Brother Guo Xing is very capable, or the team around him is very strong!

The Great Zhou Academy, Qi Tongwen's Academy, plus the Champion Fang, the strong two provide the smartest brains of the Great Zhou, and the latter is the most powerful hands and feet.

Guo Xingge calmly controlled the two forces and changed the whole world according to his own ideas.

He is not an emperor or a prime minister, but he has great power, and the name of this power is science!

The more I studied, the more I felt the power of science, especially the emergence of the steam engine. In the past, I only dared to dream of Ah Zi's dreams, but all of them have become reality, no people are needed to carry water, no cattle are used to plough the land, and no sails are needed to drive a boat...... This is just the beginning, Guo Xingge immediately made an ambitious plan after verifying the role of the steam engine!

He wants to connect the cities of the world together, so that the merchants will be unimpeded, thousands of miles a day, and there will be no barriers in the whole world, north and south, east and west, and the world will be one family.

If you can really do this step, Qin Shi Huang's straight path is simply pediatric, not worth mentioning! Brother Guo Xing can also proudly face his father and tell Guo Wei that the child has made his father's country reach unprecedented heights!

Although the son did not inherit the throne, the son did a greater career than the emperor! How many emperors have been remembered throughout the ages?

But who in the world can not know the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, and Dujiangyan!

Guo Xingge thanked Ye Hua from the bottom of his heart, it was Ye Hua who was like a brother and a father who brought himself into the unimaginable world of science. Guo Xingge is a very persistent person, set a goal, will not change easily, he gave up the comfort of the palace, put his wife and children aside, and worked alone with craftsmen in the champion workshop, rested together, improved technology together, and kept experimenting...... Finally, a steam engine with a suitable size and more power was developed.

In order to verify the effect, he paid out of his own pocket and smashed all the prince's fortune and various patent share income into it, and built a fifty-mile railway around the champion square!

Don't underestimate the fifty-mile railway, but the effect is amazing.

The railway connects the capital with the Champions Square, and people can travel between the two cities by train...... As soon as the railway was launched, it showed a strong advantage.

First of all, the speed of the train is not slow, it has reached almost thirty miles per hour, which is about the same as that of a horse, and the capacity of the train is at least one hundred and fifty tons, which is almost equivalent to three thousand stones, and a carriage can pull twenty stones at most, and the speed is far from being comparable to that of a train.

Speed plus capacity, this is efficiency, terrifying efficiency!

The commodities produced by Champion Fang are quickly transported into the capital by train, and the ore transported from Bianshui is unloaded at the wharf, and sent to Champion Fang by train, turning into steel and copper materials and processing into exquisite goods.

Not only is there no problem with transporting goods, but also transporting people, every morning and evening, you can see a lot of people, taking the train, going back and forth between the two cities, in the land of Da Zhou, there is finally a commuter family!

The crowd was so dense that it was like canned food, and many people wanted to build more railways, and before they were built, people could only install handrails on the outside of the trains.

So you can see such a scene, people climbing the handrails, standing outside the train, standing in the wind, fluttering clothes, like a fairy descending to earth, that is called a triumphant.

Some people even write poems to praise them, which have become the wonders of Kaifeng and are passed on as beautiful talks.

Ye Hua couldn't cry or laugh, and I don't know if someone in the future will say that the people of Kaifeng will open it!

Who is not good at learning, do you have to learn from the third brother?

Ye Hua can't prohibit it, on the one hand, the capacity is indeed insufficient, and secondly, the speed of the train is not too fast, you can pick it up, believe it or not, if it is a high-speed rail, even the third brother does not have the courage to pick it up!

In any case, use the wealth squeezed from the third brother to build a railway!

Ye Hua made up his mind.

He first decided to invest 50 million taels to build a railway from Kaifeng to Youzhou!

After the plan was announced, the whole country was hotly discussed, and many people were boiling.

A railroad is a flowing wealth!

As early as Ye Hua's promotion, Youzhou became the first important town in the north, with a strong industrial base, and undertook the heavy responsibility of using troops in the north.

There are in the capital, all of Youzhou, and Youzhou also has a developed wool industry, in addition to Youzhou is connected to Liaodong and the grassland, after the completion of the railway, the iron and steel minerals of Monan, cattle and sheep livestock, the grain, coal, and timber of Liaodong can all be transported to the capital by railway.

Originally, it was Yongji Canal that undertook this task.

Inland waterway shipping has common drawbacks, such as rivers that are too shallow and prone to siltation for large ships, infringingly slow, and freezing in winter, making them unnavigable. In addition, in order to maintain the smooth flow of the river, the amount of silver to be spent every year is amazing, and Rao is Da Zhou's family has a lot of money and can't afford it.

The construction of the railway to replace the Yongji Canal has made countless people see business opportunities.

