Chapter 369 Costs
The Lingqi locomotive moved forward indomitably, and soon disappeared from the sight of the onlookers.
Not long after, the carriage and the knight returned to the station, shaking their heads and explaining that they were completely lost.
The onlookers were in an uproar immediately, the Lingqi locomotive was faster than galloping horses, and the carrying capacity far exceeded it.
The expressions of the crowd were different, and the citizens of Chang’an, who were just watching the excitement, were amazed.
Businessmen engaged in bulk commodity trading were overjoyed,
Only the coachman, Lifu, and crew members on the edge of the crowd were a little anxious, whispering among themselves, worried that the Lingqi locomotive would take away their jobs.
After more than half an hour, the iconic clanging sound came from afar again.
The Reiki locomotive coming in the opposite direction slowed down slowly with billowing steam, and finally stopped.
Su Feng smiled and got off the front of the car, greeted the hard workers, opened the compartment, and took out the goods from inside.
The crowd of onlookers could see clearly that when they left, the goods in the compartment were grain, oil, rice noodles, cloth, tea and wine,
However, when they came back, there were logs, bricks, medicinal materials, spices, fish catches, etc. in the carriage.
More importantly, there is also a plaque of the Tongguan Inn.
The crowd exclaimed, Tongguan is more than 80 miles away from Baqiao, and it will take at least three hours for the carriage to go and run, and the horses have to be changed in the middle.
And the Lingqi locomotive only took half an hour?
Based on this calculation, wouldn’t it be possible to travel from Chang’an to Luoyang in the morning?
Su Feng patted Ou Zhiyuan's shoulder with a smile, and asked his disciples to check the condition of the vehicle and record the data.
himself brushed off the dust from his clothes, and walked briskly up to a restaurant.
In the pavilion, the emperor, prince, prime minister and ministers had fluctuating expressions, obviously having doubts.
"Dr. Su,"
Emperor Yu said in a deep voice: "What is the speed of the Lingqi locomotive? Is there any loss?"
"Return to Your Majesty,"
Su Feng smiled slightly. He had already written these details in the previous memorial. The emperor naturally knew that he just took this opportunity to tell the ministers.
"Baqiao is eighty-six miles away from Tongguan. There is a total distance of one hundred and seventy-two miles to go back and forth, and it takes five quarters of an hour. One quarter of an hour is used for loading and unloading goods at Tongguan station. The actual travel time is four quarter of an hour.
As for wear and tear, the aura machine uses the aura of heaven and earth as power, and the consumables used are just parts that need to be replaced due to mechanical wear and tear, almost none. "
Su Feng paused, took a panoramic view of the astonished expressions of Shangshu Pei Su, Zhongshu Ling Xueji and others, and continued: "This is also the result of the spiritual locomotive not running at full speed.
At full speed, the Lingqi locomotive can drive up to 480 miles per hour. "
Declaration to the White Emperor among the colorful clouds, thousands of miles of rivers and tombs returned in one day.
This poem immediately came to everyone's minds, a thousand miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day? Two hours is enough!
This is really the dawn and the evening.
"What about the load?"
Shangshu Pushe Pei Su took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "How much cargo can it carry?"
"The load of the carriages depends on the quality of the rails. During the journey just now, a section of the carriages contained less than 12,000 jin of goods. But in the forging workshop of the Xuegong, we have tested that it can hold up to 80,000 jin."
It is equivalent to being able to transport 480,000 catties.
Most of the ministers present here came from the bottom county magistrates, step by step. A series of numbers were calculated in the blink of an eye.
There are three million people in Chang'an City, which is equivalent to three million mouths waiting to be fed. Millions of catties of food are eaten a day.
There is an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages and cargo ships entering Chang'an City every day.
The whole city is like a monster that can never be filled, absorbing materials from all directions without stopping for a moment.
So that every winter, the Zhenfu Division needs to send monks to smash the ice on the Wei River and other rivers to make the ships barely navigable.
If there are a few more Lingqi locomotives, then these vehicles alone can fill the stomachs of Changan people,
Let this twisted rope hanging around the necks of Changan bureaucrats be loosened and loosened.
"What about the cost?"
Prince Li Si asked: "The cost of such a huge monster must not be cheap?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, the parts used by the Reiki locomotive are extremely complicated and cannot be made by ordinary workshops, and can only be made by using the iron melting and iron casting techniques of the academy."
Su Feng had been prepared for a long time, and took out a thick stack of blueprints from his arms, "The spiritual energy machine itself needs 600,000 guns.
The locomotive's boiler, steam engine, frame and other parts need 250,000 pieces. Tin carriage plus wheels, one hundred thousand.
Including the bits and pieces of seats and benches on the car, the cost exceeds one million pieces. "
"How many?!"
Even with certain psychological expectations, this figure still far exceeded the expectations of the ministers.
10,000 Guan can buy a mansion in Chang’an, build a sailing boat,
One million guns. More than enough to start a small war.
"This is just the price of the aura locomotive itself. The real big deal lies in the rails."
Su Feng said patiently: "A three-foot-long rail weighs about thirty-six catties, and a set of rails weighs seventy-two catties.
The price of iron in Chang’an today is 40 Wen per catty.
That is to say, two thousand eight hundred and eighty wen of iron is used for every three feet.
One mile of railway requires 1440 guan of iron alone. If you want to repair to Luoyang, it will take 600 miles, and you will need a total of 860,000 guan. It takes 3.45 million guan to repair to Dengzhou. "
A series of numbers shocked the expressions of the ministers, especially the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who was in charge of taxation, and his face turned pale.
“.And, it’s just an optimal cost.”
Su Feng seemed ignorant, and said to himself: "In reality, the terrain is tortuous and undulating. If you encounter mountains, you need to detour, and when you encounter rivers, you need to build bridges. The real railway track construction cost may need to be doubled. .”
"Wouldn't the wooden track work?"
A minister couldn't help asking: "I heard that the mines use wooden tracks to transport ore, and at most they are covered with a layer of iron sheet."
"no,"
Su Feng shook his head and said: "The wooden rails are too light and soft, and the trolley carrying the ore load is fine, but it can't carry the cart. There will be a risk of derailment."
Prince Li Si knew Su Feng's character well, so he asked helplessly, "Dr. Su, as the inventor of the Reiki locomotive, why don't you speak for your own invention?"
"Hehe, report back to Your Highness, because there is no need."
Su Feng smiled and said: "The cost of the spiritual locomotive plus the rails sounds too high and unacceptable at first glance, but as long as you calculate and measure it, you can draw a conclusion—it is far superior to horse-drawn carriages and river-sea shipping."
(end of this chapter)