Zhu Youxiao originally thought that it would take at least half a year for the 10,000,000 bonds to be sold, and he was even ready to sell them out, but he didn't expect them to be sold out so quickly. It seems that the people of the Ming Dynasty have money to his surprise. In fact, there is no need to issue bonds, and banks can provide enough money to build roads, but Bi Ziyan is worried about inflation and suggests that some of the world's coins should be collected to avoid soaring prices.

Seeing that the bonds were so easy to sell, Bi Ziyan proposed to continue to issue the second and third tranches of bonds, but Zhu Youxiao disagreed. It is not necessary to issue fewer bonds.

One month after the trial operation of the Jingshan Railway, it began to officially operate. There are eight stations in Wanping, Tongzhou, Baodi, Fengrun, Lulong, Funing, Shanhaiguan and Balipu on the Jingshan Railway (the original Gongji City is a military station, and the civil does not pass through the Gongji Station). The railway is a double line, this is Zhu Youxiao's decision, he doesn't want to go to a single line to a double line in the future, now there are only freight cars.

There are more than 600 miles from Wanping to Shanhaiguan, and it takes about 15 hours at the current speed of the train (considering the terrain, the average is about 40 miles per hour). This is for the businessmen who have been running on this road all the year round, such a speed is simply unimaginable, it used to take more than ten days to walk, and now it can be completed in less than a day, which saves time and the consumption of staying in the hotel and eating is greatly reduced, and the liquidity of funds is greatly increased.

Therefore, although the cost of transporting goods by train is higher, and there is a special tax office at the station to collect taxes according to the value of the goods, most businessmen will choose to use trains to transport goods. It turns out that some perishable goods like seafood, can only be transported in winter or can be transported after pickling, now there is no such concern, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can even transport fish and water to the capital, when you get off the car, the fish is still alive.

A large number of delivery requests were sent to the Jingshan Railway Bureau, and because the number was so large, merchants began to book the wagons for a certain day, and now the queue has been in place for three months. Of course, this is calculated according to the speed of the trial operation, after a month of trial operation, the Jingshan Railway Bureau has accumulated a lot of transportation experience, and the Ordnance Bureau has built more locomotives and wagons, and the advantages of the double line have finally been reflected, according to the report received by Wei Zhongxian, the existing three-month transportation volume can be completed within two months.

The popularity of railway transportation made the construction of the Liangjing Line (Beijing to Nanjing) and the Shanmu Line (Shanhaiguan to Mugu Hewei) quickly put on the agenda. The imperial court established the Ministry of Railways of the Ming Dynasty, and Mao Yuanyi served as the secretary of the Ministry of Railways, so that the six departments of the Ming Dynasty became eight, and Mao Yuanyi, a young man with no fame, jumped into a book, which made people extremely surprised. The students of Beijing Normal University were envious one by one, but they also saw from Mao Yuanyi the extent that their future struggles might reach. As for Zou Yuanbiao and others, who were driven back to the south, they sourly believed that if this continued, it would inevitably lead to the loss of the country.

At the beginning of Mao Yuanyi's tenure, the Ministry of Railways set up the Department of Cleaning Officials, the Construction Department, the Survey Department, and the Damage Repair Department. They are responsible for railway safety inspections, railway construction, route surveys, and compensation for losses along the road. Zhu Youxiao transferred the manpower of Dongchang and Jinyiwei to set up a railway statistics bureau to be responsible for railway-related corruption.

In October of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the survey of the Liangjing Line was completed, and after the Ministry of Railways reported to the cabinet, the cabinet submitted it to the emperor. Zhu Youxiao instructed: "Repair it, don't be in a hurry, repair it according to the standard of a hundred years." ”

On 10 October, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Tongzhou for the Liangjing Line, and Zhu Youxiao personally filled in the first shovel of soil, and the cabinet and various ministries filled in the soil in turn. The project took five years, and the construction of a huge project with a total length of more than 1,700 li (one mile or 576 meters) was officially started.

Mao Yuanyi divided the whole project into five sections, Beijing to Tianjin for a section, Tianjin to Hejian for a section, Hejian to Jinan for a section, Jinan to Xuzhou for a section, Xuzhou to Nanjing for a section. Each section of the ground leveling works was tendered and subcontracted to merchants from all over the country.

Prior to this, the basic knowledge of tendering and bidding had been widely popularized in the newspapers, and it was stipulated that the bidder must be a commercial firm, not a government or an individual at any level. As a result, construction firms have sprung up all over the country, and the tax bureau is very happy to receive a large amount of deed tax.

All that is needed to level the land is manpower and simple tools such as knives, axes and hoes, so firms that can gather more people are more competitive. The bidding adopts the deposit and the bid system, the bid needs to pay a deposit of 10,000 yuan, if the bid is not won, it will be refunded in full, if the bid is won, it needs to be returned until the completion of the project, if there is an abandonment of the bid or quality problems, the deposit will be confiscated, if there is a situation of arrears of workers' wages, the deposit will also be confiscated.

When bidding, each company writes down the amount of remuneration they can accept and puts it in a paper bag, and then the firm with the lowest bid wins the bid. If there is only one bidder for a certain section of the road, the survey department of the railway bureau will estimate the cost and hand it over to the construction department, and the construction department will participate in the bidding on the basis of the valuation.

On October 10, the bidding for the subgrade project in various places has been completed, and the railway bureau itself won the bid for more than 300 miles of the roadbed of more than 170 miles. This made the royal construction team very satisfied, so that they would not have nothing to do when the roadbed was built, and after the construction of the roadbed of more than 300 miles, it was just in time to start laying sleepers and rails.

In order to ensure the supply of railroad tracks, the Ordnance Bureau opened an iron factory in Zichuan County, Shandong Province and Xuzhou Prefecture in Nanzhili, where a large number of iron ore and coal mines were distributed, which could produce a large number of rails to meet the needs of railway construction.

It refers to the national highway, which is the first letter of the national character Pinyin, and 1 is its number. The reason why it is said to be a high-grade highway is that the road is five steps wide (eight meters), the middle four steps are lanes, and half a step on each side is a sidewalk.

Between the sidewalks and the lanes, as well as in the middle of the road, white porcelain tiles are marked, and the pattern of arrows is also laid with porcelain tiles to indicate the direction of walking: keep right. None of the ministers raised the idiotic question of driving on the right, isn't the left empty, and they all felt that such a design really proved once again that His Majesty the Emperor was smart.