There are still nearly a thousand miles to go ahead, and Yao Xingyuan can hardly imagine how to trek to Yubin Mansion on two legs when the weather is getting colder and colder.

He had a lot of silver dollars on him, which his father had given him before leaving.

The poor family is rich, and it is difficult to walk an inch without money when going out.

Now it seems to be true.

He and Li Ziqiang followed many people to refund the ticket, but the Russians were arrogant, saying that the railway was destroyed by the Chinese, so the ticket could not be refunded.

Someone wanted to make trouble, and those Russian soldiers who were not very good-tempered, and who were even more angry because of the destruction of the railway, directly raised their guns and pulled the bolt, and seemed to be about to set fire to the fire if they disagreed.

Now everyone died down.

Yao Xingyuan and Li Ziqiang left the station in frustration.

"What's going on?" Yao Xingyuan asked blankly.

"I don't know." Li Ziqiang was also confused.

Yao Xingyuan gritted his teeth and decided to buy a horse. It's a big deal to wait until I get to the Yubin Mansion and sell the horse again, and it won't be too much to fold some silver.

Li Ziqiang said: "I can't let my brother be trapped, go with you, I know some Soma truth." ”

Yao Xingyuan was overjoyed: "Thank you so much for your help, hey, there are still many good people in the world." ”

When he went to buy a horse, Li Ziqiang really said the Tao.

I also helped from 28 oceans to 26 oceans.

Yao Xingyuan has also ridden horses, and his riding skills are not very good, but at least he can ride away.

Li Ziqiang's smile was very bitter: "Hey, my life is bitter, I have to wade to Boketu Station on two legs." ”

No matter how grateful Yao Xingyuan was, it was impossible for him to pay for a horse.

But seeing that Li Ziqiang's face was full of bitterness, and thinking that he had been helping, he couldn't bear it, so he said: "In this way, let's walk slowly and ride a little bit of each person." By the time you get to Boktu Station, I'm on my way at all speed. There are many wild animals, and we can take care of each other along the way. ”

Li Ziqiang stretched out his thumb: "My brother is really a good man who talks about righteousness." ”

The kind-hearted Yao Xingyuan smiled.

Ahead, as soon as he walked out seven or eight miles, Yao Xingyuan was about to dismount, but was stopped by Li Ziqiang: "I can still walk again, you ride first." ”

It wasn't until a boundary called Ailingou that Li Ziqiang reluctantly got on the horse.

Yao Xingyuan said happily: "The eldest brother has strong feet, and he didn't sweat after walking so far, I shivered with cold on horseback." ”

When Li Ziqiang heard this, he smiled and said: "I play a small horse, then I will ride faster, and my brother will quickly keep up with the hot in the back." ”

Without waiting for Yao Xingyuan to respond, he slammed the horse's belly, and the horse slammed out.

Yao Xingyuan smiled and didn't take it seriously, but he didn't run either, after all, he had the stability of an adult.

There was a sharp bend in front of him, Li Ziqiang turned the corner, and the sound of horses' hooves faded away.

Yao Xingyuan's heart suddenly felt a little unsure, and he finally trotted up.

When he bypassed the sharp bend, he found that Li Ziqiang and Ma were no longer in front of him.

He raised his throat violently, but forcibly told himself: Brother Li is a good person, he will definitely wait for me in front.

After another quarter of an hour, there was still no one to be seen.

Half an hour, out of sight.

An hour passed.

Yao Xingyuan was depressed, he already understood that he had been deceived by Li Ziqiang.

This made him grit his teeth, pity, self-pity for being stupid for a while, and hating Li Ziqiang for being a hypocrite for a while.

On horseback, but there is still his luggage, thanks to the money on his body, otherwise Li Ziqiang would have swept it away.

Yao Xingyuanhe felt Zhao Chuanxin's loneliness in the Siberian wilderness.

He walked alone by the railroad in the great ravine, looking at the forests on both sides that had lost their leaves, and felt desolate.

After noon, Yao Xingyuan was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.

When he walked to the foot of a hill in front of him and saw several families, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and hurried over.

