Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 406 How easy is it to build a railway!
Earl Mujin and his party stayed in Yaksa City for five days, and then followed the Beihai Navy non-stop to Aigun City, where there were thousands of captives headed by Major General Aleksandrov.

Like the captives in Yaksa City, the Russian captives in Aihui City have not been idle this winter.Escorted by the North Navy and the Daur militia, they enter the right bank of Heilongjiang on ice sledges every day. They either cut down trees and cleared their roots, or excavated frozen soil and backfilled earth and rocks in order to build a road from Heilongjiang City through Hailanpao to Huolongjiang. Markalen's land transportation lines.

It is said that the Qing court built a post road from the city of Mergen to the other side of Yaksa since the Kangxi era.It is a mountain road built by felling trees along the left bank of Nenjiang River and the north slope of Daxing'an Mountains.The total length is 25 miles, with an average station every [-] to [-] miles along the way, with a total of [-] post stations and Karen.

The reason why Beihai Town did not choose this route was that the mountain road was difficult to navigate, and it was necessary to open tunnels or blow up mountains and build bridges; secondly, the city of Morgan was still in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and the North Navy was currently insufficient in strength. Ergen City, then Qiqihar and Alchuka must be defeated together.

As a result, the entire Heilongjiang General's Mansion area had to be fought, and even Hulun Buyuer had to be fought down.Otherwise, no one can bear to build roads here and send troops to harass them every now and then.

Zhao Xin only stayed in Yaksa City for three days. After he met Krutogorov for the second time, the other party gritted his teeth and agreed to Zhao Xin's bewitching, and then began to develop accomplices among Yaksa's prisoners of war.After that, these people will have to go through the training and loyalty test of the Northern Navy before they can receive new weapons using flash caps, and then be sent back to Irkutsk to form a provisional government.

In mid-March, after finishing his tour from Khabarovsk to Yaksa, Zhao Xin returned to Beihai Town to attend an important meeting led by Zhao Liang's military-industrial complex.The theme of this meeting is to discuss the railway program along Heilongjiang and determine the final direction of the railway.

For travelers like Zhao Xin, the important role of the railway in the Outer Northeast is self-evident.

Right now, Beihai Town’s territory includes 80% of the jurisdiction of the General’s Mansion in Jilin, Heilongjiang, 70% of the Heilongjiang General’s Mansion, Bitter Leaf Island, Ezo Island, and the Beihai Special Area in East Siberia. If the area east of the Lena River All counted, the entire area exceeds 200 million square kilometers.

In such a vast area, the traffic links between the border settlements and townships are very weak, which poses a severe challenge to Beihai Township in terms of governance.If you don't rely on telegrams, it will take several months to communicate from Heilongjiang City to Beihai Town, not to mention the allocation of materials and personnel transfer.

And the lack of transportation links means that Beihai Town's rule over this land is useless.Or just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it will reward Wulin, let the border residents gather spontaneously once a year, and at the same time provide a large amount of money and material subsidies to meet the living needs of these border residents.

"I suggest that the first topic of this meeting is to set up the 'Beihai Town Railway Construction Committee', with Zhao Xin as the chairman of the committee."

"agree!"

"No comment."

"Quickly move on to the next item."

Following Zhao Liang's speech, all representatives present in the meeting room raised their hands in favor.This includes civil affairs, the backbone of various factories of the military-industrial complex, the North Navy's staff, trade departments, hospitals and other units.

Next, Pereira, a Portuguese-Macao engineer, introduced the three sets of plans for the railway planning of Beihai Town to the participants.

Pereira has been in Beihai Town for almost three years. This 30-year-old Australian-Portuguese engineer left Europe and came to far East Asia. It was not until he was recruited by Beihai Town that he finally showed what he had learned.Although when he first arrived in Beihai Town, he expressed great indignation at Zhao Xin's bombardment of the Macau Fort, but after Zhao Xin told him the truth about the opium trade several times, Pereira was speechless.

In the three years since he came to Beihai Town, Pereira has personally witnessed and participated in Beihai Town's industrial foundation, which has almost grown from scratch and has grown step by step.He was deeply impressed by the knowledge of Zhao Xin, Zhao Liang, Chen Qingsong and others, and even often went to Beihai Town Primary School to attend math and physics classes.Right now he is very proud that he can personally participate in such a great project.

But for Pereira, the only bad thing about Beihai Town is that they don't believe in God.Although there are two Orthodox priests in the hospital and the iron factory, the Portuguese believe in Catholicism, and the two sides are basically at odds.At the beginning, Pereira often went to chat with Makarius, but after a few quarrels, he never went again.

