Shipping to the Yamen, on tea, Ma Zun said: "Today Du Tiju came, I specially prepared a banquet in Hanbin Building to catch the wind. Although our yamen are in the same city, we have not been together for many days, and it is difficult to have leisure today. ”

Du Zhongxiao, Li Cheng and Wang Zhu hurriedly thanked them. In addition to the three yamen of the Transshipment Division, the Shipping Department and the Prefecture Yamen, in fact, there is also a Xiangyang County Yamen in Xiangzhou City, because the level is too low, today's gathering magistrate did not notify the county at all.

Du Zhongxiao said: "These days, Yingtian has caught some fish and sold them to Kaifeng Mansion. Thank you for helping you find a car, otherwise it wouldn't have gone so well. ”

Wang Zhu said: "Speaking of trains, because the station is in Fancheng Town, there is a water gap between it and the state city, which is inconvenient. Benzhou intends to write to the imperial court, withdraw Dengcheng County, and merge it into Xiangyang County, and the state city governs both sides of the Han River. What do you think of this? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "This matter should be done." The train is open, and the station is an important place in a city, and it should be under the direct jurisdiction of the state city. Now it is divided into two counties with Hanshui as the boundary, which is really inconvenient. When the road from Xiangzhou to Jiangling is repaired in the future, there will be a station in Xiangzhou City, which will be even more inconvenient. ”

Ma Zun said: "That's true. Why don't the three of us go to the book together, cite the inconveniences, and withdraw Dengcheng County. It's just that if it is merged with Xiangyang County, there will be too many households, and it will be a large county, which will also be inconvenient. ”

At this time, Xiangyang County, which was attached to Xiangzhou, only governed the south bank of the Han River, and the opposite bank was Fancheng Town, which was under the jurisdiction of Dengcheng County. Fancheng has no city walls, is centered on the wharf, and the households are distributed along the Han River, which is also very prosperous. There was nothing before, but after the train was opened, it developed rapidly and fiercely, centered on the train station. Anyone can tell that in a few years, the North Shore may be even more prosperous than the South Shore. It is imperative to abolish Dengcheng County and include Fancheng Town in Xiangyang City. Later, the train from Xiangyang to Jiangling was connected, and the cross-strait transportation was connected, which required unified management by the Yamen.

However, at this time, the north bank of the Han River was heavily populated, and the south bank was vast and sparsely populated. Even if Xiangyang is the seat of the state government, it is only a tight county, while Dengcheng on the other side is Wang County. Letting a tight county annex a wang county, although there is a historical and geographical bonus, it still makes people feel inappropriate. However, historically and geographically, Xiangyang is much more famous than Fancheng, and the merger of the two counties can only be so.

After some discussion, several people felt that although Xiangyang was smaller, its status was more important in terms of history and reality. In the previous chapter, it was suggested that Dengcheng County on the north bank should be abolished and merged into Xiangyang County.

After talking about some miscellaneous matters, Du Zhongxiao said: "I came to Xiangzhou this time to discuss with you the matter of closing the position. The most important thing now is to find out how much grain has been stored in the Changping and Yicang warehouses in the prefectures and counties of the road, and how many years it has been stored in them. What accounts do not match the real thing, where is the missing number, make up for it as soon as possible. This matter cannot be done by one person, and I hope that you will recommend reliable people in the judgment and magistrate of the county to help do this. ”

Li Cheng pondered for a while and said, "This matter should be carefully raised, and it must not be sloppy." Moreover, Du Tiju is not only in charge of the states of the South Road, but also the Chang Ping of the North Road. Or the Department of Writing and Transport, and consult with Cao Xian to select the right person. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's okay, this matter must be helped by the Transfer Division." ”

Before the closing of the position, under the management of the transshipment division, a large deficit was accidentally detected, and the transshipment made it difficult for the deputy to escape the blame. Although Du Zhongxiao used to be the judge of the transfer department, Li Cheng did not dare to agree, and had to talk about it in private, and the transfer envoy Tian Qi agreed before he dared to borrow someone.

Among the officials along the way, the governor is something that no yamen can move lightly, they are the chief officials of a state, and they have great power in the military, government and civil affairs, and the whole state will be chaotic if they are not in power. From the general judge and below, as well as the prefect, it is the manpower that can be deployed at the road level. There are not many subordinate officials of several yamen, and when they are busy with affairs, they can only draw people from these people.

