"How is the train good? Worth spending 10 million? Li Tan is young, but he is also willing to understand.

"The head I manufactured, from Chang'an to Luoyang, specially loaded, did not stop halfway, and arrived at the place in six hours to ......"

Li Yi introduced Li Tan to how good the train is.

He told Li Tan that a train had twelve carriages, and one carriage contained one hundred and fifty stone of goods.

One trip, 1,800 stones, six hours.

It took several hours to load goods from Luoyang, and another six hours to run back to Chang'an.

No, it's the empty carriage that is loaded first, and the front of the car is directly changed in the past, and then turns around and back, and needs to be replenished with coal and water.

According to the current price of coal and water, as well as maintenance costs and labor costs.

Run once, less than two, loading and unloading separately money.

Li Yi's train at that time was more economical, the equipment was also advanced, the cost was low, and it was much stronger than the steam engine.

Transporting 100 tons of goods, depending on what kind of goods, the price of different goods varies from a few cents to a few cents per kilometer.

Normal running of 100 kilometers, more than 300 yuan.

It includes profits and various expenses, depreciation expenses, capital construction costs, etc.

The car built by Li Yi is fully loaded and added to its own weight, more than 200 tons.

Labor and coal are cheap, and the approximate cost after conversion is two trips.

His one yuan at that time was not equal to the current one, and the people of Datang Jingzhao Mansion could earn thirty yuan a day, which belonged to the high-income group.

Something of 1,800 stones, plus loading and unloading fees, from Chang'an to Luoyang, an increase of 300 yuan?

One stone and one hundred and twenty pounds, one sack, and one thousand eight hundred sacks are loaded into a truck for one hundred and fifty dollars. How many things does a dock porter carry in a day? How much money do you make?

Li Tan opened his mouth slightly when he heard this, he couldn't believe that two taels of money could deliver something of 1,800 stones to the place in six hours.

"How much does it cost to walk the road in a carriage for 1,800 stones?" Li Tan did not know the price of freight.

"From Chang'an to Luoyang, the carriage galloped along the road, and the horse pulled five stones, which had its own forage and water.

If it is too heavy, the chariot of Hachishi needs to be strong enough.

It takes four days to walk, with a break in between.

Two horses and five stones, two days away, with a break in between.

Now the transportation of military things from Luoyang to Chang'an is two horses, and when you arrive at the place in one day, there is a post station to change horses. ”

Li Longji knew the situation, two horses pulled five stones, changed horses at the post station in the middle, and transported them to Chang'an in one day and one night.

It's not ten miles to change, there is a gallop road, it's easy to run, and it's changed once in twenty or thirty miles.

Ordinary people can't afford to change it, and the horse they change belongs to the rental horse, otherwise how can they change their own horse?

If the horse is slow, there is a fast car behind it, and the slow car needs to give way to the nearest place on the road.

There is one place every 100 zhang, and you will come back when the express train passes.

Don't take the road and walk on the side road.

Li Tan did a little math, and immediately understood how powerful the train was.

"Two taels of three hundred yuan, the merchant can transport 1,800 stones, the merchant will be crazy with joy, right?" Li Tan felt that the businessman's life was better.

"We will cry like crazy, two hundred dollars is the cost of our delivery, not to the merchants.

Railways are not money? Trains are not money? From Chang'an to Luoyang, there are three stops in between.

One is convenient for the locals to carry goods and ride, and the other is to add coal and water, so you can't run 800 miles at once.

At a time of 200 miles, the coal and water are almost consumed, and you can't bring more, and more will take up your own weight.

In this way, you can also hang a few more passenger cars, buy tickets and take the bus, just like a bus in the city. ”

Li Yi shook his head, two of them ran a column, what are you kidding?

How can you charge fifty taels for a trip, if it is too expensive, you will use a carriage to transport it, and you will not charge money for that gallop.

How much does it cost to send 1,800 stone from Luoyang to Chang'an by horse-drawn carriage?

Yes, there are boats, and the Yellow River will be transported by ship when it is not dry and frozen, and it will be transported slowly.

From Luoyang to Chang'an, all the way against the current.

Negotiate with the sailors, and when it comes to forty-nine taels, it will be cheaper.

Thinking of water transportation, Li Yi muttered: "How much does it cost to transport 2,000 stone from Luoyang to Chang'an?" ”

Princess Yongmu spoke up: "I know, sixty wielders, you need a slender man, a sail, and an oar.

It's cheap to go back, go back to the water, just give twenty taels. ”

"So expensive?" Li Yi calculated, 60,000 yuan to transport 2,000 stones, and one stone to increase the price by 30 yuan.

Li Dan interjected at this moment: "The freight is cheap, why did the previous emperor go to Luoyang for dinner?" said that it sounded good to be called Xingluoyang, but in fact, he couldn't eat. ”

"Then our train will be seventy miles from Luoyang to Chang'an, and from Chang'an to Luoyang twenty-five miles, giving shipping a way to live."

Li Yi adjusted the price again, earning 90 taels one by one, running three times in two days, 130 taels a day.

plus passenger transport, you can earn 50,000 yuan a year, one locomotive after another.

The railway was repaired to Lianyungang, and the sea was opened, with 100 locomotives, 5 million yuan a year, and two years to return to the capital.

Li Yi calculated, he calculated that it was a full load, and there were goods at any time.

In fact, it is impossible, from Chang'an back to Luoyang, or to Haizhou, is there so much cargo transported? Are there so many people ride?

It is impossible to transport 540,000 stone of goods from Luoyang to Chang'an every two days, the key is what to transport? Stone?

If coal and iron are transported, it belongs to the imperial court, and Bi Gou will receive seventy taels at a time, Bi Gou will not give it, right? He didn't give any of the seven.

Li Yi checked the information and found the first railway, saying that it was 160,000 passengers a year at that time, and it was a 30-mile road.

The upper seat is a semi-circle coin, that is, 500 wen, the middle seat is 250 wen, and the lower seat is 120 wen.

Calculate how much passenger transportation earns in a year, and the investment at that time was only more than 200,000 taels of silver.

Then the Qing government saw that it couldn't do it, and suffered a loss, so if you did this, you would return to your capital in a few years.

made trouble, the government stepped in, and finally spent less than 290,000 taels of silver to buy it back.

After buying it back, the Qing government did not operate it and demolished it.

"Alas!" Li Yi sighed suddenly, he really didn't know what to say.

"What's wrong with Li Lang?" Princess Yongmu saw Li Yi's sad and indignant face, and hurriedly asked.

"It's okay, I think of a story, a very sad story. I first built the steam engine to make a boat, and asked the Yulin Flying Rider to help make the rails.

Acting together, fortunately, there is the Yellow River, otherwise the steam engine is not lucky, and it is inconvenient to be scattered and whole.

Let the warship come directly for refitting, even if it is towed all the way back, it is better than sending it over for refitting, I can't go over. ”

Li Yi threw the Qing government out of his mind, he didn't want to, there would be no more Qing government.

He had to speed up the construction of things and concentrate his efforts, so that the railroad was laid one day earlier, and the train was opened one day earlier, so that he could make more money to continue to build the railway.

If you don't repair it, you will never have it, and if you do, you will build it for 1,800 miles every year, and you will build the railway to an important position in a few years.

As his skills improved, he came up with a better steam engine.

Build one along the canal and turn around to Guangzhou. It is cheaper for people to ride, and the movement and transportation of materials are strengthened.

Anyway, the iron ore, copper mine, and coal mine are taken out by themselves, which are state-owned, and there is no external pressure, and there is no need to exchange foreign currency.