Facts have proved that when the Yu State was fully utilizing its national power, no difficulty could stop it.
Carloads of ore are transported from the mines. The forges in the workshops erupt with flames day and night, melting the molten iron into steel. Thousands of civilian workers are busy working in the mountains and forests like ant colonies, felling trees, Roads were dug and tracks laid.
For this project, the State of Yu mobilized massive resources, with more than 100,000 laborers dispatched from various states. The Ministry of Light Industry consumed tens of thousands of talismans of different grades to break rocks.
Colleges such as Xuegong and Luli Academy also sent a large number of teachers and students to use magic techniques to dig caves and tunnels and build bridges in canyons.
Although as the project gradually progressed, the construction cost doubled again and again.
However, after a section of railway is built, it can be put to use quickly. The Aura locomotive is used to continuously transport the rail steel produced in the workshop to the construction front line.
In this way, it was built and used at the same time. In less than three months, a railway connecting Chang'an and Luoyang was completed.
To this end, the imperial court established a new department under the Shangshu Province, parallel to the six ministries, to coordinate the management of railway matters. Su Feng, who had no interest in becoming an official, was eventually given the position of minister, his title was promoted, and his disciples all received official positions or rewards.
Of course, a railway cannot have only one locomotive running, so the academy worked overtime and built two trains in an emergency. They will travel on the railway at some distance and stop at stations set up in state capitals along the route. It not only transports goods, but also carries people.
With fiscal revenue, railway operations are no longer simply a matter of burning money. The imperial court soon formulated a new plan to build railways in various states and cities until they covered the whole country.
The state capitals along the railway line gathered more manpower and materials, and built more restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, warehouses, and workshops, providing more job opportunities.
In turn, the newly built workshops could use the railway to sell goods to distant places and continue to expand. Form a virtuous cycle.
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Late autumn.
"If the country is a giant beast, then the railway is its blood vessel..."
Li Ang picked up his pen and wrote a sentence on the scroll, then turned to look out the window at the evening sky.
At this moment, he was sitting in the carriage of a motorcycle returning to Chang'an from Luoyang. Sitting opposite him was He Fanshuang, who was quietly reading a book.
Luoyang has always been the eastern capital of the Yu Kingdom. Due to the rise of the Li royal family in Guanzhong, its control over Guandong was weak. During the early Yu period, successive emperors often visited Luoyang in person to strengthen their rule over the eastern part of the empire.
Moreover, every time the emperor traveled, he would bring a large number of royal family members, court officials, military personnel, and even common people on business trips. This custom continues to this day.
After the completion of the railway, transportation in Chang'an and Luoyang has become more convenient and faster. Li Ang and He Fanshuang, as representatives of the outstanding disciples of the Academy, visited Lizheng Academy in Luoyang for a few days and were about to return.
"laugh!"
The sound of steam erupting came from outside the carriage, and the train slowly stopped. Through the glass window, you could see the brightly lit parking station and the passengers on the platform carrying large and small bags, getting on and off the train.
It is too hard to travel far in this era. After riding a horse for several days, all the muscles and bones are in pain, and the face and head are covered with dust.
Even riding in a carriage is no better.
But taking a train is completely different. Thousands of miles away, you arrive early and late. Not only is it fast, but you can also sit safely and not be afraid of wind and rain. For this reason, many people are willing to spend more money to buy tickets.
Some uniformed government officers held tin trumpets and shouted on the platform, "It is strictly forbidden to carry fuel, burning appliances, candles and other contraband on the train, and swords and weapons need to be handed in in advance..."
On the flat ground outside the platform, there are stalls selling newspapers, food, tea, etc. The smell of fireworks is strong.
In a daze, the once noisy and noisy train station in the memory of another world overlapped with the scene in front of me.
"What are you writing?"
Perhaps disturbed by the noise outside the window, He Fanshuang raised his head from behind the book and asked lightly.
“My thoughts after visiting Luoyang.”
Li Ang replied. Since Mo Si lost control, he also started writing a diary to record his daily mood changes and beware of alienated objects changing his mind.
Of course, it definitely does not involve the memory of another world.
"How should I put it? Li Zheng Academy is more traditional than I thought. The rules are stricter."
He paused and said casually: "I heard that ten years ago they had separate campuses for men and women."
The experience of Lizheng Academy and the others was neither good nor bad. The atmosphere there is more like the Imperial College, not as relaxed and free as the Academy.
Moreover, when the local students received Li Ang and He Fanshuang, they showed some admiration and envy among their peers for outstanding people, but also some were reserved and proud as people from Luoyang, the eastern capital, and did not want to be looked down upon by visitors from Chang'an. Their attitudes were complex and subtle.
I can only say that it's quite teenage.
"Yeah. But their research on Neo-Confucianism and Talismanology is very interesting."
He Fanshuang picked up a magazine from the table and said, "Especially the recent Shensha Yunlu."
Yunlu, this ancient talisman originated from witchcraft, is now engraved on the metal plate of the Reiki machine by Su Feng, and is the core of the Reiki machine.
Ever since Su Feng took out the spiritual motorcycle that changed the situation in Yu State, all forces have taken action.
The spies of Zhou and Jing were working intensively to collect intelligence;
The local state capital of Yu State mobilized connections in the hope of influencing the court to build railways in the area;
The aristocratic families are keenly aware of the imperial court's firm determination to promote the construction of the railway, and they are all a little uneasy - once the railway is completed, the connection between the local area and the imperial court will become closer, and the production space of the aristocratic families will be further compressed.
Rich businessmen and workshop owners are actively in contact, hoping to put the Reiki machine into commercial use as soon as possible. Whether it is textile, sewing, paper making, smelting, etc.
As for Neo-Confucian scholars everywhere, they are also working hard to study the few papers and try to keep up with Su Feng's research progress.
"What do you think?"
Li Ang asked.
He Fanshuang is a real genius. In addition to majoring in swordsmanship and fushu, she also studies neophysics, arithmetic, music, painting, and poetry.
In the words of newspapers and periodicals, he is well versed in classics and history, and is good at poetry and painting.
Especially in the fields of arithmetic and astronomy.
After the invention of the telescope, all scientific scholars used it to observe stars, and soon came to the conclusion that the earth revolves around the sun during its autobiography, and that the moon does not emit light but only reflects sunlight.
He also calculated the specific trajectories of celestial bodies, and even speculated that light also has a speed.
And He Fanshuang went further on this basis,
She used a telescope to discover four satellites of Jupiter. After long-term observation, she found that the orbit of one of the satellites was close to Jupiter's orbit around the sun.
So sometimes, that moon will orbit behind Jupiter and disappear from telescopes.
She recorded every time the satellite disappeared and reappeared,
It was eventually discovered that when the Earth was far away from Jupiter, the difference in disappearance and reappearance time was seven minutes longer than when it was approaching (recorded with a Soufon clock).
Substitute this number into the distance between the Earth and Jupiter, and you can vaguely get the speed of light.
The entire observation process took her two years.
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