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"Haha......"

Guo Ye laughed and said, "Everyone, how is it? I said that our railways can be pushed quickly, then it can definitely be pushed quickly, two railways, 3,000 kilometers, and now Prussia has contracted the project to Siemens Electric Company, and in the next three years, 2.5 million pounds will be invested to support the construction of our railway! This is pie in the sky, Ke Xinbo has made a great contribution! ”

Guo Songtao frowned and said: "Your Majesty, let the Prussians build our railway, then they will completely grasp the geography and terrain of our eastern and northern China, along these two regions, for the Prussians, there will be no secret to protect!" ”

"So what? Are you still worried that Prussia will not be able to invade us by means of two railway lines? Although Prussia is not weak, and the hundreds of thousands of heroes under its command are brave and good at fighting, they are too far away from us, and if they dare to start a war, then what awaits them will be destruction! The railways are in our Huaxia Empire, as long as we want, we can control the two railways at any time! ”

Guo Ye replied proudly, yes, Guo Ye has absolute self-confidence, if he can't even control the two railways, it's too wasteful, what else to talk about reviving China?

Guo Songtao inhaled a cool breath and said with a toothache: "But, Your Majesty, the benefits we give to the Prussians are inevitably too great, thirty years, let them earn thirty years of money!" How much money will they make in thirty years? From the capital to Shanghai, but it connects the richest areas of our Chinese Empire, whether it is freight or passenger transportation, there will be a great demand! Thirty years, how much silver will they earn us? ”

Indeed, in 30 years, even if there is only 3 million taels of silver a year, then together, you can still earn 30 years, and it will cost 90 million taels of silver, which is converted into pounds, which is enough for 13 million pounds, and after all the operating expenses, there will be at least 7 or 8 million pounds of income in 30 years, according to 55 percent, this is 100% profit!

"Not only these, all the steam locomotives, rails, and other equipment needed for our railway construction have to be purchased from the Germans, and it is also Siemens, which means that they make two shares, we purchase equipment and they earn one hand, and we operate them and they earn another, and they will not lose money in this transaction!"

Li Hongzhang on the side was also a little anxious, according to this calculation, the equipment, machines and rails invested by Siemens can be directly deducted from part of their investment, in fact, the funds they invested are only less than two million pounds!

Guo Ye said with a smile: "You guys, you only see that the Germans have made a lot of profits, but you don't know that the benefits we get from them are even greater, first, we are seriously short of engineers urgently needed to build railways, all kinds of engineers and technicians, in a few years, Siemens will undoubtedly train a large number of railway engineers for us while building railways, including geological exploration, surveying and mapping, machinery manufacturing, railway maintenance, etc., when the railway is built, We will have a technical force of no less than 2,000 people, which we cannot buy for a million taels of silver; Second, 30 years has passed, but the two railways can be used for hundreds of years, all we have to do is maintenance and repair, and the income in the next few decades is our own people, relatively speaking, we still earn more; Thirdly, as a condition, the Prussians will assist us in setting up a rail foundry factory, the steel required for rails is still different from the steel we produce, and his casting technology is relatively complex, we do not have mature technology, once our rail foundry is built, then we can directly use our own rails to build railways in the future, and even export rails to other countries to make money; Fourthly, and only with the help of the Prussians, it will be possible for us to complete the construction of the two railways in the shortest possible time, and to be able to boost the economy of our own country in the shortest possible time! ”

Li Hongzhang retorted: "Your Majesty, compared with the railway line from Datong to Yongping, I think it is more important to build a railway line from Shanghai to Guangzhou, or from Shanghai to Wuchang, why should you build a railway from Datong to Yongping?" This is neither a strategic location nor a bustling area of Gyeonggi, and it is really a terrible thing to invest heavily in the construction of such a railway! ”

Guo Ye replied: "Shaoquan rest assured, I will never destroy the heavens, tell you, now we have started to build a coal mine in Kailuan, and there are already large coal mines in Yanzhou, but even if Kailuan and Yanzhou are combined, the coal produced in the future is not as much as the coal in Datong, and we are now extremely short of funds, that is, we want to use Datong's coal to raise a lot of money and grain for us, and in the next ten years, the coal produced in Datong will exceed 100 million tons, and these coals can be transported to our southeast coast with the port of Yongping." It can also be transported to Western countries, 100 million tons of coal, according to the current domestic coal price of five to ten taels of a ton, we can get at least 500 million taels of silver, even if all the expenses are deducted, our net profit will be more than 200 million taels of silver! Two hundred million taels of silver, hehe, Shaoquan, have you been scared? ”

Whether it was Li Hongzhang or not, almost everyone was frightened, 100 million tons of coal, how could it be!

Zuo Zongtang said helplessly: "Your Majesty, your estimate is too optimistic, 100 million tons of coal, how can it be mined so much, I know that Shanxi Province is rich in coal, but now all the coal mining volume in Shanxi Province will not exceed one million tons, how can you make Shanxi's coal mining reach 10 million tons in a short period of time?" ”

"At the beginning, it will definitely not be reached, I also understand, but through the introduction of coal mining equipment from Germany and the United States, the speed of our coal mining will increase tenfold, dozens of times, rest assured, you will see that once our coal mining equipment is in place, the output of two or three million tons a year, that is, pediatrics, by the sixth year, I think it can reach 10 million tons per year, and by the tenth year, it can even reach 15 million tons! This is definitely not an astronomical number, I will let you see that Shanxi's coal is continuously transported to Yongping by rail, and then Cong Yongping is transported to Shanghai, Guangzhou, and even to the world! ”

Guo Ye replied firmly. (To be continued.) )