In August of the first year of Huang You, Du Zhongxiao was transferred from the transfer judge to the Jingxi Road to promote the Changping Division, and concurrently set up the camp. Zhang Yuzhi is in charge of official affairs, and Su Shunqin is in charge of official affairs. The battalion field and the army selected the old and weak, carried out teaching and reading, gave the military number, and set up two jurisdictions. For example, Beijing sent Liu Ji to Tangzhou to manage the Xiang army in Tangzhou, Dengzhou and Ruzhou. The Eastern Dyeing Institute sent Yang Jin to Suizhou to manage the Xiang army in Xiangzhou, Suizhou and Yingzhou.

The scope of responsibility of Du Zhongxiao's Changping official is to be in charge of Chang Ping, Yicang, Fangchang, Shiyi, Hedu, Dangdang and so on. In fact, there are two cores, one is to close the position and the righteous position, stabilize prices, and relieve famine; The other is the Shiyi Fangchang, a variety of industrial and commercial activities. The two are both different and interrelated. The focus of the regular liquidation is to stabilize food prices, and business activities centered on agriculture are focused. The city is centered on the industrial and mining industries. The field work is part-time, and this matter is started by him, and he can't stop it.

In addition to the transfer envoys, the first-level supervisors of the road also raised the prison to persuade the peasants, and often closed the positions and brought the camps, in fact, all for the purpose of distributing the rights of the transfer envoys. The Song Dynasty has always paid attention to not allowing the road-level to sit large, the three divisions of the court and the central government to sit large, and the road-level transit division to sit large, and the decentralization of power is intentional by the imperial court.

In mid-August, Du Zhongxiao met with his new colleagues and subordinates at the newly built Zaoyang Camp Field Affairs Yamen.

Seeing Du Zhongxiao waiting outside the door with his subordinates, Liu Ji strode forward and arched his hand: "Farewell to Bozhou, I have been in a hurry for several years, and I don't want to see you today." I want to be a young jinshi back then, full of spirit, and has made many meritorious contributions in less than ten years, and has been stationed on one side. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The jurisdiction was the general judgment of the state back then, and I was the pusher, who knows goodbye, I have changed my military position, which is really unexpected." ”

Liu Ji laughed: "When I left Bozhou, I went to work along the border." Sun Xianggong recommended that he exchange literature for martial arts for several years. ”

After Liu Ji left Bozhou, he went to work on Shaanxi Road. Sun Wei recommended him to have a martial arts strategy and changed his military position, which has been several years. This time, Du Zhongxiao reorganized the camp Tianxiang Army, as well as the intention of promoting muskets and artillery in the army, Liu Ji was specially sent. Although Du Zhongxiao is in charge of the reorganization of the battalion Tianxiang Army, and his official position is higher than that of Liu Ji, it is not a system, and the two of them are colleagues, not strict superiors and subordinates.

Despite this, in less than ten years, Du Zhongxiao has changed from a subordinate to Liu Ji's boss, which is still emotional. Fortunately, Liu Ji is open-minded and doesn't care about it. Otherwise, he would not have agreed to come to Jingxi Road.

The two stood side by side in front of the door, chatting about their respective circumstances after parting. Liu Ji changed his military position, and everything went smoothly after that, before he came here, he served as Zhizhou on Shaanxi Road and made a lot of meritorious contributions. When Du Zhongxiao was on Hedong Road, he once fought with the Khitan and gained the upper hand. In recent years, the Khitan and the party have been fighting constantly, and they have won and lost each other, and most of the generals along the border admired Du Zhongxiao's victory that year.

In the end, Liu Jidao: "I went from Shaanxi to the capital, and then changed to a train to Xiangyang. The train was a good thing, and it traveled thousands of miles in one day and night, and it was like a dream. If the railway is overhauled and leads to Shaanxi Road, if there is a war in the future, there will be a shortage of food and soldiers on the front line! ”

Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "Jurisdiction, this matter is really like this. However, there is another benefit of the train being repaired, but few people talk about it. ”

Liu Jidao: "This thing was initiated by you, and it is naturally more thorough than others." - Apart from convenience, what are the benefits? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "In the past, the northwest used troops, but due to the lack of food and grass, they had to march by separate routes, and were finally broken by the western thieves. If the railroad is built in the future, there will be no worries. You can join forces all the way and march along the road, such as spears and halberds, ploughing and sweeping holes! ”

Liu Ji nodded, deeply convinced. I didn't expect this benefit.

