Since last year, the railway was successfully trial production and trial operation of several miles in Chengdu, the First Railway Construction Group of the Railway Construction Bureau under the Railway Department has arrived at Shuntian Prefecture on the order of Zhu Niu and prepared to build the Beijing-Tianjin Railway.

If a railway is built normally, it will take a long time to survey information such as mountains, rivers, terrain and other information.

Judging from the skills and experience of the Ming Dynasty, even though the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is basically built on flat ground, it is not difficult, but it still needs to be tested for several months or even six months.

However, Zhu Niu directly brought the information of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, which was first built in Shenzhou in later generations, and asked the "First Railway Construction Group" to refer to it.

This is equivalent to doing the questions with standard answers, and the speed is naturally much faster than normal surveys.

As the first railway construction team of the Ming Dynasty, the First Railway Construction Group, from the chief engineer to ordinary railway construction workers, were all full of fighting spirit.

Because they have all seen the energy of railway transportation from the videos and have also verified railway transportation in Chengdu.

They also knew that their names would be recorded in history because of the first official railway of the Ming Dynasty, and their names were kept in history, realizing the lifelong pursuit of many scholars and officials.

When the First Railway Construction Group arrived at Shuntian Prefecture by water and sea routes, it was already mid-November. The weather was severely cold and even snowed, but they still worked without fear of hard work.

It took only more than a month to verify the relevant terrain information of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway given by Zhu Ni.

This is the only way to start the actual construction of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway on the fifth day of the first lunar month of the second year of Zhaowu.

Although it was verified with the railway data from later generations, the First Railway Construction Group found that it could not completely copy the answer, because the Beijing-Tianjin Railway line given by Zhu Niu was somewhat different from the current actual situation, whether in towns or in water and land environment.

After all, there are more than three hundred gaps.

Therefore, the final route determined by the First Railway Construction Group was: first to build the railway between Wanping County, Daxing County and Tongzhou in the southwest of the capital.

Because the canal from Tongzhou to the capital and the Lugou River in Wanping are the main channels to enter the capital at this time. Among them, the Guangqumen, which corresponds to Tongzhou, has the most crowded crowds, followed by Guang'anmen to the west, Zuo'anmen to the south, and You'anmen to the south.

Although there are Dongzhimen, Chaoyangmen, Dongbianmen of the inner city, and Yongdingmen of the outer city to the east, it is usually not for ordinary people to leave.

Although the capital is not ten and the people's livelihood is in decline, the court has no plans to return the capital to the capital.

But since it is a railway construction, we naturally have to consider the long-term.

Wanping and Daxing are all in the south of the capital. Once the railway between Tongzhou is completed, it can share the flow of people entering the capital for Tongzhou, and communicate with the west, south and north sides outside the capital.

As for the section south of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, there are Tongzhou, Xianghe, Yangcun, Tianjin Sanwei, and finally Beitang.

The reason why the end point is not Dagukou where the Wei River enters the sea, but Beitang where the Chao River enters the sea is because the upstream of the Chao River (not Miyun Chao River) connects rivers such as Baoqiu Water, Gu River, Wu River, and Wu River. Unlike the Tongzhou Canal, Lugou River and other water systems, it connects a large area of ​​land such as Jizhou in the eastern part of the capital.

Build the terminal of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway in Beitang, so that Jizhou and other places can pass through water, better connect with the capital, and even connect with Nanjing via sea routes...

The sound of firecrackers sounded and the gongs and drums were loud.

After a Ming Dynasty groundbreaking ceremony, the Beijing-Tianjin Railway officially started construction!

In addition to Du Yinxi, Zhang Kuang led a civil servant to the scene. Du Yinxi also transferred a battalion of border guards from the Supervisor (Fourth Town) to the battlefield.

The few gentry, landlords and common people left in Wanping County were also invited by the magistrate to watch the ceremony.

This is the suggestion of the Railway Construction Group to avoid misunderstandings among local people about railways and trains in the future.

Speaking of which, it was difficult for later generations to lead the Qing Dynasty to build the first railway in China. It is said that the complete plan was shelved by Lafayette for more than ten years for various reasons.

It was obvious that Li Hongzhang wanted to build a railway during the Westernization Movement, but it was delayed until after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and was built after the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked the capital...

The situation in the Ming Dynasty is very different from that at that time.

After experiencing the pseudo-Shun, the pseudo-Qing entered the capital, and then the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, the population around the capital was not one in ten, and it had nothing to do with the word "densely populated". No one dared to raise objections whether the railway occupied land or tombs.

