The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 878 Across the Pacific Ocean

Dagan Jianguo has been crazy about all kinds of infrastructure construction in recent years, feeding countless people and businesses, and spending a lot of money. Of course, doing so is beneficial, at least people without land can survive, and solve the employment problem of future generations , the country is very stable.

At this time, Ding Yi said: "In the future, the train will be built, and the investment will be huge. I estimate that it will cost hundreds of millions."

"What?" Everyone was shocked.

"Then we don't want this train." Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Long smiled wryly.

After six or seven years in power, Ding Yi's work has basically stabilized his income, and it is currently a slow growth process. Of course, every time he breaks the enemy's country, it will increase sharply, but this kind of opportunity does not happen every day, right? .

The current basic income of Dagan is about 8000 million shi in annual grain tax, which exceeds the peak of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, and the peak of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about [-] million.

Various commercial taxes plus personal tax, commercial income and other cash income are about 6000 million.

The annual income is only more than 1 million yuan. If you ask Ruan Wenlong to invest [-] million yuan at once, he will definitely feel distressed. Also, so many brothers in the system don’t want to get paid?

This is also due to the solid foundation in front of the big business, and the continuous expansion, conquest, and plunder in the past few years, so that there is a steady stream of financial support.

"When will you fight Dongyu?" Wang Duo asked Zhang Jinyan, Minister of the Ministry of War, "If you beat Dongyu, won't you be rich again?"

Wang Duo used to read the books of sages and sages, but now he wants to beat someone when he says nothing, and then he will grab a fortune.

Because last time when Ding Yi broke the Siamese, he plundered a lot of wealth, and then gave the cabinet members a small bonus.

Now he can't wait to fight every day.

Zhang Jinyan murmured: "It's useless for you to ask me, you have to ask Lu Xiang when he will be ready for the meeting."

Lu Daqi gave him a blank look, but ignored him.

These people are crazy, thinking about war every day.

Ding Yi was quite happy to be on the sidelines. In the past two years, he rarely participated in political affairs, and let the cabinet handle it if he could.

Of course, all actions of the cabinet are based on the 50-year plan formulated by Ding Yi.

Even if a new emperor comes to power in the future, according to the Dagan Code, the plan made by Ding Yi cannot be changed.

Dagan, who is in full swing, will inevitably continue to advance on the road of expansion.

While chatting, everyone enjoyed the stability of the carriage.

In less than 10 minutes, I finally came to the factory area of ​​the Science and Technology Department on the edge of Beicheng.

When you get off the bus, you will see a long track in the distance, about 500 meters from north to south.

On the north side there is a huge metal rectangular shape with three sections.

This is what Ding Yi said about the train.

Seeing the emperor and ministers coming, officials and technicians from the Science and Technology Department also came.

Li Zhongyi called the person in charge of the train, Zhang Baoming, a senior engineer of the Science and Technology Department, and Blaise Pascal.

Zhang Baoming is 35 years old and was born in Lushun. He worked in the Science and Technology Department from the former Craftsmanship Bureau.

He worked with European engineers before, so now he can speak the languages ​​of three countries.

"Your Majesty, my lords, there are three sections of our train, the front section is the locomotive, and the back section is the carriage."

"There is a boiler steam engine at the front of the car. According to the emperor's request, the pressure has been increased as much as possible."

"There are two horizontally placed cylinders inside the boiler, with two pairs of driving wheels, driven by gears, and a large flywheel, which maintains the reciprocating motion of the cylinder piston with the help of its rotating inertial power. The whole head weighs 5.5 tons, without When in the car, the speed is about 10 kilometers per hour."

Over the years, the big cadres have unified weights and measures, and everyone still knows that ten kilometers is about twenty miles.

"Twenty miles an hour is not as fast as a horse." Someone laughed.

"It can run non-stop for 24 hours, and the carriage can drag a lot, and it can carry a large amount of personnel and equipment at one time."

"As long as the rails are repaired everywhere in Dagan, our mobility in Dagan will be terrible in the future."

Zhang Baoming didn't need to elaborate, all the people on the scene had worked as officials for so many years. Just thinking about it, you can understand the advantages and benefits of this train.

"How many carriages can this thing tow at most?" Someone asked.

"Theoretically, it may drag tens to hundreds of knots. Of course, it depends on whether the power is enough. We are still improving the cylinder to increase power and speed."

Zhang Baoming said a little too much, dragging too much is difficult to control, and the car will definitely overturn. Normally, a dozen knots is not bad.

"Come on, everyone sit down first, try, try." Ding Yi laughed, but in order to prevent accidents, all the cabinets sat down twice.

Woo, as the boiler burned, thick black smoke rose into the sky, and the train quickly moved.

The 500 meters is still very short, and the time passed in a while, and everyone was still full of admiration.

Good, good, unanimous praise from the audience after sitting.

The only downside is that it's a bit slow.

But this is not urgent, it can be improved slowly, and the trains in history are getting faster and faster.

原历史在1876年7月3日，中国第一条铁路——“吴淞铁路”（窄轨）建成通车，那台英制名曰“先导号”的蒸汽机车（机车总重量1420kg）时速为24—32公里，为我国第一台外国蒸汽机车。

Now Ding Yi's train has a speed of 10 kilometers per hour, and I believe it will reach [-] kilometers in a few years.

