Chapter 412: Thirty Years

It has been a month since Fang Nan moved to Wuchang City, and as the founding day of the founding of the country is gradually approaching, Fang Nan is also so busy that he has not much time to rest, and it is expected that this busy state will continue until at least half a year after the founding of the country, waiting for the country to get on the right track, and Fang Nan's things will be reduced.

Fang Nan's busyness is mainly because Fang Nan's own ability is high, higher than the courtiers, important things have to be done by Fang Nan in person, in order to embark on the most correct path, if the courtiers' ability is higher, then Fang Nan can let the courtiers do more things, and he can relax himself.

One of the things that Fang Nan has been busy with recently is making a road construction plan.

"If you want to get rich, build roads first."

This was a sentence that impressed Fang Nan's mind, and even if he lived his second life, it was difficult to forget.

This was true in the past life, and it is also true in the present life, since the People's Army raised the flag to occupy the territory, so many evil people were reduced to coolies, and they were driven to build roads, and now the entire Guangdong Province has been connected by concrete roads, and there are also railway roads between important cities.

Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, Fujian four provinces of cement road is also more and more, with the People's Army occupy the entire land of China, all provinces are building cement roads, ready to connect all cities with cement roads, the actual experience, cement roads are indeed convenient for commercial trade.

Of course, the more important role of the concrete road is to deepen the KPA's control over the localities, through the cement road, as long as there are enough horse-drawn carriages, the KPA can quickly send a force from one place to another, and as the distance of the railway road increases, the KPA will move troops faster.

Road construction is very important to the People's Army, and it is also important to the Xia State that will be established, so Fang Nan has to formulate a huge road repair plan.

In fact, in the previous years, Fang Nan had formulated a lot of road repair plans, and the land of one province and five provinces had their own road repair plans, and after occupying the entire land of China, there was also a rough road repair plan, and now it is just a detailed road repair plan.

The entire road construction plan is divided into rail roads and concrete roads.

The railway road construction plan is a ten-year phase, which is divided into three phases, for a total of 30 years.

The first phase of the rail road construction plan, the task is to connect the capital city of Wuchang City with the four accompanying capitals of Guangzhou City, Beiping City, Rongcheng and Shencheng with rail roads, from the national map is to Wuchang City as the center, a railway road from south to north, a rail road from east to west, if it is close to a provincial capital or city, as far as possible for these important cities are also included.

The second phase of the railway construction project is to connect all provincial cities with rail roads.

The third phase of the railway construction plan is to connect as many cities as possible in China with rail roads.

The 30-year huge railway road construction plan also needs to cross the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and even need to dig tunnels, but the current bridge construction technology of the People's Army is not enough to build a bridge across the Yellow River or the Yangtze River, and it is difficult to dig tunnels for the more responsible terrain.

The problem is that there is, and when you encounter a problem, you can only skip it for the time being, and complete the other sections first.

In the course of four or five years, the KPA has mastered some of the techniques of building bridges and tunnels while building railway tracks, and cement and steel are the effective guarantee for the KPA to master these technologies.

In Guangdong Province, more than 10 steel bridges have been erected on rivers to allow the railway track to cross the river that blocked the road.

Fang Nan could not give much help in this regard, and the architects themselves slowly explored the process of road construction, so that the People's Army's bridge construction and tunnel excavation skills continued to improve.

In fact, the 30-year plan to build railroad roads, including Fangnan's time to improve bridge construction technology and tunnel excavation technology, if the technical level is sufficient, the People's Army will use 100,000 coolies to build railroad roads, and it may be able to complete all the plans within 25 years, and it will not be too rushed.

In order to produce enough rails, Fang Nan has already approved the construction of two more large steel plants, and the Qiongzhou steel plant alone can no longer meet the needs of the next large-scale construction of Xia Guo.

In addition, the steam locomotive project team has also made considerable progress in the research of trains, and has begun to build prototypes, perhaps within three years at most, there will be practical trains on the tracks.

Even if there is no train, it is much easier to run on the railroad tracks by special horse-drawn carriages than on concrete roads.

The cost of the same length of railway road is much higher than that of cement road, and the construction plan of railway road is so large, and the construction plan of cement road will not be small.

The entire cement road construction project is also over a period of 30 years, with the railway road construction project divided into three phases and the cement road construction project divided into five phases of six years each.

The first three phases of the cement road construction plan are similar to the third phase of the rail road construction plan, the first phase will connect the capital city of Wuchang City with the four accompanying capitals of Guangzhou City, Beiping City, Rongcheng and Shencheng, and the provincial capitals, city towns and county towns along the way are also connected, the second phase will connect all provincial capitals, and the third phase will connect all cities.

In the fourth phase, the cement road will be built from the city downward, connecting all the towns and villages, and the fifth phase is "connecting the villages", using cement roads to connect all the villages.

The 30-year cement road construction plan has been built to the village, which is not too rushed, mainly because the People's Army has a large number of coolies to use, and these coolies only need to eat, drink, and sleep, and they don't even need to be paid, and they can work from morning to night, even if the coolies are tired to death, there is not much to do.

It's just that the coolies should be treated as "well" as possible to prevent coolie violence/movement, coolies are very good laborers, hard-working, and can save the People's Army a lot of trouble.

With the unification of the People's Army/One China Land, the source of coolies within the China Land has suddenly decreased, except for the bandits and bandits who have not yet been exterminated, only those who violate the laws of the People's Army are left, and if they want more coolies in the future, they can only increase their access from the outside world.

At present, the Tatars in the steppes are a very good source, and the Lancer Division has made three expeditions to the steppes, adding more than 1,000 coolies to the KPA, accounting for a few hundredths of the total number of coolies owned by the KPA.

In the future, as more lancer divisions are formed and continue to conquer the steppes, more Tatars will be captured and returned to become coolies, building roads and water conservancy facilities.

Depending on the situation, if the financial income of the Xia State is relatively large, it will also take out a part of the funds to hire farmers who are idle to participate in the construction of roads, and the peasants can not be treated like coolies, and there are clear restrictions on the working hours of migrant workers, and full wages will be paid, and with migrant workers joining, the road construction plan can also be accelerated.

As for the construction of water conservancy facilities, farmers know the importance of water conservancy facilities to their fields, and they generally join in without paying for them, hoping to repair them as soon as possible.