The Ming government did come forward and negotiated with the Vietnamese government, expressing the concern of the Ming Dynasty, but the Vietnamese government said that their people were very opposed to the French building a railway in Vietnam, and the Ming government also expressed its understanding of this, and the matter was over, and the Ming Dynasty did not intend to really help France obtain the right to build this railway, Zhu Jinglun was still waiting to see the French oppress Vietnam step by step, they did not oppress Vietnam, how could Vietnam fall to the Ming Dynasty?

As for Da Ming himself, he devoted himself to building railways with great enthusiasm. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway of the Ming Dynasty has been successfully running for two years, from June 1869, when the trial operation began, and now it is exactly 24 months have passed.

The British were hired to build the railway, and the Swedes were hired to operate it, not only because they found it easier to control, but also because many of the train drivers sent to the railroad graduated from the schools in the arsenal and then apprenticed in the arsenal, and their teachers were Swedes, and these people mastered the Swedish language.

They will be the first train operators, but it would be a waste of talent to let them operate the trains forever, and they will serve as seeds, after which they will train new apprentices and slowly spread.

After two years of study, these people have mastered a whole set of knowledge about train operation, scheduling, etc., and now they will operate on their own, but the Swedes will also be consultants for another year.

Compared to the three years that took the railway to become independent, the engineers of the Ming Dynasty seemed to have made too much progress in mastering the skills of building the railway.

In the process of building the railway, they also learned from the British engineers step by step, and even in the later period, they directly followed the drawings of the British and built their own construction, which was also forced at that time, because many ordinary people did not allow foreigners to step into their ancestral graves.

However, the railway bridge they were responsible for supervising the construction was of excellent quality and fully met the requirements of the drawings, which shows that they have mastered the essentials of construction.

Perhaps this is talent, Chinese laborers who do not know a single word, can become the best railway workers in the United States, and the systematically educated Daming technicians will soon be able to master the skills of building railways, historically, the only project that China can be independent in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China is also railway construction, I am afraid that in the construction industry, Chinese have been talented since ancient times.

In the past two years, these skilled workers have not been idle, they have been closely connected with British engineers, accepted a full set of architectural drawings, and analyzed and studied these drawings, and the next step is to independently design and build the railway after the Ming Dynasty.

The second railway, which will be from Guangzhou to Jiujiang, will run from Guangzhou to Jiujiang through strategic locations such as Shaoguan, Ganzhou, and Nanchang. And this was the legal basis for the construction of the first railway.

Because Zhu Jinglun had asked the Criminal Department to consult with various legal experts extensively, and even referred to a large number of Western laws, the land expropriation law finally formulated stipulates that the government has the right to expropriate private assets, including land, where there is a major interest to the state.

Obviously, the Ming Dynasty needed to transport troops to Jiangxi to guard against the threat of the Hunan army, which was a sufficient reason, so the Ming government immediately announced that it would fight for land along the way, which had legal effect. As for saying that this law has not been approved by the whole people, it is not right, there has never been a parliament or anything like that in China, and the Chinese law is called the royal law, which was formulated by the emperor, not by a parliament or other body on behalf of the people. So Zhu Jinglun signed it, and that is considered a law.

As for whether there will be a parliament or something like that in the future, Zhu Jinglun does not intend to interfere, and if the common people set it up spontaneously, or under the influence of the West, they strongly demand that there be such an institution, and Zhu Jinglun does not intend to oppose it. For Zhu Jinglun, giving power to the people is a trend in itself, and the affirmative action movement will happen sooner or later, but it should not be promoted by the government, otherwise it will be the government giving power to the people, rather than the people fighting for power. This active and passive is very important, and often only those who have won it by themselves, especially the power that they have won at a very heavy price, can be cherished.

Historically, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia distributed all state-owned assets to every citizen in the form of securities through shock therapy, but as soon as they turned around, a large number of Russian people exchanged these stocks and securities and a bottle of wine for oligarchs. They don't know how to cherish this kind of white thing at all.

The power of the Chinese people has been given by others throughout history, and when the emperor fought the country, most of the people passively accepted it as bystanders, and after the change of dynasty, of course, the only people who enjoyed the power were those who made sacrifices, or their descendants. And when these powerful people begin to infringe on the rights of the common people, they are not very willing to protect desperately, because when they gain power, they don't pay much, and when they lose it, they don't know how to protect.

Even Zhu Jinglun believes that in the period of change, this kind of parliament is completely trouble-making. Therefore, while he can be unrestrained and can do whatever he wants, it is the right thing to speed up the promotion of reform, and he has no interest or fun in playing with democratic construction.

The forced land acquisition will definitely cause contradictions, and the teams sent by the government to measure the land have been besieged in many places, and they have to send police to protect them in order to continue their work.

