Great Tang Idyll - Chapter 1331

[Chapter 977 The day is dawning when I return home]

Zhang Xiaobao, who had decided to get married, did not enter the palace with Li Longji. He had to go home. There were definitely many people at home waiting for them to go back. I wonder if the youngest brother and sister Jixiangruyi fell asleep.

With the expansion of the capital Chang’an, it will take some time to get home from the train station.

“In the future, another station or two will be built. In the capital, you can build a few more rails. You don’t have to run a long distance to start the train. Short distances are also convenient.”

Zhang Xiaobao and Li Longji chatted about short-distance railway transportation. In other words, all distances are relative. After all, the capital is too big.

Wang Juan also thought about it in the same way. In the past, Beijing was not a station, and even some provincial capital cities had bad stations.

Moreover, the two have already negotiated that the capital will still be in Chang’an in the future. If you want to go to Luoyang, you can’t put it in the original area of Beijing.

At that time, Chang’an was not a good place. The prosperity of the past could not be found. It was said that it was a natural disaster. In fact, it was because of deforestation. For example, the previous national policy encouraged the people to burn the woods and then turn them into fields. .

The two of them had low status before, so they had to endure it. Who would dare not listen to what they said now?

Not only will the forest not burn, but also a variety of trees, transplanted plants on the Loess Plateau, to fight against nature.

It is impossible to say that there is not enough food. What is the population and how much land in the country?

There is still enough food to grow. It is not because the land is not enough. It is because many people who have land do not grow food. They grow vegetables. The price of vegetables is higher than that of food. If the quantity is too large, it will start to cry poor if it cannot be sold.

How many people does Tang Dynasty have now?

It is nothing more than the fact that the crop yield was not good before, and I did not know how to open up large planting farms abroad.

Li Longji didn’t know that his capital was given by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

Hearing Zhang Xiaobao’s words, he smiled and looked at Pei Yaoqing and other civil servants.

The civil servants looked helpless, and Gao Lishi said with a smile: “Xiaobao, in the early morning yesterday, the matter of building one more station was just discussed, and the discussion was about whether it is worthwhile to carry out short-distance transportation from one side of the capital to the other side. , and also said that after letting you know, you would object, because other transportation practitioners in the capital would be affected.

As a result, many people used this as an excuse. They rejected the proposal to build a station. Ha, it seems that many people did not Guessing your thoughts, since you brought it up today, let’s talk about it, how can it not have a bad impact on the original transportation industry?”

Zhang Xiaobao was stunned, and looked at the faces of all the ministers with the light, wanting to see Who is it that vetoes matters in the court in his own name?

Anyone who is guilty of being seen by Zhang Xiaobao will bow their heads and scan a circle, and Zhang Xiaobao will know the general situation.

“Where can you prove that building more train stations will have a bad impact on the local transportation industry? The current train station is to the southeast of the capital, but to the west. Twenty minutes have passed, whether it is for people or goods, It’s all convenient, in terms of loading and unloading.”

Zhang Xiaobao felt that many civil servants were still unqualified, and the consideration was too simple.

“Xiaobao…”

“Wang Shangshu please call me Zhang Xiaobao.” When Zhang Xiaobao saw that the person talking was Wang Yan, the minister of households, he corrected the other person’s name without hesitation. He didn’t know him that well. Yes, it’s normal.

I don’t have that friendship in private.

Wang Yan was choked for a while, but he didn’t care at all, who had been in the officialdom for a long time. He smiled and said, “Zhang Xiaobao. I have a question for you.

” , will the practitioners responsible for transportation in and out of the capital make more money? From the southeast to the west, the asking price will be very high. If you add a railway station to the west, the price will not be able to rise, and their income will decrease. Is it possible to use the profits from the West Railway Station to subsidize it?”

Many people nodded.

Thinking that what Shang Shu said was reasonable, he looked at Zhang Xiaobao again, looking forward to his answer.

“This is the capital.” Zhang Xiaobao replied with five words.

“Shouldn’t the transportation industry in Beijing make more money?” Wang Yan asked.

