"No, it just doesn't work!"

"Even if it is the General Chamber of Commerce, when it comes to our Dangshan boundary, you have to listen to us, if this road does not pass from our Dangshan, we don't say a word, but as long as you pass from Dangshan, then you have to use our people!"

"Yes, yes, use our people, all use our people!"

"In addition, some of the things you need, the food for the workers, and everything else, you have to buy them from our side, and you have to earn our money for outsiders!"

A month ago, the entrance of the Dangshan branch of the Beijing-Xu Railway Chamber of Commerce was crowded with farmers who came to register and wanted to work on the construction site, and today, a month later, the door is crowded with farmers who came to give advice. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Behind these farmers, there is an organization called the Dangshan Society.

Guo Gui followed behind this group of people, his face was flushed, although he didn't have the courage to take the lead, but he could mix in the crowd and shout loudly, but he still dared to do it.

In front of the Dangshan branch of the General Chamber of Commerce, the stewards who came out were squeezed around, and the whole person was very embarrassed.

He held a tin horn in his hand, but whatever he shouted through it was muffled by the cacophony of the villagers around him. And some people deliberately squeezed him, making him unsteady on his feet, and later, it was difficult for him to raise the horn and speak.

At the door of the Chamber of Commerce, there are also their own buddies, but there are only dozens of people, and they are really powerless in the face of the hundreds of farmers who have gathered.

In the tea shed opposite, Master Guo sat with a group of village gentry, smiling and watching all this.

When the peasant association first came out, everyone was confused, so they had no choice but to take it, but now, they have thought of a way to deal with the peasant association with the peasant association.

Isn't it to build the railway, then build it, through this method, the dominance of the railway will be in the hands of these gentry, so that in the countryside, it is still these people who have the final say!

Previously, many of them thought that the railway would be bad for feng shui, but now they are no longer worried about this, but are more concerned about the interests that the railway represents.

"Guo Yuanwai is really resourceful, but if it turns around like this, if the General Chamber of Commerce turns its face...... So what should I do? ”

A person asked in a low voice, and Master Guo glanced back dissatisfiedly: "What are you afraid of, the county master is better than one thing less, he is actually inclined to us in his heart." As for the court, hehe, you don't think the living god of wealth offended much. Even in the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, there are people who have the same thoughts as us! ”

Everyone looked at each other, most of them were just rich people in the countryside, where had they ever seen such a guide, this Guo Yuanwai used to be similar to them, why is it like a different person now?

"You guys, read more newspapers, newspapers, it's a good thing!" Seeing this, Master Guo said proudly again.

Then he watched the excitement with relish again, these days, quite boring, just rely on this to pass the boring time.

Not far from them, an old man and a young man leaned against a room, looking at this side from a distance.

Even at a distance, the old and young felt the rushing waves.

"There are always people who are not afraid of death." It was Zhou Quan who was young, and he said with emotion.

Beside him, his father Zhou Fu gritted his teeth: "These birdmen are really stupid and stupid!" ”

"To the people, be tolerant, after all, they have been fooled by these gentry and scholars for more than a thousand years, and it is inevitable that they don't know what to do for a while, Dad, do you remember those people at Xiaohekou in Kaocheng County, they are now the backbone of the local peasant association. I just didn't expect that these 'village sages' were smart, and in just one year's effort, they learned to fight poison with poison and use the peasant association to deal with the peasant association. ”

"How do you do it now?" Zhou Fu was very dissatisfied with his son's attitude as if it was none of his business: "The eyebrows are burning, what do you say to do, don't say something useless there." ”

"Daddy, you're too zealous about this road." Zhou Quan pursed his lips: "How else to do it, some people always have to teach them some lessons, so that they can know that this world is not as simple as they think!" ”

Zhou Quan returned to Haizhou in June of the third year of Xuanhe, that is, the second month after the imperial court named him the prince of the county. For him, the war in the Nanjing Province of Liao has come to an end, and the next thing is to wait for the typhoon season to pass and the north wind to blow, when the population can be transferred to Liuqiu in a big way.

However, the matter of the Beijing-Xu Railway has some twists and turns. The Beijing-Xuzhou Railway is of great importance and has always been a focus of Zhou Quan's attention, so he personally came to Yingtianfu to see the new changes that have taken place.

Within the Great Song Dynasty, the old and new factions, around the competition of the Beijing-Xu Railway, seem to have entered a new stage, from the initial whether to build the Beijing-Xu Railway, to who will dominate the Beijing-Xu Railway, this change, also made Zhou Quan a little confused for a while, not very clear, who can fight for the object, who is on the opposite side of him.

"Can I not be enthusiastic, didn't you say that the steam locomotive already has a shape, if this is the case, how can the Beijing-Xu Railway not be built earlier?"

"It's like that, it's still some time before it can really be used!" Zhou Quan said with a smile.

In fact, the current steam locomotive can already be used, like the original Stephenson's "Leather Boot" steam locomotive built in 1814, this thing can pull eight large carriages, 60,000 catties of coal at a speed of 13 miles per hour. Although the noise is a little louder, the stability is a little worse, and the coal consumed is a little more, it can already come in handy in transportation.

