Chapter 9: The Population Transport Problem and Solutions – Trains

Are country tyrants rich? Of course you have money, otherwise why are you called a local tyrant! They have a lot of land in their hands (in general, it ranges from a few hundred acres to a thousand acres). Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info), every year just relying on the fields, there is an income of hundreds of taels of silver or even thousands of taels.

It doesn't seem like much, but the problem is that they love to save money! They have no way to get up, and they don't have a way to spend money, and the upper class refuses to take care of them, so they accumulate money when they have it.

More than 100 years later, any local tyrant in the countryside can come up with tens of thousands of taels or even hundreds of thousands of taels of cash!

As for the local tyrants in the higher-level county, that is, the so-called third-rate families, they are even richer, which one does not have one of 1.8 million taels?

(In fact, the families at the county and state levels are richer, but they have more ways to spend money, and no matter how much money they have, they always don't spend it.) So, on the surface, it looks like there's less money. )

"That's the case, the local tyrants in the countryside and the local tyrants in the county, they have money and want to enjoy the life of the upper class, but they don't have the money to buy spirit stones and arrange formations, or they are reluctant to do so. Therefore, our refrigerators, air conditioners and other things will be very popular. Lin Yang explained slowly.

"Well, in the last few days, how many families have applied to buy the sub-doors of the Dark Gate?" Lin Yang then asked.

"There are a lot of these, and almost all the first-class families and top families have applied or expressed similar imagery. However, the families in the Central Plains are more resistant and resistant to population requirements. ”

"Why? 100,000 people, for a sub-gate of the Dark Gate, this is already very cheap, okay? Moreover, this is also a measure of strength, right? It doesn't even have a population of 100,000, so even if you buy the Dark Gate, you can't develop it, right? Lin Yang said suspiciously.

"Well, that's right. The Central Plains is too far away from Jiangdong, tens of thousands of miles away, if you transport the people, even if you travel dozens or even hundreds of miles a day, it will take hundreds of days, and the time is too long. ”

"Moreover, for hundreds of days, the daily survival needs of 100,000 people, all kinds of medicinal herbs and food, even need to consume millions of taels or tens of millions of taels of silver! Not every family can easily come up with so much silver. Guo Jia said helplessly.

In fact, with a population of 100,000, for a first-class family, even a second-rate county-level family, gritted its teeth, spent more money, publicized more, and used some means, it was also taken out.

But the problem is that the consumption of hundreds of days is really amazing! You must eat and drink well every day, otherwise the people would have died long ago after such a long journey. When the time comes, the family's reputation will be ruined!

You must know that the reputation of that family is not slowly accumulated over hundreds or even thousands of years. You can't just abandon the sub-gate of the Dark Gate all at once, right?

So, the problem now is stuck here. A population of 100,000 is not a problem, the crux of the problem is that it is too time-consuming and too expensive to transport it from the Central Plains or even the Northland.

Therefore, after listening to Guo Jia's words, Lin Yang was also a little helpless, this thing is really annoying! That's it, or because I only deal with big things, regardless of the result of many trivial things.

I really don't know how so many traversers handle government affairs. For them, no matter what it is, it seems that a pat on the head will solve it perfectly.

As for Lin Yang, every time he pats his head, the solution he gives casually seems to be a cheat! Therefore, by now, Lin Yang no longer dared to pat his head casually.

While walking back and forth, he thought about the question Guo Jia said. Suddenly, Lin Yang raised his head, isn't it tens of millions of people? And what's it? Every year in my Great Celestial Empire, during the Spring Festival alone, the number of people transported by train can reach ten figures!

"It's very simple, why don't you just find the Ministry of Railways?"

"Well, what is the Ministry of Railways?" Guo Jia said helplessly. Obviously, Lin Yang, the lord, has entered an unreliable state again.

As soon as the words were spoken, Lin Yang found that something was wrong, Guo Jia naturally didn't know about the Ministry of Railways, if he knew, it would be abnormal.

"Well, that's right, the so-called Ministry of Railways is dedicated to managing trains. As you know, our trains, in big ways, have been successfully studied for a long time, and now they are just being finalized. ”

"And with the train, even ordinary people, riding on the train, can easily do a few hours, travel thousands of miles, one day and one night, travel thousands of miles are idle."

"Such an important thing is naturally a militaristic weapon, and it needs to be properly managed, so this Ministry of Railways is the department I plan to use to specifically manage trains."

"However, considering the current situation, we can send an invitation letter to those families, invite them to attend the founding ceremony of the Wu Kingdom, attend my wedding, and at the same time, show them the role of the train."

"I believe that with their intelligence, they can definitely see the profits of the train. At that time, we will be responsible for selling spirit stone steam engines. As long as we monopolize the spirit stone steam engine, this silver will inevitably flow over like flowing water. ”

"Besides, if the railway can spread all over the world, it will be much more convenient to transport the people. At that time, even Youzhou in the north and Liangzhou in the west will be able to reach it in a month or two at most. Lin Yang pointed to the map and said with some excitement.

Even if the newly invented train is only 50 kilometers per hour, it can run thousands of kilometers in one day and one night, and in a month, that is more than 30,000 kilometers, that is, a distance of 60,000 or 70,000 miles. Two months, even if it is the easternmost part of the Han Dynasty, running to the westernmost side, it is estimated that the time is enough.

Hearing this, Guo Jia stopped talking. Anyway, the train is not something that Wu Guo can play with himself. After all, how could the Han court not see such a heavy weapon of militarism?

Therefore, it is also the proper meaning to distribute it in advance and use the spirit stone steam engine to make money. The train is given to you, the railway is also given to you, you can't even have a steam engine, right?

"Well, then for these people who have just ascended, how do you plan to settle them? Do you want to take care of it? ”

"Well, take them to the library first and read the books for the first half of the month. Then, for another three months, they were organized to travel around Jiangdong. Some outstanding talents are organized to observe them all over the country. As for the arrangement, let's wait until we get back from the tour! ”