It's really not in vain.

In fact, it's just a ticket.

The reason why Zhu Guoqiang could change into a first-class private room halfway is due to Li Cunzhi. He also did not buy a first-class private room ticket. However, when he was in Berlin, they transferred to the "Chief Express", which is the direct express between Moscow and Berlin. It has always been the first choice for merchants to travel between Ming and Europe because it is fast enough.

It must be the high-speed rail of this era!

Zhu Guoqiang stared outside the window and thought to himself in his heart, while Nina, who was lying by the window, looked at the Eastern European land outside the car window with great enthusiasm.

"Do you know? We will enter the Ming Dynasty as soon as tomorrow dawn!"

Her face was full of longing for the heavenly dynasty.

"Chiangchao Express... If they knew I was in this car, they would definitely be jealous of me,"

Looking at the man in front of him with charming eyes, Nina knew that she could get on this express train was entirely due to him.

"When I was in elementary school, I saw the "Chichao Express" in the newspaper. It is the most comfortable and fastest express. Look at this window, in order to resist the continental weather in Moscow, it uses closed double-layer windows. The entire train is equipped with air conditioning devices and adjustable automatic seats controlled by electric buttons. The train is marshaled in 7 cars, followed by the locomotives, two third-class cars, dining cars, two second-class cars, one first-class car and one streamlined first-class outlook car, that is, the rear car."

As many people know, she tells the "Chief Express" she knows, Nina said again.

"The 2,200 kilometers from Berlin to Moscow, the Celestial Express only takes 24 hours, only a day and a night! Oh my God, this is simply a miracle on earth..."

Looking at the excited Nina, Zhu Guoqiang said in his heart.

If you have seen high-speed rail, you probably know what the real express is.

Unfortunately, there is no high-speed rail in the Ming Dynasty now.

"Honey……"

At this moment, a gust of fragrant wind blew over her face. Nina sat in his arms and looked at him with charming eyes and said.

"Are we not supposed to do something in such a rare time?"

This night was another night of joy.

By the time I woke up the next day, the train had already entered the land of the Celestial Empire. In the past, it belonged to Poland, but now it is part of the Celestial Empire.

Looking at the Eastern European land outside the window, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"I don't know how far it is from here to Nanjing."

"Twenty thousand miles!"

It was Li Cunzhi, who had already arrived at the dining car.

"It should be said to be 21,000 miles!"

After thinking about it, Li Cunzhi said again.

"But this is not the longest railway. The longest railway in the world, Nanjing to Cape of Good Hope Railway, from Nanjing all the way west, from Yunnan to Chenghua, into India, through Persia, through Babylon, Jerusalem to Egypt, and then heading south and across Africa. Only by taking that train can you truly feel the vastness of the Celestial Empire..."

From Nanjing to Cape of Good Hope!

The railway from Shenzhou to Africa crosses several worlds!

In another world, Britain once formulated the Cairo Cape Town Plan at its most powerful time, trying to establish a railway from Cairo, North Africa to Cape Town, South Africa, across the African continent, but it failed to realize this dream until the collapse of the colonial empire. But a dream that was more grand than this was realized a hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty had already been realized.

"The railway of tens of thousands of kilometers is really too long."

Lin Sen smiled.

"I have used the summer vacation to travel along the railway. The train from Nanjing to Cape of Good Hope needs to travel for more than 30 days and nights, and must be a express train with an average speed of 50 kilometers per hour. Until now, there is no direct train because the railway mileage is too long and the journey is too long. No one can stay on the train for a month."

"Even if it's too long, don't we use railways to connect China together?"

Li Cunzhi smiled.

"Railways have changed the world. The Emperor of the Saints once said that wherever we build the railway, our people will go wherever we build the railway, and they build cities there and take root. Our culture will spread to all parts of the railway. What kind of changes does the railway bring to the world? This is obvious to all. Railways have always been the greatest invention in the world!"

When talking about the Saint Ancestor Emperor, Li Cunzhi couldn't help but look at Zhu Guoqiang. He always felt that this guy looked familiar, and his appearance seemed a bit similar to the portrait of the Saint Ancestor Emperor.

However, there are too many people in the world who look similar.

“Railways are indeed the greatest means of transportation.”

Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

The railway from Nanjing to Cape of Good Hope is indeed very great, but this is entirely because of his importance as early as the Qiansheng period, the railway was built all the way to Cairo!

Throughout his life, Zhu Guoqiang was committed to the development of railways. In that era, the distance from the eastern part of the Ming Dynasty to the west was too far, and it was difficult to form large-scale immigration without railways, let alone economic development. The Ming Dynasty needed a new mode of transportation to "connect" the vast territory, and the most suitable one was undoubtedly railways.

Not only that, railways were also an important tool to connect the Ming Dynasty with the vassal states and the world. In that era, railways and the power of the Ming Dynasty provided the basis for the rapid expansion of industry and immigration in the Ming Dynasty.

In the next nearly two hundred years, all emperors of the Ming Dynasty implemented this point. After all, compared with sea transportation, railways had their own advantages, and the dense intercontinental railway network became a symbol of the growing industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty. The railway trunk lines formed the "main artery" of the Ming Dynasty's economy.

"It's really great, but it's not without its shortcomings. It's too slow. The railway from Nanjing to Moscow is almost 9,000 kilometers! The railway from Constantinople is more than 10,000 kilometers! Even the express train takes ten days and ten nights..."

Li Cunzhi shook his head and said.

"So how long does it take to take a boat? It takes longer. Why did the Holy Emperor build two intercontinental railways, north and south at the cost of exhausting the inner trunk? Because it can connect the entire world and connect the hinterland of the mainland, it takes less time!"

"It's true, but the train can speed up!"

Lin Sen looked at the carriage and said.

