Datang: God-level Choice

If there is a direct railway from Luoyang to Yangzhou, the Grand Canal, which has just been completed and widened soon, may be relegated to the second line.

The whole of Datang has once again entered the heat of freight trains. The threshold for the registration office of the Railway Academy has been stepped on. The admission rate has reached a terrible level of several hundred to one. , added several branches in Luoyang and other places

The only people who feel uncomfortable may be the boatmen in Datang

The strongest transport vehicle that had been in control for a long time was overtaken by the freight train that suddenly appeared, and the speed was even faster.

Deeply dissatisfied, the Datang shipbuilders struggled day and night one by one, and carried out a detailed division of labor.

Some people continue to conquer the research of high-horsepower steam engines for ships, and some people are responsible for the combination of steam engines and paddle wheels, as well as sails, to improve the speed of steam paddle sailboats as much as possible.

And the last group of people concentrated on studying the [-]-ton super sea ship, vowing to earn this breath back

A group of people, who have seen the inadequacy of wooden keels in larger ships, have begun to study steam iron armored warships that replace wood with steel.

Qin Huaidao, who received all the news, is also very satisfied with this.

Under their own guidance, the most outstanding craftsmen in Datang have had enough vision and started to develop and innovate independently.

Although the launch of the steam-powered ship has been delayed again due to the high design index, it is definitely a cost-effective thing to realize the super steam iron-clad battleship in one step.

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Chapter [-]: Jinyang Princess bound for Jinyang

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Amid the cheers for the railway in the whole Tang Dynasty, the second freight line from Chang'an City, the Chang'an-Jinyang Railway also quietly started construction

The rapid construction speed is mainly due to the continuous improvement of new construction methods by Datang engineers.

The first is the large-scale use of steam engines as power machinery, which greatly improves the construction efficiency.

Then, the method of constructing while constructing was adopted. In short, building all the way and moving forward all the way, while the heavy-duty trains followed behind, transporting all kinds of materials to the front line at any time, which greatly saved manpower and energy. material resources

In some distances where conditions permit, the method of splitting the two lines and advancing side by side is directly adopted, that is, the railway is divided into multiple routes, and the two ends of the road section are constructed towards the middle, which doubles the efficiency again.

According to the current speed estimate, the length of "nine three seven"

The Chang'an-Jinyang Railway, which is more than [-] miles long, almost twice as long as the Chang-Luo Railway, can be completed in July at most.

The entire construction took less than half a year, which is definitely a miracle speed.

The essence of Datang's infrastructure madness has been initially demonstrated

And several cavalry regiments, according to the plan that Qin Huaidao and Li Er had already negotiated, quietly set out from Chang'an City, came to the vicinity of the prairie to familiarize themselves with the environment, and prepared for the next step of the prairie offensive

The entire cavalry regiment had traveled more than a thousand miles for half a month, making Qin Huaidao very helpless.

This is also one of the reasons for the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty in history.

In order to strengthen the control of the frontier area and continue to expand, Li Longji had to put a lot of troops in the frontier, but the interior was empty. Once the frontier generals rebelled, a large section of Chang'an City was left with no resistance. ability

In order to ensure the safety of Chang'an City, a large number of troops must be concentrated around Chang'an City, and the response to the frontier will be much slower and the influence will be reduced a lot.

This is also the reason why Datang has never done anything to the prairie, that is, the transportation is too inconvenient

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing led his troops to attack thousands of miles away and defeated the East Turks. Even Jieli Khan was captured alive, but he had to retreat from the prairie. not on

Most people's impressions of the prairie are continuous green grass, but in fact, at the junction of Hedong Road and the prairie, there are many Gobi deserts with yellow sand filling the sky, not to mention food, not even water.

Even in the prairie, unless you can find nomadic tribes that are constantly migrating, horses can graze. Among the iron rules of how people should fight, transportation is the first one.

The emergence of railways will definitely change all of this.

For a distance of more than 34 miles, the cavalry needs to run for half a month, but for the train, that is, three or four [-]-hour events, you can easily run back and forth in a day.

Passenger trains can carry [-] heavily armed infantrymen in one shift, while freight trains can carry a large amount of logistical materials, not even horses.

The whole railway became powerful, and it was possible to send [-] soldiers and enough logistical materials to support a month's battle from Chang'an City to the railway station in one day.

The Tang soldiers stationed in the frontier can also get sufficient supplies of supplies. When they are on family leave, they can also take the train home to visit relatives, and their morale will definitely be much higher.

Although many people think that the railway between Dengzhou and Jiangnan Road should be given priority, Qin Huaidao still puts the railway from Chang'an to Jinyang in the first place.

In addition to the strategic significance of controlling the entire prairie, the economic value of this railway is also quite high.

Jinyang is the coal capital of later generations. The abundance of coal mines here is definitely beyond everyone's imagination.

Anyway, according to Qin Huaidao's estimation, the Tang Dynasty will not be able to use it up for at least a few hundred years.

Moreover, around Jinyang, there are many open-pit coal mines, which are easy to mine, and the quality is quite good. There is no shortage of high-quality anthracite coal.

After the emergence of the steam engine, coal mines meant energy and the blood of industry. Needless to say, how much value it has.

As long as the railway is opened, the Hedong Road and Hebei Road around Jinyang will inevitably become the top few with the fastest economic growth in Datang.

With the various propaganda of the newspapers, all the people around Jinyang are also frozen.

You must know that although Jinyang was the starting place of Li Tang, it was located on the frontier, with many wars, great destruction, little construction, and a poor one, Li Yuan, the great ancestor, who was actually dispatched to Jinyang back then. The economic foundation has also been relatively backward

Even in the past two years, with the help of Qin Huaidao's east wind, a large number of coal mines have been explored around Jinyang City. The rich reserves have shocked everyone.

However, the poor traffic conditions limit the mining of coal mines, and the mining can't be transported out.

And if the freight railway from Chang'an to Jinyang is opened to traffic, the huge transportation capacity will directly activate the coal mining of the two roads. The major coal mining enterprises controlled by Qin Huaidao have already issued up to [-] pre-recruitment places.

In addition to the [-] migrant workers who participated in the construction of the Changan-Jinyang Railway, at least [-] families have directly benefited from this railway, and they are only the first batch.