The steamship sailing by burning coal has conducted an undisclosed trial voyage in the waters of the Yangtze River in Huangzhou. Its load capacity is 400 stones. When it is against the current, it can maintain its speed of about fifteen miles and continue to sail for ten hours.

Li Delin only learned these data from the emperor yesterday. It was precisely because of this killer move that he was confident that he would convince the Secretary of the State Council to convince Li Yunxin to agree to the court issuing public debts in today's political affairs debate.

And the other party also knows what it means to make a practical steamer.

An adult can walk about twelve miles per hour when walking on the flat ground. From this point of view, the speed of steamships sailing against the current is not much faster, and they still have to burn coal, which feels meaningless.

But this ship can sail against the current on the river, sailing for ten hours continuously at a speed of fifteen miles per hour, carrying 400 stones of cargo travels 150 miles a day, while people travel thirty to forty miles a day, which is also the origin of the fact that the distance between the stations is mostly fifteen to thirty miles.

Traveling 150 miles against the current a day (long-term sailing for ten hours, with an average speed of fifteen miles per hour) is the minimum requirement for a steamship to not lose money after being put into use. This number is obtained by combining multiple factors, so it has become one of the criteria for whether the steamship can be practical.

Now, it's finally reached.

With such ships that do not consume manpower, animal resources, food and grass, but only burn coal, whether it is the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, or other rivers and canals, the cost of canal and shipping will inevitably be significantly reduced.

Li Delin knew how great the significance of this was. In terms of war, ten hu of grain was transported by land to the front line, a distance of one thousand miles, and at the end of the line, only two hu were left, and the other eight hu were eaten by young and strong people who transported the grain.

The water transportation is slightly better, but the cost is still not low. Especially when sailing against the current requires a lot of manpower, and these people also have to consume food.

But as long as there is a steamer, the consumption during transportation of grain will be greatly reduced. Because the steamer burns coal, unless the ship is sunk, there will be as much food as it is when it arrives at the destination.

In this way, the grain from Hebei, Henan, Huainan and Jiangnan was imported into Guanzhong and transported by steamships. The consumption on the way was almost negligible, which meant that the income of the court would increase significantly.

At the same time, when the imperial court uses troops in a specific direction, the consumption of food and grass will also decrease. The same amount of food and grass can ensure more troops to attack. The most obvious example is the Tongshen area.

The grain transported from Guanzhong is loaded on a steamer ship, and then the steamer ship enters the Fen River through the Yellow River and heads north along the Fen River to Jinyang to unload the goods. This journey can save a lot of consumption. If the government troops attack the grassland from the Bingshuo area, the food and grass will be more abundant.

By analogy, when the steamer is really practical and put into canal transportation on a large scale, many problems will no longer be problems.

Steam ships are a powerful tool that has never been seen since ancient times. They can greatly enhance the central control over various places, strengthen the transportation of various materials, and support more troops to implement large-scale border openings.

Li Delin didn't expect that he could still witness a shocking change with his own eyes when he was old.

This is simply incredible.

Li Delin, who is over 70 years old, was almost out of reach a few years ago. It was not because he was in a health condition, but because he had been unsuccessful in his official career for many years and was about to die in depressedness.

But he is always active, appreciated, given important responsibilities, and has a future again.

Seeing that he wasted most of his life and had the opportunity to show his ambitions, Li Delin, who was about to die, had a new life with his "dead trees in spring", and his luck was more than that.

The lord of the palace ascended the throne and became emperor, and he ruled the world. As an assistant, Li Delin actually returned to the center of power.

This is a huge opportunity and the last opportunity. Li Delin dared not take it lightly and was determined to do his best.

The emperor was young and strong, with great opinion, great strategy, not flattery, resourceful, and suspicious, and was difficult to serve, but Li Delin found that this person actually liked to "reason". As long as his subordinates were reasonable and could win, the other party would listen.

