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In the wing room of the restaurant, Li Ang casually explained: Based on Yu Luzhong, the government's employment fees for private ships and cavalry,

For every hundred miles and one hundred catties of downstream shipping, it is one hundred Wen,

Land transportation is four hundred texts.

A spiritual locomotive can transport 480,000 catties of grain at a time.

This share is borne by the imperial court. If it is shipped by ship, the cost from Chang'an to Luoyang is 2,880 guan.

The cost of the aura locomotive plus the rails is 1.8 million guan, that is to say, as long as the aura locomotive runs 645 times, it can earn back the cost.

Moreover, the Lingqi locomotive runs back and forth between the two places, and can transport goods during the round trip, which is equivalent to only needing to go back and forth more than 300 times.

Li Ang smiled and said: If you don't transport goods, but instead transport passengers, the profit efficiency will be higher. From Chang'an to Luoyang, take the waterway, twenty people will take a large boat together, and each person will pay an average of two more for the boat.

The Lingqi locomotive can go to and from Chang'an and Luoyang twice a day, and can pull 18 carriages at a time, and each carriage can seat 80 people.

Even if the fare per person is set to be consistent,

In less than a year, Lingqi Locomotive will be able to achieve profitability. It will be a net profit in the future.

Regarding this number, He Fanshuang and Qiu Feng are fine, they don't feel anything.

And Yang Yu, who was born in a merchant family, almost dropped the glutinous rice bowl in his hand.

After calculating the costs and benefits, the Reiki motorcycle is no longer a plaything that wastes money, but a money-printing machine that creates wealth.

Many places in Yu State are actually not poor,

Su Feng said: It's just because the roads are blocked and the traffic is not smooth.

Locally produced crops, melons and fruits are difficult to transport out,

At the same time, it was difficult to bring in living materials such as salt and iron from the outside world.

Leading to a disguised increase in the cost of living of the people, long-term hardship.

Reiki locomotives and railways can transfer manpower and materials flexibly, at high speed, and in large quantities, allowing wealth to circulate.

Everyone, including Emperor Yu, had burning eyes and thought quickly.

The benefits of the railway are too great. It can not only relieve the food pressure in Chang'an, but also increase fiscal revenue and strengthen the imperial court's control over the local area.

Enough for the court to make up its mind to flatten all resistance.

What's more, there are military benefits.

A spiritual locomotive can transport 1,500 soldiers and their supporting armor and weapons at a time. With a few more round trips, tens of thousands of troops can be transported to the frontier in just a few days.

The logistical pressure of marching in the past has been infinitely reduced.

It can be said that wherever the railway goes, it is the direction of Yu Guobing's front.

Emperor Yu and the prime ministers looked at each other, without hesitation, announced in a deep voice: Building railways will be the national policy of Yu State for the next hundred years.

The only question is which department should be put in charge of financing.

The railway passes through the state capitals, involving huge interests and many links.

Every link of construction, operation, management, maintenance, and taxation requires a large number of bureaucrats and officials.

Even the government servants and police officers patrolling along the railway-rails, sleepers, and gravel are all construction materials, and it is inevitable that thieves will steal them.

There is no department in the Sixth Department of Lihu Libing Criminal Industry that can independently handle these arduous affairs.

A new institution needs to be established.

Emperor Yu thought about the name of the new organization, and asked Su Feng, Dr. Su, how fast can the railway be built?

The change of Qixi Festival did not cause much damage to Chang'an City itself, but it had a profound impact on people.

In order to prevent someone from transporting contraband such as megalodon whale oil into the city, the city gate guards added more manpower to screen the goods entering the city more carefully.

It is still unavoidable that the people in the city are panicking, worried that the Demon Cult will make a comeback.

The imperial court urgently needs a major event to divert attention and stabilize people's hearts.

Reporting to Your Majesty, the speed of railway construction depends on the manpower and material resources the imperial court can provide.

Su Feng thought for a moment, then replied: If it is from Chang'an to Luoyang, it will take a few years, or half a year.

So fast?

General Hussars frowned and said: In the past, didn't it take at least several years to build an official road?

Why do you need to use a lot of rails, and maybe have to go over mountains and mountains, and it only takes half a year?

The general doesn't know something,

Su Feng shook his head and said: In the past, to build official roads, the prefectures in various places recruited civilians through corvee.

The law of Yu stipulates that each person must perform one month of unpaid labor every year, and those who are unwilling or unable to serve can pay to hire someone to do it for them.

In addition, the clan, nobles, bureaucrats and their families are exempted from hard labor.

Those who have meritorious service, those who are filial and fraternal, and those who have children in mourning, etc., can also be temporarily exempted from hard labor.

In other words, the recruited civilian husbands are all poor people.

I am thankful that I can eat enough and wear warmth at ordinary times. I have neither strength nor motivation.

In front of Emperor Yu and many ministers, criticizing the cruel labor and oppression of the people in various state capitals, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit of accusation.

But Su Feng never cared about this, he ignored the faces of the ministers, and said to himself: At the same time, the cost of building official roads is difficult to recover quickly.

Some state capitals want to charge business travel expenses to recover costs,

But the toll is low, and the return of money is too slow,

The toll is high, and people would rather take a detour, or even take a dangerous mountain road infested with tigers, than spend more money.

Various factors make the construction of official roads slow.

The railway is different, the benefits are obvious, and the efficiency of cost recovery is visible to the naked eye.

As long as the court made up its mind and mobilized material resources and manpower, the construction time could be greatly shortened - the monk's iron melting and iron casting skills could quickly produce qualified rails;

Earth splitting and burrowing can dig caves;

Soil fusion talisman and soil transformation talisman can change the terrain;

When encountering mountains, create mountains, and when encountering water, build bridges.

This is the correct usage of the technique of cultivation.

In the restaurant in the distance, Li Ang let out a long sigh.

Novels often focus on describing the ability of monks to fly into the sky and escape from the ground, and often ignore the huge role of monks in the field of production.

Techniques are equal to the collection of engineering equipment such as shield machines, lathes, forges, water pumps, excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and tree movers.

In the past thousand years, practitioners are like crucian carp crossing a river.

The sects and aristocratic families in the Jin Dynasty and the former Sui Dynasty reached their peak of prosperity.

But with so many monks, what is the benefit to the common people?

It's just a group of people who kill each other for the sake of benefit and domineering over the people.

Until the school appears.

Li Ang whispered to himself, he looked out of the window and saw those Chang'an people looking at the Lingqi locomotive in awe,

Those Lifu crew members whose bodies have been damaged by long-term hard work and who are still worried about their jobs being taken away by the Lingqi locomotive,

He picked up a pen and paper, and wrote a paragraph on the speech that Chen Danqiu asked him to serve as a student representative to the freshmen for five years.

People in the world often say that the country of Yu is rich. But this is not the case.

Every freshman here, you passed this important exam, and with enough perseverance, luck, hard work, and intelligence, you were admitted to the academy.

I hope that you can understand that the education in Yu Country is still lacking, and your high school school means another person's failure.

You are able to sit here today because of the taxes paid by the 400 million poor people in Yu Kingdom. Some of them still don’t have enough food and clothing, and they need to do their best every day just to survive.

I hope that you can still remember your origins and the hardships of the common people during the long journey to study, instead of thinking of yourself as a superior person, you will regard the bestowed by God as your own efforts, and start to be like those you once spurned. People are like fish and meat.

I hope that amidst the praise, you will not lose your original intentions, and still have the most simple awe of Haotian and Yulu.

I hope that all of you can go up, do what you can, and make your voice.