In the restaurant's wing, Li Ang explained casually: "Based on the Yu Lv Zhong, the government's hiring costs for private ships and horse teams,
One hundred kilograms per hundred miles along the river is worth one hundred pence.
The land transportation fee is 400 Wen.
A spiritual locomotive can transport 480,000 kilograms of grain at a time.
This share was borne by the imperial court. If shipped by ship, the cost from Chang'an to Luoyang was 2,880 guan.
The cost of the Lingqi locomotive plus the rails is 1.8 million yuan. In other words, as long as the Lingqi locomotive runs 645 times, the cost can be recovered.
Moreover, the Lingqi locomotive runs back and forth between the two places and can transport goods on the round trip, which is equivalent to more than 300 round trips. "
Li Ang smiled and said: "If you don't transport goods, but transport passengers instead, the profit efficiency will be higher. From Chang'an to Luoyang, take the waterway, and 20 people take a big ship together, and each person has to pay more than two thousand dollars in shipping fares on average.
The Lingqi locomotive can travel back and forth between Chang'an and Luoyang twice a day. It can pull 18 carriages at a time, and each carriage can seat 80 people.
Even if the fare per person is set to be consistent,
In less than a year, Lingqi Motorcycle will be profitable. It will be a net profit from now on. "
Regarding this number, He Fanshuang and Qiu Feng were okay and had no feelings at all.
Yang Yu, who came from a merchant family, almost dropped the glutinous rice bowl in his hand.
After calculating the costs and benefits, the Aura motorcycle is no longer a waste of money, but a money-printing machine that creates wealth.
"Many places in Yu State are actually not poor,"
Su Feng said: “It’s just because the roads are blocked and the traffic is not smooth.
It is difficult to transport locally produced crops, melons and fruits.
At the same time, it is difficult to transport salt, iron and other daily necessities from the outside.
This has led to a disguised increase in the cost of living of the people and long-term hardship.
Lingqi locomotives and railways can transport manpower and materials in large quantities at high speeds and flexibly, allowing wealth to circulate. "
Everyone, including Emperor Yu, had glaring eyes and thought quickly.
The benefits of the railway are too great. It can not only relieve Chang'an's food pressure, but also increase fiscal and tax revenue. It can also strengthen the court's control over the local area...
It was enough for the court to make up its mind and bulldoze all resistance.
What's more, there are military benefits.
A spiritual motorcycle can transport 1,500 soldiers and their matching armors and weapons at a time. With a few more trips, tens of thousands of troops can be transported to the border in just a few days.
The logistical pressure of marching in the past has been infinitely reduced.
It can be said that wherever the railway goes, there is the direction of the Yu State's troops.
Emperor Yu and the prime ministers looked at each other and without hesitation, he declared in a deep voice: "Building railways will be the national policy of Yu State for the next hundred years."
The only problem is which department should be in charge of financing.
Railways pass through state capitals, involving huge interests and numerous links.
Construction, operation, management, maintenance, and tax collection all require a large number of bureaucrats and staff.
Even the government police patrolling along the railway line - rails, sleepers, and gravel are all construction materials, and thieves will inevitably steal them.
None of the six departments of Li, Hu, Li, Bing, Punishment and Work can handle these heavy affairs independently.
A new organization needs to be established.
Emperor Yu was thinking about the name of the new organization and asked Su Fengdao: "Dr. Su, how fast can the railway be built?"
The Qixi Festival incident did not cause much damage to Chang'an City itself, but it had a profound impact on people.
In order to prevent anyone from transporting contraband such as whale oil into the city again, the city gate guards added more manpower and screened the goods entering the city more carefully.
It is still unavoidable that the people in the city are panicked and worried about the return of the demon sect.
The imperial court urgently needed a major event to divert attention and calm the people's hearts.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the speed of railway construction depends on the manpower and material resources that the imperial court can provide."
Su Feng thought for a moment and replied: "If it is from Chang'an to Luoyang, it can take several years or half a year."
"So fast?"
The Hussars General frowned and said, "Didn't it take at least several years to build an official road in the past?
How come it only takes half a year to use a lot of rails and possibly go over mountains and ridges? "
"The general doesn't know something,"
Su Feng shook his head and said: "In the past, to build official roads, the state governments in various places recruited civilian husbands through corvee service.
The Law of Yu stipulates that everyone must serve one month of unpaid labor every year. Those who are unwilling or unable to serve can pay to hire someone to serve on their behalf.
In addition, clan members, nobles, bureaucrats and their families are exempted from labor service.
Those who have meritorious service, those who are filial to their relatives, those who have given birth to children and are in mourning, etc. may also be temporarily exempted from labor service.
It is equivalent to the fact that the civilian husbands who were recruited are all poor people.
I'm thankful to have enough food and clothing, but I have no energy or motivation. "
In front of Emperor Yu and many ministers, he criticized various state capitals for cruel labor and oppression of the people. No matter how you look at it, it means criticizing Huai.
However, Su Feng never cared about this. He ignored the expressions of the ministers and said to himself: "At the same time, the cost of building official roads is difficult to recover quickly.
Some state governments want to collect business travel fees to recover costs.
But the tolls are low and the money is coming back too slowly.
The tolls are so high that people would rather take detours or even take dangerous mountain roads where tigers are infested than spend more money.
Various factors make the construction of official channels slow.
The railway is different, the benefits are obvious, and the efficiency of cost recovery is visible to the naked eye.
As long as the imperial court is determined and mobilizes material and manpower, the construction time can be greatly shortened - the monks' iron-smelting and iron-casting skills can quickly produce qualified rails;
Earth-splitting and burrowing techniques can dig caves;
The Earth Fusion Talisman and the Earth Transformation Talisman can change the terrain;
When you encounter mountains, you create mountains; when you encounter water, you build bridges. "
This is the correct way to use the art of cultivation.
In the restaurant far away, Li Ang let out a long sigh.
Storybooks often focus on describing the monks' ability to fly into the sky and escape from the earth, and often ignore the huge role of monks in the field of production.
Technique is equivalent to a collection of engineering equipment such as shield machines, lathes, forges, pumps, excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and tree movers.
“In the past thousand years, practitioners have been like crucian carp crossing the river.
The prosperity of sects and aristocratic families in the Jin Dynasty and the former Sui Dynasty reached its peak.
But what benefit do so many monks bring to the people?
It's just a group of people who kill each other for their own benefit and dominate the people.
Until the Academy appeared. "
Li Ang whispered to himself softly. He looked out the window and saw the Chang'an people looking at the Lingqi locomotive in awe.
Those Lifu crew members whose bodies have been damaged by long-term hard work and are still worried about their jobs being taken away by Aura motorcycles,
He picked up a pen and paper and wrote a paragraph on the speech that Chen Danqiu asked him to give as a student representative to the freshmen in the fifth year of Zaiqian.
"People often say that the country of Yu is rich. But this is not the case."
"Every freshman here, you passed this important exam and were admitted to the academy with enough perseverance, luck, hard work, and intelligence.
I hope you can understand that education in Yu State is still lacking, and your high school palace means another person's failure.
The reason why you are sitting here today comes from the taxes paid by the 40 million poor people in Yu State. Some of them still have insufficient food and clothing, and they have to do their best just to survive every day.
I hope that on your long journey of study, you can still remember your origins and the hardships of the common people, instead of regarding yourself as superior to others, regard the gifts given by God as your own efforts, and start to be like those you once spurned. People like that, they prey on the common people.
I hope that you will not lose your original intention amidst the praise, and still have the simplest respect for Haotian and Yu Lu.
I hope that you can all move up, do what you can, and make the voice you can. "
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