Valley Emperor

After boarding the Pacific passenger ship, Li Xuan was not interested in the luxurious decoration he put on. Although the cost of luxury decoration on the ship accounted for more than 30% of the entire shipbuilding cost, Li Xuan still had no interest in it. .

He was interested in the ships themselves!

This ship can be said to be the largest ship in the Tang Empire at present.

Even the largest battleship in the navy before, the battleship Hebei, had a tonnage of only 3,800 tons, but the Pacific passenger ship had a total of 4,500 tons.

And the battleship Hebei is now abandoned due to an explosion accident, and it is now dismantled!

As for the newest and largest battleship under construction, it is a Guiyang-class battleship with only 2,800 tons.

In terms of tonnage, it can be said that civilian ships are already ahead of warships!

At present, only the flagship luxury passenger ships ordered by Feng Shipping Company and Changjiang Shipping Company have a tonnage larger than that of the Pacific. tons of displacement.

However, these 5,000-ton passenger ships are still on the slipway. Well, not far from the next door, Li Xuan can see the two huge docks next door, with huge hulls under construction.

It's just that these two ships have not yet been completed, so the name of Datang's largest ship is still on the head of the Pacific Ocean, but it is estimated that it will only last for more than a year, because according to the plan, it is estimated that next year Feng's Shipping Company The new period with the Yangtze River Shipping Company will be able to be completed and put into service.

After staying on the Pacific for a long time, Li Xuan even let people drive the boat around the harbor to experience the feeling of riding a luxury passenger ship.

This feeling, just one, that is stability!

The passenger ship of more than 4,000 tons sailed in the harbour where there was no wind and waves, and there was almost no bumps.

Li Xuan believes that this kind of large-tonnage transport vessel can continue to be built, and it will be used for transoceanic routes in the future, such as going across the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, to India, and to South Africa.

For example, the upcoming large-scale immigration development plan in the Americas, this kind of transoceanic liner is very good. It is estimated that the Pacific Ocean can transport more than 3,000 immigrants to the Americas.

And this sailing passenger ship is not affected by monsoons and ocean currents, and can travel between the Empire and America several times a year if needed.

Not too many, as long as three ships, then a single trip can transport tens of thousands of people, and it can transport 40,000 to 50,000 people in a year!

Coupled with a large number of thousand-ton transport ships, there will be no problem at all to immigrate to America in five years to 200,000, and it is possible to double it to 400,000 or even 500,000.

After all, there are already a lot of thousand-ton ships in the Tang Empire. In addition to the navy, major trading companies, regardless of whether they are officially controlled or privately owned, their new ships are basically more than one thousand tons.

Those hundreds of tons of ships in the early years, although there are still a large number of them, have been used by major trading companies as the main transport force for cross-ocean trade, and they are basically used to carry out short-distance coastal trade, such as domestic coastal routes and Southeast Asian routes. , Indian coastal routes, North Sea routes, etc.

Before long, it is estimated that these ships under a thousand tons will not be seen on ocean routes.

Li Xuan felt very relieved about the development of civilian ships represented by the Pacific passenger ship, at least more reassuring than the development of warships.

The development of warships has lagged a bit in recent years. Although the Navy has an ambitious plan of 7,000 tons of giant ships, but now, the newly built warships are only 2,800 tons of Guiyang-class battleships, and their performance is not better than that of many years ago. The Jiangnan-class battleship has been greatly improved.

When he got off the Pacific, Li Xuan was still reluctant to give up. This big toy was better than he expected.

Then, when he thought of the little man of more than 1,000 tons of the royal liner, Li Xuan felt that the price had dropped.

It was decided on the spot that when you need to travel by yourself and need to use trans-oceanic ships in the future, these luxury passenger ships will be called, which are much easier to use and safer than the more than 1,000-ton royal passenger ships.

As for directly building a new large-tonnage royal liner, Li Xuan is not so absurd yet.

This kind of large-tonnage luxury passenger ship has high construction cost and higher operating cost. The royal family does not have much demand to go to sea by ship. Most of the domestic travel can be solved by train, so the construction of a large-tonnage royal passenger ship is somewhat more than the loss.

After Li Xuan left Hong Kong, the largest, most luxurious and most advanced passenger liner in China was officially delivered to Pacific Shipping Company.

When the imperial special train entered Hunan along the Huguang Railway and arrived in Changsha, the Pacific Shipping Company also announced that the Pacific had passed a series of strict tests and was officially put into operation.

And the maiden voyage begins!

It will set sail from Guangzhou, pass through Shanghai and then arrive at Tianjin, then return early from Tianjin, pass through Shanghai and then return to Guangzhou.

However, the domestic coastal route it is currently running is only a preliminary route, and the more important thing is the trial operation. As an ocean liner with more than 4,000 tons, it is a waste to run the domestic coastal route.

After the trial operation is over, it will start its first ocean voyage, starting from China, passing through Beihai Province and Honolulu and finally arriving at Xinjinshan, North America.

