Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1483 Final Chapter Ninety-three Years ([-])

In the last days of May in [-] in the Western calendar, an army wearing blue clothes and felt hats came near the only waterfall on the Mississippi River. They were a battalion of the elite children's army around Emperor Dashun.

In the original history, there will be a city here called "Minneapolis".

Minni means "water" in the local aboriginal language.Polis means "city" and "city-state" in Greek.

However, at this time, two different cities stood on both sides of the waterfall.

The one to the east is a French city, and the transliteration is very strange.

The original transliterated name should be "Haha Mulan".Haha, is the pronunciation of "waterfall" by the local aborigines; Mulan means mill in French.

But for some embarrassing reasons, the French are obviously allergic to the pronunciation of "haha", so according to the local pronunciation of water, they call it "Minni Moulin", which means the mill city by the water.

The city on the west side of the river is a standard Dashun city.The name of the city is also full of the characteristics of Dashun, directly called Xinmengmen.

Those of Mengmen, the upper mouth of Longmen, are actually the great calamity of the Yellow River, and they are also named Mengjin.This stone was chiseled by Shi Yu, washed in the river wide, and the banks are deep and deep. The huge stone is in danger, and if it falls, it will lean back again.In ancient times, someone said that water can penetrate stone without chiseling it, so it is true.Among them, the water flow is balanced, the plain air is floating in the clouds, and those who come and go from a distance often see people like fog and dew, peeking into the soul.Its waters are still crumbling and billowing, suspended for thousands of feet, the flood is the most furious, the drums are rising, the waves are crumbling, and they reach the lower mouth. Only then did you know that Shen Zi went down the Longmen to flow bamboos, and he was not chased by four horses...

Freely translated into simple and superficial vernacular, Xinmengmen means a city near the waterfall.

Dashun prefers to use "new" XX to name the city, which originates from the tradition left over from the Han Dynasty.Historical records: The Supreme Emperor collapsed the Liyang Palace.Pardon Liyang prisoner.Renamed Li Yi as Xinfeng...Xinfeng is different from the old Feng of Peifeng.

In short, whether it is Dashun side or France side, the names of the cities on both sides of the river are all related to the waterfall.

The first industrial revolution is now unfolding all over the world.

However, the steam engine is just a kind of power, and since it is power, water power and wind power can both be used as power.

Compared with the steam engine that needs to spend money to burn coal, the abundant hydraulic potential energy and kinetic energy brought by the only waterfall on the Mississippi River are free.

As a result, around this waterfall, cities on both sides of the river sprang up.

Hydraulic mills, sawmills, and upstream shipyards made it an industrial city quickly.

In a sense, this is already the farthest eastern border of Dashun.

It was so far away that even if a war really broke out, it is said that the children's army directly under the emperor stationed in the capital would not appear here.

Moreover, although this place is called a city, the population size is still too small after all.A battalion-sized soldier is still too much for this remote border town.

Obviously, they didn't come to fight.

To be precise, they came to complete a very special task: by the order of the emperor, they came here to welcome the coffin of Liu Yu, Duke Wu of Dashun Xingguo, to return to the country for burial.

Since he even carried his posthumous title, the imperial court must have known that he was dead.

Even though, more than 20 years ago, when the current emperor was still the prince, Duke Xingguo hung his seal to donate property, devoted himself to mountains and rivers, never heard about political affairs, or read stories from red pine nuts, and seemed to disappear in the court all at once.

But in the end, the person the emperor is looking for can always be found.Not only can it be found, but the emperor actually knows when he died and where he went every year.

It is precisely because they can be found, or because they know that there are people with the emperor around them, that they can follow the story of Chisong Ziyou.If you can't find it... there is always a crime that suits you.

Sometimes death is a good thing.

For example, at this time, Dashun needed to welcome the bones of such a special dead person back, and to say something or express some attitude through the mouth of the dead person.

As for how he died and why he died here, it is a very simple story: an elderly man strolled here to see the waterfall, the ground was wet and slippery, and he accidentally fell and died.The husband and wife, the old lady is old and can't stand the toss, it is impossible to return to the roots with her husband's bones, so they live here, and then they will be buried together until they grow old.

It's that simple, but there is really no conspiracy or dramatic story.

As for why the bones should be brought back, apart from the fact that the dead are more useful than the living, there is also a more "feng shui" reason.

Here, the railway is going to be built.

Even though many ministers in the DPRK and many ministers who participated in the coup in the past were from the Real School, they had dealt with Duke Xingguo a lot, and they knew the eccentricities of Duke Xingguo in the past: he was good at soot, he was good at the vibration of machines, Even some people in the Songsu area tried to make friends with each other, and the story of the king of Chu being so narrow-waisted continued to be staged, so that the first-class traditional gardens had to specially set up a nondescript steam lifter.

Everyone knows that Duke Guo had this habit before he was alive. Now that he has died, he is afraid that he will be buried in a high place to watch railways and hydraulic factories, and his wish will be fulfilled.