Wang Juan took over the question at this time and replied: “The throughput of the capital is very large. It is people and goods waiting for trains, not trains waiting for people or goods. Even if we didn’t come back, there are quite a few in our family here. In buying and selling, depending on my family’s power, sometimes there will be a backlog of goods that cannot be shipped out for a day, not to mention other people?

Adding a railway station will inevitably increase the speed of transportation. Two stations are responsible for the entire capital. How many people in the transportation industry can run? Half the distance, thereby improving the transportation capacity of people and goods from other places to the railway station, how can the money be made less?

Now the asking price is high. For example, from the railway station to the west area, the price of an animal-drawn cart is 20 cents, and it takes an hour and a half to walk. From the place near the west, the price is 3 cents. After two quarters of an hour, the time is shorter.

The most important thing is that when there is only one railway station now, many people in the transportation industry need to wait, and they can’t pull it out for an hour. The unloading speed of the train is so fast. Wait an hour, pull it back and make a fortune.

Obviously, one hour of time was wasted. Running from the current station to the far west will take three hours, and one hour in empty space. How many times can you run in a day?

It is different for short distances. You earn three cents in two quarters of an hour, six cents in half an hour, twelve cents in one hour, and eighteen cents in one and a half hours.

Compared to before, it was two cents less, but one hour less wasted air consumption, and one hour could earn twelve cents, and the same was true for a man-pulled car.

The most important thing is not this, but the use of work and rest time, this…”

“I understand.

“Li Longji suddenly spoke up and said, “From the current station to the west, it takes four hours to go back and forth for four hours. If you can’t run back and forth for two hours, otherwise you will work for eight hours and rest for the remaining four hours?”

Don’t you have to go home unless your home is on the west side.

No need for short trips, they can work for six hours and then go home. With the flow of people and the throughput of goods in the capital, they are making money every moment. They can earn about seventy-two cents in six hours, compared to eight. It’s a good idea to earn 80 pennies in more than an hour.

If the short-term work is done for another hour, it will be seven hours and eighty-four pennies, and the animals and people will have to rest.

If you want to rest on long journeys, no matter whether you are taking people or goods, customers are unwilling. If you take time to rest on short journeys, animals and people will not be so tired, which is good for your health.

”

Li Longji’s words came out, and the ministers didn’t need to think about it any more, they immediately knew what was going on inside. That’s really the case.

One by one, they started to flatter Li Longji. All kinds of compliments don’t need money to be thrown at Li Longji.

Li Longji was very angry, so he didn’t go to his chariot, and said as he walked, “It’s different now. The reforms proposed by the capable people of various dynasties in the past were all directed at a certain aspect, usually farming, water conservancy, and businessmen. They are very general and can be called governance by inaction.

They are doing right, they should start from the big aspects, but today’s Datang is different from them. At present, we must consider the differences between various industries. When Hangzhou

is cloudy

and rainy, what we have to consider is whether the Suzhou bamboo products in Beijing will be out of stock. Why? Because Suzhou is close to Hangzhou, and bamboo is produced. Hangzhou rains non-stop and the transportation speed is fast. , there must be a large number of merchants who make bamboo umbrellas in Suzhou and send them to Hangzhou to sell, so how can the merchants specializing in selling Suzhou bamboo products in Beijing not be restrained by the supply?

This should be the idea of my Datang officials. , the far water may not quench the thirst of the near. But the near thirst can affect the far water. The man’s arm can’t stop the car, but it can push a stone to a good position in front of the wheel of the car, thus turning the car upside down.

Xiaobao The macro, micro, planned economy and market economy in the political economy that He Juanjuan wrote to you are not independent. I can’t always expect Xiaobao and Jujuan to do everything, right?

Haven’t you seen it? The people all understand If you want to hide your hand, it’s not that Xiaobao and Juanjuan are poor, but that something is going to push them to the front. What’s the use of you? Do you live at home and use the last of your money immediately when something happens? Always keep it for me Let me be a backhand. My gun can’t easily shoot out the last bullet, although that bullet is very powerful.”

