The big man has a living father

Chapter 204 (Big Chapter) Largest Investment

new Year is here.

In the car, Jiang Buyi, who was wearing a cotton robe and facing the cold wind, said, "My Lord, don't you feel bored when you usually answer their questions?"

Huo Hai said calmly: "Now I know exactly what they are doing, and the process of solving the mystery is quite interesting."

The young researchers in the institute now ask Huo Hai questions every few days.

The questions are listed below.

“How to prevent rubber tires from deforming too much when driving at high speeds.”

"How to make the wheels turn with less friction."

"If the car is loaded with heavy cargo, how can the car be stopped?"

"What should I do if the single sofa is too thin to use too many springs?"

"How can I see what's behind the car from the car?"

"Water leaks easily between two pieces of iron sheets, but how can we solve this problem if we can't weld them together?"

"How can the people in front hear the car coming from behind if we don't use the whistle and waste steam?"

Huo Hai just wanted to say, you might as well ask me how to design a steam engine car.

Huo Hai remembered that he had read about this aspect when he was studying the history of automobile development.

At first, Huo Hai read in a textbook that the inventor of the car was Benz. Later, Huo Hai learned that the 10,000% was written in with money.

Because the inventor of the car was not a German at all, but a Frenchman.

Car, car, steam locomotive, you can tell what it is by looking at the name.

Moreover, after the steam locomotive, the electric car was invented first, not the internal combustion engine car.

If we think about it logically, we will realize that turbines must have appeared after electric motors. After all, turbines are essentially generators.

The internal combustion engine relies on gas expansion to move the piston, which appeared later than the turbine. It is the latest power source to be theoretically proposed and the latest power engine to be realized among all the power sources installed on cars.

If an ordinary person only relies on subconscious feelings to speculate, it is highly likely that he would not have thought that the internal combustion engine was the last to appear.

In addition to the fact that the car was not invented by Benz, the first internal combustion locomotive was not invented by Benz, but by Daimler.

The short video that Huo Hai watched was specifically to criticize Mercedes-Benz's robbery, so he specifically answered it in the form of a question and answer. The question was, "People say that motorcycles only have two wheels and cannot be considered real cars. What's wrong with saying that Mercedes-Benz invented the car?" The answer was, "Mercedes-Benz did not invent a four-wheeled vehicle, but a three-wheeled vehicle." "You are asking if Mercedes-Benz was the first to make a four-wheeled vehicle?" "The first real four-wheeled internal combustion engine car was also invented by Daimler."

Therefore, Mercedes-Benz is neither the inventor of the four-wheeled vehicle, nor the inventor of the car, nor the inventor of the internal combustion engine car, let alone the inventor of the four-wheeled internal combustion engine car.

Historically, Benz relied on political means and bribery to collude with local councillors to monopolize patent registration qualifications, and then vigorously promoted his invention of the car in newspapers, using politics and the media to grab the title of the inventor of the car.

Later, it acquired Daimler AG in its entirety (in theory, Daimler is the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, but in reality the beneficiaries and inheritance have always been completed within the Mercedes-Benz system).

Now no one can object that Mercedes-Benz is the inventor of the automobile.

After all, the saying has changed from Benz inventing the car to Mercedes-Benz being the inventor of the car.

But according to this logic, whoever owns shares in Mercedes-Benz can claim to be the inventor of the car, since the operation is the same as that of Mercedes-Benz.

Who is it now? Geely owns shares of Mercedes-Benz and Daimler. According to this logic, Geely should say that it is the father of the inventor of the car, right?
I don’t know how Mercedes-Benz offended this UP host, but this UP host insisted on making a video to refute every word and every aspect of the statement that Mercedes-Benz is the inventor of the car from beginning to end.

But fortunately, this video completely refuted the "Father of Mercedes-Benz" theory, so Huo Hai had a clear understanding of the different development directions of automobiles through that video.

