Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1784, change people if you don't have the ability

Inside the Study Room of the Minister of Qianqing Palace in Beijing.

"Your Majesty, Sun Pan, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, and Qiu Ye, the head of the Ministry of Industry, and other officials responsible for the construction of the Changchun Railway have sent a telegram saying that it is impossible to complete the railway to Chengdu, Sichuan."

"I request His Majesty and all the princes in the court to reconsider this matter!"

Yang Yiqing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, passed the telegram from Sun Pan to Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi read it carefully. In the telegram, Sun Pan, Qiu Ye and others described in detail the difficulties of the Shu Road and the difficulties faced in building the railway. They believed that it was impossible to build a railway in such a place. things.

And even if the railway can be built, the cost will probably be very huge. It is not cost-effective for the court to build a railway with money.

At the same time, he also bluntly stated in the telegram that only by walking on the road will he know how difficult the road of Shu is, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. Reaching the sky, not to mention building a railway, is simply impossible.

"You all have a look."

After Emperor Hongzhi finished reading it, he ordered people to show the telegram to Liu Jin, Wang Shouren, Qi Zhong, and Han Wen.

After Liu Jin finished the telegram, he read it carefully, and after reading it, he remained silent, and handed the telegram to Qi Zhong, Wang Shouren and the others to read.

The road to Shu is difficult, how can I not know?

He also said to take a trip in person. It’s not that I have never been to places like Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan. I know all about the steep mountains and rivers and the extremely undulating terrain. The transportation is inconvenient, so we can mainly build such a railway.

If the Land of Abundance can open up the veins of external traffic, then the entire Southwest of Ming Dynasty can become rich and stable, just like later generations, with the rise and rapid development of Chengdu, the economy of the Southwest is centered on Chengdu, Sichuan, and is booming. developed.

The most obvious point is that in the past, there were a lot of people who went out to work in Sichuan, but with the development of Sichuan and Chengdu, the number of people who went out to work has decreased a lot. Everyone can find a job in Sichuan, and the whole Southwest is also developing extremely rapidly. .

In the Land of Abundance, the importance of the Sichuan Basin is extremely important to the entire Ming Dynasty. When the Sichuan Basin is done well, it will also be a super big granary, a land of fish and rice.

Now Sichuan has a very large population. According to the census of the Ministry of Households of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Sichuan has exceeded 800 million, which is definitely a province with a large population.

However, due to the extremely inconvenient transportation in Sichuan, the population of Sichuan has no way to migrate outside the customs and overseas on a large scale like other provinces. They can only continue to live in Sichuan. As a result, the conflict between people and land in Sichuan is still very sharp. The gentry and landlords etc. occupy a large amount of land, but the real farming farmers have no land of their own and live in hardship.

There is no way for people from other places to work in big cities, so the places like Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan can now be said to be the poorest places in Ming Dynasty.

The traffic conditions here are really bad, people can't get out, and outsiders can't get in.

Factories, workshops, commercial firms, etc. in other parts of Daming have already taken off, developing extremely rapidly, but in Sichuan, the development is very slow, because it is difficult to transport machines from outside, and people who know technology are unwilling to come. Here in Sichuan.

Because you can make a living anywhere, and you can live a pretty good life, so there is no need to go to Sichuan to suffer and suffer.

In a relatively closed environment, Sichuan's foreign goods and information exchanges are very slow and very few, and its development will naturally lag behind, and it is not even comparable to many territories newly included in Ming Dynasty.

The railway must be built, and the development of Sichuan will be opened up when the railway is completed.

A large number of surplus population in Sichuan can continuously migrate overseas and other provinces outside the customs, and Sichuan itself can also develop rapidly.

The development of Sichuan can also drive the development of the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan-Chongqing region. If Chengdu can become an emerging industrial city like Tianjin and Songhu, it will naturally attract a large number of people from the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan region to work, live and settle in Chengdu. .

Difficult, definitely difficult!
But it's not really impossible to build. Internal combustion engines have come out, and all kinds of engineering equipment and machines have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Digging holes in mountains, building bridges and paving roads can also completely open up a road. Now the infrastructure technology has achieved great development.

There are reinforced concrete and all kinds of mechanical equipment. Liu Jin didn't believe that even a railway to Sichuan could not be repaired.

The others also passed each other to read the telegram sent by Sun Pan and others, and they were all thinking about it.

"Your Majesty, I think that it is because the road from Sichuan to Sichuan is very difficult that we should build a railway to Sichuan."

"The Land of Abundance, the Sichuan Basin, this is a land of abundance that will not belong to the south of the Yangtze River. Sichuan has a population of more than 800 million. With such a huge population, if the railway is built, a large number of people can be relocated outside the customs and overseas."

