Beep – The whistle sounds, and a train slowly slows down from the high speed and slowly stops on the platform. The sign on the platform reads four big characters, Shanghai West Railway Station. The trains opened, and passengers carrying large bags began to pour down from the train, and suddenly the platform became a little crowded.

In the end, the Qing court did not bear the pressure from the Tang Dynasty, and the Beijing-Shanghai Railway was finally built, and it was completed and opened to traffic at a very fast speed. The Beijing-Shanghai Railway Company is 60% owned by the Datang Railway Corporation, and the railway bureaus owned by the Qing court account for 40% of the shares. At the beginning, the railway had not yet formed much passenger flow, and most Qing people were on the fence about this novelty. However, the Tang people were able to spread more goods along the railway line through this railway, and at the same time, merchants from the north and south gradually became accustomed to taking trains, because the speed was much faster than horse-drawn carriages.

The special carriage of the train opened only after all the ordinary passengers had left the platform, and a handsome Qing official in his thirties walked inside. At this time, Qing officials were completely different from those of ten years ago, and one of the major measures of the Jiaqing New Deal was to reform etiquette and clothing, and the original supplementary clothing not only removed many Manchu characteristics, but was only used as a dress for special occasions. The clothes of officials on business have basically changed to Datang formal clothes. So now it is more and more common for the Qing people to see a Qing official with big braids, dressed in a black suit, wearing shiny leather shoes, and the sense of disobedience is bursting.

This relatively young but supportive official is an important minister of the Qing Dynasty cabinet and the secretary of the military department, Fukangan, and the only remaining Manchu official of the Qing court at this time.

This is not the first time Fukangan has taken a train, he has taken a train in Tanggu before. Even now he owns a Mercedes-Benz car imported from Datang. The atmosphere around them is quietly changing, and now even Jiaqing Travel no longer takes the dragon chariot, but takes a customized extended Hongqi car. The scholars of the palace, the scholars and the secretaries of state all rode in cars. The car is fast. And the ride is more comfortable, everyone will choose.

Fukangan forgot to glance at the tin train, even though it could almost be called ugly. There is no classical beauty, but Fukangan has felt more and more in recent years. Like this train, many things in the Tang Dynasty have the beauty of this special power. At the beginning, just like a warrior appreciating a sword, Fukangan liked to see those muskets and cannons from the Tang Dynasty over the years, and then extended to cars, trains, steamboats and other things, Fukangan heard a Tang people say, this is called the beauty of steel, the beauty of industry.

He had become more and more able to understand why the Qing Dynasty had lost to the Tang in the Jingshi Incident, and like this train, he traveled from the capital to Shanghai, thousands of miles away in the south of the Yangtze River. It only took one day to arrive. Think about the meaning behind this, if the capital is short of food, a train can relieve the urgent need of the north in just one day, so that people will not die of hunger; If there is any civil uprising in Jiangnan, the troops in the north will be able to reach the counterinsurgency within a day. It seems to be just a railway, which speeds up the flow of people and goods, but in fact it allows the state to better control the country and greatly increase its control.

But Fukangan must not forget that this railway came from the technology of the Tang people, and the Tang people built the railway and trains. And now this Beijing-Shanghai railway. As well as the Beijing-Kowloon Line and Longhai Line, which are also in the plan, are all under the control of the Tang people. Don't look at the Daqing Railway Bureau, it seems that it still holds some shares, and there are also officials in management. But the arrangement of the real trains, and even the deployment of troops along the line, were all controlled by the Tang people.

Fukangan has a vague concept that whoever controls the railway can control a large area. This kind of theory of transportation control and land power is actually taught in the military academies of Datang, and it is natural for Fukangan, as a talented person with good military talent, to have this kind of understanding.

This time, Fukangan came to Shanghai with a holy order, which was originally the land of the Qing Dynasty. Now it belongs to the Tang people, as long as people with a sense of national dignity come here, they will not feel very comfortable. Including Fukangan. He remembered clearly how the Tang people had sent hundreds of thousands of Manchus overseas. And let the Qing Qing lose face.

But he also had to come, the current Emperor Jiaqing has no confidence in confronting the Tang people, and he lacks motivation, and Fukangan himself feels that this is very unwise. And Emperor Jiaqing's ******** is to realize his dream of martial arts and be comparable to his father. Now that the Gurkha people have entered Tibet without a long eye, Jiaqing is determined to fight this battle well, and has also handed over the heavy responsibility to his most trusted Fukangan. In fact, Fukangan thought that there was no benefit in starting a war with the Gurkhas, and the Gurkha actually entered the army for plunder, while Tibet was relatively independent, and the local Tusi and lamas lost their losses, and the Kabuluns paid a sum of silver, and the matter was revealed. On the contrary, if the army is dispatched, the imperial court will spend millions of taels to tens of millions of taels of silver. This comparison is greatly not cost-effective.

Of course, Fukangan also understands that if the imperial court does not take any measures, it may make Tibet deviate from morality and lose its **** dignity, and the Gurkha may regard this as a way to make a fortune in the future, and invade repeatedly, which will be even more troublesome at that time. In addition, the national treasury is now relatively abundant, and it has the confidence to use troops abroad. So Fukangan could only support Emperor Jiaqing's decision.

Coming to Shanghai, Fukangan also needs to communicate with Datang, even if he has some resistance in his heart. The Tang people have infiltrated into the Qing Dynasty from all aspects, not only bringing huge changes in politics, but also deeply penetrating the social form, and even now the Qing Dynasty wants to use troops, and it can't even be done alone, so it must be negotiated with the Tang people.

The mobilization of Wu Yijun is only one aspect, the place where Wu Yijun launched an attack is the territory of the Tang people, which naturally has to be explained clearly to the Tang people. Moreover, although the battle goal of Wu Yijun was issued by the Qing court's military department, how to actually operate it still depends on Wu Yijun's own commander and the instructions of the Tang people. The imperial court now has only nominal control over Wu Yijun.

Fukangan will then take a boat from Shanghai, go up the river, go to Sichuan, and then lead the soldiers and horses of the new army in the southwest to enter the Tibetan border, and personally sit on the front line to command the Qing army's operations. However, Fukangan understood that his journey would not have much impact on the outcome of the battle, and if he won, he would at most expel the Gurkhas. And if the Wuyi Army on the southern front wins, it will force the Gurkha into a predicament, which is the most valuable victory. (To be continued.) )