Chapter 26 Jingfeng Railway
In addition to the sailors, there were only five people on the Fengtian boat. One of the officers in the head was full of wind and frost. He was wearing seventy or eighty percent new military uniform. His face was very pale, but his eyes were very firm.
When he jumped onto the boat platform from the side, he saw Cheng Huixiang at a glance, but he didn't respect him. He just asked casually: "The third lady is here too?"
His words were suspected of being rude, and Cheng Huixiang had already replied: "I didn't expect that Tingyu has come. I just came back from Shanxi. Because the roads in Yuguan are blocked, I had to walk on the sea."
When Liu Jingxiao heard Cheng Huixiang's words, she immediately understood the identity of the officer. The name of this person was Sun Tingyu, and she was Zhang Buyun's chief of staff. She heard that he was talented but had a very arrogant temperament and was a person who was difficult to work with.
Cheng Huixiang also knew his temperament and introduced Wang Bincheng: "This is the brigade commander of Bincheng and the plenipotent representative of the pass."
Sun Tingyu had no etiquette as a defeated general. He said coldly: "I have long admired Daming!"
Wang Bincheng didn't care either. He said, "On behalf of the elders of Xingcheng, I would like to thank Chief Sun for his kindness."
Sun Tingyu stationed troops in Xingcheng, Wang Bincheng's hometown, two years ago. He led his troops to build water conservancy and roads, and he was very greedy for urban and rural elders. Wang Bincheng's old friends wrote many letters to introduce this matter, so Wang Bincheng said this.
After hearing this, Sun Tingyu showed a smile on his pale face. He said, "Brother Bincheng, I'm really over-the-top. Don't care about small matters."
His eyes saw Liu Jingxiao and Wanyan Yuzhuo, the man and a woman wearing shabby Fengjun uniforms. I don’t know what their origins were, so he asked Wang Bincheng: “Are these two…?”
Wang Bincheng replied: "It's my elder sister and brother-in-law."
But Sun Tingyu pulled down his face and asked Liu Jingxiao: "I would like to ask Daming?"
Liu Jingxiao replied calmly: "Liu Jingxiao, Dingbian Army."
Not only did Sun Tingyu's face become ugly, but his tone was also very ugly: "Is it the Liu Jingxiao who took the lead in deviating from our army?"
Liu Jingxiao has experienced a lot of storms recently, and he smiled and said, "I didn't expect Chief of Staff Sun to remember the name below."
Seeing that Liu Jingxiao didn't like him, Sun Tingyu said in a sarcastic tone: "Captain Liu, I won't pursue your deviant move from the old master...but..."
As he spoke, his face became paler: "Direction of the border army's monthly funds, our headquarters does not issue as usual every month, and does not owe a single piece of money. Why do you attack us in the power to embezzle and embezzle and deduct military pay as a matter of duty?"
Liu Jingxiao's face was also ugly: "Our Dingbian Army only has 10,000 yuan in maintenance fees per month, but there are 3,000 officers and soldiers in total. How can you let us survive!"
After hearing this, Sun Tingyu was shocked. He quickly walked to Liu Jingxiao and asked loudly, "Are you serious about this?"
Liu Jingxiao pointed at the sky as an oath and shouted to the sea: "Waiting for Haitian to prove it, I have been counting 155,000 yuan in military expenditure in the past year, and I will never be able to get a penny or a tiny extra. If there is a trace of falsehood, the sky will hit thunder!"
Accompanied by Liu Jingxiao's shouts, several waves appeared on the sea, and the sound of waves and sad sounds floated into everyone's ears.
Sun Tingyu knew that this was true, so he shouted: "Okay! Commander Liu, after I return to Shenyang, I will find out the truth about this matter and I will definitely give you justice!"
However, in addition to this small storm, the negotiations went smoothly. Sun Tingyu agreed to withdraw from the entire three special areas of Resui Cha, and Zhang Buyun also voluntarily resigned from the position of Rouran's strategic envoy.
Then he talked about the most critical issue. Wang Bincheng said quietly: "The central government spent about 7.5 million yuan to send troops this time. The central government's finances are already very difficult. This money should be paid by your Feng army."
Sun Tingyu's face was still pale and there was no change. His tone was very calm and he said slowly: "We will compensate 9 million yuan in Northeast China."
Wang Bincheng's face was very strange. The 7.5 million yuan was actually a false number. It actually cost about three million yuan. The reserve price given to him was 4.5 million yuan. Unexpectedly, Sun Tingyu automatically increased the price.
At this time, Sun Tingyu continued: "But we need to use this money for designated purposes in Northeast China, and we cannot embezzle a penny!"
Wang Bincheng asked: "What is the purpose?"
Sun Tingyu didn't speak for a long time, and finally spoke three words: "Beijing Feng Road!"
The Beijing-Feng Railway is also called the Beining Railway. The railway inside and outside the pass is a railway that the Ministry of Transport has always wanted to build. It starts in Beijing and ends from Shenyang. It is about 1,700 miles in length. There are also plans to build a branch line of 500 miles. If it is not considered a branch line, it will be about 850 miles long in and outside the pass.
However, the construction of railways is extremely expensive, with an average of 50,000 or 60,000 yuan per mile. In order to encourage the construction of railways in various provinces, the Ministry of Transport has a policy that for every liter of railways, the Ministry of Transport will subsidize 10,000 yuan as a share capital.
According to calculations, the Beining Railway requires about 90 million yuan to be built, and the construction of this railway is more beneficial to the Fengtian faction, and the central government is even more reluctant to obtain a subsidy of 8.5 million yuan.
The central government is more willing to build the Pinghan and Jinpu Roads in its controlled area. Now the Pinghan Railway is about to be fully connected, and the northern section of the Jinpu Railway has also started construction.
These two railways cost a lot. The northern section of the Jinpu Railway is 1,250 miles long, and the Pinghan Railway is nearly 2,500 miles, with a total of 3,750 miles, and a cost of nearly 180 million yuan.
Previously, there were more than a thousand miles of railways in the south, and they often laughed at the north. Now, once these two railways were built, they were far more than the south in total mileage. The north could laugh at the south.
However, the fiscal revenue that the central government can control is only 300 million to 40 million yuan a year, and the annual funding of the railway department is only 20 to 30 million yuan. It was originally unable to build these two railways.
Fortunately, the Ministry of Transportation planned to borrow a railway loan of 20 million yuan from Shanghai and issued a railway bond of 9 million yuan. Then the provinces along the road raised another 37 million yuan in railway construction fees, so that the railway construction will proceed as usual.
However, the central government has no spare time to build the Beijing-Feng Railway, and the Fengtian Group has no enthusiasm to build this railway on its own. Besides, this railway must be connected to Pinghan and Jinpu to exert its commercial value. In this way, the Northeast will build this railway independently, and at most it can only be built to Shanhaiguan and become a dead end road.
Unexpectedly, Sun Tingyu made such a strange request today. The Fengtian Group alone wanted to subsidize the central government to build this railway.
Chapter completed!