Everyone, everyone has their pursuit, in a nutshell, maybe four words can explain all the promotion and wealth, it seems that this represents the dream of almost all people. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoBut not for everyone, this dream is too cliché for some people.

There should be a higher pursuit in life!

If the Tongwen Academy taught Xu Tieshan anything, I am afraid it taught him dreams, he was born in a merchant family, he never thought about what his dream was in the past? At a very young age, he wanted to be praised by his father, but it seemed that this was extremely difficult, and for his father he was just an unexpected "output".

It is precisely for this reason that he left his home in Shanghai and went to Incheon to study. When he was studying, he also fantasized about working in the house or in a company like his classmates, and realizing the value of his life like them.

But is that what you're pursuing?

At least for Xu Tieshan, he is not willing to spend his life so plainly, although whether it is in the house or the company is enough to give full play to his talents, but Xu Tieshan has more pursuits and dreams, and the College of Literature taught him dreams.

As the son of a rich family, even though he is only a young son, he also has the ability to make his own choices. After reading the travelogues of Westerners in the library of the school, he was attracted by the outside world. Of course, there is another reason, that is, the headmaster is also a traveler, and his "Tessice" is not written on the basis of traveling around the world?

So with the unique dreams of young people, Xu Tieshan set his sights on the outside world. After receiving more than 1,000 yuan from his family, as a traveler, he set out from Incheon and traveled north to the Far East. He entered Siberia, but because he was running out of money, he had to turn back to Mongolia and return home. Originally, he also hoped to get financial support from his family again, but his father decisively rejected his son's "loser", but fortunately his travelogue was a hot seller in the newspaper. And there were people who were willing to sponsor him to continue his travels, so he stayed in the Northeast to get funding.

Just like that journey, life is full of too many twists and turns, and when he goes to see the principal with admiration, the principal points him to another path. It was then that the path of his life changed.

When he set out on his journey again, he was no longer a traveler, but a businessman. Unlike ordinary businessmen, he is a businessman with a mission.

Mission!

Sitting in the slightly swaying carriage, the corners of Xu Tieshan's lips lifted slightly, this mission was even easier than he imagined. Everything went as initially suspected, extremely smoothly, first unhindered by the flag princes, and then by the silence of the minister in Mongolia. The Jin merchants, who had lost the support of the government, were reluctant in every possible way. We also have to face the fact that the trade monopoly in Mongolia has been broken.

It's just a group of guys who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard, in Xu Tieshan's eyes, the businessmen in Mongolia who are supported by the government are not worth mentioning at all after losing the support of the government, of course. The most fundamental reason for those people's fear of the Northeast is that compared to the entry of commercial houses, whether it is the minister in Mongolia or the Jin merchants. They are more worried that the governors of the three eastern provinces will directly intervene in Mongolia, which is what they are really afraid of, so they are willing to swallow their anger. Willing to watch the trading houses encroach on the Montimen market little by little.

Thinking of this, his smile widened. In this way, it is more beneficial for them to have this kind of scruples, and it is more conducive to the expansion of the northeast in Mongolia, and when the pace of expansion is fully started, then it will no longer be stopped by others, and those Mongol princes who are trying to profit from it, when they react - Mongolia is already under the control of the northeast, at least at that time, they can no longer change this reality.

For the passengers on the train, this bearded and khaki dress man was really a little weird, and when the inexplicable smile appeared, he sat down slightly outward, but a middle-aged man wearing a long shirt and a businessman was sitting opposite him, but he looked at him curiously, and when Xu Tieshan put away his smile, felt the sight in front of him, and cast a smile, he listened to the middle-aged man say.

"Isn't this gentleman an errand boy at the Land Survey Bureau?"

Looking at this man's dusty appearance, the middle-aged man only regarded him as an investigator of the Land Survey Bureau, and those investigators were not also dressed in top hats and foreign hunting suits and boots.

"Huh? I ......"

was stunned for a moment, Xu Tieshan hurriedly shook his head and said.

