"Hey, look over there, what's that? It's covered with fine iron, right? How much fine iron does this need? ”

"Well, I know, it's called the railroad road."

"Railroad roads? What is a Railroad Road? ”

"The railroad road, it's far away, at that time, the Dali Empire had not yet been founded, and the world was still the Shengwu Dynasty, by the way, this world does not refer to the territory of the Dali Empire, but to the entire land of Shenzhou.

You also know that the territory of the Shengwu Dynasty was so vast that it almost occupied the entire land of Shenzhou, but there were many people in the world who did not accept the rule of the Shengwu Dynasty and rebelled every once in a while.

This wooden track is similar to the railway track, except that the track paved in the former is wooden, and the track paved by the railway road is made of iron.

It is said that the wooden rail road of the Shengwu Dynasty used a fast horse-drawn special cart to travel on the wooden rail road, and it could travel 1,200 miles in one day and one night. ”

"Hey, so fast, doesn't this mean that it only takes one day and one night to get from Yunhua County to Zezhou City."

"That's right, I can't say that we will have the opportunity to go up and experience it in the future, but this Yun clan is really rich, and the Shengwu Dynasty only uses wood to build rail roads, and his Yun clan will actually have fine iron to build rail roads, tsk."

"It's really rich." The other agreed.

These are two tourists walking on the official road from Yunhua City to Linhai City, the railway track is not far from the official road, as long as the people walking on the official road can see it, if you go farther, you can even see the team that is building the railway despite the cold weather.

In view of the backward transportation in this era, and the transportation capacity of horse-drawn carriages and ox carts is relatively poor, Yunyi has the idea of building a railway track, anyway, there were wooden rail roads during the Shengwu Dynasty, and the appearance of rail roads will not surprise outsiders too much, at most, they are surprised that Yun is rich and can build rail roads with fine iron.

In the autumn of this year, Yunyi has sent people to start preparations, recruiting workers, cutting down trees to make sleepers, opening roads, etc. into October, although it is winter, but the steel output of the Qingshan Iron and Steel Plant in Yunhua County has skyrocketed, and the Mushan Iron and Steel Plant in Yingzhou has also been put into use, Yunyi finally has enough steel, and the construction of the rail road has officially begun, and the first rail road to start construction is the Yunwang Line Rail Road, which is used to connect Yunhua City and Wanghai Town, which is about to be upgraded to a city.

The Yunwang Line rail road is a two-way four-way (strip) track, and the railroad built by Yun's in the future will be a two-way four-(strip) track, and the one-way two-track is too troublesome.

In order to build the Yunwang Line railroad road, the Yun's family hired a total of nearly 6,000 young people in the early stage, divided into four batches, respectively in Yunhua City, Wanghai Town and the middle of the two, two teams and two teams in opposite directions to build the railway, which can greatly reduce the time for the construction of the Yunwang Line railroad.

This is not over, after Yun Yi led the Yun family army to go on the expedition, a large number of Guangming soldiers were captured, Yun Yi brought these prisoners to Yunhua County, drove them to build a railway, and gave a very tempting condition for the prisoners: as long as you do not resist, obey us, and build a railway road for us for five years, we will let you go home after five years.

Captives never have a good end, the light ones are slaves for life, and the heavy ones are killed directly, the conditions given by the Yun clan are already very high, Yun Yi does not need to send too many troops to take care of these captives, but there should still be precautions, for example, each captive has shackles on his feet, these shackles have certain restrictions on the captives, it is still okay to walk normally, and it is impossible to escape.

In addition, the prisoner of war camp also has strict regulations, such as the system of joint sitting, one person who escapes and the whole camp is punished, and so on.

However, it was the Guangming Army that really accelerated the construction of the railroad and obtained 30,000 prisoners of the Guangming Army, and with these 30,000 prisoners of the Guangming Army, not only the construction speed of the Yunwang Line rail road could be accelerated, but Yunyi even approved the Yunchen Line (Yunhua City to Chenyang City) rail road and the rail road from Qingshan City to Yunchen Line.

In the next year, Yunyi is ready to connect the main cities of Yunhua County with railroad roads, and in the next few years, he began to build railroad roads on a large scale in Zezhou, mainly to connect Zezhou City and various county towns in Zezhou with railroad roads, if these railroad roads can be built quickly, once a war breaks out, Yun's can quickly transfer troops through the railroad to catch the enemy off guard, and can also use the railroad to quickly transport supplies, and the Yunjia army, which is equipped with a large number of firearms, has very high requirements for logistics.

After the railway road was built, it attracted a lot of people's attention in Yunhua County, and soon some people guessed that this was the rail road, the rail road during the Shengwu Dynasty, but the Yun clan was more wealthy than the Shengwu Dynasty, and actually used fine iron (actually steel) to lay the rail road.

Of course, the Yun clan is far from being able to compare with the Shengwu Dynasty in its heyday, that is the Shengwu Dynasty occupies almost the entire land of Shenzhou, and the track of the Shengwu Dynasty also connects all important areas of the land of Shenzhou, how big the land of Shenzhou is, and how big the Yunhua County City is, the two are not the same, if the Shengwu Dynasty also lays tracks with fine iron, the track of the Shengwu Dynasty cannot be established on a large scale.

However, the shortcomings of the wooden track are very large, even if the wood of the wooden track is soaked in various methods, it can not be afraid of fire or rain, but compared with the rail road, the gap is still too big, and the service life of the rail road will be longer.

In the eyes of outsiders, the amount of money spent by the Yun clan to build a railway road would be an unimaginable amount, but in fact, the money spent by the Yun clan was not too much.

These are the main things needed to build railroad roads: steel, wood, cement, explosives, manpower, and so on.

Whether it is steel, wood, cement, explosives, these things, together for Yun's need to pay or for the cost of labor, after all, these things are produced by Yun's own factory, and raw materials can be mined without spending money, the most important thing is the cost of labor, road construction workers, steel factory workers, cement factory workers, gunpowder factory workers, etc., the minimum monthly salary of these workers is fifteen silver, 10,000 people need 1,500 gold a month, for Yun's who has many cash cows, It's not expensive.

And because of the addition of the captives, the Yun clan will not recruit young people to build railways in the future, it is better to use free captives, not only do they not need to use money, even if they die accidentally, they do not need additional compensation, as long as they are fed with ordinary meals, if they add some good food, they will be grateful to the Yun clan.

Yun Yi also came out from time to time to inspect the construction of the railway, and a strange picture had already appeared in Yun Yi's mind: on the straight railway tracks, a train full of people and goods was spewing black smoke and speeding away......