Chapter 1963, the Changcheng Railway is about to be completed
Guangyuan, Sichuan.
With the construction of the Changcheng Railway, Guangyuan has become more and more lively. People come here almost every day, wanting to see when the soon-to-be-completed railway can be built here.
As long as the railway is built to Guangyuan, it basically means that the most difficult part of the construction has been completed. The road from Guangyuan to Chengdu is very smooth, with no mountain barriers, and the construction can be completed very simply and quickly.
The people of Sichuan have been waiting for this day for too long.
In order to build this railway, Sichuan people have to send tens of thousands of people every year to help build the railway. Whether it is carrying on their shoulders or carrying it on their shoulders, or cutting with knives and axes, Sichuan has already
Hundreds of thousands of strong men were dispatched to help build the railway.
For the railway, Sichuan people made voluntary donations, ranging from gentry and landlords to ordinary people. They raised donations every year. The first batch raised 20 million taels of silver. From then on, millions of taels of silver could be raised every year.
Used in building railways and roads.
Exploration began in the 26th year of Hongzhi, and construction officially started in the 27th year of Hongzhi. It is now the 32nd year of Hongzhi. Counting the time, it has been nearly 6 years.
With the joint efforts of a large number of construction machinery and tens of millions of Sichuan people, this unprecedented railway is finally completed.
Yang Tinghe brought a group of Sichuan gentry to Guangyuan and came to the forefront of railway construction, where they could already see clearly.
The railway only needs to pass through the mountains in front of us to reach Guangyuan. The railway from Chengdu to Guangyuan has been completed long ago. After the construction of the railway section in front of us is completed, this railway will be officially built.
Completed, from now on people from Sichuan no longer need to complain that the road to Shu is difficult.
"It's not easy, it's not easy!"
"We Sichuan people have sacrificed too much to build this railway!"
Yang Tinghe couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the mighty and huge railway construction army.
The mountains and plains in front of us are full of Sichuanese people who are building railways. They start clearing roads in advance, planning routes, assisting in line exploration, repairing bridges and paving roads, etc. They do almost all the hard and tiring work without any regrets.
Behind them is the railway construction team sent by the imperial court. With the assistance of a large number of Sichuan troops, they have become more comfortable in building railways.
Trucks, excavators, bulldozers, drilling rigs, etc., all kinds of engineering equipment roared, and the roar echoed in the mountains.
Look at the steep mountains and rivers around you. There are many mountains and rivers, undulating and undulating. All the way to the end of the field of vision are tall mountains and rivers.
Between the mountains and rivers are inaccessible mountain streams and canyons where apes and monkeys have disappeared. They are steep and straight, with abyss of cold water. It is difficult to imagine how much perseverance, huge manpower and material resources are needed to build roads in such places.
However, what seemed impossible has become possible.
There are spacious bridges connecting the mountain streams and canyons, and tall pillars, like Sun Wukong's golden hoop, stand in the mountain streams and canyons, supporting the spacious and flat roads.
In the tall mountains, a tunnel passes through the belly, turning the insurmountable mountains into a fast shortcut. The latest electric lights are now installed in the tunnels, making the dark tunnels brighter.
When we encounter water, we build bridges, when we encounter mountains, we open mountains. Along the way, no one knows how many bridges have been built, and no one knows how many tunnels have been drilled.
Everyone just worked hard in silence, bit by bit, step by step, and kept moving slowly forward.
During the entire process of building the railway, hundreds of Sichuan people sacrificed their lives and left their youth forever among the mountains and rivers.
Thousands of Sichuan people became disabled and lost the capital they relied on for survival. However, from the beginning to the end, no one in Sichuan said that they wanted to give up.
The elder brother sacrificed his life while building the railway, and the younger brother stood up again. The disabled returned to their hometown and were treated like heroes. They are role models and heroes for Sichuan people.
It is also because of the spirit of hundreds of thousands of Sichuan children who are not afraid of sacrifice, hardship, and hardship that it is possible to build this railway that was planned to take more than ten years to be built in just 6 years.
