readx; The autumn harvest is in full swing, and with the railway lines coming into operation one after another, Shandong's economy has taken a rapid leap. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Trains have solved the problem of high costs caused by transportation, which has led to some goods that were not originally capable of being exported to embark on the road of export.

The operation of trains means that raw materials can be transported to factories in the areas covered by the rail network, and goods can be transported quickly.

The transportation costs are very low, and Zhao Yan does not intend to treat the railway as a profitable thing, but as a public facility to operate, only to protect the capital, not to make money.

The great economic development brought about by the railways can increase the revenue of commercial taxes, and it is not beautiful to set too many thresholds on rail transportation.

There are more and more factories in Shandong, and factories in the Northeast region are also increasing.

Most of the factories are concentrated in the coastal areas, and the areas with convenient land and sea transportation in the coastal areas are the most densely populated places.

Industrial towns are taking shape in Shandong, and other provinces are not far behind, with the gradual laying of railway lines, a large number of factories have appeared in other provinces that are included in the administrative scope of Shandong's political axe, gathering in the raw material production areas.

It would be very deformed if only Shandong had industry, and Zhao Yan was encouraging people to set up factories in other provinces.

However, there is a principle for starting a factory, and that is that the factory must not damage the environment.

With the application of the steam engine, some towns in Shandong have already experienced some negative effects, that is, the cities have begun to turn black under the smoke.

Some towns with dense steam engines, as well as some black dust.

Shandong's newspapers also selected Huangxian, the dirtiest city in Shandong.

Located on the north side of Zhaojiabao, Huang County has become a key industrial area, and many factories of the Ordnance Bureau are distributed around Huang County, and there are also some other private factories located in Huang County.

The Huangxian area is the city with the most steam engines, which has led to the city's environment beginning to change in an unfavorable direction, and the air quality is getting worse and worse.

But it's okay for now, after all, it's not a long time.

Pollution is a process that must be experienced, but the steam engine is nothing, as long as it does not reach such a dense level, the pollution problem is not too serious.

What is serious is that some factories that produce waste residue and wastewater, and what Zhao Yan can do is to concentrate these factories and concentrate these highly polluting factories in a certain area.

Then reduce pollution as much as possible, while also adopting a policy of polluting first and then remediation.

Zhao Yan has designated several pollutable areas in the Bohai Bay area, and those heavily polluting factories can only produce in these designated areas, and cannot expand into inland areas.

Factories in inland areas are not allowed to discharge wastewater into rivers and lakes, nor can they dump waste residue indiscriminately.

Although Zhao Yan's policy hinders economic development, an economy that relies on sacrificing the environment cannot be encouraged, and it does not hurt to slow down.

However, the number of factories in other provinces is still not as large as in Shandong, because the railway network in Shandong is the most comprehensive, and even small states and counties are covered by the railway network.

Each state and county has a branch railway, which means that each state and county can transport goods by train, either to the port or to the south.

Seeing that the railway was so convenient and could inject such a huge impetus into the development of the local economy, those businessmen joined in the construction of the railway.

Merchants and squires from several provinces, who had just been incorporated into the administrative system, saw that the railway was profitable and could benefit the local area, so they took out their family's money and reported it to the railway bureau to build a local branch railway, and even invested the money in the pruning of the main line.

There is no need to worry about the funds for the construction of railways, and the capital of the Democratic Progressive Party is pouring in in large quantities.

The railway line that has been planned to be built is more than 30,000 kilometers long, which has led to the vigorous development of iron and steel enterprises in various places.

Iron and steel enterprises are no longer limited to Handan, but Handan is still the area with the largest production capacity. Iron and steel enterprises in other regions are developing rapidly, and large iron ore mines in North Korea, as well as in Monan and Mobei, as well as Shaanxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Henan and other places are preparing to enter the state of mining.

In addition to the Mosan iron ore mine in northern North Korea, which has already entered production, the others are still waiting for the opening of the railway line.

At the same time, a railway from the iron ore mine to the steel mill was being built.

As long as the railway is opened and the coal and iron arrive, the steel plant can start production and put into production.

Those small iron ores are generally not mined, the iron ore mined are large iron ores, those small iron ores are widely distributed, mined and not concentrated, backward production technology, pollution, environmental damage and other problems may occur. Iron ore mining is moving to the Nurgandus region.

Siberia is vast, there are a lot of large iron mines there, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, it doesn't matter how you toss it, several railway construction plans for mining iron ore and copper ore in Siberia have been submitted, these railways will be connected to the Shenxi Railway, not too long, just branch lines, since it doesn't cost much, Zhao Yan also signed and agreed.

After reading those mining plans, Zhao Yan suddenly woke up to the fact that the railway in Siberia may be a golden line in the future!

