Li Longji did not continue to dig deeper, and the punishment of those who had been found out could be regarded as a lenient punishment, which made many people behind this matter greatly relieved, including the ministers in the court, of course. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In return, the ministers did not dare to issue any further objections to the transfer of the railway bureau to the Ministry of the Interior, and if anyone at this moment still opposed the management of the railway system by the Ministry of the Interior, it was very likely that they would be suspected and thus involved in the case of sabotage of the locomotive.

After all, the facts of the past few days have shown that the province has done a good job in the operation of the railway, and the merchants and the common people are also very satisfied, and the only thing that has been harmed is the horse-drawn carriage transport team that lives on transportation between Chang'an and Luoyang, and as soon as the train comes out, it means that they will be unemployed.

But the railway is dead, people are alive, some transport teams give up the line between Chang'an and Luoyang, concentrate on doing a good job in other lines, and some caravans see that the whole country of Datang in the future, may have to lay railways, for this reason, give up this business, find their own way out, or ask to enter the railway system, to be a national official.

These perennial people who are engaged in transportation are very familiar with the routes along the way, and some outstanding talents are naturally absorbed by the imperial court and become employees of the Railway Bureau.

In order to prevent the recurrence of the vicious incident of train and track destruction, the imperial court wrote the railway regulations into national law and set them as felonies, and anyone who deliberately damaged the tracks and trains was punished with heavy punishment, and it would not be as cheap as this time.

After the Railway Bureau was completely determined, Yu Chaoen and other eunuchs became more stable in the Railway Bureau, and many relevant officials also saw the ability and means of this eunuch, so they were gradually convinced, and the Railway Bureau system gradually entered the right track.

With the people's understanding of the train, there are more and more people who choose to travel by train, and the people who used to need to walk on crutches have bought tickets to take the train, of course, they are the cheapest hard seats, which not only saves the fatigue of the journey, but also reduces the cost of travel.

As the old saying goes, 'Those who are suitable for a hundred miles will have food for lodging, and those who are suitable for thousands of miles will gather grain in March.' It means that if you want to travel thousands of miles away, you need to start preparing food for the trip three months in advance, which shows the difficulty of traveling, and after having a train, only one train ticket is enough to travel, which is too cheap.

In terms of price, in order to take care of the poor and allow them to take the train, the price of hard seats is very low, the price of soft seats and hard sleepers is much higher, and soft sleepers are even higher, ordinary people can't afford to sit down, and of course there is no need to sit.

After the train has been in operation for a period of time, the carriage structure of a train previously set by Ang Lee has obviously exposed its unreasonable side, that is, the soft sleeper is seriously insufficient, the soft seat is tight, and the hard seat is slightly redundant.

This is because Chang'an and Luoyang are both metropolises with many rich people, and the rich travel, how can they sit in a carriage with the lowly and poor, especially the nobles with relatively high status, if they can't buy a closed private room, they would rather cancel the travel plan, or compete with the guests who buy the soft seat private room first, suppress people with their status, and force the other party to comply.

After understanding the specific situation, Li An finally woke up to the fact that the reason why these nobles had to buy the entire box was because many people who traveled were not individuals, but brought their families, especially people with status, with their mothers, wives and daughters and other female dependents, it was really inconvenient to appear in the open carriage, and only a fully enclosed soft-seat box could meet their needs.

The folk customs of the Tang Dynasty are already relatively civilized, but they are still much worse than those of later generations, especially the ladies, who cannot be casually in contact with strange men, and sitting in an open carriage is obviously not acceptable to the aristocracy.

There are many powerful wives and concubines, groups of children, and more than 100 people traveling at a time, so even if it is not enough to wrap the entire soft-seat carriage, it is necessary to charter a soft-seat carriage that can accommodate 80 people to accommodate the next person.

Therefore, as long as you encounter a big magnate traveling, the six boxes of a soft sleeper car are likely to be all covered, and a soft seat car will be chartered, and other magnates can only admit it, cancel the trip or wait for the next day to leave, and the little magnate who does not bring a female dependent, but can deign to the soft seat car.

