At this time, County Sheriff Jiang He, who represented the head of Yunzhou County civil servants, stood up and said:
"My lord, even though this train has various benefits, if it is to be put into use, a huge amount of manpower and material resources must be invested in building the railway, and the demand for iron is even greater.
Just from Yunzhou County through the Yunling Mountains to Youer County, the total length is about more than 10,000 miles. According to what I saw today, the railways that allow this train to run on it are all made of fine steel.
Your Majesty, one kilogram of iron can produce only 8 taels of steel now. Look, the steel required for that step of the railway is more than a hundred kilograms.
If we want to complete the laying of these two lines, the amount of money required is simply astronomical. I wonder if Yunzhou County can afford it? "
Zhao Jun nodded and said: "Chief Jiang is right, these rails do consume a lot of iron. According to the calculations of the master craftsmen of Tiangongyuan, if you want to pave one mile of railway, you will need at least 80,000 kilograms of steel alone.
And if you want to forge 80,000 jins of steel, you will need at least 100,000 jins of iron. If you only count the railway construction from Yunzhou County to Youle County, the amount of iron needed has already reached 100,000 jins. !
We still need to beat all these 100,000 kilograms of iron into 80,000 kilograms of steel so that we can have enough to pave the road.
This is only one of the materials needed to build a railway. Others, such as wooden sleepers, require five pieces of wood every three feet (about one meter), and the roots must not be less than 8 feet.
Every three feet of stone requires 15,000 kilograms of fingernail-sized gravel to be used as ballast.
The amount of manpower and material resources required for this item of materials is unprecedented! "
After hearing Zhao Jun's words, everyone in the venue suddenly took a breath of air!
At first, they had no idea about the manpower and material resources required to lay the railway. They thought that even if it was a lot, Yunzhou County should be able to cope with it given its strength.
But now after listening to the prince's general remarks, they all lost the confidence they had at the beginning.
Jiang He even smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, not to mention stones and wood, which can be found everywhere. Our Yunzhou County is close to the Yunling Mountains, so all it takes is manpower and material resources. These can be overcome.
But the railway requires too much steel. Your Majesty, even now, after nearly ten years of development, the iron smelting technology in Yunzhou County only produces about 50 million kilograms of iron every year. Just 40 million kilograms.
To pave a road, you need 80,000 kilograms, which is equivalent to the output of our Yunzhou County in 20 years!
What's more, my Yunzhou County still needs a large amount of iron every day. The iron that can be squeezed out every year will not exceed 20 million kilograms. This will take even longer to smelt, forty years!
Although there are still sufficient ores, although the iron ore reserves owned by Yunzhou County are rich and enough for us to use for hundreds of years, we simply do not have enough manpower to mine them. Nowadays, Yunzhou County’s smelting The iron production capacity is not even at the fifth level, because there is not enough manpower.
To tell you the truth, the amount of iron ingots stored in Yunzhou County over the years is about 150 million kilograms.
At most, it will be enough for you to build a thousand miles of land. No matter how much Yunzhou County is, you really can't afford it. "
After Jiang He finished speaking, other officials immediately agreed.
"Yes, Your Majesty, although our Yunzhou County is rich, it is not so rich!
It’s really impossible to get out hundreds of thousands of kilograms of iron! "
"Yeah, if we don't use manpower, it won't be a big deal even if it takes more manpower. It's still much more cost-effective than building such a railway."
Agreed, this railway is so slow and expensive, so it is completely useless to build it!
Save this money and recruit more civilians to complete the transportation of food. As for the problem of troop transportation, with the current combat effectiveness of our Yunzhou County, there is no need for soldiers to be fast. As long as the army arrives, where can there be any opponent in the world? "
"I agree!"
"Your Majesty, let's stop building this railway!"
"Your Majesty! Stop repairing it!"
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Once they understood how much manpower and material resources it would take to build the railway, none of the senior officials in Yunzhou County agreed and all opposed it, and one by one persuaded Zhao Jun to give up the idea.
Even Ding Hongguang and Fan Zheng, who had been looking forward to building the railway just now, frowned and stood aside silently after knowing the amount of materials that would be required.
What Fan Zheng was thinking was that there was not enough manpower now. If we started to build this railway, not to mention the materials that would be consumed, but the huge number of civilians needed to build the road would have to eat, and this road could not be built in a short time. .
Which is more cost-effective: dragging a large number of civilians and consuming huge grain reserves for several years or even decades to build a railway, or spending more grain every year to continue to maintain the original transportation mode?
From the current point of view, it seems that the original model is more cost-effective.
But he always felt that something was wrong with today's steel monster that could move on its own, but he couldn't tell.
So I don’t know whether to agree or disagree at the moment.
What Ding Hongguang was thinking about was, if so much iron was used to arm the army, how many firearms troops could be formed by making more muskets and artillery to form the Shenji Battalion?
It seems a bit wasteful to use so much iron to build railways.
The biggest problem with long distances is to allocate more horses to the army.
To be honest, before seeing the true strength of the train, Ding Hongguang still preferred not to build the railway.
When Zhao Jun saw everyone's excited opposition, the original excitement in his heart gradually cooled down.
Only then did he realize that these people simply couldn't understand the fact that he had to spend so much manpower and material resources building a railway in this era.
The self from the previous life is fundamentally different from them in thinking.
Standing on the shoulders of his previous actions, he saw the importance of the railway in the future from a high position, so even if the railway cost a lot, he believed it was worth it.
But for them, this thing is now an unknown new thing. Its capabilities and its future are unknown in everyone's eyes.
We all feel from the bottom of our hearts that it is not worthwhile to spend so much manpower and material resources on such an unknown thing!
Because it requires too much manpower and material resources!
There are so many that everyone feels scared!
I am afraid that these things will be wasted in the end, so I am so opposed to it.
But Zhao Jun understands!
He knows how much benefit this railway will bring to Yunzhou County once it is completed. The current suffering is for the future benefits!
However, although Yunzhou County is his vassal territory, his right to speak in Yunzhou County is supreme.
But if you do something that is not approved by everyone, even if you force it to be done, the people who do it will not do their best.
Not only will it consume more manpower and material resources, but it is also more likely that things will not be done well at all!
If people are not motivated to do something, then forcing them to do it will only achieve half the result with half the effort.
Zhao Jun didn't want this, but looking at their current appearance, they were already afraid from the bottom of their hearts about building the railway!
how should I do it?
Looking at everyone, Zhao Jun's eyes flashed with thought. He put all the words of admonishment behind his head and began to think quietly.
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There are too many data that need to be calculated, so there is no update at noon. I will update it now. I don’t know if I can complete three updates today, but there will be at least two updates.
Sorry everyone, the data is too big!
(End of chapter)