"May I ask, where is this place?"

"It's called the Crooked Neck Tree, how did you walk here? Didn't take the train? If you don't go to the village and don't have a store, you are not afraid of letting the tigers and bears eat them. ”

The name of the Kanwai is very earthy.

But behind this soil, there is a lot of human touch.

For example, three trees, five trees, such as the old locust tree, the crooked neck tree; Erdaogou, Sandaogou, Wudaogou, Huangcao Ditch, Muddy Tangzi Ditch, Xiong Blind Ditch......

Why are these place names there?

At this time, the customs area was sparsely populated, and it was inconvenient to travel. Some people go out when they are young and want to find their hometown when they grow up, perhaps all by combining the characteristics of the place name with memory.

It's like the giant crooked neck tree here, once you see it, you know you're home.

That's why there is a word called - things are people.

Yao Xingyuan gritted his teeth: "Hey, I don't know anyone, I asked someone to deceive ......"

He sulked, couldn't help it, and confided in the stranger.

The man also scolded him a few times, and said, "Then if you want to continue on your journey, you must hurry up, and dare to go to Yalu before dark, where you can stay, and if you have money, you can buy another horse." ”

This time, Yao Xingyuan had a heartfelt eye, and he poured out his words, but his face was full of bitterness: "Where is the money?" I thought that when I got to Yubin Mansion and sold the horse and exchanged it for silver, now it is a problem to eat. Thank you, brother, I'll be on my way right away. ”

In fact, with the money on him, it is not a problem to buy two more horses.

After speaking, he left in a hurry.

……

Zhang Shouzeng really came to Manchuria-Chali to negotiate again.

Yesterday, Putillov was arrogant, Wu Sadi was aggressive, and Horvat and Rudanov were adding fuel and vinegar to the side.

But today, the atmosphere is a little weird.

Zhang Shouzeng found that the other party was preoccupied.

Obviously, they were already seated, but everyone was smoking, and no one spoke first.

After a long while, Putilov slapped the table: "What a bold man, Zhao Chuanxin dared to cut off our telegraph line, he is really looking for death, I think he can't wait to die!" ”

was startled, and Zhang Shouzeng was taken aback.

Song Xiaolian and Huang Shifu looked at each other.

I'm blanching, and it has to be Zhao Chuanxin, and he doesn't dare to do it.

If the telegraph is cut off, the Russians will not be able to dispatch troops, will they rely on post roads to deliver news as in the past?

It's ruthless!

Because Zhao Chuanxin cut off the telegraph line, the destruction of the Trans-Siberian railway has not yet been transmitted to Manchuria.

The news from the Lingdong area was even later, and it also did not come.

Zhang Shouzeng was a little panicked, and secretly scolded Zhao Chuanxin in his heart.

But there was an expression of righteous indignation on his face, and he suddenly got up and said: "Lord Putilov is so unreasonable, slandering people without evidence, I don't think I have to talk about it today." ”

With that, turn around and leave.

A trace of hideousness flashed on Putilov's face, but in the end, he did not give the order to take Zhang Shouzeng.

Song Xiaolian and Huang Shifu also felt that things were far out of their control, and they also got up and left.

The telegraph line in the eastern section of the Siberian region was destroyed by Zhao Chuanxin, but not in the western section.

The Russian court received the news of the destruction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in good time.

Nicholas II was used to his own use, and was furious when he heard the news: "Damn, damn it, who did it, I should have him broken into ten thousand pieces." Order, order, I want you to catch the culprit of the sabotage of the railway, I want to crush him to ashes......"

Don't blame him for being angry.

When the railway was first built, manpower, material and financial resources were not known.

And the importance of this railway to Tsarist Russia is self-evident, and it can now be said to be the economic lifeblood of Siberia.

It is barely feasible to not get through for one day, it is difficult to get through for ten days, and the impact on the economy can be described as "huge" if it is not connected for ten days.

The ministers bowed their heads, not daring to look at the emperor.

