As soon as Cui Yongan's words fell, it seemed that a switch above the lobby of the Ministry of Railways was turned on, and everyone was suddenly divided into two factions and began to quarrel daily.

There is only one topic of quarrel, whether the price of the carriage is right or wrong.

Fools only talk about the benefits of being cheaper than a carriage for the big guys, but the play that should be played has to be played, and the quarrel still has to be argued.

Otherwise, everyone will bite to death in unison, which is cheaper than a carriage, and once the crime of digging the corner of the Ming Dynasty is deducted, it will be something that no one can afford to bear.

Of course, as long as the final price is cheaper than the carriage - in any case, as long as there is an explanation that makes sense.

Don't look at Hong Chengchou who made up his mind to hug Emperor Chongzhen's thigh, and also made up his mind to be a lonely minister, but in fact, no matter how awesome a lonely minister, he has to have a lot of horses and eagle dogs to do things for him.

Otherwise, it is not called a lonely minister, it is called a fool, and the most intolerable person in the court is also such a person.

You don't see, a certain big man who carries the coffin and fights corruption has only one term of office, which is the first of its kind in the Celestial Empire......

Hong Chengchou naturally didn't know that there was such a big man in later generations - the most important thing is that Hong Chengchou himself is not clean, and there are some small businesses at home.

Of course, the name is that relatives who have nothing to do with Hong Chengchou himself are doing some small business, but as long as they are not blind, who doesn't know that there is Hong Shangshu's shadow behind this business?

Even Jinyiwei and Dongchang knew this, and so did Emperor Chongzhen.

It's just that Hong Chengchou has cleared up the relationship on the surface, and he can take care of the Ministry of Railways, and the construction progress of the railway has been accelerated again and again, so Emperor Chongzhen is naturally happy to pretend to be stupid.

It doesn't matter if you're greedy for a little money or something, just like in a company in the future, who doesn't want to take advantage of themselves? Those bosses really don't know?

In fact, we all know that no one is stupid, it's just that while you are reaping benefits, you can bring greater benefits to the company, and the boss is happy to pretend to be stupid.

In fact, it was the same in the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou sorted out the affairs of the Ministry of Railways, the progress of railway construction went up, and Emperor Chongzhen was happy to pretend to be stupid.

Looking at the noisy horses below, Hong Chengchou coughed vigorously, and waited until everyone was quiet before he said with a smile: "What you mean, this official is clear in his heart, and he will play it to His Majesty when he turns around, and wait for the holy ruling." ”

As soon as everyone saw the smile on Hong Chengchou's face, they knew that this was done, and it was estimated that the price quoted in the end would be flat if the carriage was flat, and it was more likely that it would be lower than the price of the carriage.

In fact, when Emperor Chongzhen received Hong Chengchou's recital, he couldn't help but secretly admire Hong Chengchou's boldness.

Although Emperor Chongzhen himself did not plan to set the price of train passenger and freight transportation to be too high, the price quoted in Hong Chengchou's recital still exceeded Emperor Chongzhen's expectations - not only was it lower than the carriage, it was more than twice as low!

Although the cost of the train is not much, the cost of the railway construction and the locomotive and carriage that was invested in it before is real, and Hong Chengchou does not seem to have included this part at all.

Hong Chengchou's reason is simple.

The train is a new thing, and if you want to wrestle with horse-drawn carriage transportation that has existed since ancient times, you have to have your own advantages.

If the price is the same as that of the carriage, it is estimated that it can attract some customers, but it is difficult to attract more people to participate.

But when the price of train passengers and freight is reduced to twice that of horse-drawn carriages, it will attract a large part of the population – let alone twice as much as the price of horse-drawn carriages?

Once the scale of the train-based scholars, soldiers, and common people, as well as the merchants who choose to transport goods by train, it is foreseeable that the cost will fall further and the profit will be further increased.

Besides, the cost of the locomotive wagons plus rails is fixed, and even if there is no passenger and freight business, will the railway not be built? Don't buy the front and wagon?

Even the maintenance of railways is the same - without passenger and freight transport, how can it be maintained, and how can it be maintained?

