Seeing Gu Shi Khan's expression, Emperor Chongzhen knew what he was thinking, so he smiled slightly and said: "The pattern of the world is changing rapidly, and it is useless to stick to the rules. It's better to be prepared than not to be prepared, even if you don't use it in the end, what does it matter, doesn't it? ”

This is indeed the principle, Gushi Khan himself is a capable monarch, naturally he understands, otherwise, it would be impossible to become the Khan King of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw that he agreed, he stopped communicating more. Although Gushi Khan has the ability, but when he retreats in that place in Tibet, you can know that he has no ambition to dominate the world. If you stay in that corner, you will definitely be abandoned by the general trend of the world. Since he wants to stay, stay there!

Thus, the audience was basically over. Emperor Chongzhen invited him to spend the New Year in Beijing, and at the same time let him know the strength of the Ming Dynasty, so that Tibet could be more peaceful.

And Emperor Chongzhen himself has a lot of things to do.

Other high-yielding crops have been promoted more than before. In particular, the harvest of potatoes in the Hetao Plain is very good. This made Emperor Chongzhen very pleased, and if there was enough food, it would be of great help to Hong Chengchou in preparing for the establishment and reorganization of the new army of the grassland.

On the fiscal front, the revenue of the national treasury is not much different from last year.

Although the income from glass, steam engines and cement is increasing, since the end of last year, there have been wars on the southeast coast, first the battle of Taiwan, then the battle of Annam, and then the battle of Luzon, which has seriously affected the income of the Zheng family.

However, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care too much about this. Collecting taxes from maritime merchants through the Zheng family's model of collecting protection fees is not a long-term solution after all. Now that it has become a navy, it is even more impossible to use this old model.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen went to Guangzhou twice before and after was to sort out the tax model of maritime merchants.

Nowadays, the trade objects of Daming maritime merchants are mainly the new occupation of Daming, which is in great demand, and it is currently the place where maritime merchants go the most. The second is the surrounding Yi country, but although there are many Yi countries, their consumption is low, and more is exchanged for local specialties and shipped back to the country for trade, which is the big head of the Yi country.

The last one is the trade with the Franc Man. For now, you don't need to go to sea, you only need to trade in Guangzhou. In the future, after the expansion of the power of the Ming Navy, the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably go out, as far as Africa, or they can go to the country of Franc to trade.

But for now, the sea is uneven, and the risk of Far Trade is too high, and no one is going to take risks. However, it is also for this reason that in the south and the south of the Yangtze River, there has been a new voice, that is, it is estimated that the majority of the trade with the Franc machine man in Guangzhou is estimated to be made by the Franc man. It is better for the imperial court to go on an expedition as soon as possible, and expand the territory as soon as possible, so that they can also sail far away to trade.

For these new voices, Emperor Chongzhen certainly welcomes them, which can give him more reasons to go on an expedition to the Middle East. But for the time being, he doesn't plan to pull out the seedlings to help them grow, so let this voice grow naturally. After all, an expedition to the Middle East is not something that can be set out casually, and it will take time to prepare.

On the treasury side, the war in Nanyang has subsided and is under the control of the Ming Dynasty. The immigration of a large number of Ming people will inevitably drive great demand. It can be seen from this that the sea trade will break out again next year, and the tax revenue will definitely recover, even more than before.

On the domestic side, it goes without saying that glass is just needed by the rich. And with the maturity and diversity of glass technology, new requirements are constantly being developed.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay much attention to this, as far as glass was concerned, he was more concerned about the production of concave and convex lenses and glass test tubes.

Concave and convex lenses play a very important role in optics; The glass test tube is related to the development of chemistry. That's what he values the most.

In the case of cement, the policy set before has proved to be effective after a year of practice.

While using cement to build roads and bridges, a part of the cement is allocated for the consumption of local wealthy families, so as to subsidize the cost of infrastructure.

However, there are also problems in this policy. The local metropolitan procuratorate has found as many as 15 cases of embezzlement and corruption on this cement; Dongchang and Jinyiwei found as many as six cement corruption cases involving the local metropolitan procuratorate.

For these cases, Emperor Chongzhen was not soft at all, although he did not peel the skin and fill the grass like Taizu, but the effect was actually similar. Emperor Chongzhen confiscated their family property, made their whole family poor, and then punished them with labor, built roads and bridges, and contributed their only value to the infrastructure of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen was not satisfied with this year's infrastructure, and ordered to increase the progress of this infrastructure in the coming year. With the engineering troops converted from local health centers as the backbone, they will assist local labor and speed up the construction of highways throughout the country.

