The big man has a living father

Chapter 159 (Big Chapter) Steam Train!

Let’s go back to July.

A factory was quietly built.

By the time the court officials realized it, they found that a strip of land from Chang'an to Tongguan and then to Shenmu had been purchased by someone.

The coal chemical refinery established by Huo Hai is frantically producing sleepers.

The sleepers are not just made into the shape of sleepers, but they must be soaked and coated with anti-corrosion oil extracted from tar to prevent corrosion before being placed on the track.

At the same time, the steel mills began to operate at full capacity.

The most typical feature is that people working in steel mills have fewer and fewer holidays, but their salaries are getting higher and higher.

In fact, Huo Hai had deliberately raised the labor price, so he and Liu Che had to invest a lot of money to build the railway.

Otherwise, with Huo Hai's current money, it would not be a burden for him to pay for the double track from Chang'an to Shenmu alone.

There are two reasons why Huo Hai set his sights on Shenmu.

One is petrochemical industry, and the other is because if Shenmu goes further north, it will reach the five counties of Yunzhong.

That’s right, Shenmu is Yulin.

At the beginning, Huo Hai kept wondering where Yulin was.

Because in the entire ancient history, there are only two places where oil can be extracted from the surface, one is Longxi and the other is Yulin.

These two places happen to be the bridgeheads leading to the Huns and the Western Regions.

Do you really think that these two companies have nothing to do with Huo Hai?
From the very beginning, Huo Hai had calculated that the ministers would invest in these two companies, because the entire situation was dominated by Huo Hai.

Why did Huo Hai strongly recommend that we must not send troops to the Huns this year?

Because we sent troops to the Xiongnu this year, the Xiongnu’s large tribe is located above Youbeiping and in Mobei!

Since winter, the entire Xiongnu people have been forced to migrate south in order to survive.

Where is their migration destination?
On the north bank of the Yellow River, there are the Western Regions and the Northern Regions.

It's not that they want to cross the border, but they only have these two options to survive.

Therefore, if we do not fight the Huns this year and prepare to fight them next year, it is equivalent to sending troops out of the "J"-shaped area of ​​the Yellow River and building a road here.

Why did Huo Hai deliberately guide the road construction in these two directions?
Because Huo Hai judged that Shenmu must be Yulin.

Judging from the map, Shenmu is located in the location of northern Shaanxi roughly estimated by Huo Hai.

From a geographical point of view, further north is the grassland.

The climate in Dahan is hot, so it is a grassland. If the rainfall moves south a little bit, there will definitely be a desert, and that would be the Mu Us Desert!

Also, this place is full of things like kaolin.

Sima Xiangru's father-in-law Lei Lin, at the request of Huo Hai, almost lived in Shenmu for investigation, and finally discovered that Shenmu was similar to the place Huo Hai mentioned.

After Huo Hai confirmed that Shenmu was Yulin, he took out the map and quickly decided that the railway must be built to Yulin.

There are two reasons. One is that after the railway reaches Yulin, the wool from sheep raised in places such as Yunzhong and Shangjun can be transported to Chang'an for weaving.

The materials transported from Chang'an to the border can also save a lot of transportation costs.

As for the second half after Shenmu leading to Yunzhong and other counties, a road will be built temporarily.

In this way, once the Huns reached the Yellow River, the Han army might have reached Yulin from the railway and then reached the Yellow River from the highway before they crossed the river.

This is one of them.

Secondly, because a railway needs to be built, the best choice for the rails and sleepers is to build them on site.

Simply put, transporting goods from Tongguan to the north is still too expensive. It would be better if the other end of the railway produced steel and coal.

And this sleeper chemical plant was built in Shenmu.

From Chang'an to Tongguan in the north, and from Tongguan to Shenmu in the north, the first industrial artery of the Han Dynasty was formed.

After the railway is built, what will happen to the coal chemical plant and the steel plant?
give up?
No, no!
Coal chemical plant transformed into petrochemical plant!

Whether it is dry distillation, vacuum distillation, or pressure distillation, many things can be extracted from petroleum, which is very important for industrial development!
The terrain of Shaanxi is exactly the same as that of the English Isles. It is hard to say whether it is a coincidence or not.

This industrial revolution was destined to happen here...

At present, petrochemicals are not used for the chemical industry, but for the extraction of kerosene.

And the steel plant in Shenmu will then devote all its efforts to manufacturing caravans!

