At this dusk, Gao Fangping went to Li Qingzhao's courtyard in a low-key manner.

Through the fence, I saw two little chickens running around in the yard, chasing the bugs to eat.

Before I could enter, I smelled the fragrance of hot pot. It seems that Master Li likes hot pot too.

After pushing the door open, Li Qingzhao, wearing a blue shirt, was serving dishes into the hot pot. She looked a little thinner than when she met last time.

"You are here." Li Qingzhao looked up and looked at her, "It means that she has basically decided that you will go to Chengdu soon. So come to see me in advance?"

Gao Fangping nodded, sat down and took the same rules, picked up the chopsticks and sucked them inside.

Li Qingzhao beat him lightly: "Don't worry, I'm not familiar with you yet."

Gao Fangping had to put down his chopsticks and said, "I made an appointment to come to you to watch the snow when the snow was heavy and heavy, but I guess it would not be able to fulfill it in the short term."

Li Qingzhao was not very concerned about this issue, so she nodded and shook her head.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Qingzhao suddenly said, "By the way, what did you think of? It is the principle of the wooden board on the railway subgrade?"

"It was told by an old man in his dream." Gao Fangping laughed.

Seeing that he was talking nonsense again, Li Qingzhao didn't care anymore and said, "Will such magical railways really be everywhere in the future?"

"Yes, if I have it, there will be a railway." Gao Fangping nodded.

Li Qingzhao said: "With the railway, will it become another kind of exploitation? For example, whoever repairs it will intercept and collect money on the road, just like the bridge problem facing Zong Ze in the Ministry of Works?"

Finally boiled and ready to eat.

While catching something inside and stuffing it into his mouth, Gao Fangping said, "No, the reason why I handed over the Beijing Railway to the court was to set a precedent and send out a signal that the railway must be state-owned."

Li Qingzhao said curiously again: "The political environment of the Song Dynasty is open, and the power of local prefectures is too large and not unified. It is different policies to change states and counties frequently. It would be fine if everyone was not optimistic about railways in the past, but after you show off in front of the emperor, you will surely form a momentum in a short period of time. The prefectures and prefectures have launched railway projects in order to compete for political achievements and the rights and interests of the prefectures in the future. Will this cause chaos? How to solve this problem?"

Li Qingzhao's concerns are right. The states and governments in various places will really have their own local protectionism for the sake of their own interests.

At that time, Gao Fangping started arguing with them in the Secretariat and threatened that Chengdu would build itself, which was the nature of the place. But after consideration, Gao Fangping still exposed it and through the emperor's approval, he then presented the magic of the railway to the world in advance.

There is only one purpose for this: the right to road is finally returned to the central government. In the future, the local government can be further weakened and centralized in the central government through railways.

Gao Fangping said: "What Qingzhao is what I think is also my consideration. This is why I gave up the Beijing-wide railway to the Ministry of Revenue and handed it over to the Ministry of Works to the Ministry of Works. This is why Zong Ze took office as the Ministry of Works. In this way, although some troubles were added to the construction process, I was subject to some restraint. However, I was subject to restraint, which means that other prefectures could not do anything randomly, so they could not get on the horse casually. I had to wait for the unified arrangement of the Ministry of Works to wait for the unified finance of the Ministry of Revenue. The right to roads not only belongs to the government, but also to the central government. This is why I gave the first order and appointed the railway soldiers. The mountain people now are just a gimmick, not real railway soldiers. I only need the saying "rail troops" now, and when the time is right, Bi Shijing's ministry will naturally transfer to the formal railway soldiers. Under the leadership of the central government, the railways will establish their own official office, their own soldiers, and their own judges."

"Our official office, his own policeman, his own judge..." Li Qingzhao murmured.

Gao Fangping said: "Yes, only in this way, the lifeline system of railways will be separated from the layers of exploitation of local gentry, clan and government. Otherwise, Qingzhao, you just said that local forces are mixed, and the situations of different prefectures and counties are different. If the power of governance is in the local area, even if the railway belongs to the central government, it can be artificially blocked and detained due to the interests of some local areas."

Li Qingzhao agreed deeply and felt that the Great Demon King was thinking very far.

In fact, this kind of trouble often occurred in the lifeline transport of the Song Dynasty, which is the most frequent in the southeast region.

Although the canal transportation belongs to the central government and the law belongs to the Ministry of Works. However, the judicial power is still in the hands of the local government. So as far as Li Qingzhao knows, the most troublesome problem of his father-in-law Zhao Tingzhi and Cai Jing fighting against each other was that even if Zhao Tingzhi controlled the canal transportation of the Ministry of Works, it would be useless.

