Autumn is a season of harvest.

With the departure of the cool summer, the railway from Chang'an City to Luoyang, which had been built for nearly two years, is finally about to open to traffic.

In order to build this railway, the Ministry of Revenue borrowed more than five million stags from the Tang Dynasty Royal Money House, and also jointly invested with the Tang Dynasty Construction Engineering to complete the most expensive project in the Tang Dynasty so far.

"Prince, will Your Majesty really attend the opening ceremony tomorrow in person?"

In the Chu King's Mansion, Wang Fugui was excited to report to Li Kuan on the arrangements for the opening ceremony tomorrow.

Although there is already a railway from Zuofangcheng to Mingdemen, the railway that is dozens of miles long is definitely not comparable to the Changluo Railway.

During the trial operation, Wang Fugui personally experienced the convenience of leaving early and arriving late.

Although there are cement roads from Chang'an City to Luoyang, if it is harder, you can arrive within one day if you leave quickly.

But the level of hard work is completely impossible to compare with taking a train.

The train now has seats and sleepers. As long as you are willing to spend money, you will have a sleep on the train and you will almost arrive in Luoyang.

If the train is built to Liangzhou, Jinyang, Shuozhou and other places in the future, it will be very convenient to travel.

Wang Fugui is very looking forward to this.

"Yes, Li Zhong should have brought the Baiqisi to the scene to make safety confirmations. Not only will His Majesty attend, but other ministers in the court will also be dispatched.

The train goes straight from Mingdemen to Luoyang, and there are all kinds of things like guards along the way that I have never encountered before.

And this is also the first time that Your Majesty has left Chang'an City in the past year, so there must be a lot of things."

It is natural that the railway is well built and it will take a try to find out.

So after this opening ceremony, everyone will take the train directly to Luoyang, stay in Luoyang for a few days before returning to Chang'an City.

This is definitely a big deal for the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, no matter when it is, it is a big deal if the emperor leaves the capital.

Fortunately, Luoyang is relatively close to Chang'an City, and not only can there be railways to pass, but also water and cement roads to use.

In addition, Li Shimin only stays in Luoyang for one or a few days, so the problem is not very big.

If more railways are built in the future, then Li Shimin's scope of activities will probably be much larger.

I just don't know if he can see that scene.

"The construction of the railway is huge and there have been controversies in the court. I guess after everyone feels the benefits of the railway, they will no longer oppose the construction of the railway from Chang'an City to Liangzhou."

Wang Fugui is quite looking forward to the court's next move.

Li Kuan proposed to build a railway from Chang'an City to Liangzhou last year, and began to plan a railway from Luoyang to Shuozhou and Dengzhou, but it has not been approved.

The main reason is that the investment in railways is too large.

Even if the price of steel has dropped a lot, it is still a sky-high price.

You should know that the price of steel in this era is completely different from that in later generations.

Many countries have less steel production per year than one kilometer of railway tracks.

You can imagine how much it cost to build a railway.

"What you said is not wrong, but for the court, it is not enough to just see the convenience of the railway. Whether it can make a profit is actually something that the Ministry of Revenue needs to consider.

Running a railway requires manpower and material resources. If you spend a lot of money at that time, you will lose money every year, which is equivalent to spending money in it every year, many people will probably give up.

On the contrary, if everyone finds profitable in the operation of the railway, then the situation will be different.”

Li Kuan has a very thorough understanding of many things.

For the Tang Dynasty, if it is just a one-time investment, even if it is more money, as long as everyone thinks it is meaningful, it is actually not a big problem.

But if there is endless investment and input and output that do not match, then no one will be able to stand it.

"Prince, if you want the railway to make a profit, the best way is to increase the flow of goods and personnel in the two places. Only in this way can the railway's income increase."

Wang Fugui thought about it for a while and felt that there seemed to be no other good idea besides this method.

“This is one aspect, and there is another thing you may not notice that our railways have a lot of land around many stations.

How to develop the value of these lands is also a very important thing.

We must have several stops in the middle of Chang'an City to Luoyang.

So can some warehouses or houses and workshops be built around these sites, so can the original land be valued?”

Li Kuan is very clear about the power of land finance.

Although it is impossible to rely solely on this in the Tang Dynasty, it is still very meaningful to develop part of the surrounding land at such an important transportation node.

Nowadays, many workshops in the Tang Dynasty produce goods not only sold locally.

Not to mention selling it overseas, it is normal to be circulated in the Tang Dynasty.

As long as the goods are circulated, logistics issues will definitely be involved.

With the increase of railway lines, the importance of each station will continue to increase.

After all, the cost of railway transportation is definitely not the same order of magnitude as that of horse-drawn carriage transportation.

Even if the Changluo Railway sets the freight price relatively higher, it will still be very attractive.

Compared with this kind of latitude reduction attack, it is not easy for everyone to accept it.

"If this is the case, my subordinates have a suggestion. Although there is still some land in our workshop city that has not been developed, most of the land has been planned.

However, the enthusiasm for building new workshops in various parts of the Tang Dynasty is still high.

Can we expand the land area near Luoyang Railway Station and build a workshop city in Luoyang?

At the same time, a relatively small workshop city was built near the railway station along the road.

In this way, if there is transportation and flow of goods between various workshop cities, it will become much more convenient."

Wang Fugui's proposal is very similar to that of the development zones in later generations.

Concentrate the construction of industries in a region, which is beneficial to all workshops.

Considering that this is equivalent to connecting all the workshops along Chang'an City to Luoyang, everyone's communication will immediately become more convenient.

Especially some workshops that make parts for people, after solving the transportation problem, there are more choices.

"This idea is good. After you set out to Luoyang tomorrow, you can take a good look there. In the future, Luoyang Railway Station will also be a very important transportation hub. You must plan the land use around you."
Chapter completed!