At eight o'clock in the morning on January 19th, other passengers arrived at the station one after another and boarded the train one by one.
A large number of work-related equipment and laboratory products carried by the craftsmen were also transported by small cranes into the freight car at the rear.
The three action leaders of Honglu Temple, the Ministry of Industry, and the Shipyard went to check and confirm whether the personnel of their respective teams were present.
After all the goods were loaded and all personnel confirmed, the official train blew its whistle and dragged its long body slowly out of the station.
After the train passed through the special train gate in the old city of Jingshi and entered the Fengtai County area, its speed slowly increased and entered a stable driving state.
Zhu Jingyuan looked at the receding scenery outside the window and felt that something was not right, so he asked Guan Tianpei next to him:
"Guan Zhenfu, how long does it take for this bus to travel? When will it arrive at Tianjin Port?"
Guan Tianpei answered without hesitation and very accurately:
“To ensure driving safety, the speed of this shuttle bus is controlled at 60 kilometers per hour.
“The total journey is one hundred and sixty kilometers and is expected to take two hours and forty minutes.
"It is expected to arrive at Tianjin Port around 10:40 a.m."
Zhu Jingyuan was a little stunned after hearing this:
"This... speed is really too conservative..."
The railway Zhu Jingyuan is traveling on is the highest-standard railway in the entire Ming Dynasty. It is a "dedicated line" connecting the capital to the coastal ports.
The capital's material entry and exit and the rapid movement of people are highly dependent on this artery leading to the sea.
Therefore, the railway security level is also the highest, with special road protection troops patrolling day and night.
At the same time, the Beijing-Tianjin business train that Zhu Jingyuan took was also the highest-end passenger train on this road.
It can run an average speed of 100 kilometers per hour on this nearly straight Beijing-Tianjin special railway.
This is already the speed of the K-prefixed train in later generations, and has surpassed the lowest green car.
However, in order to ensure safety, its daily operating speed is limited to 80 kilometers per hour, which is exactly the lower limit of a K-shaped car.
As a result, for the sake of safety today, the operating speed was lowered again, directly adjusted to 60 kilometers per hour. This is the speed of the green leather car.
The passengers on board the car are all very important, so I just want stability rather than speed. I can only understand it this way.
On ordinary railways in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, most trains run at about forty per hour.
It seems relatively low, but this is actually the level before liberation.
Zhu Jingyuan was thinking about the matter in his mind, and turned to admire the scene in the early spring of the new city in the capital that he had not seen for a long time.
Then Zhu Jingyuan once again lamented that in this largest city in the world, there are not many high-rise buildings at first glance.
Even outside the scope of Fengtai County, the surrounding buildings are still dominated by three- and five-story buildings, and there are many courtyards surrounded by two- and three-story buildings.
Zhu Jingyuan glanced at Niu Jian and Lin Zexu, who were also looking at the scenery, and half intentionally and half sincerely asked them for their opinions:
"Two gentlemen, the old city of Beijing, Fengtai and Daxing areas have regulations restricting high-rise buildings, so there are no high-rise buildings.
"But why are there not many high-rise buildings in areas far away from these places?"
Niu Jian and Lin Zexu immediately became energetic when they heard the question.
The young people of this era have received modern advanced education, and their mentality when they just graduated is actually very similar to that of college students in later generations.
They are very interested in analyzing and discussing various issues and expressing their own opinions.
This time Niu Jian spoke first and analyzed:
“Students believe that although the regulations restricting the construction of high-rise buildings in the old city of Beijing, Fengtai County, and Daxing County do not apply to other areas, they also objectively affect other areas.
“Because there are no high-rise buildings in the royal gardens, the nobility and the new elite do not pursue high-rise buildings. Then the common people learn from the nobility and elites and do not build overly high buildings.
"In the end, no one is pursuing too tall buildings, so now there are no too tall buildings around Jingshi New City. As a result, the urban area is getting bigger and bigger."
Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly, feeling that what Niu Jian said made sense:
"So, if we consider it completely objectively, is such a relatively sparse and low architectural style beneficial to the development of cities and businesses?"
This time Niu Jian and Lin Zexu were both deep in thought.
If the question just now seemed like a simple curiosity, this question has obvious thinking and a certain depth.
A few seconds later, Lin Zexu spoke first:
“Students think that objectively speaking, this is certainly not conducive to business development, and it will be inconvenient for business clerks and factory workers to work.
