After the first steam locomotive began to run successfully outside the Yongding Gate, the Fucheng Xu Jie, the governor of Shuntianfu, prepared to purchase a batch of steam locomotives to replace the original carriage and horse shop.

This can not only improve the transportation of the capital, but also save transportation costs for the people.

For the people at the bottom of the capital, in the past, a carriage carried a small number of people, so the cost of spreading it to individuals was higher, but now, if Shuntianfu changed the public transportation to a steam locomotive, a large steam locomotive could carry more than ten or even dozens of people, and the cost of spreading it to individuals was lower.

In this way, many civilians who could not afford to sit on the carriage and horses no longer have to walk on foot, especially after the heavy snow covers the city in winter, so that the people can change to travel on foot to travel by car, which can effectively and greatly facilitate the lives of the people.

"Colleagues, the promotion of steam locomotives will not only allow more people to travel by car, improve the chaotic and indiscriminate charging of cars and horses, but also improve the health of the capital;

The main streets of the capital are all over the place because of a large number of cars and horses every day, and in case of rain or snow, the city is full of filth, and it is even difficult to get off the feet, and even a plague occurred last year, but fortunately, under the guidance of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the epidemic was controlled in time by sprinkling lime and strengthening health management;

But for this reason, sixteen people were killed, and the financial loss amounted to 560,000 silver dollars, and now just to clean up this horse manure, Shuntianfu has to come up with nearly one million silver dollars every year! If we promote steam locomotives, we can avoid urban pollution caused by horse manure, reduce the cost of cleaning up streets, and effectively avoid more plagues. ”

Xu Jie, at the Standing Committee of his Shuntianfu, strongly advocated the promotion of steam locomotives, and officially prepared to order a batch of steam locomotives for public transportation.

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was very supportive of Xu Jie's behavior of keeping up with the pace of the times, so he also spent 300,000 silver dollars from the Royal Tax Authority, that is, the internal treasury, to participate in the shares, and supported Xu Jie's purchase of steam locomotives to establish the Shuntianfu Public Transport Company.

As soon as the emperor invested, other chaebols also followed suit, and they all seemed to regard the emperor as a Ming Buffett, but because of this, Xu Jie's Shuntianfu Public Transport Company received an initial investment of no less than one million yuan, and also officially purchased a batch of steam locomotives through the Royal Industrial Company, and also hired a group of drivers trained by the Royal Industrial Company from the Royal Industrial Company.

this day.

The first steam locomotives in Suncheonfu were officially put into operation, and although many people came to observe the steam locomotives again, the people were still a little afraid to go up.

After entering the city, the worker Liu Fu wanted to find a car and horse dealer to take a bus to Deshengmen, but he accidentally found that the sign at the bus stop on his head said "Yongdingmen" station, and he was also a little curious for a while.

As soon as Liu Fu walked on the platform, he glanced at the ladies' bathing paintings painted on the platform, at this time he didn't know that this was an advertisement, only to see the maid holding a soap in her hand, and next to it was written "Thirty-seven precious medicinal herbs, drive away crow's feet" and other advertising words.

This era is not the Internet era, Liu Fu, who has never seen this kind of half-clothed bathing lady, inevitably had a physiological reaction, and couldn't help but press the gun, and was about to go to Deshengmen as soon as possible to go to Liuyue Pavilion Xiaoli Girl, when he heard a clang, and then he saw a steam locomotive appear in front of him.

The door of the steam locomotive was suddenly opened, and a young woman wearing a blue cloth cardigan and an ebony hairpin was pushing the door open, and asked Liu Fu and a group of workers behind him, "Did anyone get on the train?" ”

Liu Fu looked at the steam locomotive with a dark body and shining metallic luster, just like when he saw his daughter-in-law's wide clothes on a candle night in the cave room, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand for a while, but he still took it back suddenly, and now when he heard the young woman ask, he asked curiously: "This sister, can I go up?" ”

Liu Fu smiled honestly as he spoke, and then pointed to the car.

This young woman is naturally a conductor, the Ming Dynasty began from the Zhengde Dynasty, as the status of Cheng Zhu Lixue was gradually impacted, the idea of men and women being different gradually also gradually released, in addition to some traditional scholars and doctors are still insisting that women stay at home, the imperial court has allowed women to go to school and work, and also specially founded a girls' school, in addition, it is also open to women for some positions.

Now this young woman is obviously a woman who has received some education in the new era, although she is only a conductor at the moment, but her appearance really surprised the people outside the car, and even Liu Fu was a little ashamed of herself in front of her.

