Back at Liangyi Hall, Li Ke was planning to leave and leave Li Tai here, but Chang Lin brought Li Ke a thick report, which was sent in by Tian Meng and came from Xizhou.
Li Ke was a little surprised, but he still needed to see this thing by himself. He rushed Li Tai to the chair next to him. Li Ke sat down behind the table and started reading.
It contains information about Xizhou’s execution plan for this year and the plans to start preparing for it.
The top one is about this year’s cultural promotion activities in Xizhou.
Li Ke took a look and found that Li Yan had already formulated a detailed development plan before leaving, so Xizhou basically just implemented it step by step.
For example, in terms of culture, literacy activities were held at night in Xizhou last year. This year's literacy activities will be intensified. Relying on Li Ke's influence, all herders who work for Li Ke will spend a certain amount of time to learn literacy. , and then go home at night to learn literacy from each other.
To this end, Xizhou has also formulated a plan to increase money. For Xizhou people who learn how many characters, their monthly money will increase. Or as long as you learn literacy and Chinese according to the tasks set each month, you will start to conquer Xizhou in the future. Two months of tax exemption are available after tax.
According to this plan, Li Ke felt that Xizhou, an originally backward place, would become the first area in the Tang Dynasty with the most literacy. Of course, it would only be literacy and recognition, that is, literacy activities.
As for culture, there is still no such thing, but there is no doubt about the importance of literacy in popularizing culture. Xizhou has also formulated many popular cultural activities. For example, all traditional festivals must be organized by herdsmen to hold them. Li Li Ke's influence.
Of course, we also respect the rights of ordinary herdsmen to believe in Changshengtian, but this kind of cultural invasion... There is a saying that when the next generation grows up, under the influence of Li Ke, they estimate that there will not be many people who believe in Changshengtian.
Culture is the most advantageous weapon. Li Ke felt deeply after coming to Datang.
Many people's daily language more than a thousand years ago was influenced by the Tang Dynasty and ancient culture.
For example, the common word "buying things" that everyone uses most every day, where do you think this word comes from? It comes from the East Market and West Market in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty! People living in Chang'an City almost always go to the East Market and West Market to buy daily necessities and other items. Over time, shopping has become synonymous with it!
The more you understand, the more shocked you will be by the influence of culture.
The normal government affairs in Xizhou are nothing to look at. These are all included in the "First Five-Year Plan" formulated by Li Ke. Li Daozong and Qiao Shiwang only need to implement them step by step.
Li Ke mainly took a serious look at the next step plan for Xizhou Industrial Zone that Lu Hai sent.
Although Li Ke has also set a development direction for them, which is actually mainly a research and development direction, more plans require Lu Hai and others to make relevant adjustments based on the actual situation.
When he turned over the first plan for Xizhou Industrial Zone this year, Li Ke raised his eyebrows in surprise. The first plan given by Lu Hai was the wooden track plan.
Seeing this, Li Ke was a little surprised. They chose this, and Li Ke really didn't expect it.
The track plan was also included in the information Li Ke gave them. The plan itself was related to mining, etc., and was also used for pre-technical research for future railway construction.
In fact, when Li Ke took out this information, he did not verify it, but after he took it out, several craftsmen at the time were stunned by Li Ke's words.
The original words of those craftsmen were, "It turns out that wooden rail cars can be made so exquisitely."
This obviously means that they have seen it before. Later, Li Ke inquired and found out that the ancestors had played with rail cars similar to railway tracks as early as the Qin Dynasty, or even earlier, maybe during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
At that time, Li Ke didn't know what to say. He could only say that his ancestors had played many things earlier than us. We had only optimized them technically, but we didn't go beyond it in principle.
But now Li Ke didn't expect that what Lu Hai proposed was to use wooden tracks to connect several major mining areas such as iron mines, coal mines, and limestone mines. After connecting with wooden rails, human-powered rail cars or horse-drawn rail cars are used to transport ores or finished products.
In this way, even in bad weather such as rainy days, transportation will not be affected.
Li Ke pondered for a while. Wooden rails have the advantages of wooden rails, which are low in cost and cost. However, the shortcomings of wooden rails are also obvious. They are not very durable and are easily damaged. If you want to solve the problem, you can wrap it with a layer of iron sheet. Reduce friction, save animal power, and increase durability, but in fact it still has the same shortcomings.
Instead of doing this, since it is going to be built, it is better to just go to the rails.
Because speaking of it now... the Tang Dynasty did not use steel that much, that is, to make weapons and armor, but these are enough in Chang'an, in Xizhou...
Li Ke simply picked up the pen and wrote: Directly ask Lu Hai to produce the rails according to the standards. Li Ke decided to send them a copy of the books on modern railway standards and track laying in the library.
Li Ke has not changed the standard of the railway track. There are no differences, advantages and disadvantages between narrow gauge and wide gauge in terms of transportation of goods, so the existing narrow gauge standard can be used.
Also sent along was the primary process of indigenous coal carbonization. The low-temperature carbonization of coal is not very difficult, but the current technology is not up to standard and the loss is relatively large. Low-temperature carbonization simultaneously produces coking and produces coal tar, because the sleepers need to be soaked with coal tar. Used for anti-corrosion, insect-proof, etc.
Li Ke hasn't taken out the relevant technical books yet, but he explained it in the letter, and finally asked Lu Hai to select a group of road construction workers, especially the main road construction workers.
He also figured out that according to the current technological progress of the Tang Dynasty, steam engines would be almost ready to be built in a few years. Now it would be better to let Lu Hai train a group of outstanding railway construction workers.
Otherwise, workers who want to build railways in the future will need to start training all over again.
Chang'an and Jingzhao counties govern Huayin County.
In the living room of Wei House, the head guard of the Wei family is also receiving a middle-aged man at this moment.
"Master Wei, what do you think? Whether you can restore the glory of your ancestors depends on your choice." Hu Zheng, the shopkeeper of Yuelai Trading Company in Huayin County, said with a smile.
"It is an honor for me to cooperate with His Highness the King of Qin." Wei Yi took a deep breath and agreed decisively. When the news about Chang'an City's trade routes came, he thought of the shopkeeper of Yuelai Trading Company who came to visit him last year and what he said. Talk about collaboration.
It’s just that he didn’t agree last year, although he didn’t refuse either. But this year, he knew that this was an opportunity for their Wei family to rise! Although his Wei Yi ancestors had separated from the Hedong Wei clan.
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PS: Recently, many big guys have rewarded great masters and want me to add more updates. The author would like to specifically explain that it’s not that I don’t want to add more updates, it’s that I really can’t write it. You can now see the update calendar on Tomato. You can check it out. Since October 7 last year, I have updated 4 times a day, never stopped updating, and have never taken a day off. Even when I had a high fever of 39 degrees, I wrote it slowly while carrying it.
I did have a few chapters saved in the past, but they are gone long ago. After all, I have to deal with things at home and writing, which will consume some of them. Therefore, there is really nothing I can do. I am not complaining, I just want to say that the author has tried his best to code the words. I can only thank you all here, thank you readers.
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