In March 202, the construction of major ports began, Juye Shipyard also produced passenger ships, and Tancheng also seized the time to build steam engine tugboats. The construction of passenger ships has boosted many economies in various places. For example, ships need wood, so wood sells very well. The ship needed seats, and the carpenters had jobs.

The construction of passenger ships has given the workers of the shipyard something to do, so that they will not eat the food of the yamen without working every day. Therefore, Tao Ying ordered various shipyards to keep building passenger ships, and then preparing to put them into passenger transportation.

Time passed, and by the time Tao Ying had finished writing a book about the beginning and history of the Second Industrial Revolution, it was already May. The passenger ship from Changyi to Xiapi, which was originally planned to be put into operation in April, was still unsuccessful. The reason is that the towing ship has been built, and it has not yet arrived in Changyi to assemble with the new ship.

Now that the steam engine ship has been reformed, the steam engine school has also graduated a group of students, who are capable of continuing to develop and build steam engines. Therefore, Tao Ying planned to set up a steam engine school on the site of each large shipyard, and then build a manufacturing plant. In this way, large shipyards can be directly used.

So in May, Tao Ying gathered the teachers and students of the steam engine school, and then adopted the method of one teacher leading twenty students, and asked them to go to the new school in groups. As a result, Shanyang Steam Engine School, Qingdao Steam Engine School, Qingzhou Steam Engine School, Guangling Steam Engine School, Suzhou Steam Engine School, Hangzhou Steam Engine School, and Yuzhang Steam Engine School were established one after another.

A huge revolution in water transportation has also started in 202!

At the end of May, the first passenger ship finally left Changyi Port with the roar of a huge steam engine. Since it was the first time to travel, many passengers were afraid to sit down. So Tao Ying took the first free ride, so the boat was full before it left Changyi.

This route is a ship on the opposite side, and when it sails from Changyi to Xiapi, it also opens from Xiapi to Changyi. The original plan was for the route to sail twice a week. When passenger ships pick up and drop off passengers along the way, they replenish coal by the way. The steam engine was a little slower at first, but it was much faster than a normal ship.

If you take a regular ship, you can get there in a week, and it takes two days to take a steam-engine boat. So those who had some money began to accept passenger ships slowly. Tao Ying began to use Pengcheng Monthly Newspaper to frantically deliver advertisements for passenger ships, so many places knew about such a new matter.

After the opening of the shipping from Shanyang to Xiapi in May, Tao Ying immediately planned to open a special shipping line from Xiapi to Juxian at the end of the year. The two ships traveled north along Yishui and then to Yangdu, from which they followed the newly opened canal to Ju County, the administrative center of Langya State.

This route is also twice a week, passing through Xiapi, Liangcheng, Tancheng, Kaiyang, Yangdu, and finally arriving in Juxian. Then, in the three-year plan of the Ministry of Communications, in March 203, the water passenger ship from Juxian County to Penglai Port through Qingdao County Terminal will be opened. At that time, you can take a boat from the northeastern port of Qingzhou all the way to Ju County, and then reverse the ship to reach Xiapi City.

After the opening of the Juxian to Penglai Port route in March, the Juxian to Linji waterway was opened in May.

In May, the opening of the northern route was basically completed, and at the same time, a passenger ship was opened to pass through Pengcheng and then along Xiao County to Suiyang of Liang State, so that Liang State and Pengcheng could be linked.

June is the busiest time to live, as this is when the Southern Route begins to officially open. The first route went south from Pengcheng along Surabaya to Suiling, and then turned Suiling into the largest transit station in the south, because Suiling was at the intersection of Surabaya and Huaishui, and the Guangsui River also started from here, so Suiling became the first key gathering point in the south.

In June, it is necessary not only to open a passenger ship from Pengcheng to Suiling via Xiapi, but also to open a passenger ship from Suiling to Jiangdu. This shipping is particularly important because after the opening of this route, several large cities in Guangling County, including the capital Guangling City, and the sub-center Jiangdu City have become an important part of Xuzhou's integration. In the future, the common people of Jiangdu and Guangling can take a boat all the way north to Pengcheng to Juye City in Shanyang County, and they can pass through Xiapi to Linji City in Qingzhou, the northernmost part.

In September, the Ministry of Communications will open a route from Shanyin to Suzhou via Hangzhou. In December, the route from Suzhou City to Dantu through Wuxi was opened, and the route from Jiangdu to Dantu across the Yangtze River was opened.

In two years, the main north-south roadway will be opened, and by the last year of the three-year plan, the Ministry of Communications will open a water channel connecting Huainan County. This passage has been along the Huaishui to the sea, Tao Ying wanted to build this golden waterway, so he opened a starting station in Shouchun City, the seat of Huainan County, and then opened a route through Suiling, Huaiyin, and finally to Haixi Seaport.

In this way, Huainan County was linked to the whole of Xuzhou, and a waterway of the Yangtze River was opened in the middle of the third year. That is the route from Jiujiang City, Yuzhang County, along the Yangtze River to Jiangdu City, Guangling County. In the second half of the year, the waterway from Nanchang to Jiujiang was opened.

After the expiration of the three-year period, by 205, except for the passenger ships that did not go to Xuzhou in Nanyang County, as long as they took a ship from any water transport station in Xuzhou, they could go to any city in Qingzhou and Yangzhou under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou.

And in order to open these, the price that Tao should pay is also very large. It takes money to build things, and all this money has to be earned from the inside out. But fortunately, with the increase in population, a large amount of farmland has been reclaimed, and the grain in these military cantonment areas has been handed over to the state.

After three years, the cost of selling tickets for routes in the north will gradually recover, and then the ticket money collected by the north will be transferred to the construction of the south, and the south will gradually be built.

When the water transport was built, the subsequent shipyards only needed to convert passenger ships into cargo ships, and then these waterways became freight lines, through which the things produced in Pengcheng and Xiapi could be sold to every corner of Xuzhou, so this will only make Xuzhou's economy better and better!

With the development of transportation, more and more iron ore and coal mines were discovered, and when both iron and coal were sufficient, Tao Ying was ready to set up a five-year plan, that is, five years later, to open a train from Pengcheng to Huainan, and then this railway line just made up for the lack of water transportation in the south of Pengcheng.