On September 1, Sun Yat-sen officially announced his resignation from the post of provisional president of the Republic of China in Nanjing, and the next day, the Nanjing Provisional Senate decided that the provisional government would move the capital to Jingshi, that is, the capital of the country would still be Jingshi, and at the same time, all the senators and members would go north to jointly build a national parliament in Beijing and discuss the early promulgation of the national constitution. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the 3rd, Sun Yat-sen left Nanjing and was invited to Yangzhou to discuss the construction of the railway with Wang Yongan and other Jiangbei businessmen, and Wang Yongan and the people in Jiangbei expressed their willingness to support Sun Yat-sen's railway cause and continue to complete the construction plan of the four railways in Jiangbei.

Shen Yunpei proposed that extending the Bianluo Railway to Haizhou would be better than building the Longhai Railway and connecting Lanzhou and Haizhou in Gansu Province.

Without waiting for Sun Yat-sen to express his position, Wang Yongan proposed that this plan was not bold enough, and he proposed that the railway should be built from Dihua (Urumqi) in Xinjiang to Haizhou, so the railway was named Dihai Railway.

Historically, the Longhai Railway has a total length of 1,759 kilometers, and it took 50 years to build it from the Qing Dynasty to New China. The Dihai Railway proposed by Wang Yongan is the sum of the Longhai Railway and the later Shilan Xingao Railway, the whole journey reaches 3,500 kilometers, and it will take at least 40 years to complete. Wang Yongan put forward a 15-year completion plan, obviously this plan is too ideal, does not consider the war, does not consider the change of government, and does not consider the international economy, but Sun Yat-sen is very excited, he has not yet served as the director of the General Administration of Railways, he has already achieved such a great "achievement", he believes that after he becomes the director of the General Administration of Railways, the railways of the Republic of China will be more prosperous.

Taking advantage of Sun Yat-sen's excitement, Wang Yongan told Sun Yat-sen that the investment in the Dihai railway project must require foreign capital investment, which cannot be built by the Jiangbei consortium alone, and in order to speed up the construction, it is necessary to adopt a sectional contracting method, and he suggested that China and Britain, the United States, France, Germany and Japan jointly undertake the construction of the longest railway in Chinese history.

Sun Yat-sen also understood that the Dihai railway plan was too large, so he accepted the proposal to cooperate with foreign banks, he was not a dead brain, when the Nanjing Provisional Government was short of money, he wanted to break the head to raise money. During his years of exile abroad, Sun Yat-sen did two things in total, one was to draw lots, and the other was to support the anti-Qing Dynasty at home, so he was not a nerd who did not eat fireworks in the world, and he also knew how much money was needed to build a railway. Despite the pros and cons of working with the Four Nations Bank, Sun Yat-sen decided to give his full support, considering that the pros outweigh the cons.

Wang Yongan and Sun Yat-sen came to Shanghai by boat, found the person in charge of the Bank of the Four Nations, and directly proposed to the banks of Britain, France, Germany and the United States that the Six Nations should undertake the construction of the Dihai Railway.

On the other hand, Wang Yongan's move is also a gesture of goodwill to the Four Nations Bank, which is now privately buying the shares of the China Industrial Bank on a large scale, and in just three months, the Four Nations Bank has already mastered 17 percent of the shares, and if they control the shares to 20 percent, they can completely crush the China Industrial Bank with a single blow, and there is no need to even use any means.

Wang Yongan's weakness made the banks of the four countries feel very proud, and they immediately decided to support the construction of the Dihai railway after discussion, but they also put forward the condition that the Dihai railway was built with a loan, so some resources along the railway line must be absorbed by foreign countries.

It has been said in history books that in the late Qing Dynasty, foreigners built railways in China to squeeze China's people through railways, exploit mines, forcibly occupy arable land, and undermine China's economic development, but this is really nonsense. As an agrarian country, all of China's GDP in the late Qing Dynasty depended on agriculture, and the biggest problem of agriculture was transportation. Foreigners are not living bodhisattvas, so why should they unconditionally lend money to China to build railways for China?

Foreigners' investment in infrastructure construction in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty was exactly the same as the model of later Republic's aid in Africa and the Middle East, but Africans warmly welcomed the Chinese's aid because they first knew that they could not build a railway, second, they knew the benefits brought by the railway, and third, they were willing to be mined by Chinese companies along the way. However, because of the protracted ideological struggle, later history and political textbooks publicized the construction of railways as a cancer, and did we not know that it was precisely because foreign countries wantonly built railways in China that economic construction was promoted and national ties were strengthened.

However, at this time, Wang Yongan did not realize the stimulation of his actions to the people, and some angry young people in later generations were the same, the people of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China did not realize the benefits of railway construction, but thought that their interests had been lost, especially some radical young people proposed that China could build its own railways, and Wang Yongan's cooperation with foreign countries was a traitor.

At first, Wang Yongan did not care about the newspapers criticizing his cooperation with the Four Nations Bank, and even Wang Yongan found the president of the Yokohama Zhengjin Bank in China and proposed a plan to cooperate with Japan and cooperate with the six countries to build the Dihai Railway.

Sanshiro Koli, president of Japan's Yokohama Shojin Bank in China, was taken aback, and he never imagined that at a time when Sino-Japanese relations were so tense, Wang Yongan, as Japan's biggest rival, would find Japan to cooperate in building a railway. Sanshiro Kori immediately sent a telegram to the head office of the Yokohama Zhengjin Bank, asking whether he would negotiate with Wang Yongan to participate in the Dihai railway plan.

The head office of Zhengjin Bank also made a sensation, and hurriedly called back, demanding that Japan must participate in the Dihai Railway, which is not only an economic lifeline, but also a national defense lifeline, and Japan must participate in it. The president of Zhengjin Bank immediately found Xiyuan Temple Gongwang and reported the matter to Xiyuan Temple Gongwang.

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was also very surprised by Wang Yongan's actions, it seemed that it was different from their judgment, Wang Yongan was hostile to Japan, but he did not refuse to cooperate with Japan, and a group of Japanese think tanks were also puzzled. For example, China and the United States in later generations are the two largest hostile countries in the world, but the two countries are interdependent. However, in this era, the consciousness of friend and foe is very clear, enemies are enemies, and it is impossible to become friends, and the only one in the world who realizes that the boundary between friend and foe does not need to be forcibly divided is the British Empire, which is also one of the reasons why the British Empire can become the hegemon of the world.

The Xiyuan Temple Gongwang understood Wang Yongan's move as a compromise with Japan, but soon, the Japanese think tank believed that Wang Yongan had become more cunning, so he could never change the decision to let Wang Yongan go into the wilderness.