Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 140 The Horse-drawn Railway Opens to Traffic
Zhang Zongxian did not expect to win the entire Hetao so quickly, but the construction of the settlements could not keep up.

The main problem is the shortage of food. The migrants have to reclaim land outside the border wall, which means that at least half a year's food must be provided to the migrants so that they have time to reclaim the land and grow food.

In order to defend the Hetao, Zhang Zongxian readjusted the direction of settlement construction and the deployment of the army.

New settlements will be built relative to the side wall, with new settlements starting fifty miles away from the side wall.Then use these settlements to develop vertically and build them all the way to the Yellow River, which is of course a future plan.

The defense of the army has also been re-adjusted. In addition to the already built Qianwei [-] and Qianwei [-], Qianwei [-] was built at the location of Wuhai City in the previous life, and Qianwei [-] was built between Qianwei [-] and Shuofang City.

Arrange a cavalry brigade in each of the four forward bases, and then recruit and supplement three infantry regiments to supplement the defense of the forward bases.The remaining cavalry brigade is stationed in Shuofang City to support all parties at any time.Then the juvenile battalion was transferred from Qianweiyi to Shuofang City.

Shuofang City will be the base camp of Hetao in the future. Boren is responsible for the defense of the west of Shuofang City, including Shuofang City. Liangchen is responsible for the east of Shuofang City. Before Liangchen re-establishes Dongshengwei, there will be no large-scale raids in the west. Defensively.

The defense construction and adjustment work must be completed before the arrival of summer. After all, spring has just begun, and cattle, sheep and horses need to supplement the consumption of winter, and the Tartars cannot send out large troops at will.It will be different in summer, the Tartars will definitely not sit back and watch the expansion of the Taiping's enrollment.

Even if Tumed is now divided, it is necessary to prevent the Tartars from giving up their differences because of the common defense of the enemy.

After entering February, the people in the settlements couldn't bear to reclaim the land.With the help of cattle, the efficiency of land reclamation is very high.

Taiping also started to promote planting, corn and potatoes to the people in due course.It means that in the future, whether it is repaying the loan or paying taxes, only corn and potatoes are needed.

Those who went to buy seeds not only brought back the seeds, but also invited experts in corn and potato planting according to Zhang Zongxian's instructions to join the agricultural college, and they taught the people in the settlements to grow these two kinds of food.

Zhang Zongxian also taught the people in the Agricultural College the knowledge of interplanting and crop rotation that he had learned from the Gengzhan Channel in his previous life.The interplanting technique will be directly adopted in the coming spring plowing.

In autumn, the food provided by the 150 million mu of land will greatly enrich the Taiping's granary and provide sufficient guarantee for continued immigration.

After more than half a year of construction, the first railway in Daming was officially opened to traffic on February 22. On the day of the opening, there were huge crowds of people, and people from all over the world came to see the excitement.

After a boring ribbon-cutting session, Zhang Zongxian took Su'e and his son into the carriage.There are also shopkeepers of the four major workshops in the carriage.

With the sound of the gong, the four-section carriage drawn by twelve horses began to run on the track. In addition to inviting Zhang Zongxian to ride, the Railway Association also invited the top [-] shareholders who held shares to come to experience the horse riding. Pull the railway.

After driving for less than 10 minutes, they arrived at the first platform. After the staff on the platform checked the condition of the horses, they continued to go to the next station. Finally, it took three hours to complete the [-]-mile journey.

Originally, it took a day to ride a fast horse, but it was over in less than an hour and a half.The guests who came to experience were deeply shocked by this speed.This thing is transported in large quantities and quickly. In the past, it took three horse-drawn carts to transport a thousand catties of coal for a day.

Now with this horse-drawn railway, [-] catties can be transported in three hours, and it can be run ten times a day, that is, [-] catties can be transported in one day, and it takes two hundred horse-drawn carriages to transport it all.

It costs three hundred yuan to transport coal by horse-drawn carriage, while it costs only five hundred yuan to transport a thousand catties by horse-drawn railway.And there is still room for this price to come down.

In the next few days, the horse-drawn railway did not pull a catty of coal, and every day it ran back and forth with the crowd who came to experience it.Some people have to sit several times a day.

Although this railway was led by the Railway Association, Zhang Zongxian actually arranged for a group of disciples to participate in the construction and operation.Especially in the area of ​​operation, a lot of professional knowledge is required, and the operation of the railway in the future must be firmly in the hands of the school.

