There are three railways in the plan of the household department, which are intended to be built at the same time, if it was before, the household department has this ability, starting from the Guangjiang railway, to the construction of the disaster relief railway, the railway company has trained thousands of qualified engineers, at that time can build the Qingdao railway, the Qinhuangdao railway and the Dongqing railway, and now the same can build the Guangzhou-Shanghai railway, the Guangzhou-Guizhou railway and the Guangzhou-Yong railway at the same time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Guangzhou-Shanghai Railway starts from Guangzhou, along the coastal Belt and Road of Guangdong and Fujian, goes north to Hangzhou, and finally connects to Shanghai. The Guangzhou-Guizhou Railway runs from Guangzhou to Guilin. The Guangzhou-Yong Railway is from Guangzhou to Nanning, and Nanning is also known as Yongzhou.

The construction of these three railways is urgent, because the British have invested a lot of money, have extended the railway from Mandela to Xinjie on the border, and are negotiating with the Ming Dynasty to build a section of the road in Yunnan.

Once the construction of the Yunnan Railway began, it was finally repaired to Nanning, but the Ming Dynasty did not repair it from Guangzhou to Nanning, and the railway could not be completely opened to traffic, which was a violation of the agreement with the British.

The railway from Guangzhou to Shanghai is the most profitable line that can be seen, even if there is no announcement from the Ministry of Households, Tang Tingshu intends to give priority to the construction, to be honest, so many debts but a barb in his heart, although the shares of the railway company were sold for a lot of money, but the money was taken away by the Ministry of Households, because this is the sale of official property, it is the Ministry of Households to sell their shares to the market, and the money is collected into the accounts of the Ministry of Households except for repaying past debts, that is, nominally official debts.

The railway company is still an empty shelf, but the railway has been widely known, and the railway business has not been affected in the past few months, the business situation is still good, the profits of the railway are growing rapidly, and even Qingdao and Qinhuangdao two huge loss railways have begun to break even, good operation, it will inevitably mean a good financial situation, after the accounts receivable arrive, this year may save millions of profits.

But this money is not enough, and to build a new railway, it is necessary to make new financing, or issue new shares, or increase the capital by shareholders in equal proportions, or issue bonds.

In the end, what to do, now it is basically Tang Tingshu who has the final say, because Tang Tingshu not only holds 20% of the shares, Zheng Guanying, who founded the Kaiping Mining Bureau with him, also holds 10% of the shares, several other Xiangshan compradors hold 10% of the shares, and Dongguan's textile giants hold 10% of the shares, these are all Tang Tingshu's faction, which is enough to ensure that he has enough votes to pass the decision.

Whether to issue bonds or borrow money is a cost, so Tang Tingshu decided to issue new shares.

An additional 200,000 new shares will be issued, and it is planned to raise 100 million taels, which will be used to build three major railways, or more than three major railways.

Because Tang Tingshu wants to do better, if the railway is not a network, it will greatly affect the efficiency, but to form a network in China, it must be supported by the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty needless to say, the key is the Qing government, it is not so easy to lobby the Qing government, the Qing court Manchu officials began to worry that foreigners used the railway to encroach on the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty obviously they were more guarded, and never relaxed the Ming Dynasty will compete with the Qing Dynasty for the world's string, how can the Ming Dynasty be allowed to form a network with the Qing Dynasty's railway?

This matter is difficult to do, but if it is easy to do, how can it reflect the value of his Tang Tingshu.

So Tang Tingshu decided to gamble on all his connections in the Manchu Qing Dynasty to connect the railway being built by the Manchu Qing Dynasty with the Daming Railway Network, so that from Guangzhou to Beiqi, there will be two railway lines, a Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou Railway, and a Beijing-Hanzhou-Guangzhou Railway, the Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou Railway because Britain is helping the Manchus to build the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, and the Guangzhou-Shanghai Railway of the Ming Dynasty will naturally be connected, and the Beijing-Hanzhou-Guangzhou Railway needs to be extended from Hankou to the south to the Ming Dynasty.

There is also a plan that is easier to see the short-term effect, that is, from the Jiujiang Shuojiang River, to Hankou, this road is only more than 200 kilometers, built along the river, the terrain is relatively flat, it can be opened to traffic within a year, and then it can receive benefits, which will bring greater confidence to the construction of other railways in the future, and shareholders will not be dissatisfied because they will not see profits for a long time.

