Valley Emperor

As the Minister of Agriculture, Ying Junzhi's main responsibilities are naturally to be responsible for a series of domestic agriculture, mulberry, animal husbandry, forestry, etc., in addition to a resettlement settlement.

In recent years, the work of the Immigration and Reclamation Division has become more and more important, so Ying Junzhi is a minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, but he still often pays attention to the affairs of immigration and reclamation.

When Li Xuan personally instructed him to increase immigration settlements in the southwest, northeast and northwest border provinces, Ying Junzhi was also busy with his feet. In order to organize immigration affairs, he even took the train to go there. Henan, Shanxi and other provinces with more people and less land organized immigration.

Speaking of which, in the last two years, senior officials like Ying Junzhi have been able to frequently go out to Beijing to handle affairs in person, because there are convenient trains and ships. Absolutely impossible.

Fortunately, there are now trains and ships, so you can go to various coastal areas, rivers, and lakes by ship. Even if there are only small rivers and small rivers, you can also take small river cruises.

Taking the train is even faster. From Jinling City to Shanghai, one day and night is enough.

Datang's railway network was built very quickly, because the railways being constructed are all single-track railways. At the same time, in order to shorten the construction period and reduce costs, railway lines are also chosen to be constructed in plain areas. As for the troublesome cross-river, today's steel The technology of cement bridges is relatively mature. Some bridges with a span of several hundred meters are naturally more troublesome, but if it is only a bridge with a span of less than two or three hundred meters, it is no longer a problem.

Under this circumstance, the construction of the railway in Datang is very good. In the autumn of Xuanping 24 years, the north-south main line, that is, the last section of the Beijing-Tianjin line from Jinling City to Tianjin was completed and opened to traffic.

As a result, from Jinling City to Tianjin, you can arrive by train all the way.

At the same time, the Northeast Railway from Tianjin to Shenyang has also been completed and opened to traffic, and the grassland railway from Tianjin to Youzhou and Heishan City has also been completed and opened to traffic. .

From Jinling City, you can take the train all the way to Shenyang City in Liaodong Province or Heishan City in Hefeng Province, which greatly increased the empire's rule over the northeast and grassland areas.

Because of the opening of the railway, it is not only convenient to deploy troops and transport, but also a large number of immigrants follow the railway line to the northeast and Hefeng Province.

In the early years, Heishan City was just a pure military fortress, but now it has become the provincial capital of Hefeng Province, and it still has a city with tens of thousands of immigrants, becoming the empire’s main economic and trade city on the grasslands.

At the same time, in the area near Heishan City, iron and other minerals were discovered, which attracted many mining enterprises to invest in mining here, and the industrial economy with mining as the core has gradually developed.

The same is true for the Northeast Railway. Although the Northeast region is rich in minerals, a few years ago, because the Northeast Railway was not open to traffic, it was difficult for minerals to be shipped out. Afterwards, all kinds of minerals in the northeast region can be easily transported by train to the north and even the Central Plains and other provinces, which greatly stimulates the development of the local mining industry.

In the Jiangnan area, the last section of the Jiangnan Railway, that is, the railway from Jinling City to Hangzhou via Huzhou has also been completed and opened to traffic, and the railway network around the Taihu Lake has been officially formed, which has greatly stimulated the economy in northern Zhejiang.

The railway construction in Jiangxi is also very fast. The Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway has entered the final critical construction period. The main projects are concentrated in the mountainous areas, but this part of the area is left in the end. It is complicated and difficult to construct, and it is estimated that it will take a long time to open to traffic.

On the contrary, the railway line connecting Jiangxi to Huguang was built relatively quickly. Because of the plain terrain, the construction difficulty was small, and the railway line from Nanchang to Wuchang was nearing its end.

The other most important main line of the imperial railway network, that is, the Northwest Railway, is now in Shaanxi, but has not yet entered Gansu. , at least two years.

Speaking of which, this railway is also the most difficult railway built by the Datang Railway Corporation. The construction in the Central Plains area is not bad, at least in the plain area. The surrounding population is also large, and it is convenient to hire railway workers. Moreover, after the railway built a road in Xi'an, it connected the provincial capital of Shaanxi, and after it was also Datang's nominally three major capitals, the freight volume and passenger volume were not bad, at least it didn't make the Datang Railway Corporation lose money.

However, when we continue to repair westward, it will be extremely difficult. The terrain is more complex, and the construction is even more difficult. Many building materials used, such as steel, have to be transported from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the transportation cost is high.

