Chapter 93 and the completion of the railway

However, He Xi still vetoed it.

Without him, He Xi felt that the time was not right. Not enough heat.

He Xi knows better than anyone what Ding Xian's fiscal policy is all about? On the one hand, the currency was issued indiscriminately, and on the other hand, the scholars were plundered.

Needless to say, this matter is the indiscriminate issuance of currency. Essentially, the Nanjing banknote is a subsidiary currency of Beijing. Beijing has a way of manipulating him. In this regard, He Xi has a way to plunge Nanjing into a state of economic collapse.

In other words, Ding Xian himself created a time bomb.

And the detonation device is in He Xi's hands.

He Xi wanted to know, did Ding Xian know about this situation?

As for the plundering of scholars on the other hand, there are naturally many aspects. One of the most important links is Ding Xian's purge of the other party's filial piety faction. Thus squeezing oil and water out of the hands of these people.

After all, in the past few years since Fang Xiaoru came to power, he has relaxed a lot about these people. These people have made a lot of money from all sides.

Now Ding Xian will get them out to supplement the state.

Ding Xian also rubbed oil from it. It's just that Ding Xian is very measured in this regard. The big head is in the imperial court.

For the blow of the scholar, He Xi is happy to see it.

even secretly applauded. A gentleman can be deceived in a way. Whether He Xi himself is a gentleman or not, He Xi doesn't know. But his moral standards are very high. To be honest, He Xi has been friends with Ming Dynasty scholars for so many years, and he is very conflicted in his heart.

It is certainly correct to say that the scholars are the most corrupt and depraved group. But they are also the spiritual backbone and ideological core of the Ming Dynasty.

Since ancient times, China has encountered crises, and countless people have sacrificed their lives for righteousness. Sacrifice yourself for the sake of this country, for your beliefs.

These were the most stubborn and opposed of these scholars.

In fact, He Xi wanted to kill Fang Xiaoru very early, if he mastered the violent machine of the Ming Dynasty and killed the world's heads, what could he not do? Wang Anshi changed the law, and when Wang Anshi came to power, he engaged in the technique of conquest and punishment, that is, to get rid of all the opposition.

Later, many New Parties came to power, and they felt that the reason why Wang Anshi failed was that his methods were not ruthless enough. As a result, the party struggle escalated and did not stop.

And He Xi killed Fang Xiaoru, and he couldn't do it.

Fang Xiaoru has no moral shortcomings. For the sake of being honest and honest, perhaps he is not strong enough to control the following, this is a matter of his ability, and he has never been in the same league with these. He is also firm in his belief in Confucianism, but also flexible. He has been trying to integrate He Xi's doctrine into the framework of Confucianism. Neo-Confucianism was transformed.

Even Fang Xiaoru opposed He Xi, not only because he opposed the change of the law, but he really saw many problems, such as the problem of the shaking of imperial power, the development of productive forces, and the reform of production relations caused a series of group problems. Now, with the support of Ding Xian, Jiangning Town has quickly become an important textile town. But many families in Jiangnan are full of grief. After all, many low-level scholars have a common memory, that is, they relied on their mothers or wives to weave cloth in exchange for silver taels to read.

This is not to say that men are not involved in production. Rather, it is the grain grown in the fields, and after some taxes are paid, most of it is the family's rations, which cannot be sold. Cloth, on the other hand, is hard currency.

When the people's cloth was wiped out by Jiangning cloth. The Jiangnan unrest will not be too far away.

There is no way to solve these problems.

But Ding Xian didn't care.

He never thought about solving these problems, he felt that the people who solved the problems would do. After all, the imperial court had tens of thousands of soldiers in Nanjing. The Jiangnan area was originally owned by Zhang Shicheng, and there were almost no people here among the nobles in the imperial court.

On the contrary, there are many scholars who support Fang Xiaoru.

He Xi predicted that Ding Xian was basically preparing to fight a rebellion and re-divide the wealth of Jiangnan. Otherwise, this problem is very difficult to solve.

However, He Xi was eager to see how Ding Xian solved these problems.

He Xi also believes that no matter how many troops there are on the front line. As long as He Xi detonates all these problems. Even if there are thousands of troops, there is only one end.

