The Four Great Halls.

“What is the train?”

In the rhythmic clicks outside that still ringing, Yang Qing said to the delegates.

“The train is the future!”

He howled.

The whistle sounded, as if for Yang Qing's howling accompaniment.

"The train outside has been running for two hours, with a carriage, a total of more than 40,000 pounds of weight, these two hours it has been running for seventy miles, it still does not stop.In fact, according to my calculations, the coal it carries would allow it to run seventy more miles, four hours, one hundred and forty miles, and it would take only half an hour to refill it with coal.That is to say, as long as there is a station with coal and water in front of it, and even someone is there waiting for it to be overhauled, in short, as the station provides all the needs of the horse, then it can be kept non-stop.

Four hours and a hundred and forty miles, and twenty-four hours it could run at least five hundred miles.

You guys, imagine that.

If between the south and the north, between the south and Chang'an, and even Guangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming and even Hangzhou, Fuzhou and Taiyuan and all other important cities are paved.

How easy our journey will be!

When you want to go to the northern capital, you can sit in a special car, take your wife, eat a hot pot, listen to small songs, and you can see the gates of the northern capital in four days.Instead of spending more than a month on a ship, as in the past, even in the winter, ice has to be blocked somewhere, and a full few months can't be retreated.Even if you go to the sea, you have to be in the wind and waves for half a month, and even in the event of a storm, you may be buried in the belly of the fish.

Think about it!

In the past, a businessman could only make a round trip between the north and the south, and with it, he could make a round trip ten times a year.

How much more money!

It is just an experimental one.

If I wanted to, I could increase its load capacity tenfold.

I can make it go up to ten times as fast.

I could make a train, with a load of forty thousand pounds, at a speed of three hundred and fifty miles an hour, run on every track, day and night, on every track, or on the railroad.Chengdu's grain can be sent to Nandu in less than a day, Songjiang's flower cloth can be sent to Chang'an in less than a day, Qiongzhou iron ore can be sent to the factory in less than a day, do we still need to care about the lack of raw materials?Do we still need to care if the product doesn’t work?Do we have to worry about the logistics of the military?We need only one railway and a hundred trains."

Yang Qing continued to howl.

Indeed, it can only be used to howl to describe the protector of the country at this time.

“But building the railroad is expensive!”

A representative said.

"Yes, you are right, the railway is very expensive, in fact, not only the cost of money, we even repair the railway steel is not enough, one hundred and fifty pounds of iron, one hundred and fifty pounds of iron, one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of iron, and can not be inferior pig iron, must be high-quality cooked iron, and we last year's production will repair more than a thousand miles, even to repair the north!"

Yang Qing said.

Daming last year a total of less than 50,000 tons of steel and cooked iron, pig iron more, in fact more than 100,000 tons.

Most of them are actually private metallurgy.

Ming Dynasty private metallurgical iron is actually very developed, Jiajing ten years according to the Guangdong metallurgical tax silver calculation, only a province in Guangdong, this year's private metallurgy on the smelting of nearly 30 million pounds, and Guangdong metallurgical production is roughly equivalent to half of the country, that is to say, Jiajing ten years of the year no less than 60 million pounds.

More than 30,000 tons.

England was only twenty thousand at this time.

However, these mature iron because of the difference in raw materials is also very large, Yang Qing's own steel plant with Hainan Island iron ore smelting, even if the cooked iron has reached the level of low-carbon steel, mainly used for the barrel, the manufacture of various machinery, and advanced tools and some precision devices are crumb steel.Because the cost control is more stringent, so it does not use this long-distance shipping iron ore, but mainly the ore of Maanshan, so the quality of cooked iron is slightly lower, but also qualified, that is, it is no problem to use the barrel to make the barrel, but still with armor, some popular machinery and the like.

However, this production does not include Cantonese.

Guangdong's steel industry because of the high-quality iron ore support in the north of Guangdong, the output is not low, according to Jin Yiwei's intelligence statistics, should be 20,000 rice iron, 30 tons of pig iron, more than the United Kingdom, the power of liberal capitalism is amazing.In fact, Guangdong-made steel is mainly sold in the court control area, and the quality of cooked iron is only slightly lower than Yangqing's steel mill, but it must exceed the folk in the court control area.

Iron ore is the most important thing.

However, the railways were all familiar with the railways, which were all cooked irons, which were used to make the Pudlin cooked iron furnace and then forged, and Yang Qing could not build heavy trains.His tracks are originally calculated light, the standard rails get one meter 50 or 60 kilograms, two at least two hundred pounds, he did not expect to run a thousand tons of trains, ten tons or even dozens of tons.

He didn’t even expect the railroad.