Pass.
When the imperial engineering team building the railway was taking a break, the Sichuan boys were still working hard. They used machines, but everyone used traditional carrying poles, chisels, and crowbars to do their work.
The spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice or hardship is so moving that people on the engineering team often work overtime to continuously speed up the progress.
For the construction of a long-term railway, Chuanwazi will try his best to provide any materials needed for the construction of the railway as soon as possible, such as food, tools, machinery, etc.
Even in order to speed up the progress of the project, everyone tried every means to raise money and hired people from Daming Electric Company to take the lead in connecting the electricity to the railway.
With electricity, we can work overtime at night; with electricity, we can use more tools. I don’t know how many of the expensive electric drills that came out were broken.
Expensive electricity can only be used by people in the Beijing-Tianjin area. The poor Sichuan children are frugal and have to save money to ensure the electricity demand for railway construction.
"Yes, it is indeed too big!"
Next to Yang Tinghe, Sichuan Chief Minister Ma Hao also nodded and said.
As the parent officer here, he has been responsible for helping raise money for goods, organizing manpower, raising materials, etc. over the years. He knows very well how much the Sichuan people have sacrificed in order to build this railway.
Those who have money contribute money, those who have strength contribute strength, and those who have things provide things. Everyone saves money and raises tens of millions of taels of silver. There are only various tools, food, materials and so on.
It’s hard to count. I don’t know how many poles were used.
Sichuan is not rich. Compared with other places in the Ming Dynasty, Sichuan can even be said to be very poor.
Because transportation is extremely inconvenient, Sichuan's foreign exchanges and exchanges are difficult, let alone the trade of goods.
While cars in other parts of the Ming Dynasty have filled the streets, there are not even a few cars in Sichuan, because the cost of transporting a car is many times more expensive than the car itself.
It is difficult to transport goods out of Sichuan, and it is also difficult for goods from outside to enter Sichuan. The road to Shu is as difficult as going to the sky. This is definitely not a joke, especially for those large, bulky goods, etc., which are extremely difficult to transport.
All these determine that it is very difficult for Sichuan to develop and become rich.
Traditional agriculture cannot make people rich at all. No matter how hard they work, they can barely have enough to eat. In the land of abundance, the land is fertile, but the income of ordinary people from farming is very average.
Compared to other places in the Ming Dynasty, it was simply impossible to become wealthy just by farming.
While the annual per capita income in Beijing and Tianjin is tens of taels of silver, the per capita income in Sichuan is still at the previous level. It is already very good to have a few taels of silver left over a year.
When cities in other places are developing rapidly, and factories and businesses are springing up like bamboo shoots after a rain, it is difficult to transport machines in Sichuan due to the difficult road to Shu and inconvenient transportation. Even if they are transported in, the products, raw materials, etc. produced by this factory will
Waiting and difficult to transport.
Therefore, Sichuan has always been the same as before the Ming Dynasty, mainly based on traditional agriculture, and the strong winds of capitalism and colonialism were firmly blocked by the Qinling Mountains, Daba Mountain and other mountains and rivers.
People from other places can immigrate on a large scale to overseas and territories outside the customs. However, the number of people who can immigrate out of Sichuan is very small because it is too difficult to enter and exit.
Traffic has seriously hindered the development of Sichuan, making Sichuan's development far behind other places in the Ming Dynasty, and it also made Sichuan children sigh in their hearts.
They are just as industrious, hard-working, and frugal as people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, but just because of poor transportation conditions, the gap is getting wider and wider.
Therefore, the railway must be built, no matter what, it must be built, and no matter how many difficulties there are, it must be overcome. Sichuan people must work hard, otherwise when will Sichuan be able to truly develop?
Now, this railway is finally going to be built. From then on, the natural chasm will become a clear road. The rolling tide of the times will sweep over. Sichuan will also ride on the wave of rapid development of the times and undergo earth-shaking changes.
PS: Historically, in order to preserve the railway, Sichuan people launched the famous road protection movement~
