Chapter 392: : Why the world is different

"Don't be nervous, I'm here this time, but I just brought a fellow junior to see this dragon car. There are more interruptions, please forgive me." Ye Zan said to everyone with a smile.
"Dare to dare, it is my honor to be able to walk with the two mages. The two mages please come in quickly." The businessmen looked rather frightened, and quickly gave Ye Zan and Li Haoran to the upper seat.
When Ye Zan and Li Haoran sat down, several businessmen stood on each side, waiting for Ye Zan's orders to bow. This small world is somewhat different from the realm of Shenhua, because Dao Gong is the actual ruler of the small world, and almost all Taoists are the people of Dao Gong. Therefore, the mundane mortals have a great awe of any monk, and dare not take any slightness for it.
Ye Zan shook his head and waved his hand to a few businessmen and said, "Several people don't have to be so restrained, just sit at will. I just have a few things to ask."
"Mage, please tell me, I'll just wait for the two mages to stand." Several businessmen said one after another.
"You don't have to wait, just sit down and answer me a few questions, otherwise I don't dare to bother." Ye Zan had to increase his tone a bit.
I heard Ye Zan said this, for fear of angering Ye Zan's businessmen, they sat down with some chairs on their butts, but they all faced Ye Zan, waiting for the appearance of Ye Zan at will. .
Seeing a few people like this, Ye Zan also knew that this situation could not be changed in a few words, and he could only turn a blind eye, and asked one of the businessmen: "Several people think that nowadays they use this dragon truck to transport goods. How is it different than before? "
The businessman asked, as if he had a spring loaded on his buttocks, suddenly stood up and half-bently said, "Return to Master, this ... Dragon car is indeed more convenient than before. I used to wait before To transport goods to a distance, we need to hire a large number of carriages. It costs a lot of money, and the road goes slowly. Some goods with short shelf life, like these fruits in our south, cannot be shipped to the north for sale. But now, it used to take a few months, and now the dragon truck can reach it in a few days. The fruits are just as fresh as they have just been picked, not to mention the popularity of northerners. "
You know, this carriage is not simply backward in speed. The key is to encounter detours when encountering mountains and rivers. For rail transit, it is a bridge between Fengshan and water. Basically, as long as the stations can go straight, they will not choose to detour. Therefore, the speed of transportation will be so much faster than the traditional horse fleet.
"Yes, I used to hire a team, and I was still being used by the team. Sometimes when the weather changes, the price increase is just fine. If something goes wrong, I have to pay a lot of money. The loss of the goods is normal. "Said another businessman.
The convoys hired by businessmen are often organizations such as horses and carts. In the beginning, these organizations were just a way for people at the bottom to keep warm, and they could also be more equal when negotiating with employers. However, with the development and growth of these organizations, they gradually began to change their tastes, and some even became underworld gangs.
Such as temporary price increases, accidental claims for compensation, and some small smuggled goods, etc., are nothing. If you really run into something ruthless, there is someone who colludes with the robbers, or you deduct the goods yourself, and it is not that rare to even kill or overdo the goods directly.
Now that it is replaced by rail transportation, naturally there are no such things, but this is the industry of the Yuqing Dao Palace. Which one who ate the bear heart and leopard dare to fight it?
"Yeah, the construction of this track dragon car by Dao Gong will allow me to wait for thousands of miles to transport the worthless specialties in the south to the north for sale. A businessman said with emotion.
This is another benefit of the transportation upgrade, which is that the types of goods circulating in the north and the south have increased significantly. Many of the so-called local specialties actually mean a lot of production, but no one buys them at all, so much that they can only rot there or feed livestock. Now, those things that are too much to sell can be transported to farther places by rail transportation, far to where there is no such thing at all, and there is naturally a vast market there.
Li Haoran listened to Ye Zan's conversation with the merchants, and also further increased his understanding of the rail transportation. He knew that this thing was not only a large cargo volume, but also quite fast. The journey takes only a few months and a few days, then the transportation of munitions supplies and disaster relief supplies will become faster and faster than before. Especially when transporting disaster relief materials, think about the day when the disaster happened, the emperor could get the news through thousands of miles, and then send the disaster relief materials to the disaster area in a few days. This was something that I never thought of before. .
More importantly, it seems that it is only a matter of transportation, but it can drive development in many aspects, and it is not only the merchants, but also the ordinary people. For example, those special products that could only be rotten now can bring a share of income to the people. As the so-called
cangjie knows the etiquette truthfully, knows how to eat and eat, but knows the honor and shame
, as long as the people can fill their stomachs, no one will be willing to rebel.
At this time, a female voice rang out in the carriage, saying, "Dear guests, the train is about to leave. Please sit in your seats and don't move around for now."
"Ah, I'm so horrified, I'm so ashamed to be called like this," said several businessmen a little uncomfortably. If Ye Zan and Li Haoran were not there, they might still enjoy the title of "respected guest", but now no one dared to show a trace of pride.
Ye Zan watched with a secret smile in his heart. He did not expect a hint of sound he was looking for, but these people had so many thoughts. Obviously, these people are not very used to it, this so-called "respect what is what" is just an ordinary admiration. In the technology world, such honorifics are found in many places, and using honorifics does not mean that you really take you seriously.
With three prompts, the train finally started slowly.
When the train started to leave the station, the speed of the train was not very fast, which made Li Haoran strange and disappointed. However, when the train got out of the station, the speed gradually increased, and looking at the continuously retreating scenery outside the window, Li Haoran's mouth also widened.
"Hao Ran, how do you think this speed?" Ye Zan patted Li Haoran funny.
