Valley Emperor

Chen Lifu did not take his own private ferry when he traveled southward between Jinling City, Suzhou and Shanghai.

Although he himself prefers to take a traditional boat compared to a new thing like a train, after all, he is a serious Jiangnan native who has traveled frequently by boat since he was a child, and he has long been accustomed to taking a boat.

Even if the current ships have changed from pure sailboats in the past to current sailing ships, this will not change anything in essence.

As for the train, although Chen Lifu does not reject it, he has often taken it in the past two years, but he still prefers to travel by boat. He can stand on the deck to feel the river wind and Buddha's face, and he can also enjoy the scenery on both sides of the strait.

But this time, he was in a bit of a hurry, and if he took a boat, he would have to travel a few times to get to Suzhou, which was far less convenient than taking a train.

If he takes the train, he can reach Suzhou from Jinling City in one day. After the handover work in Suzhou is completed, he can directly take the train to Shanghai, and then take a large sea ship from Shanghai to Guangzhou, which is convenient and fast.

In fact, the big feature of convenience and speed is also an important reason why trains have won the competition with inland shipping in recent years.

Although many inland passenger ships today are basically powered by sails, they not only use sails, but also use steam engines at the same time. The speed is faster than before, and it has little impact when sailing against the current.

However, the convenience of this kind of inland shipping is only aimed at large cities along the river, such as the cities along the Yangtze River.

It is worth noting that Suzhou is not a city along the river. Suzhou City is also Wuxian. This is a serious inland city. It relies on the dense water network in the Jiangnan Water Village to travel. These seem to be densely packed and extremely convenient. In fact, most of the water network can only pass some small boats.

The current steam engine technology is also relatively limited. The size and weight of the steam engine are relatively large, and the price is relatively expensive. Therefore, the ships equipped with steam engines are generally ships of more than 100 tons, and there are very few ships below 100 tons. Equipped with steam engine.

And sail-powered passenger ships, because of the high cost of construction and high operating cost, generally travel between cities with a large source of tourists, but they are not like ordinary sampan boats, which can be seen everywhere in the water network in the south of the Yangtze River. , you can go anywhere.

Even the route from Jinling City to Shanghai, which is the most convenient inland shipping route, is actually now being compared by trains.

In the early years, the inland river passenger line from Jinling City to Shanghai was known as the busiest and most competitive inland river passenger line in the Tang Empire, and even in the contemporary world.

But the current passenger route from Jinling City to Shanghai, although it still maintains a prosperous surface, in fact, its growth rate is already higher than that of trains.

It should be known that with the widespread application of high-pressure steam engines, travel has become more convenient, and people in the empire have traveled more frequently, so the annual growth rate of the passenger transport market is very high, but most of these fast-growing passenger transport markets are It was snatched by the train, and at most inland shipping is maintaining the level of passenger traffic three or four years ago.

However, there is one thing about shipping that trains can't match, and that is freight!

It's not about passenger fares, it's about freight charges.

Ships carry a lot of weight, even if they are slower, but they do it to make the price even cheaper.

As for contemporary trains, limited by the technical development of steam engines, in fact, the carrying capacity of trains is still relatively general. In addition, trains are still a new business, and the maintenance costs of trains are relatively large. This maintenance cost does not only refer to locomotives, Maintenance of carriages and the like, and maintenance of train lines.

Coupled with a large amount of coal consumption, and the coal price of the Datang Empire has always been high, this has pushed up the operating cost of the train.

Therefore, in Xuanping 23 years today, in terms of freight costs alone, trains are still unable to compare with shipping.

However, a slight increase in cost did not affect the train development of the Datang Empire.

In fact, since the successful development of the high-pressure steam engine and the opening of the Jingzhen Line in Xuanping 19 years ago, the train transportation of the Datang Empire has been in explosive growth.

The first is the Jiangnan Railway. After many years of construction, it can be said that the entire line is now open to traffic, from Hangzhou to Shanghai to Jinling, and then to Dangtu and Jiujiang Hukou.

It has become the transportation lifeline of the Jiangnan region, which greatly facilitates local travel and greatly promotes the immediate economic development.

Not to mention, another important section of the Jiangnan Railway is currently under intense construction. It is expected to be open to traffic on Xuanping 24, that is, next year. This is the section from Hangzhou to Huzhou and then to Jinling.

In addition to these main lines, the Jiangnan Railway also has many branch lines, such as the section from Hangzhou to Ningbo, the section from Changzhou to Jiangyin, the section from Suzhou to Changshu, the section from Shanghai to Jiading, and the section from Dangtu to Ningguo.

