After attending the meeting on the warship, Liang En went to the hall of the warship under the guidance of the attendant to attend the dinner party on the warship, and did not leave the warship with Ao Lei until more than an hour later.

"Looks like you had a pretty good conversation with those big guys." After leaving the port, Ao Lei looked at Liang En's elated appearance and said.

"Because my idea is exactly the same as that of the big guys." Liang En smiled and said, he didn't think those people couldn't think of what he said.

It's just that he is the originator of the steam engine and related knowledge in this world, so the emperor and the political hall will ask him about this matter and compare it with his own analysis.

Fortunately, through this meeting, the two sides completely agreed on the future development, allowing Liang En to show his ability in front of these people who control the imperial court, and also reassuring the imperial court.

This is very important for Liang En, especially when he is about to receive a reward, any bit of good news will help improve the content of the reward he will receive in the future, and promote the development of the future territory.

Over the next few days, Liang En studied the various etiquettes he would use under the guidance of the Ministry of Rites, and discussed information about industrial development with the members of the government hall and even the emperor through letters.

Through this connection, Liang En verified the information he had obtained before: after the first round of construction, the industrial construction of the Great Song Dynasty had entered a low ebb.

This is not to say that the court's support for industrial development has decreased, but purely because the Great Song Dynasty, which was originally only an agricultural economy, could not muster enough suitable manpower for the development of industry.

Therefore, now the Great Song Dynasty has stopped borrowing cultivators to carry out industrial construction at high speed, and has instead used the existing industrial facilities to start training corresponding personnel.

According to the imperial court's calculations, it would take at least three years to train skilled workers for the next round of expansion, and at least ten years to industrialize the entire country.

As Liang En said before, even the construction of advanced steel warships is not of much practical value, because apart from the two port cities of Haijin and Jianye, there is no third place in the world where these ships can be repaired and maintained without the help of transcendents.

One only has to think about the history of how the Beiyang Navy, which lost Port Arthur in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, completely lost its logistical supply capacity, and you can understand how troublesome it is for a country that has not completed industrialization to maintain a modern fleet.

Fortunately, the imperial court also realized this, so it chose to lay a solid foundation rather than rush for quick success and rapid development of industry, and this is obviously on the right path.

In the midst of the exchange, time passed day by day, until five days later, an envoy came from the capital to Xuanliang En's entry into Beijing to receive a reward.

Unlike in the past, in addition to the traditional horse-drawn carriage or horseback riding, there is now a new option to travel from Haijin to Beijing by train.

The railway, which connects the port of Haijin with the capital Jijing, is one of only three railways in this round of industrial construction, and Liang En showed a shocked expression after seeing the world's train on the platform.

Because the train that appeared in front of him and the train in his impression were completely different things, and it looked like a long string of double-storey buildings on steel wheels.

"Broad-gauge railway, you actually chose the most difficult technology." After recovering from the shock, Liang En turned to the herald beside him and asked.

"Yes, Master Liang." As a herald, he naturally had some knowledge of Liang En's situation, so he replied, "According to the analysis of scholars, although the broad-gauge railway is troublesome to manufacture, once it is built, the benefits are far better than that of the narrow-gauge railway." ”

The hyperrailway has an extraordinary 3m gauge gauge, each car is 42 meters long, 6 meters wide and 7 meters high, with a railway limit of 8 meters, and each train pulls 8 cars with a length of more than 500 meters.

There is plenty of space in the car, so there are restaurants, libraries, swimming pools, hairdressers, bathhouses, etc., and can carry more than 3,500 guests at most.

In the case of trucks, a truck can transport more than 8,000 tons of materials, and at the same time can transport some large items, and miracles such as dryland boating will become a daily routine.

Obviously, such a heavy train is not something that a normal locomotive can tow, and the 50-meter-long, 35,000-horsepower heavy locomotive obviously uses a lot of extraordinary means.

"The railway uses so many new technologies and extraordinary resources that even if the occupancy rate is very high, the profit is very small, and it may take fifty or sixty years to pay for itself."

After getting on the train, the herald took Liang and the others to their place and explained the details of the train, his tone showing a deep sense of pride.

After all, this is the world's first batch of railways, and it is also the largest embodiment of the big machine industry, and from a certain point of view, this railway also represents the future of the world.

With a whistle, the train slowly moved on the railway, and Liang only felt a slight vibration under his seat. The surrounding scenery began to slowly recede.

Probably because it was in the plains, the train was fast, and it only took them two hours to reach Jijing Railway Station.

Contrary to what was expected, the railway station was not built in the city, but in a new satellite city 7km away from the city.

Unlike traditional Chinese cities, this satellite city is an emerging industrial city. As soon as he stepped out of the train station, Liang En felt the atmosphere of industrialization very close to the modern world:

As far as the eye can see, a large number of tall chimneys can be seen spewing white smoke outward, and at the same time, a roar can be heard.

As for the people on the street, they were obviously in a hurry, and their clothes were more close-fitting than those in other places, and most of them had short haircuts.

They had already communicated with this side in advance, so they quickly boarded the carriage that had been waiting here in the open space next to the subway station.

The carriages here were not traditional two-wheeled carriages, but four-wheeled carriages with bogies – the great advantages and relative simplicity of the new carriages over the imitable steam engine allowed them to quickly spread out in the country.

Of course, the leading role of the royal family and the government hall also played a big advertising role, and when they drove through the streets of the capital in horse-drawn carriages for a while, a large number of them naturally sprung up on the streets.

"This is a new city for experimenting with steam technology." As the carriage began to move, the herald explained to Liang the situation in the new city. "Judging from the operation of the past year, this technology should be the future of the motherland."

"You're right." Liang En nodded, then took a breath of air with a slight smell of coal.

Contrary to what you might think, the air in this city is only slightly polluted, at most at the same level as when you burned coal, which is completely different from what you imagined.

This was the result of a collaboration between the imperial court and the mountain ghosts: the mountain ghosts provided a number of specially cultivated plants that could absorb all kinds of harmful substances, allowing the industrial city to avoid the result of large-scale pollution in the modern world.