The young woman nodded: "You can go up, and the fare is two cents per person, no matter how far away the destination is." ”

After speaking, the young woman looked at the mechanical clock on the car, and then shouted to the outside: "There is still half an hour to go, is there anyone who has gotten on the car!" ”

When Liu Fu heard the young woman say this, he hurriedly grabbed the car door and got into the car, but he kept touching the railing on the car door and refused to let go, and he grinned as happily as if he was touching his daughter-in-law's hand.

In the eyes of Liu Fu and these people, this kind of iron lump car can obviously only be sat by officials and masters, but they didn't expect that now they can sit on it as civilians, so they are all excited.

Some people have obviously arrived at the station, but they are unwilling to get off the train, and they are not willing to get off until they get to the terminal, as if they feel that only in this way will they not lose money, and then they would rather walk back from a long distance by themselves.

Because of this, when the first steam locomotives operated as public transportation arrived at the terminal, they were crowded with a full carload of people, and although the ride experience was not good, the people who took the car were very satisfied and began to talk about it.

As a result, after the spread of the people, more people came to take the steam locomotive the next day, and even some congestion accidents occurred because of this, and it was not until a few days later that the people began to ride the car in a normal and orderly manner, and they got off when they should go.

In any case, the operation of the steam locomotive was very successful, and the people quickly accepted the new thing, and the traffic and sanitation of the capital did change a lot, and the steam locomotive can be seen moving on the main roads and suburbs of the capital every day, and the various platforms have become new landmarks.

As a result, the carriage and horse shops were gradually eliminated, but all walks of life in the capital were very developed, and the elimination of a certain line did not cause much change.

At this time, officials in the capital also began to use the steam locomotive, a new means of transportation.

Because Zhu Houzhao specially approved the opening of a special steam locomotive bus line between the noon gate of the capital and the Daming Gate, which was specially responsible for picking up and dropping off these courtiers to the court in the morning, it made it much more convenient for the courtiers to go to the court, especially for some officials with relatively small ranks, who could only get up in the middle of the night to rush to the imperial city in the past, and basically could not sleep well all night.

And now, with this bus line, even if these low-level officials can't take a nap in a sedan chair like the important ministers of the court, they can now take a nap in a steam locomotive, and they don't have to get up so early, which is undoubtedly much more convenient.

Therefore, when the Forbidden City bus line was opened, many officials still agreed in their hearts.

However, there are also more conservative officials who cannot accept the steam locomotive running in the inner city, saying that it is hurtful and solemn, and even more Like Du bluntly said that it is unseemly to Yu Xuan in the incident, and would rather continue to walk than take a steam locomotive, in order to express his anger at the Forbidden City bus line.

But on the contrary, this period of time coincided with the ceremony of the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Zailei, and others to be crowned princes, so there were more court meetings about etiquette, so this Yu Xuan was also miserable.

At this time, Cheng Xu Jie, the Shuntian Mansion, sat in the warm steam locomotive, enjoying the special refreshments, holding the stove in his hand, while talking about the Spring Festival security and fire protection work with several fellow officials of the Shuntian Mansion, while looking out of the window from time to time, and when he saw the Like Du who was coughing in the wind and snow, he couldn't help but smile.

"Yu is really courageous! I'd rather freeze to death than receive half a cent of the emperor's favor! ”

Immediately, Xu Jie also took advantage of Yu Xuan to pass by here, and said loudly, and Yu Xuan may have figured out something when he heard this, or maybe he couldn't bear the cold of this winter, so he ran directly with the steam locomotive, and when the steam locomotive stopped at the next stop, he hurriedly stood up: "Yu Mou didn't dare not accept the emperor's grace!" ”

All the officials smiled coldly and didn't say much.

Zhu Houzhao also knew about this in the morning, and because of this, he couldn't help but sigh that some people are just too stubborn, and they are willing to accept new things only when everyone has accepted them and he himself can't accept them.

But in any case, in the face of the general trend, stubborn people cannot stop the change of the empire.

Moreover, the Forbidden City bus line also improved the political efficiency of the empire, resulting in a significant decrease in the late arrival rate of the imperial court.

With the advent of steam locomotives, I thought that the emergence of steam locomotives was no longer a problem.

In fact, a steam locomotive is also a steam locomotive.

After the court meeting, Xu Jie was left by the cabinet to participate in the court meeting, which was also attended by officials from the Ministry of Industry, the Academy of Engineering and the Infrastructure Construction Bureau, and the topic of the discussion was naturally about the construction of the first railway in the Ming Dynasty.

