In the Manchu Dynasty, when Xianfeng was in pain, Feng Yunshan was in a good mood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first railway in the Holy Kingdom, the Quwubao Railway, was finally completed and was about to open to traffic, and he finally arrived at Shaozhou Mansion after two days of sailing upstream. He wanted to personally attend the opening ceremony of the first railway in the Holy Country, and witness and celebrate this cross-historical moment with the people on the spot.

This railway is centered on Wushi Town, located in Beijiang County, Shaozhou Prefecture, starting from Quren Coal Mine, passing through Lishi Town to Wujiang River, along the bank of the Wujiang River all the way to the south, passing outside Shaozhou City, and arriving at Wushi Town, which is located on the bank of the Beijiang River. At the other end, starting from Dabaoshan Iron Mine, after more than 10 kilometers of freight line, it also arrived at Wushi Town.

As the terminus of the two-line railway, Wushi Town also has a unique transportation advantage, which is why Feng Yunshan put Shengguo No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant and Shengguo Krupp Iron and Steel Company in Wushi Town.

On February 28, the town of Wushi in Shaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong, was already full of colorful flags, and the whole town was a sea of colors. The 18th Brigade of the local garrison stationed in Wushi Town is all on duty, standing in the whole town of Wushi Town and along the railway line to guard it tightly, for fear that someone will destroy it.

The opening ceremony of the Quwubao Railway started on time at 3 o'clock in noon today, which was actually an auspicious 12:28 for Feng Yunshan.

This time, not only did Feng Yunshan personally come to Wushi Town, but he also ordered that all the officials of the Shengwang Palace, as well as the General Staff of the Capture Army, the prefects of various state capitals, and some deputy county magistrates, all came to Wushi Town to observe the opening of the first railway on the land of China.

What Feng Yunshan wanted was to use an intuitive and shocking way to hit these people who had been in a closed environment, and to use the roaring train and billowing smoke to impact their hearts and bring them the temptation of industrial civilization.

Feng Yunshan in John. Led by Forbes and John Jacob Astor III, accompanied by Liu Shengbang and other officials of the Holy Kingdom, they came to the railway on the southwestern outskirts of Wushi Town.

I saw an open field, seven or eight railroad tracks stretching into the distance, and I couldn't see the end at a glance.

"Your Highness the Holy King, this is the freight station in Wushi Town. There are a total of eight railroad tracks, which can accommodate eight trains to dock and load and unload goods. "John. Forbes pointed to the railroad tracks and said proudly.

"Not bad! Two Mr. Johns have worked hard! Feng Yunshan was also excited, this rail was exactly the same as what he saw in later generations, but the cement sleeper became a sleeper, and the connection between the rail and the rail was also fixed with huge bolt rivets, and the rail was even thicker, which was a good thing at a glance.

It seems that they have invested more than two silver, and these Yankees are also willing to use materials. In addition, this is the first railway, and the Yankees are still thinking about the future business, and they want to leave a good impression on themselves, and they are doing a good job.

"His Royal Highness, this railway, with a total length of 71.4 kilometers, is 300 meters longer than the original plan, and there is a slight error, but this cost is still calculated according to the original plan. During the entire construction period, it took us at the Central Railroad Company less than half a year to complete the construction of the entire railway. "John. Forbes introduces.

Feng Yunshan nodded, this construction period is indeed fast. He knew that this was also because Cheng Hengsheng, the director of the Ministry of Public Works, had made great efforts. Some time ago, he received a complaint from Ren Weiqi, the new prefect of Shaozhou, saying that Cheng Hengsheng, the director of the Ministry of Public Works, led a group of soldiers to forcibly destroy the farmland and houses of the people along the railway, and did not give the people time to relocate.

Feng Yunshan knew that this demolition would be a big problem in the future, so he warned Ren Weiqi, the prefect of Shaozhou, to cooperate well and make way for the railway.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan asked Wang Minyun, who was following him, to call Cheng Hengsheng and praised him in person, which made Cheng Hengsheng, who was originally a Manchu official, excited.

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Even more excited than Cheng Hengsheng was General Zheng, a native villager in Wushi Town.