The next thing to do is lobbying work, Tang Tingshu was naturally the first to use his relationship with Li Hongzhang to explain to Li Hongzhang the importance of connecting Hankou and Jiujiang, and to come up with data to prove that the trade between Hankou and Jiujiang continued to expand, and a large part of it was entrepot trade, which was the materials in the Qing Dynasty after gathering through Hankou and then transferred to Jiujiang along the railway into Guangdong, so the completion of this railway will definitely promote the scale of trade on this line and bring greater benefits.

Li Hongzhang said that he could not see the benefits, saying that once the railway was repaired, the gold would be cut off, and the profits and losses in the imperial court would be too great.

Tang Tingshu suggested that a railway could be set up to levy a cent of gold on the Qing goods transported to the Ming Dynasty by rail, and the railway company was willing to collect it on behalf of the railway company and then forward it to the Qing Household Department.

Tang Tingshu believes that in this way, not only is it indispensable to have half a cent of gold in the Qing Dynasty, but it may increase significantly.

Li Hongzhang also believes that it may not be impossible to consider, but Li Hongzhang is quiet and has no follow-up.

Tang Tingshu will not rely on one Li Hongzhang alone, he knows the character of this adult too well, if he doesn't see a rabbit or an eagle, he will never cause a fire.

But some people are not afraid of fire, Tang Tingshu found Zuo Zongtang for the second time, he has no friendship with Zuo Zongtang, but he knows that Zuo Zongtang suppressed the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu, and he needs the support of the railway company very much, it can be said that it was at Zuo Zongtang's insistence that the Ming Dynasty was able to build the railway from Zhengzhou to Shaanxi, and finally to Xi'an, but Zuo Zongtang also wanted to let the railway go to Lanzhou, because Zuo Zongtang had just quelled the rebels in Gansu and drove the remnants of Bai Yanhu into Xinjiang, but Zuo Zongtang also planned to invade Xinjiang and was raising military salaries.

He has two points to help Zuo Zongtang, the first is money, the second is the road, as long as Zuo Zongtang agrees to help, the railway company can extend the railway to the barren Lanzhou, or even go further, follow Zuo Zongtang all the way to Xinjiang, as long as Zuo Zongtang can convince the Qing court.

There is only one condition, that is, Zuo Zongtang promised to help the railway company Guanshu, let Daming build the Jianghan Railway, connect Jiujiang with Hankou, and even let Zuo Zongtang come forward to say that the Qing court agreed to let the Daming Railway look through Hunan. As for how far Zuo Zongtang can help, it depends on how much Zuo Zongtang has requirements for the railway company, which is a business.

But I am afraid that the energy of a Zuo Zongtang is not enough, and there is one person who can't be avoided when doing things in Hunan, that is, Zeng Guofan.

But Zuo Zongtang's way is easy to find, and everyone knows that Hu Xueyan, who has infinite scenery in Shanghai, is Zuo Zongtang's doglegs.

Hu Xueyan's courtyard is not so high, and he Tang Tingshu can still climb it, but Zeng Guofan's courtyard is too high.

After destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the scholars of the world once again put Zeng Guofan on the throne of God, washing away all the stains on him before, but this person began to become low-key, and he has always been honest, and money can't open his door.

Tang Tingshu had to think of other ways.

His method was to follow the path of Hunan merchants, and found some businessmen who did business in the Ming Dynasty, especially some gentry merchants, that is, those merchants who had the dual roles of local squires and merchants, these people were more receptive to the new thing of the railway, and because of the status of the gentry, it was easier to get close to Zeng Guofan.

This kind of person is not difficult to find, and there are a number of them in the Hunan Hall.

Tang Tingshu's combination punch soon exploded into power, first Zuo Zongtang wrote to the imperial court, suggesting that the Daming Railway Company continue to extend the domestic railway forward, which helped to stabilize the border defense.

However, he was immediately scolded as a traitor by the Manchu Qingliu, Zuo Zongtang argued with reason, proposed the northwest frontier defense, and bitterly Chen Daqing may lose Xinjiang, and if Xinjiang is lost, Mongolia will be shaken, and Mongolia will be shaken, and Beijing will be uneasy, and he strongly asked the court to allow him to enter Xinjiang to quell the rebellion.

