The time of one or two hundred breaths is very fast for anyone, but in this time, for the station, it is like a war.

Half an hour to change horses, this is the original standard, good horses in the continuous high-speed running, may not lose all the physical strength in half an hour, but continue, easy to have problems, and 60-70 miles or so, a platform setting, will allow the train to connect more cities.

Changing horses is not an easy task, but for nowadays, it is not difficult, special saddles, not only can keep the horse from falling apart when running, but also make it easy to change.

40 batches of horses, will be divided into 8 parts, each part of 5 horses together, will be guided out by a special person, and the horses that have already been saddled will be combined in front of the train, the whole process, the fastest, no more than 60 breaths, even if it is slow, will not exceed 120 breaths.

This is also the source of the stay time, in the future, when it is really necessary to open passenger and freight transportation, it will be coordinated according to the situation of the railway station to ensure that the passengers are picked up and dropped, or the goods are transported, and there will not be so little at that time.

It seems that with the previous experience, after the opening of the trip again, the officials no longer made noise, but paid attention to the situation outside.

They may not know much about speed, but in general, they know that speed is very fast, so that the carriage is already running at the fastest speed, and in ordinary carriages, if it is at this speed, I am afraid that people will be bumpy, but on the train, it is unusually smooth.

I don't understand the principle, I feel very magical, everyone looks at the train, a little different, some of the officials are watching the excitement, and the other part thinks of something else.

Ye Qingchen's main thought is freight, the narrowness of the Bianhe River has restricted the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, some people have proposed to expand the Bianhe River, but in this era, to widen a river, it is really very difficult, the Northern Song Dynasty may now, there is a certain amount of surplus money, but this money, can not be invested in this.

Ye Qingchen did not estimate what the overall capacity of such a railway is, but according to their six or seven hundred people and 4 carriages, it will not be much less than a 1,000-material ship.

The butt decides the head, this sentence is not wrong at all, Ye Qingchen stands at the height of the third envoy, of course, he will consider the issue of overall transportation, but the officials of the Privy Council think more about the role of the military.

The chariot used to be an important part of the army, and the chariot battalion, which was composed entirely of chariots, was also a powerful force that could be attacked and defended, especially for cavalry.

It's just that under the premise that a large number of heavy cavalry and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry are getting stronger and stronger, many problems with the car have emerged.

It can't be too heavy, it's too heavy, it's slow, you can't move, but if you don't have enough weight, you can't have a strong defense, which becomes a dilemma.

Similarly, the Northern Song Dynasty lacked horses, even if there was a carriage, it was impossible to run at full speed, because the bumps caused by high-speed driving would make people and goods fall apart, and the horse-drawn carriages used in the army's logistics were more about using the power of horses, as well as relatively fast speeds, to pull more things.

Trains are not only larger than horse-drawn carriages, but also faster, and most importantly, they don't bump at all when running at high speeds.

In this case, there will be no loss of what is being transported, and even to a certain extent, troops can be transported.

This time, 4 carriages can transport about 500-600 soldiers, which is almost a battalion, if you follow this rate, hundreds of miles a day, the soldiers are not tired, in this case, for the transfer of the army, there are huge benefits.

Next, the officials had an extra mind, he calculated the time, and sure enough, between half an hour and an hour, some longer and some shorter, the train would stop slightly, ranging from 120 to 200 breaths, and then it traveled again, stopping a total of 4 times in between.

With the passage of time, although there is no clear number, how far they have left Bianliang, but everyone thinks that they are already far away from Bianliang, and they don't know if they can reach Ying Tianfu in 3 hours, but the speed of this train is very fast.

Ye Qingchen knew more clearly, because he knew the stations of the 5 stations, and the relative distance between them was also clear, if it was calculated according to 3 hours, the average speed of an hour should be about 100 miles.

However, according to the current data, the speed of one hour should be more than 120 miles.

Zhao Xin knew better than Ye Qingchen that in Ding Haijun, the speed of the train had increased from the initial 20 kilometers per hour to about 37 kilometers per hour, which was limited by the quality of the horse.

For the Northern Song Dynasty, there may be a shortage of horses as a whole, but for a railway, to be exact, for a certain experimental train, to prepare hundreds of horses, this is not a problem at all, even if it is not transferred from the northwest, it is enough to simply prepare a few hundred horses.

A railway, the most important thing is not the railway itself, but the locomotive, when there is no steam power, what is needed is horses, a lot of horses.

Just like this trip, from Bianliang to Yingtianfu, a total of 6 stations, you need to change horses 4 times, according to 40 horses at a time, to ensure that this one train, can arrive smoothly, it takes 160 horses.

This railway in the Northern Song Dynasty is experimental in nature, and the density of the overall railway will not be very high in the future, but the ring railway used in the Ding Navy requires an average of 10 horses for a four-carriage train.

That's calculated according to 60 miles, and when it comes to 300 miles, it should be multiplied by five times, that is, 50 horses, and there is a complex calculation process in the middle, how long each horse needs to run every day, how long to rest, and then continue, which all need to be coordinated.

Zhao Xin has nothing to hide from the Northern Song Dynasty, as long as he can teach, he has already taught it, this 300-mile-long railway, there will be 20 trains in the future, that is, a total of 40 trains, then more than 3,000 horses are needed.

The problem of horses has long been solved, from the Privy Council, the military, to 1,500 good horses, this good horse, not in the sense of the battlefield, but in the sense of a simple railway.

Great strength, fast speed, and listening to commands, this is the standard of this good horse, and this standard is slightly different from the military's war horse, which is also the reason why the Privy Council is willing to draw it.

Similarly, from the northwest, 2,500 horses were also obtained, a total of 4,000 horses, which were enough to support the needs of the entire railway, and Ye Qingchen also obtained a data, the total volume of the railway.

