By mid-September, the expansion of the 36 th Group Army had basically been completed, all the troops and equipment had been allocated in place, and all columns had begun military training in full swing.

Now, the expansion work has just been completed, and the columns still have to undergo a period of training and spend a run-in period, after all, this time so many new recruits have been replenished at once.

During this period of time, Zhang Yunfei has been very busy, but in early September, Zhang Yunfei still took the time to go to Peking to attend the opening ceremony of Peking University.

With the strong support of the 36th Group Army, the resumption of Peking University is progressing smoothly, with most of the former teachers returning to the school and most of the students who have not graduated returning to the school.

At the beginning of this semester, Peking University has recruited a group of new students, reaching several thousand, which is the largest enrollment of Peking University in the past years.

In addition to the opening of Peking University, the resumption of several famous universities such as Tsinghua University and Nankai University is also being carried out in a hurry, and these universities may open one after another within a month or two.

Now, Zhang Yunfei is in urgent need of talents, so Zhang Yunfei provides great help to these universities, the purpose is to hope that these universities will get on the right track as soon as possible and cultivate the college talents they urgently need.

Now, with the large-scale expansion of major factories, the large-scale construction of a large number of new factories, and the establishment of various research institutions, Zhang Yunfei feels that the number of talents is far from enough, and it seems to be stretched.

Zhang Yunfei has given orders to William several times, asking them to face the whole country and the world at all costs. Recruiting talent, but this is only a short-term plan.

If you want to plan for the long term, if you want to have a steady stream of talents to replenish it, you have to rely on your own training, so the resumption of these universities is particularly important. Zhang Yunfei naturally spared no effort to support.

Therefore, even though he was very busy these days, Zhang Yunfei still found time to attend the opening ceremony of Peking University. He also delivered a speech at the ceremony, calling on the majority of Peking University students to study hard. Repay the motherland with knowledge, join the big family of the 36th Group Army as soon as possible, enter major factories and major research institutions as soon as possible, and contribute to your own strength.

Zhang Yunfei took a plane from Datong Airport to Beiping in the morning, and in the afternoon, he took a plane back to Datong from Beiping.

After half a month of busyness, the expansion of the 36th Group Army was finally basically completed.

After the completion of the expansion of the troops, good news came again.

The first locomotive produced by the 36th Army finally rolled off the assembly line at the Taiyuan Railway Manufacturing Plant. A ceremony will be held today to bring the newly manufactured locomotive into operation and officially put it on the railway line.

Referring to the first locomotive produced by the 36th Group Army, we have to say about the current state of railways in China, especially in North China.

At present, there are about 20,000 kilometers of railways in China (many of which are still unusable). About 10,000 kilometers were built by the Japanese and Russians outside the gates.

10,000 kilometers in the Guannai, most of the northern ones were built by the Qing government, and a large part of them were built by foreigners, including some with Gengzi indemnity. The railways in the south were built a little more by the government of the Republic of China, but in general there were very few. The Guotong area mainly built the Zhejiang-Jiangxi/Hunan-Guizhou/Guizhou-Guizhou railway. The main thing is to do a "strategic shift".

There are several major railways in North China, namely Pinghan Line, Tongpu Line, Longhai Line, Jinpu Line, Pingsui Line, Zhengtai Road, etc., among which Tongpu Line is still a narrow-gauge railway, not a standard gauge.

In the long and arduous process of development, China's railways have experienced the end of the Qing government, the Beiyang government, the Kuomintang government, and the Japanese puppet rule.

From the end of the Qing government to the collapse of the Kuomintang government, most of them were in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial social state, so their railway undertakings inevitably had the nature and color of semi-feudal and semi-colonial, and the development of the entire railway undertakings was slow and deformed, with messy equipment and backward management. …,

The characteristics of China's railways during this period, taken together, can be roughly three.

First, the number is small and the distribution is biased. Of the country's more than 20,000 kilometers of railways, only more than 10,000 kilometers can be maintained and opened to traffic. There are only more than 20,000 kilometers of railways, and most of them are distributed in the northeast and coastal areas. There are only more than 1,000 kilometers in the northwest and southwest, accounting for only about 6% of the country's railways.

Second, the standard is miscellaneous and the quality is poor. Britain, Germany, Belgium, France, Russia, Japan, the United States and other countries have moved all kinds of railway standards to China. The width of the track gauge varies across the country, and the boundaries and curves and slope standards of bridges and tunnels on a single line are not uniform.

The great powers sold their outdated and backward equipment to China at a high price. These equipment are not only of poor quality, but also extremely messy, such as locomotives, rails there are as many as 100 kinds, and 30% of the stations do not have signals, 70% of the lines do not have blocking equipment. The quality of the equipment is poor, there are many diseases on the line, and the driving safety is not guaranteed.

