If the country wants to develop, it can only do this, and there is no other shortcut to choose.

In general, in the face of this situation, there are only two choices, if the talent can keep up, then promote a large number of talents suitable for the current era to top, although there will be a variety of problems in the short term, but that is only because of personal experience caused by the problem, over time, with the accumulation of experience, in the long run, this method is the most suitable, but also the path that most people choose.

The other option is to slow down the current speed, and the reason for this decision is that the current officials cannot change their way of thinking, and the younger generation cannot stand up for a while, so they can only slow down, temporarily make a buffer, and wait for the new generation to grow up and speed up.

Both have their own benefits, but it is clear that the environment that Datang is in now is the second.

The inevitable result of rapid development in a short period of time must be a shortage of talents.

This point is not only in Li Jing, among the cabinet members, except for Ma Zhou, who feels better, the other ministers have more or less this feeling.

It's not a one-person problem, it's a problem caused by a combination of factors.

And this is an unsolvable problem, and it is difficult to solve it in any way except that time can solve it.

And it will take at least 20 years or more to completely solve this.

Li Yuanji did not stay long in the military academy, watched the training of the cadets, chatted with Li Jing for a while, instructed some things, and asked these cadets to write their own training outline in the near future.

For them, it is not difficult to write such a training outline, as long as they think seriously and seriously summarize the knowledge they have learned in the past six months, they can write such a training outline.

Outside Chang'an City, there are crowds of people.

Two stations side by side, two completely different scenes, the only thing in common is that there is a train parked at each station and a large crowd of onlookers.

The difference is that the scenes on both sides are not the same.

At the freight station, there are dense piles of goods in the station, all of which are packed according to the requirements.

To be more precise, it is the merchants who go to the station to report in advance according to the size of their goods, and then wait for the notice, receive the corresponding material boxes, load the goods into the material boxes, and then seal the boxes and carry them to the station.

Many people don't understand why they do this extra thing, before that, when they transport goods, they rarely use this kind of box, most of them are directly accumulated, only those fragile goods, afraid of squeezing will be protected by boxes.

In the freight station, a large number of coolies are sweating and carrying goods one by one.

However, although they are still doing manual work and have a lot more goods to carry than before, there is a way for them to save some energy.

The height of the platform is the same as that of the wagon, and a thick iron plate connects the gap between the platform and the wagon.

A small board car, loaded with a different number of boxes, one person in the front, one person in the back, not a lot of effort, the car into the carriage, and then the coolie who has been waiting again to move the boxes on the car, and then accumulate in the carriage.

No one knows exactly how much cargo can be loaded in this car, and most people don't trust this way of freight, because they haven't experienced it.

But this is the court sent someone to inform it, even if it is not trusted, this is the first time to give the court this face.

With the same amount of goods, the cost of transporting them to Los Angeles by train is only one-third of that of manual transportation, and the speed is still very fast, it only takes a day and a half to arrive, so they also do it with the attitude of giving it a try.

In addition, the freight is calculated according to the box, the size of the box is different, the freight is also different, the most expensive box is fifty dollars, if it is loaded with grain, it can be loaded with ten stones, of course, this kind of wooden box can not bear such a heavy weight at all, so it is not necessary to pack the grain.

And the real commodity, it won't be so heavy.

The shipping cost of a small box is only ten cents, and of course, you can also pack it yourself, but only if the packaging can be stacked and neat.

"It's a lively scene!" Looking at the busy station, Li Yuanji's face finally showed a smile.

Compared with some time ago, this year is the happiest year for Li Yuanji, the train has been opened, the primer has been studied, and with it, all kinds of equipment can be equipped, although there are still problems, but the overall development is still in a good direction.

Again, with the lifting of the curfew, this year's tax revenue is also increasing, and Li Yuanji is even already planning a new railway line.

"Your Majesty, this excitement is all virtual, but it looks lively on the surface." Ma Zhou wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, although there were many merchants who responded, but after all, it was the first time, and it was the first time to hand over the goods to others, even if it was the imperial court, it was impossible for merchants to fully trust, so there would always be all kinds of worries.

"Huh?"

