Of course, if you want to develop the Siberian region, the first thing you need to do is to improve transportation. Fortunately, the Russian Empire has already made some contribution to this, and that is the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The entire Trans-Siberian Railway is a famous railway line that traverses the east and west of the Tsarist Russian Empire. It starts from Moscow, passes through Samara, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Khabarovsk, and ends in Vladivostok, with a total length of about 9,332 kilometers.
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The longest railway in the world, with more than 500 freight and passenger trains running on this steel artery, construction began in the mid-19th century, and most of it is now open to traffic. This was also the day when Tsar Nicholas II sent
One of the wedding dresses for Li Ningyu.
However, the current Trans-Siberian Railway mainly passes through Outer Mongolia and reaches the Outer Northeastern region. There is still no railway in northern Siberia. This is one of the major things Li Ningyu will start to do.
As early as the 16th century, the Tsarist Empire frantically expanded its territory in Asia, seizing the entire Siberian region at the same time, making this vast land area more than 13 million square kilometers, accounting for nearly one-third of the Asian land area.
Although there are endless forests and grasslands, as well as fertile soil and rich mineral resources, it is too far away from the European part of the Russian Empire, so Siberia has not been able to be developed for hundreds of years. In addition, its own natural
The conditions are so harsh that since the late 16th century, successive tsars have used this place as a place of exile for hard labor.
At the end of the 19th century, the Tsarist Empire also began to enter a period of industrialization. In order to increase the development of the domestic economy, Tsar Nicholas II began to pay attention to the development of the Siberian region. More importantly, at that time, the great powers of Britain, the United States, France, Germany and other countries
There is a fierce competition for power on the international stage in the Far East, which highlights the strategic position of Siberia.
In order to consolidate the Russian Empire's possession of this land far away from Europe, and to implement the Russian Empire's Far East policy of continuing to encroach on Asia, Tsar Nicholas II decided to build a large railway that ran through the entire southern Siberia.
The Tsarist Empire conducted a lot of demonstration work on this large railway. After Tsar Nicholas II officially issued an order, the Trans-Siberian Railway decided to start construction first from the Vladivostok Naval Base at the easternmost end.
At that time, Tsar Nicholas II personally visited Vladivostok to preside over the foundation laying ceremony of this railway. Due to the importance of the matter, the highest authorities of the Russian Empire paid great attention to the project from beginning to end. Nicholas II also personally served as the chairman of the construction committee. However,
The construction of this railway was under extremely difficult conditions. In addition to dense rivers, lakes, mountains, and vast areas of permafrost, the harsh climate became the biggest test for railway construction.
The winter temperature in Siberia can reach an astonishing minus 50 degrees, but in midsummer it often reaches temperatures as high as 40 degrees above zero. Such a huge temperature difference often causes steel to become brittle and equipment to suddenly damage, so under such extremely harsh conditions
Thousands of poor farmers and hard laborers from the Tsarist Empire participated in this construction. The builders had to brave the severe cold and heat to build bridges in the mountains and lay sleepers at the same time. Too many people died from overwork.
At the same time, the Tsarist Empire had to pay a high investment price for the construction of this railway. As the economic weight of Europe and a relatively backward country, the Tsarist Russian Empire almost exhausted its national power on this railway to be able to afford the astonishing investment.
In terms of construction costs, in the ten years from 1891 to 1901 alone, the Russian Empire spent 1.6 billion rubles on the Trans-Siberian Railway, which far exceeded the overall military expenditure of the Russian Empire during the same period.
Finally, after 13 years of hard work, the longest railway line in the world was fully opened to traffic. However, it finally became the wedding dress of the Far East. This is why Czar Nicholas II ended the first Northeast War.
From now on, I still want to take back the Trans-Siberian Railway.
However, in order to speed up the future development of Siberia and connect with the Far East, Li Ningyu has secretly made up his mind to start building the second Trans-Siberian Railway, and this new railway will start from Tate on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the west, and pass through
Ust-Kut on the Lena River, Nizhny Angarsk at the northern end of Lake Baikal, Chara in Chita Oblast, Tenda in Amur Oblast, Urgar in Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk, and all the way to Su on the coast of the Korean Sea.
Yungang has a total length of 4,275 kilometers.
Build three branch railways at the same time, so that most of the entire Siberian region will be connected.
The emergence of the Trans-Siberian Railway can be said to have had a considerable impact on the Far East at that time. Although it was built because the Russian Empire had always coveted the Northeast region, it turned a large amount of resources in the Siberian region from a stagnant water to life.
After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, in order to suppress the power of the Far East, the Russian Empire united Germany and France to threaten and intervene. The Russian Empire also took the opportunity to secretly formulate the so-called Asian Yellow Russia Plan. The basic condition of this plan was to build Siberia.
At the same time as the large railway, a railway will be built through the northeast and south to Dalian.
So there was the "Secret Treaty between China and Russia" and the Middle East Railway. The Russian Empire also took this opportunity to send people to Shandong, Henan and the three northeastern provinces many times to recruit a large number of workers, as many as one million and hundreds of thousands of people. But these Chinese
Except for some workers who built the China-Eastern Railway, most of the rest came to work on railway construction sites in Siberia. Therefore, most of the bridge and tunnel projects in the eastern section of the Trans-Siberian Railway were completed by Chinese workers. Therefore, from a certain perspective, Li Ningyu
It makes sense to bring back the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Because after the Trans-Siberian Railway was completed and opened to traffic, it immediately brought huge economic benefits to the Tsarist Russian authorities. The roar of the train made desolate Siberia rapidly prosperous. The first change after the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway was the rapid growth of population.
In the mid-ninth century, the total population of southern Siberia was only 2.9 million. By the early 20th century, after the Far East took over, the total population had reached 9.9 million.
With the arrival of a large number of immigrants, the labor shortage in Siberia has been effectively alleviated. With the rapid growth of population, many large and medium-sized cities have sprung up on both sides of the railway line. This pace of development has been
International public opinion praises America's speed.
However, the Tsarist Empire mainly relied on the Trans-Siberian Railway to establish agricultural and animal husbandry bases, and the grain output here accounted for a high proportion.
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