The arterial highway plan for the Taihu Lake area was initially jointly proposed and then planned and constructed individually. Although the process was somewhat iterative, in the end each locality was finalized for their own development.
The Imperial Ministry of Transportation above is also happy to see this happen!
Let the wealthy places build their own roads, and Gyeonggi's funds support the poor places to build roads. This is the consensus of the Imperial Ministry of Transportation and even the upper echelons of the empire. The current Taihu Lake Highway is just in line with this policy idea.
As the Taihu Lake Highway was finalized, the Imperial Ministry of Transportation also launched multiple road line plans led by Gyeonggi Province and provided financial support.
However, the highway lines built in Gyeonggi Province are obviously not that good. They are not even hardened roads, just ordinary gravel roads.
But even if it is a gravel road, it will later be able to solve the initial traffic problems in some poor places without trains or rivers, which is still of great significance.
Highway construction is part of transportation construction, and transportation construction is a key plan in the second great industrial development.
According to the second industrial development plan, in order to further promote industrial and commercial development, develop local economies, and improve people's living standards, transportation construction is a top priority.
The road network plan is actually only a small part of it, and the bigger part is still railway construction.
The imperial transportation department will continue to steadily promote large-scale railway construction, especially the construction of trunk railways in the central and western regions (Central Asia, West Asia and Europe), and the construction of branch railways in the eastern region (Central Plains region).
Focus on supporting the construction of railways in remote areas with inconvenient transportation!
In the process of building new railways, we also continue to promote the upgrading and development of railway train technology and further increase train speeds to increase the turnover of railway transportation and strive to increase the average speed of passenger trains on the railway network to 60 kilometers per hour.
Develop and build higher-speed passenger trains in specific areas, such as the Jiangnan Railway. This railway network has already achieved a passenger train speed of 60 kilometers per hour. Now they plan to increase the speed of passenger trains to 80 kilometers per hour.
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It’s just that the technical requirements are very high. That’s not to say that trains can’t run at such high speeds. In fact, even today’s steam engine trains can reach hundreds of kilometers per hour when driven at full speed, but safety cannot be guaranteed.
It is not that easy to ensure the safety of trains when traveling at high speeds.
In addition to the development of roads and railways, the development and construction of river and maritime transportation is still a focus. The transportation department will continue to invest funds to dredge waterways in various river sections, expand navigation capabilities, and accelerate the construction of dock infrastructure at coastal ports.
The empire is preparing to comprehensively expand and upgrade its transportation network, including railways, highways, and shipping, to meet the huge transportation needs of the second great industrial development.
However, ordinary people do not feel this very deeply. Although they can enjoy great benefits from it, it is not these infrastructures that bring people a greater intuitive feeling, but some daily necessities.
The popularization of some consumer industrial products that were closely related to their lives entered the homes of ordinary people, which made them deeply feel the changes of the second great industrial development initiated by the empire.
For example, bicycles have been around for a long time, but the price has always been relatively expensive. In addition, the performance is still defective, and some people's inherent concepts. Therefore, the bicycles in the Tang Empire were actually in the early decades.
In the history of development, it has always been a stage of making small fuss.
Of course, there is also Li's Bicycle Company, the main core patent holder of bicycles, which has always been independent and has never opened up the core patents of bicycles.
Li's Bicycle relies on the core patents of bicycles and sells high-priced bicycles, but it has not played any positive role in the overall promotion and development of bicycles.
This situation happened fifty years after Xuanping, when many of the core bicycle patents owned by Li's Bicycles expired, a large number of small and medium-sized manufacturers began to produce and sell bicycles, and in order to compete in the market, they continued to lower the prices of bicycles. The Empire's
The bicycle industry is ushering in a comprehensive explosion!
Well, it is worth mentioning that the Li Bicycle Company of the Li family in Hanyang went bankrupt in this wave of brutal bicycle competition...
Li's Bicycle Company, accustomed to selling high-priced bicycles, was completely eliminated by the market just three years after their core patents expired. They later tried to reduce costs and increase volume, but still failed to survive, and finally successfully went bankrupt.
Leave a piece of chicken feathers on the ground!
By the 63rd year of Xuanping, the price of bicycles had dropped to a level that ordinary working-class families could accept. At the same time, after years of continuous development and evolution, the design and structure of bicycles were already very suitable for riding.
Directly led to the rapid popularity of bicycles in the empire.
In the 63rd year of Xuanping, the combined annual output of many bicycle manufacturers in the Tang Empire exceeded two million bicycles of all types. Ten years ago, Li's Bicycle Company also exclusively held many core bicycle patents.
At that time, the annual output was only more than 10,000 vehicles, which was far less than the output of automobiles...
But now, many ordinary families in the empire own bicycles!
In many urban areas, it is very common for people to ride bicycles to work.
However, the rapid development of bicycles, coupled with the rapid development of the automobile industry, also caused a large-scale collapse of some traditional industries in the empire.
Especially in the carriage industry!
In the early decades, especially during the 40 years of Xuanping, the horse-drawn carriage industry in the Tang Empire reached its peak. Even though the automobiles at that time had appeared and attracted active orders from the wealthy, the empire at that time
The main force for short-distance land transportation of passengers and freight is still horse-drawn carriages.
The development of the automobile industry at that time did not affect the development of horse-drawn carriages at all, so that even more than 40 years after Xuanping, the horse-drawn carriage industry still maintained rapid development and reached a point that would probably surprise future generations.
At that time, almost every place in the empire had a large number of carriages and horses!
Many big cities have tens of thousands of horses. Due to the large number of carriages and horses, it has even evolved into serious environmental problems and traffic accidents in many cities, causing many people to worry. Many people were
We are even worried that in a few decades the whole city may be flooded with horse manure.
But their worries did not come true, because the horse-drawn carriage industry soon ushered in a period of decline after its glory in the 1940s!
Especially fifty years after Xuanping, the price of automobiles continued to drop and their practicality greatly improved. A large number of wealthy people's private carriages turned into cars, and the main public transportation in the city also changed from public carriages to buses.
At the same time, the popularity of bicycles further led to the rapid decrease in the number of horse-drawn carriages.
Today, the horse-drawn carriage industry has already become a sunset industry. Many horse-drawn carriage companies have actively or passively transformed. Otherwise, what awaits them is bankruptcy.
If this process is just a gradual process and people don't feel it too deeply, then in the 64th year of Xuanping Dynasty, the electric fan launched by Jingkai Electric Co., Ltd. and gained rapid popularity made people completely aware of: