Chapter 6882 is shipped!

Chapter 6882 is shipped!
Li You read out these team names. If anything, the team formed by the Kushan group had the most cultural heritage and had a strong presence. As for the other teams, none of them were good, especially Huangfu Song's team, who dared to call the general to lead the sixth team. They were crazy!
"Although the princess awarded the general four of the nine gifts, she did not give down the carriage and horses. Master Huangfu must have gotten too carried away." Chen Xi said unhappily.

"Don't you understand what old Huangfu meant? He deliberately chose a team name that is a bit presumptuous, so that Her Royal Highness the Princess will demote the rank of Nabi that was bestowed upon her before." Li You said casually. He knew Huangfu Song too well. Huangfu Song, who had always been very conservative, came up with this team name. He must have felt that he was a bit arrogant after watching "Eight Yi" and needed to manually demote himself.

Chen Xi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded silently. Judging from Huangfu Song's way of dealing with people, it is really possible that after enjoying it once, he would find an excuse to let the censors report to reduce some of his overly high treatment. This man is indeed very rule-abiding in some aspects.

"I think that General Huangfu has been in Chang'an for too short a time, and he is too used to the old routines, which has formed some path dependence. Under the previous emperor, this practice would definitely have cut one or two exceptional treatments, but now..." Fa Zheng took a sip of tea and said leisurely, "Given the temper of Her Royal Highness, the emperor may have already made arrangements for General Huangfu after seeing this team name. After all, someone just gave Her Royal Highness a heaven-defying thing."

As they spoke, Zhuge Liang and Man Chong, who were working, looked up at Chen Xi. The imperial jade carriage was nothing. It used to be the emperor's carriage. But compared with the thing Chen Xi sent over some time ago, it was nothing!
"Xiaozhi, you're being too sarcastic. I've said it before, that thing was just a suggestion I made when Xiangli was working on the rotor and the rail train. It's been five or six years and I had almost forgotten about it. Who would have thought that Xiangli would actually make it." Chen Xi had a depressed expression on his face. Only Chen Xi was responsible for this matter. If it were anyone else, they would probably be labeled as flatterers.

There was no way. Chen Xi could not have thought that he was just talking at the time. He did not expect that a few years later, Xiangli actually built a movable palace.

You have to know that during this period, a series of things happened, such as natural disasters, etching collapse, etc. As a result, Xiangli still managed to complete the Guanfengxing Palace and Liuhe Palace before the end of the second five-year plan. The former is a wheeled palace that can run on the road, and the latter is an alienated version of the rail train envisioned by Chen Xi. Well, it is obviously a train, but it was turned into a palace.

Although the so-called aerodynamic force was not taken into consideration, relying on the connection of a large number of power machines and orbital acceleration, this thing still ran at a very amazing speed and successfully arrived in Chang'an.

That's right, just two days ago, Jingzhao Yin Wang Yi and Zhaojiazhuang County Magistrate Gu Xi spent two years to finally successfully open the road before the end of the 25th. As an important participant in this plan, Xiangli sent a palace as soon as the road was opened.

Although it is not a palace complex, it is also an extremely large and long palace with corridors.

When such a huge machine arrived in Chang'an along the track, Chen Xi was stunned. What the hell are you doing with my money!
That’s not all. Not long after this palace on tracks arrived, a large road-going palace called Guanfengxing Palace drove over along the highway.

If Chen Xi could still forcibly believe that the long palace running on the track was due to Xiangli's poor aesthetics and aerodynamics, he had created something weird.

So when a thing that was almost the same size as the Lan Chi Palace where Liu Tong went to escape the summer heat drove over from the road, Chen Xi realized that Xiangli's brain was completely crooked. I asked you to build a movable palace?
What I asked you to do is to build a rail train, a train that does not require horses. What are you doing? Your thinking has stopped four hundred years ago, right?
However, before Chen Xi could even start to say anything, Liu Bei on the side pressed Chen Xi and said, "How magnificent, how magnificent!"

How could such nonsense not be magnificent? This is palace-level. Even if it is the Liuhe Palace that was transported via the newly built highway, it is still a palace-level thing. As for the thing on land, it is directly a temporary palace, and it is a temporary palace that can actually run on its own!

But then Chen Xi realized that Liu Bei had already known about the existence of this thing in advance. But think about it, with Liu Bei's intelligence system, as soon as such an outrageous thing left the confidential area, it wouldn't take long for an old soldier to excitedly run to Liu Bei to report that he had seen some magical thing.

As for Chen Xi, his consciousness is still on the rail trains and road trains he wants.

Needless to say, the palace that Lu Xing took, the so-called Guanfengxing Palace, was given as a New Year's gift this year to Liu Tong, who also came to watch the ceremony with shining eyes. The so-called Liuhe Palace was given to Liu Bei, because this thing was positioned as the train that Chen Xi used to transport supplies.

