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At the end of the fifth year of the Great Unification, Dazhong unified the Indochina Peninsula, and then successively destroyed the Kama Wave Kingdom and the Sena Kingdom to complete the unification.

This year is also the year when Dazhong moved its capital to Yanjing.

Therefore, after the end of the fifth year of the Great Unification, Li Yan changed the era name to "Tietong".

It is not difficult to see from the name of the era that Li Yan changed for Dazhong, Li Yan wanted to use this rare year of peace to vigorously build railways and achieve the goal of smooth roads.

Li Yan's "big railway" plan is to first build two hundred thousand kilometers of five major railway lines through the country, subdivided into the central railway system, the southeast railway system, and the expansion of the northwest railway system.

But this plan is really not so easy to achieve, especially in this era of backward technology.

But—

Li Yan believes in the saying that there are always more ways than difficulties.

What's more, Li Yan can control the people and resources of the whole country.

What's more, after mastering international trade, Dazhong is very rich.

Moreover, because Li Yan vigorously develops agriculture, the people of Dazhong basically don't worry about eating, even if they encounter a famine year (since entering the Tietong year, the wind and rain are smooth, it can be said that even God is helping Dazhong), which makes Li Yan have a large number of labor.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Yan released the giant beast of the industrial revolution, which made the productivity of Dazhong increase geometrically - taking the output of steel as an example, before the outbreak of the industrial revolution, Dazhong, to be precise, should be the Song Dynasty, when the annual output of iron was 1.25 million tons, and in the first year of Tietong, after the industrial revolution, the annual iron output of Dazhong has reached 11 million tons!

All these supported Li Yan's vigorous implementation of the "big railway" plan.

But then again, the goal of the 200,000 kilometers of railways that Li Yan planned to build was too ambitious, and it would be very difficult to complete it in a few years, not to mention in this era, even in the future generations.

It was four years to Tietong.

Dazhong, who even used the strength to eat milk, has only been cultivated:

Yanhu line.

The Yanzhou-Shanghai Railway starts from Yanjing in the north, passes through Jizhou, Dezhou, Jinan, Jining, Xuzhou, Bengbu, Jinling, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, and reaches Huating County (Shanghai) in the south, runs through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai seven provinces and cities in later generations, crosses the four major water systems of Haihe, Yellow River, Huaihe River and Yangtze River, with a total length of more than 1,400 kilometers, and is the main north-south traffic artery in the eastern coastal area.

Yanwu line.

The Yanwu line starts from Yanjing in the north, ends at Angkor in the south, traverses the central part of the country, passes through Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and the second half of Li Chao County, Champa County, Angkor County, crosses the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River, the Pearl River, and the Mekong River Basin, connecting the North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, the Pearl River Delta, and the Indochina Peninsula, with a total length of 5,666 kilometers, which is also the longest railway in the current country.

Yan Jiu Line.

The Yanjiu Line starts from Yanjing in the north, passes through Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and reaches Kowloon in Hong Kong in the south, spanning nine provinces and cities, with a total length of more than 2,300 kilometers.

Yunliu line.

From Yundi in the north, the economic source, Xiangfan, Zhicheng, Huaihua to Liuzhou, which is a north-south traffic artery parallel to the Beijing-Guangzhou line, with a total length of more than 2,400 kilometers.

Baocheng Chengkun line.

Starting from Baoji, Shaanxi, passing through the Qinling Mountains and reaching the capital, this is an important trunk line connecting Guanzhong and the northwest and southwest of Sichuan, which is also the main artery of the Sichuan-Shaanxi line.

The last one, the Yushuo line.

At present, the Yushuo line is mainly only built for the rapid transfer of troops, which is also the only east-west railway that Dazhong has built at present, it starts from Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) in the east, passes through Luanzhou, Jizhou, Danzhou, Shunzhou to Yanjing, and from Yanjing to the west through Yanzhou, Xinzhou, Yunzhou, Huanzhou to Shuozhou.

Total: It took five or six years for the imperial court to build more than 17,000 kilometers of railways, which was far from the 200,000 kilometers of railways envisaged in Li Yan's "Great Railway" plan.

