Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Since the trial production and trial operation of trains and railways in Chengdu last year for several miles, the First Railway Construction Work Group of the Railway Construction Bureau under the Railway Department came to Shuntianfu under the order of Zhu Yuxi to prepare for the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway.

If the railway is built normally, it will take a long time to survey the mountains and rivers and other information.

Based on the skills and experience of the novices like Daming, even though the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is basically built on flat ground, it is not difficult, but it still needs to be inspected for several months or even more than half a year.

However, Auntie Zhu directly took the information of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, which was the earliest built in China in later generations, and asked the "First Railway Construction Group" to refer to it.

This is equivalent to doing questions with standard answers, and the speed is naturally much faster than normal surveys.

As the first railway construction team in Ming Dynasty, the No. [-] Railway Construction Work Corps is full of fighting spirit, from the chief engineer to ordinary railway construction workers.

Because they have all seen the energy of railway transportation from it, and they have also verified railway transportation in Chengdu.

They also know that their names will be recorded in the annals of history because of the first official railway in the Ming Dynasty, and their names will remain in history, fulfilling the lifelong pursuit of many scholar-officials.

When the First Railway Construction Group came to Shuntianfu by water and sea, it was already mid-November. The weather was very cold and even snowed, but they still worked hard without fear.

It only took more than a month to verify the relevant topographical information of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway given by Auntie Zhu.

Only in this way can the actual construction of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway begin on the fifth day of the first month of the second year of Zhaowu.

Although it was verified with the railway data of later generations, the First Railway Construction Group found that it could not completely copy the answer, because the Beijing-Tianjin railway line given by Aimee Zhu, whether it is the town or the water and land environment, is different from the actual situation today. some differences.

After all, there was an interval of more than 300 years.

Therefore, the final route determined by the First Railway Construction Group is: first build the railway between Wanping County, Daxing County, and Tongzhou in the southwest of the capital.

Because the canal from Tongzhou to the capital and the Lugou River on the Wanping side are the main passages to enter the capital at this time.Among them, Guangqumen in the outer city corresponding to Tongzhou has the most people, followed by Guang'anmen in the west, Zuo'anmen and You'anmen in the south.

Although there are Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen in the inner city on the east side, Dongbianmen in the outer city, and Yongdingmen on the south wall of the outer city, they are usually not open to ordinary people.

Although the population of the capital is less than one in ten and people's livelihood is poor, the imperial court currently has no plan to return the capital to the capital.

But since it is building a railway, it is natural to consider the long-term.

Wanping and Daxing are both in the south of the capital. Once the railway between Tongzhou and Tongzhou is completed, it can share the flow of people entering the capital for Tongzhou and connect the west, south and north of the capital.

As for the southern part of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, it is Tongzhou, Xianghe, Yangcun, Tianjin Sanwei, and finally ends at Beitang.

The reason why the end point is not to choose Dagukou, where the Wei River flows into the sea, but to choose Beitang, where the Chaohe River flows into the sea, is because the upper reaches of the Chaohe River (not Miyun Chaohe River) are connected to rivers such as Baoqiu River, Gu River, Wei River, and Wei River. Unlike Tongzhou Canal, Lugou River and other water systems, it connects a large area of ​​land such as Jizhou in the east of the capital.

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By building the terminal of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway in Beitang, Jizhou and other places can be better connected with the capital through waterways, and even connected with Nanjing by sea...

The sound of firecrackers crackled, and the sound of gongs and drums was loud.

After a ground-breaking ceremony in the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing-Tianjin Railway officially started construction!
In addition to Du Yinxi and Zhang Kuang leading a board of civil servants present, Du Yinxi also transferred a battalion of frontier guards from the supervisor (No. 14 town) to guard the place.

The remaining few gentry landlords and ordinary people in Wanping County were also invited by the magistrate to watch the ceremony.

This is the suggestion of the Railway Construction Group to avoid misunderstandings about railways and trains by the local people in the future.

Speaking of it, it was difficult for later generations to build the first railway in China. It is said that the complete plan was put on hold by Lafayette for more than ten years due to various reasons.

Obviously Li Hongzhang was going to build the railway during the Westernization Movement, but it was delayed until after the Sino-Japanese War, and it was not completed until the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded the capital...
The situation in Daming today is very different from that at that time.

After successively experiencing the pseudo-shun and the pseudo-Qing's entry into the capital, and then the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, the population around the capital was not even one out of ten, which is not related to the word "densely populated". No matter whether the railway occupies fields or graves, there are no people. Dare to object.

As for the gentry and landlords, even if they did not die or flee in the previous wars and natural disasters, a large number fled north because they shaved their hair and changed clothes and left money and rat tail whips.

