I want to be emperor

Chapter 834 Sun Xu Breaks into Songjiang ([-])
Sun Xu sat on the double-decker carriage, and as the carriage continued to move forward, he was also looking at the city that shocked him.

Along the way, Sun Xu's biggest feeling is that there are too many people and cars!
Not only are there many people and vehicles in the railway station square, even after leaving the railway station square, there are also many people and vehicles on the road outside.

There are all kinds of carriages coming and going on the asphalt, including public carriages carrying many people, but there are more private carriages with two or four wheels, many of which have a rental car on the top of the carriage. Lettering signboard.

In addition to these private or public carriages carrying passengers, more are actually freight carriages carrying a lot of goods.

These freight carriages generally have four wheels and a simple structure. They are far less bulky than those passenger carriages. Many of them don't even have a carriage, just a carriage.

The goods are piled up or packed in wooden boxes and sacks.

As a super city with a population of more than 300 million, it also has a large number of factories with the highest density and the most complete types in the country. Songjiang City has a large amount of materials coming in and out every day.

From all over the country and even the world, a large number of goods arrive at the port or railway station of Songjiang by ship and train every day.

All kinds of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat from the inner suburbs of Songjiang Prefecture and nearby counties, and staple foods such as rice and wheat from Huguang, Northeast China, North America and other regions.

All kinds of spices, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cotton and various crop products from all over the world.

And more are all kinds of industrial raw materials from various places, such as high-quality anthracite coal from Guangning County, Lianzhou Prefecture in the south, and ordinary coal from Datong in Shanxi, Tangshan in Hebei, and Liaodong in the north.

All kinds of steel from Dangtu, Hebei, Liaodong and other regions.

There are many other metal mineral raw materials, such as copper, silver and various metals and so on.

The above-mentioned various industrial raw materials and the agricultural and livestock crops needed for daily life are continuously pouring into Songjiang Prefecture from all over the country and even the world. Many of the industrial raw materials are not only consumed by Songjiang Prefecture itself, but a considerable part of them are re-transported to other places. .

Songjiang is not only an industrial super city itself, it is also the most important material transit port in the Great Chu Empire, where goods from all over the world are transited here, and then transported to other places by ship or train.

Such a huge influx of materials every day, coupled with the same huge amount of export of various industries, will inevitably lead to a huge local demand for transportation capacity.

This is why Songjiang City has kept a large number of carriages!

This transportation demand is too great, this carriage is not enough!
Because of the operation of the entire city, people's daily needs, the exchange of materials in factories, and the transfer of goods, all these transportations cannot be separated from horse-drawn carriages!

In order to meet the needs of cargo transportation, there are even super-heavy carriages in Songjiang City that are rarely seen in other places. These super-heavy carriages can even carry about three tons.

Such a heavy-duty carriage can only be seen in a place with a good traffic environment like Songjiang City, and it is not seen in other places at all.

The load of the carriage is closely related to the road conditions, and of course it is also related to the distance.

For example, military carriages with the most complicated terrain conditions and very strict distance requirements. Generally speaking, the maximum load of military carriages in the Chu Army will not exceed one ton, and this is only limited to domestic roads. use.

If the road conditions are average, or simply in Central Asia, overseas territories, etc., usually the load of the carriage is only three to four hundred kilograms (the common standard of all countries in World War II).

The load in this case is naturally not to be picky about the terrain. You can walk on gravel roads, mud roads, and even climb mountains and wading occasionally...and you have to travel 25 to [-] kilometers a day.

Why this distance, because this is the standard daily march mileage of the Chu army.

Therefore, military carriages seem to carry less load, but in fact they have the most stringent requirements, and most of the military horses are high-quality draft horses.

The Chu army's standard for logistics horses is that the shoulder height of the artillery horse is 1.5 meters five, and the carriage horse shoulder height must not be less than 1.5 meters!

Well, this standard is actually formulated according to the Fengzhou horse... because the average shoulder height of the Fengzhou horse can reach 1.5 meters five, and it is a very good draft horse.

On the whole, the highest average shoulder height in the Great Chu Empire Army is not the cavalry horse, but the artillery unit, especially the heavy artillery unit’s horse!
The above mentioned is the situation of the military carriage, if it is a civilian carriage, then the load capacity will be much larger.

In some places with better road conditions, you can even see a horse or mule pulling a cart with a load of several hundred kilograms, and two horses galloping with a load of more than one ton. Of course, these are only limited to short distances. standard transport.

The four-wheeled carriages used by some freight industries in the empire generally have a long-distance load of seven to eight hundred kilograms, and a short-distance load of more than one ton.

Carriages with a load of more than one and a half tons were rare.

As for the carriages with a load of two or three tons, there are even fewer of them. They are generally used as special vehicles for specific purposes. It is really rare for Songjiang to directly use super-heavy carriages for regular transportation.

Don't ask why, it's forced...

There are mountains of goods waiting to be transported here every day... How can they be transported without increasing the load.

