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And the reason why so many people have to be sacrificed to build such a railway, is to communicate Joaquin City and Black Iron City, the two central cities in the sphere of influence of the Black Iron City, now the Black Iron City has a large number of people who need commodities, and at the same time as a transportation node, connecting the four cities, and Joaquin City as the main source of industrial goods, so in this regard, the two sides are undoubtedly complementary, and the construction and opening of this railway, for the entire Black Iron City, means that the productivity and power center are closely combined, Black Iron City no longer has to worry about the end of Huajin City, and Shu Han can also get more resources from Black Iron City for development, which is a good thing for both parties.

Therefore, this railway will be so important, pay so many people's lives and blood, but also must build this railway between Joaquin City and Black Iron City, finally lasted two years, to complete all the exploration, and between the mountains and mountains, found a trail, this trail meandering, can directly reach the Black Iron City from Joaquin City, usually the villagers pass the road, but how to transform this trail into a railway, it takes a lot of effort, because the trail is surrounded by rolling mountainsSometimes, it is even extreme enough to accommodate only one person.

This is undoubtedly an extremely difficult terrain, and if you want to dig a railway on such a terrain, this is obviously a very difficult thing, after all, the mountain water resources around Joaquin City are very rich, many mountains, there are a large number of underground rivers, as long as one is not careful, it will cause flooding, and eventually cause the entire mountain to begin to collapse, a large number of people do not even have a chance to call for help, and die in this muddy water in an instant.

Although the experts are not so miserable, the situation is not good, because in these deep mountains and old forests, there are many wild beasts, even if Shu Han sends soldiers to protect, sometimes it is difficult to be thorough, after all, people walking in the mountains and forests have great limitations, but animals can quickly move in the deep mountains and old forests with dexterous movements, tossing between trees, which is something that many people can't do.

It is precisely because of this that these fierce beasts and animals can always take advantage of the soldiers' inattention, causing harm to these experts and scholars, and even directly causing death in serious cases, after all, for these animals, there is no difference between human beings and other foods, and the long-term decline has made today's animals have no fear of human beings, in this forest, they are the uncrowned kings, and human beings are just low-level creatures that are panting under their attack.

In addition to the attacks of fierce beasts and wild beasts, the same is true of the fragmented terrain, in the forest, there are a lot of mire, there is a lot of moss growing outside, and even there are low shrubs, people can't see it from a distance, as long as they step on it, they will be stuck in the mire, and if they want to pull it out, it is impossible, many people will become a corpse in this kind of mire.

On the other hand, there are other dangers, the climate in the forest is different from the outside world, and all kinds of poisonous insects are also rampant in it, the danger of the terrain makes the exploration very complicated and difficult, so this way down, although Shu Han was not accompanied, but also knows that it is not easy, but now, these experts and scholars have completed their tasks, and used two years to complete the design of the drawings, and the next work will be the turn of engineers and workers, which will inevitably be a greater sacrifice, But this road must be repaired, because only in this way can Joaquin City and Black Iron City develop more harmoniously, and at the same time, the entire Black Iron City will be more integrated, rather than relying solely on prestige and feelings as a link, this step must be taken, otherwise Shu Han is in this position, and no one will rest assured.

With the construction of the Black Gold Railway, the entire Black Iron City, the cement plant and steel plant alone have doubled the demand for workers, because this railway is no more than other places, a distance of about 200 kilometers, such a long railway, enough to make the entire Black Iron City go all out, and on the other side, the demand for chemical fertilizers is naturally more urgent, and the Black Iron City needs to improve agriculture.

In this regard, Shu Han also came up with a variety of methods, and finally used steam engines and electricity to crush a large amount of ore into nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, and transport it to the farmers' homes, so that they can use chemical fertilizer to apply fertility to the land, thereby increasing the production of grain, which is absolutely epoch-making for Black Iron City.

In this way, the time of the year, the Black Iron City will be busy in the rapid spent, a year of hard work, so that the harvest of the new year has become particularly lively and beautiful, compared to the shriveling of the rice ears in the past, this year's rice is very gratifying, the heavy ears of rice, will be bent over the straw, the joy of the harvest hangs on the face of every farmer and passerby, which will mean that the grain of the Black Iron City will not have any problems.

On the other hand, the development of industry is also gratifying, now the urban population of each city in the Black Iron City has exceeded 800,000 people, nearly half of the people live in the city, the development of urban industries, especially in the field of heavy industry, a large number of steel, cement, artillery, muskets and other industries manufacturing and development, have made the appearance of the Black Iron City have undergone great changes, but at the same time, the environment has also changed greatly.

A large amount of coal burning, so that the entire Joaquin City sky has become gray, Shu Han can only helpless, after all, with today's technology, want to protect the environment at the same time, the development of industry, this is obviously impossible, those high technology needs extremely high-end technology to be able to support, and now Shu Han obviously has no way to resurrect those technologies.