"How can you be an investigator, but just a businessman!"

"Oh, I'm also doing some small business in the next place, I don't know what kind of business Mr. does?"

I don't know if it's to pass the time, the middle-aged man is obviously full of interest in this bearded man, maybe he wants to hear some stories or business opportunities from him, who knows? Maybe there will really be any business opportunities, but Xu Tieshan didn't talk too much about business. On the contrary, it's not to mention its wild nonsense, which can really pass the time.

"Brother, I want to go to Dalian this time to buy and sell, right?"

A middle-aged man who has been doing half his life can't see this person's caution, so he finally asked softly.

"Hmm!"

Of course, it is for the sake of trading, if not, how can you go to Dalian, to be precise, to go to Dalian to meet the major shareholders of the trading bank!

Perhaps he didn't spend a penny in the house to make a military order to the principal, but the principal did not let him take all the risks, but personally took out 100,000 taels as the share capital, and even the carriages used by the trading house were the more than 20 cars he could buy from the army and the Western-style heavy horses he needed after the principal's "favoritism" greeting, and replaced them with others, I am afraid that I can't buy these things if I want to.

This time I went to Dalian, in addition to meeting the president and reporting the profits of the trip to the largest shareholder of the trading bank, it was more important to report another matter to the president, which was the most important thing at the moment.

The speed of the train is not too fast, but after a night of travel, it arrived in Dalian in the early morning, and when Xu Tieshan walked out of Dalian Railway Station, because of the telegraph in advance, the person was just out of the station. He saw the sign that picked him up, and walked straight over, and without saying a word, the man led him to the outside of the station, got into a carriage, and went straight to the street where the official residence was located.

“…… Discarded wool can be seen everywhere in the meadows, and some of them have large amounts of yellowish-gray wool piled up around the felt tents. Even those piles of wool have been turned black and black like the manure in the mainland, and there is no use at all, because it is not used up, so they are all abandoned, but the wool that is discarded, even if it is coarse, is wool, which can be made into felt, thread and ......"

Although I saw the same scene last time. But that time Xu Tieshan didn't understand the value of wool, but now he knows the principal's plan, the future Mongolia will be the pasture of the Northeast, providing the Northeast with wool in exchange for foreign exchange, which is a market of hundreds of millions of yuan every year, and the foreign exchange in exchange is enough to support the market in the Northeast.

"Well, that's true, Mongolian sheep are coarse sheep. In addition to Mongolia's specific use for brown weaving, planting, and felt, a very small part of the consumption is due to transportation problems. It is almost never transported out of the steppe, so its use is mostly abandoned, which is why the Mongols now keep goats, after all, they need goats to repay......"

Even goats, unlike sheep, are the root cause of growing desertification in Mongolia, and they eat along with the grass roots. Over the past 200 years, under the pressure of debt, goats have slowly replaced Mongolian sheep, and under the goats' roots, the pastures have become more and more desolate.

But even so. It did not prevent the Mongols from raising goats, because compared to sheep, goats were easier to survive the winter, and when they were in debt, the Jin merchants only recognized goats, because compared to sheep, only goats could be driven all the way from the Mongolian grasslands to the capital.

Sheep are better suited to Mongolia, but that doesn't mean they don't have their drawbacks, unlike Mongolian goats, which can tolerate roughage and cold in winter, and they need proper feed supplements in winter. Of course, it will also bring an unexpected benefit -- on the one hand, the northeast can export corn and other materials as feed to Mongolia in the future, and on the other hand, it can promote the real settlement of Mongolians.

"But they don't know that goats are very harmful to the grassland, because they will throw out the grass roots and eat them, causing the grassland to degrade, and eventually lead to a serious imbalance in the grassland, leading to perennial drought, sandstorms raging, blowing away the surface soil, leaving the grass roots bare and a large area of desertification......

Thinking about a fact that was known to almost everyone in the world in later generations, Tang Haoran took a few sips of the porridge on the table before continuing.