“A more appropriate plan should be for the commercial banks to be as centralized as possible to facilitate the exchange of information between each other and facilitate purchasing choices.
“However, this is not insurmountable. The urban railways in the new city connect the sparse urban areas.
"Without these railways, there would have been more concentrated, high-density high-rise commercial and residential areas."
At this time Niu Jian opened his mouth and added:
“Actually, the situation that Brother Lin mentioned has already occurred in some parts of Xincheng.
“I have been paying special attention to it for a while. There is a commercial area with relatively dense high-rise buildings to the south of the central part of the new city. Now more and more businesses are concentrated there.
"Land prices and housing prices nearby are rising rapidly, but more and more people are still concentrating there."
Zhu Jingyuan was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that the other party had specifically observed this situation, and then continued to ask for various thoughts:
"Do you two think this situation is good or bad? What impact will it have on the development of Capital New City?"
"With such large-scale expansion of cities and continuous crowding out of private fields, will it affect our food supply in the Ming Dynasty?"
"How much cultivated land is needed in the Ming Dynasty to ensure stable local demand?"
“Should the imperial court take the initiative to control the city’s development space?”
Zhu Jingyuan asked questions one after another, and the two best contemporary scholars were a little confused by the questions.
Both of them instinctively sighed that the matters that His Highness asked were really becoming more and more in-depth and complicated.
These questions are completely unlike those raised by a fifteen-year-old boy, but rather like things that one's classmates should do.
Neither of them were intimidated or bored by this, but instead became more and more interested because they both found a like-minded feeling.
These young scholars usually like to think about similar things and like to get together to discuss such things.
So the two used the knowledge they learned, combined with their own observed and summarized experiences, started their own thinking, and discussed with Zhu Jingyuan.
There are no accurate answers to those questions, and Zhu Jingyuan himself has no answers for reference.
Because the situation is different, the answers may be different and the choices may be different. The current situation in Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with any country in the past life.
However, these problems that I encountered in my previous life can be used as an introduction to thinking and trigger the thinking of the scholars in this world.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan will not make an accurate judgment, but will only refer to and judge whether what the other party says is reasonable, and at the same time join in the discussion.
From Zhu Jingyuan's point of view, this is three people guiding the country together, or in other words, key politics.
This discussion quickly drew in the relationship between the three of them, making the two young scholars less restrained.
The three of them chatted enthusiastically for more than two hours. In addition to drinking more water, they all became more energetic as they chatted.
Guan Tianpei felt drowsy after hearing this, but he didn't dare to fall asleep at all. He could only get up and go out to patrol without listening to the three people's chatter.
The train that Zhu Jingyuan was traveling on traveled in the southeast direction. After more than 40 minutes, it left the boundaries of Jingshi New City and approached the urban area of Langfang.
However, the railway did not enter Langfang City, but went directly around from the side and continued forward.
The surrounding multi-story buildings slowly became sparse, and soon became dense again. The train entered the suburbs of Tianjin's old city.
Tianjin Old Town is the original river port city, and Tianjin New Town is the seaside shipping terminal city.
The train passed through the old city of Tianjin and continued driving for more than 40 minutes. At 10:40 in the morning, it entered the military port of the new city.
The passenger ship itself has been prepared, and the navy's escort fleet is also cruising at sea waiting, so there is no need to slowly start from scratch.
After the train stopped, the soldiers from Guan Tianpei's unit and the Jinyiwei personnel first got off the train to check the surrounding situation, and then boarded the ship to inspect the interior of the passenger ship.
Zhu Jingyuan waited in the car until noon and had lunch directly on the train before finally receiving the news that he could get off the train and board the ship.
Zhu Jingyuan, who was a little anxious about waiting, quickly got up, got out of the carriage with Guan Tianpei and two staff members, and took a transfer car in the port to the dock.
As the car gradually approached the pier, the outline of the passenger ship docked on the pier became clearer and clearer, giving the impression that it was getting bigger and bigger.
When the car stopped at the bottom of the gangway, the two young men, Lin Zexu and Niu Jian, stepped out of the car with their heads raised.
The two stood under the gangway, looking at the passenger ship above, with shocked expressions on their faces.
"I used to read in newspapers that this steel ship didn't look that huge between the boundless sea and sky."
"Now that I'm here, I realize how huge it actually is."
"It's really as big as a city wall, like a mountain..."