Pereira stood up, walked to the big map hanging on the wall, coughed lightly, then raised a pointer, and made an opening remark in fluent Mandarin:

"Gentlemen, I am honored to introduce the three sets of railway schemes designed by the engineering department I received. Here, I would like to express my sincere thanks to His Royal Highness Zhao Wang, Mr. Zhao Liang, and Professor Li from the primary school. The three of them have provided great support for this initiative.”

After getting applause, Pereira began to talk about the three sets of plans for railway construction.

The first plan proposes to build a railway from Fuldan City via the east bank of Xingkai Lake, Boli Town, Dundun, Warun to Balk Village. The total length of this route is 1000 to [-] kilometers. wetlands.

The second plan is from Khabarovsk to Heilongjiang City via Feierfa and Kublint, with a total length of [-] kilometers.In fact, it is along the Huntong River to the middle reaches of Heilongjiang.

The third plan is to go from Heilongjiang City via Hailanpao, Zhong’an, Mulususu Dao Humaer Military Station, and at the same time go from Yaksa to Humaer Military Station via Duojin, Wukur, Yixiken and Chahanyan , the north and the south started together, with a total length of [-] miles.

A group of people talked and discussed for a day, and finally decided on the second set of plans, that is, the railway from Khabarovsk to Heilongjiang City, in order to connect the two main grain-producing areas in the outer northeast in the future and form a railway with Khabarovsk as the hub. water and land parallel transportation system.Of course, this route is also the shortest.

In the history of another time and space, this railway line did not exist.When Tsarist Russia built the Trans-Siberian Railway, it went from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk via Shuangchengzi, and then went north to west, enclosing the entire Heilongjiang River Basin, and then went directly to Chita.

Don't think that Russia's railway construction at the end of the [-]th century can prove how developed its industry is. In fact, its industrial technology level is not as good as the current Beihai Town.

At that time, a large part of the railway tracks paving the road were purchased from the United Kingdom. In addition, the biggest problem of Tsarist Russia at that time was the lack of manpower. If they had not recruited a large number of hard-working Chinese workers from Shandong, it is estimated that the repairs would not be completed when the Tsar stepped down.

Then the first thing to do next is to conduct surveys along the railway line and study the waterway traffic conditions of the rivers along the way to determine the best construction route.

Lin Ziping, who attended the meeting, as the leader of the survey team in Beihai Town, pointed out that there are not enough survey personnel at present. Except for Sato Nobuhiko, his subordinates are half-time students of the technical school, so he needs to return to the island country to recruit some scholars to participate in the survey.

Zhao Xinlue agreed after thinking about it.Just recruit, these days those who can be obsessed with map surveying and mapping are scarce talents, Beihai Town can only cultivate them slowly, and it will be easier for the children who are studying with Lin Ziping to grow up.

Compared with the Manchu scholars who loved stereotyped essays and the Xuancheng Mei family who only regarded astronomy and mathematics as family knowledge, the island country still had some surveying and mapping talents due to the rise of "Lan Xue" during this period.

Among them, apart from Lin Ziping, the most famous ones are Asada Goryu, Asada Goryu and Takahashi Zhishi.

Asada Goryu is 55 years old this year. This person built a complex mathematical model of celestial body motion. The Asada crater on the moon in later generations is named after him.

Asada Takeritsu used Kepler's laws to predict and observe a solar eclipse.And Takahashi Zhishi is because of the completion of the "Kanzheng Calendar".

I believe that with Lin Ziping's reputation and the strength of Beihai Town, these three can be drawn over to do surveying and mapping.

As for the famous Mamiya Linzang of the later generations, he is just 8 years old now and has been renamed Gong Linzang. The little guy is studying in Beihai Town Primary School.

After determining the problems of surveying and mapping and related budget expenses, the next step is the construction of supporting projects and project budget.

According to a report submitted by Zhao Liang, before the start of the entire railway project, Beihai Town needs to set up two separate ironmaking plants, a steel plant for the production of rails and related fasteners, a special-shaped casting plant, a bridge and tunnel component plant, and two cement plants. factory, a lime factory, two sleeper processing factories, a dynamite factory, a locomotive and carriage factory, several brick factories, and plaster factories.

Everyone in the meeting, including Zhao Xin, opened their mouths wide in surprise after hearing this, and said to myself, damn it!Especially Zhao Xin, thinking how many things I have to buy for this shit, and I don’t have to run away.

