Zhan Tianyou said that five million taels of construction of the Yangtze River Bridge was enough, but Yang Rui didn't believe it. Judging from the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, Zhan Tianyou's estimate of the construction cost was always underestimated. At that time, British engineer Jin Da said that it would cost 7 million taels to repair the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, and he said that the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway could be repaired with 5 million taels. He said that the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway could be repaired with 5 million taels. In fact, the budget of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was 7.28 million taels, which really cost 7 million taels because the budget began to be published. The last two million taels was reported by Yuan Shikai in the name of purchasing a motorcycle, otherwise the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway would not be able to be repaired.

Yang Rui understood Zhan Tianyou's difficulties. At that time, it was like scrambling business with the British. He didn't pay a 2 million tael lower than that. Those people from the Qing Dynasty might not have built it for him. There was really no way. Now he said that five million taels could build the Yangtze River Bridge, and Yang Rui was afraid that he would deliberately report it as low as the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, in case the court handed over the railway to foreigners to repair it. Thinking of this, he said: "The city of family is all its own people. Is this 5 million tael enough? If it is not enough, the Ministry of Revenue budget will be raised again, and it will not be increased by then."

Yang Rui said it tactfully, but Zhan Tianyou still understood what this means. He calmed down and thought: "Five million is just a rough estimate. If you really need to make a budget, you will have to make a decision after a specific survey. The Yangtze River is not as good as the Yellow River. If the depth of more than 40 meters is impossible to use the air pressure caisson method, it must be done with other methods. It is still unknown how much the budget will increase. Prime Minister, the cost of this construction is still uncertain, and can we determine the more accurate number later?"

Zhan Tianyou began to be pragmatic, Yang Rui nodded. Then he asked something that made him not excited, "Then can we Chinese cultivate this bridge by ourselves?"

Zhan Tianyou was stunned when he heard this and said, "Prime Minister. The Yangtze River is too deep and the bridge deck is too long. If you don't invite foreign engineers, it's probably impossible to repair it. Besides, there are too many things involved in building a bridge, so we may not be able to repair it alone."

"Oh." Yang Rui responded in a low voice. He wanted to put a big satellite, but he knew what the reality was. Moreover, he actually hated tying this kind of thing with national pride, but how could it stimulate the enthusiasm of the people if it did not? Therefore, he said unwillingly: "What if this bridge is prepared for ten years and then repaired in ten years?"

Yang Rui cared so much about whether the bridge was built by the Chinese himself. Zhan Tianyou understood what he was thinking. After a long time of stunnedness, he said. "Tianyou can try it. But it is best to change the plan on the Longmen Bridge, which will also make the Foss Bridge look like, so that it can accumulate experience for the Yangtze River Bridge, and the Zhengxian Yellow River Bridge on the Beijing-Hanzhou Line. In order to save money, the Belgians only put the pillars of the bridge on mud rather than on rocks, which makes the bridge very unstable. It is estimated that the bridge will be broken in ten years. The Zhengxian Yellow River Bridge is to be repaired, so the Prime Minister will also ask the Prime Minister to hand it over to the Ministry of Works to repair it himself. With the experience accumulated by these two bridges, the Yangtze River Bridge can be repaired halfway."

Zhan Tianyou said it was safe, but Yang Rui still agreed and said, "Then you can discuss with Shanda after you go back. The specific plan will be done before coming over. In fact, whether the Yangtze River Bridge is built by itself is not the key. The key is whether we can train a group of engineers and technicians who can build bridges on the Yangtze River Bridge? It is impossible for the Yangtze River to build only one bridge. On the other side of Jiujiang and in the Pukou, Nanjing, will always need to build bridges in the future. If people are trained, it will be easier to build bridges in the future."

After Yang Rui finished his explanation, he sent Zhan Tianyou out. Wang Jinzhi, who was waiting for him outside, saw Zhan Tianyou coming out with a serious look on his face, asked immediately, "My father-in-law, what do the Prime Minister say?"

"The Prime Minister said..." Zhan Tianyou wanted to reveal what was said, but when he thought of the latest training secrets law, he swallowed the words back and said, "Go back, everything is fine."

