Dayao seventy-six years, August.
After retreating from the court that day, the people did not leave, but waited in front of the palace. A row of rare mounts were brought over by the guards of various families, a white-toothed tiger, an orangutan five or six meters high, and a huge black body with horns on its head. Feline creatures, giant lizards like western dragons...
The red horned bull king, which is a circle larger than ordinary horned bulls, can't be seen in it at all.
It's roughly equivalent to squeezing an Audi A4 into a row of sports cars.
Beside him was a Hei Langjun with high ground wheel strength equipped with Wuling Hongguang. His back was more than three meters high from the ground, with two fangs protruding from his mouth. After a while, two holes were dug out.
The guard not far away wrote it down in a small notebook and fined him back.
If it was any other place, if someone destroyed the front of the palace, maybe the whole family would be reunited.
But for Dayao, the gate of the imperial palace has been accidentally injured many times.
The stone slabs have to be replaced every few days in the Jinluan Hall.
Everyone stood outside the palace waiting, chatting in groups of three or four, and from time to time someone could be heard asking what they were going to see this time.
After all, His Majesty kept everyone behind with such great fanfare, which made people curious.
The last time this happened, I saw something called a steam train.
I have to say that the steam train is really magical. You only need to fill it with some burning rocks to run non-stop, without feeling tired at all, and it has a lot of strength.
While everyone was chatting and discussing, the main gate of the palace opened wide, and the empress' Luanjia came out slowly, stopped for a while, and then set off for the east gate.
Along the way, many people cheered first, and then followed them all the way out of the city gate.
When the empress and others left the city, nearly a thousand people followed behind them.
At this time, on the cement road outside the east gate, there was an object several meters long wrapped in red cloth, and Ren Baqian was sitting on the side looking up at the sky, and there were many students around him, and when he saw everyone coming, he got up welcome.
"Prince Zhao, is there anything good for us to see this time?" Tong Zhenye stroked his beard and laughed.
Everyone has long understood that as long as there is something to show them, there is no need to think about it, it must be made by Prince Zhao.
Everyone is still looking forward to what he will come up with.
Every time, everyone will be amazed.
"You'll know soon." Ren Baqian smiled at the crowd, and looked up at the civilians who were following in the distance. This was a good promotional opportunity.
With today's performance, new things like tractors will inevitably spread in Lancheng. When it is actually launched in a period of time, the people of Lancheng who have been waiting for a long time will be able to see the true appearance. Presumably some people will be willing to try it.
The only question is whether anyone can afford it.
Even if he is going to sell it at a loss, the purpose is to promote this new thing, improve Dayao's transportation capacity, reduce the use of manpower in many ways, and improve the current situation of manpower shortage.
However, promotion still takes time, even if it loses money, the price is not a small problem.
For now, the largest customers are still the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War.
However, in Ren Baqian's view, the greatest value of tractors is not just transportation. If we only talk about the transportation from Lancheng to Izumo, trucks are faster and have lower technical content than tractors.
In addition to being able to be used on various muddy roads in the south, tractors are also important to replace manpower, liberating a group of labor from the fields and putting them into factories or other places.
Ren Baqian wanted to reach out to support the empress, but the empress disappeared from Luanjia in a flash and fell to the ground, right behind Ren Baqian, without turning her head, she said, "Let's go, let's see your new product."
Ren Baqian smiled helplessly, even if she was thirty-two months pregnant, the empress was still the empress, without any affectation.
"Everyone, this is an epoch-making product." Ren Baqian raised his voice as he walked forward.
"You said the same thing last time!" Qin Chuan said not far away.
"Epoch-making technologies are produced too quickly!" Ren Baqian laughed. "Or this era will change quickly!"
Walking in front of the tractor, Ren Baqian put his hand on the red cloth, turned and said to everyone: "The steam train last time, everyone can see its potential. With the steam train, two distant places can be connected. In one place, one hundred thousand troops and matching supplies can be transported to Izumo or even Daxia within three days. This has completely changed the previous concept of war before the soldiers and horses are used.
In the face of war, we can have faster reaction speed and better mobility. "
"The question is, where is the war coming from, and who is it going to fight?" Qin Chuan spread his hands, and only Daxia and Izumo will fight again. There is no possibility of war for ten years.
"War is just an example, and what is more important is transportation. With Izumo, the price of iron in Arashi City is only one-fifth of what it was before, and the transportation of a large amount of materials is still a problem. With trains, transportation will be easier and more efficient. It is fast and consumes less manpower and material resources, so it is worth it in the long run. Especially in the transportation of fresh materials, this is incomparable to land transportation." Ren Baqian said casually.
"If there weren't those big iron eaters, the price of iron in Lancheng would have dropped to half of 10% now." Someone beside him whispered.
Ren Baqian looked at the past with sideways eyes: "Look at it from a long-term perspective! Iron alone is not everything. Food, vegetables, fruits, cloth, and minerals. Do you still want to bring back the iron produced in Izumo every year with bullock carts?"
Everyone immediately laughed.
It was an official from the household department who interrupted just now, full of resentment.
In fact, not only him, but also the entire household department has a lot of grievances.
Those steel factories and the laying of steel rails are simply monsters swallowing iron, like a bottomless pit. At least half of the iron ore mined in Izumo in the past two years has been invested in it, and there is not even a little splash.
You must know that one meter of steel rail costs 100 catties, and the steel rail requires two sides.
One kilometer is 200,000 catties.
It is equivalent to Dayao's annual iron ore output.
The calculation of this number made everyone in the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households feel a little dizzy.
However, Izumo originally produced about 22 million catties of iron a year, and less than 3 million catties of steel. In the past three years, with the large-scale use of steam engines in various mines, the output of iron has increased to 40 million catties, while the output of steel has reached nearly 10 million catties.
Most of the steel production is put into railroad tracks.
Over the past two years, only 100 kilometers have been laid, which is equivalent to 200 miles.
According to the current speed of steel production, it will take at least ten years to complete the laying of this railway.
However, this output is only now. According to Ren Baqian's estimation, the output of iron and steel will reach 80 million catties and 30 million catties within five years.
It looks like a lot, but if you calculate carefully, they are only 40,000 tons and 15,000 tons respectively.
Not to mention the comparison with the period of the Republic of China, even the comparison with the Song Dynasty is far behind.
The biggest limitation is not only technology. The equipment and technology used in mines and steelmaking plants today have at least reached the level of the middle of the industrial revolution.
However, the supporting technology and the number of personnel cannot keep up.
For example, equipment manufacturing, equipment maintenance, personnel training, etc. have all formed shackles.
It will take at least three years for these situations to ease, and it will explode after five years.
But the investment in steel alone is an astronomical figure, not to mention the manpower and material resources invested.
Even if the situation of the treasury has improved greatly in the past two years, the annual investment is enough to make everyone in the household department feel heartbroken.
Even if you know the meaning of the railway, it is the same.
Therefore, people in the household department have resentment, and everyone is not surprised at all.
It hurts to change anyone!
Not to mention the Hubu, who has always been stingy.