you will get your money back in a few years.
The government stepped in and bought it back at less than 290,000 taels of silver.
After buying it back, the Qing government did not operate it and demolished it.
"Alas!" Li Yi suddenly sighed, really not knowing what to say.
"What happened to Li Lang?" Princess Yongmu saw Li Yi's face full of grief and anger and asked quickly.
"It's okay, I remembered a story, a very sad story. I will build a steam engine to make a boat first, and ask the Yulin Flying Cavalry to help make rails.
Act together, UU read books wwｗ．uukanshu.net Fortunately, there is the Yellow River, otherwise the steam engine is still not good luck, and it is not convenient to do it in a scattered or integrated manner.
Let the warship come directly to modify it, even if it is dragged all the way back, it is better than sending it over for modification. I can't go there."
Li Yi threw the Qing government out of his mind. If he didn't want to, there would be no Qing government anymore.
He had to speed up the construction and concentrate his efforts. The sooner the railway was built and the train was put into service, the more money he could make to continue building the railway.
If he didn't build it, he would never have it. If he built it, he would build 1,800 miles every year and build the railway to an important position in a few years.
With the improvement of technology, he came up with a better steam engine.
Build a railway along the canal and turn to Guangzhou. It would be cheaper for people to take it, and it would strengthen mobility and material transportation.
Anyway, the iron ore, copper mine, and coal mine were taken out by themselves, and they were state-owned. There was no external pressure and no need to exchange foreign exchange.