Chapter 392: The World Is Different
"Don't be nervous, I'm here this time, just bringing a junior from the same school to see this dragon carriage. Please forgive me for disturbing you." Ye Zan said to everyone with a smile.
"Don't dare, it's my honor to be able to walk with the two mages, please come in quickly, two mages." The businessmen seemed rather panicked, and quickly gave Ye Zan and Li Haoran to the upper seat inside.
When Ye Zan and Li Haoran sat down, several businessmen stood on both sides, bowing their bodies and waiting for Ye Zan's order. This small world is somewhat different from the Divine Brilliance Realm, because the Dao Palace is the actual ruler of the small world, and almost all ascetics are members of the Dao Palace. Therefore, ordinary people in the world have great respect for any ascetic, and dare not have the slightest contempt.
Ye Zan shook his head, waved his hands and said to several businessmen: "You don't have to be so cautious, just sit down as you like, I just have something to ask you."
"Master, please go ahead and order, I will stand and wait for the two mages." Several businessmen said one after another.
"You don't need to wait on me, just sit down and answer a few questions, otherwise I don't dare to bother you anymore." Ye Zan could only accentuate his tone.
Hearing what Ye Zan said, the businessmen who were afraid of angering Ye Zan sat down with their buttocks on the edge of the chair, but all of them were still facing Ye Zan, as if they were waiting for Ye Zan's orders casually. .
Seeing how many people looked like this, Ye Zan also knew that this situation could not be changed in a few words, so he could only turn a blind eye, and asked one of the merchants: "Do you think that it is difficult to transport goods with this dragon cart now?" How is it different than before?"
The businessman who was asked stood up as if there was a spring under his buttocks, and said with a half-bow: "Master Hui, this... dragon carriage is indeed much more convenient than before. I used to wait To transport goods to distant places, you need to hire a large number of horse-drawn carriages, not to mention the high cost, and the road is slow. Some goods with a short shelf life, such as these fruits in our south, cannot be transported to the north in good condition for sale. But now, it used to take several months of travel, but now the dragon cart can arrive in a few days, and the fruits are still as fresh as they were just picked, not to mention how popular they are with the northerners."
You must know that this transportation by horse-drawn carriage does not simply lag behind in speed, the key is that it has to detour when encountering mountains, rivers and rivers. As for rail transit, it is to open roads and build bridges when encountering mountains and rivers. Basically, as long as the stations can walk in a straight line, they will not choose to take detours. Therefore, in terms of transportation speed, it is so much faster than the traditional horse-drawn convoy.
"That's right. In the past, when you hired a fleet, you had to be manipulated by the fleet. Sometimes when the weather changed, it would be fine to increase the fare. If something happened, I would have to pay a lot of money. The loss of goods is a normal thing. .” Another businessman followed suit.
Caravans hired by merchants,
Often they are organizations like caravans and cart gangs. In the beginning, these organizations were just a way for people at the bottom to get together for warmth, and they could also negotiate with employers on an equal footing. However, with the development and growth of these organizations, they gradually began to change their flavors, and some even really became underworld gangs.
Such as temporary price increases, compensation in case of accidents, and some small smuggling of goods, etc., are nothing. It's not so uncommon for someone to be ruthless, to collude with bandits, or to detain the goods themselves, or even kill people directly to steal the goods.
But now that it has been replaced by rail transportation, there are naturally no such things. This is the industry of Yuqing Taoist Palace. Who dares to make a plan for it?
"That's right, the Taoist Palace built this tracked dragon car, so that we can transport the worthless specialties in the south to the north for sale across tens of thousands of miles, which makes the trade between the north and the south extremely convenient. It is really a great merit!" A businessman said with great emotion.
This is another benefit of the transportation upgrade, which is to greatly increase the types of goods that circulate between the north and the south. Those things that are called local specialties often mean that they are produced in large quantities, but no one will buy them at all, so much that they can only be rotted there or used to feed livestock. But now, those things that are too much to sell can be transported to farther places by rail transportation, so far away that there are no such things at all, and there will naturally be a broad market there.
