Chapter 370 Construction of double-track coastal railway starts

  October of golden autumn, the fragrance of osmanthus osmanthus in the land of far away hometown.

  This is a harvest season, and it is also a season of victory. The secret telegram from the Governor's Mansion of Guangdong and Guangxi showed that Master Gu Yanchuan accepted Li Fushou's suggestion, and the risk was a thunderous blow.

On September 11, 1883, more than 3,000 people from Wuwei Youjun and more than 2,000 people from Guangzhou Eight Banners, a total of 5,000 elites secretly entered the Yuebei area, Xiaoxing overnight, and entered Changning on September 21, September 25 Arrived in Shanxi, smoothly rendezvous with Wuwei Zuojun, the elite force increased to 12,000.

  Black Flag Army Liu Yongfu received support from the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi with 3,000 Mauser quick guns in June. In just over three months, the force has expanded to more than 13,000, all of whom are brave and brave fighters.

  Among them, there are more than 4,000 elite firearms battalions, more than 1,500 people use old-fashioned firearms such as carrying guns, and the rest use cold weapons such as long swords and long contradictions. The firearms accounted for as much as 50%.

The Feng Zicai Department of the Green Camp vigorously eliminated the old and the weak. The original nearly 30,000 green camps were reduced by half, with 14,000 elite soldiers, and the Governor-General allocated 2,000 Mauser rapid guns to strengthen the military. The firearms totaled more than 3,000 people, accounting for about two. become.

  After the army

  The entire army has a total of 39,000 soldiers, and 12,000 French expeditionary troops stationed in the Red River Delta. The number of the Qing army is three times that of the enemy.

  On October 2, the Qing army launched a general offensive at dawn. Under the cover of fierce artillery fire, it stormed into the French expeditionary barracks.

  The front-line soldiers fought bravely, defying sacrifices, overwhelmed the French counterattack in the platoon gun fire, defeated the enemy in one fell swoop and achieved a decisive victory.

  This battle killed and injured more than 1,700 French troops and captured more than 650 enemies. They pushed the front to the vicinity of Hanoi in one fell swoop, and the French had no choice but to reopen the peace talks.

  This decisive victory shocked the government and the people, ecstatic, known as the "Red River Delta Victory", and the whole country was boiling.

  Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Gu Yanchuan strategized and made a decisive victory thousands of miles away. He was known as "the pillar of the Lingnan and the important minister of the country".

   With this great victory, the Qing government decided to accept the request for peace talks with France when they met, but the Qing government’s negotiator was replaced by the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Gu Yanchuan, and the two sides planned to start peace talks in Shanghai.

Australia

  Hongbao Lingxiao Pavilion

"Hahaha……"

  Li Fushou looked up at Secret Power and laughed. He was very happy. He was really happy. This time he was almost wiped out by the **** Thunder and God of different dimensions. His painstaking efforts were not in vain, and the harvest was extremely fruitful.

  With this "Red River Delta Victory" (replacing the "Zhennanguan Victory" in history), the Qing court can be majestic for another 20 years. Whether it is strong on the outside and inside and inside is extremely rotten, the superficial strength cannot be underestimated.

  Think about it...

The Manchu empire with a population of forty-five million people defeated the indomitable French state in the land war. This was enough to deter the Western countries that were about to move, at least on the surface it seemed very powerful.

  Benefiting from this, these Chinese survivors in Australia can continue to maintain their pride and will not be looked down upon by foreigners.

  The strength of the motherland is far from being as simple as self-esteem and self-confidence for the Chinese forces in Queensland thousands of miles away, and the impact is extremely far-reaching.

  One month ago

The Longjin Highway Tunnel on Shangri-La Island, which is about to be completed, suffered a serious collapse in a day of lightning and thunder. The accident caused more than 170 indigenous laborers to be crushed by gravel, and there was little hope of survival. There were also several engineers and technicians. Died together.

  This is a natural disaster, and it is also a severe warning.

  Okay, okay, I was almost struck by the Thunder of the Nine Heavens in another dimension. I can only do so much. I will not dare to intervene in the Far East in the future.

  Li Fushou is in a good mood today. After the collapse of the Longjin Highway Tunnel, the engineering team mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources to repair the tunnel, and finally successfully completed the entire line a few days ago, and transported the first car of copper concentrate ore.

  Good things are hard to come by. The Koi copper-gold mine, which was originally scheduled to start production in September, was postponed for one month, and now it is finally able to produce copper concentrate ore.

  The Yueyahu Reservoir Power Station supporting the Jinli Copper-Gold Mine was officially connected to the grid for power generation in early August. The mine started more than two months ago and has accumulated a large amount of copper concentrate, totaling more than 30,000 tons, all of which are piled up in the mining area.

With the completion of the Longjin Highway, these copper concentrates can be continuously transported out, shipped on ships in Longmen Town, and sent to the copper smelter in Baihu City, Queensland, where they are smelted into copper ingots and then made into copper. Pennies and other copper products.

  Why did the copper smelter be located in Baihu City?

  Because there are sufficient high-quality coal resources, mature mechanical processing and smelting capabilities, strict defense capabilities, and a large number of high-quality workers. Most importantly, this is the core of the Queensland Earl’s territory, and the fertile water does not flow out of the field.

