Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 837 Getting richer and stronger (please subscribe!)

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At the end of the fifth year of Datong, Dazhong unified the Indochina Peninsula, and then successively destroyed the country of Kamaluva and Sena, completing the unification.

This year was the year when Dazhong moved its capital to Yanjing.

Therefore, after the end of the five years of Datong, Li Yan changed the year name to "Tietong".

It is not difficult to see from Li Yan's change of the year name for Dazhong that Li Yan wanted to use this rare year of peace to vigorously build railways and achieve the goal of smooth roads.

Li Yan's "big railway" plan is to first build five major railway lines of 20 kilometers across the country, subdivided into the central railway system, the southeast railway system, and the expansion of the northwest railway system.

But this plan is really not so easy to realize, especially in this era of backward technology.

but--

Li Yan believes in the saying that there are always more solutions than difficulties.

What's more, Li Yan can control people and resources across the country.

More importantly, after mastering international trade, Dazhong is very rich.

Moreover, because of Li Yan's vigorous development of agriculture, the people of Dazhong basically don't have to worry about food, even if they encounter a famine year (since the year of Tietong, the weather is good, it can be said that even God is helping Dazhong), This gave Li Yan a large labor force.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Yan unleashed the behemoth of the industrial revolution, which made the productivity of Dazhong increase exponentially. Taking the output of steel as an example, before the outbreak of the industrial revolution, Dazhong, to be precise, should be During the Song Dynasty, the annual iron production was 120 million tons. By the first year of Tietong, after the industrial revolution, the annual iron production had reached 100 million tons!
These all support Li Yan's vigorous implementation of the "big railway" plan.

But then again, the 20-kilometer railway that Li Yan plans to build is too ambitious. It will be very difficult to complete it within a few years, not to mention in this era, even in later generations. .

I have been in Tietong for four years.

Dazhong, who even exerted all his strength to nurse, is only able to cultivate:

Yanhu line.

The Yanjing-Shanghai Railway starts from Yanjing in the north, passes through Jizhou, Dezhou, Jinan, Jining, Xuzhou, Bengbu, Jinling, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, and reaches Huating County (Shanghai) in the south, and runs through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and Shandong in the future. The seven provinces and cities of China, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai span the four major water systems of the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River, with a total length of more than 400 kilometers. It is the north-south traffic artery in the eastern coastal areas.

Yanwu line.

The Yan-Wu Line starts from Yanjing in the north, ends at Angkor in the south, traverses the middle and middle parts of the country, passes through Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and later Lichao County, Champa County, and Angkor County in the second half, and crosses the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, and the Yangtze River The six major river basins of China, Pearl River, and Mekong connect the North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Pearl River Delta, and the Indochina Peninsula, with a total length of 660 kilometers. This is currently the longest railway in China.

Yan Jiuxian.

The Yanjiu Line starts from Yanjing in the north, passes through Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Guangdong in later generations, and ends in Kowloon, Hong Kong in the south, spanning nine provinces and cities, with a total length of more than 300 kilometers.

Yunliu line.

From Yundi in the north, Jiyuan, Xiangfan, Zhicheng, Huaihua to Liuzhou, this is a north-south traffic artery parallel to the Beijing-Guangzhou line, with a total length of more than 400 kilometers.

Baochengcheng Kunming line.

Starting in Baoji, Shaanxi, passing through the mountains of the Qinling Mountains and reaching Chengdu, this is an important trunk line connecting Guanzhong with the northwest and southwest of Sichuan, and it is also the main artery of the Sichuan-Shaanxi line.

The last one is Yushuo Line.

At present, the Yushuo line is mainly built for the rapid deployment of troops. This is the only east-west railway that has been built in Dazhong. It starts from Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) in the east and passes through Luanzhou, Jizhou, Tanzhou, and Shunzhou To Yanjing, and from Yanjing to the west via Guizhou, Xinzhou, Yunzhou, Huanzhou to Shuozhou.