"For example, popularizing the "Chiang Dynasty Express" to several trunk lines, so that time can be reduced by at least half."

Why didn't they even pick up the plane?

Because it's expensive!

"Didn't the Ministry of Works formulate a "100-kilometer plan" fifteen years ago? I want to use a express train with a speed of 100 kilometers per hour to connect the world into a whole, but what about it? As we all know, "there is no essential difference between five days and ten days. The biggest difference is..."

Before Li Cunzhi could even speak, someone next to him said.

"A fare of more than three times will make those express trains scrap iron!"

"And the ghost trains running on the rails..."

"What about now? One day the express train was not full?"

The other passengers laughed and then mocked the short-sightedness of the cabinet ministers. In the fifteenth year, in order to unite the empire into a whole. In the fifteenth year, the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty formulated a "100-kilometer plan", and the current "Celestial Express" is the legacy of the plan that year, but the high-speed rail plan has not been implemented until now.

"In fact, it cannot be entirely blamed on the cabinet, and the railway company is unwilling to invest. After all, railway lines need money to renovate!"

“So the railway company is also very short-sighted.”

"Then why is there a Celestial Express here?"

"For face, the "Celestial Express" is the face of the Celestial Express. In fact, those adults hope that it can enter Paris and let the Franks see what the "Celestial Express" is."

All right!

Even if it was the Ming Dynasty of this era, he would be very proud of his face. Zhu Guoqiang smiled helplessly.

"A railway company... also pays attention to profit."

Li Cunzhi said casually that the Duke of Jin... is also a shareholder of the railway company.

"And the speed advantage of the "Chiang Dynasty Express" is not obvious, so it was debated for a long time at that time. Now, isn't the railway also speeding up?"

"It's still too slow!"

"In fact, if the speed of 100 kilometers per hour is not enough, why can't we build a high-speed train with a speed of 200 kilometers per hour?"

Zhu Guoqiang said casually.

"I think with current technology, we are fully capable of building high-speed locomotives with a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. As long as we are willing, there will definitely be no problem!"

There is absolutely no problem in technology. In another world, Japan's Railway Province proposed the "bullet train" plan as early as before World War II, to build new wide rail lines and run high-speed trains. The "bullet train" in the 1960s was developed on its basis.

Now the Ming Dynasty's technology is definitely far more than that of Japan in the forties and fifties, and there is no problem in developing similar "bullet trains". What is missing is nothing more than an opportunity.

“200 kilometers, is it realistic?”

Li Cunzhi and Lin Sen both looked at him in surprise.

"Why is it not realistic? If the internal combustion engine is not good, just use electric locomotives. Don't we already have high-power electric locomotives? If a tractor is not good, we will distribute the power to each carriage. Anyway, the motor is not large in size and the voice is very small."

The power-dispersed design is a very normal technology in another world with China's high-speed rail. Of course, it is also the model adopted by the Japanese Shinkansen 0-series car crew.

Zhu Guoqiang then explained the various advantages of the power dispersed design. His explanation made Li Cunzhi and Lin Sen stunned. If they were shocked by their "blitzkrieg" concept before this, then now, they are undoubtedly shocked again.

"Can a 200-kilometer train... work?"

"If you don't try, you will never know."

When he said this, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He clearly created a world empire, but the inheritors of this empire had no ambition or idea to connect to the empire.

Look at another world, Hitler proposed the idea of ​​"super railway" as soon as he came to power. He believed that the Third Reich in the future would be a continental empire. Just as the British Empire relied on the ocean, the Third Reich would also rely on land transportation networks. Therefore, he decided to design a "super railway" system across the European continent. This super "wide rail" is not realistic. Not to mention it for now, but the idea of ​​passenger speeds of 200 kilometers per hour and up to 250 kilometers is undoubtedly in line with the concept of his mainland empire. Even Japan fantasizes about building the "Pan-Asian Railway".

What happened to Daming?

As the largest continental empire in history, they established the world's largest railway network, but this railway network... has nothing new to it.

Running in the ocean of cruise ships and flying in the sky, the train was still running at such a speed on the railway that was built more than a hundred years ago. This is simply a crime!

“If we want to have the world, we must change traffic…”

After looking outside the car, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"When I was in Paris, I heard people say that 700 million Chinese people were distributed from Shenzhou to India, from India to Europe, from Africa to North America, and the entire southern continent. What ensured their dominance over the world was their monopoly on science and technology... For them, the world was their paradise. Whether it was now or in the past, they set out from Shenzhou and swept the world like huge waves. They brought civilization to all over the place. They brought local women to their beds, and the local women gave birth to children and breed descendants for them... In this way, they were Chinese, whether their great-grandmother was a native of India, a native of Persian, a native of Tianfang or a native of Europe, but now, they were all Chinese.

One of them, they enjoyed the intercontinental railway, cruise, and highway of the Empire's scientific and technological achievements. They swam in chain hotels everywhere, feeling the exotic style everywhere. In fact, it is also Chinese-style, but it carries traces of Indian, Persian, Tianfang, Turkish, Balkan, and Rakshasa. But all of this has disappeared. Only in museums can they find their former existence. They will wander in museums, art centers and galleries everywhere, and can enjoy the "singing" that the Chinese people like while eating snacks... This is a thousand-year era of China, but this empire is too huge, and it takes at least a few months to go from one end of the empire to the other end..."

When Zhu Guoqiang said this, Li Cunzhi and others fell into silence. They knew what the end of this sentence was, which was the words of Europeans full of jealousy.

"The empire will eventually be destroyed. It is not others who destroy him, but himself. They are so huge that nothing can connect them into a whole. Even the civilizations they are proud of have produced many branches because of distance!"

Then Zhu Guoqiang said seriously.
Chapter completed!