The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

"Crack, click, click."

Lai Luojiasardana was riding the railway with a Ming Dynasty newspaper in his hand, which wrote about all the evil deeds of Polondoraja. It even said that Polondoraja would cook people and eat them when he was angry.

"The Ming Dynasty's newspapers are telling lies."

Lairoga Sardana threw away the newspaper speechlessly. Sitting next to him was a Ming Dynasty man wearing a suit and closing his eyes to rest. Seeing this, Lairoga Sardana gave up his defense of Polondoraja. desire.

The railway passes through towns along the way.

Old towns, new towns, bustling markets.

It only takes seven or eight days to get on the train from Champa Dusi to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

I still remember the first time I took the train. The speed at that time was slower than now. It took Lailuojia Sardana more than ten days to reach the capital of Ming Dynasty. Even so, it was incredible to Lailuojia Sardana.

Nanning, Liuzhou, Changsha, Nanchang, Hangzhou and Beijing.

The train stopped in Hangzhou for half an hour.

Like many passengers, Lairoga Sardana chose to get off the bus and walk around the platform. Because Lairoga Sardana was a second-class envoy of the vassal country, he got a lot of convenience, but only the first-class envoys Serving as a minister is considered a formal official act, so Lai Luojia Shardana did not receive much preferential treatment.

Moreover, Lai Luojia Sardana still had many restrictions. He could not leave the platform or go out of the train station. Tickets are required to enter and exit the train station, and the train ticket in Lairoga Sardana's hand is specially made.

In the beginning, the size of the mission team was very large because there were many merchants in it. With the opening of trade in the Ming Dynasty, merchants no longer only had missions, but had more choices. Most of them cooperated with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. , plus the rest of the reasons, Lairoga Sardana, who represented Polondoraja, was alone.

Another official fell ill in Cochin, and the accompanying staff stayed behind to take care of him. The initial inconvenience caused worry to appear on the forehead of Lairoga Sardana.

Lai Loga Sardana also saw lychees.

There are actually lychees in Hangzhou.

Lailuojia Sardana looked at it curiously. The lychees were not sold by the catty, but by two. One or two lychees actually cost five cents, and it was only a few lychees. Lailuojia Sardana couldn't help but feel excited. If you have the urge to be an official, you can make a fortune by transporting lychees to the mainland of Ming Dynasty and selling them.

Their Siamese lychees are big, sweet, and very cheap.

The worker in overalls saw the lychees on the platform. He hesitated for a while, and finally took out his money and bought three taels of lychees. Looking at the lychees in his palm, the worker couldn't help but regret it.

When he was working at a construction site in Champa, the construction site would sometimes give them free lychees to eat. Although it wasn't much, it was free of charge. He was really crazy.

My father, who had been away from his hometown for a year, returned.

The children who came home from school jumped up in surprise when they saw their father. The workers also smiled and touched the children. The woman prepared a table of good meals.

My father brought back many gifts, including lychees which are rarely seen among the people.

The children each finished one or two pills, which gave them a taste. The woman was very dissatisfied and complained that the man wasted money.

"In the past, only the emperor could eat this. It was nothing to let the children satisfy their greed." The worker smiled generously. He finally came back and wanted to make the children happy.

Although the lychees arrived in Hangzhou from Guangdong in a carriage filled with ice cubes, they were still stale. The children did not think so. They were very happy and were so excited that they fell asleep in the middle of the night.

The worker and his wife were whispering and talking about the scenes of working at several construction sites in Cochin and Champa. The worker has saved most of his usual vacations, and with annual leave, he can stay at home for two months this time.

"Damn it, I want to move my family to Cochin."

"why?"

The woman was reluctant.

"The policies there are good. They allocate land and enter the Railway Engineering Department. With the selection of children, it is difficult to enter factories now. Only military households are eligible for land allocation. Look, several of our children are not studying. It’s better to pave the way early.”

When the woman heard her husband's explanation, she felt a little relieved, but she couldn't bear to leave her hometown.

"It's for the sake of the children. If the children join the factory, they will have a destination for life, and we don't have to worry about it," the worker consoled.

