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Chapter 1000 High-speed rail, the prelude to the expansion of the empire (second update, please subscribe)
To master finance is to master the world!

This is a concept instilled by Emperor Zhu more than ten years ago. In the past ten years, under his attention, Daming's financial industry has developed from a young sprout to a behemoth.

And the Imperial Bank is one of the leaders!

As the helm of the Imperial Bank, Hu Guangyong has long been not just a banker, but a financial decision-maker.

Standing up from a spacious mahogany desk and walking through the large room, Hu Guangyong walked to the flower window on the south wall, staring at the Eighth Avenue downstairs—this is the financial center of the Ming Empire. Looking down, the street is full of squirming people and vehicles.

This street with a width of only 28 meters is the heart of the Ming Empire's financial industry. No matter what people who depreciate it say, this street has always firmly controlled the empire's finance.For some ordinary financial practitioners wearing dark gray clothes and coming and going in a hurry, it may just be a place for job hunting and employment, and they just work here.Here, from adolescence to adulthood, middle age, and finally retirement, what a person seeks is only a stable and generous income, and of course a generous pension; for other young and promising people, it is It is a temple of opportunity, where, as long as one has expertise and diligence, one will be rewarded with promotion and security - the vast colonies of the empire provide ample jobs for young people; for pragmatism, it is the world's most The biggest market is the biggest place for speculation; and for leftists, it is also the place where the rich spend extravagance and lust, and those rich people use financial means to plunder their wealth shamelessly.

What kind of person is Hu Guangyong?

He is both a man who sees the world with his eyes open and a realist.He knew what this financial center was: it was purely a jungle, a battlefield.

Everything on this battlefield is pure and simple. What is emphasized here is the law of the jungle. If you want to survive, you must become a predator and bite the prey, and he himself is a predator in this jungle. , and the most powerful one.

Since it is the strongest, can it be relaxed?

of course not!

In fact, not only can't relax, but even more concentration is needed, because in this jungle, anyone who takes it lightly will be eliminated quickly.

Although the Imperial Bank is huge, it also attracts attention. Outside of the Imperial Bank, HSBC and other banks are staring at him, watching him eagerly, waiting to replace it.

It is precisely because of this that Hu Guangyong did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

"Abolishing the two and changing the yuan... This is a perfect opportunity."

Staring out of the window for a long time, Hu Guangyong walked back to the office again. He looked at the report on the table and thought of HSBC, Quanye, Fumin and other banks planning to form a syndicate of banks to borrow from Shenzhou. He was cold at first. He smiled coldly, then raised his brows slightly.

As a predator, he would not tolerate anyone stealing his prey. After thinking for a while, he leaned forward, picked up the phone on the table, and said.

"Miss Zhao, help me book a ticket to Zhongdu... Well, yes, it's the Star of the Americas."

At this time, it is time to go to Zhongdu.

"American Star" is the most famous "express train" in Ming Dynasty. As early as ten years ago, in order to strengthen the connection between Nanhua and Yingtian, the Imperial Railway Company began to promote the development of high-speed trains. In May of the second year of Sidley, A "High-Speed ​​Train Committee" was established within the Imperial Railways and the Ministry of Communications, with representatives from each of the Transport, Work, and Engineering departments.A few months later, "Imperial Railway" decided to manufacture four special express trains between Nanhua and Yingtian, and quickly proposed a budget. The plan is still fully supported, which shows that the empire attaches great importance to this plan.

After the budget was passed, the Imperial Railways accelerated the pace of advancement and sent technicians to the United States and Europe to study and inspect related advanced technologies.But after investigating around, I found that... Daming's own was more advanced. At that time, the average speed of European and American trains was only 30.2 kilometers per hour, while that of Daming exceeded 42 kilometers. The fastest "Pacific Ocean" in Daming is also a model of high-speed trains in the world. The representative of the steam train, the average speed is 57.2 kilometers per hour, far exceeding the European and American counterparts.

However, this does not mean that there is no gain - they discovered for the first time that the level of locomotives in the Ming Empire has far left their European and American counterparts behind.

However, despite this, the "American Express" is still an unprecedented challenge for the Imperial Railways-the vehicles of the "American Express" are designed and manufactured with a target speed of 120 kilometers per hour.This does not reflect the ambition of the "Emperor Railway" in terms of train speed at that time, but the ambition of the Ming Empire for territorial expansion.

"What we need is a high-speed train that can reach any city in South America within 24 hours!"

What is ambition?

This is ambition!
It can be said to be ambitious, and this is ambitious. Even in the long-term planning of the "Emperor Railway", there is a railway leading to Mexico City.

Of course, this is all just a draft.But what is certain is that the Great Ming’s ambitions are in the entire South American continent, and the railway is the tool for the Ming to expand or rule in South America.

The mainland is so vast, and if you want to connect to the mainland, you must have high-speed trains. This is the fundamental reason why the Ministry of Communications and the Imperial Railway Company fully support the "American Express".

The vast land of the empire requires high-speed trains to strengthen the internal connections of the empire, and of course for future expansion.To this end, the Imperial Railway Company concentrated almost all the best engineers, and it took eight years before and after the successful development of the "American Star".

Last year, the news that the operating speed of "America Star" exceeded 100 kilometers per hour for the first time made the headlines of not only many newspapers in Ming Dynasty, but also many newspapers in Europe and America.

"This is the fastest train since the invention of the train!"

As for all this, Hu Guangyong, the president of the Imperial Bank, is of course very clear, because the Imperial Bank is the major shareholder of Imperial Railway and the largest seller of Imperial Railway bonds.

This afternoon, Hu Guangyong's car drove directly to the platform of the "American Star". Wealth is expensive, but few people can drive a car to the platform.

When Hu Guangyong got off the train, the conductor who had been waiting for a long time led several passengers to greet him personally.

"Mr. President, your compartment is No. 3, please follow me."

When the train conductor was leading the way respectfully, Hu Guangyong took a special look at the streamlined front of the train. This is the biggest feature of the "American Star", and its special model can always attract people's attention anywhere.

After getting on the train and entering the luxurious box, Hu Guangyong glanced at an ordinary steam train that was side by side outside the window. Although they were both steam trains, the difference between them was too great.

Looking at the somewhat "quaint" steam locomotive, he couldn't help talking to himself.

"A speed of 100 kilometers per hour is no slower than an airship! Maybe this is the future!"

High-speed trains are the future!
Anyone who knows Daming will not doubt this, after all, the current empire is too vast.In order to connect the vast empire together, building new railways and building new high-speed trains has become an inevitable trend.

Of course, this also means that in order to build railways to connect the north and the south, the empire must consider external expansion.

Perhaps this is why the high-speed train was named "American Star" - because eventually Ming Dynasty will build railways all over the Americas.

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