Reaching back, he grabbed only a cloud of air.

Perhaps, his ambition is also such a ball of air?

Zhu Youlang still remembers the day he lived in the palace of the King of Burma, and he was pacing in the palace with his backhand, wanting to work hard and get the spirit of a steam engine. However, after a few months, the steam engine was still in the mining stage.

In each inspection, the feedback is almost the same: the machining accuracy of the parts (no planetary gears and centrifugal governors), sealing... Zhu Youlang knows the meaning of these terms at most, but he doesn't know anything about the manufacturing method, and only knows that the machine tool is an important factor affecting the machining accuracy. Every time I communicate with the craftsmen, I constantly attack my illusions about industrialization.

But there's something new...

Compared with the "slow progress" of industry, the thousands of miles of land under the rule of the Burmese political envoy can be described as changing with each passing day. In areas where there was recalcitrant resistance, large landowners were violently and physically exterminated by the Ming army, and it was decided whether to divide the land according to local conditions. Whether the land was divided or not, the level of people's livelihood improved rapidly: just like the stubborn conservatives who told the emperor that the wealth of the world was fixed, the landlords disappeared, and the grain left behind quickly filled the bellies of the poor, who toiled all day but could not eat.

Even in areas where the local feudal forces were weak and chose to temporarily admit intimidation, the compulsory rent and interest reductions greatly improved the lives of the peasants, and the soldiers and cadres who spoke the rough Burmese language were given the authority to organize the militia, relying on the militia with spears and old-fashioned arquebuses in their hands to forcibly confiscate the weapons of one "reactionary militia" after another.

Although the implementation of policies and the results of implementation are different in various places, at least in the places where Zhu Youlang can see, everything is thinking about development.

Once, Zhu Youlang always felt that it was difficult for even middle school students to act as the most basic officials. But in fact, this is not the case, and the village cadres who are only driven to the shelves with a primary school education level, although the education level is low, but in the area they manage, they are the people with the highest education level. Compared with the bureaucrats of the Chongzhen Dynasty, most of the bureaucrats can be directly beaten into illiteracy - everything depends on the master, and they lie on the fame to boil their seniority and eat, according to the perspective of later generations, it is almost a group of cerebral palsy patients before the Ming Empire collapsed.

Compared with these cerebral palsy patients, primary school students in their twenties and thirties have stronger executive ability.

"Your Majesty..."Li Dingguo interrupted his thoughts, "Weichen wants to invite himself to the Northern Expedition to Yunnan, and there is already news in the newspaper that the Dongyu army has arrived in the territory of Nanzhili, according to the speed of the spread of the news, at this time, the troops under the King of Min have already fought with the Dongyu." At this time, the north and the south were isolated, and the east was ugly in the south, which can be said to be called the heaven and the earth should not be called the earth, and the army of the king of Min was accustomed to water warfare but not land warfare... Chen Dou dared to think that the army of the King of Min might be gradually compressed to the line of the Yangtze River, and once the junction between the canal and the Yangtze River was lost, the Dongyu would reopen the north-south passage..."

"In case King Min is defeated again, the situation will return to before the Battle of Mopan Mountain!"

The more Li Dingguo spoke, the more anxious he became, and this was the third time he had spoken on such an occasion.

"At this time, in winter, it is inconvenient to travel, the roads in Burma are rugged, and it is necessary to cut down Yunnan with 20,000 troops, plus at least 50,000 accompanying people, and to prepare, and to transport at least 40,000 stone of grain and 100,000 stone of forage, which will take a month; A large number of heavy marches were carried out for a maximum of forty miles a day... If we hesitate, I am afraid that a year later, the Tartars will concentrate the 100,000 troops against the King of Min and send troops from Mengmi and Menggen in Yunnan..."

"According to the method taught by His Majesty, let the staff officers deduce, and the result is probably that our army can defeat one of them at most, and then be consumed by the other. I don't know how much money Burma can collect taxes in a year, but it is not difficult for Dongyu to steal 30 million taels of silver a year, which is more than ten times the annual income of Myanmar last year! ”

As a friend of the military circle in later generations, Zhu Youlang knew very well the importance of logistics to the war, and if he did not quickly recapture Yunnan, which has a population of three million and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, then he would sit back and wait for death.

Zhu Youlang's psychology has actually gradually wavered, but fighting a war is making money, and where does the money come from in this land that is as wasted as a blank piece of paper?

In addition, Zhu Youlang, who was keen on industrialization, generously invested the white Kuping silver ingots into various "black technologies" at this time: steam engines, granular gunpowder ratio, railroad carriages, machine tools... The huge manpower and material resources have kept the warehouses of the household department and the inner library in a state that the rats are too lazy to pay attention to, and the actual manager of the household department has repeatedly written to the emperor to ask the emperor to cut some expenses such as "ten-year plans", but Zhu Youlang, who is full of capital operation thinking, vetoed it.

At this time, Zhu Youlang finally realized the consequences of his uncontrolled spending.

"Alas......"

In the distance, the turning of connecting rods and bearings could be heard, and several carriages pulled by four Dian horses moved at high speed at 15 km/h.

"How fast can this car maintain if it runs hundreds of miles?"

The little official who heard the emperor's question hurriedly came over, "Every hour, oh no, hour, can run twenty-four miles for an hour, and this speed can be maintained as long as you keep changing horses." ”

Zhu Youlang moved the municipal units stipulated by the national government in the 20s to the present in advance, so 24 miles is about 12 kilometers, 24 hours a day, 288 kilometers a day, if the whole plan is completed, then it will only take one day from Ava to Zhongxing at the earliest, and it will only take four days to reach Yunnan. Comparing his previous speed on the earth, Zhu Youlang finally felt a little relieved.

"If you pull goods, how much can you pull?"

"The formation of four horses can carry nearly 3,000 catties, and if it maintains the same speed as a passenger vehicle, it is expected to carry 1,600 catties."

"The march transportation on a distance of 1,000 miles used to take a whole month, and the grain was often lost because of the damage of the carts and the consumption of the people; If the carriage is used for transportation, a group of two people can transport 3,000 catties of grain and grass to more than 1,000 miles away in seven days, and the loss is almost negligible. ”

The eunuch serving on the side frowned slightly, and said in his heart that this black-faced little official was really a guy who was self-selling and boastful, and he didn't know how to be modest. Zhu Youlang was not bored, but smiled on his face:

"The cart will be damaged on the loess official road, and it is not impossible to be on the track; Even if the carriage used in the track does not count the wagons behind it, the price of one is two or three times that of the ordinary cart, in order to protect this track of more than 1,000 miles, even if there is no war, it is necessary to maintain a team of thousands of people to watch all day long, don't these people want to eat? ”