Anyway, the cost of the investment has to be invested regardless of whether there is a profit or not, it is better to use low prices to attract the attention of all walks of life to the railway, and then consider raising the price after the scale is really expanded in the future.

Not only that, but with further research by the Royal Academy, will the cost price be further reduced? Will the speed increase further?

The answer is yes, the Royal Academy's newest front end has more than double the carrying capacity and speed of the original front car, while the price is just the same, if not lower.

With the further acceleration of speed and further reduction of costs, it is foreseeable that more and more people will choose trains as a means of travel.

At the same time, it also means that the Ministry of Railways can receive more silver, so that the speed of railway construction can be further accelerated, and more silver can be thrown into the Royal Academy, so that they can study faster and more economical locomotives.

This is almost a matter that several parties can benefit from - even the treasury can receive taxes from the Ministry of Railways, and Emperor Chongzhen's treasury can also be more abundant.

After reading Hong Chengchou's recital, Emperor Chongzhen also had to admit that what the ancients were worse than later generations was only their vision, not their vision and intelligence.

Hong Chengchou clearly understood the real advantages of such a thing as the railway, and also clearly understood what kind of way this thing should be developed benignly.

How did those travelers who treated the ancients as fools survive after crossing over? Not to mention that one by one suits and leather shoes are still mixed, can these people really rely on the halo of the protagonist to dominate the world?

It's so fucking amazing! This aura gives me a few, and what I have is silver!

After shaking his head and throwing these messy thoughts out of his mind, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to follow Hong Chengchou's recital, first set the price twice as low as the price of the carriage, and as for the future, I will talk about it later.

As for the carriage dealership, which was unemployed due to the vigorous development of trains, Emperor Chongzhen was not too worried - the carriage could not be done, and other jobs could be done.

If we just consider the impact of the train and push it back again and again, then what year will it take for the railway to develop?

Without the railway, how big is the use of the territory you have built? What happened when the territory of the real family, Lao Liu's family and Lao Li's family, was not big enough?

It's not that they don't want to build a larger territory, but they can't achieve effective governance after they get it down - effective governance is not only due to the lack of numbers of people, but also the most important thing is the problem of transportation.

The number of people is insufficient, they can emigrate, and whoever will be the emperor is the same, and it will cost more silver, even if the silver is not good, there are knives.

The problem is that even if there are enough people, once there is any chaos in the newly conquered territory, the army will not be able to quell the chaos in time, which is the crux of the problem, just like Annan.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't know how much benefit he can bring to the Ming Dynasty after completely occupying Annan?

Don't be stupid, as the heir cultivated by Zhu Laosi, even if there is no bug in Fang Xing, Zhu Zhanji knows the importance of Annan.

The army withdrew, the Annan people were in turmoil, and if the army did not withdraw, it would have to consume supplies - the fuck is that the cost of delivering supplies to Annam is higher than the cost of the materials themselves!

Including the old Liu family and the old Li family, the same is true for the hard stubble emperors, such as Li Bai's birthplace, such as Wang Xuance's son-in-law's Ah San, and then Dawan and Central Asia, etc.

In fact, it is all the same, the most fundamental reason is the speed of the delivery of materials and troops, not that those emperors and courts really want to give up these places.

Don't talk nonsense about satisfying a kind of after occupying the Central Plains - in fact, it doesn't matter if it's an emperor or a minister, even if it's replaced by a seven-grade county order, you know how much benefit it can bring to a piece of land!

The generals and nobles made a fortune from military exploits, and the civilian system would also salivate at the sudden extra vacancies - is there still land where the people of the Celestial Empire can't grow things?

Even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, it was the same.

If it weren't for the manufacturing method of the treasure ship that was unearthed in the archives of the Ministry of War, and if it weren't for the various firearms and railway systems made by the Royal Academy, what would Emperor Chongzhen do even if he had to fight down a large area of land?

Unless all the natives are killed, it will be as difficult to occupy it for a long time as it will be death-equivalent to the difficulty of the Winter's Approaching Dungeon in the battle for the seat of the five hooligans in the United Nations.