Finally, Nicholas II looked at a middle-aged man with long hair, a beard longer than his hair, and impressive blue eyes: "Rasp-Jing, according to your wisdom, do you know who did it?" ”

To others, Nicholas II did not hide his violent mood at all, but he was much more restrained in his tone towards this Raspo-Jing.

Others were silent, but Grigory Efimovich Rasp-Tin, who was called the "mad monk", said calmly: "I saw that the person who sabotaged the railway was Zhao Chuanxin!" ”

He looked to the east, as if he could see through the mountains, through the wasteland, through what was happening thousands of miles away.

Some of the ministers in the palace bowed their heads and pouted disdainfully about this magic stick, some were skeptical, and some were convinced.

For this man prophesied many times, and his words were true.

He also cured the illness of the son of Nicholas II.

The common people, who relished the deeds of Grigory Efimovich Rasp-Tin, said that he could make women swoon, and that his pale blue eyes were lethal to women.

It was also said that his words were so exaggerated that no woman would be indifferent to them.

Many people see him as a religious saint.

Some people think he is a liar.

Nicholas II and his wife trusted him very much and did what he said.

Hearing this, Nicholas II's face turned red: "Zhao Chuanxin? How can this be reasonable, it is Zhao Chuanxin again. Telegraphed Major General Putilov, asked him to lead troops to kill this person, told Putilov, after killing Zhao Chuanxin, transport his body to Moscow, I want the world to see, what is the fate of this kind of Chinese who oppose me! ”

"Your Majesty, at the same time as the railway was destroyed, the telegraph line was also cut off. It will take a while to fix the telegram. Now they want to give the order, either wait for the telegraph line to be repaired, or send people from Ulan-Ude to drive horses along the old post road to deliver the news. ”

The old post roads were terrible, potholed in winter, heavily waterlogged in summer, muddy in spring, and probably better in autumn.

Now it is not even possible to take a train, and it is more troublesome to build a railway than a telegraph line.

Nicholas II asked coldly: "How long will it take to build the railway?" ”

"The damage to each section of the railway is not large, but the distance is long, perhaps, it may take half a month, maybe a month to open ......to traffic," the man replied cautiously.

"What?" Nicholas II was incredulous: "I can't wait a month, I want you to go all out to repair it in the fastest time, and I want to execute Zhao Chuanxin immediately!" ”

Then he turned his head to look at Grigory Yefimovich Rasput-Jing and asked: "A long time ago, you said that you would train a special unit and unite with the Japanese to besiege and kill Zhao Chuanxin, but now that force is available?" ”

"It's not time yet." Grigory Efimovich Rasput-Jing said: "Your Majesty, as I foresee, it is very difficult to kill Zhao Chuanxin with this force now. ”

"Humph!" Nicholas II was angry.

Zhao Chuanxin has been included in his list of deaths.

……

The mortal Zhao Chuanxin went to the school in Yubin Mansion.

He took out the bearskin: "Bayar, you can clean up this skin and use it as a mattress for you." ”

Bayar looked at the bearskin and said in surprise: "It's a man-bear!" ”

Black bears are small, brown bears are large, and the threat to people cannot be whispered.

Zhao Chuanxin took out four more bear paws: "Go back, you stew to replenish your body." ”

This time Bayar was even more convinced that Zhao Chuanxin had hunted a bear.

He rubbed the skin, but did not find the hole of the gun and the hole of the arrow: "How did you kill the bear?" ”

"With a knife."

"......" I have never heard that anyone can kill a man-bear with a knife.

"You pick it up yourself, when you run out of coal, you can go to Yubin Mansion to find someone to purchase, and the accounting office will keep the accounts." Zhao Chuanxin got up and walked out: "If the Russian soldiers attack in the next few days, can you still get on the horse?" ”

Bayar's face was calm.

He didn't ask the reason, just nodded: "I can get on the horse, and I'm ready to meet death." ”

Zhao Chuanxin grinned: "That's great, because I'm never coerced." ”

Coming out of the school, Zhao Chuanxin saw a group of children smoking ice on the steps, and Yao Bing was among them: "Doubao, come here." ”

Yao Bing heard Zhao Chuanxin's voice, stepped on the swirling Bingga, put it in his pocket and ran to wipe a handful of snot: "Master, Gaha?" ”

"You have been clever in the past two days, don't run far, and once someone comes to inform you to evacuate, go to Rebecca immediately."

