Zhang Xiaobao, who decided to get married, did not enter the palace with Li Longji, he had to go home, there were definitely many people in the family waiting for them to go back, I don't know if the youngest brother and sister slept auspiciously.

With the expansion of the capital Chang'an, it will take some time to return home from the train station.

"In the future, we will build another station, or two, and you can build a few more rails in the capital, and you don't necessarily have to run far to start the train, and it is convenient for short distances."

Zhang Xiaobao and Li Longji chatted, talking about short-distance railway transportation, all the short distances are relative, after all, the capital is too big.

Wang Juan also thinks about it this way, Beijing was not a station in the past, and even some provincial capitals had bad stations, big, no way.

And the two have already discussed that the capital will still be in Chang'an in the future, and if you want to run to Luoyang, you can't put it in the original area of Beijing.

At that time, Chang'an was not good, and it was no longer possible to find the prosperity of the past, saying that it was a natural disaster, but in fact, it was due to the destruction of forests and fields, such as the previous national policy, which encouraged the people to burn the forests and then change them into fields.

The status of the two of them was not high before, so they had to endure it, but who would dare not listen to what they said now? Not only did the forest not burn, but it also needed to plant more trees and transplant good plants to the Loess Plateau to fight against nature.

Saying that there is not enough food, that is impossible, how many people and how much land is there in the country? The grain planted is still enough, and it is not enough because the land is not good, but because many landed people do not grow grain, they grow vegetables, and the price per mu of vegetables is higher than that of grain.

How many people does Datang have now? It's just that the crop yield is not good before, and they don't know how to open up large plantations abroad.

Li Longji didn't know that his capital was given by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and when he heard Zhang Xiaobao's words, he looked at Pei Yaoqing and other civil officials with a smile.

The civil officials showed a helpless look. Gao Lishi said with a smile: "Xiaobao, yesterday morning, the matter of building an additional station was just discussed, and the question of whether it was cost-effective to carry out short-distance transportation on one side of the capital to the other. He also said that after letting you know, you will object, because if you do that, other transportation industry workers in the capital will be affected.

As a result, many people used this as an excuse to reject the proposal to build a station. Ha, it seems that many people have not guessed your mind, since you brought it up today, let's talk about it. How can it not have a bad impact on the original transportation industry? ”

Zhang Xiaobao was stunned, and looked at all the Wenchen's faces through the light, wanting to see who vetoed the affairs of the court in his own name.

All those who were seen by Zhang Xiaobao and had a weak heart bowed their heads one after another. Scan around. Zhang Xiaobao knew the general situation.

"Where can it be proven that building more stations will have a bad impact on the local transport industry? The current railway station is in the southeast of the capital, built in the west, and it will take about 20 minutes to pass, whether it is people or goods, it is convenient, loading and unloading two aspects. ”

Zhang Xiaobao felt that many civil officials were still unqualified, and their consideration was too simple.

"Little Treasure ......"

"Please Wang Shangshu call me Zhang Xiaobao." Zhang Xiaobao saw that the person who spoke was Wang Hui, the head of the household. Unceremoniously corrected the other party's title, I am not so familiar with him, public to public, normal conduct, and I don't have that friendship in private.

Wang Hui was choked up, but he didn't care at all after a long time in officialdom, and said with a smile: "Zhang Xiaobao, let me ask you a question." ”

Without waiting for Zhang Xiaobao to answer, Wang Hui himself said the question: "If there is a normal railway station, will the employees responsible for transportation to and from the capital make more money?" From the southeast to the west, the asking price will be very high, if you add a railway station in the west, the price will inevitably not be raised, their income will be reduced, is it possible to use the profits of the west railway station to subsidize? ”

Many people nodded, thinking that what Shang Shu said made sense, and looked at Zhang Xiaobao again, looking forward to his answer.

"This is the capital." Zhang Xiaobao replied with five words.

"Shouldn't the transportation industry in Beijing make more money?" Wang Hui asked.