The large number of carriages and horses in Songjiang City ensured the normal operation of the city... Otherwise, the entire city would have been paralyzed long ago.

And with so many horse-drawn carriages driving on the streets of Songjiang City every day, the first thing that strikes outsiders after arriving in Songjiang is not the huge and dense buildings in the area, but the huge number of horse-drawn carriages in the area!

And the ubiquitous stench of horse urine in the air!
It is rumored that the new county magistrate who just arrived in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture last winter... This person was born in a mountainous area, grew up in a small town, and studied in Jinling as a young man. It was in Jinling City, where there were few factories and the population density was relatively low.

As soon as this gentleman arrived in Songjiang, he was completely overwhelmed by the local air quality... He applied for transfer in just one month.

In his life, he had never smelled such a strong and long-lasting stench of horse urine, and the stench of horse urine was also mixed with the lingering smell of charred coal... After suffering for a month, he fell ill.

The doctor said that his lungs were not blessed enough to adapt to the prosperity of Songjiang, especially in winter, if he continued to stay in the center of Songjiang, he would die soon!
When the staff member wrote to apply for transfer, his words were extremely earnest, and many words merged into one sentence: I really can't stand the air in Songjiang!

Because of this incident, Luo Zhixue also paid attention to the environmental system in Songjiang City, and ordered the governor of Jiangnan Province, the two-level government of Songjiang prefect, and the Gyeonggi Ministry of Health to investigate and formulate corresponding environmental management plans.

It's just... Everyone knows the problem: coal burning, horse-drawn carriages.

But no one has a good solution.

After all, you can't stop urban residents from using coal for heating and cooking, and you can't stop major factories from using steam engines.

As for the coal used by ships and trains, compared with domestic and industrial coal, it is not much.

Think about it... With a population of more than 300 million, how much coal does it use just to cook and boil water every day?And how much coal must be used in a huge number of factories!
The fact that Songjiang City alone consumes more coal than many small and medium-sized provinces combined... Of course, the economic volume of a mere Songjiang City is also stronger than the entire province's economic volume in many provinces!

Behind the highly developed economy is the huge and intensive coal consumption. The same coal consumption in a vast province is nothing...but in Songjiang City, which is as big as a palm, it is a big problem.

As for the carriage issue, there is no other way...without so many carriages, the people of Songjiang will starve to death...because a large amount of food, fruits and vegetables are piled up at the port or the railway station, and they cannot be transported in without a carriage.

So everyone knows the root of the problem, but no one has a good cure. They can only propose some improvement plans for the problem itself, such as strictly enacting horse management laws, so that when horse owners drive horses and carts, horse dung and horse urine It must be collected, and the horses cannot be allowed to scatter at any time, and then the horse manure and urine will be collected and transported to other places to be used as farmyard manure.

At the same time, Songjiang Prefecture proposed a plan to build an urban railway. It is planned to build a railway in the urban area and use trains to serve as the core force for the transportation of people and goods in the city, so as to reduce the transportation volume of horse-drawn carriages and reduce the number of horses in the city.

The horse problem is relatively easy to solve.

But coal pollution is difficult to solve... Let alone the current Great Chu Empire, even in the original time and space until the 1956th century, coal pollution is still a problem that is difficult to solve. The famous London did not start to control coal until [-]. air pollution problem.

Now Songjiang City is also facing this problem, but it is not too serious. It has not been awarded the title of Fog City for the time being, and it can barely withstand it.

As for the future... of course we will talk about it later.

It is impossible for someone to abolish his own industry because of poor air quality.

If you want factories and development, you will inevitably encounter these problems... As for the development and the environment at the same time, it can only be said that the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

In a huge industrial country, as long as you burn coal, the air will not go anywhere.

It is the same even if you use electricity, because this electricity does not come out of thin air, but requires hydropower stations or power plants, but the proportion of hydropower stations is actually very small, and most of the electricity is actually produced in thermal power plants. Most of them are coal.

Instead, nuclear power can effectively replace thermal power, and gas, or even natural gas, can be used to replace coal for domestic heating.

But whether it is nuclear power, coal gas or even natural gas, it is too far away from the Great Chu Empire.

In the current Great Chu Empire, coal is still the most important dye, and it is indispensable for domestic heating, industrial production and transportation.

In order to solve the air pollution problem in Songjiang City, the empire has proposed some solutions. For example, factories that require a large amount of coal must build higher chimneys to increase emissions and sales.

At the same time, it is not allowed to build a large amount of coal-consuming enterprises in the urban center, and the existing ones will be gradually relocated to the suburbs... After all, Songjiang Prefecture is not only a palm-sized urban area, but the area of ​​Songjiang Prefecture is still quite large. As a suburb, the county is still relatively open.

The transportation problem can be solved by more dense urban trains.

Finally, it was proposed to use central heating in winter to reduce coal pollution, etc., but this is not very reliable... because the current folk buildings in the Great Chu Empire, especially the residences, are generally short and scattered, even in a developed country like Songjiang In cities, houses only have three or four floors, and many are simply one-story bungalows.

