Yao Jinkang's body was no longer full of malice this time, which made Meng Yue feel that he might have been trained by the teachers in Nanshan Academy, and he didn't think about it anymore. After the manganese was found at the www.biquge.info Academy of Sciences, the suitable ratio was found after many tests, and then the manganese steel was available as soon as the boiler was opened. In the past few days, the Academy of Sciences has selected the southern suburbs to pave a section of steel rail lane about 100 miles long, from the southern suburbs to the direction of Purple Mountain.

The project has not yet officially begun, but the ground has only been leveled, and many people have attracted onlookers. Because the cabinet had requirements for the construction of the railway, such as "not occupying arable land and staying away from the academy", it took a lot of effort to survey the line. At this time, the New Year is approaching, and the Academy of Sciences plans to repair it after the year, and does not want anyone to ask every day, so the Academy of Sciences simply strikes while the iron is hot, recruits skilled craftsmen who are interested in participating in the construction of the rail lane, and tries to pave a short section a year ago.

Because the shop is on the side of the Purple Mountain, when the paving can pass the car, it can be said that the whole city went to watch.

When the steam locomotive slowly dragged a dozen carriages forward, almost everyone cheered and applauded, and the cheering people didn't really know why they were doing this, just looking at the thing, running fast without horse-pulling, and they were inexplicably excited. As the locomotive ran faster and faster, the cheers were like waves, and the waves were as high as waves.

It wasn't until the locomotive had completed just two miles that the cheers slowly subsided, and then people began to notice the speed of the steam locomotive.

"It's not fast, it's better to have a good horse. ”

"The horse has to eat, but this locomotive doesn't have to rest. ”

"When the locomotive is always damaged, it must eat something if it doesn't eat forage, otherwise what will it run?"

"A good humane horse is a thousand miles a day and eight hundred nights, and it is only one thousand and eighteen together, and I don't see more than this car. Moreover, the car can carry people and goods, and the horse can pull so much, and it can't pull more. ”

Accustomed to business, it is really from which to see the great invention across the times, think about it, in the past, if you want to transport goods from the south to the north, you have to support the dart bureau, find a team, and be worried along the way. Even if the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty has lasted for three hundred years, the mountain bandits and road tyrants have not disappeared, and there are always some people in the world who are eager to get something for nothing, which has something to do with the rich and poor, but it is not absolute. People often say "forced to Liangshan", looking at the group that forced Liangshan, which one is really so poor that the family can't open the pot.

With this steam locomotive, it is different, no matter how fast the mountain bandit road tyrant is, he can chase ten miles and eight miles, can chase one hundred and eighty miles, and can chase hundreds of miles, even the mountain bandit road tyrant does not have such a good horse. If, the steam locomotive is equipped with a team of officers and soldiers, and no strong beam will dare to attack, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not only frightened by foreign enemies, but also terrified when the bandits see it.

"This is calculated, from Nanjing to Tibet, the horse-drawn car can be said to be less than half a month, if the weather is bad, it can be a month. But if I can use this car, I think it will be there in three or five days at most, and I don't need to bring so many people, and I don't need to prepare cars and horses, so how much trouble I can save!"

"Hey, that's great, I just don't know when this car will work, if only it could have been done earlier. ”

"Didn't you hear the Academy of Sciences say that this is a trial trial, and they won't let us sit, and the road is to pull the goods first, and it will take at least three months before we can start pulling people." ”

"It's only a hundred miles, and you can save a lot of money. ”

Ordinary people see the excitement, businessmen see business opportunities, and generals see the beautiful picture of the entire Ming Dynasty unfolding in front of them.

"If it can be used to transport troops...... In three or five days, the whole territory can be increased in place, so that there are still countries that dare to attack my Ming Huwei again?"

"No one dared to invade my territory. ”

"The border is just a seemingly peaceful border, with constant disputes in the corners and corners, and your so-called 'no one dared to invade my territory' is your literati's statement to whitewash the peace. ”

If we continue to talk about this, we will have to cause civil and military disputes, so everyone diverts from the topic, this one said, "I think this is excellent, and I want to eat the food of my hometown in the future, so that people can get on the car, maybe they can eat the next day", and the other said, "My hometown is only a few or seven miles away from Nanjing, so I suddenly want to eat something the night before, so that a servant can get in the car, and I can eat it the next morning."

Meng Yue: It is worthy of being a nation that thinks about "can I eat it, is it delicious, and how to eat it" all the time.

What the military generals see is the peace of the four seas, and what the civil officials see is the great rule of the world, so no matter how this thing was before, under the antecedents of mechanization being infinitely demonized, it was described as how undesirable, at this time, the real swords and guns were put out, but what people saw at the time was benefit, not harm. Besides, the steam locomotive is in the eyes of modern people like Meng Yue, and under the premise of ensuring safety, the train is also only beneficial and not harmful.

Master Meng was dragging Yuan Ji's hand excitedly, and said with red eyes: "Old Yuan, do you see it, do you see it...... It's running!"

Yuan Ji was even more excited than Master Meng, he really couldn't see anything in the fifteen-mile locomotive lane in the Academy of Sciences, after all, it was not successful at the beginning, it was achieved slowly. At the beginning, the speed was not so fast, only fifteen or sixteen miles in an hour, which was inferior to horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, but it was not as exciting as it looks now.

Lao Meng is right, I don't know if I can't blame others, I can only blame myself for just keeping my head down. Now, let's make it clear that there are still people who oppose the laying of the locomotive lane, which is really foolish. ”

At this time, Emperor Xuanqing was watching the steam locomotive on the top of the mountain quickly bypassing the hill and heading towards the Purple Mountain, and beside him were Yang Tingli and the cabinet princes. Emperor Xuanqing was not as excited as others, but very calm, he calmly watched the steam locomotive dragging the white smoke all the way with the sound of "dong dong dong" gradually disappearing from vision, and said to Yang Tingli: "Teacher, I seem to have seen the five hundred years later described in the "Secret History of Taizu". ”

Yang Tingli said with a smile: "Perhaps, it doesn't take five hundred years for the Ming Dynasty to arrive, since he retired from the cabinet, he always felt that the rest of his life could only be spent in a small courtyard, and now I see this steam locomotive...... The picturesque mountains and rivers are thousands of miles away, and they have become a smooth road under their feet, even if they are old, they can go everywhere!"

Chao Guangfu also smiled and said, "At that time, Yang Gong should not forget to invite me along." ”

"The cabinet is burdened with a lot of burdens, Brother Guangfu is afraid that he can't work, you can wait, the old man can't wait, Chenguang doesn't spare the old man. Yang Tingli said, discussing with Emperor Xuanqing, "Your Majesty, since the steam machine will turn back here later, why don't we board the car and enter the city." ”

Emperor Xuanqing said: "It's okay, the mountains and rivers are all under your feet, that is a matter of the future, now only these hundred miles can also be tried, and the right to look at Mei quenches your thirst." ”

With the Son of Heaven taking the lead and the princes accompanied, how could this steam locomotive not prosper, and how could the mechanization started by the steam locomotive not be promoted.

The mechanical age has come slowly with the "clang" of the steam locomotive......