Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1918: Southwest Railway

Due to the complicated geographical environment of the southwest region of the empire, the construction of railways to the southwest region is quite difficult.

In the era of no large-scale machinery and equipment, the construction of railways was basically based on manpower. This construction mode is better in plains and other places with better terrain conditions, but when the terrain is complex, especially in mountainous areas, it often becomes very difficult. difficulty.

Therefore, in the construction of railways in the contemporary Datang Dynasty, the first consideration in the selection of the route is not the distance, the passing city and other factors, but the terrain problem.

This is even more obvious in the construction of railways in the southwest region. Even though the Datang Empire has a complete plan for the transportation construction of the southwest subway, whether it is Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan or Guangxi, there are railway projects.

Sichuan is naturally the Sichuan-Hanzhou Railway. At present, the railway has entered the construction, but because the construction is relatively difficult, it is estimated that the completion time will be relatively late.

In terms of Yunnan and Guizhou, there is a Southwest Railway under construction. Since this railway is called the Southwest Railway, it naturally reflects its status as a main railway line.

The railway line will start from Changsha, then enter Guizhou to Guiyang, continue to Yunnan, and finally arrive at Kunming. This railway is more difficult to repair than the Sichuan-Hanzhou Railway, so don't expect to see the day when it is completed in a short time.

At the same time, there is also a Guangxi railway extending from the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, then entering Guangxi, passing through Guilin, arriving at Liuzhou, finally arriving at Nanning, and then continuing southwards into Lianzhou. In addition, there is a railway branch line from Hezhou to Guilin. Because Hezhou can directly connect to the Guangdong railway network.

The above-mentioned railway in Guangxi is also difficult to build due to the complicated terrain. At present, only the railway line from Lianzhou to Nanning has been completed, and the others are still under construction.

On the one hand, the construction progress of these railways is slow, and on the other hand, what prompted Yunnan and Guangxi to jointly promote the construction of the Songkun Railway (Jiaozhou Songping, Yunnan Kunming) is because Yunnan wants to obtain a relatively near sea outlet.

The Guangxi side is also preparing to focus on building the only Linhai Prefecture in Guangxi after taking over Jiaozhou.

If it wasn't for the Lianzhou-Guangning railway already in place, people in Guangxi would have planned to build a Nanning-Songping railway.

The route survey of the Songkun Railway has already begun. Once Datang accepted Jiaozhou and several nearby areas, it immediately entered the construction state.

And the railway company is optimistic that the construction progress of this railway will be faster than that of the Southwest Railway, and the entire line will be completed earlier.

Once this railway is completed, it will provide great assistance to the development of the areas along the railway, especially in Yunnan, which will completely change the history of the unconnected railway in Yunnan.

The construction of the Songkun Railway is a part of the strategy of the Tang Dynasty in the Nanyang Peninsula, and it is also a part of the support of the southwestern provinces and regions by the Tang Dynasty.

There are many ways to support, but in the past ten years, the officials of Datang have basically formed a consensus, one-sided financial support or helping to introduce enterprises is secondary.

The most important thing is to do a good job of local transportation, otherwise, no matter how to guide enterprises, people are not willing to go to invest.

This is not to mention the problem of cargo transportation. Even people can only take a carriage to run the official road, and spend ten days and a half months on the road casually. No one can stand it.

People are like that, let alone goods.

Today's industrial and commercial development of Datang has long been separated from the manual workshop mode. The processing and manufacturing industry is developing towards a centralized and large-scale development. Enterprises need to obtain a large amount of raw materials from various places, and they also need to transport the produced products to various places in a timely manner. to sell.

For many companies, this area is just the surrounding area, but for large companies, it is the whole country, and for some special companies, it is the world.

Therefore, the transportation is very important.

Why are coastal port cities like Songjiang Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture able to develop? But many resource-producing areas, such as many inland cities, cannot develop?

After all, it's a traffic problem!

In the 20th year of Xuanping's reign, the Son of Heaven had already given an oral decree at the meeting of the imperial cabinet: the transportation problem is the first problem to be solved in the development of the local economy!

Among the many problems that restrict the development of the southwest region today, the traffic problem is the primary problem.

Therefore, the Yunnan Governor will toss the Song-Kun Railway.

But this is only for Yunnan, for the local Jiaozhou, especially for the newly appointed officials of the Jiaozhou Yamen, the development of Yunnan next door is none of their business.

All they care about is the development of Jiaozhou!

Today's Jiaozhou is a piece of white paper, the South Vietnamese have been completely withdrawn, and imperial immigrants are gradually arriving.

According to the plan of the Immigration and Reclamation Division, Jiaozhou will accept at least 300,000 people.

This 300,000 people is not a lot. In the Central Plains or other prosperous places, it is actually the population of a county. For the huge Jiaozhou, 300,000 people are relatively small, and it will even cause people in a wide area. Rare situation.

After all, in a place like Jiaozhou before, there were hundreds of thousands of people in Nanyue before they moved out, and this population number is still the result of years of war. If it was before the war, there would be at least one million people in this place.

However, Datang immigrants, in order to increase the enthusiasm of immigrants, often give a lot of free land. In this case, 300,000 immigrants can be arranged. This is still a good reason for the development of Jiaozhou. If it is replaced by If you go to other places, even if the place is big enough, it will not be able to arrange 300,000 immigrants.

But even so, the Immigration and Reclamation Division has spent a lot of effort to gather these 300,000 people. Originally, they planned to recruit immigrants from the Central Plains and several northern provinces, but when they heard that it was the land of South Vietnam, it was directly shook his head.

The world is so big, even though their hometown was devastated and forced to emigrate, but they wouldn't go to Nanyang, they're too long-lived...

Nowadays, there are too many immigration options for the people of the empire~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Aside from overseas, there are actually many places to go in the mainland.

For example, Liaodong and Northeast provinces have been recruiting immigrants.

There is also Ha Phong Province, which also recruits immigrants all year round, not only farmers but also herdsmen.

Then so did Gansu and Tubo.

In recent years, Haidong Province has hundreds of acres of land.

Xiber Province is even more exaggerated. As long as you dare to go, you will be given a large pasture!

It's just that the broken place is freezing cold, and even so, not many people go.

After all, the winter is dozens of degrees below zero, and the winter is extremely long in these places, most people can't stand it.

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