Dingjun, an already busy port, came with a few uninvited guests, but they took the will of the Privy Council and quickly integrated into Dinghai, and they did not spy on the reality of Dinghai, but just observed the operation of the railway.

The railway of the Dinghai Navy, from the beginning of construction, has been in operation for a period of time, and now is the busiest time, the order of the Privy Council, also collapsed, before because of Jia Chaochang's request, in October, a large number was delivered, and now, the fortress of Hebei has been under intense construction, and under the premise of no more orders, the handover is not very frequent, but at the end of the year, other commodities are extremely active.

Even at this time, there is no so-called year-end peak season, but at the end of the year, any merchant needs to prepare a large number of goods, which are used for year-end transactions, and the entire fleet of the Dinghai Navy is extremely busy at this moment.

These officials can be regarded as seeing the busyness of the entire Dinghai Navy, whether it is the port or the city, it is full of novelty, but these officials observe more of the railway.

In fact, the entire Dinghai Navy's railway, the operation is quite good, up to now, the railway has been in operation for more than 10 months, the current Dinghai Navy's railway, mainly freight, a large amount of steel, and other materials, are transported to the port through the railway, and then through the port, transported to various places.

The combination of horses and steel gave rise to the present state of the navy, and these officials, mainly looking at the operation of the railroads, countless commodities, especially iron, and countless carriages to operate, could be transported quickly by railroad to the port.

All this made these officials very curious, but it took them three days to record everything in the port, especially the operation of the railway, which formed the most primitive data and summarized it in Bianliang.

The expedited eight-hundred-mile rush took less than 3 days to send them to Bianliang again, and they arrived with a large number of first-hand data about the railway, which was delivered to Ye Qingchen as soon as possible.

Even if Ye Qingchen estimated more, he didn't expect that the railway was like this, with an average speed of 70 miles per hour, and the weight of 150 stones could be transported at one time, no matter which data it was, it was unparalleled, let alone combined.

For example, the northwest problem that plagued the Northern Song Dynasty the most, if a railway was built, it could be well solved, and the distance of 1,000 kilometers, at this speed, only took 4 hours, and it could transport supplies for 30,000 or 40,000 people at a time, which were all advantages.

What Zhao Xin said before, maybe Ye Qingchen didn't believe it, but the things recorded by these cronies were real, and for Ye Qingchen, the construction of this railway was imperative.

Even during the New Year's Festival, the operation of the three divisions did not stop, and soon, the request was sent to Zhao Xin, and Ye Qingchen asked Zhao Xin to make an overall budget, mainly from Bianliang to Lingzhou Railway.

This data, Zhao Xin had already calculated in Dingjun before, but now it is more detailed, and it is a basic data from Bianliang to Lingzhou.

At this point, as early as when Zhao Xin left the Dinghai Navy, a series of predictions had been made, and the surveying and mapping of all aspects had been carried out long before the railway was ready to be built, and now it was half a year ago, and the amount of data in all aspects was more detailed.

These things are what Zhao Xin is best at, how many reports he has written, how many times he has become a doctor, and he also needs to carry out a series of systems, step by step, to get to this day.

Not to mention, this program was operated in advance, and now, it is just a purification and presentation among these basic programs.

After receiving Ye Qingchen's summons, Zhao Xin knew that there was no longer any problem with the railway plan, and now it was just a specific data problem.

In terms of the original data, a brief budget was made, regardless of the added value, the railway was an emerging thing for the Northern Song Dynasty, not to mention, this was the first railway, in many ways, Zhao Xin was just a matter of promotion, and there was no money to be made.

Erli is about 800-1000 guan, from Bianliang to Longxi, almost 2000 li, that is, a budget of 3 million guan, not to say, Zhao Xin added a lot of additional things, the key is that the track itself is not the whole cost of the railway, but also includes the bridge, the surrounding layout, and most importantly, the cost of land.

Just like the mouth of the Huai River prepared before, I clearly knew that this could greatly reduce the cost of the navy and increase the transportation volume of the navy's goods, but it involved the problem of land, which was no longer a problem that the local government could solve, let alone the navy.

Although there were jiedu envoys in the Northern Song Dynasty, even in their field, the power of the jiedu envoys was much greater than that of the Tang Dynasty, and almost both military and political aspects were grasped.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty's Jiedu envoys mastered a very small territory, perhaps not every county is to the extent of a county, but compared with a county, it is just a little more.

Not to mention the restrictions of the Northern Song Dynasty on the Jiedu envoys, even the heroes of the founding of the country were released from military power with a glass of wine, not to mention these Jiedu envoys, their full strength, after going out of their respective territories, was very restricted, even if Zhao Xin had a good relationship with the Jiedu envoy of Huainan East Road, it was impossible to affect him, so even if it was this canal of the Huai River, the investment was not large, and there was not much involved, but in the end, the construction was still not started.

The same is true for railways, even if the land occupied by the railway is much smaller than the canal, a canal that can accommodate 4,000 stones, or even larger ships, its width alone is more than 100 meters, plus the distance between the two banks, the minimum is 400 meters in length, so that the 300-mile canal, the land occupied is an astronomical amount.

The width of the railway, at most, is three or four meters, plus two necessary areas, at most about 50 meters, which is almost ten times smaller than the canal, occupies less land, even if the distance is longer, the overall budget is not high.

The overall budget of a railway to Lingzhou is only about 3 million, which is much smaller than Ye Qingchen's, but the effect is higher.

