Datang Longya

Chapter 689 The Frightening Great Tang

On the second day after the steam engine was developed for the train, the locomotive of the steel train was also assembled.

This time, most of the mechanical parts were replaced with steel, steel transmission shafts and other things, which are not easy to damage and can better exert the power of the steam engine.

On the day of experimenting with the steel locomotive, not only the students from the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Arts, but also all civil and military officials came to watch.

When they watched an iron guy belching black smoke galloping like flying on the railway tracks, able to move even with a box full of rocks, they couldn't help but look at Leng Feng with admiration.

Before Tianxialou wanted to build a railway, they all thought that Tianxialu was doing a good deed, and they didn't take it seriously.

They even secretly laughed at Leng Feng when they knew that the road was made of small stones as a foundation, the pillows were made of high-quality wood, and the rails were made of steel.

What a waste of money!

But seeing the train now, and thinking about the benefits that can be obtained by relying on it, they couldn't help but become envious.

It is not the value of the goods themselves that causes this, but the distance.The price of things in Luoyang is a little higher in Chang'an than in Luoyang.However, if it is something from Lingnan, tsk tsk tsk, it will be terrible!
Things that can be bought for a copper coin in Lingnan may be sold for a silver coin in Chang'an.

Now the Lord Protector has come up with a transportation method that is much, much faster than mules and horses. It is foreseeable that as long as the businessmen are far away, they will ask grandpa and grandma to get rid of him for help.

In this way, the price of their goods can be reduced by a large amount compared with their peers.

And the Duke Protector who travels back and forth between the two places can also make a fortune!
Du Ruhui walked up to Leng Feng and poked him: "Hey, don't you need money? Your extravagance in laying the railway is absolutely astonishing. I'm interested in getting a share and leaving a property for our children and grandchildren to eat. How about it?"

Leng Feng smiled slightly: "Mr. Lai, you are late. Mr. Wei, Mr. Lu and others have already invested in the shares. I have split up all the shares. If you want to operate railway transportation, I will say hello to the scientific research institute and ask them to save money. .”

"Hehe, let's forget it then!"

Du Ruhui sighed helplessly.He saw that the difficulty of railway transportation is not finding customers, nor the technology of making locomotives, but laying the rails.

Not every family has the guts to invest a lot of money in laying railway tracks. Once it is useless, it is the most direct waste!
As for partnerships, to be honest, few families are good enough to spend all their wealth in partnerships.

Li Shimin walked to Leng Feng's side: "You knew the steam engine could be successful before laying the railway, didn't you?"

Leng Feng nodded: "I have confidence in my precious apprentice."

After speaking, he greeted the students to go back to class.

This was the first conversation between the two since Leng Feng returned to Chang'an.

Just ask and answer.

Seeing Leng Feng leaving, Li Shimin sighed.

Leng Feng is really planning to leave the court!
But that's fine too, when Leng Feng was there, the court situation was clearly divided, leaving only "right" and "wrong".This is indeed harmonious, but, as an emperor, he still likes a chaotic court with a little power.

Only in such a court, he, the emperor, has the highest power.

As for the cold front
After all, there will be a time when he returns to the court, and only then can he play the greatest role.

The emperor, who thought he had plotted against Leng Feng, didn't care about Leng Feng's ignorance, and asked the scientific research institute to send a copy of the train's blueprint to the Military Supervision, and he returned to Chang'an with all the civil and military officials.

For this experiment, he ordered the envoys who did not avoid places such as Ludongzan and Grassland.

Trains, which are no less a deterrent than gunpowder weapons and hot air balloons.

After defeating Goryeo and Shiwei Mohe, Datang will begin to develop population, dig roads and build bridges to improve people's livelihood in a short time.

After these years of changes in the statistics of the Ministry of Households, Li Shimin realized that simply persuading farmers and encouraging births cannot stimulate population growth.

Originally, the Tang Dynasty had just passed the troubled times, and it was a problem for the common people to eat and drink. Under such circumstances, who would dare to have children easily.

It is different now. With the increase of commercial tax, the agricultural tax has started to drop little by little. By this year, it has dropped to ten and a half taxes.In addition, the promotion of potatoes and corn, and the cultivation methods of new agriculture
During the expedition to Korea last year, there was a severe drought in the three states of Shandong, and there was no harvest.

This was a big event in previous years, but this year there was no government relief at all, and the neighboring states adjusted the grain, and the severe drought this year was perfectly resolved.

When a full stomach is no longer a problem, people who were afraid to have children no longer worry about eating. It is only recorded in the last year!There are three 10,000+ newborns.

Three 10,000+ ah!How many are not recorded?Which dynasty in history can have such a number of newborns?

The carriage back to Chang'an was bumpy, but it couldn't break Li Shimin's dream.He was already imagining that these children would grow up healthy, some of them would become soldiers, and then these strong soldiers would bring invincible weapons, destroy cities and pull out strongholds, and expand the territory of Datang to the end of the sky.

A sense of pride was unknowingly born in Li Shimin's chest, knocking on the window, Long Ying appeared in the carriage.

Li Shimin smiled and said: "Go and tell Zongzheng that there is no need to change the book for that girl. I don't plan to marry Tubo. If I want to marry, it should be their princess who comes to marry, or their prince who comes to marry him!"

The new Longying man was very smart, knowing that the emperor was in a good mood at this time, he said: "Your Majesty, it's a bit too late for us to marry you. Our Tang Dynasty doesn't need a foreigner to be a son-in-law. Those barbarians are very good. .”

"Hahahaha, we Datang still lack that ration? Let's go!"

After dispatching Long Ying, Li Shimin simply conceived a dialogue with Lu Dongzan in the car.

Today's Lu Dongzan is also on the way back to Honglu Temple, thinking about countermeasures.

He knew that the emperor would not let them watch this train experiment for no reason, mostly for the sake of standing up.

Needless to say, he was very successful.After seeing the train, Lu Dongzan's first thought was that he could not attack Datang casually in the future.With this magical car, Datang will transport supplies to the frontier army much faster than before.

Moreover, since he proposed a marriage proposal, the emperor has not given a clear answer. Combined with today's events, I am afraid.
I am afraid that today's Datang doesn't even have the idea of ​​coping with marriage!

What can he do?Although the original Tang Dynasty was powerful, Tubo was not afraid at all.

But now, only a guy with a broken brain will have thoughts about Datang.

The current Datang is really powerful, making him, a fearless Tibetan, tremble!

"Go and call the special envoys in the grassland to come to my room and say that I have something to discuss with them."

(End of this chapter)