The women's conversation did not ease the atmosphere of the banquet much, in the eyes of the Black Dragon Society, Sun Wen was too uncompetitive, at that time, the whole country of China was chaotic, such a good situation, he did not grab a province, half a province, it was simply stupider than a pig; In Sun Wen's view, it was these Japanese who were too stingy, when they attacked Guangzhou, Hu Hanmin wanted the Black Dragon Society to help find some retired or even active Japanese non-commissioned officers to help in Hong Kong, but the Black Dragon Society only wasted the best opportunities as soon as they opened their mouths.

In the woman's muttering words, Inu Yangyi asked again, "Sun Sang, I heard that Yang Jingcheng is suing the princes of the League in China now, how will you deal with this crisis?" ”

"That's nothing." Sun Wen replied heavily, "The Alliance is not a revival association, and it never does things that hurt relatives and make enemies happy." At this time in the National Assembly, they are entangled in lawsuits themselves, and in order to muddy the waters, they have played such a trick. Yang turned out to be that person...... I used to think that if I pulled him, he could become Washington's, but now it seems that he can't do anything but conspire. ”

"What does Sun Sang mean is that he will not return to China as scheduled to be tried in Dali Temple?" Seeing him like this, Inu Yangyi still made the problem clear, which only made everyone in the alliance unhappy for a while.

Sun Wen's gaze swept over Chen Qimei, who was sitting at the bottom, and replied loudly, "Wen has never done something before, why are you afraid of returning to China to be tried?" In a few days, I will go to buy a ferry ticket, and when the court session of Dali Temple is held, I will return to China. ”

Sun Wen said that he was down, and Dog Yangyi just didn't believe it. But he couldn't question the authenticity of his words in front of everyone, especially in front of Sun Wen's woman, so he had to skipped this topic very little. Let's start talking about other things. Sun Wen said in front of Dog Yangyi that he would return to China, but he actually didn't want to go back, he knew very well what was going on in Hangzhou, and what he said was nothing more than a scene. The lively banquet dispersed, and when he returned to his apartment, he called a meeting with everyone, and what he was talking about was the Hangzhou case.

Sun Wen, who is riddled with lawsuits, is worried that the matter in Hangzhou will be exposed thoroughly, which is true. Don't talk about the League, even his reputation is stinky; And Yang Rui, who is also entangled in lawsuits, only regards Han Yuxiu's case as a relief, although those who died in the previous purge are right. But he still had a feeling in his heart that his conscience had told him that it was not enough to do this—to kill people, and to make a name for it, what is the matter? This trial is just the right time to give him a chance to clear his name once and for all. So he felt better. With such thoughts. He didn't negotiate with anyone at all, he just put his mind on other places, such as transportation.

The Ministry of Transport is the largest department of the Prime Minister's Office in addition to the Ministry of Industry, which not only manages railways, but also manages kilometers, waterways, telecommunications, telegraphs, postal services, and finally air transportation.

The more departments are divided. The more detailed the work is done, for technology. This is a good thing, but for logistics this is not necessarily a good thing, in his opinion, the country's logistics must be a comprehensive and comprehensive consideration of things, can not be the Ministry of Railways only think about building railways, the Highway Bureau only thinks about building roads, such a division of labor will make various modes of transport compete with each other, but will also be friction with each other, so the country's logistics must be co-ordinated, must not be separated.

This is Yang Rui's view on the work arrangement of the logistics department, and for the logistics itself, he prefers waterways rather than railways, that is to say, the most basic transportation network in the country is waterway transportation, then railway transportation, and finally road and aviation supplements.

Sheng Xuanhuai, who is in charge of the Ministry of Transportation, can't understand his concept, especially Yang Rui's role in river transportation above irrigation and hydropower, for example, he forbade the Ministry of Agriculture to use the Yellow River water for irrigation, and also prohibited the construction of hydropower stations on the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, which is completely incomprehensible, but Yang Rui ordered it like this, and did not explain the reason, which made Tao Chengzhang of the Ministry of Agriculture and Wu Tongju, the water conservancy person in charge of the Ministry of Land, very embarrassed. Not only that, Yang Rui also issued a ban, that is, North China and Northwest China are never allowed to use river water for irrigation, and at the same time, as long as any river will affect shipping, no hydropower station shall be built, and then there is a qiē bridge construction shall not affect shipping, especially the Yangtze River.

