"I've been looking forward to it for many years, and I'm finally looking forward to today's ......" As soon as they met, Mo Ming joked with Xu Gang. With the arrival of a whole company of officers and men with rich combat experience, the position of the Southern Railway Company in the southern Patagonia region was even more solid.

Xu Gang was wearing glasses, and he looked like a middle-aged man with a sven appearance. But as the saying goes, this gentleman has participated in almost every war of the people on the east coast, and has also brutally suppressed the Guarani and Charruas in his own country. Later, he was even transferred to New Huaxia Island for his outstanding performance in the suppression of the natives, where he was notorious for brutally killing and capturing a large number of Bezimisaraka.

After returning to his homeland, he "mistakenly wounded" a large number of Spanish civilians in the battle against Buenos Aires because of his fierce and bold style, which led him to be attacked by the Madonna faction among the civilian officials, and this time he was inevitably the first to be squeezed out of power in the tide of reducing the size of the rear army.

However, he is not without a place to go, for example, now he and all the officers and soldiers have been transferred to the door of the Southern Railway Company, and have become the first batch of officers and soldiers of the company's road protection team. As a major retired from the military academy (actual captain, the premise of retirement is a level), he is now the manager of the security department of the Southern Railway Company, and in fact has become one of the company's "eight King Kongs" (eight managers).

Speaking of which, we cannot fail to mention the organizational structure of the Southern Railway Company. The large-scale Kang Caien enterprise that has recently been reorganized by Mo Ming has one president, namely Mo Ming (Peng Zhicheng has left his post), and two vice presidents: Jin Kela and Wang Qinian (these two are only temporary positions, coordinate work, and do not participate in the company's decision-making). Besides. That's eight department managers. That is, the Ministry of Military Affairs (under the jurisdiction of the Road Protection Team), the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of General Affairs.

In the midst of this. There is only one unit under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Military Affairs, which is the road protection team; The Ministry of Civil Affairs is the largest in its organization, with the Civil Affairs Section (the Civil Affairs Section has a large number of professional affairs personnel, in addition to a large number of professional affairs personnel from various departments, it also has two public security agencies, the Xingnan Police Station and the Araukan Police Station), the Religious Affairs Section, the Land Section, the Railway Negotiation Section (responsible for various negotiations with the Kingdom of Spain, the local indigenous people and the East Bank itself), the Health Section, the Education Section and the News Section (under the responsibility of the editor-in-chief of the Newsroom of the Southern Railway Weekly).

In addition to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the largest organization is naturally the Ministry of Technology, which has seven section-level departments, including inland waterway shipping department, mining department, forestry department, supply department, business department, line department and design department; The Finance Department has two departments: the Accounting Section and the Compensation and Pension Section; The Legal Division under the Ministry of Justice (under the jurisdiction of the Southern Railway Circuit Court) and the Prison Administration Division (under the jurisdiction of the Gobi Desert Prison); The Commerce Division under the Ministry of Commerce is responsible for the sale of goods, import and export trade in Southern Patagonia. Engineering Department. As the name suggests, it is responsible for formulating the construction plan according to the route given by the technical department and starting to implement it; The General Department is a hodgepodge, mainly in charge of some trivial chores, such as ushering in the delivery, logistics support, welfare distribution, etc., and has jurisdiction over the General Affairs Section, Xingnan Guest House and other units.

In general, in Mo Dashuai's design, the Southern Railway Company, a large-scale enterprise that is half official and half civilian, has almost exercised a considerable part of the government functions in Southern Patagonia, that is, they are using commercial companies as a cover to practice colonial rule, and they are learning from other people's East India Company. Perhaps it is inferior to the East India Company in terms of power alone (without the power of declaring war, making treaties, etc., which only countries have). But as far as the rigor of the organization is concerned, it is too much beyond the others.

Of course, most of these institutions still exist only on paper. Southern Railway Company Grass Creation. There is a severe shortage of money and personnel, and it is far from possible to complete these institutions one by one. This will require a decade of continuous investment and improvement, but this is not a simple matter for the cash-strapped Southern Railway Company.

"For such a large enterprise as the Southern Railway Company, my colleagues in the War Department are keeping a close eye on it." Seeing Mo Ming come to greet him, Xu Gang, a guy who usually prides himself on being an old qualification, suddenly couldn't stand up, only to see a smile on his face, quickly stepped forward to hold Mo Ming's right hand, and said with a slight compliment: "Superintendent Peng once said that the establishment of the Southern Railway Company has made great efforts in the War Department, so the key position of president cannot be filled by civilian officials. He chose to choose and choose, and he was not very relieved about everyone around him, and finally picked you, President Mo, hehe, Supervisor Peng is really a good vision. ”

The Southern Railway Company was founded by the Ministry of War, and Mo Ming certainly knew this very well. In fact, the War Department also proposed to give the Southern Railway Company the same privileges as the Anglo-Dutch East India Company, but the civilian officials refused, and they only agreed that the Southern Railway Company had the right to operate the two-ocean railway (including ports at both ends), as well as the right to operate ancillary businesses and part of the administrative power within one mile along the railway. However, as compensation for not giving the Southern Railway Company full powers, the company's president was expressly allowed to be a military attache from the second term onwards.