If the war goes well next year, we will start animal husbandry directly on the north bank of the Yellow River.

How can the areas further north be incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty?
Huo Hai wants to provide caravans to ordinary people here and start the westward movement!
They brought back profits from the vast grasslands, and then purchased industrially produced caravans, kerosene, canvas tarpaulins, work cloth supplies, and grain in Yulin, and then moved westward.

In this way, the economic cycle is completed.

Once the cycle was formed, those who grazed on the grasslands were no longer the slave-owning aristocrats of the Xiongnu, but the livestock merchants of the Han Dynasty.

The cowboys who are grazing are no longer the warriors of the Huns, but the herdsmen of the Han Dynasty!
This economic cycle may not be able to turn in the early stages, because those who have the courage to move westward may be very poor, while rich people do not have the courage to move westward radically.

But...Huo Hai opened Huo’s Bank.

An initial interest-free loan will be provided.

Where does the bank's profit come from? Of course, it is by lending money to the nobles. The nobles will use their more powerful power and voice to take land from the Xiongnu Company for grazing. They have no money.

Of course the money was borrowed from Huo Hai.

As long as he completes one cycle, the big man will never be short of woolen sweaters again.

On the other hand, those who moved westward would completely separate the ordinary Huns from the Hun nobles.

If all went well, by then all the major Xiongnu tribes would have been cut into pieces of meat by Huo Qubing, like their grandsons being beaten.

These merchants went back and either fanned the flames or bribed the Huns to divide the ordinary people into herdsmen and become Han subjects.

From then on, no new overlord will be born on the grassland.

If no new overlord is born, it means that the grassland empire and the Central Plains dynasty will merge smoothly. In this way, progress in the Western Regions is only a matter of time.

When all this is completed, the territory of the Han Dynasty will reach that of the Tang Dynasty at its peak.

In addition, the Han Dynasty's control over the local areas is stronger than that of the Tang Dynasty, so by then it will be a powerful Han Dynasty (map version of the prosperous Tang Dynasty).

And everything is just a starting point.

Huo Hai drew a line on the map, and the Antong Railway was expanded into the Anshen Railway.

If Huo Hai spends money along this line, it means that tens of billions of money will rush into the market like water and flow into the pockets of workers.

Of course, this money originally came from the market.

Starting from July, Huohai’s new city no longer had too much housing inventory and began to sell them.

When the second-class luxury houses in the new city started to be sold, the whole city went crazy.

Wenpeng, who came from Chengdu, brought money to buy a house, and was stunned when he saw the long queue.

"what?"

Are people in Chang'an so rich?

The entire team stretched for two miles!
This is not a place to view a house, this is a place to sign a contract to buy a house!
Wen Peng looked around and grabbed a man: "Hey, brother, why are there so many people?"

The man heard Wen Peng's different accent and looked him up and down: "Brother, you are all from other places and you are queuing here. Why are there so many people? What do you think?"

When Wen Peng heard that he was speaking in a standard Mandarin accent, he also switched to a standard Mandarin accent: "It can't be that people from all over the country are coming, right?"

The person who spoke at the beginning heard that he also spoke with a normal accent, and immediately felt a sense of familiarity: "Wouldn't it be better if you spoke with a normal accent earlier? But why does your normal accent sound a bit weird..."

"It's just like what you say when your mouth is numbed by peppercorns."

Wen Peng scratched his head and said, "I know my answer is not standard. We all say it the same way."

The man laughed and said, "My name is Zhao Jiang. I used to be a soldier, but now I am a teacher in Chang'an."

Zhao Jiang didn't have a surname before, it was the name given to him by Huo Qubing.

Wen Peng cupped his hands and said, "I am Wen Peng, from Chengdu."

Zhao Jiang: "Oh, so you guys learned the normal accent so quickly? Even though it's not standard, it's still pretty impressive!"

Wen Peng smiled and said, "My ancestors were also engaged in education. After Chengdu began to plan to conquer India, a group of people learned the local tribal languages ​​while learning the Mandarin accent. My family also learned the Mandarin accent."

"My grandfather is old and can't come to see me, so I came here."

Zhao Jiang laughed out loud and said more cordially: "So your grandfather and I are from the same business."

"Are all the educators in Chengdu surnamed Wen?"

When Wen Peng saw that Zhao Jiang knew about his family's affairs, he could only bow and say, "My ancestor is Wen Weng, and my father is Wen Shilian."

