As soon as she came back, Yu Ling and her engineer had a little bit of unpleasantness, Yan Deqing was very annoyed that Yu Ling had forced more than 20,000 interns into their team, but he couldn't do anything. Who made her the boss? However, after Yu Ling personally joined the preparatory work for the construction of the railway, Yan Deqing was not so angry... The boss still attaches great importance to this railway, but the way of attaching importance to it is a little wrong.

This is not a problem for the engineer, it doesn't matter if there is a problem, the engineer will correct the problem, but if the boss sees this railway as a child's play, then he really has to worry about the future of this hopeful railway.

The more than 20,000 interns who were forced to shoehorn Yan Deqing had no contact with this industry at all, and all of them were farmers who had no land to plant.

This is not a deliberate blockage for him, it is also a last resort, the construction of the three railways began at the same time, and a considerable number of workers are needed, and the old workers of Yan Deqing and their team are completely insufficient... That's all it can be.

Speaking of which, Yan Deqing is really thrifty... In various things related to the railway, he was almost to the point of being stingy, which made Yu Ling, who had already prepared five million taels of funds, a little embarrassed, but if it weren't for such stinginess, how could the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway save one-sixth of the funds, this kind of engineering team, Yu Ling should be happy, but seeing Yan Deqing like this, Yu Ling always had a sour nose.

Regarding the rails of the railway, this is an important issue, related to the future use of the railway, at the beginning, Yu Ling planned to use the Russian-made broad gauge, but Yan Deqing objected on the grounds that he had no relevant experience, and he could only think of a new plan.

In the end, it was decided that the railway will adopt the same international standard gauge 1435mm track as the Luhan Railway. It looks good, but most of the railways that have been built in the country are standard gauge railways, and even some are narrow gauges, and if you want to connect with these already built, you must build standard gauges... Broad gauge? There was some slight military advantage, and nothing more, which could not at all offset the benefits of the standard rules created by the British.

After mobilizing the funds, formulating the plan, drawing the drawings related to the project, and arranging the factory, Yuling suddenly found that he had nothing to do... Perhaps, there is something more important ... But there is no way about it...

"It's the New Year."

People began to decorate their houses, praying for good luck or a good harvest in the coming year.

Good luck may be there, but a good harvest is almost out of the question.

This year is a disaster year, which she has known for a long time, but she remembered a problem that she has not wanted to face this year, 1909 and the next few years, there will be floods, the Yangtze River basin and other places, will usher in heavy rains for many years, which will lead to a serious reduction in grain production, and the number of hungry people in the country will reach millions.

Staring at the gray, ominous sky, she began to recall the history she knew.

This catastrophe ... Yu Ling's mood is very complicated... This would be a good opportunity to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and the only chance to overthrow the Qing Dynasty at the lowest cost, this disaster coupled with a little rumor led to the financial crisis of the Qing Dynasty, and then led to the national financial crisis, which is why Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen failed to fight.

Should we be thankful for this famine? gave himself the perfect opportunity to make this alien dynasty doomed.

But this famine will kill at least half a million people... This is still very difficult for the rain spirit to accept... Watching these people starve to death ...

If she could, she would rather let that damn rotten empire live for a few more years than see her compatriots die so miserably on this land.

But Yuling has no solution to this disaster, and no country has solved a disaster of this magnitude without food reserves. No, even if there is, there is no way to solve it, and the output of the major grain producing areas has been reduced by eighty percent for four consecutive years (Jiangnan, Yangtze River, and Northeast China have all been affected), and this is no longer something that any agency can solve.

"Fortunately, we don't have to rely on luck like everyone else, we at least have some prophetic abilities. Maybe it will make our compatriots suffer less. ”

This is also the only comfort that Yu Ling can give herself.

Even if it is possible to do the same after the founding of the Republic of China, constantly beautify the revolution, and make the people ignore what despicable means the revolutionaries used to achieve victory, but for a person whose blood has not completely cooled. But it is ...

"You don't have to blame yourself, it's not your fault, no one can save them. Your methods are not despicable, they are natural disasters, not caused by you. You're just taking advantage of this scourge. ”

Clea took the somewhat distracted Yu Ling in her arms, there have been too many disasters for human beings, and in an era when the ability to resist disasters is relatively strong in later generations, the rain spirit has never thought much about these.

When I was about to face it, I realized that I was so helpless... Even if his butterfly tried hard to flap its wings, it still failed to change the tragic fate that this nation was about to face.

"Don't think about it, you really can't save them, buy food from European countries? Come on, that's going to make a country's finances collapse completely, you're just a businessman. Building water conservancy? I know that with your brain, you may be able to get the governors of Jang Zhidong to act if you lose something... However, it was almost non-stop rain for several years, so don't have the illusion that anyone will win the day. ”

Clea ruthlessly attacked Yu Ling's thoughts, if these were useful, they would have been used a long time ago, Yu Ling may not have seen the details clearly, but Clea remembered that in this disaster, the Qing Dynasty frantically transferred six million taels of silver out in a vain attempt to save these disasters, but was it useful?

She silently deduced the possibilities, and finally shook her head.

Now all she can do, and the only thing she needs to do, is to help Yu Ling grow stronger in this disaster, and what does the others have to do with her.

If it weren't for the need to take care of Yu Ling's emotions, she wouldn't be willing to think about this problem, why spend a huge price to save some people with a great probability of decreasing population, it was just a bunch of data.

The rain spirit snuggled up to Clea didn't move, she knew what Clea was thinking, and she knew what was "right", but was it necessarily right?

The end of the year is coming, and the winter is getting colder.