For Nanhai Prefecture, Lin Ziran is naturally no stranger, Qingshan Town, where he started back then, belongs to Lianguan County, Luo'an County, Nanhai Prefecture.

In the process of unifying Nanhai Prefecture and even unifying the empire, Lin Ziran also took Luohai City as his base camp for a long time.

After the unification of the empire, although the capital was moved to Jingzhou, Guo Dongyan has always paid more attention to the situation in Nanhai Prefecture, and will return to Nanhai Prefecture during several inspections in the past ten years.

So for the situation in Luo Haicheng, Lin Ziran is still relatively familiar.

However, it has been four years since the last time I returned to Luohai City, and after these four years have passed, Luohai City has also undergone great changes.

After entering the city first, Lin Ziran saw a large number of public trams.

Trams have only been rolled out in major cities in recent years, and the last time Lin Ziran came to Luohai City, trams had not yet become popular on a large scale.

But now, there are many trams in operation in this Luohai city.

Trams are like electric lights, which is one of the important symbols of the electrification of the Daheng Empire.

Although the official level of the Daheng Empire is more concerned about the electrification of facilities in the field of industrial production, such as the use of electric motors instead of steam engines as the main power in factories.

However, it is also difficult for ordinary people to see industrial facilities, so ordinary people do not have sufficient awareness of electrification in the field of industrial production, and they are more aware of the things they can see and touch on a daily basis, such as trams, electric lights in some commercial facilities, such as telegraphs.

The telegraph, in particular, was one of the first electrified devices that people understood on a large scale and had an impact on their actual lives.

The advent of the telegraph facilitated people's communication, not only in the business field, but also in the ordinary life field.

Nowadays, when many people make emergency contacts, they often send telegrams.

Of course, telegraphs are also quite expensive nowadays, and if it is not an emergency, it is generally more common to use letters to communicate.

The tram is the second electrification facility in their daily contact, and as for the electric light, this thing actually appeared earlier, but the electric light is still too expensive.

At present, the main application of electric light is still concentrated in the military field? For example, the lighting inside the warship? Searchlights are the most typical electric light application.

In addition, there are some commercial facilities such as hotels? Large department stores, high-end office buildings and other office spaces have also invested heavily in installing electric lights.

And then some official buildings in order to promote electric lights? It has also been adopted, for example, the Royal Palace was the first complex to use electric lighting? Subsequently, major institutions in Jingzhou have also adopted it one after another.

However, the high cost of electric light remains.

This high cost is not just about the high production cost of the lamp itself? There is also the high cost of power supply equipment.

Since many places simply don't have an existing power supply network? If you want to use electric lamps or other electrical products, you have to buy your own generator to generate electricity.

Although the empire is vigorously developing the power supply network in many places, it is mainly concentrated in the industrial field, and power plants are often built in major industrial areas. In a big city? The main is to supply power to factories, and secondly, to power utilities that use electricity on a large scale, such as trams.

If we want to popularize electric light, we have to continue to invest heavily in the construction of electricity supply networks.

The electrification development of Luohai City, in Lin Ziran's opinion, is still very good? It's no worse than Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is the capital of the empire, and it is also the transportation hub of the Jinghe River? And Jingzhou itself is the traditional industrial belt of the empire, with various bonuses? The earliest thermal power plant was built in Jingzhou.

And Luo Haicheng in Nanhai Prefecture, to be honest, some of the conditions are still worse? But can you still keep up with the pace of electrification? It can be seen that the local officials in charge of the government have still worked hard.

Now that you've seen a good picture? Lin Ziran naturally will not be stingy with his exaggeration, and in the high-level meeting on the evening after arriving in Luohai City, Lin Ziran praised the local officials of Nanhai Prefecture and encouraged them to continue to innovate boldly, move forward bravely, and contribute to the prosperity of the empire and the prosperity of the people.

The next day, Lin Ziran personally browsed the urban area of Luohai City and visited a large department store in the city center, well, this Luohai Department Store is also the first department store in the Daheng Empire.

Well, this department store is not the first to be created by Daheng people, but the business model of the department store that has emerged in recent years from the Krull Kingdom.

In many fields, in fact, the people of Daheng are against the traditional developed countries such as the Krull Kingdom and the Walia Empire.

Otherwise, how could outsiders say that Daheng people copy everything!

However, in Lin Ziran's opinion, the Daheng Empire, as a country that has just been unified for more than ten years, is still too poor, and it is not possible for the other party to ask for patent fees anyway.

After visiting the department store, Lin Ziran went to visit the newly completed Nanjiang Bridge.

The Nanjiang River, which is a tributary of the Luo River, flows through the Luohai City District, and then extends to the northwest, and the entire Luohai City District is basically built on the east bank of the Nanjiang River before this, and then extends to the Luo River, so Luohai City is actually a city bordering the sea in the south, the Luo River in the east, and the Nanjiang River in Xilin!

However, with the development of the city, the land area of the urban area is becoming more and more unable to meet the development of the city, so it is forced to develop to the north bank of the Nanjiang River.

However, with the development of the west bank of the Nanjiang River, the exchange of people and materials between the two sides of the strait will be very troublesome.

It is not enough to rely on ferries alone, and as for building bridges, it is actually very troublesome.

The Nanjiang River is very wide in the urban area of Luohai City, the river surface is several hundred meters large, and most importantly, the Nanjiang River itself is also responsible for the extremely important inland river transportation task.

If you want to build a bridge, you have to make sure it's navigable.

In the end, the Daheng Empire made great efforts to solve a lot of technical problems, and then designed and built such a Nanjiang Bridge!

This is a steel suspension bridge, directly across hundreds of meters of the river, and even specially built a large several kilometers long approach bridge, as long as it is to ensure the navigable capacity, the bridge deck is relatively high, the navigable net height can reach 25 meters......

Because the bridge deck was too high, a long extension was needed to ease the slope.

Therefore, in order to repair this bridge, the engineers of the Great Heng Empire have made great efforts.

When visiting the bridge, Lin Ziran also pondered when to build a Luohe Bridge, after all, whether it is a railway or a highway, Luohai City actually needs a super bridge.