Du Zhongxiao is about to officially start dealing with the affairs of Chang Ping, and he has no subordinate officials, so he can only transfer people from the officials of the road. The Transshipment Division is the most important yamen along the way, and it must pass through them, and other superintendents cannot act alone.

As a transfer judge, Du Zhongxiao has never exercised supervision duties on the officials of his own road, and he is not familiar with them. Now I have to hire people, and I don't have a suitable candidate in my heart, so I can only ask the transfer department to recommend it.

After discussing the matter of closing the position for a while, Du Zhongxiao said: "Next year, the field will be planted and grain, even if there is a shortage of grain in the warehouse, as long as it is found clearly, it is not an encroachment by officials, and it is not a major event." Even if it is misappropriated, as long as the accounts are clear. The imperial court asked me to promote Changping, in addition to making Changping and Yicang abundant, I want to do two major things, but also rely on the assistance of the Transshipment Department and the Shipping Department. ”

Ma Zun said: "It doesn't hurt to lift it, and the shipping department will do its best to help." Now that Xiangzhou has been connected to the train, the grain and grass tributes transported to the capital are not much more convenient. A few days ago, Liu Xianggong of Jiangling came to write a letter to build a railway from there to Xiangzhou. Because I heard that there are really many places in the world to build railways now, but one has fewer rails and two fewer trains, and most of them are in vain. These are all built by raising one hand, and then they will rely on good words. ”

Du Zhongxiao didn't dare to say anything, so he agreed to come down. What kind of words, of course, what they are thinking about is the relationship between Du Zhongxiao and the iron prison, and they will go through the back door. The imperial court was eyeing several roads, such as the road connecting Sijing, and the road to Dengzhou, which was urgently to be repaired, and the iron supervisor did not dare to do anything. For other railways, when the rails are shipped, the cat inside will be big. Local railways, of course, are local officials who show their abilities.

At this time, the prefect of Jiangling was Liu Xin, who had been the minister of Zaizhi and had enough status. The railway from Jiangling to Xiangzhou is particularly critical to the shipping department, and Du Zhongxiao is next to it, of course, the priority must be raised.

For the railway supervisor, the priority of road construction now is the first railway between Beijing and Beijing, the second railway from Kaifeng Fu to Dengzhou, and the third railway from Yexian to Luoyang. In other local railways, it depends on how much pressure the respective local authorities can give them. In fact, the rails are still secondary, and the output of steam locomotives is limited, and it is difficult to increase production. If the road is repaired, it may not be possible to provide the front of the car in time.

In fact, the priority of the railway from Luoyang to Jingzhaofu and Liangjing to Bingzhou is also high. However, the political affairs have often been decided, and the two roads are temporarily postponed with the railroad tracks produced by Hedong Road. According to the suggestion of Du Zhongxiao and Su Song, the iron supervisor of Xiangzhou built a steel furnace according to the specifications of the Baiting supervisor, and all the materials and rolling machines for rolling the rails were dismantled from Yexian, and some personnel were transferred at the same time.

It is too risky to build another iron prison from scratch without Du Zhongxiao and other people who built the iron prison at the beginning.

The railway from Xiangzhou to Gangneung Province was completed, and Xiangzhou had two stations, and it was needless to say that it would be prosperous at that time. The Hanshui is too wide, and it is impossible to build a railway bridge with the current technology, so it can only be divided into two sections and cannot be connected. To achieve this pattern, the status of the shipping division here in Xiangzhou will definitely rise, not just a supplement to the Jianghuai shipping division. Its radiation range can reach Sichuan and Shu in the west, and Liangguang in the south.

Seeing that the first year of Huang You is about to pass, Du Zhongxiao is counting the days, and Nong Zhigao in Guangnan should not be many years away. The construction of this railway is a big variable, and the transportation to Quang Nam is much more convenient, and I don't know what the pattern will be at that time, and whether the army will be forbidden to fight.

Regarding this matter, there is a Peugeot in Du Zhongxiao's memory, that is, Di Qing returned to Beijing as a privy deputy envoy. Now Di Qing is still in Yanzhou, he is the coach of Yanyan Road and the governor of Yanzhou, and there is no sign of it.