There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 498 Occupies half of the land of the Great Song Dynasty!

PS: There is a bug in the last chapter. Qiongzhou is not a road, but the state capital of Guangnan West Road.Just had a brain twitch.

After Guangnan was pacified, Li Chu also visited Jinghu South Road alone.

The transfer envoy Deng Youxian and the comfort envoy Chen Qisong were invited to a separate banquet. At the banquet, Li Chu directly had a showdown with the two.

After learning that Liangzhe Road, Jiangnan East-West Road, Fujian Road, Guangnan East-West Road, and Hubei Road were all controlled by the Qilin Army, the two were shocked.

Although the imperial court had a decree to appoint Li Xuan and Lu Junyi as the transshipment envoys of the East and West Roads in Guangnan, Deng Youxian had no idea that Jiangnan West Road and Fujian Road were also controlled by the Qilin Army. Jing South Road.

And it is still surrounded by Hunan Road.

how to choose?

After Li Chu promised various conditions, the two finally chose to join the Qilin Army.

Now the Jiangnan side has become a big trend, and no one can stop it. This Hunan Road is still the last stop, and the opportunity to resist has long since passed.

With the surrender of the two officials on Hunan Road, the Jingnan Road also came under the control of the Qilin Army.

Jiangning Mansion!
After returning to Jiangning Mansion, Li Chu customized a large map of Song, Jin, Liao, Xixia, and Tubo.

Shi Tianyi sat quietly and watched.

Li Chu picked up a red watercolor pen and started to draw from the easternmost part of the map.

The first is Tongzhou!

The first stroke of this watercolor pen is in the Fengma River in the north of Tongzhou. This used to be a horse farm in the south of the Song Dynasty in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Now the horse farm has long since disappeared, leaving only this river, which is also Tongzhou. where the state boundaries are located.

The first stroke is to draw the state boundary between Tongzhou and Huainan East Road along this river, then arrive at the Yangtze River, turn the brush and go west along the Yangtze River to the Yangzhong area, then pass through Dantu County, and cross Jiangning Mansion, then turn to Taiping Prefecture, Tongling, Chizhou, along the Yangtze River to the west, and finally stop at Hanyang, Hubei.

Start going north from Hanyang, no longer along the Yangtze River, but go up along the border of Hubei Road, enter Jingxinan Road, and then go up along Jingxinan Road into Ruzhou, including Rufen Town and Xiangcheng County Go in, make a big turn here, then go down to the southwest, and then return to the boundary line of Jingxinan Road, including Junzhou and Bianzhou, then turn back to the boundary of Hubei Road, and then go south and down along Hunan Go along the boundary line of the road, and finally reach Guangnan West Road, then go west along the northern boundary line of Guangnan West Road, draw the border line between Song Dynasty and Dali, and then go south along the border line, and reach the border between Li Dynasty and Dali Song Dynasty borderline.

Li Dynasty, that is, Vietnam in later generations.

Finally the line stops at the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin.

The area drawn by this red line includes half of the territory of the entire Song Dynasty.

The area within this line is the area actually controlled by the Qilin Army now!

Li Chu took out the territory map of the Southern Song Dynasty and compared it with this.

The area controlled by the Qilin Army today is only a quarter less than the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty!

In other words, the area now controlled occupies three-quarters of the Southern Song Dynasty in later generations!

Li Chu's heart also became ambitious along with this map.

Up to now, it has been a year since he traveled to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty!

After a year, the Qilin Army has become famous and controlled half of the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty!

The plan to control Jiangnan has been completed!
Now the entire Jiangnan is actually under the control of the Kirin Army!

"Sir, how about this picture?"

Li Chu picked up the map outlining the territory of the Qilin Army, and unfolded it for Shi Tianyi to see.

Looking at the area under the control of the Qilin army outlined by the red line above, Shi Tianyi was also quite embarrassed.

How could he have imagined that Li Chu, who rebelled in Xiangcheng County in the past, would control most of the territory of the Song Dynasty in just one year?Who would have imagined that the alcoholic and gambler Chu Geer in Rufen Town in the past could become the dominant prince of today?

Territory, though controlled.

However, there are still many problems in various people's livelihoods.

Afterwards, Li Chu talked with Shi Tianyi about how Jiangnan should be governed until late at night.

In the early morning of the second day, Li Chu issued an order to call the original Han Huan, Han Wen's father and son, and Chen Si's father and son to Jiangnan. As a sub-envoy, but the actual right is the official right.

As for Chen Anren and the others, although they hold official positions as envoys, they don't actually control power and reputation, they just put on a name.

The railway from Jiangning to Hangzhou has also been completed.

The opening time has also been set, and two days later is an auspicious day for a traffic opening ceremony.

The railway plan from Hangzhou to Jiangnan West Road has also been launched. Many civilians and refugees have been recruited here to participate in the work. The foundation here has also been laid and is waiting for the railway to be transported.

And the railway on the other side of Rufen Town has also been built.

Directly from Rufen Town to Fancheng County.

Due to the need to build a bridge to Xiangyang, the bridge has not yet been built.

Two days later, Li Chu personally attended the opening ceremony of the Nanjing-Hangzhou Railway.

As the first train to travel in the Song Dynasty, Li Chu gave it a name called "Jiangnan".

Jiangnan is composed of two locomotives at the front and rear, and the middle compartment is 25 air-conditioned compartments.

The color of the train was also painted white and blue.

It is also the style of later generations.

This time, the opening ceremony of the Nanjing-Hangzhou Railway invited well-known scholars from the Jiangning area to participate. At the same time, Li Chu, the transfer envoy of the Huainan East-West Road, also invited them this time, and directly picked them up with a Black Hawk helicopter. come over.

Before the railway starts, the first is the completion celebration ceremony of Jiangning Railway Station.

On this day, Xuanwu Lake was crowded with people.

There were people everywhere who came to watch the excitement. Li Chu placed a large number of Qilin troops here to maintain order, and at the same time protect the scholars and celebrities who came to participate.

In front of Jiangning Railway Station, Li Chu held a grand opening ceremony here, and invited many famous prostitutes and singers to sing and dance.

After the jubilation, they began to enter the train station.

The railway station is temporarily closed to the public until the first train is opened to traffic.

This so-called opening means that people who have not purchased train tickets are not allowed to enter the train station for the time being.

The main reason is that there are too many people here. If they pour into the train station at one time, the order of the whole train station will definitely be messed up. In addition, they don't take the car, just out of curiosity, which will make the train station even bigger. crowded.

You can visit it, you can come anytime after it opens to traffic.

This opening ceremony opened three trains.

The first one is the Jiangnan, which is an air-conditioned car. Tickets for this car are temporarily not sold to the public. The people who can board this train today are celebrities invited by the Qilin Army or people who have made great contributions to Jiangning Mansion and the railway station.

The second is two non-air-conditioned cars, which are the green leather cars of later generations.

However, the body color of this green leather car has also been repainted, unified into white and red, and the seats inside have also been replaced with more comfortable hard seats.

The inside looks clean and pleasing to the eye.

This kind of non-air-conditioned car sells tickets to the outside world, as long as people who buy tickets can board the car and take the train to Hangzhou.

It's just that as soon as the tickets were released, they were immediately snatched up.

PS: Regarding the territorial scope of the Qilin Army in this chapter, I released a picture in the book friend group, which is the range map of the Qilin Army sketched by Li Chu.

(End of this chapter)