As a border county of the Han Dynasty, Yunzhong County actually had not had a large population. After all, after the initial robbery and Kebien succeeded several times, they went south from time to time to rob, and Budugen even regarded Yunzhong as the source of troops.

As the people of Yunzhong were even smaller. When Liu Tao came to serve as the prefect, it was not so much a promotion, but rather a mess and helped guard the border.

No matter what, Yunzhong is where Liu Tao really begins.

The formation of the Yellow Turbans was raised to attack the Yellow Turbans, even if he was the General of the Yulin Army, the future was still unclear to him. Only when he really had a piece of territory did he feel that everything was at ease.

The station outside Jinyang City should not be a train in this era, but a carriage station. With eight horses, it can pull about four cars.

The initial setting was that a horse was running on the railway, relying on the spacing of the sleepers to keep the horse running at high speed. In this way, about ten miles, you have to change a horse and continue to complete the traction work.

But later I found out that a horse can pull at most one carriage, which obviously cannot maximize the benefits.

So the adjustment was made, and the design of eight horses and one horse was parallel. Without taking the rails, the horses were naturally not at full speed. However, when the carriage was walking on the rails, it was convenient to walk on the ground, so it was not a big problem to pull four cars and move forward at a constant speed.

However, what Liu Tao wants to experience is of course the express car. A horse runs on the rails and pulls a car.

It can be seen from the naked eye that the horse is moving slowly, and the four hooves are just on the gap between the sleepers, so it means that it is getting faster and faster.

At the beginning, it was still twenty kilometers per hour, but in a blink of an eye it was sixty kilometers per hour. The carriage moved forward quickly under its guidance, which really felt like taking a train.

After ten miles, you will enter the soothing zone. There are no railway tracks here, but the horses will not be able to stop for the time being due to inertia.

The staff in the rest area should convert the rails to the rest area in advance, let the horses turn over, and then stop slowly. Change the horses here, continue to circle the circular track, and return to the rails to continue running.

"Even if you don't have magic, you can almost reach the clouds in one day!" Jian Yong, who was accompanying the car, sighed.

The average speed is about fifty kilometers per hour, and there is a rest stop every twenty miles. That is, it means that you are reluctant to livestock. Otherwise, if you run like this, the horse will be almost useless if you run like fifty miles.

Including the time to replace horses, the average speed is 40 kilometers per hour. Taiyuan has more than 400 miles from Yunzhong, which is only more than 200 kilometers. It takes five to seven hours to run, and it can almost be completed.

Even if it is an ordinary carriage, the average speed of 30 kilometers per hour is no problem and you can run it in one day.

In other words, if there is a problem in the cloud, then by rushing the carriage, you can bring the news back to Jinyang in about half a day. Then, Jinyang will take half a day to prepare the soldiers, and then transport them through ordinary carriages one after another, and you can arrive at the front line at noon the next day. What is rare is that the soldiers did not march, so you can immediately start fighting when you get off the car.

After realizing this, Yang She was shocked and moved by the railway.

No wonder His Majesty wants to build this railway at all costs, whether it is military or commercial, it is very cost-effective.

For example, commercial use, in the past, a caravan headed north with a hundred trucks of goods, and people ate horses and chewed on the road, including the cost of bodyguards, were not a small amount.

Now only the vehicle is loaded and transported to the place where it is transported is almost no manpower. Even the manpower you can hire temporarily at the station, which can even solve the work problems of local people.

The time spent is also less, which means that the expense of eating horses on the road is further weakened. This way, the income is increased by about 20%, which saves time.

If the cost is not too high, the merchant will naturally buy it, and there will be a steady stream of goods every day, and the north and south are constantly transported. Then this railway is not a railway, but a golden road!

"A railway like this is covered with the whole country, wherever there are rebellions, the troops stationed in the local area can arrive at the scene immediately. The bandits have wiped out them before they have formed a scale.

The biggest problem of rebellion in the past was that the news was transmitted to Luoyang and the troops were sent there. The original three or five thousand bandits may have already swept away 70,000 to 80,000 people." Liu Tao sighed.

"Your Majesty has taken this into consideration?" Jian Yong was stunned when he heard this. When he was building the railway, he had not understood all the parameters. Everyone didn't know whether this thing was useful. Many people even thought it was a waste of iron, but His Majesty had already thought about its usage?

Sure enough, the disciples of the Immortal Family are disciples of the Immortal Family, not an existence that they mortals can understand.

"This is not my original purpose of establishing the railway!" Liu Tao replied, "I think you already know the survey report of Baiyun Iron Mine, right?"

"I already know that the reserves are indeed amazing, and the quality is also very excellent. Your Majesty has a far-sighted vision, and we all admire them very much." Jian Yong replied, completely sincere.

I never thought there would be such a large reserve of iron ore, with good quality. Such iron ore was just north of Yinshan, and I don’t know how many generations of people have discovered it.

"Baiyun City has begun construction, so the next step is that a large amount of ore will be mined. Although it will basically be smelted into iron ingots there, transportation is a problem." Liu Tao replied, "So there needs to be something that can transport iron ingots from Baiyun City to Taiyuan, or even other places in large quantities..."

Compared to horse-drawn carriages and other things, railways are obviously the best means of transportation, after all, the transportation cost is the lowest.

If the iron ingots are transported to Taiyuan, the transportation cost will be higher than the cost of iron, then Baiyun Iron Mine will become a pure national strategic reserve and cannot be used for civilian use.

Unable to use civilian means that all the expenses incurred in mining and transportation there must be paid for by the court, which is obviously not cost-effective. If we take a step back, if we follow this model, Baiyun City will become a city that completely relies on the court. Once the court does not have other iron ore, it may decline rapidly.

Liu Tao wanted Baiyun City to make blood by itself and to transport blood out. He could supplement his own nutrition instead of the court to keep feeding it, which would be a giant baby.

In other words, the railway must not only be continuously repaired, but also be built to Baiyun City. After all, it is necessary to pass through the Yinshan Mountains from Yunzhong to Baiyun City, and the transportation cost is also very high.

Jian Yong suddenly realized when he heard this, and then wrote this in the small notebook as a memorandum for future.
Chapter completed!