Chen Xi smiled and said: "Master, you had the foresight. Zhang Fengyi was scolded by her mother and left in tears. Mrs. Zhang was so powerful, holding the back of her daughter's neck as if she was holding a chicken. "
Originally, Chen Xi saw Zhang Fengyi's beautiful appearance and hot figure. I was quite wary.
The women around Yang Fan share the same hatred on this point.
At this time, it was discovered that Zhang Fengyi had already been married to a famous woman. And the master has no other intentions for her. Suddenly, I 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 had not had enough fun. We only spent a day in Hangzhou, but Yang Fan was still not there. The sailors on the ship took turns to go out for two days. But no, Yang Fan's railway construction is about to start. Yang Fan must rush 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, there are mountains of sleepers and rails piled up in the cargo yard of Xincheng, as well as a large amount of ballast stones. When we go back this time, the tracks in Beijing have been basically laid, and the bus system in Beijing will be officially opened soon. At the same time, His Majesty has approved the start of construction of the Northern Canal Railway.
This railway will mainly play a role in 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 insufficient trackers.
Because a large number of factories have opened up in Beijing and Beizhili in the past two years, there are fewer and fewer refugees. Trackers are already a headache now.
With the maturity of the reciprocating steam engine. The steam engine-driven train in the city won't be running for long. It will soon be transferred to the railway along with four other locomotives.
Instead, a single rail car was used using a steam engine for small cars. Just like the trams in old Shanghai, they are just small steam-powered ones.
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, and the front of the car is triangular. On the right is the door for getting on the bus. There are exit doors on both sides of the rear of the car.
The carriage is made of wood and the chassis is a track chassis. A driver, a stoker and a conductor are needed 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. Operating at the rate of one vehicle every six minutes.
Currently, there is already a vehicle running experimentally on the tracks in Beijing.
Chongzhen also left the palace incognito and personally experienced steam engine trains and single-section rail cars. It is said that His Majesty was very satisfied after experiencing it. Yang Fan's plan for the Northern Canal Railway was quickly approved.
The first phase of the Northern Canal Railway. Starting from the port of Dagukou. laid on the south bank of the canal. Passing through Tianjin Acropolis, Dong'an County (today's Langfang area), to Gu'an County, then northwest along the foot of the West Mountain, setting up a station west of Marco Polo Bridge. 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 Ulanqab (Jining) to Guihua City (Hohhot), and then continue westward, passing through Jiuyuan (Baotou) and arriving at Linhe (Bayannur). Then follow the Yellow River southward and finally reach Yinchuan.
The Yellow River is full of harm but only beneficial. The Hetao area is the most favorable area for farming in the northwest. By controlling the Hetao area, we basically control the situation in the northwest. The Loop is actually three places. Suit, jacket, inner jacket.
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 coat 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 wants to send troops to the inner and outer Loop this time, he intends to drive a wedge into the center of the Mongolian power. Immigrants settled in outer and inner areas, built fortified cities, improved transportation, and developed agricultural and animal husbandry production. Tightly control this place.
Once we control 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 separated blocks is equivalent to battlefield interruption in war.
Once defeated, we must hold on.
When agricultural civilization is strong, defeating it is not a problem, the problem is how to hold it. Transporting grain from the interior will drag down the country's finances.
Nowadays, the climate is cold and the production in North Zhili has been reduced. It is said that it is impossible to develop agriculture here. However, no matter how cold it is here, it is not as cold as the northeastern cold in later generations. Crops from the Northeast will definitely be grown here. Yang Fan has cold- and drought-resistant seeds, and a steam engine that can pump water from the Yellow River or dig wells for irrigation.
When trains come through, guano from the sea can also be transported. All the conditions for the development of agriculture are present here.
Agriculture can be done, but the conditions here are better for industry, so it can be done in a big way. Baotou was later known as the City of Steel.
In Baotou, there is the Bayan Obo Iron Mine, which has about 1.4 billion tons of iron ore reserves, 6.6 million tons of niobium reserves, and about 100 million tons of rare earth reserves. A little further north is the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Outer Mongolia, which 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 takes time, and it will take more than ten years to develop the land to the point where it can support local soldiers and civilians. So Yang Fan planned to use the railway to closely connect Santao with the capital.
Although it is a small train with a narrow gauge of 76, the 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.
Food and various materials shipped from the south of the Yangtze River, 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 trade scale.
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.