Now to increase the train speed is to increase the boiler pressure.

Blaise Pascal said in French: "I think that when coal is used, the thermal efficiency of the locomotive is relatively low. If other combustion can be used instead, the thermal efficiency can be improved, and the speed can also be increased."

Ding Yi clapped his palms together, ah, why didn't I expect that.

After World War II, steam locomotives have been mostly replaced by diesel locomotives and electric locomotives with high thermal efficiency due to their low thermal efficiency.

Originally, the development of internal combustion engines that used diesel was not started until the beginning of the [-]th century, but now Ding Yi has diesel in his hands, and he is also the first dynasty in the world to focus on using gasoline.

"You can divide them into several, and develop towards this part. Internal combustion engines are burned with diesel fuel, which has higher thermal efficiency and stronger kinetic energy." But Ding Yi doesn't understand internal combustion engines either. Thermal energy is converted to mechanical energy output by the diesel crankshaft.

In fact, this is not used to directly drive the driving wheel, but is converted into mechanical energy suitable for the traction characteristics of the locomotive through the transmission device, and then drives the moving wheel of the locomotive to rotate on the track through the running part.

This requires even higher technical requirements. Obviously, it is still a bit difficult at present. The next focus of the Science and Technology Department is to improve steam power, and at the same time start research on internal combustion engines.

When he went to court the next day, the cabinet put forward the idea of ​​building a railway.

The first railway in Dagan is planned to be built from the capital to Tianjin Wei and Tianjin Port.

Many goods in the Dagan capital entered from Tianjin Weishui Post Road and Tianjin Port Haikou.

It is about 240 miles from Beijing to Tianjin Port, and only [-] miles to Tianjin Weigeng, which is not very long and can be used as a pilot.

Once the railway is completed, even at the current speed of twenty miles per hour, the materials unloaded from Tianjin can reach the capital within a day.

In the past, it took at least five days for the bulk goods in Tianjin to be transported from the port to the capital, and this still required a horse-drawn carriage.

If there is no horse-drawn cart, it will be slower if only relying on human-powered carts.

With the completion of this railway, people and goods from other places and abroad will enter the capital more quickly and efficiently. This is a huge benefit for the people in the capital. The cabinet estimates that the price of goods in the capital may be lowered due to this.

But it is not easy to build a railway in this era.

Soon a minister asked, how many people and how much does it cost?How much time?

Lu Daqi, the chief assistant of the cabinet, replied that it would take 200 civilian laborers, which would take about two years and cost [-] million taels.

The ministers were amazed, there are so many railways in a small section, and it will be able to connect to all parts of the country in the future?
Of course, Lu Daqi also said that this is the first one. The investment must be relatively large, and the production is relatively slow. After gaining experience, the investment can be reduced later.

In May of the seventh year of Rende, after the court discussed, the first railway, Jinggu Railway, was ready to be built.
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In May of the seventh year of Rende.

Pacific North America.

Five Dagan third-class battleships appeared on the coast of North America. This is Dagan's latest 'Ocean-class' third-class battleship.

The ocean-going class is mainly driven by sails, but steam power is added internally. When the wind is headed, coal can be used for steam power.

Limited by the current lack of steam power, the effect is actually not very great, but at least it can increase the speed a little when the wind is headed.

This is just a dry test product, and it is also the development direction of the next big dry steamship.

At this time, Wang Bao was standing on the bow of the No. [-] ship, holding a telescope, looking at the North America that appeared in front of him with a slightly excited expression.

From Tai O to North America, across the entire Pacific Ocean, the whole journey is more than 1 kilometers.

Wang Bao came to Tai O in the first year of Rende, and has been operating local mineral resources in Dayuan. He has stayed in Tai O for nearly seven years.

In the middle, I only went back to Dagan capital twice, one time to get married, and the other time to see my younger brother get married.

When Wang Bao first arrived in Tai O, Zeng planned to go across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico.

Because Ding Yi told everyone before that when Spain occupied Luzon, the raw silk bought from Luzon for 200 pesos was sold for [-] million pesos after it was shipped to Mexico, which is about [-] times more.

Wang Bao remembered this incident, and together he wanted to sell raw silk to Heixige.

However, Dagan successively occupied Luzon and repelled Spain. In fact, he and Spain have become deadly enemies.

And it was really dangerous to go to North America at that time, and Ding Yi didn't plan to cross the Pacific Ocean to trade with Spain.

Because Mexico will be ruled by Spain, and Spain is very hostile to Dagan, and the two sides will definitely fight.

However, in the past few years since Dagan established the country, the situation in Europe has changed greatly, and the situation in Dagan has also changed greatly.

First of all, Ding Yi occupied the Strait of Malacca and controlled the trading channel from Europe to Asia.

Spanish merchant ships have to pay taxes to Ding Yi if they want to enter Asian transactions.

This forced Spain to forget the hatred of Luzon being captured by Ding Yi, and lower its profile to make friends with Ding Yi.

At the same time, the 50-year war between Spain and the Dutch was finally defeated, and France began to rise again under the leadership of Louis XIV. The Spanish Empire was in decline, and it was obviously unwilling to fight against this new eastern empire.

With sufficient safety assurance, Wang Bao, with Ding Yi's consent, decided to try crossing the Pacific Ocean.

(End of this chapter)