Daming 1805

Chapter 97

At [-]:[-] am on January [-]th, other passengers arrived at the station one after another and boarded the train one after another.

A large number of work-related equipment and laboratory products carried by the craftsmen were also loaded by small cranes into the rear freight car.

The action leaders of Honglu Temple, the Ministry of Industry, and the Shipyard went to check and confirm whether the personnel of their respective teams were present.

All the goods were loaded and all the personnel were confirmed. The front of the official train sounded its whistle and dragged the long body slowly out of the station.

The train passed through the special train gate in the old capital of the capital and entered the Fengtai County area, the speed slowly increased, and it entered a stable driving state.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the receding scene outside the window and felt that the situation was a little wrong, so he asked Guan Tianpei beside him:

"Guan Zhenfu, how long does this bus take? When will it arrive at Tianjin Port?"

Guan Tianpei did not hesitate to answer very accurately:
"In order to ensure driving safety, the speed of this shuttle is controlled at [-] kilometers per hour.

"The whole journey is 160 kilometers, and it is estimated that it will take two hours and four 10 minutes to drive.

"It is expected to arrive at Tianjin Port around [-]:[-] in the morning."

Zhu Jingyuan was a little surprised when he heard this:
"This...the speed is really too conservative..."

The railway that Zhu Jingyuan is running by himself is the highest railway in the whole of Daming, and it is the "special line" connecting the capital to the coastal ports.

The rapid flow of materials and personnel in the capital is highly dependent on this major artery leading to the sea.

Therefore, the security level of the railway is also the highest, and there are special road protection troops patrolling day and night.

At the same time, the Beijing-Tianjin business train that Zhu Jingyuan took was also the most advanced passenger train on this road.

It can run at an average speed of [-] kilometers per hour on this nearly straight Beijing-Tianjin railway.

This is already the speed of the K-shaped train in later generations, and it has surpassed the lowest-level green leather car.

However, in order to ensure safety, its daily running speed is limited to [-] kilometers per hour, which is exactly the lower limit of the K prefix.

As a result, today, for safety, the running speed was reduced a bit, and it was directly adjusted to [-] kilometers per hour, which is the speed of the green leather car.

The guests on the car are all very important, so I only seek stability rather than speed, and I can only understand this.

For ordinary railways in other areas of Daming, the speed of trains is mostly around forty per hour.

It seems to be relatively low, but this is actually the level before liberation.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about things in his heart, and turned his face to appreciate the scene in the early spring of the Jingshi Xincheng area, which he hadn't seen for a long time.

Then Zhu Jingyuan sighed again that in the largest city in the world today, there are not many high-rise buildings at first glance.

Even outside the Fengtai County area, the surrounding buildings are still dominated by three or five-story buildings, and there are many courtyards surrounded by two or three-story buildings.

Zhu Jingyuan took another look at Niu Jian and Lin Zexu, who were also looking at the scenery, and half-deliberately and half-sincerely consulted their opinions:

"Two gentlemen, the old capital of the capital and the areas of Fengtai and Daxing have regulations restricting high-rise buildings, so there are no high-rise buildings.

"But why are there not many high-rise buildings in areas far from these places?"

Niu Jian and Lin Zexu immediately became energetic when they heard the question.

Young people in this era, who have received modernized advanced education, have a mentality when they just graduated, which is actually very similar to that of later generations of college students.

They are very interested in analyzing and discussing various issues and expressing their opinions.

This time Niu Jian opened his mouth to analyze and said:

"Students think that the regulations restricting the construction of high-rise buildings in the old capital of the capital, Fengtai County, and Daxing County, although not applicable to other areas, have objectively affected other areas.

"Because there are no tall buildings in the gardens of the royal family, neither the nobles nor the new elites pursue high-rise buildings, and then the commoners go to learn from the nobles and elites, and do not build high-rise buildings.

"In the end, everyone didn't pursue too tall buildings, so now there are no too tall buildings around Jingshi New City, and as a result, the urban area is getting bigger and bigger."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly, feeling that what Niu Jian said made sense:
"So, if we consider it completely objectively, is such a relatively sparse and low architectural style beneficial to the development of cities and commerce?"

This time, Niu Jian and Lin Zexu both fell into contemplation.

If the question just now felt like pure curiosity, then this question has obvious thinking and has a certain depth.