The video also talks about how the internal combustion engine was initially designed to replace the steam engine and greatly corrected the limited range of the steam engine, but was later defeated by electric wires.

Therefore, Huo Hai can give them detailed guidance in this regard.

The only problem is that a steam locomotive is a thankless task. It may take more than twenty minutes to preheat before it can run for ten minutes or so, and the speed is not particularly fast. In these ten minutes or so, it can only run a few kilometers at most.

Instead of really making a steam locomotive and using it for show, it would be better to study bicycles first.

But then again, humans invented four-wheeled vehicles first, then motorcycles, then tricycles, and finally bicycles. Of these four devices, the bicycle is the most difficult.

This is again counter-intuitive.

So Huo Hai didn't tell them not to step into the pits, but to avoid them and concentrate on attacking the bicycles.

Instead, not saying anything is actually encouraging them to make steam engine cars.

Because the power system of steam engine cars is different from that of internal combustion engine cars, the transmission system and chassis are actually worthy of reference.

Moreover, due to the complexity of the automobile chassis and the importance of innovation, it will greatly stimulate the emergence of various mechanical devices, which may solve the transmission problem of bicycles earlier.

The most crucial thing is that a car is a very big thing, and the Han Dynasty is about to promulgate a patent law. With the patent law, if others want to bypass the institute's current patents on cars that integrate all the mechanical devices and research their own cars, they will need to comprehensively innovate various patented technologies in all directions.

This is self-evident for the promotion of machinery.

Huo Hai wanted to see when this new generation of researchers could produce the first steam engine car.

Even if you can only drive five kilometers, even if there is constant black and white smoke along the way, and you have to brave the cold wind, it is worth it.

Huo Hai shook his head and stopped thinking about the car. Instead, he asked Jiang Buyi, "Are you going to take the Spring Examination?"

Jiang Buyi: "Take the test, you must take the test!"

Huo Hai smiled.

Jiang Buyi: "My Lord, do you doubt that I can't pass the exam?"

Huo Hai smiled but said nothing.

Jiang Buyi: "My Lord is suspicious."

Huo Hai: "No, no, no, I believe you can pass the exam."

Jiang Buyi: "It doesn't sound like..."

Huo Hai: "I believe it, I believe it."

Jiang Buyi: This sounds familiar! !
But what does it matter whether I pass the exam or not? It's fine if I pass the exam, I can become an official anytime in the future. If I fail the exam, I can still find Brother Xiang if I want to become an official.

Huo Hai: "Watch out ahead, there are more cars."

Jiang Buyi: "Don't worry, Lord Hou, I have professional ethics and will not let my mood affect my work."

Huo Hai was amused. Was this guy trying to say in a roundabout way that he was in a bad mood?

"Hahaha!"

Jiang Buyi: "My Lord, why does His Majesty want to hold a banquet at the stock exchange center?"

Huo Hai: "Holding a banquet? That's called setting up a feast! Holding a banquet is a folk term."

Jiang Buyi: "That's fine. Your Majesty is holding a banquet in the palace, and isn't it the same as holding a banquet among the people?"

Huo Hai thought: "That makes sense!"

"It's the same reason as when Your Majesty attended the Tongguan Coal Mine Annual Meeting. Over the past year, the stock trading hall has made an indelible contribution to the Han Dynasty's economy and even other fields."

"So, your majesty will hold the banquet here."

In fact, the tradition of holding annual meetings started when Tongguan Coal Mine was established.

Originally, the court's annual meeting was supposed to be held in the imperial palace, where Emperor Liu Che would reward all his ministers.

However, if it is moved to a stock trading center, it will have a special meaning.

First of all, it is not a good idea for non-court officials to enter the palace. They have not been trained, there are too many people and too many eyes, which will cause problems in all aspects.

However, Liu Che wanted to expand this annual meeting.

After all, in addition to the court assembly, there is now a parliament. Why are only court officials attending the annual meeting and no members of parliament attending?

