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Chapter 1631 Silly
Thinking of this, Wang Qingyun couldn't help feeling sorry. Although he didn't know how useful the steam car could be, it was after all a toy created by Su Cheng. As long as it was a toy created by Su Cheng, it should not be underestimated.

"As soon as I entered the city today, I saw Su Cheng driving a steam car out of the city. It was faster than a horse-drawn carriage, but it was much worse than a war horse. However, because the steam car did not pull the carriage, I don't know how well the steam cart can pull the carriage. How fast you go, I don’t know how useful this steam car is.” Wang Qingyun hesitated.

Wang Shengnan smiled and said: "The steam car can pull dozens of carriages, and it can travel two hundred miles in an hour! It can reach Luoyang from Chang'an in one day."

Wang Qingyun was dumbfounded all of a sudden, and lost his voice: "What? Just use a steam car to pull dozens of carriages? Can you reach Luoyang from Chang'an in one day? How is this possible?"

Wang Shengnan smiled and said, "Why is it impossible? Since Su Cheng said it's possible, it must be possible. And the carriages I'm talking about are not just small carriages pulled by horse-drawn carriages, but carriages that are several times bigger."

A carriage that is several times larger than the carriage of a carriage?Isn't that equal to the carriages of hundreds of carriages?
One car can carry hundreds of catties of goods, and hundreds of cars can carry tens of thousands of catties of goods.

Thinking of this, Wang Qingyun couldn't help thinking of the steam car. Although it was indeed a giant, it was nothing compared to the tens of thousands of catties of goods.

Wang Qingyun shook his head again and again: "Impossible! It is impossible at all! Although that steam car looks mighty and extraordinary, it is absolutely impossible to pull tens of thousands of catties of goods! Do you know how heavy tens of thousands of catties of goods are?"

No wonder Wang Qingyun didn't believe it, it's really hard to believe, Wang Shengnan smiled and said: "If it's on flat ground, it might be difficult to pull it, but if it's on the rails, it will be fine."

Wang Qingyun asked in a dazed manner, "Railway, what is that?"

Wang Shengnan explained while gesturing: "It's just two rails made of steel, and the steam car and the carriage are fitted with iron recessed wheels, which can reduce resistance and allow it to move."

Wang Qingyun fell silent after listening, because he was still thinking.

Why put the steam car on the rails to run?Is it okay to run on flat ground?Why is it so complicated to think about it?
Let steam cars and carriages run on rails?Wang Qingyun thought about it carefully for a while, and it was indeed faster than running on flat ground.

Suddenly, Wang Qingyun thought of something, and asked doubtfully: "Doesn't that mean that a railway track will be laid between Chang'an and Luoyang?"

Wang Shengnan stretched out a slender jade finger and shook it lightly, and said with a smile, "Not one, but four!"

Wang Qingyun was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing: "It's [-] miles from Chang'an to Luoyang! Four [-]-mile-long railroad tracks are laid just to run faster, are you crazy?"

Haha laughter echoed in the garden, and Wang Shengnan looked at Wang Qingyun with a dangerous light in his eyes.

"Brother, you think Su Cheng is crazy, are you crazy?" Wang Shengnan smiled.

The laughter stopped abruptly. If someone else said that, he could certainly laugh at it unscrupulously, but who in this world would dare to laugh at Su Cheng?
Wang Qingyun said with a dry smile: "Of course it is impossible for Su Cheng to be crazy, but if you think about it carefully, how much money would it cost to lay four railway tracks from Chang'an to Luoyang, [-] miles long, for the iron alone? Not to mention He said he had to buy land and work hard, just to run faster, although Su Cheng is a genius, he will inevitably be stupid sometimes."

Although he also admired Su Cheng's talent, he felt that Su Cheng's idea was really silly.

"You are so stupid!" Wang Shengnan said leisurely: "I will calculate an account for you. It takes many days to travel from Chang'an to Luoyang by horse-drawn carriage. It costs a lot of money, food and accommodation, right? A steam car can do it in one day. From Chang'an to Luoyang, so I'll charge one hundred cash for the fare, isn't it too much?"

"Let's assume that a car can hold fifty people, that is five guan, if you pull 150 cars, that is 100 guan, ten trains a day, [-] trips back and forth on four rail tracks, three thousand guan a day, and a month. Ninety thousand guan, a year is [-] million guan!"

Wang Qingyun couldn't help but gulped a mouthful of saliva when he heard this, and murmured: "One million per year?"

One million sticks a year!Wang Qingyun really wanted to refute, but after careful consideration, he couldn't find any words to refute.

If a steam car can travel from Chang'an to Luoyang in one day, and charge a fare of [-] yuan, everyone will definitely be willing to make a steam car.

Therefore, this inference is very rigorous, and there are no loopholes at all.

Wang Shengnan smiled slightly: "Although building the railway is indeed time-consuming, labor-intensive and cost a lot of money, as long as the railway is successfully built, there is no need to do anything at all. You can easily earn 100 million yuan a year without spending anything. Do you think it is worth it?"

Wang Qingyun, who had already figured it out, nodded without hesitation and said loudly: "It's worth it! Of course it's worth it! It's really worth it!"

Wang Shengnan laughed and said, "Then tell me, who is stupid?"

Wang Qingyun couldn't help showing embarrassment on his face when he heard this, and said with a dry smile: "I'm stupid, I'm stupid, let's go!"

After finishing speaking, Wang Qingyun became excited again: "Just the section of the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang can earn 100 million yuan a year. If we build a railway from Jiangnan to Chang'an, how much can we earn in that year?"

"It's a pity, we don't know how to make steam cars! If we knew, we could build railways, and we could make a fortune!"

Wang Shengnan coquettishly said: "You think too much, the emperor has realized the importance of steam cars and railways, and has not allowed private people to build railways and operate railways. Su Cheng was able to build Chang'an to Luoyang because of his great contribution, so the emperor gave special permission. .”

Wang Qingyun couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard this, and then smiled and said: "As long as we buy the land, it will become our own land. Of course, we can do whatever we want with our own land, even the emperor can't control it." ?”

Wang Shengnan shook his head slightly and said: "From Jiangnan to Chang'an, there are too many involved. If we want to buy all the land along the way, even if we have five surnames and seven Wangs, it will be difficult to do it, not to mention the imperial court obstructing it."

Wang Qingyun said with a smile: "There must be a way for the car to reach the mountain. Even if it is impossible to complete all of them, it is okay to repair part of them. Even if only part of them are built, huge benefits can be obtained from it."

Wang Shengnan shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "It's not necessarily necessary to build a railway. In fact, the steam engine has many uses, and it's not just a steam car."

(End of this chapter)