Railway repair and feng shui are not good.

The railway that the workers are trying to dismantle is called Wusong Railway, which was built by the British in Shanghai in 1876. In order to buy this railway, Qing spent 285,000 silver and paid in three installments. Who knows, the railway that cost a lot of money was demolished by Qing Dynasty in less than two months. Who has been offended by this railway? Did you spend so much money to tear it down?

After the Opium War, Shanghai was forced to become a trading port, and many westerners came here to do business and live with their families. As the Huangpu River is increasingly silted up and the water level is extremely shallow, transportation has become a headache. At this time, some westerners suggested that we build a railway between Shanghai Concession and Wusongkou to make up for the shortage of shipping. Then, they made it clear that * * * Hey man, I'm going to repair the railway for you. How's it going? As a result, Qing * * thought that building a railway would occupy fields and destroy Feng Shui, so he turned a blind eye and refused with one sentence.

Undaunted, frustrated foreigners decided to take the initiative, so Britain and the United States set up a road company in partnership and bought the land between Shanghai and Wusongkou, which was about14.88km long and13.7m wide. They claimed to build an ordinary highway, but in fact they planned to build the railway in secret. 1876, Wusong Railway, which was built for two years, began trial operation. As soon as the locomotive whistle sounded, the scam of the Anglo-American partnership was exposed.

At that time, Feng Guang, the chief executive of Shanghai, immediately negotiated with foreigners and asked Britain to suspend road construction. At this juncture, the British expedition clashed with China people in Yunnan, and the British took it as a hostage for China, ignoring all the proposals of the Qing Dynasty. Finally, at the proposal of Li Hongzhang, Qing * * * bought Wusong Railway for 285,000 silver, and the storm was settled. Ironically, however, after buying a large number of railways, the Qing Dynasty worried that foreigners would use railway freight to evade taxes, and even more worried that it would become a tool for foreign powers to invade China. Therefore, he decided to tear it down less than two months after buying it back.

How to look at a thing and a thing, different mentality will lead to completely different conclusions. If you are strong enough, this railway may become a tribute to foreigners and a golden road for your economic development. However, for the Manchu court, what they saw was probably just a scene of foreign soldiers flying by full of foreign guns. In fact, in modern times, the first railway built by China was in Tangshan, Hebei. Surprisingly, the trains on this railway are drawn by horses.