On the other hand, the railway has unparalleled strategic value, if the Kaifeng and Youzhou railways are unblocked, within seven days, 10,000 elite forbidden troops can be put on the border to resist the attack of the barbarians at any time.

Didn't the steppe cavalry claim to come without a shadow and go without a trace? Isn't it maneuverable?

But in front of the railway, their maneuverability is simply not worth mentioning.

First repair to Youzhou, and then from Youzhou together with Yunzhou, and then to the original Khitan Tokyo Prefecture, with these three railways, the northern frontier of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be as stable as Mount Tai!

Ye Hua put the construction of the railway in the north, and from the north to the south, he had his own considerations.

The north is rich in coal and iron, which is suitable for the development of the steel industry, and steel is the cornerstone of railway development.

Developing the heavy industry base in the north first, and then advancing to the south, will certainly achieve twice the result with half the effort.

It's just that the merchants of the South can't wait. They have long observed the railway between the capital and the Champions Square, a short railway can bring such a big change, if it is built thousands of miles, thousands of miles, how worth looking forward to!

After the imperial court announced the plans for the first railway, Jinling, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou ...... Merchants everywhere could not sit still, and they took action and made a strong appeal for the simultaneous construction of railways in the south.

Many businessmen simply said that if the imperial court lacked start-up capital, they could raise funds on their own, requisition land, and carry out railway construction, without waiting for the imperial court's orders.

This time, however, the parliaments everywhere spoke in unison, and the representatives of the workers and peasants, including military scholars, all strongly demanded that they would not give up until they made their oaths!

Of course, Ye Hua had to conform to the people's wishes, but building the railway was not a trivial matter, and he personally presided over the cabinet meeting and invited representatives from all parties.

As a technology provider, Brother Guo Xingge sat next to Ye Hua, he pursed his lips, trying to suppress the joy in his heart, he was afraid that he would laugh out of his mouth.

No matter what you do, there are people who benefit and people who suffer, and there is no peace.

Only the progress of technology and the development of science and technology are the things that can really make everyone profitable!

And he led the development of technology and stood at the forefront of the times!

Brother Guo Xingge stood up and bowed deeply to Ye Hua first, his gratitude was beyond words, Ye Hua smiled slightly, he watched Brother Guo Xing grow up from a milk doll, marry a wife and have children, and create his own business. The pride in my heart is no less than that of Brother Guo Xing.

"King Shang, tell everyone about it!"

"Yes!"

Guo Xingge cleared his throat and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the railway was built to connect various cities and facilitate the exchange of goods and personnel. Moreover, the cost of railway construction is very high, and it cannot be built casually. Therefore, when we build railways, we must play a game of chess in the whole country and a network in the world! ”

Guo Xingge knocked on the table and reminded loudly: "The standards of the railway must be consistent, and the locomotives and carriages used must also be the same...... If the railway standards are different, a truckload of coal is transported from Youzhou to Daimyofu to stop, re-unloaded, and then loaded into a new car and sent to Kaifeng...... That's at least twice as long! ”

"I don't want to see a waste of resources, and I don't want all parties to act blindly, so all localities must obey the overall situation and carry out unified planning, which is our bottom line and will never back down."

Brother Guo Xingge got straight to the point and showed a tough attitude.

He wouldn't allow the road to be built casually, which was also Ye Hua's attitude...... In fact, many infrastructure projects must be consistent across the country in order not to waste resources, which is easier said than done.

Early development countries, such as the United States, although the world's largest number of miles, but very inefficient, this is privately invested railways, the standards are different, the same country, there are different rail networks...... This is also true for power grids and communications.

If it is all handed over to private individuals, from east to west, across the country, it may be necessary to prepare a few telecommunication cards, resulting in a serious waste of resources.

With Ye Hua as the guide, Guo Xingge directly embarked on the right path in planning the railway.

"Of course, I know your enthusiasm for investment, and in fact, with the financial resources of the imperial court, it is impossible to build many railways quickly. Therefore, the imperial court can absorb your funds, and in addition, after the railway is completed, the operation and maintenance work can be handed over to you in the form of contracting! ”

Brother Guo Xing glanced at the audience and said with a smile: "Now it depends on how much money you can contribute!" ”

It is clear, route planning, technical standards, construction acceptance...... These are all in charge of the imperial court, and the merchants can only buy shares, and after they are completed, they will be responsible for the operation, presumably let the merchants be responsible, and their lunch boxes will be more delicious!

Ye Hua crossed Erlang's legs and didn't say anything. Guo Xingge's conditions are not generous, and even a little harsh, which is much worse than what many businessmen hope.

But do they have a choice?

After a short silence, the representative of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce took the lead in standing up, "We Suzhou businessmen are willing to invest 10 million taels of shares first!" What if ......" he paused for a moment before continuing: "If we build the railway in Suzhou, we are willing to pay another 20 million taels!" ”

A group of Su businessmen, really courageous!

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