Railway construction is very fashionable nowadays, and more and more people are aware of the benefits of railways. The powerful people from all over the country are looking forward to the opening of trains in their hometowns. However, first of all, the construction of railways must be rich, and secondly, the iron production must be sufficient and there must be enough construction teams.

These problems are not solved, just marking lines on the map is boring.

Yuwen Wen didn't need to say this. The participants present knew that the political parties who initiated the issue had given specific measures.

For money, you can set up a railway company to raise funds, or even openly offer shares on the Huangzhou Stock Exchange to raise more funds.

Because of the freezing transportation and the "money prospect" of the storage system is bright, knowledgeable merchants and big merchants must know that the grassland has opened up railways, which means that the animal husbandry industry has ushered in great development. Such a profitable transaction will have many benefits after investing in the stock, so the money problem is not a problem.

Next is the technical issue.

First of all, although the iron smelting in Dai, Shuo and Bingzhou areas is not as big as the Daye Iron Manufacturing Institute, there are many ore veins. Various subway smelting adopt new smelting technology to establish new iron smelting blast furnaces, and the accumulated iron output is very considerable.

It can be said that the iron production in Dai, Shuo and Bingzhou areas relies on the "three people to make a crowd" and gather the power of three "people" to approach the iron production of one "people" in Daye Ironmaking Institute.

Therefore, if we want to build the Beihai Railway (South Section of Chi) and build the first phase of the Chinan Railway (middle section), the iron output is no problem.

As for the construction team, because the construction of the Bishuo Railway, Shuo Dai Railway and Taihang Railway were previously built, many railway construction teams were trained. If the court agreed to build railways on the grassland, these teams could immediately display their skills.

The construction of a railway requires the inspection of the routes, and this work has actually been completed.

Hanhai Trading Company has always hoped to build railways on the grasslands, just like the two companies opening trade routes. For this reason, with the permission of the court, it took several years to conduct preliminary surveys on the Beihai Railway and the Chinan Railway.

The Beihai Railway starts from Yunzhong in the northeast of Shuozhou in the south and reaches the southern end of Jibei North and North Sea in the north. It is no less than 3,000 miles long and is divided into three parts: the southern section of Ji, Dazhi section and the northern section of Ji. If it is to be built, the third phase of the project can be completed.

The first phase of the project, the southern section of the Chi, is about a thousand miles long. The route has been surveyed. If construction is to be started, it can be started immediately.

Moreover, the southern end of this section of railway, Yinshan (northern foothills) to the middle section of Yun, was completed and opened to traffic at the end of last year, with a total distance of about 300 miles and played an important role as a transportation railway (border trade, military supplies).

Then, as long as the court agrees, the construction of the remaining 700-mile railway in the Beihai Railway (South Section of Chi) will be completed and opened to traffic by the end of next year. After all, there are no rivers and water networks in the grassland, no stretching mountains and ravines, and the railway is relatively easy to build.

As for the East-West Railway, of course, it will be constructed in several phases. The first phase of the project is located in the middle section of the entire line. It is generally consistent with the defense lines of the six towns in Yuan and Wei that year.

In order to defend against the overlord of the grassland, the Yuan Wei established six border towns on the grassland border north of the Yinshan Mountains, and from the west to the east to form fertile fields, Huaishuo, Wuchuan, Fuming, Rouxuan, and Huaihuang.

These six towns are backed by Yinshan and are connected to an east-west defense line. Now, the first phase of the East-West Railway project under construction, the surveyed lines have the starting and end longitude and direction similar to the defense line of the six towns, with the difference being that they have moved several distances to the north.

This railway is like a Great Steel Wall, built directly on a flat grassland, and it looks like there is no danger to defend. However, with the support of the fortresses along the route, it is a line of death for the invading enemies.

The fortresses and stations equipped with artillery along the railway are not conquered by the grassland cavalry by the advantage of numeracy. Armored armed trains cruising on the railway line can keep the grassland cavalry coming and going.

When the Beihai Railway and the East-West Railway are fully connected, the grasslands in the south and north of the Chibei will only become pastoral areas of the Central Plains court, and will no longer be the territory of the Khanate of the Grassland.

Yuwen Wen of course knew the importance of these two railways. The problem was that the court had no money because these two railways cost a lot and took a long time to recover the money. Once built, it was equivalent to putting a noose around the neck of the Eastern Turkic Khan.

Therefore, these two railways are "long-term planning" and will only be considered for construction many years later.

It's different now. The Khan of the Eastern Turks escaped debts and left behind the empty grasslands in the south of the Chi, while the merchants (strong and powerful) in the border areas took the initiative to propose that the construction of railways would not increase the financial burden of the court.

There is no free lunch in the world. Of course, there is a prerequisite for border merchants to be so "urgent and righteous".

Their request was that the land within a range of forty miles along the railway belonged to the railway company (except for military land), and the ownership and management rights of the railway belonged to the railway company.

The railway companies under construction are not official supervision and business operations, but are completely private (private) in nature.

In other words, these two railways will be private railways. Unless they are used for military purposes, the railway company will have the final say in their daily operations. Of course, the company must accept the necessary supervision of Youjian, but Youjian cannot interfere in the personnel, finance and other affairs of the railway company.

However, this approach challenges common sense: merchants actually dare to negotiate terms with the court.

If it were in the past, these merchants would have had great trouble, but now it is not a ruthless act: the Censorate allows participating in politics to speak for local interest groups.

And Yuwen Wen thinks this deal is good.

What the court wants? What we want is to completely solve the stubborn problem of grassland forces. If you spend money and sell some benefits, you can solve it. Why not do it?

A problem that can be solved with money is not a problem at all!

Yuwen Wen didn't think there was anything wrong with the emergence of private railways (for the outside world). After all, the court had no money and wanted the people to build it. How could it be if it didn't give it any benefits? But he thought so, the powerful and the bureaucrats might not think so.

Therefore, we still have to go through procedures and discuss them at the Political Affairs Hall meeting.

Let interest groups of all parties engage in system games according to the rules of the game, so that the policies obtained will be implemented for a long time. Therefore, Yuwen Wen will no longer ask questions and let others question them.

There are many people waiting for questioning.

Now, the number of people participating in politics and participating in Pingzhang in the House of Censors has reached 67. By next year, the remaining 33 people will be "in place" and the House of Censors will be "full of staff".

At that time, the "update" process of updating one-third of the political participation and the "update" of Pingzhang every two years will begin.

The House of Revelations has entered a healthy cycle, and the power game system based on it has been considered complete. So, once the private railway issue is passed, it means a new beginning:

In order to obtain more profits, interest groups compromised each other and then promoted the imperial court to expand externally.

The whole process no longer requires the king's will to expand territory and expand territory to promote it.
Chapter completed!