Chapter 93 Waiting for the completion of the railway
However, He Xi still rejected it.
Without him, He Xi felt that the time had not come. Not enough heat.
He Xi knows what Ding Xian's fiscal policy is like better than anyone else? On the one hand, they issued money indiscriminately, and on the other hand, they plundered the scholar-bureaucrats.
Needless to say, there is a matter of spam issuance of currency. In essence, Nanjing's new banknotes are Beijing-affiliated currencies. Beijing has ways to manipulate him. In this regard, He Xi has a way to plunge Nanjing into a state of economic collapse.
In other words, Ding Xian created a time bomb himself.
The detonating device is in He Xi's hands.
He Xi wanted to know if Ding Xian knew about this situation?
As for the plundering of scholar-bureaucrats on the other hand, there are naturally many aspects. A very important part of this was Ding Xian's purge of Fang Xiaoru's faction. Thereby squeezing oil and water out of the hands of these people.
After all, Fang Xiaoru has been a lot more relaxed towards these people in the past few years since he came to power. These people made a lot of money from all aspects.
Now Ding Xian will get them out to supplement the national supply.
Ding Xian also took advantage of it. It's just that Ding Xian is very measured in this regard. The big head is in the court.
He Xi was happy to see the consequences of the attack on the scholar-bureaucrats.
He even secretly applauded. A gentleman can be deceived. He Xi doesn't know whether he is a gentleman or not. But his moral standards are very high. To be honest, He Xi was very conflicted in his heart after having known the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty for so many years.
It is certainly correct to say that scholar-bureaucrats are the most decadent and degenerate group. But they are also the spiritual backbone and ideological core of Ming Dynasty.
Since ancient times, when China has encountered dangers, countless people have sacrificed their lives for righteousness, and have fought one after another. Sacrifice yourself for this country and for your beliefs.
These people are the most stubborn and oppositional scholar-bureaucrats.
In fact, He Xi wanted to kill Fang Xiaoru for a long time. If he mastered the Ming Dynasty's violent machine and killed thousands of people all over the world, what would he not be able to do? When Wang Anshi came to power during Wang Anshi's reform, he used the method of conquest, that is, to get rid of all the opponents.
Later, many new parties came to power. They felt that Wang Anshi failed because his methods were not harsh enough. As a result, the party struggle escalated and became endless.
Moreover, he couldn't do it when He Xi killed Fang Xiaoru.
Fang Xiaoru has no moral flaws. Although he is an honest official, he may not have strong enough control over his subordinates. This is a problem of his ability. He has never been complicit in this. While he has a firm belief in Confucianism, he is also very flexible. Efforts have been made to integrate He Xi's teachings within the framework of Confucianism. Transformed New Confucianism.
Even Fang Xiaoru opposed He Xi not only because he opposed the reform, but also because he saw many problems, such as the instability of imperial power, the development of productive forces, and the reform of production relations that caused a series of group problems. Now, with Ding Xian's support, Jiangning Town has quickly become an important textile town. But many families in the south of the Yangtze River were in mourning. After all, many lower-class scholars have a common memory of relying on their mothers or wives to weave cloth in exchange for silver to study.
This does not mean that men do not participate in production. But after paying taxes on part of the food grown in the fields, most of it is the family's rations and cannot be sold. But cloth is hard currency.
When the people's cloth was driven out by Jiangning cloth. Unrest in Jiangnan will not be too far away.
There is no way to solve these problems.
But Ding Xian didn't care.
He never thought about solving these problems. He thought that he could just solve the people who had the problems. After all, the imperial court had tens of thousands of troops in Nanjing. The Jiangnan area was originally owned by Zhang Shicheng, and there were almost no people from here among the nobles in the court.
On the contrary, many scholar-bureaucrats who supported Fang Xiaoru were from here.
He Xi predicted that Ding Xian was basically preparing to launch a counter-rebellion and divide Jiangnan's wealth again. Otherwise this problem is difficult to solve.
However, He Xi really wanted to see how Ding Xian solved these problems.
He Xi also believes that no matter how many troops there are on the front line. As long as He Xi detonates all these problems. Even if there are thousands of troops, there will only be one end.
