Due to limited freezing technology, Juro II's head did not pack the express delivery back to Tokyo City.

After the news of the good news came back to the palace, the ministers were quite excited.

Zhao Huan seemed very calm.

The muskets and artillery equipped by the Song army are basically invincible.

Usually, the Song army's food was equipped with beef, and all the young men of this generation were strong and strong.

Zhunian is just a small country, and its only value is the stronghold on the overseas front.

What is truly valuable are the countries in the northern part of Tianzhu, which together have a huge population.

In this world, only people can make money.

People are the foundation.

Before the good news came from the front, something big happened in Tokyo.

The imperial court spent a full three years and spent a huge amount of money to open the Beijing-You Railway.

Until now, the people of the Song Dynasty still have great misunderstandings about trains.

Including the ministers in the court, they could not understand why the emperor insisted on building a railway.

This is a huge project, which is much more difficult than building a building and laying a cement road.

Just talking about that steam train, it took the Academy of Sciences five years to barely improve it.

During the era when Xu Churen was in power, the first railway tested was basically in a state of abandonment.

Only this railway is officially passed.

On the 11th year of Jingkang, on November 1, the north wind was cold and the clouds were pressed down very low.

Zhao Huan was very happy. He took the civil and military ministers and ran to the train station in the suburbs early.

Along the way, the three commanders of the Zhou Dynasty and the political affairs officer Chen Yang muttered.

"Mr. Chen, is the carriage ready?"

"Don't worry, you're ready. His Majesty the Emperor will definitely see that the train runs slowly than the carriage!"

"I don't know what Your Majesty thinks. The train is obviously a money-burning thing, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it."

Chen Yang sighed and said, "Since Your Majesty is so obsessed with trains, it is not convenient for me to say anything else. Just compare the carriage with the train and you will know."

Like their ideas, there are still many people in the court.

It turns out that today, everyone followed the emperor to watch the joke.

After all, this train is a famous unpopular thing in the Song Dynasty today.

The railway station was still very roughly built, and people from Xinghua Trading Company and Tokyo Logistics Company counted and transported goods at the railway station.

"this……"

Chen Yang was slightly surprised.

Zhou Chao on the other side also showed a little startle: "Why is this train so much longer than what we saw a few years ago?"

Han Gonglian introduced to Zhao Huan in front: "According to Your Majesty's request, there are a total of twenty cars behind this. Each car is connected by an iron hook, and the front of the train is at the front."

"The maximum carrying capacity of a car is 8,000 kilograms."

Zhou Chao's heart suddenly jumped, and he couldn't help but come over and said in shock: "Mr. Han, you just said that one carriage can transport 8,000 kilograms of goods?"

"yes."

Zhou Chao took a breath of cold air.

A carriage can have 800 kilograms of cargo, and a train carriage can match 10 carriages!

There are 20 cars here, which means it can be worth 200 carriages!

Zhao Huan said: "Han Qing, how many years can this railway run?"

"Go back to your Majesty, there will be no problem for thirty years."

"Okay, when will it start?"

"We can set off when they finish transporting the goods."

Zhao Huan asked: "Is these rice from Huaxing Trading Company?"

Chen Yang quickly replied: "It's not just Huaxing Trading Club, but also the rice from Zhu's Trading Club is inside."

"How much does this rice cost per stone after it is transported to Youzhou?"

"This... I don't know."

Yu Yunwen took the speech and replied: "Your Majesty, after these rice are transported to Youzhou City, they are sold for two cents of money."

"How much did it cost before?"

"Last year, our Song Dynasty attacked the barbarians in the north. Due to the war, the price of grain rose to four guan coins per stone, and this year it returned to three guan coins. The grain in the north is more expensive than that in the Central Plains and the South."

"Our Song Dynasty now has Jiulongjiang, Jiaozhou, and two lakes. In recent years, the weather has been good, and Hebei Road has also recovered from the war. The Hebei Plain is also a dense area for grain cultivation. The grain price in Tokyo has dropped to one stone and one guan. Why is there three guan in Youzhou? Why is the reason?"

