After arranging the specific combat missions, all the generals immediately went back to prepare for tomorrow's attack. At this time, Ren Chao's task had been completed, but Ren Chao did not go back to his room to sleep, but came to his study as usual.

"Dashuai!" Liu Hanqing, who was helping Ren Chao sort out the text in the study, saw Ren Chao coming in and hurriedly got up and said, Liu Hanqing is Ren Chao's confidential secretary, mainly to help Ren Chao sort out the latest information sent by the gate.

Ren Chao nodded slightly, then walked to his place and sat down, "Xiao Liu!" Is there any good news today? "Ren Chao now feels that he is becoming more and more a leader.

Liu Hanqing smiled and patted the stack of Wen in front of him and said with a smile, "There is a lot of new news, and there is a lot of good news, but there is also a lot of bad news, I don't know if the big man wants to hear the good news?" Or do you want to hear the bad news? ”

"Then let's hear the good news first!" Ren Chao said with a smile.

Liu Hanqing picked up a copy of the document with a smile and said with a smile, "The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications sent a telegram today saying that the Jiaoji Railway has been completed and opened to traffic, and the Department of Highway Administration has begun to prepare for the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjia, Jinghan, Jinpu and other railways ......."

Liu Hanqing said and handed the text in his hand to Ren Chao, Ren Chao took it and looked at it, nodded slightly and said, "Jinghan, most of the areas through which the Jinpu Road passes have not yet been completely controlled by our army, and this matter is not in a hurry, but it is okay to start preparing in advance." In addition, the Department of Highway Administration was informed that the construction of the Liaodong section of the Beijing-Fengzhou Railway should be stepped up, and preparations for the construction of the railway from Fengtian to Jilin and Qiqihar should be started. The war against Tsarist Russia made Ren Chao once again deeply realize the importance of the railway, so the Northeast Railway must be built as much as possible in order to further strengthen the control of the Northeast region.

"Yes!" Liu Hanqing hurriedly recorded Ren Chao's words. Then he picked up a copy of the document and continued, "The Tangshan Locomotive Manufacturing Plant, which is subordinate to the Department of Highways, has successfully developed the Shenlong II power locomotive and has been put into production. ”

In 1882, the coal output of the Kaiping Coal Mine soared, and the mule-drawn carts were too strong to handle it, and a large amount of coal could not be transported. Foreign engineers also designed and instructed Chinese craftsmen to build a standardized, sophisticated steam locomotive that could rival foreign locomotives of the same era. At that time, the wife of Bo Nei, a British engineer at the Mining Bureau, named the locomotive 'RocketofChina', which means "Chinese rocket". It was named after Stephenson's famous locomotive, the Rocket. The Chinese craftsmen involved in the construction of the locomotive inlaid a metal carved dragon on each side of the front of the locomotive, so it was also called the "Dragon". The Dragon locomotive is 18 feet (about 5.7 meters) long. After Ren Chao took charge of the government, the locomotive manufactured before was named the Shenlong I. locomotive, and further expanded the locomotive manufacturing plant, ordered the factory to continue to research more advanced locomotives, and with the strong support of Ren Chao, after almost half a year of hard work, the engineers of the factory finally developed a more advanced Shenlong II type power locomotive, the performance of the car can be completely comparable to the mainstream models used by the world's major powers at that time.

"Good! This is also good news to be happy about. Ren Chao smiled and nodded. Inform the Department of Highways to further expand the locomotive manufacturing plant and increase production, with the construction of a large number of railways in the future. We need more locomotives. ”

"Yes!" Liu Hanqing replied respectfully, and after recording what Ren Chao said, he then picked up a copy of the text," the Harbour Master sent a telegram. The first ocean-going freighter with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons manufactured by the Qingdao Steamship Factory has been successfully launched, and the first offshore destroyer with a displacement of about 1,000 tons independently developed by us has been successfully developed and is under construction......

"A telegram was sent from the Department of Electricity. It is planned to build power plants in Baoding, Dezhou, Cangzhou, Langfang, Zhangjiakou and other places......"

"Yes, all right!" Ren Chao nodded and said.

Now the Northeast is at war with the Tsarist Russians, and in Zhili, Shandong and other places are vigorously engaged in construction, which requires a large amount of white silver, but in the short term, Ren Chao is not short of silver. Because last year, Ren Chao led his troops to capture the city of Beijing, and then he was even more bold to poison the Queen Mother and hold Emperor Guangxu hostage, especially the new policies gradually implemented by Ren Chao, which were more than the new policies promulgated by Emperor Guangxu at that time. Naturally, this was strongly opposed by the Manchu elites. As early as when Ren Chao first entered Beijing, some princes and ministers who opposed the New Deal were all arrested by Ren Chao, and those who should be killed were killed and those who should be exiled. Naturally, all his family property was confiscated. Later, some surviving royal relatives and nobles secretly united in an attempt to oppose Ren Chao, but they were all suppressed by Ren Chao. There are only a handful of Manchu princes and Baylors who have survived in Beijing today. In the homes of these princes and ministers, Ren Chao only confiscated gold and silver, which was converted into nearly 100 million taels of silver, even exceeding the financial revenue of the entire Qing Dynasty in a year. And that's not even counting the properties, the estates and the vast array of immeasurable antique treasures. Ren Chao sold these properties, except for a small number of them to various departments as office space, and most of them were sold directly, and those fields were naturally sold to some poor farmers half-sold and half-gifted, as for those antique treasures, as long as they were not at the level of national treasures, they were also sold by Ren Chao in various forms. In this way, Ren Chao got a lot of income.

Not only these princes and ministers, but Ren Chao also took the idea of the dead Cixi. Cixi died naturally to be buried, as early as the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873) in the ninth month of March on the Qingming Festival, by the Tongzhi Emperor personally surveyed the feng shui, on the 15th Pingdingshan changed to Puxiangyu as the tomb of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, Putuo Mountain was renamed Putuoyu, set as the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi. The two tombs were designed and built by the seventh style Lei Lei Tingchang, started construction at the same time in August of that year, and completed at the same time in June of the fifth year of Guangxu (1880), which took six years and cost more than 5 million taels of silver. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), the Cixi Mausoleum was rebuilt again, and the project lasted 13 years and was completed on October 18, 1908.

Originally, Cixi's funeral should have been taken care of by some Manchu princes and ministers, but at this time, those Manchu nobles had been almost killed by Ren Chao, and the remaining few could only honestly stay at home and wait for death. So Ren Chao unceremoniously took over the errand. The mausoleum that has been built naturally has no oil and water. But the rich funeral goods prepared by the royal family for Cixi all went into Ren Chao's pocket. (To be continued......)