Li Chengxun walked quickly into Wang Yuan's office: "Palm, eight thousand self-eunuchs gathered outside Dong'an Gate!" ”

"What's the matter with my Ministry of Rites?" Wang Yuan didn't bother to pay attention, "If the eunuchs don't accept it, they will be expelled by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses." ”

Li Chengxun said: "The palace will definitely not be able to accept it, and it just received 3,000 eunuchs last year. The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division can be expelled, and I am afraid that they will also disperse and reunite, which will be solved after all. You can't, kill them all, right? ”

Wang Yuan asked, "What about the cabinet?" ”

Lee Seung-hoon said: "The cabinet asked the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to expel them. ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "Li Shilang, you really know how to deal with it for yourself, so let's say how you plan to deal with it." ”

Li Chengxun said: "In order not to disturb the people, the Railway Department of the Ministry of Industry did not let Shuntianfu levy forced labor, and wanted to recruit disaster victims and displaced people to do things. It's better to let these 8,000 eunuchs be the laborers who built the railway. ”

"Is the railroad finished?" Wang Yuan asked.

Li Chengxun said: "The railway is tentatively scheduled to be built in three parts, but due to manpower and material resources, it is impossible to build them at the same time. After repairing the first one, continue to let them repair the second, I am afraid that the commander will not be satisfied with a few railways in this area, and there will always be the work of these eunuchs in the future. ”

"Haha, whoever knows me, Liqing also," Wang Yuan laughed, "You can deal with this matter." ”

Li Chengxun, the word Liqing, Hongzhi six years of Jinshi.

At the beginning, Wang Yuan wanted Wang Yangming to enter Beijing to be the head of the household department, Wang Yangming wrote a letter saying that his lung disease had recurred, so he recommended Li Chengxun, the left waiter of the Nanjing Criminal Department.

Wang Zhan, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Chengxun entered Beijing to be the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

is also a civilian official who can fight, Lin Jun suppressed bandits in Jiangxi, and soon after leaving office, he mutinied, and the rebels captured Zhao Shixian, who participated in Jiangxi politics, and killed Zhou Xian, the deputy envoy of the inspection.

As a result, the officers and soldiers of all walks of life were afraid of the enemy, and Li Chengxun, who was the prefect of Nanchang at the time, recruited Xiangyong to fight the rebels back and forth. The Zhou gendarmes were defeated and died, the troops were defeated, and Li Chengxun came to the battlefield on his own and quickly gathered the rout. Sentenced Wang Qi to surrender by fraud, Li Chengxun treated him with sincerity, Wang Qi was happy and convinced, and infiltrated the rebel camp to develop internal response? The officers and troops took advantage of the night to raid and win a great victory.

This rebellion? In fact, it was secretly planned by King Ning, but it was quelled by Li Chengxun, the prefect of Nanchang. King Ning was furious? Collusion with Jiangxi town guard eunuch Li An? changed the confession of the rebel leader and arrested Lee Seung-hoon and put him in prison. Fortunately, Yan Zhong was in charge of Dali Temple at that time? Only then did Li Chengxun be kept - Yan Zhong is the Bole of Jin Wei and Chang Lun, and he once promoted the two? It's a pity that he died of illness due to overwork.

Wang Yangming is in Nanjing as a secretary of the ministry? Li Chengxun worked as a left waiter in the Criminal Department in Nanjing, and the personal relationship between the two was very good, and Li Chengxun even became a disciple of Xinxue.

But it was said that Li Chengxun left the Ministry of Rites and rode straight to Dong'anmen? There has long been a traffic jam there.

More than 8,000 self-emasculated people? They came from Hebei, Henan, and Shandong, and they were all hard-working people who couldn't survive the disaster. They chose to wield their knives from the palace, survived the bacterial infection, and went to the capital if they did not die, hoping to be recruited into the palace as eunuchs.

What a pity last spring? The palace has recruited 3,000 eunuchs, where are their errands?

Last winter? More than 10,000 eunuchs gathered in the capital, and they didn't know each other? can only beg for a living, and after dying of illness and starvation, there are only more than 8,000 left. Seeing that the days have not been sent? Suddenly a eunuch leader Yang Chun appeared? They gathered more than 8,000 people and went to knock outside the Dong'an Gate.

