Chapter 1283 Changshi Railway

Changhua County, which Qiao Zhiya is now in charge of, is the largest steel and derivatives production center in the country. It is an indispensable and necessary condition for the industrialization process that the Executive Committee wants to promote. The ordnance industry system that Haihan is proud of

, is also based on the scale of Changhua's steel production. In the ranking of the importance of various administrative cities and counties, Changhua's ranking is much higher than that of areas dominated by agricultural economies, and Qiao Zhiya's status in Haihan officialdom

Because of this, the tide has lifted all boats. Although the area he is in charge of is administratively only a county, its status is basically on an equal footing with a limited number of city-level administrative districts.

The acquaintance between Yu Xiaobao and Qiao Zhiya is very early, which can be traced back to the day when the time-travelers landed in Yulin Bay. Among the first batch of time-travelers who entered the fishing village at that time, Qiao Zhiya was included, and they were the first time-travelers that Yu Xiaobao saw.

One of them. Although Yu Xiaobao treats Qiao Zhiya as a subordinate, their personal relationship is actually quite good, and Qiao Zhiya has always treated Yu Xiaobao as his nephew.

"Changhua is a place where there are only coal briquettes and iron lumps, and there is nothing to see. But since you are here, you must take the train here! This freight line from Changhua County to Shilu Iron Mine is one of the most beautiful places in our country.

The longest railway line at present is several times longer than the distance from Sanya Port to Tiandu Industrial Zone, and the air in the mountains is much better than here." Qiao Zhiya didn't seem to take Yu Xiaobao and his party seriously in his words.

The inspection team on this business trip regarded them as tourists passing through this place.

Yu Xiaobao didn't object to Qiao Zhiya's arrangement, because Shilu Iron Mine was originally one of the must-visit destinations on this trip. It didn't make any difference whether to visit Changhua or Shilu first. So everyone followed Qiao Zhiya's suggestion.

, after having breakfast, we headed to the train station near the port area.

Liu Shang had taken trains in Sanya several times before, so he was not unfamiliar with the train station. However, after entering the station, he found that the station platform here was significantly different from that in Sanya.

The platform length of Changhua Railway Station is much longer than that of Sanya, and the train lines here are mainly used for freight, so most of the platform area is used to stack various goods. When they entered the station, workers were working in groups

They moved the goods into the car in teams. On the other side of the platform, a train coming from the direction of Shilu was also unloading the goods, all of which were full loads of ore and logs.

Liu Shang noticed that the railway station here has used cargo conveyors driven by steam engines. Dry bulk cargoes such as ore and coal are quickly loaded and unloaded using long belt conveyors. The efficiency visible to the naked eye is indeed higher than that of simple

The manpower loading and unloading is much faster. In fact, similar devices are not only at the train station, but also at the Changhua Port Freight Terminal, which are used to quickly unload coal from cargo ships. However, Liu Shang and others came too late yesterday and did not see it in person

If you had witnessed the operation at the port, you would not have been surprised by the configuration of the train station.

Since the length of the Changhua-Shilu line is more than 80 miles, the trains here are far less frequent than the commuter line in Sanya. There are only two trains in the morning and one in the evening every day, with a total of four trains running from both ends.

According to actual needs, some short-distance trains will be opened from time to time. However, because the transportation content is mainly cargo, the horsepower of the locomotive and the number of wagons it pulls are both higher than those in Sanya. The morning train they are taking now has failed.

There are more than a dozen carriages, of which there are only two relatively short carriages used to carry people. The carriage at the end of the train, specially for VIPs, was only temporarily installed this morning and is usually parked in the station warehouse.

Rarely used.

The last few times Liu Shang took the train in Sanya, he followed Jiang Han in the ordinary carriage. He didn't know that there was such a high-end VIP carriage, and he was a little dumbfounded after he got on the train. The interior of the carriage was all wrapped in brocade.

The soft seats sit opposite each other in every two rows, and there is a small table with a fixed bottom in the middle. The seats are very spacious and seem to be far more comfortable than the somewhat uncomfortable hardwood benches he sat on the train in Sanya before. In addition,

Although this carriage is closed, there are multiple openable glass windows on both sides, which provide very good lighting. There are also transoms on the roof for ventilation, so you will not feel stuffy in it. The interior of the carriage is probably

Burning some kind of incense, you can still smell a faint fragrance of flowers and plants in the air.

