In the evening, in the palace, Yuwen Wen, who had just returned from inspecting the cornfield, was bored and was waiting for dinner. Because the food was cooked now and it took a little time, he wanted to read some information to pass the time.

Go to the desk and sit down, pull out the information piled up on the desk, and draw out a planning map.

This is the planning map of the world railway presented by Prince Yuwen Weicheng. If it can be realized, a preliminary and complete railway network will cover all parts of the world, so this planning map can make people feel refreshed after seeing it.

However, if it is to be realized, it will take about a hundred years.

Sixty years and sixty years, and in the twenty-five years, one generation will take at least two generations to more than ten years.

Why has it been so long?

The reason is very simple. The national strength cannot be supported, the finances are not financially damaged, and the iron production is tight. I can only find ways to raise money to repair it slowly. After sixty years of cultivation, I can only get it done.

Yuwen Wen thought very clearly about this, and the prince also thought very clearly that this was something that only a few generations could do. If he was very happy, in order to complete the work under his "servancy", he forced the people to serve labor and rush to build the railway. Once the railway was repaired, the world would be in chaos.

At that time, there will be war everywhere, and the built railway will be demolished and melted into weapons. If you attack Chang'an, you will be "crying both jade and stones". Is it interesting?

Yuwen retracted his thoughts and continued to look at the planning map.

People always have to have a thought so that they will not be confused on the road of life. They are healthy and can probably live for many years. Therefore, the prince is far away from his succession, so the situation is always a bit embarrassing.

Now, the prince is fully responsible for railway construction and is dedicated to improving the train to speed up the train, and can also exercise management and organizational skills. There are also a group of assistants who can send them. With the energy to vent, you will not think randomly.

Yuwen Wen did not want to be as terrified as father and son, so he had to set a "small goal" for the prince. The prince was very determined and set a grand goal, which was implemented in several stages. For this reason, he also conceived many extremely feasible plans.

The imperial court's finance did not support the large-scale construction of railways, and it was impossible to issue treasury bonds without restrictions. Therefore, the "official supervision and business" method was adopted to raise private funds to build railways. The court planned in the center, and officials and businessmen worked together to build railways, and the progress was faster than expected.

When the Guanzhong Railway (from Weikou in the east and Luoyi in the west) is completed, it will be extended to the east and connected Chang'an and Luoyang. In order to take care of the shipping in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the prince believes that the "separation of passengers and cargo" can take care of the interests of multiple parties.

The so-called "passenger-cargo separation" means that once the Chang'an-Luoyang railway is completed and opened to traffic, only passenger transport will be carried out within a certain period of time, and freight will still be borne by the steamer (Weikou to Luoyang River section). This period is called the "buffering period".

When the buffer period ends, railway transportation will gradually increase the freight volume, slowly letting the Sanmenxia area shipping make way, so that the ships engaged in shipping and the Shipbuilding Merchants Bank will have time to adjust.

The reason for this is to take care of the interest groups of shipping. After all, Sanmenxia natural disaster has been overcome in just a few years. Many people purchased new steamships for shipping. If they are suddenly impacted by railway transportation, these people will lose money.

Apart from sea transportation, river shipping is definitely not as good as railway transportation. The court will inevitably rely on railways in the future, so it is necessary to give a buffer period so that most people engaged in shipping can avoid risks.

The prince was able to think of this, which means he had a good vision and Yuwen Wen was very satisfied.

In addition, the prince formulated a plan to build a "sub-hub" of the Tianxia Railway outside Chang'an and assume the responsibilities of railway network dispatching in the Kanto region. This sub-hub will be the center of a cross-shaped railway network.

This cross-shaped railway network consists of two railways, one horizontal (from the coast of the East China Sea in the east, the railway to Hexi in the west), and one vertical (from Youyan in the north and Guangdong in the south), and the center is not in Luoyang.

According to the preliminary demonstration by the relevant personnel of the Prince's Organization, the intersection (sub-hub) of this cross-shaped railway network will be more suitable in Yingzhou or Bianzhou. Once the railway network is formed, its prosperity will inevitably be no less than that of Luoyang.

Yuwen Wen was quite surprised when he saw the railway planning, because this idea was very similar to the "facts" of later generations: the Beijing-Han Railway spanning the north and south (and the later Beijing-Guangzhou Railway), and the Longhai Railway spanning the east and west, were interlaced together and were in a cross shape.

