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After the chat, Yu Ziyi asked, "Brother Qiufan, how is the railway progressing now?" ”

Hearing the mention of the railway, Du Yaquan laughed, "Very good, very good." It's been a year of preparation, how can I do it? What is Xiao Xu's explanation? ”

Looking down and seeing that there was no one, Yu Ziyi said cautiously: "Mr. said that the Russo-Japanese War is about to end, or it won't be long before Japan will have trouble." He also said that the Japanese have endless methods, and Brother Qiufan should be careful. ”

Yu Ziyi has been on the foreign ship and does not know the news of the battle between Japan and Russia in Mukden, and Du Yaquan's side received Yang Ruilai's secret order just after the end of the war two days ago, that is, to check all kinds of personnel hired by the railway company who are not from the Fuxing Society, and some important positions must be carefully checked to be trusted by their origins. Du Yaquan didn't understand why Yang Rui came to such a secret so abruptly, but he guessed in his heart that Yang Rui should have been calculated by the Japanese, otherwise his tone would not be so resolute.

"Last year, it was checked according to the procedure, but most of the upper-level personnel of the railway company were Cantonese people living in the United States, and the Japanese couldn't speak the vernacular and couldn't get in, these were technical; Others, such as accounting, management, and general affairs, are all sent by the Shanghai training class, although these have been reviewed once when they were in Shanghai, but they are still monitored according to the procedures when they come here; As for the local gentry, especially those relatives and fellow villagers who were elected by the shareholders, they also took the exam first, and then came in some unimportant positions. Du Yaquan is not only a positive person, but also a meticulous person, the layout of the railway company is not leaky, and he roughly finished the personnel summary of the railway company. He added: "Actually, the most difficult thing for the railway company now is not the destruction of the Japanese, but the fact that this eastern road belongs to the mountains and forests. The amount of earthwork is huge, and the civil engineering work is difficult. ”

"Oh, I was worried that the railway would be obstructed by the local gentry, especially the banner people, but it seems that Mr. was too worried." Yu Ziyi listened to Du Yaquan's words and said that although most of the people in the Northeast are displaced people in the Guannai, there are many banner people and huge family assets. In particular, many of these banner people have a relationship with the lords of the court, and if they want to pass through their land, even if they have Shang Fang's sword, it will be useless, and I can't imagine that they didn't make any trouble this time.

Hearing Yu Ziyi talk about those banner landlords, Du Yaquan shook his head and said: "For hundreds of years, those banner people have not been broken, if they don't have a good family. Otherwise, the relationship between the DPRK and China is deep, and there are still a few people who are good at running the family, and there are many people who rely on the relationship between the emperor's relatives and the country. It was those who did not have a stake in the shares, and they wanted to take advantage of the railway company's land requisition to knock a hard stroke, and there were a few households on Anton's side who estimated the road construction route, and forcibly bought the land in advance, intending to sell it to us at a high price. ”

"And then?" Du Yaquan said and stopped here. Yu Ziyi was very curious.

"Later...... Later, it was solved anyway. We'll go straight to the construction site later. Xiao Bing, I guess you have never seen the scene of tens of thousands of people working together, hehe, you should see, you should see. Du Yaquan suddenly skipped the past as he spoke, and then went directly to the construction site. However, I am not better than Xingjian here, but there are no foreign cars, only mules and horses, and it has been hard in the past. ”

There are many things that don't need to be said in detail, the Russo-Japanese War, Yu Ziyi can roughly guess the fate of those who dare to take the opportunity to blackmail the flag people of the railway company, although they have different positions, but thinking of the ending is also a chill, he hurriedly skipped this bloody thing, and asked: "Brother Qiu Fan, your railway company is also the largest company outside the Guanwai, why don't you buy a few foreign cars to support the scene?" ”

"The scene of the railway company is already very big, and it will be broken if it is held up any longer!" Du Ya smiled and swept away the gloom just now, "You'll understand when you go to the construction site later, besides, we also have cars, not only are there more than the Kanto Bank." ”

