Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1190 The symbolic meaning is greater than the actual meaning

With apprehension about the future, Niu Er and the others took a short rest in Ceylon, and brought Siraj back to the country in a luxurious way with three parallel fleets to prevent accidents.

Not to mention the hard work all the way, after docking in Tianjin, let Siraj rest in Tianjin first, and then he hurried back to the capital to report the situation here.

Furthermore, if Siraj came to Beijing to pay tribute, the court also needed to make some preparations.No matter what, it is not polite to bring people back to the capital directly.

However, after returning to the capital, he felt something was wrong.

There were obviously more soldiers on the street than usual, as if something had happened.

But it seems that the matter is not too big. After all, if such a big thing happens, the soldiers on the street seem to be not enough.

When I came to the Privy Council, I went to the room to complete the process according to the procedure. I asked about it and knew that Liu Yu was on duty at the Privy Council today, so I went to see him.

After seeing it, he submitted his knowledge, ideas, opinions, etc. of his profession, and talked about what he had seen in Bangladesh this time. Seeing Liu Yu looking down at the report he wrote, he couldn't help asking: " Duke, what happened in the capital? What I saw when I entered the city seemed to have a murderous aura?"

Liu Yu didn't look up, and continued to read the report, and said casually, "It's a small matter. Haihu in Nanhaizi has not been very stable recently. Repression and suppression."

"It's not that the railway from Mentougou to the city was built a while ago, and the steam train was also tried to run. Although the transportation capacity is still insufficient and the efficiency is not very high, it is enough to supply the capital with coal."

"The sea households in Nanhaizi usually rely on mowing grass and firewood in Nanyuan to subsidize their families. In recent years, the capital has used more coal and the price of firewood has become more expensive. Now the coal mine road to Mentougou has been repaired, and winter is coming soon. , Coal is being transported here by truck by truck, and the price of this seawood is getting lower and lower, so they are going to make a fuss."

"normal."

"This matter is not under the control of the Privy Council. Let them see how to deal with it."

Liu Yu's tone is very ordinary, although it sounds like this is a story about the poverty of thousands of families, like a replica of Huainan Salt Reclamation.

But after all it is different.

In Yanhu in Huainan, parents don't know each other, uncle doesn't love them, and it's far away from the capital. Liu Yu's methods there are too cruel.

Beijing is quite different.

Besides, Nanhaizi's sea household involves royal relations after all.Although it is no longer the resettlement place of a group of ex-patriarchs from the previous dynasty, many problems left over are still a big trouble now.

As Nanyuan of the royal family, it is impossible for Liu Yu to say: Hey, you just send the package out of the warehouse, reclaim wasteland, recruit reclamation, and it's over?
He couldn't say it, and it was impossible to do it, and he didn't bother to mention it at all, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Niu Er, on the other hand, was full of enthusiasm when he heard this, and quickly asked, "Duke, has the railway from Mentougou to the capital been repaired? This is a big deal."

Liu Yu, who was looking down at the report before, put down the report in his hand when he heard this, looked at Niu Er, and said with a smile: "In terms of size, you and I are the same. Didn't the French create a cuggot last year? It is used to pull cannons on the road. We think it is not suitable to run on the road, so let’s run on the rails. Two technical routes, I bet that running on the rails is right, and the French are right on the road. Incorrect."

With the rise of Dashun, technological exchanges and diffusion, the French made this kind of steam, heavy artillery running on the road according to their own domestic climate and road conditions... er, cars... not in advance How long, ten years.

Now I can't tell which side is right and which side is wrong. After all, the locomotives running on the railway in Dashun are not efficient.Moreover, it is necessary to lay railways and forge rails, which is more expensive.

The French used to rely on corvee service to build roads extending in all directions in the country. They chose to run directly on the road to pull 18-pound or 24-pound heavy artillery. They cannot be said to be stupid. This is normal and combined with the actual situation in China.

It's just that Liu Yu said that he bet on the French for choosing the wrong technical direction. The word "gamble" is a bit shameless.

The Academy of Sciences in Dashun also invested a lot of money. It just canceled the most primitive gear transmission structure of the steam locomotive, and it is considered to be on the right track.

If there is no prophet, you can only try and make mistakes, and rely on money to make it out.

After all, Dashun is not taking a market-oriented route, but a special project establishment, and Liu Yu throws money into it.

After the Songsu Grand Parade that day, when Liu Yu returned to Beijing, he was basically living in the Privy Council for the elderly.

The only thing I do is to take charge of the Wuding River treatment project.

The reason why this is not something that Jing Zhaoyin can do is mainly because the Wuding River treatment project includes solving coal for the capital, immigration from the gold mining area on the frontier of Heilongjiang, immigration from the border of North Korea, and relocation of Wuding River channel widening. Wait for a system engineering.

Jing Zhaoyin and the like, after all, the level is still a bit low, and they can't solve the problems of coordination, fundraising, and investment promotion in all aspects.

As for the coal mine issue, whether it is chanting scriptures, ghosts and gods, dragon vein metaphysics, etc., after all, it is still not as helpless as the reality that the people in the capital have nothing to complain about.

Taking this as an opportunity, Dashun's, or the world's first railway line with wrought iron rails and steam locomotives, from Jingxi Mentougou to Beijing was officially completed and opened to traffic.