General Zheng has lived in Wushi Village for generations, and by the generation of General Zheng, he has become a single seedling. Due to the decay of the family, General Zheng only had three acres of inferior paddy fields, the family was poor, the year before last, the frail and sick wife did not even give birth to a child, and after the death of the disease, he was the only one left in the family, and his life was very unsatisfactory.

It's not that General Zheng didn't want to marry another house, but his family only has three acres of inferior paddy fields, and the annual output is barely enough for him to eat. So he was delayed, and he was almost in his thirties, but he was still alone. He didn't have anything, but the gossip of the neighbors in the town ridiculed them that the old Zheng family was about to die, which made him really unbearable.

He is eager to make some money, continue his family business, and give birth to a son to add incense to the Zheng family. But that's a lot of money!

One day in September last year, when he was carrying a load of water from the Beijiang River next to him with a sad face, pouring it into three acres of paddy fields, and watering it hard, dozens of people came over.

One of them, who looked like a big official, claimed to be Cheng Hengsheng, who was the director of the Public Works Department of the Shengwang Palace, saying that a railway was going to be built here, and led a group of officials and foreigners from the Ministry of Public Works to measure, according to their plan, General Zheng's three acres of paddy fields were just within the range of their freight platform.

General Zheng didn't understand, what is a railway? What is the freight station? What does it have to do with my Zheng family's paddy fields?

The senior official named Cheng Hengsheng explained for a long time, and General Zheng realized that they wanted to buy all their three acres of paddy fields and the mountains and wasteland next to them to build something called a railway. The price they gave was forty percent higher than the market that General Zheng knew, and General Zheng naturally had no opinion.

His three acres of paddy fields are said to be paddy fields, but in fact they are dry land at all. It's just that it's close to the Beijiang River and convenient for getting water, so it's barely counted as a paddy field. But his family is poor and can't afford to buy a long waterwheel, so he can only carry water every day. If you can sell it at a high price, you can't ask for it.

So on the same day, they put their fingerprints on the deed of sale.

The next day, he wanted to buy some better paddy fields next to Wushi Town, but suddenly found that there was no one to sell the fields within a radius of several miles from Wushi Town. The entire town of Wushi seems to have been bought by a company called Nanyang. Either to build a railway, or to demolish and expand the first steel plant and build a workshop called the Holy Krupp Iron and Steel Company, but these workshops are really large, covering an area of several miles and more than ten miles.

Three days later, General Zheng came to the town office in Wushi Town, and found that hundreds of people in Wushi Village were crowded here, and the others, like him, were all expropriated land, either paddy fields, dry land, or ancestral houses, and they were noisy.

As soon as General Zheng inquired, he found out that it was the people from the town office who did the ideological work door-to-door, and bought almost the entire Wushi Town for Nanyang Company in advance.

Fortunately, the villagers of Wushi Town are quite honest, no one is cheating, and the price offered by Nanyang Company is also very high, and it is the town office that comes forward, Nanyang Company successfully got all the idle land.

General Zheng took the deed of selling the land and got 123 taels of silver in the hands of the people of the Nanyang Company in the town office. In addition, the deputy mayor of the town office told him that because all his family's paddy fields had been requisitioned, he had lost his source of livelihood, so Nanyang Company offered him a job.

General Zheng was overjoyed and hurriedly asked what kind of work it was?

The deputy mayor told him that the work was hard, but the salary was very high, and he had nearly two taels of silver a month, including food and housing, and that the Nanyang Company was building a railway, which required a lot of helpers, and asked General Zheng if he would like to go.

Of course General Zheng is willing. He is worried about not being able to buy paddy fields and losing his source of livelihood. However, he asked with some concern, can this job last?

The deputy mayor patiently told him that as long as he worked hard, he would definitely be able to work for a long time, and maybe he could become a full-time employee of Nanyang Company.

General Zheng was full of joy, and when he looked back, all the neighbors in Wushi Village had received a large sum of silver, and General Zheng even saw Zheng Haozi, whose fields were also by the river, actually carrying the silver home.

In any case, after getting so much silver, General Zheng happily tied the 123 taels of silver in a cloth bag and carried it home.