Guo Ye is not an excellent manager, but the advanced ideas that are ahead of 100 years are not broader than these people's thinking, although everyone here is a temporary choice and their ability is not weak, but their thinking and vision are much worse. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Guo Ye's plans one by one were put forward, and he was much higher than the people here, but if he was allowed to solve it himself, it would never be implemented, and he could do it militarily, and there was still a big gap between him and Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang and others in terms of government affairs, but his foresight and foresight occupied a unique advantage.

"The following is the affairs of the Ministry of Public Transport, Bochen, now that Chunping is not here, there is no one in the Ministry of Public Transport to act as an agent, so you can take it for the time being, and the affairs of the Ministry of Public Transport are so complicated and important that ordinary people can hardly support it......"

Guo Ye looked at Guo Songtao and said to Guo Songtao.

Guo Songtao nodded, now the cabinet departments, it is a few of them to discuss and decide, the Ministry of Public Transport is in charge of the country's road traffic, waterways, sea, land, including postal transmission, all of them are in charge of the Ministry of Public Transport, the complexity of the affairs is important, it is self-evident.

"The most important affairs of the Ministry of Public Transport, a total of three, the first is the telegraph system, last year the laying of the telegraph system has been started, but due to the outbreak of war, had to be delayed, from now on, re-enabled, three years, the country's provincial capitals must open the telegraph, the strategic rush and the key commercial state capital must also open the telegraph, the future world, the importance of the telegraph, irreplaceable!"

Guo Ye said.

Everyone nodded one after another, this time with the great powers, the telegraph has played a big role, the decree is coming in an instant, how much trouble is avoided, if you rely only on the post road fast horse, the daylily is cold, from the capital to Guangzhou, the speed of the telegraph is more than 600 miles faster, more than 1,000 times faster!

"Second, commercial ports, in the next five years, accelerate the development of Tianjin, Yantai, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou nine foreign commercial ports, Nanjing, Wuchang, Chongqing and other Yangtze River and Pearl River along the river port, this is our promotion of foreign trade is necessary, with these large ports, our domestic production of goods will quickly enter the international market, Western machinery and equipment, industrial raw materials can quickly enter the country, interoperable."

This is the proper meaning of the question, anyone knows the importance of the port, but all port cities, is definitely the richest place in China, don't underestimate these dozen cities, a year to provide taxes, can occupy nearly two percent of the country!

"The third, the railway! The investment in this railway is too large, and my requirements for the Ministry of Public Transport are not high, first, to build a railway trunk line from Beijing to Shanghai, which will be completed in five years; Second, build a simple railway network in Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi, and connect all the industrial zones such as Datong, Taiyuan, Baoding, Zhengding, Hejian, Yongping, Tianjin, Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Yanzhou, and Laiyang. ”

Guo Songtao didn't say anything yet, but Rong Hong on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and said urgently: "Your Majesty! Railroad, railroad, that's a bottomless pit! 50,000 miles of railway, how much food do you need to invest? ”

Zuo Zongtang frowned and asked, "Chunfu, what's going on with this railway?" ”

Rong Hong sighed and replied: "Ji Shuai, you haven't been to the West, you may not know much, this railway is to lay rails and sleepers on the ground, and then let the steam locomotive pull the freight or passenger carriage on the rails, as long as the fuel is sufficient, you can keep running, an hour, that is, half an hour, its speed can reach more than sixty miles, and now there has even appeared an locomotive that runs more than a hundred miles in an hour, you can imagine, hundreds of thousands of catties of goods and even weapons and baggage, It takes about three thousand miles to arrive from Beijing to Lanzhou, and if you rely on manpower or pack horses, it will take about three months to arrive, but relying on the railway, it will only take less than three days and three nights......

Yes......

Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang were dumbfounded!

The two of them are both civil and military, both of them have been governors, and they are all proficient in military and political affairs, so they naturally know the truth that the soldiers are fast, and they also know the truth that the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, once there is really a railway from Beijing to Lanzhou, where does Zuo Zongtang need to go to the northwest to sit in the town for three to five years? As long as there is a rebellion there, the army will arrive in a few days, and in less than two or three months, the whole northwest will be pacified!

"Build! Be sure to build a railway! In any case, the railroad must be built! ”

Li Hongzhang gritted his teeth and shouted.

"Yes, the railroad must be prepared! What's more, once such a railway network extending in all directions is built, the entire Chinese empire will be as stable as Mount Tai! ”

Zuo Zongtang roared angrily.

The benefits of this railway are too great, not ordinarily big, whether it is for the military, for commercial trade, it also contains huge value!

"Two ......"

Rong Hong smiled bitterly: "Do you know how much it costs to build such a railway?" ”

Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang shook their heads together, how did the two of them know this? They don't even know what the railroad looks like......

Rong Hong took a deep breath and replied: "I have lived in the United States for several years, and then I have been to the United States many times, and the United States is now building railways on a large scale, but these railways are all built by private individuals, the American government has no money, and they are very poor, but those private consortia in the United States are very rich, and if you pull out one at random, they have a net worth of tens of millions of taels of silver, or even hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and they have abundant funds and technology to build railways; In the United States, an average of one kilometer, that is, two miles of railroad, costs nearly 10,000 taels of silver, and if we have a thousand kilometers, that is, 2,000 miles, then we need to invest at least 8 million taels of silver! If you build 50,000 kilometers, you will need at least 20,000 taels of silver! 200 million taels of silver, even if our Chinese Empire is rich and strong, and the government income is 80 million taels of silver a year, all of which are invested, it will take two and a half years to accumulate......"

"Poof......

Zuo Zongtang just took a sip of tea, and it all squirted out!

Two hundred million taels of silver! It's so damn that you can't live!

(To be continued.) )