  With the support of the copper industry in Baihu City, the distribution of heavy industry industries is more reasonable, creating more employment opportunities, and urban development can catch up with Zhuque City and Qinglong City, forming a good situation of flying together.

The Koi Copper-Gold Mine now uses tens of thousands of indigenous prisoners of war as the main mining force. About 1.5 to 1.7 tons of copper ore are mined per person per day, with an average of about 50 tons of copper ore per month, based on an average copper ore grade of 0.8%. After crushing and refining, each person can produce more than half a ton of copper concentrate per month. This process is basically manpower-based.

  If it is supplemented by large-scale blasting and machinery in the later stage, it can greatly improve the unit production efficiency and produce more copper concentrate.

  Li Fushou’s excitement is justified, let’s do a preliminary calculation;

According to the monthly output of 15,000 tons of copper concentrate, each ton is worth almost US$440 in the international market, which is equivalent to 108 pounds per ton. The monthly output value of the Koi Copper-Gold Mine exceeds 1.6 million pounds, net profit per month after removing the cost. More than 1.35 million pounds, a huge profit of more than 16 million pounds a year, is simply a money printing machine, equivalent to half of all industrial, agricultural and tax revenues in the Red River Valley.

  After deep processing by the Baihu Copper Smelter, the value of the finished copper pennies can increase more than ten times, so that the market has sufficient funds to develop the economy.

   Therefore, the Koi copper-gold mine is a powerful arm to lift the Red River Valley's economic take-off, allowing the previously stretched financial situation to quickly loosen.

  In order to better manage the Koi copper-gold mine, Li Fushou specifically ordered the establishment of a wholly-owned mining company, and all the proceeds go to the inner account. This is income that has nothing to do with the Queensland state's finances and belongs to him personally.

  Of course, after the White Tiger Mint officially runs, it needs to pay a considerable seigniorage to London according to the number of coins to obtain legal circulation qualifications.

  The state finance can also get a generous tax from it, which can be used to improve the national economy and people’s livelihood, road traffic, education and health, etc., and get a share of the pie.

  In any case, Li Fushou can draw the biggest piece of cake from it. The loose funding will surely promote the full bloom of the economy, and ultimately benefit the economic development of the entire state of Queensland.

  With money, everything is easy to do. Li Fushou finally tasted the taste of wealth. The fast freighter preparing to ship copper concentrate was still parked at the dock in Longmen Town. He had already started to spend a lot of money ahead of time.

The long-prepared coastal railway double-track project has been put on the agenda. In view of the serious road surface settlement since the original line has been used for several years, the new construction plan adopts the barrier construction method to strengthen the foundation in the subsidence section, and excavate rows of deep. Pour concrete into the pit, and fix the soft foundation with grid-like concrete.

  This is indeed a once-and-for-all solution. There are as many as 37 large-scale subsidence zones on the long railway line from Honghe Valley to Beilun Town over 1,270 kilometers, which has doubled the construction cost of the entire double-track railway.

  It originally cost 1.37 million pounds to build from Red River Valley to Pine Town, and to extend from Pine Tree Town to Beilun Town cost 672,000 pounds, the construction cost of the whole line was 2.042 million pounds, plus the construction cost of more than 20 stations along the railway, totaling 2.6966 million pounds.

  Today, the construction cost of a double-track railway is as high as 3.84 million pounds, plus the total cost of signal lights and cable telegraph facilities along the line is more than 4 million pounds, and it does not include the expansion of part of the railway station.

  The whole project is expected to take two years. It is planned to start in November. The railway traffic standard is designed according to the heavy-duty design. The truck can carry up to 30 carriages and transport thousands of tons of goods at a time.

  Although the cost is high, there are many benefits.

The construction of the double-track railway will comprehensively reinforce the subgrade in the subsidence zone. The old line will be discarded through bending and straightening. The speed of the newly constructed double-track double-track railway will be increased to more than 40 kilometers per hour, which is expected to increase the passenger and freight capacity of the original single-track railway. 4~5 times, give full play to the best benefits of this golden route.

  Li Fushou agreed with a stroke of a pen, isn’t it just £4 million? This money was spent by Lao Tzu.

   Doing a calculation, more than 4 million pounds will be spread over two years, which is hundreds of thousands of pounds per month. Is this number really a lot?

Moreover, the double-track coastal railways are all built in the realm of Lord Earl, which will drive the social benefits of a huge flow of people and logistics, which will surely promote the cities along the line to enter the fast lane of development. These cities along the line are all owned by the earl, and they are all sons. Investment can not be saved.

  The coastal railway was originally built by social capital, and social capital accounted for 36.3% of the share. The double-track construction suddenly injected more than 4 million pounds, immediately diluting the share of equity occupied by social capital to an insignificant point.

  No way, Lord Earl is too rich.

This is just the beginning. For the "Majesty" class battleship to be built at the Hongshan Shipyard at the end of the year, Li Fushou has approved a preparatory fund of 640,000 pounds for the purchase of marine high-power steam engines and heavy boiler equipment. Tons of high-quality heavy plates for ships, hundreds of tons of steel pipes and other equipment are ready for construction.

  At the same time, he approved the final payment of £575,000 to the Royal Navy Shipyard in Portsmouth, England. This is the last payment for the battleship "Majesty". After the outfitting of the shipyard is completed, it will be delivered to the British Imperial Navy.

  Unable to get the money, the British shipyard will not deliver the warship.

  (End of this chapter)