Chapter 564 – An Adversary

The so-called through-traffic trial ride naturally included a round trip. Xue Mu personally took a ride, also a trial experience.

The wheels of the car together with the rail, not bumpy, this return trip nearly empty car, than compared to the horse carriage running also faster, the interior seats are also very comfortable, the overall experience is very good. The only problem is that the windows are leaky, wooden window carving, strong wind straight from the hollows poured in, whistling.

It is estimated that the glass is not applied for the sake of …… so engaged in words, how to speed up in the future?

“So fun ah dad!” Curry night laughs grinning: “More stable than the carriage. A horse carriage can lift people out when it turns upside down, and in this car you can actually eat! I’ll be riding in this from now on!”

Next to her, Qin Wuye casually said, “Then you can only go back and forth to Yunzhou, there’s no other track in the world yet.”

She had been looking out the window, leaning on a few with her cheeks resting on the table, looking quite a bit petty, as if the quiet regression of the scenery outside the window was something to be admired. In fact, she had been distracted for the past two days and didn’t know what she was thinking about.

Xue Mu smiled, “There will be other tracks as well. The next step is Spirit State.”

Curry Night said, “Why don’t we pave tracks instead of cement in Spirit State? Looking at the cement road is not as good as this track eh.”

“Uh, because I don’t know whether cars or trains will come out first, anyway, the paving conditions are good enough to try it together.”

“Cars?”

“Well ……,” Xue Mu got up and touched the two car links, where there was actually a rubber-like object wrapped around it. He turned his head and asked Zuo Zijian, “What is this?”

“A kind of tree rubber, this door special refining and become, anti-slip and anti-dislodgement anti-vibration are quite effective, in this door many works in the application of quite wide, folk is not yet popularized.”

“Both this glue, the car is not a problem at all …… I do not know if Li Yingqing is researching, perhaps I also need to inspire him ……” Xue Mu returned to his seat, comfortably leaning against the , laughing: “Eh, isn’t your Shen Ji Sect a bit too extravagant?”

The seat design was also of the opposite seating style, with a case table in the center. However, the space interval is much more spacious than on modern trains, it is estimated that the horse can run, the space is very extravagant, of course, a carriage is only forty seats …… These Shen Ji Sect people really don’t take into account the ground when they do the interior design of the car ah, maybe when this is a rich person only, after all, the initial investment is ridiculously large, and the subsequent maintenance and management is also very complicated, the On the surface of the thought really does not look like civilians can use things.

The train has another driver, Zuo Zijian, as the “leader”, is accompanying Xue Mu to answer questions and solve problems. He obviously also think that this should be a little bit of luxury, listening to Xue Mu’s question is not too serious, just casually said: “The internal design is not done by the officials.”

“Heh ……” Xue Mu didn’t dig deeper and asked, “What problems did the left deacon find along the way?”

“The next official has some worries about what ordinary jianghu guests will look like, in case of a fight inside the car, it may lead to the destruction of the whole car, injuring the travelers, or the car outside the road blocking the robbers …… These problems cannot be ignored.”

Xue Mu stroked his chin and said, “And?”

“Full car situation, each hour feasible eighty miles, a day and night without stopping is nine hundred and sixty miles, minus the occasional stop to replenish the water to fuel the time, the actual day travel nine hundred miles. Compared to the strong running is not as good as, but wins in lasting, the value of carrying goods and passengers is enough.” Zuo Zijian said, “But now it’s just non-stop all the way to Yunzhou. If it were to officially run, it would obviously need to set up more stops along the way, stopping everywhere, and the speed would probably be greatly slowed down.”

A full train speed of only twenty kilometers per hour, what an old car. It still makes sense for this world’s low-level industrial base, and for the Shen Ji Sect’s BUG-like level of technology there’s obviously still a lot of room for speeding up……. Xue Mu nodded and said, “It doesn’t matter, there will still be speeding up in the future. The stops along the way and your supply stations can be made together.”

“If we speed up, this window ……,” Zuo Zijian was headache, “When we built the car before, there was a big controversy within the door, I don’t know how to deal with it.”

Xue Mu smiled, “And?”

“There’s also such a long car, and not to mention the steel, just the oil used to lubricate the wheels and the various organ nodes is comparable to what a few war puppets would need, this is a bit of a headache. Our resources can’t be tilted too much towards this after all, I’m afraid that the scale can’t be expanded or there will be a lot of resistance within the gate.”

