If you want to get rich, build the road first, this simple word, has become a wise saying, not only the solution to get rich in the remote countryside in later generations, a rich property, but inconvenient village, once through the highway, can immediately achieve take-off, such examples, in later generations abound, even in this era, at the beginning of the 20th century, the same, why the United States will be developed, hundreds of thousands of kilometers of railways, it confirms his development, the railway on land with unimaginable advantages, has become the first capacity, It can bring unimaginable benefits to the area through which the railway passes.

Take China as an example, in the early stage of reform and opening up, why the coastal city was chosen as an open city, the reason is that in terms of transportation, huge land area, and extremely weak countries in the early stage of reform and opening up, shipping has unimaginable advantages. As for the historical part, why the Northeast was once an industrial base, the same reason, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Northeast is the most densely packed place in the whole country with railways, with everything needed for industry, where to develop will be twice the result with half the effort.

The density of railways does not represent industrial zones, but without railways, the development of industrial zones will not be too smooth, or even developed. This is a simple truth, Yang Yuanzhao also understands very well, so starting from Baotou, the railway appeared intensively in the northwest, and the northwest has become China's industrial center, completing Yang Yuanzhao's wish, not only making Baotou China's Ruhr, but also far more than the German Ruhr industrial base, not to mention, now Baotou radiation range, 35 million tons of steel output, this alone, surpasses the United States. Won the title of the largest country in steel production. In this era when steel equals heritage and basic strength, this is achieved. Let the northwest be able to gain a firm foothold among the many countries.

However, the development of the northwest, among the several core areas in the northwest, has developed very smoothly, from the Baotou Special Economic Zone to the south of Mongolia, Shanxi and Shaanxi. With the dual support of machinery and transportation in the northwest, these places have developed rapidly in just a few years. It has caught up with the development of other developed countries for hundreds of years, and has become an industrial center and base, but other places, especially the western regions. There are huge resources and land areas. For a long time, there has not been much development, the reason is that the climatic conditions are harsh, the Gobi Desert abounds, and there is no way to develop at all.

China's lack of space has been proven by countless talents in later generations, if China could have more space. China's development is limitless. Yang Yuanzhao recognized this very much, the battle of Mongolia. The war against Russia, the layout of the South Seas, and even the battle with Japan were all aimed at expanding the spatial layout.

In the node of history, the First World War is the only place that can be used, as long as there is a revolution in Russia, the northwest can drag this, solve the problems left over from history, at least 1.5 million square kilometers of land that was once divided by Tsarist Russia can be returned, and even peep into Siberia, in the middle, there are too many things to plan, Russia is too big, the former Napoleon, and even the invincible Hitler during World War II, are in front of Russia's huge territory, suffered a big loss, China is not small, Mongolia plus Xinjiang, With a huge land area, it is too difficult to mobilize troops, and the construction of a large number of railways has become the most crucial.

In itself, these railways, Yang Yuanzhao intends to let the production and construction corps, so that they can play the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and death, and they should be able to complete them, but the number of casualties and losses has always been a problem that needs to be considered. However, the appearance of a large number of prisoners of war gave him new ideas, among the prisoners of war, some of them are educated, and can drive, they are a little trained, they are excellent workers, as long as they pay attention, do not use them to death, relying on part of the production and construction corps, can form several construction teams.

Now, the entire eastern plain area, the railway network has been quite dense, almost every important city, at least 2 railways cross through, the most, even appeared eight railways of the rice-shaped structure, in this era, even in later generations, 8 railways intersect the rice-shaped structure, can also be said to be worthy of the railway hub city, among them, several new large-scale railway hubs, all in the west, these have also become a new economic growth point of China's economy, but also a new megacity.

The first is the Baotou New Area, in addition to the new area itself, there are 8 railways through, around, there are 3 railway loops, so that at least 16 different railways, will be connected to the new area, Baotou New Area, has also become the whole of China, the most dense railway, the strongest connectivity area.

At present, Baotou New Area, with a permanent population of 28 million and a floating population of 32 million, has jointly built a super city, you know, the United Kingdom and Germany have not exceeded 60 million people, and the northwest has easily done all this, the scale of the city and advanced machinery and equipment, is creating this wealth at an unimaginable speed.

