Chapter 521: The Age of Railways

On April 9, 1910, Zhan Tianyou, accompanied by Ling Feng, visited Chen Zhong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, Chen Zhong knew Zhan Tianyou, and he had studied it in middle school textbooks before he crossed over.

Known as the "Father of Chinese Railways" and "Father of Modern Chinese Engineering", this railway expert studied in the United States at the age of 12 and was later admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University, majoring in railway engineering.

He is an expert in modern railway engineering in China and is known as China's first chief railway engineer.

Under his main responsibility, he built the famous Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway and other projects designed by the Chinese themselves.

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After Zhan Tianyou saw Chen Zhong, he began to be a little restrained. He respectfully came to Chen Zhong and said, "Zhan Tianyou greets His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Chen Zhong smiled and helped Zhan Tianyou up and said, "Engineer Zhan Tianyou, don't be polite, I have already heard of your glorious history, and you are a national treasure of our Chinese Empire!"

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The reason why I asked Minister Ling to find you is that I hope you can show what you have learned as much as possible. ”

Zhan Tianyou hurriedly stood up and said, "Thank you for your praise to Tianyou, the railway technology I have learned should be dedicated to our country and nation." ”

Chen Zhong said: "Chief Engineer Zhan, among the major events in the early days of the founding of the country, the first thing was to stabilize the country's army, and the second thing was to build a railway.

I attach great importance to the construction of railways. Railways are the main arteries of the country. As long as these major arteries are built well, the country's economy can develop rapidly.

Railways are a sign of a country's development. As long as there are railways extending in all directions, industry and agriculture will develop rapidly as a result.

The most industrially developed countries, such as the West, call the railway industry the "crown of industry", not only because the railway, ocean-going ships and telegraphs have become a means of transportation, but also because infrastructure such as railways has also led to the development of other industries.

The construction of railways can not only promote the accumulation of capital in society, but also promote the circulation of funds and the transmission of information.

The construction of the railway will certainly greatly promote the country's economic construction and trade development.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. That's what it means.

In addition, rail transport plays a crucial role in the country's strategy. In wartime, railroads can sometimes be decisive in the outcome of a war.

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Therefore, I adopted the opinion of Minister Ling of the Ministry of Industry and decided to establish the General Administration of Railway Construction. Vigorously build railways in our country, Chief Engineer Zhan, I will appoint you as the director of the General Bureau of Railway Construction of the Chinese Empire, and form the General Administration of Railway Construction. The General Directorate of Railways is responsible for the planning, design and construction of railways in the country. ”

Ling Feng, Minister of Industry, said: "His Majesty the Emperor is wise, and the construction of railways is completely a reflection of the degree of development of a country.

The degree of development of transportation is a necessary condition for the economic development of a region and even a country. Large and small modes of transportation make up the blood of a country.

With the railway, the exchange of economic materials and personnel will be more convenient and fast. At the same time, in wartime, materials and troops can also be quickly mobilized.

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The construction of railways, whether from the perspective of national development or the needs of national defense, is a project that must be rapidly put into operation, and it brooks no delay. ”

Zhan Tianyou nodded and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, when it comes to railways, we can't fail to mention Britain, the country where railways originated.

In the Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, England, there is a steam locomotive, black lacquered cast iron, not very handsome, but it is a veteran of the train industry.

Since the invention of the steam engine, the train has gradually replaced the traditional horse-drawn carriage as a new means of transportation, first in the mines of the British Isles, and then in the specialized passenger and freight transport, and a nationwide railway network gradually unfolded, thus opening the curtain of the British Industrial Revolution.

It can be said that the development and strength of Britain, the railway played a direct role. In other words, without the railway, there would be no 'empire on which the sun never sets'. ”

Chen Zhong said: "Yes, what Chief Engineer Zhan and Minister Ling said is very reasonable. In the course of today's world, the superiority and inferiority of transportation is undoubtedly the best embodiment of the advanced degree of a country's development.

To a certain extent, in the current stage of history, railways are the key projects for the rapid development of countries and regions. ”

Zhan Tianyou said: "The emperor's analysis is extreme, just look at the United States, which has developed the fastest in the past decade. In the process of industrialization in the United States, rail transportation played an extremely important role.

In the past 30 years, the rise and development of the American railroad kingdom has played a vital role in the rapid emergence of the United States as an economic power and the second largest economy in the world.

About 50 years ago, the United States built 30,000 kilometers of railway lines, and by 1900 it had reached 320,000 kilometers, accounting for half of the world's railway lines.

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It is precisely because of the prosperity and rise of the American railroad era that the coordinated and rapid development of the United States' westward expansion, the steel industry, the coal industry, the machinery manufacturing industry, the various light industries, the food industry, the industrial and agricultural production and transportation industries, and the establishment of a national market in the United States have been accelerated. As a result, the U.S. economy has completed an epochal transformation on the railroad line.

Over the course of half a century, the United States built a national network of railroads that crisscrossed the continental United States and played a significant role in the development of the western Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the United States and the communication of the national economy. ”

Chen Zhong nodded and said: "Yes, Chief Engineer Zhan said very well, the railway has made the United States the second largest economy in the world, and it is the railway that has pushed the American economy to the forefront of the world."

The steel and coal of the United States have completed fundamental changes in the railroads, and it can be said that the railroads have held up a developed United States.

Therefore, from the perspective of strategic decision-making considerations for economic and technological development, there is no reason for our Chinese empire to lag behind the United States in the construction of railroads!

Today, we must clearly see that the large-scale start of infrastructure construction such as railways will certainly bring immeasurable economic benefits to our Chinese empire.

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We should develop and innovate on the basis of studying and introducing advanced science and technology from Europe and the United States, and gradually develop and improve our own industrial technology system.

We should wisely raise our own technological level and adopt an absorption strategy, that is, take the world's advanced level of science and technology as the starting point of our country. In this way, it will greatly shorten the time to catch up, save a lot of manpower and material resources, and introduce the digestion and transformation to become our own thing.

From the perspective of the national strategy of the Chinese Empire, I decided to make the construction of railways in China the first infrastructure to be invested in after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Director Zhan, I will allocate 10 billion Chinese dollars to invest in the construction of railways in the Chinese Empire.

You set up the General Administration of Railway Construction as soon as possible, and come up with a plan for the construction of railways in the Chinese Empire.

I want to bring the Chinese Empire into a rapid railway age! ”