Li Delin didn't know what this strange character was. He was less than 30 years old and appointed a scholar to Ye as an official, serving as an emperor of Gao Qi, and later became an emperor in Zhou, and became an official in Emperor Wu and Emperor Xuan, and served as the leader of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, and had never seen such a personality as the son of today.

Li Delin has been adopted by the emperor in recent years. Since he was appointed as the Secretary of the Central Committee, he has worked diligently and achieved remarkable political achievements. He knows what his duty is and what the emperor needs him to do.

Now, the emperor needs a pawn to implement his will in the Political Affairs Hall, so Li Delin charges without hesitation, and the killer weapon given to him yesterday is really powerful.

Although Li Delin was a little surprised and even doubted that the steamship suddenly made such rapid progress, he felt that judging from the emperor's character and past performance, he would never lie.

Li Delin could think of the huge benefits of practical steamships, and Li Yunxin and others could naturally think of them.

Even though they didn't think carefully enough, when they just got the information, they had already introduced all the usages of the steamship, which made readers very excited.

With the steamship, it only takes ten days to travel from Guangling to Xiakou, whether it is transporting grain, cargo or people, there is great potential.

With the steamship, the government army will conquer Liaodong and Goguryeo in the future, and a large amount of materials can be transported to Liaodong at low transportation costs.

With steamships, Jiaozhou's grain can be easily transported to Kunming, Nanzhong through Yeyu River, supporting more garrisons and supporting more immigrants.

With steamships, the army and caravans starting from Guangzhou can easily enter the upper reaches of the Yongzhou General Administration, Rongzhou General Administration, and Guizhou General Administration, and even enter the southern middle from the southeast along the water.

Similarly, the caravans from Guangzhou brought a large amount of sugar, fragrant medicine and other specialties on the surface of the ridge, and arrived north through the Zhenshui River to the bottom of Dayu Mountain, saving a lot of transportation costs.

The benefits of steamships are too many, so many of them are the priests in the Political Affairs Hall. They can no longer imagine how much the people's confidence in the court will surge after this news is spread.

If the people have confidence in the court, then it is not a problem for the court to issue public bonds one after another. In other words, the risk of borrowing debt repairs to Tongji Canal that everyone was worried about before is too high, and now it seems that it is just a worry.

At this moment, Li Yunxin had no objection to the debt repair of Tongji Canal, and the same was true for several other opponents. Everyone's attention was attracted by the good news that the steamship was about to be practical.

The data also gave detailed explanations on the practical prospects of steamships, and specifically emphasized that it takes time to truly promote steamships, because steamships need further improvements to facilitate mass manufacturing. The use and maintenance of steamships are relatively complicated and many practitioners need to be trained.

In order to ensure that the steamships play a huge role in shipping and canal transportation, the coal-fill stations and ship repair yards on various waterways also require time to be built and laid out, and the production capacity of major coal mines also needs to be further improved.

Therefore, even though a steamer has achieved a breakthrough in speeds of 15 miles against the current, it will take several years before the full promotion is completed, and it may even take nearly ten years to mass-produce the steamer.

People need time to adapt to a new thing, so it is not surprising that everyone has to wait for a few years or even ten years to truly make the steamship. Yuwen Wen, who has always looked as usual, secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the issuance of public debts to repair the Tongji Canal was unanimously approved.

However, looking at the steamship drawn on the information in hand, my heart rose again.

Sailing against the current speed is fifteen miles per hour? How fast is it...

He was indeed a fraud this time because the steamship did not make a substantial breakthrough. The reason why he forged data this time was to convince the officials of the Zhengshitang to agree to issue public bonds and start construction of Tongji Canal this year.

Yuwen Wen did not say anything. The reason why he emphasized that it would take several years or even nearly ten years to mass-made steamships was to buy some time for the technical team of steamships to achieve breakthroughs to "remake a lie".

As for the promised hot ship will be publicly tested soon, showing everyone what is the speed of fifteen miles against the current...

It is definitely not possible to come, because the experimental ship has a maximum speed of ten miles against the current, so...
Chapter completed!