"Got it, Master."

Zhao Chuanxin saw that the tip of his nose was as cold and red as other children: "Are you wearing the vest I gave you?" ”

"No, Master, it's too hot."

Zhao Chuanxin patted him on the head and told him to play.

Back in Yubin Mansion, Zhang Shouzeng and Yao Jia came together.

The province is still a mobilization system, and new challenges are constantly emerging, and everyone must work together to overcome the difficulties.

We don't do things behind closed doors.

Zhang Shouzeng noticed that something was wrong today, and when he came back, he didn't find Zhao Chuanxin, so he discussed with Yao Jia first.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin coming back, Yao Jia changed her hippie smiling face from the past, and asked solemnly: "Lord Prefect, don't keep us in the dark now." ”

Zhang Shouzeng smiled bitterly: "I'm really afraid that I won't be able to get out of the door today, I'm afraid that Putilov will eat me alive." ”

Zhao Chuanxin looked left and right, and there was only Yang Sang Daxi nearby.

He instructed Yang Sang Daxi: "Go and call the chief card officer of Zhana, the general office of Balaji Nyima, and the general office of Levi to come and have a meeting." ”

In a moment, Zhao Chuanxin's cronies in Yubin Mansion gathered together.

Zhao Chuanxin pulled out the blackboard in his bedroom, and drew three boundaries between southwest and north with a pencil, with Daxing-Anling in the east.

The route of the Dongqing Railway was also drawn.

The route extended to the territory of Tsarist Russia, drawing the T-line of the Trans-Siberian Railway at Chita.

"What have I been up to all these days?" Zhao Chuanxin stuck the line on the blackboard and made a "Bangbang" sound: "I found that Tsarist Russia is increasing troops to Lingdong, and the transportation of weapons and ammunition from the territory of Tsarist Russia is naturally aimed at me." So I took their ammunition depot in one nest, and there were more than a dozen stops, and not a single one was left behind.

But Putilov said to Heyan, don't think that if I stole their ordnance, I thought they couldn't do it.

When I hear this, can I not be afraid? So I went to Ulan-Ude and cut off the railroad tracks of this, this, and these railways, and cut off the telegraph lines.

Now they can't transport troops, they can't transport ordnance.

If they want to fight now, they can only rely on the existing manpower and limited weapons. ”

Everyone gasped.

Is this a task that one person can accomplish?

It's too desperate.

And are you afraid? Have you ever been afraid?

The Trans-Siberian Railway was the lifeblood of Tsarist Russia, and Zhao Chuanxin was cut off from the west, east, south and Lingdong of Chita respectively, so that the south could not enter Manchuria, the west could not contact Novosibirsk, the east could not increase troops from Vladivostok, and the east of Lingdong could not communicate with Hailar.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and if Tsarist Russia really wants to start a war, it can only increase its troops from the ravines of Daxing-Anling, that is, the road guards of these small stations along the way.

Japan launched countless spies to blow up a bridge during the Russo-Japanese War, but failed.

But Zhao Chuanxin completed such a huge project alone, which is incredible.

Zhang Shouzeng's eyes flashed: "In other words, at present, Putilov and they can't receive news from the country, and they can't contact the garrison from Lingdong to Ha-Erbin?" ”

Zhao Chuanxin lit a cigar: "Exactly." ”

Yao Jia knew that Zhao Chuanxin's means were all over the world, and he was more concerned about another thing: "Lord Prefect, where did you put the truncated railroad track?" Where did you put all the ordnance? The rails are all good steel, and the ordnance can't be used by yourself, so you can sell it......"

It's all money.