However, the government has actually taken into account the interests of the people along the route and made the decision to acquire these lands at a price four times the local land price. But there are still people who are dissatisfied, and it is not because of money, but because of sensitive issues such as cemeteries and ancestral halls and temples.

Solved by the last method, those who moved the graves wrote a memorial to them in the name of the emperor to comfort their ancestors. Mental problems are made up for mentally.

In this way, the problem of land acquisition was basically solved smoothly, and there were more troubles encountered in Guangdong, and there were much fewer troubles in Jiangxi. This is related to the fact that Jiangxi has been constantly tugging back and forth between the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army in recent years, half of the population has been lost, and there have been many uninhabited wastelands in the local area. It is also related to the human nature that has been constantly suffering and has long been accustomed to being submissive, after all, whether it is the Hunan army or the Taiping army, they have no patience to discuss with the people, they have to give what they want, and if they don't give it, they have to eat knives. Another reason is that the Ming government's announcement of exempting Jiangxi from taxes for three years temporarily won the favor of the rural landlords, who did not object, and ordinary lower-class people generally did not object.

It took a year to complete the surveying, mapping, design and land acquisition issues, and the construction phase began in July this year.

Like the railway operation, although it is its own construction, but also invited foreigners as consultants, they will help to review whether the design plan of the Ming engineer is reasonable, whether the construction plan of the Ming engineer is correct, but they do not ask specific questions, and they have no right to point fingers.

This railway will be much more difficult to build than the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, not to mention the more mountainous areas along the way, the length alone will far exceed the Guangzhou-Kowloon Line, the straight-line distance will be 900 kilometers, and the detour on the road will avoid canyons and mountains, the length will exceed 1,000 kilometers.

Because it was the first time to build a railway on its own, and it was a railway of this scale and length, the government gave a relatively broad construction period, given a construction period of three years, and allowed to extend it to five years.

If it is longer, the government will not accept it, because the government will build more than this railway. At the same time, there are three routes planned, Guangzhou to Jiujiang, Guangzhou to Guilin, and Guangzhou to Hangzhou, all of which were built in the name of the military.

Needless to say, there are enough reasons to defend the newly occupied territory of Jiangxi. To Guilin, Guangxi, Guilin at this time was the capital of Guangxi Province, but more importantly, it was the closest important town close to Hunan, and it was enough to guard against the Hunan army. The railway from Guangzhou to Hangzhou was in the name of defending Fujian, although it was not explicitly stated, but everyone knew that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not so reliable. The most important thing is that once the Ming Dynasty decides to go on the Northern Expedition, it will either fight the Qing court or fight the Heavenly Kingdom, choose one of the two. Therefore, all have military value.

Similarly, these three railways also have extremely high economic value. The railway from Guangzhou to Jiujiang, throughout the whole province of Jiangxi, directly connects the southernmost Ganzhou with the northernmost port Jiujiang, not only together with the Ganjiang River, to become the main traffic artery of Jiangxi, but also to allow Jiangxi's materials to directly reach the Guangzhou port, whether it is export, or enter the Guangdong market, it is the most powerful support for Jiangxi's economy.

Although the economic significance of the railway to Guangxi cannot cover the whole province, there is a Ling Canal built in the era of Qin Shi Huang near Guilin, which will communicate the Li River flowing through Guilin and the Xiangjiang River in Hunan, and the Xiangjiang River water system runs through the entire Hunan, from this point of view, it is equivalent to connecting the economy of Hunan with the port of Guangzhou.

In terms of economic significance, the biggest one is the railway from Guangzhou to Hangzhou. The road will start from Guangzhou, connect to Huizhou, and then go along the coastal plains of Guangdong and Fujian, connecting Hailufeng area, Chaoshan area, Zhangzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Putian, Fuzhou, Funing, and then enter Zhejiang, connect with Wenzhou, then pass through Taizhou, Ningbo, and finally connect to Hangzhou.

The Chaoshan region of the Hanjiang River Basin, the Zhangzhou and Xiamen areas of the Jiulong River Basin, Quanzhou of the Jinjiang River Basin, Fuzhou of the Minjiang River Basin, and Funing of the East and West Streams are all navigable rivers originating from Wuyi Mountain, which were historically ports for tea exports, and this alone was enough to maintain the operation of the railway.

Not to mention that after connecting to Ningbo and Hangzhou, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already allowed the Ming Dynasty to build a railway from Ningbo to Tianjing, and after occupying Shanghai, they also allowed the railway to be extended from Hangzhou to Shanghai.

Repair the railway can promote economic development, this is certain, but the effect can not be so fast, can only be said to be a coincidence, from the construction of the Guangzhou Jiujiang railway, the economy of the Ming Dynasty suddenly ushered in a period of rapid growth, not only tea, even the export volume of silk has suddenly skyrocketed.

A great boom that lasted for three years arrived.