Third, the management is divided and the operation is backward. Most of the railways were built with foreign debts, and they were guaranteed by road property and business income, so bureaus were set up and managed separately according to the country of investment, and even a railway area was managed by several railway bureaus.

Each railway bureau goes its own way and does its own thing, which not only leads to the implementation of a set of rules and regulations and a set of management methods for a railway, but also makes the station and locomotive, public works, and electrical services set up duplication, and the driving cost and the number of employees increase, which brings a lot of inconvenience to passengers and cargo owners.

In view of such a chaotic situation and a variety of standards, Zhang Yunfei ordered the formulation of a unified standard at the beginning of the establishment of the Taiyuan Railway Manufacturing Plant, which is basically consistent with the international standards.

The Tongpu line in Shanxi has also been rebuilt into standard gauge.

In the whole of North China, the railways controlled by the 36th Army were mainly from the northern section of the Tongpu Line and the section from Datong to Taiyuan; Zhengtai Road, Taiyuan to Shijiazhuang; Pinghan Line, the section from Beiping to Xinxiang, Xinxiang has been recovered by the 36th Group Army.

In addition, there is the Tianjin-Xuzhou section of the Jinpu line, the Lianyungang-Xuzhou section of the Longhai line, and Lianyungang was also recovered by the 36th Group Army; and the entire Pingsui line, that is, the railway from Beiping to Suiyuan.

Most of the railways in North China are basically under the control of the 36th Group Army, and at present, these railways are being repaired and rebuilt according to uniform standards.

After the recovery of North China, there were many captured Japanese puppet soldiers, and there were more than 100,000 puppet soldiers alone, and most of these Japanese puppet troops were sent to various railway lines for heavy labor reform, and in addition, many ordinary people also took the initiative to participate in helping the 36th Group Army repair the railways.

Taiyuan Railway Station.

A brand-new train has stopped on the tracks, and on the locomotive, there are still colorful silk, and behind the locomotive, there are more than a dozen brand-new carriages, all of which are passenger cars, and all of them are produced by the Taiyuan Railway Manufacturing Factory.

Taiyuan Railway Manufacturing Factory not only produces locomotives, but also produces train carriages, and the passenger cars produced are all green leather carriages, and each carriage can take more than 100 people.

The locomotive produced is a diesel diesel locomotive, Zhang Yunfei knows that although the steam locomotive is the mainstream of the locomotive now, it will not be long before it will be slowly eliminated.

Moreover, diesel diesel locomotives were successfully developed by Germany, the United States, France and other countries more than ten years ago, and have been widely used, so Zhang Yunfei naturally would not order the development of steam locomotives.

Today, Datong Railway Station is crowded.

The first train produced by the 36th Group Army will leave here and head for Datong, and in order to celebrate the operation of the first train, this time, more than 1,000 free train tickets were distributed to the common people for free, as early as a few days ago.

Many people have never taken the train, and the people who got free tickets naturally came to the station early, and the people who did not have tickets also came early with the mood of watching the excitement. …,

Today's Taiyuan Railway Station is fully open to the people, and anyone can come in.

Due to the large number of civilians, the 36th Group Army also specially sent about a battalion of troops from the guard division to maintain order at the railway station.

On the platform, there are already a lot of ordinary people standing.

"Lao Wang! You got your ticket too? ”

"Lao Liu, both of us have got tickets, let's just go to Datong to have a look and see my son."

"Lao Wang, I envy you, two sons, one works in Taiyuan, and the other joins the army in Datong."

Hearing this, Lao Wang's face was full of pride.

Lao Wang is nearly 60 years old, the eldest son works in a large factory in Taiyuan, is still a small supervisor, and has an income of several oceans a month, and the younger son is the pride of Lao Wang, who joined the army in the 36th Group Army and is now a captain and company commander of the guard division.

This time, taking advantage of the opening of the train, Lao Wang got two tickets and happened to go to Datong with his wife to see his youngest son who he hadn't seen for a long time.

In fact, Lao Liu is the same, his face is full of pride and joy,

Since the recovery of Taiyuan, the whole Taiyuan has developed rapidly, and the lives of the people are also undergoing earth-shaking changes.

This time, I was lucky to get this free ticket, Lao Liu wanted to go to Datong to see, I heard that Datong has changed more than Taiyuan, and Lao Liu has long wanted to go and see it.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a rapid bell rang, and it was time to start boarding.

"Get on the bus, everyone line up."

Immediately, the whole crowd boiled, and the people waiting to get on the bus, with their faces full of joy, began to line up to get on the bus.

"I'm sorry! Uncle, you are the sixth car, and this is the eighth car. ”

From time to time, there are ordinary people who get on the wrong carriage, but the soldiers who are responsible for maintaining the order of getting on the train patiently correct everyone and guide everyone to get on the bus.

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