For Datang, although Siberia is vast and rich in resources, it is still unlikely to be the main destination for Datang's immigrants. www.biquge.info There are too many places with better conditions than Siberia, and the Tang people are relatively more inclined to warmer and better infrastructure. This is also an unavoidable problem, because the countries in the other plane often have a fixed direction of development, because they have so many places. Tsarist Russia will develop Siberia, the United States will develop the west, and Brazil will develop the inland plateau. But there seem to be too many places that Datang can develop, even if it is picky and focused, it is relatively difficult to weigh it.

However, it is impossible for Datang to leave Siberia there like this. Basic development is still necessary, and it is still profitable to operate some high-value minerals in a small area, and it is also possible to gradually rise up towns and cities by virtue of the advantages of these industrial and mining developments.

The first thing to be done in the development of inland areas is transportation construction. After the signing of the Hamburg Treaty, the Ministry of Communications of Datang promoted a major project - the Eurasian Land Bridge.

In fact, Datang has already planned to promote the construction of three trans-Eurasian railways, and the completion of the Eurasian Land Bridge will greatly benefit the development of the mainland and the communication and trade exchanges between Datang and other places, so that Datang can better control the huge territory.

The obvious significance of the first Eurasian land bridge is to control the Siberian region, which is now also the Hanhai region in the name of the Tang Dynasty. The land along the railway line is also relatively desolate, and there are almost no towns. The Tang Dynasty also hoped that the construction of the railway would allow at least some towns to emerge along the railway line and radiate the vast Siberian region.

The railway runs from Vladivostok in the east, then to Harbin in the northwest, enters Siberia via ********, passes through Chita, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk and other places that now either do not exist or are castles, and passes in the direction of the Dzungar Mountains through Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tyumen, and arrives in Yekaterinburg. It's still the territory of the Tang Dynasty here, but if you continue to build, you will have to pass through the territory of other countries. In the Datang plan, the railway will pass through Moscow, Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin, and end in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

However, given the delicate relationship between Datang and Europe, it will not be easy to push this railway across the continent in a while. However, the main purpose of the Tang Dynasty now is to develop Siberia, so it is no problem to build the part within the border first.

There are still many Russians in Siberia, and Datang will send them back to Russia and Europe, and will not verify their identities and let them become naturalized Datang.

The second Eurasian land bridge has already been partially built. The railway has some similarities to the Second Eurasian Land Bridge on the other side, but some sections are different. It also starts from Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, and arrives in Urumqi through Xuzhou, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, and Lanzhou. This section of the road has been completed within a few years after the completion of the unification of China by the Tang Dynasty, because of the relatively early preparation, many railways have actually been completed and opened to traffic for more than ten years.

The section of Urumqi through Alashankou has not yet been built, and the Tang Dynasty is planning to build this railway to the location of Almaty in another plane, which does not exist now, but it is clear that she has the hope of developing into an important city in Central Asia. Further west, unlike the second Eurasian land bridge on the other side, this railway will go southwest, through Bishkek, then through Tashkent, Samarkand, continue through Turkmenabad, Mashhad, Isfahan, Baghdad, and finally enter Syria, which belongs to the French colony, pass through Damascus, and finally come to Haifa, a coastal city in the Mediterranean Sea of the Tang Dynasty.

The actual value of this railway line is greater than the first Eurasian land bridge, and the important transportation value of the Longhai line in the country is self-evident, and the inland provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces can trade through this railway, thereby promoting economic development. The economic construction of the more northwest region is inseparable from this railway line. As for entering Central Asia, this railway will also allow Datang to better manage Central Asia. Whether in terms of economic prosperity or military logistics transportation, the role of the second Eurasian land bridge can be said to be at the strategic level.

Similarly, this railway can also communicate the development of West Asia, Persia, Tianfang and other places, and the Tang Dynasty will build a railway branch line to connect with this railway, like a capillary communicating the aorta, so that the trade and exchanges in the backward regions of West Asia and Central Asia can also be frequent, and the cost can be reduced rapidly. The railway will pass through the Kokand, Bukhara, and Khiva khanates, which are not yet part of the Tang Dynasty, but it will not be long before these three Koreas will eventually be annexed to the Tang Dynasty, along with the Kazakh Khanate.

The third Eurasian Land Bridge is very different from the previous two, and it has not appeared in history. It begins in Guangzhou, enters several major cities in Guangxi and Yunnan, enters Myanmar from Myitkyina, and finally penetrates the Rakhine Mountains, enters the subcontinent, passes through the North Indian region, passes through Delhi, and finally focuses on Karachi in Pakistan. In a sense, the Third Eurasian Land Bridge was to enhance the Tang Dynasty's control over South Asia and enhance exchanges and trade between East Asia and South Asia. The railway will also pass through some British-controlled colonies in India and Bengal, and the Tang Dynasty had already contacted the British, and the British response was quite positive, so it was not a big problem to build.

The above three Eurasian land bridges can undoubtedly be called the project of the century, once completed and opened to traffic, the impact and significance of the Tang Dynasty are extremely far-reaching and significant. Similarly, the construction of these three railways had to invest a huge amount of money, took many years, and faced huge engineering difficulties.

For example, the permafrost in Siberia will melt in the summer, and the question of how to place the foundation. For example, the Third Eurasian Land Bridge passes through the Hengduan Mountains and the karst terrain that is easily weathered, which makes it difficult and risky to excavate. Many of the problems that may be faced by the people of the Datang Railway for the first time, and may even require sacrifice to be built.

However, almost every sane Tang person knows that it is not an exaggeration to call these three railways the basis for the Tang Dynasty to dominate the Eurasian continent. It is not difficult for Datang to control the North American continent, because there are almost no enemies on it, and the three Pacific Railroads have been completed early, so Datang can lie on the achievements of the Pacific Railroad and continue to promote the development of the North American interior. It is conceivable that once the three Eurasian land bridges are completed and opened to traffic, there will also be a wave of development in the inland areas along the railway. (To be continued.) )