After Xia Wan-chan mediated the war in Japan, he asked Gao Kama to secretly reconcile with the Tokugawa family, and then promised to support the Tokugawa family's overseas expansion.

After the three parties reached an agreement, Xia Wanchun set off for Ganchao.

In March 1662, Nanjing City.

After a preliminary inspection, Gao Huan returned to Nanjing.

In the past, when Gao Huan inspected the current steel production and economic strength, he found that it was difficult to get on the horse immediately.

Under the opposition of the Council, Gao Huan was forced to reduce his plan to one horizontal and one vertical.

Now the horizontal line has basically been confirmed, starting from Lanzhou in the west and going to Haizhou in the east, which is Lianyungang.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the north had a humid climate, sufficient precipitation, and the Yellow River Basin could also be transported.

At that time, inland river shipping could reach Luoyang directly, and it could also reach Kaifeng during the Northern Song Dynasty, but after the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the Yellow River could basically not carry out large-scale transportation.

This is also an important reason for the gradual decline of the entire northern economy.

The line planned by Gao Huan starts from Lanzhou in the west, passes through Chang'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xuzhou, and finally arrives at the Longhai Line in Haizhou, connecting the north provinces east and west like the Yangtze River.

In this regard, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, and Nanzhili had no objection. All provinces promised to accept the court's plans and complete the court's tasks.

The most controversial thing is the first column. At present, only the starting point in Beijing has been determined, and the rest has been debated.

Henan requires that the railway line will leave Hebei and go south through Henan, Shandong and Nanzhili, and then go south after leaving Hebei.

Henan is an old district with many officials in the court, especially honorary and relatives account for 50% to 60% of the country.

The interests of the railway were there. Seeing Lao Xier selling coal and making money, the officials, gentry and honorary relatives in Henan all spoke out that the railway must go to Henan.

If the civil and military officials in Henan cannot compete for railways for Henan, they will not return to Henan in the future.

Nanzhili had a developed economy and prosperous culture and education. There were a large number of civil servants in the court. They also spoke for their hometown, believing that from an economic perspective, the railway must go through Nanzhili.

The two provinces are really inseparable from railway construction, which has attracted Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong to join the battle group.

Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, support Henan, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Fujian support Nanzhili.

The Gan Dynasty reformed the provinces of the Ming Dynasty and divided major provinces such as Huguang and Guangdong and Guangxi to facilitate the economic development of various regions.

Now each province is divided into two factions, and within the two factions, each province and government are also arguing endlessly.

If Jiangxi and Hunan both support going to Henan, they will destroy each other because the railway will go to Jiangxi or Hunan after leaving Hubei.

Officials from all provinces are aware that railway construction is related to the province's economy. If they cannot win, the people in their province will have to scold them to death.

Therefore, in order to earn the railway, all provinces, from officials to gentry and people, were mobilized to participate in this unprecedented battle.

This is mainly because of the success of Shanxi's railway construction, which made all provinces jealous. Last winter, Shanxi earned more than one million silver dollars by selling coal.

With the increase in running trains, Shanxi's coal mines will increase production, and Shanxi's revenue will be estimated to double next year.

In this way, Shanxi will pay back the money for building a railway, and then make all the money every year.

The benefits brought by the construction of railways have been seen by the provinces. Although they do not have coal mines, they have other resources, and even if they only sell grain, it will be much more convenient.

Early that morning, after Gao Huan washed up, he took a carriage to the Council Council to continue discussing railway planning.

When they arrived at the gate of the Council, they saw a group of people gathering outside. When they saw Gao Huan, they surrounded him.

"Your Majesty! Our Henan has made great contributions to the great cause. The railway must go to Henan!"

"If the railway does not go to Henan, we still have the face to go back to worship our ancestors, and we will be scolded by the people in our hometown!"

Gao Huan heard the voice and saw that most of the people coming were nobles. After they were lobbying by their hometown people, they came to Gao Huan to plead with him, hoping that Gao Huan would let the railway go to Henan for his efforts.

Seeing this, Gao Huan frowned and walked out of the carriage, "Nothing is a national matter, and the Council will deal with it. How can you allow your intervention? Let me go back!"

Many honorary relatives, but they refused to leave, and the law did not blame the public, so they did nothing, so they were naturally not afraid that Gao Huan would get angry because of this.

"Your Majesty, there are many officials in Zhili in Central and Southern Dynasties, so they naturally advocate going to Nanzhili, but Nanzhili already has a Grand Canal, so the railway should go to Henan!"

"Your Majesty, I don't want to come over, but I can't wait to speak out. The civil servants will definitely not let the railway go to our Henan."

Gao Huan was a little annoyed and pointed at everyone and said, "You group are becoming more and more bold. For a railway, they blocked Chen Yizheng's house and threatened to beat the imperial officials. I haven't settled the score with you yet, and today I ran to the Council for a riot. Do you want to rebel?"

Gao Huan has a high prestige among the honors and relatives. After hearing Gao Huan's words, everyone immediately did not dare to speak again.

"Your Majesty, I dare not!" Duke Li Pingyuan of Wei said quickly.

Gao Huan said angrily: "You are so dissatisfied. Do you don't believe me anymore? One of the people present today counts, and they all have their salary for three months. I will go back and reflect on it."

Upon hearing this, the honorary and relatives all bowed their heads and reluctantly left the door of the Council.

There are regulations for the reign of the court that honors and relatives are not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the court. They have few channels to speak out. Apart from the vote at the National Assembly, they usually have no say, so they came together to petition Gao Huan.

I originally thought that His Majesty the Emperor would be biased towards Henan when he was thinking about the old love in Henan, but now I have no idea.

For a moment, everyone sighed, but only Li Pingyuan became happy.

"Duke! Your Majesty doesn't help us, what should I do?"

Li Pingyuan was confident, "Don't worry! Everyone will pay the fine when they go back, and the railway will definitely go to our Henan!"

After everyone left, Gao Huan immediately stepped into the Council Council and found that Du Yinxi was behind the door.

"Your Majesty!" Du Yinxi said: "Li Guogong and others came to express their opinions. I don't know what to do, but fortunately Your Majesty will arrive!"

Gao Huan waved his hand and said casually as he walked in, "I didn't expect that building a railway would cause such a big dispute. Do you think this railway should be taken to Henan or Xuzhou?"

Du Yinxi followed behind, "The railway connecting Nanjing is indeed convenient for travel and military mobilization. However, from an economic perspective, there is a Grand Canal and shipping in the east of Dagan, but there is no convenient transportation link in the central region. I think from the perspective of economic development, it is still necessary to build a railway line connecting the north and south and running through the central region."

Gao Huan nodded slightly, "At the meeting later, I will tell you your point of view."
Chapter completed!