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The Northeast Railway, which was initially built on both sides, encountered some minor problems, with the main problems concentrated in the Shengjing Andong section.

Due to the need to cross the Liaodong mountainous area, the progress is extremely slow given the current level of technology possessed by Yuan Xiangcheng.

Before the war, the road was built from the Yalu River to Fenghuang City, but now more than half a year has passed, and it has only advanced a few dozen kilometers north from Fenghuang, and there is still no sign of connecting with Shengjing.

Helplessly, Yuan Shikai could only decide to postpone the construction of mountain railways and concentrate manpower and material resources on plain railways.

As for the other Shengjing-Lushun Railway, the tracks have been laid to Liaoyang City, which is only more than 100 kilometers away from Shengjing.

At the same time, under the command of Yuan Xiangcheng, in order to build the Liaozhongnan industrial cluster in advance, road construction personnel drawn from the mountainous areas began to build short-distance railways in Benxi Liaoyang and Benxi Shengjing.

Fortunately, the railway from Tianjin to Shanhaiguan had already been built. Before Yuan Shikai launched his rebellion, the Tianjin-Tangshan Railway was completed. Now only the Kaiping-Shanhaiguan section remains.

The construction of the railway outside the pass connecting Shengjing City and Shanhaiguan also began with the funding support of the Guangxu court. The terminus of this railway is the famous Huanggutun.

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The red words are blurry and are "Benxi Railway". The three white boxes are Niuzhuang Yingkou, Lushun Dalian, Andong Dandong

There is no other way. If we want to expand the population of Northeast China stably and efficiently, the best way is to build railways.

Niuzhuang Port in western Liaoning, Lushun Port in southern Liaoning, and Andong Port in eastern Liaoning.

The Sihai Shipping Company transports people and goods back and forth between these three major ports every year. However, even with more transportation, the number of people crossing the Guandong region has only increased from hundreds of thousands per year to a maximum of 20.

To speed up the immigration from Northeast China, Xiangcheng must do it, but it is impossible because transportation has greatly restricted the efficiency of immigration.

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Railways played a vital role in the transformation of Northeast China from the "birthplace of the Manchus" to the "Three Eastern Provinces" where the Han people are in the absolute majority, and in the fact that no major unrest occurred in later generations.

In 1930, Heilongjiang had a population of nearly 700 million. Xinjiang, a similar frontier province, had a population of just over 1949 million until the eve of the founding of New China in 400, of which the Han ethnic group accounted for only a single digit, less than 50.

Xinjiang was established as a province nearly 20 years earlier than Heilongjiang, and its agricultural production conditions are better than Heilongjiang's. Although its irrigation conditions are poor, its year-round light and heat far exceed Heilongjiang's.

In agricultural or early industrial society, Xinjiang should have had a larger population than Heilongjiang, but it has been slow to replenish its population.

The reason for this is that the economic development is slow in the inland, but more importantly, it is because the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway has not been opened for a long time, and the people who go west can only reach the Hetao and Qilian areas.

Going further west, one has to rely on manpower to cross hundreds of miles of desert or cross the Qilian Mountains which stretch for thousands of miles to reach the oasis in Xinjiang.

The journey was too long and transportation was inconvenient, so the people in the northwest had to give up. As a result, Xinjiang could not receive reinforcements from the Han people, and became the source of unrest in later generations.

In the original time and space, in 1911, after the Shenyang Station of the Guanwai Railway was opened to traffic, the population of Northeast China soared from 1700 million to 2000 million the following year.

Of course, this was due to the turmoil in the late dynasty and the people fleeing eastward to avoid disaster, but it is undeniable that railways played a very important role in this.

The main sources of population for the Guandong region were Shandong and Zhili, among which Zhili was the better.

Shandong in the 1890s was comparable to the Balkans in Europe, a powder keg with bandits from western Shandong, mountain bandits from Yimeng, Western missionaries, local landowners, and compradors from Dengzhou.

In addition, there are the Taoist organizations that flourished everywhere under the instigation of the White Tiger Group, as well as the National Defense Army stationed in the northern part of Shandong and the Hunan Army in the southern part of Shandong.

Under the multiple attacks of class oppression, national oppression, physical oppression, and spiritual oppression, the people of Shandong had no choice but to leave the land of Qilu.

With such a suitable environment, the National Defense Army in Shandong was naturally not idle. When confronting the southern army, it organized recruitment points in the countryside many times, recruiting personnel from the land of Qi and Lu and sending them to the Northeast for resettlement.

This recruitment of soldiers caused a conflict with local forces.

"What's going on?" Yuan Xiangcheng looked at Xu Shichang who had come from afar. "Juren, why did you run from Dengzhou to Shengjing?"

When Yuan Shikai recommended Song Qing to be the governor of Jiaodong, he also recommended Xu Shichang and gave him a sixth-rank position as "Assistant Officer in Charge of Jiaodong's Commercial Affairs".

