"The train that Your Highness has studied is really beyond our imagination. I have heard that the cost of taking a train is quite high."

The poor students looked sighing. Such things can't be afforded by their value.

This time, they still took advantage of Lishan Academy, so they were lucky enough to take a train. Otherwise, they would not know when they would take the train.

A train ticket costs two taels of silver, which is enough for them to spend a month on living expenses. If they just spend it like this, they will be reluctant to leave it.

"This is also impossible. You have also seen how vast the construction of railways is. The manpower and material resources are. The cost of the railway track alone is tens of millions of taels of silver.

In order to build such a railway, we can say that our families have already put all their money into it. Besides, although we are now pulling so many cars, in the end, there are only a lot of guests who can ride three to four cars.

According to the original idea, the railway is mainly for transportation. For those wandering merchants, train tickets are expensive and transportation costs are expensive, which saves money than their previous transportation methods."

Changsun smiled bitterly. He knew that these guys could not get on the train, but he could not do anything about this.

The money that the dandy boys in the academy can spend every day is enough for them to take the train for many days.

However, the gap between the rich and the poor within the entire Tang Dynasty was too huge. Although His Royal Highness has been improving this point, he has never achieved significant results.

"What are you doing with grief? You may not know that as students of Mount Li College, there is this unique convenience when taking the train, that is, the ticket is half the price.

If you don’t even want to pay half the price, then I have no choice. There is only so much benefit that Your Highness can do for you."

After saying this, Cheng Chumo shrugged helplessly and spread his hands at everyone.

"Really? You are not fooling us!"

Yin Yuan didn't believe that such a thing was happening, and he had never heard of such a welfare from ancient times to the present.

"What are you joining in the fun? Even if you double the price of train tickets, you will not frown."

Cheng Chumo rolled his eyes and said with great dissatisfaction that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave such benefits mainly targeted at poor students. What do you think you are a playboy?

"It seems like that's the same, but where did you get the news, why didn't I hear it?"

Yin Yuan was very dissatisfied. As a playboy, he should have received news as soon as possible about the outside world's disturbances. Unexpectedly, this time the limelight actually gave Cheng Chumo the initiative.

What no one expected was that after the train arrived in Lingnan, they did not stay there for a long time. They went down to buy something to fill their stomachs and set off directly to Chang'an.

When the train returned to Chang'an again, it was already dark, but the big guys in the court were not tired at all. Li Er was even more excited and took people back to the palace to discuss the tax collection.

The trial was successful, so the train from Chang'an to Lingnan is running every day.

In a blink of an eye, a month has passed, and the freshness of the people of Chang'an City about the train has passed.

Then we began to discuss this. Although the trains operate normally every day, there are very few passengers taking this sky-high ticket.

However, for merchants, the advent of trains is definitely their blessing, and the truck boxes are full every day.

For the Changsun family, Cheng family, and Qin family, it doesn’t matter how many passengers they do. As long as the truck box can be filled, they will have money to make.

These days, the cost of transporting goods is much higher than that of train tickets, so several people want to replace all the cars with truck boxes.

Wei Zheng, Dai Zhou and others saw that several families had a lot of money to make money every day, and they entered the palace again with red eyes to ask for his Majesty.

They believed that the taxes formulated at the time were too low, and the money was earned by several companies, and there was nothing wrong with the imperial court.

The two even contacted other officials to submit a memorial, asking several people to hand over half of their shares to the court, which was the right way.

There is no need to object to other three companies. Xiao Zhengtai immediately stood up to protect his rights. If you want shares, the court will pay ten times the cost price and give all the shares to the court.

Opportunities are for those who are prepared. When you took the initiative to ask you to join, you tried every means to disagree.

Now that you know it is profitable, you all have red eyes, how could such a good thing happen in the world?

Seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince get angry, everyone fell into silence. They were in the wrong place. No matter where they talked about it, they couldn't get any benefits.

In the end, I could only settle for the second best and asked Your Majesty again to find a suitable route. The court invested in the construction of the railway and took all the profits into the hands of the court.

In this regard, Xiao Zhengta said that there was no problem and he would never interfere. It was just that the sarcastic look in his eyes was quite sufficient.

I dare to talk about building a railway without any technology. Do I really think it's okay to just lay the railway tracks on the land?

Li Er naturally agreed very readily to such a request and directly chose a route, which was the railway line from Chang'an to Luoyang.

After the matter was settled, the big men in the court were generous and willing to invest in sponsoring the court, hoping to get some shares in the railway.

During this period, everyone had long been moved by the profits of the train and wanted to complete the railway immediately.

"I will say in the future that professionals should be dispatched to find a route suitable for trains."

Others may not know about this, but Li Er still heard about it. In order to find a suitable route, Xiao Zhengtai went to Dongshan in person to choose a suitable location.

"Ahem! Leave this matter to Erchen! However, Erchen will not participate in the construction of the railway. The current strength of the court can fully support the construction of this railway."

Xiao Zhengta, who was originally planning to watch the fun, suddenly felt Li Er's gaze, and then reluctantly took over the matter.

"Then I'll have to do it. I can do it with the construction of the railway with me and a few of you, so I won't bother you."

For fear that Xiao Zhengtai would intervene, Dai Zhou hurriedly told him to death, and the court must eat the meat of this railway alone.

Li Er did not express his opinion. His thoughts had already spread to the entire Tang Dynasty. If he could spread the railways throughout the Tang Dynasty in his lifetime, how rich would the Tang Dynasty be by that time.
Chapter completed!