In terms of data, Ye Qingchen didn't know much, and he could only calculate it simply according to the data provided by Zhao Xin.

According to 1,000 columns per day, a column is about 15 tons, and the daily capacity is more than 15,000 tons.

Such a number, in the eyes of later generations, is already very small,

Just kidding, the railways of later generations were not like the railways of today, there was only one carriage, at most two or three cars, and the power of horses, compared with the steam engine, was not an order of magnitude.

According to the calculation of the transportation capacity of 60 tons of a train, with a 50-car super train with a total capacity of more than 3,000 tons, this is still a single train.

Which trunk railway, not based on 100 million tons, millions of tons, may be a day's capacity, but for the Northern Song Dynasty, it is simply a fantasy.

Millions of tons, millions of stones, can already start a large-scale battle, according to a soldier, the consumption of 10 stone of materials is calculated, which is already able to support a soldier for a long time and high-intensity battles.

In the past, the transportation method, 1 stone of materials, transported to the front line, at least three or five stone of grain was consumed, which is also the basis of high prices in the northwest, with the railway, both speed and capacity, have been compressed to the extreme.

Ye Qingchen is a knowledgeable person, even if because of historical limitations, he can't know the overall role of the railway, but this vision is still there, with such a railway, the future northwest will also become Hebei, which can continuously support a large number of materials.

From the establishment of the Navy to the present, all aspects of the operation, has been very perfect, and the initial time, the design has changed a lot, the main reason is that in the operation, gradual changes, now if you don't stop day and night, a day can run at least 1,000 miles, really reach a day of thousands of miles.

There are many things transported, after a simple adjustment, the maximum transportation volume has reached 20 tons, converted into a unit commonly used in the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, 4000 stones, such a capacity, has been equivalent to the sea, the largest ship, this is on land, take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Hebei as an example, the largest, that is, 800 stones, that is, a railway carriage, equivalent to such 5 ships.

It's so convenient and fast, and it's very good, and the investment in building it is not too big.

After Ye Qingchen looked at it for a while, he took the plan, went to the palace, and saw Renzong.

Renzong took this plan, and then he understood that he had taken 3 million funds from the concubine before, and he knew it in his heart, and he was also full of emotion, the seemingly difficult financial problems were not a problem at all in Zhao Xin's hands, Zhao Xin was like a cook to solve many problems, 100,000, 100,000, or even 10 million.

A simple workshop earns millions of guan, and a blacksmith's workshop directly allows the Northern Song Dynasty to upgrade the pasting materials, replacing the original iron materials with better iron materials, even stainless steel, and therefore, saving tens of millions of guan in the entire Northern Song Dynasty.

The financial situation of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has been gradually strict, has been improved in the first time, and in the same way, in just 10 months, a lot of savings have been saved, and all along, want to carry out, but there is no way to carry out the governance of the Yellow River, has also opened, with a total investment of more than 35 million yuan, and a super-large project of 10 million yuan per year, the funds have been guaranteed

Large-scale projects are huge for a country, such as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which directly laid the position of Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, and has always influenced the entire Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

The reason is very simple, in the past, under the very difficult traffic conditions, water transport is the most convenient, but also the use of a variety of less cost, colleagues, developed water transport, the cost is also low.

However, Emperor Yang of Sui, who promoted the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, was criticized for a long time because of luxury and the sin of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

In fact, the Sui Dynasty at that time, did not have enough strength to promote such a large-scale, large-scale construction, only to be able to levy the people's power, just like Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, the Great Wall is good, if the dynasty has this fund, construction, for the dynasty's defense has a huge improvement, but if not, can only be internal oppression, this is not a slave society, slaves are without human rights This is a feudal society, in this society, rash requisition, will definitely cause a civil uprising.

In fact, the Qin Dynasty perished because of the Great Wall, and the Sui Dynasty was the same, but the Great Wall and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal are the entire national system siege cities, which have huge benefits for this country, and even because of this, they have affected for decades, hundreds of years, or even more time, in this time, the impact is long-lasting.

Of course, the Northern Song Dynasty knew that once the construction of the Yellow River water conservancy was completed, the entire north would be reduced from once in a few years to a lower level.

But the reason why it was not implemented was because there was no money, even in the best case, because of the huge investment, there was no way to save more funds, and I watched the past.

Now that there is iron material, under the premise of the entire court, tens of millions of pavilions can be saved, and when it has been demonstrated, Ye Qingchen is not yet used, he knows very well that the government is huge, and the congestion in all aspects will gradually increase.

However, the problem of the northwest is also a problem that needs to be solved urgently, if the transportation costs in all aspects of the northwest are reduced by more than eighty percent, this large-scale transaction set by Han Qi alone can make the entire Northern Song Dynasty gain more than 5 million yuan, not to mention, there are cheap products on Zhao Xin's side.

The total investment of 3 million guan, this point, the Northern Song Dynasty is now squeezing out, it is a little difficult, but if Zhao Xin takes the 3 million guan, if it is applied, then there is no problem at all.

Renzong has a very strange feeling at this moment, 3 million, he has been thinking about how to do this money during this time, and he has the intention to use it for the construction of the palace, but he has not implemented it because of various concerns, and now, this money finally has a direction for operation.

Ye Qingchen's purpose, he also understood very well, he saved a lot of processes, and he directly handed over the money to Ye Qingchen.