Daqin: Signing in at the beginning is ten times the combat power of Lu Bu

Chapter 439: A Steel Giant Beast Like a Long Dragon 1

"I'm afraid that most of the people in Xianyang City have come here?"

On top of the majestic and tens of feet-high train station clock tower, Nesten couldn't help but blurt out as he watched the long queue of people crowding the entire square and surrounding miles.

"This fully demonstrates that it's not that the people of Daqin don't like to travel, but that they don't have the conditions to allow them to travel."

"The emergence of bicycles has allowed people's footprints to extend directly from several miles around their homes to tens of miles."

"And the emergence of the train is to extend tens of miles, to hundreds of miles, or even thousands of miles."

"Once the train is actually open to traffic, then my Daqin's business will be greatly improved again."

"But such a huge flow of people, not to mention horse-drawn carriages, even steam cars can't do it, only trains can do it."

Ying Yu smiled slightly.

"What His Royal Highness said is that this train is good for everything, but the cost is too high, and the treasury is really powerless!"

Nestor sighed helplessly.

It's not that he doesn't support trains and railways, it's that there really isn't much money in the national treasury.

"You don't have to worry about the cost of railway construction. The prince has made his own arrangements."

"And the speed at which this train recovers its cost is actually much faster than you imagined."

"A train, if it is full, can carry more than 500 people at a time."

"Even if there are not enough seats, there will be 2000 people going back and forth!"

"Moreover, a railway can run multiple trains at the same time. Take ten trains per hour and six hours a day as an example, there are almost 10 trains."

"Even if a ticket is only sold for one renminbi, this year's income will be a full 600 million renminbi!"

"Not to mention the economic growth driven by such a large flow of people and the increase in tax revenue."

After the words fell, Ying Zheng on the side nodded slightly.

As the emperor of Great Qin, Ying Zheng's eyes on things have always been above the whole of Great Qin.

Although simply calculating the railway, it will take at least ten years, or even decades, to pay back.

But if the economic growth driven by the railway is included, it will be completely different.

And this is only at the economic level, the most important thing about this train is military and political.

Not to mention more, one train can carry more than a thousand fully armed soldiers, and one hundred trains is a hundred thousand troops.

As long as the railways are built all over Daqin, the elite army of Daqin can easily take the train from Xianyang City to any corner of Daqin.

This is definitely the foundation for consolidating the centralized power system of the Great Qin Dynasty and realizing Yingzheng's dream of an eternal empire.

At the same time, the sharp-eyed people on the station square also spotted Ying Zheng, Ying Yu and others on the clock tower, and cheers erupted immediately.

Now that the Great Qin is rich and the people are strong, the lives of the people are countless times better than in the past, and the centripetal force towards the Great Qin has reached an unprecedented level.

The prestige of Ying Yu and Ying Zheng is also unprecedentedly high.

"Your Majesty and His Highness the Crown Prince are really here. I hope I can grab the opportunity to take the first train and take the same ride with His Majesty and the Crown Prince. This way, I can boast for a long time when I go back."

"Don't count on it. It would be nice to get a test ride ticket today."

"I came more than half an hour earlier than you, but there are at least thousands of people in front of me. It's hard to say whether I can get a ticket. You guys, today is a dead end!"

"Whoever got the first train ticket in front, I am willing to pay a hundred dollars to buy the test ride ticket in your hand!"

"You want to buy a ticket for the first train for a hundred dollars? It's too little, I'll pay you 150 dollars!"

"Two hundred dollars!"

Many latecomers simply called out high prices to acquire them.

The price of the test ride ticket has been rising all the way, and the highest one was actually quoted as a figure of [-] yuan.

Not to mention ordinary people, even many businessmen were dumbfounded.

You must know that the daily wages of ordinary jobs in Daqin are only about five yuan a day.

This is enough to buy more than two stones of grain in the market.

But now, it's just the first trial run of a railway less than a hundred miles away. How could such a price be sold for a test ride ticket?

And not many people are willing to make a move?

This not only shows that there are more and more wealthy people in Daqin, but also fully shows that the future of this railway is really bright!

Not long after, all the test ride tickets were sold out, the gates of the train station opened one after another, and the people who were lucky enough to grab the test ride tickets began to enter the station one after another.

It also includes the few great Confucians left in Confucianism, the original court official Chunyu Yue.

The last time I saw a steam car with my own eyes, it opened Chunyu Yue's eyes and made him sigh.

But soon, more shocking news appeared in the newspaper.

That is, steam cars are just the starting point, and Daqin will soon manufacture bigger and stronger steam trains.

The carrying capacity of a steam train can reach a hundred times or even a thousand times that of a steam car.

This made Chun Yuyue, who had already begun to accept science and technology, really unbelievable.

Because it's just too exaggerated.

Steam cars carry thousands of catties of goods effortlessly.

A hundred or a thousand times more than a steam car, wouldn't the carrying capacity of this train be more than a million catties?

This has surpassed the sea giants like the Great Qin Treasure Ship.

Moreover, the railway on which the train runs has to pass through the Qinling Mountains, which stretches for thousands of miles and is as high as thousands of feet, to reach Luoyang City.

This has completely exceeded Chun Yuyue's cognition and imagination.

Subconsciously, Chun Yuyue thought that the presence of His Royal Highness Ying Yu was due to his study of science and technology so that he became obsessed.

Especially after hearing the cost of the railway.

Chun Yuyue strengthened his thoughts even more, feeling that Ying Yu had completely disregarded Da Qin's actual situation and floated up.

Therefore, Chun Yuyue visited around, contacted many officials who also had doubts about the railway, and began to write letters to the first emperor, hoping to suspend such a huge exhausting project as the railway.

The result was no response.

Although Chunyuyue and the others were dissatisfied, there was nothing they could do.

Today's Ying Yu, the general trend has been established, and his influence is not inferior to that of the first emperor, but they cannot be shaken.

A group of people could only silently hope that Ying Yu would stop in time.

Then I received the news that the first steam train in Daqin was about to run for a trial run, and the number of test rides was open.

I have already witnessed this huge crowd of people.

At this moment, even a bad thought came to Chunyu Yue's heart.

With Ying Yu's style, dare to conduct such a public test run, could it be that this train and railway are all real?

With complicated emotions, Chun Yuyue followed the flow of people through the ticket check into the station, passed through the waiting room, entered the platform, and then saw the mighty and majestic giant steel beast that looked like a long dragon.

This scene directly made Chunyu Yue freeze in place.