Savvy people can see business opportunities at any time.

And a person with a brain can find a gap in even an iron plate to get into.

A family is a family after all, and although the political status no longer exists, the economic status still exists.

And Li Yuanji's measure to force them to abandon political means at the beginning was to introduce them into the economic field, and the guarantee given to them was that they would not be used against them in the economic field.

The premise is to follow the rules and not break the law.

With the urine nature of the original family, he naturally would not agree, and he would not believe the promise given by Li Yuanji.

Because this is not a long-term solution, only the power in your own hands is the real power.

But Li Yuanji's strength at that time, although there were people on the way, but the army was all biased towards the emperor, plus the streamlining of personnel, and the promotion of a large number of young people into the imperial court, this whole set of combination punches can be said to have moved the foundation of the family.

Some people don't believe in this evil, so they become the existence of the cushion knife, and the rest of the family has to give up.

"Your Majesty, the Zheng family wants to cooperate more deeply with the imperial court in terms of railways." Less than ten days after the railway was opened, the Zheng family approached Ma Zhou to discuss cooperation.

If it was an ordinary cooperation, Ma Zhou could naturally agree, but now, the Zheng family's cooperation was obviously not an ordinary cooperation, so Ma Zhou couldn't agree, so he could only report the problem to Li Yuanji.

"Tell me about it!" Li Yuanji stopped what he was doing, and it was obviously not a trivial matter for Ma Zhou to come to report.

At present, there is also a certain amount of fatigue in railway transportation.

This is surprising, but expected.

Except for the first day of transportation, freight and passenger transportation were full, and the subsequent transportation, whether freight or passenger, did not have the pomp and circumstance of the day, and even at the worst time, a train had less than a hundred passengers, that is, nine empty carriages with people who could fill one carriage.

And this fact is very helpless and speechless.

How to say, the reason for this result is that the people do not have much money in their hands to travel far because of the underdevelopment of commerce, or they are unwilling to travel far because of their ideology.

Most of the passengers came and went by court officials and merchants who needed to travel between the two places.

For them, time is obviously more important, and if they go through the official road, not to mention the waste of time, the cost of the journey is not a small amount.

"The Zheng family wants to move all the farms near the railway line to Xingyang, and only transport these goods by rail in the future, so they can sign a long-term cooperation agreement with the imperial court, and at the same time hope that the imperial court can build the railway to Xingyang." Ma Zhou said.

Li Yuanji squinted his eyes slightly, this condition of the Zheng family is not simple.

Luozhou is about 200 miles away from Xingyang, 200 miles, which is not a small amount, and the construction of a railway is not a small amount of money that can be completed.

Although the railway will definitely continue to be built eastward in the future, but now in order to cooperate with the Zheng family, the railway will be expanded for 200 miles, and this price is not something that the imperial court can afford.

Of course, the construction of the railway means that the mileage has increased again, and the number of beneficiaries has increased a lot, but according to the current situation, it is really not a good thing for the imperial court to build such a section of the railway in such a hurry.

The top priority is to revitalize the existing railways.

However, Li Yuanji also knows very well that the shorter the distance of the railway, the more difficult it is to revitalize, and the larger the scale, the greater the hope for revitalization.

And now this section of the Changluo railway, the limitations are still very large, if this is a Chang'an to the eastern coastal area of the railway, then the benefits are naturally many, the seafood in the eastern region can be transported by rail, and inland products can also be transported over.

"The Zheng family has a good calculation...... Li Yuanji snorted coldly.

The farm moved back to Xingyang, which can increase Xingyang's tax revenue or something, but this is on the premise of reducing taxes in other regions.

In addition, Xingyang was the base camp of the Zheng family, where there was a large amount of land and slaves to use.

In other words, moving the farm back to the Zheng family in Xingyang will not only not have much loss, but can make a lot of money.

Because in Xingyang, the Zheng family can save on labor, because slaves do not need money to work, and the feed for breeding can also be saved.

It's like an assembly factory, except for assembling it yourself, all materials need to be purchased from the outside, and the materials you buy will naturally make money for others.

But a factory with self-production capacity is different, the simplest example, let's say the train, if the coal used in the train is bought on the market, then the operating cost will inevitably increase, but the coal is directly pulled from the coal mine, the coal mine is the imperial court, only need to pay the wages for absenteeism, and the Zheng family even saves wages.

