Legend has it that China's largest, most beautiful and most developed city is what it looks like, the scenery outside the window, interpreting their doubts, when the night is coming, a city belt with flashing bright lights appears in front of them, gorgeous and colorful, beautiful and moving, and most importantly, it is moving.

They who have not experienced this era, who have not experienced the darkness of the night, will never understand what it is like to see this light when the night comes, and in the world of later generations, there have been some popular pictures, which are taken with satellite cloud images, and the night landscape of the entire northern hemisphere of the earth, on a black curtain like satin, is dotted with countless lights, and the lights drive away the darkness of the night and bring the most beautiful light.

This seems to be the fundamental reason to distinguish whether a region is developed or not, on it, large developed cities and underdeveloped cities, urban and rural, and even some national borders, all appear clearly in the picture, and the northwest at night, the same.

As the whole of China, and even in the world, among the most densely populated areas, Baotou has more than 1,000 square kilometers of land, densely living more than 30 million people, which is only the permanent population, almost 10 million to 20 million floating population, huge population density, has long been the world's largest urban agglomeration, and only in China, will there be such a thing, the total population of a city, more than most of the world's major countries.

The city's lighting landscape has always been the focus of the Northwest, and under the premise that there is no bottleneck in the power supply, the public aims to light the city. Always guaranteed, only bright lights. It is the landscape of the city, which has always been the unique scenery of the northwest city. This plenary meeting was held in a bit of a hurry, but it was still a cityscape specially created for the plenary meeting, which became the city card of Baotou Special Economic Zone.

Baotou Special Economic Zone, Beiyang officers have long heard of this name, but only after really seeing it, do they understand the meaning of this name, when Baotou was built, a huge city plan was established in Baotou. The length and width are more than 50 kilometers, and the huge 2,500 square kilometers of land are reserved for Baotou, and next to it, there are 8 directions, different satellite cities, which together form the Baotou urban agglomeration, but now, with the rapid expansion of Baotou. The distance between the satellite city and Baotou is less than 15 kilometers.

The distance of 15 kilometers, in the past, may have been the era of cold weapons. A day's march of more than 100,000 troops, from burying the pot in the morning to cooking in the pot to pulling out the camp and opening the road. After the march, maybe two or three hours later. They will look for a place to set up camp. With an average of 30 miles a day, a thousand miles can already be called a long journey.

The age of technology. In the industrial era, when the northwest completely mastered most of the world's science and technology, 15 kilometers was just a special train running at full speed, less than 8 minutes to travel, 12 minutes for buses, 15 minutes for cars, and an hour for bicycles, even if it was a rapid march of the rapid reaction forces, it was also an hour or two.

Baotou, from becoming the largest city in China and even the world, the pace of expansion every year is very large, that is, in the period of industrial relocation and deindustrialization, the pace of expansion slowed down slightly, in the past 1912, 1913, the focus of Baotou's development is to optimize the original urban space, so that the layout of the whole city is more reasonable, even so, the pace of urban development in Baotou is between 3.5-5 kilometers per year.

According to this number, even the most conservative estimate, in the next 3-5 years, Baotou will speed up the pace of expansion, has expanded 8 satellite cities, included in the scope of Baotou, when the time comes, after the merger into the 8 satellite cities that can no longer be regarded as small, completely the space between the satellite city and Baotou, from the original desert, farmland, no man's land, into a prosperous big city, Baotou is really an unprecedented city.

The length and width of the new Baotou are about 110 kilometers, close to 12,100 square kilometers of land, that will become the largest city in the world, the population will also grow to an unimaginable extent after the merger of 8 satellite cities, now the entire Baotou New Area, 47 million permanent residents and 34 million floating population of ninety, will become a member of the city, in that way, is a city of more than 70 million people.

70 million population, which is an unattainable number for many countries, with the two camps of the current world war, the main body of the Entente, Britain, France and Russia, the main body of the Allied Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, Italy, among these countries, more than 70 million people in the country, is also a Russia, the whole world, in addition to China, the population of more than 70 million, there are only two countries, the United States and Russia, as for the total population of the British and French colonies, although as high as hundreds of millions, It is generally not used as a measure of a country's population.

The population of a country, and the population of a city, this is not an order of magnitude, but Baotou can be realized, from five or six years ago, 50,000 people, to the current 10 million, the future 70 million, Baotou is expanding at an unimaginable speed.