After all, people are cheap when they leave their hometown.

However, the worker has been working in Cochin for more than ten years and has already become accustomed to the local area. Many of his fellow workers have settled in the area. The worker no longer hesitates in his heart, and he also understands his wife's concerns.

I am used to it, but my wife has never been there.

Early the next morning, the children went to school, and the worker and his wife went to visit their relatives. Each family brought gifts and discussed the relocation of the worker's family, and they all came up with their own ideas.

Some think it shouldn’t be done, and some think it’s better to live wherever you want.

With the development of industrialization, the convenience of transportation, and the guidance of the Ming Dynasty, migrating to new places and obtaining a better life is no longer unfamiliar to the people. This is different from traditional migration.

After listening to many opinions, the worker finally insisted on relocating his family. He knew that he was an ordinary person, and being able to realize the benefits he saw was more important than anything else.

At the workers' insistence, the family decided to move to Cochin.

This is also the reason why the workers did not stay and go home during the Chinese New Year. He had to hurry up and get his family settled, and he was worried that after passing this gap, he would not know when the next opportunity would be.

Beijing.

Wenhua Hall.

"The narrow strip connecting Jiaozhi Province and Champa City is less than a hundred miles at its narrowest and more than 3,000 miles long from north to south. It enters Jiaozhi from Yunnan and Guangxi and finally reaches Champa City. On the coast, it is also the largest port in the southern part of the entire peninsula.”

"Eighteen years have passed since Hongwu recovered Annan in the 31st year. After Hongwu completely pacified the Jiaozhi rebels in the 35th year, the Jiaozhi Railway Construction Group was established and has been building railways in Jiaozhi and Champa for fourteen years."

"Xuanweisi, Laos, adjacent to the west of Jiaozhi Province, has also built railways for ten years. The total length of railways in Southeast Asia is more than 4,300 miles."

Xu Ning, the chief manager of the Ministry of Railway Engineering, led the managers of the Ministry of Railways to report on the situation of the Nanyang Railway.

The rest of the officials listened carefully.

Zhu Gaochi was also thinking.

The Pacific Railway built by the United States in the 19th century has a total length of 7,000 miles. In the first two years of the construction of the Pacific Railway, because the construction conditions were extremely difficult, people in many countries could not adapt. In two years, only 100 lines were built. Sixty miles of railway.

Finally, the United States began to use Chinese labor. It was originally planned to take fourteen years, but in the end it only took seven years. In two of them, only 160 miles were built. In other words, the Chinese were the main force in building this railway, and they only used for five years.

The mortality rate of Chinese workers is clearly recorded as 10%, so there is no way of knowing how many were not recorded. From another perspective, it can also be seen how strong the hard-working spirit of this nation is.

American companies use Chinese workers as slaves. The harsh environment and unguaranteed logistics lead to a high mortality rate for Chinese workers. This was certainly not the case in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty Railway workers were mainly workers, absorbing some local young people, and combined with a small number of eunuchs. Although the mortality rate reached 3.0%, most of the people who died were eunuchs. Although the price of eunuchs was not low, the eunuchs did not The system that is included in the social production and development cycle does not count as a population with consumption power, so it is not a pity.

And every Ming Dynasty worker is considered a main consumer, and if one of them dies, it is a loss. In order to build the more than 4,000-mile Nanyang Railway, thousands of eunuchs died.

To be rich, build roads first.

If you want to build roads, you need a good environment.

Without a good environment, a place that could have been used as a charterer can become a supply place for migrant workers.

In the same way, the biggest obstacle to building railways is not the difficulty of the construction project. Historically, the Ming Dynasty, an agricultural society, was still able to build a magnificent Great Wall of 18,000 miles on the mountains from the west to Liaodong.

I wonder if any current project is more difficult than the environment there.

The Great Wall was no longer built, but railways were built instead.

The hardest thing is the human obstacles.

Therefore, no matter where the railway is, it needs to be stabilized and local resistance forces must be eliminated before the railway can be built smoothly.

