After the delivery department office, we had tea, Ma Zun said, "Today, Du Tiju came, and I specially prepared a banquet to greet the crowd at Hanbin Tower. Although our yamen are in the same city, we have not gathered for many days, so we have some leisure today."

Du Zhongxiao, Li Cheng and Wang Zhu hurriedly thanked him. In addition to the Transport Department, the Delivery Department and the State Department, there is actually a Xiangyang County Government in Xiangzhou City. Because the level is too low, the magistrate of today's gathering was not notified at all.

Du Zhongxiao said: "These days, the field affairs have caught some fish and sold them to Kaifeng Prefecture. Thank you, Fazong, for helping find the car, otherwise it would not be so smooth."

Wang Zhu said: "When it comes to trains, because the train is stationed in Fancheng Town, it is separated from Zhoucheng, which is mostly inconvenient. Our province intends to write to the court to withdraw Dengcheng County and merge into Xiangyang County. Zhoucheng governs both sides of the Han River. What do you think about this?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "This matter should be done. When the train is open, the station is the important place of a city, and it should be directly under the jurisdiction of the city of Zhou. Now it is divided into two counties with the Han River as the boundary. When the road from Xiangzhou to Jiangling is built in the future, there will be stations in Xiangzhou City, which is even more inconvenient."

Ma Zun said: "That's true. It's better for the three of us to write a letter together, citing the inconveniences and abolish Dengcheng County. But if we merge with Xiangyang County, there will be too many households and a large county, which will also be inconvenient."

At this time, Xiangyang County, a county affiliated to Guo, Xiangzhou, only governed the south bank of the Han River, and the other bank was Fancheng Town under Dengcheng County. Fancheng had no city walls, with a wharf as the center, and the people were distributed along the Han River, which was also very prosperous. There was nothing before, but after the train was opened, it developed rapidly with the train station as the center, and the momentum was fierce. Anyone could see that in a few years, the north bank might be more prosperous than the south bank. It was imperative to abolish Dengcheng County and place Fancheng Town into Xiangyang City. Later, trains were connected to Xiangyang from Xiangling, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were transported together, and the unified management of the yamen was needed.

However, at this time, the north bank of the Han River was large and the south bank was sparsely populated. Even if Xiangyang was the seat of the state yamen, it was only a Xinxian County, while Dengcheng on the other side was Wangxian. Although there was a historical geographical bonus, it would still be inappropriate. However, in terms of history and geographical meaning, Xiangyang is much more famous than Fancheng. If the two counties merge, this is the only way to do so.

After discussing it, they all felt that although Xiangyang was smaller, its status was more important in terms of history and reality. Together, it was recommended to abolish Dengcheng County on the north bank and join Xiangyang County.

After talking about some miscellaneous things, Du Zhongxiao said: "I came to Xiangzhou this time to discuss the matter of Changping Warehouse. The most important thing now is to find out how much grain is actually stored in the Changping Warehouse and the charity warehouse in each prefecture and county of this road, and how many years have they been stored there. What accounts are inconsistent with the physical objects, and where are the missing numbers, and make up as soon as possible. This matter cannot be handled by one person. I hope you will recommend reliable personnel from the magistrate and magistrate of this road to help do this."

Li Cheng pondered for a while and said, "This matter should be carefully prepared, and it is not easy to be careless. Moreover, Du Tiju is not only concerned about the South Road and the North Road, but Changping Cang of the North Road is also under his jurisdiction. It is the Wenwen Transfer Department to discuss with Cao Xian and select the right person."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Okay, the Transportation Department must help you with this matter."

Before Changping Warehouse was under the management of the Transportation Department, he accidentally found a large deficit, and the Transportation Officer was to blame. Although Du Zhongxiao was the judge of the Transportation Department before, Li Cheng did not dare to agree at once. He had to discuss it privately and Tian Qi, the Transportation Officer, dared to borrow someone.

