Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1962, Changcheng Railway is about to be completed

Sichuan Guangyuan.

With the construction of the Changcheng Railway, Guangyuan has become more and more lively. People come here almost every day, wanting to see when the railway that is about to be completed can be repaired here.

As long as the railway reaches Guangyuan, it basically means that the most difficult part of the construction has been completed. The road from Guangyuan to Chengdu is very flat, without any high mountain barriers, and the construction can be completed very simply and quickly.

People in Sichuan have waited too long for this day.

In order to build this railway, Sichuan people dispatch tens of thousands of people to help build the railway every year. Whether it is carried on their shoulders or carried on their shoulders, or cut with knives and axes, between the stretching and steep mountains and rivers between Daba Mountain and Qinling Mountains, Sichuan has been Hundreds of thousands of strong men were dispatched to help build the railway.

For the railway, Sichuan people donate spontaneously, ranging from gentry and landlords to ordinary people. Donations are raised every year. The first batch raised 2000 million taels of silver. Since then, millions of taels of silver have been raised every year. Used to build railways and roads.

Since the exploration began in the 6th year of Hongzhi, the construction was officially started in the [-]th year of Hongzhi, and now it has been the [-]nd year of Hongzhi. Counting the time, it has been nearly [-] years.

With the joint efforts of a large number of construction machinery and tens of millions of people in Sichuan, this unprecedented railway will finally be completed.

Yang Tinghe brought a group of Sichuan gentry to Guangyuan, and came to the forefront of railway construction, which can already be seen clearly here.

It only needs to pass through the mountains in front of you, and the railway can be built to Guangyuan, and the railway from Chengdu to Guangyuan has been completed early, and it will be officially built after the completion of the railway section in front of you. Completed, from now on, people from Sichuan no longer need to shout that the road to Shu is difficult.

"It's not easy, it's not easy!"

"We Sichuan people sacrificed too much to build this railway!"

Looking at the mighty army of railway construction, Yang Tinghe couldn't help sighing.

There are people from Sichuan who are building railways all over the mountains and plains in front of them. They started clearing the roads in advance, planning routes, assisting in the exploration of routes, repairing bridges and paving roads, etc., almost all the hard work and tiring work, they rushed without complaint or regret.

Behind them is the railway construction team dispatched by the imperial court. With the assistance of a large army of Sichuan people, they have become more handy in building the railway.

Trucks, excavators, bulldozers, drilling rigs, etc., all kinds of engineering equipment roared, and the roar echoed continuously in the mountains.

Look at the steep mountains and rivers around, there are many mountains and rivers, ups and downs, until the end of the field of vision, all are tall mountains and rivers.

Between the mountains and rivers is a mountain valley with few people and no apes. It is steep and straight, and the abyss is cold. It is simply unimaginable. What kind of perseverance, huge manpower and material resources are needed to build a road in such a place.

But what seemed impossible has become possible.

The mountains and valleys are connected by spacious bridges, and the tall pillars are like Monkey King's golden cudgels, standing in the mountains and valleys, supporting the spacious and flat roads.

In the tall mountain range, a tunnel passes through the belly, turning the impassable mountain range into a fast shortcut. The latest electric lights are installed in the tunnel to brighten up the dark tunnel.

No one knows how many bridges have been built or tunnels have been drilled along the way.

Everyone just buried their heads and worked hard silently, bit by bit, step by step, and kept moving forward slowly.

During the whole process of building the railway, hundreds of Sichuan people sacrificed their lives and left their youth forever among the mountains and rivers.

Thousands of Sichuanese became disabled and lost the capital they depended on for survival. However, from the beginning to the end, no Sichuanese said they would give up.

The elder brother sacrificed himself to build the railway, and the younger brother stood up again. The disabled returned to their hometowns and were treated like heroes. They are the role models and heroes of Sichuan people.