It would definitely not work if it was handed over to Liu Tong. Whether the price of fresh beef, mutton and pork in Chang'an could be as low as twenty cents during the Chinese New Year this year depends on this rail train. This is the world's first track that was carefully manufactured by the Xiangli family and secretly completed by Chen Xi with the magic of money. The track width of two and a half meters ensures a greater load capacity.

To put it bluntly, whether the Han Chang'an City can exceed one million in population and become a wonder lying on the earth depends entirely on the strength of this track. If materials can be transported to Chang'an at high speed, continuously and at low cost, then maintaining such a wonder city with a population of one million will not be impossible for Chen Xi.

Currently, the population of Chang'an City is only over 700,000, but it is already the largest population in the world. As for other so-called cities with a population of 500,000, such as Rome, Yuan's Sizhao City, and Kushan's Mathura, they actually all include the vast radiation zone outside the city.

The 700,000 people in Chang'an of the Han Dynasty actually lived in the city. Although it may not sound like a lot, the drinking water, food supply, garbage disposal, sewage treatment, etc. required for a gathering place of 700,000 people are already very complicated at the current level.

The so-called urban construction plan is just such a thing. If you want to exceed the scale of one million, the complexity of urban planning will be further increased. In the feudal era, the Guanzhong area could not support a city of one million people. The simplest point is that the difficulty and cost of handling domestic waste will be very high, and there will also be problems with the supply of groundwater and food.

This is also the reason why the emperor of the Tang Dynasty would frequently visit Luoyang after the population of Chang'an City exceeded one million. Although he gave many reasons, the reality is that after the population reached one million, there was not enough rice in Chang'an, and the rice in Luoyang was more or less cheaper, so people could come to Luoyang to eat.

During the Kaiyuan period, Chang'an had a large population and insufficient food, so rice had to be shipped from other places to the capital. The freight cost was about two hundred to three hundred wen per dou of rice. The price of rice at that time was only a few wen per dou, and the freight cost was outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that even with such outrageous freight rates, at the peak of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's reign, he still transported two million shi of goods to Chang'an each year, which is simply horrifying.

However, due to these outrageous freight rates, even during the heyday of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, there were some embarrassing situations. In the autumn of the 21st year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, along with hundreds of thousands of court officials and members of the royal family, went on a tour of the Eastern Capital. There was no other way. The Chang'an area had suffered a disaster that year, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang could not bear it any longer. He could only choose to send hundreds of thousands of people to Luoyang to make a living, otherwise people in Chang'an would starve to death.

In short, in feudal society, especially in a place like Chang'an, maintaining a city with a population of one million, the pressure on Guanzhong was actually very enormous. In the last census, the permanent population of Chang'an had exceeded 700,000.

Although Chen Xi had prepared for the population according to a million when he was planning it, and had also built related supporting facilities, he had never imagined that in such a short period of time, Chang'an's population would rush towards the million level. As a last resort, the Northern Track, which was originally supposed to be built in the Three-Five Plan, was launched ahead of schedule.

There is no other way. The project has to be launched. Chen Xi cannot afford the outrageous freight rates. Even though he knows he can reduce them through other means, the cost of water transport is there. No matter how much it is reduced, even if Pei Yaoqing is resurrected, he cannot reduce the cost of water transport to the level Chen Xi wants.

Therefore, they had to put the track into operation first. Fortunately, technical reserves had been made, and Xiangli lived up to expectations. Although a very abstract palace-type train was produced at the last moment, it was at least a train and could be used to transport grain and beef, mutton and pork from the northern border.

Therefore, even if Chen Xi was a little dissatisfied, and Liu Tong was too excited about receiving the movable palace, which caused the word "flattery" to vaguely appear over Chen Xi's head, but at least the general direction was fine. Besides, who dares to point fingers at me when I, Chen Xi, am doing something!
Well, it’s not that there wasn’t some pointing fingers. Guo Jia and Fa Zheng, the two crooked-mouthed dragon kings, had been grinning ever since Chen Xi handed over a large palace that could run on the road to Liu Tong as a New Year’s gift for Yuan Feng’s tenth year.

"Stop laughing, both of you. Zichuan is still a bit serious." Jia Xu comforted Guo Jia and Fa Zheng. After all, only Chen Xi could manage such a large movable palace.

"Stop talking nonsense. Who knows, this thing might be driven to Kushan and used as a fortress!" Chen Xi said unhappily.

"If you bring this thing to Kushan as a camp, you might as well let the princess take the jade seal with her." Guo Jia scolded with a smile, "The regent princess, the jade seal, the lord and you, the national destiny is almost complete. Add a palace, and it will be perfect. Wu'an Jun and Huaiyin Hou can appear directly on the battlefield, and even rely on this thing's super high perspective to command."