"In addition, Sichuan is related to the southwestern region. If the railway is built to Sichuan to drive the development of Sichuan, then the entire southwest can be stabilized. Whether it is the chieftains in Yunnan and Guizhou or the chieftains in Uzbekistan, as long as Sichuan is stable and prosperous, the imperial court can pass If the railway dispatches troops and food into Sichuan quickly, they will not be able to make any waves."

"This is the reason why the imperial court built the Great Wall Railway at all costs, not only for Sichuan, but also for the stability and development of the entire Southwest."

"As for the impossibility of building a railway, I think it's because Sun Pan, Qiu Ye and others don't know much about new machinery."

"Relying on internal combustion engine technology, the Jingcheng Machinery Factory has developed a variety of new machines. These machines have greatly improved the efficiency of the project and made many impossible things possible."

"In addition, Sun Pan, Qiu Ye and others, as officials of the Ministry of Industry, do not think about making progress, and do not learn and understand new engineering infrastructure technology. I think that since they have no skills, they should be replaced by capable people to take charge of this matter and grow into a railway. The construction of the railway, I thought it could be handed over to the School of Engineering and let them build the railway."

Liu Jin was the first to stand up and clarify the importance of building the railway. At the same time, he also bluntly said that officials from the Ministry of Industry such as Sun Pan and Qiu Ye had outdated ideas and little knowledge, and had not kept up with the development of the times.

Looking at Zhong Fan is different. He has done a good job in governing the Yangtze River. He has used a large number of various new construction machinery and built the Jingjiang embankment in full swing.

When it came to Sun Pan and Qiu Ye, they actually said that it was difficult to build the railway, it was impossible to complete, and the emperor had to think about it again, and secretly implied that they had never walked the Shu Road and did not know the Shu Road. difficult.

"Your Majesty, I think what Liu Gong said is reasonable."

"Now there are cars for transportation, and excavators and bulldozers for excavation. Even if you encounter rocks and the like, you can use drilling machines and explosives to dig rocks. All kinds of construction machinery are There are many, and the efficiency is also very high.”

"Zhong Fan, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, called and explained in detail the construction of the Jingjiang levee on the Jingjiang River in Huguang. Such construction machinery."

"It is enough to have a few thousand people, and the speed of construction is faster than the previous speed of [-] people carrying their hands on their shoulders. It is estimated that by the end of this year, all the Jingjiang embankments will be repaired, making the north bank of Jingjiang a piece of fertile land. Woye."

"Sichuan's Shu Road is indeed very difficult, but I believe that with our existing technology and various construction machinery, it is completely possible to build a railway to Sichuan, and even in the future, we can build a railway from Sichuan to Chongqing. , Huguang, Sichuan to Yunnan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places."

Wang Shouren also followed suit.

In order to see the efficiency of the machinery, he purposely founded the Caiyun Textile Factory. Now it has become the largest textile factory in Ming Dynasty. It is famous for its ready-made garments that sell well all over the world. It earns tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.

Therefore, he also spent a lot of effort to study the machinery, and even the power and efficiency of the machinery. At the same time, he was responsible for the construction of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. He has seen the efficiency of a large number of construction machinery. He can build bridges on the Yangtze River. What is impossible?

It is nothing more than digging rocks, building bridges and digging holes. If it is done by manpower, it may indeed be impossible, but if it is done by machinery, it is completely possible.

"Your Majesty, what Liu Gong and the prince said is reasonable, and I also think that since Sun Pan and Qiu Ye feel that it is impossible to complete it, then we should replace it with someone who has the ability to complete this task."

"The development of the railway is related to the long-term stability of our Ming Dynasty and the stability and development of our Ming Dynasty to the southwest. How can we shrink back because of difficulties."

Zhong Zhong also said, Sun Pan, also said that we should think again and again. We made this decision after careful consideration. Otherwise, why do you think it was built into a railway?
Now the situation in Daming is very good. It needs money and money, and it is very stable. Everyone is more united. They are all thinking about building well and governing the country well. If we don’t take advantage of this time to build the railway, who knows in the future What will happen.

Could it be that we have to wait until the court has no money?

Is the court in turmoil?
Or should we wait until the ruling and opposition parties continue to fight for repairs?

PS: Do you think that people are actually the same? When you have the opportunity, you should seize the opportunity to deal with major events in your life, such as marrying a wife and having children, buying a house and settling down, making academic and career progress, and sometimes you miss it Opportunities, when the time comes, all kinds of annoying things will make you concentrate your energy and financial resources on these big things.

(End of this chapter)