If it is held in the stock exchange center, members of parliament can join in and have fun together with the people.

At the same time, it sends a strong political signal that the status of members of parliament is very important and they can be on an equal footing with officials.

Don't underestimate this political signal.

When Liu Che went to Tongguan Coal Mine to attend the annual meeting, the miners of Tongguan Coal Mine became the new darlings of the era.

They are the highest-paid people in Chang'an City, are close to the emperor, are employees of cutting-edge technology companies, and are employees of economic pillar companies.

Over the past two or three years, most of the miners who were not married at the beginning have now married Changan wives.

Besides, the backbones among the tens of thousands of miners at that time have started to go to coal mines in various places to serve as middle-level or even senior leaders this year.

Moreover, the young miners there caught up with the trend of learning, and as many as 10,000 people applied for the spring examination this time!

Even if these people fail the exam, they will not continue to work as miners.

After three years, their salaries plus various mine benefits and bonuses meant that each person earned at least 120,000 yuan, and some even earned over 200,000 yuan. With this kind of savings, and the fact that they are at the forefront of the times, they can now do any business in Chang'an.

Today, these miners are no longer refugees or Huns.

These people are coal miners.

Now, the political signal falls on the wealthy businessmen, and the meaning is even stronger than before.

But today, it is not just for celebration, but also for public fundraising.

If the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang is to be built in a short period of time, at least one million workers will have to be mobilized.

The wages of these one million workers are not low!
Three thousand a month, that means three billion dollars a month.

If it takes a year to build, it would cost 36 billion dollars.

This does not include the cost of explosives, steel, sleepers, and cement.

This project requires huge investment.

When Huo Hai arrived at the stock trading center, Wei Qing had already arrived.

In fact, since March, the Huns had been doomed and had no chance of recovery.

However, Wei Qing was a great general, famous for his steadiness. In his opinion, there was a one percent chance that the Huns would abandon Chanyu Ting and march directly south in late autumn, attacking Hedong in one fell swoop or even going down the Yellow River into Guanzhong.

Although this possibility seems impossible to others.

However, Wei Qing still insisted on staying in the northern border until late autumn, and also insisted on reducing the population by 30,000.

In late autumn, Wei Qing did not return directly to Chang'an, but instead inspected the entire northern border.

Although cement roads had been built between several cities along the Qin Great Wall in the north, it was winter after all, and Wei Qing's pioneering winter inspection took two months.

It was not until the deepest part of winter that Wei Qing started his return journey. On his return journey, Wei Qing did not take the railway to the south quickly like Huo Hai, but went to a water transport channel dug in the north.

This canal did not exist in history! It runs the same direction as the Yellow River, but it passes through a location with average altitude and finally flows into the Yellow River from the Fen River. In other words, this canal is equivalent to a part of the Yellow River, making a detour around it.

Although only 100-ton ships can pass through, 100-ton ships also have steam turbines.

It took Wei Qing more than ten days to get into the Yellow River on that small steam turbine boat. He then inspected military affairs in various places along the way from the canal before returning.

This route is actually the same as the route that Huo Qubing took when he went to Pingyang County to pick up brothers Huo Hai and Huo Guang to go to Chang'an. However, three years later, this route has become a canal transport route.

And today, it is New Year's Eve, and Wei Qing finally returned on time.

In fact, the main reason was that Huo Hai and Princess Wei Chang were about to get married, otherwise there was no way Wei Qing would come back. Given his workaholic nature, wouldn't this inspection take half a year?
It was difficult to patrol before, but now there are cement roads everywhere, and he wants to go everywhere!
When Wei Qing appeared here today, he was surrounded by a large number of people praising him.

"Great General, Great General!"

"Thank you for your hard work, General!"

"The Xiongnu were ambitious and the general was on the march for a whole year, and finally he pacified them!"

Wei Qing wanted to laugh.