Yu Ziyi arrived at the construction site and understood what Du Yaquan meant when he said "the scene is already very big, and it will break if it is held up again", the ups and downs of the earth, a roadbed galloped straight through, countless red flags fluttered, countless blue-clothed men worked on both sides of the roadbed, shouting trumpets can be heard even if they are a few miles away, such a road suddenly appeared on the vast land is amazing, the first time I saw a fascinated number of people working together is also amazing, even more amazing is that there are many smoking cars on the construction site in the distance, tall and big, Busy under the roadbed, Yu Ziyi asked, "Is that a locomotive?" ”

"Hehe, that's not a locomotive, it's a caterpillar!" Du Yaquan said a strange word, he understands foreign languages, although this big object like a train is called a tractor according to Yang Rui, and a caterpillar according to the foreigners, but Du Yaquan still likes to call their literal name - caterpillar, "I just arrived last month, and the four stations cost 50,000 US dollars, I really don't know what Cheng thinks." ”

It was the first time Yu Ziyi had seen this kind of thing that smoked and fired, like a locomotive and didn't walk the tracks, and he asked, "Isn't this thing easy to use?" ”

"It's easy to use, but it's often bad, I asked the foreigner who opened this privately, and he said that this is still a testing machine, and he was actually brought here, purely to use us as Kaizi, if it weren't for the strength of this thing, I would have thought about it a long time ago." Du Yaquan knows this machine called caterpillar very thoroughly, this thing crawling on the ground is a prototype at all, Yang Rui seems to have come from the United States to collect all kinds of information every month, so he decided to order this thing, the name Caterpillar is not unusual in Du Yaquan's opinion, I really don't know what Yang Rui thinks.

When Du Yaquan was talking, the two of them had already arrived next to the caterpillar that was two feet long and one foot high, this guy who was working as a coolie with black smoke had no wheels at all, only a strange iron belt, and it walked slowly in the noise of "boom boom", it really looked like a caterpillar. Although the caterpillar walks slowly, it is ugly, and the iron parts contained in it are huge, but under its huge shovel, the large mound of dirt on the roadbed is effortlessly bulldozed on its back, looking at the conspicuous "caT" sign on the body, Yu Ziyi suddenly remembered. This seems to be the company invested by the overseas branch of the Renaissance Society, and he saw this "caT" logo when he was sorting out the secret files at the headquarters. Looking at Du Yaquan's still dissatisfied gaze. He didn't want to tell him about this, but he said loudly in the noise of the machine: "This thing works very well, and it takes thirty workers to top one car." ”

Du Yaquan shook his head when he heard his words, and then stretched out his hand to make a gesture of eight and a ten, meaning that this thing could cover the workload of eighty workers.

Yu Ziyi looked at his gesture, and after this paragraph, he asked, "Brother Qiufan, since it can reach eighty workers, then this thing is not expensive." ”

"That's not how it works. Do you know how much the foreigner who drives this thing is paid? Du Yaquan said, "That foreigner paid a special high price to invite him, but it cost ten dollars a day, and usually a worker only costs two dimes a day, and eighty people only pay sixteen yuan a day, and all these saved money are taken to him." Not counting the money for repairing this broken thing, as well as the money for burning wood and coal every day. If it weren't for the fact that Anton would have repaired this section quickly. It's better not to want this thing. Although there is no problem with the project funds, Du Yaquan is very aware of the pressure of funds, and he will try to save money wherever he can.

I can't say a lot of things I know, so Yu Ziyi had to ask other things, "Brother Qiufan, it's been nearly two months since I started." How long has this railway been built, can the previously planned sections be repaired? ”

"It's no problem for Anton to repair it here, but it is estimated that the Japanese will not let it be repaired by Fengtian." Last year, the arrangement was made that the construction of the Andong section would start after the Chinese New Year, and the construction would be carried out from the county seat of Andong to the north, passing through the improvised military railway of the Japanese. The farther it is repaired, the better, as for the section from outside Andong City to Dadonggou (now Donggang City). is relatively less urgent; The section of the Dongqing Railway on the Fengtian side will have to wait for the battle of Mukden between Japan and Russia, but judging from the appearance of the Japanese, it is more likely that it will not be repaired there.

"Have you negotiated with them?"