As the actual top leader of the Railway Bureau, Yu Chaoen obviously also discovered this, and immediately went to the R&D center, ready to discuss with Li An, so that the R&D center can build more soft sleeper cars.

"Li Shilang, are you busy?"

Seeing Li An standing in the R&D center and looking into the distance, Yu Chaoen leaned over.

"Yu Tieling, you should be very busy now! How did you get here? ”

Ang Lee asked with a smile.

"Li Shilang, the little slave has found some problems and wants to discuss them with Li Shilang."

Yu Chaoen licked his face and said.

"Question, what question?"

Yu Chaoen said the problem he found, of course, it was a problem that Li Ang already understood.

"It turned out that it was about the problem of the shortage of soft sleeper cars, and the official already knew about it."

Ang Lee replied with a smile.

"Oh, it turns out that Li Shilang is still concerned about the operation of the railway in his busy schedule, so what does Li Shilang think to do, is it to add more soft sleeper cars, otherwise, these powerful people will fight, and the people below the little slave will be really embarrassed."

"Haha! Fish Iron Order, come with me. ”

Li An took Yu Chaoen and walked to the place where the train carriages were produced, pointed to the dozens of carriages painted with purple appearance, and said, "See! The batch of carriages ordered by the official to be produced are all soft sleeper cars, which can completely solve the problems encountered by the Yu Tie Ling, and the official also has an idea, that is, to set up a special elite train, for example, a train is all soft sleeper cars and soft seat cars, which depart every few days, specifically to meet the needs of the powerful and wealthy businessmen, what does the Yu Tie Ling think? ”

"Clever plan, Li Shilang's clever plan! It's a good idea to have a train for the rich and powerful, so that there will be no more unsightly lowly people harassing the powerful, and it will be more convenient for the powerful to travel, but why should this carriage be painted? ”

Yu Chaoen asked happily.

"Fish and iron order, in order to distinguish different carriages, in the future, all carriages must be painted with color, yellow is His Majesty's royal special train, only His Majesty can use, the posture represents the soft sleeper car, blue represents the hard sleeper car, red represents the soft seat car, green represents the hard seat car, the uncolored is the stable car, the dining car has a chimney, naturally no need to color identification."

Li Ang introduced carefully.

"Li Shilang is talented! In this way, you can judge the grade of the carriage by looking at the color of the carriage. ”

"Yes! This batch of soft sleeper cars, can be completed soon, soft seat cars also have a batch of inventory, when the time comes, you can set up two purple red special trains, from Chang'an and Luoyang, if the elite travel frequently, you can go once a day, in order to ensure the convenience of the magnates, when the time comes, you will definitely be able to earn a lot of ticket money, and the treasury will be more full. ”

Li An said.

"What Li Shilang said is that the little slave is very recognized, however, in a few days, Your Majesty will be patrolling Luoyang City, whether the train needs to be suspended to ensure Your Majesty's safety."

"This is natural, on the day of Your Majesty's travel, the railway operation between Chang'an and Luoyang must be stopped to ensure Your Majesty's absolute safety, in addition, Your Majesty has to lead a large number of people and horses to travel, and all trains must be used to transport Your Majesty's entourage, in addition, a notice will be posted in advance to tell all the people that the train will be suspended to prevent the people who do not know the situation from mistakenly committing the holy drive."

"Yes, this little slave understands."

"Okay, early tomorrow morning, this official will personally take the train to Luoyang City to check the work of your railway bureau and how it is doing."

Ang Lee's purpose, in addition to inspecting the work of the railway bureau, has more purposes, such as experiencing the feeling of a long journey, checking the road conditions along the way, whether there are dangers, and so on.

"The little slave said hello in advance and prepared the best soft sleeper private room for Li Shilang."

"Well, then there is an iron order for Lao Yu."

"The little slave quit."

The fish took his leave.

"Li Shilang, I have asked to go to Anxi, and the Ministry of War has approved it, and I will leave in five days."

Duan Xiushi strode towards Ang Lee and told Ang Lee about his imminent transfer.

"Oh, we're leaving in five days, so we don't know when we'll see each other?"