After Yang Rui sent Zhan Tianyou away, he looked at the map again. China is so big, but the railway is only more than 9,000 kilometers, including the Dongqing Railway in the Northeast. For such a big country, this railway is far from enough. The three vertical and three horizontal lines taken out by the General Secretary are the simplified design. In fact, these three vertical and three horizontal lines are still not enough. There is still no railway in Guangxi to enter the province, and some branches of each province have not been built. If we really want to improve the national railway network, we are afraid that it will not be completed without 30,000 kilometers.

More than 10,000 kilometers is nearly one billion taels, and more than 30,000 kilometers is more than 2 billion. With the current national strength, it is completely unsupported. In addition, education, military, and industry all require investment, but only 600 million yuan in taxes every year. Although this is much better than the Qing Dynasty, the money is never enough. The only benefit of building a railway is that the annual return rate is not low. According to the current cargo volume and freight rate, ordinary economic trunk lines can have about 8% returns. For the majority, the returns of vertical lines such as the eastern part can reach or exceed 10%. This is also the reason why Sheng Xuanhuai finally saw that private railways could not be done and finally decided to borrow like foreigners.

Although foreign loans have many discounts, the interest rate is 5 cents, but the return is 8 cents, which is more than ten times the interest rate, so it is still cost-effective to build roads. The only disadvantage is that railway loans are all 30-year contracts. During this period, the management of railways was all foreigners, and the construction of projects was also controlled by foreigners, which made the construction cost of these railways extremely high. The Shanghai-Nanjing line exceeded 80,000 taels per kilometer, the Jingpu line was more than 70,000 taels, and the Jing-Hanhai line was more than 60,000 taels, while the Jing-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Yuan-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Yuan-Zhang-Zhang-Zhang-Yuan-Zhang-Zhang-Yuan-Zhang-Zhang-Yuan-Yuan-Zhang-Zhang-Yu

When Yang Rui was thinking about the railway, the next time he met, he arrived. This was Wu Tongju, director of the Water Resources Department of the Earth Ministry in a garment. He was asked by Yang Rui. The survey, dredging and construction of river channels across the country were all done by professionals. Since the transportation department was a railway sect, he had to find someone else.

"Prime Minister." Wu Tongju took the tribute and now he has become a high-ranking official in the court. He still does not forget the former Qing Dynasty and does not wear the official uniforms of the New Dynasty. This phenomenon is that there are many court lieutenants, and there are very few in the Prime Minister's Office. For example, Zhan Tianyou, a Jinshi from the former Qing Dynasty, has also changed the official residence of the New Dynasty.

Wu Tongju is like this, and Pei Yili, a missionary of the Tumen Ministry, had no objection. Yang Rui did not blame him because he was also the case when his son Wu Keqing helped Yizhou to repair water conservancy. He did not misunderstand that this was a practical person. Too many people asked too much politically for him. It was not a good thing. When Yang Rui saw him greeting him, he also said in a harmonious manner, "Mr. Wu is here. Please sit down."

This is not the first time Wu Tongju has seen Yang Rui. When the Prime Minister's Office was just opened, officials from various departments held a meeting. According to reports from each department, Yang Rui arranged tasks of each department on the spot. As the director, he participated in the conference room. "Prime Minister, is it for the dredging of the Huaihe River?"

"Oh, it's not for this matter, but dredging of the Huaihe River is also a big deal. Is your plan now decided?" Yang Rui asked.

"The plan is decided. This time the officials have brought it. But..." Wu Tongju couldn't help but look at Yang Rui, who was sitting opposite him, and said, "It is the current plan that has increased several times compared with the previous plan to lure the Huai River into the sea, and it costs more than 60 million taels..."