Zhu Jingyuan heard the conversation between the two staff and looked up at the shape of the big ship again.
This passenger ship is different from what I imagined. It does not have the typical style of a modern Western cruise ship. I may never see that image again in this life.
Just like the Ming Dynasty's sedan really looks like a sedan, the superstructure of this ship looks like an oriental palace.
It's just that in the middle of this palace-like building, there are four tall chimneys, showing the power of the proverbial industrial age.
According to what the consortium personnel reported to themselves, this is a Chongming Island-type luxury passenger ship that has been in operation for three years.
The full load displacement is 35,000 tons, the hull length is 248 meters, and it can carry 800 crew members and 2,400 passengers.
A total of four passenger ships of this type were built. The number 3 ship in front of you is the Zhoushan Island.
Although the No. 4 ship is newer and has just started operating for less than a year, it is not guaranteed to be fully mature and reliable, and the crew is not experienced enough.
So the passenger ferry company chose ship No. 3 for Zhu Jingyuan to use.
Zhu Jingyuan had some experience with the size of the ship, and it was actually just as Lin Niu and the other two said.
Large ships floating on the sea lack reliable reference objects around them. Unless people come to the ship, they will not realize how big the ship is.
Even after seeing these direct hull data, there is only a look of confusion and confusion.
Only a little calculation can give you an idea.
The 35,000-ton ship in front of us is equivalent to 30,000 family cars in pure weight.
When two such ships are docked, they are as long as one mile, which is a full mile.
A more intuitive imagination is that when you stand on the dock and look at the ship, it feels like a stadium floating on the sea.
Moreover, the internal space is three-dimensional and multi-level, with a playground above and a commercial street inside.
It can carry more than 800 crew members and allow more than 2,000 people to live relatively comfortably on it.
If living standards are not taken into account, it is estimated that two or three times more people will not be a problem.
Zhu Jingyuan knew that Ming Dynasty had built many passenger ships of more than 30,000 tons, and there should be no problem in building a passenger ship of 50,000 tons.
After all, the current Ming Dynasty has basically the same technical level as Britain when it built the Titanic.
That's why Zhu Jingyuan asked the navy to directly build a warship with a full load of 40,000 tons.
It may be a little difficult for battleships with complex structures, but it should not be difficult for aircraft carriers of this era.
Converting a cruise ship into an aircraft carrier was a routine operation during World War II...
After Zhu Jingyuan sighed in his heart for a while, he called the two staff members to board the boat together.
Walk through the gangway, step into the long door, walk through the corridor, and take the elevator to the floor where your room is.
It is located in the middle of the front and rear directions of the hull, on the port side of the middle and upper floors of the upper and lower floors, and is a separate area.
This is a completely independent and complete living area specially designed by the Royal Passenger Line Company for guests with special status.
Living facilities are all available, entertainment facilities are also arranged, and there is ample living and leisure space.
If Zhu Jingyuan needs to, he can stay here the whole time. There is no need to go to other places on the ship or contact with other personnel.
Zhu Jianfeng's room is on the starboard side, which is basically the same as Zhu Jingyuan's situation.
In fact, if there is only one guest of the same level coming, the two spaces can be connected and will be separated when necessary.
Zhu Jingyuan's two staff and Shen Fu's room were next to Zhu Jingyuan's living area, which was also the best location on the ship.
Guan Tianpei took thirty-two soldiers and lived around Zhu Jingyuan's room.
Other soldiers were dispersed to various important locations on the ship to facilitate control of the situation on the ship in case of emergencies.
While Zhu Jingyuan and his two staff were settling in, Zhu Jianfeng also took his princess on board, and then the other guests boarded separately.
The system of superiority and inferiority left over from classical society has been largely dissipated as the people's wisdom gradually opened up, but authoritarian ideas still exist.
No one thought it was unreasonable for the two princes and grandsons to board the ship alone while everyone else waited.
I just feel that Zhu Jingyuan, the grandson of the emperor, came before Zhu Jianfeng, the prince, which is a bit confusing.
The pace of maritime transport is much slower than that of railways.
Zhu Jingyuan boarded the ship at twelve o'clock, and it was not until nearly three o'clock in the afternoon that he received the notice that everything was ready to set sail.
Zhu Jingyuan didn't want to wait another night on the dock, so he asked the captain to set sail immediately and leave the port area before dark.