"The colleagues of the War Department are very appreciative of the president's establishment of the port of Rhingnan as a central base for the operation of the southern Patagonia region. At the same time, some officers of the Admiralty also expressed their amazement at the planned modernization of the port of Xingnan, expressing their interest in the fact that the wharf along the Chico River could accommodate large capital warships such as the '10 August', and encouraged the Southern Railway Company to increase investment and strive to build the port as much as possible. Xu Gang said to Mo Ming again.

"These guys, who are not willing to pay, but also want to sit back and enjoy their success, how can there be such a beautiful thing." Mo Ming sneered and said, "Xingnan Port gives priority to the construction of civilian docks, after all, we are a migrant transit center, not a military base. However, it is good to give some thoughts to the Navy people, so that they will not be crooked and hurt us in the future. Well, I heard that the Navy also wants to use the port of Araucan as the home port of the planned Third Fleet, so why should we build this port by the Southern Railway Company? The Navy also has to pay for it, and it can't be out if it is less! Otherwise, they don't want to use such a port comfortably! ”

Hearing Mo Ming say this, Xu Gang immediately laughed. The Southern Railway Company chose such a thorn in the head to be the president, and in the future, the central departments, including the navy, really had big heads.

"It's good that your road escort team came so early, and the port project and the improvised highway will start at the same time, but the number of immigrants here in Xingnan Port is less than 1,300, and the gap is very large." Mo Ming took out a small notebook from his pocket, then took out a pencil and wrote and drew on it, and said: "There are few natives around here, I think you will find a way to take a boat to the port of Blanca in the north in the near future, and then go inland from there, capture some Krandi people and come back to build roads, the more people the better." But don't put too much pressure on you, as a major shareholder, the Government Council has to fulfill a little bit of the obligations of a major shareholder, and it is estimated that in the next few days, they will send an engineering team of 2,000 people from the mainland. In addition, I also said hello to Liu Ang from South Africa, and they will send a group of Khoisan reds and Xhosa blacks from hostile tribes to this side as labor dispatch workers to build roads, and if there are not enough manpower, he will also send the main force of the South African garrison to attack the black tribes and capture labor. ”

"I see." Xu Gang subconsciously stood upright, and agreed: "Although our 101st Company is a reserve force wearing yellow, it is not weaker than those bitch-raised main forces in blue in terms of training, equipment, morale, and combat effectiveness. Going to Puerto Blanca to capture the Crendi slaves is a piece of cake. Give us a day to settle down, after all, some officers and soldiers have brought their families to settle down, and our department can be dispatched from tomorrow, and those Klandians can't escape. ”

Leaving aside the matter of Mo Ming and others raising labor, starting from March 1, the 1,300 residents of Xingnan Port were divided into two groups, of which 800 began to build various port facilities under the guidance of technicians from the engineering department, while the remaining 500 people began to build an improvised road along the river under the leadership of some foremen. This highway is set up to ensure the smooth transportation of materials along the railway construction line, and its specifications, life, and material requirements are not high.

Therefore, this road is designated as a simple sand or gravel road, anyway, there are many of these things in the Gobi and grassland. At present, the Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory in the north has modified a failed steam tractor (historically flashy steam tractors, which were rarely used in other places except for a few hard lands in North America, and can be said to be a complete failure of invention, which was quickly replaced by internal combustion engine tractors) and produced a gravel roller weighing about 5 tons.

This kind of roller is very useful when leveling the roadbed and mixing materials (sand and soil are mixed evenly on the iron plate in proportion, and then paved to a specified thickness, and then repeatedly rolled with a gravel roller), and when building a road, the gravel roller is very useful. For example, in the design of the gravel road, the engineering department plans to compact the original uneven ground (with a lot of gravel and stones), and then pave the stones with a diameter of about 15 cm, and then pave the gravel with a diameter of 5 cm, sprinkle the surface with the matching sand and soil, and then roll and compact repeatedly. After rolling and sprinkling a little water (or simply waiting for the next rain or snow), the road is almost complete, and it is more than enough to use the two oceanic railways.

According to the design plan of the technical department, the road is 6 meters wide and the total length may be more than 300 kilometers. The cost per square meter is about 0.15 yuan, and after such a long distance, it is actually a lot of money, maybe about 300,000 yuan.

The cost is so great, the "easy road" does not seem to be "easy" at all! (To be continued......)