The street outside Dong'anmen? has been blocked by eunuchs, and there are countless people watching the excitement.

The soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division rushed to the side, and they only dared to raise swords and guns to guard beside them, for fear that it would cause chaos after using force.

Li Chengxun rode to the scene and shouted, "The idlers retreat!" ”

Seeing a big official, the onlookers dodged one after another, and then gathered again to continue to watch the excitement.

Li Chengxun didn't bother to get off the horse and asked, "Who is in charge here?" ”

A military attache knelt on one knee: "Han Yao, commander of the Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses, has seen ......"

Li Chengxun said: "I am Li Chengxun, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites. ”

Han Yao hurriedly said, "I've seen Li Shilang!" ”

Li Chengxun said: "It's none of your business, let's take the troops back to be on duty." ”

Han Yao hesitated and said, "Li Shilang, there are many eunuchs, I'm afraid there will be chaos." ”

Li Chengxun was too lazy to argue with this person, and asked the eunuchs: "Who is the leader?" ”

A burly man walked out: "Yang Chun meets Li Shilang!" ”

Li Chengxun said: "Take these people and go out of the city with me, and I will give you a bite to eat." ”

Yang Chun can gather more than 8,000 eunuchs together to knock on the que, naturally it is not easy to fool: "Dare to ask Li Shilang what arrangements he has?" ”

Li Chengxun said: "From now on, you will be employees of the Ministry of Industry's Railway Department, and you will have rations when you are free and monthly rations and wages when you are busy. ”

Yang Chun hesitated: "The grass people don't read much, please don't scold me." ”

Li Chengxun was so angry that he couldn't do it: "Lao Tzu is the left waiter of the ceremonial department, what are you doing?" Only 3,000 eunuchs were recruited in this palace last year, how can you live, Lao Tzu can't bear you starving to death before standing up. Believe it or not, weigh yourselves! ”

Yang Chun immediately knelt down and bowed: "Thank you Li Shilang for your kindness!" ”

Yang Chun gave an order, and more than 8,000 eunuchs stood up together, and more than 10 of them were responsible for organizing and coordinating, and they actually left together in an orderly manner.

Li Chengxun sighed: "It's a pity that you have emasculated yourself, otherwise you would have some ability to fight." ”

Yang Chun smiled bitterly, he was a fugitive soldier, and he learned these skills from the army.

Historically, this has happened. Emperor Jiajing felt that he had no face, so he exiled Yang Chun and more than a dozen leaders, and forcibly drove the remaining eunuchs out of the capital, and those who dared to stay were directly arrested and convicted.

More than 8,000 ragged people from the palace followed Li Chengxun and went to the eastern suburbs.

More than 1,000 displaced people have been recruited there, and Jiang Xin is organizing the construction of warehouses, and the materials of the Railway Division will be stored here in the future.

Nie Bao is responsible for the relocation and resettlement of the railway land, and is currently dealing with various counties. This matter involves many gentry and magnates, and there must be some people who are unwilling, and Nie Bao has his own means to make them soften. After all, he is one of the founding masters of the Xinxue Returning Sect, Nie Bao can repair tens of thousands of canals as a magistrate, and directly overturn the eunuchs and three divisions in Fujian Town according to the imperial history, and are you afraid of the Laoshizi magnates in the suburbs of Beijing?

Xu Jie was in charge of logistics, including the purchase of various materials such as stone and wood.

Wang Jiao is in charge of all the paperwork and is also responsible for reconciling the accounts.

Wang Chong went to Zunhua, Jizhou, which later came under the jurisdiction of Tangshan, and at this time was the largest iron smelting base in the north (Zunhua Iron Works), and the main production method was to fry wrought iron with coal. Wang Yuan had already sent the method of steelmaking, but the Zunhua Iron Works was too lazy to reform, and still smelted iron according to the old method, only built a few new furnaces to make steel, and the smelted steel was used to cast cannons, which made Zhu Houzhao so angry that he wanted to die.

Zunhua Iron Works is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and has a special division of work.

Wang Yuan sent several people to rectify the situation, but it has always had little effect, because it was completely rotten from top to bottom, and the huge profits of the iron factory involved too many powerful people.