Li Haoran listened to the conversation between Ye Zan and the merchants, and further increased his understanding of this rail transportation, knowing that this thing not only transports a large amount of goods, but also is quite fast. It takes a few months to arrive in a few days, so the transportation of military supplies and disaster relief materials will become faster than before. Especially the transportation of relief supplies. Thinking about the day when the disaster happened, the emperor would be able to get the news through thousands of miles of sound transmission, and then send the relief supplies to the disaster area in a few days. This was something that was unimaginable before. .
More importantly, it seems that it is only a problem of transportation, but it can drive the development of many aspects, and it will not only benefit businessmen, but also ordinary people. For example, those specialty products that could only be rotten can now bring an income to the people. As the saying goes, "the warehouse is solid and the etiquette is known, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace", as long as the common people can fill their stomachs, no one will be willing to rebel.
At this time, a female voice sounded in the carriage, saying: "Dear guests, the train is about to leave. Please sit down in your seats and don't move around for the time being."
"Oh, what virtue and ability we are waiting for, I'm really ashamed to be called so." Several businessmen said a little uncomfortably. If Ye Zan and Li Haoran were not here, they might still enjoy the title of "respected guest", but now no one dared to show a little complacency.
Ye Zan couldn't help laughing to himself, he didn't expect that a notification tone he found randomly would make these people have so many thoughts. Obviously, these people are not used to it yet, the so-called "respectful so-and-so" is just an ordinary honorific. In the world of science and technology, there are such honorifics in many places, and using honorifics does not mean that you are really taken seriously.
Following the three reminders, the train finally started slowly.
At the beginning of leaving the station, the speed of the train was not very fast, which made Li Haoran a little strange and a little disappointed. However, when the train got out of the station, the speed gradually increased, and Li Haoran's mouth opened wider and wider as he watched the constantly receding scenery outside the window.
"Haoran, what do you think of this speed?" Ye Zan patted Li Haoran amusedly.
Li Haoran just came back to his senses, realized his gaffe, quickly wiped his mouth, turned his head and said to Ye Zan: "Master Uncle, this disciple lost his composure just now, please forgive me, Master Uncle."
Ye Zan frowned, and pretended to be angry and said: "Okay, don't forgive me if you don't move, I asked you to watch this, not to talk about it."
"Yes, this disciple originally thought that even if this dragon cart was faster than a horse-drawn cart, it might be limited in speed. But I didn't expect that this dragon cart could have such an astonishing speed with so much cargo on it. To describe it. What surprised me even more is that, at such a fast speed, the inside of the car does not appear to be bumpy, and it is so stable that even tea cannot be spilled." Li Haoran endured the excitement in his heart, and expressed his surprise come out.
The few businessmen next to him, when they heard Li Haoran's words, did not dare to make fun of them, but echoed and said: "What the mage said is right, what surprised me and others the most is that this car Even if it is the most comfortable carriage I have ever sat in, it is still difficult to compare with this dragon carriage."
Compared with the capacity and speed, although this comfort is a trivial matter, it is also the most amazing place in the eyes of everyone. In this small world, including the Shenhua Realm outside, the carriages usually used do not have good shock absorption measures. In addition, the roads are often not very smooth, so riding in a carriage is actually a pain, no matter how thick the cushion is, it cannot avoid the pain of bumps.
"Well, the dragon car is just an arbitrary name. Strictly speaking, this car should be called a rail train. I have a document here. You can take a look and ask me if you have any questions." Ye Zan said. , took out a thick document, and handed it directly to Li Haoran.
Ye Zan was being lazy again, so he had to directly print the construction of the rail train system, as well as the composition and operation of the transportation company into such a document, just like he did before. In this way, he doesn't need to waste his time to introduce more, just let others read the information first, and if there is something that he really doesn't understand, he will explain it in detail.
