At eight o'clock in the morning of January 19, other passengers arrived at the station one after another and boarded the train in turn.

A large amount of work-related equipment and laboratory products carried by the craftsmen were also loaded into the freight car at the rear by small cranes.

The heads of the three aspects of Honglu Temple, the Ministry of Industry, and the shipyard went to check and confirm whether the personnel of their respective teams were all in place.

After all the goods were loaded and all the personnel were confirmed, the front of the official train sounded the whistle and slowly drove out of the station with a long body.

After the train passed through the special train gate of the old city of Jingshi and entered the Fengtai County area, the speed slowly increased and entered a stable state.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the receding scenery outside the window, and felt that the situation was a little wrong, so he asked Guan Tianpei beside him:

"Guan Zhenfu, how long does this bus have to run? What time can I arrive at Tianjin Port? ”

Guan Tianpei did not hesitate and answered very accurately:

"In order to ensure driving safety, the speed of the shuttle bus is controlled at 60 kilometers per hour.

"The whole journey is 160 kilometers and is expected to take two hours and 40 minutes.

"It is expected to arrive at Tianjin Port at about 10:40 a.m."

Zhu Jingyuan was a little stunned when he heard this:

"This ...... The speed is really too conservative......"

The railway that Zhu Jingyuan is now taking by himself is the railway with the highest specifications in the whole territory of Daming, and it is the "special line" connecting the coastal ports in Beijing.

The entry and exit of materials and the rapid flow of personnel in and out of the Beijing Division are highly dependent on this artery leading to the sea.

Therefore, the safety level of the railway is also the highest, and there are special road guards patrolling day and night.

At the same time, the Beijing-Tianjin business train that Zhu Jingyuan took was also the highest-level passenger train on this road.

It is capable of running an average speed of 100 kilometers per hour on this nearly straight Beijing-Tianjin special railway.

This is already the speed of the K-shaped train in later generations, which has surpassed the lowest-level green car.

However, in order to ensure safety, its daily operating speed is limited to 80 kilometers per hour, which is exactly the lower limit of the K-shaped car.

As a result, today, for the sake of safety, the operating speed has been reduced by a cut, directly adjusted to 60 kilometers per hour, which is the speed of the green car.

The guests on the car are all very important, so I only want to be stable and not fast, and I can only understand it this way.

In other parts of the Ming Dynasty, most of the trains run at a speed of about 40 per hour.

It may seem low, but it's actually pre-liberation level.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about things in his heart, and turned his face to appreciate the scene in the early spring in the Jingshi New Town area that he hadn't seen for a long time.

Then Zhu Jingyuan sighed again that this largest city in the world today does not have a few high-rise buildings at a glance.

Even outside the scope of Fengtai County, the surrounding buildings are still dominated by three- and five-story buildings, and there are many courtyards with two- and three-story buildings.

Zhu Jingyuan glanced at Niu Jian and Lin Zexu, who were also looking at the scenery, and half deliberately and half sincerely consulted the opinions of the two:

"Two gentlemen, the old city of Jingshi and the areas of Fengtai and Daxing have regulations restricting high-rise buildings, so there are no high-rise buildings.

"But why aren't there so many high-rise buildings in the areas far from these places?"

Niu Jian and Lin Zexu immediately came to their senses when they heard the question.

The young people of this era have received a modern advanced education, and the mentality when they have just graduated is actually very similar to that of later generations of college students.

They are very interested in analyzing and discussing all kinds of issues and expressing their opinions.

This time, Niu Jian first opened his mouth and analyzed:

"The students believe that the regulations restricting the construction of high-rise buildings in the old city of Jingshi and Fengtai County and Daxing County are not applicable to other areas, but they also objectively affect other areas.

"Because there were no tall buildings in the gardens of the royal family, the nobility and the new elite did not pursue tall buildings, and then the commoners went to learn from the nobles and elites and did not build too tall buildings.

"In the end, everyone didn't pursue buildings that were too high, so now there are no buildings that are too tall around Jingshi New Town, and as a result, the urban area is getting bigger and bigger."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly, feeling that what Niu Jian said made sense:

"So, if you consider it objectively, is such a relatively sparse and low-rise architectural style beneficial to the development of the city and commerce?"

This time, Niu Jian and Lin Zexu were both in deep thought.

If the question just now still feels like pure curiosity, there is obvious thinking about this question, and it has a certain depth.