"After all, it's the first time, the minister sent people to notify them one by one, and the merchants felt that if they didn't respond, they would lose the face of the court, so it was so meaningful, if it wasn't for the minister to find Taipingfang in the end, it is estimated that this truck would be half empty and set off." Ma Zhou's face was full of depression, all kinds of situations were expected, and various plans were made, but the problem still happened.

Fortunately, they had greeted Taipingfang in advance, so they had not sent goods to Luozhou during this time, just waiting for this moment, otherwise, if they ran empty cars on the first trip, the pressure would still be quite great.

"It'll get better in a while!" Li Yuanji nodded, as if he saw the reason.

Ordinary shops do not need to go to Luozhou to deliver goods, and those who run transportation are also a little uneasy, and it can even be said that train transportation is robbing the business of these people.

But there are pros and cons to everything, and no one can control it.

It's just that seeing that the three or four carriages are all goods from Taipingfang, Li Yuanji is still a little embarrassed in his heart.

It's like this when you go, but what about when you come back? Will the result be worse?

"The minister contacted Governor Duan a few days ago, and Governor Duan also replied to the minister a few days ago, he has intercepted a batch of goods in Luozhou, and when the train returns, it can basically be filled." As if he saw Li Yuanji's thoughts, Ma Zhou hurriedly said.

For the sake of the train, he didn't worry less, as for how Duan Lun intercepted it, he didn't know, as long as it didn't violate the principles, it was acceptable.

Of course, although Duan Lun didn't say it, Li Yuanji knew it, after all, there was a secret guard.

Duan Lun's method is also very simple and straightforward.

It is to directly tell those caravans that originally transited to Chang'an through Luozhou that if the goods are transported to Chang'an by train and the goods are lost, the Luozhou government will compensate according to the original price and waive the transportation costs.

And vaguely told them that if they cooperate this time, if they need to do so in the future, they can give priority to arranging their goods for transportation.

Of course, they may be a little distrustful, and Duan Lun also assured that they can watch the goods be loaded with their own eyes, and they can take the passenger train to Chang'an together, where they will wait to pick up the goods.

In the case of tickets, this is not bearable, anyway, the price of thirty yuan per person is not too expensive, for the caravan, it is acceptable.

"How much shipping did you make this time?" Li Yuanji continued to ask, although the data had already been calculated, but the number of boxes was different, and the money earned was naturally different.

"There were three hundred and ten large boxes, a total of fifteen and five hundred dollars, and two carriages, and a medium box of one thousand five hundred and seventy, a total of fifty-four and nine hundred and fifty dollars, and five carriages, and a small box of four hundred and sixty, and three carriages. A total of 29 and 200 dollars. A total of ninety-nine and six hundred and fifty yuan, according to the cost of the previous operation, the profit from this trip is about sixty yuan. Of course, excluding the coal was directly excavated by the imperial court, and was not purchased in the market, if calculated according to the real cost price, the profit of this trip was more than 80 yuan. Ma Zhou directly dictated the profit this time.

This amount is not low, and according to the calculation of the Ministry of Development, a train one and a half days, theoretically a year can run 182 times, taking into account the loading and unloading, as well as maintenance, etc., it is initially expected that a train can run at least 100 times a year, at most 140 times, take an average, according to 120 times to calculate, if all are calculated according to today's situation, a train, a year, can bring nearly 12,000 yuan of income, and the net profit is also more than 9,000 times.

Of course, this is only an ideal situation, and it is actually very difficult to reach this level.

However, after seeing this figure, many ministers who were originally opposed to continuing to build the railway are now somewhat relieved, saying that it can be built gradually, that is, one by one.

Of course, there are also people who see problems, such as large, medium and small boxes, the lowest profit is the large box, the average car is only seven, the most is the medium box, the average is more than ten, and the small box is more than nine on average.

On this issue, it still needs to be discussed in depth, many people have given a seemingly reasonable price, but if you arrange the ratio of some goods at will, you will find that there are always loopholes in the price they set.

And the current price is also the ladder system, the small twenty, the thirty-five, the big fifty, in itself, this price is no problem.

And now the only hope is that everyone will use the middle box, not the big one, of course, this is impossible, someone will find out......