The right to operate transportation doesn't seem like a big deal now, as if it won't be able to recoup the cost in a hundred years.

But Liu Qing knows that with the emergence of various industrial technologies in this world, the productivity of this world will explode.

The Industrial Revolution brought about economic prosperity in ways that the managers of these agrarian countries could not have imagined.

In the industrial age, the stakes were unimaginably great.

For goods to circulate, they have to go through their way.

Of course, it is up to them to decide exactly how to charge.

Liu Qing doesn't want to make a lot of money by relying on monopoly, but it is absolutely not a problem to recover costs and make a small profit.

This kind of thing is something that only the Liu family can do.

Even if other merchants had the same wealth as the Liu family, they couldn't do such a thing.

The cost of building such a transportation network would be at least ten times more than that of the Liu family.

Now in this world, cement is made by the Liu family.

The largest steel mills, all in the Zangjin Mountains, are also controlled by Liu Qing.

The steel that the Liu family could get, if other merchants wanted to get it, they would get at least three times the price.

At present, only the Liu family and Changshengguo have the production technology in charge of the train.

Even if other merchants built a railway, there would be no train to run.

At present, only the Liu family has mastered the production technology of steamships.

Not to mention the cars that have not yet been made.

Even if other businessmen have a monopoly on the right to operate transportation, they can only run horse-drawn carriages and sailboats on their transportation network, not to mention a hundred years, a thousand years will not be able to return to their roots.

More importantly, other merchants did not have so many cultivators to use, and with the technology they had now, they had no way to build iron bridges over the great rivers or drill tunnels in the mountains, and the only thing they could do was to open canals and connect the waterways.

But that's only technical, and if you really want to do that, you need a lot of labor to crush them to death.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, they really have so much capital, and they don't have the ability to defend this transportation network.

Businessmen are born to be slaughtered and are not worth mentioning in the face of power.

The Liu family is different.

Behind the Liu family is Liu Qing, a great god, even the emperor has to listen to Liu Qing, and there are so many cultivators to help Liu Qing, there is no secular force in this world that can rob the Liu family of wealth.

The bigwigs of the DPRK and China originally disagreed with such a transportation plan proposed by the emperor, thinking that this was a great achievement, which would cost the people and money, and should empty the treasury.

I heard that I didn't need the court to pay for it, and I only needed to get the land acquisition along the way, so I changed my attitude.

A hundred years of traffic operation rights, they don't care.

As long as the treasury is not affected, their interests are not affected, then it is fine.

A hundred years is too long, and the most relevant to them is within these ten years.

Ten years later, the bigwigs present basically have to retreat.

For them, there is no difference between a 100-year right to operate and a 10-year right to operate.

It's easy to get around, and it's good for anyone.

The more goods are circulated, the higher the commercial tax.

If someone wants to be wronged and give that money, of course they will not stop it, but will vigorously support it.

In this way, in the next half month, they drew a perfect transportation network according to the map.

The waterways should be connected to most of the main trunks.

There are more than a dozen canals to be opened in this plan, with a total length of more than 2,000 miles.

The railway should be connected to every province in Daqian.

In addition to geographical factors, it also depends on whether there are big tycoons in the DPRK and China.

Everyone wants to get the railroad to their hometown.

As long as you are not stupid, you know traffic

How much development opportunities can convenience bring to the hometown.

And one of the things that these Korean and Chinese bigwigs love the most after they have money is to buy land in their hometown.

The price of land with a railway will definitely not be the same as the price of land without a railway.

In addition to this, there are roads.

Every state capital needs to be connected to a road.

As for between counties, it is not mandatory.

At least that's not something that can be done in 10 years.

The Liu family undertook this project, and they didn't have their own family to do it—they really didn't have the financial resources.

Instead, they sought out wealthy businessmen and big landlords from all over the country, and let them also contribute a share and part of the management rights, and jointly build such a transportation network through cooperation.

In this way, they have also found a lot of partners.

Really calculated, to build such a nationwide transportation network, the Liu family did not contribute too much money, most of it was made by those cooperation.

On the bright side, it seems that those collaborators only contributed about a third of the money.

But in fact, those infrastructure materials are all from the Liu family, and the construction of many key road sections is also done by the Liu family, such as erecting bridges and opening tunnels, which also have to be calculated.

In the end, how to calculate, the Liu family did not open a high price, but calculated it according to the market price.

But the market price itself was set by the Liu family themselves, and there was a relatively high profit in it.

According to the real cost, the Liu family actually didn't give so much, but they got more rights.

In this process, not only a lot of construction materials are invested, but also a lot of labor is invested.

It also trained a large number of construction workers for the Liu family.

In this process, Liu Qing came up with some machinery manufacturing technology and manufactured some large-scale engineering machines.

In this way, the amount of cultivators used can be reduced, so that mortals have more ability to do engineering.

Only two years after the construction of this transportation network, the world's first automobile factory was established.

At this time, the first oil refinery built by the cultivators was also established, and it was only at this time that ordinary people began to be recruited as workers, to teach them how to use those machines, how to extract oil, how to refine oil, and how to manufacture various chemicals.

In terms of oil transportation, at the beginning, it was still transported by cultivators with storage rings.

But as everyone knows, this situation will not last long.

As long as the refinery is also included in the transportation network, the transportation of gasoline in the future can be taken over by mortals.

Daqianguo has just begun to engage in infrastructure construction, and those neighboring countries know about it, but they have no intention of following suit.

The first one couldn't come up with that money to do such a construction.

Second, I don't see how much benefit there is from engaging in such construction.

It's not that you don't know the benefits of easy transportation, but you feel that the benefits aren't enough to cover the cost of your expenses.

Pay for one's whistle.

They felt that the current road was enough for them.

It wasn't until the third year that 1,000 large trucks mass-produced by Liujia's automobile factory hit the road, allowing people in those countries to see the benefits of road construction.