"Forget it. As for those crazy people in Beigui, once they know the princess' location, they will charge at all costs. If they don't, they are not Dayue Clan!" Chen Xi said unhappily, "The princess's Kung Fu Dog Team is made up of members of Dayue Clan. It seems that they even have several inheritance carriers."

"It is precisely because they are the carriers of the inheritance that they enthusiastically support the princess." Fa Zheng said with a bit of exhaustion, "The Great Yuezhi are indeed admirable in this respect. They have a kind of crazy aesthetics."

"Come to think of it, the commander took the rail train directly to Zhaojiazhuang. Is it really as fast as you said?" Jia Xu is somewhat old, and of course it is also possible that Tang Ji has squeezed him too much. He has been obviously lacking in energy and his thinking has been slow recently.

"It doesn't look much faster than a war horse." Li You echoed from the side.

"Not to mention the subsequent technological innovations, the speed will be faster and faster. This thing alone does not stop all the way except at the station, and it travels day and night. Its speed is much faster than a war horse. Moreover, this thing is really big enough, even big enough to use thermal insulation etching." Chen Xi said with some admiration. The starting speed of Xiangli's rail train was close to 50 kilometers at the beginning.

Taking into account that there are still many useless decorations from palaces on the current rail trains, the speed can be further improved after removing these, and the segmented power integration, the front pulling and the rear pushing are started together, with dozens of carriages in the middle. Although each carriage cannot reach the 60-ton load capacity of later generations due to length problems, it should also have a load capacity of 50 tons considering the width.

In the future, if Xiangli's power machine can be further optimized and better systematized, and two hundred carriages can be mounted at a time, with a cargo capacity of 10,000 tons, it will not only be able to support Changan's million-level city scale, but even further expansion will not be a problem!

Although it is not as good as Cai Mao selling rice on a 10,000-ton cargo ship, the 10,000-ton cargo volume is completely sufficient for these days.

"Come to think of it, when I saw your plan before, it seemed that the first track did not lead to Zhaojiazhuang in Jizhou." Li You said with some recollection. The county seat of Changshan County was finally renamed Zhaojiazhuang. Because of this change, Gu Xi would not have to pay back the money to Zhao Yun, or to be more direct, after the name was changed to this, Zhao Yun really did not have the face to ask for the money.

"Yes, it wasn't originally, it was leading to Donglai." Chen Xi nodded, "But who asked Governor Gu to do everything he could, and that place is indeed a transportation hub in the north. The prerequisites have been met, and it is appropriate to build a track there. Of course, the most important thing is that there is a ready-made plan for this track, and to build the track to Donglai, I need to organize people to conduct on-site exploration."

It's not that they can't survey, as there are still people who are engaged in road planning. Moreover, to build tracks, they can just demolish the tracks directly, without having to consider the issue of avoidance.

But who knows how to draw lessons from history when it comes to the track to Zhao? Especially if Xiangli is willing to contribute, they can even take out the geomancy maps from the reign of Emperor Qin Shihuang and the track planning route map, saving Chen Xi a lot of manpower and resources.

As for the question of whether the rail planning route map during the Qin Shihuang period will still be usable four hundred years later, well, most of it will still be usable. After all, it is not good to challenge other people's three or nine clans with technology. The descendants of other people's nine clans are still working for Chen Xi four hundred years later. Do you think it will be usable?
"I remember that Qinchi Road also seems to lead to Donglai?" Man Chong said with a frown.

“Yes, but the degree of destruction is much more serious than that in the north. And from the information preserved by Xiangli family, the northern highway was built as a tracked highway because it was necessary to guard against the Hu people. The eastern highway was actually used by the First Emperor during his eastern tour. Their design intentions are somewhat different.” Upon hearing this, Chen Xi informed everyone present of the relevant information of several families who had picked up the design drawings at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

To be honest, the major families really developed by picking up these materials. Some guys even admitted that they had smuggled materials into their homes when they were working in Shiqu Pavilion. There are also families like the Zhen family who directly said that when Wang Mang fell and the rebels entered Chang'an, they used sacks and horse-drawn carriages to load materials into their homes. It was so cool, but the accumulation of the first two hundred years of the Han Dynasty was divided up just like that.

As for what was burned by the rebels, there was some, but not most. The aristocratic family gangs that had already been formed at that time, seeing that the situation was not good, took away all the information they could before these people arrived. At that time, the ancestors of the Zhen family worked for Wang Mang and made a lot of money.

When Chen Xi was looking up information about Qin Zhidao, several noble families sent him relevant information, including several with feng shui maps and design plans. Considering that the information was almost the same after comparing it with each other, Chen Xi estimated that this group of people should have copied the homework at about the same time.

"Yes, the main purpose of going to Donglai is to search for immortals." Jia Xu nodded thoughtfully.

