Chapter 123 The most trustworthy thing is coincidence

Chen Ying will definitely be a living person. He will be tired when he is tired, and he will be painful when he is hurt. Especially when he sits side by side with Chen Ying, feeling the pulse on Chen Ying's wrist, Li Xiuning fell into confusion again.

Chen Ying enjoyed the admiration of Yang Rong and Li Daozhen very much. Even if it was later built a railway, it would take a lot of time and dangerous areas, and there were casualties. However, Chen Ying built three strategic arteries during the Tang Dynasty.

From Chang'an to the east, pass Tongguan, Hangu Pass, pass through Mianchi, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Huangxu, Suiyang, and Qijun. It is almost a replica of the Longhai Railway. This railway called Chidao took about five years from the start of construction to the full line. The most pitfall is that Chen Ying had no way to build the Zhengzhou Yellow River Bridge. When this Chidao crossed the Yellow River, it required a ferry. For four-wheeled heavy-load carriages, it was not a problem.

Even the lightest ferry can carry a load of 100 stones, and it can completely carry a carriage and a horse to reach the other side successfully. But in the future, the train...

This is a big trouble. Calculated by the train's own weight, it is almost equivalent to more than 20,000 stones in this era, which is equivalent to about 1,000 tons. If the load is included, it will be nearly 30,000 stones.

There is not a large ship of 30,000 stone. For example, the Hengyang Boat Bridge can carry a load of more than 1,000 tons. The key is whether it is the Hengyang Boat or the Five-Tooth Battleship, these are all sea boats and can be sailed on special routes of the Yellow River or the Yangtze River. However, this thing is too deep to use as a ferry, and it is extremely inconvenient to turn.

The steam engine train continued to run, faster than the horse galloping, and easily exceeded the speed of forty-five kilometers per hour. It seemed that it could reach about fifty kilometers. The war horse could not keep up at most one incense stick. Even if it was a horse, it was still left behind far away.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and smiled and said, "Chen Lang, where are we going?"

Chen Ying was asked, but he actually didn't know how far the experiment would go.

Qi Nuo bowed and replied, "Report to His Highness the Princess, our end point this time is Kucha. We will pass Jungu, Jiashi, and Weitou (now Bachu County). We will stop three stops and arrive in Kucha!"

Li Xiuning was stunned. The distance between Shule and Kucha was 900 miles, and even using a fast horse would take two days and two nights. This was a long journey.

Li Xiuning said: "I'm not prepared for anything now!"

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said, "What do you want to prepare? There are toiletries on the train, and there are also changing clothes, eating and drinking, everything you eat!"

Li Xiuning said: "I can't worry about the children!"

But at this time, Li Xiuning couldn't continue. Because she found that Li Siye, Chen Qian, Li Ruoxi, and Li Daozhen's eldest daughter Chen Jiujiu were all slowly coming under the guidance of the maid.

Chen Ying pressed his hand on Li Xiuning's shoulder and smiled and said, "Okay, I'm just thinking that our whole family is out for a spring outing!"

Yang Rong is more critical to the cost of trains. She really wants to buy a large amount of train transportation supplies. Now Yang Rong is a famous mine owner in the Tang Dynasty. She not only has strong tincture oil, salt, and iron. She runs a large number of fur business. These supplies need to be transferred to old transportation for a long distance, and it is very convenient to own a train.

Yang Rong tried to ask, "How much does this car cost?"

Chen Ying was also unaware of this. For the sake of this train, he spent more than 200,000 guan, plus the reward of one million guan, a total of 1.2 million guan.

Qi Nuo is naturally responsible for answering Yang Rong's questions.

However, the price also discouraged Yang Rong.

"Twenty-hundred thousand coins?" Yang Rong asked in disbelief: "How could it be so expensive?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "It's really not expensive, and you actually don't need to buy it!"

Yang Rong said: "What should I do if I don't buy it and I want to transport the goods?"

Chen Ying said: "Even if you buy it, it will be useless. Do you have a scattered road? This kind of train requires running on the scattered road, and it also requires a lot of road maintenance costs and maintenance costs, which you can't afford at all!"

Yang Rong said: "You mean renting?"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "It's almost the same. You can hand over the goods to me for transportation. You only need to pay the corresponding transportation fee!"

Yang Rong said: "That's all right!"

In fact, there was something new at the beginning when I took the train. After running for two hours without realizing it, everyone felt exhausted. The most important thing was boredom. Whether it was the bathroom or the restaurant, it was actually the freshness that everyone yawned.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying laughed silently.

Before I knew it, I became the Iron Boss of the Tang Dynasty. More than two-thirds of the roads in the Tang Dynasty were built by Chen Ying. Of course, Guanzhong was only eastward. The more than 2,800 miles were built by the imperial court. The railways from Luoyang to Yecheng and arrived in Youzhou were also responsible for the construction of the railways. However, because the court was not very useful to the west of Lingzhou, the entire western road was built by Chen Ying himself, and the cost was very high.

In recent years, Chen Ying's property, including very profitable money shops and hospitals, has been used by Chen on the construction of the road, at least tens of millions of yuan.

If Chen Ying did not become the Iron Boss of the Tang Dynasty, he would feel sorry for himself.

Li Xiuning said solemnly: "Train is a powerful weapon for the country, and it must be the first to be used in the military. If it is handed over to the court, I am afraid the court will not be able to bear the responsibility..."

Chen Ying said without thinking: "The court can't afford it, so I'll take it!"

Li Xiuning said: "You can't afford it either!"

Chen Ying said: "It is definitely not possible to afford it for free, but what about the charges?"

"Charge?" Li Xiuning suddenly remembered the passenger carriage in the Qinglin in Chang'an. It only costs three big money to get on the carriage and arrive in the Qinglin from Chang'an.