When Wu Tongju talked about more than 60 million taels, Yang Rui was drinking tea, and his tea was spewed out. The initial plan was to dig a canal to divert the Huai River into the sea. This plan was made by a foreigner named Feilimen, which costs 6 million US dollars. Nearly ten million taels of silver was completed in three years. It is said that doing this can produce 3.8 million mu of lake fields, and just selling these fields can make a lot of money back; but Wu Tongju now thinks that the plan is different from Feilimen, which is a diversion of rivers and seas, that is, the Huai River is not only the Yellow Sea, but also the water can be discharged into Luoma Lake and finally enter the Grand Canal. This not only increases the water volume of the canal, but also irrigates the farmland along the way. Although the lake fields can only cost two million mu, 90 million mu of farmland can still benefit from it, but he does not want to invest six times the original plan.

The Prime Minister heard the tea-smelling, but Wu Tongju finished speaking, "...This plan was implemented in nine years, with no less than eight million taels per year in the first three years, and six million taels per year in the next six years."

Zhuan Huai was Wu Tongju's dream, which was also the reason why he changed from a Haizhou Tongju to a two-player water conservancy knife. Most of the people who can pass the imperial examinations and become scholars in the imperial examinations are not low. Wu Tongju was taught by himself by himself. Seeing that he had thrown out such a large budget, Yang Rui didn't blame him. He immediately coughed a few times and said, "The cost is 60 million, and as long as the Huai River can be managed well, we will also pay 100 million taels. Mr. Wu should report this project and the payment to the Ministry of Revenue. Zhuan Huai was approved before. You can hand the documents directly to the Ministry of Revenue, and they will allocate funds after passing the audit."

Yang Rui supported him so much that Wu Tongju couldn't help but stand up and salute. He just waited for Yang Rui to call him to sit down before he could sit down again.

"Mr. Wu, this time you are invited not only to control Huaihei, but also to have other things. Now the country has created a lot of things, and if you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Railways are good, but the investment is too large, and the freight is twice or even twice that of the river transportation, so it is urgent to organize the river channels and develop river transportation. Those in the transportation department have all drunk foreign ink and are full of railways and railways. They have no idea about river transportation, so I want to take out the river transportation matters from them and hand them over to the Water Resources Department for responsibility.

This means that in the future, the Water Resources Department will not only be responsible for controlling floods, but also taking into account river transportation in the process of controlling floods. As for irrigation, it ranks third and land construction ranks fourth. I don’t know how Mr. thinks about floods. In my opinion, isn’t this floods the ones you find by yourself? The upstream is constantly cut down, the middle stream continues to occupy rivers and flood discharge areas, so the downstream will naturally suffer when floods occur, so water control and dredging are the most important, but this is not enough. Planting trees and afforestation are also extremely important to return to the lake.”

"But sir..." Wu Tongju could not help but say, "If the land is withdrawn, the people's livelihood will be impossible. Too many wanderers will be unfavorable to the country."

"If there are too many vagrants, immigrate. Now the rural areas are registering household registration and checking the land acres. Those who really have no livelihoods will immigrate to the outside of the customs. Now the 18 million people in the northeast are still too small. According to the estimates there, you can still immigrate..." Yang Rui said, thinking about the foreign northeast whom he would come back in the future, and said, "...at least 20 million people. In the Western Regions, there are many lands and few people, and in ten years, there will be 10 million people. These 30 million people are basically equivalent to the population of a medium-sized province."

Yang Rui's way of dealing with the vagrants was like this. Wu Tongju didn't understand the general trend after all, so he did not ask whether the immigrants would go. The question of how much it would cost to immigrate tens of millions of people, but instead brought the topic back to the river transportation. "Sir, this river transportation is closely related to the depth of the water, but the shallow water is also related to the season. There are many rivers that are more than ten feet long during the water prosperity period, and there are only three or four feet deep during the dry season..."

"Yes, it is related to the depth of the water. It is also related to the bending radius," he took out a waterway standard given by Tiantong Shipping and the shipyard to hand it to Wu Tongju. "Now it is initially determined to divide the waterway into six levels, including 3,000 tons, 2,000 tons, 1,000 tons, 500 tons, 300 tons, and 100 tons. The minimum waterway requires the depth of the river water. It must be more than 150 meters. For more than 100,000 kilometers of river channels across the country, the Water Resources Department should first measure it and establish detailed hydrological data. Then judge whether the navigation standards can be raised after the river channel dredging? Can it be cut off and straight? I think this task will be left to you."

