In August of the first year of Huangyou, Du Zhongxiao was transferred from the transfer judge to the Changping Office of Jingxi Road, and also established Yingtian. Zhang Fengzhi was in charge of official affairs, and Su Shunqin was in charge of official affairs. Yingtian Xiangjun selected the old and weak, conducted teaching and reading, gave him military names, and set up two commanders. For example, the Beijing envoy Liu Ji was stationed in Tangzhou, managing the Xiang army of Tangzhou, Dengzhou and Ruzhou. Yang Ting, the envoy of Dongranyuan, stationed in Suizhou, and managed the Xiang army of Xiangzhou, Suizhou and Yingzhou.

Du Zhongxiao's Changping official's scope of responsibility is to be in charge of Changping Warehouse, Yichuang, Fangchang, Shiyi, Hedu, Residence and other affairs. The core items are actually two: one is Changping Warehouse and Yichuang Warehouse, to calm prices and relieve famines; the other is Shiyifang, which are various industrial and commercial activities. The two are both different and interconnected. The focus of Changping Warehouse is to stabilize grain prices and commercial activities centered on agriculture. Shiyifang is centered on industry and mining. Field management is part-time job, and this matter starts with him and cannot be abandoned.

In addition to the transfer officers of the first-level road supervisors, they were promoted to the prison and encourage farmers, and often closed the warehouse and brought them to the camp. In fact, they were all for the purpose of dividing the power of the transfer officers. The Song Dynasty always paid attention not to allow the road level to be large. The three departments in the court were large, and the road level transfer officers were large. The court intended to decentralize power.

In mid-August, Du Zhongxiao met with his new colleagues and subordinates at the newly built Zaoyang Field Affairs Office.

Seeing Du Zhongxiao bringing his subordinates and waiting outside the door, Liu strode forward and bowed, "I've parted in Bozhou for several years, I don't want to see you today. I thought that I was a young Jinshi who was promoted to the imperial examination and was full of energy. After less than ten years of success, I have been stationed in one place."

Du Zhongxiao said: "The chief was the magistrate of the state and I was the procurator. Who knew that goodbye and had changed his military position, which is really unexpected."

Liu Ji laughed: "I left Bozhou and went to work in the border area. Grandpa Sun recommended it to exchange literature for martial arts for several years."

After Liu Ji left Bozhou, he worked at Shaanxi Road. Sun Mian recommended him to have a martial arts strategy and changed his military position for several years. This time, Du Zhongxiao reorganized the Tianxiang Army in the camp and promoted muskets and cannons in the army. Liu Ji was specially sent. Although Du Zhongxiao was in charge of the reorganization of the Tianxiang Army in the camp and his official position was higher than that of Liu Ji, he was not in the same system, and the two were colleagues, and they were not strict superiors and subordinates.

Despite this, in less than ten years, Du Zhongxiao changed from subordinate to Liu Ji's boss, which made people sigh. Fortunately, Liu Ji was open-minded and did not care about it. Otherwise, he would not agree to come to Jingxi Road.

The two stood side by side in front of the door, chatting about their respective situations after their farewell. Liu Ji changed his military position, but everything went smoothly afterwards. Before coming here, he served as the governor of Shaanxi Road and made many achievements. When Du Zhongxiao was on Hedong Road, he had fought with the Khitan and had a strong upper hand. In recent years, the Khitan and Dangxiang have been in constant wars, and each other has won and lost. Most of the generals along the border admired Du Zhongxiao's victory that year.

Finally, Liu Jidao: "I went from Shaanxi to Beijing, then transferred to the train and arrived in Xiangyang. The train was really a good thing. It ran thousands of miles a day and night, just like a dream. If the railway was overhauled and the Shaanxi Road was connected, there would be war in the future, why would there be shortage of food and soldiers on the front line?"

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "The chief minister, this is true. However, the train has been repaired, and there is another benefit, but few people talk about it."

Liu Jidao: "This thing is your first initiative, so it is naturally more thorough than others. - What are the benefits besides convenience?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "In the past, when troops were used in the northwest, they had to march in different ways because of insufficient food and grass, and were eventually defeated by the Western thieves. If the railway was built in the future, there would be no worries. You could join forces and advance along the way, like a spear and a halberd, plowing the courtyard and sweeping the cave!"