However, Zhou Quan was still not satisfied with this, and the craftsmen of the research institute were also dissatisfied, they enthusiastically devoted themselves to improvement, and the person in charge of this matter was a disciple of Yu Tomchen, named Pei Qingyun, who assured Zhou Quan very confidently that within a year, he would completely improve the current steam locomotive, so that it could reach a load of about 200,000 catties, and a stable speed of more than 30 miles per hour!

It's just that this achievement of the research institute is in extreme secrecy, even if the steam engine has spread now, and many workshops use the steam engine as a power source, which has been renamed "factory" by Zhou Quan, but the steam locomotive is still the highest secret of the research institute, and even Zhou Fu is not clear.

"Daddy, are you worried about anything else?" Zhou Quan asked.

Zhou Fu was silent for a while before he said: "Before your uncle died, he visited our Diqiu and saw me for the last time, and he said at that time that he was most worried that you would go astray and become a sinner of the country in the future...... I'm not worried that you're going to be a sinner of the nation, I'm just worried that you're not doing a good enough job. ”

Zhou Quan was stunned: "Where does this start?" ”

"I also read the newspaper a lot, and even if you don't tell me, I know very well that the Liao State won't last long, right?"

Zhou Quan didn't tell Zhou Fu everything about the things in Liao, he came this time, but he only took Yu Liyan to meet his parents, which can be regarded as completing a procedure. Zhou's mother was lukewarm to Yu Liyan at first, but after getting along for a long time, the relationship between the two is quite good now, but Zhou's father still doesn't want to see Yu Liyan.

Of course, the last thing to see Yu Liyan is the teacher who has grown into a big girl.

It's just that the teacher is a smart girl who hides certain emotions very well, and even Zhou Quan can only feel it from her occasional tone.

Hearing his father's question, Zhou Quan nodded: "If the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State don't die, they can last for five years, this is what I calculated from the situation of their treasury." ”

To fight a war is to fight money, although the treasury has been empty, but Liao was once a big country, with a vast territory and a large population. Even in the face of Song and Jin's attack, Zhou Quan judged that it could last for about five years.

The premise is that the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State do not die, but judging from the behavior of Yelu Yanxi, Xiao Fengxian and others, this is impossible.

"How's it going?"

"Two to three years." Zhou Quan said.

"That's pretty much the time to march." Zhou Fu sighed, a big country that used to be a nightmare of the Great Song Dynasty would decline so quickly. Then, his expression was solemn: "I have seen the old bosses of the Western Army, the Western Army has become too big in the past two years, I am afraid it is not much better than the Forbidden Army in Beijing, and the same is true for the Forbidden Army in Hebei!" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Quan also made the same judgment.

Since defeating the Western Xia and driving the Xia lord Li Chengqian to the west of the Great Desert to grab the Green State with the Uighurs, the Western Army has rapidly degenerated. In the past, their military discipline was corrupted, but they still had combat effectiveness, and even the only remaining combat effectiveness was destroyed because of slackness and many bad habits, especially the collective decline of the officers.

Tong Guan's "credit" to this is indispensable.

"The Liao people can't beat the Jin people, but they may not be able to beat the Hebei Forbidden Army, Tong Guan went to Liao this time, do you think it will have an effect?" Zhou Fu asked again.

"Yeluchun is cunning and cunning, it's not easy to deal with, I took advantage of the advantages of artillery and the general trend, so I defeated him head-on, as for Tong Guan, even if he has artillery, I'm afraid he can't help Yeluchun." Zhou Quan said contemptuously.

"That's right, if Tong Guan is invincible, he will inevitably borrow from the Jin people, but when the Jin people find that our Great Song Dynasty can't even help Liao, they will have a covetous heart. He may not dare to come to Jingdong and Lianglu, but from Shuozhou and Lingqiu to the south, I am afraid of the Central Plains, the first to drive a wolf, and then to lead a tiger, the people suffered...... Extreme! ”

Dad's words made Zhou Quan stunned.

He doesn't know much about the original historical details, but he still knows the general direction, and the original historical direction is exactly that!

It's just that now that he has his own variable, it stands to reason that Jin Ren is afraid of him and won't do it, right?

"If so, how can I sit idly by?" Zhou Quan said.

"How many soldiers can you have, and no matter how strong your combat power is, how many sides can you hold? And when the Jin people attack Beijing, it is separated from Xuzhou by 700 miles, how do you mobilize an army to rescue? Zhou Fu said this, and pointed to the besieged railway chamber of commerce in front of him: "The rise and fall of the country, the life and death of the people, and even the national unity of my Han people, all on this road, there is this road, you come and go smoothly, with a small number of troops can protect the Central Plains, without this road, you can guard Jingdong, but you can't prevent the east and west two capitals!" ”

The people who were accused over there didn't know about the discussion between the father and son, they were still arguing, they were still arguing, but they didn't know that what they were arguing about was not necessarily their own interests. (To be continued.) )