The people in the northwest are barren and poor, and there is no way to meet the enemy because of grain, and the inland grain transportation is too far away. Each time the party attacked the army, it could only march by separate routes, and there were not many soldiers and horses on each side. The party has the advantage of internal mobility, but every time it is broken by all sides, and finally loses a big loss. The three-way attack on summer and the five-way attack on summer was not that the Song army did not know the benefits of a concentrated attack, but that it had to be so. You can't concentrate hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses all the way, otherwise you don't have to fight, and you will come back hungry halfway. The army marched by separate routes, and there were not many soldiers and horses on each road, and they were often surrounded and broken by the party concentrating superior forces all the way.

This is a limitation of objective conditions, and in fact, only tens of thousands of troops can be sent to attack the party. If there are more than that, the troops must be divided. And there should be enough distance between the roads, otherwise the party will not be able to support it. The distance is too far, and the communication is inconvenient, and it cannot be cooperated, which is a problem that cannot be solved.

Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched, and it was not only these tens of thousands of people who moved, but also the people of the least few states on the march route who must give their full support. From the people who transported grain to the preparation of various materials in the rear, it was actually a general mobilization of several states. The place is so big, there are so many households, and there can only be tens of thousands of soldiers along the way, and no matter how many there are, it will be impossible to fight normally. What kind of division and joint attack, roundabout encirclement, are all self-deceptive words, and they have no effect. If you want to win the war, you can only hope to win all the way, at least drag the enemy's main force, there is no other way.

The construction of the railway is not only convenient for materials and manpower, but also actually expands the rear support area. The entire railway line can provide support for the front line, and the scale of front-line soldiers can be expanded several times. As long as one of the ways exceeds the limit of the party's military strength, it is enough to be fatal.

The framework of the camp has been erected, and Du Zhongxiao's energy is more spent on military affairs. How many benefits exactly are there for rail? We still have to continue to think and practice, and the current potential has not been realized at all.

Liu Jidao: "As soon as the railway was repaired to Kaifeng Mansion, the imperial court saw the benefits, which was really different. This time I went to the capital, and everyone in the courtiers argued about the benefits of the railway, and they should spread it all over the world. The imperial court has ordered this winter to repair to Xijing Henan Mansion, and next year the saint will go out on patrol by car to visit the imperial tomb. I heard that this is not the only case, the government hall has already set the route to build to the Daimyo Mansion in Beijing and Yingtianfu in Nanjing, and ordered the prefectures along the road to start leveling the foundation this winter, and just wait for the railroad track of the iron supervisor to come out, and then pave it. Jingxi Road will build a railway line from Luoyang to Yexian, and the foundation will be built this winter. As for the other roads, there are many who propose to build roads. Regardless of whether there are rails or not, the road is leveled first, and then paved when there are rails. ”

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "Bai Tingjian can only produce so many rails in a year, what's the use of rushing to fill in the roadbed?" ”

Liu Jidao: "I heard the courtiers talk about building another place in Xiangzhou and Jingdong Laiwu based on the Baiting Supervisor. But there is no one to use, and it cannot be carried out for a while. Lift, maybe in a few years, I still want you to do it. ”

Du Zhongxiao just shook his head: "It's difficult." This matter looks simple, but there are many troubles to do, so it is better to take your time. ”

The iron prison has just developed, and it is the time for Peiben to strengthen the yuan, so he is in a hurry to expand, don't mess up the fundamentals. With the current manpower of the iron superintendent, if it is divided, it will definitely affect the speed of technological development. Unless other iron supervisors only produce railroad tracks, and dismantle ready-made furnaces and machines from Baiting supervisors, it will not be easy to develop well.

Liu Ji was right about one thing, as soon as the train arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, the situation was immediately different. Emperor Zhao Zhen deliberately took his ministers to take a train to experience it, a day trip from Kaifeng Mansion to Xuzhou. That trip made the ministers intuitively feel the benefits of the train, and they proposed to build it one after another. Zhao Zhen even paid money from the inner treasury and ordered the railway to be repaired to Xijing Henan Province, which must be repaired this year. The strategic value of the railway between the two capitals is of special significance to the royal family. It is the hometown of their old Zhao family, and it is also where the imperial tomb is located.

The planning of the political hall is mainly based on political significance, first connecting the four capitals. With Sijing as the center, it will expand outward. The shipping department in charge of Cao Yun has its own plan, and the most priority is from Xiangzhou to Jianglingfu, from Kaifeng to Dengzhou, and even from Kaifeng to Yangzhou in parallel with the Bianhe River. This is the route to Beijing Caoliang, once it is repaired, the shipping department can also be revoked.