Total: It took five or six years, and the total length of the railway built by the imperial court was only over 7000 kilometers, far from the 20 kilometers of railway envisioned by Li Yan's "big railway" plan.

In addition to the railways built by the imperial court, many branch railways were also built locally.

Among them, the most successful is the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway organized and built by Wang Shu.

Under Wang Shu's organization, it took the people of Sichuan just over three years to build the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway with a total length of more than 500 kilometers, starting from Chengdu in the west and ending in Chongqing in the east.

At this stage, the people of Shu led by Wang Shu are working hard to make the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and the Baocheng-Chengdu-Kunming Railway cross over. If the two railways can be handed over, the transportation problems that have plagued Shu for thousands of years will no longer exist. is the problem.

But even if the railways built in the local area are included, the total length of the railways built by Dazhong is still less than 20 kilometers, which is still far from the [-] kilometers that Li Yan wanted to build.

but--

In this regard, Li Yan is actually not in a hurry.

The railway has been repaired to such an extent that there is no need for the imperial court to subsidize the railway to repair the railway.

Zhang Kui even patted his chest with Li Yan and promised that in less than three years, all the money invested by the imperial court in railway construction and even in train research and development will be recovered, and without delaying railway construction and train research and development. .

Zhang Que's words are a bit too big. You know, Li Yan has spent nearly one billion yuan in the "big railway" plan over the years, and it can be recovered in three years without delaying railway construction and train research and development. case, is this possible?
Although he suspected that Zhang Kui was blowing cannons with him, Li Yan could not question Zhang Kui face to face, this is not the way to be a king.

After encouraging Zhang Kui, Li Yan sent Zhang Kui away, then called Shi Xiu over, and asked Shi Xiu to investigate in secret, how profitable is the Ministry of Railways?
As a result, if you don't check, you don't know. After checking, Li Yan was shocked!

Zhang Que, a black man, even set the train ticket as a starting price of one yuan, that is, as long as he takes the shortest stop, he will get one yuan!
If you are traveling from Yanjing to Tokyo, the fare for the third-class seat (hard seat, including no seat) is 14 yuan, the second-class seat (hard sleeper) is 29 yuan, and the first-class seat (sleeper) is 43 yuan. five.

You know, this is not a later life. One yuan today is roughly equal to two or three hundred yuan in later generations. Calculated in this way, taking a train from Yanjing to Tokyo will cost three to four thousand yuan, even if you take a hard seat or stand. A hard sleeper will cost seven or eight thousand, and a soft sleeper will cost tens of thousands!
Moreover, this is only from Yanjing to Tokyo.

If you go from Yanjing to Angkor, you need more than 90 standing tickets, which is equivalent to [-] to [-] yuan for future generations.

Again, this is only the price of the slow train!
If you take the latest diesel locomotive train developed by Dazhong (the speed has nearly doubled), the fare will be more expensive-or take the ride from Yanjiu to Tokyo as an example, the third-class ticket costs [-], and the second-class ticket The price is forty, and the first-class fare is sixty!

Don't be too expensive!
At this price, the supply is still in short supply. Almost every train is packed to the brim with no place to stay. Now, people of insight are appealing to increase the number of trains and speed up the pace of railway construction!
Later, Li Yan sent people to investigate and analyze that the reason why trains are so popular is not only because of the convenience of traveling by train, but also because of Dazhong's vigorous development of commerce.

Less than nine years after the founding of Dazhong, the north-south trade has already been very developed. Those who dare to be the first have all made a fortune, and trains (including ships) have also been equated with wealth.

It is said that there was a bold and down-and-out businessman who borrowed money to transport a trainload of banana peels from Lichao County to Yanjing. As a result, he made a full 100 million in one trip, and then married the concubine daughter of a money-grubbing official. peak!

Prompted by countless such examples, the population of Dazhong began to flow by trains and ships.

Dazhong, which firmly controls the national traffic and transportation, is getting richer and stronger...

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(End of this chapter)