Chapter 689: The Feared Great Tang
The day after the development of the steam engine for the train, the head of the steel train was assembled.
This time, most of the mechanical parts were replaced with steel, and the steel transmission shaft and other things were not easily damaged, and they could give full play to the power of the steam engine.
On the day of the experiment of the steel locomotive, not only the students of the scientific research institute and the academy of literature, but also the civil and military officials also came to watch.
As they watched a black smoke-emitting iron guy galloping along the railroad tracks, moving even a box of vans full of stones, they couldn't help but glance at Leng Feng with admiration.
Before Tianxialou wanted to build a railway, they all felt that Tianxialu was doing good deeds, and they didn't go to their hearts.
Even, when they knew that the road was a small stone cushion, high-quality wood for pillows, and steel for rails, they secretly laughed at Leng Feng.
There's really money to spend!
But now that they see the train and think about the benefits they can get from relying on it, they can't help but envy it.
It is not the value of the goods themselves that leads to this, but the distance. The price of Luoyang's things in Chang'an is a little more than that of Luoyang. However, if it's a Lingnan thing, tsk tsk, then it's amazing!
If you buy a handful of things for a copper coin in Lingnan, you may be sold for a silver coin in Chang'an.
Now that the Lord Protector has come up with a train that is much faster than mules and horses, it is foreseeable that as long as it is a distant businessman, he will beg his grandfather to tell his grandmother to get rid of him and help him transport.
In this way, the price of their goods can be significantly lower than that of their peers.
And the protector who goes back and forth between the two places can also make a lot of money!
Du Ruhui walked up to Leng Feng and stabbed him: "Hey, lack of money, your lavish cost of laying the railway is absolutely amazing, the old man is interested in participating in a share and leaving an industry for his children and grandchildren to eat, how about it?" β
Leng Feng smiled slightly: "Lai Guogong, you are late, Wei Guogong Lu Guogong and others have already joined the shares, and I have divided all the shares, if you have the intention of operating railway transportation, I will say hello to the scientific research institute and let them order less." β
"Hehe, forget it then!"
Du Ruhui sighed helplessly. He saw that the difficulty of railway transportation is not to find customers, nor to make the technology of making locomotives, but to lay the tracks.
Not everyone has the courage to invest a lot of money to lay railroad tracks, once it is useless, it is the most direct waste!
As for partnerships, to be honest, there are really few families that are good enough to spend their wealth in partnership.
Li Shimin walked to Leng Feng's side: "You already knew that the steam engine could succeed, so you laid the railway, didn't you?" β
Leng Feng nodded: "I have confidence in my precious apprentice. β
With that, he beckoned the students back to class.
This is the first time the two have spoken since Leng Feng returned to Chang'an.
Just ask and answer.
Looking at Leng Feng who was leaving, Li Shimin sighed.
Leng Feng is really planning to leave the court!
But that's fine, when Leng Feng is there, the situation in the court is clear, and there are only "right" and "wrong" left. This is indeed harmonious, but as an emperor, he still likes a court with a little bit of chaos.
Only in such a court can he, the emperor, have the highest power.
As for the cold front ....
After all, there will be a time when he returns to the court, and at that time, he can play the biggest role.
The emperor, who thought he had calculated Leng Feng, didn't care about Leng Feng's ignorance, and asked the scientific research institute to send a copy of the train's drawings to the ordnance superintendent, and he returned to Chang'an with hundreds of civil and military officials.
In this experiment, he ordered not to avoid the envoys from places such as Ludongzan and the grassland.
trains, this is a deterrent no less than gunpowder weapons and hot air balloons.
After the defeat of Goryeo and Murowei, Datang will start to develop the population, dig roads and build bridges to improve people's livelihood in a short period of time.
After several years of changes in household statistics, Li Shimin realized that simply persuading farmers and encouraging children to have children could not stimulate population growth.
Originally, the Tang Dynasty had just passed the troubled times, and it was a problem for the people to eat and drink, in such a situation, who would dare to have children easily.
Now it is different, with the increase of commercial tax, the agricultural tax began to decline little by little, and by this year, it has been reduced to ten and a half taxes. Coupled with the promotion of potatoes and corn, the cultivation methods of new agriculture....
Last year's expedition to Goryeo, Shandong Sanzhou suffered a severe drought, and there was no harvest.
This was a big event in previous years, but this year there was no need for the imperial court to provide disaster relief, and the neighboring states transferred grain, and this year's drought was perfectly solved.
When fullness is no longer a problem, people who didn't dare to have children no longer worry about eating, just last year, it was recorded! There are more than 300,000 newborns.
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The carriage back to Chang'an was very bumpy, but it couldn't break Li Shimin's dream. He was already fantasizing that these children would grow up healthy, and some of them would become soldiers, and then these sturdy soldiers would carry invincible weapons to destroy the city and expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the sky.
A sense of pride was unconsciously born in Li Shimin's chest, knocked on the car window, and the dragon shadow appeared in the carriage.
Li Shimin said with a smile: "Go and tell Zongzheng, there is no need to change the book for that girl, I don't plan to make peace with Tubo, if I want to make peace, it should be their princess who marries, or their prince who comes to the door to get married!" β
The new Dragon Shadow Man was very clever, and knowing that the emperor was in a good mood at this time, he said: "Your Majesty, this is a bit too much, our Tang Dynasty doesn't need a foreigner as a son-in-law, those barbarians are very edible." β
"Hahahaha, we Datang still lack that little ration? Go ahead! β
After sending out the dragon shadow, Li Shimin simply conceived a conversation with Lu Dongzan in the car.
Today's Lu Dongzan is also on the way back to Honglu Temple, thinking about countermeasures.
He knew that the emperor would not let them see this train experiment for no reason, mostly for the sake of Liwei. TVmobile/
I have to say, he was successful. After looking at the train, Lu Dongzan's first thought was that he couldn't attack Datang casually in the future. With this kind of magical car, Datang will transport supplies to the border army faster than before.
Moreover, since he proposed to make peace, the emperor has not given a clear answer, and combined with today's events, I'm afraid....
I'm afraid that today's Datang doesn't even have the idea of coping with marriage!
What could he do? Although the original Tang Dynasty was powerful, Tubo was not afraid at all.
But now, unless the guy with a bad brain will have an idea about Datang.
The current Datang is really powerful, so that even the fearless Tubo people tremble!
"Go and call the envoys of the grassland to come to my house, and say that I have something to discuss with them."
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