It's fine for you to praise Huo Qubing just because he came back from fighting, but what did I fight this year?

It's just that everyone is excited to see that the North has started to make money.

The Xiongnu Company was the first company to generate profits among the many outward-expanding companies of the Han Dynasty.

Currently, the Xiongnu Company has a total of 8.8 million cattle, sheep and horses.

I don’t know if this is a lucky number to fill in manually.

Among them, the number of sheep is 5.6 million.

Of these, 4.7 million are sheep.

These sheep produced a total of 10 million kilograms of wool this year.

The key point is that this is not much. Xiongnu Company has published the new technology in Science News three times. It is expected that an average sheep can produce three to four kilograms of wool next year.

The number of farmed sheep will continue to grow next year, and not just grow normally, but grow dramatically.

How should we estimate it? Next year, there will be 60 million people left in the Han Dynasty, out of a population of 70 million, excluding 10 million who are not on the same side as the Han Dynasty. Each person will be given at least two woolen coats.

At the same time, it is also necessary to meet the needs of a large number of Han Chinese organizations for wool blankets and yurt materials.

Let’s calculate how much it costs.

It is really hard to calculate the specific profit here because business is not that simple.

For example, almost every Dingling person has a demand for at least two sets of woolen clothes and trousers, cotton-padded clothes, a wool blanket of ten square meters, and more than ten square meters of sheep felt.

So the question is, where do the Dingling people get so much money to buy these things?
The current exploration situation is that Dingling produces a lot of various minerals. Now the Dingling people only need to mine for the Han people to have enough food and warm clothes. Will the Dingling people do it?

You have to do it, otherwise you will freeze to death!
With this calculation, the price of wool sold to the Dingling people is not the price of wool, but the price of gold.

In the past, the people from the Dingling area mined minerals in scattered groups, but now all of them are required to mine, and the project has already begun. The Xiongnu Company has even announced it at the annual meeting.

Announced by Bu Shi himself.

In addition to Dingling, there are also Sushen and Xianbei.

These two tribes are stronger, but their land is also much richer and produces more, and the Han people want all these things.

Not to mention anything else, one-fifth of the Xianbei men had to become coachmen and transporters.

With this whole system, this wool is not just wool.

Xiongnu Company's financial report this year was extremely exaggerated, with year-end dividends reaching 4.8 billion yuan.

Xiongnu Company has only just started to make profits this year and has just acquired the land. A large number of projects have not yet started, and people have not yet used their smart brains to carry out the projects, but it has already made huge profits. Is there any doubt about its future?
In fact, those who understand economics will naturally understand that the Xiongnu Company now controls the Xiongnu Dingling, Xianbei and Sushen, totaling two million, and the maximum population may reach four million, who are fully engaged in economic activities.

If these people operate normally, are managed and produced in a scientific way, even if they only produce the cheapest agricultural products, the market price can reach over 50 billion.

If you consider the demand and grow some cash crops, you can easily make hundreds of billions.

To put it bluntly, squeezing out the surplus value of 20,000 yuan in purchasing power from a person in a year, isn't that a piece of cake?
Moreover, talents who understand economics and technology continue to join Xiongnu Company.

How could this company not make money?
When Huo Hai arrived, he saw Wei Qing was surrounded, so he went up to say hello.

Because all other wedding guests have been invited, but this uncle has not been invited yet.

With Huo Hai's arrival, many people surrounding Wei Qing became more excited, but they still made way for him.

Huo Hai came over, and Wei Qing laughed when he saw him: "My good nephew, Chang'an is a place to raise people. I haven't seen you for only half a year, and you're back for nothing."

Huo Hai laughed out loud: "Uncle finally came back in time for the New Year."

Huo Hai took out the wedding invitation: "Uncle."

Wei Qing accepted the invitation and patted Huo Hai on the shoulder: "You are an adult now."

As he spoke, Wei Qing looked around and whispered to Huo Hai, "Come to my place after dinner."