The two of them started chatting.

Only then did I know that Wen Weng had decided that Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters would replace the Guanzhong Mandarin accent and official script and become the official accent calibration and official font, so he had already asked all students in Wen Weng's Stone Chamber to start learning Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters.

However, the Mandarin has changed a bit over there.

But it doesn’t matter. The most important thing is to understand. And as long as you have learned the system, even if you go to Chang’an in the future, you will know that your normal accent has an accent, and you can just change the parts with the accent.

The key is to learn first.

So those with accents should also be promoted, and the ordinary accents were pushed aside.

The Wen family was originally a family of officials. The dozen or so students that Wen Weng sent to the Imperial College have now returned to take up official positions.

The highest rank among them was that of a governor (at this time, the governor had no real power).

His two eldest sons also serve as officials.

But Wen Shilian did not become an official.

Wen Shilian started out as a businessman.

Because the environment in Shu is closed, the business environment is actually quite good. When Liu Che first started to extort money, it had no impact on them at all.

So when the new business reform trend reached Chengdu, merchants and vendors in Chengdu were able to adapt seamlessly and faster than Chang'an.

Zhang Qian also ordered Chengdu to learn from Chang'an County's practices. He no longer required that business be concentrated in the market, but allowed business to be conducted anywhere.

And because of special strategic reasons, salt and iron were opened up first.

However, it was stipulated that if the state and the army wanted to purchase salt and iron in a centralized manner, no merchant could keep any of it for personal gain.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wen Shilian seized the opportunity and started trading salt. He soon opened up the salt trade channel in eastern Shu.

After becoming rich, Wen Shilian seized the opportunity to purchase a batch of original shares of Tianzhu Company.

Those wealthy people in Chengdu gather together and chat every day, and they always say that they want to go to Chang'an to see the world.

For them, being content with a small fortune is their characteristic and having fun everywhere is the norm.

But the Wen family is different.

The Wen family is originally from outside.

Although Wen Shilian was born in Shu, unlike his two brothers, he was inevitably curious about Chang'an because of the influence of his surroundings.

Although there was no large-scale trade route between Chengdu and Chang'an this time, commercial ties were strengthened. Chengdu's tea, Shu embroidery, Shu brocade, some special bamboo products, tribute charcoal and some special minerals were transported to Chang'an day and night.

Once you have money, there are many people willing to work for a salary, so there is naturally no shortage of caravans.

As time went by, the ancient Jinniu Road became a regular road.

So Wen Shilian asked his son Wen Peng to come to Chang'an.

There are three purposes. First, to record the customs and development of Chang'an.

Second, observe other policies of the new business reform to see if there are any development directions that have not been done well in Shu.

Third, purchase a house.

This third point is the most important.

Wen Weng is quite old, already 68 years old this year, and he had never planned to leave Chengdu again in his lifetime.

After all, one must go to Sichuan when young and never leave Sichuan when old.

But now I have to go out.

The new business reform is accompanied by educational reform.

Zhang Qian and Su Wu both told Wen Weng very clearly that the things that were replicated in Chengdu in Chang'an were not reproduced correctly.

Zhang Qian told Weng that the simplified Chinese articles and pronunciations reproduced in Chengdu had problems and were not correct to use.

Su Wu told Wen Weng from a functional perspective that in Chang'an, among science, education, culture, and health, education comes after science, and education serves as a backing for science.

Chengdu has a developed education system but lacks science. After many years, it will sooner or later be caught up by other cities, or even surpassed.

Therefore, Wen Weng decided to lead the group back to Chang'an for inspection.

Because the journey was long and he was old, he couldn't travel for two or three months and then return in a month, right? So he needed a house.

And the house cannot be small.

Because Wen Weng not only wanted to go to Chang'an himself, but also wanted to bring some people with him.

For example, someone like Uncle Zhang.

People like Uncle Zhang are very representative whether in Chang'an or Chengdu.

To put it simply, Uncle Zhang is a Dali native!

At the beginning, Sima Xiangru went to southern Shu to organize the construction of roads, and at the same time reconcile the conflicts among tribes in preparation for the attack on Yelang.

Although we didn't fight later, it's better to be prepared.

Sima Xiangru's talent and demeanor impressed many people from local tribes.

Among them were Zhang Shu and Sheng Lan.

These two people studied in Shu for a long time. After studying in southern Shu, Sheng Lan became a glorious people's teacher, training Dali people to learn Chinese characters and the Shu language.