It is also because of the spirit of hundreds of thousands of Sichuanese who are not afraid of sacrifices, hardships, and hardships that they were able to transfer this railway that was planned to take more than ten years to the soon-to-be-repaired railway in just six years. Pass.

The engineering team of the imperial court repairing the railway, when they were resting, the Chuanwazi were still working hard. They used machines, and everyone used traditional shoulder poles, chisels, and crowbars to do things.

The spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and hardship is also moving, so that people on the engineering team often work overtime to speed up the progress.

For the construction of Changcheng Railway, Chuanwazi will try to solve any materials needed in the first time, such as food, tools, machinery and so on.

Even in order to speed up the progress of the project, everyone tried every means to raise money and hired people from Daming Electric Company to connect the railway to electricity first.

With electricity, I can work overtime at night; with electricity, I can use more tools. I don’t know how many expensive electric drills came out first.

Expensive electricity can only be used by people in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and the poor Sichuanese need to save more money to ensure the electricity demand of the railway construction side.

"Yeah, it's really too big!"

Next to Yang Tinghe, Ma Hao, the chief minister of Sichuan, also nodded and said.

As the parent officer here, he has been responsible for helping to raise money, organize manpower, raise supplies, etc. over the years. He knows how much the Sichuan people have sacrificed to build this railway.

Those who are rich give money, those who are strong give strength, and those who have things give things. Everyone saves money and raises tens of millions of taels of silver. There are only various tools, food, supplies and so on. It is difficult to count, and I don't know how many poles have been used.

Sichuan is not rich. Compared with other places in Ming Dynasty, Sichuan can even be said to be very poor.

Due to the extremely inconvenient transportation, it is very difficult for Sichuan to communicate with foreign countries, let alone the trade of goods.

When cars in other parts of Daming had already filled the streets and started to run, there were not even a few cars in Sichuan, because the cost of transporting a car in was many times more expensive than the car itself.

It is difficult to transport goods from Sichuan, it is also difficult for foreign goods to enter Sichuan, and the road to Sichuan is difficult to reach the blue sky. This is definitely not a joke, especially for those large and heavy goods, etc., it is extremely difficult to transport.

These all determine that it is very difficult for Sichuan to develop and become rich.

Traditional agriculture can't make people rich at all. No matter how hardworking they are, they can barely have food to eat. The land of abundance is fertile, but the income of ordinary people from farming is very mediocre.

Compared with other places in Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to get rich just by farming.

When the annual per capita income in the Beijing-Tianjin area was tens of taels of silver, the per capita income in Sichuan remained at the previous level, and it would be good to have a few taels of silver left over a year.

When cities in other places developed rapidly and factories and commercial firms sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, it was difficult to transport machines in Sichuan because of the difficult roads and inconvenient transportation. Even if they were transported in, the products and raw materials produced by this factory Waiting and difficult shipping.

Therefore, Sichuan has always been the same as before the Ming Dynasty, with traditional agriculture as the mainstay, and the strong winds of capitalism and colonialism are firmly blocked by mountains and rivers such as the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains.

People from other places can immigrate to overseas and territories outside the customs on a large scale, but the number of people who can emigrate out of Sichuan is very small, because it is too difficult to get in and out.

The traffic has seriously hindered the development of Sichuan, making the development of Sichuan far behind other places in Daming, and it also made the children of Sichuan hold a sigh of relief.

They are as hardworking, hardworking, and frugal as people in other parts of Daming, but because of poor traffic conditions, the gap is getting bigger and bigger.

Therefore, the railway must be repaired, no matter what, no matter how difficult it is, the people in Sichuan must work hard, otherwise when will Sichuan truly develop?
Right now, this railway is finally going to be completed. From then on, the natural moat will become a thoroughfare, and the rolling tide of the times will sweep across. Sichuan will also ride the wave of rapid development of the times and undergo earth-shaking changes.

PS: Historically, in order to keep the railway, people in Sichuan launched the famous road protection movement~
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