As a result, a huge trunk line, coupled with many branch lines, has completely compiled the Jiangnan Railway into a railway network, which comprehensively covers Jiangnan, southern Anhui, northern Zhejiang, and northeastern Jiangxi.

This Jiangnan railway network has also greatly promoted the industrial and commercial economic development of the above-mentioned regions.

In addition to the Jiangnan Railway, a railway with an important political, military and economic strategic position, the Datang Empire has been building railways across the country in recent years.

Among them, in the north of the Yangtze River, Jinling City passes through Fengyang, Xuzhou, and then reaches Kaifeng. The Jingkai Line has also been completed and opened to traffic.

Relying on a Beijing-Kaizhou line, with Kaifeng as the transportation hub, and the Northwest Railway, this Northwest Railway has been built into Shaanxi.

Then there is the Northern Railway from Kaifeng to Tianjin. The construction of this section of the railway starts at the same time, and the terrain along the way is flat, so the construction is very fast. If there is no accident, it will be able to open to traffic in the 25th year of Xuanping. .

Further north, there are the Prairie Railway and the Northeast Railway.

The Northeast Railway has already been built to Liaodong and is heading to Shenyang. Although this railway was of course built to prepare the railway for war, it has been completely changed after the discovery of a large number of minerals in the Northeast region. The war-ready railway has become a commercial railway. I don’t know how many businessmen who have invested in minerals in the Northeast and are expected to invest in this area are eagerly waiting for the Northeast Railway to be fully completed and opened to traffic.

Even in order to support the construction of the Northeast Railway, several local mining giants, such as Northern Coal Company, Liaodong Iron and Steel Company, etc., have already signed a transportation contract with the railway company in advance before the railway is completed, and even paid a deposit in advance.

This is so that the railway company can build the railway at the maximum speed without any worries.

Compared with the current favor of the Northeast Railway, the development of the grassland railway has lagged behind a lot, because there is no threat from the Tatars in the grassland area, and its strategic importance is rapidly declining. It is said that some minerals have also been discovered locally, but it is still difficult to change the problem of high cost of grassland railway and difficult to return to its original value.

Although it is said that this railway is a war-ready railway, it belongs to a political figure. Even if it loses money, it has to be built. However, under the circumstance of limited resources, although the railway company is still building this railway, the progress is obviously slower. a lot.

In addition, the empire is also building several other trunk line railways, such as the Kaihan line from Kaifeng to Hanyang, the Nanwu line from Nanchang to Jiujiang to Wuchang, the Jiujiang Hukou to Ganzhou, and then the southern trunk line from Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Nanchang to Changsha South long line and so on.

There are many railway plans in the Datang Empire, some of which are already under construction, and some are under investigation.

Considering the complex terrain in the south and southwest regions, the construction of railways is difficult, so it will take a long time for these railways to be completed.

However, there is an exception in the southern provinces, that is, the railways in Guangdong are developing very rapidly. Although it is limited by terrain, the railways connecting Guangdong to other provinces, whether it is Jiangxi, Hunan or Guangxi, are difficult to build. , the scene of completion and opening to traffic will not be seen in a short period of time.

However, in some areas of Guangdong Province, the terrain is relatively flat, especially in the Pearl River Delta plain, and it is relatively easy to build railways.

Coupled with the developed local economy, the demand for passenger and freight transport is very large, second only to the Jiangnan area nationwide, so the railway construction in this area is basically synchronized with the Jiangnan area.

Now a relatively complete Pearl River Delta railway network has been built. From Foshan to Guangzhou, to Huizhou, and then to Hong Kong, you can take the train all the way.

But that alone is not enough in Chen Lifu's opinion!

Although others have not yet arrived in Guangdong, and he himself does not like to take trains, he is very aware of the importance of trains in driving the local economy.

The economic explosion in the Jiangnan region in recent years, UU reading www.uukanshu. The development of com and railway is closely related.

Now that I am the governor of Guangdong, if I want to have the opportunity to enter the imperial study in the future, the past few years in Guangdong will be very important.

In the policy plan he reported to the Son of Heaven, he had already said that he would develop industry and commerce, especially the export-oriented light manufacturing industry.

To turn these governance concepts into reality, this is what Chen Lifu will do in the next few years.

Regarding how to expand overseas markets and how to solve the monopoly problem of Datang Western Trading Company, this is not what Chen Lifu can care about. This is the work of the Son of Heaven.

But after the Son of Heaven has solved these problems, how should Guangdong meet the expanded overseas market? This is Chen Lifu's job.

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