Guo Jia naturally understands the benefits of cement roads, which can enhance the circulation of goods and strengthen local control. However, Daqian already has rail carriages, and its efficiency is already higher than that of ordinary roads. Even if it is built now The efficiency of the cement road in Daqian is not as good as that of Daqian's rail carriage, but the gap between the two sides is not very big. But with the rail carriage, there is no need to build such expensive cement roads anymore. Guo Jia thinks that Lei Gong is What a waste!
But he soon overturned his idea, because there was a track carriage station in the west of Anci County, but it has now been transformed into a train station, and the ground is no longer an iron-clad wooden track, but It is 100% pure steel. When he first learned about this situation, Guo Jia couldn't imagine it. He even came to the rails and beat the rails with an iron rod!
"Dang, Dang, Dang!" Guo Jia's hands were numb from the shock of the iron rod, but he was even more shocked inside. It was actually made of steel. In Guo Jia's view, this was no longer just laying money on the ground, but directly The ground was laid with gold.
"Thunder is so exaggerated that he actually spends such a price to lay rail tracks on the ground!" You must know that even though Xu Wei continued to build blast furnaces and increase steel production, the price did not drop much.
After all, in the past ten years or so, there have been wars. A large amount of steel has been used to make armors, swords, and arrows. There have even been hundreds of thousands of fully armored troops. Xu Wei even used iron to wrap sleepers. The entire world is in demand for steel. It has also expanded dozens of times, so now the price of steel has only dropped by half, with a pound of iron costing about 10 yuan.
It is still an extremely precious resource in this era. Now the serfs on Crab Island can't even make an iron farm tool. Cao Cao can't afford so much steel and even has to melt swords to cast farm tools, but Daqian is extravagant. Lay the iron on the ground!
"Could it be that after the world was calmed down, Lei Gong became very happy with his achievements? This is a good thing for Crab Island!" In Guo Jia's opinion, it is completely unnecessary to build any rails. The iron-clad wooden rails are already very practical. Lei Gong These actions reminded Guo Jia of the First Emperor of the year. He was also a man of great talent and strategy, unmatched by anyone, but he also liked to build various wonders. The wonders of the Celestial Dynasty's civilization for thousands of years were actually not as many as those built by the Qin Dynasty in the past few decades. .
But now Xu Wei's spectacle made Guo Jia feel that it was completely unnecessary. Daqian's powerful national power might be wasted on these unnecessary spectacles.
Guo Jia was even a little happy in her heart. If Lei Gong continued to squander like this, Daqian's huge national power would be consumed little by little. After Lei Gong died, the world might be in troubled times like the late Qin Dynasty. So they were on Crab Island There may not be a chance to return to the Central Plains!
The sound of "Du, Du, Du!" came, and Guo Jia realized that there seemed to be a divine dragon rushing towards him again. This sight stunned Guo Jia, and he did not even dare to move. The steam harvester shocked him back then. It's endless, and now the speed of the steam train is more than ten times that of the harvester, and its size is more than a hundred times. When Guo Jia saw the train for the first time, he really thought he saw a dragon.
But when the train passed by his body, he saw the steel torso of the dragon and the carriages connected behind it. This was not a replica of the rail carriage, but this one was bigger and had more!
Soon Guo Jia could only see the tail of the long dragon and said in surprise: "Is this the Daqian train?"
Guo Jia immediately turned around and came to Anci County Railway Station again!
At this time, the train has stopped on the railway track. Only now can Guo Jia take a closer look at the train. Needless to say, the carriages are just enlarged version of the track carriage carriages, but these carriages are surrounded by workers carrying goods off the train. He Looking at the cargo in a carriage at random, I found that there were hundreds of koku, and this train has more than a dozen carriages. This time, the cargo transported was thousands of koku, which is equivalent to the transportation volume of a medium-sized cargo ship.
Guo Jia suddenly realized: "No wonder Lei Gong wants the rails. Ordinary iron-clad wooden rails can't bear such a weight!"
Guo Jia immediately thought of the military value of trains. The speed of the train just now exceeded the speed of ordinary war horses when marching. Thinking of the carrying capacity of the train, it can transport thousands or even more people at one time. If this speed can continue If it is maintained, Lei Gong can connect the entire Daqian with railway tracks, and then Lei Gong's army can reach anywhere in Daqian within a few days!
When he thought that Lei Gong's hundreds of thousands of troops could reach any place in Daqian within a few days, this kind of troop deployment speed was simply unprecedented. Guo Jia exclaimed: "Lei Gong is not building a railway, it is simply When it comes to creating dragon veins, if Lei Gong's idea comes true, Daqian's national power will increase dozens of times, and there will no longer be any force in the world that can challenge Lei Gong."
Then Guo Jia bought a train ticket and boarded the train to Jidu!
"This train is amazing! It only takes one hour to reach Jidu. Since the train was opened, our business in Anci County has been much better!" The people around him were sighing at the power of the train.
They are considered the first batch of beneficiaries. They can take their own goods or poultry and sell them to Jidu. Before there were trains, Anci would have to walk two days to reach Jidu. It took a lot of effort just to sell them. This small amount of goods at home is not worth the money, but now it is much better. After trapping your poultry, you can go to Jidu to sell the goods in just an hour, and you can come back immediately after selling, and the cost is only 100 yuan for the round trip train. Ticket money.
Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh when he heard these words. Firstly, it was because the surrounding environment was bad. Chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry and piglets were all here, and the smell was unpleasant. Secondly, because he saw Da Gan under the rule of Lei Gong. The gap between them and their Crab Island has reached a huge difference.
In the past, Guo Jia still had the confidence to follow in the footsteps of Lei Gong and chase Dagan, but now that he has set foot on Dagan's land, there are too many things that he cannot understand at all. It's a bit self-deceiving to go to Lei Gong.
Now Daqian and Crab Island have become two completely different worlds. Guo Jia feels that Daqian's potential is not exhausted as he imagined, but is growing. He even vaguely feels that there is a An unprecedented tide is about to sweep across the entire world. If Crab Island cannot catch up with this tide, it will surely fall completely!