Zhang Shucai was slightly better than Sheng Lan. After studying in southern Shu, he was recommended to study in Wenweng Stone Chamber in Chengdu.

After studying in Wen Weng's stone chamber in Chengdu, he was not inferior to other talented people in Shu County, so he was sent to Chang'an to study by Wen Weng.

Uncle Zhang can be said to have studied all the way from the edge of the world to the center of the world.

It is as inspiring as rising from a poor villager to becoming the top scorer in the national civil service exam.

After Uncle Zhang returned to Shu to take up his post, he became a symbol of education in the southwest.

Zhang Qian had sent people to Dali before, but they were stopped. In fact, it was because he was not familiar enough with the local area. If he had found Uncle Zhang earlier, how could he have been stopped?

Uncle Zhang’s existence has strong political implications.

First, the existence of Uncle Zhang proves that the so-called southern barbarians of Dali Kingdom are no less intelligent than the Han people. What they lack is education, not brains.

Second, Uncle Zhang's service as an official in the Han court also had strong political guiding significance for the people of Dali. It proved that the Han Dynasty treated everyone equally, and as long as the people of Dali had the ability, they could be like Uncle Zhang.

If Wen Weng had not visited Chang'an education again, then Zhang Shu actually had a third meaning.

That is, Dali has had connections with the Central Plains since Zhang Shu became an official. When the connection became close to a certain extent, Dali became a part of the Central Plains. Later, after Zhu Yuanzhang naturally took over Yunnan, Zhang Shu Shenglan was also commemorated by the local people.

The existence of Zhang Shushenglan in history is even more important than Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet and Wang Zhaojun's marriage.

However, as Wen Weng's investigation began, another layer of meaning came into play.

Uncle Zhang is coming to Chang'an to find a way out for his clan members.

If Uncle Zhang succeeds, then all students studying Chinese in the Dali Kingdom will be formally incorporated into the Han bureaucratic system.

Once this plan was successful, the Dali Kingdom would naturally be incorporated into the Han Dynasty, and the original Dali Kingdom's bureaucratic system would collapse directly.

This matter has huge political implications.

There is a reason why Wen Weng chose people this way.

Wen Weng had wanted to do this a long time ago, after all, if he succeeded, he would expand his territory.

But the conditions are not ripe.

Now that the conditions are ripe, Wen Weng wants to use his influence to get this done.

I have risked my life, so I must get this done before I die.

Therefore, Wen Peng’s mission in Chang’an this time was quite heavy. He needed to get everything done before Wen Weng arrived.

The Wen family is highly respected in Chengdu. They keep their word and have ten thousand people willing to do things for them, just like Huo Hai's status in Chang'an. So when Wen Peng came to Chang'an to buy a house, he found the queue was two miles long and he was a little uncomfortable.

Of course he wouldn't tell everything, he just said that his grandfather was Wen Weng, that Wen Weng was coming to Chang'an, and that he wanted to buy a house in Chang'an.

Zhao Jiang listened and said: "It's a great thing that Weng wants to come to Chang'an to buy a house!"

Wen Peng: "Really? How come it's such a good thing?" Zhao Jiang clapped his hands: "Will the housing prices around Weng's house soar?!"

Wen Peng laughed: Is it that exaggerated?

The two kept chatting, and by the time they lined up and saw a table, it was almost dark.

Wen Peng wiped his sweat and said, "Why do so many people want to buy houses?"

Next to him, a wealthy businessman walked out happily holding a contract: "I finally got the house!"

Wen Peng: "Hey, brother, congratulations!"

The rich businessman stopped and said, "Haha, thank you very much."

Wen Peng: "How many acres of house did you buy?"

The rich businessman made the number eight: "Eight whole acres!"

Wen Peng thought about it and thought: eight acres is too small.

As a scholar who had been studying since childhood and was proficient in the six arts, Wenpeng immediately calculated how big eight acres was.

"Eight acres? How much did you spend?"

Wen Peng originally thought that this person probably didn't have much money. He probably didn't spend much to buy an eight-acre house. Then he heard the man say, "Two million, three hundred thousand."

Wen Peng's heart twitched!

The man said happily: "I heard that when the new city was first built, the price of a 30-acre luxury house was only 3 million. It's a pity that I didn't buy a house at that time, otherwise the price would have skyrocketed by now!"

