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In the field of navy and shipping, steam engines have shown great competitiveness and attracted the attention of many people. Relatively speaking, trains are more low-key.

Because the railway is currently under construction, there are relatively few railways in operation, and they are basically short-distance railways. In many places, some short-distance railways with a length of tens of kilometers will naturally not take long to build. Basically, it takes only one year. This is very sufficient, so that the construction can be completed in the nineteenth year of Xuanping, and then it will be officially operated in the twenty years of Xuanping.

However, the impact of this kind of short-distance railway is relatively limited. Even the more than 70 kilometers Jingzhen line only caused a huge sensation when it was opened to traffic, and it was when it entered commercial operation. A lot of people take the train on the Jingzhen line, but the social impact is not big.

For the railway to create a nationwide sensation, a railway line of sufficient length is needed. The Jiangnan Railway has this effect. However, most sections of the Jiangnan Railway are still under construction. If you want to open the entire line to traffic, at least need more than three years

Among them, the Shanghai-Suzhou section is progressing relatively quickly, because this section is a two-way construction, one is from Shanghai to Suzhou, and the other is from Suzhou to Shanghai.

Even so, operations won't be available until this fall at the earliest.

This kind of speed is actually very fast for railway construction. In order to lay the railway as soon as possible, the Zhili Railway Company adopts the mode of segmented construction. In some places with convenient transportation, large-scale use of river transportation can be used to transport materials. , start building a point, and then build from this point to both ends at the same time.

Only in this way can the Jiangnan Railway be fully opened to traffic within three years.

At the same time, in order to recover the cost as soon as possible, a mode of building and operating at the same time, repairing a section, and operating a section is also adopted.

For example, the Jingzhen Line is also a part of the Jiangnan Railway. If it is repaired now, it will be operated first. After the Shanghai-Suzhou railway is repaired, it will also be operated first.

It does not mean that the entire Jiangnan Railway can be opened to traffic after the entire line is completed.

According to the estimation of Datang Railway Corporation, this year, which is the end of the 20th year of Xuanping, the railway mileage in official operation will exceed 500 kilometers.

And this figure will reach 1,300 kilometers in the 21st year of Xuanping, and 3,000 kilometers in the 22nd year of Xuanping.

After all, in the current domestic railway construction, in addition to the Jiangnan Railway, there are actually dozens of railways of various sizes under construction. For example, the Tianjin and Tangshan railways are now completed and put into operation, and the Guangzhou-Foshan railway is also in operation. .

In the future, these operating railways will be gradually extended to form a complete railway network.

When these railway networks are actually completed, the role they can play is not comparable to that of river transport.

After all, although the river transport has a large volume and is cheaper, due to the limitations of the river, it is not possible to use the river transport everywhere. Only some areas can use the river transport for transportation.

According to the estimates of the Transportation Department of the Ministry of Industry, the main railway roads across the country, that is, the east-west artery and the north-south artery, are expected to be completely completed within five years.

Of course, these railways are basically limited to places where the terrain is relatively flat and it is easy to build railways, so the construction can be so fast, but for some hilly and mountainous terrain, the railway construction will be much slower.

In the next five years, coastal and inland water transportation will still be the main force for long-distance material transportation in the empire. Even if it is five years later, the construction of the crossroad network of the railway network has been completed, but the role of coastal and inland water transportation is also difficult for railway transportation. alternative.

Therefore, in the coming decades or more, the transportation strategy of the Empire will still be a three-way parallel.

Shipping, rail transport, and horse-drawn carriage.

Among them, shipping and railway transportation are used as the main force of long-distance transportation, while carriage transportation is the main force of short-distance transportation.

After all, railways cannot be repaired to every place, let alone rivers. Therefore, after many materials arrive at a certain place through ships and trains, they will be loaded on various carriages and transported to their destinations.

At the same time, in places where there are no rivers and no railways, carriage transportation will be the only large-scale transportation force, so don’t look at today’s Datang Empire engaged in shipping, the movement of railways is a bit big, but the official road of the empire is the representative. However, the construction of the road has never stopped, but has increased investment year by year.

Especially in the 20th year of Xuanping, the large-scale water conservancy construction has come to an end. With the complete completion of the iconic water conservancy project of the Hongze Lake Embankment, it also represents the large-scale water conservancy facility construction that has lasted for several years. It is also over. Although there will be construction projects of water conservancy facilities every year, it will not be the same as the previous years. Every year, more than 10 million yuan of funds will be spent on the construction of water conservancy facilities.