“Your Majesty, please calm down.” “I am guilty.” “I must study hard in the future.

” Wait.

After Li Longji finished speaking, it sounded from the crowd of civil and military officials.

Li Longji waved his hand, sighed, and said: “The ministers have actually done a good job. With your current abilities, in the previous dynasties, they are all ministers of the humerus, and you are enough to fall behind those who have reformed. several streets.

However, the current Tang Dynasty is not the dynasties of the past. Our Tang Dynasty has guns that can kill people in an instant, sharp artillery, invincible fleets to maintain oceans, telegrams that deliver news in the blink of an eye, and flying in the sky. There are hot air balloons and airships, high-yield crops, various factories moving forward, and a universal education and medical system.

Do we have to keep up?

I know that some of you have always felt that the Zhang and Wang families in Sanshui County have too much power, and that Xiaobao and Cuckoo can’t be controlled.

I promise you that if there are twenty people who can compare to half of them, I will send them to the most remote, poorest, and most bitter places to make you happy.

Wang Yan, do you think they will lament their illness and die young by arranging them like this?

”

Li Longji said, and suddenly asked Wang Yan alone.

Wang Yan was very distressed, he was indeed the person who opposed the new station before, and his official position was high, and he almost became his leader. He really didn’t think about Beijing logistics. The issue of throughput, considering the salary that the family gave up the land before, in exchange for the right to use the wagon.

Now that there are enough wagons, who knew what was going on at the time, they were all fooled, and they had to add a station. In that case, The number of wagons for short distances has increased, and the control of the wagons I own is getting smaller and smaller, so I object.

Damn Zhang Xiaobao, how many people have lied? At first, the number of trains was small, and when exchanging interests with the imperial court, my own group of people It can control two-thirds of the wagons, and now it is less than one-tenth, and the lost land is starting to increase in value. The output of crops increases every year, and new crops are available.

Comparing the two cars, it is a disadvantage, eat What a big loss, Zhang Xiaobao has all been cheated. What do you say about the businessmen on the top rankings of the richest who are loyal and patriotic, are they? They don’t dare, they are afraid of Zhang Xiaobao, and they are more like a bastard. The people who exchanged benefits were not afraid, but what was the result? They became those profiteers like monkeys watching the chickens being killed.

“Wang Yan, I ask you, you can rest assured if you send Xiaobao and Juanjuan to a distant place. .

For example, the Strait of Malacca they said, or even Africa.

”

Seeing that Wang Yan was silent, Li Longji asked again.

“Ah?” Wang Yan recovered, thought about it as quickly as possible, and shook his head vigorously: “I don’t care, I am worried, if they go to Africa, the Tang Dynasty will not be able to control them, and they will organize over there. Raise manpower. Carry out a better industrial revolution. What should I do if I go back and fight the Tang Dynasty? They must stay, and it is best to let them stay in the capital every day and keep them under their noses.

” Aloud, quite tacit.

“Hehe, it’s good for you to know, but you can’t kill it, and if you send it to a far place, you can’t send it, so I have to spoil it. Later, when I feel uncomfortable, I will think about what I said today. If anyone doesn’t agree with it. For killing them, killing them all over the family, I am grateful to you, who is coming, Wang Qing, you also have some private soldiers, what do you think?”

Li Longji laughed twice and asked Wang Yan again.

Wang Yan lowered his head: “I don’t dare, let’s not say whether my private soldiers can successfully kill them. If they were in the capital, they were lucky enough to destroy their door, then. I am in the Tang Dynasty. If there is chaos, the economic system will collapse all of a sudden, and then continue to encircle and suppress the people who revolted in various state capitals, and the ministers no longer dare to think about the consequences.”

Wang Yan was very serious when he spoke, and the other officials did the same, they all understood, How powerful are Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan at this time, they just don’t fight for the throne.

There have been such people in history who have the ability to usurp the throne without usurping, but in comparison, there is still a big gap between those people and Xiaobao and Juanjuan.