Wu Tongju took this so-called waterway standard and looked carefully and said, "Sir, if you want to survey the rivers across the country, it will not only increase the manpower, but also take years to complete it."

"The century-old plan of water conservancy and river transportation is also a century-old plan. We can't be anxious, so you can do it slowly. Those main rivers can be surveyed and mapped first, and some branch rivers can be slowed down." Yang Rui arranged, and later sent Wu Tongju and began to meet the representatives of the shipyard.

Since today is dealing with transportation matters, Li Zilong arranged the matters related to transportation together, and the last wave of people to meet the shipyards. The rivers need to be built, the wharf needs to be built, but the ships also need to be built. Now, in addition to the foreign shipyards, there are only official shipyards, Tianjin Taikoo Shipyard, Jiangnan Bureau Shipyard, and Fuzhou Mawei Shipyard. These are shipyards run by the Qing Dynasty, but Tianjin Fuzhou are all coastal cities. For safety notes, in addition to the expansion of Jiangnan Bureau, the two additional shipyards were placed in Hankou and Nanjing. Although this is along the river, at least there are Wusong Fortress and other coastal fortresses, which is safer.

This time, Xu Huafeng came with the shipyard people. He was very busy from last year to this year. He had traveled all over Shanxi, the steel base must be determined, the industrial park must be determined, the electrolytic aluminum factory must be determined, and several major coal mines must be determined. In addition, Shanxi Piaohao was seized by the revolutionary military government last year. Although it did not affect the daily business of Piaohao, the run wave still lost the reputation of Piaohao. If Zhang Kun had not controlled the National Bank, which was converted from the Qing Bank, finally guaranteed the major Piaohao's numbers, the national Piaohao would probably have been dumped like the money houses in Shanghai.

The royal merchants in Shanxi were worried about the original sins of history. Now the revolutionary army is going to build an industrial base in Shanxi or a national-level industrial base. These Shanxi merchants still need Xu Huafeng to appease them. In addition, taking advantage of the unstable intentions of the Shanxi merchants, it doesn’t matter if they are not up to date. It is also a matter of being able to take advantage of the situation. The Shanxi merchants who do not invest in money will definitely be dealt with separately in the future.

Xu Huafeng came back from Shanxi just now. As soon as he saw Yang Rui, he said, "It turns out that Shanxi is such a good place! I can't even tell you that the mines are not available in Shanxi. As long as you repair the same line and connect it to the oil in Shaanxi, I am afraid that Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces will be richer than Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the future."

Xu Huafeng's feelings only made Yang Rui smile. Shanxi has always been a resource-rich province. Although there are many minerals in the Northeast and an industrial base for later generations, that is because the Japanese have been operating there for decades, with railways and factories and workers ready-made, most of the 156 Su-aid projects are placed in the Northeast. Now Shanxi and the Northeast are basically white. In this case, Shanxi is of course a better choice.

"It's good to have money! It's good to have money!" Yang Rui was not as optimistic as Xu Huafeng. He was like a company opening. The money he had calculated before was not enough when it was really used. "Mr. Huafeng, don't mention the word "money" to me. If you don't be a boss, you don't know that the food, rice, oil and salt are expensive. Now you don't have money. You'd better briefly explain the situation in Shanxi first, and then talk about shipbuilding... These people are... you also want to introduce it."

Xu Huafeng did not come alone this time. In addition to his secretary, he also brought several people from the shipyard. When Yang Rui asked, Xu Huafeng introduced that there were two old men in his sixties, "This is Wei Han from the Jiangnan Bureau, whose courtesy name is Ji Qian, who was from the Mawei Shipbuilding Officer earlier, and later arrived at the Jiangnan Bureau. This is Zheng Qinglian and whose courtesy name is Jingxi, who was also from the Mawei Shipbuilding Officer before, and they designed and built the Pingyuan ship before Beiyang."

When Xu Huafeng talked about Beiyang and Ponywei, Yang Rui knew that they were members of the Navy Fujian Gang. He didn't speak loudly when he knew it in his heart and bowed to the two very kindly. Then Xu Huafeng introduced the last young man again, "This is Chen Shiying, from Shanghai, graduated from the American Physiology and Shipbuilding Department, and just graduated from the country last year."

