"We need a railroad from Seattle in the northwest, through the seven central states, and finally to Houston in the south!"

"This 3,500-kilometer railroad will connect all the important cities west of the Missouri River!"

"After it's built, Seattle cargo will reach Houston in just two weeks – and President Lamar of Texas will even be able to eat fresh trout from the Columbia River!"

"With this railway, the Pacific Ocean will be connected to the Gulf of Mexico! The copper ore and iron ore we import from Cuba and Guatemala will be able to bypass the US naval blockade by simply crossing the tiny Gulf of Mexico and unloading the cargo to Houston! ”

"Through this railway, our troops will be able to appear anywhere in our territory within 1 month!" ……

"With the Seattle-Houston Railroad as the backbone, we will also build a Northern Railroad."

"The Northern Railway starts from White Rock City and extends north to White Devil City in North Dakota, with a total length of 500 kilometers!"

"With this railway, we will be able to quickly reach the Canadian border, where Canada will build a southern railway that will stretch from Lake Ontario to Loczen Island in the east."

"That is, in just 3 weeks, we will be able to send supplies to the island of Loczen, and if necessary, even surprise Washington in the east!"

"Canada may not build the Ontario section of the Northern Railroad as promised, but even if the military significance is not considered, the economic significance of this railway to Crowe and North Dakota is huge!" ……

"With Denver as a hub, two railroads extend to the east and southwest!"

"This railroad to the east, which will pass through Choctaw State, will reach the French province of Missouri; The southwesterly railroad would go directly to El Paso, Apache State; ”

"These two railways are like two wings, connecting our two most important allies, Mexico and France!"

"Silver, tobacco and corn from Mexico are extremely important raw materials for us; Cotton, cannons and black slaves from France are also indispensable commodities for us! ”

"We want to make our economic lifeline stronger, and these two railways are also indispensable."

"A total length of 1,600 kilometers!" ……

"To sum up, what we are going to build is a railway network in the shape of 'X'!"

"The total length is about 5,600 kilometers!"

"Looks long, doesn't it?"

"Sounds incredible, doesn't it?"

"You don't think you have the confidence to do it, do you?"

"Turn the next page!" …… After the sound of paper flipping, the turtledove's voice continued.

"What you are seeing now is the railroad plan of our nominal and de facto enemy, the United States of America!"

"Up to now, our enemy has almost 20,000 kilometers of railways!"

"20,000 km! What they have now is longer than the total mileage we planned for a decade! ”

"Moreover, their railway mileage is still increasing at a rapid rate of 5 kilometers per day, and by the time we complete the third five-year plan, our enemy will have nearly 100,000 kilometers of railways!"

"Our garrison on Loczen Island will become much less threatening or even meaningless! The army departing from Florida can reach Washington in just 1 week! In 1 week, our reinforcements can only go to Ontario at this time! ”

"Along the Missouri River, now, both of us have hoarded heavy troops, facing each other across the river!"

"The war hasn't started yet, but that doesn't mean the Missouri River is a place of peace!"

"Our soldiers need to get there on their own legs, and the American soldiers, they sing songs on the train, and they even go back to their hometown once a month to enjoy their family leave!"

"1 kilogram of corn departed from El Paso, and by the time it arrived in White Rock, the price had increased by 5 times!"

"And the same 1 kilogram of corn, transported from Alabama to Richmond, almost the same mileage, will only increase the price by 1 times – if it is by sea, the increase will be even lower, even only 30%!"

"This is our enemy!" ……

"We can not build the railway, but the enemy will!"

"We can trot at a pace that we feel comfortable with, and we can enjoy the scenery along the way, and listen to the British, French, and Russians boast about us that we are developing at a rapid pace, and we are intoxicated and contented!"

"According to the Department of Statistics, last year our fiscal revenue was £1 million, which translates to about $5 million in US dollars, an increase of 30% year-on-year, which is a huge improvement – and our enemies have only grown by a pitiful 10%!"

"It's a pity that 30% of us have less than $1 million, while 8% of the enemy is up to $2 million!"

"Our gap is widening at a rapid pace – since Zachary Taylor became president, America has been moving like a mad dog, and we're still feeling ourselves about our broken feet!"

"When the three railroad networks in the United States are built, centered on Chicago, Memphis and Baltimore, it will be time for its economic development to expand outward!"

"At that point, even if his southern plantations break with it, he will be able to quickly quell the war and take the opportunity to start a second round of westward expansion!"

"At that point, will our allies be our allies or not?"

"The long Missouri River is a difficult line of defense for the enemy, but if the offensive and defensive forces are easy to turn around, how can we defend against it?"

"Relying on doubling the cost every 500 km, what will we do to support the fighting on the Eastern Front?"

"In the Council of Ministers, the most objection I heard was the cost – they all know that money is used to measure the strength of power, and that's good. If we are also measured in terms of money, when fifteen years from now, there is an enemy who is close to $5 billion coming to fight us, what will we use to resist? ”

"Turn to the next page!" ……

"The railroad must be repaired!"

"Even if this White Rock City is demolished and the bones of everyone here are used as sleepers, it must be repaired!"

"The track gauge is 1.6 meters, which is different from the enemy's 1.435 meters!"

"The locomotive is not a problem, the engine can be purchased from France first, and it really can't be run with a horse!"

"Just last month, the survey team organized by Loczen has completed the survey and mapping along the railway line, and I will revise the first five-year plan of the United Indian Emirates to build three additional steel mills, two lumber yards, and an additional railway engineering unit......

"I will set up a planning committee to be responsible for the planning and coordination of major strategic projects across the country, and you will all be members of this committee!"

"Arvada Jankulovsky, you will be the president of this committee, reporting directly to me!"

"Please turn to the last page, about money and people!"