The Missouri River originates on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains near Yellowstone National Park in Montana and is formed by the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison, and Galatin rivers in southwestern Montana.

Its length is more than 4,000 kilometers, about 4/5 of the Yellow River, and the water volume far exceeds that of the Yellow River.

The Missouri River winds its way through the icy mountains of Canada, and as it approaches the U.S.-Canada border, it suddenly stretches out its arms and washes out a vast expanse of the Missouri Plains.

If you have a satellite map, you can see the dense farmland here, nourishing the population of the United States as a super-empire, as the underlying logic of hegemony for the next hundred years.

Chicago, backed by this vast plain, facing Lake Michigan and the connected sea, has become the brightest star of this fertile land, becoming a famous industrial capital.

Today, it has been transformed into a suffocating military fortress, with tensions hovering over the city.

The collapse of the Milwaukee Line was a blow to the British, and the "Great Wall of England", which had been pinned on high hopes, was broken by the Ming almost overnight.

The 150,000 frontier guards were surrounded and annihilated by the troops of the five divisions of the Ming Dynasty, and few escaped.

Marshal Hugh Wells made a hasty speech in Chicago that the will of the British Empire would be with Chicago, and got on the train back to Montreal overnight.

At this moment, he was extremely glad that he had inspected Fort Milwaukee two months ago, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.

At the same time, he also took the genius French officer Xia Fei with him.

Back in Montreal, and even back in London, there's a war of words waiting for him.

Military tribunals and parliamentarians will not tolerate a general who abandons his troops and flees for his life alone.

Unless you have something in your hands.

After all, Hugh Wells is a long-established veteran and naturally knows this.

As for the detailed list of the budget for the defense line, some people absolutely do not want it to be made public.

People who know too much will die, and that's because you don't know enough.

When you know enough, you'll be able to find a way to make your brother have to pull you along.

However, when Hugh Wells returned to the Montreal command and gathered his henchmen to plan overnight, there was no news of the fall of Chicago from the front.

Once again, the Ming offensive came to a standstill.

Just like what happened in front of Milwaukee City half a year ago.

Once again, Chicago's defenses were impregnable, and the rhetoric of the Ming people looking at the fortified city was rife.

Looking at the map, Hugh Wells was puzzled.

But if you know His Majesty Zhu Fugui, you must know that Long Live Lord is looking for a good teacher again.

This good teacher is none other than Zeng Guofan, who has not been in ancient times for a long time.

For Zeng Guofan, Zhu Fugui naturally has no good feelings.

But Zeng Guofan has an advantage, and Zhu Fugui is more appreciative.

This advantage is that he compares dishes.

It is precisely because he compares vegetables that the method he uses to fight dumbly can be replicated.

Zhu Fugui wants to learn from Huo Quzhi and Chen Qingzhi, and fight a chic and elegant battle.

But......

Isn't that not allowed......

Under the absolute industrial advantage, Zhu Fugui felt that he didn't need to do all those bells and whistles, and "hardening the village and fighting a dumb battle" was the right way of thinking.

Thousands of troops and horses avoid white robes and handsome people, but where is there thousands of troops and horses to avoid tanks?

Of course, the "hard village" here does not mean that a fortress should be built in front of the city of Chicago, times have changed.

Refers to infrastructure.

The Ming Dynasty recovered the Great Lakes and Northern Yinzhou in order to find and build a royal paradise for the Chinese descendants for all generations, rather than grabbing a handful and leaving like the Mongols.

Therefore, in this huge land, large infrastructure is indispensable.

Among them, the railway is the most important.

Historically, Sun Wen's "Founding Strategy" was regarded as a joke at the beginning of its birth, but as the stars shifted, gradually, people found that this thing was really not a pure cannon, and it was indeed a bit of an advanced concept, and it was not too much to say that it was far-sighted.

Of course, it is a genius to surpass half a step, and it is a madman to surpass one step, and Mr. Sun's superposition is not two or three steps.

