After drinking a glass of wine, Yan Shu said: "If you had such a heavy weapon, if you had been out a few years earlier, why would you be so embarrassed in the northwest! Alas——"

Everyone was silent, and the carriage was quiet for a moment, and the sound came from outside the window. Du Zhongxiao had nothing to say. In fact, he was not sure. Even if he had a railway, he could conquer Dangxiang in the northwest. The war ability shown by the Song army was probably the core area where the troops were gathered along the railway line, pushed them all the way, and using national strength to build the best friends.

This is also a solution. Railways can fully utilize national strength and make up for the shortcomings in the border areas.

Ouyang Xiu said: "It's not too late now. If the railway is overhauled, from Qinzhou to northwest, from Bingzhou to northeast, and from Bazhou to northeast, the situation will be different."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "My husband, this is a railway, and it is paved with iron. With the cars running on the road, how much does it cost? Thousands of miles away, all the taxes from the court are used to build roads, and they can't pave much."

Ouyang Xiu said: "The iron prison has been paved for hundreds of miles a year, and there is nothing."

Du Zhongxiao sighed: "That's the iron in the Iron Supervision cannot be sold, so it can only be like this. The iron paving now is like soil and cannot be considered money. In the past one or two years, the iron in the Iron Supervision will be sold all over the world. Then, it will not be so easy to pave the road."

Now, the railway centered on the railway supervision is part of the infrastructure of the railway supervision. It was built by the railway supervision to maintain production capacity. How can such good things happen in the future? This railway can only reach Kaifeng Prefecture in the north and Xiangzhou in the south. If you want to extend it, the cost will be different from the original one. If you pave the roads in other places, the cost will rise.

Once the iron supervision products are largely taken out and make money, everything will be different. The supervisor will inevitably be important officials, and the iron supervision managers will certainly not be like this now. They are all qualityless officials, but there will be officials at all levels. Not to mention the increased money and grain, they will be responsible for the tasks directly from the court, so how can they be like now?

Now the production capacity of the Iron Supervision has increased, but it has not made any money, and it has been converted into fixed assets and infrastructure. The imperial court will let Du Zhongxiao do whatever he wants. Once there is money on the books, how could the Sansi be so willing to let it go again?

Is the railway cheap? Of course it is cheap to have production capacity, but once the price of other things produced increases, the cost of the railway also increases.

Du Zhongxiao thought this truth very clearly, so he had to take advantage of the fact that he was not making money now and lay the railway with all his might. After this discussion, he saw the benefits of the railway, and the court would forcibly pave two lines. One was to extend from Xiangcheng to Xuzhou, and then to Kaifeng Prefecture. The other was to go from the Railway Supervision to Luoyang, Xijing. Luoyang City was the location of the Jingxi Road Transport Authority, and the Transport Authority would strengthen its control over the Railway Supervision. Even the imperial court would pave the railway connecting Kaifeng Prefecture and Henan Prefecture, connecting the two capitals, directly changing the Central Plains pattern.

Relatively speaking, although Xiangzhou is the deputy envoy of Jingxi Road Transportation, in the eyes of the court, the priority is much lower. It can only be paved with the power of local prefectures and counties and field affairs. This trend can actually be heard from the words of Ouyang Xiu and Yan Shu. Seeing the benefits of railways, the first thing the ministers in the court thought was to pave the three roads along the border, and it was not important for other places.

While talking, he drank wine and unknowingly passed Ye County and moved into Fangcheng Mountain.

Looking at the rolling mountains on both sides, Song Qi said: "When Emperor Taizong was the Emperor, he wanted to open the Xianghan Cao Canal, so he passed by a pass here. He used the manpower of several states and spent countless money, but he did not dig it out in the end. Now that the railway is built, it is another way."

Yan Shu said: "Yes. From here, we communicated between the two lakes and the Central Plains. This has been discussed since the warring battle between Qin and Chu in the Warring States Period. It was just too difficult and it failed to try many times. Sometimes the manpower was poor, so digging canals and building dams, and gradually increasing it, and it was finally possible. Compared with digging canals, building roads is much easier."

In fact, there is another reason. The watershed mainly in Fangcheng Mountain is full of heavy rain in summer, and the risk of building a dam is too high.

In this era, the main purpose of communicating with the Han River was actually not the two lakes, but the Chuanxia area in the upper reaches. At this time, Hubei was very large and sparsely populated, and Hunan was not developed. Except for a few big cities, most of them were barbarian places. The two lakes were familiar and the world was full, and it would take hundreds of years later. The Chuanxia area has been rich in resources and densely populated in the country since ancient times. Along the Han River and the Yangtze River, you can reach Xiangzhou and Jiangling, and thus go north, which is of great significance to the world pattern.

Speaking of this, Yan Shu suddenly felt a little disgusted and hurriedly lowered his head. After a while, he looked up and said, "Why do you feel like seasickness when you make a mistake? You can still feel seasick when you take this car?"

Ouyang Xiu said: "Although it is stable, the car is still a little shaking when walking, but it is not similar to riding a boat!"

Du Zhongxiao hurriedly said, "If my husband feels unwell, you can sit by the window, open the window slightly, and blow the air."

The train has been running for so many days, and Yan Shu is the first person Du Zhongxiao has seen to be in motion sickness. After all, the train speed is not fast now, which is faster than the carriage, and it is not as easy to be in motion sickness.

The soldiers next to him opened the window a little, and Yan Shu sat by the window. The fresh wind blew in and felt much better immediately.

Feeling the breath of spring, Song Qi said: "If you don't open the window, you will be a little boring after all. It's much better if the wind blows in."

It was late spring at this time, with the peach blossoms and green willows outside, and the scenery was colorful. Everyone stopped talking and looked at the scenery outside the window.

When I arrived at Qingtai Town, I stopped for a while, added water and coal, and continued to move forward. In the afternoon, I arrived at Tangzhou City.

The governor Li Fugui and Jing Yuan had already been waiting at the station. When the bus stopped, they hurriedly got on the bus and saluted Yan Shu and others.

Yan Shu held the table and said in a sluggish manner: "When I first got into the car, everything was fine, I was talking and laughing, and it was extremely relaxed. I didn't want to sit for a long time, so I felt in a bad mood. It seems that although this car is good, it is still tiring after sitting for a long time."

The other few people didn't feel that each one was full of energy. Even the older Liu Zhi was very energetic.

After getting off the car, Li Fugui said, "Dear Masters, Deputy Envoy Li of Jingxi Road, Mr. Fan of Dengzhou, and others, I heard that you are here today, and you are waiting in the prefecture yamen, waiting to welcome you. Then we go to the post station, and the prefecture yamen will clean up and then go to the prefecture yamen?"

Yan Shu nodded: "Okay, that's it. After getting off the car and blowing the wind, my spirits will be improved."

At that moment, everyone followed Li Fugui and Jing Yuan to the post station and washed up each other.

Li Fugui is the son of Hanlin scholar Li Shu. He has always been fame and enterprising. This time, the gathering of discussions in Tangzhou was not only a major matter, but also a gathering of many important officials was a rare opportunity. He was extremely attentive.

In addition to Li Cheng, the deputy envoy of Transportation, there were also Dengzhou magistrate Fan Zhongyan, Xiangzhou magistrate Wang Zhu, Junzhou magistrate Li Duanyi, Yingzhou magistrate Zhang Xu, Suizhou magistrate Xiang Zong, and Xinyang Army magistrate Song Shouxin.
Chapter completed!