And these are still not the main thing, the most important thing is that the empire once again issued a huge plan to build railways to the west and north, and this plan can no longer be completed in five years.

When defeating the Cossack soldiers of Tsarist Russia for the second time, Feng Yunshan understood a truth, if this is still the case, only through the deployment of large forces to defeat the invading enemy army, and let the border fend for itself, the northwest frontier, especially the Siberian region, will sooner or later be occupied by the crazy and ferocious Cossack soldiers like beasts. After all, the northwest frontier is too large, and relying on the strength of troops to defend it requires a great price, and it is difficult to do it in this era.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan convened his cronies and ministers to discuss, the purpose was to completely turn the occupied territory into the traditional territory of the Chinese Empire, and it was no longer easy for Cossack soldiers to occupy it.

Wang Minyun, Minister of General Affairs, and Zeng Yuheng, Minister of Public Works, offered suggestions to expand the border at the same time! The specific method they proposed was to build railways and fortresses, with the fortress as the main base, and connect the different fortresses through the railway, and all the surrounding railways and fortresses were immigrated, and merchants from all over the country were funded by the imperial court or organized to go to the local area to set up factories and let them make a living by mining, running farms, pastures, forest farms, etc. nearby. Once they learned the news of the enemy's attack, they all hid in the fortress for defense, and at the same time, through the railway, quickly transferred troops to resist the enemy outside the border line and even concentrated their forces to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

Feng Yunshan greatly appreciated this suggestion of the two, and assigned the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of General Affairs, the Ministry of Public Works and the General Staff Headquarters of the Cabinet to implement it, and ordered the construction of four railways to be built in the north and west at the same time, so as to control the border through the railways and thoroughly control this part of the newly occupied territory.

One is from Shengjing City, one railway branch is built to Seoul in Korea, the other branch goes to the northeast, through Jilin City, Vladivostok, Shuangchengzi, and then along the Songhua River all the way up settlements of different sizes, and finally to the Heilongjiang estuary Temple Street, the entire Korean region and the outer northeast region are under the hands of the Chinese Empire.

The second is from Beijing as the starting point, extending to the northwest, passing through Xuanhua, Datong, Guihua City (Hohhot), Kulen (Ulaanbaatar), and finally arriving at Beihai City on the shore of Lake Baikal in the later generations. In this way, through the ring network, the entire northern region can quickly transfer troops and transfer material supplies. Considering that the north of Beihai City was already an extremely cold area, it was very difficult to build a railway, and there were basically no immigrants, so it was not easy to survive, Feng Yunshan did not ask to build a railway on the Lena River in Beihai City.

The third is to take Lanzhou as a starting point and build a railway in the northwest direction. In fact, the railway has been opened to traffic in Liangzhou City, and continues westward, passing through Ganzhou, Suzhou, Anxi, Hami, Gucheng, Wulumuqi, Kurkha, Ili, Aksu, Kashgar, Kokand, and Buhar. This railway, which can be said to cross the entire Xinjiang and Kazakhstan, is a remote desert, passing through many deserts that are uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and it is extremely difficult to build.

However, in order to completely control Xinjiang and the Kazakh region, Feng Yunshan decided to grit his teeth and build it, even if he sacrificed 100,000 people for this and invested billions of holy yuan, he would build it successfully. At this time, he somewhat understood the original state of mind of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and the construction of the Grand Canal could not be just for fun, but to strengthen the control of the south of the Yangtze River. The difference is that the construction of railways and large-scale investment, although it consumes a lot of wealth and manpower, can drive the local economic development, drive immigrants to move to the local area, and can also drive the engineering, steel, timber, machinery and other industries of the entire Chinese empire.

However, after all, this railway spans the entire western region, and the distance of tens of thousands of miles cannot be completed in a few years, and the transportation of rails alone has become a huge problem, so we can only build one section and push forward one section. Feng Yunshan instructed all cabinet ministries to adopt the method of building a railway project to promote immigration and local development, build a section of railway, promote the development of one side, constantly attract immigrants to settle along the railway, use the railway to promote development, carry out the large-scale development of the western region, and thoroughly consolidate the rule of the Chinese Empire in the western region.

In addition, in the southwest, it is difficult to build a railway through the southwest. It is ready to start from Xi'an, which has been built, through Hanzhong and Mianzhou to Chengdu, to the southwest through Jiadingfu, Xuzhou into Zhaotong in Yunnan, Dongchuan to Kunming, and then from Chuxiong and Tengyue in the west, through Bhamo and Mandalay in Myanmar to Dhaka and Kolkata in Bangladesh. In this way, not only by sea, but also by land, the city of Kolkata could be reached directly from Kunming, ensuring that Calcutta was completely under the control of the Chinese Empire.

Of course, this is only the planning stage. Even with the current national strength of the Chinese Empire, it is extremely difficult to build such a long railway on a large scale at the same time, and it can only be built in a slower way, along the railway, instead of starting construction at multiple points at the same time, which is too costly and consuming for transportation.

From Feng Yunshan's point of view, he naturally knew that building a railway was only good for the empire, and there was no harm. Not only can it grow the economy, but the most important thing is actually military use, at least, as soon as the railway passes through Kolkata, it will permanently and firmly occupy the place, and the next time a foreign enemy invades from the sea, a large number of troops can be put into the railway to reach Kolkata for defense simply and quickly.

In addition to railways, a large number of foundation roads were built due to the large-scale construction of cement plants and the huge production of cement. In fact, unlike the railway, what people can see on a daily basis is more the construction and use of cement roads. The Ministry of Communications' Department of Highways organized a large number of roads this year, among them, the roads are divided into several levels, the first level is the national highway, which is the main trunk line that runs through the east, west, north and south, and passes through, basically the provincial capitals and cities of the provinces, these lines plan in advance the diesel locomotives that may appear in the next few decades, so that the two-way four-lane traffic degree. Of course, today, because there are no diesel locomotives, and most of them are horse-drawn carriages, oxen and donkey carts, so the two roads in the same direction are divided into official passages and private and commercial passages.

The second level is the provincial highway, which is supplemented by the appropriation of the Ministry of Communications, and the internal fund-raising of the province is mainly used to build together, mainly connecting the roads between the provinces and cities, and it is also all made of steel and cement, and there is almost no wear and tear of the road surface under the rolling conditions of the existing carriage.

In addition, there are roads built by local organizations, such as government roads, county roads, and even township roads, which are all organized by the local government to raise donations or raise funds from local squires, build them by themselves, and report them to the local government. And these roads, because of financial problems, have their own standards. However, prefectural roads can generally be poured with cement, while county roads are almost all filled with triple soil, depending on the degree of affluence.

Through railways and other roads, the entire transportation of the Chinese Empire was developed, and with the development of transportation, the convenience of transportation was significantly improved, and the reduction of logistics costs also reduced the prices of various places and promoted the development of various industries.

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