"Commander, the contract has been signed. Renzo said that because there were too many machines and equipment required this time, he had to return to the German headquarters to deploy them. So, I went back directly." On the shooting range of the military camp, Zhou Weiguo took advantage of the time when Qin Yuxuan was reloading to report.
"Yes, just make him faster. Hey, Weiguo, how's the preparation for the city government going?”Qin Yuxuan nodded and asked about the planning of the city government.
"At present, apart from a few heavy industrial factories that have not been put into production due to equipment problems, the necessities for the development of the rest of the cities have been developed one after another. Among them, the Road Administration Division and the Construction Division should be the two most rapidly developing departments.”Zhou Weiguo reported truthfully.
"Oh? The Road Administration Department is also involved in the development? Alright, let's go and take a look!" Qin Yuxuan said in surprise.
"Okay, I'll be right there…"
"There's no need. It's just you, me, and Qin Li. The three of us will just wear plain clothes.”Qin Yuxuan shook his head and pointed at himself, Zhou Weiguo, and Qin Lu No.1.
"Yes, sir!" Even though their commander was viewed as a thorn in the Japanese army's side. However, Laiyang City was the territory of the advancing army after all. If they wanted to play some small tricks here, they might not have the strength to do so. Thinking of this, Zhou Weiguo naturally understood…
(10 minutes later)
"Commander, the city government allocated 120,000 silver dollars for the first phase of the Road Administration Department's project, and recruited 20,000 civilian workers. The main direction of the road was all the existing streets in Laiyang City, as well as the roads and rails leading to Laixi County and several nearby villages.”Zhou Weiguo explained as they walked on the noisy street.
"Yes, I am. Before the third phase of the project began, the Road Administration Department had to cover the entire Laiyang City and Laixi County with the construction of roads and railroads. As for the construction of the roads, they could be recruited from the current refugees or selected from the prisoner of war camps. Also, no matter what, the wages of the commoners must not be owed. If they were to be engaged in such heavy work every day, Chief Chen would probably not agree to pay them back.”Qin Yuxuan nodded and instructed as he looked at the few hardworking commoners dozens of meters away.
"I understand." Zhou Weiguo replied.
Qin Yuxuan had always been concerned about the construction of roads in the city.
The reason was actually very simple. If a country was viewed as a person. In that case, the roads and the railway were equivalent to the blood vessels of this person. They could transport all kinds of nutrients to various parts of the body.
Once the blood vessels were missing, it would inevitably lead to the failure of the various " organs ". Similarly, if the transportation roads in the territory of the army were not developed, the materials and supplies could not be smoothly circulated and operated, and wealth could not be created. This was also the origin of the phrase " If you want to be rich, build roads first ".
Compared to the development of urban public and railway in the same period, the country as a whole lagged behind Europe and the United States in North Korea. By the time the anti-Japanese war broke out, the country's railway was less than tens of thousands of kilometers, and more than half of it was concentrated in the four northeastern provinces such as Fengtian and Hei Long Jiang. As for the roads, there were a few in Nanjing, but most of them were destroyed by the Japanese artillery.
Strictly speaking, before World War II, the two countries with the fastest development of public and railway transportation in the world were Germany and the United States. The world's first expressway was built in 1933 under the leadership of Hitler. At that time, Hitler was very sensitive to the importance of public and railway transportation in the future war between Germany and North Korea. On the other hand, the United States and North Korea did not need any financial burden because they were just a couple.
However, after the outbreak of World War II, this pattern was broken by the outside world. At that time, as the battle of Stalingradi intensified, the top leaders of the Soviet Union had to decide to build a large number of public and railway transportation supply lines in the rear to provide supplies and supplies to the defenders of Stalingradi as quickly as possible.
On the other hand, the German army had to transport all their strategic materials from Poland because the front line was too far away, which caused a lot of trouble.
Although he couldn't compare to the two giants at the current stage, how could Qin Yuxuan not be compared to the other provinces at the same time? According to his plan, as long as he could occupy Qing Dao and obtain a large amount of financial support, everything related to the construction of traffic roads would not be a problem.
Unlike the other countries mentioned above, China was not only vast in territory, but it also had a lot of mountains and plateaus. It would be more expensive to develop public and railway projects. However, China had one thing that other countries could not compare to, and that was cheap labor resources. The Indian and North Korean people agreed with this point very much.
To sum up, developing the public and railway was definitely the most important thing in advancing the military and improving the people's livelihood.
According to Qin Yuxuan's current plan, only roads would be built between villages and only railroads would be built between counties. One to two clone soldiers would be placed in each construction project to monitor it. Coupled with the huge amount of capital investment, it should not be a problem for the road construction to keep up with the expansion of the advancing army.
It was also because of this that Qin Yuxuan did not hesitate to invest 120,000 silver dollars in one go. He only hoped that the first phase of the construction could be completed during the relatively stable period of the advance army. By the time Shandong was completely recovered, there would be no more developed transportation routes in East Asia than advancing into the military's jurisdiction…
(The word count is about to reach 100,000. I might have to run around naked…)
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