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Chapter 1266 Zhan Tianyou's New Mission

Xi'an Mansion was once devastated due to the destruction of peasant troops such as Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng.

After the world was peaceful, the government appeased the refugees, organized them to build water conservancy, return to farmland, promote new crops, use chemical fertilizers, and transport food from Liaodong and other places for disaster relief.For the disaster relief work in northern Shaanxi, which was most severely damaged by peasant uprisings and natural disasters, the intelligence department secretly supervised and executed officials who dared to embezzle, so that the relief food could reach Xi'an Prefecture safely.

Xi'an Prefecture, which has gone through the most difficult years, has gradually restored its former prosperity. This is the seat of Shaanxi Province, and there is also a regular army stationed here.

At this time, a major event happened in Xi'an Prefecture—the Grassland Railway, which was quietly under construction, finally came to an end temporarily.

An engineer with short hair and a beard attended the opening ceremony of the Great Prairie Railway.

He is the chief designer of the Grassland Railway, Zhan Tianyou, a railway expert who was summoned to this era.

Chu Yun arranged for him to start planning the Grassland Railway a long time ago. Compared with other railways, this railway can indeed be called a large railway. region, with a length of more than three thousand miles.If you count the railways from Beijing to Liaodong and Liaonan, the distance will be even longer.

In order to build such a long railway, Zhan Tianyou led his people to devote a lot of energy to this project, and he has been here for many years without knowing it.

The Great Prairie Railway, which helps to connect the Northwest Territories and the East into a monolithic one, is not for economic benefits, but to make the empire's internal territory stronger.

For farming civilization, the projection of troops is very difficult. It takes only a few months to gather troops. However, the existence of railways speeds up the speed of gathering troops by more than ten times.

Senior officials of Xi'an Prefecture and senior military officers of the Corps all attended this historic opening ceremony.

Like the railway opening ceremonies in other places, the opening of the steam locomotive this time went very smoothly.

However, Zhan Tianyou, whose temples were already turning gray, hadn't completely relaxed yet, because the Grassland Railway was only half completed, and the second half was even more difficult.

At present, the large east-west railway has only reached Xi'an Prefecture, and the railway will be built in Lanzhouwei and Urumqi next.It is even more difficult to build railways in the desert and the Gobi.

"Fortunately, the materials for the construction of the railway can be transported from Liaodong, Liaonan, and Beijing, which have developed heavy industries, through the already built railways, which can reduce our supply pressure in desert areas. However, we are exploring the railway route from Xi'an Prefecture to Urumqi. It has not been completed, construction cannot be started immediately, and the above funds have not been allocated."

Zhan Tianyou invited the railway engineers who built the Grassland Railway to discuss with them the construction of the next most difficult section of the railway.

A railway that crosses the desert and the Gobi has never been seen before.

"Lord Zhan, a telegram came from the capital, requesting the personnel below the Grassland Railway project team to return to the capital to report. Those who stayed behind continued to explore the route of the large railway to Urumqi."

When Zhan Tianyou and others were surveying the second half of the Grassland Railway, a telegraph operator in charge of railway communication sent a telegram from the capital to Zhan Tianyou and others.

The unique railway construction mode of the Kyushu Army. When the railway was being built, telegraph lines were also laid along the railway route.Often where the railway can reach, there is a telegram for instant transmission.

Zhan Tianyou took the telegram and looked at it carefully, somewhat shocked in his eyes: "Everyone, our plan to build a railway to Urumqi has been put on hold for the time being... No, it's more like a slowdown than a shelve. It turns out that the exploration The number of people on the railway line will be halved, and after the railway line to Urumqi is planned, construction will be carried out depending on the revenue and expenditure of the treasury."

The engineers of the Prairie Railway Group were deeply surprised when they heard the news.According to the arrangement of the Ministry of Industry for them, their unprecedented large railway was built from the easternmost point of the empire to the westernmost point, traversing east and west.According to the telegram sent by the capital, this is a signal to suspend the construction of the Grassland Railway.

"Why did the Ministry of Industry suspend the grassland railway project? Is it because the construction of the railway from Xi'anfu to Urumqi costs a lot? Or do you think it is no longer necessary to continue to build the railway to the west?" Many railway engineers asked in confusion.

"The railway from Guanzhong area to Urumqi still needs to be built, but the progress may have to be delayed. There will be three railways to be built south of the Yangtze River, and we lack experienced railway engineers, so the Ministry of Industry will send one of us. A large number of people were transferred to the south to preside over the construction of the railway. The telegram contained a list of people who will be recalled to the capital this time, and only a quarter of the people left to continue preparing for the Grassland Railway, I also want to return to the capital.” Zhan Tianyou then sent the telegram to Other companions look over.

The engineers who participated in the construction of the Grassland Railway were either summoned railway engineers, or apprentices who grew up under the leadership of Zhan Tianyou and others. They were a group of talents most familiar with railway construction in the empire, and railways were needed in the areas south of the Yangtze River. When the talents were young, the Ministry of Industry remembered this group of people who silently built the railway from Liaodong to Northwest.

"However, three-quarters of the people were recalled to the capital, and only one-fourth of them continued to explore and survey. The progress of the railway to Urumqi will become extremely slow, and our railway construction period will also be delayed because of this... ..." Most of the railway engineers who were recalled to the capital regretted that they were going to build an unprecedented east-west railway, but now they are only halfway done.

"Since the Ministry of Industry has made adjustments on its own initiative, there is no mention of the construction period. The Ministry of Industry has temporarily slowed down the construction of large railways. In addition to the need for railway engineers in the south of the Yangtze River, it is estimated that there are reasons for financial constraints, and there is no preparation yet. It is good to double the funds needed for the expansion of the Grassland Railway. We have already consumed a large amount of funds to repair the railway from Liaodong all the way to here. Before restarting the large railway project, we still stay in the Northwest in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Industry. A quarter of the people must carefully and responsibly explore the route, and when the above funds are in place, they can start construction directly when the big railway project is restarted."

Although Zhan Tianyou also regretted the temporary suspension of the large railway project running from east to west, but this was an order from the Ministry of Industry, and there were also railway projects in the south waiting for them to take charge.After all, there were still few railway talents at this time, and the enthusiasm of Chu Yun and some big businessmen for railways made Zhan Tianyou realize that he had a railway project that he could never complete in his lifetime.

"One day we will return here and finish the big railway."

(End of this chapter)