In addition to the railways built by the imperial court, many branch railways were also built in the local area.

Among them, the most successful is the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, which was organized and built by Wang Shu.

Under the organization of Wang Shu, it took only more than three years for the people of Shu to build the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, which was more than 500 kilometers long and stretched from Chengdu in the west to Chongqing in the east.

At this stage, the people of Shu led by Wang Shu are working hard to make the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and the Baochengcheng-Kunming Line intersect, if the two railways can be handed over, the transportation problem that has plagued Shu for thousands of years will no longer be a problem.

However, even if the railways built locally are added, the total length of the railways built in Dazhong is still less than 25,000 kilometers, which is still a huge gap from the 200,000 kilometers that Li Yan wants to build.

But—

In this regard, Li Yan is actually not in a hurry.

The railway has been repaired to such an extent that there is no need for the imperial court to pay for the construction of the railway.

Zhang Wei even patted his chest with Li Yan and assured: In less than three years, all the money invested by the imperial court in railway construction and even in train research and development can be recovered, and it is still without delaying railway construction and train research and development.

Zhang Wei's words are a bit too big, you know, over the years, Li Yan has spent nearly one billion yuan in the "big railway" plan, and it can all be recovered in three years, and it is still without delaying railway construction and train research and development, is this possible?

Although he suspected that Zhang Wei was magnifying himself with him, Li Yan couldn't question Zhang Wei face to face, this was not the way to be a king.

After encouraging Zhang Yu, Li Yan sent Zhang Wei away, and then called Shi Xiu, and then asked Shi Xiu to secretly check how profitable is the Ministry of Railways?

As a result, I don't know if I don't check, but after a check, Li Yan was taken aback!

Zhang Wei, a black goods, actually booked the train ticket to start at one yuan, that is, as long as you take the shortest station, you will get one yuan!

If you are traveling from Yanjing to Tokyo, the ticket price for a third-class seat (i.e., a hard seat, including a non-seater) is 14 yuan 5, the ticket price for a second-class seat (i.e., a hard sleeper) is 29 yuan, and the ticket price for a first class seat (i.e. sleeper) is 43 yuan 5.

You know, this is not the future generations, the current one yuan is about equal to the two or three hundred yuan of the future generations, so calculated, taking the train from Yanjing to Tokyo, it will cost three or four thousand to sit in a hard seat or standing, if you sit in a hard sleeper, it will cost seven or eight thousand, and a soft sleeper will cost tens of thousands!

And that's just from Yenching to Tokyo.

If you sit from Yanjing to Angkor, it is a standing ticket, and it will cost more than 90, which is converted into 20,000 or 30,000 yuan in the future life, and if you go to Angkor in a soft sleeper, it will be 70,000 or 80,000!

Again, that's just the price of a slow train!

If you take the latest diesel locomotive train developed by Dazhong (nearly double the speed), the fare is more expensive - or take the Sit from Yan to Tokyo as an example, the ticket price for a third-class seat is 20, the ticket price for a second-class seat is 40, and the ticket price for a first-class seat is 60!

Don't be too expensive!

At this price, the supply is still in short supply, almost every train is crowded and there is no place to stay, and now, people of insight are calling for increasing the number of trains and speeding up the pace of speeding up the railway!

Later, Li Yan learned through investigation and analysis that the reason why trains are so popular is not only because of the convenience of traveling by train, but also because of the vigorous development of commerce in Dazhong.

Less than nine years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the trade between the north and the south was already very developed, and those who dared to be the first to make a fortune all made a fortune, and trains (including ships) were equated with wealth.

It is said that there was a bold and down-and-out businessman who borrowed money to transport a train of bananas from Li Chaojun to Yanjing, and as a result, he earned a full million in one trip, and then married the concubine of a money-greedy official, and suddenly went to the peak of his life!

As a result of numerous such examples, large and medium-sized populations began to move by train and ship.

Firmly grasp the country's traffic and transportation Dazhong, more and more rich and powerful......

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