Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Otherwise, everyone would kill it cheaper than the carriage with one voice, and once the charge of poaching Daming's corner is charged, it will be something that no one can afford.

Of course, quarrels are quarrels, as long as the final price is cheaper than the carriage—in any case, as long as there is a way to explain it.

Although Hong Chengchou made up his mind to hug Emperor Chongzhen's thigh tightly, he also made up his mind to be a lone minister, but in fact, no matter how awesome the lone minister is, he has to have a lot of horse boys and eagle dogs to do things for him son will do.

Otherwise, he is not called a lonely minister, but a fool, and the most unforgiving people in the court are also this kind of people.

Don't you see, a certain coffin-carrying anti-corruption boss has only one term in office, and he is the first of its kind in the heavens...

Naturally, Hong Chengchou didn't know that there was such a big boss in later generations-the most important thing is that Hong Chengchou himself was not clean, and there were some small businesses in his family.

Of course, the name is that relatives who have nothing to do with Hong Chengchou himself are doing some small business, but as long as they are not blind, who doesn't know that there is Hong Shangshu's shadow behind this business?

Even Jin Yiwei and Dongchang knew this well, as did Emperor Chongzhen.

It's just that Hong Chengchou kept the relationship clear on the surface, and he managed the Ministry of Railways fairly. The progress of railway construction has been accelerated again and again, so Emperor Chongzhen was naturally happy to play dumb.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you earn extra money for a little money or something, just like in the company of later generations, who doesn't want to get benefits from themselves?Those bosses really don't know?

In fact, everyone knows that no one is a fool, but you can bring greater benefits to the company while reaping benefits, and the boss is happy to pretend to be stupid.

In fact, it was the same in Daming. Hong Chengchou understood the affairs of the Ministry of Railways, and the progress of railway construction improved, and Emperor Chongzhen was happy to play dumb.

Looking at the squabbles below who were quarreling, Hong Chengchou coughed vigorously, and after everyone quieted down, he said with a smile: "I understand what you mean, and I will play it to Your Majesty later. Wait for the Holy Judgment."

When everyone saw the smile on Hong Chengchou's face, they knew that the matter was over. It is estimated that the price quoted in the end would be the same as the price of the carriage, and it is even more likely that it will be lower than the price of the carriage.

In fact, when Emperor Chongzhen received Hong Chengchou's memorial, he couldn't help secretly admiring Hong Chengchou's boldness.

Although Emperor Chongzhen himself didn't intend to set the price of train passenger and freight transportation very high, the price quoted in Hong Chengchou's memorial still exceeded Emperor Chongzhen's expectations-not only was it lower than that of a horse-drawn carriage, it was completely lower. More than double!

Although the cost of the train is not much, the cost of the construction of the railway, as well as the cost of the locomotives and carriages invested in before is real, and Hong Chengchou doesn't seem to have included this part at all.

Hong Chengchou's reason is simple.

The train is a new thing. If you want to compete with the horse-drawn carriage that has existed since ancient times, you must have your own advantages.

If the price is the same as that of a horse-drawn carriage, it is estimated that some customers can be attracted, but it is difficult to attract more people to participate, even if there is a car and boat shop, the innocent should be killed.

But when the price of train passenger and freight is reduced to twice that of horse-drawn carriages, it will be able to attract a large number of people-not to mention twice the price of horse-drawn carriages?

Once the scholars, soldiers, common people, and merchants who choose to transport goods by train have formed a scale, it is foreseeable that the cost will further decrease and the profit will further increase.

Besides, the cost of locomotives and rails is fixed. Even if there is no passenger and freight business, wouldn't the railway be built?Don't buy the front and the wagon?

Even the maintenance of the railway is the same - without passenger and freight transportation, how should it be maintained or how should it be maintained?

Anyway, the cost of the investment has to be invested regardless of whether there is profit or not. It is better to use low prices to attract the attention of all walks of life to the railway. After the scale is really expanded in the future, it is not too late to consider raising the price.

Not only that, but with the further research of the Royal Academy, will the cost price be further reduced?Will the speed increase further?

The answer is yes, the latest car head produced by the Royal Academy has more than doubled the carrying capacity and speed of the first generation car head, but the price is only the same, or even lower.

With the further acceleration of the speed and the further reduction of the cost, it is foreseeable that more and more people will choose the train as a means of travel.

At the same time, it also means that the Ministry of Railways can receive more money to further speed up the construction of the railway, and can spend more money on the Royal Academy so that they can study faster and more economical locomotives.

This is almost something that can benefit several parties - even the national treasury can receive taxes from the Ministry of Railways, and Emperor Chongzhen's internal funds can be more abundant.