Zhao Liang began to explain to everyone one by one with a strange smile on his face. He thought that Lao Tzu's military-industrial-steel complex had been settled for so long, and finally ushered in a big explosion!
Let me talk about the rails first.Assuming that the total length of the route is 12.5 kilometers, then referring to the existing industrial production capacity of Beihai Town, the 0.75-meter-long heavy steel rail is already the limit.The weight of each rail is 60 tons (12.8-rail standard), so a total of 9.6 rails are needed, with a total of [-] tons of steel.If the two-line operation is opened, the demand for steel will have to double.

And that's just the rails, not including the amount of steel needed to open tunnels and build bridges along the rails.

And as far as the carriages are concerned, how many carriages are built for each of the three types of carriages: passenger cars, trucks, and gondolas?The supply of carriages is insufficient, and the transport capacity cannot keep up, and the goods shipped from various places can only be piled up and wait for mold.Too much supply will result in wasted capacity.

In addition, even if the steam locomotive can't be built at first, it must be repaired, right?Otherwise, you can only run horse-drawn trains on the railway, which is too ridiculous!
By the way, in the selection of steam locomotives, there are two final models.One is the domestically produced "forward steam locomotive".Its wheel power/kW is 2190, and its modulus traction is 33.29 tons; the other is also a domestic "upstream steam locomotive", but it uses diesel as fuel, and its traction is 3.5 tons.

The former is no longer produced by manufacturers, so we can only buy antique stocks.Fortunately, this model is not only available in China, but also in many foreign countries.

The latter is produced by the only company in China that still produces steam locomotives. It is said to be a steam locomotive, but it is actually an internal combustion engine.

According to Pereira's estimate, the construction budget of the entire railway is 12.5 million North Sea dollars, and the average construction cost per kilometer is [-] North Sea dollars.

"So much money?" Chen Qingsong, who attended the meeting, frowned and raised questions.

Zhao Liang explained: "It's not too much. After the completion of the construction of the supporting factories, they can still serve the future. It's just that the construction cost was included in the railway at the beginning. If the supporting factories are deducted, the construction cost per kilometer At 6 Beihai dollars."

In fact, this amount of money is really not much.

We must know that in the history of another time and space, Tsarist Russia invested a total of 3.29 million gold rubles in the construction of the Amur Railway, and the average construction cost per kilometer was as high as 15.7 rubles.Even after deducting corruption and waste of funds, the construction cost per kilometer is around 10 gold rubles; and this is only a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway.Tsarist Russia even set up the country's first railway transportation university, the Waterway Transportation College, specifically for this purpose.

It is undoubtedly a great test for the military-industrial complex of Beihai Town to build so many supporting industrial systems around the railway.

In addition, during the construction of the railway, the locations of the stations, railway workshops and locomotive garages are not determined by brainstorming, but should be determined according to the actual situation and the flow direction of the river along the way, so as not to pollute the villages and planned towns along the way source of water.

The meeting lasted for three days. In addition to related project construction issues, it also involved the functions of the Railway Construction Committee.Finally, it was agreed to establish a railway police under the Public Security Police Headquarters. During the construction period of the railway, the railway police temporarily belonged to the Construction Committee and would be managed by the Public Security Police Headquarters after the entire line was opened to traffic.

In order to alleviate the pressure of transporting building materials required for railway construction, most of the materials need to be transported through waterways during the construction period. In this way, the transportation conditions of the Wusuri River and Heilongjiang must be improved. Therefore, the entire Wusuri River and some rivers of Heilongjiang The dredging and widening project has been put on the table again.

In addition, it is necessary to establish new local central towns, and use these towns to transfer goods and play their role in railway transportation.

Corresponding to this is immigration, building new immigrant villages along the railway, distributing subsidies, allocating fields, establishing medical centers, expanding the coverage area of ​​Beihai trading companies, and building schools.

After the meeting, Zhao Xin thought, instead of waiting for Xu Dayong to transport people out of Sichuan, he should first fight and capture the prisoners.There are tens of thousands of Qing soldiers and militiamen in Hunchun. Let's make a round of these guys first.

As for the matter of intimidating Suvorov that he had originally considered, he also left it behind. Right now, the more prisoners the better, there is a shortage of them.

At the same time, Jinglei, Thor, and Beihai No. [-] to No. [-] set off again, the destination is an island country; the goal is to pull people!
(End of this chapter)