The last train left the Liaoning Railway Station and headed for Juyanze, thousands of miles away.

On the newly built Liaoze Railway, ten trains are galloping.

The half-hour sequence of their safety distance is steadily widened to ensure the safety of each train.

And at the end of these trains, Huo Quzhi was in the carriage.

He was sitting at the table and chair, looking at the picture that was too detailed to be expressed in words.

The rivers, mountains, roads, and villages of the places you pass through are all clearly represented on the map.

Ah Liang sat beside him and explained to him the various signs on the map.

Unlike Ah Liang, he has been in Liaoning for too short a time, and he has not received systematic and professional training in Liaoning's operational thinking.

For a lot of things, you also need to have a deputy on your side to explain.

However, Huo Quzhi is also confident that he will learn these knowledge and things that he has never seen before in a very short period of time.

The sound of the train was very noticeable, but fortunately the stability was much better than riding in a horse-drawn carriage, and the soldiers in the carriage got used to it after a short period of adaptation.

"In other words, it only takes three days to arrive at Juyanze from Liaoning, more than 4,000 miles?"

Huo Quzhi looked at the picture on the table, and looked at Ah Liang with an extremely shocked expression.

The latter was the same, but he still nodded and said: "The data given by the Tiangong Division, plus what City Lord Hu said before leaving, the last general thinks that this may indeed be true." ”

"Two thousand miles a day, unbelievable, unbelievable!"

Huo Quzhi, who has the experience of running thousands of miles, knows very clearly what this speed represents.

If the Han Dynasty had a grain route of this speed, the Xiongnu?

It's so vulnerable!

"It's unbelievable, and the last general has heard that this speed is not the limit, and this is the most terrifying part."

Ah Liang also sighed with emotion, the two used to be Han generals, so they naturally thought of going together.

"Captain Du is really a natural choice, no wonder my uncle finally let me stay, and let you lead the whole army to surrender."

"Yes, General Wei's vision didn't miss, it's a pity."

The two sighed in the carriage, while the train continued to move smoothly at a speed of forty per hour.

In fact, as Ah Liang had heard, these trains in service had been the product of four iterations, and their maximum speed limit was 64 kilometers per hour when fully loaded.

According to the calculation of 20 hours a day, they can indeed be faster, but now, the speed of 40 kilometers per hour is enough, except for the water and coal that pass by the supply station during the journey, three days is extremely abundant.

And on the road of more than 2,000 kilometers, the supply stations can be described as countless.

The locations of these supply stations are all villages and towns set up by Zhang Qi on the grassland, and most of the current personnel live in herdsmen and the families of the prospecting team and the map team under the Tiangong Division.

There are a large number of minerals and production materials on this land, and Zhang Qi, who knew this, naturally made preparations early.

Whether there are enough people to mine is one thing, and it is naturally better to find out first than to rush to find out later when needed.

——

The distant land of the Americas.

Liu Bolun and others have been here for a year and a half.

By the king's orders.

They set out to the Americas and sent horses and mineral information to the Maya.

Its main purpose is to open up a shipping route overseas and transport rare metals from other continents back to China.

Of course, you still need to start with common metals such as copper, silver, gold and iron.

In the Mayan city-state, Liu Bolun's wife had stayed there and began to teach the Mayans to start a friendly beginning, and starting from culture, they could quickly establish a deep-rooted ideology, so that the Maya people could yearn for that faraway country.

As for Liu Bolun and the others, they took the priests and some men of the Maya to further afield places to explore mineral deposits.

The hard work paid off, and they sailed in boats, and it took a long time to find the distribution of minerals on the continent.

Then the next step is to arrange manual mining and smelting.

These two things naturally have nothing to do with Liu Bolun and them.

From the very beginning, the Maya were positioned as the local labor force, and what they had to do was to trade back a large number of cheap minerals from them with the rich and exquisite goods of Liaodi, and transport them back to Yinzhou for unified smelting and then send them back to Liaodi.

Gathering the world's materials, Zhang Qi was bound to concentrate a large amount of wealth on that land in China, and even if his dynasty collapsed in the future, he would ensure that the foundation of the hegemony of the Chinese people would be laid during his lifetime and for the reign of subsequent generations.

In addition to Liu Bolun's team of people who came to the Americas, there was also a team that set off along the island chain in South Asia towards Australia.

They recruited natives all the way to Australia, and had already established a cornerstone on that land, and after Zhang Qi settled his own affairs, he would be able to arrange for some people to immigrate there, just like the development of Yinzhou, and include Australia in the territory.

As for the monkeys that passed along the way, those who surrendered were given a way to live, and those who resisted

Hehe, it just so happens that mining requires a lot of labor.

——

"Your Majesty."

Taiyuan Palace.

Hu Ling knocked on the door of Zhang Qi's office.

"Enter"

Zhang Qi didn't raise his eyes, holding a pen in his hand to sign the documents one by one, make suggestions, and seal them.

"What?"

"Your Majesty, news has come back from the direction of Liaoning, 14,000 people of the Dragon Banner Army have set off, and the established plan is to arrive in Juyanze in three days."

"yes, got it."

"What about Hu Shui?"

"They should have arrived two months earlier."

"The Ranger Army doesn't know at the moment, but at the speed of the Wind Horse (the fifth generation of horses), it should have already arrived."

"That's good."

Stamped the seal, Zhang Qi took a deep breath, looked away from the table, and looked at Hu Ling.

"Come on for the rest, I'm a little tired."

"No."

Hu Ling nodded yes, she wants to be lazy, what else can she say.

Zhang Qi got up, came to the window, and looked at Taiyuan City, which was gradually on the right track.

With the blessing of concrete, Liaodi's infrastructure capacity is very strong, and for the other princes of this era to build a city for a few years or even more than ten years, he only needs about half a year to complete the most important thing in a city.

Walls.

"Whew-"

Stretching his waist, Zhang Qi let out a long breath of turbidity.

He hadn't had much rest for nearly two years, and now that he had completely defeated the more than 600,000 Han troops of the Han Dynasty, his long-tense nerves could finally be eased.

Look to the west.

Zhang Qi smiled lightly.

"Wusun hunting arrogantly, hehe, go to the sick, cherish this last cold weapon war, in the future, the protagonist of the battlefield will change."

(End of chapter)