A few seconds later, Lin Zexu spoke first:

The students thought that this was of course not conducive to the development of business, and that it was inconvenient for the business owners and factory workers to go to work.

"A more appropriate plan should be to concentrate the commercial banks as much as possible to facilitate the exchange of information between each other and the selection of procurement.

However, this is not insurmountable, as the new city is connected by urban railways that connect sparse urban areas.

"Without these railways, there would have been a much more concentrated, high-density high-rise commercial and residential area."

At this time, Niu Jian opened his mouth and added:

"In fact, the situation that Brother Lin said has already appeared in Xincheng.

"I was paying special attention to the fact that there was a commercial area with a high concentration of high-rise buildings in the south of the central part of the new city, and now more and more commercial houses are concentrated there.

"Land prices and house prices are rising rapidly in the neighborhood, but there are still more and more people concentrating there."

Zhu Jingyuan was also a little surprised, but he didn't expect the other party to observe this situation, and then continued to ask various ideas:

"Do you think this situation is good or bad? What is the impact on the development of Jingshi New Town? ”

"Will such a large-scale expansion of the city and the continuous occupation of people's fields affect the food supply of our Ming Dynasty?"

"How much arable land is needed in Daming to ensure the stable demand of the local area?"

"Should the imperial court take the initiative to control the development space of the city?"

Zhu Jingyuan threw out one question after another, and the two best scholars of our time were a little confused.

Both of them instinctively sighed that the things that His Highness asked about were really getting deeper and more complicated.

None of these questions looked like a fifteen-year-old boy asking them, but rather like what his classmates should do.

Neither of them was intimidated or bored by this, but became more and more interested, as they both found a sense of like-mindedness.

These young scholars usually like to think about similar things, and like to get together to discuss such things.

So the two used the knowledge they had learned, combined with their own observations and experiences, and started their own thinking to discuss with Zhu Jingyuan.

There were no accurate answers to those questions, and Zhu Jingyuan himself did not have an answer that could be referred to.

Because the situation is different, the answer may also be different, and the choice is also different, and the current situation of the Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with any country in the previous life.

However, these problems that I have encountered in my previous life can be used as an introduction to thinking and trigger the thinking of scholars in this world.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan will not make an accurate judgment, but only refer to and judge whether what the other party says is reasonable, and at the same time join the discussion.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, this is the three of them guiding the country together, or the key government.

This discussion quickly drew into the relationship between the three of them, so that the two young men were not so detained.

The three of them chatted with great interest for more than two hours, except for drinking more water, the more they chatted, the more energetic they became.

Guan Tianpei was drowsy when he heard it, and he didn't dare to fall asleep at all, so he could only get up and go out on patrol, not listening to the chatter of the three of them.

Zhu Jingyuan's train traveled in a southeasterly direction, and after more than 40 minutes, it left the boundary of Jingshi New Town and approached the urban area of Langfang.

However, the railway did not enter the urban area of Langfang, but directly bypassed it from the side and continued to move forward.

The surrounding multi-storey buildings slowly thinned out and soon became dense again, and the train entered the outskirts of Tianjin's old town.

The old city of Tianjin is the original river port urban area, and the new city of Tianjin is the marine terminal urban area by the sea.

The train passed through the old city of Tianjin, continued for more than 40 minutes, and at 10:40 a.m., it entered the military port of the new city.

The passenger ship itself has been prepared, and the navy's escort fleet is also cruising on the sea and waiting, without having to start from scratch slowly.

After the train stopped, the soldiers of Guan Tianpei's department and the personnel of the Jinyi Guard first got off the train to check the surrounding situation, and then got on the ship to check the inside of the passenger ship.

Zhu Jingyuan waited on the train until 12 o'clock at noon, and ate lunch directly on the train, before finally receiving the news that he could get off the train and board the ship.

Zhu Jingyuan, who was a little anxious waiting, quickly got up, took Guan Tianpei and two staff members out of the carriage, and took the transfer car in the port to the dock.

As the cars get closer to the pier, the silhouette of the passenger ships docked at the pier becomes clearer and larger.

When the car stopped under the gangway, Lin Zexu and Niu Jian, the two young men, walked off the car with their heads up.

The two of them stood at the bottom of the gangway, looking at the hull of the passenger liner above, with shocked expressions on their faces.

"In the past, I read in the newspapers that this steel steamer did not seem to be huge between the boundless sea and the sky."