Supporting this enthusiasm, the Railway Association also timely launched a new railway line public offering plan, which is to extend this railway all the way to Shenmu County.In fact, this horse-drawn railway will be directly connected to Shuofang City outside the side wall.

It's just that the lines outside the wall here are not convenient for public bidding, and only the four major workshops participated in the investment.

The new line is expected to be built for 200 miles, of course not including the [-] miles outside the side wall.It is expected to need [-] million taels of silver, and Taiping will also hold [-]% of the shares, and the rest will be sold to the public.

The new route is 14 two shares, a total of [-] shares, all sold out within three days, and those who did not get the railway shares would not be able to buy them at a premium.

In fact, what the railway association wants to build is the horse-drawn railway from Qingjian County to Yan'an Prefecture, and then from Yan'an Prefecture to Xi'an.On the one hand, it was because of the long distance and high cost, and on the other hand, Yan'an Mansion was not Zhang Zongxian's territory.

Confucian scholars have always dismissed such so-called strange skills and obscenity.Zhang Zongxian also wanted to build the Mala Railway to Xi'an, and even to the capital.In the end, Zhang Zongxian sent Zhao's staff to communicate with Yan'an Mansion to test their attitude.

However, Zhang Zongxian underestimated the charm of the Mara Railway, or the charm of money. The prefect of Yan'an Prefecture wanted [-]% of the shares. Zhang Zongxian scolded the prefect for being greedy and only agreed to give [-]% of the shares.

It took a month of bargaining between the two parties to reach an agreement to give the Yan'an Mansion [-]% of the shares. The two shares cannot be bought or sold, but dividends.

This railway will not be built directly to Yan'an, it will be built to Yanchuan County first, and then from Yanchuan County to Yan'an.

The cost of the shares in Yan'an Mansion was originally on the retail investors that the Railway Association wanted to disperse.For the healthy development of the Railway Association, Zhang Zongxian gave [-]% of the [-]% shares he paid for to Yan'an Mansion.

In the end, the 350-mile horse-drawn railway issued [-] shares at [-] yuan per share, and it was sold quickly.

As for the [-]% shares taken by the Yan'an Mansion, they will come back sooner or later. Today you are the governor, but you may not be tomorrow.Without the support of Governor Yanshou, how could the prefect of Yan'an dare to talk to him like a lion.

Zhang Zongxian has now set his sights on the position of Governor Yanshou.Just wait for Tianqi to send money to Eunuch Wei.

After entering March, although there was still an influx of refugees, it was much less than last year. The start of two railways successively also allowed the people in nearby counties to subsidize their family affairs.

The new enrollment of the Legislative School has also been successfully completed. This time, nearly [-] students have been recruited. As Zhang Zongxian's disciples began to appear in various industries in Jiazhou, the common people also understand that as long as they enter the school, it means that they will be in the future. No worries about food and clothing.

Not only the people in Jiazhou, but even people in Guanzhong and Shanxi sent their children to take the exam. For these people who came to take the exam from the original way, Zhang Zongxian would stay as long as he was not mentally handicapped.

Of course, most of these children are children from ordinary people's families, and the real scholarly family doesn't look down on the legislative school.

Guanzhong Academy also jointly signed a letter asking the court to investigate the legislative school, which was resolved in advance by Mr. Ma in the capital.

In Shuofang City, which will be the central square in the future, representatives selected from the five cavalry brigades were inspected by Zhang Zongxian.

In the wave of cheers of "Wan Sheng", the five cavalry brigades were awarded the military flags selected by each. For the officers and soldiers who made contributions in the two wars, Zhang Zongxian personally awarded them medals and land certificates for rewards.

Facing all the troops under review, Zhang Zongxian felt that these soldiers should understand the meaning of this battle.

"Today, all of us are standing here! Standing on the land of the Han people! Standing on Shuofang, the land watered with the blood and dignity of our ancestors!
Standing in front of me is the backbone of a nation, and it is you who brought this land back to Ming Dynasty.

For thousands of years, the Tartars on the grassland have gone south to burn, kill and captive countless times. Now it's our turn. The bandits can go as they please. We want to regain the lost land and reproduce the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Taking back Shuofang is only the first step, and there are Anbei Protectorate, Anxi Protectorate, until all the land under the sun becomes Han Jiaerlang's farmland.All this requires us to use iron and blood to achieve.

