The first railway built by Trivisick is actually very short, the total length is only 30 li, starting from the Xiaguan River, crossing the Huimin River, entering Nanjing City from Jinchuan Gate, passing through Sanpailou, Dingjiaqiao, Wuliangan, Governor's Office, Wanshou Palace to the south, passing through Bafutang, Bailuzhou, Wuding Gate, and arriving at Yuhuatai in the outer city.

This is a railway that runs through the entire inner city of Nanjing, after completion, it immediately became a scene in the capital, which caused countless passers-by to watch, and also caused countless troubles, and killed cattle and sheep and people.

It's a test line, but it's also a demonstration line. At Zhou's request, Trevisick assembled a large technical team to revise the train system for a decade. It was not just the railway locomotives themselves that were tested, but the entire system, including the making of rails, cast or wrought iron, and the British even used wooden rails.

Trevisick actually came up with the prototype of this system more than a decade ago, building tracks, allowing trains to circle around circular tracks, and collecting tickets for exhibitions in London. But he did not market his trains to the British railway users, the mine owners, because he had a bad relationship with the mining industry.

After Trivisik's invention of the high-pressure steam engine, he tried to get some mines to use his machine, but Watt made a fuss that the high-pressure steam engine was unsafe, and his pitch was unsuccessful. Although it is a train, it still uses a high-pressure steam engine, so he still can't sell it to the railway.

At this time, British mines had already commonly used rail transportation, from mine carts climbing deep in the mines, to rails connecting canals and ports, most of the users were mines, but they used winches in the mines, pulling mine carts with iron locks, and outside the mines, they used horse-drawn rail vehicles.

The significance of the track was significant, and the calculations of the British believed that a person could pull a cargo of twenty people on a flat ground on the track, and a small child could also drag a laden vehicle. Therefore, British mines that need heavy haul transportation generally build tracks, and horse-drawn rail cars have also appeared on the streets of London, called street cars.

There was a similar design in ancient China, and there is no controversy in the book of Qin Shi Huang, but the same track of the car is very controversial, and at first archaeologists thought that it referred to the axle distance of the carriage, which was to press the same rut out of the road surface. Later, the remains of wooden rails in the Qin era were found in the Nanyang Mountains of Henan, and there were even remains of sleepers, and the wooden rails still existed, which were thought to be made of hardwood that had undergone antiseptic treatment, and the sleepers were generally rotten, and it was believed that they had not been treated with antiseptic.

So some people began to speculate that Qin Chi Dao in the era of Qin Shi Huang was a kind of track system, rather than a simple official road. However, it is impossible to judge the scale of this orbital system, and no such relics have been found outside Nanyang.

The tracks built by the British were similar to those of wooden rails, made of embalmed hardwood, on which horse-drawn vehicles were trough. This kind of track cannot carry a steam locomotive, because the weight of a steam locomotive is much heavier than that of a horse-drawn carriage, and of course the load capacity is much heavier than that of a horse-drawn carriage.

After a few years of comparison, Trevisick found that wrought iron had a greater load capacity than cast iron, and although neither could be crushed, the wrought-iron rails were more durable. There is only a track gauge, and two meters was chosen, Zhou Lang thought that the wider the track, the more stable it was, which was basically the case. But there is a limit to the width, the wider the track, the heavier the future load vehicle, and the greater the pressure on the track. According to hundreds of heavy-load tests, it was found that two meters is the limit, and any wider will have a greater impact on the life of the track. However, two meters is already considered a wide gauge compared to the British track.

In later generations, the railway in Russia was only 1.8 meters, and the standard track that Britain implemented to the whole world was 1.45 meters. Now that China has begun to adopt a two-meter track, I wonder if the British standard can still prevail all over the world?

It took only half a year for the track construction to be repaired from Xiaguan to Yuhuatai, and then after more than half a year of trial operation, there were many problems. Most of the technical problems have been solved, but there are still some operational problems that need to be discovered and corrected in practice.

