Huaxia Railway is ushering in rapid development at the current stage, and improving the operation speed and capacity has always been a problem for the railway department to solve, so there is the first, second and third ...... in the country The Nth big speed-up.

There are three problems that have plagued China's railway transportation for a long time, one is that the railway operating mileage is not enough, and the other is that the operating speed is not enough and the traction load is not enough.

On the one hand, the railway department hopes to improve the operation efficiency of the existing lines by increasing the speed of passenger cars, and on the other hand, it also hopes to achieve freight efficiency by increasing the traction weight of single trains.

More than 20 years ago, more than 400 ND5 diesel electric locomotives from GE in the United States brought a huge boost to the freight transportation of Huaxia Railway.

Now, the railway department has come up with the pinnacle of Huaxia diesel passenger locomotive - DF11G diesel locomotive, with the 25T series car bottom derived from Bombardier technology in Canada, this combination is the highest combination of Huaxia railway passenger transportation before the take-off of Huaxia high-speed railway.

According to the news obtained by Senior Brother Liu, the DF11G of Qishuyan Locomotive Factory has begun to roll off the assembly line in large quantities and is ready to be assigned to various sections, and the 25T car bottom of Sifang Bombardier Vehicle Factory is also in mass production.

The 25T series includes the YZ25T, RZ25T, Y25T, R25T and XL25T, and the first letters represent their uses, such as hard seats, soft seats, hard sleepers, soft sleepers, and luggage.

Suitable for high-speed driving, the requirements for the bogie are very high, this series of undercarriages are designed with a construction speed of 180 kilometers, and can achieve a speed of 160 hours without stopping for more than 20 hours.

This data can basically ensure that the train does not stop from any first-tier city in China to another first-tier city.

When Li Mu really started to do logistics, he knew how big the transportation capacity was, it was like the bandwidth problem of the Internet industry at this stage, the upper limit was very low, and it was difficult to improve.

At this stage, Huaxia civil aviation is not sufficiently developed, and the total volume of the belly warehouse is very limited, and it is not enough for Taobao logistics to plug the teeth, so Taobao logistics urgently needs a faster transportation channel with large capacity.

If there is no technological innovation such as DF11G and 25T car bottom, if the traditional freight diesel locomotive is used to pull the ordinary luggage bottom, the speed per hour can also run to 80 kilometers per hour, and the most embarrassing thing is that the priority of existing online passenger transport is higher than that of freight, so the freight train is basically slow and leisurely, stop-and-go, such railway transportation, for Taobao logistics, the pursuit of high efficiency of small logistics companies, is of little significance.

However, if the railway department can use DF11G and 25T undercarriages to open a special train for Taobao Logistics, and give it the same priority as a direct train, then it can run all the way to the destination unimpeded, and the efficiency will be improved several times at once.

Therefore, the railway transportation, which was originally not very attractive to Li Mu, suddenly became a sweet spot in his eyes, which made his whole person fanatical.

In his eyes, this kind of change is like the era of vigorous development of Internet bandwidth, and suddenly one day, bandwidth has reached a new level, and Youtube was born.

In the eyes of ordinary users, Youtube is just a new way to play in Internet life, but in the eyes of practitioners, when the global Internet bandwidth and data computing power can support global netizens to visit Youtube and watch videos online, what they see is a new era.

But then again, the railway sector is a state-owned sector, and they have to consider the country's passenger and freight lines, so under normal circumstances, it is difficult to provide humanized customized services for private enterprises, that is to say, although the railway sector has such a great thing, whether it is willing to use it for private enterprises is a big problem.

Therefore, Li Mu asked Senior Brother Liu to make a verbal military order, communicate with the railway department as soon as possible, and strive to win the express package special train for Taobao Logistics.

Moreover, the route planned by Li Mu is that in the first stage, it is necessary to take Yanjing to Shanghai and penetrate the Beijing-Shanghai line; then take Shanghai to Yangcheng and open up the Beijing-Guangzhou line, and use these three cities to connect the eastern part of the mainland, and then open up Yanjing to Yudu and Yudu to Shanghai, so as to connect the central region;

In the second stage, it is necessary to extend from Yanjing to the northeast pass, at least to open up Beijing and Shenyang, then from the capital of Henan to the west, open up Chang'an, and then from Shanghai to the west, open up Rongcheng;

If these two stages can be realized, then Taobao logistics in the country's express turnover efficiency will be greatly improved, by that time, even if it is all-land transportation, it can be delivered within 48 hours in major areas of the country, except for the southwest and northwest borders, all within 72 hours.

In front of Senior Brother Liu and Sect Master Lei, Li Mu spread out a map of Huaxia and used a three-color pen to popularize a logistics concept he planned for the two of them - the concept of the timeliness zone.