Huo Hai: "New Guard House?"

Wei Qing nodded.

Huo Hai nodded.

Now the Wei Mansion, the Huo Mansion and the Gongsun Mansion are guarding the Bowang Garden where the prince lives. The prince feels comfortable living here and simply does not live in the old prince's palace.

The people from the three princes' mansions naturally moved in. However, Wei Qing's family was special.

Wei Qing was the only adult in his family. As soon as he left, his eldest son Wei Kang was made Marquis of Yichun, his second son Wei Buyi was made Marquis of Yin'an, and his youngest son Wei Dengfagang was made Marquis.

The reason why I mentioned these three marquises is because they have to be mentioned.

If they didn't have the Marquis as an insurance, they wouldn't know when they would commit a crime and be beheaded.

Because of the insurance, Wei Qing could go out to fight with peace of mind. Otherwise, except in front of Liu Che, these three brothers would simply be...

Moreover, these three brothers don’t seem to be very smart, so when Wei Qing is away, the Wei family actually has no backbone.

If you want to do something for the Wei family, you have to go to the Chen Mansion to find Huo Qubing's mother, Wei Shaoer.

Because of these three brothers, Wei Qing's family did not move to Bowang Garden.

They were afraid that the three of them would accidentally offend the prince's guests or those respected people in the court whom they did not know.

Now that Wei Qing is back, it seems they are going to move into the new house here.

Huo Hai walked away after talking to Wei Qing for a few words. Jiang Buyi whispered, "Is this the general? He's really scary. You can tell at a glance that he has killed many people."

Huo Hai tilted his head: "Am I not scary? Haven't I killed anyone?"

Jiang Buyi shook his head: "It's different. The general is the kind of person who... looks very threatening..."

Huo Hai: "Don't think too much. The general will never turn against you. Even with other minor officials, he rarely turns against you. As long as you don't offend him, he won't cause trouble for you."

"Even if you offend him, he may not come after you."

Jiang Buyi: "Is this the cultivation of the empire's high-ranking officials?"

Huo Hai: "It's not about self-cultivation, but his ambition is not to fight. His brain power will not be wasted on fighting with others. Let alone you, even if it's Li Cai or Zhang Tang, he won't take action."

"But if the general wants to do something related to destroying the Xiongnu, people of Jiuqing's rank who want to stop him will turn into a pool of thick water at the bottom of the bottle in a short time."

Jiang Buyi: "Hey! I've seen this part. Isn't this... Lion Camel Ridge, Jade Purifying Bottle?"

Huo Hai: "That's called the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, and the Jade Purification Bottle belongs to Guanyin Bodhisattva. You read a lot of different books!"

After walking around for a while, Huo Hai went to the hall to eat.

Jiang Buyi came to the side hall.

The side halls are either staffed by deputies of important officials in the court, or officials brought along by some important officials, or prospective senators who unfortunately were not elected as senators this time.

Jiang Buzhi was relatively young and attracted attention as soon as he arrived.

A young man asked, "Hey, what's your name?"

Jiang Buyi bowed and said, "I am Jiang Buyi."

The other party put his hands on his hips and said: "You are also called Buyi? There can only be one Buyi in Chang'an City, and that is me, Wei Buyi."

Jiang Buyi: "Yes, yes, yes."

Wei Buyi: "Although you are right, I feel like you don't think highly of me."

Jiang Buyi: "Yes, yes, yes... No, why would I look down on Yin Anhou."

Wei Buyi was satisfied: "You are quite sensible. What do you do?"

Jiang Buyi said: "Oh, I am just a driver, you don't need to pay attention to me."

Coachman?

People who hadn't paid attention to it before now started paying attention.

How could a coachman enter this side hall?

Whose driver is this? The one who pulls the carriage for Your Majesty? Isn't Your Majesty's driver the Commandant of the Imperial Chariot? I know him.