I am very proud, in front of me is a legion with thousands of years of unyielding blood!This blood once flowed on our ancestors, they did not surrender!

Now they run in our blood, seeking vengeance and reclaiming lost lands.

In the end, even if we die in battle, when we face our ancestors who died in battle, we can tell them with our heads held high: I, your descendants, did not disgrace you, and shed the last drop of blood to defend the land of the Han family!

Our Legislative School fights so that everyone in the Han family has food to eat, everyone has clothes to wear, and everyone has books to read. We fight so that every Han family member can farm!Fight for the dignity of the Han family!Fight for the wishes of the Legislative Faction!

This is the way of my generation! "

"The way of my generation!"

"The way of my generation!"

"The way of my generation!"

The shouts of the Legislative Army resounded throughout the world, and the entire grassland would be overwhelmed by the shouts.

The construction of Shuofang City has already started, and the captured Tartars are leveling the land and digging sewers. The four workshops have also sent Deli Gan to come, vowing to build the best workshop.

It is believed that Shuofang City, which will cross the era in less than a year, will appear on the Hetao Plain.

On the way back to Jiazhou from Shuofang City, Zhang Zongxian also specially visited the situation of each settlement, all the reclaimed land has been planted with corn, and potatoes can be interplanted after a while.

The faces of the people in every settlement are full of hope.With the cattle and iron farm tools provided by Taiping, the field can be plowed deeper and the efficiency of plowing the field will be higher.There will be more harvests in the autumn harvest.

Every time he passed by a settlement, Zhang Zongxian called the disciples from nearby settlements to a meeting, asked them if they encountered any difficulties, and explained to them how to deal with disputes among the people.

These disciples who assist in the management of the settlements are all young but very smart. I believe that after such training, they will be able to take on more and greater responsibilities in the future.

The most important job for the disciples in the settlement is to carry out all the orders issued by Zhang Zongxian, and to spare time every day to teach the children in the settlement to read and write.

Each of these apprentices doing internships outside has a performance appraisal, and the performance appraisal is related to their future development direction.

Every student who comes out for an internship must write a work summary every day, and ask his person in charge to sign the work summary every month. The work summary will serve as an important evidence for evaluating their respective achievements in the future.

Zhang Zongxian often encourages the interns abroad to contribute to the publications issued by the school, and also increases the rewards for submissions. The publications are written about the experiences of the interns in their work. It is published once a month and every student will receive it.

Before leaving the settlement, Zhang Zongxian would encourage his disciples, telling them that there would be too much land for them to manage in the future.

Now let them manage a settlement of one hundred households. In the future, as they seize more and more land, they will manage thousands of households and tens of thousands of households.The future belongs to their Legislative School, and the future Ming Dynasty will also be managed by the Legislative School.

In Hongshandun City, which has entered April, no tribe has come to trade since the beginning of spring this year. Even last year, after being robbed of a lot of business by the horse market in Qingjian County, many tribes still came here to trade.

Now that no tribe has come, this matter does not look normal.The general of the frontier army, who was relying on the market to eat, thought at first that the Tartars were going to hold back his side, so he didn't come to trade, and then reported it to the Yanshou General Soldier.

The Yanshou commander also thought that the Tartars were going to block the border, so he immediately put the forts on the side wall on guard, and at the same time arranged for people to go to the grassland to check.

At this time, the people in the investigation department also discovered the change of the general.People in Weifang Yanshou Town found out that Hetao had changed owners, and immediately arranged for the surrendered tribes to pretend to go to trade for a show.

However, the doubts of the generals were still not dispelled, so they continued to send people to the grassland to have a look. Fortunately, their subordinates were all infiltrated by the investigation department. If you go out of the side wall, you will be robbed and killed on the road.

Zhang Zongxian understood that this was not a long-term solution after all, so he thought that after Tianqi ascended the throne, he could control these generals by taking down the governor of Yanshou.

Not only was Chaotang's horse market affected, but since the takeover of Hetao, the trade between the caravans in Qingjian County's horse market and the grassland was interrupted by the fighting between the two sides.

Some caravans turned to develop business in the mainland, and some aggressively started to go to the Western Regions through Lanzhou.

Now the Eastern Chagatai Khanate established by the descendants of the Mongolian Chagatai Khanate in the Western Regions, transporting spirits and tea to the Western Regions is also very profitable, for these caravans who dare to break through.

Zhang Zongxian provided them with loans to encourage them to go further, and lay a foundation for the future recovery of the Western Regions.

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