When Huo Haixiu first built the model house, he said it was prepared for the Shi family. The mansion covered a total area of ​​30 acres, which was worth three million yuan.

When the reservation was made, thirty acres were reserved, which was indeed a huge sum of three million yuan.

But the reason why Huo Hai opened reservations was to use the money they reserved to build a new city.

The prices hadn't gone up yet.

As more and more wealthy people appeared in Chang'an City, housing prices naturally rose.

Now eight acres is considered relatively small among second-rate luxury houses, even smaller than a standard football field, but the price has soared to 2.3 million.

The starting price of the luxury house, which originally covered 30 acres, is now 8 million!
It has more than doubled.

The housing price has been rising and has never collapsed.

Wen Peng was stunned: "Why...it's so expensive..."

Zhao Jiang: "Oh, this isn't expensive, it's going to go up!"

"Now all of you wealthy outsiders come here through trade routes, which are very difficult to travel. When railways and highways are built, wealthy people from all over will come to Chang'an. How can the housing prices be low?"

Wen Peng: "I heard that all the houses in the new city belong to your majesty and Mr. Huo? Then why doesn't Mr. Huo wait until the road is repaired and the house price increases more before selling it?"

Zhao Jiang laughed loudly: "What nonsense! The housing prices will rise only when there are more people. If we don't sell houses, where will the people come from? Besides, if we don't sell houses, how can we get money to build roads..."

Wen Peng suddenly realized, is this what it means when the wool comes from the sheep?

I've become a big fat sheep!

But Wenpeng became even more worried when he thought about it.

I am not qualified to be a big fat sheep.

What I want to buy is a mansion that is large enough for more than ten people to study and live.

These more than ten people are all officials, as well as their own assistants and servants.

If I also buy a house of eight acres, where will it be enough for me to live in?

Eight acres of land sounds like a lot, but Wen Peng had already inquired about it and found out that the main feature of this house is the large yard, and the main building has only six rooms per acre on average.

Moreover, only three of the six rooms are used for living.

But I don’t have enough money.

Zhao Jiang saw Wen Peng's troubles and smiled slightly: "Did you not expect the housing prices in Chang'an to be so high when you came here, and you didn't bring enough money?"

Wen Peng nodded.

Zhao Jiang: "Ask Huo's Bank for a loan."

"Huo's Bank can provide mortgage loans to people who have jobs and businesses, but they have to pay interest."

Wen Peng laughed awkwardly: "No work, no business."

Zhao Jiang: "Then you sign the agreement, take the money in Chengdu, and exchange it for the IOU in Chang'an, right?"

Wen Peng sighed: "My grandfather and father are in good health, how can I control the money?"

Zhao Jiang smiled. Is that really the case?

Take it easy.

Zhao Jiang: "Oh? I have a way. You can get the money to buy a house right away."

Wen Peng: "Oh? Brother Zhao, what do you mean?"

Zhao Jiang smiled slightly: "We are building a new school. If we can borrow Wen Weng's name, we can naturally make a lot of money. But there are two points. After Wen Weng comes to Chang'an, he must come to support the school and must serve as the honorary principal."

Wen Peng laughed awkwardly: "Is it not good for me to make money from my ancestors?"

Zhao Jiang: "Then when Mr. Wen arrives in Chang'an, he will have to sleep on the streets. Isn't that even worse?"

Wen Peng took a deep breath and said, "Let's talk in detail!"

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People who came to Chang'an bought properties crazily.

The new city developed by Huo Hai is divided into three parts.

Part of it is super luxury houses, and the profits from super luxury houses are the money needed for the development of the entire new city.

The second part is second-rate luxury houses, and the profits from these houses are the cost of building the railway.

The third part is the ordinary densely populated residential area.

Most of the houses in these densely populated residential areas are purchased by workers, and their prices are much lower than those of luxury homes, generally ranging from 60,000 to 400,000 yuan.

Although the workers' salaries are extremely high, it is difficult for them to raise so much money at one time, so many of them choose to take out loans, and these mortgage loans will pay back Huo Hai over a long period of time.

Simply put, all of Xincheng’s cash flow was spent when the second-tier luxury homes were selling out, and after that, it became a steady stream of cash flow.

Although this may not seem like a big deal in the context of rapid economic progress and rising housing prices, this money will be the key to the Huo Group's continued recovery year after year.

With it, no matter how difficult it is to build the railway, Huo Hai will never be short of money.

