Chapter 550 It's the New Year

"It's the New Year!" Meng Xiang just whispered this sentence, didn't say another word, just poured three cups of sacrificial wine and sprinkled it in front of the monument in front of the Martyrs' Shrine.

All kinds of drafts drafted by the staff officers and secretaries were thrown aside by him. He didn't come to the martyrs' cemetery for show, and he didn't need to put on a show on these issues to try to add points to his prestige. He only came to sacrifice and comfort the martyrs who sacrificed for China. In front of the heroes who will never wake up again, those ornate words are pale.

People are doing it, and the sky is watching.

Meng Xiang believes that the martyrs have not gone far, and they are still taking care of this hot land. The efforts of the vanguard army, his dedication, they can all watch. At this time, he stood here, just handing them an answer sheet, an answer sheet written by countless heroes and martyrs with blood.

China's new development achievements and rising strength in China are the best tributes to those heroes.

The sunset in the distance shone on the remnant snow, which made Meng Xiang, who walked down the steps of the cemetery, a little distracted for a while. The people behind him were silent, and they didn't disturb Meng Xiang's contemplation.

"How many more people have not been identified?" Meng Xiang suddenly turned around and asked.

"More than 4,000 people have not been identified or their relatives have not been found, and another 1,045 people have gone missing and have never been found." Li Shuchun, who was following behind, knew that he was asking about the pension arrangements for those soldiers of the Pioneer Army who had died.

Meng Xiang felt a little heartache when he heard this, turned his head and continued to look at the sunset in the distance. Behind the vanguard army driving away the devils and occupying most of China is more than 70,000 vanguard soldiers who have fallen forever. This casualty may not be outstanding compared to the corpses of more than 600,000 people. At least in front of the Chinese people, who are accustomed to the huge casualties of the Chinese people and to the number of enemy casualties of the Central Army several times before, this number is not conspicuous. But behind this number are young soldiers who have fallen forever, and behind them are the mutilation of more than 70,000 families.

The Pioneers' generous pension system and the honor of accompanying the martyrs may have soothed the pain of their families, but the pain will not go away, and in those families, the role of son, brother, husband, and father will always be vacant.

Moreover, even if the vanguard army devotes so much energy to dealing with the issue of martyrs, there are still many people who cannot handle the aftermath. Behind the more than 70,000 victims, there are still four or five thousand heroic martyrs who cannot rest in peace.

Incomplete corpses are often found on the brutal battlefield, and some soldiers are unable to identify the original corpses at all, and may only recover some of them. There are also some people who are completely missing, no one alive or dead.

And even if the corpses of soldiers are sent back to their hometowns, the places they remember may have been destroyed by the war, and no family members can be found.

After being silent for a moment, Meng Xiang turned around again and said in a deep voice: "Do your best to implement it!" ”

Meng Xiang also understood the difficulties, but his heavy voice had already indicated a solemn attitude.

The number of 70,000 may be dry, but the tall and large number of soldiers' files that Meng Xiang has seen weighed heavily on his heart, making him look back at the martyr's cemetery on the mountainside.

"The Monument to the Unknown Hero has been inaugurated." After a while, Li Shuchun reminded Meng Xiangdao.

The Monument to the Unknown Hero he mentioned was proposed by Meng Xiang, but the location of the construction was moved to the location of later generations, to Beiping.

Although Meng Xiang explained that the reason for the construction of Beiping was that it was the place where the humiliating history of modern China was concentrated, some people began to speculate about the location of the new capital of the vanguard regime.

The capital is not only a symbol of honor, but also contains countless business opportunities and benefits.

Many people are optimistic about the future of the vanguard army, and it is inevitable that the vanguard army will govern China in the eyes of the Chinese people in the future. At this time, although the headquarters of the vanguard army and the office of the joint theater management committee were still in Qidu, all aspects of Qidu were doomed to be impossible to serve as the core capital of China. Then the location of the administrative capital becomes the focus.

At this time, Beiping, Chang'an, and Zhengzhou were included in the sight of the Chinese people.

Since Beiping was taken over by the Pioneer Army, large-scale urban renovation facilities have been carried out, with the completion of various museums, exhibition halls and even picture galleries, as well as the renovation and expansion of more than a dozen universities, which has led many people to speculate that this is the Pioneer Army's preparation for the future capital.

After Xi'an was occupied by the vanguard army, large-scale urban construction and renovation were also underway. In particular, the name of Xi'an was changed to Chang'an, which attracted countless people to speculate.

However, the Central Plains region led by Zhengzhou is dominated by latecomers. With the archaeological discoveries in Anyang and other places, the prosperity of the capital of the Xia and Shang dynasties near the Central Plains, coupled with the revival of Chinese civilization proposed by the vanguard army, made the attention of the Chinese people focus on the Central Plains. The joint theater of operations has put forward the concept of Zhongzhou's urban circle, with Zhengzhou as the center, north to Anyang, south to Xuchang, west to Kaifeng and other places, east to Luoyang, the next step will be to start the urban light rail network, to create Zhongzhou city circle.

