"What's so good about a train? Is it worth 10 million yuan? "Li Tan was young, but he was willing to know more.
"I made a machine that goes from Chang 'an to Luoyang to load goods. It doesn't stop midway and takes 12 hours to reach the destination …"
Li Yi introduced the train to Li Tan.
He told Li Tan that a train had 12 carriages and each carriage could carry 150 shi of goods.
One trip would cost 1,800 shi and take 12 hours.
It would take a few hours to load goods from Luoyang and another 12 hours to run back to Chang 'an.
No, the empty carriages would be loaded first. The front of the train would be changed and then they would turn around and return. They would need to replenish coal and water.
According to the current price of coal and water, as well as maintenance costs and manpower costs.
One trip would cost less than two shi. The loading and unloading of goods would cost extra.
Li Yi's train at that time was more economical. The equipment was also more advanced and the cost was lower. It was much better than the steam engine.
The price of transporting 100 tons of goods depended on the type of goods. The price of different goods varied from a few cents to a few cents per kilometer.
A normal 100 kilometers would cost more than 300 yuan.
This included profits and various expenses, such as depreciation and construction costs.
The car that Li Yi built, including its own weight, weighed more than 200 tons.
Labor and coal were cheaper. After conversion, the approximate cost was about two shi for one trip.
One shi at that time was not equal to one shi now. People in the Tang dynasty's capital office could earn 30 shi a day. They were considered high-income people.
1,800 shi of goods, plus the loading and unloading fees, from Chang 'an to Luoyang would cost an additional 300 shi?
A shi of 120 jin, a gunny sack. 1,800 gunny sacks would cost 150 shi to load the carriage. How many things did the dockworkers carry in a day? How much did they earn?
Li Tan's mouth opened slightly. He could not believe that two shi of money could deliver 1,800 shi of goods in 12 hours.
"How much would it cost to travel on a horse carriage for 1,800 shi of goods?" Li Tan was not clear about the transportation cost.
"From Chang 'an to Luoyang, a horse carriage needs five shi of fodder and water.
If it's too heavy, the carriage needs to be sturdy enough.
They would walk for four days and rest in between.
Two horses and five stones, two days of travel with rest in between.
Currently, transporting military goods from Luoyang to Chang 'an requires two horses. When we arrive at our destination, there is a relay station that will change the horses. "
Li Longji was aware of the situation. Two horses and five piculs worth of goods were transported to Chang 'an in one day and one night.
It wasn't that they changed every ten kilometers. With the speedway, it was easy to run, but they changed every twenty to thirty kilometers.
Ordinary people couldn't afford it. The horses they exchanged were rented. Otherwise, how could they exchange their own horses?
If the horse was too slow, there would be a fast carriage behind it, and the slow carriage would have to go to the nearest place on the main road to make way for it.
There was one every three hundred meters, waiting for the express train to pass by before returning.
Why don't you take the main road instead of the main one?
Li Tan did some calculations and immediately understood how powerful the train was.
"Two shovels and three hundred coins, the merchant can transport one thousand eight hundred dan, the merchant will be happy, right?" Li Tan felt that the merchant's life would be better.
"We will cry like crazy. Two or three hundred coins is the cost of our delivery, not the merchant.
Was the railway not money? Was the train not money? From Chang 'an to Luoyang, it has to stop three times.
One is to make it convenient for the locals to carry goods and ride, and the other is to add coal and water, we can't travel eight hundred li in one go.
Two hundred li in one go, the coal and water are almost used up, we can't carry too much, too much weight.
In this way, we can also hang a few more passenger carriages and buy tickets to ride, just like the city's public buses. "
Li Yi shook his head. Two shovels and one train, what kind of joke was that?
One trip would cost at least fifty shovels. If it was too expensive, they could use a carriage to transport it. The speedway didn't charge them.
How much would it cost to transport one thousand eight hundred dan of goods from Luoyang to Chang 'an by carriage?
