According to the ideas of the gentry of the four great families of Shayang County, His Majesty naturally greeted him with great fanfare and red and green. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 But the county guard Fang Dazhi and Chen Jialuo, the commander of the Tiger Battalion stationed in Shayang County, knew very well that this time His Majesty came over, in addition to inspecting the rail cars in Shafeng County, another thing was to send Shang Shurong of the Ministry of Officials back to his hometown.

The news from Yuejing City, but the official Shangshu was already dying, and it was precisely because Wang Hou wanted to take a look at this rail car at the last moment of his life that His Majesty strictly ordered that within a month, the Shafeng Line rail car must be closed to traffic.

It is good to want to please His Majesty, but if it is happy and lively, and Wang Hou is just returning to the west at that time, it is not good-looking, I am afraid that he wants to pat the horse's ass, but he often slaps the horse's hooves, and is kicked by a hoof. They know exactly what Wang Hou's status is in His Majesty's mind. If nothing else, just when leaving Yuejing City, a hereditary Yiguo Duke is enough to explain the problem.

This time, the pick-up, dignified, atmospheric, solemn, this is the main theme.

Fang Dazhi's kung fu is still very good, the current Qin Feng, the mood is really not too good, all the way out of Yuejing City, even if the carriage they worked hard to build is comfortable, but Wang Hou's fire of life is still being extinguished little by little, if it is not for Shu Chang's hard medicine to hang his father-in-law's life, Wang Hou would have been unable to do it a long time ago. Rao is like this, when the team arrived in Shayang County, Wang Hou was already dying.

Generally speaking, Qin Feng is quite satisfied with this set of arrangements in Shayang County. Although he has never had any habit of venting his anger, he is indeed in a bad mood now.

In the station, irrelevant people have naturally been cleared out a long time ago, and the rest, in addition to the relevant craftsmen and soldiers, are the officials and gentry of Shayang County who specially greeted here. After being greeted by Fang Dazhi, these people were all dressed very elegantly at the moment, and there was nothing that stimulated people's eyes with red and green.

"Your Majesty, this road leads straight to where you boarded the car." Fang Dazhi acted as Qin Feng's guide, leading the way in front of him while introducing to Qin Feng. "On the other side, there is the passage out of the station, and these two roads allow the carriage to pass smoothly, and whatever the material can be sent directly by the carriage to the side of the rail car. It is designed to be a one-sided passage to ensure the efficiency of operation to the greatest extent. ”

"Well, that's a very good idea." Qin Feng nodded, and as Fang Dazhi walked into the station, he saw that there were actually seven or eight rail cars in the field of vision, and there were still some rail cars on several track lines.

"How is it so messy here, with so many railcars parked together? What should I do when I use it? Qin Feng frowned and asked.

"Your Majesty, although the track here looks messy, there are rules to follow, and every track here will eventually lead to the main track."

"Oh, how did that work?"

"Your Majesty, the tracks designed by the masters are active in some places, and when needed, only one of the sections of the track needs to be moved, and the originally two unrelated tracks can be connected into one, which greatly improves the utilization efficiency of the rail car." Fang Dazhi explained with a smile, "Please demonstrate it for Your Majesty." ”

"Good, just about to open my eyes." Qin Feng nodded and said, when he saw the master craftsman there inventing the rail car in order to improve the efficiency of ore transportation in Daye City, he saw at a glance the great military and commercial value contained here, so he had the idea of building a rail line, and after making up his mind, issuing an order, and setting up a special railway department, his attention was not on this road, after all, he is the emperor, there are too many military affairs, he is the one who only takes the idea and finally looks at the result, as for how to operate in the middle, That's the business of the people who do things below. Now that he has cultivated like this, it must have been repeatedly demonstrated and experimented before it was presented in front of him.

Specialized things are done by professional talents, just like the several large-scale battles fought by the Ming Dynasty before, Qin Feng knew his shortcomings, so when he was about to fight, he completely handed over the command and let those experienced generals take command, instead of taking it for granted. Another example is the currency reform presided over by Su Can, Taiping Bank, even if Qin Feng read and read Su Can's "Theory of Money", he only knew the truth but did not know the reason. And things like building rail cars, I don't understand it anymore, and those masters are naturally more professional than themselves. Influence the final result, can meet your own expectations, so that Daming can benefit a lot from it, that is enough.

He is an emperor, but he is not born to know everything. Qin Feng knew this very well.

Fang Dazhi stretched out his hand and summoned a five-grade official, it should be a master craftsman from Daye City who specializes in repairing tracks, after a few words, this five-grade official galloped down, and after a while, more than a dozen carriages that stayed on the main rail car were put on several horses, and with the shouting of the driver, the horses neighed, and took a step forward, and the behemoths of more than a dozen carriages slowly moved forward.

This made the eyes of all the people who came from Yuejing City with Qin Feng widen. What they saw on weekdays was a carriage drawn by two horses, but now what appeared in front of them was three or five horses pulling more than a dozen carriages, and each carriage was more than twice as large as the carriage they usually saw, but looking at the horses, it was not very difficult.

