Due to the special identity of Prince Chun and his group, the Ming Dynasty specially arranged a special car for them. The decoration of this car is much better than that of the most ordinary car. According to the car level of the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to the "private cabin" level.

There are seven private rooms inside the carriage, each with up and down beds, which can be seated or lying down, and some daily facilities.

A private room can accommodate up to four people, seven private rooms, which is twenty-eight people, but Prince Chun and his party are only seventeen, and the others are four, and Prince Chun is a separate room in the middle. As for each private room at the beginning and end, the Ming army escorted them are moved in.

Prince Chun was not convinced of such an arrangement. After getting on the carriage, he was as calm as usual, but he was very interested in the so-called train in his heart. At the same time, he was wondering what this train was. Such a large car would definitely not be able to be pulled by animal power. Is it because of the saying of a train based on "firepower"?

But how can the firepower make the car move? Prince Chun couldn't even understand it. After he sat in the box, he glanced around, intending to find something that would allow him to crack the mystery. Unfortunately, he couldn't see any name after watching for a long time.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

As another whistle sounded, the still train finally started.

The moment the train started to move, Prince Chun and others were surprised. Although he had known for a long time that the train would definitely move, it was unexpected to start like this without any warning and so smooth.

What happened next shocked Prince Chun. As the train started, the train began to accelerate gradually. The locomotive was spitting out thick smoke, and the wheels made rhythmic sounds on the tracks. The speed of the train became faster and faster. The scenery outside the window swept back quickly. According to calculations, this speed was no less than that of a horse galloping.

No matter how good a horse is, it is impossible to last long, no matter how fast it is, the train speed is increased to a certain level, as long as the steam engine runs well, it can be maintained.

Half an hour later, Prince Chun also discovered this, and calculated the speed and itinerary of the train in his mind, which immediately scared himself.

"Such a powerful military weapon, how did the Ming Dynasty build it?" Prince Chun stared blankly at the scenery passing by outside the window, and his whole body became stiff.

Prince Chun is a figure among the Qing Dynasty princes and princes. When he was young, he not only liked Western learning, but also taught himself several foreign languages, proficient in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc., and developed chariots when he was a prince. From these, we can see the difference between Prince Chun and ordinary Manchus. He recommended himself to be an envoy to the Ming Dynasty because of this confidence. But now people were shocked by the emerging thing of trains before they arrived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The speed and capacity of the train were unimaginable before. With Prince Chun's intelligence, he could immediately think of the huge role of the train.

Although he didn't know how to make the train run, now that the Ming Dynasty has something like a train, it can easily solve the problems of manpower and material transportation between the two places. It not only plays a huge role in people's livelihood, but also has greater military use.

Since Yongzheng's death, Kant came to power, the Qing Dynasty in the northwest was still there. This was not because the Ming Dynasty's military strength was not strong, but because the Western Regions were too vast.

The entire Western Regions is as big as more than a dozen provinces in the Central Plains. It would be extremely difficult for the Ming Dynasty to completely eliminate the power of the Qing Dynasty on such a large territory. It is precisely because of this that Kant had some confidence to continue to deal with the Ming Dynasty. However, once the Ming Dynasty directly deployed a means of transportation such as a train to the Western Regions, the Ming Dynasty's maneuverability and control system were far from comparable to that at present, and the Qing Dynasty would lose its original geographical advantage.

Thinking of this, Prince Chun's face turned a little pale and his heart felt even more faint. He suddenly realized that his advantage on the side had become a disadvantage on the side of the Ming Dynasty. So can the Qing Dynasty survive in this situation?

What's even more terrifying is that he has not arrived in the capital yet. It is said that there are countless emerging things changing with each passing day. If they are like trains, it is simply unimaginable.

The sky gradually became dark, and the scenery outside the car window could no longer be seen clearly, but Prince Chun was still sitting there looking out the window blankly.

I don't know how long it took, Prince Chun sighed and lie down on the bedside. That night, he almost didn't sleep until dawn the next day, and Prince Chun, whose eyes were red, still did not calm down from the shock.

It was nearly 800 miles from Datong to the capital. In the past, even if you had a fast horse and a horse, it would take at least three days. The speed of Prince Chun and his team usually took ten days and half a month to reach.

However, due to the train, apart from the delay of stopping several stations in the middle, the fastest speed from Datong to the capital was only one full day. This speed was unimaginable to Prince Chun before.

When the train gradually stopped at the Jingshi Station the next evening, Prince Chun no longer knew what to say at this time.

The site of Jingshi Railway Station is located in Fengtai Majiashu in southwest of Beijing. This place is also the location of the famous Majiashu Main Station in later generations.

When the site was first selected to build a station, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Railways of the Ming Dynasty conducted actual surveys on the site selection of the Beijing Railway Station, and finally chose the same location as the original generation. I have to say that this place is the most suitable.

Fengtai Majiapu Station is not far from the capital, and is also a transportation hub and a military important place. Setting up the capital station here can not only connect with the south, but also communicate with the world.

Now, the railways in the Ming Dynasty have begun to be fully laid, surrounding the two centers of gravity, namely the capital and Nanjing, to radiate to the surrounding areas, and on this basis, vertical and horizontal lines will be built one after another, thereby connecting all provinces and prefectures one by one.

This plan is extremely majestic, and of course it is impossible to complete in a short period of time. Currently, there are only a few railways built. According to the plan of the Ministry of Railways, it may take decades or even more to complete them. Zhu Yicheng was not surprised. Building a railway was not easy, not to mention that many places also require bridges and holes, which are difficult to achieve with current manpower and technical capabilities.

But even so, with the completion of these sections of railways from Nanjing to Shanghai, from the capital to Tianjin, from Datong to the capital, from Jiangbei, Shanghai to Hangzhou... the benefits of the railway to the Ming Dynasty were obvious.

Once the foundation is laid, you can gradually add and improve it on the branches. If one generation fails to achieve two generations, two generations will have three generations. As long as the Ming Dynasty continues, this brilliant blueprint will be completed in one day.
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