"Maybe we've found it." Li You said with a raised eyebrow.

"Let's not talk about it." Chen Xi said with a complicated expression. He didn't want to discuss this matter at all. After all, every time he discussed this issue, Chen Xi could feel a little bit of being watched. Could it be that the First Emperor was spying on him in some corner? It couldn't be that!

"Zhaojiazhuang may develop into a large city at the level of a secondary capital, and it will be a logistics center. Moreover, it is different from other places. It will really attract a lot of people to work there." Chen Xi looked into the empty space and spoke with a somewhat speculative tone.

The advantages of railways are too obvious. Moreover, the place chosen by Gu Xi is the intersection of land and water routes, and it is the most important transportation artery in the north. Now there is a railway. To be honest, if we use a martial arts master as an analogy, it is now in a state where both the Ren and Du meridians are open, and it is impossible not to take off.

"A big city at the level of a secondary capital?" Jiang Wan said to Chen Xi with some surprise.

"Well, the convenience of transportation, plus the first-mover advantage, and most importantly, the natural resources, the advantages are very obvious." Chen Xi nodded and said, "And it's different from other places. This one is completely driven by the economy. Good development is not as good as good geographical location!"

Apart from anything else, since Chen Xi built this road, he will definitely use it to the fullest. The transportation of hundreds or thousands of tons of materials a day has greatly boosted the local economy in the feudal era. After subsequent adjustments, with the daily transportation volume of tens of thousands of tons of materials, Zhaojiazhuang will definitely attract the surrounding areas. By then, no matter what resources they are, Zhaojiazhuang will take them.

Over time, Zhaojiazhuang will naturally gather along the railway to become a huge urban area.

"From a strategic point of view, we should continue to build along this road to the northeast, all the way to Liaodong, and then extend it southwest from Chang'an to Chengdu, or even further south, breaking through Ailao State and entering Central and South China." Zhuge Liang sorted out the documents he had already processed and suggested to Chen Xi, "And this alone is not enough. At least several large-scale highways should be built to the east, southeast, and northwest to ensure the transportation of materials."

"It's a very good plan. When the year is four or five, it will depend on you to push it forward. I can only repair the one to the southwest now. As for the others, none of them can be moved given our current situation." Chen Xi shook his head and said. He also knew that Zhuge Liang's plan was correct. Chen Xi had even made related plans on the map earlier. However, this was a century-long undertaking and there was no hope in a short time.

"For four or five years, I estimate that we can only build a route from Chang'an in the southeast to Xinzhou in the northwest." Zhuge Liang said with a very complicated expression.

"What are you thinking? If you can build a road from Jiaozhou to Chang'an, the governor of Jiaozhou must still be alive and can lead the people of Jiaozhou to kowtow to you ten times." Chen Xi said unhappily. Building a road from the southeast through Chang'an to Xinzhou in the northwest? Chen Xi's scalp tingled just looking at the difficulty.

"In the third and fifth months, we can only repair the southwest first. This is a strategic requirement." Jia Xu looked at the map hanging on the wall and said, "Speaking of which, Zichuan, the movable palace you presented to Her Royal Highness the Princess was made smaller. Was it for the purpose of the expedition to the Ganges?"

"I can't say there weren't any, but I didn't expect Xiangli to do such a big thing. I was a little surprised. My original idea was that if Gongyou could catch up with the track, we could take the track train, so that the number of people would be easier to count and the efficiency would be high. If we couldn't catch up with the track, we could take the long carriage, 20 people in a batch, and then change horses according to the station. But Xiangli came up with a new plan."

Although there are many areas that need to be optimized for small and medium-sized frames, even Xiangli cannot guarantee to give a reliable solution, and Chen Xi is not the kind of crazy monarchs like the Qin Dynasty who would give death orders directly, so Xiangli's answer is that it still needs to be considered, and there is no guarantee that a finished product that will satisfy Chen Xi can be designed within three years.

But for Chen Xi, who had already seen the Guanfengxing Palace, if he couldn't make the small one he wanted, a large cart that could carry two hundred people at a time would be fine!
The cost of Chang'an's grain transport is a comprehensive estimate made by me. There may be some problems, and I am too lazy to look up the book carefully. If someone is willing to calculate it, please answer it. I just changed it and posted Lu Zhi's "Petition to Reduce the Water Transport Price in Jingdong to Store Military Grains in Border Prefectures and Towns". During the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods, peace had been going on for a long time, and financial resources were abundant. The salaries and food were issued and the use was also extensive, so no matter the waste, the military reserves were maintained to the point that the flow of people was excessive. It was said that one peck of money was used to transport one peck of rice - well, I don't mean anything else, at least it proves that I do know this. I am really too lazy and don't want to check it. According to my impression, this is all, sigh.