Well, he was actually blowing, learning the great railway plan of Gunco...

Conspiracy?

Of course there is a conspiracy!

Why didn’t he play so much?

As the king's guess, would there be no conspiracy to protect the country so high-profile?

“So, in order to build the railway on a large scale, first of all, steel production must be increased.”

Yang Qing said: "My first batch of railway plans are very simple, south to north to north, west to Chang'an, south through Shanghai to Ningbo, five years to build these three railways, while the construction of the south to the west of Wuchang to Hengyang."And from Hangzhou to Nanchang to Changsha, from Hengyang to Nanning, from Nanchang to Guangzhou and from Zhengding to Taiyuan, from Chang'an to the western region, from Haizhou to Chang'an.These will be built in ten years, and in 20 years, our train will drive to Dihua, to Shenyang, to Kunming and Chengdu!One hundred thousand miles, twenty years, one hundred thousand miles of railway, twenty years later, we will build a hundred thousand miles of railway in the land of our Daming!”

The Four Great Halls are in disaring.

Everyone looked at Yang Qing, who raised his arms to make a moustache speech, and this series of numbers was very shocking.

Mostly, of course, they don’t understand.

If they understand, Yang Qing should be a real lunatic in their eyes at this time.

“We need to make steel!”

Yang Qing continued to be mad.

"We produced 50,000 tons of iron last year, and this year can reach up to 60,000, which is not enough, it can't be used for us to build railways, and this output can't be increased at the speed."

We have to run forward!

Five years to increase the production of cooked iron ten times, ten years to increase the production of cooked iron by 20 times, twenty years later we cooked iron production to more than 5 million tons!Only in this way can we ensure that our railway construction, gentlemen, a great era has begun, and the great life of the great Ming has begun!Let us take out the spirit of the foolish mountain and start our steel era, the Queen has decided to let go of the restrictions on prospecting and mining rights north of the Yangtze River, and everyone, as long as they have the ability, can go there to find minerals.No matter the iron ore coal mine, who first find it will give a mining certificate to whom, a hundred years of mining rights, who can find the mine who can mine for a hundred years!"

He shouted excitedly.

Before Daming, the iron ore was actually controlled in his hands, that is, the two main mining areas of Oyster and Maanshan, have been through some operations, together with the stone iron ore mine, to the name of his iron ore company.

There are not many iron mines in the south.

After all, the Panzhihua iron ore is certainly not mined at this time.

Including the entire Da Ming prospecting right is also in this company, which is well known, but no one cares about this problem, after all, metallurgical iron this kind of thing is the main official camp.Although the Ming Dynasty did not prohibit private metallurgy, but only the old artisan system under the official metallurgical iron is too backward, now the best metallurgical technology is Yang Qing's steel mill, he did not order the ban of private metallurgy but to encourage it, those emerging capitalists have been satisfied.Now he not only metallurgical rights, but also the prospecting rights north of the Yangtze River have also been released, which is indeed large enough, which means that anyone with money can go to the north prospecting mining...

No prospecting.

Dorgon has a chemical iron factory!

His iron ore is in the east, the magneto area is also from the ancient iron, in fact, the north of the iron ore is more than the south, as long as the money in the past to re-mining these iron ore, and then the near establishment of iron plant smelting.Yang Qing's railway plan also makes steel no sales problem, no matter how much it is extracted, it will be swallowed by this iron-absorbing black hole.

It’s not just iron ore.

There is also a greater demand for coal mines.

The train doesn’t eat food, but it eats coal!

Coal iron these two, as long as there is a mine, a hundred years is to dig the golden mountain ah!

Those four representatives instantly glared in both eyes!

"Furthering Gong, you have not yet answered, such a cost-effective railway construction plan, where does the money come from?"

The king suddenly said.

The four representatives calmed down in an instant.

Right?Where does the money come from?

“It is very simple!”

Yang Qing said with a smile: "The stock market, private investment to repair railway, who invests who earns income, who repairs the railway who charges freight, the state only taxes, if the state uses the railway will also pay."In addition to these railways, the people themselves can also decide which one to repair, as long as you have money in your hands, you can build a railway between your own home and your family.Of course, the premise is that the villagers along the way agree with you to use their land, I only plan the main line of railways, these railways by the queen, the Queen and I take the lead, invest in the establishment of the corresponding railway company, and then issue shares to raise funds.

Whoever has money can invest.

Gentlemen, what are you waiting for?Aren’t such railroads lying down to collect money?As long as these railways are built, every car of goods transported on this road will give you money, and then give it to them for generations to come.

You don't have to doubt anything!

The Queen Mother and I, together we will assure you!”