"Oh," Yang Rui looked at the young man with a little joy and said, "Is it sent by the Education Council?"

Yang Rui's question only made Chen Shiying feel angry and said, "Yes, sir, Quartz is a foreign student funded by the Education Association."

Yang Rui could see his excitement and said immediately: "Okay! Good! Good! Just come back, just come back. You must study well with the old seniors, build the ship well, and build the ship well!"

After a brief greeting, Xu Huafeng couldn't wait to report the situation in Shanxi. "...Shanxi has a lot of coal mines, and they are all of the best coking coal. The quality is better than those from Huainan Coal Mine and Northeast Coal Mine. But there are only coal mines, but they cannot be transported out. Although the Zhengtai Line was built a few years ago, it was a narrow gauge. It was not only not open to traffic, but also the two stations were very far apart. It took a short time to move the coal to the Jinpu Railway Station. This was not only a problem, but also the transport of things was short. Those pieces of coal often turned into sub-coal, which was not worth it..."

Xu Huafeng thought that Yang Rui would not raise money, so he left the last word "money", "...If Tongpu Road is repaired, then the coal mine can take a detour and take a detour from the Jingzhang Line. Although this detour is the main line, the freight fee for the Zhengtai line is 30% higher than that of other lines. In addition to the short-term cost and losses, it is still cheaper to go to Jingzhang.

...There are no worries about coal mines and there are many iron ore. The large iron ore in Wutaishan area has a reserve of more than 100 million tons, and the buried ones are very shallow. The only disadvantage is that the iron ore is not of high taste, only about 37 to 45%, so before iron smelting, it is necessary to select or sinter before iron smelting. Although this solves the problem, it increases a lot of costs. The iron produced by practicing is more expensive than Ma'anshan, but Shanxi is originally inland, and the iron from Ma'anshan is transported to Shanxi, so it is not much more expensive.

There are all coal and iron, and small ores such as limestone. In the Luliang area, the proven aluminum ore has a very abundant reserve. Where should the electrolytic aluminum plant be placed in the plan? As for the electricity needed, the coal can be transported through railways, or if coal is not transported, it can directly pull high-voltage wires for long-distance transmission. Although this is not available in the world, the laboratory believes that it is completely feasible. It increases the voltage and then reduces the voltage when using the ground, which can reduce the road loss by 80%..."

Xu Huafeng talked enthusiastically about the situation in Shanxi, almost completely forgot that what he wanted to talk about this time was shipping, not the industrial base in Shanxi. After he roughly introduced the situation in Shanxi, Yang Rui began to ask about shipbuilding. "Now, it is mainly to build three shipyards. Jiangnan is to expand, Nanjing and Hanyang are to build new ones. Each of these three shipyards must have six 10,000 tons of ships. Based on the nine-month construction cycle of merchant ships, after completion, the annual shipbuilding volume of these three shipyards shall not be less than 200,000 tons..."

As soon as Yang Rui started his speech, Wei Han, Zheng Qinglian and Chen Shiying were in a daze. Even if China has foreign shipyards, the annual shipbuilding volume of shipbuilding is less than 30,000 tons. Now it has suddenly increased seven or eight times, which only makes it feel that this is not true.

They were in a daze, and Yang Rui continued: "This is still the usual day. If a standard ship is produced in wartime, the time for the ship to step down will be shortened. The Ministry of Industry Coordination believes that if it is a standard ship, the ship schedule can be shortened to three months, which means that the annual output can triple to reach an annual shipbuilding scale of 600,000 tons..."

Seeing Yang Rui’s great leap forward, Wei Han couldn’t help but say, “Prime Minister, do we have so many people? Although the steel plates we build now are from Ma'anshan Factory, the steel used in the boiler is very high because the air pressure is very high, but the steel used in the boiler is even more particular… These are all imported. Adults say that shipbuilding in wartime, but these steels must not be bought during wartime. At that time, I’m afraid that even if there is a ship platform, I can’t build a ship.” (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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