Xinjiang has been in chaos for many years, and the Muslim regime, the Han People's League, and the Tsarist Russian armed forces have been divided for 10 years.

In 1867, the Agubo bandits, who entered Xinjiang from Central Asia, had already occupied most of Xinjiang, and the Qing government had lost control of most of Xinjiang except for a few data points such as Tacheng and Wusu. When Tsarist Russia captured Ili in 1870 and sent troops to Urumqi, it was ambushed by Xu Xuegong, a local Han people's regiment, to stop the pace of expansion.

For more than a decade after that, the Qing government was locked in a fierce war with the Taiping army, and Xinjiang was almost out of control. The Agubo gang imposed harsh religious laws in Xinjiang, forced all ethnic groups to join the religion, and imposed heavy taxes, causing resentment among the people to boil. A large number of Han people's groups, represented by Xu Xuegong, united the local Manchus, Oroqen and other ethnic groups with Manchu aspirations, formed villages in dangerous places to protect themselves, and opened up land to survive. Agubai, on the other hand, pursued these militia groups closely, and after repeated bloody battles, the Han and Sinicized ethnic groups in Xinjiang were almost killed by vendettas.

Britain and Russia, on the other hand, vied to win over the Aquba regime in an attempt to gain an advantage in the struggle for hegemony in Central Asia.

In 1868, the British sent an envoy to meet with Aquba to recognize his regime, and the following year, Aquba sent his confidant Mirza Shadi to India to meet with the British Governor-General and enlist British support. Britain decided to donate a large number of arms to it and allowed it to recruit craftsmen in India to return to Kashgar to set up a military factory. In 1870, Russia also sent people to Kashgar to meet with Aguba and recognize his power.

Britain's purpose was very simple, he did not have the strength to compete with Tsarist Russia for hegemony on land, so it planned to cultivate puppets to resist Tsarist Russia's southward threat to India, and defending India has always been one of Britain's biggest foreign policies in this century. For this reason, the British constantly lobbied the Qing government to recognize the Agubo regime in exchange for Aguba's nominal submission to the Manchus.

But Aguba went to Turkey and was canonized as the caliph of the Ottoman Empire, and became the legal emir of Xinjiang under Islamic law.

Tsarist Russia sat back and watched the Han People's League and the Agubo gang kill each other, waiting for an opportunity to move. At the same time, they continued to tempt the Qing government, expressing their willingness to cooperate with the Qing government in Xinjiang against Agubai in exchange for the Qing government's permission to expand into the Bohai Sea.

However, the Qing government was unwilling to recognize Aguba, canonize Agubai, and was unwilling to let Tsarist Russia build the railway to Tianjin or Huludao, so the issue of Xinjiang has been deadlocked.

It was not until two years after Zuo Zongtang fought fiercely with Wang Haiyang of the Northern Expedition that Li Hongzhang changed his defense, and then Bao Chao entered Yunnan to fight Du Wenxiu's rebellion, and Zuo Zongtang entered Shaanxi to suppress Bai Yanhu's rebellion.

After several years, the main force of the rebels was finally annihilated, and the rest fled to Xinjiang, Zuo Zongtang believed that the situation in Xinjiang had reached a point where it could not be delayed.

But at this time, the Qing Dynasty's finances were already in jeopardy, there were holes everywhere, and Zuo Zongtang's invasion of Xinjiang would be an extremely huge expense, and the Qing government could not afford it.

Zuo Zongtang, who had no money and no food, could only find a way to raise his own funds, and even during the famine and starvation in Shanxi, Zuo Zongtang was still asking Shanxi for military salaries, and the governor of Shanxi was not enough, and he also wrote a letter of impeachment, which shows how difficult Zuo Zongtang has become.

The Daming Railway Company promised money and food support, and Zuo Zongtang didn't care about his face, not to mention that he originally thought that the construction of the railway was of great significance to his army, and the Qing government had no power or technology to build it, so why not let Daming extend the railway line and kill two birds with one stone.

So Zuo Zongtang went on such a fold, who would have thought that it would cause a unanimous siege of conservatives, and it seemed that so many years of panic and depression would be poured out on Zuo Zongtang's head.