Chapter 1000 Prelude to the expansion of the high-speed rail empire
Chapter 1000 High-speed Rail, the Prelude to Empire Expansion (Second update, please subscribe)
To master finance is to master the world!
This is a concept instilled by Emperor Zhu Da more than ten years ago. In the past ten years, under his attention, Ming Dynasty's financial industry has developed from a young bud to a behemoth.
And Imperial Bank is the leader among them!
As the head of the Imperial Bank, Hu Guangyong has long been not just a banker, but a financial decision-maker.
Standing up from a spacious mahogany desk, walking through the large room, Hu Guangyong walked to the flower window on the south wall, staring at the Eighth Street downstairs - this was the financial center of the Ming Empire. From the high-rise building
Looking down, this street is full of crawling people and vehicles.
This street, which is only 28 meters wide, is the heart of the Ming Empire's financial industry. No matter what those who detract from it say, this street has always firmly controlled the empire's finance. For some people wearing dark gray clothes, coming and going in a hurry
For people who come from ordinary finance, it may just be a place where they can find jobs and get hired. They just work here. Here, from adolescence to adulthood, middle age, and finally retirement, what a person always seeks is just a stable and stable job.
Generous income, and of course generous pensions; for other young and promising people, it is a palace of opportunity. Here, as long as you have special skills and work hard, you will be rewarded with promotion and security -
-The vast colonies of the empire provide ample jobs for young people; for pragmatists, it is the largest market and the largest place for speculation in the world; for leftists, it is also a place for the luxury and debauchery of the rich.
Wherever they are, the rich shamelessly use financial means to plunder wealth.
What kind of person is Hu Guangyong?
He is both a man who sees the world with open eyes and a realist. He understands this financial center for what it is: it is purely a jungle, a battlefield.
Everything on this battlefield is pure and simple. What matters here is the law of the jungle. If you want to survive, you must become a predator and bite your prey. And he himself is a predator in this jungle.
, and it is also the most powerful one.
Since it is the most powerful, can we relax a bit?
of course not!
In fact, not only cannot we relax, we even need to be more focused, because in this jungle, anyone who takes things lightly will be quickly eliminated.
Although the Imperial Bank is huge, it also attracts attention. Outside the Imperial Bank, banks such as HSBC are staring at him, watching him with eager eyes, waiting to replace him.
It is precisely because of this that Hu Guangyong did not dare to slack off at all.
"Abolish the two reforms and change the Yuan... This is a perfect opportunity."
After staring out the window for a long time, Hu Guangyong walked back to the office again. He looked at the report on the table and thought of the plans of banks such as HSBC, Quanye and Fumin to form a banking syndicate to lend money to China.
He smiled coldly, then raised his brows slightly.
As a predator, he would not tolerate anyone taking away his prey. After thinking for a moment, he leaned forward, picked up the phone on the table, and said.
"Ms. Zhao, help me book a ticket to Zhongdu... Well, yes, it's an American Star."
At this time, it’s time to go to Zhongdu.
"American Star" is the most famous "express train" in the Ming Dynasty. As early as ten years ago, in order to strengthen the connection between Nanhua and Yingtian, the Imperial Railway Company began to promote the development of high-speed trains. In May of the second year of Shengde,
A "High-Speed Train Committee" was established within the Imperial Railway Company and the Ministry of Transport, with one representative from each department of transport, work, and engineering affairs. A few months later, the "Emperor Railway" decided to build four trains from Nanhua to Yingtian.
Intermittent special express trains were built, and a budget was quickly proposed. Despite the huge amount and the huge amount of funds used, the Imperial Ministry of Transport and the Imperial Railway Company still fully supported the plan, which shows that the entire empire attaches great importance to this plan.
After the budget was passed, Imperial Railway accelerated the pace of progress and sent technical personnel to the United States and Europe to study and inspect related advanced technologies. However, after a round of inspections, it was found that... Ming Dynasty's own was more advanced - at that time, the average speed of European and American trains was only
30.2 kilometers, while the Ming Dynasty is more than 42 kilometers. The fastest "Pacific" in the Ming Dynasty is also a model of the world's high-speed trains. As a representative of steam trains, its average speed is 57.2 kilometers per hour, far exceeding its European and American counterparts.
However, this does not mean that there is no gain - for the first time, they discovered that the level of motorcycles in the Ming Empire was far behind their European and American counterparts.
However, despite this, the "America Express" was still an unprecedented challenge for the Imperial Railways - the vehicles of the "America Express" were designed and manufactured with a target speed of 120 kilometers per hour. This did not reflect the train speed of the "Imperial Railway" at that time.
It is the ambition of the Ming Empire to expand its territory.
"What we need is a high-speed train that can reach any city in South America within 24 hours!"
What is ambition?
This is ambition!
It can be said that it is ambitious, and it is ambitious. Even in the long-term plan of "Emperor Railway", there is a railway to Mexico City.
Of course, all of this is just a draft. But one thing that is certain is that the Ming Dynasty has aspirations for the entire South American continent, and the railway is a tool for the Ming Dynasty to expand or implement its rule in South America.
The mainland is so vast. If you want to connect the mainland, you must have high-speed trains. This is the fundamental reason why the Ministry of Transportation and Imperial Railway Company fully support the "American Express".
The vast territory of the empire needed high-speed trains to strengthen the connections within the empire, and of course for future expansion. To this end, the Imperial Railway Company gathered almost all the best engineers, and it took eight years to finally successfully develop the "American Star"
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Last year, the news that the operating speed of the "American Star" exceeded the 100 kilometers per hour mark for the first time not only made the headlines of many newspapers in China, but also made the headlines of many newspapers in Europe and the United States.
"This is the fastest train since the invention of trains!"
As for all this, Hu Guangyong, who is the president of Imperial Bank, is of course very clear, because Imperial Bank is the largest shareholder of Imperial Railway and the largest seller of Imperial Railway bonds.
That afternoon, Hu Guangyong's car drove directly to the platform of the "American Star". When the car drove into the platform, some people always looked at it-even the passengers of the "American Star" were very
Wealth is expensive, but few people can drive their cars onto the platform.
When Hu Guangyong got off the train, the train conductor, who had been waiting for a long time, led several passengers to personally greet him.
"Mr. President, your carriage is carriage No. 3. Please come with me."
When the conductor respectfully led the way, Hu Guangyong took a special look at the streamlined front of the train. This is the biggest feature of the "American Star". Its special model can always attract people's attention everywhere.
After getting on the train and entering the luxurious box, Hu Guangyong glanced at an ordinary steam train running side by side outside the window. Although they were both steam trains, the difference between them was really huge.
Looking at the somewhat "unsophisticated" steam locomotive, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.
"A speed of 100 kilometers per hour is no slower than an airship! Maybe this is the future!"
High-speed trains are the future!
Anyone who knows the Ming Dynasty will not doubt this. After all, the current empire is too vast. In order to connect the vast empire together, it is inevitable to build new railways and new high-speed trains.
The trend is inevitable.
Of course, this also means that the empire must consider external expansion in order to build railways to connect the north and the south.
Perhaps this is also the reason why the high-speed train is named "American Star" - because eventually the Ming Dynasty will build railways throughout the Americas.
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