But they are recruiting workers in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and northern Huguang (Hubei). After all, these places have entered a tax-free state and are in relatively poor areas with severe disasters.

In other provinces that are still collecting taxes, Zhao Yan was worried that the money would be smashed and he would be squeezed out twice.

As for Shandong, it is obviously not possible. After Shandong released its interest-free loan of 10 million taels, factories are now everywhere. With the recruitment of 300,000 soldiers, the labor force is already very limiting.

It is expected to recruit 300,000 workers, and 50,000 people were transferred from 400,000 Japanese slaves in Shandong to build a large army of 350,000 railways, and spend about 4.5 million taels a year on wages and 700,000 taels of food, which is exactly 5.2 million taels, which is almost the same. After all, there is no rails laid in advance.

There is no problem in building the railway subgrade networks from Shandong to Shanxi, Shanxi and Shandong provinces within one year. At the same time, the railways from Shandong to Beijing, Beijing to Chenyang, and Pukou (Nanjing) to Beijing can also be built.

In the Northeast, 300,000 Japanese slaves built a railway, mainly building a railway subgrade from North Korea to Shenyang. In addition, the railway network in some important towns gave 800,000 taels of tools and food costs.

After all, the roadbed is still easy to build. The roadbed network in Shandong and Northeast China, as well as the roadbed line in Pukou-Shandong-Beijing-Shenyang are also easy to build, because they are all in plain areas and are the most time-saving and labor-saving, and are currently the preferred route for railway paving.

The railways between Shanxi and North Korea have to pass through mountainous areas and hilly areas, and it will be slower to dig tunnels. However, Shanxi and North Korea are not that rugged and troublesome. Most areas of Shanxi are relatively flat, and western North Korea is also relatively flat. Zhao Yan naturally cannot be so stupid that he digs railways of the level of Qinghai-Tibet under low productivity.

Shanxi and North Korea need to be built because of their mineral resources. Pukou-Shandong-Shanxi-Beijing-Shenyang-North Korea is a cross-provincial railway line. Once connected, it will be much more convenient.

In the first year, the roadbed was built, and the technology of using a flat furnace and steam engine to make rails mature, then the rails and sleepers were laid.

It is the fastest and most cost-saving solution.

After all, the railway laying technology is not yet mature, the train has not been produced, and the telegram has not been produced. If there is no train, the railway will not be used to pave it too early. If there is no telegram, the train will easily crash and rear-end.

The engineering team is now divided into three types: one is the highway engineering team, one is the railway engineering team, and the other is the water conservancy engineering team.

This year, dozens of small and large engineering teams will be established, and the project funds are abundant.

After Zhao Yan got married, the exploration brigade and the golden troops immediately rushed to Shanxi, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Nurkandus, North Korea, Kuyi (Sakhalin Island, Hokkaido) to explore minerals, survey and map, and find gold, silver, copper ore, etc.

Several exploration teams directly drilled into the cold Greater Xing'an Mountains and explored further north and west Siberia, where to find precious metal minerals such as gold, silver and copper.

Wherever they explored, Nurkandus would expand and set up mining strongholds at one mining site. There were many tribes living in the north, and the number of young masters was very considerable, and there were people who started mining.

Due to the existence of the Siberian cold current, the Siberian region is too cold and it is no longer suitable for large-scale human habitation. However, Siberia has a lot of resources, with a large number of forests, a large number of freshwater fish and gold, and many oil and natural gas fields.

Therefore, wherever Nurkandus expanded, it would also be destroyed, and all the tribes were taken to mine until the tribes were exterminated.

Tsarist Russia relied on massacre to occupy this territory because it was impossible for them to immigrate too many people in Siberia. If the indigenous people were kept, it would be difficult to control.

Naturally, Zhao Yan could not immigrate too many people to cold areas like Siberia, so he would also have to use the means of killing the past, and at the same time, he would also build the railway along the way in the future.

Siberian forests, fish, gold and oil fields will make the nation stronger.
Chapter completed!