Chapter 1393 Peerless Warriors

Without waiting for detailed questioning, Chen Zhaoming immediately pointed out the shortcomings of the railway to several veteran commanders, such as the fixed line and the inability to climb mountains.

But even so, it made Guo Kui very angry: "Is Guogong losing money in his eyes?" I only see the benefits of pouring gold and silver from Yinfeng Prison to Lanzhou, but I can't see how much effect this artifact has in the military?! ”

Zhao Ji raised his hand to stop Guo Kui, and poured gold and silver, do you know how important it is to the country? Without gold or silver, can you have the artifact you are talking about? This road is too expensive, 10,000 miles a mile!

Han Jiang's military talent is actually average, and his biggest role in staying here is to contact various departments and obtain the information that the Military Aircraft Department wants.

Seeing that Zhao Ji's face was not good, Han Jiang hurriedly said: "Guo Shuai, don't worry, let's not talk about how long this road is, let's talk about it, what is the effect?" ”

Guo Kui immediately said: "Speed! ”

After speaking, he pointed the baton on the map: "From Luoyang to Jiaozhou, 1,600 miles, two days!" All armies on this line can be called centrally! ”

"Why is it a good ride? It is fast speed, and can take advantage of the difference in speed to concentrate troops to break the surface with points, and fight more and less. ”

"With this road, no matter where the enemy attacks on this road, he will face the entire force on this line, an army of half a million!"

"This road is the lifeblood of my Emperor Song, even if Hebei is broken and the enemy is driven for a long time, Bianjing is as safe as a rock, and there is no alliance under the city!"

Chen Zhaoming hurriedly reminded: "A train has ten carriages, and the load is only 80,000 catties......"

"Then a few more columns! Fifty columns, that's 20,000 people! ”

"20,000 new troops, which can be thrown into any battlefield on this line at any time, what will be the situation?!"

Guo Kui took the baton and pointed to a node on the line: "With this road, I can send 20,000 new troops to Daimyo in one day, and then go to Taiyuan, Zhending, and Hejian, how much time has been saved compared to the past?" ”

"!" Zhao Ji suddenly made up his mind: "Sixteen million guan!" Worth! ”

After Guo Kuiyi's explanation, everyone understood how important this invention was in the military.

Just pulling food and pulling weapons is very useful!

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Su You has been very happy these days, even riding a horse is floating, he has been completely immersed in the dream of the budding industrial revolution and cannot extricate himself.

It wasn't until he received a telegram from Bianjing, requesting that the railway talents, the locomotive interest group, all the data drawings, and detailed experimental data, along with Shen Kuo, the Ningxia Road transfer envoy, be recalled to the court to serve as the squire of the Ministry of Works, that Su You realized that the matter was serious.

Guo Kui also sent a 16-character telegram through the Military Aircraft Department: "The major affairs of the country are in worship and worship. Even the wise can make mistakes. ”

Thick mockery.

Su You really didn't think about it, and in the Huaihai Battle in later generations, he didn't see any flowers using the railway over there.

Therefore, in his mind, the railway has always been an economic lifeline, not a military lifeline.

It wasn't until he received Guo Kui's telegram and the secret order of the imperial court that Su You reacted, damn, really, it turns out that you can play like this!

There was also a hint of complaint in Guo Kui's telegram, which meant that Grandpa Guo was a civil official in the end, and considering the direction of things, it was not the same way as our Qiu Ba after all.

But precisely because Su You is a civilian official, he has a clear understanding of the scale of this trunk line.

This is equivalent to the Sui Yang Emperor opened the canal like a big project, culverts, bridges along the way, is an inexhaustible problem.

A Luanhe railway bridge, the cost of the late Qing Dynasty is 300,000 taels of silver, although the train at that time is not the same thing as now, but the price of steel at that time, the cost of the project is also not the same thing!

So he hurriedly sent a report to the imperial court, asking for caution and conducting a line investigation in advance, which may be a big project for decades.

As a result, he was completely overwhelmed, and now in the court, there are people who understand.

Chen Zhaoming clearly pointed out that the steam locomotive is a new thing, and only two things are done in the early stage, one is to survey the line, and the other is to test and improve the reliability of the locomotive.

First of all, it is to start the sixty miles from Bianjing to Chenliu, and the fifty miles from Yinfeng Jian to Bafan Town, and carry out technical accumulation and exploration.

The second step is to build the first section of the railway in the area with the best railway conditions, that is, between Bianjing-Zhengzhou-Luoyang 400 miles.

This section of the road is on the plain on the south bank of the Yellow River, with the best road foundation, the most towns, the most important location, and the most abundant financial resources.

Zhengzhou is also a large industrial base, and all conditions are in place.

With these four hundred miles, the weapons of the Songyang Arsenal can continuously support the two places, and the troops between the three important towns can be freely deployed, and the Great Song Dynasty has a guaranteed hole card.

