Valley Emperor

The arterial highway plan around the Taihu Lake area, from the joint proposal at the beginning, to the separate planning and construction, although the process has been repeated, but in the end, each locality has finally finalized it for its own development.

The Imperial Department of Transportation above is also happy to see it happen!

Let the wealthy places build their own roads. Gyeonggi's funds support the poor places to build roads. This is the consensus of the Ministry of Communications of the Empire and even the upper levels of the Empire. Now the Taihu Lake Rim Highway is just in line with this policy idea.

As the Taihu Lake Rim Highway was finalized, the Ministry of Communications of the Empire also issued a number of road route plans led by Gyeonggi and supported by funds.

But Gyeonggi's road line is obviously not so good, and it's not even a hardened road, just an ordinary gravel road.

But even if it is a gravel road, it can solve the initial traffic problems for some poor places without trains and rivers, which is still of great significance.

Highway construction is a part of transportation construction, and transportation construction is a key plan in the second industrial development.

According to the second industrial development plan, in order to further promote industrial and commercial development, develop local economies, and improve people's living standards, transportation construction is the top priority.

The road network plan is actually only a small part of it, and the bigger reality is still the construction of railways.

The imperial transportation department will continue to steadily promote large-scale railway construction, especially the construction of trunk railways in the central and western regions (Central Asia, West Asia and Europe), and the construction of branch railways in the eastern region (Central Plains).

Focus on supporting remote and inconvenient railway construction!

In the process of building new railways, we also continue to promote the upgrading and development of railway train technology, and further increase the speed of trains to increase the turnover of railway transportation, and strive to increase the average speed of passenger trains on the railway network to 60 kilometers per hour. Develop and build higher-speed passenger trains in specific areas, such as the Jiangnan Railway. This railway network has already achieved a passenger train speed of 60 kilometers per hour. Now they plan to increase the passenger train speed to 80 kilometers per hour. above.

It's just that the technical requirements are very high. It's not that the train can't run at such a high speed. In fact, even the current steam engine train can reach hundreds of kilometers per hour if it is fully driven, but the safety cannot be guaranteed.

It is not so easy to ensure the safety of trains at high speeds.

In addition to the development of highways and railways, the development and construction of river transportation and maritime transportation are still the key points. The transportation department will continue to invest funds to dredge the waterways of various river sections, expand the navigation capacity, and accelerate the construction of dock infrastructure in various coastal ports.

The Empire is preparing to comprehensively expand and upgrade the transportation network, including railways, highways, and shipping, to meet the huge demand for transportation from the second industrial development.

However, ordinary people do not feel very deeply. Although they can enjoy great benefits from it, it is not these infrastructures that bring people a greater intuitive feeling, but some daily necessities.

The popularization of some consumer industrial products that are closely related to their lives has entered the families of ordinary people, making them deeply feel the changes of the second industrial development set off by the empire.

For example, bicycles have been around for a long time, but the price has always been relatively expensive. In addition, the performance is still defective, and people have some inherent concepts. Therefore, the bicycles in the Datang Empire were actually used in the early decades. In the history of development, it has always belonged to the stage of petty fighting.

Of course, there is also the main core patent holder of the bicycle, Li's Bicycle Company, which has always been eating alone and has never opened the core patent of the bicycle.

Li's bicycles rely on the core patents of bicycles and rely on selling high-priced bicycles, but they have not played a positive role in the overall promotion and development of bicycles.

In this situation, 50 years after Xuanping, after several core bicycle patents owned by Li's bicycle expired, a large number of small and medium-sized manufacturers began to produce and sell bicycles, and in order to compete in the market, the price of bicycles continued to be lowered. The bicycle industry has ushered in a comprehensive explosion!

Well, it is worth mentioning that the Li family bicycle company of Hanyang Li family went bankrupt in this wave of brutal competition of bicycles...

Li's Bicycle Company, which is accustomed to selling high-priced bicycles, was completely eliminated from the market after only three years after their core patent expired. Later, they also tried to reduce the cost and volume, but they still failed to survive, and finally went bankrupt. Leave a piece of chicken feathers behind!

By the 63rd year of Xuanping, the price of bicycles had been reduced to a level acceptable to ordinary workers and families. At the same time, after years of continuous development and evolution, the design and structure of bicycles were very suitable for riding. Directly led to the rapid popularity of bicycles in the Empire.

In the 63rd year of Xuanping, many bicycle manufacturers in the Datang Empire added up, and the annual output of various bicycles exceeded 2 million. Ten years ago, Li's Bicycle Company also exclusively held many core bicycle patents. At the time, the annual output was only more than 10,000 vehicles, and the output was even far less than the car output...

But now, a lot of ordinary families in the Empire own bicycles!

Cycling to work is already very common in many urban areas.

However, the rapid development of bicycles, coupled with the rapid development of the automobile industry, also caused a large-scale collapse of some traditional industries in the empire.

Especially in the carriage industry!

In the early decades, especially when Xuanping was more than 40 years old, the carriage industry of the Datang Empire had reached its peak. The main force of short-distance land passenger transportation and freight transportation is still horse-drawn carriages.

The development of the automobile industry in those years did not affect the development of the carriage at all, so that in Xuanping for more than 40 years, the carriage industry still maintained rapid development, and reached a point that would surprise future generations.

In the empire at that time, almost every place had a large number of carriages and horses!

Many big cities have tens of thousands of horses. Due to the large number of carriages and horses, in many cities, it has even evolved into serious environmental problems and traffic accidents, which has caused many people's concerns~www.wuxiaspot. com~ Many people even worried at the time that in the next few decades, the whole city would be submerged by horse manure.

But their fears did not materialize, as the carriage industry was in decline soon after its glory days in the 1940s!

Especially after 50 years of Xuanping, the price of cars has continued to decline and the practicality has been greatly improved. A large number of rich people's private carriages have become cars, and the main public transportation in the city has also changed from public carriages to buses.

At the same time, the popularity of bicycles has further led to a rapid decrease in the number of horse-drawn carriages.

But until today, the carriage industry has already become a sunset industry, and many carriage companies are actively or passively transforming, otherwise they will go bankrupt.

If this process is only a gradual process, and people feel that it is not too deep, then in the 64th year of Xuanping, Jingkai Electric Co., Ltd. launched and quickly popularized the electric fan, which made people completely realize:

A new era has come!

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