Fengtian General Zengqi mentioned this to them, but the Japanese did not respond, and snatched the section from Fengtian to Xinmintun to repair it themselves. However, it turned out that there was a section of coal transportation railway connected to Mukden on the side of the Fushun Coal Mine, which was snatched by a group of beards and sold to us. "Du Yaquan has long been concerned about the section of the Dongqing Railway, but the situation is not optimistic.

"Beard?"

"Yes, beard, the Japanese pulled a lot of beards in the northeast to help fight the war, some time ago during the war, these beards and the Japanese said okay, don't pay, as long as they grab everything is theirs." Speaking of this, Du Yaquan laughed, "Later, some time ago, they beat away the entire Russian people in Fushun, and robbed the Russians of the coal mines and railways there, and sold the coal mines to the old Zhang family in Xingjing, and the railways that transported coal were sold to us. ”

"Are all beards so powerful?" Yu Ziyi was a little surprised, but looking at the heartfelt smile on Du Yaquan's face, he suddenly understood, "Oh, yes." The beard is very powerful, hehe, it's better to be powerful. ”

A qiē seemed to be very good, walking along the roadbed, Yu Ziyi suddenly saw a bridge across the roadbed in front of him, and there were many lifu pulling a big cart on the bridge, and hurriedly asked, "This is?" ”

"This is the military railway of the Japanese, because we bought it the year before last, they can only build it from above, they were unwilling to build a bridge, they wanted to pass through our roadbed, and then after several negotiations, especially the intercession of the American consul, they agreed to build a bridge." These were all things that Zhong Guanguan did when he was there, and Du Yaquan didn't know anything about it, but only after reading the previous records did he know what happened.

Yu Ziyi had also heard of this improvised military railway in Japan, and asked, "Even if it is a railway, why do you still have to rely on people to pull it?" ”

"At the beginning, in order to repair faster, the Japanese paved a manual light railway, and this kind of road sports car does not use the front of the locomotive, and the driving is completely driven by manpower."

"Isn't that the same as the previous Kaiping Coal Mine, employing people and horses?" With the change of the Qing court's attitude towards the railway, the previous incident of the horse-drawn train in the Kaiping Coal Mine was publicized by the newspapers, Yu Ziyi couldn't help laughing, and he asked again: "Then now that the war is basically over, when will this road be demolished?" ”

"Demolition?" Du Yaquan shook his head vigorously, "The Japanese still want to expand, how can they be demolished." Now their engineers are on another line? Not only is the railway in the selection of routes, but also the 6th route is also being checked, you can't see it on Anton's side, and the Japanese in Liaoyang and Mukden are surveying and mapping wherever there are roads, and even the population is being counted, I see. Please God...... It's not to invite God, it's hard to send God anyway. ”

The shape shì was so nervous by Du Yaquan's words. Yu Ziyi couldn't laugh a little, "Although there is no big war between Japan and Russia, isn't the naval war not over yet, if it is a naval battle, ......?"

"In the naval battle, the Russians lost without fighting, traveled more than half the world, traveled tens of thousands of miles, wore out the aircraft, personnel morale, supplies, and intelligence, these are all Japanese advantages. Originally, the plan of the Russians was for the Baltic Fleet and the Far East Fleet to join forces and fight the Japanese. Now that the Far East is gone, it is impossible to win by relying on this tired division alone. Last year, I didn't believe it, but now it seems ...... The Russo-Japanese War is a question of when it will end. When you return to Shanghai in a few days, you have to talk to Xiao Xu about this matter, and I brought you here today to say that the Japanese will not let go of Liaodong so easily. The newspapers in Shanghai are about to turn the tide. ”

Looking at the rows of people pulling the train on the roadbed, Yu Ziyi seemed to understand a little, although it was advertised that the Japanese had a plot against Liaodong, but many times it was written and said, without real evidence, according to the military ticket information that Zhang Kun learned yesterday. As well as the military railways he saw now, Yu Ziyi felt a certain eagerness, "I will tell my husband in detail about the things here, but now the newspapers in Shanghai are basically oriented to the Japanese, and the same is true of Hankou, Tianjin, and Beijing." Although we have newspapers in these places, it is still a bit out of fashion. ”

"Then find a way!" Du Yaquan said heavily. With Japan's complete victory, the information from all sides worried him that judging from the current momentum, Japan could annex the whole of Liaodong.