The expansion of the Ming Dynasty is absolutely inseparable from the improvement of basic transportation. One of the big killers that has improved transportation is the application of steam engines on vehicles and ships.

Therefore, one of the things that Emperor Chongzhen is most concerned about is also this. After dealing with the most important matters, he was accompanied by the prince to inspect the application of the steam engine.

Train samples are already available, and the rails are real. After the demonstration, in summary, the power is still a bit insufficient, in other words, the energy conversion rate is a bit low, and the speed is slow.

In fact, in the original history, until 1825, the Englishman Stephenson built a steam locomotive, which set the highest speed on land at that time, which was only 24 kilometers per hour. This speed can't catch up with the speed of electric bicycles in later generations. However, although it was only a very slow speed that later generations would seem, it also allowed the steam train to spread rapidly.

Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't know this, he knew the truth of crossing the river by feeling the stones, not to mention, he had more than 400 years of historical knowledge. Therefore, he made an order: to build a railway in the next year, from Beijing to Tongzhou, if there is a problem, not afraid, work together to solve it; The experience of building this first railway must be summed up in written form so that it can be popularized throughout the country.

In terms of rails, there are no wooden rails, let alone iron-clad wood, just rails. There was no turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, life was stable, there was support from the imperial court, and the steel output was not low.

Although it may not be enough to say that the railroad tracks are rolled out in Daming, it is not realistic to promote it in this way.

In addition, a very large consumption of steel is the manufacture of weapons and armor. However, many of the Ming army already use cotton armor. For the protection of firearms, cotton armor is not worse than iron armor.

Of course, the most important thing is that Emperor Chongzhen knew that the measure of a country's strength was steel production, how could he not pay attention to steel production in ordinary times.

Then, there is the application of the steam engine on the ship, which is more difficult than the application on the car. However, this difficulty is also relative, it is not easy to get on the propeller directly, but it is not difficult to drive the paddle wheel with a steam engine. The paddle wheel ship was already in the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the shipwrights also knew how to do it.

However, according to the results of preliminary tests, although this paddle steamer is much better than the previous ship, the shortcomings are also more obvious.

First, the structure of the paddle steamer is relatively cumbersome, especially in the event of wind and waves, the paddle wheel blades are partially or completely exposed to the water, so that the ship cannot sail stably. Of course, this is less often the case when sailing on inland waterways. Even if there is, it's not a problem. After all, with such a big wind and waves, the previous kind of ship would also have problems.

The second problem is that the blades of the paddle wheel are easily damaged when used. Half of the blades rotate in the air when the paddle wheel rotates, which not only increases the width of the ship and the resistance when sailing, but also when it is docked on the dock, it is easy to collide with the ships on both sides, which not only affects its own safe driving, but also has the possibility of abrasion other ships.

The third problem, and the most critical problem, is that if the winding objects such as aquatic weeds twist the blades or shafts of the paddle wheel, the paddle wheel may lose its rotation, and this kind of problem is more fatal.

It is precisely because of so many shortcomings that the bright wheel, which existed in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, was not popularized. Of course, now that the original manual pedaling method is replaced by steam power, it is possible to make the steam paddle wheel see the light of day again, and there are benefits to use.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen did not waste food because of choking, and immediately ordered that the construction of steam paddle steamers continue, which can be used in the Grand Canal of Beijing and some sections of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. At the same time, try to build a paddle wheel at sea.

In addition, the steam-driven propeller ship cannot interrupt the test, and if there is a difficulty to overcome the difficulties, the propeller ship must be built.

For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen also provided a lot of suggestions for their reference, after all, there is the insight of later generations, and it is a college graduate, and he has learned a lot of things, and he also knows some principles, and he can always talk about it.

After inspecting these, the Chinese New Year's Eve will arrive.

Emperor Chongzhen also gave himself a holiday and had a good New Year.

As for Chongzhen's twenty-one year plan, he intends to focus on internal affairs and does not plan to expand further. At least Nanyang still needs to be stabilized, and Dongwu's shipyard can't be built so quickly; In the northwest, Hong Chengchou must also be given time to reorganize, and it is impossible to march west immediately.

Of course, this non-expansion is not absolute, for example, the Wa Kingdom. Emperor Chongzhen knew through the eavesdropping seed on Haoge's body that the task of this "god-level secret agent" had been completed very well, and it was already impossible to make a fuss about the Wa Kingdom.

That's right, Hauge at this time is experiencing one of the three happy events in his life.

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