After a few seconds, Lin Zexu spoke first:

"Students think that, from an objective perspective, this is of course not conducive to business development, and it is inconvenient for businessmen and factory workers to work.

"A more suitable plan should be to concentrate the commercial banks as much as possible to facilitate the exchange of information between each other and facilitate the choice of purchasers.

"However, this is not insurmountable, the urban railways in the new city connecting in all directions connect the sparse urban areas in series.

"Without these railroads, there should be a more concentrated, high-density high-rise commercial and residential area."

At this time, Niu Jian added:

"Actually, what Brother Lin said has already happened in part of Xincheng.

"I have paid special attention to it for a while, and there is a commercial area with dense high-rise buildings in the south of the central part of the new city, and now more and more businesses are concentrated there.

"Nearby land prices and house prices are rising rapidly, but there are still more and more people concentrating there."

Zhu Jingyuan was also a little surprised. He didn't expect the other party to specifically observe this situation, and then continued to ask for various ideas:

"Those two think that this situation is good or bad? What impact will it have on the development of Jingshi New City?"

"Will such a large-scale expansion of the city continue to occupy the fields of the people, will it affect the food supply of our Daming?"

"What is the amount of cultivated land in Daming's local area to ensure stable local demand?"

"Should the imperial court actively control the development space of the city?"

Zhu Jingyuan threw questions one after another, and the two most outstanding scholars of the contemporary era were a little confused.

Both of them instinctively sighed that the matter that His Highness asked was really getting deeper and more complicated.

These questions are not at all like a 15-year-old boy asking, but rather like what his classmates should do.

Neither of them were afraid or bored, but became more and more interested because they both found a sense of like-mindedness.

These young scholars usually like to think about similar things, and like to get together to discuss such things.

So the two used the knowledge they had learned, combined with their own observations and experiences, and activated their own thinking to discuss with Zhu Jingyuan.

There are no accurate answers to those questions, and Zhu Jingyuan himself has no answers that he can refer to.

Because the situation is different, the answer may be different, and the choices are also different. Daming's current situation cannot be compared to any country in his previous life.

However, these problems that I have encountered in my previous life can be used as an introduction to thinking, causing the thinking of scholars in this world.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan will not make an accurate judgment, but will only refer to and judge whether what the other party said is reasonable, and also join the discussion at the same time.

From Zhu Jingyuan's point of view, this is the three people pointing the country together, or the key politics.

This discussion quickly brought in the relationship between the three, so that the two young scholars were not so detained.

The three chatted enthusiastically for more than two hours. Except for drinking more water, they all became more energetic.

Guan Tianpei was drowsy when he heard it, but he didn't dare to fall asleep at all, so he could only get up and go out to patrol, ignoring the chatter of the three.

The train that Zhu Jingyuan took traveled southeast, and after more than 40 minutes, he left the boundary of Jingshi New City and approached Langfang City.

However, the railway did not enter the urban area of ​​Langfang, but went straight around from the side.

The surrounding multi-storey buildings slowly became sparse, and soon became dense again, and the train entered the suburbs of the old city of Tianjin.

The old city of Tianjin is the original river port city, and the new city of Tianjin is the seaside sea port city.

The train passed through the old city of Tianjin and continued to drive for more than 40 minutes. At [-]:[-] in the morning, it entered the military port of the new city.

The passenger ship itself has been prepared, and the navy's escort fleet is also cruising at sea and waiting, so there is no need to start all over again.

After the train stopped, Guan Tianpei's soldiers and Jin Yiwei's personnel first got off the train to check the surrounding situation, and then boarded the ship to check the interior of the passenger ship.

Zhu Jingyuan waited in the car until twelve o'clock noon, and ate lunch directly on the train, and finally received the news that he could get off the car and board the ship.

The anxious Zhu Jingyuan got up quickly, took Guan Tianpei and two of his staff out of the carriage, and took the transfer car in the port to the wharf.

The car gradually approached the pier, and the outline of the docked passenger ship on the pier became clearer and larger, giving the impression that it was getting bigger and bigger.

When the car stopped under the gangway, the two young men, Lin Zexu and Niu Jian, both got off the car with their heads raised.

The two stood under the gangway, looking at the passenger ship hull above, with shocked expressions on their faces.

"I read in the newspapers that this steel ship is not so huge in the boundless sea and sky."

