Chapter 1110: The Railway Costs Are Not Much

"Anxi Jiedu was afraid that the local troops would be empty, and Sulu was looking for opportunities to fight, so he took the initiative to send troops to attack instead of defend."

Li Yi thought about it and guessed the reason.

In the early days of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the border generals of the Tang Dynasty lacked logistical support.

As long as there is enough food and grass, each general will be more powerful than the next.

Seeing the autumn harvest, Anxi's soldiers finished fighting, and Sulu promised to be honest. Sulu didn't know that Anxi had used all the explosives.

After Anxi beat people and grabbed things, it happened to be a good harvest when he came back.

"We need to banish many honorable officers." Another reaction of Li Longji to the soldiers after they won the battle was to spend money.

The lowest rank for an honorary officer is the seventh rank, and they do not have any real power. They are given a salary according to their rank.

When there is no salary, land is divided, and a few acres or dozens of acres of land acquired or local land are given.

When there is no land to seal and there are many people with honorary officers, things will become troublesome.

"We in the Tang Dynasty have money, so it doesn't matter what the salary is. Once we occupy more land, we can use the land to make money, and our fiscal revenue will continue to grow."

Li Yi didn't say anything about sealing off the land he occupied. From now on, the soldiers would just fight, not farm.

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In the political hall, the king did not come to court early today, and Song Jing's condition is slightly worse.

"Send troops privately, attack six cities in a row, and one day send troops privately to attack Chang'an." Song Jing was most opposed to random attacks by outside generals.

This was the reason why he suppressed Hao Lingquan, but unfortunately his words didn't work now.

"After defeating Sulu, Sulu will not dare to send troops this year. We can only fight against the Turks and Bai Yi Da Shi to make up for the losses."

Su Ting, the Minister of War, didn't think anything of it. Just fight. As long as we win, everything will be easy.

"How can you bully someone with explosives? If you fight, you will win." Song Jing complained.

Bi Gou smiled and said nothing. He wanted to give you an explosive pack and you go and hit it.

"Xiao Yi said that he wanted to build the railway and asked me not to spend the money too much. The fiscal revenue of 30 million yuan is actually not much."

Bi Gou was worried about the logistical problems of the Anxi Jiedushi. At present, there was no need to give anything, they would grab it themselves.

There are probably a lot of sheep and horses. The so-called six cities in a row are small cities with walls made of mounds of earth. The walls are not even ten feet high and are thin.

If a bomb goes down, there will definitely be a big hole in a section of wall.

Switch to the outer city wall of Chang'an City and drop an explosive package on it, but there will be no reaction.

Chang'an City is three feet to four feet high, about three to three feet wide at the top, and four to five feet wide at the bottom.

Calculated as the thinnest thickness, it is nine meters thick. How can it be blown up with explosives before it collapses?

However, a thick city wall is useless. It will be occupied by others if it should be occupied, and the country will be destroyed if it should be destroyed.

"If all 30 million coins are used to attack Tubo, can Tibet be wiped out?" Su Ting thought that it would cost a lot to build the railway and thought it was not worth it.

Spend 10 million to repair the railway and build a locomotive. Maintenance costs money, but does it cost nothing to run the train?

How many years will it take to earn back the money you spent?

Su Ting did not know that once Li Yi built the railway track from Chang'an to Luoyang and the train started operating, there would be almost no problem of recovering the cost.

In addition to using the money earned to maintain the existing railway tracks, the rest of the money is used to continue building and laying railway tracks.

Li Yi would build the railway track from Luoyang to Haizhou, which is Lianyungang, because it is close.

Once the rails ran from Haizhou to Chang'an, the railroad soon began to make a lot of money.

Sea transportation went directly to Haizhou for loading and unloading, and then to Luoyang and Chang'an, two important places in the Tang Dynasty.

Loading and unloading docks are also built there on the Grand Canal, running down the water, or up from the bottom.

Su Ting had no idea how big the profits were. Those profits continued to be used to pave roads, build bridges, and increase taxes.

The railway's profits are no longer visible, but the financial side has been supplemented.

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At noon, Li Longji and his family ate snake meat.

Princess Yongmu ate the meat on the plate with a happy face.

She didn't care what she ate. She felt that she was happiest when she could eat braised snake meat last night.

"Brother Yi, is the court going to spend the 10 million yuan to build the railway now?" Li Longji decided to ask about serious matters instead of going to court.

Isn't this the same as going to court? I'm asking about politics and haven't rested.

Li Yi swallowed the rice in his mouth: "It's early. We have good steel and I have the technology. I'm going to build steam engines, ships and locomotives at the same time. I'm too tired this year, my banker."

"If it doesn't work out, set aside next year's budget. Print more coupons and make up for it when the time comes."

Li Longji thought of a way to consume at a deficit. Normal people would have such an idea.

Li Yi smiled: "No, ten million yuan, there is not much money in the railway track.

Iron ore mining, including transportation, is a labor cost, and workers are paid.

No one can make a profit from coal mining, coal washing, transportation, or wages.

I’ll build a few more furnaces and ask Yulin Feiqi to help me directly tap out steel and cast iron rails..."

Li Yi estimated that the cost of one mile of land was about 2,000 yuan.

He couldn't stick out the rails, so he could only cast them. He made a mold first, poured the molten steel in, and then broke the mold after cooling.

The labor cost of one mile is two million yuan. This money is not thrown away. The money earned by manual work must be consumed.

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The cost includes road sleepers made of cement and wood, gravel, etc.

Cutting down large logs is laborious, and it is not easy to soak the asphalt, make cement, and burn it to pieces.

Ten million strings of cash are enough to build a five thousand li railway. That's 10 billion coins, and the purchasing power is terrifying.

Actually, it's not. It needs to be split and switchboards moved.

Trains running in opposite directions are divided into two railways at a certain section to pass each other. After they pass each other, the switches are moved at both ends to become a single track again.

You need to calculate the time well, otherwise they will collide.

As for the fact that they are all double tracks, there are not so many trains, which is not cost-effective. In the future, if the economic development needs it, you can add extra.

Including the locomotive and carriages, ten million strings of cash are enough to build from Chang'an to Haizhou, including the railway bridges over several rivers on the way.

After listening to the figures calculated by Li Yi, Li Longji breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the cost was within the affordable range.

Ten million strings of cash seems to be quite durable, not bad.

He had forgotten that the total fiscal revenue of the Tang Dynasty in the past few years was several million strings. That money and things were enough to maintain the expenses of the Tang Dynasty, including war.

Now ten million strings of cash are only enough to build a road from Chang'an to Haizhou.

"After it's repaired, if you want to eat seafood, let the train run a special line, which can run about 120 to 130 miles per hour.

At this speed, it will take less than 20 hours to get from Haizhou to Chang'an.

If there are stations, the train will start, brake, wait for loading and unloading, start again, and brake again, and the speed will be slow."

Li Yi is talking about the kind of train that stops at every station and waits at every station.

The actual speed of the train in the past was not slow. As long as it didn't stop in the middle and kept running, the speed would increase.

After stopping once, the inertia was gone, and it started again, slowly accelerated, drove dozens of miles, and stopped again.

Every stop and start consumes a lot of fuel, and the wear and tear on the car is not small.