Li Xuan wanted to get on the train to participate in the test, which naturally changed many of the original plans, and the escort Guards troops quickly deployed, and then blocked the railway line.

At the same time, the original test was only for a trained train driver to drive, but now it has become the boss of the locomotive project team to drive it himself, and a ticket technician is also accompanying him, ready to solve any technical problems at any time.

At the same time, on both sides of the train was a large group of cavalrymen of the Guards Cavalry Regiment, ready to escort and rescue people at any time.

In short, even if Li Xuan himself didn't think there was any danger, others still didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.

After waiting in the carriage for a while, I could hear the rumbling sound of the train in front of me, which was the start of the steam engine, but it was still in a state of boiling water and pressurization, and it was estimated that it would not be able to go for a while.

The steam engine, starting is troublesome, whether it is a shipboard steam engine or a train, it has to go through a period of time to increase the steam pressure, Li Xuan is not in a hurry, he is sitting in the back carriage, waiting to start while looking at the carriage.

This carriage is a passenger carriage specially built for the train, the main structure is made of iron, but in order to reduce the weight, many parts are still wooden, the whole carriage is covered with wooden seats, the middle is the aisle, and there are seats on both sides of the aisle, because the seats are relatively dense, Li Xuan can sit thirty or forty people visually.

In the case of these five carriages, except for the one at the front near the locomotive, which is used to pull coal and fresh water, the remaining four carriages can pull more than 100 people at a time.

That's not a small number.

Now the four carriages were full of people, and these people carried a lot of things with them, and there was no shortage of rifles and even shotguns for the soldiers of the Guards who accompanied them.

The Holy Son of Heaven travels, the guards escort, how can this not be done without enough weapons and equipment!

Regardless of whether the Son of Heaven was on a train, a carriage, or on foot, the accompanying guards would always carry a large number of weapons and ammunition to escort him at any time.

These people and their carry-on luggage, equipment, etc., plus coal and fresh water in the second carriage of the train and other laden goods prepared for the test.

Now the load of the entire train is probably nearly 30 tons.

As the person in front of him said that it was already ready, and asked Li Xuan to show him, Li Xuan immediately said, "Let's start!" ”

With Li Xuan's order, the locomotive in front of him sounded a loud whistle, and then it was obvious that the train began to vibrate slightly!

The train, it's moving!

Although it was still very slow, the train was really moving, which made the civil and military courtiers who followed Li Xuan on the train in amazement and panic at the same time.

Several timid ministers with relatively corrupt and uncivilized heads screamed that they were born, muttering the words of demons and monsters, gods and Buddhas.

But Li Xuan stood up very obviously, then walked to the side of the bed, poked his head out, and looked ahead!

At this time, you can clearly see the locomotive in front of it, constantly spewing black smoke and white fog, at this time the locomotive is constantly coaling and burning, and the output of high-pressure steam drives the turbine drive, and finally drags the heavy train forward.

The speed of the train, which has been started, is slowly increasing, at first, that is, the speed at which people walk, but soon it can be about the same speed as people trotting.

The train kept speeding up until it stabilized at 20 kilometers per hour!

Li Xuan sat on the train, feeling that the train was still running in a group, without much vibration, and at this time he happened to see the commander of the Guards Cavalry Regiment and several other Guards cavalry members riding horses outside the car.

Immediately, Li Xuan said: "How about it, can you keep up!" ”

On both sides of this train, there are hundreds of cavalry of the Guards cavalry regiment to follow and protect it, well, in fact, not only these cavalry, but also along the railway line of this railway operation test, they are all blocked and defended by the Guards.

The officers of the Guards turned around, smiled and said: Your Majesty, the ministers can keep up, this train is good, but the speed is still slow! ”

Li Xuan smiled, and then said, "But this train can run to Zhenjiang in one go, can you still keep up with it then?" ”

Hearing Li Xuan's words, several cavalry officers showed embarrassed expressions!

How can they compete with the train for endurance as long as there is enough coal and water for this train, it can run all the way to Zhenjiang, and the horses of their cavalry regiment can't support a long run.

One of them saw that Li Xuan was in a good mood, and immediately said boldly: "But we won't go to Zhenjiang either!" ”

Li Xuan said: "That's right! ”

In this experiment, it is natural that he will not run to Zhenjiang in one go, in fact, at most, it is just a dozen kilometers, and then turn back after a circle.

