Chapter 2450 Let Brother 3 do the trick!
The high-speed rail in the Monkey Kingdom is a huge pit among huge pits.
In the previous life, the high-speed rail project of the Monkey Kingdom almost made the Sakura Kingdom lose all its money.
High-speed rail, especially that in countries with large populations, is considered a lucrative project by all countries.
High-speed rail is a complex project that involves many areas and requires coordination from all parties to be successful.
In fact, in the previous life, when the Sakura Country announced that it had won the bid for the Monkey Country's high-speed rail project, Chen Mo already knew clearly that the Sakura Country would definitely not be able to do it.
Putting aside all external factors, let's take a step back and assume that the Sakura Country successfully completes India's high-speed rail project. The ticket prices set by the Sakura Country are definitely not something India can afford.
From the Monkey King Capital to Ahmed City, an ordinary train only costs 50 Monkey King coins (equivalent to less than 5 Daxia coins).
In order for this huge high-speed rail project to break even, it would require at least 10 passengers to take the high-speed rail every day, with ticket prices ranging from about 2500 to 3000 Shenhou coins (roughly between and yuan).
With the income of the Monkey God, he can spend 5 yuan. If you spend more than 200 yuan, your relatives and friends will definitely call you a psychopath.
There are too many poor people in the Monkey King world, and the ratio of the rich to the poor can be said to be the highest in the world!
The richest man in the Monkey Kingdom was once the richest man in the world, while the average daily salary of the poor in the Monkey Kingdom is less than 1 yuan.
Of course, the issue of ticket prices is something that can only be discussed after the project is completed.
Chen Mo knows a lot about high-speed rail construction, having taken courses on the subject when he was in college.
The reason why Daxia was able to carry out the high-speed rail project so quickly and so well is that all departments were able to work together and concentrate their efforts on major tasks.
This ability is almost unique to Daxia, and no other country in the world can do it!
The nickname of "infrastructure maniac" is not earned for nothing.
In fact, Daxia's high-speed railway has been operating at a loss all year round.
In 2020, high-speed rail suffered a loss of 955 billion yuan in just half a year.
This is equivalent to a loss of more than 5 million yuan per day.
So the question is, why does high-speed rail lose money?
Is the industrial chain related to high-speed rail profitable?
Since it is losing so much money, why does the country continue to invest in high-speed rail?
Many people may not understand why high-speed rail will lose money.
The ticket price is so expensive, how can you still lose money?
In fact, the cost of building and maintaining high-speed railways is enormous, and it cannot be supported without the efforts of an entire country.
Moreover, there are many supporting personnel for a train, and various labor costs are not cheap.
The investment for a high-speed railway is nearly 1.6 million yuan per kilometer, which means that a high-speed railway of more than 1000 kilometers will cost 1600 billion yuan just to build the railway.
Another example is the power consumption of high-speed rail. A high-speed rail running at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour consumes about 9600 degrees of electricity per hour.
According to the electricity fee standards of Daxia Power Grid, the charge for each kilowatt-hour of industrial electricity is about 1 yuan.
So for a high-speed train running at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the electricity cost is about 1 yuan per hour.
Adding the cost of manual services, it is estimated to cost 2 to 3 yuan per hour.
The cost of a 5-hour journey from the imperial capital to the magic capital is more than yuan.
This is also the reason why high-speed rail tickets are expensive.
The high-speed rail industry chain involves many links, and each link involves many groups and enterprises.
The high-speed rail connects all these links and enterprises, covering more than 20 provinces and cities, forming an industrial chain worth trillions of dollars, while also providing a large number of jobs.
For example, the high-speed rail project in 2017 directly and indirectly provided 562 million jobs!
This is thousands of times more awesome than Foxconn or Pingguo Group!
To be rich, build roads first.
Only when transportation is convenient can the economy develop, so railway construction is to invest first to pave the way for the follow-up. Only with vitality can there be more trade exchanges and a better internal economic cycle can be achieved.
So the high-speed rail is apparently losing money, but the economic development it brings, and the tax revenue it brings, cannot be calculated on the surface.
The improvements in logistics efficiency, cultural exchange, tourism, regional economic planning and development it brings cannot be measured in money.
Moreover, the losses have long been made up elsewhere.