In the past five years, the Empire has invested a total of about 50 million yuan in water conservancy, and this 50 million refers to the expenditure of the central government, and the expenditure of the local government on water conservancy facilities has not been counted. If the local investment is also counted, I am afraid this figure will exceed 100 million yuan.

Such large-scale construction of water conservancy facilities, even if it has been repeated several times in the past thousands of years, has never occurred.

And the huge investment has also brought great results!

Through huge investment, the Datang Empire has carried out preliminary control of the three major water systems that are prone to floods, namely the Yellow River, Huaihe River and Yangtze River, and built stronger flood control embankments in places prone to floods. According to the report of the Ministry of Industry That is to say, most of the projects of the three major water systems mentioned above can already prevent the once-in-a-decade flood.

In particular, the levee of Hongze Lake can prevent floods that occur once in 30 or even 50 years.

And by setting up water storage areas in the upstream area, when necessary, specific river sections will be blasted, so that the flood water will be injected into the flood control area prepared in advance, so as to adjust the flow from the middle upstream to the downstream, which can more effectively resist large-scale floods. .

In addition to these big projects, there are actually more small projects that seem to make up for it, because the construction of water conservancy facilities in the Datang Empire is all over the country, whether it is Qiongzhou Prefecture in Guangdong over there, or Liaodong in the north. , or the northwest region in the west, all have related water conservancy construction.

For example, in Gansu Province and Shaanxi Province in the northwest, the water conservancy construction is not about flood control, but drought resistance. By building channels to divert water, drilling wells and other methods to solve the problem of water shortage in some places.

Even in areas with good weather and good weather, water conservancy construction was carried out, and the farmland was irrigated by excavating channels, turning lower-class fields into middle-class fields, and middle-class fields into upper-class fields.

In this series of water conservancy construction, the investment is huge, but the harvest is also huge. The weather in the empire in recent years is not really good, but there have been no large-scale floods, droughts, etc. This is because the new construction The water conservancy facilities have played a huge role.

The water conservancy facilities of the Datang Empire can be regarded as a typical project that concentrates its efforts on major events, and now, the Datang Empire has used this construction experience in railway construction and road construction.

To this end, in the first cabinet meeting after Xuanping’s 20th year, Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, formally proposed the slogan of 'transportation construction' for the first time. The Son of Heaven instructed all aspects of the cabinet to take transportation construction as the future. I will focus on the key tasks of the five years, and said that if you want to get rich, you must build roads first!

Li Xuan, the Holy Son of Heaven, personally shouted the slogan of transportation construction, and the following ministers naturally responded positively. First, Liu Bagou, the minister on duty in the imperial study room and a scholar of Jianji Temple, officially petitioned to plan and build a number of railway masters. trunk.

At present, there are three main railway lines planned and started by the Datang Empire. The first is the Jiangnan Railway. This Jiangnan Railway is mainly composed of two parts. The first part is from Jiujiang to Ningbo. The main cities are Jiujiang, Dangtu, Jinling, Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo. The second part is from Jinling City to Hangzhou, via Guangzhou Dezhou and Huzhou.

The second is the Northern Railway. From Jinling City to Youzhou, the main cities are Jinling, Fengyang, Xuzhou, Kaifeng, Zhangde, Hejian, Tianjin and Youzhou.

The third is the Northwest Railway. From Kaifeng to Jiayuguan, the main cities are Henan Prefecture, Xi'an Prefecture, Xining Prefecture, Liangzhou, Suzhou, and finally Jiayuguan.

The above are the three main railway lines currently under construction in the empire~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The first two are basically for the dual consideration of national defense and economy, while the third one is purely for national defense.

The railway lines that are also purely for national defense considerations actually include the Northeast Railway and the Prairie Railway.

The Northeast Railway is from Tianjin to the northeast, passing through Tangshan (currently this section has been completed and operated ahead of schedule.) It passes through Jinzhou in western Liaoning and Shenyang in eastern Liaoning, and then continues northward to enter the northeastern province, and finally all the way to Heilongjiang.

This is expected to be constructed in order to ensure the immigrant development and military deployment of the empire in the northeast region, but at present, except for the Tianjin to Tangshan section, other railways are basically still under planning, and will not enter the construction stage in the short term.

The Hetao branch line starts from Youzhou, passes through Xuanfu and enters Fengzhou, and then continues westward to arrive at the northern part of the Hetao area of ​​the Datang Empire, just located in Heishan City on the north bank of the Yellow River.

This Heishan City is located about 150 kilometers west of Dongsheng City, on the north bank of the Yellow River. It is the latest new city built by the Datang Empire in the Hetao area. It is also a strategic city used by the Imperial Army to control the security of the Hetao area.