At this time, the railway has been laid to the middle of Beihai and Shuanghe City.
It is more than 1,400 miles from Beihai to Shuanghe City.
It has been laid for nearly 700 miles in more than four months.
This speed is already considered very good, but no matter it is Both the emperor and the military were dissatisfied.
Mao Yuanyi had no choice but to urge the Immigration Guidance Bureau to move immigrants faster, urge the steel factory in Shuanghe City to build rail tracks faster, and urge the Ministry of Railways to speed up training of talents, so as to start construction on multiple lines and build the railway.
The railway line from the North Sea to Omsk has almost been explored, but the construction capacity is far from enough.
Mao Yuanyi once asked the emperor if he could lay a monorail first, but Zhu Youxiao refused.
The importance of this railway to Ming Dynasty cannot be overestimated.
He did not want to change from single track to double track in a few years or decades, so he required that the main line must be double track, and only the branch lines can be single track.
In fact, the cost of laying a double-track railway is not twice that of a single track, but the current restriction on railway laying is skilled workers.
With the large-scale immigration of basic labor force, there is actually no big gap.
However, skilled workers cannot be trained in a short period of time, and even opening a school is in vain.
They must be trained on the construction site.
Therefore, Mao Yuanyi can only place his hope on the future, which will get faster and faster, and warns that the construction of railway tracks must be It is necessary to get ahead of the curve so as to prepare for the multi-faceted construction that will follow, so that the construction speed will increase greatly.
Cao Wenzhao now has five divisions in his hands, including one division in Hualong City, one division in Omsk, and one division in Ob City.
He felt that three divisions were enough to control the occupied territory.
After all, the Rakshasa people were all small troops and had been driven far away from Omsk by the Ming army.
So he reported to the General Staff and requested that troops be sent to join the road construction team.
Lu Xiangsheng did not dare to make the decision, but thought it was a good idea and reported it to the emperor.
After Zhu Youxiao heard this, he secretly cursed himself for being stupid.
He seemed to remember that the Trans-Siberian Railway in history was mainly built by the army.
Compared with ordinary migrant workers, the army has better physical fitness and stronger collaboration ability.
Coupled with strict discipline, their execution ability will be better.
Far more than ordinary workers, why didn’t I think of it?
After careful analysis with Lu Xiangsheng, he gave an order to Cao Wenzhao, asking him to allocate two divisions of troops to join the team of repairing the railway.
They just paid attention to regular rotations and patrols after building the railway for a period of time to prevent the soldiers from ending up.
Really become a worker.
After receiving the imperial edict, Cao Wenzhao convened a meeting with the generals to discuss how to let the soldiers build the railway without affecting the soldiers' combat effectiveness.
The generals have long understood the importance of railways to the army.
Now the Ming army has a large number of troops here, but they are restricted by transportation and cannot carry out long-distance attacks.
They are very anxious.
Now we want soldiers to build railways, and everyone supports it.
Although each division has dispatched small teams to explore various places, it is impossible to dispatch too many people, because it is no different from dispatching the entire army.
Even though both Shuanghe City and Heyang have had a bumper harvest, part of the food still needs to be transported from the country, not to mention weapons and ammunition, as well as the farm tools, clothing and quilts needed by the immigrants.
The train can only reach 500 miles west of Beihai, and the rest of the journey must be carried by livestock.
I am used to the transportation capacity of trains, but when I look at the small carrying capacity of cattle and horses, the snail-like speed, and the heavy consumption on the road, I feel very angry.
Moreover, long-term inactivity of soldiers will inevitably affect their morale and make them prone to conflicts.
They are busy with something to consume their energy, and at the same time, the railway can be completed as soon as possible.
Of course, no one will object.
Cao Wenzhao asked each division to divide the soldiers into two parts, one part for normal patrols and expeditions, and the other part to work as railway workers, rotating every three months.
The soldiers who were not on sortie missions had nothing to do after daily drills.
Now the commander asked them to build the railway.
In addition to the original salary and salary, there was also a daily compensation of fifty cents.
It doesn't seem like much, but it's only three yuan a month.
Now three yuan can buy three stones of rice in the mainland.
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After all, the army is no better than the workers recruited by immigrants.
The role of ordinary culture and education is reflected at this time.
The supervisor of the Ministry of Railways just said it once, and the soldiers understood the essentials of work.
After working on the construction site for a day, most of them Most people have already surpassed the immigrants who have been working for almost a month.
The officials of the Ministry of Railways were astonished, while the officers of the Ming Army said with disdain: "They have to learn to read and write every day.
They are not students in a primary school.
Why can't they understand these things?"
Nearly 20,000 Guards soldiers joined the construction of the railway, which greatly accelerated the construction of the railway.
Mao Yuanyi was overjoyed and urged the Ordnance Bureau to increase the construction of steel plants and built two more steel plants near Heyang City and Ob City.
Of course, the steel plants will not be used until at least a year later.
By then , the railway should also be built to Ob, and it will be used in subsequent railway construction nearby.
The line surveyors of the Ministry of Railways have already surpassed Omsk and began to continue surveying to the west.
The Ordnance Bureau even dispatched prospectors to follow the Ming army's teams to other places, focusing on exploring iron ore and coal mines.
These two kinds of ores are too important in the construction of railways.
It is not worthwhile to transport the railway tracks from China and then lay them.
As the route lengthens, the cost becomes higher and higher.
The construction of railways also plays a very important role in immigration work.
The existing northern immigration sites are all located within a hundred miles along the railway line.
Officials from the Immigration Guidance Bureau only select places with better climate, more flat land, and abundant water resources as immigration sites.
Other places with slight flaws are not considered at all.
Don't even look at it.
Now it is not that there are more people but less land, but that there are fewer people and more land.
So of course there will be no immigration to places that are not easy to cultivate.
The Immigration Guidance Bureau’s propaganda also added: All immigration points are along the railway line.
You can reach the railway within an hour at most by riding a horse.
Each immigration point has a dedicated station.
This is still very attractive to those who live in the mountains, so now some people do not need to be forced to immigrate by the court, but first go to the government to apply to immigrate to the railway line.
Of course, for those who are unwilling to immigrate, as long as the government thinks you meet the immigration requirements, they will still tie you up with a rope and throw you into a car and send you far away from your hometown
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