The Lingqi motorcycle moved forward without hesitation and quickly disappeared from the sight of onlookers.
Not long after, the carriage and knight returned to the inn, shaking their heads and explaining that they had completely lost track of them.
The onlookers were immediately in an uproar. The Lingqi motorcycle was faster than a galloping horse, and its load capacity was far beyond it.
The crowd had different expressions, and the citizens of Chang'an who simply came to watch the excitement were amazed.
The merchants who deal in bulk commodities are overjoyed.
Only the driver, Lifu and the crew on the edge of the crowd were a little uneasy, whispering to each other, worried that the spiritual locomotive would take away their jobs.
More than half an hour later, the iconic clanging sound came from the distance again.
The Lingqi locomotive coming in the opposite direction, carrying billowing steam, slowed down slowly and finally stopped.
Su Feng stepped out of the car with a smile, greeted the laborers, opened the carriage, and moved the goods out.
The crowd of onlookers could clearly see that when they left, the goods contained in the carriage were grain, oil, rice and noodles, cloth, silk, tea and wine.
However, when I came back, the carriage contained logs, bricks, medicinal materials, spices, fish, etc.
More importantly, there is also a plaque for Tongguan Inn.
The crowd exclaimed, Tongguan is more than eighty miles away from Baqiao, and it would take at least three hours for the carriage to walk and run, and horses had to be changed in the middle.
And the Lingqi motorcycle only took more than half an hour?
Based on this calculation, wouldn't it be possible to arrive from Chang'an in the morning and arrive in the evening from Chang'an to Luoyang?
Su Feng smiled and patted Ou Zhiyuan on the shoulder, and asked his disciple to check the condition of the vehicle and record the data.
I dusted off my clothes and walked briskly up to a restaurant.
In the pavilion, the emperor, prince, prime ministers and ministers looked confused, obviously having doubts.
"Dr. Su,"
Emperor Yu said in a deep voice: "What is the speed of the Lingqi locomotive? Is there any loss?"
"Report to Your Majesty,"
Su Feng smiled slightly. He had already written these details in previous memorials. The emperor naturally knew that he was just taking this opportunity to tell the ministers.
"Baqiao is eighty-six miles away from Tongguan. One round trip, the total distance is one hundred and seventy-two miles, and it takes five quarters of an hour. A quarter of an hour is used for loading and unloading goods at Tongguan Station. The actual driving time is four
Quarter of an hour.
As for wear and tear, the spiritual energy machine is powered by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the consumables used are just parts that need to be replaced due to mechanical wear and tear, almost non-existent."
Su Feng paused for a moment, taking in the stunned expressions of Shangshu Pei Su, Zhongshu Ling, Xue Ji and others, and continued: "This is the result of the Lingqi locomotive not running at full speed.
At full speed, the Lingqi locomotive can travel 480 miles per hour."
The white emperor's farewell speech is among the colorful clouds. A thousand miles of rivers and mountains are returned in one day.
This poem came to everyone's mind for the first time. A thousand miles to Jiangling in one day? Two hours are enough!
This is a real day and night.
"Where's the load?"
Shangshu Pushe Pei Su took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice: "How much cargo can it carry?"
"The load of the carriage depends on the quality of the rails. During the trip just now, one carriage contained less than 12,000 kilograms of goods. But in the Xuegong Forging Workshop, we have tested that it can hold up to 80,000 kilograms."
Su Feng saw the sharp changes in the expressions on the ministers' faces with satisfaction, and added: "And for such a carriage, the Lingqi locomotive can pull six seats at a time."
It is equivalent to being able to transport 480,000 kilograms.
Most of the ministers here came from the lower-level county officials, and worked their way up through step-by-step assessments. They calculated a series of figures in the blink of an eye.
There are three million people in Chang'an City, which is equivalent to three million mouths waiting for food. Millions of kilograms of food are eaten a day.
There is an endless stream of carriages and cargo ships entering Chang'an City every day.
The whole city is like a giant beast that can never be filled, absorbing supplies from all directions without stopping for a moment.
So much so that every winter, the Zhenfu Division needs to send monks to break the ice on rivers such as the Wei River to barely allow ships to navigate.
If there were a few more Lingqi motorcycles, these vehicles alone could fill the stomachs of the people of Chang'an.
Let the noose hanging around the necks of Chang'an bureaucrats loosen up.
"What about the cost?"
Prince Li Si asked: "Such a behemoth must not be cheap to build, right?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, the parts used in the Lingqi locomotive are extremely complicated and cannot be made by ordinary workshops. They can only be made with the iron melting and casting techniques of the academy."
Su Feng was well prepared and took out a thick stack of blueprints from his arms, "The spiritual energy machine itself requires 600,000 strings.
The boiler, turbine, frame and other parts of the locomotive require 250,000 guan. The iron carriage plus wheels cost 100,000 guan.
Including the bits and pieces of seats, benches, etc. on the car, the cost exceeds one million yuan."
"How much?!"
Even after making certain psychological expectations, this number still far exceeded the ministers' expectations.
Ten thousand guan can buy a Chang'an mansion and build a sailing sailboat.
One million strings... is more than enough to start a small war.
"This is just the price of the Lingqi locomotive itself. The real price lies in the rails."
Su Feng said patiently: "A three-foot-long rail weighs about thirty-six kilograms, and a set of rails weighs seventy-two kilograms.
Today's iron price in Chang'an is 40 cents per pound.
In other words, every three feet requires 2,880 fen of iron.
One mile of railway requires 1,440 guan. If it is to be built to Luoyang, it is 600 miles away, and a total of 860,000 guan is needed. To build it to Dengzhou, 3.45 million guan is needed."
The series of figures shocked the ministers' expressions, and especially the Minister of Revenue, who was in charge of taxation, turned pale.
"...and this is just the ideal cost."
Su Feng seemed to be unaware and said to himself: "In reality, the terrain is winding and undulating. When you encounter mountains, you need to detour, and when you encounter rivers, you need to build bridges. The cost of building a real railway track may need to be doubled.
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"Wouldn't wooden rails work?"
A minister couldn't help but ask: "I heard that mines use wooden tracks to transport ore, which are covered with a layer of iron sheets at most."
"No,"
Su Feng shook his head and said: "The wooden rails are too light and soft. They can carry small trucks for loading ore, but they cannot carry large trucks. There is a risk of derailment."
Prince Li Si knew Su Feng's character well and asked helplessly: "Dr. Su, as the inventor of the spiritual motorcycle, why don't you speak up for your invention?"
"Haha, report back to Your Highness, because there is no need."
Su Feng smiled and said: "The cost of the Lingqi locomotive plus the rails may sound too high to accept at first, but as long as you do some calculations, you can come to the conclusion that it is far superior to horse-drawn carriage transportation and river and sea shipping."<
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