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Moreover, Ding Xian cleaned up Jiangnan, and He Xi will be in charge of the government in the future, so he is just a good person.

Others can't hold their breath. He Xi was able to calm down.

Just wait.

Wait for a brilliant fireworks.

"The railroad is going to be faster." He Xi said secretly in his heart.

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Dong Shengwei.

At this moment, the railway has reached Dongshengwei.

In fact, after the railway crossed Yanshan, it was originally going to extend to Datong. But in the end, Ge Tiangong conducted many investigations, and finally decided not to pass through Datong, but directly detoured to Monan.

The reason why this is so is because of the topography.

In fact, the original plan was also very good. Datong, which arrived first, followed the Sanggan River valley all the way west and finally to the Yellow River.

This route is the most recent.

But alas, it can't be.

Because this route is next to the border defense line of Shanxi, almost facing the southwest army of Shanxi, a condescending attack. Not in one place, but in many places.

Originally, Ge Tiangong was going to kill Hukou and go around to the north. But he explored carefully and found that the places through which they were all mountains, and how difficult it was to build a railway in the mountains. Ge Tiangong has suffered enough. But if he had the slightest solution, he would not be able to do the same thing again.

So, Ge Tiangong made a big circle, that is, the railway went out of Zhangjiakou and was forced out on the Monan grassland.

There are many places that coincide with the historical Beijing-Baotou Railway, that is, the railway from Beijing to Baotou.

There are a lot of difficulties in this.

The biggest problem is that the grasslands are vast and sparsely populated. It is difficult to have a large supply of manpower. But Ge Tiangong can deploy the army, and he can also transfer more manpower and material resources from the rear. And the railway built by Ge Tiangong. Essentially, it's an improvised railway.

Repair a section, use it immediately, and use the railway to transport the materials from the rear to the front. There have also been some problems of one kind or another because the railway was built too quickly. But today's railways are very slow, and as long as they are not too unlucky, if something goes wrong, it's a minor problem.

The grasslands are not without ups and downs, and it is not without mountains.

But most of the place is relatively flat. Even if there is a hill, the slope is not high.

In this case, the construction speed is quite fast.

That's why it was built so quickly.

Now, there's just a big problem.

That is to build a railway bridge over the Yellow River.

Originally, Ge Tiangong didn't have the courage to mention anything else. Just the two words of the Yellow River, Ge Tiangong didn't dare to have such delusions. But he came to the banks of the Yellow River. That is, in the later Tuoketuo section, he found that the narrowest part of the Yellow River was only one or two miles. Although there are many tidal flats, even Ge Tiangong knows that the Yellow River today may not be the whole picture of the Yellow River, after all, everyone is afraid of the appearance of the Yellow River flooding.

But Ge Tiangong knows better.

He only needs to build a bridge, and it won't even take long to use it, just for the next two or three years.

It is intended for military operations. If the railway can cross the Yellow River and go all the way to Yulin, then in the future battle of Shaanxi, how much logistics advantage Beijing will have, and it can even be said that the victory or defeat has been determined before the war.

That's why Ge Tiangong has such delusions.

And this one thing, Ge Tiangong is also ready to do him.

So, after three months of preparation, Ge Tiangong finally succeeded in building this railway bridge.

It is an arch bridge.

The bridge is more than ten miles long, eight of which are built on the tidal flats, the most important span is about one mile, the arch bridge is a very traditional model, in the style and Zhaozhou Bridge in the same vein, but in the materials are very different.

A large amount of iron is used. It's almost like an iron bridge.

It is also a steel bridge.

This steel-framed bridge is a freak in the history of Chinese bridges, representing the gradual change of Chinese architectural style, although it did not exist for long due to technical reasons, and after a few decades, because of various problems

was demolished.

But it is not forgotten that this is the first bridge over the Yellow River.

Let people really look at the challenge of big rivers such as the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and spread the railway network to more places.

Ge Tiangong didn't know how great what he was doing, and he didn't know this kind of perspective from the perspective of later generations. However, everyone knows that when this railway bridge was opened, it was when the Shaanxi strategy officially began.