While Li Ke was talking to them, the train began to slow down before it ran too far, and then the two locomotives began to turn around, changing their positions and heading back towards the station.
When Li Ke told everyone about the train, the train in the distance blew a long whistle and entered the station slowly again. This time it did not drive past, but exactly behind Li Ke. The platform stopped.
"Now, we can take everyone to experience the brand new train. If you are willing, you can get on the train with me." Li Ke said with a smile.
Following Li Ke's words, the scene immediately became excited. Li Shimin naturally wanted to get on the bus, so he stood up directly. There were two cars in front of him and one behind him, totaling fourteen carriages. All these people could put down without any problem.
Li Ke took Li Shimin and the others into the car at the front. After entering the car, everyone couldn't help but be a little surprised. The inside was completely different from the outside. The decoration... was obviously very luxurious.
The iron sheets of the carriages on both sides are covered with soft coverings. Inside the carriage are booths composed of sofas. The style of these sofas looks very comfortable. There is also a sofa in the middle of the booth. A coffee table fixed to the wall, with fixed positions for placing vases and other decorations.
This is more like a large rest area, not like the train that His Highness said can pull people. Of course, they have never seen what a normal train looks like.
But there are definitely not more than 200 positions in this carriage, only a hundred positions at most. Naturally, Empress Changsun, Changle and the others came in with Li Shimin, as well as the ministers of the imperial court.
Li Shimin, the court officials and Li Ke occupied the front half of the carriage, while Changle and the others stayed in the back half of the carriage.
When I first looked at it from the outside, I didn't think anything of it, but once I got inside, I could feel that the area inside the carriage was still very huge.
Such a carriage can accommodate 200 people? Even four to five hundred people can probably be squeezed in.
And if supplies are transported in such a huge space, how much food and grass can be hauled? The people who came here today are not ordinary people, and they naturally have some considerations in their minds.
When everyone outside had boarded the other carriages, the driver in charge came in from the door on the other side and asked Li Ke for instructions.
"You are ready to go at any time." Li Ke nodded.
"yes."
"Ugh..." Soon, a shrill whistle sounded outside the window. The court officials sitting on their sofas were actually a little nervous because they had never sat on one before. This thing is different from a carriage!
Soon, they felt the car under their buttocks move slightly, and then it began to move slowly.
Feeling the slowly moving scenery outside the window, Li Shimin asked curiously: "Is this using a steam engine?"
"Yes, it's a steam engine. It's the steam engine you saw in the industrial zone before. It's just an improvement and a change in the way the energy is output." Li Ke nodded.
While talking, the speed of the train they were sitting on had begun to gradually increase, just like what they had seen before, it gradually began to speed up.
When the train finally left the station, the scenery on both sides began to get faster, and the train they were riding was still speeding up.
"Wow! That's amazing. This speed is much faster than a carriage. Three of them are so awesome!" Jin Yang's cheers came from the distance.
Li Ke and the others were all quiet, especially Li Ke looking out the window at the snail-like scenery without any fluctuation. In future generations, not to mention the 300 kilometers per hour high-speed rail, even driving will be much faster than this.
Finally, when the speed of the train reached the current limit, which is fifty kilometers per hour, with a long whistle, the locomotive was sprayed with black smoke and began to rush into the distance with a "bang" and "bang"!
At this moment, looking at the scenery passing by quickly outside the window, for Li Shimin and others, they can only go so fast when riding horses! Although the speed in front of me is not even comparable to the speed of some BMWs, the war horse can only carry one person, and how many people is this train pulling now? !
There were hundreds of people invited today alone, not to mention the guards who followed them and got on the bus.
Fang Xuanling and the others are now extremely shocked. They have never imagined such a thing. The latter said that they have never thought of such a thing in their minds!
Even if it is a mythical story, they don't dare to think about it like this. Only His Highness can make up a myth like the Iron Dragon. Even adults would not think like this.
Look now, isn't this a fairy tale? What only a child could think appeared, now actually appears in reality! It is currently transporting thousands of people and a large amount of materials at a speed of one hundred miles per hour!
In just such a short time, the scenery on both sides of them was retreating rapidly! They finally understood why the train's road was built so high, and they finally understood why it was called a railway.
Because you can see from the car window that on the railway next to it, two rails stretch parallel to the distance. Isn't this the rail car that existed during the Qin Dynasty?
His Highness has such a fantastic idea. How did he come up with the idea of combining such a rail car with railway tracks? The wooden cabinets were replaced with rails, and carriages like this were transported on them, achieving such terrifying transportation speeds!
This genius idea alone is beyond the reach of most people. Although it draws on the thinking of the ancients, it is very powerful to be able to spread this kind of thinking, not to mention that the ancients did not discover such things as steam engines.
Not only Fang Xuanling, they and other ministers have begun to think about what the emergence of railways and trains means to the Tang Dynasty, and how many changes it will bring to the Tang Dynasty!
The most direct and simple thing is that all messages will be communicated faster in the future! Although the 800-mile express is faster than the railway, the 800-mile express cannot be used frequently.
The railway carries some daily information, which is very important to strengthen the daily information communication between Chang'an and the local area!
This means the centralization of power is once again strengthened!
In addition, if there is another local disaster, the Tang Dynasty court can quickly mobilize a large number of manpower or soldiers and food through the railway for disaster relief! There will be no shortage of all relief supplies, including food and medicines!
Even if there is a shortage of places, at most two or three days will be enough to mobilize people from all over the Tang Dynasty! You know, in three days, you won’t starve to death even if you don’t eat!