The conductor said that he entered the territory of Baotou, in fact, he entered the scope of Baotou New District, I thought it was the farmland on the periphery, but after entering the new area, the lights around kept changing, on both sides of the railway, the neat farmland was gone, and it was replaced by a neat city, unlike those cities along the way, these cities had more skyscrapers, more hurried pedestrians and more dense traffic, when passing through several overpasses, I clearly saw the endless flow of people and vehicles, even at night.

For the business level of Baotou, I have to admire the five-body casting, which is the voice of all Beiyang people, Baotou is now showing military strength, but before showing military strength, Baotou's economy has made the whole China, and even the world sideways, in the past Beiyang was still dancing happily for a daily output of hundreds of tons of cement, Baotou has entered the annual output of 100 million tons, it is these basic materials, steel, concrete, cement, these seemingly inconspicuous things, in the land of China, Factories have been built, node cities have been built, and a large network of unification of China has also been opened, and an investment may exceed 10 billion yuan and be spread all over China.

Beiyang Sanjie, many Yuan Shikai's cronies, looked out the window, the calm and peaceful city, the endless flow of people, the plane in his heart stirred, especially Duan Qirui, he clenched his fists, his expression was slightly hideous, if the northwest is their backing, how good it would be, ask for money for money, ask for people to give people, want guns to guns, this idea flashed at the same time, like weeds, kept growing, from a small station training, out of the image of the old soldiers, Beiyang is in the war, in contact with modern warfare, After some detours, there were also huge lessons, but in the end, it was found that in modern warfare, it is all about logistics and money.

A company of soldiers, dealing with tens of thousands of enemies, in the era of cold weapons, is unthinkable, peasant warfare with simple farm tools, no clothing, no food, but rolling in, like locusts, small troops, even if they are elite, will be swallowed, but in modern warfare, this is almost impossible, as long as there are machine guns, there is a position environment that can be established, there are almost infinite bullets, how many people come, it is just to increase the number of heads.

Even some tough battles, classic battles, are fought under the condition that the conditions are not met, if there are a few 203 guns, to him to bombard the past, everything is blown up, the difference is nothing more than how many shells, but it is this that restricts the development of the war situation, take the purchase price of Beiyang as an example, a 203 high-explosive shell, the price is 550 yuan, this is the price of more than 40 rifles, and it is almost the price of a Makqin, a few guns and a base number, the logistics officer will be distressed, let alone 12 salvos, A base, these advanced artillery pieces are all about money.

Since the establishment of Beiyang, money has always been a big problem that plagues Beiyang, without money, the number of towns in Beiyang is shrinking, there is no money, only one main town is nearly 20,000 people, and the remaining 6 towns add up to more than 50,000, which is equivalent to only three full towns A little more, but also including the full town that does not obey their command, but finally the royal family.

After the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a little better, with the support of the great powers, began a difficult road to expand the army, followed by the conflict in the northwest, after obtaining materials from the northwest, it was better, in just a few years, Beiyang from the original 7 towns, developed into dozens now, should be proud and excited, but did not expect that the northwest developed faster.

The mentality of regret almost inevitably flashed in Duan Qirui's heart, but soon, he shook his head, this is impossible, Feng Yuxiang can put aside the identity of Beiyang and go to Baotou, and now he is the vice chairman of the Northwest Military Commission and the commander-in-chief, but he was just a battalion at the time, Duan Qirui was already an old qualified town commander, such an identity, really went to the northwest, the northwest accepted, besides, Duan Qirui, who began to stand out from the training of soldiers from a small station, The body has been deeply imprinted with the seeds of Beiyang, which can't be washed off no matter how much it is cleaned.

The same idea, more or less flickering in the hearts of the other two people, almost unanimous, the three of them had a retreat in their hearts, since even the boss Yuan Shikai is ready to disarm and return to the field, they should also go back to be a happy man, but they are in the prime of life, more or less unwilling. What can they do if they are unwilling, they become kings or losers, as losers, they can save their lives, which is already good, as for the rest, they don't have this luxury.

Just after the three of them fell into deep thought, and the carriage became quieter and quieter, a stunned voice broke the silence of the carriage: "It's so beautiful, it's a dragon, and it can move!" (To be continued......)