In fact, when Liu Yu came back from Songsu, the railway had already started attracting investment and making preparations.In the past, there were already many roads with cast iron rails in coal mines, Songsu and other places, mainly pulled by horses.

When Liu Yu was preparing for it in the capital, the steam locomotive had not been successfully researched, or it was not very applicable at all-it used a large gear transmission structure, and it would probably fall apart if it ran too fast, but it was simple to build.

He made the final decision not to use the already mature cast iron rails, but to use wrought iron rails.

When the road is basically completed, the steam locomotive can be regarded as almost usable.After spending some money, two students from the Academy of Sciences were killed, so it was useable.

The coal mines used new technologies tried in southern Sichuan, and some of the British mining technology learned from the West. After the well-salt area in southern Sichuan was basically mature, they turned around and opened mines in Mentougou.

This thing did not cause much trouble in Dashun.

It has nothing to do with whether the people are ignorant or not, Dashun is not a fool.

Originally, the common people resisted the railway trains in history, because after all, this thing was bound to the invaders. Once bound to the invaders, the resistance and dissatisfaction they encountered were much more than those created by themselves.

This is a very normal thing. The British burned oriental cotton cloth on a large scale in 1721, calling it a bad thing that "depresses people's spirits and promotes extravagance". Become a French bitch.

Dashun suffered little resistance, but some people's interests were damaged because of the historical legacy of the previous dynasty.

That is, the group of people from Nanyuan and Nanhaizi.

The capital, after all, is a consumer city.

Taxes from various places, salaries of officials, military salaries of soldiers, royal institutions, etc., are all consumed.

This can be regarded as a big city that existed in several dynasties, and the surrounding trees are basically cut down as much as they can be cut.

The rest, which are closer, are only two places.

One is the imperial mausoleum.

There are still a lot of trees in this place, but they are definitely not allowed to be cut down.Cutting down trees and setting fire to royal tombs must have been considered death in a feudal society.

Another one is Nanyuan in the south of the capital.

The royal garden, birds and beasts, fruits and vegetables, is a royal garden with hundreds of miles of walls.

After Zhu Di took the throne and moved the capital, he sent many people here, who were the so-called "sea households".It has nothing to do with the sea, it refers to the Haizi in Nanyuan, that is, the Haizi in ponds and lakes.

To begin with, the eunuchs of Ming Dynasty all come from special sources.After Daizong, the Zigong could also be used, and everyone left the palace one after another, hoping to make progress and glorify the ancestors.

If there are too many, they will be sent to Nanhaizi.

Someone has to take care of this kind of place.If no one cares, it will not be a royal garden, but a wetland pond.

After leaving the palace, he definitely couldn't leave any descendants, but relatives also came over one after another to find something to do.

Although they are untouchables, everyone is "voluntarily" untouchable. After all, the tyranny has less impact on this place, so it can be said that they are also working for the emperor.

The fruits and vegetables eaten in the palace can be sold if they can't eat them.On weekdays, they also need to fulfill some feudal obligations, such as building walls, growing vegetables, feeding elk, and digging ponds.

As a pariah, many taxes can be exempted, and people from the palace also bring relatives and so on, and there are more and more people.

If you are a human, you have to eat and drink.

Coincidentally, the capital city is in the north, and it is quite cold in winter, so the people in Nanyuan collect some pine branches, firewood and the like, and sell them in the capital city.

This kind of firewood is "sea firewood".

The railway in Mentougou has been repaired, and the coal mines have begun to produce coal. The current population of the capital only consumes about [-] tons of coal a year.

Although the railway is broken and the locomotives are broken, the cargo volume of two to three hundred tons a day is only a few miles away, and it can still be transported.

Although the efficiency of the steam engine is low, since it is used to transport coal, the efficiency is high and low, so it can be used.

The people of Nanyuan will definitely be dissatisfied, this is very normal.

Whose responsibility is this?Of course it is the responsibility of the feudal emperor.

Originally, such a large piece of land was directly allowed to open up wasteland, or sold or rented out like Huainan Caodang, so there would be no such troubles.

A large piece of land is planted, who is idle, driving a car to the capital to sell firewood before dawn, how much money do you earn?
Raising some birds and beasts, you can’t go there a few times a year, and there are walls around the outside, it’s a waste of money.

The emperor has not been there a few times in the past few years. The last time he went, it seems that the Ordnance Department presented an advanced gun with compressed air cylinders. The emperor brought ministers, princes, etc., to play with this type of air cylinder gun. After a few laps, I asked Liu Yu whether this thing could be mass-produced to equip the army and so on.

This time the interests of the sea people in Nanyuan, the coal mines and the railway, have been seriously damaged.

This is the royal garden, and the guards must be paid, so don't even think about it.

Asking the relationship to find a door, it caused a storm, but it was not big.

Pain is inevitable, and it is considered a trivial matter.

Songsu reform so far, counting those who died of illness and those who died of acclimatization to the soil and water, the total number is one million.

Jing Zhaoyin was also on Liu Yu's side this time, and made it clear: If anyone dares to lie down on the railway, it proves that they are not ordinary people, and they must strike hard.

The reason why he took Liu Yu's side was simple.

He should be responsible for burning fires for heating and cooking in the capital area.

The Mentougou Coal Mine is under the management of the previously established Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and has nothing to do with him.

(End of this chapter)