Huo Hai no longer needs to temporarily set up a business like Huo’s Jewelry to make money to supplement the economy during lean times.

The large influx of people into the new city has also led to rapid expansion of business.

A large number of new buildings and boiler chimneys finally give this place the appearance of the industrial age.

But it is different from the super-polluted environment of industrialized Britain, and it seems more livable here.

Especially in the luxury residential area, the huge green environment of every household makes the environmental pressure very low.

These rich people certainly would never have thought that they were making a huge contribution to reducing pollution from industrialization by spending huge sums of money.

Because from the experience point of view, new buildings, whether you use your body to feel it or your eyes to appreciate it, are much more comfortable than old buildings!

Although there used to be those tall courtyards with singing birds and fragrant flowers, they are organically combined with Hanque.

But some people's homes are not so good, they are terrible.

And now, beauty has become something that can be mass-produced.

After the independent heating systems of the luxury homes and the central heating in the slightly densely populated residential areas were turned on, even the street temperatures became much higher.

Thousands of families moved to the new city, and suddenly Chang'an was filled with the joy of housewarming.

So few people paid attention to the laying of railways.

The number of people from the surrounding areas who came to Chang'an since the middle of the year has exceeded 150,000!

Only a small portion of this population got jobs.

As the population increases, wages have shown a downward trend.

At this time, the railway construction began to recruit workers crazily.

The newcomers were absorbed by the wave of industrialization.

Chang'an is like a big tree that never stops growing, expanding wildly.

Every letter sent back home would say, "Don't worry about my parents, wife, and children. I'm in Chang'an, earning 3,000 yuan a month." This has become the standard letter paper prepared in advance by the letter writers in Chang'an.

"Will you make up for it? It will cost you ten cents more for every sentence."

"No, no, just send it like this, that's enough!"

The gentleman who wrote the letter also smiled comfortably. It costs thirty cents to write a letter, and he doesn't actually write the pen himself. It's just printed out. It feels so good to make money!
If I hadn't learned simplified Chinese in school, how could I have the chance to earn this money?

But there are so many students in the school, and I guess this letter-writing business won’t last long. What should I do next?
Or...I can save some money and open a school in my hometown?!
These workers made money in Chang'an, but before they had money to bring their families to Chang'an to settle down, wouldn't their children go to school? Of course they would!

Many people have clear plans for the future.

People in Chang'an New City also feel strange about some of the roads in the new city.

Except for the old highway, the new city was completely paved with cement, creating a super highway running from north to south.

Many intersections were also built.

But some intersections are not flat.

Instead, go under and over the bridge.

In short, it seems that in order to make way for the road, people must be diverted from other roads.

There are even three huge underpasses running from north to south, through which even horse-drawn carriages can pass.

In these three places, earth slopes higher than the ground were built.

There are many wooden sleepers and stone bars on it.

"It's strange. The Chidao didn't even have a Yudao left. What's the point of having such a road?"

Everyone knew that the middle of the Chidao was the Imperial Road, where only the emperor could walk. Anyone else who stepped on it would die.

But now, after crossing the canal bridge, even the Chidao has been changed. Although the imperial road remains, there is an intersection where you can cross the street directly.

You know, in the past, even if the prince was in a hurry to go to the palace on the other side, he had to go out of the city, go around the main imperial road and come back. Now it has been changed.

"My goodness, His Majesty the Emperor doesn't even need me to give way, what kind of road is this paved with gravel? What's so cool about it?"

Another month passed, and at the end of August everyone discovered that the road was paved with steel!

They used to be sold at extremely high prices; a hoe and a hatchet could cost a farmer’s entire year’s surplus iron. But now they were made into a huge I-shape and laid on the ground, on wooden pillows.

When the railway tracks were being laid, people from Chang'an City all came to watch the fun.

Some people even had evil intentions.

But this evil thought died immediately.

Because someone announced on the spot: "Those who steal rails will be sentenced to death! Those who steal and buy rails will be sentenced to death! Those who steal rails multiple times will have their entire clan executed! If a relative reports it for the sake of justice, the crime will be dealt with regardless!"

After hearing this, the old man next to him stared at his nephew and said, "Er Gouzi, there's something wrong with the way you look at the railroad tracks!"

Er Gouzi: "Third father, I really didn't mean that!"

His third father: "You better be! Otherwise I'll be the first to report you!"

It is impossible to steal, but those who like money squat beside the railway tracks and watch all day long.