Because this railway can transport the resources of Siberia back to the country, and with the westward movement, it may control Tsarist Russia in the future, and even connect to Europe.

A railway across Asia and Europe!

The railway could certainly be a very useful route, but at the moment it was only for the sake of expansion, and the economic needs were there, but it was necessary to develop the resources of Siberia.

Due to the large number of workers in the project, Liu Guoneng said that he was soft on the Japanese slaves, and he caught millions of Japanese slaves in more than half a year, and the submission of the Tokugawa shogunate led to more than 500,000 Japanese people coming to the Ming Dynasty.

After the Jiaozhi was laid, more than 100,000 people were arrested from Jiaozhi one after another, and these were all Jiaozhi people who did not obey the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and the policy adopted against them was to arrest them.

Of course, it won't be grasped indiscriminately.,Jiaozhi is also a region founded on Confucianism.,The degree of sinicization is very high.,Since you want to continue to make Jiaozhi sinic.,You must give the people of Jiaozhi an equal identity.。

This policy of ethnic integration has continued southward since the Qin Dynasty, and Jiaozhi is an unsuccessful region, and it is necessary to continue this integration.

As for other regions that have not been integrated before, Zhao Yan does not want to integrate anymore, he prefers to replace, and it will take a long time for other regions to be integrated, and if they are replaced, they can be completed in the contemporary era.

More than 100,000 people are too few, and in order to capture more free labor, the governor of Cochin ordered the 03 Mountain Regiment stationed in Cochin to start arresting natives everywhere.

These natives are different from the people of Jiaozhi, these natives are not within the jurisdiction of Jiaozhi, and the reading surname is very strong, and the degree of sinicization is very low.

This kind of indigenous people are ethnic minorities, and there is basically no policy towards such ethnic minorities overseas compared to the soft policy towards the ethnic minorities in the south at home.

The policy is undecided, and the local governor decides for himself.

In order to implement the policy formulated by Zhao Yan to continue the sinicization of Jiaozhi, the governor of Jiaozhi asked people to arrest the natives everywhere, and all the natives who did not meet the requirements of sinicization should be eliminated.

As a result, the number of indigenous slaves has skyrocketed, and in addition to being arrested in Cochin, they have also been arrested on the Khmer and Siamese borders, and the number of indigenous laborers has skyrocketed to 800,000.

This number is constantly increasing.

In the north, the natives of Siberia had a new job, which was also to build a railway, and they were taken to the construction site by the soldiers of the Nurgandus.

More than 300,000 people were captured throughout Siberia.

Thanks to the hard work of nearly three million free laborers, the construction of railways everywhere is progressing rapidly. But the good laborers are still the slaves.

Those Japanese slaves were also more hard-working and familiar with production.

And those natives, especially in Siberia, have never even touched a hoe, and when they work, they are not happy to be whipped as much as they want.

With the help of 3 million free laborers, caves were dug all the way, and the construction of the Shenxi-Shenyang Railway and the Beijing-Wheel Railway was carried out at a rapid pace, and the Shenxi-Shenyang Railway was built 100 kilometers away from Lake Baikal.

When the railway construction directed by Zhao Yan was in full swing, the eyes of people all over the world were attracted to the decisive battle between Zhao Yan and Chongzhen.

In early September, Zhao Yan led five infantry brigades of the 1st Division, plus the new 01st Division, to Zhendingfu in the north.

Although it is said that 20,000 people and 300,000 people will fight a decisive battle, someone must suppress the battle. At the same time, Zhao Yan also carried a large amount of supplies, and in addition to the decisive battle, he also made preparations for a full-scale war in the future.

Zhao Yan traveled all the way to Zhending Mansion, followed by thousands of Shandong gentlemen and businessmen, as well as some rich children and reporters from various newspapers.

And Chongzhen's 300,000 Beijing battalion has already arrived at Zhending Mansion, and the two sides have also drawn a battlefield 8 miles wide and 100 miles long under Fenglong Mountain.

Zhao Yan has always felt that this trap is too insidious, in fact, with the huge advantage of the new 01st Division in weapons, even if it is not drawn in this fixed area, it can still be victorious, but there are still some variables, so Zhao Yan would rather be insidious than take risks.

This decisive battle can be described as huge, and the number of people who came from all over the Ming Dynasty to watch the battle reached tens of thousands.

Zhao Yan sent a telegram to Chongzhen before leaving, inviting Chongzhen to go to Fenglong Mountain to watch the battle, Chongzhen was unwilling to be frightened, gritted his teeth and agreed.

If it's a trap, then I have to admit it. With Zhao Yan's strength, there is no need to use conspiracy and trickery, not only does he have an absolute advantage over Chongzhen in terms of strength, but also the soldiers have experienced a hundred battles and swept the eight wildernesses, which is not something that Chongzhen can resist.