It's just that today's son is carrying out a new deal, and he has gained righteousness by reforming the system through the ancient times.

Since it is Tuogu, then it is better to follow the ancient traditions for such a major event as death and birth, and talk about Feng Shui more or less to show the meaning of innovation from the ancient times.

It seems a bit "wonderful" than relocating fire trucks to shake the tomb.

The reorganization of the name of the emperor's Togu also brought some problems.

For example, at present, this waterfall of the Mississippi River has begun to be used to cut timber, prepare sleepers, and begin construction of the direct railroad to Maple Bay.

Because of the old things, the track on the Dashun side is based on the ancient idea, and the six-foot track of the same track is common all over the world.

From Fusang, to Japan, to Korea, to Southeast Asia, to India, this standard is used.

The same track as the first emperor, the track is six feet.

And this ruler uses the ancient Xia ruler. After textual research, the Xia ruler should be 24.69 mm, which is based on the Dashun standard gauge, and the six-foot gauge is 1481 mm.

Millimeter is not an imported word, but it was actually discussed with all the victorious and defeated countries in a "Weights and Measures Conference to Facilitate International Trade" led by Dashun after World War I.

It is not easy to use the ruler of Dashun, nor the ruler of France, and it is even more difficult to use the ruler of England.Dashun was incapable of being the real emperor of the world at that time.

So the last discussion is to use the earth.

One 4000 millionth of the length of the meridian is taken as one meter.

Once the meter is determined, the meter is used as the unit, water is used as the yardstick, and the world's common measurement units such as weight are determined.

In order to facilitate a series of businesses such as communication, trade, transactions, gold and silver exchange, currency exchange rates, etc.

However, at this time, on the other side of the river, in the territory of the French, the French are also building a railway, but they refuse to use the six-foot gauge of Dashun.

The nominal reason is that Dashun, as the leading country and one of the initiators of the national metric system, does not use the metric system itself, but adopts a retro policy and uses the six-foot gauge.

Well, France refuses to adopt the six-foot rail, because it involves France's honor, national dignity, and historical heritage, as well as the cultural invasion of the East, etc.

Therefore, France uses a very wonderful "meter rail".

That is, a narrow gauge of 1000 mm.

Of course, on the surface, the reason is that Dashun uses the ancient ruler unit of its own history. If France uses it, it means that France has been invaded by Dashun culturally.If you use the metric system that everyone has negotiated and determined by the length of the meridian of the "neutral" earth, then it is not considered a cultural invasion.

In fact, it was Dashun’s horrific immigration speed in Fusang these years, which made France know that repairing the summer six-foot standard gauge will open the door for Dashun to seize land in the future; If you don't cultivate, there will be fewer people and you will not be able to keep it.

Therefore, under the banner of resisting the invasion of Dashun culture, France chose to use the metric gauge to avoid the trains of Dashun transporting soldiers in the future, without even changing the front carriage, and driving all the way to Montreal and Quebec.

Both sides made a lot of talk about this matter, and used a lot of diplomatic channels, and in the end it was like this.

Once this matter is settled, the capital from Europe and Dashun will flock to this city, which has risen due to the hydraulic potential and kinetic energy of the waterfall, and start to invest heavily.

Any fool knows that this city, which needs to change tracks, store and unload, will develop.In the future, I am afraid that every inch of land and every inch of money will be spent.

When there are too many people, the land will be occupied and hoarded.

This is also a reason to relocate the coffin: With the upcoming development of the city, the tomb cannot be leveled, right?

If it is flat, people will inevitably mutter, what happened back then?Why did Duke Xingguo go away?When did the Son of Heaven decide to do something big?
If it is unfair, it will be even more ugly.It's not that the imperial court couldn't afford the money to build a large tomb according to the specifications of the Taimiao.Rather, after repairing it, I'm afraid there will be more mumbling voices: What happened?Why is the tomb of Duke Xingguo here?Why didn't the emperor move back?Did something happen at the beginning?
Another one is that in recent years, Fusang's sense of self-reliance has become more and more obvious.

Dashun still adopts a strict state-owned land sales system to ensure the convenience of immigrants and not allow private individuals to enclose land at will. This makes the first generation of immigrants in Fusang and the local tycoons who have gradually grown up very dissatisfied with the imperial court's control.

In order to be self-reliant, it is inevitable that Heroic Spirits must also be summoned.At that time, in case the tyrants here say that Liu Yu drives Fusang No. 1, etc., and use this as a pretext to directly do some messy things, it is really disgusting.

Therefore, under the superposition of many factors, this matter will eventually be done.

However, because the railway has not yet been completed, the route back is not to go west, cross the mountains on the west coast, and return from the Pacific Ocean by boat.

Instead, go east, pass through the Great Lakes, take the fur bay, stop in Europe, pass through the Cape of Good Hope, pass through India, cross the Southeast Asia, and take this classic shipping route.

(End of this chapter)