In 1772, the whole world was connected by railway.
Yang Fan's special train has already started.
The ladies decided to send him to Hami, and then spend two days in Turpan before returning.
Now that Jiannu has left, the family is peaceful and they are not very busy. Instead, they are thinking of traveling.
After Yang Fan gets off the train in Hami, he will take the Polar RV and continue to move forward under the protection of armored vehicles to Jinshan City, where Yang Fan will direct the battle.
Where will he work and live for a long time in the future?
The railway will not lead to the Komodo region. Without this plan, although the strategic location is very important, it is not on the westward railway naturalization line.
The railway will pass through Dihua and continue westward to Ili. Then it will traverse the entire Western Region, pass through the Kazakh steppe, cross the Ural River, go to Tsaritsyn, then cross the Don River and the Volga River and enter the port of Savastopol. This railway is considered complete
Done.
It starts from Beitangkou Seaport of Bohai Bay and Qinhuangdao Port on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, to Sevastopol Seaport of the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea coast in the west. It crosses the entire Eurasian continent in the middle.
In the future, trade between the Ming Dynasty and Europe can be transported by sea through the Mediterranean Sea, and after arriving at the Crimean Peninsula, it can be transferred to the train and transported to the Beijing-Tianjin area.
In addition, the Grand Canal connects the Beijing-Tianjin area and the south of the Yangtze River. Basically, the entire trade between China and Europe has been completely opened.
The train has started, and this time Yang Fan's special train has twenty carriages. The three carriages in the middle are all for his family.
On the floor of the sightseeing carriage on the second floor is a world map. This world map was drawn using a modern satellite map. Yang Fan's world railway plan is printed on it.
The black and white lines represent the railway, and the different thicknesses represent different gauges. The thickest is the 1435mm standard gauge. The middle thickness is the 762 narrow gauge. The thinnest is the 381mm mini railway.
Railways build different gauge railways according to regions with different transport capacity and needs. The main consideration is cost.
Xiao Niangpi, Lin Yueru, Chen Xi, Mei Xiang and others gathered next to Yang Fan, holding pencils and magnifying glasses, looking at the map, which was one meter wide and two meters long.
"Sir, why are the railroads in America only built on the Pacific coast and not on the Atlantic coast?" Xiao Niangpi asked.
"The main issue is funding. We need to build a main road first, and then build branch lines." Yang Fan pointed to the American continent and said.
"For example, a transverse railway can be built in Vancouver to connect the east and west coasts. In Seattle, San Francisco, and San Diego, railways can be built across the east and west coasts. As for after passing Panama, it will go south along the Atlantic coast to connect Brazil and Argentina.
Or go south along the Pacific coast to Peru and Chile, it depends on the situation. One option has vast arable land, and the other option has many industrial minerals along the way."
Lin Yueru asked: "Sir, as for our westward railway, I saw that there is a planned route here. It will enter Persia from the Amu Darya River Basin, then enter Baghdad, along Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Tunisia
, and finally to the Atlantic coast of Casablanca. There are also three north-south railways running south along the African continent, located on the east coast, the middle, and the west coast of Africa. This road connects Africa and Asia, right?"
Yang Fan said: "Yes, in fact, the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa are the main continents in the world. The most important countries are on these three continents. These three continents are connected together. They can all be connected by railways."
Chen Xi looked at the dense railway planning map and asked: "I can see that these three lines from the Imperial Capital to Cape Town in Africa, the Imperial Capital to America, and the Imperial Capital to Amsterdam in Europe are the most important double-track heavy-haul railways. There are also plans on both sides.
It’s a two-way ten-lane expressway. But I think there is another one going from Kunming along Vientiane City in Laos, to Bangkok City in Siam, and then along the Malay Peninsula to Temasek (Singapore).”
Chen Xi pointed to the line and said: "But how did this railway cross the sea? It went to my hometown of Ming Dynasty, the old port of Xuanweisi (Sumatra Island), then connected to Java Island, and finally crossed the sea again to the Australian mainland. What's going on, sir?
It can be realized. We don’t have the technology to build such a large bridge.”
