After getting the news of the success of the second test, Li Xuan also waved his pen and officially allowed the Jingzhen Railway to open to traffic after it was ready, if nothing else, the Zhili Railway Company, which is responsible for operating the Jingzhen Railway and even the entire Jiangnan Railway in the future, will work overtime, and then officially announce the opening of the Jingzhen Railway on December 1, and operate it publicly.

At the same time, Li Xuan still officially approved the construction plan of Jiangnantou.

The construction of the Jiangnan Railway will be carried out immediately after the Jingzhen Railway, using the original mature construction team, and at the same time in the east and west directions.

At present, Datang Railway Corporation is the Jiangnan Railway, which has raised two million yuan of funds, although it is impossible to say that the construction of the Jiangnan Railway has been completed, but there is no problem in meeting the preliminary construction.

Now that the Jingzhen Railway has been completed, and the profits obtained after commercial operation can naturally be invested in the construction of the Jiangnan Railway again.

In addition to officially approving the construction of the Jiangnan Railway, Li Xuan also approved the construction plans of many railway sections, including Tianjin to Tangshan, Tianjin to Youzhou, Guangzhou to Foshan, Guangzhou to Huizhou, Hangzhou to Ningbo, and many other railway sections.

Most of these railway lines are part of the future railway trunk line, and they are also suitable for early construction and can be profitable for business.

Nowadays, the phalanx of Datang to build railways is a section that is easy to repair and can make money first, such as the Jiangnan Railway.

Then go and fix the others first!

At present, there are three railways for military use, one is the Northwest Railway, one is the Hetao Railway, and the other is the Northeast Railway.

The army attaches great importance to these three railways, and the army even said that it can not only bear part of the construction costs, but also provide free engineering units to participate in the construction.

Originally, the army planned to get rid of the Datang Railway Corporation and build a military railway on its own, but in the end it found that it was still unreliable to build a railway, and there were many problems in terms of capital and technology, and there were too many aspects involved.

The railway company is also desperately opposed, saying that in the military area, the army wants to do this, they have no opinion, but you are engaged in the vast hinterland of the empire What kind of military railway, and it is also the Northwest Railway, the Northeast Railway, this kind of trunk railway, the railway company has an opinion.

What's more, Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, doesn't support it much, if the army is in wartime, it is okay to build military railways in specific areas for military services, but in peacetime to build hundreds or thousands of kilometers of military railways in the hinterland of the empire, this is not nonsense.

Therefore, after the blockage, it became that the army planned to contribute money and efforts to let the railway company build the Northwest and Hetao railways and the Northeast railway as soon as possible.

These three railways, at present, are all railways with no commercial returns, and the military use is greater than the commercial use, and the Datang Railway Corporation still doesn't want to repair it at present, but the army is convenient to urge it, and the army has said that it will be free to pay and contribute, and it is more promised that it will be opened to traffic in the future.

As a last resort, these three railways were also included in the medium-term plan.

In late October, the railway construction of the Tang Empire can be said to have been fully rolled out, and the Jiangnan Railway has officially started, which will be a super railway from Hangzhou to Jiujiang.

The railway from Jinling City to Kaifeng has also entered the final stage of preparation, and if nothing else, the preliminary project will be able to start next year.

At the same time, other short-distance railways have also been launched, and because these short-distance railways are often very profitable, the railway company even gives priority to the construction of these short-distance railways.

For example, the Guangzhou-Foshan railway, which was just approved in late October, was already under construction in early November, and the same is true for the Tangshan-Tianjin railway.

Before the construction of the railway started, the Northern Coal Company came directly to the door and expressed its willingness to provide interest-free loans to the Northern Railway Company, a subsidiary of the Datang Railway Corporation, for the construction of the Tangshan Railway.

Because the Tangshan Railway, in the final analysis, is still for the transportation of Tangshan's coal resources, and Tangshan's coal resources basically belong to the Northern Coal Company.

The demand for coal in the market is almost endless, and in the private market, countless honeycomb coal is needed to cook and boil water, and countless factory steam engines need coal as a dye.