It is also a difficulty that basically no one can complete except for RMB players and open players.

Theoretically speaking, if Annan is in turmoil, the time for the Ming to get the news is very fast, even negligible, but from the mobilization of materials and soldiers, to the delivery of troops and materials to Annan, it will take two or three months at the earliest, and it may even exceed half a year.

And when the railway is really built everywhere, for example, it is repaired to Annam, then even if Annam wants to make trouble again, the Ming court only needs to spend half a month to mobilize materials and soldiers after getting the news, and then it will take about half a month to transport materials and soldiers from the capital to Annam.

If you choose to transfer troops from Yunnan and Liangguang, this time will be further shortened, and even it will only take half a month to gather soldiers and mobilize materials, and then there will be two or three days to send the army over.

Only in this case can the land occupied be truly stable, and there is no need to worry about problems such as local rebellion.

Throwing the concerto aside, Emperor Chongzhen changed into a regular suit, found Wen Tiren, who was watching other concerts, and walked towards the outside of Tianjin together.

According to the original plan, Emperor Chongzhen should have set off to return to Beijing at this time, but Emperor Chongzhen willfully delayed the time for a few days, planning to take Wen Tiren and others to take a walk outside Tianjin.

Emperor Chongzhen's plan is actually quite simple, and when he goes outside the city, he just looks at social studies and looks at the preparation warehouse.

The Chang Ping in Tianjin City, Emperor Chongzhen has already taken Wen Tiren and others to see it, but the one outside the city has not seen it, and the Chang Ping in the city is easy to fake, but the reserve warehouse outside the city is the place where the real situation is most likely to be exposed.

The boots stepped on the ground and made a creaking sound, and when I heard Emperor Chongzhen's ears, there was something else: "This weather is really getting colder and colder every year, and I don't know when it will get warmer?" ”

Wen Tiren was keenly aware that what Emperor Chongzhen said was getting colder and colder every year, not getting colder day by day, and he was a little helpless in his heart, so he had to bow down and say: "Your Majesty, it is recorded in the history books that it has been relatively cold several times, but it will slowly get warmer in a few years, and it should not be a big deal." ”

Emperor Chongzhen heaved and said: "If it's a few years, I won't be worried, what I'm worried about is the kind of cold that lasts for decades!"

In the history books, at the end of the Yin Shang period, the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there were decades of great cold and drought. Now it seems that this extremely cold weather has allowed me to catch up, hehe. ”

This sound of hehe, it really contains too much helplessness and sadness.

It is always said that the Xiaoice River Xiaoice River, and even some people say that there was a small river ice climate during the Hongzhi period - but the Chongzhen Emperor found through the history books that there were only four times that could really be called the Xiaoice River period.

The previous three Xiaoice River periods were accompanied by the demise of the dynasty, and the population was greatly reduced under natural and man-made disasters, and if he hadn't passed on these to the barbarians outside Daming this time, it was estimated that he would have gone to Coal Mountain in a few years.

Let's stay up slowly, in a few years or decades, the Xiaoice River will almost pass, and then the real Mukden will be ushered in.

Wen Tiren saw that Emperor Chongzhen's interest was not high, so he pondered and said: "Your Majesty, this extremely cold weather has been there since the Apocalypse, and now it has been more than ten years, and it is estimated that it is almost over. ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted, but thought of another thing: "I remember that there was a saying in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Chajin" that when you see the ice of a bottle of water, you know the cold of the world and the hiding of fish and turtles.

It can be seen from this that in the pre-Qin period, the ancients could measure the temperature with an ice bottle, so is it possible to subdivide the temperature a little more? ”

Thermometer, when was this thing invented? How does it work? Isn't mercury?

There is a head, mercury is not nothing, and the glass has already been made, and when you return to the capital, you will think about it yourself or throw it to the Royal Academy to study?

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to throw the matter to the Royal Academy - after returning to Beijing, he had to go back to the palace to accompany his wife, where would he have time to waste on such a as a thermometer?

That's right, I am the emperor, and it is my main business to create talents in the harem, so I should let professional people do it when I invent this kind of thing!

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