The biggest problem is to let the people accept this new thing, so Zhou Langcai insisted on putting the first railway in the capital, the capital is the place where the world's culture gathers, and the new things accepted by the people in the capital will soon become popular all over the world. But it is also very difficult to get the people of Beijing to accept these new things.

At the beginning, the monsters whining and screaming in black smoke really frightened a lot of people, and even some people went crazy, and after causing these problems, the way for the Chinese people was to block the railway, set up barricades, and surround the railway company. Zhou Lang was extremely concerned about this, and ordered signs to be erected on both sides of the railway, informing everyone to avoid the train, and also compensated the families of the frightened patients. But the attitude of supporting the train to continue to run is very firm, Zhou Lang even did the train a few times in person, and he didn't feel good, and got off the train, covered in soot.

As for the frequent and frequent incidents of killing cats, dogs, and even people, the contradictions with the people are getting bigger and bigger, and government officials have begun to collectively write against them. Because the people do not have a correct understanding of the speed of the train, and they are not used to how to avoid it, Zhou Lang began to set up roadblocks on both sides of the railway, and built overpasses or underpasses in the necessary places to avoid pedestrians from passing directly through the railway, but for the things that blocked the passage of trains again and again, Zhou Lang became more and more intolerant, and sent patrol soldiers and horses to drive away and arrest the host.

The reason why everyone blocks trains again and again, in addition to being damaged by trains, is mostly because of ideas.

China is in transition, the new people of the times, and the old people of history live in the same space, students with natural science education have begun to calculate the power and load capacity of the passing train, or analyze the mechanical components and transmission far away, but there are also old women hiding in the street corner and watching the train roar by in horror Keep chanting the Bodhisattva's blessing, many people say that the train can go because the emperor sent an angel to catch the five ghosts and drag them in the car.

This kind of ignorance is not unique to China, and in August 1849, when the first Russian railway was put into trial operation, it was also recorded: "In the village of Tereresav there were three old women, who waved their hands, screamed wildly, and performed some peculiar dance, in which they tried to frighten and drive away the devil from across the bridge. The village dogs chased the train along the road like horses, barking at it; Some dogs were swept under the wheels, and the rest were left far behind by the train. ”

People who don't understand the science explain it this way: "There was a devil's voice in the boiler, and it couldn't find a way out, so it had to work inside. ”

In any case, this railway has all kinds of dangers and problems, but it means that China has entered the era of railways.

After half a year of trial operation and solving various technical problems, Zhou Lang decided to start popularizing this technology, although he was not yet satisfied with the railway technology, because he could only haul 20 tons of cargo and run safely at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. This is far from the rapid transportation in Zhou Lang's mind, but under the current technical conditions, it can only reach this level.

The first officially operated railway, will not be placed in the city, and will no longer be in the south with a dense water network, but in the north, in the Mongolian steppe, along the Zhangku Avenue to build a railway to the Russian border, with a length of more than 1,400 kilometers, which will be a new test for the railway as a means of transportation, to see if the existing technology can adapt to the requirements of long-distance transportation.

Due to absorbing various problems in the operation of Nanjing, in order to ensure that the obstacles to the railway were minimized, Zhou Lang personally became a shareholder, declared that the railway was a royal asset, and borrowed the emperor's great sense of majesty in the hearts of the people to break everyone's will to resist the railway.

This is different from his previous style, he always avoided the emperor from standing against the people, and even introduced the British jury system, so that the common people judged the common people, rather than authoritative judges to decide. But now in order to promote the railway, he is willing to pay the price of sacrificing some prestige.

Because the railway is such a long-distance means of transportation, not to mention the economic value, for a large empire like China, the significance of maintaining system governance is even greater, and tens of millions of square kilometers of territory will become closer under the link of the railway.

In the 21st year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in the early morning of late spring, Zhou Lang was woken up from his sleep.

He was woken up by a group of women, two girls who were about to leave the court, and a few women who were also young, but already married, a group of concubines, who were hiding in Zhou Lang's bedroom behind the princess.

