In the afternoon, Yuwen Wen sat alone in the study of the official office, looking at the information in his hand, he fell into deep thought. Since he served as the Tokyo Kozukakui and the six government affairs in Tokyo, he has become more and more busy. It is of course good to hold power, but this means that there are many heavy responsibilities on his shoulders and there is no omission.

The six Tokyo prefectures were punished by Heyang, Qing, Xu, Bo and Yuwu general managers. They were actually small-scale imperial courts, which ruled the Kanto area in Hebei. At this time, Yuwen Wen was actually the "superior executive" of Henan.

In a sense, Yuwen Wen has the potential to split.

Of course, outsiders do not know what King Bin thought, but King Bin was in Luoyang, diligent in government affairs, and his outstanding performance and "rules" were obvious to everyone.

Yuwen Wen is so diligent because he has three missions, namely the Henan Road Inspector, the Henan Road Weaving Envoy, and the Maritime Envoy, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. What happens in the vast area under the jurisdiction of the six Tokyo prefectures is inseparable from him, the "superior chief executive."

The good year and the people of Henan live and work in peace and contentment means that Yuwen Wen has good political achievements and his reputation has risen.

If the year is not good, water, drought, locust plagues and even man-made disasters occur, and the people leave their hometowns, then Yuwen Wen has to be dispatched in the center, command disaster relief, rescue and even quell the chaos.

This kind of thing is natural, and if you do it well, it will seriously affect your reputation. The informal praise of "mainstay" that has finally appeared will disappear. Yu Wen Wen doesn't care about this praise, but cares about reputation.

Because of the unexpected death of his biological father, according to the current situation, Yuwen Wen has reached such a position and must cherish his reputation and not play a pig and eat a tiger like he did in the past, which makes people think that "King Bin is frivolous and cannot rule the world."

Therefore, the leisurely and casual hand-off manager could not do it. Even though Yuwen Wen had a large number of assistants working day and night and sharing a lot of work for himself, he still did it himself and was busy almost every day.

Now, Yuwen Wen's attention is focused on the Yellow River canal transport (Sanmenxia Channel). The "Turning Method" he carefully prepared and formulated, once successfully implemented, can effectively solve the bottleneck problem of Guanzhong in the transportation of materials in Kanto.

Of course, this method is actually not "original" but "reference", which is borrowed from a canal transportation method that appeared in the Tang Dynasty in history. This canal transportation method makes the grain imported into Guanzhong every year exceed one million hu of food.

The method of turning is actually a sectional transport/transportation, which divides the long transport route from the starting point to the end point into several sections, and a grain transport team does not need to take a complete journey.

Instead, within each section of the route, several different teams divided their work and cooperated, and used relay to transport grain and other materials from the starting point to the end point. During this period, water and land exchanges are determined according to the actual situation.

This method of transportation will definitely have significant effect in avoiding the dangers of the pillars in Sanmenxia.

The plan Yuwen Wen convened relevant personnel to formulate was to set up a large warehouse in the east and west of Sanmenxia, ​​and the warehouse to the east hoarded the grain and various materials transported from Luoyang, and temporarily named it "Jijin Warehouse".

The warehouse on the west side stores a large amount of salt transported from Hedong, so it is temporarily named "Salt Warehouse".

The grain from Luoyang arrived at Jijin Cang by water, then unloaded the ship and loaded the vehicle, and transported it to the salt warehouse for twenty miles, which bypassed the danger of the main pillar, and then loaded the ship in the salt warehouse by water to Chang'an.

vice versa.

This method does not require blowing up Dizhu Mountain, nor does it require digging a new canal in the Sanmenxia area. Considering the local hard soil, it is indeed a more practical solution than digging a canal.

The key to this plan is that the twenty-mile distance between Jijin Cang and Yan Cang is not an ordinary dirt road, but a railway.

The transportation capacity of rail carriages is much stronger than that of ordinary carriages. This railway, which bypasses the dangers of the pillars, is much more reliable than digging a new canal. Even though the initial investment is large and a lot of gunpowder is required to open mountains, after the railway is put into use, it can effectively solve the problem of traffic bottlenecks in Sanmenxia area.

Although the railway was running on a rail carriage rather than a steam locomotive, relying on a rail carriage could also significantly increase the land transportation capacity. If it was limited by the low iron production in this era, Yuwen Wen really wanted to write to the court to build a railway from Luoyang to Chang'an.

Once this steel artery is built, the danger of Sanmenxia main pillar that has plagued Guanzhong for nearly a thousand years will no longer be a problem.

Just as the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain are unblocked, people no longer have the risk of cerebral infarction.

This idea is good, but it is difficult to achieve.

The land distance between Luoyang and Chang'an is about 800 miles. Yuwen Wen estimated the cost of building the Changluo Railway. Not to mention anything else, the iron material needed is an amazing number.

Taking the railway from Xiakou to Daye that already exists in Ezhou, a single rail with a length of one step (calculated in five feet per step) weighs nearly twenty-five kilograms, which is the "unit weight" of the "standard rail".