Now to build a railway, it is impossible to transport steel from Zhejiang, Wang Yuan decided to completely finish the Zunhua Iron Works. This time, Wang Chong went with the leopard house soldiers, who dared to mess around and kill them directly on the spot, and all the moths in the mess were cleaned up!

Wang Yuan said that only three railways would be built, but he had already changed his plan to build four.

First of all, the railway from Beijing to Zunhua was built, and the railroad tracks manufactured by Zunhua Iron Works were laid all the way to Beijing. In the future, the steel of Zunhua Iron Works will be able to be transported to the capital along the railway.

And, from the capital to the Daning Division, this is to pass through this road. From the capital to Liaodong, the official road also has to pass through Jizhou. Once this railway is completed, it will be able to strengthen the connection between the capital and Daning and Liaodong, and will have a huge political and military role. When building a railway, there is no need to choose a terrain route, just follow the official road to build, the road is relatively flat, the whole journey is more than 300 miles.

Several officials in charge, there are still Zhang Xuan and Ling Xia left.

Zhang Xuan is responsible for overseeing the overall situation and coordinating other yamen, and he will take care of anything that happens, and he will go to Wang Yuan if he can't stand it.

Ling Xia led a group of physics men, who were responsible for training railway workers, teaching them how to build railways, and supervising and guiding the whole process.

Coming to the construction site in the eastern suburbs, Li Chengxun found Jiang Xin.

Jiang Xin was very surprised and asked, "Li Shilang, are these people?" ”

"They are all self-emasculated people......" Lee Seung-hoon explained the matter roughly.

Jiang Xin suddenly said happily: "Great, I'm short of manpower here." Mr. (Wang Yuan) is sympathetic to the people and is unwilling to levy people for the construction of the railway, and now it is spring ploughing, so he can't recruit too many displaced people. You, more than 8,000 people, can be regarded as a charcoal in the snow. ”

Li Chengxun clenched his fists and said: "They are all hard-working people, and I hope that Master Jiang will treat them well." ”

"That's nature," Jiang Xin said with a smile, "I'm also a disciple of Xinxue, and I know what conscience is." ”

Li Chengxun has already entered Wang Yangming's disciple, and Jiang Xin switched from Wang Yangming to Wang Yuan, and the two are still brothers.

Li Chengxun glanced at the construction site and said in surprise: "The warehouse of the Railway Division is all built with Sanhe soil?" ”

Jiang Xin explained with a smile: "It's not about making Sanhe soil, they're building warehouses with cement and bricks. ”

At the beginning of Wang Yuan's crossing, he burned cement by himself, but the furnace temperature was never enough, so he could only get out the triple soil. However, when making steel, he was inspired to use accelerants and fluxes, so Wang Yuan asked Lu Youzhen to continue research and development with his disciples.

Lu Youzhen, the real name of the true Taoist, came up with the method of making gunpowder from urine, which greatly increased the output of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty. He tinkered with it for several years, constantly trying the method of firing cement, and after countless improvements, the cement was already available for civilian use, but it could not be used to build embankments. Because the strength is not enough, I am afraid that the cement embankment will collapse, but the triad soil is very suitable for building the embankment.

The construction of the treasury of the Ministry of Industry and Railways is the first civil practice of cement.

As for the lime factory, on the side of Qianling Mountain, not far from the place where coal was dug up, it was barely considered to be digging Zhu Houzhao's ancestral grave. However, according to Qin Tianjian officials, Qianling Mountain is not next to the Daming dragon vein, so there has always been an official lime kiln, and it is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. With a stroke of his pen, Wang Yuan directly converted several lime kilns into cement factories.

There are henchmen in charge of the Ministry of Industry, which is so trouble-free, and the official iron works and lime kilns are all subordinate institutions of the Ministry of Industry!

Lee Seung-hoon walked around the construction site, observing how the houses were built with cement and bricks, and did not leave until almost evening.

As for the more than 8,000 eunuchs, all of them became long-term employees of the Railways Division, and they were satisfied after their first meal. Because the sweet potato porridge of the Railway Division is very thick, and there are a lot of oily seeds floating on the surface of the vegetable soup, this is definitely a good meal for them.