Yang Rui's three unkind orders only made people have a toothache, but there was no way, he was the prime minister, whether it was Tao Chengzhang, Wu Tongju, or even Sheng Xuanhuai, he had to accept the order. In fact, Yang Rui's order is also because of the experience of later generations and the influence of stall literature: the experience is irrigation, and many of the Yellow River irrigation in Northwest and North China in later generations has made a lot of so-called plugging into the south of the Yangtze River, but the result is that irrigation has caused the groundwater level to rise, and the salinization of land has been difficult to control for decades; The literature of the stalls exposes rumors and information such as the impact of the Yangtze River bridges on shipping, the disaster of the Sanmenxia Hydropower Station to the country and the people, and the cracking of the reservoir body after the completion of the Three Gorges Dam.

This kind of edification only made Yang Rui very disgusted with hydropower stations and bridges, so he decided that in addition to controlling floods, the main role of the river is navigation, irrigation and hydropower are completely on the side. The Ministry of Transport quickly came up with a draft of a national transportation network in accordance with the idea of 'river transport as the base, railways as the trunk, and highways as the supplement'.

River transportation: horizontal from north to south is the Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River; In fact, there is no major river that can be connected vertically, only the Heilongjiang River in the northeast, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Qiantang River in North and East China, and the Pearl River in South China. For this reason, Yang Rui disregarded the fact that the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has been silted up, in order to make the country have a longitudinal river, it is actually necessary to dig a canal between the Ganjiang River and the Pearl River system, the canal is not long, only dozens of kilometers, but the workload is huge, even if the technical factors are ignored to forcibly dig the canal, the resources it consumes are not now the national strength can bear, fortunately, this is only a comprehensive long-term planning, not to say that it will be excavated now, which makes Sheng Xuanhuai put his mind at ease, but there is such a long-term investment and maintenance of the river transport network, Zhan Tianyou and other railway factions are still very worried about the lack of funds to build the railway.

Although river transport is cheap, in addition to the high cost of river maintenance, there are still two problems: First, there are not enough domestic river transport vessels, according to statistics. Even counting small boats of several tens of tons, the country has less than 50,000 tons, and most of these ships are sailboats. Therefore, even if the river wharf is built, these rivers cannot be used effectively; Second, now that China's inland waterway shipping rights have been completely seized by the foreign powers, once the river channel is repaired, judging from the current situation, it will be the foreign steamship companies that will ultimately benefit, not the domestic shipping companies.

In the palace of Prince Zheng on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Sheng Xuanhuai, Zhan Tianyou and other officials of the Ministry of Transportation were in a hurry to report to Yang Rui about the shortcomings of river transportation. The secretary, Li Zilong, showed Yang Rui the Sino-British Treaty of Renewal of Trade and Shipping signed in 1902, and when he saw his renewal C, he continued to discuss the amendment of the Inner Harbor Shipping Treaty in paragraph 4 of the charter 'if there is a shallow water...... British wheels are forbidden to drive the river. But Hualun should also be banned', the corners of his eyebrows jumped angrily, he looked at Sheng Xuanhuai's old face, and he couldn't wait to smash the teacup in his hand. But he was slightly stunned, but he endured it. After all, this is a contract before the Manchus, not a contract between themselves and the British now.

"Say no more!" Yang Rui stood up and startled Wang Jinzhi, who was briefing him in front of the map--The transportation department is full of railway officials, few water transport officials, and some of them are also those from the China Merchants Steamship Bureau, who only know how to operate, and do not know how to plan water transportation. "I'll just say so, no matter how good the railroad is. As long as I am in power, the policy of river transportation being more important than rail transportation will not change! ”

Yang Rui's words shocked the people present. What is to oppress people with power, this is to oppress people with power. In the midst of everyone's displeasure or disdain, he said again: "The railway is good, as soon as the railway is laid, you can sit and wait to collect money, this is like the railway in Zhejiang, as soon as the railway repairs the water transportation of the Fuchun River, no one cares, why?" Isn't it because it is the boatmen of all sizes who benefit from the construction of the river, and the only people who benefit from the construction of the railway are the local government and the railway company? But the problem is that the railway company has made money, but the actual transportation cost has been raised, and the government is good, but the people are bad, and this kind of thing can't be done!

