Speaking of Sichuan, people often have two impressions in their hearts, one is the land of abundance, Sichuan has a vast territory, abundant products, and the Chengdu Basin has fertile land and humid climate, which is indeed a rich land comparable to Tianfu. The second impression is that Shu Dao is difficult to reach the blue sky, and this metaphor may have been exaggerated before the 20th century, but it was true in the 1920s. Therefore, in order to turn Sichuan's rich land and resources into a source of power for the rapid development of Sichuan and even China, the most important thing is to develop Sichuan's transportation. Sichuan has coal, iron, abundant water resources and various rare metal minerals, but there are no roads, Sichuan's good things can't get out, and it is also difficult to transport machines from outside. Not only Sichuan, but also Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, which are also rich in resources and inconvenient transportation, must play a more important role in the inevitable war between China and China in the future. Therefore, in 1925 the work to be started was to develop transportation.

Luo Yaoguo is really a little envious of those time-travelers in other novels now, why can they all develop heavy industry so easily? Why is it his turn to develop industry to start with customs duties and road construction! In this time and space where Luo Yaoguo lives, China's immature heavy industry is not competitive at all, and if there is no tariff to protect the surname, it will definitely lose money until it goes bankrupt. The second problem is to build roads, and roads must be built here, especially in the southwest, not only roads but also railways, and heavy industry enterprises can only be built where railways can be reached. Otherwise, this production cost will also make the company go bankrupt and close down in the shortest possible time.

Since Sichuan is now not only the rear of the future War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but also an important passage connecting the south and the west, and the rear of the new northwest military plan, the materials to support the northwest operation in the future will also have to be transported out of Sichuan. Therefore, there are two railways to be built in the first step, one is the Chengdu-Chongqing railway, and the other is the railway from Chengdu to Guangyuanfu. The second step was to build a railway from Yucheng to Guiyang and a railway connecting Guangyuan to Xi'an. The third step is the railway in Guizhou and the railway connecting Shaanxi to Gansu, which is envisaged to be built all the way to Yumen Pass, and the railway to Xinjiang Province and the Chengdu-Kunming railway may not be able to be built before the end of the war.

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The Chaotianmen Wharf in Chongqing was once again full of armed gendarmes, and a small steamer from Xiajiang slowly docked amid the sound of steam whistles. The ship is now carrying Tan Kah Kee, one of the souls of China's economic development in South China. He was appointed as the Minister of Politics and Industry by accident in this time and space, and he also served as the chairman of the China Railway Corporation. There are four large enterprises under the Ministry of Industry, namely China Railway, China Power, China Chemical, and China Shipping. These four companies are all joint ventures between the government and business, and most of them have the participation of Nanyang Capital and Jiangsu and Zhejiang Capital, among which Chen Jiageng himself is the largest individual shareholder of China Railway Corporation, and this time he made a special trip to Sichuan to inspect the construction of the railway.

The real big capitalists are coming! Legend has it that the big capitalist with a million taels of gold now took a secretary and a servant, bought a second-class ticket, and traveled thousands of miles from Wuhan to Yucheng on a small steamer of China Merchants Steamship.

The big capitalist was a middle-aged man with a slightly fat figure, fair skin, wearing a pair of round glasses that were popular during the Republic of China, carrying a civilized stick, holding a somewhat shabby leather bag in his hand, followed by a tall and thin young man and a servant in his forties.

Seeing the murderous gendarmes carrying rifles on the Chaotianmen Wharf, and a large number of high-ranking officials in the camp wearing generals' uniforms who were so hot that they kept wiping their sweat, Chen Jiageng felt a little funny, and these soldiers like to engage in this kind of flashy gimmick. I just came to Yucheng to inspect the railway, and I didn't come to inspect the army, do you need this?

Luo Yaoguo recognized Chen Jiageng, and when he saw that this rich man, who was probably the richest man in China, actually drove Jian from Yucheng with two entourages and swaggered to Yucheng, where the underworld was everywhere, he was also afraid for a while. Fortunately, I brought someone to pick it up, or your old man asked the robe buddies to tie up the meat ticket, and I, the camp director, am afraid that I will step down.