As for the gentry and landlords, even though they did not die in natural disasters before, they fled in a large number of people who later fled north because they were shaved and kept their heads in a row with money and rat-tail whip.

However, those people did not really escape, but were mostly captured by the Ming army and became prisoners of crime.

Therefore, even if Wanping was once close to Shangxian County, there were only five or six gentry and landlords present.

These people had escaped from various disasters before fleeing to the nearby mountains or the south.

At this time, I saw tens of thousands of railway workers recruited by the Railway Construction Bureau from the garrison, holding hoes, picks, shovels and other tools, digging the railway foundation on a long line two or three miles away from the official road from Wanping to Daxing, spreading away. The momentum was like creating the world, and I couldn't help but show curiosity and shock.

"What is this railway? Tens of thousands of young and strong people will be used in the section from Wanping to Daxing alone?"

Another person couldn't help but sigh: "I'm afraid that Emperor Yang of Sui was digging the Grand Canal, and his momentum was nothing more than that."

"Shh!" The friend next to him quickly reminded the man, "Brother Zhang is careful!"

The gentry surnamed Zhang also realized that he should not use Emperor Yang of Sui as a metaphor for the current emperor. He looked around nervously and saw that most people were paying attention to the shocking construction scene. Few people noticed his words, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

So I hurriedly thanked my friend: "Thank you, Brother Geng, for the reminder."

Geng Xin said: "Two years ago, you and I fled to Tianmen Mountain to take refuge. Now we have finally returned to Wanping, so we should support each other."

Zhang Rui nodded, "It should be like this."

Geng Xin said again: "I heard that this railway needs to be paved with iron, which is much more convenient than the brick and stone road. I also heard that it is specially designed for a fire-riding car, and I don't know whether it is true or false."

"Paving the road with iron?" Zhang Rui was extremely shocked. "How can the imperial court be so extravagant? Even if there is too much iron, there is no need to do so, right? Besides, aren't you afraid of stealing the road with iron?"

Geng Xin smiled and said, "Is it so easy to steal things from the court? Even if you steal them, you may be useless."

Zhang Rui suddenly realized.

Indeed, since the court dares to pave the road with iron, it will most likely send people to patrol along the road and severely punish the thieves.

If the first piece of iron is about to be beheaded and searched, who would dare to think about this?

What's more, the price of iron in the Ming Dynasty is not high now, it is very affordable, and it is even cheaper than during the Chongzhen period.

Let’s look at the current military power of the court, it’s not ordinary scary.

I haven't seen the gentry and landlords who shave their hair and change their clothes before, became pseudo-Qing Shunmin and tried to escape from the prison, and now they have become prisoners of crime. Have you helped those railway workers on the railway construction site?

It's quite a pity to talk about this.

The pseudo-Qing ruled Northern Zhili for more than a year, and those who wanted to survive were basically forced to shave their heads and become disguised.

However, after the Ming Dynasty conquered the capital, it only arrested those who fled north and tried to escape outside the pass as prisoners. Most of these people were gentry and landlords. After all, ordinary people were not well-informed and had no capital to escape.

As for those who stayed in the local area, the court would not punish them as long as they reduced the ugly money rat-tail whip.

I remember that in November and December last year, the price of wigs in the entire Beizhili increased sharply, and many craftsmen specializing in this business made a lot of money.

But so many people need wigs to cover up their ugly hairstyle. Where is the normal wig enough? Therefore, in the end, the horses, mules, and donkeys everywhere were all in trouble, and all the hairs that looked like human hair were cut.

Nowadays, some people from other places come to Northern Zhili and often see several strange phenomena. One of them is that the mules, horses and donkeys are bald and ugly.

But even if mules, horses and donkeys contributed their hair, the wigs needed by the remaining people in Northern Zhili were far from enough.

In addition, the price of wigs is rising like a monkey, which has led to many poor people not being able to afford wigs, and in the end they can only cut the hateful, ugly money rat-tail whip.

However, in order to completely eliminate the traces of the money rat-tail whip, some of them simply shaved into big bald heads.

Fortunately, at this time, the governor Du Yinxi, who came to preside over military and political affairs in Northern Zhili, also issued a court decree - anyone who had shaved his hair and changed his clothes had not acted like a North to escape from the pass and surrender the enemy, he only had to ban the rat-tail of money and wear it back to the clothing of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

So, more people shave their heads with peace of mind.

Now over a month, many people have grown a little hair, but it is still far from returning to their former buns.

This has caused the second most bizarre appearance in Northern Zhili - apart from hats or cloth scarves, many people have bald or flat heads.
Chapter completed!