Wei Buyi got to the bottom of it.

Jiang Buyi: "I am the coachman of Marquis Huo Wu."

Wei Buyi sat back directly: "Oh oh oh, please take a seat, I won't disturb you while you eat."

Jiang Buyi was puzzled. How could someone like Wei Buyi, the marquis's coachman, not dare to offend him?
Jiang Buyi didn't know that the last time Wei Kang ran away and was taken advantage of by someone, he sat in the main seat and was beaten by Wei Qing when he returned.

Wei Qing told the three brothers to keep quiet and not say anything when Huo Hai was present, so as not to delay family affairs.

Others were more interested in Jiang Buyi.

Xiang Xu's successor?
Although Xiang Xu is only twenty-six years old, this is the Han Dynasty after all. For most people, this age is like the pillar of the family.

As soon as Xiang Xu came out of retirement, he was appointed as the general manager of Anluo Railway. Everyone did not think that he was incompetent, but rather felt that this project might not be worthy of him.

Xiang Xu’s successor should not be an ordinary person.

At this time, the huge screen in the side hall was pulled open.

The main hall can see each other.

Liu Che had just finished speaking in the main hall, and then he said, "Today, in addition to summarizing the past year and looking forward to the next year, there is another important thing, which is the report on the Anluo Railway."

"After a year and a half of planning, the Anluo Railway is finally about to start. All the plans for the project have been completed. We only need the funds to be in place, and then we can start construction immediately."

"Today, Anluo Railway is going public."

"Xiang Xu."

Xiang Xu stood up, saluted Liu Che, and then walked to the podium holding a document.

The person next to him also picked up a loud speaker, ready to shout so that everyone in the audience could hear.

But Xiang Xu did not come here to show off, he just started with a heavy punch.

"Four years ago, Your Majesty mobilized six million dan of grain from the mouth of the Yellow River to the Wei River to Chang'an. The river did not stop for a moment and it took nine months."

"Last year, Your Majesty also mobilized a batch of 6 million dan of grain to be transported from the mouth of the Yellow River. The river did not stop for a moment and it took three months."

Everyone's attention was drawn.

"Six million shi, or 180,000 tons of grain, traveled the Wei River for nine months, which means the total transportation volume of the Wei River in a year was 240,000 tons."

"It took three months for the canal to transport goods, which means the annual transportation volume was 720,000 tons."

"This year, there are 400-ton ships. It is estimated that the total transportation volume of the canal will increase by more than 50 times to 35 million tons."

As soon as these words were spoken, there were sounds of people gasping for air everywhere, and the temperature at the scene rose by two degrees.

Xiang Xu: "Everyone thinks it's very high, right?"

Li Cai: “This number is ridiculously high!”

"Life is getting better now."

Xiang Xu: “Really…”

"Last year, the Ensign's Office has been conducting various statistics, including meat statistics."

"Last year, people in Chang'an ate three million dogs. Please remember that this does not include individual dogs sold privately or eaten at home. It is the total number of dogs shipped in from dog farms all over the place, as well as dogs bought from other places."

"Three million."

After the Chang'an people "suddenly became rich", they retaliated by consuming more pigs and dogs. Because poultry was not easy to raise on a large scale and beef and mutton were forbidden, the consumption of pigs and dogs increased dramatically. The amount of pork had not yet increased, and dogs, because of their strong reproductive ability, became the main meat consumption.

"These three million dogs produce an average of a little over 20 kilograms of meat."

"Anyone who has experience raising dogs should know that the feed-to-meat ratio for dogs... that is, the ratio of feeding grain to weight gain is four to one."

"That means a 20-kilogram dog needs to eat 80 kilograms of food to grow."

"Oh right, 7% pigs, 8% dogs and % sheep. Except for the livestock that are being studied and bred by the research institute for meat, most livestock meet this requirement. That is, the meat yield of pigs is %, dogs is %, and sheep is less than %."

