At this time, the Tang people were actually worried about an American thing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the office of the Secretary-General of the State Council, Su Liangxing met with Bao Xun, Minister of Transportation, and Xu Jiexu, General Manager of the Railway Corporation. As secretary general, Su Liangxing's main job is to coordinate the work of the State Council, and it is the president who really grasps the policy of governance. However, the president cannot ask every detail, and some questions are left directly to the secretary-general and ministers.

Su Liangxing's meeting with the two was improvised, and an unexpected incident made him have to call the two to discuss countermeasures, and then report it to Bai Nan.

The cause of the matter is actually very simple, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Datang has regarded the construction of railways as an important strategy for national development. From the earliest coastline railway to the later Luoao line, Datang spared no effort in building the railway. At the same time, Datang is also actively exporting railways to other countries. The United States is the first country in the world to have a railway, and the railway has played a major role in promoting the development of the United States.

Datang's main railway line is still the Luo Ao line, and then Datang Railway General Manager has been repaired from Xinao City (New Orleans) to Xinhang City (Jacksonville), the capital of Florida. Datang's enthusiasm for developing inland areas increased, and two cross-line railways were repaired in Datang.

Regardless of the North Cross Line Railway, the entire other plane of Canada, at this time Datang only had a very small number of immigrants here, a small amount of land, hunting animals to obtain fur, and then mining some more valuable minerals, although the value of building the railway is not high, but Datang implements the strategy of paving the road first and then developing. From Vancouver to Kaicheng (Calgary), to Xinshan (Regina), Wimber (Winnipeg), and then to Thunder Bay, there are only four or five towns on this railway line, which can be regarded as mainly maintaining the presence of Datang in this place.

The Central Cross Line is expected to be the second most important railway line in the near future after the South Cross Line, which has now completed construction from the west coast of the Tang Dynasty to the eastern border, from San Francisco in Jiazhou via Salt Lake City, Denver, Kanyang (Kansas City) to Shenglu (St. Louis) on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Although the above cities are inland cities, they have developed to varying degrees, and some are even large-scale cities with a population of tens of thousands. In this era, cities with a population of tens of thousands in Europe are also considered to be some famous places, and many cities with a population of 20,000 or 30,000 are already considered big cities. Although Datang is confident enough, no country will come to the door, even the coastal areas are extremely safe. However, out of consideration for danger in times of peace, Datang still built industrial zones in some inland areas.

For example, Denver, Kanyang and Shenglu are all rising industrial cities, especially Shenglu, which is on the banks of the Mississippi River, has the dual convenience of water transportation and railroad, plus the nearby production of coal, iron and non-ferrous metals, has been established as a new industrial center in Datang, where hundreds of enterprises such as steel, chemical, machinery, automobiles, and military industry have been established, and the local population is also growing rapidly.

Not only is there frequent construction of Datang on the west bank of the Mississippi River, which belongs to Datang, but in fact, even on the east bank of the Mississippi River, which nominally belongs to the United States, Datang often initiates some cross-border construction. Some of the immigrants deliberately crossed the river to the other side to build farms and factories, which were simply out of reach for the Americans, who were at most colonizing the area east of the Appalachian Mountains and largely uninhabited in the more western areas.

Why? Because a certain Tang ultra-nationalist organization dominated by indigenous people used biological weapons, which caused the mass death of Indians, the Indian forces that now exist alone in North America are rare like giant pandas.

In fact, it is not only Shenglu that has cross-border development, but also the Tang people in the Tennessee area north of Pengzhou. The spontaneous colonization of the Americans was very slow, although it had accelerated compared to the other plane, thanks to the import of Datang technology and the death of the Indians, but it was still a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of people who moved in from the Tang Dynasty every year. Even if there is only a fraction of the Tang Dynasty immigrants who infiltrate the American territories every year, it is enough to make Americans afraid.

Perhaps it was out of fear and distrust, as well as a number of other factors, that when Datang proposed to build two cross-line railways, the Americans actually refused. These two stretch from Thunder Bay through Minneapolis to Chicago, where there is no city, to New York, the port on the East Coast; From Shenglu eastward, through the barren cities of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and more, it ends at the coastal port of Norfolk, Virginia.

Without Bao Xun and Xu Jiexu's statement, Su Liangxing knew how important these two railways were to Datang. Don't look at Datang's current relationship with the United States, although it maintains friendly neighboring relations with the United States, but the ambitious Datang politicians firmly believe that others will not be allowed to snore next to the couch, and the United Kingdom, which has always been on discord with Datang, will not be able to protect Canada at any time, and Datang is just waiting for the opportunity. As for the United States, which is nominally very friendly with Datang, it can only be said that it is guilty of it.

There is no doubt that Jiazhou, which is rich in oil, has a warm climate and is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, is the land of the dragon of the Tang Dynasty, and the population of 80 million in later generations of California and its economic prosperity can be seen. And even so, the conditions in several eastern states of the United States are simply too good. The warm and humid climate is very similar to that of China, with flat and fertile plains, rich natural resources along the Great Lakes and the Appalachian Mountains. Unlike the hometown of China, there are droughts and floods such as the flooding of the Yellow River, except for the occasional hurricane, the wind and rain are almost smooth. What's more, at this time, there are 4 million American talents, and it took Datang ten years to squeeze out these Americans, and the significance is self-evident.

Bao Xun said to Su Liangxing: "The excuse for the refusal of the US side is that we are building these two railways, from the tracks to the locomotive and carriages, all of which are Datang products, and the Americans require that the construction of railways in the United States must use their own products, and the companies that produce railway equipment in the United States are all taught by us, and their current products are not qualified for us, and we want to get on a new electric train, and the US side seems to be interested in using this opportunity to get some benefits from us." (To be continued.) )