Its intersection is Zhengzhou, and Zhengzhou developed rapidly because it became a railway hub, and finally replaced Kaifeng's position and became the capital of Henan Province.

Yuwen Wen once thought about this for a while and felt that Zhengzhou in later generations should be located between the current Yingzhou and Bianzhou.

Is this a coincidence? Yuwen Wen believes that it is not, because this is the optimal result of railway construction based on reality.

The prince did not come up with such a plan just by slapping his head, but a planning plan that a large number of technical officials after multi-party argumentation was initially formulated, which took about 30 years to complete.

At the beginning, this railway network was going to use Luoyang as its intersection, but considering the location of the Yellow River Railway Bridge in the future and the blockade of the Funiu Mountains in the south of Luoyang, there was an additional pre-selected plan to land the intersection east of Hulao Pass.

As a result, this alternative plan becomes more and more pleasing to the eye, and the advantages are more than the first plan, so...

Yuwen Wen was lamenting the coincidence of history. The eunuch brought food, and the imperial concubine Yang Lihua also came.

Yang Lihua, who seemed to be worried, accompanied Yuwen Wen to have a meal. Yuwen Wen ate silently, and Yang Lihua sat silently.

The atmosphere was a bit subtle. Yu Wenwen had enough food and drink. Seeing Yang Lihua so "heat inside and cold outside", he found it funny. He coughed several times and hummed: "Oh, the south wind is rising, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, almost as hot as Tianzhu."

"Uh...yes..." Yang Lihua was naughty, seeing Yuwen Wen raised the topic, but she didn't continue to talk, and said with a tough bullet: "Erlang, this...this...this...the Five Mountains and Ten Shapes have been implemented..."

Yuwen Wen nodded: "Well, the name has been determined, and those who can't catch up are probably nowhere to go."

"Ah...then, then...then he is back, does he still have a place to stay?"

"Which one?"

Faced with Yuwen Wen's replies, Yang Lihua's voice became lower and lower: "Erlang, he... has been a monk for almost thirty years..."

"Hmm, then what?"

"Don't make things difficult for him..." Yang Lihua looked at Yuwen Wen, her eyes full of begging.

Yuwen Wen looked at Yang Lihua for a long time and smiled: "What this said is that what didn't happen back then will not happen now. Whether he can gain a foothold after returning from Tianzhu is up to the point where he can convince the two sects of the north and the south through his knowledge."

"I will give him a chance. Whether he can seize this opportunity depends on whether he has real talent or not."

Yang Lihua's younger brother, monk Zhiyuan, whose family name is "Yang Guang", studied at Nalanda Temple in Tianzhu for twelve years. He has now returned to the Central Plains on a sea boat from the Nanyang Trading Company and landed in Fanyu, Guangzhou not long ago.

After receiving the secret report (telegram), Yuwen Wen thought about it for a few nights and decided to tell Yang Lihua the news.

When Monk Zhiyuan came back this time, he brought a large number of "original" (Sanskrit version) Buddhist scriptures, and several companions accompanied him to translate the original Buddhist scriptures so that Central Plains Buddhism can obtain the "true scriptures".

Yuwen Wen didn't like this kind of cheap relative, but for Yang Lihua's sake, he would not make things difficult for this "study abroad monk". He also gave him the opportunity to translate Buddhist scriptures with his companions, and communicate with monks from the north and south sects of Central Plains Buddhism.

The premise is that the other party knows the appearance and does not think about "reversing Zhou and Sui". If you really practice wholeheartedly, that would be great.

In ancient times, Xuanzang of Tang Dynasty visited the West to seek Buddhist scriptures, and in today's, Zhou Zhiyuan studied in Tianzhu. Such a "coincidence" made Yuwen Wen quite moved.

Yang Lihua found Yuwen Wen's mouth and a stone fell to the ground. She didn't want to win any benefits for her younger brother. She left her blood before she became a monk. That was enough. She just wanted to ask her younger brother to avoid death.

Yuwen Wen was talking to Yang Lihua, and Empress Yuchi Chifan also came. When Yuwen Wen saw the queen entering, he couldn't help but sigh.
Chapter completed!