"The Yanyun War Zone consumes too much food. The food source of the Sixteen Prefectures in Yanyun mainly depends on the supply in the south, and the water canal capacity is limited. If the grain price goes down further, the merchants are unwilling to do it."

"Why are the merchants willing to sell two stale money and one stone?"

"Your Majesty, let me say that Zhu Qing's Zhu's trading company transported 40,000 jin of grain at one time. If it was to transport 40,000 jin of grain, it would take fifty carriages. Each carriage transported 8 stones of grain, and sold 3 jin of grain for one stone, and the income was 24 jin of grain, and the income of 50 carriages was 1,200 jin. However, from seeds, planting to harvesting to shipment, the cost was 300 jin, and the total transportation fee was 400 jin, and the cost had reached 700 jin. Zhu's trading company cooperated with Zhangji Grain Bank in Youzhou. The purchase price of Zhangji Grain Bank for these 40,000 jin was as high as 900 jin, and in the end, it could only make 300 jin. The money that can be made is indeed not much."

"What's more, it's almost impossible to transport 50 horse-drawn carriages at one time, up to twenty-five cars. In other words, Zhang Ji Grain Store can only earn 150 trump cards at one time."

After hearing this, the price of grain in Youzhou Prefecture is 3 guan per stone, which is indeed reasonable.

And this price is indeed strictly controlled by Li Guang.

Otherwise, you will have to sell for more than 4 cents.

An ordinary working family in the Song Dynasty used to earn up to 3 guan a month.

In recent years, with the increase in infrastructure construction of the imperial court, the number of Jiaozi in the Royal Bank under Zhao Ding has been increasing, and the wages of ordinary workers have also increased.

Now you can reach up to 5 jin.

If the court does not control the grain price in Youzhou, the people can only say that they can only eat enough.

Now that there is a train, it's completely different.

Yu Yunwen continued: "This time, the transportation fee is only 100 jin of grain. Zhu Qing saved 300 jin of transportation costs. He gave the 40,000 jin of grain to Zhangji Grain Store at a price of 600 jin. Zhangji Grain Store originally planned to still sell the grain at a price of 1,200 jin, but Xinghua Trading Company planned to sell the same 40,000 jin of grain to the public at a price of 800 jin. Zhangji was forced to lower it to the same price, which is 2 jin per stone."

Yu Yunwen spoke very fast, and these accounts were clearly visible in his mind and had a very clear understanding of the details.

"I think the biggest change is that in the past, a transportation team could only transport 20,000 kilograms of grain at one time. Now a trading company can easily send 40,000 kilograms, and only occupy 5 carriages."

Yu Yunwen finally concluded: "Thanks to Your Majesty, time is money."

The reason why Zhu Qing was willing to lower the price was because he had lowered the transportation costs, and at the same time, he helped him consume more inventory.

The other ministers were confused when they heard it.

Unexpectedly, Yu Yunwen is so flexible and has a good idea to calculate the accounts.

The finance minister Zhou Chao felt sad when he heard this. This was his specialty, so why was Yu Yunwen snatched it in front of the emperor today?

But if you count it like this, this train is indeed much better than carriage transportation.

Zhao Huan sighed in his heart: The value of logistics is not just a matter of fun. Trains are the most important infrastructure facilities in the industrial era. They not only save costs and improve efficiency, but more importantly, they closely link various places.

Zhao Huan believed that as long as the Song Dynasty opened the era of trains, the real prosperity would not be far away.

"His Majesty!"

"Zhou Qing, what do you have to say?"

The Zhou Dynasty originally planned to find a carriage to compete with the train, intending to wake the emperor up and not be so obsessed with it anymore.

But now it seems that, damn it is yourself who should be awake!

"Your Majesty, I think I can add another carriage!"
Chapter completed!