After reading Hong Chengchou's memorial, Emperor Chongzhen also had to admit that what the ancients were inferior to the later generations was only vision, not vision and IQ.

Hong Chengchou clearly realized the real advantages of something like the railway, and also clearly realized the way this thing should develop benignly.

How did those time travelers who treated the ancients as fools after time travel survived?Not to mention that the suits and leather shoes are all in vogue. Could it be that these people can really conquer the world by relying on the aura of the protagonist?

So fucking amazing!Give me a few halos like this, I have plenty of money!

After shaking his head and getting these messy thoughts out of his mind, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to follow Hong Chengchou's memorial and set the price twice as low as the price of the carriage. As for the future, we will discuss it later up.

As for the carriage dealers who lost their jobs due to the vigorous development of trains, Emperor Chongzhen was not too worried-the horse carriages could not be done, but other jobs could still be done.

If only considering the impact of the train and push it again and again, how long will it take to develop the railway?

Without the railway, how big is the territory I built by myself?What's the matter if the territory of Lao Liu's family and Lao Li's family is not big enough?

It's not that I don't want to build a bigger territory, but that I can't achieve effective governance after it's done. Effective governance is not only the reason for the lack of people, but the most important thing is the traffic problem.

The number of people is not enough, they can immigrate, it doesn't matter who will be the emperor, if you spend more money, even if the money is not enough, you still have a knife.

The problem is that even if there are enough people, once there is any chaos in the land that has just been conquered, the army will not be able to quell the chaos in time. This is the crux of the problem, just like Annan.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't know how much benefit it will bring to Daming after completely occupying Annan?

Don't be silly, as the heir cultivated by Mr. Zhu, even without Fang Xing's bug, Zhu Zhanji still knows the importance of Annan.

The army withdrew, and the Annan people rebelled. If the army did not withdraw, supplies would have to be consumed—fuck it, the cost of transporting supplies to Annan was higher than the cost of the supplies themselves!

The same is true for the lands brought down by the stubborn emperors of the old Liu family and the old Li family, such as Congling, the birthplace of Li Bai, Ah San, which Wang Xuance borrowed from his sons-in-law, and Dawan and Central Asia, etc. wait.

In fact, they are all the same. The most fundamental reason lies in the speed of delivery of materials and troops, not that the emperors and courts really want to give up these places.

Don't talk about the nonsense that you are satisfied after occupying the Central Plains - in fact, regardless of whether it is an emperor or a minister, even a seventh-rank county magistrate will know how much benefit it can bring by laying down a piece of land!

Military generals and nobles make military exploits to make a fortune, and the civil service system will also drool at the sudden vacancy-is there still land where the common people of the Celestial Dynasty can't grow anything?

It was the same even in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

If it hadn't been for the manufacturing method of the treasure ship found in the archives of the Ministry of War, if it hadn't been for the various firearms and railway systems produced by the Royal Academy, what would the Emperor Chongzhen do if he conquered a large area of ​​land?

Unless all the natives are killed, otherwise, the difficulty of wanting to occupy it for a long time will be so high that it makes people want to die-probably equivalent to the difficulty of the Winter is Coming dungeon of the battle for the top five rogue seats in the United Nations.

It is also a difficulty that basically no one can complete except RMB players and hackers.

Theoretically speaking, if Annan causes chaos, Daming will get the news quickly, even negligibly, but from mobilizing supplies and soldiers to sending troops and supplies to Annan, it will take two to three months at the fastest time, maybe even more than half a year.

And when the railways are really built everywhere, for example, when Annan is built, even if Annan wants to make trouble again, after the Ming court gets the news, it only needs to spend half a month to mobilize supplies and soldiers, and then spend about It took half a month to transport supplies and soldiers from the capital to Annan.

If you choose to mobilize troops from Yunnan and Guangdong and Guangxi, this time will be further shortened, and it will even take half a month to gather soldiers and mobilize supplies, and another two or three days to send the army over.

Only in this case is the occupied land truly as stable as Mount Tai, and there is no longer any need to worry about problems such as rebellion by the natives.

Throwing the memorial aside, Emperor Chongzhen changed into a normal uniform, found Wen Tiren, who was looking at other memorials, and headed out of Tianjin together.

According to the original plan, Emperor Chongzhen should have set off to return to Beijing at this time, but Emperor Chongzhen willfully delayed the time for a few days, intending to take Wen Tiren and others for a walk outside Tianjin.

Emperor Chongzhen's plan was actually quite simple. When he went outside the city, he just looked at sociology and the reserve warehouse.

Emperor Chongzhen took Wen Tiren and others to see the Changping warehouse in Tianjin, but he has not seen the Changping warehouse outside the city. The Changping warehouse in the city is easy to fake, but the reserve warehouse outside the city is the most likely. Where the truth is revealed.