Zhou Lang looks like a middle-aged man in his thirties, in the prime of life, it seems that he is in the best time of his life, but in fact, he can't even say how old he is, the Ganges River countercurrent seems to have shattered the effect of time on him, when he first came to this era, he looked like he was only twenty years old, and now more than twenty years have passed, he doesn't even look forty years old, in this era of general poor nutrition, those farmers who work hard all year round, Even the twenties look much older than Zhou Lang.

The same pampered queen looks much older, looking almost forty years old, she gave birth to a son and two daughters for Zhou Lang, and then felt that she was old, and refused to have sex with Zhou Lang, but continued to arrange young and beautiful women for Zhou Lang, I heard that this is the means of the ancient wife to ensure her status, that is, to satisfy all the desires of the male host.

Zhou Lang has long passed the time when he was obsessed with sensual dogs and horses, he has seen what he should have seen in his previous life, and this era that should be enjoyed cannot be provided to him. The only hobby is to indulge in the general trend of history, to play an important role in this great era, and to obtain the great happiness of satisfying that heavy sense of mission.

This is the realm.

Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River to the Yangtze River, and saw the boats coming and going in the Yangtze River, which was quite lively.

Asked the senior monk of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, "The boats in the Yangtze River come and go so prosperously, how many boats do you have to pass in a day?" ”

The monk replied, "There are only two boats."

Qianlong asked, "How can there be only two boats?" ”

The monk said: "One is for fame, the other is for profit, and it is nothing more than these two boats that come and go in the entire Yangtze River." ”

In the realm of Qianlong and the monks, what I saw was the word fame and fortune.

Confucius also saw the river, and he sighed: "The deceased is like Sifu. Day and night. ”

Confucius saw time.

Zhou Lang doesn't think he's a genius, he's not a philosopher, he doesn't have Confucius touching the realm of the passage of time, and he doesn't even have the eye of a monk to understand the true meaning of fame and fortune.

Of course, Zhou Lang's professional level is much higher than Qianlong's, and he may be able to assess the scale of business and even find business opportunities from the fact that he sees ships coming and going. In this regard, he is stronger than the ancients, more than Confucius, and more than the eminent monks, and he is a very technical person.

Zhou Lang attaches great importance to technology, which is well known.

was woken up by two daughters, Zhou Lang was not angry, this is the reason why the two girls dared to wake up the emperor, because Zhou Lang's way of raising his son is completely different from raising his daughter, he spoils his daughter very much, and he is very strict with his son, his sons are afraid of him, and his daughter is very close to him.

But there are only these two daughters of the concubines, and the group of concubines behind them don't have the courage to do so, and they usually hide behind the princess.

They brought a newspaper with them.

"The railroad is built?"

Zhou Lang was also surprised, because the Changku Railway had only been built for more than three months, and the construction period was expected to be one year, so after all, it was a railway of more than 1,400 kilometers, how could it be so fast? An average of 14 km a day! Isn't this a joke, Zhou Lang's first reaction was not that the railway had cut corners.

When the Americans built the Taiping Railway, the world track laying speed record set by Chinese workers was only 10 miles and 200 feet (about 16.41 kilometers) in 12 hours.

After carefully reading this report, I know that the main thing is that the Chinese have stronger organizational and management capabilities, when the Americans built the Pacific Railway, at most only 30,000 people were working at the same time, and only 15,000 people were working on average, but on the Changku railway site, there were an average of 30,000 people, and at the highest time, 80,000 people were working at the same time.

This is to take out the spirit of repairing the Yellow River to build the railway, the Yellow River break is not waiting for anyone, so often at all costs to rush the speed, 30,000 people divided into ten sections at the same time construction. In fact, it is very uneconomical, which means that many raw materials cannot be used by the repaired railway lines, and can only be transported from the old official roads.

But the railway company is not short of money, they lack time, Trevisick does not have Zhou Lang's patience, he has repeatedly suggested the construction of long-distance railways over the years, he is eager to prove his skills, and he is also angry that the high-pressure steam engine could not be promoted in England back then, and his purpose in promoting the railway is to prove the performance of his steam engine!