“So, in reality, a dog that produces 20 kilograms of meat and bones will eat 100 kilograms of grain.”

"Three years ago, Quan Changan's dog sales could not be calculated, but only estimated, and it was estimated to be no more than 100,000."

"In the past two years, everyone in Chang'an has made money, and the quality of life has soared, which also means that everyone eats better. They eat milk, eggs, dog meat, pork, and a lot of vegetables brought back from the Western Regions, and even fruits and nuts."

“What is the cost of dog breeding?”

Xiang Xu calculated slowly: "One dog eats 100 kilograms of food. Three million dogs means 300 million kilograms of food."

"Three hundred million kilograms of grain is three hundred thousand tons."

After this number was calculated, everyone was stunned.

Xiang Xu: "Simply put, the transportation capacity of the Wei River is not enough to feed the dogs in Chang'an."

"Without ships, half of the canal transport volume would be used to feed dogs for meat."

"Do you want me to tell you how many pigs Chang'an people ate last year? Pigs don't weigh 20 kilograms, and Chang'an likes to eat fat. People who have raised pigs know that if you only raise pigs for seven months, the meat-to-feed ratio of pigs is the lowest, but they won't grow fat. To grow fat, you have to feed them with grain for more than a year, and the meat-to-feed ratio will drop as time goes by."

"In other words, without using ships, the grain transported by the canal is just enough to feed the pigs and dogs in Chang'an."

"Then the question is, pigs and dogs are for people to eat."

“Pigs and dogs are just one of dozens or even tens of things that people eat.”

"How much grain did the people of Chang'an eat last year? How much vegetables did they eat?"

"How many tons of clothes, furs, and silk did the people of Chang'an wear last year?"

“Have you ever thought about this question?”

Everyone started calculating frantically.

Xiang Xu: "Don't worry, I'll tell you."

"Since the ships appeared in the canal transport this autumn, the entire Huaishuo Shipyard has been working at full capacity, producing frantically and non-stop, but the ships produced are still not enough."

"Now, at this moment, the grain served on the table was not transported to Chang'an from outside, but was transported to Chang'an last year or the year before, and then bought by Your Majesty to store the grain at the bottom of the warehouse. Now it is taken out for everyone to eat."

"what?!"

There was an uproar at the scene.

Xiang Xu: "I am not saying that Chang'an is short of food. Chang'an is short of food, so naturally they stopped transporting other less important goods and started transporting food to Chang'an. The general managers, chairmen and major shareholders of all transportation companies in the entire Han Dynasty are here today. You should know clearly that what I said is true. From the end of the year, you will no longer transport other things, but will frantically transport food to Chang'an, because the price of food in Chang'an has increased by 3% compared to the summer."

It was this 3% that naturally regulated everything and made everyone transport grain to Chang'an.

Xiang Xu: "I told you this just to make you understand one thing. Chang'an now has a population of over one million, and it is still expanding rapidly."

"The volume of the canal transport has supported 14 large transport companies with annual profits of over 100 million yuan, but this volume is not enough for the people of Chang'an."

It's a very simple logic that the canal transport cannot run non-stop for a single second all year round.

He would only be jammed with boat queues during the day and empty at night.

Who would risk capsizing their boat and take this route in the middle of the night? Are you crazy?

Contribute to the Han Dynasty? Donate all your property?

For those who work in transportation, especially cargo transportation, who doesn’t spend a few percent of their family fortune on every transportation?
Therefore, the theoretical upper limit of the transport volume of water transport should be reduced by half.

Even if there were steamships, the amount of water transport would not be enough to support the people of Chang'an, whose population was rapidly expanding and whose material demands were soaring.

Xiang Xu: "What should I do?"

Xiang Xu was very calm, but some people were not.

A young official couldn't help but shout, "Push the cart to transport it."

