Valley Emperor

The Southern Railway Company has just been established in name only a few days, but its core is the original Guangdong Railway Company, which has built and operated the railway network in Guangdong, and its railway line from Foshan to Guangzhou to Huizhou, and then to Hong Kong, It's their work.

In addition, several subsidiaries of the Railway Corporation, such as Huguang Railway Company and Nanchang Railway Company, were merged.

After the merger, the company's top management did not make any adjustments or the like, which is a waste of time, and they put all their energy on the construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway.

If the construction is completed one day earlier, there will be an extra day's bonus.

In addition, the officials of the Jiangxi Governor's Yamen did not feel much about this matter. Anyway, they all want to build the railway, but they also know that the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway will benefit greatly after the construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway. The benefits on their side are also not less.

At the same time, it was also to respond to the call of the Son of Heaven and to demonstrate a sense of political existence. Therefore, the governor of Jiangxi also made a statement, saying that the construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, the Jiangxi side is also not slack, and is willing to provide convenience for the construction of the railway and financial support.

Of course, although Jiangxi is also known as a land of fish and rice, especially in northern Jiangxi, it is a traditional agricultural town, but in the era of industrialization of the empire, they were left behind.

No matter what, there is an important industrial town in southern Anhui next to Dangtu, Jiangnan in the further distance, Guangdong in the south, and Wuchang in the west is also an important industrial town supported by the empire. High-level support can only be self-reliance.

Although the industry has also developed, it can only be regarded as the middle class in many provinces of the empire. The economic development of this place is average, and the fiscal revenue is naturally not much.

So the money was tight, and in the end, they gave about half a million dollars in financial support.

Of course, most of this money is not directly given to the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, but to several branch lines attached to the main line of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, such as the Nanchang branch connecting the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway to Nanchang City, and The straight line connecting the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway to the Pingxiang Coal Mine, etc., people's abacus is also shrewd.

Only a subsidy of 100,000 yuan was given to the main line of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway.

But this is also money, more than 500,000 yuan, and ultimately it has to fall into the pockets of the Southern Railway Company.

The Southern Railway Company, which was stabbed by money, and the Railway Corporation also exerted great pressure on them, so they did everything possible to meet the deadline.

There are not enough machinery and equipment, and the transportation is inconvenient. Large steam engines and other equipment cannot be transported in. I am afraid of an egg and directly use a large number of manpower.

Anyway, most of the railway construction is ordinary digging mountains to open roads. As for those bridges with relatively high technical content, we will talk about it later.

The key now is to dig a lot of mountains and open roads. With enough manpower, it is still possible to dig a road abruptly, and then the technical engineering team behind it will lay gravel, sleepers and rails.

In order to build the railway, they not only recruited workers along the railway line, but even went to other places to recruit workers.

They are going to use the power of the sea of ​​​​people!

Anyway, the cost of hiring workers is not high these days, and it is even cheaper than the cost of directly using mechanical equipment.

The Southern Railway Company was so quick that Chen Lifu was a little worried. If they completed the construction of the railway very early, wouldn't it be a big loss for him?

The originally scheduled interest subsidy and construction bonus of more than 5 million yuan was already a heavy burden for Guangdong's local finance. If there were more, it would be troublesome.

But this kind of worry only lasted for a few seconds. If it can be completed as soon as possible, there is nothing to worry about spending hundreds of thousands or even millions of bonuses. The big deal is that it will be harder in the past few years and reduce some administrative expenses.

As long as the railway is opened to traffic, then the economy will be freed up. At that time, there will be more tax revenue and more fiscal revenue will be shared by local finance.

After the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway was finalized, Chen Lifu originally wanted to repeat his old tricks and start the Yue-Han Railway, but this time he was directly rejected by the Yushufang.

The important officials in the imperial study believe that this kind of thing can only be one, not two!

The Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway is more important, because in addition to economic factors, there are also strong political factors, because once the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway is completed, it means that you can take the train from Jinling City to Guangzhou all the way.

If the Beijing-Tianjin line is added, then it can form a complete north-south trunk line.

Now that the finances are tight, and the Northwest Railway and many other railway lines have not been completed, there is no need to be in such a hurry to launch the second north-south trunk line.

After all, Datang's main railway line planning, the early stage is the Jiangnan railway plan, the mid-term is the north-south main line, and the northwest main line.

As for other aspects of railway construction, they have to be ranked behind the north-south trunk line and the northwest trunk line.

However, although Chen Lifu's plan was rejected, it does not mean that the railway will not be repaired, it just means that it will not be repaired in recent years.