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Although he is only a sixth-rank official, it does not affect Xu Shichang's position as the second-highest person in the Red Confucian Society after Yuan Xiangcheng.

Members of the Red Confucian Society were not ranked by seniority based on the rank of their official positions in the imperial court, but were all brothers.

When members interact with each other, regardless of their official rank, they are all equal. If they are familiar with each other, they can call each other by their courtesy names; if they are not very familiar with each other, they can call each other Comrade; if the person in front of them is obviously older than themselves, they can call him Brother.

Therefore, in addition to calling Yuan Xiangcheng the chief instructor, most of the members of the Red Confucian Society called each other by their courtesy name + comrade.

As for the name "Weiting", nowadays only a few people such as Xu Shichang, Ma Xiangbo, Zhang Jian, etc. who had friendship before the founding of the Red Confucian Society can use it.

Yuan Xiangcheng was much more free when addressing others. If they were familiar with each other, he would usually call them by their courtesy names.

Only when he is very angry or in some important occasions will he call others by their courtesy name + comrade.

Back to Xu Shichang, he was originally a juren, and relying on Yuan Shikai's "nepotism" relationship, he became a sixth-rank local official, which was not shocking.

Although he was a sixth-rank official, Song Qing actually knew nothing about economics and commerce, and left everything to Xu Shichang. Therefore, he could be considered half the governor of Jiaodong.

Unlike the Governor of Shandong, the Governor of Jiaodong was stationed in Dengzhou. Dengzhou was named as a port by the British after the Second Crow War and was later called Yantai.

Xu Shichang’s first major task in Yantai was to ensure that ships carrying people from Guandong left the port and headed for the Northeast every day.

But a few days ago, he ran into trouble.

"Weiting, I'm afraid we're in trouble." Xu Shichang said with a worried look on his face. "A few days ago, the Kong family caused a disturbance at the harbor, saying they wanted to take several of the Kong family's tenant farmers off the ship and take them back to their hometowns."

"Why?" Yuan Xiangcheng was a little unhappy. "Yantai has sent dozens of Red Confucian members and more than a thousand national defense troops. How can they just watch the Kong family take people away?"

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Unexpectedly, before he even showed up, the Kong family came knocking on their door.

Since the North-South confrontation, Qufu, located at the junction of the National Defense Army and the Hunan Army, has been a pure land, and both sides deliberately avoided this place when marching and deploying their troops.

As for the Kong family of Qufu, the contemporary Duke Yansheng, after the news that the victory and defeat in the capital had been decided came out, he originally planned to go to the capital to meet the emperor.

However, after hearing that there was also a court in the south, Duke Yansheng, who had just turned 18, pretended to be ill and refused to go anywhere. This illness lasted for several months.

In other words, Guangxu was busy with the personnel arrangements for the political reform in Beijing during this period, otherwise he would have remembered the person called Yanshenggong.

"Weiting, they are from the Kong family after all." Xu Shichang looked embarrassed. "Right now, we haven't yet decided on a rule to deal with the Kong family, so I didn't alert them.

I ordered the National Defense Army to trap the people from the Confucius Mansion in Yantai City, and then I hurried to see you."

"Why did the Kong family arrest people?"

"The tenants thought the Kong family's rent was too high and abandoned their land, refusing to cultivate it." Xu Shichang recounted the story: "It happened that the National Defense Army was recruiting soldiers in the countryside, so I signed up, called a few friends from the same hometown, and went to Yantai to take a boat north.

Unexpectedly, while he was calling friends in the countryside, he was already being spotted by the servants of the Kong Mansion. After discovering that the land was abandoned, the Kong Mansion’s housekeeper took the servants to Yantai to arrest him.

"Is that the reason?"

"That's why."

"How foolish, Comrade Juren," Yuan Xiangcheng said with an expression that was difficult to describe. "How can we establish our prestige in Shandong if we allow the Kong family to arrest people in front of the entire city?"

"I didn't capture them. I kept the Confucius Mansion and his group in the city." Xu Shichang defended himself, "Isn't the Red Confucian Society's purpose to respect Confucianism and ancestors? I thought the Confucius Mansion was still somewhat useful, so I ordered no conflict."

"We respect Confucianism, not Confucius." Yuan Xiangcheng looked at Xu Shichang with some disappointment. "Why should we care about a thief who surrenders to thieves and a bandit who surrenders to bandits?"

"But we must always consider the opinions of scholars throughout the world," Xu Shichang said, also having his own reasons: "If we clash with the Kong family too early, how can we guarantee that the Red Confucian Society will not be disliked by the world in the future?"

"Comrade Juren, do you think the landlords and scholars will be pleased with what we did in Korea?" Yuan Xiangcheng asked in return, "Don't forget, we seized a large amount of land from Korean landlords under the pretext of suppressing bandits, and then distributed this land to the people under the guise of rewarding soldiers and reclaiming wasteland."

