Finally came to Foshan, Fang Nan did not plan to go back after seeing the howitzer, Fang Nan and the military high-level first went to the arsenal to inspect it, and finally came to the steam engine research institute.

The Steam Engine Research Institute reported to Fang Nan in the last report that the research of the Type B steam engine has made great progress, and the prototype has been built, but there are still many problems on the prototype, and any one of the problems will have serious consequences for the use of the Type B steam engine.

At the Steam Engine Research Institute, Fang Nan and his entourage saw the prototype of the Type B steam engine, and the military high-level officials were very much looking forward to the Type B steam engine.

The generals of the army thought that the steam engine-driven train traveled on the railroad tracks, and the steam engine-driven machine tool created more firearms; The admirals were thinking about warships without sails powered by steam engines.

When the practical B-type steam engine was born, the industrial age of the People's Army would officially begin!

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It has been a month since Zhu Yaojiang came to Guangzhou City, and in the past month, Zhu Yaojiang has understood that everything in Guangzhou City is real, the smiles on the faces of the people are real, and their lives are happy, which is completely different from the news he heard in the palace.

The common people under the rule of the People's Army are living very well, but Zhu Yaojiang doesn't know the life of the common people under the Ming Court, so he doesn't have too many feelings, and after getting acquainted with the four guards who protect her, Zhu Yaojiang's nature slowly shows, after all, she is still an eighteen-year-old young girl, and she has only been in contact with the outside world for a long time, and Zhu Yaojiang is very interested in everything in the outside world.

In the past month, Zhu Yaojiang was walking on the street, and today Zhu Yaojiang is going to sit in the teahouse, and randomly choose an ordinary teahouse, Zhu Yaojiang and Xiangning walked in under the protection of the four guards.

The guards knew that Zhu Yaojiang was entering the teahouse for the first time, so they took the initiative to ask Xiao Er to find a relatively remote place, this teahouse has no private rooms, and then let Xiao Er have a pot of good tea and a few plates of exquisite food, and the four guards sat down around a table next to them, as long as a pot of tea.

Zhu Yaojiang's idea of coming to the teahouse is very simple, that is, he wants to hear what everyone is talking about, the people on the street, the pedestrians almost can't speak, and the stalls are full of the voices of buyers and sellers.

However, the next situation in the teahouse made Zhu Yaojiang's face more and more ugly.

Whether it is a teahouse in the Ming Dynasty or the People's Army, a storyteller will often be invited to tell interesting stories, and a storyteller who can tell stories can bring many regulars to the teahouse.

The teahouse where Zhu Yaojiang came naturally also has a storyteller, but this storyteller does not tell stories, but likes to comment on what happened between the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yaojiang didn't know the life scene of the common people in the Ming Dynasty, but the storyteller described it, and it was simply summarized as a house full of wealthy gentry and businessmen, and the people at the bottom were hungry.

The life of the people at the bottom is very miserable, in this case, there are people in all parts of the Ming Dynasty who rebelled, but the strength of the people was very weak, and they were easily suppressed by the Ming Dynasty, until the People's Army appeared, and the People's Army was the governor of the extraordinary people, he led a group of mountain people from the deep mountains, once swept the whole of Guangdong, and last year won Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang.

The Metropolitan Governor gave the people to divide the land, the Metropolitan Governor ascended to the heights and shouted, the people responded in groups, the water can carry the boat and can also overturn the boat, the whole world is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty can not let the people eat enough, the people are falling to the People's Army, with the support of the people, the People's Army is getting stronger and stronger, and the Ming Army is defeated and retreated.

This storyteller is a clear person, he knows that there are two main reasons why the People's Army defeated the Ming Army, one is the extraordinary Metropolitan Governor, and the other is the poor people, he believes that the People's Army will destroy the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has no power to return to the sky.

She is the princess of Daming, hearing others say that Daming is going to perish, it is strange that Zhu Yaojiang's face can be good-looking, and Xiangning is the same, and even wants to pull Zhu Yaojiang out of the teahouse, Xiangning is worried that her master will be angry, Zhu Yaojiang stopped Xiangning's movements, and continued to listen to Mr. Storyteller's words with anger.

The storyteller said that there were many tea customers in the teahouse, and they all thought that the storyteller was right.

And Zhu Yaojiang listened to Mr. Storyteller's description of the life scene of the common people in the Ming Dynasty or the life scene of the common people in Guangdong in the past, his brows furrowed, Zhu Yaojiang couldn't believe that Mr. Storyteller's words were true, but he couldn't find a reason for Mr. Storyteller to tell a lie, and the other tea customers did not refute it.

"Is the life of ordinary people really so miserable?"

Zhu Yaojiang asked Xiangning, Xiangning, who entered the palace at a very young age, didn't know that she had already forgotten the life scene when she was a child.

Mr. Storyteller continued, talking about the strength of the People's Army, every time it fought with the Ming Army, the People's Army defeated the strong with the weak, of course, this weak victory over the strong means that the People's Army has less strength than the Ming Army, in fact, the situation is that the People's Army is stronger, and the Ming Army is invincible.

Especially in last year's war, Li Chengliang's 500,000-strong army was easily defeated by less than 200,000 people's troops, and as long as the people's army wanted to, there was no problem at all in occupying the south of the Yangtze River, and it could even fight to the north of the Yangtze River.

Mr. Storyteller himself speculated that the main reason for the armistice between the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty was that the number of officials of the People's Army was not enough, and they occupied too much land and there were not many officials to govern it, so the occupation of four provinces stopped.

Not only the storyteller, but many people in the KPA-ruled areas have already understood why the KPA agreed to an armistice.

But Mr. Storyteller's words made Zhu Yaojiang feel very uncomfortable in her heart, she is now nominally married to the Governor of the People's Army, the so-called marrying a chicken with a chicken and a dog with a dog, everything in the Ming Dynasty should have nothing to do with Zhu Yaojiang, but Zhu Yaojiang can't be separated, she was born and raised in the imperial city, her relatives are there, here, she only has a nominal husband, and the two haven't even met a few times.

If he could, Zhu Yaojiang hoped that the Ming Dynasty would defeat the People's Army, rather than the People's Army destroying the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yaojiang finally couldn't listen to it anymore, and left the teahouse with an expressionless face, not wanting to stay outside any longer, and took the carriage back to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion directly.

Mr. Storyteller's words Zhu Yaojiang only understood part of it, Zhu Yaojiang has been living in the imperial city, and was still a naïve girl more than half a year ago, although there have been many changes in the past half a year, but it can't make Zhu Yaojiang understand everything and understand everything, but this part of the words that he understands today is enough to let Zhu Yaojiang know that Daming's situation is very bad.

But knowing what the use of this was, she was powerless to make the slightest change.