The red pen represents the 24-hour aging zone;

The blue pen represents the 48-hour aging zone;

The black pen represents the 72-hour aging zone;

Li Muxian used a red pen to circle the three cities of Yanjing, Shanghai and Yangcheng, and said to the two: "In my eyes, the development of express logistics is the division and expansion of the timeliness area, when we first started, we first included the first-tier cities into the 48-hour timeliness area, and the radiation periphery into the 72-hour timeliness area, and then by enhancing the speed and efficiency of trunk logistics between the three cities, the first-tier cities were included in the 24-hour timeliness area, and the radiation was included in the 48-hour timeliness area;"

"Then, we added more trunk point-to-point transportation, from the very beginning of the first-tier cities to the first-tier cities is the trunk point-to-point, the development to the first-tier cities to the second-tier cities also become the trunk point-to-point, and then the development of the second-tier cities to the second-tier cities can become the trunk point-to-point, so that more 72-hour timeliness areas can be upgraded to 48-hour timeliness;"

"At this stage, we will develop later, we must make greater use of aviation to upgrade the point-to-point air transportation of the trunk line, get more belly cargo warehouse resources, get more cargo aircraft resources, and even form our own cargo fleet. ”

When Li Mu mentioned that he wanted to build his own fleet, Senior Brother Liu and Sect Master Lei both looked longing, and they, like Li Mu, were deeply aware of the pain points of the logistics industry, either not enough to ship, or not fast enough, so they also knew how significant it was to the entire logistics system if they had their own cargo fleet.

In the last life, Shunfeng was the first private logistics enterprises to develop their fleet, and the development of Shunfeng fleet was relatively steady and steady, starting with the second mobile phone, one by one, it seems that the hand of buying an aircraft is too big, and the risk is too great, but Shunfeng soon tasted the sweetness of having its own cargo aircraft from the high-speed development of Chinese e-commerce, and then continued to expand its own fleet size.

Li Mu also knows that in the future, whether Taobao logistics goes to sea or not, the fleet is a must, for bulk logistics, they pay attention to railways and highways in China, and focus on shipping in the world, but for small logistics, whether at home or abroad, aircraft are the main force to win.

Li Mu said to the two: "In the future, we set up airlines and develop their own cargo fleets in two ways, the first is to be steady and steady, for example, we first buy two cargo planes more than ten years old, when there are only two aircraft, fly Yanjing to Yangcheng this long-distance trunk transportation, maximize the advantages of aviation timeliness, when there are four aircraft, in the long-distance eastern trunk city, and long-distance western trunk city circulation, when there are eight aircraft, you can cover the central region, In the northeast and west, when there are sixteen aircraft, it can cover more provincial capitals, and even the northwest and southwest borders. ”

"The second is to hold high and fight, we can invest at least eight or more full cargo planes at the beginning through financing, loans, purchases, and leases, so as to directly revitalize the domestic hub cities, and then multiply them on this basis. ”

Lei said: "Mr. Li, such an asset investment may be too heavy, we have invested a lot of money in logistics, and more funds need to be invested in the further development of automation in the future." ”

Li Mu said: "Money is never the most critical issue, the problem is that once we start our own fleet, Once there are eight or sixteen cargo planes, can we make the best use of things, Taobao has sufficient cash flow and redundant funds to supply logistics blood, Makino Technology as a backup blood bank is always ready to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of interest-free loans for Taobao logistics when it is most needed, if Makino Technology is listed in the first half of next year, our cash reserves will exceed 10 billion US dollars, enough for Taobao logistics to move forward at full speed. ”

Saying that, Li Mu said: "Moreover, for logistics and transportation, we don't need to buy new aircraft, all of them purchase second-hand aircraft, so that the cost can be reduced by more than half." ”

Sect Master Lei nodded lightly and asked, "Then do you think it is more appropriate for us to start fleet construction?"

Li Mu said categorically: "Right now!"

After speaking, Li Mu explained: "Now is a good time for Taobao logistics to shine in the world, it will be like Muye technology, become the business card of Chinese enterprises, we announce major decisions at this time, the promotion of corporate influence will have the best effect, and now is also the time when we had better be coquettish with the country, the express package special train should be coquettish, and the fleet construction should also be coquettish." ”

Senior Brother Liu said: "In this case, then let's apply for the establishment of Taobao Logistics Airlines first!"

Li Mu asked him: "Senior Brother Liu, you have studied logistics research a lot, what are the processes required to establish an airline?"

Brother Liu said: "The most important thing is that we need the approval of the Civil Aviation Administration to prepare for the construction, and we must first submit an application to the Civil Aviation Administration. ”

Li Mu nodded and blurted out: "The soldiers are divided into two ways, some people are responsible for the preparation of the airline, and some people start to prepare for the construction in advance, including looking for suitable aircraft, pilots, base airport resources, it is best to dig out a group of experienced people from the current civil aviation system!"