"This is probably the treatment that only orthodox Haihan people can enjoy." Liu Shang secretly came to a conclusion about the scene he saw. What he expected was not far from the truth. This kind of equipment needs frequent cleaning and maintenance.

High-end carriages are indeed not usually used by ordinary people. Even Qiao Zhiya may not use this carriage when traveling to and from Shilu, Changzhou. After all, it is troublesome to drag it in and out of the warehouse during use. Generally, only people from Sanya come to inspect the mine.

Only then would Qiao Zhiya order the carriage to be dragged out for use. Among the inspection team, only Yu Xiaobao and Zhang Qianzhi were qualified to ride in this carriage, and Liu Shang and others were able to enjoy the benefits.

After everyone got on the bus, Qiao Zhiya's attendants served hot tea and snacks. After waiting for about a cup of tea, he heard the copper whistle sounding on the platform. Liu Shang knew that this was the signal to start the train. It seemed to be going very quickly.

will set off.

Sure enough, within a moment, everyone felt their bodies tremble slightly, and the carriage began to move slowly. Liu Shang turned his head and looked out the window, and saw that the scene on the platform was receding continuously. Although this was not his first time.

I took a train once, but I was still impressed by such an engineering miracle. The only people in the world who can build a railway transportation system are the omnipotent Haihan people.

Not long after the train left the station, Qiao Zhiya introduced to everyone: "You can see Changjiang River from the right side. The city outline in the distance is the former Changhua County seat."

Liu Shang looked intently and saw a small town in the distance on the river bank. However, after Haihan took over Changhua, he built the industrial zone near the mouth of the Changjiang River, so Xinchanghua County was also established nearby the industrial zone.

Although this old county seat is only five miles away from the new urban area, due to the gradual migration of the population and the replacement of the government function of the city's government offices by the Changhua Management Committee, it has gradually declined in recent years.

Almost everyone of the previous generation has devoted themselves to Haihan's camp and abandoned this ancient town. Only a few local clan leaders still live in the city.

Since the labor demand in Changhua and Shilu is very large, the local population is basically concentrated at both ends of this railway line. Apart from a small number of road guards, there are not many permanent residents along the railway line. Qiao Zhiya also

There is no spare capacity to arrange agricultural development projects in areas along the line. The operation methods of agricultural development projects with foreign investment that are common in other areas are not officially allowed in Changhua, because Changhua and Shilu are the industrial base areas of Haihan, with many

The specific status of the production project is kept secret from the outside world, and outsiders are naturally not allowed to freely enter and leave the area.

After the train passed through the old county town of Changhua, it entered a vast no-man's land. All that could be seen outside the window was the endless woods. Occasionally, the Changjiang River not far away could be glimpsed through the gaps in the trees. Everyone listened to Qiao Zhiya

According to the introduction, when the railway was originally built, it was built in sections, and building materials and construction personnel could only be transported to the upper reaches of the Changjiang River. The process was very difficult.

Even though this railway has been built for several years, the construction has not stopped so far. Because it was a single-track railway when it was first built, only a few sections of double-track railway were built in the middle to accommodate trains. After that, the Ministry of Construction devoted more manpower to the double-track project.

Not so much. It has been under construction one after another in the past few years. However, most of the double-tracking project has been completed. It is estimated that it will be fully opened to traffic at the end of this year or early next year at the earliest. By then, the traffic capacity of this railway will be as high as

Security will also be further improved.

Liu Shang had taken a train in Sanya and understood the concept of double-track traffic. For a special mode of transportation such as railways, building double-track is actually almost equivalent to replicating the road construction project again. With Haihan's engineering capabilities, almost

It has been years since the double line has been completed, so one can imagine the huge amount of work involved.

Haihan failed to build a double-track railway in time. In fact, it was not just the lack of manpower as Qiao Zhiya said. The underlying reason was that the existing railway transportation capacity was basically sufficient. Only the mining capacity of Shilu Mine and the smelting capacity of Changhua Industrial Zone were

After production capacity is improved, expanding transportation capacity will become an inevitable demand.

The train trip to Shilu took more than two hours, and during the journey, it had to wait on the branch road for another train coming from the opposite direction. Qiao Zhiya took advantage of the time on the way to give a general introduction to Shilu to Yu Xiaobao and others.

The situation in the Lu mining area.

