From Yuan Shikai made the decision to go to the northwest, to the final decision was issued in a very short time, it can be said unceremoniously that Yuan Shikai's end was very sudden, almost after listening to the live broadcast of the northwest military parade, he made a decision, recruited his subordinates in the shortest time, and after a short consultation, and reached a consensus, the nearest train went to Baotou.

The two sides severed contacts, but with the help of some secret fronts, they also maintained relatively close contacts, and with the approval of Yuan Shikai, the news was transmitted to Baotou at the first time along a special channel, and after a few rounds of radio waves between the two Chinese cores thousands of miles apart, an urgent, unified plan was finally established, and it was implemented.

Officially, since the war began in 1911, there have been no high-level mutual visits, but in terms of personnel flow, there is no complete lack of contact between the northwest and Beiyang. The hostility at the highest level cannot hide the countless exchanges between the two sides, in terms of geography, the northwest is an inland and does not rely on the sea in all directions, but economically, the northwest is an export-oriented economy, which requires many ports and export goods.

The Northwest has a strong industrial production capacity, and the designed machine products are even stronger than the world's most advanced machines, especially in cotton textiles, silk, and ordinary daily necessities, almost with unimaginable strength, it can be said unceremoniously that the Northwest is the first in the world in some things, even if it is the factories under the command of the Beiyang Army, it also imports a large number of machinery and equipment from the Northwest, because it can create a lot of wealth for the Beiyang.

Simply into the super. will cause economic imbalance, Yang Yuanzhao from later generations. Knowing this very well, the semi-colonial era of moving rooms began. The Opium War, which was the abyss of Chinese history, was a war that started because of the entry into the super, even though Britain had powerful warships and had relied on the industrial revolution to move towards the road of industrialization, but when facing China, which was closed off from the country and dominated by a small-scale peasant economy, it was still overtaken and disgraced. had to rely on opium, an unconventional commodity, in exchange for huge profits, and even launched two opium wars for this.

From the rise of industry in the Northwest to the time when it had the ability to interfere in the world's political economy, the Northwest paid great attention to this point, and after establishing close ties with Germany with commerce and technology, the Northwest has many aspects. It is to study how to balance the financial and economic exchanges between the two sides, the prisoner of war program, and the procurement of industrial products. There are also some cultural relics that have been purchased in this way, with the strong industrial production capacity of the northwest. The machine that could have been produced by itself passed through Germany. Crossing the ocean to buy is to balance the purchasing power. In the middle, the Northwest paid a lot of price.

Not only Germany, but also as a European product seller, but also an ally at some level, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and even Italy with soft feet are the objects of consideration in the northwest. After careful consideration, between Beiyang and Northwest, in addition to these machinery and equipment produced in Northwest, some industrial basic materials on the Beiyang site are the mainstream of Northwest purchases. To a certain extent, the two sides are exchanging raw materials and industrial products that each side needs, and at the highest level, the hostile relations between the two sides will not affect the bottom at all, and the exchanges at the bottom are frequent, and the two blocs are very close to each other.

After several years of development, especially in the northwest in the focus on the railway, the railway network in the north is quite dense, because of the relationship between the plains, far easier to build than in the south, in addition to a few large river basins in the north, there are few rivers and lakes, which also lays the foundation for the networked railway. From Beijing to Baotou, take the old Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway, the original design is good, plus it is, the first Minister of Railways in the northwest Zhan Tianyou once had the project, so the northwest is also quite important, from Beijing to Baotou passenger dedicated, even than Baotou to Xi'an passenger dedicated, earlier through, and from the day of the breakthrough, it is the entire northern railway network, the busiest, the largest profit of the railway line.

On the surface, the Northwest has liberalized the railways, and some of the rights of the railways invested in the Northwest, such as the right to sell tickets, for example, the right to dividends and profits, have been handed over to Beiyang and the Revolutionary Party, and from top to bottom, the entire railway network has been built in the Northwest, and the network industry from top to bottom belongs to the Northwest, and the entire Chinese railway has always been operating according to the operation map of the Northwest.