Isn't this just putting money on the ground?
This section of railway track can equip a hundred-man swordsman team!
Wouldn't this road involve a million troops?

What does this mean!

The people in Chang'an City didn't understand, but they knew that it was Lord Huo and His Majesty who did it.

I don’t understand it, but I think it’s awesome!
I don’t understand but I admire!
Soon, coal miners who came to Chang'an talked about it, saying that there was also such a railway in Tongguan, as well as a smaller railway for transporting ore.

Everyone suddenly realized that it was for transporting coal. No wonder it needed to be built like this!
But soon, someone discovered that an east-west railway was built horizontally across the entire green belt without any buildings.

The left end goes far east out of Chang'an City, and the west end also goes out of Chang'an, all the way to Ling County, and finally to the interior of the research institute.

Could it be that coal was dug up underground in the research institute and was being sent to the east of the city? Or was it that coal was dug up in the east of the city and was being sent to the research institute in the west of the city?

At the end of September, this day came.

"Woo~~~~"

A huge, pitch-black steel monster drove out of the research institute, dragging a series of boxes.

The steel behemoth roared madly.

“Woo~~~~Woo~~~Boom boom~Woo~!!!!!!”

As the roar became louder, the steel behemoth moved faster and faster.

"Woo!!!"

Those who like to squat by the fence outside the railway and watch are stupid.

What kind of monster is this!!!
A railway runs from the east to the west of Chang'an, passing through the entire new city.

At the intersection of the highway and the railway, there are many wooden boards and fences.

Now all obstructions have been removed.

A train station revealed its true appearance.

This place is called Chang'an North Station, number 01.

Chang'an North Station has two directions: horizontal and vertical.

It connects Chang'an horizontally from north to south, serving as an intercity railway.

In the north-south direction, it connects Chang'an - Tongguan - Shenmu.

The line is currently open to Tongguan Station, and construction is underway from Tongguan to Shenmu.

At Chang'an North Station, all the civil and military officials of the imperial court went out together.

Liu Che even brought his harem and all the princes with him.

Seeing the giant roaring from the west, Cao Xiang said: "Danger! Your Majesty, retreat quickly!"

This is indeed dangerous. If this huge monster suddenly raises its head like a snake, all the people in the Han Central Force will be killed here!

However, the car was full of Liu Che's men.

Liu Che glanced at Cao Xiang and said, "You are so nervous. You should study more when you have time. You are a rear general, not a lagging general."

Cao Xiang stepped back awkwardly: Is this what Lu Bode taught me? I wonder if I have learned it well enough...

At this time, Huo Hai introduced: "Your Majesty, this railway is divided into north and south. The east-west one is relatively short. It is the internal line of Chang'an. It is mainly used in conjunction with the canal. It is the second largest transportation line and is also responsible for the transportation of people from the north to the south."

"In this way, people living in the east of the city can also find jobs in the west of the city. It only takes 20 minutes at most to get there."

You have to know that in the past ordinary people could not walk inside the main road, and it would take at least two hours to walk one trip.

Liu Che: "This means... the housing prices in the east of the city are going to go up, right?"

Huo Hai: "Hehe, I have bought all the houses in Wannian County."

Liu Che: "Shall we go to the east of the city?"

Huo Hai: "No, this first car will not be used in the city for the time being. It will be used to transport goods first. It will soon go north from the dispatch route. We will now go from Chang'an North Station Intercity Station to Chang'an North Station Railway Station to board the train and go to Tongguan."

Huo Hai never expected that this day would come so soon.

Huo Hai thought he would have to wait a year for this day.

Unexpectedly, the difficulty in researching the steam engine was not in the mechanical structure, but in the materials, and the steel plant had been conducting material tests for a year.

The mechanical structure of the train has been studied at Tongguan Coal Mine for a year.

As soon as this steam engine came out, the first steam locomotive came online.

The researchers at the research institute are like crazy and are determined to make this mobile power source. In fact, this locomotive has been modified for twelve generations.

The new research is two generations higher than this.

But Yang Liancheng, deputy director of the institute, did not want to wait any longer. He needed a masterpiece to completely bring the institute to the attention of the world.

Therefore, the tenth-generation steam locomotive was used on the train chassis that had been made in advance. After experiencing ten consecutive mid-air accelerations, the first finished steam locomotive finally came onto the track, arrived at Chang'an North Station, and arrived in front of the Han people.

(End of this chapter)