Busy with railway matters, Chen Lifu is eyeing a series of transportation developments such as official roads, urban cement roads, and shipping!

As soon as he took office as the governor of Guangdong, he rectified the administration in the first few months, and the next few months were busy with traffic. Except for the railway, he did not fall behind in other aspects of traffic planning.

The traditional construction of official roads is still going on. The construction of official roads in the Tang Dynasty has always continued. In the national development plan of official roads in the early years, basically, the most basic official roads have been built nationwide. On the Internet, although it is said that most of the official roads were built on the basis of the official roads of the former Ming Dynasty, and many of them can only be used for carriages on one-way streets, but at least they have them.

Now, what Chen Lifu wants to do is to continue to develop the official road network in the province, expand its key routes, and build low-level official roads leading to towns in other areas.

Strive to connect the existing official road network that only connects all states and counties, so as to connect all towns.

Datang's local management system was extended to villages, with counties under the government, towns under the counties, and villages under the towns.

Not to mention the villages. As for this town, a relatively local county usually has more than a dozen towns. Most of these towns have no access to pipelines, only some mountain roads and so on.

In addition to wanting to cover a wider range of pipelines, Chen Lifu also intends to lay cement on several of the urban roads with great traffic and economic influence.

This cement has been out for so many years, and it has been widely used in the construction industry, and it is nothing new for paving.

Shanghai has done this for a long time. Nowadays, many main roads in the urban area of ​​Shanghai are basically paved with cement. Of course, the cement roads of this year are incomparable with the cement roads of later generations. In order to save costs, the cement roads of this year, Just laying a layer on the surface, the main function is to harden and smooth the road surface, unlike the cement roads of later generations, which can bear dozens of tons or hundreds of tons.

After all, horse-drawn carriages run on the road these days, and even those heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages that carry goods can only carry more than a ton. This kind of road with just a layer of cement on the surface is enough.

In addition to Shanghai, other cities with relatively good economy have also followed suit. Needless to say, Jinling City, the capital of the empire, even if it is for the dignity of the empire, it has to be repaired.

As for Guangzhou, there are also cement roads, but they have not formed a scale. They are only paved on a limited number of roads. Now Chen Lifu intends to pave the main roads in the city with cement.

In particular, the roads in the commercial and industrial areas must be paved with cement on a large scale, so that the local economy can be better developed.

Chen Lifu doesn't need to worry about laying cement on the roads in the urban area, because the Guangzhou government already has this plan, and there is money, so this matter is much simpler.

Only shipping, which gave Chen Lifu some headaches!

In the shipping system in Guangdong, in addition to shipping, inland shipping is mainly the many tributaries of the Pearl River, such as the Dongjiang and Xijiang.

Dongjiang is a waterway that connects Huizhou and even northern Guangdong, while Xijiang is a waterway that connects Zhaoqing, Guangxi Wuzhou, Liuzhou and other places.

And these two waterways are not natural and very good waterways, especially the Xijiang River. The Zhaoqing section of the Xijiang River has many canyons, with rapid currents and many reefs.

With the development of the economy, there are more and more ships, and the shipping on the Xijiang River is getting busier and busier. At the same time, more and more ships have accidents.

In order to solve the problem of inland shipping, Chen Lifu intends to dredge waterways such as the Xijiang and Dongjiang, so as to excavate the shipping capacity of the rivers in the Pearl River Basin.

After all, although railways are in power today, the role of inland shipping is still irreplaceable.

Especially now that the high-pressure steam engine has come out, the ships that ship in inland waterways have gradually become steam ships, which are faster and easier to go upstream without wind, which makes inland waterway navigation play a greater role.

When Chen Lifu was doing things in Guangdong and doing his traffic, Li Xuan in Jinling City had already forgotten about him.

Even though Li Xuan values ​​Chen Lifu~www.wuxiaspot.com~, there are 25 provincial highways in the empire, how can he stare at Guangdong and Chen Lifu every day.

After the railway subsidy incident, Li Xuan basically didn't pay much attention to Chen Lifu, and he had to deal with more government affairs every day.

Not only have to deal with many affairs of twenty-five provincial highways and more than a dozen overseas territories, but various departments in Gyeonggi also have a lot of broken things.

In addition to these internal affairs, there are also many military affairs, which are still being fought between the Empire and the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean.

The war between the two sides has been going on for almost a year, but for these two countries that are far apart from each other and are not weak at the same time, this war is just the beginning.

It's just that this war has been going on so far, and it has not been so smooth for the Tang Empire!

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