Liu Ji nodded and agreed with it. He didn't expect this benefit.

The northwest is barren and poor, and there is no way to get the enemy because of food. The mainland transports grain too far. Every time, it attacks Dangxiang can only march in different directions, and there are not many soldiers and horses in various ways. Dangxiang has the advantage of maneuvering inside, and is defeated by each route, and eventually loses a lot. The three routes of attack Xia and the five routes of attack Xia are not because the Song army does not know the benefits of concentrated attacks, but because they have to do so. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses are not concentrated along the way, otherwise they will not have to fight and come back hungry halfway. Advance in different directions, and there are not many soldiers and horses in each route, and they are often surrounded and defeated by Dangxiang.

This is an objective condition limit. In fact, only tens of thousands of troops can be sent to attack the Dangxiang. More than this number, the troops must be divided. Moreover, the distance between several routes must be sufficient, so that the next step cannot be supported. The distance between the two routes is too far, and communication is inconvenient and incompatible, which is a problem that cannot be solved.

Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched, and not only these tens of thousands of people were mobilized. The people of the at least a few states on the march route must fully support them. From the people who transported grain to the preparation of various materials in the rear, it is actually a total mobilization of several states. The place is so large, there are only so many households, and there are only tens of thousands of war soldiers along the way, and no matter how many there are, they cannot fight normally. What are the division and attacks, roundabout sieges are all self-deceptions and have no effect. If you want to win the war, you can only hope to win the whole way and at least drag the enemy's main force, and there is no other way.

The railway construction is not only convenient for materials and manpower, but actually expands the rear support area. The entire railway line can provide support to the front line, and the scale of front-line soldiers can be expanded several times. As long as one of the road exceeds the limit of the military power of the Dangxiang Army, it will be fatal.

The framework of field operations has been established, and Du Zhongxiao spent more energy on military affairs. How many benefits does the railway have? We still need to continue thinking and practice, but our current potential has not been realized at all.

Liu Jidao: "As soon as the railway was built, the imperial court saw the benefits, but it was really different. This time when I arrived in the capital, everyone argued about the benefits of the railway and spread throughout the world. The imperial court has ordered that the Henan Prefecture of Xijing this winter, and the emperor took a car to visit the Imperial Mausoleum next year. He heard that it was not just that. The Political Affairs Hall has already set up a route to Beijing Daming Prefecture and Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture. He ordered the prefecture along the road to level the foundation this winter, and only waited for the railway tracks of the railway supervision to come out, and then paved. Jingxi Road will build a railway line from Luoyang to Ye County, and also ordered the foundation to be built this winter. As for other roads, there are many people who proposed to build roads. Regardless of whether there are railway tracks or not, the roads should be leveled out first, and then paved later when there are railway tracks."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "Baitingjian can only produce so many railway tracks in a year. What's the use of rushing to fill the roadbed?"

Liu Ji said: "I heard from the court officials that I should build another place in Xiangzhou and Jingdong Laiwu. But no one can be used, and it cannot be implemented for the time being. I may ask you to do this in a few years."

Du Zhongxiao just shook his head: "It's difficult. This matter seems simple, but there are so many troubles when it comes to doing it, but it's still hard to hurry. It's better to take it slowly."

The iron supervision just developed, and it was the time to expand in a hurry and don’t ruin the fundamentals. With the current manpower of the iron supervision, if it is divided, it will definitely affect the speed of technological development. Unless other iron supervision only produces railway tracks and dismantle ready-made furnaces and machines from Baiting Supervisor, it will not be easy to develop well.

Liu Ji was right. As soon as the train arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture, the situation was immediately different. Emperor Zhao Zhen took the ministers to experience it by train, and a one-day trip from Kaifeng Prefecture to Xuzhou. That trip made the ministers intuitively feel the benefits of the train and proposed major construction. Zhao Zhen even paid money from the inner treasury and ordered the construction of the railway from Xijing and Henan Prefecture, which must be built this year. Not to mention the strategic value of the railway between the two capitals, it has special significance to the royal family. It is the hometown of their Zhao family and the imperial tomb. With the railway, you can personally visit the imperial tomb.
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