With the emergence of industry, in order to improve people's livelihood, Tao Ying began to slowly invest the money he earned in Xuzhou Transportation. The establishment of any developed country is all because of good transportation, as the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads!

Therefore, after the river from Kaiyang to Qingdao was dug through, Tao Ying asked the soldiers and people to continue digging a river from Linji, the capital of Qingzhou, to Juxian in the north. In this way, the criss-crossing rivers can connect Qingzhou and Langya Kingdom.

The development of the north has entered the political fast lane, and in the south, two years have passed, and the canal from Suiling to Guangling has also been opened. Since then, Xuzhou and Nanyi have become a piece of water on the waterway, so Tao Ying has launched a new three-year plan in order to facilitate the transportation of the people of Xuzhou and attract more talents from various states.

The first step in the new three-year plan is to open a dedicated river passenger line that is convenient for people to move around. The ancients had to go to a place by walking or riding horses, from Linji, the northernmost capital of Xuzhou, to Shanyin City, the southernmost city, so that most of China went down I don't know how many months. Sometimes, you have to walk for a few years, and you are afraid of any accidents on the way.

Therefore, when the steam engine was used on ships, Tao Ying was ready to open the most economical river state-run express. The first batch of planned routes revolved around Pengcheng, the capital of Xuzhou, and when the river was opened, Tao Ying found that it seemed that all the rivers could reach Xiapicheng. Therefore, Tao Ying set up Xiapi City as the second largest station after Pengcheng.

Because it is no longer realistic to want to move the capital to Xiapi now, Pengcheng has spent so much financial resources and manpower, and if you want to send it, you have to relocate all kinds of colleges. Therefore, after discussion, Tao Ying characterized Xiapi as the second largest city in Xuzhou and the economic center of Xuzhou. Pengcheng is characterized as Xuzhou political center, Xuzhou cultural center, Xuzhou tourism center and Xuzhou business center.

When preparations were made for the opening of river transportation, Tao Ying knew that in the near future, there would definitely be trains and roads to be built. Therefore, Tao Ying simply took the lead in establishing the Xuzhou Ministry of Communications, which was responsible for the construction and operation of all roads.

After the construction of the Ministry of Communications, a new official Zhuge Jin was appointed as the Minister of Communications. Zhuge Jin has followed him for many years, and he always gives advice when he fights, but now that he has more powerful military advisors Jia Xu and Liu Ye and others in the war, he is no longer needed. After so many years, he worked hard, and his younger brother gradually grew up, so Tao Ying asked him to be the Minister of Transportation, responsible for building Xuzhou's roads to all parts of the country!

In 202, at the beginning of the new year, the Ministry of Transportation completed the assembly. The new Ministry of Transport has three departments, the first of which is the water transport department; the second land transport department; The third railway sector. At present, the land transportation department is in operation, they are responsible for the design and construction of the main roads in Xuzhou, and the railway department is still in the experimental stage for the time being because the output of steel is going to produce weapons. The waterways department has been in operation since the New Year.

In order to open the waterway, Tao Ying connected the production of large passenger ships like trains, and then each ship consisted of nearly fifteen passenger ships, and the passenger ships were pulled in front of them by two large steam engine tractors.

Each passenger ship is divided into three levels, and there are seats distributed on them. Fifteen passenger ships, the first three passenger ships are luxury warehouses, these three are prepared for wealthy merchants and large families, the ship is luxuriously decorated, and inside are small rooms where guests can rest.

The first passenger ship was built by the Xiapi shipyard, which had just finished producing the Xiapi battleship, and at the same time, all the shipyards that had completed the construction of the battleship had to devote themselves to the construction of the transport ship. Tao Ying's rule was that the shipyards in each county would build the ships of each county, and then put them into operation and management at that time.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Water Transport of the Ministry of Communications, the first passenger ship will be put into operation in April, and the first experimental operation stage is the section from Shanyang County to Xiapi, which has a special population.

This section of the route runs along the Surabaya River, and the passenger boat departs from Changyi City, the seat of Shanyang County, and arrives along the Surabaya River until it arrives at the terminal station, Xiapi City, Xiapi City, Xiapi Passenger Port. All the way through Shanyang County, Dongxi, Fanghe, Hulu to arrive at Pei Guozhi Xiaopei.

Then from Xiaopei to Pengcheng Guoguangqi, Liuxian, then arrived at Pengcheng, the administrative center of Xuzhou, and arrived at Xiapicheng, the economic center of Xuzhou. At this time, Xiapi State had been slowly promoted to a large county second only to Pengcheng State, so the Minister of State also had to select capable and loyal people from the Pengcheng State Administration Department to serve as the post.

Thinking about it, there are really not many people who can serve as the administrative head of a large county in the center of economy and transportation, and who have enough qualifications. In the end, Tao Ying decided to let Yan Yan, who had replaced him in charge of Xuzhou, serve as the minister of Xiapi and enjoy ministerial treatment.

When he first settled down in Pengcheng, he didn't give up his family wealth to take refuge in himself, he was a figure who started with himself, so Tao Ying trusted him very much. After Yan was appointed, he moved from Pengcheng to Xiapi City, and then began to lead the reform of Xiapi.

After this section of the river transportation was confirmed, several administrative staff of the Ministry of Communications almost lived in Tao Ying's yard. Tao Ying was busy writing all kinds of books every day, many of which were the results of 2,000 years of various industries, but they bothered Tao Ying in the courtyard every day to ask for specific rules for opening official roads.

When February arrived, a month of discussion was carried out and the specifics were finally finalized. In February, the construction of a passenger port began at the above-mentioned stations, and then a water transport station was set up at the port. The water transport station is responsible for selling tickets and then organizing passengers to get on and off the train. In this era, there were no paper tickets, they were all carved wooden signs.

I didn't board the ship according to the seats, and because there was no computer network, I didn't know who was going to get on and off where. So it's all about getting on the boat with the brand, and then looking for a seat by yourself. There is no place to squat in the cabin by yourself.

The construction of water transport ports began, and Changyi Port, Xiaopei, Pengcheng, and Xiapi were all ports where the governance office was located, so the planning for the construction was relatively large, because there were many people. Therefore, the Ministry of Communications has to be responsible for building the port, and there are not enough personnel.

When I first went to do something, there was a lot of resistance and a lot of difficulties. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of water transportation, Tao Ying set up a school under the Ministry of Communications in Pengcheng.

The original school was established to train conductors and shipping attendants, called Xuzhou Passenger Ship Service School. Then it set up a school that specializes in planning various large and small ports - Xuzhou Port Planning and Design School.

In order to make water transportation more and more developed, Tao Ying established the Xuzhou Transportation School. The Transportation Academy is responsible for the design of new transport vessels, new means of transportation, and trains.

These schools are all under the management of the Ministry of Communications, so this year has become the Xuzhou Transportation Year.