And in this year, because of the opening of the railway from Zitong to Huajin City, a large number of copper and iron ore was transported to Huajin City for processing, the large increase in output and the decline in transportation costs, so that today's Huajin City, after the joint efforts of all parties, finally all the villages in Huajin City are electrified, before only the electric lights were set up next to the road, and now, the villages are electrified, in Huajin City has become a reality, every night, people climb the high wall, look around, everywhere is the beginning of the lights, The harmonious scene of Kyushu illuminated by the lights of every house, especially the street lamps on the side of the road, which made the whole city horizontal and orderly, which is indeed very beautiful. Read a book

This also makes Shu Han have a sense of achievement, the popularization of electricity from the city to the countryside, this is a very difficult step, before Shu Han actually wanted to push, but because the copper was transported from Zitong, the price was too high, and it was almost impossible to lay it to all the villages of Huajin City, after all, Huajin City simply did not have so much money and copper to do this, and now, because of the emergence of trains, the transportation of raw materials has become much simpler than before, and it has also made Huajin City the entire Black Iron City sphere of influence, The first city to achieve this goal, Shuhan is still very happy about it.

At the same time, his ambition is not only that, he hopes that electricity can be more widely used, so that industry can officially begin to recover, this is what he wants, industry is the foundation of modern civilization, because of the existence of industry, so that the productivity of human beings has been greatly improved, and the improvement of productivity, so that more people can get out of the state of hunger and poverty, to engage in thinking work, so as to make human civilization more colorful.

Therefore, the development of industry is necessary, in one year, Shuhan expanded the current Huajin City power station about four times, and at the same time transformed the factory in the city, from the original steam engine to today's engine, using bearings to promote, which is naturally not hard, but also increased work efficiency and safety.

In the past, a factory needed to install a steam engine, the quality of these steam engines was not good, and there would always be an explosion or leakage every now and then, think about it, the principle of these steam engines, the water inside has already turned into water vapor because of high temperature, and even like modern times, it is directly condensed, from water vapor to water in the air again, to the state of water condensation, if there is a leak, it will be a huge disaster, in the history of Black Iron City, the frequency of such things is very high.

Because at that time, the Black Iron City had lost the ability to create new steam engines, and could only repair and use the old steam engines, which made these steam engines decades old, and they broke down very quickly, and many workers were seriously injured in such high temperatures, and many eventually died.

It is precisely because of this that Schuhan has vigorously rolled out the development of electric power, so that almost all the steam engines are in the hands of the power station, which can be managed and supervised by professionals, so as to ensure that the possibility of danger is reduced to a minimum, and at the same time, these personnel will be trained, even if an accident occurs, it can be dealt with to reduce the casualties to a minimum, which is an education that cannot be popularized in all factories.

Another point is economic benefits, in the past, each factory built its own steam engine, its own purchase of coal, so that the price of coal can not be determined, which is very fraudulent and embezzlement and underground transactions, and at the same time the government is difficult to count the exact figures, and finally the annual tax received from this aspect is very small, because both coal mining enterprises and factories, want to pay a little less tax, so the actual coal burned is far more than the coal they report, and the government wants to find out the detailed information is very difficult. After all, there are also no electronic devices of all kinds in this era to conduct surveys and comparisons and surveys.

Therefore, it can only rely on tax personnel to investigate, but Huajincheng does not have so many tax personnel, can conduct a full range of inspections on every carriage and every ox cart, and the final result is that only sampling, and such an accuracy rate will be reduced very much, after all, Huajincheng buys too many people for coal, you can't investigate all of them, especially some factories, the daily consumption of coal is more than hundreds of tons, in this case, it will be very difficult to investigate clearly, The final result is that no matter how much investigation is conducted, there is always less money found than not, and the money goes into the hands of these factory owners, and the government is cheated in vain.

How can Shu Han tolerate such a result, the entire Huajin City needs to spend a lot of money to build, these factories are large taxpayers, they themselves have greater potential, how can Shu Han let go, and the use of electricity, all the electricity comes from the power station, and the power station is directly controlled by the government, so that no matter how much electricity is used, it will be directly displayed, and it will be charged according to the degree of electricity used, and it will be very difficult to be greedy for a penny, this is what Shu Han wants to do.

At the same time, in Huajin City, in addition to the basic purchase of coal, all other coal procurement must be borne by the government, refuse private enterprises to purchase coal, if there is must be approval, in this way, it is blocked these people want to build a steam engine engine without permission, this trick really has a very powerful effect, in just one year, these factories paid more taxes than the previous two years combined, more than doubled, I have to say, the purchase and sale of these just needed resources, is indeed lucrative, enough to make people feel excited.

With the use of this money, Shu Han re-repaired the roads in Joaquin City, so that the roads in Joaquin City have basically guaranteed that there will be no mud on rainy days, and at the same time, the construction of underground waterways in Joaquin City has also been completed in the second phase, so that the entire sewer project has covered all the urban areas within the second city wall of Joaquin City, and is also further expanding to ensure the demand of Joaquin City for the underground sewer system, which is undoubtedly very difficult to do. After all, the population growth rate of Joaquin City is not a slow upward slope at all, but a straight rising straight line, and it is impossible for the city not to collapse at this rising rate.

Therefore, for more than a year, although the scenery of the whole Joaquin City is very beautiful, the taste of the whole city is enough to make people just be visually brought by the beauty, swept away in front of this smell, especially in the summer, the whole Joaquin City is a large thatched toilet, as long as you go out, everyone almost wears a huge cloth mask, to ensure that they will not be smoked to death by this smell.

At the same time, this smell has also promoted the development of the perfume field, many people originally did not spray perfume on their bodies, but now many people, whether men or women, before going out, will spray some perfume on their cuffs and necklines, in order to ensure that the smell of their bodies will not collide with others, but also maintain a good mood for the day, which also makes the flower breeding industry in Huajin City has made great progress, among which tulips and roses have developed a certain scale.