In one day, a train will have a round trip, a carriage can carry 300 stones, a train is 1,200 stones, and the capacity of 40 trains to and fro is close to 100,000 stones.

100,000 stones, this is a huge capacity, at least equivalent to hundreds of thousands of stone ships, the same way, the speed of the railway, far from the ship can be compared, the ship takes a week, but this is a day, which in a sense, the efficiency has improved a lot.

A railway, equivalent to 700 thousand-stone ships, compared with the Bianhe, I don't know how much it will be improved, restricting the capacity bottleneck between the Bianhe River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, will no longer exist.

At the time of departure, most of the people had had breakfast for a long time, and it was already past noon at the third stop, and the official in charge of this experiment had already prepared, and brought a large number of food boxes with him while changing horses.

These are all done in the restaurant next to it, for the carriage, eating on the carriage is a very difficult thing, because of the bumps, when eating, in case of a pit, the rice spilled may be just a trivial matter, something goes wrong, the person is injured, then it can't be drawn.

Therefore, if you eat on the carriage, you will not use tableware, most of them are steamed buns, cooking cakes and other dry food, no matter how you eat, there will be no danger, and it is almost impossible to get a few side dishes to eat and drink.

But on the train is different, stable, before they can even drink tea, two rows as a small table, can be retracted and folded, once pulled up, is a small card seat, this is also a reference to some later designs.

In terms of eating, of course, there is no problem, when the train gradually speeds up to high speed, gradually stabilizing, hot meals are served.

At this time, the officials on the train felt hungry.

It's been 2 hours on the train, plus the time of arrival at the station before, it's almost 3 hours, and it's been close to the heart for a long time, but what they saw and heard on the train made them forget, and now the hot meal is up, of course, it's a big chop.

A simple meal, because of the relationship between hunger, the food is extraordinarily sweet, while eating, watching the fields on both sides quickly retreat, this feeling, is also very different.

The officials who were able to get on the train felt that the trip was worthwhile, and they did not know that the whole journey was coming to an end after the last station had passed.

The distance between the fourth station and the terminal station Yingtianfu is not far, and apparently, there is not much stop at the fourth station, because there is no change of horses, just to check some trains and let the horses replenish.

It is half an hour to change horses, there is a margin, an hour, should be more appropriate, but in order to ensure that a horse can work 3 times a day, or even 4 times, this is the choice of half an hour.

Almost five or six miles away from Ying Tianfu, the conductor once again entered the carriage, and he informed the officials that the whole journey was over, and Ying Tianfu was close at hand.

The officials in the carriage were in an uproar, although when they passed through a few stations in the future, they had already estimated that they might really be able to reach Yingtianfu today, but they really didn't expect to arrive at it when they said so.

Full of calculations, that is, a little more than two hours, from morning to afternoon, this is to Yingtianfu, which is a few days away.

Officials who already have a high opinion of the railway have a very different way of thinking about the railway.

At this time, the speed of the train slowed down significantly, and outside, there were also a large number of houses.

The station of Yingtianfu, of course, cannot be located in Yingtianfu, as one of the four capitals, it is also a very powerful city, and the railway will destroy the integrity of the city wall.

For this city wall, Zhao Xin is noncommittal, the future will almost inevitably be eliminated, the combat effectiveness of the fortress is first-class, different from the dual-use city wall, the fortress is completely militarized, there is no possibility of internal influence, the same defense is outstanding.

In the future, the role of cities, especially large cities, will gradually change from a military role to a civilian role, with large cities as the core and influencing the surrounding areas, rather than playing a military role.

The army will be stationed outside the city, and with the help of a unique defense like the fortress, it is the right choice to do the most with the least number of troops. Now, it's too early to transform this.

The train stopped, the door opened, and many officials, according to their grades, under the guidance of the conductor, got off one after another, and the railway station in Bianliang was completely different in the suburbs of Bianliang.

This point, Ye Qingchen didn't understand, and Zhao Xin didn't explain too much, this is determined according to the location, what is Bianliang, is the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the future, as long as the railway can be rolled out on a large scale, basically, the key railways are all connected to the capital.

There is almost no need to consider that near Bianliang in the future, there will be at least 4 or even 8 railways intersecting, and the railway station is really too close to the city wall, which is very inconvenient, and there is not such a large territory to put so many marshalling yards.

Yingtianfu does not need to be like this, although its current status is very high, but in the future, there is such a transportation hub as Bianliang, which is close at hand, among the four capitals, in addition to the Daimyo Mansion a little farther away, it is also more core, and it can be used as a sub-hub, and the status of Yingtianfu and Henan Mansion will be weakened.

Yingtianfu's railway station can only be regarded as an important node on the railway line, not a hub.

Yingtianfu as one of the four capitals, itself the city range is too small, because it is close to the node of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, commercial and transportation activities are very developed, therefore, outside the city wall, it is also very prosperous, in addition to the city wall nearby, it is not allowed to build houses, along the Bianhe River and both sides of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, a large number of houses, concentrated a huge population.

If it is said that only a few Chen Liu's people have been here, or they have a relatively high memory, and they know about this place, then Ying Tianfu, almost every official has been here, at least a considerable part of them, and they have also served here, Ying Tianfu will not admit his mistake at all.

But even if they set foot underground, looking at the tall city walls and obvious landmark buildings, these officials still have a feeling of being in a dream, they arrived at Yingtianfu, which is 300 miles away, so at the end of the day, it is even faster than 800 miles of expedited, and much faster.

12 hours a day, even if it can only be driven for 10 hours, that is 1200 miles a day, and then discount, this is a thousand miles a day, a speed that can only be achieved by a thousand miles of famous horses, a group of them, it is so easy to achieve, how can this be believed.