Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

After nightfall, Chongzhen chatted with Jiang Tianyi, Zheng Sen and other scholars, as well as Guo Zisheng from the staff department, about railway transportation.

"In a word, the freight rate of railway transportation is not much higher than that of sea transportation, but the timeliness is far better than that of sea transportation, and sea transportation is easily affected by seasonal weather. In typhoon weather, the ship is more likely to capsize and lose its cargo."

"Rail transport is much more reliable and almost independent of the weather."

"It goes without saying that water transport is far less cost-effective than railway transport."

"As for chariots and civilians, it is even more incomparable with railway transportation, and the cost-effectiveness ratio is more than a hundred times worse."

Having said this, Chongzhen said again: "So for long-distance cargo trafficking between regions, it is the general trend to replace water transportation by railway transportation. The era of canals has passed, and in the future there will only be short-distance trafficking in canals. Of course, cross-continental transportation The transportation between them still has to rely on sea transportation, after all, the railway cannot be built on another continent.”

The scholars present seemed to understand, another continent?
Is there really another continent in this world?I'm afraid it's not an island like Fusang.

Zheng Sen asked: "My lord, can a train really pull dozens of carriages? Can each carriage really carry tens of thousands of catties of goods or carry hundreds of people?"

"It's more real than your flying car." Chongzhen laughed.

"If it is a railway built on a plain terrain, such as the Liangjing Railway, it is possible to pull hundreds of carriages. It is possible to pull thousands of tons of goods from Beijing to Nanjing in one trip, and it is also possible to transport tens of thousands of troops together with All weapons and equipment were sent from Nanjing to Beijing within twelve hours."

"My God." Zheng Sen said, "This is too fast."

Jiang Tianyi said, "If so, we need to build a direct railway to Xi'an."

Chongzhen said with a smile: "Of course the railway to Xi'an must be built, and it is not enough to go to Xi'an. It must also be built to Gansu, the Hexi Corridor, and extend to the Western Regions. By then, my Ming's army of infantry and cavalry will be able to relax within seven days." Arriving in the Western Regions, the Western Regions will also be permanently incorporated into our Ming territory."

Zheng Sen said: "My lord, this is a big project."

Chongzhen said: "Of course, it takes ten years of work and millions of laborers are not enough to complete it."

"Millions of laborers are needed?" Jiang Tianyi was a little dumbfounded when he heard the words, "My lord, where can we find so many laborers? And, how much does it cost?"

A look of cruelty flashed across Chongzhen's eyes: "If you want to build the Liangjing Railway and the railway directly to the Western Regions in a short period of time, it will definitely not work by hiring labor alone. Firstly, there are not so many laborers to hire, and secondly, they cannot afford the wages." , so other methods can only be used to make up for it, such as conscripting criminals to serve in military service, or arresting people.”

"Arrest people?" Zheng Sen said in amazement, "Where to arrest people? Shaanxi?"

"Of course overseas." Zhu Cijiong said, "How can we catch the people of the Ming Dynasty?"

Chongzhen laughed and said nothing, his plan to vacate the cage and change the bird was only mentioned to Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong.

However, this is a long-term population project, and it is impossible to see results without 50 years of work.

While he was talking, there was a sudden commotion in the direction of Weiyuan Gate ahead, and then a son of a state came over excitedly and reported to Chongzhen that Lian Yong, who was guarding Weiyuan Gate, had offered his gate and surrendered.

"Go, take a look." Chongzhen immediately got up and left the big tent.

Zheng Sen, Jiang Tianyi and Zhu Cijiong hurriedly followed.

Soon, Lian Yong, who surrendered in Xiancheng, came to the Ming army camp.

To Chongzhen's surprise, Lian Yong actually brought a big gift - Wu Sangui.

"Criminal Fang Guangchen, please kowtow to the sage Jin'an, long live my emperor." Fang Guangchen said that he was a criminal, kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen didn't even look at Fang Guangchen.

Jiang Tian immediately shouted: "Take it with me!"

When even two Guozisheng stepped forward and knocked Fang Guangchen to the ground.

"Hey, hey." This was obviously beyond Fang Guangchen's expectations, and he hurriedly shouted, "Your Majesty, although the criminals are guilty, they have made great achievements. The criminals led hundreds of people in the city to practice bravely and fight back anyway, and captured them. The big traitor Wu Sangui, this is a great achievement, enough to atone for my sins, you can't treat me like this, my lord."

Seeing this, Wu Sangui laughed happily.

"Fang Guangchen, now you know what kind of person Chongzhen is."

"I told you a long time ago that Chongzhen is too small to accommodate people."

"It's just you, an idiot, still dreaming that Chongzhen will forgive you."

"Dog thief dare." Zhu Cijiong would not allow Wu Sangui to arrange his father in such a way, and immediately stepped forward and slapped Wu Sangui on the cheek fiercely.

Zhu Cijiong slapped him extremely hard.

Wu Sangui's entire body was slapped sideways.

When I turned back, I saw that the entire right cheek was slightly swollen.

"Hahaha, good fight, cool!" Wu Sangui laughed out loud instead, "Again, use force!"

"Hey, this king has never seen such a cheap request in this life, but since you have something to ask, this king will satisfy you." Zhu Cijiong pulled out the short blunderbuss as he spoke, and took the jujube wood stock of the short blunderbuss hard. Viciously slapped Wu Sangui on the left cheek.

There was only a bang, and Wu Sangui was slapped to the ground by the butt of the gun.