When he returned to the platform, Li Xuan stepped off the train, and then said to a group of courtiers: "This train is a good thing, it must be popularized as soon as possible, so that the vast number of imperial people can also get on the train!" ”

This is to get the people on the train, which is only one of the tasks of the train at this stage, and it is also a less important task.

Because for the modern empire, the biggest role of the train is not to carry passengers, but to freight.

The huge material transportation capacity brought by the railway can connect the major industrial areas, mining areas and cities, making the transportation of goods more convenient and cheaper, thus forming an economic vessel, allowing countless materials to circulate in the railway network.

In terms of passenger transport, in fact, the current population flow of the empire is not very large, with the current river transportation and official carriage transportation, in fact, it can also solve the problem of population transportation, the emergence of trains, at best, is just the icing on the cake, can not be compared with the huge significance brought by the field of cargo transportation.

Looking back at the train that had already stopped, underwent maintenance, and was preparing for the second test, Li Xuan couldn't help but feel proud, the ship is there, the train is there, is it still far from conquering the world?

So he stood up straight, then looked at the courtiers, and when everyone's eyes were focused on him, he slowly spoke: "Today, we have created the future!" ”

"The future must belong to us!"

Many of you here know that the future in His Majesty's mouth is not an illusory word, but a word with a specific meaning, that is, the world!

The future of the Tang Empire lies in conquering the world!

This point has been determined many years ago, and it is no secret among a few core high-level leaders, and now these people who know the grand strategy of the empire, when they hear Li Xuan talk about the future, then they can be sure, what Li Xuan said is not anything else, that is, the conquest of the world!

After Li Xuan finished the first train test, he did not wait for the second train test, because the second train test will be the whole line, the test train will depart from Jinling Railway Station, and then arrive in Zhenjiang, and then return.

This round trip will be more than 150 kilometers, and according to the power of the current 18-year-old locomotive, it will take more than 10 hours to run continuously.

At the same time, for the safety of the test, and in order to leave more time to deal with unexpected problems, it is impossible to really run for more than ten hours in a row, so this round trip plan will be divided into two days, today the train will leave for Zhenjiang, and come back tomorrow.

Naturally, it was impossible for Li Xuan to stay at the train station and wait for the results of the second test, let alone get on the train and run to Zhenjiang.

After he finished the inspection, he took people back to the palace directly, and before he left for the palace, the second test of the train had already begun, and the train had already left the station and headed for Zhenjiang, which was more than 70 kilometers away.

In the evening of the next day, he got the good news that the train had successfully completed the round-trip journey from Jinling to Zhenjiang, with a cumulative running time of more than ten hours, and the train itself did not have any faults on the way.

However, there were some minor troubles on the railway itself, because on the return trip was a heavy-duty test, with eight cars full of goods and a total weight of more than 100 tons.

Because the carrying capacity of the passing trains is too large, the railways along the way are under great pressure, and some sections even have land-based subsidence, rail deformation, and even railway bridges are overwhelmed and collapsed.

When the Jingzhen Railway was designed a few years ago, the standard was raised for both land-based and rail-based trains in consideration of the operation of trains with a larger carrying capacity in the future, but the designers and builders were still too conservative at that time.

They instinctively took the horse-drawn carriage as a reference, and then expected that the carrying capacity of the train would be relatively large, but they did not expect that it would be so large, a carriage can carry more than ten tons, and several carriages are connected and hung together, the weight of the whole train plus the load is more than 100 tons, and the locomotive can still pull.

Although the speed is very slow, not much faster than the speed of a human walk, but after all, it can be pulled.

This can be said to have brought a lot of pressure to the newly built Jingzhen line.

At present, the Zhili Railway Company, a subsidiary of Datang Railway Corporation, has been in urgent discussions with relevant technical personnel from the Royal Institute of Technology to discuss how to improve the existing railway tracks in order to better run the trains.

Li Xuan naturally doesn't care about these things, anyway, these are all trivial things, anyway, the train has been figured out, and the next thing is just to continue to improve.

And now there is a problem to break out and solve, it is much better than the construction of the national railway network, and then find out that there is a problem.

Now the ship is small and it is good to turn around, otherwise when the national railway network is built, it will not be so easy to change.