This is true in the Saibei region, this is true in the Yili Province, this is true in the Western Region Province, this is true in the seven western provinces, this is true in Jiaozhi, this is true in Champa, and so is Laos.

Is it possible that the biggest purpose of Zhu Di's trip south this time, in Zhu Gaochi's plan, is to resolve local resistance forces for the future construction of the Nanyang Railway in the Ming Dynasty.

With the opening of railways in Jiaozhi, Champa, and Laos, the railways of the Ming Dynasty will continue to extend westward, entering Chenla, Siam, Babai Damian, Mubang, Burma, and Mengyang, and will be built until the end of Usa and Bangge. Thorn, entering the scope of later India.

This is a long-term project that cannot be completed in a short time. This is also the reason why Zhu Gaochi can't bear Zhu Di's trip south this time. Zhu Di is older, and Zhu Gaochi is worried about whether Zhu Di can adapt to the Nanyang environment in the long term.

Compared with Australia, the New World, and the subcontinent, Zhu Gaochi values ​​​​more.

If we can capture the subcontinent, then the Ming Dynasty will be complete.

The subcontinent has been ruled by foreign races for thousands of years. They can touch it one by one. Why can't the Ming Dynasty touch it? According to the thinking of the people of the subcontinent, there is no place in the world that is easier to rule than this land.

There is a population and fertile land there. If you invest a penny, you will quickly get back ten percent of your original investment. It is a profitable business.

How to conquer the subcontinent.

Zhu Gaochi thought about it for a long time. He had been thinking about it since Zhu Di regained Jiaozhi, and then when Zhu Di opened up the seven western provinces. After understanding the two places, Zhu Gaochi made a decision.

Conquering the subcontinent through the seven western provinces was disadvantageous to the Ming Dynasty. Not only was it difficult to transport supplies, but it was also complementary to the domestic economic cycle. It was not as advantageous as entering the subcontinent through Nanyang.

Moreover, the seven western provinces are too far away from the imperial court and have barren terrain. They still need blood transfusions from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. Due to the current historical limitations, it is actually not conducive to the long-term rule of the Ming Dynasty. It is only supported by the strong national power of the Ming Dynasty. That’s all.

So when the seven western provinces have a subcontinent, what else will be needed for the mainland? It already has the foundation for great industrial development. More importantly, the imperial court's control over the seven western provinces is the weakest.

The current proportion of Ming people in the seven western provinces is not high, which is equivalent to transferring the industrialization model to the seven western provinces. The seven western provinces have a subcontinent, stable food, and a large population base. Zhu Gaochi sees danger.

Just like the Tang Dynasty brought inland systems and culture to the frontier, but the population ratio was not high. History has proven what the final result was, and it was not conducive to the development of civilization. In Zhu Gaochi's plan, the Ming Dynasty's population in the subcontinent must account for at least 60% of the subcontinent. Zhu Gaochi will not hinder the development of the subcontinent. Otherwise, both the seven western provinces and the productivity of the subcontinent must be suppressed and hindered.

In the social resource allocation model system and industrial layout, an environment has been formed in which one cannot improve one's own industrial system without leaving the Central Plains.

At least in the event that the Ming Dynasty's economy collapsed and the seven western provinces and the subcontinent were divided, it would not pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty itself, allowing the Ming Dynasty to still maintain a crushing advantage foundation.

"The Railway Engineering Department has done a very good job, very well, and its achievements in various regions deserve the recognition of the imperial court." Zhu Gaochi said, "The railway is not only the blood vessel of the Ming Dynasty, but also the core driving force of the Ming Dynasty's economic development, driving the productivity of the entire society. Great development.”

The anatomy of Jinzhou has been developing for many years. Blood vessels have become a new discovery of traditional Chinese medicine and are well known. Doctors of the Ming Dynasty have a very clear understanding of the structure of the human body. What is lacking is the discovery of the shimmering layer. This cannot be achieved by medicine alone. The development of the problem can be solved, but what is needed is for the progress of more industries to feed back each other.