Today, thermal coal for ships and trains has been added.

To put it mildly, in the current coal market, as long as you dig up the coal and ship it out, then you won't have to worry about not being able to sell it.

Therefore, not only the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has invested in the three major coal companies, but even private capital has actively entered the coal market, but it has not yet become bigger.

In order to compete with several other coal companies in China for the important town of the coal market, Shanghai and the surrounding areas, what kind of marketing can be done in three days, buy coal and send coal furnaces, and even enterprises order a certain amount of coal and send steam engines directly!

Nowadays, it is not impossible to lend money to a railway company to build a railway.

Unfortunately, the Northern Coal Company was quickly emulated by two other large coal companies, and the Southern Coal Company borrowed money to build the railway.

Even other mining industries, such as the steel industry, think that this kind of thing can be done, lend money to railway companies, build a railway from the mining area to the port, this kind of thing is not a loss, and the transportation cost can be reduced by a few percentage points, which means that a lot of money can be saved.

What's more, this is borrowing money to build the railway, and it is not directly giving money, and the loss is at most interest.

And the railway company also thinks that it is very cost-effective, and does not need to pay a dime by itself, and directly uses the borrowed money to repair the railway from the mining area to the industrial area or to the port, and even many loans are interest-free, and no matter how bad it is, it is also a low-interest one.

After this is repaired, there is no need to worry about the performance, this coal, iron ore or something has to be shipped out!

Someone sends money to you to build the railway, and then sends the business to let you make money, what can you be dissatisfied with?

The only thing that makes them feel sorry is that this kind of thing can only happen in the mining railway, and it is difficult for other industries to follow suit.

All walks of life are feeling the spring breeze of railway construction, in the Shanghai stock exchange market, and railway-related industries, its stock price is bullish all the way, among which as the largest rail provider in China, the share price of Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, after it officially announced that it has obtained 60% of the orders for the rails needed to build the Jiangnan Railway, its stock price has reached the peak of history.

Railway construction is such a big piece of fat, Jiangnan Railway Company naturally can't swallow it, and other steel companies, cement companies, timber companies, coal companies and other industries related to railways have almost ushered in a rise in stock prices.

It's just that the magnitude of the rise is different.

On December 1, the 18th year of Xuanping, the Jingzhen section of the Jiangnan Railway was officially announced to be opened to traffic, because it had been widely publicized before, and on the day of the opening, countless people walked into the railway station to watch.

And the lucky few even bought tickets for the first train, and then boarded the train with surprise and curiosity.

On the day of the opening of the traffic, because of the large crowd of onlookers, in order to follow the above considerations, Li Xuan, who was originally scheduled to participate in the opening ceremony, did not go in person, but sent an angel as a representative.

The whole opening ceremony, like singing, Zhili Railway Company in order to open up the market, an instant hit, and people in the future when they give priority to the train, that also took a lot of thought.

Finally, the first train smoked and rumbled, dragging eight passenger cars to start slowly, then off the platform and start picking up speed in front of thousands of onlookers.

Finally, its speed is stable at 30 kilometers per hour!

Being able to run 30 kilometers in an hour, and still being able to run for hours on end before stopping to refuel with water is almost a miracle for modern times.

As keeping up with the development of the times, the Oiran and the sons of the Qinhuai River, who have been at the forefront of the times, many people are boarding this train, among which the Qinhuai River is a popular Oiran Yuqing, who has a lot of relationships, also got a ticket for the first train, and boarded the train with a group of early gentry brothers.

As a passenger who was fortunate enough to ride the first commercially operated train ever, and was still seated in the first class cabin at the very end of the train, Miss Yuqing described her journey as follows!

"It's hard to describe the feeling when the train is moving at full speed, and when I stand up and stick my head out of the window, the oncoming wind is so strong that I can barely open my eyes.

And what's even more surprising is that it's not just fast, but it's also surprisingly smooth, which gives me enough security.

So even though the train was fast, I didn't have the slightest fear. ”

The first opening of the train was a complete success, and almost every passenger who took the train was amazed, and most of them sent heartfelt praises.