Xiang Xu: "Okay, let's use a cart to transport it. The maximum weight of a cart for long-distance transportation is 500 kilograms, which requires a horse and a new-style carriage."

"It takes three months to get from Sanmenxia to Chang'an."

"That is to say, it would take five million drivers to transport ten million tons of supplies into Chang'an."

Using five million coachmen to support more than one million people in Chang'an City?

Can the more than one million people in Chang'an City afford the transportation fees of five million coachmen?
How high will prices soar?
Someone shouted, "Build a railway."

Xiang Xu nodded: "There is only one way before us, that is to build a railway. This railway will be very tiring. From the moment it is successfully built, it will be responsible for the mission of transporting tens of millions of tons of various materials and millions of passengers."

"When will Chang'an's population expansion stop? I guess it will be at least between four and six million people."

"That is to say, Changan's freight and passenger demands will increase fourfold."

"This railway will be very tiring, starting from the first day of construction until the subsequent expansion. Perhaps in the future, the transportation costs will be in the billions, and hundreds of millions of tons of materials will need to be transported each year."

Xiang Xu was still very practical and didn't say anything outrageous.

However, Chang'an only needs hundreds of millions in the future, which does not mean that the transportation volume of this railway will be hundreds of millions. Does Luoyang need to transport goods? What about Wancheng?

Xiang Xu: "Our plan is to build a railway from Chang'an to Luoyang, build a large wharf on the Yellow River in Luoyang to transport goods from Lu to Chang'an, and build a branch line from Luoyang to Wancheng to transport goods from the south to Chang'an."

"It's just such a simple plan."

"Currently, there are 20 billion yuan invested by your majesty and Marquis Huo Wu, and 60 billion yuan of funds are needed. There are only five days for subscription. If the subscription amount is insufficient by then, Anluo Railway will be directly listed."

Xiang Xu walked down the stage right after he finished speaking.

What kind of incitement, what kind of people act as shills to take the lead in investing money, what kind of talk about the future, such as how high the future will be, how high the stock price will rise.

No need.

Talk about the market, then talk about how much money has been raised, and then stop talking.

The fundraising for Anluo Railway was the most horrific fundraising since the Han Dynasty started the new business reform.

Don’t be fooled by the exaggerated market value of Xiongnu Company. In fact, when it first started raising funds, it didn’t have much money at all, less than 30 billion in total.

It just seems exaggerated because the stock price soared right after listing.

Now, the Anluo Railway, just the initial public offering of Liu Che, Huo Haiwai and others, will cost 70 billion. When the original shares are issued in the market, at least 60% will be issued, which means that 70 billion is only 40%.

The total amount is 175 billion!

This money is more than enough to build the Anluo Railway.

This money can turn Luoyang into the second Chang'an!
It even drove Wancheng to the level of developed Chengdu.

However, this is not the whole of Xiang Xu's plan.

Huo Hai looked around and saw that everyone else was talking about the Anluo Railway and thinking about problems, so he picked up the chopsticks and started working without hesitation.

One person eats at a table, so cool!
No, there were two people eating at the same table, because Huo Hai's chopsticks caught Liu Che's chopsticks.

Liu Che glared at Huo Hai and said, "You have no manners when eating. Where is the Imperial Marquis?"

Huo Hai laughed awkwardly and got a big elbow.

Liu Che glared: "Go and worship your ancestors."

Huo Hai was furious: "You didn't get to eat at the table last time, and you're offering sacrifices to your ancestors again this time?! Do great-grandfathers eat so well?!"

Liu Che: "Not now."

Huo Hai breathed a sigh of relief, but did not loosen his elbow.

Liu Che: "Tomorrow is the first day of the lunar year. We will offer sacrifices to the heaven and ancestors. You will take the lead."

Huo Hai tactically retreated: "Ah?!"

How the hell would I know this?
Liu Che took the opportunity to insert the entire elbow into his bowl.

He wanted to see if Emperor Gaozu would show up again this time.

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)