"It's only now that I know it before my eyes, it's actually so huge."

"It's really as big as a city wall, like a mountain..."

Zhu Jingyuan heard the conversation between the two aides, and looked up again at the shape of the big ship.

This passenger ship is different from what I imagined. It does not have the typical style of modern western cruise ships. I may not see that image in my life.

Just as Daming's sedan is really like a sedan chair, the superstructure of this ship is like an oriental palace.

It's just that in the middle of this palace, there are four tall chimneys, showing the power of the industrial age.

According to what the consortium's personnel informed him, this is a Chongming Island-type luxury passenger ship that has been operating for three years.

With a displacement of 35000 tons at full load and a hull length of 248 meters, it can carry 800 crew members and 2400 passengers.

A total of four passenger ships of this type have been built, and this is the third ship, Zhoushan Island.

Although the fourth ship has been updated and has only been in operation for less than a year, it is not guaranteed to be fully mature and reliable, and the crew is not experienced enough.

Therefore, the passenger line company chose ship No. [-] for Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan already had some experience with the scale of the ship, and it was actually just as Lin Niu said.

A large ship floating on the sea lacks a reliable reference around it. If people don't come to the ship, they will not realize how big the ship is.

Even seeing these direct hull data, there is only a dazed look on his face.

Only a little calculation can have a concept.

The [-]-ton ship in front of me was equivalent to [-] family cars.

When two such ships are docked, they are as long as a mile, which is a full mile.

A more intuitive imagination is that when you stand on the dock and look at the ship, it feels like a stadium floating on the sea.

Moreover, the internal space is three-dimensional and multi-level, with a playground above and a commercial street inside.

It can carry more than 800 crew members and allow more than 2000 people to live relatively comfortably on it.

If the standard of living is not taken into account, it is not a problem to have two or three times the number of people.

Zhu Jingyuan just knew that Daming had already built many such passenger ships of more than 3 tons, and it should not be a problem to build a [-]-ton passenger ship.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is basically the same as the British when the Titanic was built.

That's why Zhu Jingyuan asked the navy to directly build a warship with a load of [-] tons.

Maybe a battleship with a complex structure is still a little difficult, but an aircraft carrier of this era should have no difficulty.

The conversion of cruise ships to aircraft carriers was a routine operation in the World War II era...

After Zhu Jingyuan sighed in his heart for a while, he invited the two aides to board the boat together.

Go through the gangway, step into the long gate, go through the corridor, and take the elevator to the floor where your room is.

It is located in the middle of the front and rear of the hull, and the port side of the middle, middle and upper floors of the upper and lower floors is divided into a separate area.

This is a completely independent and complete living area specially designed by the Royal Line Company for guests with special status.

Living facilities are readily available, entertainment facilities are also arranged, and living and leisure space is also abundant.

If Zhu Jingyuan needed it, he could stay here the whole time, without having to go to other places on the ship or contact other people.

Zhu Jianfeng's room was on the starboard side, which was basically the same as the situation on Zhu Jingyuan's side.

In fact, if there is only one guest of the same level, the two spaces can be connected, and they will be separated when needed.

Zhu Jingyuan's two staff and Shen Fu's room were next to Zhu Jingyuan's living quarters, which was also the best place on the ship.

Guan Tianpei lived around Zhu Jingyuan's room with 32 soldiers.

Other soldiers are scattered to various important positions on the ship, so that it is convenient to control the situation on the ship in the event of an emergency.

When Zhu Jingyuan and the two aides settled down, Zhu Jianfeng also took his princess on board, and then the other guests boarded separately.

The system of superiority and inferiority left by the classical society has been dissipated a lot as the wisdom of the people gradually dissipated, but the idea of ​​authoritarianism still exists.

No one felt that it was unreasonable for the two princes and grandson to board the ship first and let everyone else wait.

It's just that the emperor's grandson, Zhu Jingyuan, came before the prince, Zhu Jianfeng, which makes people a little confused.

The rhythm of the sea is much slower than the rhythm of the railway.

Zhu Jingyuan boarded the ship at twelve o'clock, and it was not until nearly three o'clock in the afternoon that he received the notification that everything was ready to set sail.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't want to wait another night at the dock, so he asked the captain to set sail immediately and leave the port area before dark.

(End of this chapter)