Ang Lee suddenly felt a little sad.

"As long as there is fate, there will definitely be goodbye, Li Shilang has now invented the railway, and I believe that in a few years, the railway will be able to lead to Anxi, and when the time comes, it will be easy to meet."

Duan Xiushi was obviously determined to go to Anxi.

"That's what Captain Duan said! Tomorrow morning, Captain Duan will accompany me to Luoyang City by train to enjoy the scenery along the way. ”

Li An said.

"Yes, it is the responsibility of the humble duty to protect Li Shilang, and of course the humble duty has to accompany Li Shilang."

Duan Xiushi is colorful.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li An said goodbye to his wife and rushed to the station at the north gate of Daming Palace with Duan Xiushi, in order to reduce the impact, Li An only allowed Duan Xiushi to bring two guards, so that a group of four people entered the first box of the soft sleeper car under the arrangement of the staff of the Railway Bureau.

Of course, since Li Ang is in the name of inspection, taking the train is a business trip, of course, there is no need to buy a ticket, and the staff on the train also have to serve fruit and food, so the taste is not too comfortable.

The train departed on time, and with the sound of the start of the dirt, the carriage slowly moved forward, rushing towards Luoyang City.

Ang Lee sat in the lower bunk position near the window, looking at the moving scenery outside the window, feeling intoxicated again, this feeling is simply wonderful, Ang Lee liked to sit in the soft bunk carriage of the high-speed rail in his previous life, enjoying the scenery passing by, and having a feeling of appreciating the rivers and mountains.

But the mood at this moment is much more comfortable than the feeling of taking the high-speed rail in the previous life, because the high-speed rail in the previous life was to work, when I think of the hard and tedious work, Ang Lee's feeling of appreciating the country will be weakened a lot, and at this moment, Ang Lee, with the knowledge that transcends time and space, has sat in a very high position, and the so-called work is just to take a walk and see, quite relaxed and comfortable, and the feeling of appreciating the country is naturally more wonderful.

After the autumn harvest, there are a lot of fireworks on both sides of the road, which are caused by the burning of straw by the people in order to make the fields more fertile, and in later generations, for environmental protection, it is not allowed to burn straw, and in the era of the Tang Dynasty, it is allowed to burn straw, and this can improve the fertility of the fields in the coming year, and the imperial court is of course very supportive.

The burning of straw lasted for many days, most of the straw has been burned, and now Li An sees only a small part of the remaining, and in a few days, the straw burning will all end, and when the emperor travels, there will be no more straw burning, so as not to destroy the fresh air and make the emperor feel bad when he travels.

Since they are on a business trip, of course, they can't sit comfortably in the carriage all the time, and they need to inspect the situation in each carriage to determine how well the staff of the railway bureau is doing.

Li An took Duan Xiushi out of the soft sleeper private room, and a staff member immediately greeted him.

"Li Shilang, what are your orders?"

"It's okay, just take a look, yes, the sleeper compartment is very clean, even the aisle is spotless."

Li An praised and walked to a soft-seat car behind.

At the connected position, Li An gently opened the gong room, saw that it was clean inside, and nodded to the staff again with satisfaction.

In the first soft-seat carriage, the seats were full, and there was no vacancy, and besides, as you could see by looking at the clothes, they were all poor people with a slightly okay status, and there were no poor people who were too shabby, and many of these people had seen Ang Li and greeted them warmly.

Li An waved his hand again and again, asked them to sit down, and continued to walk to the back carriage.

"Captain Duan, have you found out? Almost all of the three soft-seated cars were men. ”

After Li An finished speaking, he shook his head helplessly.

"Almost? Is there a woman? ”

Duan Xiushi frowned and looked at Li An suspiciously.

"It's so stupid, there are three women dressed as men, and Captain Duan can't see it?"

Ang Lee teased.

"Oh, the lowly duty did not pay careful attention, it was the lowly duty who was negligent."

"Hey, the little lady of a big family is really pitiful, how boring it is to raise it in the deep boudoir, and she has to hide it when she goes out, as if she is afraid of being seen."

Li An shook his head again and again, lamenting the shackles of the times on women.