The bureaucrats in the southeast who responded to Cai Jing at that time had judicial power. The canal ships crossed the local routes, which was like ordinary people fighting wits and courage with the fare. If they had a disagreement, they were found to seize the canal ships for local judicial reasons and strongly resisted the central policies.

If you want not to be dragged down, the canal transportation can only make a big compromise with the Southeast system, carry their private goods, allocate the most intense ships to them, and transport their salary plan.

Therefore, if you suffer a loss, you will be more wise. The temporary solution is to form an independent railway system without being disturbed by the traditional bureaucratic system.

Gao Fangping initially imagined that "Chengdu built the railway by itself" was really an immature idea. If that was the case, it would lay a major hidden danger for future governance.

The future interests of the railway will definitely be very large, but these interests must be coordinated at the national level. To achieve this, it is nonsense that the central government does not have judicial power and military power on the railway.

So the ultimate goal is to divest the Ministry of Railways and hand it over to Zong Ze, which faces war with a considerable number of conservatives and will be gradually resolved in the future.

The existing interest chain of the Ministry of Industry is basically fixed, and it is very difficult to touch it, and it is difficult to achieve without reshuffle. Fortunately, this era is in a wilderness, and railways are a new thing, which can be regarded as a small reshuffle, which can regain the lifeline and power. In fact, this is basically the same as the establishment of new departments and new leadership groups in the Song Dynasty in the past. Gradually marginalize the inherent groups.

Gao Fangping also drank two glasses of wine today. After sitting and chatting, it was very late.

Li Qingzhao was not a night owl, so she was almost sleepy. She got up and stretched and said, "I'm going to clean up and go to bed." She said, "Now, will you and I meet the last time this year?"

"Otherwise, will it be your last reunion tomorrow morning?" Gao Fangping said.

Li Qingzhao tilted her head and thought for a while: "Your statement is so weird. Do you mean to stay overnight?"

"I'm not thinking wrongly, I'm an upright and pure person." Gao Fangping said.

"Okay, go."

In fact, Li Qingzhao wanted to sit down and overwhelm him, but she thought about this kind of behavior that was not literary, so she let him go if she got a brain disease...

at night.

Cai Bian, the transfer envoy of Liangzhe Road and the governor of Hangzhou, sat in the main hall with his brows tightened.

This is the most important situation Cai Bian faces in his life.

Politically, I was thinking about my relationship with the emperor a few days ago, and with the help of Xu generals in the court and Taoist priests entering Beijing, Cai Bian obtained the real power of the Liangzhe Road Transport Transportation Envoy.

The awesome position is that it is equivalent to a canal transport official. In addition to having the power of money and grain on Liangzhe Road, he also automatically obtained the management rights of the canal transport on Liangzhe Road. The Ministry of Industry and Industry's Grain Transport Department could not resist Cai Bian to a certain extent.

In addition, a large part of the current trade share with Japan is in the hands of Hangzhou Port. Although the Liangzhe Road Transportation Commissioner does not have the transportation arrangements of Cai Bian as a transshipment commissioner after entering the inland. Not to mention Beijing, it is difficult to enter even the Jiangzhou treasury.

Gao's shipping company is not considered the canal transportation system, but it is subject to the river channel, so it has to face the food, drink and card of the Cai Bian family. In fact, this is the real reason why Xiao Gao hates this group of people. It is almost the hatred of killing his father.

Therefore, with the development of the Song Dynasty, the gray oil and water produced by the Liangzhe Road was crazy. Since ancient times, when they were rich and famous, they must have power. Therefore, within the Southeast Group, it is believed that it is only a matter of time for Cai Bian to enter Beijing to challenge pork and compete for the next government. This is the cohesion of Cai Bian's banner.

However, this is only now.

After the pork flat railway emerged in Beijing, Cai Bian's political interests were being pursued and intercepted.

The magic of the railway really scared these people, and the construction was so fast, the cost was so low, and it was not controlled by the river. Once the railway was developed, the canal transport would officially come down from the altar. Once the canal transport fell behind, the political status of the southeast system that was parasitic based on the canal transport will inevitably be defeated.

Trends always gather towards interests.

In addition, the Taoist priests failed to enter the capital, and they were brave enough to kill the Taoist priests who were worshipped by the emperor to death on the ground, and also lost the important general Xu.

I won’t talk about these negative situations for now. The most extreme thing is that there are several letters on Cai Bian’s desk.

Under the lamp, Cai Bian picked up the letter and read it twice, and then slapped the letter on the table with a dark face.

These letters were not sent by others, but were sent by the first political enemy Gao Fangping.

Two of the letters were shocking, which were evidence of Zheng Juzhong's treason leaking Gao Fangping's whereabouts and leveling up the navy's military assassination of Gao Fangping.
Chapter completed!