As the "CEO" of Datang Communications, Li Haoran has participated in many matters of Datang Communications from establishment to operation, so it is not difficult to understand this information. From the construction of the rail train system, he also saw that although the rail train is good, the construction is indeed much more difficult than thousands of miles of sound transmission.
This difficulty is mainly due to the large amount of engineering work. After all, the track needs to be laid. The track cannot be placed anywhere, but it must be placed on a solid roadbed. The construction requirements of this roadbed are even more demanding than the best official roads paved now, and the amount of work is even more enormous.
In this small world, Ye Zan can also release a large number of construction machinery to lay all the tracks without hesitation. However, when it comes to the Shenhua domain, he can't be so carefree, so the basic project still needs the participation of the Tang Dynasty. Fortunately, Ye Zan already has a good understanding of the entire Shenhua domain, including the terrain of the Great Tang Kingdom, through the base station of Qianli Voice Transmission. Therefore, the preliminary survey and other work are eliminated, which already saves a lot of work.
To be honest, for the Tang Dynasty, which is extremely backward in productivity, just all the basic projects of the rail trains are already equivalent to the construction of the Great Wall in the ancient Hua Kingdom in the Earth Age, or several times the amount of engineering that was excavated for the Grand Canal. Therefore, Ye Zan also thought of a way, adopting the method of integrating the rail base and assembling in sections, so as to reduce the amount of engineering that Datang State was responsible for as much as possible.
Ye Zan's method is actually like playing with small train building blocks, producing the tracks and road foundations in one piece, and then assembling them section by section in the Tang Dynasty. That is to say, the Tang Dynasty does not need to build a road foundation, but only needs to tamp and level the ground under the road foundation, which is actually equivalent to building an official road.
Of course, even if this is the case, the amount of work is still huge. Not to mention making rail transit spread all over the country, even if only a few main lines are built, it may take several years.
Li Haoran flipped through the information, and couldn't help but rejoice that he had already sat on the rail train and knew the various benefits of the rail train, otherwise it would be really difficult to make up his mind to do this just by looking at the cost of construction. After all, for a country, such a huge investment, if you really don't know what the result will be, it is like a big gamble, and if you lose the gamble, you will not be far from defeat.
However, now that Li Haoran has seen the result and the benefits that this rail train will bring to Datang, then this is not a gamble, but just an investment that is sure to make a profit.
"I know that no matter how much the project is reduced, it's still a bit huge for you. However, you don't have to worry too much. Zongmen will give you some help in engineering matters." Ye Zan said next to him .
"How dare you bother the sect with this matter! Don't worry, Master Uncle, I will definitely convince Father Emperor about this matter." Li Haoran said to Ye Zan quickly.
"Well, I think your father is also a wise king who wants to make a difference. Otherwise, he would not have agreed to the matter of sound transmission for thousands of miles. There should be no problem with this matter." Ye Zan nodded and said.
However, what Ye Zan and Li Haoran said about asking Yu Qingzong to help with the project was not a lie. In fact, this rail transit is not only related to the people's livelihood of Tang Dynasty, but also related to his acquisition of merit. The sooner the rail transit can be completed and put into operation, the sooner it can be promoted in the Shenhua domain, and the sooner he can get merit.
Therefore, this time, Ye Zan intends to bring Cheng Liangqi from the small world of the fairy palace and other people who have experience in rail transit construction out to help Datang Kingdom do this together. You must know that for ascetics, many things are still much simpler than ordinary people. For example, by tamping and leveling the ground, Cheng Liangqi and other ancestors of Yuanying smashed the golden seal of Panlong directly, which is much easier than ordinary people doing it all at once. For another example, digging tunnels and building bridges are difficult and dangerous for mortals, but ascetics may complete them with a few spells.
In fact, the cultivating civilization in this world is really not inferior to the technological civilization. It's just that ascetics seldom apply what they have learned to the needs of mortals, which makes the productivity of mortals so lagging behind. If in the world of science and technology, those scientists are like ascetics, any technological invention is only for themselves, not for ordinary people. Compared with this world of science and technology, I am afraid that there will be no difference. (To be continued.)