This is also the reason why countries like the Monkey Kingdom and even the Elephant Kingdom and the Southern Monkey Kingdom, which know that building high-speed railways is extremely difficult, have to tighten their belts to build high-speed railways.
Transportation is definitely one of the criteria for whether a country is developed enough.
Airplanes and high-speed trains, these two are the standards.
Isn't the Hegemony awesome enough? Isn't the Sunset Empire awesome enough?
The hegemonic country began planning and building high-speed railways decades ago.
As early as 1964, after the operation of the Shinkansen in Sakura Country, the hegemonic country also began to gear up and planned to build its first high-speed railway. In the following year, it solemnly launched the "High-Speed Surface Transportation Law" and approved nearly million hegemonic country currency for the construction of high-speed railways.
In 1992, the U.S. government approved five high-speed rail corridors in California and Florida. In 5, the U.S. government added six more high-speed rail corridor projects on the basis of the previous ones.
In the blink of an eye, it was 2011 again. The emperor of the then hegemonic country vowed that in the next 25 years, 80% of the people of the hegemony country would be able to take the high-speed rail and use the high-speed rail to revitalize the economy of the hegemony country.
Decades have passed, and everyone has seen the results. The boasts and ambitions made by the hegemonic government have all turned into bubbles under the witness of time, and more than a dozen high-speed rail projects have all been shelved.
And the Sunset Empire is even more powerful than the Hegemony!
It took 15 years and cost 270 billion Sunset Coins to lay a total of 30 kilometers of railway.
Chen Mo also calculated at that time that if this money was used to repair the 4090 graphics card, 270 billion Sunset Coins would be almost 2540 billion Daxia Coins.
If we calculate based on 4090 sheets of 15000, we can buy 1700 million sheets. The standard length of 4090 is about 30 cm, and the longest is 40 cm. If we calculate based on the 35 cm in the middle, so many 4090 sheets can be used to lay 5950 kilometers. Even if we use 4090 as a railway track, if we fold it in half, it will be nearly 3000 kilometers!
And the high-speed rail department of the Sunset Empire used such a huge amount of money to only build 30 kilometers!
At that time, Chen Mo was actually fantasizing that it would be great if he could become the leader of the Sunset Empire's high-speed railway construction.
Even if he doesn't understand anything, he can definitely make it longer than this!
Why can’t Westerners build high-speed railways?
When working on a project in Daxia, if the client gives you 100 million yuan in funding, you can use 80 yuan to do the work and pocket 20 yuan. As long as the work is done well, no one will hold you accountable.
Because for the above people, if 100 million can be done, then it is worth the investment, but if it fails, then we need to see whose problem it is.
But the West is clearly in a very bad situation at the moment, that is, even if a project is not completed, no one needs to be responsible, and within the system everyone pushes each other, and in the end the problem is inexplicably solved.
This will result in everyone pocketing the money no matter how much they spend and then regretfully declaring failure.
This is also why it is said that there is no so-called corruption in the West, because in our eyes, corruption and malfeasance are legal in their country.
In Daxia, this is the amount of money required for municipal engineering projects. You have to complete the project on time and with quality. Don't complain too much. If you exceed the deadline, the contractor will have to pay compensation, and you will be held accountable for life, so you can't escape even if you retire.
But it's different in the Sunset Empire. Not to mention being held accountable after retirement, even if the business is emptied and no one takes over, you still have to ask me to come back and discuss it for another sum of money. You have to pay compensation for overdue payment. Do you think any contractor in the Sunset Empire dares to take this job? Don't they want their lives?
In short, every time the major Western countries want to do some large and beneficial projects, disputes will arise before they even start. After the dispute, they finally start working on it and make some progress. But when the time is up, they pass it on to the next person in charge. Then when they want to start work, they find that the previous parts have been delayed for too long and new problems have arisen, so a new round of disputes begins, and then they start all over again. Well, the progress is always 0%.
So Chen Mo felt very proud that his motherland could make very, very great achievements in such a large project.
Of course, these are also the reasons why the Monkey Kingdom wants Daxia to help them build a high-speed railway.
However, Chen Mo remembered the big pitfall here clearly.
If he could use it well, Chen Mo could guarantee that he could make Third Brother make Xiao Yinghua cry in 2008!
