I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 821, Zhen Xing's Adventure Journey
The sudden upsurge of the Dagan Railway even surprised Xu Wei for a while. When he found out the reason, he realized that these merchants regarded the railway as a hard-core banker who made money without losing money.

Because the railways built by Dagan are basically at the profit stage, especially the railway line from Quanzhou County to Jidu. Because of Jidu, a market with a population of one million people with extremely high consumption power, the railway will pay back its capital in the second year. This is still the case when Xu Wei lowers the transportation price.

In their view, after the railway line is priced in their hands, they only need to increase the freight rate of the railway, and even the branch railway can quickly pay back, and there is no risk, unlike sea freight, which is highly profitable but slightly inferior. Shen is annihilated.

So even Xu Wei didn't know, the entire businessman was eager to see through the railway, and after Xu Wei released the restrictions this time, their funds were invested in the construction of the railway, even in Hebei, where the railway had already been built. , There are also many merchants who want to contract a section of railway branch line.

When Xu Wei knew all this, he was amused by the plans of these merchants. The major railways built now can be regarded as the main roads. Because of the development of industrialization and the development of sea transportation, the freight volume on the railways is very dense, but the transportation of goods is limited. extreme.

It’s not that you can continue to upgrade the goods when you upgrade the railway. After all, the industrialization of Daqian is too low, and there are only so many goods. An overly dense railway network will reduce the rate of return. Back then, almost all railway companies in Hope Country were Such bankruptcy, the railway bubble pit killed tens of thousands of speculators.

But these speculators are all European speculators, and they will not do any harm to his own country. After all, the railway is on the land of his own country, and it is impossible for them to tear it down. Leeks can be harvested in reverse!

And now that Dagan businessmen want to build a railway, it is also a good thing for Xu Wei. Anyway, no matter how the railway is built, it will be on Dagan's land.

They are willing to invest in such infrastructure. Xu Wei is happy that it is too late, so that the imperial court can devote more resources to the heavy industry. After all, if civilization wants to develop, heavy industry is the most important backbone!
"Technology is the primary productive force!" This is the truth believed by Xu Wei and his generation.Xu Wei invested the saved funds in the construction of the steel plant.

After more than 30 years of development in Dagan Iron and Steel Plant, the blast furnace has become taller and taller, and now it has become the tallest building in the entire Dagan. The iron output of the blast furnace can reach about 15 tons at one time, and the annual steel output exceeds 1400 tons. It can be said that such a blast furnace is the most shining pearl in the crown of Daqian industry (steel industry: I am the leader of the industry) The first pearl, someone has finally justified my name!)

Now because of the explosion of the railway industry, the amount of steel needed has also increased. Xu Wei decided to build a 30-ton steel plant in Xuzhou, a steel plant in Ma'anshan Yiyi, Danyang County, and finally a steel plant in Runan County.

The successful construction of these three iron and steel plants will increase the steel output of Daqian by one million tons, especially for Jiangnan's infrastructure construction!
And when the tide of industrialization is accelerating step by step, there are also a group of wandering adventurers who are about to go home in the sea thousands of miles away!
Tianzhu, Jewel Island!

"Young Master! We are almost at Tianzhu!"

That's right, they are the Zhenxing Fleet that Zhen An spent a lot of money to find!

And they are looking for why the rubber tree came to Tianzhu, which is a long story.

At the beginning, Zhen Xing was focused on finding the rubber tree and getting Xu Wei's reward, but when they found the rubber tree, he learned from the communication among the savages that three fleets had already found the rubber tree before them.

And the earliest fleet among them has already set off one and a half months earlier than them, and with such a long route, No.1 has traveled thousands of miles longer than them. After all, the return route has been completely explored, and the speed It can be more than doubled, and they can't catch up with No.1 at all.

This made Zhen Xing, who wanted to build a country in the South China Sea, quit. He spent such a high price, but fell short, which is so acceptable.

He was decadent for three days, and then he thought of a way. He remembered that the ruling said that the earth is a sphere, and they can go east instead of going back, and they can return to Jidu. No one knows the distance, maybe after they cross the sea, they can reach Tianzhu, Tianfang and other countries, and in this way he can take a shortcut and hand over the rubber tree to Xu Wei before everyone else.

Zhen Xing naturally has no lack of adventurous spirit here, he mentioned his ideas to everyone, and doubled the bonus to mobilize these sailors.

And these sailors also agreed to Zhen Xing's request for the sake of generous bonuses, so the group of them did not go back, and then directly crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and then they followed the ocean current all the way to the later Roman Empire.

However, the Roman Empire was in the era of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty, and its national power was strong, and its territory continued to expand. In the era of Trajan, the soldiers reached the Persian Gulf, and its territory reached about 625 million square kilometers. It also owned the entire Mediterranean Sea, which has become an inner lake. The economy also continued to prosper, reaching the peak of its history.

It can be said that the level of civilization is not much worse than that of a big man!
Zhen Xing and his group were almost treated as savages when they first came to Rome, and they were taken to the Colosseum to fight with lions.Fortunately, the silk on their ship saved them.

Daqian sailing and development, the transportation volume of the Silk Road is more than a hundred times more than in history, so Dagan's silk caused a deeper sensation than in history.

After the local officials discovered the silk, they rescued Zhen Xing and the others, and then they stayed in Rome for more than half a year, and even came to Rome, the center of the Roman Empire.

The arrival of Zhen Xing and the others caused a commotion in the entire city of Rome. The age of sailing had passed the reputation of Dagan to Rome, but the two sides had not established contact because the distance was too far away. However, Dagan’s weapons, steel, silk, tea, porcelain, White sugar and other goods have already triggered the trend of the Roman Empire. Now the nobles in the city of Rome wear silk, use porcelain, drink afternoon tea, and add three spoons of white sugar. It will cause a sensation in the whole city of Rome.

Even the Roman Emperor Caracalla at that time personally met Zhen Xing and the others and asked many things related to Dagan!

(End of this chapter)