At the current speed, you can reach Kucha in just over half a day at most, and on average, the speed can reach more than 30 kilometers per hour. If you take the stop time, the speed has exceeded 45 kilometers per hour, and the energy consumption has dropped significantly, so you have the possibility of commercial operation.

Chen Ying silently calculated that although the steam engines consume a lot of water when transporting trains, water is not expensive. The cost paid is just the station and road maintenance costs, and coal in Anxi is only slightly more expensive than soil.

Every twenty miles, six thousand kilograms of water and about one thousand kilograms of coal are consumed. According to the resources consumed and labor costs, train losses are equivalent to nine ten thousand kilograms per mile.

It costs about 8,000 guan to travel from Shule to Kucha like Chen Ying. If you transport grain, you will have to be as high as 2,500 guan per stone of grain.

In fact, transporting grain to Guanzhong is not profitable.

Of course, luxury equipment or other materials are also profitable.

Chen Ying pointed to the train track: "It took no more than seven hours from Shule to Kucha this time, and it cost about 8,000 guan!"

"Eight thousand guan?" Li Xiuning's thinking became even more beautiful.

She calculated the transport personnel. One train could carry one brigade and one train could carry seventeen train cars, which was a total of seventeen brigades. More than one thousand and seven hundred people, each with an average of less than five jin of money.

If you use the original speed, it takes ten or even half a month for elite soldiers to travel 900 miles. If you are a cavalry, it will take two to three days. The key is that people eat horse lords, which also requires a lot of money.

Spend 50,000 to 60,000 jin to transport a 10,000 army within one day and thousands of miles away. No matter how you calculate it, it cannot be considered expensive!

Now Chen Ying's idea of ​​becoming the Iron Boss of the Tang Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger. After all, the Iron Boss of later generations is quite majestic and can support more than 2 million people.

However, Chen Ying's railway company cannot even do one percent of the future generations, and the degree of mechanization is too low, so it will require more manpower.

Chen Yingchong Qi Nuo and Zhou Qing said: "There are two problems with trains now. The energy consumption is too low and it needs to be further reduced. The speed is also unsatisfied with me and I need to further increase the speed. Also... it is the transportation cost. You have never thought that this steam engine train is also practical. It costs more than 8,000 guan from Kucha to Shule. If you only transport more than 10,000 stones of grain, 900 miles, each stone of grain needs to be increased by 2,500 guan. It is best to reduce the transportation cost by 3,000 guan, or even lower!"

Zhou Qing and Qi Nuo agreed repeatedly.

...

Just as the train was running towards Kucha, in front of the only remaining elder Wang Jing, Taiyuan Wang Renbiao said to Wang Jing: "Uncle, if you want to talk about the punishment of heaven, the first one to win the imperial examination should be the main hall of our Wang family's ancestral hall, but the partial hall!"

As the Shangzhu Kingdom of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Jing naturally knew that the Wang family in Taiyuan had made great contributions to the status of today.

Especially his grandfather Wang Sizheng, who was an aide to Yuan Xiu (Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Zhou) in his early years, and later defected to Guanzhong Yuwen Tai and was granted the title of Duke of Taiyuan County. Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei attacked the Western Wei. Wang Sizheng led his army to defend Yubi. After nine days of fierce fighting, he repelled the Eastern Wei army and was promoted to General of the Cavalry for his merits. Hou Jing of the Eastern Wei rebelled. Wang Sizheng was the governor of Jingzhou at the time and took the opportunity to occupy the strategic location Yingchuan. He was appointed as the general and governor of the military affairs of Henan.

It can be said that Wang Sizheng is the murder god of Taiyuan's Wang family in recent years. There are not 300,000 people in his hands, and at least 200,000 people.

Compared with Wang Sizheng, Wang Kang is too weak.

Since God has sent divine punishment, the one who should be punished the most is actually Wang Sizheng, not Wang Kang.

Although Wang Kang was born in his life, he became a general and a prime minister. In fact, his achievements were not as good as Wang Sizheng. If it weren't for his father Yu Yin, he would not have become the head of the Wang family in Taiyuan.

Wang Renbiao continued: "The most suspicious thing is that our ancestral hall east side hall had been repaired three days ago, and the managers in charge of the matter and the craftsmen who repaired the matter could not find anyone. Not only them themselves, but also their families disappeared at the same time. This is really suspicious."

Looking at Wang Jing, he remained silent.

Wang Renbiao said again: "Uncle, the most trustworthy thing in this world is coincidence!"

Wang Jing said in a hoarse voice: "Who... is so cruel?"

Wang Renbiao said: "Renbiao found out that in the seventh year of Wude, there was a heavenly punishment in the southern yamen of the Tai Chi Palace in Chang'an, but the power was much smaller. Several soldiers were killed and seven or eight were injured. Four of these wounded soldiers died in battle one after another. Only one of the troopers named Guo Bingtian. Renbiao once took him to check the East Side Hall..."

Wang Jing said in an unquestionable tone: "Tell me directly, who is he?"

Wang Renbiao said slowly: "Chen Ying, the Great Protector of Anxi!"

"Oh..." Wang Jing sighed and said, "When will the revenge be repaid?"

Wang Renbiao said unwillingly: "Can you just let it go?"

"Otherwise?" Wang Jing said angrily: "Chen Ying has always used all means to do things and never cared about it. Since he dared to attack the Wang family in Taiyuan, he would not be afraid of revenge. With such means, he would have the ability to uproot our Wang family in Taiyuan!"

"Our Taiyuan Wang family has no less than 100,000 children!" Wang Renbiao said in anger: "Can he still kill all of them?"
Chapter completed!