At a fork in front, where several craftsmen were standing, seeing the carriage coming, they reached out and turned an iron pole from one side to the other, and then retreated to the side, and then, under the pull of the horses, these dozen carriages naturally drove to another track in the station, at the same time, in another, several other carriages were also driven under the pull of the horses, the same operation, this rail car, then stopped smoothly in front of Qin Feng and others.

"It's very good, the design is really ingenious." Qin Feng's face showed joy, "Dazhi, if this rail car is fully loaded, how many horses will be needed?" ”

"Your Majesty, the carriages of these rail cars are specially designed, and the number can be increased or decreased at will, generally speaking, at most, it can be hung to about twelve carriages, and if there are more, there will be problems with safety, in order to ensure safety, so each trip, no more than ten cuts." Fang Dazhi said. "And the number of horses used, it depends on what goods are carried, the heavier the goods, the more horses are needed, during the experiment, we used him to transport grain, this batch of grain was originally to be transported to Zhaoguan, this section of the journey we used rail car transportation, twelve carriages are fully loaded, a total of 200,000 catties, but also used ten horses."

"Wonderful!" When Qin Feng heard this, he was already overjoyed, "How is the speed?" ”

"Your Majesty, in the past, horse-drawn carriage transportation was used to transport from Shayang County to Feng County, although it was only more than 100 miles, but the carriage required a full two-day journey, and there was considerable loss along the way, but the use of rail car transportation, ten horses, ten carriages, but it took two hours, set off in the morning, and at noon, it had arrived at Fengxian Station, and the previous efficiency was completely different." Fang Dazhi's eyes sparkled.

Qin Feng breathed a long sigh of relief, a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, the rail car was successfully built, the strategic military value contained in it, can not be measured by money, if you can build a direct through Zhaoguan rail car, once there is a war with the Qi State, the Ming Dynasty will be able to transport the army along this rail car to Zhaoguan endlessly, according to this speed, within a few days, you can gather an army of more than 100,000 people in Zhaoguan.

In the same way, if this kind of rail car spreads all over the Ming Dynasty, then no matter what happens there, the imperial court can come morning and evening.

He clenched his fists and stared at the track below, everything under control. In the past, the imperial court for some remote areas, the control was not effective, the whip was out of reach, nothing more than inconvenient transportation, information is not accessible, but with the rail car, everything is not a problem, the entire Ming Dynasty, as in the square inch, can fall into the control of the imperial court, no longer the previous situation of the mountain high emperor far away.

"What about the money to build the road?" He asked again, this is a key question, if you want to roll out the construction of this kind of rail car across the country, you have to spend money, but not every place has money like Shayang County and Taiping County.

"Your Majesty, this joint-stock system made by Geng Jingming is a good thing." Fang Dazhi said with a smile: "To repair this more than 100-mile Shafeng line, up to now, it has cost more than one million taels of silver, if it is regarded as the finishing work in the later stage, I am afraid that one and a half million taels can be used to lay the foundation." ”

Seeing Qin Feng's brows furrowed together, Fang Dazhi hurriedly said: "However, the two counties of Shayang County and Taiping County only have a total of 500,000 taels of silver, and the rest is raised by the Shafeng Line Railway Operation Division. ”

"It's the gentlemen!" Qin Feng Dao.

"Yes, after the completion of the rail line, the operation right will be handed over to the operation department, for a total of fifty years, of course, if it is because of major matters such as military and disaster relief, the imperial court will requisition it for free."

"Can they make money?" Qin Feng asked.

Fang Dazhi smiled, "Your Majesty, at the beginning, everyone actually didn't have a bottom in their hearts, and they actively participated in this matter, in fact, out of admiration for Your Majesty and were willing to serve Your Majesty, so everyone enthusiastically took money, but they really didn't think about making money." ”

Qin Feng couldn't help but smile when he heard this. The gentry of Shayang County, from the beginning of the Taiping Army, followed Qin Feng's army all the way to attack everywhere, Qin Feng won and won, they also made a lot of money, to the present, I am afraid that they are also a little afraid, earn too much, for fear that they will find their trouble, their wool, in the past dynasties, once the court has no money to spend, it will always take some merchants to cut down, find an excuse to raid the family, and get the merchants' family property, all of them. Doing this rail car by themselves, they desperately invested money, which is nothing more than an expression of deference. This is to take money to eliminate the disaster.

"But after the completion of the rail car, look at this efficiency, all the people involved are overjoyed, I'm afraid this is not a question of making money, but a matter of earning more and earning less, a few days ago, someone found the minister, said can this kind of rail line to the counties, they pay for their own money, imitation of the Shafeng line, but also as long as 50 years of management rights, the matter is big, the minister does not dare to be the master, is preparing to fold on the play!"

"Let's talk about this later!" Qin Feng Dao. Overall, this is a good thing, if every county can be connected to the rail car, it will be an excellent thing for the circulation of goods, the flow of people, and it will not have to be paid by the state.

After a while, the officials of other counties in the Ming Dynasty can come here to visit, so that they can feel the power of some rail cars, and it is best to promote them throughout the country, but this is a major event, involving hundreds of millions of money, and the imperial court must have a general charter to promote it.