The maiden voyage of the Pacific has also caused a sensation in the whole country, and has become the most influential news in the near future after the Holy Patrol.

To a certain extent, the Holy Tour has lasted for more than half a month, and it will continue for a long time in the future. The news has gradually faded. Although the people are concerned, they cannot pay attention to the news of the Holy Tour every day.

However, as an epoch-making ocean liner, the Pacific Ocean has attracted the attention of the public is very natural.

Even Li Xuan, who has already arrived in Changsha, is more concerned about the maiden voyage of the Pacific.

It is rumored that in order to ensure the success of the maiden voyage of the Pacific, and to avoid failures or something, in addition to the Pacific, there is actually a passenger ship of the Pacific Shipping Company to accompany it. Well, it will act as a rescue ship when necessary...

At this time, Li Xuan also instructed the Immigration and Reclamation Division. Since there are shipping companies in the country preparing to open the Pacific route, you should hurry up. It would be foolish not to take a ride.

Li Xuan is not interested in the domestic route trial of the Pacific. He is concerned about the Pacific route of the ship. If it is successful, the ship will become the main ship of the empire's immigration and trade to North America.

Just such a Pacific Ocean ship, its role is more than ten times that of ordinary transoceanic ships in the past!

Li Xuan personally ordered them to take advantage of it, and the Immigration and Reclamation Division also acted quickly.

Connect with the Pacific Shipping Company and prepare to use the Pacific to transport more immigrants to North America!

As an asset of the royal family, the Pacific Shipping Company had this realization as early as when it built the Pacific. Otherwise, why would they be asked to build such a large tonnage ship?

For the sake of the Pacific, the profits of the Pacific Shipping Company have been squeezed for many years.

Now the Pacific Shipping Company is counting on the Pacific route to recover the cost, so the cooperation intention proposed by the Immigration and Reclamation Division is also in line with their appetite.

In order to organize and encourage immigrants to go to the Americas, the Immigration and Reclamation Division has funds. In some places, they will directly charter ships and transport immigrants to the Americas for free. In some places, they subsidize part of the boat tickets to encourage immigrants to go on their own.

This immigration to the Americas is based on subsidies.

After all, there are still many people who want to immigrate to America.

Many people in China want to immigrate, first of all, the Americas, then Beihai Province. As for all parts of the Southeast Asia, domestic immigrants have always been relatively excluded, mainly because these tropical rainforest areas are too dangerous, and the indigenous people are nothing. The key is that local climate and disease.

For so many years, the death rate of immigrants in Nanyang has been high!

It can even be said that the people of the empire are the localization of Nanyang made with their own flesh and blood!

Therefore, in response to this situation, the Immigration and Reclamation Division generally adopts the method of free shipping tickets for Nanyang immigrants, and subsidizing part of the tickets for immigrants to the Americas.

As for immigrating to India and Africa, it depends on the situation. If you immigrate to South Africa, it is all-inclusive, not only the boat ticket, but also the food, drink, and water. The immigration and reclamation divisions are all-inclusive, but except for this remote place, the immigration and reclamation divisions in other places basically do not give boat tickets. The subsidy belongs to the kind that you love and can't go to.

With the substantial subsidy for the ferry ticket from the Immigration and Reclamation Division, the fare of the ordinary ferry ticket of the Pacific liner can be reduced to a level acceptable to ordinary immigrants.

The maiden voyage of the domestic route of the Pacific has not yet begun, and the Immigration and Reclamation Division has reached a cooperation agreement with the Pacific Trading Company.

At this time, Li Xuan also left Changsha and appeared in Wuchang.

Wuchang is also a relatively important city in the empire. Huguang University was established here, and it also received a lot of policy support to develop local industry and commerce.

However, the development is quite general, at least there is nothing worthy of Li Xuan's special attention.

But this is not important, because in the current industrial layout of the empire, Huguang and Guangxi are positioned as food supply bases, and developing agriculture is their first priority. Although developing industry and commerce is also important, it is obviously not as important as developing agriculture.

Although the population of the empire is gradually increasing, the pressure on food is also increasing. As the major provinces of food, Huguang and Guangxi are naturally the key areas of concern for the empire.

Therefore, during the inspections in Hubei and Guangxi, Li Xuan also focused on agriculture!

In the Wuchang area, he inspected a large local farm!

This is a large-scale farm owned by the government. Before these places were wasteland~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The official set up a planting company for settlement and development, and adopted the most scientific planting. The output of grain is higher than that of ordinary farmland. a little higher.

In addition, Li Xuan also noticed that they have already begun to use bird droppings as fertilizer.

After I asked, I found out that these bird droppings came from some islands along the coast, and some came from the islands in the South China Sea.

However, the number of applications is not large, because not all islands can be like Nauru, and the whole island is guano!

It is a pity that Nauru is still hidden in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, and the expedition fleet of the Datang Empire has not yet discovered this island.

As for South America, there are more guano, but that place is temporarily the territory of the Spaniards!

If Datang wants to set foot in South America, it still needs some planning

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