"Jiagong, I can look forward to you." Luo Yaoguo greeted him, first gave the other party a standard military salute, and then enthusiastically stepped forward to help this "old man" in his 50s, and walked up the long staircase that could not be seen at a glance.

Chen Jiageng's interest seemed to be very high, and he smiled heartily: "During this time, almost the entire southern country has been run, and projects have started everywhere!" Finally, I went to Sichuan to take a look, your Chengdu-Chongqing railway wants to start construction in advance, right? ”

As the Minister of Industry, the happiest thing is to see that industries around the country have started construction, and the construction is in full swing. Thanks to the end of the civil war and the introduction of protective tariffs, investing in industry and commerce is now undoubtedly lucrative and very risky, after all, the fledgling industrialization is still far from "surplus". As long as you operate conscientiously, you can generally make a profit.

"Our Sichuan is the land of abundance, the products around Chengdu are extremely rich, the market demand is also very large, if this railway opens, Chengdu's products can be directly transported to Yucheng by railway, and then transported out of Sichuan by the Yangtze River. Outside industrial products can also be transported into the Chengdu Plain through this railway. If it weren't for the political axe stipulating that all new railways in the south must be monopolized by the Chinese Railway Company, I am afraid that the door of my business would have been broken by businessmen who want to invest. ”

Luo Yaoguo seemed to be a manager, selling the latest products to major customers, he smiled and said: "This railway out of Sichuan is also a steady profit, from Chengdu to Baoji to connect the Longhai line, to the west to the Hexi corridor, to the east to Xuzhou." Jiagong, if you think about it, this is a major transportation artery connecting the great northwest with the great southwest and the south of the Yangtze River, and it will definitely be profitable."

Chen Jiageng was just listening all the way, and he was silently calculating the accounts in his heart, China Railway Company is not all official shares, but also many commercial shares, so it can't just calculate political accounts, not economic accounts. After he and Luo Yaoguo got into the car, he slowly spoke: "Fuwen, the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway can start construction immediately, the cash-for-work you mentioned is a good way, I will immediately let someone from the railway engineering company guide the Minsheng Company to start the project." However, we can't build the railway in the northwest so hastily, it is not our territory now, is our investment safe? ”

Luo Yaoguo was stunned by his question, this is a question, building a railway to the northwest is completely out of strategic needs, as for the economic account, it is impossible to calculate it, and the investment of tens of millions may not be recovered. However, the youth army in the northwest is a tool for the country to fight for Mongolia in the future, so it is necessary to have a railway to ensure logistics. There was silence in the car for a long time, and Luo Yaoguo said slowly: "This railway must be repaired, this is a railway of strategic significance, I will find a way to use military funds to invest in it, after the railway is repaired, the China Railway Company will be responsible for the regular operation, and the railway of strategic significance in the future can be handled in this way, Jiagong, do you think it will work?" ”

In addition to social security, the money of the political axe is used to do this kind of thing, and the private investment is the economic account, and the political axe investment is the political account. This point must be clearly distinguished, otherwise who would want to invest in the south? As long as they are willing to invest, the political axe will naturally have a rolling financial source into the account, and the construction of that kind of strategic surname will also have money to do. In Luo Yaoguo's plan, there is another very important strategic industrial construction to be carried out in the southwest, that is, synthetic gasoline. German I. The company will overcome the technical difficulties of industrializing it next year, and this technology of using coal to refine gasoline produces poor quality and high cost, almost five to six times the cost of oil, which has no economic value, but provides at least eighty percent of the fuel consumption of Germany in World War II. According to Luo Yaoguo's belly case, in the future Sino-Chinese war, the air force and navy of the Kuomintang, as well as the army that has achieved motorization, will consume at least one million tons of synthetic gasoline every year. To this end, it is necessary to build large-scale coal mines, railways and large-scale chemical plants in the coal-producing areas of southwest China, and the investment required will probably be hundreds of millions!