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At the end of the fifth year of the reign of the reign, Dazhong unified the Indochina Peninsula, and then successively destroyed the Kamorebo and Sena countries, completing the unification.

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

Therefore, after the fifth year of the Datong reign ended, Li Yan changed the year name to "Tietong".

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

Li Yan's "big railway" plan is to build five railway trunk lines running across the country with 200,000 kilometers first, subdividing them into the central railway system, the southeast railway system, and expanding the northwest railway system.

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

but

Li Yan believes in one sentence: there are always more ways 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 Li Yan vigorously developed agriculture, the people of Dazhong no longer worry about food, even if they encountered a deserted year (since the Tietong Year, the weather was good, it can be said that even God was helping Dazhong), which gave Li Yan a large amount of labor.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Yan released the giant beast of the Industrial Revolution, which caused the productivity of Dazhong to grow geometrically multiples. Take the output of steel as an example. Before the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution, Dazhong, to be precise, should be the Song Dynasty. At that time, the annual iron production was 1.25 million tons. By the first year of Tietong, after the Industrial Revolution, Dazhong had already reached 11 million tons!

All these support Li Yan to vigorously implement the "big railway" plan.

But then again, the 200,000-kilometer railway that Li Yan planned to build was too ambitious. It would be very difficult to complete it within a few years, not to mention this era, even in future generations.

It was the fourth year of Tietong.

Even Dazhong, who even used the strength to feed her breasts, only cultivated it:

Yanhu Line.

The Yanhu Railway starts from Yanjing in the north, passes through Jizhou, Dezhou, Jinan, Jining, Xuzhou, Bengbu, Jinling, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou and Huating County in the south, and runs through the seven provinces and cities of later generations. It spans the four major water systems of Haihe, Yellow River, Huaihe and Yangtze River. It is more than 1,400 kilometers long and is the north-south transportation artery in the eastern coastal areas.

Yanwu line.

The Yanwu Line starts from Yanjing in the north and ends at Angkor in the south, and runs across the central and central parts of the Greater, Central and later generations, passes through the Lichao County, Chameng County and Angkor County in the second half. It spans six major basins of Haihe River, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River, Pearl River, and Mekong, connecting the North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Pearl River Delta Prefecture, and the Indochina Peninsula. It is 5,666 kilometers long, which is also the longest railway in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Yanjiu line.

The Yanjiu Line starts from Yanjing in the north, passes through later generations of Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and ends in Kowloon in Hong Kong in the south, spanning nine provinces and cities, with a total length of more than 2,300 kilometers.

Cloud willow line.

It starts from Yundi in the north, with economic source, Xiangfan, Zhicheng, Huaihua to Liuzhou. This is a north-south transportation artery parallel to the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, with a total length of more than 2,400 kilometers.

Baocheng Chengkun Line.

It starts in Baoji, Shaanxi, passes through the Qinling Mountains, and reaches Chengdu. This is an important trunk line connecting Guanzhong and the northwest and southwest of Sichuan. It is also the main artery of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Line.

The last one, the Yushun Line.

The Yushuo Line is currently mainly built for rapid military mobilization. It is also the only east-west railway currently built by Dazhong. It starts from Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) in the east, passes through Luanzhou, Jizhou, Tanzhou, Shunzhou to Yanjing, and then goes from Yanjing to Guizhou, Xinzhou, Yunzhou, and Huanzhou to Shuozhou.

Total: The railway built by the court lasted five or six years, totaling only more than 17,000 kilometers, which was much different from the 200,000 kilometers of railway envisioned by Li Yan's "Big Railway" plan.

In addition to the railways built by the imperial court, many branches of the railways were also built in the local area.

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

Under Wang Shu's organization, it took only more than three years for the people in Shu to build the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, which is more than 500 kilometers long, starting from Chengdu in the west and reaching 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 Line intersect. If the two railways can be intersected, the transportation problem that has plagued Shu for thousands of years will no longer be a problem.

But even if the railways built in the local area were added, the total length of the railways built in Dazhong was still less than 25,000 kilometers, which was still a huge gap from the 200,000 kilometers that Li Yan wanted to build.

but

Li Yan is actually not in a hurry to do this.

When the railway was built to this level, the imperial court no longer had to pay for the railway construction.

Zhang Xu even patted Li Yan and promised that in less than three years, the money invested by the court in railway construction and even the court in train research and development could be recovered, and it would not delay railway construction and train research and development.

Zhang Xu said this a bit too big. You know, Li Yan spent nearly one billion yuan over the years. In the "big railway" plan, it can be recovered in three years. And without delaying railway construction and train research and development, is this possible?

Although he suspected that Zhang Xu was shooting a cannon with him, Li Yan could not question Zhang Xu in person. This was not the way to be the king.

After encouraging Zhang Xu, Li Yan sent Zhang Xu away, then called Shi Xiu, and asked Shi Xiu to check in secret how profitable is the Ministry of Railways?

As a result, if you don’t check it, Li Yan was shocked!

Zhang Xu, a black guy, actually ordered train tickets to start with one yuan, which means you only need one yuan if you take the shortest stop!

If you are from Yanjing to Tokyo, the ticket price for third-class seats (i.e. hard seats, and no seats) is 14.5 yuan, the ticket price for second-class seats (i.e. hard sleepers) is 29 yuan, and the ticket price for first-class seats (i.e. sleepers), the ticket price is 43.5 yuan.

You know, this is not later generations. The current one yuan is probably equal to the next generation’s two or three hundred yuan. In this way, taking a train from Yanjing to Tokyo will cost three or four thousand to a hard seat or standing. If you sit in a hard sleeper, you will cost seven or eight thousand, and if you sit in a soft sleeper, you will cost tens of thousands!

Moreover, this is just from Yanjing to Tokyo.

If you go to Angkor from Yanjing, you will have to be more than 90% of the money you will get from Yanjing to Angkor, which will be 20,000 or 30,000. If you sit in a soft place, it will be 70,000 or 80,000!

To put it another way, this is just the price of a slow train!

If you take the latest internal combustion locomotive and train developed by Dazhong (the speed has increased by nearly twice), the ticket price will be more expensive, taking it from Yan to Tokyo as an example. The third-class ticket price is twenty, the second-class ticket price is forty, and the first-class ticket price is forty!

Don't think it's expensive!

At this price, there is still a shortage of supply. Almost every train is full of crowds and there is no place to settle down. Now, people with insight are calling for increasing the number of trains and accelerating the pace of railway construction!

Later, Li Yan sent someone to investigate and analyze and learned that the reason why trains are so popular is not only because of the convenience of taking trains, but also because of the vigorous development of business in Dazhong.

Less than nine years after the founding of the country, trade between the north and the south was already very developed. Those who dared to be the first made a fortune, and trains (including ships) were equal to wealth.

It is said that there was a brave and down-and-out businessman who used debts to transport a train from Li Chaojun to Yanjing, but he made a full million in one trip. He then married a concubine of a greedy official and reached the peak of his life in an instant!

Driven by countless such examples, the large and medium-sized population began to flow on trains and ships.

Firmly grasp the national transportation and transportation major and increasingly prosperous...
Chapter completed!