Yes, there were boats. When the Yellow River was not dry or frozen, they could use boats to transport it slowly.
From Luoyang to Chang 'an, they had to go against the current.
They could bargain with the people driving the boats. When they reached forty-nine shovels, they would be one shovel cheaper.
Thinking of the water transport, Li Yi muttered, "How much would it cost to transport two thousand dan of goods from Luoyang to Chang 'an?"
Princess Yongmu said, "I know. For sixty shovels, you need a tracker, a sail, and an oar.
It's cheaper to go back. When you go back, you can just give them twenty shovels. "
"So expensive?" Li Yi did some calculations. It cost sixty thousand to transport two thousand dan of goods. One dan of goods added thirty shovels.
At this moment, Li Dan interjected, "If the transportation is cheap, why did the previous emperors run to Luoyang to eat? To put it nicely, they were lucky to go to Luoyang, but in reality, they couldn't eat. "
"Then our train will travel seventy shovels from Luoyang to Chang 'an, and twenty-five shovels from Chang' an to Luoyang. This will give the shipping industry a way to survive."
Li Yi adjusted the price again. One trip and one return would earn him ninety shovels. Three trips in two days would earn him a hundred and thirty shovels a day.
Including the passenger transport, he could earn fifty thousand shovels a year, one locomotive for each year.
The railway was built to Lianyungang, and the sea was connected. With a hundred locomotives, he could earn five million shovels a year, and he could earn back his capital in two years.
Li Yi calculated. He calculated that the load would be full and that he could have goods at any time.
In reality, it was impossible. From Chang 'an to Luoyang or Haizhou, would there be so many goods to transport? Would there be so many people riding?
It was also impossible to transport 540,000 shovels of goods from Luoyang to Chang 'an every two days. The key was, what were they transporting? Stones?
If they were transporting coal and iron, they would be transporting for the Imperial Court. If they collected seventy shovels from Bi Goo, would Bi Goo give them to them? He would not even give them seventy shovels.
Li Yi checked the information and found the first railway. It was said that there were 160,000 passengers a year, and it was only a distance of thirty miles.
The upper seat was worth five hundred coins, the middle seat was worth two hundred and fifty coins, and the lower seat was worth one hundred and twenty coins.
Calculating how much the passenger transport industry earned in a year, The Rising Sun City only invested more than two hundred thousand taels of silver.
Then the Qing government saw that it was not good and suffered a loss. If they did this, The Rising Sun City would earn back their capital in a few years.
The government came forward and finally bought it back for less than two hundred and ninety thousand taels of silver.
After buying it back, the Qing government did not operate it and dismantled it.
"Ai!" Li Yi suddenly sighed. He really did not know what to say.
"Li Lang, what's wrong?" Princess Yongmu saw Li Yi's sad and indignant face and quickly asked.
"It's nothing. I just remembered a story, a very sad story. I will first build the steam engine for the ship and ask the Winged Knights to help me build the rails.
Fortunately, there is the Yellow River. Otherwise, the steam engine will not be easy to transport. It will be inconvenient for both the scattered and the whole thing.
Let the warships come directly for modification. Even if they are dragged all the way back, it will be better than sending them for modification. I can't go there. "
Li Yi threw the Qing government out of his mind. He did not want to think about it. There would be no more Qing government.
He had to speed up the construction of things and concentrate his strength. The sooner the railway was paved and the sooner the train was opened, the more money he could earn to continue building the railway.
If he did not build it, he would never have it. If he built it, he would build thousands of miles of railway every year. In a few years, he would build the railway to an important position.
With the improvement of technology, he would come up with a better steam engine.
He would build one along the canal and make a turn to Guangzhou. It would be cheaper for people to ride and strengthen the flow and material transportation.
In any case, the iron ore, copper, and coal mines were taken out by him. They belonged to the state. There was no external pressure, so there was no need to exchange foreign exchange.
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