But in any case, the general direction is right.

In the "National Founding Strategy", he proposed to build 100,000 miles of railways throughout China, equivalent to 160,000 kilometers.

However, as of 2021, the operating mileage of China's railways is less than 150,000 kilometers.

From this, it can be concluded that "The Strategy for the Founding of the People's Republic of China" is a fantasy.

But the difference between the railroad and the railway, the train and the train, is huge.

It is not appropriate to use the sword of 2021 to behead the officials of the last century.

What's more, it's only 1873, the last century.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui also wrote a "National Founding Strategy" early in the morning, which comprehensively expounded the grand blueprint for the comprehensive realization of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty.

My Ming Dynasty land from the west of the green mountains, east to Xinxiang, the sun and the moon do not set, summer and winter successively, build a 3 million kilometers of railway, should not be too much?

Zhu Fugui thinks that it is really not too much.

Because Sun Wen is not a cannon, he Zhu Fugui is not a cannon (non-physical).

This is just a misinterpretation by posterity.

These indicators are all references to the contemporaries of Americalika.

If it weren't for Zhu Fugui's Daming to stir up the situation, the Mirican Kingdom would have had 300,000 kilometers of railways in 20 years.

In the decade from 1880 to 1890, the United States built 11,800 kilometers of railroads each year.

In other words, it took the United States only 10 years to build 220,000 miles of railroads, and as a reference, Mr. Sun came to the conclusion that "China, which is similar in size to the United States, has the ability and opportunity to complete the 10-year 200,000-mile plan."

It's just that the huge difference between the Republic of China and Millican in terms of financial resources, industry, talents, and geography at that time made the "National Founding Strategy" remain on paper forever.

But Daming has the ability and determination to complete Zhu Tianzi's version of "The Strategy for the Founding of the People's Republic".

Moreover, the land and strength of the Ming Dynasty far surpassed that of the US imperialists, so it is reasonable that the mileage of the railways built will be ten times that of the US imperialists in this century...... Right?

Probably......

Anyway, people have to have a little dreamland, otherwise what's the difference between it and salted fish?

April 6, 11th year of Dewu.

Noon.

A train slowly entered the Xinlan railway station, which was still not dry.

In the drizzle, the aromas of earth and meadows, mixed with the scents of sleepers, motor oil, soot, are intoxicating.

The train, called "Dongde", is taken from the meaning of "King Qin went east and swept the six countries", and was pulled by a steam locomotive with a design speed of 60 km/h.

Woo woo –

The train sounded its whistle, and the train, which had been swaying for more than ten hours, slowly stopped.

As soon as the wheels stopped, a group of reporters with cameras in their hands and even cameras on their shoulders jumped out of the rear carriage of the train, and from their slightly reddish faces, anyone could feel their excitement at this time when they first arrived in Xinlan.

Xinlan, of course, does not refer to the "Xinlan" that the Xinwai Party hates, but Xinlanzhou City.

This important town in the northeast of the Ming Dynasty will be reborn on the corpse of Chicago.

Reporters from the North American bureaus of the Daming Times, Fengdu Industrial News, Armed Workers Daily, and the New Berliner Zeitung pointed their cameras at the city of Chicago, which was faintly visible in the skyline.

The skyline of this pearl of North America, which the Anglo-Saxon people are proud of, is indeed beautiful, no less than the third- and fourth-tier cities on the west coast of Daming.

Then they turned their camera on the endless farmland.

Because of the war, all these farmlands have been abandoned, and only the workers of the Royal Railways and the soldiers of the Railway Army have cultivated some ridges in their spare time to grow a few fresh vegetables.

Finally, the reporters invariably turned their cameras to the stuffy canned carriages of the train.

A non-commissioned officer wearing a military uniform of [German military uniform, imitation wool, cospaly, windproof, warm, guard, German stick painter, field sketch] military uniform jumped off the train.