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"Horay, why did you come out?" Just as Huang Sheng was about to enter the door with Zhan Tianyou, the tall Horay greeted him from inside the door. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hehe, Prime Minister and Minister Zhan, it was the young master who knew that you were coming, so he specially asked me to come out to greet you!" Huo Lei replied with a smile. As the behind-the-scenes leader of the Huo Family Army, and also the core of the increasingly powerful armed force of the Huo Family Army, Huo Shan traveled, of course, there were indispensable security personnel around him, but Huo Shan thought that the army was too eye-catching, so the people responsible for guarding the safety of his trip were all replaced by the secret guards directly under the Huo family. Moreover, just now, when Huang Sheng and Zhan Tianyou were greeting, there were already secret guards guarding the door and knowing them to go in to report the news!

"Let's go, Horay, take us in!" Huang Sheng asked.

"Okay, Prime Minister Zhan, please come with me!"

Stepping through the gate and following the winding corridor, the three of them walked straight to the lakeside pavilion located in the middle courtyard. Since the Huo Jiajun completely occupied the Nanyang Islands except the Philippines, this kind of garden with a strong cultural charm of the south of the Yangtze River in China has appeared more and more in the territory of the Huo Jiajun!

"Teacher, Mr. Cheng, why do you have time to come to me today!" Huo Shan stood up and asked with a smile after handing the fishing rod in his hand to the guard next to him.

Hearing this, looking at Huo Shan's thin shirt and short coat, wearing half-pull pants on his legs, wearing a pull-up board on his feet, and wearing a straw hat, he looked idle and carefree, Huang Sheng couldn't help but say angrily: "We are busy for you all day long, but you are so idle here!"

"Zhan Tianyou. I've seen the young master!" Although he has been the Minister of Railways for several years, Zhan Tianyou did not dare to count Huo Shan like Huang Sheng, but owed it respectfully.

"Mr. Chengcheng. You don't have to be polite! Teacher, please sit down! Taste it, this is the big red robe of Wuyi Mountain that I made for you!"

The gentleman loves to drink, coupled with the leadership of Huo Shan, the leader, so the Huo family's army, high-ranking officials on both the military and political sides, and even many businessmen love the things in this cup. Therefore, as soon as I heard that this teapot is a Wuyi Mountain big red robe that is rarely drunk several times a year. Huang Sheng and Zhan Tianyou's eyes suddenly lit up.

Seeing this, Huo Shan smiled faintly, and then from the tray in the center of the stone table. Picked up two purple sand teacups, poured a cup for the two of them, and as the hot and pale yellow tea came out of the pot, a faint and penetrating fresh fragrance began to diffuse.

"Wuyi Mountain's big red robe. Sure enough, it is worthy of being the 'king of tea'. Sure enough, the fragrance is mellow, which makes people have an endless aftertaste!" Picking up the teacup in his hand and sniffing it gently, Huang Sheng closed his eyes, looked intoxicated, and said with a sigh, "It's a pity, it's too little!"

"Huh. If it weren't for the fact that little bit every year, Wuyi Mountain's big red robe probably wouldn't be as attractive as it is now!" Huo Shan said.

"Hmm. What the young master said!" Zhan Tianyou, who was sitting on the right side of Huo Mountain, echoed with a smile.

Looking at Huang Sheng, who was holding a teacup and slowly savoring it in small sips, Huo Shan smiled, turned his head to look at Zhan Tianyou, who was sitting next to him, and asked, "Mr. Cheng, how is the work of the Ministry of Railways completed? Is there a second five-year railway construction plan?"

Hearing this, Zhan Tianyou put down the teacup in his hand and replied solemnly: "Young Master, I came here today to report these things to you!" As he spoke, he turned around and took out a thick stack of documents from the briefcase he was carrying with him and put them in front of Huo Shan.

"Although there is still a year to go, and the first five-year plan we formulated at the beginning has not yet ended, but up to now, the Ministry of Railways has completed the plan ahead of schedule, the construction plan of 30,000 kilometers of railways in five years, and now there are a total of 98,682 kilometers of railways in the entire Huojiajun territory! If we also count the railways we built in the Qing Dynasty, then the total mileage of our railways will exceed 100,000 kilometers, reaching 101852 kilometers, and surpassing the United States, Britain, Countries such as France and Germany have become the countries with the longest railway mileage in the world!" Looking at the high-spirited look on Zhan Tianyou's face, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile and nodded.

In fact, in the past five years, the total length of nearly 100,000 kilometers of railways in Huojiajun's territory is that in addition to the more than 30,000 kilometers of railways built by the Ministry of Railways in recent years, most of them are railways built by Americans in the states east of the Mississippi River.