These difficulties will not be discussed. The most important thing is that the further west you go, the smaller the local population, so that it is often difficult for the Datang Railway Corporation to hire enough railway workers locally.

It should be known that modern railway construction mainly relies on manpower. The use of mechanical equipment is actually very limited. Without enough labor, the railway cannot be built.

The lack of local labor forces forced the railway companies to hire railway workers from the mainland, and the labor cost was even greater.

In addition, the further west you go, the smaller the population, and the more desolate it will be. If you continue to go west to Gansu, there will be few civilians except for the garrison, which means that the further west you go, the less the railway’s operating income will be. , After arriving in Gansu, it is estimated that only the transportation task of the military will be left.

Not to mention recovering construction costs, even on weekdays to maintain operations at a loss.

This situation, even in the Northeast Railway and Prairie Railway are not encountered.

Although the three northeastern provinces and Hefeng province are also frontiers, the Liaodong and western Liaoning regions in the northeast have gradually developed in recent years, especially the rapid development of minerals. Hefeng province is also the largest exporter of cattle, sheep and other related goods in the empire today. The origin, the freight volume is still not small, and the mining industry in Heishan City is gradually developing.

Therefore, although these two railways are not profitable for the time being, they will not lose money in maintaining daily operations.

But the Northwest Railway has not been completed yet, and the operation of the existing railway section has already started to lose money!

This made the Railway Corporation very helpless.

Because even if they lose money, they have to grit their teeth and continue to repair, and they have to maintain operations, because the Northwest Railway is not a commercial railway from the beginning, but a combat-ready railway.

Fortunately, other parts of the country, especially the Jiangnan Railway, are quite profitable. Relying on the railway operating profits in other areas, Datang Railway Corporation can also support it.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Xuan set up the Datang Railway Corporation at that time, and let this company monopolize all railway construction and operation in the empire. Because the empire is so big, the railways in some places must be very profitable, and the railways in some places are not profitable or even lose money. of.

If the monopoly is liberalized and capital pursues profits, it is estimated that railways will only be built in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and there will be no companies to build the Northwest Railway, the Northeast Railway, and the Prairie Railway.

And this situation is what Li Xuan does not want to see.

Li Xuan is quite satisfied with the current situation, regardless of whether the railway is profitable or not, as long as the empire needs it, it will be repaired.

Relying on the empire's developed railway network, the transportation of personnel and materials is already extremely convenient.

This can be seen from the changes in the military deployment of the empire in recent years. In the past, the military deployment of the empire was deployed in some strategic towns in traditional areas, but in recent years, the deployment of troops has basically been It's around the railway line.

For example, Tianjin, a strategic city in the north, a railway hub in the north, and a major coastal port in the north, so important traffic has made the empire stationed here. Outside the palace, there is nothing important left, and even the troops stationed there are not many.

There are also Shenyang, Jinzhou, and Heishancheng, the key railway points or cities along the line, which are all heavily garrisoned areas.

In the Central Plains, Kaifeng should have the most troops stationed here. This is the intersection of the Northern Railway and the Northwest Railway, and it is also a port area along the Yellow River. It goes without saying how important its strategic position is.

In addition, today's Jiujiang, Nanchang, Wuchang, Ganzhou, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Hangzhou and many other cities along the railway line are heavily guarded areas.

A large number of troops are stationed here, not only because these places are important, but also if a war breaks out in the country, the troops along these railways can be quickly delivered to the warring areas by relying on the railway.

This is more important.

The development of the railway network and river network also brought another military advantage, that is, it allowed the Imperial Army to control a larger area with fewer troops.

In the past, the speed of troop mobilization was slow~www.wuxiaspot.com~ needed to deploy more troops to control various places, but now, the army has begun to gradually reduce the troop strength in some areas, adopting comprehensive monitoring, focusing on defense, and maneuvering operations.

To put it simply, a very small number of reserve divisions are deployed all over the country. These reserve divisions are to maintain daily law and order, and the number is very small, and they all add up to not much.

However, the main field troops are concentrated in strategic locations of transportation, usually along railways, rivers and seas. Once there is turmoil in a certain place, the main troops will be quickly mobilized directly by trains and ships to press them.

In this way, there is no need to disperse the main force in many places as before.

The emergence of trains and ships is also an important reason for the Datang Army to continue to mobilize troops to fight abroad. While the domestic troops are gradually reduced, they can also maintain the bombing mission in the frontier areas and the domestic hinterland.

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