The two million railway workers in the Ming Dynasty were backed by a population of tens of millions. Because of the railway projects, the consumption power of tens of millions of people was brought about. It can be said that the railways played half the role in making the Ming Dynasty what it is today.

Together with millions of prisoners of war and eunuchs, this is the reason why the Ming Dynasty successfully built so many railways in more than 20 years. It not only meets the manpower and material resources required to build railways under limited productivity, but also ensures the structure of the economic cycle.

There are two million railway workers, and behind them are millions of industrial chain workers involved in mining, iron smelting, etc. The spending power of tens of millions has promoted the demand and prosperity of the industry.

This is also why Ming merchants planted so many jute estates in Goryeo but were still unable to catch up with the growing demand in the next year.

So why does Zhu Gaochi value Nanyang more?

Nanyang can not only provide more food and feed more non-agricultural people, but also allow Ming Dynasty to conquer the subcontinent, integrate it into the economic system of Chinese civilization, build more railways, and promote the development of stronger social productivity.

Relying on this model, the Ming Dynasty could reap dividends for at least two or three generations in the development process of Nanyang and the subcontinent. Zhu Gaochi did not believe it. At that point, with such strong demand, the Ming Dynasty could not completely enter the second industrial revolution society. ?

"In order to create a smooth environment for the laying of railways in Southeast Asia, the Ming Dynasty must get rid of Bolong Dorajja. It is not because he hindered the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty from doing business. This is just one of them. The most important thing is that this person's existence , will become an obstacle to the construction of the railway and endanger the core national affairs of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty must use all means to eliminate this person as a warning to others, so that no one dares to hinder the construction of the Ming Dynasty railway or privately destroy it."

Lu Zhen, the Minister of Rites, completely understood His Highness the Crown Prince's thinking.

"I reject Lai Luo Jia Sha Dana."

Zhu Gaochi nodded.

Xu Ning's mouth moved, but finally stopped.

He thought that there was no need to refuse directly. He could talk to Lai Luojia Shadanado and let them take a chance and not make the strongest resistance. However, thinking of His Highness the Crown Prince's example, Xu Ning understood a little. Enlightenment.

This time, His Highness the Crown Prince will crush it and show all the forces in Nanyang the consequences of opposing the Ming Dynasty.

Nanyang is too complicated.

There are countless forces in Burma alone, including the 800 Burmese. Although the Ming Dynasty sealed the local chieftains, in fact the 800 Burmese are still in a tribal situation. There are countless tribes. The Ming Dynasty cannot cover everything, and each one has to communicate and negotiate. .

Then a Ming Dynasty that cannot be offended is a good approach.

Lailuojiasardana did not expect that when he came back to the Ming Dynasty, he encountered such a tough attitude. No ministers were willing to see him. Officials from the Ministry of Rites came forward to tell him that leaving a word, Bolong Doraraja had the only way out to fully accept the requirements of the Ming Dynasty. .

There was no choice but to return to southern Siam and bring back the Ming Dynasty's attitude.

The speed of steam engine trains was originally sixty miles per hour. In fact, the speed of steam engine trains could have been increased a long time ago. Finally, after many years of delay, the speed increased to an average of eighty miles per hour, which is forty miles per hour. The speed per hour, according to the efficiency of the current train steam engine, can reach hundreds of miles per hour at the fastest time.

The huge manpower and material resources required to expedite eight hundred miles have long been popularized in today's Ming Dynasty.

It only takes four days from Guangdong to Beijing.

It only takes three and a half times from Peking to Beijing.

It only takes nine days to go from Werumu, the provincial capital of Yilibaili, which is later known as Urumqi, to Nanjing. But the Samarkand railway has not yet been built, and even if it is open to traffic, it will take half a month.

In the Mashhad area, the furthest west of the Ming Dynasty, the railway construction has not yet started. Even if it is completed, it will take nearly a month, and a round trip will take two months.

Sichuan.

Ma Dingguo’s hometown.

More than 300 children from the Workers' Children School in Wuchang, Hubei Province, arrived here by train. In contrast, the children from the Workers' Children's School in Chongqing, Sichuan, took the train to Hubei Province.