“Whether it’s improving the fuel or the oil usage, this Marquis is trying to solve it.” Xue Mu laughed in a good mood, “As for the other problems you mentioned, such as safety …… huh, Ji Wuyou engaged in the city defense division, I will engage in the railroad police and passenger police, he really thought that the world’s martial arts practitioners are all in his hands? He really thinks that the world’s martial arts are all in his hands?

Zuo Zijian can not accompany him to openly criticize the emperor, awkwardly do not talk, the heart is very shocked.

Although he is a engaged in engineering, right, but the size is also a deacon, as well as serious court official position, the world’s political heart is not without number.

The emperor borrowed the name of the “city defense department” to establish a new force, not only to engage in the capital, but also intended to spread all over the world of cities and towns. This is not just a question of him getting hold of a new force, there is a more far-reaching impact.

The issue of social employment.

Just as the Star and Moon Sect’s industry bloomed, many ordinary disciples in the sect have found a way out, if there is no more opportunity to advance in martial arts, to do behind the scenes of the entertainment industry and newspaper editors and so on are not afraid of not having a meal, not afraid of the sect will be easy to “layoffs”.

Many other forces at all levels, whether it is a family or sect, often face this problem: not enough jobs.

The middle and high end of the force is not to mention, it is very useful. Some of them could also go to participate in outside gangs like the Cao Gang to mix up a position, but overall most of the disciples could only spend their entire lives practicing martial arts in the sect forever. However, practicing martial arts itself can’t create value, it only consumes value. The more stable the world becomes, the less wars and conflicts there are, and the surplus of disciples gradually becomes a huge burden.

But you can’t stop recruiting disciples, otherwise where would the good ones come from?

So it became more and more bloated, a vicious cycle. Even the top clans are often faced with the problem of insufficient resources to support a large number of disciples, how can others be an exception?

In fact, this kind of social problem, regardless of civil and military society are the same. The “honoring of the martial arts” corresponds to “only the scholarly is high”. If a scholar fails to achieve success, he becomes a Confucius, who is of no use to society. And martial arts people do not practice martial arts, may not be able to go anywhere, in short, employment has always been any society needs to consider the matter.

And not to mention other kinds of employment, that is more complicated. Single on the imperial court department six as well as all levels of officials of the guards, is definitely an excellent choice for the martial artists. Unfortunately, Department Six needs to be recruited and examined for innocence, and the guards of the powerful are lowly, eagle dog and dog’s leg, all of which have kanji. This time the formation of the city defense department, it detonated the enthusiasm of many sects and families, both the court system, the size of an official, but not as strict as Department Six, and do not do people dog leg, simply too suitable there is no?

A time the new emperor initiative almost became “the people’s will”, really have a kind of world heroes into enough feeling. Continuing, another huge group that can compete with Department Six is not a problem, and the connection between these people and the world’s sects is even more far-reaching and immeasurable.

And Xue Mu said, create new departments, new jobs, new employment? I am better than you. Not only is the railroad guards and car guards, just along the way station workers and all kinds of accompanying personnel, etc., do not know how many new jobs provided, the whole system of the huge degree is definitely higher than the city defense department, huge several times are possible, and the degree of which the demand for high-end force, but also in no way less than the city defense department.

More interesting is that the emperor engaged in the city defense department need to financial out of pocket to support, bite the bullet hard out of pocket, may not be able to support much. And the railroad system has the possibility of self-sufficiency, is really self-circulating social employment ……

This ambush is obviously buried a long time ago. Can not blame the emperor did not advance hand to here, this brand new stuff, the dynasty and field importance of the people really not a few, before Li Yingqing experiments have also been laughed at it.

Zuo Zijian simply do not know what to say, this new department even if it is not located in the Department of Six Doors below, but also will certainly be Xiahou Di and Li Yingqing’s people team control, and he Zuo Zijian of course, is the first to applaud, because it can make him this deacon’s power to grow a hundredfold.

In other words, Xue Mu cut the spirited emperor in half with a single idea and pulled his qi back to the side of the Princess in a raw manner.

This emperor who was supposed to be very powerful, but met an enemy like Xue Mu, is simply seeing ghosts ……