"Now that I know it's so big."

"It's really as big as a wall, like a mountain......"

Zhu Jingyuan heard the conversation between the two staff members and looked up at the shape of the big ship again.

This passenger liner is not what I imagined, it does not have the typical style of a modern Western-style cruise ship, and you may not see that image in this life.

Just as Daming's sedan is really like a sedan chair, the ship's superstructure is like an oriental-style palace.

It's just that in the middle of this palace-like style, there are four tall chimneys, showing the power of the industrial age as the saying goes.

According to the information reported to them by the personnel of the consortium, this is a Chongming Island-type luxury passenger ship that has been in operation for three years.

With a full load displacement of 35,000 tons and a hull length of 248 meters, it is capable of carrying 800 crew members and 2,400 passengers.

A total of four passenger ships of this type were built, and in front of me this is the No. 3 ship, the Zhoushan Island.

Although the fourth ship has only been in operation for less than a year, it does not ensure that it is fully mature and reliable, and the crew is not experienced enough.

Therefore, the passenger ferry company chose the No. 3 ship for Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan's feelings about the scale of the ship have long been experienced, and it is actually just as Lin Niu and the others said.

Large ships floating on the sea, with no reliable reference around them, make people unaware of how big they are until they come to the ship.

Even when I saw these direct hull data, I was only at a loss for what to do.

Only a little math can give you some idea.

The 35,000-ton ship in front of me is equivalent to 30,000 family cars.

When two of these ships are docked, they are as long as a mile, that is, a whole mile.

A more intuitive way to imagine is that when you stand on the pier and look at the ship, it feels like a stadium floating on the sea.

And the interior space is three-dimensional and multi-level, with a playground on it and a commercial street inside.

It can carry more than 800 crew members while allowing more than 2,000 people to live relatively comfortably on it.

If the standard of living is not taken into account, it is not a problem to estimate the number of people by two or three times.

Zhu Jingyuan knew that Daming had built many passenger ships of more than 30,000 tons, and there should be no problem in building 50,000 tons of passenger ships.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is basically the same as the British when the Titanic was built.

That's why Zhu Jingyuan asked the navy to directly build a warship with a full load of 40,000 tons.

Maybe a battleship with a complex structure is still a little more difficult, but the aircraft carrier of this era should not be difficult.

Converting cruise ships into aircraft carriers was a routine operation in the World War II era......

After Zhu Jingyuan sighed in his heart for a while, he beckoned the two staff members to get on the boat together.

Walk through the gangway, step through the long door, go through the hallway, and take the elevator to the floor where your room is located.

It is located in the middle of the front and rear directions of the hull, and on the port side of the middle and upper floors of the upper and lower floors, a separate area is divided.

This is a completely independent and complete living area specially designed by the Royal Passenger Ferry Company for guests with special status.

Living facilities are available, entertainment facilities are also furnished, and living and leisure spaces are also abundant.

If Zhu Jingyuan needs to, he can be here the whole time, without going to other places on the ship or contacting other people.

Zhu Jianfeng's room is on the starboard side, which is basically the same as the situation on Zhu Jingyuan's side.

In fact, if there is only one guest of the same level, the two spaces can be connected and separated when needed.

Zhu Jingyuan's two staff, as well as the calm room, next to Zhu Jingyuan's living quarters, are also the best places on the ship.

Guan Tianpei, with thirty-two soldiers, lived around Zhu Jingyuan's room.

The other soldiers were dispersed to various important positions on the ship, so that they could control the situation on board in case of emergency.

When Zhu Jingyuan and the two staff members settled down, Zhu Jianfeng also took his princess on the ship, and then the other guests boarded the ship separately.

The system of dignity and inferiority left by the classical society has been dispelled a lot with the gradual opening of the people's wisdom, but the authoritarian idea still exists.

No one thought that it was unreasonable for the two princes and grandsons to get on the boat alone and let everyone else wait.

It's just that I think that Zhu Jingyuan, the imperial grandson, is ahead of Zhu Jianfeng, the prince, which makes people a little confused.

The pace of sea freight is much slower than that of rail.

Zhu Jingyuan boarded the ship at twelve o'clock, and it was not until nearly three o'clock in the afternoon that he received a notice that everything was ready and ready to set sail.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't want to wait another night on the dock, so he asked the captain to set sail immediately and leave the port area before dark.