Yang Chao left Shanghai with a heavy heart. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because although Pan Xun was very polite, he politely rejected Yang Chao's suggestion, and he made up his mind to run for the presidency this time.

And Pan Xun's strength was too strong, because he won Zhang Jian's support, he promised Zhang Jian a prime minister's status, and asked Zhang Jian to promise him to help him win the peasants' votes.

With this confidence, Pan Xun was very confident in his election, and naturally refused to agree to Yang Chao's suggestion.

Yang Chao also communicated with Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian's peasant association has covered most of the inland provinces, so he is the most influential among Chinese farmers, and it can be said that he can almost pull down half of the votes, which makes Yang Chao too passive.

Zhang Jian's lack of cooperation is the most headache for Yang Chao. Zhang Jian's peasant union imitated the trade union of the Fuqiang Party to the greatest extent, both in terms of organization and system, and its fundamental purpose was to protect the interests of the peasants, and Zhang Jian's Constitutional Party became a major national party in one fell swoop.

In the past, the Constitutionalism was just a small local party, with less than 100,000 members, and it did not have much ambition, and its biggest goal was to control local power first, and second, to win seats in the National Assembly, and never competed for the presidency.

There are hundreds of small parties like this in the country, but they have really become the climate and have their own dang platform, and there are only more than 30 of them that are relatively formal, such as the Republican Party in Hubei, the Democratic League in Sichuan, and the Shanghai Restoration Association with strong habits of the Youth Gang.

Some of these parties were established after the ban on the party, such as the Constitutional Party, and some turned white from the underground, such as the Guangfu Society, the Xingzhong Society, and the Huaxing Society, which participated in the formation of the League.

For example, the Constitutionalist Party led by Zhang Jian controls Jiangsu locally, and has a large number of members in the National Assembly. For example, the Progressive Party led by Liang Qichao has always been able to control the political situation in Yunnan and Guizhou, and has often reached a dominant position in Sichuan, and is the second largest party in the National Assembly.

But most of them are actually very small. More than ninety percent of the personnel are under 100 people, or even single digits, and they are all just playing tickets, and they can really get power. It's just seven or eight parties.

Therefore, before Zhang Jian used the power of the peasant association to expand the Constitutional Party, the Fuqiang Party was no better than its opponent with a lantern, so in every general election, the Fuqiang Party played with itself.

Yang Chao couldn't help but guess. Is it that Zhang Jian, seeing that he is strong, can't bear the loneliness.

It was really a cocoon to bind himself, and asked Zhang Jian to form a peasant association, and Yang Chao took a lot of effort to help.

But Yang Chao knew that Zhang Jian couldn't control it, he, like Pan Xun, was a person with his own thoughts.

This kind of people who think upright, although their upright thoughts are precious, are still very annoying at times.

Fortunately, Yang Chao is not a character like Starlin, otherwise he would have picked up a butcher knife to kill.

Let go of unhappiness. Yang Chao rushed to Jiangxi, because the first large-scale project of the National Reconstruction and Development Office, the Guangdong-Jiangxi Canal, was opened.

The construction of this canal is strongly supported by Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces, and people in this era still attach great importance to water transportation, and you must know that the canal has not been built in the 21st century, of course, mainly because of the concept problem.

Later generations of China inherited the experience of Soviet Russia, which was a completely landlocked country and lacked rivers covering a vast area. Obviously, the Volga River, the mother river of Russia, cannot be compared with super rivers such as the Mississippi River and the Yangtze River, and even the conditions of the Rhine and Danube rivers are probably better than those of the Volga River.

Therefore, the transportation of Soviet Russia mainly depends on railways, so China vigorously develops railway construction, and the Chengdu-Kunming Railway and other railway lines that cross mountains and mountains are indeed very domineering. But compared with water transport, it is too much worse, a Yangtze River is equivalent to 17 high-standard Beijing-Guangzhou railways, this is still because the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge restricts 10,000-ton ships to the upstream, some people say that if the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is blown up, the Yangtze River capacity is equivalent to 70 railways.

Is it so exaggerated, Yang Chao doesn't know. But a thousand-ton canal is no match for a railway line.

The capacity is still second, the key is the low freight, only one-third of the cost of rail transportation, how much benefit this must be, the soybeans in the middle of the United States in the future, through the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, and then through the Panama Canal, and then across the Pacific Ocean to China, transported to the coastal areas of Shandong and Jiangsu, the price is cheaper than the soybeans in the Northeast by rail, resulting in many soybean oil mills are using American soybeans, why?

Rather than relying on the low cost of water transportation on the Mississippi River, the United States transports agricultural products from the northernmost tip of the Great Plains through the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico by only one-tenth of the price, while the same goods from the interior of Brazil to the coastline increase by one-third.

Of course, water transportation is lost to the railway in terms of speed, but in those commodities that are not sensitive to time and value the price, such as cotton yarn, leather and other materials, the reduction of freight costs is life-and-death for them, because these goods are often small profits and quick turnover, and each percentage change in price means whether to make money or lose money.