We can build fewer ships, and now the Ministry of Industry has built so many shipyards for what, isn't it just to build ships? The foreigners have seized the right to ship, we can take it back, haven't the countries not recognized us yet, then negotiate when they recognize it, the revival will not be cheap enough to recognize all treaties, let alone the former Qing Dynasty, the foreigners are scared and their legs are soft, what they say is what they say! Sign as you want!

You have had little contact with me, and you have learned very little about me. I have a bad temper, specifically a scoundrel and hooligan, and I would rather be a broken jade than a complete habit. Of course, I am not ignorant of the need to advance and retreat in a measured manner, and it is impossible to recover the shipping rights of the three main routes of the Yangtze River, the Heilongjiang River, and the Pearl River, but in addition to these three main trunks, the shipping rights of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the Yellow River, the Huai River, and the tributaries of the Yangtze River must be recovered. The Ministry of Transport should not consider the number of ships and the impact of politics, but should send more manpower to survey and map the rivers that can be operated in the country as soon as possible, and find ways to dredge the silted Beijing-Hangzhou Canal as soon as possible. ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, let Wang Jinzhi continue, and Wang Jinzhi in front of the map took a while before continuing to speak, but he really didn't know much about river transportation, so he could only talk in generalities, and only when he finished introducing river transportation and introduced to the national railway network, he had the momentum to talk about his father-in-law, that is, the national railway network planned by Zhan Tianyou, for almost an hour.

Different from his fellow villager Sun Wen's 200,000-mile railway plan, Zhan Tianyou planned four major railway trunk lines of two vertical and two horizontal according to the actual situation of the country. The first longitudinal line is the central longitudinal line, from Inner Mongolia through the north of Shanxi, with Beijing as the center, south through Hankou, directly to Kowloon; The second is the eastern longitudinal line, from the northeast to Beijing, and then down to Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and all the way to Fujian and Guangdong. The first traverse line is the northern traverse line, starting from Haizhou, Jiangsu, passing through Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ili in the Western Regions, and finally connecting with the Central Asian Railway in Russia; The second is the central traverse line, starting from Shanghai, Nanjing, passing through Wuhan, and entering Sichuan.

According to the truth, Zhan Tianyou's plan is not difficult to realize, because these four lines have been repaired in three, such as Jinghan, Jinpu, and Huqu in the longitudinal line; The Shanghai to Nanjing in the traverse line has also been repaired, and the northern traverse line is the same as Yang Rui thought before.

However, Yang Rui seems that there is no way to build the railway from Fujian to Guangdong, and at the same time, there is no way to build the railway from Yichang to Chongqing, and that section is a hole, which seems to be filled in a hundred years. This is only for technical reasons, from the political point of view, the right of way of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway of the central longitudinal line has been granted to the great powers, and in the case that all countries do not recognize China, the construction of this road is far away, and a few years later, once China and Japan go to war, the Yangtze River is blocked. The only way to go south by rail is to go to sea from Liangguang, which is not a part of the influence area of the Revival Society, otherwise foreign trade will be cut off. The loss was huge.

Yang Rui is not good at explaining these problems, under his signal, the secretary Li Zilong took out another planning map, which Yang Rui did against the map of later generations, basically copying the future line, in this plan, the country's railway trunk line is not two vertical and two horizontal. Rather, it is three vertical and three horizontal.

Three verticals, one is the eastern longitudinal line, the same as Zhan Tianyou. It also uses the ready-made Jinpu Road, but the difference is that it has a branch in the south: after Jinpu Road reaches Bengbu, it follows the coal transportation line of the Ma'anshan Iron Works project to Hefei. From Hefei to Jiujiang. Then from Jiujiang and Nanchang all the way through Jiangxi into Guangdong, this is actually the Beijing-Kowloon line of later generations, in the case of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway right of way was seized by the powers, this is the best route to go south to Guangdong; In addition, Zhan Tianyou's plan for the eastern longitudinal line has also been revised, that is, the railway will only be built from Yingtan in Jiangxi to Fujian, but will not connect to Guangdong.

The second longitudinal line is the same as that designed by Zhan Tianyou, that is, the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway in later generations.

