There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 505 Railway Protection
The opening of the Nanjing-Hangzhou Railway is not just as simple as opening a railway.

With the construction of the whole line of the Jiangnan Railway, from Jiangning to Rufen Town in Ruzhou, this line came, and the people and businessmen along the line benefited from it.

The construction of railways requires workers, and the construction team provided by the system is responsible for the main core technologies. However, road construction, road paving, transportation, mining, etc. all require a lot of manpower. This is a huge demand for labor services, plus the labor services provided by the Qilin Army The remuneration is relatively sufficient and reasonable, and the people around are willing to come here to work.

In this way, there will inevitably be a lot of people flow here, and with the flow of people, there will naturally be vendors, which is another big deal for vendors here.

Moreover, the construction of the railway also requires the cooperation of various other materials. Many businessmen here have taken a fancy to this business opportunity, so they have followed the example of the Qilin Army's factory company and established professional companies to provide supporting materials for the railway. service requirements.

The people who come here to work also have some other needs, so this further stimulates business.

The construction of a railway was accompanied by the rise of countless business chains.

In the end, although the railway was built, the original place gradually formed a small gathering place, a small market and so on.

This is development!
While the railway is being built, workers for railway maintenance are also being recruited here.

There are barbed wire fences on both sides of the railway. This is to prevent people or wild animals from accidentally breaking into the railway. If they are hit by a train, it will be bad. However, in order to prevent people from crossing the railway frequently, Li Chu asked them to build many bridge holes underneath when building the railway to facilitate the people to pass the railway.

It is because there are too few such bridge openings in later generations that there are so many examples of crossing the railway.

In addition, people in this era are still new to railways and trains. They are very curious and don’t know much about them. What if the time comes and they rush over to watch the trains?
Therefore, in addition to adding barbed wire fences on both sides of the railway to stop it, Li Chu also ordered the gentry from all over the country to conduct some simple science popularization for the people in their respective areas, which is to tell the speed of the train and the danger of crossing the railway. , How to make a train, how much a train ticket sells, and so on.

Of course, there is an extra point, stealing train tracks privately is strictly prohibited!

This order is a dead order.

In addition to organizing train maintenance workers to take care of the railway and maintain it, Li Chu also gave a year-end reward to the gentry from all over the country where the trains passed by.

The so-called year-end reward is the area of ​​the railway that you are responsible for guarding. If there is no tragedy caused by crossing the road or theft of train tracks during the year, then at the end of the year, the imperial court will give you a reward. The reward is two One is money, which is not much, and for the squires, this little money is not worth looking at. It is mainly for meaning, and the other is honor. This honor has a greater meaning, and in some other assessments Among them, this honor also accounts for a relatively important proportion of the assessment.

At the same time, this honor will also grant some simple privileges in the county, and these privileges will not affect the small privileges of the common people.

In addition to being an honor, it is also a status symbol.

This is what these squires value.

In addition to rewards, there must also be punishments.

Once a train track is stolen within the scope of someone's responsibility, the punishment will be relatively heavy. Not only will there be no reward, but the squires will also have to be punished. There are two kinds of rods. The second is to recover the stolen rails, or to find the thief, then the second responsibility stick can be exempted.If the culprit is not found within the prescribed time limit, the squire in charge of the area will have to be punished a second time.

This is also to mobilize their enthusiasm for finding the culprit. After all, they are country gentry, and they are familiar with the people in the area they are responsible for.

For this reason, these squires will more or less strictly prohibit this kind of theft within their own territory.

The reason is that everyone knows what kind of character someone is, and they can guess who has the courage.

For the steel that stole the rails, the honor awarded by the county is obviously more important.

What's more, the Qilin Army's punishment for stealing the rails is very heavy.

Once found, beheaded directly, without any reason.

Not only were the thieves killed, but all three generations of the thieves' family were also involved and arrested together. The difference was that their family members would not be killed, but would only have to serve 20 years of hard labor.

At the same time, blacksmiths in various counties have also received a warning. Once anyone is found to be smelting at the blacksmith with the rails, the Qilin Army will reward the Qilin Army with a huge silver reward if the blacksmith chooses to report. Those who steal are punished with the same crime.

With such severe penalties and punishments, coupled with other supporting measures, it is estimated that no one would dare to steal the rails.

At the same time, Li Chu was not too afraid of being stolen by them.

First, there is the installation of the rails. After all, these things require screws.

Once these are fixed, it is difficult to loosen these screws without a board or corresponding tools, and these tools are only available on the Qilin Army, and where do the common people have such tools, let alone the common people? Neither is this era.The only way is to forcibly pry it open, but if there is no suitable tool, it will take a lot of strength and time to pry it open. It takes enough time to pry one open, let alone steal a railroad track. More than a dozen buckles need to be pried open, which is not something that can be done in one or two hours.

It takes so long, and no one dares to mess around like this.

This is one of them.

The second is the material of the rail.

The material of the rails is steel. Moreover, the rails used on the railway must withstand enormous pressure, so it is necessary to use extremely high-quality steel.

How could such steel be melted with the current refining process of the Northern Song Dynasty?

They can't even make a thousand degrees, how can they melt steel?Or this high-strength steel?

What is the reason why these people fancy these railroad tracks?It's not because of the iron or rigidity of the rails. They melted these things to refine other things, but this thing can't even be melted at all. It's a fart to refine other things.

Don't talk about hitting, how long is a railroad track?

The length of the rail is 20 meters. If you want to take this thing away, it will be too conspicuous once you move around.

It's more than conspicuous, it's just eye-catching.

PS: Thanks to the book friend 'Xiao Yin reads when bored' for the 500 starting point reward.

　PS, I also recommend a new book by a friend: "The No. [-] Scholar of Ming Dynasty", who was born in a poor family, and accidentally won the first prize in the exam, and got a happy prince!

　　


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