From 1865, after the end of the American Civil War, the domestic recovery of the stable American economy and industry developed at an astonishing speed, and with the development of industry and the development of the western states, the total mileage of the railroad began to blow out unprecedentedly, and the construction rate of more than 10,000 kilometers per year developed rapidly, by 1880, the total mileage of the entire United States has reached 93,301 kilometers! In 1882, on the eve of the outbreak of the Sino-American war, along with the afterglow of the great development of American railroads before the great economic crisis, the number exceeded 100,000, reaching 104,520 kilometers!

Among these railways, there are 5,982 kilometers of railroads in New England, 15,872 kilometers in the central states, 14,778 kilometers in the southern states, 52,589 kilometers in the western states and regions, and 4,080 kilometers in the Pacific Coast states and regions. The land in the United States is now occupied by the Huo Jiajun and has begun to divide the prefectures and counties, and the land defined as the occupied land is the western states west of the Mississippi River and the Pacific Coast as originally defined by the United States geographically, so the total mileage of the Huojia Army has more than doubled, and only one American province and city has 56,669 kilometers of railways.

However, these nearly 60,000 kilometers of railways are all standard railways, which are not the same as the broad gauge railways currently used by Huo Jiajun, so they need to be further transformed before they can be incorporated into Huo Jiajun's railway management system.

"It's been almost five years, and we have only built less than 5,000 kilometers of railways within the Qing Dynasty?" Huo Shan asked with a frown.

"Yes, young master, more than half of the more than 4,000 kilometers of railways are in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and the remaining 1,000 kilometers are in Guangdong Province, and there are no railways built by us in other provinces and cities!" Zhan Tianyou said.

"It seems that I still underestimate the feudal conservative forces within the Qing court!" Huo Shan said with a sigh, before he was reborn, when he was in high school, he had read more than once in his history textbook that officials, feudal landlords and peasants in the Qing court obstructed the construction of railways on the grounds of destroying dragon veins and feng shui, and sometimes even destroyed railways and stole railroad tracks, which seriously hindered the construction of China's railways.

At that time, he still felt a little incredible, and even felt ridiculous for the ignorance of the society at that time, but when Huo Shan was really in this era, he really realized how powerful this feudal conservative power was, even if he had secretly controlled Fujian, Most of Zhejiang's rural areas and towns, and even some prefectures and counties, plus the help of his father-in-law's family, who was the son of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, only built more than 3,000 kilometers of railways in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in five years, while Britain and France, which are not much different from these two provinces, each have nearly 20,000 kilometers of railways.

He sighed secretly in his heart, Huo Shan knew that if he wanted to change this situation, he could only really bring these places under his rule like the Nanyang Islands, otherwise he would have to wait slowly for Minzhi to open early!

"In the second five-year plan, don't do the construction plan of the internal railway of the Qing Dynasty first!" Huo Shan looked at the information in his hand and said with a calm expression.

Hearing this, Zhan Tianyou looked stunned, and Huang Sheng, who was drinking tea next to him, also put down the teacup in his hand and looked over. You must know that although Huo Jiajun has not yet overthrown the Qing government and set the military plan of China's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, the entire Huo Jiajun has both the military and the government, and even some wealthy businessmen within the Huo Jiajun, as well as many students, workers, and peasants, have already regarded Huo Jiajun as the next replacement of the Qing government!

Therefore, the cabinet will unconsciously take the Qing government into account in the formulation of any economic, political, industrial, educational, and medical plan for Huo Jiajun, and in particular, the construction of railways that have a bearing on the national economy, the people's livelihood, and national defense is the most important thing! This time, Huo Shan suddenly wants to exclude the Qing government from the second five-year railway construction plan, does that mean that the military action to overthrow the Qing Dynasty has been put on the agenda?

Thinking of this, whether it was Zhan Tianyou or Huang Sheng, they all looked at Huo Shan with bright eyes, and their faces began to show a slight excitement. As sons and daughters of China, although the two have studied in Europe and the United States since childhood, they still have the Confucian idea of uniting the family, governing the country, and leveling the world in their bones, especially the decline of modern China, which has strengthened their ideal of serving the country and revitalizing China. Although the Huo family army is developing rapidly now, and after winning this battle of the Americas, the scale of the territory is only slightly inferior to that of the Qing Dynasty, no matter what achievements they make, in the hearts of Huang Sheng and Zhan Tianyou, they will never be able to replace the status of the land of China in their hearts!

Looking at the expressions on the faces of the two, Huo Shan smiled faintly, "We've been delaying for almost six years, and it's time to settle the Qing government!

"Great! This day has finally arrived!" Zhan Tianyou looked excited, and couldn't help but shout! In comparison, Huang Sheng, who was nearly fifty years old and had a more calm temperament, also took a few breaths hard before calming down his boiling mood.

Looking at the appearance of the two, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile faintly, although he already had a plan to overthrow the Qing government after the end of the Sino-American War, but he also understood that at this time, the Qing government that had not yet experienced the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War was not lost, and there were Western powers such as Britain, France, Germany, and Russia around him. )