"Yes. Be. Yu Ziyi also nodded heavily.

"There is also this Anbong Railway, if it is really built, then our Antong Bong can be redundant, at least take half of the road from Anbong, when the time comes, everyone will go directly to Anbong and will not take a detour to Tonghua and then to Fengtian, although there is a backup plan, but it is still the best to dismantle it, even if it can't be demolished, it is best not to expand the line."

"I made a note of it. Brother Qiufan, don't worry. Yu Ziyi said, he now understands that with the end of the Russo-Japanese war, the days in the northeast will be sad, and many things will not be laid out now, so it will be too late after the armistice between Japan and Russia.

On the afternoon of the day when he saw the railway, Yu Ziyi took all kinds of documents from Anton to the ship to Tianjin, and then transferred from Tianjin to Shanghai. The journey of nearly half a month made him tired enough, but thinking of the heavy trust on his body, he still rushed to the headquarters of Wananli in Houma Road as soon as he got off the ship.

Half a month of leaving doesn't seem to have changed, but when he entered the headquarters and went up to the third floor, he saw that everyone had a black yarn hanging on their arms, he didn't want to ask, but he went up to the fourth floor, and when he saw that the lights were on, he knocked on the door according to the code, only to hear someone inside get up, open the door and welcome him in.

Yu Ziyi saw Wang Xiaoxu for the first time and saw that there was also a black yarn on his arm, and he couldn't help but feel a sudden burst in his heart, could it be that something happened in the northeast? I've just left. "Sir, this is ......"

"Xiao Bing, let's talk about the Northeast." Wang Xiaoxu interrupted him and asked directly about the Northeast.

Yu Ziyi had no choice but to hand over the two secret letters from Zhang Kun and Du Yaquan, but Wang Xiaoxu took it but didn't look at it, and only asked, "How do you feel over there after you go?" Wang Xiaoxu has been paying attention to the Northeast, but he has never been there, when he came to the Northeast in the past, he was not good at asking how people were doing, but now Yu Ziyi came back and he wanted to understand the customs and customs over there.

"Very desolate place." Yu Ziyi didn't know why he said this in the first sentence, and he was stunned when he saw Wang Xiaoxu stunned for a while.

But after a while, Wang Xiaoxu smiled, "When you come back from there and come to Shanghai, of course you will feel that it is very desolate there." Let's talk about the specifics. ”

"Yes. Mr. Yu Ziyi said: "Andong County has a population of only 100,000, but this place is at the junction of China and North Korea, and the coastal river is the most prosperous place in the east side of the road, because many people outside the border are fleeing from the famine in Shandong, and the customs are still similar to those in Shandong." ”

"Okay." In fact, Yu Ziyi has only been in Anton for two or three days, it is still impossible to say in detail, Wang Xiaoxu knew that he was in a trance just now, so he changed the topic, "Japan has now won 6 wars and forced the Russian army to retreat to the Siping line, how are they on Anton's side?" ”

"It's a bad situation!" is different from human customs, Yu Ziyi has been thinking about the actions of the Japanese all the way. "Brother Qiu Fan said that now Japan has the possibility of annexing the entire Liaodong, especially now that it seems to be taking stock of the population, roads, forests, mines, and so on in the occupied areas, and he is very worried that once the Russo-Japanese naval war is over, the Japanese will turn the counties of Liaodong into counties."

Hearing Du Yaquan talk about countyization, Wang Xiaoxu shook his head, but he didn't interrupt Yu Ziyi's speech, but just quietly drew a note on the notebook with a pen.

“…… In May last year, the Japanese army forcibly built a military railway along the Yalu River and took the nearby private land as its own, and now this railway is on top of our railway. In addition, Brother Qiu Fan also said that according to inquiries, the Japanese are still exploring and rebuilding this railway, and they should want to expand it, and Brother Qiu Fan is very worried that once this railway is rebuilt, it will compete with us for profit, and he wondered if the headquarters can find a way to make the Japanese unable to build this railway......