Wang Juan took the question at this time and replied: "The throughput of the capital is very large, it is a train waiting for people and goods, not a train waiting for people or goods, don't look at us not coming back, but our family has a lot of business here, with the power of my family, sometimes I have to backlog a day's goods and can't transport them, let alone other people?"

Adding a railway station will inevitably make the speed of transportation go up, and the two stations are responsible for the entire capital, and the people in the transportation industry will run half of the distance at most, so as to improve the transportation capacity of people and goods from other places to the railway station, how can the money be less?

Now the asking price is high, for example, from the railway station to the western area, a trip to the west of the car costs 20 wen, walk for an hour and a half, from the place near the west, ask for 3 wen, walk for two quarters of an hour, the time is short.

The most important thing is that now there is only one railway station, many people in the transportation industry need to wait, and they can't work for an hour, and the unloading speed of the train is so fast, pull it back, make a sum of money, and then wait for an hour, pull it back and make another profit.

Obviously, there is an hour wasted of time, from the current station to the westernmost point, the journey takes three hours, and the empty time is spent an hour, how many times a day? It is different for short distances, earning three cents in two quarters of an hour, six cents in half an hour, twelve cents in one hour, and eighteen cents in one and a half hours.

Compared with before, it is less than two yuan, but it is less than one hour of empty consumption, and one hour can earn twelve yuan, and the same is true for the car pulled by manpower. The main thing is not this, but the use of work and rest time, this ......"

"I see." Li Longji suddenly spoke up and said: "Pulling goods from the current station to the west, one goes back and forth for four hours, and you can't run two round-trips, otherwise you will work for eight hours and rest for the remaining four hours?" Unless your home is in the west, don't you have to go home?

Short-distance don't use, you can do six hours of work, and then go home, with the flow of people and goods throughput in the capital, they are making money every moment, with six hours can probably earn seventy-two dollars, compared to using more than eight hours to earn eighty dollars.

If you do it for a short distance for another hour, it will be seven hours and eighty-four dollars, and the animals and people will have to rest, and you will want to rest if you travel a long distance, no matter whether you are riding a person. It is still the goods that are pulled, and the customers are unwilling, and the livestock and people are not so tired after a short time to rest. Good for your health. ”

When Li Longji's words came out, the ministers didn't need to continue to think about it, they immediately knew the situation inside, and it was really like this.

One by one, they began to flatter Li Longji. All kinds of praise and words were thrown at Li Longji without money.

Li Longji was very angry, and he didn't sit on his chariot, and said as he walked: "It's different from before, and the changes proposed by capable people in various dynasties in the past are directly aimed at a certain aspect. It is usually farming, water conservancy, businessmen, scholars and other aspects, and it is very general, which can be called inaction.

And they did the right thing. Let's start with the big picture. However, today's Datang is different from them, and now we must consider the correlation between various industries.

When it rains endlessly in Hangzhou, we have to consider whether Suzhou bamboo products in the capital will be out of stock. Why? Because Suzhou is close to Hangzhou, and bamboo is produced, Hangzhou does not stop raining, and the transportation speed is fast. There must be a large number of businessmen who make bamboo umbrellas in Suzhou and send them to Hangzhou to sell, so how can the merchants who specialize in selling Suzhou bamboo products in the capital not be curbed by the supply?

This should be the train of thought of my Datang official, pull a hair and move the whole body, far water may not be able to quench the thirst, but the near thirst can affect the far water, the mantis arm can not stop the car, but can push a stone to a good position in front of the wheel, so as to turn the car upside down.

The macro, micro, planned economy and market economy in the political economy that Xiaobao and Juan Juan wrote to you are not independent, and I can't always expect Xiaobao and Juan Juan to do everything, right?

You don't see that? The people all understand that they want to hide their hands, it's not that Xiaobao and Juan Juan have poor skills, but that something will push them to the front, what use do you want? Do you live in your family, and when you encounter something, you immediately use the last of your family resources? I'm going to have to keep a back hand, my gun can't easily shoot the last bullet, even though it's a powerful one. ”

"Your Majesty is angry." "The minister is guilty." "The minister will definitely study hard in the future."

