Chapter 2450 Let the third brother come to the rescue!

The high-speed rail in the Monkey Kingdom is a big pit among big pits.

In the last life, the high-speed rail project in the Monkey Kingdom almost made the Cherry Blossom Kingdom lose all its pants.

High-speed rail, especially the high-speed rail in a populous country, is a lucrative project in the eyes of all countries.

High-speed rail is a complex project, involving many fields, and requires coordination from all parties to be successful.

In fact, in the last life, when Cherry Blossom Country announced that it had won the bid for the Monkey Kingdom high-speed rail project, Chen Mo already knew clearly that Cherry Blossom Country would definitely not be able to handle it.

Putting aside all external factors, let's take a step back and say that if Cherry Blossom Country succeeded in the high-speed rail project of the third brother, the ticket price set by Cherry Blossom Country is definitely not something the third brother can afford.

From the Monkey Kingdom to Ahma City, an ordinary train only costs 50 Monkey Coins (equivalent to less than 5 yuan of Daxia Coins).

In order for this huge high-speed rail project to achieve a balance between income and expenditure, at least 100,000 passengers need to choose the high-speed rail every day, and the ticket price is about 2,500-3,000 Shenhou coins (about 200 to 300 yuan).

With the income of Shenhou people, they can spend 5 yuan. If you spend more than 200, your relatives and friends will definitely call you a psychopath.

There are too many poor people in Shenhou, and the ratio of rich to poor can be said to be the highest in the world!

The richest man in Shenhou country was the richest man in the world before, and the average daily salary of the poor in Shenhou is less than 1 yuan.

Of course, the ticket price issue is an issue that can only be discussed after the project is completed.

Chen Mo knows a lot about high-speed rail construction. He took courses in this area when he was in college.

The reason why Daxia can make high-speed rail projects so fast and so well is that all departments can work together to concentrate their efforts on major projects.

This ability is almost unique to Daxia, and no other country in the world can do it!

The nickname of infrastructure maniac is not for nothing.

Even Daxia's high-speed rail has been operating at a loss all year round.

In 2020, the high-speed rail lost 95.5 billion in just half a year.

This is equivalent to a loss of more than 500 million yuan a day.

So the question is, why does the high-speed rail lose money?

Is the industrial chain related to the 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 that high-speed rail will lose money.

How can it lose money when the ticket price is so expensive?

In fact, the cost of building and maintaining high-speed rail is very huge, and it cannot be supported without the power of the entire country.

Moreover, there are many related supporting personnel for a train, and various labor costs are not cheap.

The investment in a high-speed rail is nearly 160 million yuan per kilometer, which means that a high-speed rail of more than 1,000 kilometers will cost 160 billion just to build the railway.

For example, the power consumption of high-speed rail, a high-speed rail with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour consumes about 9,600 degrees per hour.

According to the electricity fee standard of Daxia Power Grid, the charge for each degree of industrial electricity is about 1 yuan.

Then the electricity cost of a high-speed rail with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour is about 10,000 yuan per hour.

Adding the cost of labor services, it is estimated that it will cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per hour.

From the capital to the magic city, the cost of a 5-hour journey is more than 100,000 yuan.

This is also the reason why the high-speed rail ticket is expensive.

The industrial chain of high-speed rail involves many links, and each link involves many groups and enterprises.

The high-speed rail connects all these links and enterprises in series, covering more than 20 provinces and cities, and can form an industrial chain worth trillions of yuan, while also providing a large number of jobs.

For example, the high-speed rail project in 2017 directly and indirectly provided 5.62 million jobs!

This is tens of thousands of times more powerful than Foxconn and Pingguo Group!

If you want 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 economic internal circulation.

So the high-speed rail is losing money on the surface, but the economic development it brings, and the tax revenue brought by economic development, cannot be calculated on the surface.

The improvement in logistics efficiency, cultural exchange tourism, regional economic planning and development brought by it cannot be measured in money.

Moreover, the losses have long been made up in other places.

This is why the Monkey Kingdom, even the Elephant Kingdom and the Southern Monkey Kingdom, which are obviously very difficult to build high-speed railways, 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 railways, both of which are criteria.

Is the Hegemony Kingdom awesome enough? Is the Sunset Empire awesome enough?

The Hegemony Kingdom began planning and building high-speed railways decades ago.

As early as 1964, after the operation of the Sakura Kingdom Shinkansen, the Hegemony Kingdom also began to gear up and planned to build the first high-speed railway. In the following year, it solemnly launched the "High-Speed ​​Ground Transportation Law" and approved nearly 100 million Hegemony currency for the construction of high-speed railways.

In 1992, the Hegemony Government approved 5 high-speed railway corridors in California, Florida and other places. In 1998, the Hegemony Government added 6 high-speed railway 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 that the previous 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 stranded.

And the Sunset Empire is even more awesome than the hegemony!

It took 15 years and 27 billion sunset coins to lay a total of 30 kilometers of railway.

Chen Mo also calculated at the time that if this money was repaired with 4090 graphics cards, 27 billion sunset coins would be almost 254 billion Daxia coins.

4090 can buy 17 million pieces at 15,000. The length of the public version of 4090 is about 30 cm, and the longest is 40 cm. According to the middle 35 cm, so many 4090 can lay 5,950 kilometers. Even if the 4090 is used as a railroad track, it is close to 3,000 kilometers if it is folded in half!

And the high-speed rail department of the Sunset Empire actually only repaired 30 kilometers with such a huge amount of money!

At that time, Chen Mo was actually fantasizing that it would be great if he could be the leader of the Sunset Empire to build a high-speed railway.

Even if he didn't know anything, he could definitely build a longer one than this!

Why can't Westerners build a high-speed railway?

When doing a project in Daxia, Party A gives you 1 million yuan in funds, you can use 800,000 yuan to work and pocket 200,000 yuan, and no one will hold you accountable as long as the work is done well.

Because for the people above, if 1 million yuan can be done, it is a worthwhile investment, and if it is not done, then you need to see who is the problem.

However, the West is obviously in a very bad situation at present, that is, even if the project is not completed, no one needs to be responsible. In the system, you push me and I push you, and the problem is inexplicably gone.

This will result in no matter how much money is spent, everyone will pocket it and then regretfully declare failure.

This is why it is said that there is no so-called corruption in the West, because in our view, corruption and dereliction of duty are legal in their country.

In Daxia, municipal engineering projects require this much money. You have to complete the project according to the deadline and quality. Don't talk too much. If you exceed the deadline, the contractor will have to pay compensation. In addition, you will be held accountable for life, and you can't escape even if you retire.

But it's different in the Sunset Empire. Not to mention retirement accountability, if no one takes over, you have to ask me to come back and discuss and get another sum. If you exceed the deadline, you will have to pay compensation. Look at this or that Sunset Empire contractor who dares to take this job, don't they want their lives?

In short, every time the Western powers want to do some very beneficial large projects, they start to argue before they start. As a result, after the argument, they finally start to work and have some achievements. As a result, when the time is up, they throw it to the next person in charge, and then when they want to start the work, they find that the previous part that has been done has been delayed for too long and new problems have arisen, and a new round of disputes begins, and then they start all over again. Well, the progress is always 0%.

So Chen Mo feels that his motherland can make very, very great achievements in such a large project, and he is very proud.

Of course, these are also the reasons why the Monkey Kingdom wants Daxia to help them build high-speed railways.

But Chen Mo remembered the big trap here clearly.

If he could use it well, Chen Mo dared to guarantee that he could make the third brother make Xiao Yinghua cry in 2008!