At this time, the railway has been paved to the middle of Beihai and Shuanghe City, Beihai to Shuanghe City has more than 1,400 miles, and nearly 700 miles in more than four months, such a speed is already very good, but both the emperor and the military are very dissatisfied. Mao Yuanyi had no choice but to urge the Immigration Guidance Bureau to quickly relocate immigrants, urge the steel mills in Shuanghe City to build railroad tracks as soon as possible, and urge the Ministry of Railways to speed up the training of talents, and strive to start construction on multiple lines and build the railway well.

Now the railway line from the North Sea to Omsk has been almost explored, but the construction capacity is far from enough. Mao Yuanyi once asked the emperor if he could lay a monorail first, but Zhu Youxiao refused. The importance of this railway to Daming can not be overestimated, he does not want to change from single track to double track in a few years or decades, so he requires that the main line must be double track, and only the branch line can be single track.

In fact, the cost of laying a double-track railway will not be twice as high as that of a single-track railway, but it is now the skilled workers who limit the laying of the railway. With the large-scale migration of basic labor, there is actually no big shortage. But skilled workers can not be trained in a short period of time, and even if a school is opened, it is in vain, and must be cultivated on the construction site, so Mao Yuanyi can only pin his hopes on the back will be faster and faster, and tell the construction of the railway track must be advanced, so as to meet the multi-head construction behind, so that the construction speed has a big increase.

Cao Wenzhao now has five divisions in his hands, one division in Hualongcheng, one division in Omsk, and one division in Obit. He felt that now three divisions were enough to control the territory he had occupied, after all, the Rakshasas were small troops, and they had been driven far away from Omsk by the Ming army. So he reported to the General Staff and asked to send troops to join the construction of the road.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't dare to call the shots, but he felt that this was a good way, so he told the emperor. After Zhu Youxiao heard it, he secretly scolded himself for being stupid. He seems to remember that the Trans-Siberian Railway in history was mainly built by the army, and the army will have better physical fitness, stronger coordination ability, and strict discipline, so that their execution will far exceed that of ordinary workers, why didn't he think of it?

After careful analysis with Lu Xiangsheng, he gave Cao Wenzhao an order, asking him to transfer two divisions of troops to join the team of building the railway, but pay attention to regular rotation and patrol after repairing the railway for a period of time, so as not to make the soldiers really become workers in the end.

After Cao Wenzhao received the holy decree, he convened a meeting of the generals to discuss how to let the soldiers build the railway without affecting the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. The generals have long understood the importance of the railway to the army, and now the Ming army has a large number of troops here, but they are limited by transportation and cannot carry out long-distance attacks, and they are very anxious. Now the soldiers are asked to build the railway, and everyone supports it.

Although each division sent small detachments to explore everywhere, it was impossible to dispatch too many men after all, because this would be no different from the dispatch of the whole army. Even though Shuanghe City and Ha Duong have already had a bumper harvest, some of the food still needs to be transported from the country, not to mention weapons and ammunition, as well as the farm tools and clothing needed by the immigrants. Trains can only reach 500 miles west of the North Sea, and the rest of the journey is carried by livestock. Accustomed to the capacity of the train, and then looking at the small carrying capacity of the cattle and horses, the speed as slow as a snail, and the serious consumption on the road, not to mention how much fire there is.

Moreover, the soldiers' long-term inaction will inevitably affect morale and are prone to contradictions. Some things are busy, consuming their energy, and at the same time allowing the railway to be completed as soon as possible, of course, no one will object. Cao Wenzhao asked each division to divide the soldiers into two parts, one to carry out normal patrols and expeditions, and the other to work as railway workers, and rotate every three months.

The soldiers who did not have a sortie mission had nothing to do after daily drills, and now the commander wanted them to repair the railway, and in addition to the original salary, there was also a daily compensation of 50 wen. It doesn't seem like much, but there are three yuan a month, and now three yuan can buy three stone rice in the mainland.

The overseer of the Ministry of Railways just said it once, and the soldiers understood the essentials of the work, and after a day on the construction site, most of them had already surpassed the immigrants who had been working for almost a month.

The officials of the Ministry of Railways were amazed, while the officers of the Ming army said with disdain: "They have to learn to read and write every day, they are not students in primary schools, so there is nothing they don't understand." ”

Nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Guards joined the ranks of the construction of the railway, which greatly accelerated the construction of the railway. Mao Yuanyi was overjoyed, so he urged the Ordnance Bureau to increase the construction of the iron and steel plant, and built two more steel plants near Heyang City and Ob City, of course, the steel plant will not be used until at least a year later, and by that time, the railway should also be repaired to Ebi, which will be used in the construction of the railway in the future. The line surveyors of the Ministry of Railways have already surpassed Omsk and have begun to continue surveying to the west.

The Ordnance Bureau even sent explorers to follow the Ming army's small detachments deep into other places, focusing on the exploration of iron ore and coal mines. These two ores are too important in the construction of the railway, and the cost of transporting the rails from China and laying them is getting higher and higher as the route is lengthened.

The construction of railways also played a very important role in the work of immigration. The existing settlements in the north are all located within 100 miles along the railway, and the officials of the Immigration Guidance Bureau only choose places with better climate, more flat land, and abundant water resources as resettlement points, and do not look at other places with slight defects at all. Now it is not that there are more people and less land, but that there are fewer people and more land, so of course some places that are not easy to reclaim will not be immigrated.

The Immigration Guidance Bureau added another article to its propaganda: all settlements are along the railway, and you can reach the railway within an hour at most by horseback, and each settlement has a special station. This is still very attractive to those who live in the mountains, so now some people do not need to be forced to emigrate by the imperial court, but first go to the government to apply to immigrate to the railway line. Of course, those who are unwilling to immigrate, as long as the government thinks that you meet the immigration conditions, will still tie a rope and throw you into the car, and send you far away from your hometown.

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