Chapter 885 A More Practical Plan
After hearing Luo Chong's statement about the future development direction, everyone felt their blood boiling. They were happy to have an enlightened and ambitious leader. They were able to follow the leader's footsteps and push the Han tribe to glory. This was their lifelong dream and honor.
However, anyone with a little experience in governing could see the current situation of the Han tribe.
The Han tribe is actually not suitable to continue to expand its territory.
First of all, they had just attacked Zhudao. This war consumed too much manpower and material resources of the Han tribe, and these consumptions could not be replenished immediately. They had to continue to transfuse blood to Qiongzhou Island, just like this immigration incident. Don't think about getting feedback from Qiongzhou Island in a short time. It will take at least a few years to stabilize it and firmly control it in the hands of the Han tribe. It will take a generation at most. Luo Chong is absolutely confident that this place can be completely assimilated.
The population of the Han tribe is already stretched to the limit. Just like what Luo Chong just said, the Han tribe has not even occupied the large territory between Hanyang Eight Counties and Takuhai County. It is not that they cannot occupy it, but there are no extra people to migrate here. If you haven't finished digesting the food in your own bowl, don't even think about the food in other people's bowls.
Even if you occupy other places, what will happen?
Send a few soldiers to stand guard every day?
Without people to develop and cultivate it, it is just a useless wasteland!
"Chief, we don't have that many people at the moment! The transportation from Liuyang County to Takuhai County can be fully supported by the mature water transportation. There is no need to waste manpower, material resources and financial resources to build this railway, right?
And even if it is really built, it will be difficult for us to maintain the railway in the large uninhabited area between Liuyang County and Takuhai County.
The high steel production of our Han tribe does not mean that other tribes have the same high production. Such a long railway is placed in the deep mountains and old forests, and it can't be visited for several days. I am worried that those savages will dismantle our rails and use them to make other things." Jing Yan, as the most powerful and experienced county governor present, expressed his different opinions on the spot.
It is a good thing that the chief is determined to expand the territory, but they are really facing a bottleneck now, and they are simply unable to continue to expand outward in a short period of time.
Everything can be built, but population cannot appear out of thin air. Even if you encourage childbirth, you have to wait for those children to grow up, right? !
And Luo Chong was thinking about what Jing Yan said just now, stealing rails? This is really possible. After all, it is iron, which is the most important material in this era.
On a long railway line of thousands of kilometers, let alone the rails, even if you pull out a spike, you can make a small dagger. If you pull out a spring card, you can make several arrows. The rails are even more valuable!
If no one patrols regularly, it is normal for them to be stolen. In fact, Luo Chong also knows this. When he talked to Qubing about forming a special railway corps, he was planning to do this.
However, Luo Chong did not want to carry out such a large project immediately, because as Jing Yan said, it was completely unnecessary.
The transportation from Liuyang County to Tuohai County can be met by the already very mature shipping system. In addition, the flying fish-type express boat that She Xin just presented can even increase the speed of shipping, so the Han tribe does not actually have such a great sense of urgency for the north-south transportation.
Even if a freight railway is really to be built, the east-west section must be built first.
Then I heard Luo Chong say, "I know this very well. I don't want to build a long-distance railway immediately. First, as you said just now, we don't have any extra population to expand outward. Second, even if I ask you to build this railway now, you don't have the ability. Railways are not that easy to build.
"As for railways, my idea is to popularize the rail transit system in mining areas across the country next year, first increase the mining capacity and steel capacity, and lay a material foundation for the construction of longer railways in the future.
"Then, when conditions are ripe, we will first build a short-line freight railway to find experience and reserve talents for workers and managers for the construction of large projects in the future.
"The first choice of my plan is the transportation line from Weishan County to Xingang County. The current land transportation pressure on this section is very high. A large amount of steel, coke, limestone, grain, meat, and daily necessities of the people in Xingang County need to be transported by this road. Now they all rely on horse-drawn carriages for transportation, which is really inefficient, and it takes up a lot of manpower and animal power. It is in great need of optimization and transformation. This is from the demand side.
"Then there is the technical aspect. The distance between Xingang County and Weishan County is more than 100 kilometers long, which is not very long. Moreover, its geographical structure belongs to the plain and hilly landform. There are no rivers, so we don't need to build bridges. There are no high mountains, so we don't need to dig tunnels. At most, we can shovel the small mounds on the plains and compact the foundation, and then we can directly lay the railway. There is basically no technical difficulty.
After all, we have never laid a railway, so we will first find a short line with less difficulty to practice. Moreover, this line is indeed urgently needed for us, not just for show.
I roughly calculated that based on the existing carriage lanes, mobilizing thousands of slaves, and sufficient materials are prepared in advance, it will take about half a year to build this road. Do you have any objections to such a plan?"
Everyone present nodded frequently, saying that they had no objection.
The plan that Luo Chong said was obviously the result of careful consideration. He didn't just slap his thigh without thinking, saying, "I want to build a Beijing-Guangzhou line!" Isn't that nonsense?
There are no skilled workers, no experience, and no one has built a railway. At least the rabbits can touch the eagle sauce, but who can the Han tribe touch? It is not a dream to start a super project right away.
Luo Chong's plan is very constructive. He will first promote narrow-gauge small trains on a small scale in the mines. This will not only increase the production capacity of mining and steel, but also train the first batch of railway workers and accumulate a lot of railway operation experience in use. At least a group of train drivers can be trained, right?
After completing the first step, increasing steel production capacity, training basic craftsmen, and accumulating a certain amount of experience, he will take a low-difficulty heavy-duty railway to practice, which can not only optimize the existing transportation routes, but also accumulate another wave of experience. When these foundations are in place and the conditions are ripe in the future, it will not be too late to consider super projects such as the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, which is a national artery.
Seeing that no one objected, Luo Chong stood up and erased the words on the blackboard again, and then wrote a word and a sentence again.
"Great destiny."
"The accumulation of storage is the great destiny of the world. '
After finishing writing these things, he finished writing and said to everyone, "I plan to change the reign title to 'Da Ming' next year."
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