Valley Emperor
Vol 2 Chapter 2198: The age of motor transport
The automobile development of the Daheng Empire has a history of more than 20 years. In the 39th year of Xuanping, Xihu Automobile Company introduced Xihu brand vehicles to the market.
It's just that in the early years, the development of automobiles was very limited. It seemed that there were several large automobile companies, but in fact the early automobiles were expensive and lacked in performance. Therefore, for many years, automobiles were only a Just a toy.
This situation has been initially changed even if Qixiang Motors has launched a series of relatively cheap models.
But even so, the price of cars is very expensive, and those so-called relatively cheap cars can only be afforded by families above the middle income.
At the same time, the power of early cars is still relatively limited, with low horsepower, poor performance, short cruising range, many failures, and oil prices are not cheap, all of which exist objectively, which also leads to the fact that the actual use cost of the car is relatively high. It also limits the rapid development of automobiles as a cheap freight vehicle.
This is why the early automobile development was mainly concentrated in the field of private cars.
However, this situation is gradually changing. With the continuous improvement of technology, especially several major automobile companies are sparing no effort to develop higher-power gasoline engines, and constantly introduce new ones.
This has also led to a rapid improvement in the performance of cars over the past two decades.
Especially in the 55th year of Xuanping, Zhongyuan Automobile Company launched their new generation of truck series. This series of trucks is called the North Wind series. The power of this truck is actually not that good. , only more than 50 horsepower, the speed is not fast, and even the comfort is not bad.
However, the fuel consumption of this thing has dropped significantly compared to the previous truck.
At the same time, the whole Beifeng truck adopts many mature technologies, which not only has low production cost, but also has excellent reliability, low failure rate, good passability and strong climbing ability.
Even in order to reduce costs and ensure high reliability, the designers have not thought about making progress or even going backwards, and adopted a simplified scheme in the design of the carriage.
What are the characteristics of the north wind truck made in this way?
Low procurement cost, low maintenance cost, and many usage scenarios!
This series of advantages is to meet the huge demand for trucks in the freight market, and also to meet the market's low-cost use of trucks.
As soon as the Beifeng truck was launched, it ushered in an outbreak. The first order was not even for the private market, but the military!
The army is a big deal, and it is an order of 2,000 units at the first shot, and the navy and the guards also ordered a lot.
Even other official law enforcement agencies, such as the Patrol or other departments, have ordered quite a few.
Of course, what really made Northern Truck come to the fore and became the most powerful freight truck in the Datang Empire in recent years is because this truck has been welcomed by the vast number of freight companies, construction companies and other companies with huge land transportation needs. .
In the five years since the truck was launched on the market, more than 200,000 units have been produced!
Strictly speaking, this is the North Wind Truck, which is the first mass-produced and used ordinary truck in the Datang Empire, which is of great significance.
In the past, including Zhongyuan Automobile Company, several major automobile companies have also launched a lot of trucks, pickups and other types of vehicles, but pickups are more aimed at high-end customers in rural areas, and trucks, more It is concentrated in the engineering field or the military field.
As for ordinary trucks dedicated to road transportation, although there are some, they are very few.
This situation has undergone tremendous changes after the appearance of Beifeng trucks.
The emergence of Beifeng trucks is a typical feature of the experience accumulated by the Datang Empire over the years and the technological explosion, and this feature was actually seen earlier in the field of passenger cars.
Qixiang Automobile Co., Ltd. has always been committed to promoting the popularization of automobiles, and several models that have been launched successively follow the route of parity.
The Datang automobile industry, which has continued to develop today, is actually not small in scale, with a huge number of cars, but the corresponding highway construction has not been able to keep up.
The current land transportation of the Tang Empire still relies heavily on railway transportation, and automobile transportation is only a very limited supplement.
This is not only because of the defects of automobile technology, but also because of the lack of road construction.
This is not to blame the imperial officials, this is because most of the cars developed in the early days were driven in cities, and even trucks were mainly driven in cities.
At most, a suburb has to be added, but the suburbs of Datang City are not the same as the suburbs in the usual sense. The suburbs of Datang City are often rich and living areas, and to some extent, they are still cities. Part of the infrastructure is very good.
In the city, there are cement roads, oil-parked roads, cinder roads and gravel roads, and even the dirt roads in some suburbs are generally in good condition.
That is to say, in the past two decades, the road construction developed by local governments was actually able to meet the needs of automobiles and carriages at that time.
However, this kind of road condition is better, especially the hardened road surface is generally limited to the city.
Although there are also official roads connecting the cities, most of them are ordinary dirt roads, except for a very small number of roads that are hardened pavements. A clear technical standard.
Songjiang Mansion built a high-grade asphalt road with a width of hundreds of kilometers along the Huangpu River long ago, which is just a special case.
In fact, even if it is now from Jinling City to Shanghai, there is no complete hardening road to go!
The construction of inter-city roads is backward, especially the lack of hardened pavement, which also seriously restricts the development of road transportation.
In response to this situation, the Ministry of Communications has actually started to continuously instigate the construction of a large highway network more than ten years ago. It is necessary to widen, straighten and harden the existing official roads, and then upgrade the official roads across the country. For the national cement/asphalt road network.
However, the cost of this kind of nationwide road upgrading and construction work is too huge, so it has not been fully supported at the Gyeonggi level. Therefore, in the past ten years, the transportation department has relied on limited funds piecemeal. Just build a few intercity highways.
The most exemplary one should be the asphalt road from Jinling to Zhenjiang~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This 100-kilometer-long asphalt road is also the first intercity hardened road in the empire.
The more than 100 kilometers of asphalt roads in Songjiang Mansion are not intercity highways, but belong to the roads inside Songjiang Mansion.
In addition to this highway, the Ministry of Communications of the Empire has successively contacted local governments to build intercity hardened highways represented by Shanghai-Suzhou asphalt highway and Shanghai-Hangzhou asphalt highway through multi-level financial co-financing.
At the same time, various localities will also build some roads by themselves. For example, Guangzhou has built the Pearl River Delta Road by itself.
However, the roads built in various places are good and bad. The rich places build asphalt roads or cement roads, and the poorer places can only be made into gravel roads.
This also makes it difficult to form a nationwide road network.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the second industrial development, the Ministry of Communications has once again proposed a national road network plan, and this time it has received the full support of the emperor's grandson!
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