Yongyang City is two hundred miles south of Nanjing City, that is, one hundred kilometers. 2

A distance of 100 kilometers, it can be said that it is very close.

Chen Mingyu took his Jinyi guards and did not take the train, but rode a war horse. Although the degree of the war horse is slightly slower than that of the train, it is more convenient and flexible!

"Boom ----"

On the cement road in front of the gate of Yongyang City, more than 200 brocade guards galloped on horses, and after an hour of galloping, they finally rushed to Yongyang City.

"Quick! Fast! Chen Mingyu took the Jinyi guards under his command and went directly into Yongyang City.

They had to arrest the corrupt official who had taken bribes to sell scrap locomotives to the British.

The Ming court has always had a decree that it is strictly forbidden to sell any advanced scientific and technological products to others without permission, and this 'other' not only includes the illegal Ming people, but also includes a large number of European people who have recently entered the Ming Dynasty.

This official of the Ministry of Railways in Yongyang City actually sold the locomotive to Eisenel and other British people for a mere 10,000 silver dollars.

"Bang!" The door was kicked open.

Dozens of brocade guards rushed in and went straight to the place where the corrupt official was, and along the way, a large number of servants were startled to scream, and the whole compound was in chaos.

After a while, the corrupt official was escorted in front of Chen Mingyu.

"Wang Daomin, corrupt and pervert the law, without the consent of the imperial court, it is a big crime to sell the locomotive to the British barbarians!" Chen Mingyu stared at Wang Daomin, who was still at a loss, and loudly announced his crime.

"Take it away! Escort back to Nanjing and wait for the emperor's whereabouts! Chen Mingyu waved his hand, and the two brocade guards who were pressing Wang Daomin were ready to escort Wang Daomin away.

At this time, Wang Daomin knew what he had done.

"My lord, the lower official has been wronged-----" While being escorted away, Wang Daomin shouted loudly, his heart full of fear.

How did he know that he had only collected 10,000 silver dollars and sold an old locomotive to the British, and only one day later, a brocade guard came to the door.

You must know that the people who need to be dispatched to the Jinyi Guard to arrest them are generally extremely evil.

Even if he was indeed corrupt and perverted the law, his sin should not be so great!

Chen Mingyu doesn't care what Wang Daomin thinks in his heart. After arresting Wang Daomin, he still has to hurry up to arrest those British.

After arresting Wang Daomin, Chen Mingyu and the others did not stay in Yongyang City for a moment, and immediately rushed to the hiding place of Aisenel and other Britons.

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After half a day of disassembly, Eisenel and other Britons have basically dismantled the exterior of the locomotive, revealing a large number of precision parts inside.

The so-called "steam engine" is naturally powered by boiling water vapor.

Among the British such as Eisenel, there are also several real technologists, who were specially sent by the Queen of England, in order to get the truly advanced technology from the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible with Eisenel.

The Queen of England is not small, and it is in her generation that Britain has reached the top of the world in history. If it weren't for the influence of the British, the French would not have thought of getting truly advanced technology from the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible in this way.

"It's God's handiwork, it's a miracle!" Looking at the many precision parts in the locomotive, interlocking, as if they were not artificially installed, the British people present were all amazed.

To say that the British stole the steam engine technology, the main thing was to create powerful steel warships, and the train railroad was secondary.

After all, the depth of the British mainland is not wide, and the effect that the train can swing is very effective.

Only the steel battleships had the deepest impact on the British.

As an island country surrounded by the sea, Britain has long formulated the status of the first hegemony on the sea, thoroughly protecting the British mainland, and then slowly moving towards the position of the world's first power, so the British exhibition is inseparable from the exhibition of warships.

Previously, the British were chasing the Spaniards and the Dutch, building a large number of better warships. In fact, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty, the British's current technology and strength in building warships would have completely caught up with the Dutch and would have been able to build the most advanced warships in Europe.

However, wooden battleships are outdated, and the future is the era of steel battleships.

If Britain wants to continue to move towards a real power hegemon, it is still the same plan that it was back then, to build the best warships in the world, and to have the most powerful naval strength in the world, so one of the cores of steel warships, steam engine technology, they must obtain.

Eisenel and other Britons continued to disassemble and record the location and function of each part.

In fact, although the technology of the steam engine is a very advanced product compared to the current world, the structure is not complicated, and the full set of technology is not complicated.

Eisener expects that in just a week, they will be able to completely disassemble and understand the structure of the locomotive, from which they will be able to acquire the technology of the steam engine.

Eisenel sighed, in fact, this locomotive would be the best if it could be shipped directly back to the UK. It's a pity that this locomotive is too heavy, even if it is transported to the railway station not far here, they have spent a lot of energy to transport it to the coast, and then back to the United Kingdom, it is too difficult, and it is very easy to be alarmed by the Ming court.

What Eisenel didn't know was that they had already alarmed Da Ming.

"Boom ---" There was a faint sound of war horses galloping, and it was getting closer and closer.

"God! What a sound this is! Eisenel and the other Englishmen said in surprise, looking at the place where the voice came from.

In a moment, a group of brocade guards on war horses rushed out, and it was Chen Mingyu who took the lead.

"Oh, no! It's a person from the Ming court! Eisenel's eyes widened and he shouted in alarm.

Ai Senel realized in an instant that these brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty must have come for them, and the fact that they were dismantling the locomotive here alarmed the Ming Dynasty.

"It's over!" Aisenel couldn't predict what the Ming court would do to them, and whether they would be allowed to continue dismantling the locomotive.

Chen Mingyu rode on a war horse, and at a glance saw the locomotive in the shed that had been dismantled a lot, and the British barbarians were really doing such a shameless thing.

Chen Mingyu was furious in his heart, and pointed to Aisenel and more than two dozen Britons in front of him and shouted: "Arrest them all!" ”

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