If the imperial court agreed to their request to build a railway to Xingyang, although the Zheng family would need to pay for transportation, according to the current market, the Zheng family would still earn a lot more than before in a year.

In this way, because the cost has fallen, the price will naturally fall a little, and the most direct consequence is that the Zheng family can more crazy to snatch the entire market along the railway, the market is bigger, the price is low, and the profit is more.

It can be said that the Zheng family's abacus is very good.

Because although the Zheng family can't participate in politics anymore, it's only been a few years? In terms of political vision, the Zheng family has not yet degenerated to the level of civilians.

The imperial court has hoarded so many troops in Donghai County, and even the entire shipyard of the Tang Dynasty is in Donghai County, what does this mean?

It shows that the role of Donghai County in Datang is very important, and it shows that Datang has the intention to explore the sea.

But to explore the sea, you can't do without the support of land, if there is no railway, then it would be okay, but now that the railway is in operation, his cost, his speed, his convenience, are more concise than before.

According to the current situation, it only takes about three days for a train to depart from Chang'an to reach Donghai County, which saves five times the time compared with the previous way, what does this mean?

Perhaps, the Zheng family took a fancy to this point and pinched the next move of the imperial court.

But I wasn't sure when it would start, so I brought it up as a matter of cooperation.

As for the purpose, it is natural to encourage the imperial court to start construction as soon as possible, so that the Zheng family can seize the opportunity.

And in the future, not only can we become the industry leader in aquaculture, but we can also talk about fishery.

Because whether it is Donghai County or the entire eastern coastal area, as long as any family goes, with their current financial resources, they can easily control it.

It can be said that the Zheng family entered the role quite quickly, and they grasped the timing very accurately.

But, can Li Yuanji blame them?

Of course not.

The only way to solve the current problems of the railway is to continue to build it all the way to Donghae-gun, and exchange space for benefits, so as to promote the development of commerce and the prosperity of the railway.

"In fact, if the Zheng family doesn't mention it, the minister also plans to talk to His Majesty about this matter after a while, the Changluo Railway is still too short, and the two places are relatively close, many commodities exist together, and the trade between them is not particularly prosperous, and the transportation of the official road before can basically meet the demand.

Therefore, through the situation in the past few days, we can basically judge a result, this section of the railway can not bring much benefit to the imperial court, whether it is economic, or military, if you simply consider the economic aspect, you can build a railway to the west to the countries of the Western Regions.

In addition to being of great economic help to the economy, this railway also played a significant role in military and political affairs, and it could help Datang better control the entire Western Regions.

However, His Majesty's current focus does not seem to be on the west, so the minister suggested that His Majesty should give priority to the construction of a railway to Donghai County. In that case, in the future, whether it was the transfer of troops for support or the spoils of war obtained from overseas, they could be transported directly to Chang'an by rail after disembarking from the ship in Tokai County. "The Zheng family came to the door yesterday, so Ma Zhou thought about it all day and weighed the pros and cons.

Although the suggestion was in favor of the Zheng family, when considering this issue, Ma Zhou never thought about the Zheng family, but considered it with Li Yuanji's current focus.

For Li Yuanji, the question of whether to repair or not, but when to repair.

The previous railway from Chang'an to Luozhou took two and a half years to build, which was not long, or even very short.

Because considering that no one had such experience, they had to build it according to the requirements and the results of the tests in the proving ground.

But in the same way, this method is very backward and troublesome.

So as early as last year, Li Yuanji proposed to change the way of building railways, of course, the biggest change is the process of laying rails, as for the rest, there is no ability to change it for the time being.

"How long will it take to lay the railway from Nakju to Donghae-gun? And how much money does it cost? Li Yuanji asked with a frown.

Naturally, he considered that the gold and silver transported from Japan would cost a lot of money on the way alone, and if there was a railway, the cost would naturally be smaller, and there were other commercial aspects.

But Li Yuanji's biggest concern is the problem of money, in a word, although Datang is much better now than before, the foundation is still too thin to withstand such a toss.

After all, the demise of the former Sui Dynasty was because of the tossing of Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui, not that they were tossing blindly, in fact, the things they tossed out were all good things that would benefit the future, the Sui Dynasty perished, but the canals built back then have played a big role now, and even when Li Yuanji crossed, some of them are still in use.

But the problem is that those two emperors were only in charge of the work, but they never considered the suffering of the people, nor did they consider whether the court could bear it.

In the words of later generations, it is a step that is too big and pulls the egg......