The reason for lending money to Speransky is simple, if Russia does not restore stability, it will also have a huge impact on the territory of the Chinese occupation zone.

Because the civil officials sent by the Chinese government set up the county government and brought a large amount of aid materials, so that the Russians in the occupied areas could live a normal life, but the Russians on the other side of the Volga River were not so lucky, the land is dead, the people are alive, and they spontaneously poured into the Chinese-ruled areas in large numbers, bringing a large number of social problems, and providing relief to them will not only increase the financial burden, but also attract more and more Russians to relocate, which is contrary to China's immigration policy.

Therefore, for the purpose of occupying the land, Zhou Lang also hoped that Speransky would restore stability in Russia as soon as possible. On the other hand, since it supported Speransky, it is natural for China to support him in stabilizing the regime.

If Speransky's regime collapses in the short term, will it be supported by force to restore his position, or will the Russians, or the Westerners, be allowed to re-establish a regime in Russia? The cost of a military war is greater than if it were to lend him an emergency loan.

Moreover, borrowing can still be done as a commercial business, and the Russians will pay interest when they come, and secondly, Russia's resources are still good, and geographically it can also be used by China.

Therefore, in the conditions attached to this loan, the Chinese business group obtained the right to operate the Kursk iron mine, and the railway company obtained the right to build a railway through Russian territory to Europe, and the Russian government could not take back the right to operate the iron ore until the Russian loan was repaid, and the right to operate the railway was directly authorized for 99 years.

Speransky did not have the right to refuse, and he himself was not very repulsive. The Kursk iron ore mine is currently the largest iron ore mine in the world, which was previously mined mainly by the Russian government, and although it is a pity to hand it over to Chinese mining companies, there is no legal problem. As for the railway, Speransky has always supported the construction of the railway.

In this era, people of insight in many countries have recognized the role of railways in promoting the economy, Britain's railways have even become a network in a short period of time, Germany and the United States are working hard to build their own railway networks, and the railways in Russia have always been operated by Chinese capital, and Nicholas I also supported the construction of railways, but he did not want the railways to be monopolized by Chinese capital.

Speransky was more open-minded, he did not refuse foreign capital, so when the war stopped, he immediately invited the Chinese National Railway Company to re-enter Russia, help restore the railway from Petersburg to the Volga again, quickly restore Russian transportation, and restore social order.

Now it was just a new authorization to build and operate the railway, which he did not reject, because the railway company also paid taxes to the Russian government.

In the summer, although the unresolved case of Russian territorial cession had become a reality, the Chinese government exercised restraint and did not launch a new military offensive, but continued to demobilize the army, and more than 3 million villagers from the north also returned to their hometowns. Only 900,000 soldiers were maintained, most of whom were stationed along the Sino-Russian border.

But it still occupies Volgograd, Saratov, Kazan and other Russian cities, and will not withdraw its troops until Russia has paid reparations, and will not withdraw until the Russian tsar has signed.

At the same time, the Russian prisoners were not released, and a million Russian prisoners of war were a million strong laborers, or strong laborers who did not cost money, and it was really a waste if they did not use these people to carry out some construction.

So at the beginning, it was just the use of these free labor, digging canals in Siberia, Siberia's canals are basically unlikely to make money, so it is funded by the state, there is free labor, which greatly reduces the cost, because the tributaries between the Yenisei River and the Ob River are vertical and horizontal, many tributaries are only separated by a watershed, and even the closest distance between the main streams is not far, and the construction of a hundred kilometers of canals can connect the main streams.

However, due to cost saving considerations, it is only connected to the middle reaches of the Yenisei River through the Ket River, and the two water systems of the Ob River and the Yenisei River are connected. Later, it was determined that the unresolved territorial dispute between Russia and China would be difficult to resolve for a while, and that the captives would have to stay in China for a long time, and the government immediately decided to build the Trans-Siberian Railway directly.

It was also a money-losing railway, so the government signed an agreement with the railway company to fully subsidize the railway's losses and finance the construction of a railway along southern Siberia to Europe. The railway will extend from Outer Mongolia into the Baikal area, from the southern shore of the lake to the west along the northern foot of the Sayan Mountains, connecting Irkutsk, Ust-Abakanskoye (Abakan), Barnaul, Omsk, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Ufa and Samara.

This route, even abandoning the passage of some of Russia's relatively large old cities, such as Krasnoyarsk, and even Tyumen and Yekaterinburg, had only one purpose, to build along the south as much as possible, to avoid the cold climate of northern Russia, and to prolong the opening of the railway. As for the northern cities, they can only rely on rivers and railways, and they are bound to slowly decline.

In the plan, the railway will cross the Volga River from Samara into Russian territory, then extend to Saratov and Voronezh, then to Kursk, and then to Ukraine, enter Kiev, and finally communicate with the territory of the Austrian Empire.

The length of this railway is nearly 10,000 kilometers, and many engineering problems need to be solved, such as the bridge project across the big river, the tunnel project over the mountain range, etc., although the maximum degree is close to the south, there are still some construction problems in the tundra that need to be solved, and the project plan is ten years, and it is uncertain whether it can be opened to traffic as scheduled.

In order to connect the territory of the Chinese Urals with the mainland as soon as possible, construction will be started at the same time from Yekaterinburg, to Chelyabinsk, and then from Kurgan south through the Turgai depression, connecting Kazakhstan, this railway does not need to cross large rivers and tundra, the dwarf mountains of the Urals cannot stop the Chinese engineers, and the distance is relatively close, and strive to be completed within a year.

With the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Ural Spur Line, China began to enter a wave of railway construction as soon as the war ended. The railroad construction program was supported by a large reduction in military spending after the war, and the economy that began to recover, and the construction of the railroad led to economic development.

China's economy quickly returned to normal and quickly entered a growth phase, and a new round of economic expansion began.