Li Xuanba's face was abrupt, and Luo Shixin next to him smiled cheaply, as if he was despising Li Xuanba's stupid hat for asking such a stupid question, and as a result, the two began to attack each other in that foul language, and they had the posture of throwing off their arms and fighting alone.

Kong Yingda, who is the division commander here, really can't see it, so he coughed, and then these two were immediately honest like the elite of the honor guard waiting for the parade. It makes me laugh to watch, and it seems that one thing is really right.

"Kong Aiqing, it's really hard for you." I walked up to Kong Yingda, glanced at the two guys, and smiled meaningfully.

"It's nothing, in fact, Xuanba and Shixin are both loyal people, although their behavior is a little ......" Kong Yingda thought for a long time and didn't know what adjectives to use to describe it, so he had to skip it. …… However, the two generals are also studious people, and they have made considerable progress in the past two years, although they are not good at strategy, but they also know the military affairs, check astronomy and geography, and gradually have the talent of good generals. In the future, it will become the pillar of the country. ”

For Kong Yingda's words, just listen to it. Although Old Man Kong is very strict with his studies, he is very protective of his students, and it is difficult to hear him say a bad word about these two guys. Of course, behind the scenes, Kong Yingda's spittle star is definitely not covered, Li Xuanba once privately complained that his master Kong Yingda scolded people without a dirty word, but the problem is that this old man has the ability to scold for a quarter of an hour without repeating the same.

However, Li Xuanba and Luo Shixin do admire this great Confucian who often scolds them, because whether it is astronomy and geography, or the art of war, as long as they can think of it, Kong Yingda will definitely be able to get the answer, but when teaching them knowledge, when Kong Yingda doesn't know, he will tell them sincerely, and will not pretend to be forced by the teacher's style.

Therefore, even if these two brothers were scolded bloody, they still respected the teacher very much. This wonderful teacher-student relationship makes Ben Gongzi very admired.

The steam locomotive finally hung up both carriages and slowly drove to the front of the test platform, and I, as the son of heaven, naturally entered the first and walked into this unpainted carriage, the seats in which were almost exactly the same as those of the green cars of later generations, with three seats on one side and two seats on the other, with an aisle in between.

However, these custom-made wooden seats, which are not padded with leather or cloth, or even painted, are the simplest wooden seats. But we didn't care about this, they sat down one after another, and there were only more than 20 ministers here, so I called a group of technical employees to come in and let these ministers sit with these technicians.

The reason for this was naturally to let these important officials of the court know the information in time, and soon, with the waving of the flag on the platform, the train started slowly, and the scenery outside the window began to change.

And the train began to vibrate rhythmically, boom, boom...... With this sound, the speed of the train began to get faster and faster, and everyone did not speak, but looked out the window, and gradually, the rumbling sound seemed to be connected, and the speed of the train became faster and faster.

"This speed is really as fast as a galloping horse." Wei Zheng was very excited, and he was always walking around in the carriage, as if he would not be able to stand firm without this. And Yang Gongren was there to communicate with the technicians around him.

“…… This is not counting, this kind of passenger carriage, only experimental, according to the original design, should have to increase the length, a car has a total of more than 100 seats. If it's a steam locomotive, it can pull four or five cars like that. The technician's words provoked another round of exclamation.

Four or five carriages, that means this thing can transport four hundred to five hundred people at a time, which is far more than the stagecoach can carry, well, there is absolutely no comparison.

One by one, they sat in the carriage, ignoring the sound of the clangling train, and communicated with the technicians, and from time to time let out a sigh of emotion or exclamation

"It's a pity that the sound seems to be too loud." Yang Gongren frowned, with an expression of mental exhaustion and unable to sleep.

"It's normal, it's just an experimental car, and the walls of the car haven't been soundproofed, and there's no glass on the windows to block the sound." One technician explained with a smile. After getting along with these ministers for a while, these low-level technicians gradually let go.

"It's been a lap, obediently, just a moment of effort, and it's been five miles." At this time, Li Xuanba, who was sticking out his head outside the window, turned around and yelled.

Time slipped away bit by bit, and our big ticket people sat on the car for half an hour before getting off, and by this time, the steam locomotive had already run a little more than sixteen laps. That's a total of eighty-two miles.

At this time, all the ministers had nothing to say, yes, this speed was so surprising that they could not be on their own, and they did not need to eat, but only needed to be fed water and coal to be able to run wildly for days and nights.