The third longitudinal line frightened the people of the transportation department. Because this railway is incredible, the southernmost point of the line is Kunming. The northernmost point is actually Ulan-Ude in Russia. The whole line is about 4,000 kilometers long, it goes south from Ulan-Ude in Russia, runs through Mongolia and connects Suiyuan, then runs through Shanxi, crosses the Yellow River to Xi'an, and then enters Sichuan from Xi'an, connects Chongqing, and repairs all the way to Kunming. This line includes the Mongolian Railway, the Tongpu Railway in Shanxi, the Baocheng Railway, the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and the Chengdu-Kunming Railway. Just as there is a branch in the eastern longitudinal line, it also has a branch in the north, that is, from Xi'an to the north through Yan'an, and all the way to Baotou. Looking at it this way, there are actually four longitudinal lines, because the east and west longitudinal lines have half branches.

There are four traverse lines, but there are only three traversal lines. The central traverse line is the same as Zhan Tianyou's plan, but the northern traverse line will be built from Zhangjiakou in Beijing, Zhangjiakou to the west to Baotou; The southern traverse line, as in later generations, is the same as in later generations, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line goes west, passes through Xinyu to connect the Pingzhu line of Hanyang Iron Works to transport coal, and then goes west through Loudi, Huaihua, Guiyang, Liupanshui, and connects to Kunming.

Four vertical and three horizontal, although some railways have been built, but there are a lot of railways to be repaired, the eastern longitudinal line branch line from Hefei to the south to Guangzhou, Kowloon has 1,300 kilometers, although the original road has been repaired to Quzhou, but to repair to Fujian, it is still necessary to repair 600 kilometers to Fuzhou, here is 1,900 kilometers; Because the central longitudinal line is only 1,100 kilometers as long as it is built in Guangdong and Han, plus the western longitudinal line and the 900-kilometer branch line of Xi'an Baotou, the longitudinal line has a total of 7,900 kilometers.

As for the horizontal line, the northern traverse line is the shortest, and it is only 500 kilometers from Zhangjiakou to Baotou, but the central traverse line is repaired all the way to Ili and exits, which is 4,000 kilometers; As for the southern transverse line, although the railway in Shanghai has been repaired to Quzhou, there are still 2,100 kilometers to the west of Quzhou, that is, the total number of horizontal lines is 6,600 kilometers, and the total number of railways to be repaired is 14,500 kilometers with the longitudinal line. The more than 14,000 kilometers of railways, calculated as 50,000 21 kilometers, will require more than 700 million taels of silver to be repaired.

Li Zilong briefly introduced the four vertical and three horizontal ones and came down. Seeing that everyone was silent, Yang Rui asked with a smile, "What, isn't it too short, it doesn't look cool without 200,000 kilometers?" ”

When he asked, everyone laughed, but Yang Rui said, "200,000 kilometers is just a mouthful, and we only say that we will do it soon." The planning of the railway network of three verticals and three horizontals was taken out by the General Logistics Department, which took into account the economic demand for transportation, while the General Logistics Department considered another aspect, and this was also the reason for the planning of the western longitudinal line; if Tibet was not too high, they were afraid that they would have to draw the railway to Lhasa.

Everyone noticed that the central cross-line was dropped on this side, that is, the one from Wuchang to Chongqing. Why? I didn't give me a reason, so I can't give you a reason, probably because the geology from Yichang to Chongqing does not allow it. The southern traverse line is mainly to connect Guizhou and Kunming with the national railway network, Yunnan has eighteen strange, one of which is that the train is not through the country and abroad, but the railway with Yunnan and Guizhou is really difficult to repair, therefore, Chengdu to Kunming section, Xiangtan to Kunming section, are put to 20 years later, we have to build the other 12,000 kilometers of railways in these 20 years. Within 30 years, this 14,500 kilometers of railways must be completed! ”

began to emphasize river transportation, and when it came to the railway, he came up with something beyond imagination, and said that the three vertical and three horizontal would be repaired within 30 years, and the people from the transportation department who came to the meeting couldn't help but start clapping, Yang Rui saw this and said: "Don't be happy, there are two railways to be repaired in the spring, one is the Tongpu Road and Houxi Line in Shanxi, and the other is the Jiujiang to Guangzhou Jiuguang Line, these three railways must be repaired in three years......