Every household has a memorial tablet for longevity, not to mention murdering them, stand in the street and try to scold them. Those who can survive are heroes. Those who threatened Liu Yan on the platform before really left Liu Yan and put it somewhere. There is absolutely only one result, death, either being beaten to death or starving to death.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also looked solemn. They knew what was going on. Just like the great men who made many mistakes at that time, they all made mistakes. When they died, how many people cried?

How many people have no intention of working?

How many people have committed suicide?

Of course, the latter point was suppressed and not reported, but there are, and there are still quite a few.

What’s more, the two of them haven’t made any mistakes to the people of the Tang Dynasty. This responsibility… is too heavy.

“Your Majesty, fellow colleagues, please rest assured that no one can assassinate us. After several times in the world, no killer can succeed. The two of us will live well, but we will not stay in the capital every day and tell us where we have contact with you. Officials, when you want to do something bad for your own selfishness, think carefully, maybe we are by his side when we are idle and bored to travel.”

Zhang Xiaobao said threateningly, he and Wang Juan both understood that everyone who is qualified Those who participated in the early dynasty all have their own small forces, and the two of them don’t care, but as long as they are caught, they will check up and check a line, and they will show no mercy. Except for the emperor Li Longji, other members of the royal family are useless. , the prince and the prince will be taken for you. If you don’t kill you, you will be locked up, and you won’t want to go out again for the rest of your life.

Hearing Zhang Xiaobao’s words, the ministers really beat a drum in their hearts, considering whether to clean up the people below them first, and don’t wait for Xiaobao and Cuckoo to take action, then there will be no chance.

Li Longji was very happy with what happened tonight. Knowing that the administration would be clear for a while, he continued to be supported by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan on both sides, and said, “The new train station is set? Xiaobao, Juanjuan, what do you think? Can the speed of the train be improved?”

“Yes, it’s very simple.” Wang Juan said, and the ministers were attracted again.

“How to improve?” Zhang Zhonglai asked.

“Father, doesn’t the Ministry of Industry have diesel engines and gasoline engines? It’s fine to use them instead of steam engines, and it doesn’t mean that there is only one locomotive, and the distribution of carriages is also fine. A train has a small number of carriages now, even if it is dozens of cars in the future. If you put a machine every day and start it at the same time, the speed will naturally be faster, how fast can it be, I think about it, it is no problem to run three thousand miles a day.”

Zhang Xiaobao replied to his father’s words.

“How much? Three thousand miles a day? Fly?” Zhang Zhong couldn’t believe it himself.

“Flying faster than this, but it hasn’t been successful yet. The plane that was transported has fallen down twice. Fortunately, it is not flying high, and there is no major problem with people, and it can continue to fly.” Zhang Xiaobao said casually.

It turns out that many people pondered in their minds that they didn’t know the purpose of the diesel and gasoline engines researched by the Ministry of Industry before. They thought they were just taking them to work.

Everyone talked and walked all the way. UU reading www.sonicmtl.com finally couldn’t hold on until the early morning. They got into the car and squinted back home.

When Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan got home, the sun in the east had already jumped out of the horizon.

There are several sheds at the door of the usually clean house. The cooks at home are busy making breakfast. Under the sheds, there are several temporary ‘beds’, which are called beds. In fact, there are curtains around them, which are very thick. will be cold.

There is another thing Xiaobei they are very familiar with, the house, the house they used to play and live in, two children sleep on the first floor, and five children sleep on the second floor.

Xiaobei, who had fallen asleep before, is now very awake, yearning to go inside, but found that the shed is too short, so she had to give up. If she only sleeps, it is really no problem, at least it is much stronger than the upper and lower bunks of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, the three-story one. The house has the usual two storey height.

Even adults can sleep.

The two brothers and sisters, Jun’er and Pan’er, were sleeping on the first floor. There was no one on the third floor. That was the entertainment room. On the second floor, Hong’er and Jixiang Ruyi, who had no ears, were sleeping. Hong’er was the biggest, lying in the middle. Lucky, on the right is Ruyi, through the window you can see what they looked like when they were sleeping.

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