Yang Fan plans to build a bus railway in the capital first. It will be run on a trial basis so that everyone can get familiar with it and get used to it. The resistance to building a regular railway in the future will be much smaller.
The current development results of Huangcheng North Street are very good, and the first community has been sold out. In the spring of next year, three more communities will be launched.
Yang Fan estimates that these customers who have bought a building will definitely build up their reputation after enjoying the winter. House sales will be even hotter next year.
People of this era have never enjoyed such good living conditions.
Tap water, heating, bathrooms and toilets. The windows are all flat glass, allowing the winter sun to fully shine into the room. Hot water is available 24 hours a day. The community's strict security system makes living absolutely safe.
Close to Xinghe Supermarket and Gulou Business District. 24-hour restaurant with food delivery service. Grocery store, bathhouse, laundromat, and garden-style community.
Buy a house here, live a comfortable life, and live comfortably.
As long as they live in it and enjoy one winter, they will be completely immersed in happiness and unable to extricate themselves.
Next year, as word of mouth spreads, it is estimated that after the second batch of communities are opened, supply will exceed demand, and all future communities will be able to sell off-plan properties.
Yang Fan is preparing to put the first railway in the capital.
Improve the living environment and travel convenience in Beijing. These infrastructures are also a means to increase housing prices. Only by changing the surrounding environment can housing prices soar.
Huangcheng North Street has reserved space for laying two tracks. It is currently covered by a green belt in the middle of a two-way six-lane cement road.
Yang Fan plans to deceive His Majesty and build a circular railway first to solve the traffic problem in the capital.
This railway runs clockwise. It starts from Huangcheng North Street, exits Chongwenmen via Dongdan Street and ends at Liangguang Road. Then it turns west from Liangguang Road, turns north at Caishikou, passes through Xuanwumen and enters Xidan Street, and then returns to
Huangcheng North Street.
It forms a closed ring line that connects the north and south cities.
In the future, depending on the benefits, we will retain the plan to build a double-track railway. In the future, the other railway to be double-tracked will be exactly the opposite and adopt a counterclockwise direction.
If a station is set up every one mile, the traffic in the entire capital will be completely revitalized.
The small train is very short and narrow, and can easily pass through the city gate. There is no need to demolish the city wall to create a gap. In this way, the resistance to construction is also small.
The track load of the narrow-gauge railway is small, similar to that of urban trams. It can be laid directly in the middle of the stone road in Beijing, and the amount of work is also small.
In the movie, the bell-ringing trams in old Shanghai were grooved in the middle of the road and laid twenty centimeters lower. The tracks were level with the road surface and did not affect the passage of pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and other vehicles.
In this way, a circular railway line in the shape of a mouth is formed, including Nancheng and Beicheng.
Because the small train is a narrow-gauge railway with a width of 0.76 meters, the height and width are small, the speed is slow, and the noise is low. It is more suitable for use in cities.
If he was worried about the locomotive spewing coal ash and dust that would pollute the environment, Yang Fan could burn heavy oil for the small train. Anyway, he would start refining oil in the future.
The small train line that Er Lunzi wants to acquire is the longest existing narrow-gauge railway system in the world. It belongs to the forest train system. This type of small train mainly transports wood and has a large load capacity.
The total length of the trunk line is 1,000 kilometers, and the total length of branch lines and dedicated lines is 1,000 kilometers. After they are all dismantled and transported, it will be enough for Yang Fan to work hard.
Currently, there are narrow-gauge railways in the northeast and southwest of the modern area. Most of them have stopped operating and are abandoned there.
This steam engine train locomotive is a 28-ton light locomotive. The length is meters, the width is 2.05 meters, the height is 3.15 meters, the curb weight is 28 tons, and the net weight is 20 tons.
The steam locomotive has a maximum speed of 35 kilometers per hour and a normal speed of 25 kilometers. It uses steam as power and raw coal as fuel. It has a large coal-water loading capacity, carrying 5.2 tons of water and 2.7 tons of coal.
Suitable for long-distance transportation, the vehicle is equipped with a driver, one co-driver each, and two firemen. To clean the furnace and add water at a certain time, some stations need to be equipped with water supply stations.
The rails of the small train are 762 mm wide and the rail type is 15 kg/m. Each rail is ten meters long, less than 200 per kilometer, and there are 3 sleepers per meter.
After this small train line is successfully operated on the 16-kilometer circular line in Beijing, Yang Fan plans to build two more long-distance railway lines.