Zhao Chuanxin took a puff of his cigar: "The rails of the railway in Tsarist Russia have been melted into iron lumps, and I will ask the eldest apprentice and the chief engineer to invent an assembly line for processing wool, and use these steels." The Russians were harvested and processed and then exported and sold to them. As for the ordnance, we will have to process and produce it ourselves in the future. Because there is a worldwide war that is about to start, we may not be involved, but we can supply weapons to countries. We have copper, iron, lead, zinc, gold and silver, clay, building stones, and so on in Hailar, but we don't just have coal mines, and we will mine them together when the time comes......"

Zhao Chuanxin is still conservative, there are still a lot of coal and iron mines in Maozi......

Yao Jia was taken aback, she didn't expect Zhao Chuanxin to secretly make so many plans.

Limited by the thinking of the times, Yao Jia hesitated and said: "Even if there are these mines, how can we have so much silver to mine?" ”

The Qing court personally invested in coal and iron mines, and often went into it for one or two million taels of silver, but the Yubin Mansion did not have this money.

Zhao Chuanxin fell into memory.

He had to pull out the infrastructure economy that he had casually heard from his friends in public officials at the wine table.

Zhao Chuanxin was not sure how much moisture he had heard at the beginning.

However, he must show strong self-confidence.

"Build houses, build bridges and roads, lay telegraphs, lay telephone lines...... We don't do it ourselves, we want to attract investment, invite bids, and the winning bidders advance funds, which is called a fiscal deficit. The local economy, which has gathered the population and stimulated it, will inevitably have a greater tax revenue than a deficit. ”

This was the basic line of regional development in the future.

But the people present still can't figure it out, why can they have a balance in the end, even though they are investing in silver?

Zhao Chuanxin doesn't understand very well.

But he felt that it was feasible to take all the way from Manchuria to Hailar......

Even if it fails, at least the infrastructure is still there, and that's a real benefit.

Except for Hu Da and Hu Er, the rest of them understand practice.

It's a new interpretation of practice that they've never heard of.

At the same time, it takes time to digest.

Yao Jia's head was the most lively, and his eyes flashed: "There are profits and losses in trading, what if the deficit is greater than the tax, what if the loss is greater?" ”

Zhao Chuanxin didn't care much: "Losing money? Hehe, it's really a loss. ”

Zhang Shouzeng asked in surprise: "How to pit?" To grab? ”

Zhao Chuanxin said: "The Russians are greedy and contemptible, and they are among the best in the world. Once the infrastructure drives the regional economy and the territory of Yubin Province prospers, Zhang Heyan will go to Tsarist Russia to attract investment, pave roads and land for free, and let them make money, do you think they will be tempted? ”

The Russians are greedy.

Zhao Chuanxin even planned to buy land with weapons and money in the future, rather than just by force, and history has repeatedly shown the world the greed of the Russians.

Yao Jia put herself in her shoes: "Yes." ”

Zhao Chuanxin grinned: "After they build the factory, we will tell them to collect a one-time business tax for the next ten years." ”

Yao Jia: "......"

This trick is nothing new.

The Qing court often collects future taxes, and then sets up other names to collect taxes in the future, but few people have thought of using this trick to trick outsiders.

This is very Zhao Chuanxin!

It's just that the business tax for ten years is too harsh.

Zhao Chuanxin continued: "Ten years of business tax, this amount is just at the critical value, they either can't take it out, or have no money to continue to operate, we set up a supervision department in advance, and then go to inspect, if the land is not effectively used, we have the right to take back the land, which is included in the government law in advance, but to be secret." When the time comes, we will use ready-made enterprises and mines to recruit domestic businessmen to operate, and the deficit will eventually be filled ......."

If someone else executes, Mao Zi will inevitably blow up his hair, but Zhao Chuanxin...... Fry the hair and dry it.

Zhang Shouzeng thought about it, and suddenly felt cold behind him.

Zhao Chuanxin's every step has been thought about a long time ago, and Zhao Chuanxin said that he would set up a supervision department, but he was waiting here.

What they don't know is that at some point in the future, Chinese people will be cheated a lot of money when they go to Maozi to invest. Zhao Chuanxin returned his body in his way a hundred years in advance, which can be regarded as revenge.

(End of chapter)