Of course, you can choose railways for passenger transport, and of course you should also choose railways for time-sensitive goods such as food and fruits, so railways are still irreplaceable.

Therefore, although Jiangxi is connected with Guangdong by railway, and with the Yangtze River and the Ganjiang River, Jiangxi people still hope to get a southern outlet to the sea, so as to achieve the river and the sea, and completely relieve Jiangxi's traffic dilemma.

Jiangxi is a beautiful province, but it is still a large agricultural province, just look at the taxes paid here during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it ranks among the top five in China, behind Jiangsu, Shanxi and Sichuan, which are either rich or huge.

But in modern society, the abundant agricultural products cannot be transported, and Jiangxi is really poor to death. Moreover, in the industrial society, the status of agriculture has been greatly reduced, and it is not possible to get rich only with abundant agricultural products, and the biggest traffic restriction is still Jiangxi's industry, and in the 21st century, almost all the surrounding provinces are more developed than Jiangxi.

Therefore, in the 21st century, the construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi railway was put on the agenda, but at that time, there were too many environmental concerns, and the biggest problem was Jiangxi's water resources.

Jiangxi water resources are very abundant, and are concentrated in Jiangxi, 90% of Jiangxi rivers belong to the Panyang Lake water system, so the later generations of Jiangxi river pollution control is very successful, because all rivers are in the territory, no need to communicate across provinces, but Jiangxi water resources self-sufficiency is more than enough, so a lot of water has flowed into other provinces, is the water supply of other provinces, then the development of Jiangxi water power, it involves the interests of other provinces, so the opposition is very loud.

If the Guangdong-Jiangxi Canal is built, there will be one more channel for water to flow out of Jiangxi, and the result is likely to be a decline in the water volume of Panyang Lake, bringing immeasurable mental disasters.

Yang Chao felt that this was completely unfounded, and the linkage of all the rivers in Jiangxi, even if all of them were lowered by a few centimeters, would not have much impact.

Moreover, the canal can be adjusted, and when the water volume drops, it is a big deal to close the locks.

Standing on the hill, you can clearly see a concrete dam built between the deep mountain ravines, with an electrically driven gate and a lock next to it for ships to navigate.

Yang Chao asked the question about the water of the Gan River draining into Guangdong.

Tan Xueheng, the governor of the canal, who accompanied him, said that it was complete nonsense.

"Qin Shi Xiu Lingqu, there is this saying, Shi said: three points into Li, seven points to Xiang. Subsequently, the Lingqu was passed, and Lingnan was fixed. ”

Tan Xueheng is talking about the story of the construction of the Ling Canal from Hunan to Guangxi during the Qin Shi Huang period, which connected the Xiangjiang River and the Pearl River water system, allowing the Central Plains forces to reach the land of Nanyue directly through the waterway, and made great contributions to Qin Shi Huang's pacification of Lingnan.

However, when it was built, some people raised objections, believing that it would lead to a third-third flow of Xiangjiang water into the Li River, resulting in the leakage of Xiangjiang water. Of course, this kind of tragedy did not happen in the end, maybe it happened, but with the passage of time, the ecology adjusted itself, resulting in future generations not being aware of it at all.

Tan Xueheng is a Qing Dynasty family bureaucrat background, his father is the Qing Dynasty Jinshi, he studied in the Guangdong Marine and Land Division School since childhood, entered the British Naval School after graduation, and then has been serving in the navy, until 1914, when Guangdong issued a big flood, all walks of life asked to control the river, the Yuan Shikai government at that time appointed Tan Xueheng, who was idle at home, as the water control supervisor.

Tan Xueheng set up the Guangdong River Governance Department, hired Swedish engineers, in Shanghai to dredge the Huangpu River waterway of Hidesheng, Ke Weilian two, during Tan Xueheng's governance, detailed mapping of the huge Pearl River system, and later Mi Qing in Guangdong to engage in construction, the focus is shipping, continue to use Tan Xueheng, with the support of a large number of manpower and material resources, he spent ten years, the waterway in Guangdong into China's best shipping waterway, taking into account irrigation and flood control.

Of course, he did not fight alone, and in his team, there were always Europeans such as the British, the Dutch, and the Swedes.

For example, in the Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal project, the chief engineer is Li Yizhi, the principal of the Hehai Industrial and Commercial Bank School established by Zhang Jian, but half of the engineers in the team are world teams, including three Japanese.

Obviously, China's current hydraulic technology strength is not enough to deal with such a large engineering technology, which is not ashamed, because after all, it is a late-developing country, and it is already commendable to be self-sufficient in the field of railway engineering and machinery manufacturing, and it is impossible to catch up with developed countries in all fields, otherwise it is really **** when people accumulate for hundreds of years.

Yang Chao did not oppose the national team, and even generously shouted the slogan of "vigorously using global intelligence to serve China".

However, as for what Tan Xueheng said, it will not affect the water level in Jiangxi, Yang Chao has eight points of doubt, and feels that Tan Xueheng is speaking from his own position, how can the water flow from Jiangxi not affect the water level.

Seeing Yang Chao's suspicious eyes, Tan Xueheng immediately explained. (To be continued.) )