Yang Fan smiled and said: "We are secretly planning three super undersea tunnels, and one of them has already started construction. It's right here."
Yang Fan pointed at the Bering Strait with his finger, "The narrowest point here is only 37 kilometers. We are building a 45-kilometer long undersea tunnel. It is an upper and lower three-layer tunnel shared by roads, railways, and military. As long as it is completed, the railway will be paved.
OK. You can take a train from the imperial capital directly to the Strait of Magellan, the southernmost tip of South America."
"And here, the Asia Minor Peninsula, uh, the Dardanelles Strait of the Roman Empire (Ottoman Turkey), we also plan to build an undersea tunnel of the same size in the future. This will completely open up the transportation between Europe and Asia."
"As for Southeast Asia, three tunnels or bridges need to be built to connect the Asian continent to Australia."
"The first tunnel connects Temasek and Old Port Xuan Weisi, which means it goes under the Strait of Malacca."
"The second tunnel needs to connect the old port of Xuanwei to the opposite Batavia City (Jakarta City on Java Island)."
"The third one is very difficult. It needs to build a tunnel from the bottom of Java Island to northern Australia. We plan to build cross-sea bridges in the first two very close and shallow straits, and build an undersea tunnel in the last one. If this is not possible, we will study special transshipment
A roll-on/roll-off sea-going ship with a train carriage is also acceptable. Anyway, these two straits are very short.”
The reward Yang Fan received was three tunnels. Tunnels must be built in the Bering Sea. This will allow large-capacity trains to transport massive amounts of people and materials to the Americas. It will completely defeat the European colonists who relied on sailboats to travel between the east and west coasts of the Atlantic Ocean.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Immigrants from the Ming Dynasty can arrive in the southernmost part of Argentina by train in about a month. Yang Fan plans to use this railway to transport a large number of the excess population of the Ming Dynasty to North and South America.
Go and leave 50 million in the country. That's enough.
Let those gentry annex the land, and give it all to you this time. I will get rid of all the farmers. You can farm the land yourself. Let the people of Ming Dynasty vote with their feet.
Yang Fan planned to focus on developing the Mississippi River Basin in North America and the Amazon River Basin in South America. Tens of millions of people passed by and all the Western colonists were submerged.
There is so much good land that can be cultivated in the Americas that even if 100 million people were transported, it would not be able to occupy it all, and it would not be able to be developed at all.
Looking at the railway to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, the railway to Amsterdam in Europe, the railway to South Asia and the Middle East, the railway to Eastern Europe, the railway to Southeast Asia and Australia, the railway to the Americas, the Siberian Railway, the Daming Southeast Coastal Railway. Three horizontal lines in the hinterland of Daming
There are three longitudinal backbone railways and a dense network of mini railways connecting the county towns.
The ladies were dazzled to see it. If these railways were repaired, wouldn't it connect the whole world into a whole?
As the railway speed continues to increase, wouldn't it be possible for your troops and horses to be transported to every corner of the world within two months?
This is simply unbeatable!
On this railway map as dense as a spider web, the Imperial Capital is at the core hub. Railways from all directions and continents converge here in the Imperial Capital. Wouldn’t the Imperial Capital become the city of thousands of cities in this world?
Yang Fan looked at this world railway naturalization map and felt very heroic.
He planned to spend thirty years in this early seventeenth century to build all the intercontinental railway lines.
Within our lifetime, we will achieve standard-gauge connectivity for important cities within each continent, narrow-gauge connectivity for ordinary cities, and mini-rail connectivity for small towns.
At the same time, steam trucks and cars rely on highways as auxiliary transportation methods. Bicycles, human-powered tricycles, and four-wheel carriages are used as private transportation means to establish a complete world transportation system.
As for intercontinental navigation on the ocean, the Yang family's clipper ships will have a monopoly.
Yang Fan mastered the landing rights and sea rights, established Blue Star Bank at the same time, and unified Blue Star's currency. He also had currency issuance rights as a trump card. He established a steam-powered army and navy as a force deterrent and promoted steampunk.
, completely wiping out the potential of the neat industry, he can completely reshape the face of the world.