The whole plan was completed in three years, after which Chen stayed in Xuzhou and Luoyang went to Jingzhao.

When Su You finished reading this plan, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Wonderful, beautiful!

The intellectuals of the Great Song Dynasty are not the intellectuals of the late Qing Dynasty who have been involuted for thousands of years, and their ideas have begun to be pioneering, divergent, and active.

The way to save the country, they have been trying hard and daring to try.

Even if it was Wang Anshi's method of drinking water to quench his thirst, they had been doing it for ten years.

Now that there is a better way, they will not be like the Manchu bureaucrats, who are so opposed to new technologies and industries that they dare to come up with many absurd reasons.

The current Song people are still novel.

The first time Su You went to Daxiangguo Temple, he found that the price of antiques was not as good as the fragrant honey dolls smelted from recycled beeswax powder.

Wu Daozi's hand-painted four pairs of door panels, which were worth no more than 100 guan back then, are now hanging in the Sujia Temple.

And at that time, the earliest ripening melon eggplant, Bianjing City dozens of dollars a pair!

Therefore, they spare no effort in the exploration and pursuit of new technologies.

It's just that it was illegal before.

Even with such barbaric growth, China's shipping, terraces, polders, drilling, printing, textiles, porcelain, bridges, and commerce ...... It was also during this period that it developed tremendously.

What the Song people lacked was never the courage to try, accept and study, but their problems were that they had tried to stop at the beginning, their policies were overturned, their mistakes were difficult to change, and they were difficult to return.

Of course, there is also the influence of the cavalry tactics that have developed to the peak, from "one Han enemy and five Hu" to "invincible" This subversive reversal in military strength has repeatedly frustrated the development.

Therefore, Su You's doggy practice in Yinfeng Prison is actually a little underestimating the ancients.

At this point, Su You repented and unreservedly sent all the interest groups to Zhengzhou, where the Songyang Arsenal, the Ordnance Supervision and the technical strength of Zhengzhou Institute of Technology would be relied upon, with Chen Zhaoming as the chief designer, Shen Kuo as the deputy chief designer, and Shi Fu as the chief engineer, and the Great Song Railway Bureau would be established.

At the same time, Zhengzhou Machinery Factory, Xuzhou Machinery Factory and Lanzhou Machinery Factory began to design and produce fifth-generation high-pressure boilers and pot camel machines.

In September, Su Yuanzhen, the deputy envoy of Jingdong East Road, was reappointed as the Ningxia Road transfer envoy and took over Shen Kuo's position.

Su Yuanzhen's resume is absolutely sufficient, and for the governance of the Fanyi region, it can be said that he is the second person with experience in the Great Song Dynasty.

Moreover, this appointment also reflects Zhao Xu's absolute trust in Su You, and suppresses some court discussions that are unfavorable to Su You after Su Song and Chao Buzhi were demoted.

But when Su Yuanzhen saw Chaogu, who also came to Xingzhou to report on work, in Jingzhou, the personable blameless son was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.

Su Yuanzhen and Chaogu are very familiar, from when they were still a little broken child in the Erlin Department, Chaogu was Su You's guard.

Later, when he was studying in Meishan Academy, Chaogu joined the army, as Han Cunbao's subordinates, went south to quell the rebellion, and repaired in Meizhou for a period of time, and everyone went to Xianjing to supervise the bear and hunt tigers.

I heard that Chaogu died in Western Xia and was sent back to Meishan for burial, Su Yuanzhen also asked her sister to send a hundred taels of silver to Meishan and leave it to Chaogu's clansmen.

Now this person who has been dead for twenty years suddenly appeared in front of him, which made Su Yuanzhen scared half to death.

But Su Yuanzhen is also a talent now, and he understands in a blink of an eye, Brother Chao has been deeply involved in the enemy camp for twenty years, and has become the enemy's privy deputy envoy plus the chief of ordnance plus a warlord!

There were a lot of unbelievable places before, but I figured it out at once.

Why did the Qingtang Dynasty not unify at the critical moment, the Mu Zheng forces were pulled to Western Xia, and they did not play a role when Wang Shao took the Xihe River;

Why did the Xihe River repeat, the Xia Kingdom, which had worked hard to win over the Qingtang Dynasty, had not yet arrived with the army;

Why before the Great Song Dynasty entered the Western Xia, the Xia State Iron Harrier would suddenly sweep through Mobei, so that the Liang clan lost the support of the northern tribes;

Why did Liang Yi's decision be reversed, resulting in an important elite combat force of the Xia State never being put into the Song and Xia battlefields......

I always thought that the Liang family had won the boldness, and the Great Song Dynasty was unlucky, and it was always operating at key nodes.

Now it seems that everything was manipulated.

Su Yuanzhen's mind stabilized, and he bowed deeply to Chao Gu: "Mr. is above, it is really my peerless countryman!" ”