After Li Longji finished speaking, the words rang out from the crowd of civil and military officials.

Li Longji waved his hand, sighed, and said: "What Zhongqing has done is actually very good, with your current ability, in the previous dynasties, those are all the ministers of the humerus, and you can fall a few streets behind the people who have changed the law."

However, the current Datang is not the dynasty of the past, our Datang has guns that kill people in an instant, sharp artillery, an invincible fleet to maintain the ocean, a telegram that transmits news in the blink of an eye, hot air balloons and airships flying in the sky, high-yield crops, various factories that are advancing, and a national education and medical system.

Do we have to keep up? I know that some of you have always felt that the Zhang and Wang families in Sanshui County have too much power, and Xiaobao and Juan Juan have no one to manage, so you work hard, more powerful than them, or similar to them.

I promise you that there are twenty men who are half as long as they are, and I will send them to the most remote, poorest, and bitterest places, and make you happy. Wang Hui, I arranged them like this, do you think they will lament their illness and die young? ”

As Li Longji spoke, he suddenly inquired about Wang Hui alone.

Wang Hui was very distressed, he was indeed the one who opposed the construction of a new station before, and his official position was high, and he almost became his leader, and he really didn't consider the problem of logistics throughput in the capital, but considered the right to use the wagons in exchange for the land that his family had given up the land before.

Now there are enough wagons, who knew that this was the case, they were all fooled, and they had to add stations, in that case, the number of wagons increased in the short distance, and the control of the wagons they owned became smaller and smaller, so they objected.

Damn Zhang Xiaobao, how many people have been deceived? At the beginning, the number of trains was small, and when the interests were exchanged with the imperial court, their own group could control two-thirds of the wagons, but now they are not even one-tenth, and the lost land began to increase in value, and the yield of crops increased year by year, and new crops were available.

Comparing the two sides, they suffered a loss, suffered a big loss, they were all pitted by Zhang Xiaobao, what do the businessmen on the top list of Monopoly are loyal and patriotic, are they? They don't dare, they are afraid that Zhang Xiaobao is more afraid of Wang Ba Li, and they are not afraid of a group of people who exchange interests with the imperial court, what is the result? It became those profiteers like monkeys looking at the slain chickens.

"Wang Hui, I ask you, if you can rest assured that you will send Xiaobao and Juan Juan to distant places, such as the Strait of Malacca they said, or even Africa."

Li Longji looked at Wang Hui silently. He asked again.

"Huh?" Wang Hui recovered, thought about it as fast as he could, and shook his head vigorously: "What kind of heart do you have, the minister is worried." If they go to Africa, Datang will not be able to control them, and they will organize people there to carry out a better industrial revolution. What should I do if I go back to Datang? It is necessary to stay, and it is best to let them stay in the capital every day, under their noses. ”

Many officials spoke out at the same time, which was quite tacit.

"Huh. You know, you can't kill it, you can't kill it, and you can't send it to a distant place. I had no choice but to spoil it. In the future, when you feel uncomfortable, think about what you said today, if you don't agree, kill them, kill them all over the house, I am grateful to you, who comes, Wang Qing. You've got a bit of a private soldier in your hands, don't you, what do you think? ”

Li Longji laughed twice and asked Wang Hui again.

Wang Hui bowed his head: "Minister...... Don't dare, let's not talk about whether the minister's private soldiers can succeed in killing them, really take advantage of them in the capital, and kill their door by luck, when the time comes, my Tang Dynasty will be in chaos, the economic system will collapse all of a sudden, and then keep encircling and suppressing the people who revolt in various state capitals, and the minister no longer dares to think about the consequences. ”

Wang Hui was very serious when he spoke, and the same was true for other officials, they all understood how powerful Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were at this time, and they just didn't fight for the throne, and there were such people in history who had the ability to usurp the throne but did not usurp, but in comparison, there was still a big gap between those people and Xiaobao and Juan Juan.