The first one is to build a line from Beijing to Dagukou Shipping Terminal via Tianjin, with a total length of 200 kilometers.
At present, the section of the Grand Canal from Tianjin to Beijing requires countercurrent fiber drawing. Moreover, the canal is frozen in winter and cannot be used. If a railway is built from the imperial capital to the Dagukou pier through Tianjin, there will be many benefits.
First of all, the water transportation freight can earn enough money to operate this railway.
There will be no need to pull fiber in the future. Pulling fiber is too slow and the cost is high. As for the trackers, Yang Fan will arrange it.
After this narrow-gauge railway is completed, it can connect the capital and the shipping terminal. This railway can replace the Northern Canal and become a new transportation artery.
Freight traffic is busy on this route. After the railway is completed, it will definitely make a lot of money.
The second step is to build the Longhai Railway.
The designed route runs from Lianyungang to Xi'an via Xuzhou, Renqiu, Kaifeng, Luoyang and Xi'an, with a total length of about one thousand kilometers.
Yang Fan's main consideration is that this will be the hardest-hit area by the Ming Dynasty's rebellion in the future, and the population will suffer huge losses.
The small train is simple to lay track and fast to build, but its transportation capacity is very good. In the future, these places will be in chaos. Yang Fan plans to transport people to Lianyungang to go to sea and overseas colonies.
Of the five locomotives, Yang Fan plans to place one in Beijing for urban transportation, one on the route from Beijing to Tianjin Port, and the remaining three on the Longhai Line.
The tracks and sleepers of the Longhai Line are not enough, so we can produce some by ourselves. These small tracks are not technically difficult, and Yang Fan's steel plant should be able to produce them. You can also let the idiot continue to buy some. These obsolete and abandoned equipment are equivalent to scrap iron.
Teleporting doesn't cost much gold.
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The peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty broke out in the northern Shaanxi uprising in the seventh year of Tianqi in the late Ming Dynasty (1627), and ended in the complete defeat of the Kuidong Thirteen Families in the third year of Kangxi (1664). It lasted for a total of 37 years.
After the turmoil, the country's population dropped from 20 million in the first year of Chongzhen to 19 million in the 17th year of Kangxi. War, plague, natural disasters, and man-made disasters caused huge population losses.
Yang Fan doesn't have much time to wait for the train he made to mature. The best way is to walk on two legs, importing ready-made ones while using them as reference to research and develop his own.
Yang Fan felt that instead of losing these people in troubled times, it would be better to transport them away to develop colonies for himself.
The climate of the Ming Dynasty cannot support such a large population, but there is a lot of fertile land in the subtropics and tropics. There is too much unowned land in Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
Why should everyone fight to the death here in Daming?
The Yangtze River and the Pearl River have convenient water transportation. Yangfan has steam engines and advanced ships. The efficiency of water transportation is very high. The transportation volume is also amazing. It is not difficult to immigrate there.
Only the north does not have advanced means of transportation.
After Yang Fan built the Longhai Railway, transportation throughout the Central Plains was revitalized. From Lianyungang to Xi'an, it can be reached in two days and two nights. Both disaster relief and immigration have a basis for implementation.
In the future, if Yang Fan wants to go further and explore Central Asia and West Asia, he can continue to extend this railway and continue to build it from Xi'an to the west, through Lanzhou to the west, through the Hexi Corridor to the Yinli Valley. Then all the way west, the army will reach
There, the railway will be built as far as it will go.
Although the transportation capacity of small trains is not as good as that of standard gauge railways, it is still possible to improvise and solve any problems first.
In the future, when Chen Xi's side develops a standard-gauge railway, it won't be too late to switch to a standard-gauge railway.
Yang Fan estimated that this kind of small train with low investment, large transportation capacity, slow speed, but easy construction could be used in the Ming Dynasty for twenty years without any problem.
In order to protect the railway and prevent the tracks from being taken away by unscrupulous people, Yang Fan also needed to use trenches, barbed wire, and blockhouses to seal off the lines.
Artillery towers were built intensively along the route, and road protection teams were stationed. While inspecting, maintaining and repairing the lines, they also protected the safety of the railway.
A lot of railway crossing control personnel and switch workers are also needed.
These make it easier for Yang Fan to hide his strength. After all, Yang Fan is already very powerful now. If he continues to develop, he will easily conflict with the emperor.
Yang Fan needs new, more covert ways to continue to expand his power.
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