The newly repaired Fangcheng orbit has been officially in operation for more than ten days.

In the past ten days, the short sixty-mile road has become the busiest overland passage in western Beijing, nay, perhaps the whole country. Every quarter of an hour to two quarters of an hour, a railroad carriage loaded with tens of thousands of catties of grain departs from Shanyang Port and heads north along the tracks.

Day and night, you can see a train of horse-drawn carriages departing from the harbor and staggering back from the north.

In order to ensure the safety of the vehicle at night, oil lamps were lit in front of and behind the car, and the soldiers escorting the car also blew horns to the front and rear of the contact every other way. After training and training, the horses are accustomed to traveling in the dark and do not slow down because they can't see the road under their feet.

The transportation work on the track of Fangcheng continued day and night, and the total number of grain wagons sent out in a hundred and a quarter of an hour throughout the day was as high as more than 50 trains.

The 60-mile-long track is the main artery that maintains the food security of Gyeonggi in the Great Song Dynasty, but this newly created artery divides into a branch line at the north and south ends before entering the port town.

A branch line to the north of San'in Port leads to a small repair shop. The southern branch line focuses on a workshop with an area of more than 10 hectares - this is the workshop that first built the railroad.

Today, the task of building the carriage is still the same, but the craftsmen in the workshop are more focused on repairing and preparing the carriage. Even at night, the workshop was as brightly lit as the steward's room where the train departed. Carriages that are determined to be damaged and unable to continue on the road are pulled down in the workshop for complete repairs.

The workshop at night is full of people, with the sound of craftsmen shouting trumpets, the sound of sawing and planing wood, and the sound of hammering iron, so lively that it is easy to forget that it is still a deeper midnight outside.

"For this time, a total of six hundred and seven carriages were built. But after ten days, it has been determined that there are seventeen sections that are damaged and cannot be repaired," Li Jie pointed to a pile of bits and pieces in the corner of the factory, "The parts that have been dismantled and can be used are put into the warehouse as spare parts for later replacement." Everything that doesn't work is here. ”

Fang Xing nodded, he visited this vehicle workshop late at night to check how the workshop was operating at night under the auspices of Li Jie.

After glancing at the pile of garbage, Fang Xing asked again, "How many have been repaired?" ”

"It can be repaired with a different part, except for the two sections that are being repaired now, which have been parked in the warehouse, waiting in line for rotation. There are eleven knots in San'in, and exactly thirty knots in Sanyo. "Li Jie's treasures are like a few treasures.

"That is, the seventeenth verse is broken? Looks like it's not going well. Fang Xing smiled lightly. Looking at the craftsmen for the two carriages that have been dismantled to the shelves and turned over, a picture of great interest.

"The main thing is that Mrs. Che chose really well." Li Jie said, "They said that there was a problem, and when they dragged it to the factory to take a look, it really was where there was a problem." Didn't wait for it to be out of control. ”

The nearly 100 coachmen who received errands on the Fangcheng track were all found by Fang Xing on the orders of Han Gang. Li Jie said that they were competent, and of course Fang Xing felt that he had his own credit: "The coachmen I found this time are all veterans in the army, and they have been driving horses in the post house for many years. Although there won't be time for them to do it themselves, when loading and unloading, check the car for damage, I haven't heard of any mistakes these days. ”

dragged Li Jie out of the noisy factory and walked in the workshop under the moonlight.

"It's been ten days...... In the past ten days, there have been 190,000 stone of grain transported out of the city—it was a little bit almost when Brother Fang Cai came over, and it should have arrived now—at this rate, if there are two more days a month, all 600,000 stone grain will be able to pass through the Fangcheng track," Fang Xing let out a long sigh and spit out all his fatigue, leaving only a confident smile. "When these grains are transported out of Shanyin Port, the errand on Brother Fool's side can also be regarded as an explanation."

These days, Fang Xing has lost at least ten pounds or more, his belt and clothes have become loose, and his cheeks have become more slender and longer than a month ago. But when the work is smooth and the full work is imminent, the previous efforts can be regarded as paying off.

However, Li Jie did not have the confidence to be infected with Shangxing, and Han Gang promoted him exceptionally, first letting him participate in the construction of roads and channels as a deputy, and when he got started, he handed over the supervision of track construction to him, and also included the supervision of the carriage workshop and the port wharf.

was reused by Han Gang, Li Jie was grateful for the grace of knowing and worked his errands. Not only did he know all the big and small things at hand, but he even spent one day of two days on the construction site in order to keep an eye on the progress of the project—and the other day was spent in the port town or in the workshop.