They go from places they are familiar with to places familiar to others, and others come to places they are familiar with.

"Due to the lack of technology in building bridges at that time, this section of the railway went up the hillside, and because the power of the steam engine was insufficient, you see." The teachers took their students to visit the steam engine room next to the abandoned railway track.

"The steam engine fixed on the ground is used as power, and the locomotive is connected with a hook to make up for the lack of power for the steam engine train, allowing the train to climb uphill section by section."

The children curiously surrounded the abandoned pavilion. There was one such pavilion every eight or nine hundred steps. The railway would bend at the pavilion. There were more than a dozen such pavilions on the entire mountain.

There is a hut next to the pavilion for staff to rest.

In the abandoned hut, there are still tables and chairs left by the workers, which are covered with dust and new grass has grown.

"Then what if the hook breaks."

A student looked at the foot of the mountain with worried eyes.

"There has been such an accident, so the uncles from the Railway Engineering Department, after careful consideration, abandoned this section of the old railway. Did you see the short tunnel over there? The uncles of the workers used gunpowder to blast it out section by section."

"what."

the children exclaimed.

"But now there is new technology, which has solved the shortcoming of the steam engine's insufficient horsepower. In order to obtain better power, the inventor uncles expanded the original metal tubes in the water tank to twenty-five. When the boiler is lit, , the hot air will heat the water inside through the metal tube to generate steam, and the steam will drive the piston to move, and drive the wheel through the crank principle."

"Do any of you still remember the invention of the piston that was taught in class?"

"I."

"I."

The children raised their hands.

The teacher pointed out the most enthusiastic child, who quickly said: "The piston used in the original water-pumping steam engine was improved by Grandpa Wan."

"Smart Grandpa Wan used straw that was available everywhere to fill the leakage in the piston."

"Later, Uncle Han Youchang added a ring to the piston and invented the capping principle, which is the piston used in steam engine locomotives today. He is called the inventor of the third generation steam engine."

"The steam engine technology used in ships was also improved by Uncle Han Youchang. It is called the third and a half generation steam engine technology. Why is it called the third and a half generation? Because there is no qualitative breakthrough in efficiency."

"very good."

Although the child answered many questions, the oracle still praised him.

The child raised his head proudly.

Students' study tours are connected with schools.

In the past few years, the school for workers’ children in Chongqing had exchanged study tours with Guizhou Province. This year, they switched to Hubei Province. Under the organization of the Ministry of Rites, they advocated expanding the scope of study tours to ensure that each child can go to more places before graduation.

After the visit, the children returned to Chongqing Workers' Children School. The school has dormitories and canteens, which reduces the cost of study tours. Such a study tour process, with the exchange of resources between schools and the convenience of the railway, did not exceed the capabilities of the Ministry of Rites.

The teacher assigned homework in the classroom, and each child wrote a travelogue.

The kids were excited.

"Thank you sir."

The children stood up neatly and bent down to send Jiaoyu out of the classroom. After Jiaoyu gave a serious return greeting, he stepped out of the classroom. When Jiaoyu's figure disappeared at the door, the children immediately became lively.

They saw more new things and broadened their horizons.

"Children today are smarter than children before."

The teachers who stayed from the Chongqing Workers' Children School chatted with the teachers who came from the Wuchang Workers' Children School and lamented the changes in the students. They also enjoyed it.

Etiquette is the foundation of civilization.

The teacher bowed in return in the classroom, and then returned to the public room. Hearing the methods of his colleagues from other places, he nodded in approval and joined in the topic.

In the short tunnel on that hill.

A train passed by, and the train's carriages were full of goods. The carriages were full of bamboo chips for transportation to Hubei, Zhejiang and other regions.

"Crack, click, click."

The apprentices were sweating profusely, and the coachman stared ahead.

"boom!"

The explosion destroyed the railway track.

The train derailed.

Goods were scattered all over the mountains and plains.

The driver of the locomotive and several apprentices died on the spot. The chieftain and the young men of the tribe saw that they were all bamboo fragments. They cursed angrily and quickly fled back to the mountainous area. (End of chapter)