The northwest has the strongest work efficiency in the whole world, the popularity of hydraulic systems and large construction machinery, so that the production and construction capacity of the northwest is the best in the whole world, it can be said unceremoniously that the production efficiency of the Chinese itself is much stronger than most countries in the world, otherwise, once the United States railroad, others have built efficiency polar regions, the emergence of Chinese, let it speed up.

Excellent workers and suitable and advanced machinery and equipment, take the Baghdad railway as an example, the construction speed is more than 4 times that of the design, the Germans planned, in the absence of any obstacles, it will take five or six years to build, but the northwest only took a little more than a year, and all of a sudden it is a double line, not only greatly reduce the cost, but also increase the efficiency of traffic, in a sense, now Germany is firmly sitting on the Diaoyutai, and this railway has a lot to do with it.

It is also because of this railway, the Chinese construction team began to enter Germany, and carried out the construction of many key projects in Germany, on the one hand, liberated the German labor force, on the other hand, fundamentally increased the German war heritage, whether it was the Kiel Canal, or the construction of highways and railways, all of which greatly promoted the German military.

The 3B railway successfully connected Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey into one, and they could quickly reinforce each other, although now, this point has not been used by Germany, but at present, in the winter, Germany is preparing an attack plan on Russia, and there are many actions for this, and two fronts will be mobilized, respectively, into Austria-Hungary and Turkey, uniting the armies of these two countries, and striking at Russia on three sides, striving to quickly occupy Kulen.

Under the reasonable arrangement, Zhan Tianyou and the engineers of the Railway Construction Bureau, with great enthusiasm, the construction of China's railways, strong construction capacity, so that China's railway construction continues to improve, the mileage of traffic relative to before, the development of great strides, in just a few years, more than 200,000 kilometers of railway lines have been built, of which the vast majority of them are double lines and three lines, which greatly enhance the transportation capacity of the central and western regions.

In some of the more remote places, the construction of railways is lagging behind. For example, in the western cities, at the very beginning, when the northwest wanted to incorporate the entire western region into its system, at a strategic height, it was only when two railways were built that ran through the entire western provinces and provincial capitals, and these two railways cost a huge amount of money. However, this railway has put heavy pressure on the railway bureau.

Because it is only some provincial capitals, the northwest is a vast and sparsely populated place, take Xinjiang as an example, 1.66 million square kilometers of super provinces, is more than several times that of many Central Plains provinces and regions, but the population, in the Xuantong years, the statistics are only about 2 million, of which, the better conditions of southern Xinjiang, a total of 1.8 million people, the larger northern Xinjiang, but 300,000 people.

Other provinces and regions, may not be as extreme as Xinjiang, but the population is relatively scarce, passenger transport is relatively scarce, can not play the full role of these railways, freight transport, although there are a lot of resources in the west, but there are resources, most of them are relatively bad places, the difficulty of building railways in these places is several times more than before, so there is no strength to build for the time being, and the final freight is also quite scarce.

Although Yang Yuanzhao has built some industrial bases in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia, and so on, he has chosen some places that are more suitable for living, or mining areas and the like, and built some industrial bases.

Because of this, a railway through the western cities, not only did not create benefits for the railway bureau, but in order to maintain it, the railway bureau needs to pay about 50 million costs per year, although this is nothing for the railway bureau with strong traffic and a huge system, but businessmen chase interests, and no one is willing to pay in vain under the premise of not having enough interests, even if it is Yang Yuanzhao, under the guidance of repeated guidance, unless it is a forced order, it is difficult to guide them to invest funds in these places.

Now, with these laborers, coupled with Yang Yuanzhao's huge idea, under the premise of breaking up the territory for the northwest and China, many problems will be solved, the emergence of a large number of low-cost manpower, and even do not have to consider the problem of mortality, as long as there are not too many deaths, this is a good opportunity from God, abundant manpower and mechanical capacity, haunting Yang Yuanzhao's ambition to build a large-scale road plan, can finally make great strides, a dense and unimaginable railway network, about to appear on the western Gobi Desert. (To be continued......)