If one mile is 360 steps, a single rail that is 1 mile long weighs nearly 9,000 kilograms.

The railway naturally needs two rails, so the railway weighs nearly 18,000 kilograms for a one-mile long railway.

So, based on the mileage of 800 miles, the Changluo Railway's railway consumes nearly 15 million kilograms alone. What is this?

Last year, the iron production in Zhou State was about 4.5 million jin.

Therefore, to build such a Changluo Railway, it is necessary to invest all the iron production in Zhou State in the past four years. This is unrealistic. First of all, there is a great demand for iron tools across the country, and it is impossible to send all the smelted iron to rails.

Not to mention that the iron output is 4.5 million kilograms, which is the total number of railway production in the country, not the iron output near Luoyang or Chang'an. With the technical capabilities of this era, if you want to build a railway, the construction site must be close to the iron ore or a large mine.

Or, the railway should "grow" from the near iron ore and extend to other places.

The Xiakou-Daye Railway, which has been built in Ezhou, was founded from the Daye Supervisory Chief, and the railway from Xiyang, Huangzhou to Guangcheng, which is under construction. Although the iron consumption is huge, the project was successfully built with Daye Supervisory as a strong support.

There are no iron ore similar to Dayejian in Luoyang and Chang'an. It is impossible to build a twenty-mile-long railway, but it is delusion to build a eight hundred-mile-long railway.

The iron production of Dayejian exceeded 3 million kilograms last year, accounting for nearly 70% of the national iron production. Only in this way can it support the huge iron demand for Guanghuang Railway construction.

What does it mean to produce three million kilograms of iron per year?

In the original history, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, when the national iron production was relatively high in one year, it was about two million jin.

Now Daye Supervision has undergone a series of "technical transformations" and a large number of new iron smelting furnaces have been put into use. The iron production last year exceeded 3 million kilograms, which is twice the annual iron production in the Zhou Kingdom ten years ago.

Is it unscientific to achieve such iron output for a single iron supervisor?

No, because in the original history, the annual iron production of the Liguojian, Xuzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, was nearly 2 million jin during its peak period.

Today, Ezhou Daye Supervision has only reached the level of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Even so, the Huang Railway alone will have to be built for several years before it can be opened. However, by then, Dayejian, which has undergone a new round of "technical transformation" and reform, has long become the "Daye Iron Manufacturing Station", and the annual iron production is expected to be close to 10 million kilograms.

Will this iron yield be unscientific?

No, because in history, after the mid-Ming Dynasty, Fujian, which had no famous large iron ore, had an annual iron output of nearly 20 million kilograms.

For Yuwen Wen, the Daye Ironmaking Institute, which produces more than 10 million jin of iron a few years later, had its smelting technology and capabilities that reached the level of the mid-Ming Dynasty.

The "prototype" of Daye Iron Manufacturing Institute was born in the Hanyeping Company during the Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty. Relying on the "same" Daye Iron Mine, the annual steel output is 10,000 tons, accounting for more than 90% of the national steel output.

However, modern smelting technology cannot appear in this era, so the dream of the Daye Iron Manufacturing Institute producing tens of millions of kilograms of iron each year in the future is OK, but the dream of producing hundreds of millions of kilograms of steel is really a daydream.

Therefore, the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang cannot be fully built, and the steel artery conceived by Yuwen Wen is simply unrealistic.

As Chang'an's population increases and exceeds Guanzhong's ability to bear, food problems will always plague Chang'an and the court.

Once the life in Guanzhong is not good and the harvest is bad, the scene where the emperor leads all officials and the people of Chang'an to Luoyang to eat will happen.

This was a situation that occurred during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. "Just eat Luoyang" was a helpless move. It was not until the Anshi Rebellion that the population in Guanzhong suddenly decreased, and this problem was solved.

Now, the method to solve the problem of tight grain supply in Guanzhong is actually very simple, that is, to move the capital and use Tokyo Luoyang as the capital. At that time, the dangers of Sanmenxia and the problems of high transportation costs will be overwhelming.

However, this is impossible.

Moving the capital to Luoyang effectively solve the food problem in the simplest way is an economic consideration and is very feasible, but from a political perspective, it is difficult to implement the capital movement because the powerful and wealthy people in Guanlong will not be willing to leave Guanzhong.

One of the reasons is that even after just over a year, Luoyang has been managed by Yuwen Wen to a territory similar to his own.

Any person in power who is clear-headed will not put the center on other people's territory, even brothers will not do it.

Similarly, no one with ideas will let the center leave the territory that he firmly controls, even brothers will not do it.

"In the past", in the early days of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the Zhao official, tried to move the capital to Luoyang because his younger brother, the prefect of Kaifeng, and the King of Jin Zhao Guangyi (Zhao Kuangyi), had built the capital Kaifeng into his own territory.

Zhao Guangyi naturally disagreed with moving the capital.
Chapter completed!