Li Haoran came back to his senses and found his own malaise. He quickly wiped his mouth and turned to Ye Zan, saying, "Uncle Shi, disciple has just lost his state, and he also asked Master Shi to forgive him."
Ye Zan frowned, pretending to be angry: "Okay, don't forgive me without moving, let you see this, not let you say that."
"Yes, the disciples originally thought that even if this dragon truck is faster than a horse carriage, I'm afraid it's limited. I didn't expect that this dragon truck could carry such an amazing speed with so many goods, saying that a thousand miles is not enough Describe. What surprised the disciples even more was that at such a fast speed, the car didn't appear bumpy and smooth enough to spill no tea. "Li Haoran resisted the excitement in his heart and said all his surprises. come out.
The next few businessmen, when he heard Li Haoran's words, did not dare to make fun of it at all, but echoed and said, "This mage said yes, this is what surprised me the most, I still have to say this car. The smoothness of the car, even if I waited for the most comfortable carriage, it would be difficult for me to be in this dragon carriage. "
Compared to capacity and speed, this comfort is a trivial matter, but it is also the most magical place in the eyes of everyone. This small world, including the outer Shenhua realm, usually uses horse-drawn carriages that do not have good shock absorption measures. In addition, the road is often not very smooth, so riding a carriage is actually quite a crime. Even the thickest pad can't avoid the pain of bumps.
"Well, the dragon car is just a random name, this car should be strictly called a rail train. I have a copy of the information here, you can take a look and ask me if you have any questions." Ye Zan said He took out a thick piece of information and handed it to Li Haoran directly.
Ye Zan was lazy again, and had to engage in the transmission of thousands of miles before, and directly printed the construction of this rail train system and the composition and operation of the transportation company into such a document. In this way, he does not need to waste his time to introduce more, directly let others look at the information, there is really something I ca n’t understand, I will explain it in detail.
As the "CEO" of Datang Communications, Li Haoran has participated in many things from the establishment to operation of Datang Communications, so it is not difficult to understand this information. From the construction of the rail train system, he also saw that although this rail train is good, it is indeed more difficult to build a sound than a thousand miles.
This difficulty is mainly due to the large amount of engineering. After all, the track must be laid. This track is not placed anywhere, but on a solid roadbed. The construction requirements of this subgrade are more demanding than the best official roads currently laid, and the amount of engineering is very huge.
In this small world, Ye Zan can also release a lot of construction machinery directly to lay all the tracks without consideration. However, when he came to the realm of Shenhua, he could not be so careless, so the foundation project still needed the participation of Datang State. Fortunately, Ye Zan has already learned a lot about the entire terrain of Shenhua, including the terrain of the Great Tang Dynasty, through the base station of thousands of miles. Therefore, pre-surveying and other work have been eliminated, which has saved a lot of things.
To be honest, for the Datang country with extremely backward productivity, all the basic engineering of the rail train is already equivalent to the construction of the Great Wall in the ancient times of the ancient China, or several times the amount of excavation of the Grand Canal. Therefore, Ye Zan also thought of a way to reduce the amount of engineering in charge of Datang State as much as possible by adopting the integrated rail-base and segmented assembly method.
Ye Zan's method is actually like playing with small train blocks, producing the track and the road base together, and then assembling them in the Tang Dynasty. In other words, the Tang Dynasty does not need to build a road foundation, it only needs to tamp the ground under the road foundation, which is actually equivalent to building official roads.
Of course, even so, the amount of engineering is still huge, let alone let rail transportation spread all over the country. Even if only a few main lines are built, it may take several years.
Li Haoran glanced at the information, and couldn't help but be glad that he was sitting on the rail train and knew the benefits of the rail train. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to make up his mind to do this just by looking at the construction costs. After all, for a country, such a huge investment, if you really do n’t know what the result is, it is like a gamble, and if you lose, it is not far from losing.
However, now that Li Haoran has seen the results, seeing what kind of benefits this train will bring to Datang, then this is not a big gamble, but just a steady investment that is not lost.
"I know that no matter how much the project will be reduced, it will still be a huge deal for you. However, you don't have to worry too much about engineering matters. Zongmen will also help you a little bit." Ye Zan said next to .
"How dare you bother with this case! Uncle Shi, rest assured, I will persuade my father," Li Haoran quickly said to Ye Zan.
"Well, I think your father-in-law is also a Mingjun who wants to make a difference, otherwise it would not have been so pleasant to promise a thousand miles of transmission ~ EbookFREE.me ~ This thing should be fine." Ye Zan Nodded.
However, Ye Zan and Li Haoran said that it was not a fiction to let Yu Qingzong help in the project. In fact, this rail transit is not only related to the people's livelihood of Datang, but also to his merit acquisition. Rail transit can be completed and put into operation as early as one day, and it can be promoted in the Shenhua Realm as soon as possible. He can also get merit as early as possible.
Therefore, Ye Zan intends this time to bring out Cheng Liangqi and other people with experience in rail transit construction in the fairy world and help the Tang Dynasty to do this together. You know, for those who practice monks, a lot of things are easier to do than mortals. For example, ramming and leveling the ground, Cheng Liangqi and other ancestors of the babies directly smashed down the panlong gold seal, which is far easier than mortals. Another example is the opening of tunnels and the construction of bridges. Mortals are difficult and dangerous to do, but the monk may have completed several spells.
In fact, the spiritual civilization of this world is not inferior to the technological civilization. However, the monks rarely apply what they have learned to the needs of the mundane mortals, which has made the productivity of the mundane mortals so backward. If in the technological world, those scientists are like monks, any technological invention is just for themselves, not for ordinary people. Compared with the world of science and technology, I am afraid there will be no difference. (To be continued.)