It is difficult and costly to adopt central heating.

On the whole, the environmental problems in Songjiang cannot be solved for a while. At most, various methods can be used to alleviate one or two problems, but the symptoms are not cured.

In this regard, Luo Zhixue also has no good solution... and is quite helpless, because he can't see any hope of solving it in his lifetime!
Even... He never expected that in his career of time travel and hegemony, the most difficult and most frustrating problem he encountered would be air pollution!
If you say this, you have to laugh off the front teeth of other time-traveling seniors...

But yes, other time travelers are rarely like Luo Zhixue. After coming to the ancient times, they neither play love and love; Fighting with cold weapons, and practicing martial arts by the way... but focusing on industry, even fighting has no aesthetic feeling, making the generals push all the way without any sense of existence.

In this way, they will naturally not encounter Luo Zhixue's problems and troubles: air pollution!

Because the industry has not developed to a certain level, it is not qualified to talk about such a high-level issue as air pollution!
However, the poor air quality in Songjiang City is not a big problem in Sun Xu's opinion... Although he smelled the smell of charred coal in the air as soon as he got off the train, and he also smelled the lingering smell of horse urine when he was on the road The smell, but this did not affect Sun Xu's yearning and affection for Songjiang City.

With curiosity and excitement along the way, Sun Xu followed the carriage through the streets and alleys, and finally came to one of the transit stations, the Pacific Department Store bus station.

After getting off the carriage, Sun Xu looked up at the tall building in front of him, and the huge signboard hanging on the top of the building; Pacific Department Store, showing shock.

This huge commercial building has four upper and lower floors, covering an extremely large area. It was invested and constructed by the Pacific Trading Company owned by the Song family, a local gentry family in Songjiang. Chengshun started construction in 29 years and opened for business in 31 years. One of many department stores that have popped up over the years.

Because it focuses on mid-to-high-end retail and catering, it has become the most famous landmark building in Songjiang City since its opening, with a huge daily flow of people.

Of course, the so-called mid-to-high end is only in relative terms...there are so many people coming and going, and it has nothing to do with high-end luxury. The real rich and powerful do not come to these places for their daily shopping and eating.

But to Sun Xu, this place was still so majestic that he didn't even have the guts to go in and have a look.

He just glanced at it from a distance, and with envy, got on the No. 26 public carriage with his luggage bag on his back.

The public carriage swayed gently all the way. After leaving the most prosperous main urban area of ​​Songjiang City, it came to the inland Xicheng District far away from the Huangpu River. The whole row of tall and magnificent buildings by the Huangpu River is so shocking.

After going deep into Xicheng District, Sun Xu got off the carriage at an alley, followed the road signs according to the address given to him, and after asking a few passers-by, he walked on foot for more than a quarter of an hour. This is an alley.

After repeatedly comparing the house number of one of the four-story apartments, he was relieved.

Shencun East Seventh Lane, No. 36!

That's right, it's here!
Immediately, he went forward and knocked on the door, but just after he knocked, he found that the door was not locked at all, it was just concealed. When the door was opened, he saw a dark and messy hallway and a staircase.

Looking left and right, there was no one there. Immediately after stepping in, he stepped on the wooden stairs, and with the creaking sound of the wooden stairs, he went up to the first floor.

There are several doors on the left and right of the stairs on the second floor, all of which are closed... There are bursts of men shouting and cursing from one of the doors, and the shouting and cursing are accompanied by the cry of a woman.

Going up to the first floor again, one of the doors was ajar, and a woman in light gauze pajamas flashed by behind the door. Sun Xu couldn't help swallowing when he saw this—the legs were really long, and so white……

The woman inside seemed to have noticed something, and immediately stepped forward and slammed the door shut, and could vaguely hear words such as "I haven't seen a woman before".

Sun Xu felt that he was in the wrong, and it was also because he was afraid of causing trouble in this strange environment, so he continued to go upstairs quickly.

It was said in the small letter that the apartment he rents is at [-] on the fourth floor...

This climbed the fourth floor in a row, and still carried heavy luggage up the stairs. Even though Sun Xu was young and strong, his breathing was a bit heavy.

When he arrived, he put down the package first, and after checking the house number, he knocked on the door of [-].

It's just that I knocked for a long time and didn't hear a response from inside.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs behind him. Sun Xu turned around and saw a young woman in a peony embroidered dress and a lavender veiled cap climbing up the stairs.

Although the two were at the same height, and the wide eaves of the veil blocked her view, so that Sun Xu couldn't see her face clearly, but this blurred view, coupled with the uneven figure, still made Sun Xu unable to bear it. Hold fast breathing.

However, he soon lowered his head, so as not to offend the woman and cause unnecessary trouble!

After all, seeing no evil, staring at a woman openly, is not a decent behavior in the contemporary society of the Great Chu Empire.

(End of this chapter)