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Yang Chao drove all the sixteen trains delivered by the Germans out and took everyone to Yantai. The process is still a bit troublesome, because at this time, the railway is only merging the tracks, not yet open to traffic, and it is a single line, it is easy to drive over, but it is difficult to drive back, and there is no way to turn around.

The final solution is to hang two locomotives on each train, one in front and one behind, and when you go, the front locomotive pulls, and when you come back, the back locomotive pulls.

In the Shunde Hotel run by the French in Yantai, a group of foreigners accompanied a group of Chinese engineers.

It's also a celebration dinner.

This is the best hotel in Yantai, Shunde Hotel, but Yantai people do not know this name, because the hotel only hangs foreign signboards, and few Chinese usually come.

The reason why he chose here was the British Zhang Luo, Yang Chao originally wanted to put it in the place of the Chinese, but it is really difficult to find such a big one, if it is not suitable to go to the Mazu Temple, and the foreigners are actively invited, Yang Chao thought about it, and agreed, after all, Zhan Tianyou These people are very Westernized, and it is also appropriate to treat them with a Western meal.

The British, the French, the Russians, the Italians, the Americans, and even the Japanese came, but the Germans were not seen, in fact, although the port of Qingdao was repaired, but here in Yantai, the power of the German merchants was still very large, second only to the British and French, but recently the Americans have expanded here very quickly, and there is a faint momentum to suppress the German merchants.

The reason why the Germans did not come was because everyone knew that the Yantai Railway was aimed at the Germans, and the Germans really did not have the face to participate in such a celebration banquet, so they pretended not to know.

Led by the British Consul and co-sponsored by the embassies of various countries in Yantai, this grand celebration reception was held.

There was food and drink, there was music, there was dancing.

The more lively it is, the more lonely it is.

But Zhan Tianyou is not lonely at all, he has already begun to talk to Yang Chao about the next construction plan.

Zhan Tianyou does not plan to rest, he wants to hurry up the time to repair the railway to Jinan.

Zhan Tianyou plans to divide it into two sections this time, four roads to advance, with Zibo as the center, to the east and west at the same time, and on the other side is Weixian and Jinan, so that Zhan Tianyou estimates that it will be repaired in the middle of next year, and then it will be tested in half a year, and it will be able to operate normally before the end of the year.

Yang Chao smiled and told him that he was not in a hurry, and forced him to recuperate in Yantai for ten days, and also gave those workers a good holiday.

But unexpectedly, the Germans did not come to the cocktail party, and after the cocktail party, the Germans hurried to find Yang Chao.

The same thing is talking about the railway, because the Germans are going to build the railway to Weixian, because of the competition of China's railways, the Jiaoji railway has to speed up the construction speed, the Germans will build Weixian this year, and next year it will be built to Jinan.

However, Yang Chao also built a railway from Weixian to Jinan, so that the two sides had a competitive relationship, and the Germans believed that if two railways coexisted on this line, it would not be beneficial to everyone, and there would definitely be a situation in the future where there would be not enough goods.

The Germans' suggestion was to let Yang Chao abandon the construction of the Weixian-Jinan railway and jointly build this road with the Jiaoji railway.

Yang Chao also thinks that what the Germans say is reasonable, and he knows very well that if he actively competes with the Germans on this road in the future, the Germans will definitely have some kind of moths, Yang Chao actually doesn't want to cause trouble, and he is also willing to settle things on less important issues, what he needs is time and stability.

So after thinking about it, Yang Chao agreed, and the two sides jointly built the Weixian to Jinan section of the railway.

However, Yang Chao was not worried about the Germans, who were called barbarians by the French, and had a bad reputation in Europe like the Russians. It is because they sometimes seem too barbaric and domineering to do things without rules, although it is a joint organization, but if the Germans play tricks in the future and do not let the goods on this railway go to Yantai, Yang Chao will be very passive, because when the time comes, it will definitely be the Germans who will drive the train, and they will definitely be willing to go to Qingdao.

Therefore, Yang Chao needs a record to ensure that he will not be completely controlled by the Germans.

After discussing with Zhan Tianyou, it was determined that Yang Chao would not build a railway directly to Jinan, but would build a railway line from Laiwu to Jinan.

Repair the Laiwu railway, this is in the plan, because there is an arsenal there, but originally it was only planned to build Jinan to connect it, and now it is necessary to open a railway from Weixian to Laiwu. At that time, if the Germans did not allow the train from Jinan to go directly to Yantai, Yang Chao could have spared Laiwu, but it was only more than 100 kilometers away, and with such a backhand, the Germans should not play tricks.

After communicating with the Germans, the Germans expressed their support for Yang Chao's plan, and the reason for communicating with them was that the Germans had also obtained the right to build a railway through Yizhou to Laiwu and then to Jinan through the treaty, but they had already planned to give it up.

At that time, the Germans obtained the right to two Jiaoji railways, one of the northern line, which was under construction from Jiaozhou through Weixian to Jinan, and the other was the southern line through Laiwu.

The reason why they chose Laiwu was that the Germans had already discovered that there was an iron ore in Laiwu, but they readily agreed to Yang Chao because they had decided to give up the southern route. The first is that they reached an agreement with the British, the Jinpu Road can pass through Jinan, and in Tai'an Province, Laiwu will belong to Tai'an Province, so it makes no sense for them to build the Laiwu Railway. The second reason is that after analysis, the Germans did not look down on the iron ore in Laiwu.

Laiwu has the most abundant iron ore resources in East China, which is the closest to the sea in East China, and has a high value for China, but it is of little value to the Germans, because there are a lot of iron ore in China, but in general the taste is too low, and it is not a good iron ore, and the Germans themselves are not only iron ore, but the German industry can develop because the Ruhr region has a large number of coal and iron resources, and they are rich ores.

For Germany, the gains of mining Laiwu iron ore outweigh the losses, and they only fancy the coal mines in Shandong.

So the matter of changing the line was decided.

The Americans were also a little anxious, and they also came to Yang Chao because of the matter at the Yantai Iron and Steel Plant.

The purpose of the Americans to build the Yantai steel mill is mainly to supply steel rails to the railway, but the construction speed of the Yanji railway is really beyond their expectations, I thought that the Chinese would have to build the railway themselves in five or six years or even ten years and eight years, but they did not expect that half of the construction would be completed in less than a year, and at this rate it will be completed next year, and the Americans' steel plant has not yet been put into operation.

"You're too slow, that's American speed?"

Yang Chao couldn't help this, but instead satirized the proud American engineer Thomas.