Chen Xi smiled and said: "Sir, you had the foresight. Zhang Fengyi was scolded by her mother and left in tears. Mrs. Zhang was so powerful, holding her daughter by the back of her neck as if she was holding a little chicken.
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Originally, Chen Xi was quite wary when she saw Zhang Fengyi's beautiful appearance and hot figure.
The women around Yang Fan actually share the same hatred on this point.
At this time, I discovered that Zhang Fengyi had already found a wife, and the master had no other intentions for her. I immediately felt relieved.
Otherwise, if you go out and fail to take a good look at the master, your wife will blame you when you return.
Yang Fan said: "Send someone to deliver a small steam engine to Mr. Zhang. It is not easy for the old man to be so old and so obsessed with science."
"Master, where should we go next?" Chen Xi asked.
Yang Fan looked at this little girl, and it was obvious that she hadn't had enough fun. After arriving in Hangzhou for a day, Yang Fan was still not there. The sailors on the ship took turns to go out to play within two days. But it didn't work, Yang Fan's railway construction was about to start. Yang Fan had to rush
gone back.
"We have to go back. Your Majesty has approved the first phase of the North Canal Railway. Construction will start soon." Yang Fan said apologetically.
At present, mountains of sleepers and rails, as well as a large amount of ballast stones, have been piled up in the cargo yard of the new city. When we return this time, the tracks in the capital have been basically laid, and the bus system in the capital will be officially opened soon. At the same time, Your Majesty,
The start of construction of the Northern Canal Railway has been approved.
This railway will mainly play the role of replacing the transportation of the Northern Canal, which is a good thing of great significance to the Ming Dynasty. From now on, officials along the Northern Canal will no longer have to worry about the shortage of trackers.
Because a large number of factories have opened up in Beijing and Beizhili in the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer refugees. Now trackers have become a headache.
With the maturity of the reciprocating steam engine, the train driven by the steam engine in the city will not operate for too long. It will soon be transferred to the railway like the other four locomotives.
Instead, a single rail car uses a small automobile steam engine. It is the same as the tram in old Shanghai, but it is small steam-powered.
In this kind of car, the driver's seat is on the left side of the front. There is a small boiler in the middle and forward. The front of the car is triangular. On the right side is the door for getting on. At the rear of the car, there are doors on both sides for getting off.
The carriage is made of wood and the chassis is a track chassis. It requires a driver, a stoker and a conductor to accompany the vehicle. The speed is about 20 kilometers, and each vehicle has a capacity of 100 people.
The car body is self-powered, and the interior of the car is the same as a modern subway, with two sets of seats facing each other and a standing position in the middle. In the future, 160 single-section rail cars will be gradually put into use on the 16-kilometer loop track in Beijing. One train will be installed every six minutes.
The speed of the vehicle is running.
Currently, there is already a vehicle running on the Beijing track for experiments.
Chongzhen once left the palace incognito and personally experienced a steam engine train and a single-section rail car. It is said that his majesty was very satisfied after the experience. He quickly approved Yang Fan's plan for the North Canal Railway.
The first phase of the North Canal Railway project starts from the port of Dagukou and is laid on the south bank of the canal. It passes through Tianjin Acropolis, Dong'an County (today's Langfang area), to Gu'an County, then northwest along the foot of the West Mountain, and is established west of Marco Polo Bridge
Station. At the same time, a railway bridge was built to branch off a line to Yongding Gate.
The main line continues northwest, in the plain west of Xiangshan, enters the mountainous area via Miaofengshan Town, goes straight to Huailai County along the ancient trade road in the valley, and finally reaches Zhangjiakou in Xuanfu Town.
The second phase of the project will start from Zhangjiakou and enter the grassland, passing through (Jining) Ulanqab, to Guihua City (Hohhot), and then continue westward, passing through Jiuyuan (Baotou) to Linhe (Bayannur). Then along the
The Yellow River flows southward and finally reaches Yinchuan.
The Yellow River is full of dangers, but only one is weak. The Hetao area is the most conducive to farming in the northwest. Controlling the Hetao area will basically control the situation in the northwest. The Hetao is actually three areas: the western area, the outer area, and the inner area.
Xitao is the Yinchuan Plain in Ningxia. The land here is fertile and the water source is sufficient. It is an agricultural area known as Jiangnan.
The outer layer is the Linhe area, outside the left shoulder of the Yellow River's zigzag shape, where there are millions of acres of fertile land where rice can even be grown.
The inner sleeve is the fertile land at the top of the jigsaw that is under the jurisdiction of Baotou today.
Since Yang Fan is sending troops to the Inner and Outer Loop this time, he intends to drive a wedge into the center of Mongolian power. In the Outer and Inner Loop, immigrants will colonize, build fortified cities, improve transportation, and develop agricultural and animal husbandry production. He will firmly control this place.
live.
Once we take control of this place, we will cut off all the communication routes between the Mongolian forces in Qinghai-Tibet, Xinjiang, and Outer Mongolia. Turning the Mongols into separate areas is equivalent to cutting off the battlefield in a war.
After defeating it, we must hold on.
When agricultural civilization is strong, conquering it is not a problem, the problem is how to hold on. Transporting food from the interior will bring down the country's finances.
Nowadays, the climate is cold, and production in North Zhili has been reduced. It is said that agriculture cannot be developed here. However, no matter how cold it is here, it will not be as cold as the Northeast in later generations. Crops from the Northeast in later generations can definitely be grown here. Yang Fan has cold and drought tolerance.
Seeds and steam engines can pump water from the Yellow River or dig wells for irrigation.
When the train comes through, the guano from the sea can also be transported. All the conditions for the development of agriculture will be available here.
Agriculture can be done, but industry has better conditions here and can be developed in a big way. Baotou will be a famous steel city in later generations.
In Baotou, there is the Bayan Obo Iron Mine, which has iron ore reserves of about 1.4 billion tons, niobium reserves of 6.6 million tons, and rare earth reserves of about 100 million tons. A little further north is the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Outer Mongolia.
It is the largest copper mine in Asia. Preliminarily proven copper reserves are 31.1 million tons, gold reserves are 1,328 tons, and silver reserves are 7,600 tons.
There is no shortage of coal mines here. As long as the train is connected, all the conditions for industrial development will be available.
What the Ming Dynasty lacks the most is iron ore and copper mines. After this railway is opened to traffic, Yang Fan will have enough resources to develop industry in the Ming Dynasty.
Local farming will take time, and it will take more than ten years to develop the land to the point where it can support the local military and civilians. Therefore, Yang Fan plans to use railways to closely connect Santao with the capital.
Although it is a small train with a narrow gauge of 76, its transportation volume is still amazing compared to this era.
When the little train starts running, there is also a thousand taels of gold when the train rings.
The food and various materials shipped from the south of the Yangtze River, the cattle, sheep and furs from the grasslands, the steel industry base in the new city of Zunhua, and the consumer market in the capital will form a huge scale of trade.
Driven by profit, a large number of businessmen, craftsmen, and farmers will rush to the Hetao in order to make a fortune. Only in this way can the three sets be completely guarded.
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