"At present, the Northeast Railway has started the initial project in Tangshan and Shenyang at the same time, and by the end of the year, it will enter the stage of large-scale construction, and the entire Tianjin-Shenyang line is expected to be completed within three years, and it will be officially opened to traffic when Xuanwu is ten years old!"

"The construction of the Tianjin-Shenyang line can not only greatly drive the economy of Liaoyang Province after it is completed and opened to traffic, but also bring development boost to the northern industrial zone in Tianjin and Tangshan!"

Zhai Liaocheng, the minister of the Ministry of Communications who had just taken office, was the first time to meet the saint alone and report to Lin Zhe, and the whole person was a little nervous.

He looked up slightly, and saw that Lin Zhe's expression was still the same, and there was no sign of speaking, so he continued: "The large amount of steel, wood and other raw materials required for the construction of the Tianjin-Shenyang Line have provided sufficient orders for the domestic steel industry, especially the orders of some iron and steel enterprises in the north, which has further supported the development of the steel industry in the northern region!" ”

Railways and steel, these two are mutually reinforcing in contemporary times, because the railways in these years are the largest consumers of steel, and the construction of railways requires a large number of rails, don't look at a huge railway, only two rails are encouraged, but if this base is enlarged to hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, then the number of rails is very large.

Several steel companies in contemporary China have basically relied on orders for railroad tracks to achieve rapid development.

For example, the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant of the Jiangnan Mining Company and the Daye Iron and Steel Plant, which has just been completed and put into large-scale operation, produce steel that is not only supplied to the national defense industry and the private market, but also a considerable part of its production capacity is supplied to the railway.

Furthermore. Tianjin North Iron and Steel Plant, a subsidiary of the North Coal and Iron Company, originally received steel orders from the Tangshan Railway, and now the Jinshen Line, Jinpu Line, and the eastern section of the Longhai Railway of the Northeast Railway. These railways require a lot of rails.

And these rail orders are enough to fully release the production capacity of several large domestic steel plants and make a lot of profits.

Aside from the subsequent impact of the railroad on the local economy, the construction phase alone was enough to provide sufficient impetus for the industrial development of the contemporary empire.

After all, in the era of industrialization, large-scale infrastructure construction is very obvious for basic industries such as steel. The construction of railways in these years is similar to the real estate in later generations, and it is a large industry that can support economic development.

Zhai Liaocheng explained alone for more than ten minutes. I have been talking about it for so long, basically the current stage of domestic railway construction is one by one, I don't know if it has been said for a long time, or because of tension. At this point, he felt a little dry in his mouth.

But what made him breathe a big sigh of relief. Lin Zhe, who was sitting on it, did not remain silent all the time, and when Zhai Liaocheng was making a briefing, Lin Zhe actually looked at the report in his hand.

"This year's railway construction progress is okay, it can be seen that Zhai Aiqing has worked hard!" Lin Zhe spoke a little slowly, and almost every word he spoke.

Lin Zhe's speed of speaking has never been fast, especially when he is talking to his courtiers, he rarely speaks, and his speed of speaking is also very slow. This is not because Lin Zhe's language skills are not good, but because of any word he said in a high position. are enough to make a significant impact.

The so-called think twice before acting, when you get to Lin Zhe here, it is not enough to think twice before acting, you have to think twice before speaking.

On weekdays, I speak carefully and carefully with words, which over time I have developed the habit of speaking very slowly.

And speaking slowly actually has an advantage, that is, it will invisibly create a kind of pressure on his subordinates, as a superior, Lin Zhe can be said to pay attention to maintaining his majesty almost all the time, creating pressure on his subordinates.

Although Zhai Liaocheng is the newly appointed Minister of Communications, he was previously the director of the Railway Department, and later continued to act as the co-director of the Ministry of Communications, so the development of China's railways in recent years has actually been under his leadership.

The railway business is the largest business on the side of the Ministry of Communications, and the Railway Department is also the largest department-level organization within the Ministry of Communications, so it is only natural that he has been in charge of the Railway Department for a long time and has been promoted to Minister of Communications.

Although Zhai Liaocheng was born as a traditional official, and did not have the same experience as many young officials or came out of the Imperial University, his traditional background did not limit his career development.

Because he is studious.

In fact, in the upper echelons of the empire's political arena, Zhai Liaocheng is not a special case, but a universal existence.

Most of the high-level officials of the empire are from traditional officials, and a few are halfway debuts, these people are different from those young officials who have risen rapidly in recent years, they have not received a systematic new education, but the reason why they can still govern the empire, and even lead the empire to devote itself to industrial reform, naturally has their advantages.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand physics or the principles of chemistry, but you just need the empire to need industry, you need railways, and sometimes there is no need for officials to say that they need to understand industry and how to run industry.