In this era, large-scale transport aircraft, and airports are not popularized, railways are almost the only way for the army to mobilize and travel on a large scale, such a transportation artery, of course, is in the hands of the northwest, it is impossible to hand over to others, things on the surface, can make concessions, but the actual control, must be held in their own hands, and even for this control, secretly there is a lot of work. The Northwest not only controls those railway stations, important node cities, but also penetrates into every level of the railway field, for example, the most basic railway workers, for example, small border stations, or even just as a staff member through a small station, and it is precisely like this, Yuan Shikai has just issued a decision to visit the Northwest, and a special train specially made appeared at the Beijing Railway Station, at an entrance that Yuan Shikai has never been on

Get on the train, between Baotou, Beijing, is already running a passenger train, but the speed of the train is higher than the speed of the passenger train in the northwest planning, to reach a grade, but also the northwest is different from other places, now, is from the northwest staff headquarters issued an order, even the northwest railway bureau, have heard the wind, specially for Yuan Shikai's special train, opened up a green channel, in a sense, Yuan Shikai, also enjoy Yang Yuanzhao, Liu Shu, the status of the leader of the northwest, The speed has also reached the extreme that the passenger train can achieve.

As the head of government of the Northwest, Liu Shu spent one-third of his days on the railway, and the speed of the train increased by 10 or 20 kilometers, for Liu Shu, who spent more than 100 days a year on the railway. may save one-tenth of his time, which is ten days, although, Liu Shu also knows that even if the time saved, it does not belong to him, but being able to spend ten days less on the railway is a good choice after all, and he has more time to put on other things.

If it is said that before Liu Shu, before Yang Yuanzhao came to Baotou and single-handedly promoted the construction of the railway network in the northwest, the railway was really a rare thing. Everything has to have a degree, gradually, gradually, from liking to calm, to indifferent, even one more day, the degree of disgust, for no other reason, too many, under the premise that the car can not become the mainstream means of transportation, the train is on the long distance, the owner has an incomparable advantage, not only can operate 24 hours a day, but also the safety performance is much higher than the car.

The experience of later generations proves that a safe, there is a considerable amount of train operation schedule, for the overall safety of the railway, is very important, the Northwest Railway Bureau, with reference to the experience of later generations, relying on militarized management, with a large number of computers non-stop calculation and analysis, not relying on one person, or a few people to pat the head to decide, a change, will affect the entire train schedule, as long as it is strictly in accordance with the interval to run, the safety performance of the railway is extremely high, from the beginning of the running chart to the present, there is almost no large-scale, a safety accident in which the car crashed and the person died.

Liu Shu did enough by train, but Yuan Shikai wouldn't, for so many years, there were basically few things in Beiyang, let him deal with them personally, not that Beiyang knows how to use people and will disperse power. Compared with employing people, the northwest is more than 108,000 miles in Beiyang, so there will be such a result, there is no other reason, the local things in the northwest, whether it is depth, or breadth, are much more than Beiyang, in Beiyang, the general county magistrate, only responsible for some things on the surface, just like the county officials of the Qing Dynasty in the past, manage punishments, incidentally, to ensure the collection of labor and taxes, as long as this is done well, even a qualified county magistrate.

However, in the northwest, a county magistrate needs to shoulder the entire county's industry, agriculture, enterprises and institutions, tertiary industry, education, and many other aspects, and evaluate the work of a county magistrate, not to say that the county magistrate can do some of the county's work very well as the boundary, but to look at a comprehensive one, not only to be politically qualified, to have clear punishments, economic development, but also to have a very systematic and clear requirement for the employment rate and development trend, and even in accordance with the target responsibility system in the northwest. A lot of things are accurate to several decimal places.

From this point of view, even a county in the northwest is not easy to do, not to mention that Liu Shu is the head of the government, controlling the whole country, almost the entire major policy, must be dealt with by Liu Shu, he is not a politician who is good at this aspect, but he is more diligent, but it is this kind of in-depth and focus, spare no effort to deal with every problem, so that the engine of the northwest is almost always full of excitement and forward power, every county is accurate to the decimal point, every development has a plan, there is a program, Combined, these became the foundation of the Northwest Miracle. (To be continued......)