Chapter 518 Concrete Road and Railway Track! The Meaning of Transportation!

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Two years.

Zhu Gaoxu spent two years.

The post roads between the major cities in Beizhili were turned into cement roads.

What followed was an explosive development in Beizhili's business.

Peking Business Circle, Tianjin Business Circle, Baoding Business Circle, Kaifeng Business Circle...

Each business circle is connected by cement roads, which truly makes it possible to communicate whether goods are available or not!

However, His Highness the King of Han still felt dissatisfied.

After all, this is just Beizhili, not the whole world!

If this railway track was used to connect the north and the south, what would the Ming Dynasty look like?

"Hai Shou, we can increase production on this railway track, and we will eventually reach this point in the future."

"At that time, the railway tracks will become the blood vessels of the Ming Empire. All materials, food, and weapons can be transported to all parts of the empire through these blood vessels at an unimaginable speed!"

"Have you ever thought about how important this will be to my Ming Dynasty?"

Everyone: "!!!"

Railroad tracks!

Paving the country!

Transport by rail!

How prosperous and prosperous will the Ming Dynasty be?

Not to mention anything else, the transportation speed alone is fascinating!

For example, when a disaster occurred in a local area, the imperial court used to have its own set of procedures for providing disaster relief to the people.

First, local officials reported it to the Ministry of Revenue, which then requested the emperor to send special personnel to the disaster area to verify the disaster situation, and then returned to Beijing to report to the court. The emperor discussed disaster relief measures with the officials of Jiuqing, and finally began to provide disaster relief...

If nothing else, as a result of this tedious and complicated process, countless victims have lost their lives innocently.

But with this railway track, the court can save a lot of time even if it follows this complicated and complicated disaster relief process!

And time means life, which means the court can save more victims!

For another example, the last time the emperor personally led the Northern Expedition, he claimed to have led an army of 500,000, but in fact the real number of soldiers was only 100,000.

However, in order to provide food, grass and supplies for the 100,000-strong army, the imperial court recruited no less than 500,000 young people from Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces!

Just to deliver food and grass to the front line!

Just to support a hundred thousand troops to win this battle!

It will take at least one or two years to transport these 500,000 young people, and there will also be a lot of losses during the transportation of grain and grass. If food, drink, housing and transportation are included in it, it will be an astronomical figure!

In addition, once the war begins, it will not end within a few years. Most of these young and powerful civilians are the backbone of the family. Once they are drafted, it will delay the farming season and lead to a reduction in food production...

War is fought for money and food!

But what if there were railroad tracks?

An army of 100,000 people has left the fortress, but only a month's worth of food, grass and baggage can arrive!

There is no need for half a million young people!

No more shipping time of one or two years!

This coming and going means that the court saves a huge amount of money and food!

For another example, the Mongolian barbarians have been harassing the border all year round. In order to survive, every autumn when the water and grass are fertile and the tribes are strong, they will go south to plunder the grass-threshing valleys to prepare supplies for the tribes to survive the winter.

But they are not fools. The border defense line in Ming Dynasty's northern border is long and narrow, and there will always be gaps in defense.

It is not unheard of to capture a place and march into the Great Wall. Even if the imperial court immediately mobilized nearby troops to kill the enemy after receiving the news, it would only take a month or two.

By the time the army arrived, let alone strangulating the barbarians, they had already robbed and harmed the local people, and the women had hid back in the grasslands with money and food!

But what if there were railroad tracks?

The carriage can not only transport food and baggage, but also transport soldiers and soldiers!

Once barbarian invaders appear, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can quickly arrive on the battlefield to defend the enemy and protect the country and the people!

All in all, if this railway track can be laid all over the country, it will be really important!

Eunuch Haishou thought for a moment and then said bravely: "My lord, what you are talking about... is a huge project!"

Isn't it huge?

It can even be said to be whimsical!

How much steel will be needed to lay this railway track all over the country?

Moreover, there are various constraints and constraints. Although this method is excellent, it is unlikely to be implemented in practice.

His Majesty, the Emperor, will definitely not agree to such things that "waste people and waste money"!

"Yes, the amount of work is huge, and I don't ask you to finish it right now!"

Zhu Gaoxu laughed and scolded angrily, "If it doesn't work in one year, then it will be ten years. If it doesn't work in ten years, then it will be a hundred years. This railway track can be used as my Ming Dynasty's plan for a hundred years or even a thousand years!"

"It's like going from the Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant to Beiping City. Along the way, there are mountains and rivers. But we can dig holes in the mountains and build bridges across the water. As long as they can be repaired, the economy brought by this track will be great." Above and beyond the military level, its significance is immeasurable!"

"Husky, Wang Jing, during the day I saw just a few draft horses, which can pull more than a dozen carriages. I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of kilograms of ore rushing on the road. Look at the speed at which they run. UU Reading www.uukanshu .net is enough to get rid of the traditional transportation and auxiliary streets. This kind of carrying capacity and this kind of running speed, if applied to people's livelihood and war, can completely change our entire Ming Dynasty lifestyle!"

Hearing this, Wang Jing and Yang Shiqi nodded in agreement.

"The reason is very simple. If we have this kind of rail transit all over the country, if a war breaks out there in the future, and we mobilize soldiers, we will no longer need the soldiers to travel hard on two legs!"

"Since this car can transport goods, why can't it transport people? Or the car just needs to be modified, right? Even if there is no war in the future, it can also be used as a means of transportation to make it easier for people to travel far away, right?"

"In the past, those literati couldn't help but recite poems and write poems once they were separated. That was because they might never see each other again in this life. The reason was still because of the inconvenient transportation!"

"As long as I, the Ming Dynasty, lay this railway track all over the world, the imperial court's control over the mountains and rivers will rise to an unparalleled level!"

"At that time, it will be a truly peaceful and prosperous age!"

"In the whole world, everything is the land of the king; on the shore of the land, there is nothing but the king's ministers!"

Everyone was inexplicably excited and fascinated.

The same was true for Yang Shiqi, and he was even more excited.

The combined territories of the seven Southeast Asian countries are far less vast than the Ming Dynasty!

Moreover, the land area of ​​each of the seven Nanyang countries is not too large!

So, once these cement roads and railway tracks are used in the seven Southeast Asian countries...

This is the real Sheji artifact!

Yang Shiqi's eyes suddenly became hot, staring at the railway tracks.

I just don’t know if Prince Han can do this railway track craftsmanship...

"Your Highness the King of Han, this railway track..."

"roll!"

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