At the end, Yuan Xiangcheng couldn't help but swear.

"This is fucking land reform, not equal distribution of land!"

"Juren, we've only deceived others by using the excuse of suppressing the rebellion and rewarding the soldiers. If the real situation were known to the landlords back home, they would be the first to rise up against our Red Confucian Society."

"Weiting, I know you want to seize all the land from the landlords and then distribute it to the people." Xu Shichang said with an expression that said, "I understand you."

"But things must always be prioritized. Now that the Northeast is preparing to establish a province, why did you go to Shandong to provoke the Kong family?"

"Juren, you don't understand. I didn't think of it before," Yuan Xiangcheng said quietly, "Now that the two dynasties of the north and south are coexisting, it is the best time to dispel the reputation of the Kong family. If the world is unified in the future, it will be extremely difficult to move against the Kong family.

The Red Confucian Society is fighting for the revival of Confucian sages. The only one who can compete with us for the right to speak is the Kong family.

So, some things are better done early than late.”

It was not easy for Yuan Shikai. He knew very well that it would be very difficult to directly carry out the proletarian revolution in this era.

Therefore, we can only learn from the teachers and follow the old path of first opposing feudalism and then opposing capitalism.

The first step is to establish a relatively advanced political party organization under his control, promote a bourgeois revolution under the leadership of the proletarian party, overthrow the feudal dynasty, and establish a new country.

The second step is to gradually absorb and eliminate the bourgeoisie in the newly created country and ultimately establish a socialist republic.

At this point, Yuan Xiangcheng had only taken the first half of the first step, and he found that his companions had shown some signs of stagnation.

As expected, the number of people walking with him on the road of revolution would decrease, and Yuan Xiangcheng sighed in his heart:

If I were to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, I would probably join 9% of the people in the world in this endeavor; if I were to establish a republic instead of becoming an emperor, I estimate that 6% to 7% of people would agree; but if I were to eliminate the bourgeoisie, perhaps only 2% to 3% of people would approve.

When the proletarian regime is finally established, how many of you in the Red Confucian Society will be able to accompany me to the end?

Seeing Xu Shichang hesitating in the face of feudal forces, Yuan Xiangcheng suddenly felt that the task of ideological transformation was arduous and long.

Yuan Xiangcheng thought that Xu Shichang could be considered an old man who had helped him make his fortune in Korea. He had asked Xu to read books such as the Communist Manifesto, Capital, and Socialism: From Utopia to the Development of Science.

Unexpectedly, Xu Shichang still had the shortcomings of traditional scholars.

In Yuan Xiangcheng's view, traditional scholars have four characteristics or defects.

First, the dependence on identity; second, the conservatism of thought; third, the generality of knowledge; fourth, the portal nature of the circle.

Xu Shichang was deeply influenced by Confucianism in the first 30 years of his life. Even though he had already known about the misdeeds of the Kong family through Yuan Shikai, he was still conservative in his heart and showed respect to the Kong family and the Kong Mansion intentionally or unintentionally.

How does this work?

Yuan Xiangcheng originally wanted to wait until he was done with his recent economic affairs before criticizing Confucius, but now it seems that he can no longer wait that long.

No matter what, we should first tear off the veil covering the Kong family. Doing so not only has practical political value, but also huge economic value.

After all, the millions of taels of silver hidden in the Yansheng Duke's home could just help Yuan Shikai solve his urgent problem.

As long as we can find a reason to threaten the Kong family, this will probably work.

After a moment's thought, Yuan Xiangcheng came up with a perfect excuse to start the fight: "Juren, please go back to Yantai first and continue to detain them. Do not allow them to leave the city.

If the Confucius Mansion comes to ask for it, you can use the name of Song Qing, the governor of Jiaodong, to invite the Duke of Yansheng to visit and let him listen to the judgment on the spot."

"Judgment?" Xu Shichang was a little confused. "What case?"

"Of course it's the case of the tenants of the Confucius Mansion abandoning their farmland. Since they are arresting people on this ground, let's give them a thorough trial!" Yuan Xiangcheng was determined to let the contemporary Duke Yansheng see how powerful he was.

"Weiting, the Duke of Yansheng is a first-rank official," Xu Shichang reminded him. "How can someone who doesn't even kneel when an imperial envoy enters the palace listen to a governor and take the initiative to go to Yantai?"

"Juren, a two-faced person, has been hated since ancient times." Yuan Xiangcheng said slowly: "Speaking of which, it seems that the current Yansheng Duke Kong Lingyi's legal wife is the daughter of the former Grand Councilor Sun Yuwen.

Sun Yuwen had already fled to the south with Cixi. With the situation so chaotic, would he dare not come?

Yuan Xiangcheng threatened: "Tell him clearly that if he doesn't come, the rumor that Duke Yansheng is leaning towards the Southern Court will spread throughout the capital in a few days.