He frowned: "These days, every case of the car that has been sent out is heavy-loaded. The wear and tear on the vehicle and the track will be reflected in the second half. ”

"Isn't the carriage lined up for rotation? Two or three times more carriages were built than actually needed, not just to ensure that there were no problems in the second half. ”

"Where's the rails?" Li Jie asked rhetorically. "I heard from the craftsmen from Xuzhou that the rails on the Fangcheng track are losing faster than those in the mine."

"If it's broken, replace it." Fang Xing said indifferently, "The replacement spare parts are all complete." ”

"The rails only break when the carriage presses on it, and if it breaks, it will affect the cars on it." Li Jie bit his lower lip, "There are a lot of grains that are lost on the road alone. Of the seventeen carriages that were completely destroyed, all the grain on them fell to the ground, and half of the forty-one carriages that had been repaired were also overturned, and two people died! This is only the Fangcheng track, sixty miles. The canal at both ends, there is still a thousand miles! ”

"What is the loss of transportation on the Bianhe River?" Fang Xing stopped, his eyes narrowed like a knife, as if he wanted to dissect Li Jie's sincerity to take a look, "Before Xue Zhixue took up the post of the Sixth Route Shipping Division, the losses of wind and waves, rat sparrows, and impregnation were basically around one percent, six hundred thousand stones—exactly the amount of grain we transported this time. After Xue Zhixue took office, the mixed organization of civilian ships, official ships, and ships was reduced to 23 percent. Although it looks small, there are actually more than 100,000 stones. We might be comparable here?! ”

Li Jie frowned, his lips moved, and he stopped talking. Seeing the two of them facing each other, the entourage of the two immediately hid far away.

Fang Xing looked at Li Jie's appearance and eased up, "Of course, the distance of Xianghan Caoyun is only half of the Bianhe, and if there is a loss of two or three percent, it is too much. On the way from Xiangyang to Fangcheng, I told me thousands of times, how many people I sent to watch, but I still capsized a boat. I don't know what will happen to the north. Now that we think about it, the proportion of loss on the road will not be less than that of Bianshui. He smiled at Li Jie, "It's much better to fall on this track than to fall into the water." There are so many broken carriages, and there are thousands of stones of grain inside. However, most of them were recovered, including food and cars. Otherwise, how can you have so many cars here that are easy to repair? ”

On the side of the track is the old official road, and the broken cars and spilled grain are all piled up on the side of the track, and special personnel are sent to drag them back from the official road. Due to the short road and the lack of people to maintain the track, the villagers along the way have not yet been able to reach the point of relying on the mountains and water.

Fang Xing looked up at the starry sky in late autumn. At the beginning of the month, the first quarter moon only bends and hooks, and the sky is more and more high and the stars are bright.

Now that the days are warm and the nights are cold, there is already a white mist when breathing, Fang Xing took a long breath, and a cloud of white mist drifted in the air, "This year is not bad, from Caosi to Zhou County, staring up and down, which skin is not taut?" But next year, without such strict restrictions as this year, anything sneaky will pop up. He chuckled gloatingly, "But then it's the turn of the Xianghan Shipping Division to have a headache, and we won't do our business." ”

Li Jie frowned: "Didn't you say that if the Shipping Division is really established, Long Tu has already decided on the position of Shipping Judge in advance?" ”

"Let's wait until the shipping department is confirmed." Fang Xing sneered and glanced at Li Jie, "Haven't you noticed it yet?" Long Tu now has a very light view of Xianghan Caoyun, and he doesn't take it very seriously. ”

Li Jie's body was shocked, and his eyes turned over, and his wide-eyed eyes were asking for the reason and evidence for Fang Xing's words.

Fang Xing raised his eyes to look at the stars in the sky again, and only after a while did he say: "If it were you, the Fangcheng track would be officially opened, would you be absent?" ”

"It's not like you're going to ...... after you've succeeded. What the hell is going on?! Li Jie's voice was alarmed, "Is Long Tu going to give up Xianghan Caoyun!?" ”

"What nonsense? It's all at this point, and Jingxi's taxes have been smashed into it for a whole year, how can you say that you will give up if you give up? I'm just saying that the dragon picture is light-hearted. ”

"For what?" Li Jie seemed to have regained his composure and asked in a deep voice.

Fang Xing shook his head, as if he had no choice but to spread out his hands: "Long Tu's mind is not something we can guess, maybe he has something more important." ”

He turned his head. Li Jie's stature was not high, and Fang Xing looked at him levelly, just in time to see the soft feet on his head. Lowering his gaze slightly, it was Li Jie's face that was serious and contemplative.

Fang Xing laughed, "Don't think too much, with the status of the dragon map, the eyes are the court and the world." For us, Xianghan Caoyun is a shortcut to the top of the clouds, and it is also a reliance on it in the future, and it depends on it for promotion and wealth. But for Long Tu, it's just a tool to build momentum, and since it's almost certain that it will succeed, of course he won't worry too much. ”