The National Transportation Planning Conference did not end until the afternoon, and after the meeting ended, Yang Rui left Zhan Tianyou behind, he did not want to see celebrities, but had something to talk about. Seeing that Zhan Tianyou was slightly uneasy, Yang Rui said gently: "There is a Yellow River bridge on the Houxi Line, and the Ministry of Transportation has been asked to send someone to survey it in winter, you are responsible for the matter, what is the specific situation over there, can the bridge be repaired?" ”

Unexpectedly, Zhan Tianyou replied, "Your Excellency, the Longmen Bridge has been surveyed, and it is not a problem to repair the bridge, its span is shorter than the other two Yellow River bridges, the span is less than 200 meters, and the single or double holes will pass, and the length of the entire bridge is only 400 meters, only one-third of the Jinan Yellow River Bridge on the Jingpu line." ”

"Oh, so the bridge is not only easy to repair, but also not expensive?" Yang Rui nodded, he had been worried that he would not be able to repair the Yellow River Bridge without finding foreigners.

"The bridge is very easy to repair, and the water surface of this section of the Yellow River is not only narrow, but also from narrow to wide, and the water flow is stable. We estimate that the cost of the entire bridge is only half of the Zhengzhou Yellow River Bridge, which is more economical than the Jinan Yellow River Bridge, and a quarter of it. Zhan Tianyou said, he answered very carefully, after all, Yang Rui was not familiar with him, and this person himself said that he had a bad temper.

"Oh, that's good!" Yang Rui was relieved, and after asking about the Yellow River Bridge, he asked another bridge, "Dependent City, I heard that you are designing the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, do you have eyebrows now?" ”

"Ah......" Zhan Tianyou snorted softly, he didn't know who said that he wanted to build the Yangtze River Bridge, he was slightly excited, he said: "Prime Minister, Tianyou is just thinking about himself, and it has not been surveyed, does the imperial court really want to build the Wuchang Yangtze River Bridge?" ”

Zhan Tianyou regretted it after saying it stupidly, Yang Rui would ask like this, it must be something he wanted to repair, and sure enough, after he finished speaking, Yang Rui said, "If Wuchang is not repaired, Jiujiang should also be repaired, it is best to repair Wuchang, there is an iron factory there, and it is close to Shanxi, and it is better to repair there than in Wuchang." But the Yangtze River is not as good as the Yellow River, can bridges be built with the current technology? ”

pinched himself fiercely, Zhan Tianyou said, "I can repair!" Prime Minister, can be repaired! The Forth Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, England, is more than 2,000 meters long, and it was also completed. If we refer to the Forth Bridge, three sets of giant cantilever steel girders are erected between Turtle Mountain and Snake Mountain, then the bridge can be completed. Zhan Tianyou took out the pencil he was carrying, found a piece of paper, and drew it.

After the construction of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, he has thought about the question of how to cross the Yangtze River countless times, and the best way to do it is to build a bridge in addition to using a ferry. In the Manchu Dynasty, he wanted to build the Guangdong-Hanzhou Line first and then mention the matter of the Yangtze River Bridge, and now Yang Rui actually took the initiative to bring up the matter of the bridge, which couldn't help but make him very excited.

The sketch of the bridge was quickly drawn, and it was different from any Yangtze River bridge that Yang Rui had ever seen, the Yangtze River Bridge designed by Zhan Tianyou was like a three-section arm of a machine, very modern, the bridge deck was almost engulfed by a diamond-shaped steel frame, and only a little bridge deck was exposed between the three cantilever arms, although Yang Rui felt weird, but still asked, "How high is the clearance under the bridge, does it affect the ships below?" He saw that Zhan Tianyou wanted to say yes, so he hurriedly stopped: "You can't measure it by the current ship, you have to think about it in the future." For example, if a 10,000-ton ship comes over, can it be passed? ”

"Absolutely!" Zhan Tianyou hurriedly said, "The clearance of the Fox Bridge is forty-five meters, if it is still not enough, we can appropriately increase the clearance to fifty meters, so that even if there are 10,000 tons of ships below, it can be passed." ”

Hearing that it was so high, Yang Rui, who was brainwashed by the literature of the stall, was satisfied, and then asked, "How much does it cost to build such a bridge?" Is five million taels enough? ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, Zhan Tianyou stood up, "Prime Minister, five million taels is enough!" (To be continued......)