Among the officials along the way, the magistrates cannot be easily moved by any yamen. They are the chief officials of a state, and the military, government and civil affairs are in power. If they are not in power, the whole state will be in chaos. From the magistrates below, as well as the magistrates, there are personnel that can be allocated at the road level. There are not many officials in several yamen. When there are busy affairs, they can only draw people from these people.

Du Zhongxiao is about to formally start handling Changping Warehouse affairs. He has no subordinates, so he can only transfer people from the officials of the route. The Transport Department is the most important yamen along the route and must pass by them. Other supervisors cannot act alone.

As the transshipment judge, Du Zhongxiao has never exercised supervision responsibilities for the officials of this route and is not familiar with them. Now he is going to hire people, and he has no suitable candidate in his heart, so he can only be recommended by the transshipment department.

After discussing the matter of Changping Warehouse for a while, Du Zhongxiao said: "The next year, the farming and farming will farm and produce grain. Even if there is a shortage of food in the warehouse, as long as it is found clearly, it is not an encroachment by officials or a major matter. Even if it is misappropriated, as long as the accounts are clear. The court asked me to recommend Changping. In addition to allowing Changping Warehouse and Yi Warehouse to have sufficient grain, I want to do two major things, but also rely on the assistance of the Transportation Department and the Shipping Department."

Ma Zun said: "It's okay to just say it, and the shipping department will do its best to help. Now Xiangzhou has a train, and the food and grass tribute transported to the capital is very convenient. A few days ago, Liu Xianggong from Jiangling came to write a letter and wanted to build a railway from there to Xiangzhou. Because I heard that there are quite a few railways in the world, but only one few railway tracks and two few trains are mostly futile. These are all built with one hand, and they will rely on good words at that time."

Du Zhongxiao dared not dare to go all the way, so he agreed. What kind of good words were they thinking about was Du Zhongxiao's relationship with the Iron Supervisor, and walked the back door. The several roads that the court focused on, such as the road connecting the Four Capitals, and the roads that were urgently built to Dengzhou, but the Iron Supervisor dared not do anything. For other railways, when the railways they wanted would be shipped, the tricks inside would be huge. Of course, local railways were local officials showing their abilities.

At this time, the prefect of Jiangling was Liu Han, who had been the minister of the prime minister and had enough status. The railway from Jiangling to Xiangzhou was particularly critical to the shipping department. Du Zhongxiao was next to him, so of course the priority must be raised.

For the railway supervisor, the priority for road construction is the first in the two Beijing Railways, the second in Kaifeng Prefecture to Dengzhou, and the third in the Ye County to Luoyang. In other local railways, it depends on how much pressure the local officials can put them. In fact, the railways are second. The output of steam locomotives is limited, and it is difficult to increase the output. Once the road is repaired, the front is not necessarily provided in time.

In fact, the priority of the railways from Luoyang to Jingzhao Prefecture and the two Beijings to Bingzhou is also high. However, political affairs have often been decided, and the two roads are temporarily dragged back. According to Du Zhongxiao and Su Song's suggestion, the iron supervisors in Xiangzhou built steel furnaces according to the specifications of Baiting Supervisor. All the materials and machines for rolling rails were removed from Ye County, and some personnel were transferred at the same time.

Building an iron supervisor from scratch is too risky without Du Zhongxiao and other people who built the iron supervisor step by step.

The railway from Xiangzhou to Jiangling Prefecture was built, and there were two stations in Xiangzhou. It was unreasonable to say that the prosperity was going on. The Han River was too wide, and it was impossible to build a railway bridge with the existing technology. It could only be divided into two parts and could not be connected. After achieving this pattern, the status of the shipping department here in Xiangzhou would definitely rise, not only to supplement the Jianghuai shipping department. Its radiation range can be from Sichuan to Sichuan in the west and Guangdong to Guangxi in the south.

Seeing that the first year of Huangyou was about to pass, Du Zhongxiao calculated the days and the reign of Nong Zhigao in Guangnan should not be many years old. The construction of this railway is a big variable, and the transportation to Guangnan is much more convenient. I don’t know what the pattern will be, and whether the imperial guards will go to war.
Chapter completed!