I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 292 Trains are not as good as horses?
"Hurry up, let me see this train with my own eyes, and see if its carrying capacity is as powerful as you said!"

After Ying Zheng's voice fell.

Gongshu Shangzao dare not neglect.

In fact, he has already made it here, and successfully made a train for the train to pull.

At present, more than a dozen trains have been driven by soldiers one by one with cattle and horses.

Then assemble it on the train.

Hanging on the steam locomotive, hanging on the back of the steam locomotive.

At this moment, with these things in place, Ying Zheng gave an order, and each soldier came over carrying a bag of grain, each bag of grain was a standard one hundred catties.

One after another, thousands of bags of grain were brought back one after another, and then they were loaded on the dozens of trains one after another, looking at the full load in front of them.

A train loaded for 10 minutes.

The civil and military officials and ministers behind Yingzheng couldn't help shaking their heads.

In their view, how could so many goods be able to move?
In this situation.

Everyone has little confidence in this steam locomotive. At this moment, inside the steam locomotive that has been engraved with Ying Zheng's order, which has been warmed up and is ready to start at any time, is in the spotlight.

Then quickly start the steam locomotive.

For a while, there was a rumbling and trembling sound in the air, and the steam locomotive started to work hard.

It started slowly, but this scene has shocked Ying Zheng beyond recognition.

Because it must be an amazing thing to be able to pull such a heavy load, and it is nothing if the speed is slow, because ordinary civilians can't walk much faster when pulling loads.

But with the operation of the steam locomotive.

There was also a shocked expression on Ying Zheng's face.

As the steam locomotive starts and the train is pulled, under the action of inertia.

The speed is getting faster and faster.

In the blink of an eye, the speed has increased to ten kilometers per hour.

Although this speed.

Still very slow.

It is roughly equivalent to the speed of jogging by ordinary people.

But even so, this scene still shocked Yingzheng.

Only to see Ying Zheng was satisfied, commenting on the steam train, and then said with emotion.

"Yes, yes, this steam locomotive is indeed good. I am very satisfied with it. It should be vigorously produced. As for the railway track, it should also be built quickly. It should be built on the highway. We are planning to build a railway between Xianyang and Luoyang. I don’t know, are there any difficulties?”

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there is no difficulty. The distance between these two places is not too far. However, in my humble opinion, this matter cannot be repaired first. The railway from Xianyang to Luoyang should be built first. , the railway from the iron mines to the ironworks near Xianyang!"

"Why?"

After Gongshu Shangzao's voice fell, Yingzheng inevitably frowned and asked.

Only Gongshu Shangzao opened his mouth to explain.

"And I don't know that the construction of this railway is not an easy task. It needs to consume a lot of steel and wood. These things are very large. It is difficult to rely on the iron mines near Xianyang to meet them, so we must Building a railway can facilitate the transportation of iron ore and coal, so that we can have enough coal to start steam trains, and enough coal and iron ore to make iron!"

"Thereby refining enough iron to make rails!"

"In addition to these two railways, the construction of the railway requires a large number of sleepers. These sleepers also need to be harvested from the mountain forests near Xianyang. Transporting the sleepers is a big job, so Weichen thought that a railway should also be built to the mountains. In order to transport the wood in the mountain forest to Xianyang..."

"I don't know what you think, Your Majesty?"

"Where did the railway start to be built? Did it start in Xianyang? At the same time as the construction, the raw materials needed were transported to the construction site by train, right?"

Ying Zheng opened his mouth and asked.

"Your Majesty, this is exactly what I think, that's what I think!"

Gongshu Shangzao nodded and said.

Ying Zheng nodded at this, he said.

"Then, do what you want!"

"All in all, this railway is mainly a good thing, especially this steam train. One car can pull hundreds of thousands of kilograms of materials. And just now, I witnessed it with my own eyes. This is not even his ultimate strength. Plus tens of thousands of pounds, he can still pull it!"

"In this way, what does this prove? This proves that if there are dozens of such trains to transport supplies, there will not be so many wars in the future. So many civilians, cattle and horses will be used to transport supplies. What do you think?"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

For a while, the ministers next to him opened their mouths and said that they were all shocked by the steam train in front of them.

In their cognition, there has never been such a powerful thing.

Watch this train.

Everyone is horrified from the bottom of their hearts.

But at this moment, there was a strange sound in the air.

Only a minister stood up, looked at the train with disdain, and then said to Ying Zheng.

"Your Majesty's train has its advantages, but I want to talk about its shortcomings at this moment!"

"Oh?"

Ying Zheng's complexion changed slightly and he saw that the minister couldn't help showing his displeasure. At this time, he only heard the minister talk about his views.

"Although this train is good, it has a shortcoming, that is, its speed is too slow!"

"His speed is not as fast as that of the horse, how can he be as fast as the horse?"

The moment this loud and deep voice fell, Ying Zheng's expression changed slightly, while Ying Changsheng Gongshu Shangzaoren on the side inevitably let out a sneer.

Only to see Ying Changsheng opened his mouth in disdain and said.

"His speed is indeed not as fast as that of a horse, but the question is when did such a thing as a horse appear? There may have been horses 1 years ago or 10 years ago, but today, the fastest horse can How much faster?"

"How much faster can it be than the original horses? Probably not so fast, and it hasn't improved much after tens of thousands of years!"

"Even the speed may have degraded, but look at the train next to it!"

"He hasn't appeared a few months ago, and he hasn't appeared in our Daqin. No one in this world has thought of such a machine, but now it is here, and his speed has just been seen by everyone, probably It's half the speed of the horse!"

"In other words, the train built in a few months is only half as slow as the horse bred in tens of thousands of years!"

"What's more, the quality of the horse is there. How fast can these bloody horses be?"

"But what about this train? It had such a speed when it was first born. If we continue to study it more and more over time, how fast should it be?"

(End of this chapter)