Every household has an immortal tablet for them, and Sensei said that he would murder them, stand on the street and scold a sentence, and those who can survive are all heroes, and the people who threatened Liu Yan on the platform before really left Liu Yan and put it somewhere, there is absolutely only one result, death, either being beaten to death, or starving to death.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also looked solemn, they knew what was going on, just like the great men who made a lot of mistakes at that time, they all made mistakes, and when they died, how many people cried? How many people don't want to work? How many more people have committed suicide? Of course, the latter point was suppressed and not reported, but there really is, and there are quite a few.

What's more, the two of them have not made a mistake against the people of Datang now, this responsibility ...... It's too heavy.

"Your Majesty, colleagues, please rest assured, no one can assassinate us, several times in the world, no killer can succeed, the two of us will live well, but we will not stay in the capital every day, tell the local officials who have contact with you, when you want to do something bad for your own selfishness, weigh it carefully, maybe we are idle and bored to travel by his side."

Zhang Xiaobao said threateningly, he and Wang Juan both understand that everyone who is qualified to participate in the early dynasty has their own small forces, and the two of them don't care, but as long as they are caught, check up, check one line, and show no mercy, except for Li Longji, the emperor, the other royal personnel are useless, the prince will take it down for you, and if you don't kill you, you will be locked up, and don't want to go out again for the rest of your life.

Hearing Zhang Xiaobao's words, the ministers really beat the drum in their hearts, thinking about whether to clean up the people under them first, don't wait for Xiaobao and Juan Juan to make a move, then there will be no chance.

Li Longji was very happy about what happened tonight, knowing that the government would be clear for a while, and continued to be supported by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan on both sides, and said, "The new railway station has been decided?" Xiaobao, Juan Juan, do you think the speed of the train can be improved? ”

"Yes, it's easy." Wang Juan spoke up, and the ministers were attracted again.

"How?" Zhang Zhong asked.

"Dad, doesn't the Ministry of Industry have diesel engines and gasoline engines, just use them instead of steam engines, and it doesn't mean that there is only one locomotive, the distribution of carriages can also be, the number of wagons of a train is small now, even if it is dozens of cars in the future, there is no problem, every few sections put a machine, start at the same time, the speed is naturally fast, how fast can it be, I think about it, run three thousand miles a day, no problem."

Zhang Xiaobao replied to his father's words.

"How much? Three thousand miles a day? Flying? Zhang Zhong himself couldn't believe it.

"It's faster than this, but it's not successful yet, the plane that was transported over has fallen twice, but fortunately, it doesn't fly high, and there is no big problem with people, and it can continue to fly." Zhang Xiaobao said very casually.

I see, many people thought in their hearts, they didn't know the use of diesel engines and gasoline engines researched by the Ministry of Industry before, thinking that they were just taking them to work, but they didn't expect to make the train faster and fly.

Everyone talked and walked all the way, and finally couldn't stand it anymore in the early hours of the morning, so they got into the car and returned home with their eyes squinted.

When Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan arrived home, the sun in the east had jumped out of the horizon.

There are a few sheds at the door of the house at the moment, and the cooks at home are busy making breakfast, and there are a few temporary 'beds' under the sheds, which are said to be beds, but in fact there are curtains around them, which are very thick, and they will not be cold at night.

There is also something that Xiaobei is very familiar with, the house, the house where they used to play and live, the first floor is where two children sleep, and the second floor is where five children sleep.

Xiaobei, who had fallen asleep before, is now very awake, yearning for the inside, and found that the shed was too short, so he had to give up, if he only sleeps, it is really no problem, at least it is much stronger than Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's bunk beds, and the three-story house is usually two stories high. Even if an adult sleeps, it's okay.

Sleeping on the first floor is naturally Jun'er and Pan'er brothers and sisters, there is no one on the third floor, that is the entertainment room, and the second floor sleeps Hong'er and Jixiang Ruyi without ears, Hong'er is the largest, lying in the middle, the left is Jixiang, the right is Ruyi, you can see through the window what they look like when they sleep.