My Daming New Empire

"It's easy to travel in summer, and you can reach Tanglin City in about ten days, but in winter, it's not bad if you can go there in half a month. Those tribes dare not make casual decisions about our military vehicles. If it is an ordinary train, they are often stolen. .”

"I've heard of it, but I took the troop carrier when I went back to Tanglin City twice, and I haven't experienced the things you said." As if he felt that his answer was too dry, he took the initiative to provoke the topic and asked: "Qin Tianjian's position It took more than ten years for the North Pole, why is there no confirmed news yet?"

Yu Dashan shook his head and said: "I don't know either, but Qin Tianjian has not been busy all these years. From here to Beihai, most areas have been detected clearly. It is said that there are countless gold mines under the frozen soil .”

Lin Hanlun smiled and said, "Only gold mines are useless, unless the railway is built there and grain can be transported there. Otherwise, we can only feed more people when grain can be grown in the north."

One of the two is very familiar with the situation in Lingbei and has been escorting them all year round.The other has been familiar with history books since he was a child. If he wants to be a qualified governor, he will naturally know the Lingbei area.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, all dynasties have conducted surveys on this vast northern world.

In the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing led an army by himself, "About Qingling, a great curtain...the Marquis of Difficulty, Ji Gonglu... seal the wolf to live in Xushan, meditate in Guyan, and climb Hanhai".Hanhai here refers to the North Sea (later Lake Baikal)

By the Tang Dynasty, the Han people knew more about the north.It has been realized that Lake Baikal is not the North Sea, but a lake. Because it is larger than ordinary lakes, it is called a small sea.

According to the "New Book of Tang. Biography of Uighur": Dubo is close to the small sea (Lake Baikal) in the north, the Hanhai (Lake Baikal) is at the north of the backbone, and the sea (Lake Baikal) is in the north. The days are long and the nights are short.It shows that Dubo is close to the small sea (Lake Baikal) in the north, and Guligan is located in the north of Hanhai, also known as the small sea (Lake Baikal), and this small sea can be crossed.

"New Book of Tang. Uighur Biography" records: there is a "Yu Zhe" department. According to Cen Zhongmian's textual research: this department is located on the coast of the Arctic Ocean at the mouth of the Klaima River in the northernmost part of the Yaku region.

"New Book of Tang" also records: barges in the northwest of Yaku and other regions in Northeast Asia.

"Straight to the north of Turkic, [-] miles away from the capital... The North Pole is at the sea".Here, it is [-] miles away from Chang'an in the north of Turkic, which means that the center of Paoma is [-] miles away from the capital, and there is still a distance from the center to the North Pole and the sea.

This also shows that in the Tang Dynasty, the geographical location of the north was roughly figured out.

Due to the existence of the Pamir Mountain knot, the Eurasian continent greatly hinders the communication between the East and the West.If the Central Plains wants to reach Europe, they can only cross the Pamirs through the Silk Road.

But the situation in the north is completely different. As the latitude radius continues to decrease, the landform becomes smoother. It is the area north of the warm current of the North Atlantic Ocean that is affected by the humid air flow of the Arctic Ocean. .

Moreover, this distance is only more than 3000 kilometers, which is far less than the distance from Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to Kashgar in the Western Regions.

Therefore, historically, the Xiongnu fled far away from Europe, and the Mongolian expedition to Europe seemed far away. In fact, the difficulty was the same as that of Lingbei maneuvering to Hangzhou. It is said that it is quite convenient for any force to attack Europe from the right arm of Lingbei to attack the Central Plains.

In addition to finding a smooth road to the west, Genghis Khan also did a good thing, that is, guiding the Han people to farm in Lingbei.

Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, everyone thought that this place was not suitable for farming, but Kublai Khan built five guards, each guarding 2000 people, of which [-] were garrisoners, and the ratio of the garrison army to other soldiers was two to eight.

The capital has six guards, and each army draws two soldiers to garrison fields to provide food for eight soldiers.In other words, if two tenths of the people cultivated the land, they could meet the food needs of the remaining eight tenths.

Of course, this also refers to the southern area of ​​Lingbei. As for the northern area, there is frozen soil for more than half of the year, and nothing can grow.

In order to attract people to migrate here, Daming has released the development of many small gold mines over the years. Along the railway, there are many Han Chinese and Mongolian gold diggers, and small towns have been established.

However, most of these small towns were built close to the station, because there are still many small tribes here, which are not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court at all.

Moreover, they live by hunting in the mountains and forests, so they are also difficult to catch.

As for the big tribes, most of them have surrendered to Ming Dynasty.Those who disobeyed were wiped out when the railway was being built.

Otherwise, keeping them, the safety of the railway line is not guaranteed at all.

After Genghis Khan, the Mongolian and Yuan people realized the usefulness of the Great Geographical Discovery to the country.Afterwards, Meng Yuan conducted four large-scale surveys to Lingbei.