Although Luoyang, Kaifeng and other places sank due to the decline of the Yellow River shipping, at this time, there was the intersection of the Pinghan Railway and the Longhai Railway artery, making the revival of these ancient civilized cities just around the corner. As a result, Zhengzhou and other places have been pushed by some as popular choices for new capitals, and some have proposed naming this urban agglomeration across the banks of the Yellow River after the central capital.

Not to be outdone, those who bet that Beiping might be the capital proposed the Beijing-Tianjin metropolitan area, Beiping, Tianjin, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, and even as far as Chengde, Zhangjiakou, and Baoding, and listed the plans put forward by the joint theater to establish intercity trams and light rails in several nearby cities.

In fact, this intercity light rail plan is not only aimed at the urban agglomerations around Beijing, Tianjin and Zhengzhou.

The Vanguard Army acquired 20,000 or 30,000 kilometers of railroad tracks from the United States, including not only light rail of 50 kg and above, but also some light rail of 43 kg and below. It is a pity that these are used as scrap steel for refurnace, so Meng Xiang proposed the development of urban circles, using intercity trains such as light rail to connect neighboring cities and surrounding towns and promote the development of regional economy.

Light rail has become a trend in the development of later generations because of its low cost and convenience. The reason why it is called light rail is not that its track is light, but that its model and marshalling and the scale of construction of the platform are somewhat different from those of the subway and ordinary railway. The light weight of the axle is one of the differences between it and heavy rails such as the subway, but it is not the lightness of the rails.

Because it is located in the periphery of the city, it adopts the technology of electric locomotives that the Pioneer Army introduced from the Germans. In 03, Siemens and General Electric developed a practical electric locomotive with a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. The tram technology of the Germans has always been very advanced, and the Huaxia railway network built by Meng Xiang was aimed at the electrification of the world that has not yet paid attention to the development of high, and no longer repeats the old way of steam locomotives.

The reason why Meng Xiang vigorously developed railway transportation was all because of some lessons learned from later generations. There are many people in China, and if it is really like the United States, which is dominated by automobiles and highways, I am afraid that the drawbacks brought about by various problems will not be easily solved. For a long time, it is impossible for the Chinese people to reach the ideal society where everyone has a car, so the problem of transportation will inevitably be the bottleneck of China's development. At this time, it is inevitable to plan in advance and vigorously develop public utilities and transportation.

From the perspective of safety, staffing, cost and other aspects, intercity transportation such as light rail and tram with large carrying capacity and relatively flexible capacity is undoubtedly a very suitable choice. The urban circle has included the trajectory of a person's life, and the urban circle transportation system with intercity traffic is undoubtedly the key to solving the traffic problem, and it can also quickly relieve the traffic pressure between the urban circles.

As a result, since the first half of last year, the joint theater has demarcated plans for the construction of intercity transportation in six major metropolitan areas, including the Beijing-Tianjin metropolitan area, the Zhengzhou metropolitan area, the Chang'an metropolitan area, the Qidu metropolitan area, the Hangzhou metropolitan area, and the Wuhan metropolitan area.

Therefore, when someone claims the Central Plains metropolitan area of Zhengzhou, outside the Yanzhao metropolitan area of Beijing and Tianjin, the Qin-Han metropolitan area of Chang'an, even the Qilu civilization card of Qidu, the Chu civilization card of Wuhan, and even the Wu Yue and Southern Song Dynasty civilizations in Hangzhou have also played out. However, the competitiveness of these regions is obviously not as competitive as the previous three, especially in the capitals of Beiping and Chang'an.

And Meng Xiang has always been non-committal about Dingdu, and he had no plan to challenge Lao Chiang's regime before, and he did not express his position at this time. However, when someone asked about the capital a few days ago, Meng Xiang said: "The old capital has not been recovered, so how can we talk about the new capital?" One sentence revealed a lot of information, and it also made the competition for the capital more intense.

In this competition, the fate of Nanjing, the old capital, also quickly entered the eyes of the Chinese people. However, because it involves the security of the capital, as well as some taboos between the old capital and the current **, some people are not optimistic about it. However, the wealth circle of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the dense density of large and small cities in the surrounding areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also make many people still confident.

However, all this will not settle until the recovery of Nanjing, and the battles caused by the various interest groups formed before make Zhou Bai, Fan Chong, Tang Yaoshi and others also feel a headache. However, Meng Xiang kept his breath calm and remained silent.

At this time, Meng Xiang came back to his senses, and just nodded and said lightly: "I know." ”

After speaking, he continued to slowly walk down the long staircase surrounded by everyone, dragging the shadow of the setting sun obliquely. r@。