So Chongzhen still agreed, it is better to avoid it than to face it openly. Zhao Yan really didn't use any conspiracy this time, but he used yang tricks.

Zhao Yan originally wanted to take the train to Handan and then go north this time, but this decision attracted collective opposition, and Zhao Quan thought that the train was not very safe, and it was better to go on horseback.

Taking the train will indeed bring some problems, wasn't Zhang Zuolin killed on the train? So Zhao Yan didn't insist.

Therefore, there was no train to go, and the supplies were transported by train to Handan first, and then from Handan to Zhendingfu, which was fast and less expensive.

Zhao Yan marched all the way with an army of 80,000 people, and arrived at the foot of Fenglong Mountain in Zhending Mansion on September 10, and the vanguard had already arrived at the edge of the battlefield at the foot of Fenglong Mountain with supplies.

The two sides agreed before that they had three days to prepare, and Zhao Yan gave Chongzhen a privilege to let him deploy on the battlefield ten days in advance.

When Zhao Yan climbed Fenglong Mountain, he could see through the telescope that the crops in the battlefield had already been harvested, and barbed wire was pulled on both sides of the battlefield, and the barbed wire stretched for hundreds of miles.

Two parallel lines were formed eight miles wide apart.

A white line is drawn at both ends, and any side that needs to be defeated on a large scale is considered defeated. And the two ends stretching inward for 45 miles are also painted with white lines, which is where the two sides are deployed.

On the northern defense line, Sun Chuanting has already asked people to build a strong defense line. Sun Chuanting had several deep ditches dug in front.

These deep ditches are three meters wide and up to five meters deep, and then the deep ditches are covered with thick wooden planks, which can be said to be attacked, retreated, and defended.

Behind the deep ditch there is a second and third line of defense, which is mainly arranged with trenches, barbed wire, mines, shotguns, etc.

Those who didn't understand the situation thought that this was a fortification of the Shandong army.

This kind of fortification was used in the Battle of Zhenjiang, and the Shandong army, which was at an absolute disadvantage, successfully repelled the Manchu attack, so that the Manchus were later besieged in Korea.

As the actual commander-in-chief of the Beijing battalion, Sun Chuanting can be said to have worked hard, vigorously studied the military style of the Shandong Army, and successfully copied the Shandong Army system a few years ago.

It's just that this system is outdated...... This is a brutal truth.

Of course, there are still some parts of Sun Chuanting's copying, that is, in the defense of artillery, Sun Chuanting poured cement on the third line of defense to build an eight-mile-long strong bunker.

Sun Chuanting didn't think he would lose, after all, 300,000 people had an overwhelming advantage, and the only thing to consider was the intensity of the Shandong army's shelling.

The artillery of the Shandong army must be very fierce, some of the artillery of the Shandong army cannot be made by the imperial court, and the Beijing camp does not have an advantage in artillery.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting emphasized the courage of officers and men.

The shelling, though intense, was not devastating for an army in the midst of a charge, because the shelling was not so dense that it could not be breached.

Sun Chuanting learned from the soldiers of the Shandong Army that many times the enemy defeated by the Shandong Army was intimidated by artillery.

The Beijing camp was trained by Sun Chuanting, and he still has confidence in the courage of the officers and men.

This time, Sun Chuanting felt that he was winning, but Sun Chuanting still cautiously arranged three 'unbreakable' lines of defense, which can be said to be extremely important in terms of tactics.

After more than 10 days of arrangement, Sun Chuanting's three lines of defense were completed under the continuous struggle of 300,000 officers and soldiers, and Chongzhen was extremely satisfied after inspecting it.

…… On September 15, the new 01st Division entered the battlefield.

Zhao Yan was in command in the army at all, but took his personal guards to Fenglong Mountain. The operation was commanded by the General Staff Department, with Liu Heng as the general staff and Zhang Zhi and others as deputy staff officers.

The battle plan has already been formulated, and the following is the specific tactical implementation, and there is nothing Zhao Yan can do, all he has to do is watch the battle.

Chongzhen also took a group of brocade guards to Fenglong Mountain, and when the two monarchs and ministers met, Zhao Yan talked and laughed, still without the appearance of a monarch and a minister, and even less of a kneeling appearance.

People who came from all over the world to watch the battle would not be able to go up to Fenglong Mountain.

Fenglong Mountain is not too big, where can so many people stand, and Zhao Yan and Chongzhen are both on the mountain, so naturally idle people are not allowed to get close.

However, the gentry, merchants, and newspaper reporters with representative surnames were allowed to climb the mountain, and each was given a telescope.

Fenglong Mountain is 600 meters high, and you can take in the entire battlefield from afar.

(To be continued)