Two quarters of an hour, traveling twenty miles.

According to modern calculations, the speed can reach 20 kilometers per hour.

This speed is definitely not enough in modern times.

However, in ancient times, caravans transporting goods often could only travel twenty or thirty miles a day.

In this half hour, you can walk the caravans for a day, and even transport more things.

This carrying capacity and speed were enough to shock those present.

After Emperor Hongzhi finished speaking, the others looked at the hourglass beside him in disbelief.

Read that right.

It's really two quarters of a minute...

Xie Qian said in disbelief: "Just adding these wooden boards can increase the speed and cargo loading rate of the carriage to this extent?"

An official behind him spoke and said, "It's really too incredible."

"Can you turn back halfway before you reach the end?"

If you cheat, it will be more acceptable.

Many people also showed a thoughtful expression, as if they thought that this should be a possibility of cheating.

Li Dongyang turned his head, looked at these suspicious people, and said coldly: "If you turn back halfway, the prince and the many sons of honor who followed him will not be able to see clearly?"

After Li Dongyang finished speaking, the person who had just spoken smiled embarrassedly and quickly said, "The officials just felt that it was too unbelievable."

"Of course, it's not a doubt about Dingxi Hou."

Li Dongyang snorted softly and turned his head directly.

Liu Jian, who was standing beside him, said, "When your highness and the sons of Xunqi who were accompanying him come over, your Majesty will know after asking clearly."

Emperor Hongzhi also heard some of what happened behind him.

But he didn't mind and mind.

At this time, his eyes were changing back and forth between the two cars that had just slowed down and Zhu Houzhao who was walking quickly.

After listening to this for two quarters of an hour, Zhu Houzhao got off the horse happily and rushed straight to the horse.

"Father, is it really two quarters of an hour?"

As he said that, he turned his head to make sure.

There is no doubt that it is indeed two quarters of an hour.

Emperor Hongzhi asked quickly: "Is it true that I will run back when I reach the finish line?"

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Not bad."

"After reaching the finish line, I changed the direction and tied the rope again before I ran back."

"If you keep running and save these steps in the middle, it will definitely not take two quarters of an hour!"

"And, the dummies who were strapped with straw on the carriage were basically still sitting steadily after returning to the starting point, with only slightly shifting."

The group of honorary children behind him nodded in agreement.

When I got there, I changed my direction.

With these preparations for the return trip, it is only two quarters of an hour!

Even if the prince follows him alone, he will never lie to His Majesty.

Not to mention that the prince was following a group of honorary children.

So this speed is definitely true!

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

"good!"

"It turns out that wooden tracks and carriages can actually be upgraded to this point."

"If you connect this track directly to the frontier and all over the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be faster than some ships going downstream?"

At this time, Zhao Ce had already come over.

Emperor Hongzhi waved directly and asked Zhao Ce to come to his side to talk back and forth.

The officials behind them also looked at Zhao Ce, as if they wanted to see something.

Adding a few wooden boards can increase the speed of carriage transport to an incredible level.

In addition to the previous events, they didn't know how Dingxi Hou came up with it.

Zhao Ce walked to Emperor Hongzhi, and Emperor Hongzhi gave him a seat, pointed to the carriage on the track over there and said, "You said before that this kind of track can be laid all the way to the border?"

Zhao Ce nodded: "It's okay to go back to Your Majesty."

“The wood is prone to rot and can easily be crushed by the car.”

"I suggest that if you don't use all the rails, you can use iron to wrap wood first."

"After the iron production comes up later, slowly replace it with rails."

"And, if a train is temporarily pulled by a horse, the horse will be tired and prone to accidents when running for a long time."

"So if longer rails are laid, a transit station must be built at a distance for truck replacement and maintenance of trains." ωωw..net

Wood has limited load-bearing capacity.

The carriage is currently made of wood for the time being, and will be wrapped in iron sheets later.

The iron carriage, plus loads of goods, can crush the laid wood in a few round trips.

When the first steam engine locomotive in history was put into use, the wooden rails were directly fractured because the locomotive was too heavy.

Therefore, it is necessary to use the important control product of the Ming Dynasty, iron, on the track.

Although iron is wrapped in wood, it will be made into an iron train.

But this process of maintenance is necessary.

In other words, in addition to laying railway tracks, supporting transit stations are also necessary.

After seeing the orbit's blessing on speed and stability of cargo and manned vehicles, Emperor Hongzhi was already moved.

Once these tracks are laid on the frontier, the time from the capital to the frontier will be greatly shortened.

At this speed, it only takes less than half a day to send troops from the capital to the frontier.

Moreover, the number of people who transport goods and goods will be greatly reduced.

In this way, the consumption of transporting supplies along the way can be greatly reduced.

Although Emperor Hongzhi did not know that the development of a certain period of later generations was achieved by further reducing losses and increasing profits.

But what he thought was the same as these views.

With just a small experiment, the benefits of laying rails are obvious. How can you not be moved?

But the disadvantages are also very obvious.

It costs a lot of money...

In the past, the canal workers were hired by people from all over the country themselves, and the imperial court did not need to pay the money.

Nowadays, there are not many places to use steel in the Ming Dynasty, but the steel output in the Ming Dynasty is also average.

The court has to pay for the hiring of labor, steelmaking and wood, and the establishment of transit stations.

And this is equivalent to rebuilding a transportation system, and the price to be paid is definitely more than the numbers on paper.

Emperor Hongzhi and Zhao Ce said while the ministers behind him were shocked and began to settle accounts in their minds.

When Qi Zhong listened to the conversation between the two, his forehead also jumped.

This is asking their Ministry of Revenue to allocate a lot of money again!

Emperor Hongzhi listened to Zhao Ce's analysis and nodded with satisfaction.

He wanted to do it, but he didn't know what the ministers behind him had opinions.

Especially the Ministry of Revenue, if they ask them to pay a lot of money at once, it will probably hurt so much.

After thinking about it, Emperor Hongzhi said, "You are very detailed, I believe you all understand it."

"Shangshu, please take the Ministry of Revenue to make a rough budget."
Chapter completed!