After a long time, Wu Sangui finally sat up from the ground, and everyone looked over again, only to see that Wu Sangui's entire left cheek was already swollen, and even his left eye was almost narrowed.

Wu Sangui opened his mouth again, and spat out four big bloody teeth.

"Are you still stubborn?" Zhu Cijiong asked with a sinister smile, "Do you want to reward you again?"

Now Wu Sangui didn't dare to speak harsh words anymore, because if he spoke harsh words again, he would only ask for trouble.

"Okay, don't beat this traitor to death." Chongzhen stopped him in a timely manner, "How can a traitor like Wu Sangui, who is willing to degenerate, recognizes a thief as his father and lures wolves into the house, be killed at once."

Wu Sangui couldn't help shivering when he heard this.

Can't be killed at once, what do you mean by that?
Is this going to take him back to Beijing to kill him?

"Wu Sangui, you guessed it right." Chongzhen said with a sinister smile, "A traitor like you must be hacked into pieces, otherwise it is not enough to stop the latecomers!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Sangui also went all out.

"Emperor Dog, I, Wu Sangui, admittedly recognized a thief as my father and lured wolves into my house, but you, Chongzhen, are not a good bird either."

"The Ming Dynasty was rich in nine provinces and tens of thousands of people, but it was reduced to being ravaged by tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers. It's not because you, a dog emperor, are narrow-minded and self-willed, and you don't know how to employ people at all."

"Jiashen's national disaster was basically caused by you, the dog emperor."

"It's really ridiculous that you put the blame on civil servants and military generals instead."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong was furious again, and wanted to step forward to teach Wu Sangui a lesson.

"Jiaoer, ignore him." Chongzhen stopped Zhu Cijiong, and said to Wu Sangui, "You want to provoke me so that I can give you a good time, don't you? It's useless and useless."

After saying this, he said again: "Put this traitor under custody."

"Put it down." Jiang Tianyi signaled Guo Zisheng to take Wu Sangui down.

Fang Guangchen and the hundreds of Lianyong who returned from Xiancheng were no exception, and they were all detained.

Of course, in the end, these training exercises will still be dealt with relatively fairly.

There are 50 million Lianyong from the thief. Chongzhen can't arrest so many Lianyong to repair the railway. If he really does this, there will be no one in Beizhi to farm.

……

Shanhaiguan saw at least swordsmen.

However, the Yanzhou Mansion was not in a good mood.

As soon as Xu Yingwei led the 3rd Township to Yanzhou Prefecture, Jiang Yu directly surrendered in Kaesong.

Looking at Jiang Guan who bound his hands to surrender, Xu Yingwei was both gratified and regretful.

It is gratifying that Jiang Guan surrendered, and the people of Yanzhou Prefecture can be saved from the disaster of swords and soldiers.

Regrettably, as soon as Jiang Guan surrendered, the third town lost a chance to be rewarded for its meritorious service, because according to the military regulations of the new army, the enemy's surrender does not count the number of heads, and there is no reward.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Guan was not less angry with the soldiers of the new army on the way to Beijing.

However, it is limited to verbal ridicule. Xu Yingwei does not allow the new army to beat Jiang Yu, because Xu Yingwei knows that traitorous frontier generals like Jiang Yu who surrendered to the enemy must return to the capital alive to accept the third trial. If not, he will be sentenced to death by Ling Chi after three joint trials.

……

At the same time, after five days of fleeing, Bumbutai, Fulin and their mother fled to Guihua City under the protection of more than 300 Bayalas with yellow flags, including Yabulan.

Hearing that Bumbutai and Fulin were naturalized, Omubu Chuhuer was stunned on the spot.

what's the situation?Why did the Qing Emperor and the Empress Dowager come to Guihua City all of a sudden?
Is this something serious?Could it be that the Qing soldiers were defeated in the decisive battle with the Ming army?

However, even if you lose the battle, you won't be able to destroy the country all at once, will you lose the city of Beijing?
In any case, the Qing Dynasty had 80 million Mongolian and Han troops. Can the Ming army swallow it in one bite?
Full of doubts, Ombu Chuhuer hurried out of the city with hundreds of entourages to greet him.

Ombu Chuhuer is still very respectful to the Qing court, because if it weren't for the help of the Qing court, the Dongtumote tribe where Omubu Chuhuer was located would have been wiped out by Lin Danhan.

Later, with the backing of the Qing court, Dongtumed was able to return to the lush Tumed River.

So seeing Fulin and Bumbutai approaching from a distance, Omubu Chuhuer rolled off his horse and knelt down on the ground: "Chen Tumote's Zasak Omubu Chuhuer, please ask the emperor's gold medal!" Ann, please ask Empress Dowager Jin An."

Fulin has not yet recovered from the blow of losing his country, and he seems a little restless.

Bumubutai had no choice but to get off his horse and help Omubu Chuhuer up, and said sadly: "Aha, we orphans and widows came to Tumotechuan specially to join you. If you refuse to take us in, our mother and son will die." There's really no way out."

After finishing speaking, Bumbutai made a gesture to bring Fulin to his knees, and Ombub Chuhuer hurriedly stopped him in fright.

"Where is the queen mother talking?" Omubutaihuer said anxiously, "Don't talk about Tumotechuan, even the whole Mongolia belongs to the emperor and queen mother. If you want to live here, you can live here. This is yours. Home."

Come on, this is what Bumbutai was waiting for.