What they have to do is actually very simple, and that is to let those who know how to run the industry.

These high-ranking officials are actually similar to Lin Zhe, and for them, employing people is the first priority.

As long as the right people are used, many things will naturally be handled by the following people, so it doesn't matter if they don't understand some specific new industries.

For example, Zhai Liaocheng, although it is the first thing to talk about the construction of railways now, but strictly speaking, he does not know how to build railways and how to build trains, but this does not prevent him from knowing the importance of railways for the development of industry, and does not prevent him from vigorously promoting and supporting the construction of railways.

This is also the most important factor in his past leadership of the Railway Division, and now as Minister of Transport.

And there are many people like Zhai Liaocheng, such as Prime Minister Xue Huan, who is a typical traditional official, but at a glance he can be entrusted by Lin Zhe to preside over the work of the cabinet.

After Zhai Liaocheng left, Lin Zhe looked at the work report of the Ministry of Communications recently, and he was still satisfied with the work of the Ministry of Communications.

Although the current focus of the Ministry of Communications is on railways, shipping is also an important task of the Ministry of Communications.

Contemporary bulk cargo transportation is mainly based on railway, river transportation and sea transportation, and these three major transportation modes are also the main arteries supporting industrial development.

Looking at the current industrial layout of the empire, it basically revolves around these three major modes of transportation, and the reason why Shanghai can become the largest industrial city in the empire is because of its geographical location and convenient transportation.

Because it is a coastal port, it is convenient to ship by sea, and through Haiyun, it can not only communicate with other coastal port cities in China, but also directly participate in international trade.

At the same time, the Yangtze River, China's largest inland river, also allows Shanghai's industrial products to be sold to the Yangtze River basin, and the industrial products produced in Shanghai can even be transported all the way to Chongqing, Sichuan Province for sale, and the same reason, industrial raw materials from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River can also quickly flow to Shanghai.

Later, the opening of the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway further improved the convenience of this transportation.

This unique transportation advantage is difficult for other cities in China to have, you must know that the empire has gradually opened up coastal treaty ports in recent years, and basically the relatively large coastal port cities have been opened up as treaty ports.

But the same is a treaty port, the speed of development is very different, in addition to Shanghai, the development of better is only Guangzhou and Tianjin, these two cities, Guangzhou is a traditional international trade port city, but also has the Pearl River inland river convenience, so although there is no unique specialty around Guangzhou, there is no railway for the time being, but it is still developing rapidly, becoming the second only to Shanghai in the economic powerhouse.

Tianjin's geographical location is too unique, the rear is not only a province directly under the province, but also Mongolia, Wutai, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other provinces of the main import and export port, relying on the vast market in the north and the coal resources near Tangshan to develop.

As for other coastal trade cities in China, it is relatively poor, the development is better, that is, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and all have strong special factors, such as Ningbo is dependent on the raw silk industry, Zhejiang is a large province of raw silk, although the domestic raw silk trade is dominated by Shanghai, but Ningbo relies on geographical advantages can still drink a mouthful of soup, in addition to Zhejiang's tea is also very famous, and the output is not small, West Lake Longjing is a famous tea.

And Fuzhou, Fujian, can develop only by one thing, that is, tea!

In modern times, Fujian is the largest province in China to export tea, and the annual export of tea is quite large, and Fuzhou is the main export base of Fujian tea, and a small number of tea brick factories and other industries after the construction.

However, compared with Ningbo, Fuzhou's development stamina is not enough, and its limitations are relatively large, and it can only rely on tea exports, while others are difficult to develop, and it is even difficult to act as an entrepot trade city.

At the same time, since the East India Company cultivated the British tea consumption, although the British imported a large amount of tea from China every year, the British also actively cultivated tea in India, and when the British planted tea in India on a large scale, it would cause a heavy blow to China's tea exports.

Historically, several treaty ports in Fujian were like this, which flourished in the early decades, but after entering the late nineteenth century, they completely declined, and after the twentieth century, they were even less worth mentioning.

Relatively speaking, the same is China's traditional export commodities, raw silk is much better than tea, raw silk is not other places want to plant can be planted, the world's raw silk production area is not much, mainly concentrated in East Asia this fast, now China's raw silk production occupies the absolute dominance of the world's output.

At the same time, the consumption of raw silk is increasing, and even raw silk is still an important strategic material.

The medicine bag of the naval cannon was wrapped in raw silk, and in the era of steel giants, every time this naval gun fired a cannon, it had to consume a lot of raw silk.

At the same time, raw silk is an important raw material, at least for decades, the only raw material, what is this product?

Stockings! (To be continued.) )