The old man rubbed his numb ass with emotion. "Your Majesty, according to what the minister has seen, I should indeed implement this kind of transportation in Huaxia, and in the future, thousands of mountains and rivers will be a smooth road. It took more than half a month for the old minister to travel from Jiaozhi to Chang'an, and if he had such good weapons, I am afraid that it would only take two days to transport hundreds of people from thousands of miles away to Chang'an. If there were ten trains, then there would be thousands......"

"Lao Shangshu, according to the person in charge here, the Huaxia steam locomotive No. 5, which they have begun to design and construct, is expected to be able to tow nearly eighty tons of goods according to our design requirements, and the carrying capacity can reach ten knots, that is, a train can carry at least a thousand people."

Speechless, excited and speechless, emotionless and speechless...... In short, these important ministers of the court had no words to express their feelings at the moment.

However, they finally figured out what the steam locomotive was for, and they agreed with my approach to developing steam machinery. The government and the treasury will invest 1.5 million yuan in research funds in advance. In addition, it was agreed to build a railway from Chang'an to Yan'an County first, well, if we want to do it, we will naturally build Gao Daquan, and we will directly make it a double line.

The so-called double line means that there are two lanes on a railway, which greatly reduces the link of the wrong train and saves a lot of time.

I remember when I was a child, I took the train to the other side of the small city, and as a result, there were more than 10 stations on the short railway of just over 50 kilometers, and the result was that I had to wait for several minutes or even ten minutes at each station, and then continue to go on the road after the other trains passed by.

More than 50 kilometers, have the ability to drive for more than three hours, is definitely a maddening rhythm, and after the opening of the double line, it only took less than an hour to arrive, and before I crossed, it is said that the high-speed rail has been able to reach a speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

I feel like a cheater when I think about it, so I would never make such a mistake. If you want to get it, you can go straight to the tall and complete, and if you want to straighten it, you can go directly to the double line. The ministers really don't have much of an opinion on this.

Anyway, now there are enough laborers, it doesn't cost too much money, and the important thing is that they see the advantages of this kind of thing, so that they can reduce the investment in horse breeding, you know, horse breeding is definitely not a small expense.

Think about it, in the future, it only takes ten trains, and it only takes three or five days to send more than 10,000 fully armed soldiers thousands of miles away, and it will not affect their rest and waste their physical strength.

Thousands of miles away, even if it is a stagecoach, I am afraid that I don't know how many horses I have to change to be able to maintain a speed of six or seven hundred miles a day, and when I run thousands of miles away, at least wait for the train to run two round-trips, and the stagecoach is afraid that it will be able to reach its destination.

Well, this is a royal private property, and many times, many things, people in this era do not understand, or do not accept, so I just need to pay for the achievements myself first, let them see it, and then the court will fund it.

Although I often have to pay out of my own pocket to do this, I can do what I feel is right to do research and creation without being constrained by others. Whether it is a steam engine or a four-wheeled carriage, in short, as an excellent traverser, people naturally stand far higher and see farther than the people of this era.

Therefore, these are what I should do, as a generation of emperors, I naturally can't enjoy it all day, and I should pay for some things.

For example, now, one or two ministers of civil and military affairs are here to pat me on the back, as if they can't express their inner admiration and admiration for me. And I am naturally a dragon-faced joy, smiling wide-eyed.

Naturally, I talked about how Ben Gongzi came up with such a ghost thing as a steam engine. “…… I saw the lid of the pot jumping up with the steam, and even if it was pressed with my hands, it could sometimes make people feel irrepressible. At that time, I was thinking, if it was a bigger pot, wouldn't the steam coming out of it be able to lift even people? ”

"So, I got someone to make something similar to our hydraulics, and it didn't take me to think that the effect of this machine was really beyond my expectations, so I began to consider whether this kind of thing could be used to replace horses and carriages...... I really didn't expect that in just a few years, these technicians have already made this steam engine out, at most a year's time, this kind of machinery, can be put into practical stage, at that time, I Huaxia, will regard the mountains and mountains, the river valley is dangerous to be a smooth road......"

The next day, the press published a report that the Chinese Empire would introduce a means of transportation that was faster than horse-drawn carriages and far more transportable than horse-drawn carriages in the next one to two years, and the stick figures of steam locomotives were also rubbed on the newspapers, so that people could appreciate them more intuitively.