"So, even for the sake of protecting grasslands, we need to turn that around. Let the Mongols take the initiative to raise sheep. ”

"Principal, in fact, it is very simple to let the Mongolians raise sheep, that is, someone will collect wool, and no one will collect wool, how can they raise sheep, and the Jin merchants do not collect wool because of transportation problems, although this return trip, we transported back more than 100 tons of wool, but this is because of the distance, if you go hundreds or even thousands of kilometers deeper?"

Mongolia's wool is not worth much, because of the problem of transportation, in this regard, how can Tang Haoran not know, even after a few decades, Mongolia's wool is still worthless, until the construction of the Siberian Railway and the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, Mongolia's wool from the waste, began to slowly show value, but even so, the buyer is almost free to buy wool, this situation has continued until the age of the automobile, until the emergence of the car, the transportation problem was fundamentally solved.

"Tie Shan, what do you mean?"

Looking at Xu Tieshan sitting at the dining table, Tang Haoran asked with a smile, because he was his own student, so he invited him to have breakfast with his family, of course, he came at the right time.

"Build a railway, principal, in the eyes of the students, it is completely possible to build a railway......"

Build a railway?

frowned slightly, but Tang Haoran had a difficulty in his heart, according to the railway plan in the Northeast, there was no plan to build the railway into Mongolia, but now Xu Shushan wanted to build the railway? Railway...... Mongolia does need a railway, but will it be too early to build it now?

"Principal, the railway that the students are referring to is not a quasi-gauge railway, but a narrow-gauge light railway, the terrain on this road is quite flat, although there are rivers, but the rivers on the grassland are extremely shallow, and there are no lofty mountains along the way, and the cost of road construction is naturally not high, in the eyes of the students, there are fifteen million, which is enough to build to the ...... of Kulun City."

Railway, on the return trip, Xu Tieshan even drew a map of the route himself, in his opinion, only by building the railway into Mongolia can the most fundamental problem be solved.

"Without the railway, Mongolian specialties such as wool cannot be transported, and likewise, industrial consumer goods from the Northeast cannot be transported, unless, we will always be satisfied with the position of replacing the Jin merchants, if Fuzhong wants to turn Mongolia into a pasture, it must build a railway!"

Only railways can solve the transportation problem, and only railways can allow Fuchu to truly control Mongolia.

"It is indeed necessary to build a railway into Mongolia, but it is ......"

Knowing that it was necessary to build the railway into Mongolia, Tang Haoran did not object, but after agreeing, he paused for a moment and continued.

"But there is no funding for this in the government now, after all, the current railway construction fee is also a turnip and a pit, I'm afraid it will be ......."

Tang Haoran, who wanted to reject Xu Tieshan's suggestion, chose to refuse with the issue of funds after thinking for a while. Although it is necessary, it does not matter, after all, the market in Mongolia is not yet mature, and the rash construction of the railway may cause a backlash in the customs, which is undoubtedly what Tang Haoran does not want to see.

"Principal, what if you don't need a penny from the government, and it won't affect the normal financing of the railway company?"

For road construction, Xu Tieshan has long been confident, and the only thing he needs now is the principal's consent, that is, the consent of the Governor's Palace, and only with the consent of the Governor's Palace, can he get the money for road construction.

"Oh, you're trying to finance yourself? Self-built railway? ”

Looking at Xu Tieshan, who looked confident, Tang Haoran was surprised, no one in the Northeast knows that the Northeast Railway has always been monopolized by the railway company, but now Xu Tieshan wants to get a piece of the pie on the railway.

"All students think and think is for the country,"

Standing up, Xu Tieshan bowed deeply.

"If there is no railway, Mongolia will never be able to become the principal's ranch, Mongolia is separated from the Han people, it is bound to become more and more serious, please ask the principal's permission!"

Facing Xu Tieshan's request to bow, Tang Haoran's brows furrowed, and he thought about the pros and cons repeatedly, and only spoke after a while.

"I'm just afraid that if this thing gets out, it may cause some kind of turmoil in the pass!" (To be continued.) )