At present, the working area of ​​Shilu Mining Area is divided into two large open-pit mines in the east and west. The west mine is mainly mined by miners of the Li ethnic group. Almost all the nearby Li ethnic villages with a radius of dozens of miles have moved to the vicinity of the mine. A large number of young and strong Li ethnic groups

In addition to joining the army, many people also chose to work as miners in Shilu to support their families.

There is only a hill between the East Mine and the West Mine, but the environment is more closed, because it is also the location of the largest hard labor camp in the entire Haihan Kingdom. Although the hard labor camp here happened in 1631

There was a large-scale riot and caused a lot of chaos in the Qiongzhong Mountain District. However, after Haihan sent out troops to quell the chaos, he still insisted on the original setup and continued to use this place as a place for felons to undergo labor reform. Currently, it is

There are still more than 2,000 prisoners serving this sentence. Of course, the security measures are much stricter than a few years ago, so it is unlikely that there will be any major troubles again.

As he spoke, the train had already entered the branch road where the wrong train was passing, and slowly stopped. For safety reasons, cars entering the mountain will arrive here first and wait for the cars coming out of the mountain to pass before returning to the main road to continue.

Moving forward. Qiao Zhiya reminded everyone that if they are looking for a convenient place, they can get off the car now.

So everyone went down to the roadside and solved the problem on the spot. Anyway, there were only workers maintaining the railway in this deserted place, and there were no women, so there was no need to worry. Liu Shang also got off the car and drained the water, and then looked at everyone standing there

Smoking and chatting on the roadside. He was not good at smoking and thought it was too choking, so he took the initiative to stand some distance away.

However, Liu Shang soon regretted his decision, because Zhang Qianzhi had already taken the initiative to come over: "Mr. Liu doesn't smoke either? That's good, we can be a companion."

Liu Shang was naturally reluctant to refuse contact with Zhang Qianzhi. At the moment, he could only accept it cautiously, but he would never take the initiative to talk to Zhang Qianzhi.

But Zhang Qianzhi didn't seem to intend to just stand silently, and took the initiative to ask him: "Mr. Liu, what do you think of this railway?"

Liu Shang didn't know what he meant, so he could only try to figure out the other party's intentions while responding: "This road goes so far from the coast to the inland. I just heard what Chief Qiao said that it was quite difficult to build this road at the beginning. The villain has no respect for the chiefs."

I am very impressed by my foresight and foresight. I actually spared no effort to build this railway in order to mine this huge mine in the mountains. Such a large project can only be completed by the Haihan Kingdom in the world in just a few years."

Zhang Qianzhi seemed to be very satisfied with Liu Shang's evaluation. He nodded and said: "Our country has indeed invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in building this railway, but now it seems that it was all worth it. In the early years of the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty

He also instigated a riot in Shilu in an attempt to sabotage our country's long-term plans. Fortunately, God blessed Haihan, and the traitors fell short in the end!"

The hair on Liu Shang's back suddenly stood up. He didn't understand why Zhang Qianzhi suddenly mentioned this matter. Is this an unconscious showoff, or a hint that he had noticed something?

In 1631, Zhao Ye, a Qianhu member of the Imperial Guard, sneaked into Hainan Island incognito. He first colluded with Huang Zixing and others in Danzhou and planned the assassination of Haihan officials stationed in Danzhou. However, he was uncovered by security personnel headed by Zhang Qianzhi. Zhao Ye was the only one of the suspects.

Zhao Ye escaped. Later, Zhao Ye fled all the way to Qiongzhong and instigated a riot in the hard labor camp, which caused considerable losses to Haihan. This incident made the executive committee very dissatisfied and dispatched a large number of troops to carry out encirclement and suppression in the Qiongzhong area.

The culprit Zhao Ye was wiped out together with the native villages he colluded with.

The case had a great impact on Hainan at that time. Later, the official issued a special notice to appease the people, and carried out repeated crackdowns for a long time, almost all the people sent by the Ming Dynasty to lurk in Hainan Island were caught. Relevant news was sent back.

After the Ming Dynasty, the Jinyiwei stopped for a long time due to too many manpower losses. Liu Shang also heard about it at the time. Now that Zhang Qianzhi suddenly mentioned this past event, what does it mean?

Fortunately, Liu Shang was able to keep his composure, and he suppressed the panic in his heart and responded: "Not long after I first arrived in Haihan, I haven't heard of such a disaster in our country. Sure enough, the country of Haihan is prosperous, and the evil spirits will definitely not succeed!

"

Zhang Qianzhi smiled at him and said, "I think so too!"
Chapter completed!