Zhu Youxiao originally thought that it would take at least half a year to sell out the tens of millions of bonds, and he was even prepared to sell them out, but he didn't expect that they would be sold out so quickly.
It seems that the people of Ming Dynasty are rich beyond his expectation.
In fact, there is no need to issue bonds, and banks can provide enough money to build roads.
However, Bi Ziyan is worried about inflation and suggests taking back part of the world's coins to avoid soaring prices.
Seeing that the bonds were selling so well, Bi Ziyan proposed to continue issuing the second and third tranches of bonds, but Zhu Youxiao disagreed.
If it is not absolutely necessary, it is better to issue fewer bonds.
One month after the trial operation of the Jingshan Railway, the official operation began.
The Jingshan Railway has eight stations: Wanping, Tongzhou, Baodi, Fengrun, Lulong, Funing, Shanhaiguan, and Balipu.
The original Gongji City was a military station, and civilians did not pass through Gongji Station.
The railway is a double line, which was decided by Zhu Youxiao.
He does not want to change from a single line to a double line in the future.
Now there are only trucks.
There are more than 600 miles from Wanping to Shanhaiguan.
Taking into account the terrain issues at the current train speed, the average is about 40 miles per hour, which takes about 15 hours.
For businessmen who travel on this road all year round, this speed is simply unimaginable.
It used to take more than ten days to walk, but now it can be completed in less than a day.
This saves time, accommodation, and meals. consumption has been greatly reduced, and the liquidity of funds has also been greatly increased.
Therefore, although the cost of transporting goods by train is relatively high, and the station has a dedicated tax bureau to collect taxes based on the value of the goods, ordinary businessmen will choose to use trains to transport goods.
It used to be that some easily perishable goods, like seafood, could only be transported in winter or after being pickled.
Now we no longer have this worry.
As long as you are willing to spend money, you can even transport the fish and water to the capital.
When you get off the bus, , the fish is still alive and kicking.
A large number of transportation requests were sent to the Jingshan Railway Bureau.
Because the number was too large, merchants began to reserve transportation trains for a certain day, and now they have been scheduled for three months.
Of course, this is calculated based on the speed during the trial run.
One month after the trial run, the Jingshan Railway Bureau accumulated a lot of transportation experience, and the Ordnance Bureau built more locomotives and wagons.
The advantages of the double line were finally reflected.
According to reports received by Wei Zhongxian, the existing three-month shipment volume can be completed within two months.
With the popularity of railway transportation, the construction of the Liangjing Line from Beijing to Nanjing and the Shanmu Line from Shanhaiguan to Muguhewei was quickly put on the agenda.
The imperial court established the Ministry of Railways of the Ming Dynasty, and Mao Yuanyi was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Railways.
In this way, the six departments of the Ming Dynasty became eight.
However, Mao Yuanyi, a young man with no fame, suddenly became a minister, which surprised people.
The students at the Capital University were all envious, but they also saw from Mao Yuanyi what they could achieve in the future.
As for Zou Yuanbiao and others who were driven back to the south, they sourly believed that if things continued like this, the country would inevitably lose its generals.
When Mao Yuanyi took office, the Ministry of Railways established the Cleaning Department, the Construction Department, the Survey Department, and the Damage and Repair Department.
Responsible for railway safety inspection, railway construction, route survey, and compensation for losses along the road.
Zhu Youxiao transferred manpower from Dongchang and Jinyiwei to set up a railway statistics bureau to be responsible for railway-related corruption.
In October of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the survey of the Liangjing Line had been completed.
After the Ministry of Railways reported it to the cabinet, the cabinet submitted it to the emperor for inspection.
Zhu Youxiao instructed: "After repairing it, don't be in a hurry.
Repair it according to the standard of one hundred years."
On October 10th, the foundation laying ceremony of the Two Beijing Line was held in Tongzhou.
Zhu Youxiao personally filled in the first shovel of soil, and the cabinet and ministers of various ministries filled in the soil in turn.
This plan took five years, and the super-large project with a total length of more than 1,700 miles per mile (576 meters) was officially started.
Mao Yuanyi divided the entire project into five sections, one section from Beijing to Tianjin, one section from Tianjin to Hejianfu, one section from Hejianfu to Jinanfu, one section from Jinanfu to Xuzhoufu, and one section from Xuzhoufu to Nanjing.
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The grading works for each section were tendered and subcontracted to businessmen from various places.
Because before this, the basic knowledge of bidding and tendering had been widely popularized in newspapers, and it was stipulated that bidders must be commercial banks, not governments at all levels or individuals.
This caused construction firms to spring up like mushrooms all over the country, and the tax bureau was very happy to receive a large amount of deed taxes.
Leveling the land requires nothing more than manpower and simple tools such as knives, axes and hoes, so businesses that can gather more people will be more competitive.
The bidding adopts a deposit and clear bid system.
A deposit of 10,000 yuan is required for each mile of the bid.
If you fail to win the bid, it will be fully refunded.
If you win the bid, it will not be refunded until the project is completed.
If there is an abandonment of the bid or quality problems, the deposit will be confiscated. , if workers are in arrears with wages, the deposit will also be confiscated.
When bidding, each firm writes down the amount of remuneration it can accept and puts it into a paper bag, and then the firm with the lowest bid wins the bid.
If there is only one bidder for a certain section of road, the survey department of the railway bureau will estimate the cost and submit it to the construction department.
The construction department will add 30% to the estimated price to participate in the bidding.
If the other party's price is too high, they will have to build it themselves or further After publicity, the next round of bidding will take place.
On October 10th, the bidding for roadbed projects in various places was completed.
The railway bureau itself won the bid for more than 170 miles of roadbed for more than 300 miles.
This made the Royal Construction Team very satisfied, so that they would not have nothing to do during the construction of the roadbed.
After building more than 300 miles of roadbed, they could just start laying sleepers and rails.
In order to ensure the supply of rails, the Ordnance Bureau opened an iron factory in Zichuan County, Shandong Province and Xuzhou Prefecture, South Zhili Province.
There are a large number of iron ore and coal mines here, which can produce a large number of rails to meet the needs of railway construction.
The construction of Daming G1 Highway, the first high-grade highway in Ming Dynasty accompanying the Liangjing Line, has also begun. g refers to the national highway, which is the first letter of the pinyin of the Chinese character, and 1 is its number.
It is called a high-grade highway because the road is five steps wide by eight meters, with four steps in the middle as a lane and half a step on each side as sidewalks.
Between the sidewalk and the driveway, as well as in the middle of the road, are marked with white tiles, and the tiles are also laid out in the shape of arrows to indicate the direction of walking: drive on the right.
No one among the ministers raised such idiotic questions as the left side is empty because everyone drives on the right.
They all felt that this design once again proved the emperor's wisdom
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