Steam locomotives have appeared, and there is naturally no problem in manufacturing steam train power systems.

The laying of railroad tracks and the construction and management of the project have also accumulated a lot of experience because Daming has implemented higher education for more than 30 years, and there is already experience in laying rails within the Daming Engineering Institute, so there is no problem.

It's just an experiment and a real operation.

According to the result of the final court discussion, a railway track was laid between the capital and Tongzhou for trial operation, as an attempt to build the first railway in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao passed this proposal, now the main transportation of the Ming Dynasty is sea, water, land transportation, and no matter what kind of transportation needs to be gathered in Tongzhou, therefore, if a railway is built between Tongzhou and the capital, it is undoubtedly very conducive to the busiest traffic line in the Ming Dynasty to improve transportation efficiency.

Due to the fact that in recent years, there have been too many projects in the Ming Dynasty, so there is a slight shortage in the supply of human resources, and the captives captured from Jiaozhi just make up for this shortcoming.

At this time, Shuntianfu Cheng Xu Jie, from the governor of Jiaozhi Yan Song purchased 20,000 Jiaozhi natives, these Jiaozhi natives were transported to Tongzhou through Cao, except for more than 400 people who died due to various reasons on the way, most of the Jiaozhi indigenous strong laborers were transported to Beijing.

"Arrange the most tiring work for them, work for more than six hours a day, and now the project is tense, and they can't be idle!"

After Xu Jie looked at this group of Jiaozhi natives introduced from Cochin and gave orders, the overseers under him began to lead these Cochin natives to receive work clothes and food, and the so-called food was naturally just steamed buns and sweet potatoes.

Basically, after eating, these Jiaozhi natives were whipped by the overseers and entered the construction site to begin their work, such as carrying steel for railroad tracks and transporting sand and gravel, while Han Chinese workers were responsible for installing screws and specific technical work, or mixing cement.

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After the empire's southern front corps had begun to basically occupy the entire territory of the Ruan clan in the south of Jiaozhi, Gui Cao finally couldn't find a reason to continue to delay with the envoys sent by Mo Dengyong, and finally threw out the bottom line, that is, asking the Mo clan to retire in the capital of the Ming Dynasty as idle ministers, so the officials were reappointed by the Ministry of Daming officials, which was actually to make Mo and his ruling group lose the power to rule the northern part of Jiaozhi.

Mo Dengyong naturally rejected the Ming Dynasty's intention to actually occupy the northern part of Jiaozhi, and also realized the real plan of the Ming Dynasty, so he began to take the initiative to contact the Ruan family, expressing his willingness to abolish his throne and reclaim his position as a vassal to Li Zhuangzong.

But it was too late at this time, and the Southern Front Corps of the Ming Dynasty had already surrounded the Ruan Clan's headquarters.

At this time, Nguyen also took out his last elite soldier, the elephant soldier.

Yu Dayou and others, who have been the vanguard troops, were indeed shocked when they watched these monkey soldiers rushing towards them on huge elephants in front of them, but thanks to the appearance of newspapers and periodicals, they were no strangers to elephants, and they had already known that Jiaozhi had elephant soldiers through the information provided by Jinyiwei before this, so although the Ming army was shocked, they did not feel afraid, but took advantage of the fact that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and they had entered the rainforest area, so they directly began to launch incendiary bombs, burning the entire rainforest.

Daming's current artillery because of rifling, which means that the range and accuracy are higher, coupled with the emergence of firecotton, so that the propellant has improved a lot, so this mountain mortar can also be operated, in fact, Daming itself has a similar mortar device in the later period, now it is just closer, the characteristics of Daming weapon development is multi-directional development, although not professional and proficient, but also a sparrow although small and complete.

The incendiary bombs fired by the Ming version of the improvised mortar directly bypassed the jungle and fired into the elephant herd, which then ignited the dead branches and leaves in the forest, and in an instant, the entire rainforest became a smoky and burning world.

Yu Dayou and other Ming soldiers only held binoculars and looked at the elephants sitting on these monkey soldiers, and they couldn't stand the smoke or fire and fled in all directions.

As a result, many of the monkey soldiers were left behind, either trampled into pieces by elephants, roasted, or smoked like bacon.

The Ming army, on the other hand, retreated a certain distance to the back, and when some of the monkey soldiers who were about to be roasted or smoked escaped, they were immediately captured and taken to concentration camps to be used as coolies or serfs.

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