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Moreover, Ding Xian has cleaned up Jiangnan, and He Xi will be in charge in the future, so he will be a good person.
Others can't hold their breath. He Xi was able to keep his composure.
Just wait.
Waiting for a gorgeous fireworks.
"The railway will be faster after all." He Xi thought to herself.
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Dongshengwei.
At this moment, the railway has reached Dongshengwei.
In fact, after the railway crossed Yanshan, it was originally supposed to be extended to Datong. But in the end, Ge Tiangong conducted many inspections and finally decided not to pass through Datong, but to take a direct detour to Monan.
The reason for this is because of the terrain.
In fact, the original plan was also very good. Datong, which arrived first, headed west along the Sanggan River Valley and finally reached the Yellow River.
This route is the closest.
But no matter what, it's impossible.
Because this route is right next to Shanxi's border defense line, it almost faces the Shanxi South Army's condescending attack. Not in one place, but in many places.
Originally, Ge Tiangong was planning to go out to kill Hukou and make a detour to the north. But after careful exploration, he discovered that these places were all covered by mountains, and it would be very difficult to build railways in the mountains. Ge Tiangong has suffered enough. As long as he can do something about it, he won't do the same thing again.
Therefore, Ge Tiangong made a big circle, that is, the railway went out of Zhangjiakou and into the Monan grassland, and was built by force.
It overlaps in many places with the historical Beijing-Baotou Railway, that is, the railway from Beijing to Baotou.
There are many difficulties here.
The biggest problem is that the grasslands are vast and sparsely populated. It is difficult to have a large supply of manpower. But Ge Tiangong can deploy the army and can also mobilize more manpower and material resources from the rear. And the railway built by Ge Tiangong. Essentially, a simple railway.
Build a section and use it immediately, and use the railway to transport materials from the rear to the front. There have also been some problems caused by railway construction being done too quickly. But today's railways are very slow. As long as it's not too unlucky, if something goes wrong, it's only a minor problem.
The grassland is not without its ups and downs, nor is it without mountains.
But most places are relatively flat. Even if there is a hill, the slope is not high.
In this case, the construction speed is quite fast.
So it was built quickly.
But now, there is still a big problem.
That is to build a Yellow River railway bridge.
Originally, Ge Tiangong didn't have the courage, let alone anything else. Just the word "Yellow River", Ge Tiangong didn't dare to have this delusion. But he came to the bank of the Yellow River. That is the Tuoketuo section of later generations. He found that the narrowest part of the Yellow River was only one or two miles. Although there are many tidal flats, even Ge Tiangong knows that the current Yellow River may not be the full picture of the Yellow River. After all, everyone is afraid of the Yellow River flooding.
But Ge Tiangong knew better.
He only needs to build a bridge, and it doesn't even need to be used for a long time. It will only be used in the next two or three years.
It is used for military operations. If the railway can cross the Yellow River and go all the way to Yulin, then Beijing will have a huge logistical advantage in the future battle of Shaanxi. It can even be said that the outcome has been determined before the war begins.
That's why Ge Tiangong had such a delusion.
Moreover, Ge Tiangong was also prepared to accomplish this.
So, after three months of preparation, Ge Tiangong finally successfully built the railway bridge.
It is an arch bridge.
The bridge is more than ten miles long, eight miles of which are built on tidal flats. The most important span is about one mile. The arch bridge is a very traditional model. It is in the same style as the Zhaozhou Bridge, but the materials used are very different.
A lot of iron was used. It's almost an iron bridge.
It is also a steel bridge.
This steel-framed bridge is an anomaly in the history of Chinese bridges. It represents the gradual change of Chinese architectural style. Although it did not exist for a long time due to technical reasons, decades later it collapsed due to various problems.
was torn down.
But it is not forgotten that this is the first Yellow River Bridge.
Let people really see the challenge of big rivers like the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and spread the railway network to more places.
Ge Tiangong didn't know how great what he was doing was, and he didn't know the perspective of future generations. But everyone knows that when this railway bridge is opened, the Shaanxi strategy officially begins.
