Lin Ziran is naturally no stranger to Nanhai Prefecture. Qingshan Town, where he started his business, is directly part of Lianguan County, Luo'an County, Nanhai Prefecture.
In the process of unifying Nanhai State and even the empire, Lin Ziran also used Luohai City as his base camp for a long time.
After the unification of the empire, although the capital was moved to Jingzhou, Guo Dongyan has always been paying close attention to the situation in Nanhai Prefecture, and has returned to Nanhai Prefecture several times during his inspections in the past ten years or so.
Therefore, Lin Ziran was relatively familiar with the situation in Luo Haicheng.
But, it has been four years since I last returned to Luo Hai City. After these four years, Luo Hai City has also undergone great changes.
After entering the city first, Lin Ziran saw a large number of public trams.
Trams have only been rolled out in major cities in recent years. The last time Lin Ziran came to Luohai City, trams had not yet become popular on a large scale.
But now, there are already many trams operating in Luohai City.
Trams are just like electric lights. This is also one of the important symbols of the electrification of the Daheng Empire.
Although at the official level of the Daheng Empire, more attention is paid to electrification facilities in the field of industrial production. For example, factories use electric motors instead of steam engines as the main power.
However, industrial facilities are also difficult for ordinary people to see, so ordinary people do not have a sufficient understanding of electrification in the field of industrial production. What they know more about are things that they can see and come into contact with every day, such as trams and some businesses.
Electric lights in facilities, such as telegraphs.
The telegraph, in particular, was the earliest electrified device that people understood on a large scale and affected their actual lives.
The emergence of the telegraph facilitated people's communication, not only in the business field, but also in the ordinary life field.
Nowadays, many people often send telegrams when making emergency contacts.
Of course, telegrams are quite expensive nowadays. Unless it is an emergency, most communication is done by letter.
Trams are the second electrified facility they come into contact with every day. As for electric lights, they actually appeared earlier, but right now, electric lights are still too expensive.
At present, the main application of electric lights is still concentrated in the military field. For example, the lighting inside warships? Searchlights are the most typical application of electric lights.
In addition, some commercial facilities, such as hotels, large department stores, high-end office buildings and other office spaces, are investing heavily in installing electric lights.
Then some official buildings also adopted electric lights in order to promote them. For example, the imperial palace was the first building complex to use electric lights. Subsequently, major institutions in Jingzhou also adopted them one after another.
However, the problem of high cost of electric lights still exists.
This high cost not only refers to the high production cost of the lamp itself, but also the high cost of the power supply equipment.
Because there is no existing power supply network in many places? If you want to use lights or other electrical products, you have to buy a generator to generate electricity.
Although the empire is vigorously developing power supply networks in many places, it is mainly concentrated in the industrial field. Power plants are often built in major industrial areas and big cities, mainly to supply power to factories, and secondly for large-scale use.
Electric public utilities, such as tram power supply.
If we want to popularize electric lights, we must continue to invest huge sums of money in building a power supply network.
In Lin Ziran's opinion, the electrification development in Luohaicheng is still very good. It is no worse than that in Jingzhou.
Jingzhou is the capital of the empire, and it is also the transportation hub of Jinghe River? And Jingzhou itself is the traditional industrial belt of the empire, with various bonuses? The earliest thermal power plant was built in Jingzhou.
As for Luohai City in Nanhai Prefecture, to be honest, some conditions are still worse. But it can still keep up with the pace of electrification development quickly. It can be seen that the local officials in charge have still worked hard.
Now that he has seen a good scene? Lin Ziran will naturally not be stingy with his exaggeration. In the high-level meeting that night after arriving in Luohai City, Lin Ziran praised the local officials of Nanhai Prefecture and encouraged them to continue to boldly innovate and move forward courageously, for
The empire was strong and prosperous, and contributed to the prosperity of the people.
The next day, Lin Ziran personally visited the urban area of Luohai City and visited a large department store in the city center. Well, the Luohai Department Store here was also the first department store in the Daheng Empire.
Well, this department store was not created by the people of Daheng, but was learned from the business model of department stores that emerged in the Krul Kingdom in recent years.
In many fields, the people of Daheng actually support traditional developed countries such as the Kingdom of Krul and the Valia Empire. As soon as they see others come up with new things, the people of Daheng immediately follow suit.
Otherwise, how could outsiders say that Daheng people copy everything!
However, in Lin Ziran's view, the Daheng Empire, as a country that has just been unified for more than ten years, still has a very poor foundation. There is nothing wrong with the Krul Kingdom, the world's largest country, crossing the river. Anyway, the other party has no problem.
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After visiting the department store, Lin Ziran went to visit the newly completed Nanjiang Bridge.
Nanjiang is a tributary of the Luo River. It flows through Luohai City and then extends to the northwest. Before this, the entire Luohai City was basically built on the east bank of the Nanjiang River and then extended to the Luo River. Therefore, Luohai City is actually
A city with the sea to the south, the Luo River to the east, and the Nanjiang River to the west!
However, with the development of the city, the urban land area is increasingly unable to meet the development of the city, so it is forced to develop towards the north bank of the Nanjiang River.
But, as the west bank of the Nanjiang River developed, the exchange of people and materials between the two banks became very troublesome.
Just relying on ferries is not enough. As for building bridges, this is actually very troublesome.
The Nanjiang River is very wide in the urban area of Luohai City. The river surface is several hundred meters wide. And the most important thing is that the Nanjiang River itself is also responsible for extremely important inland water transportation tasks.
If you want to build a bridge, you must first ensure it is open to navigation.
In the end, the Daheng Empire made great efforts and solved many technical problems, and then designed and built such a Nanjiang Bridge!
This is a steel suspension bridge that directly spans hundreds of meters of the river. It even has a specially built approach bridge several kilometers long. As long as the bridge deck is built relatively high to ensure navigation capacity, the clear navigation height can reach
Twenty-five meters...
Because the bridge deck is so high, a long extension is needed to slow down the slope.
Therefore, in order to build this bridge, the engineers of the Daheng Empire made great efforts.
When visiting the bridge, Lin Ziran was also thinking about when to build a Luohe River Bridge. After all, whether it is a railway or a highway, Luohai City actually needs a super bridge.