It's just that those people didn't really escape, but most of them were caught by the Ming army and became prisoners.

Therefore, even though Wanping was once a county near the capital, there are no more than five or six gentry and landlords present.

These few escaped all kinds of disasters by fleeing to the nearby mountains or the south.

At this time, I saw tens of thousands of railway workers recruited by the Railway Construction Bureau from the industrial garrison, armed with hoes, picks, shovels and other tools, digging the railway foundation on a long line two or three miles away from the official road from Wanping to Daxing. Spreading away, the momentum is like opening up the world, and one can't help showing curiosity and shock.

"What kind of road is this railway? Only the section from Wanping to Daxing will cost tens of thousands of young people?"

Another person couldn't help sighing: "I'm afraid that when Emperor Sui Yang excavated the Grand Canal, the momentum was nothing more than this."

"Hush!" The friend next to him hurriedly reminded this person, "Brother Zhang, be careful!"

The gentry surnamed Zhang also realized that Emperor Sui Yang should not be used as a metaphor for the current emperor, so he looked around nervously, seeing that most people were paying attention to the shocking construction scene, and few people noticed his words, so he was relieved.

So I quickly thanked my friend: "Thank you brother Geng for reminding me."

Geng Xin said: "The year before last, you and I fled together to take refuge in Tianmen Mountain. Now that we finally returned to Wanping, we should support each other."

Zhang Rui nodded, "It should be so."

Geng Xin said again: "I heard that this railway needs to be paved with iron, which is much more convenient than the brick and stone road. I also heard that it is specially used for a kind of flaming cars. I don't know if it is true or not."

"Pave the road with iron?" Zhang Rui was shocked. "How can the court be so extravagant? Even if there is too much iron to use, it doesn't have to be like this? Besides, isn't it afraid of being stolen by using iron to pave the road?"

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Geng Xin said with a smile: "Is it so easy to steal things from the court? Even if you steal them, I'm afraid it will be useless."

Zhang Rui was stunned.

Indeed, since the imperial court dared to pave the road with iron, it would probably send people to patrol along the road and severely punish the thieves.

If the first piece of iron will be beheaded and ransacked, who would dare to think about it?
What's more, the price of Daming iron is not high now, it is very close to the people, and it is even cheaper than during the reign of Chongzhen.

Looking at the military power of the imperial court now, it is not ordinary scary.

Didn’t you see that those gentry and landowners who shaved their hair and changed their clothes and tried to escape from the prison when they were pseudo-qing obedient citizens are now criminals, and they are helping those railway workers on the railway construction site?

It's embarrassing to talk about it.

The puppet Qing Dynasty ruled Beizhili for more than a year, and those who wanted to survive were basically forced to shave their hair and change their clothes.

But after the Ming Dynasty conquered the capital, they only arrested those who fled north and tried to escape outside the customs as prisoners.And most of these people are gentry and landlords. After all, ordinary people are not well-informed and have no capital to run away.

As for those who stayed in the local area, as long as they lost the ugly money rat tail whip, the imperial court would not punish them.

I remember that in November and December last year, the price of wigs in Beizhili skyrocketed, and many craftsmen and businessmen who specialized in this industry made a lot of money.

But so many people need wigs to cover their ugly hairstyles, how can normal wigs be enough?Therefore, in the end, horses, mules, and donkeys all over the country fell into bloody mold, and all the hair on their bodies that resembled human hair was cut off.

Nowadays, when some outsiders come to Beizhili, they often see several strange faces. One of them is that the mules, horses and donkeys are all bald and ugly.

But even if mules, horses and donkeys contributed their hair, the wigs needed by the remaining people in Beizhili were still far from enough.

In addition, the price of wigs has been soaring like a monkey, which has caused many poor people to be unable to afford wigs. In the end, they can only cut off the ugly and ugly money mouse tail whip.

However, in order to completely eliminate the traces of the money rat tail whip, some of them simply shaved their big bald heads.

Fortunately, at this time, Du Yinxi, the governor who came to preside over the military and political affairs of Beizhili, also issued a court decree - anyone who had shaved their hair and changed clothes, as long as they did not escape from the north and surrendered to captives, they only need to ban money Rattail braids and wearing back to the common people's costumes of Ming Dynasty will suffice.

As a result, more people shaved their heads with peace of mind.

In the past month or so, many people have grown a little hair, but they are still far from returning to the old bun.

This has resulted in the second biggest grotesque appearance in Beizhili—many people have bald or cropped heads except for hats or turbans.

Daming: I help my wife be the empress