He Rui led the team for the first and second times. The first time they arrived at the Arctic Ocean by land, they knew that they could reach the Arctic Ocean through the Angkola River (Yenisei River).

So for the second time, he built three large ships, each with 1000 people on board, and went along the Angkola River to the Arctic Ocean, and brought back a lot of silver.

The first two surveys of Lingbei were to understand the terrain, and the third survey was done by Meng Yuan for some small tribes on this land.

This expedition to the Arctic region was carried out when Liu Haoli, a native of Wanzhou, was the judge of the Five Ministries. However, the savage tribe in Lingbei saw that he was so large and powerful, so they ignored him at all and ran away when they saw them.

The fourth expedition to the Arctic region was when the great astronomer Guo Shoujing proposed to Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, to carry out surveys across the country in the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty to make the calendar compiled by the great astronomer more punctual.

He suggested that the test should be done in "distant places where the time of eclipse is different, the length of day and night is different, and the height of the sun, moon and stars is different in the sky".

After the proposal was adopted, Guo Shoujing presided over the survey and exploration of the Arctic region.

"Yuan Shi Astronomical Records" called this survey and expedition "the test of the four seas".

Guo Shoujing selected 14 technicians proficient in astronomical surveying, more than 1000 general surveyors, and more than [-] auxiliary staff.

He led these people to set up a surveying station every 27 degrees in a vast area that is [-] miles long from north to south and [-] miles wide from east to west. There are [-] surveying stations across the country. Near the Arctic Circle where the river enters the "North Sea" (Arctic Ocean).

This experiment carried out three astronomical and geographical measurements including "the departure from the North Pole", "the length of the summer solstice shadow", and "the length of day and night".

This measurement is an important basis for the reform of the calendar in the Yuan Dynasty.The Beihai test presided over by Guo Shoujing is unprecedented not only in China, but also in the world for its many contents, wide area, high precision and many participants.

Afterwards, Meng Yuan conducted many small-scale explorations to Lingbei in more than 100 years, and left precious documents.

However, due to the lack of precise testing of positioning, the maps and materials left behind can only be used as reference.

From the beginning of his ascension to the throne, Zhu Zhanji has been vigorously promoting the topography and map surveying of Lingbei.Over the past few decades, a large amount of information has been collected, compiled and drawn into books, and put into the National Geographic books of the university.

So much so that when it was time to build the railway leading to Tanglin City, there was no need to send people to re-survey, because almost all the information had already been collected.

All they have to do is to find the most suitable route to build a railway along the map, and then measure it in detail.

Because the family fiefdom is in Tanglin City, Lin Hanlun has paid special attention to the information and documents in this area since he was a child. It can be said that, apart from his little experience, he is already an expert in knowledge reserves about the extreme west, including Lingbei.

The train arrived at Tunguska City on the west side of Xiaohai in the middle of the night. At this time, the train stopped again. The driver came to inform that the railway was severely icy and it was difficult to pass. The train could not continue until it was confirmed that it was safe tomorrow.

Lin Hanlun knew that even if he was in a hurry, he couldn't be in a hurry, so he took his two family guards and Yu Dashan off the train against the cold wind.

This train is a special supply vehicle of the Ministry of Defense, specially made for the transportation of weapons.

The train has ten sections in total. The first section is the front section, the second section is the coal loading car, and the rear is a troop carriage and an ammunition car.

The troop carriage is almost the same as an ordinary train, with 120 seats, except that there are no noble and civilian seats like ordinary carriages.

The ammunition cart is an iron cover, almost all of which are connected by iron rivets, and the compartment can only be opened from the inside.

The carriage can accommodate ten soldiers, and there are more than [-] rectangular shooting holes. If ten people stay in the carriage, even hundreds of people can't do anything to them.

The train guards were led by one general and three generals, a total of 500 people, all of whom were fully armed.

With such a configuration, almost no one can make a train.There are too many people, and the intelligence agency is not a dry meal. When the number is small, we can only deliver food to them.

Hou Shun, the leader of the team, obviously didn't want to be restrained in the carriage with Lin Hanlun, His Majesty's grandson, the prince of Jixihou, so he arranged for Yu Dashan to accompany him along the way, and hid himself in another carriage.

After checking the safety issues, Lin Hanlun braved the cold wind and came to the dispatching room of the station.

It was bitterly cold outside, but there was a large stove in the control room, and it was as warm as spring inside, but there were too many people, and the peat was burned, so the smell was a bit unpleasant.

In the dispatching room, one of the two telegraph machines is in charge of the east line and the other is in charge of the west line. They confirm the incoming and outgoing trains through telegrams to prevent traffic accidents.

More than a dozen people were talking and laughing while working inside, and the atmosphere was very lively.

Seeing Lin Hanlun's mink cloak, a middle-aged man in his 40s stood up in the control room and greeted him. "Forgive me for my stupid eyes, but I don't know this honored guest..."