Chapter 256: The Man Who Built the Railroad (Page 1/1)

Zhu Youxiao was relieved, so he smiled and said, "Maybe I have some gains and losses." After the explanation of the Qing family, I have already figured it out. So let's take a look at how to defeat the Rakshasas so that they don't dare to look east. ”

The ministers breathed a sigh of relief at this time, they always felt that His Majesty the Emperor was very jealous of the Rakshasa Kingdom, which was completely different from the attitude towards the Wa Kingdom, Luzon, Annam, etc., and this attitude might affect him to make the right decision. Now that the emperor seems to have untied the knot, he naturally relaxes his heart. They don't understand that in later generations, the Rakshasa country has always been a big stone pressing on the hearts of Chinese, and many people feel that it is invincible, so they want it to be friendly with China, and they can't wait to pounce on it and call their father, but they are often slapped in the face. There are also those who secretly hate this country, but they can only watch China being bullied and suppressed by it, and they can't do anything about it at all.

Sun Chengzong said: "Your Majesty, the "Law on the Protection of Women and Children" must be strictly enforced, and now I am very different from people, so it is very important to protect women and children and increase the fertility rate. The Han people are not allowed to be slaves, and the implementation of this point should be further strengthened, so that the population of our Ming Dynasty can have a greater increase. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Population is the fundamental problem, of course, it is impossible to want the population to grow rapidly, and it will take at least ten years for our newly born population to play a role, so there is another point is the problem of immigration in the south." It is a bad habit to leave the homeland, but it is a powerful habit, and the fallen leaves return to the root of our Chinese nation's tradition, you can think about it and see if there is any way to weaken this tradition. ”

Xu Guangqi said: "Yes, population is the most important thing. In addition, we can also send people to Europe, I heard that the Rakshasa country also has a strong enemy, named Sweden, if we can unite Sweden, we can attack the Rakshasa from both sides, and then it is possible to destroy the country, even if it cannot destroy the country, so that it cannot look east. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "This is a good way, choose some young religious officials who know Western languages, and let the priest of Jinnige send a priest to Europe to visit the kings of all European countries, not only to ally with Sweden, but also to bring back the newly researched science and technology of European countries, this is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, it is indeed feasible." ”

Xu Guangqi said: "Wang Zheng can be the envoy of His Majesty the Emperor, and it just so happens that he also likes these Western technologies. However, as for the matter of the alliance with Sweden, it is not possible to leave it to him, it is better to leave it to the military. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "We also have religious officers in our army, and this can be arranged." ”

Sun Chuanting said: "The reconnaissance work is also very important, it is better to let Jinyiwei follow the caravan to the Rakshasa country mentioned by His Majesty by land, and understand the customs and customs of the Rakshasa country, the mountains and rivers and terrain, so that you will be confident in the fight." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "Then Commander Luo will be in charge of this matter, send more caravans, understand the situation more, and be prepared." By the way, the Mobei intelligence sent back by the intelligence officers of the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau in the mercenaries is very good, or let the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau also participate in it and act together with Jinyiwei. ”

Luo Sigong was full of reluctance, so he had to step forward and say: "Your Majesty, only by ordering one party to work together, who will be the main and who will be the deputy between Jinyiwei and the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau?" ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "It's because I didn't think about it, Jinyiwei will specifically check your own, and the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau will wait for the army to be dispatched." ”

Luo Sigong said: "Don't dare, thank you, Your Majesty, the minister will give the order." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "In fact, the most important thing is the logistics problem. If Zhang Zongling hadn't had a caravan to provide a large amount of food, he would not have starved to death, but he could only eat fish and meat every day. If the train can get there now, we don't have to worry about anything, after the artillery of the Guards is transported over, we can fight wherever we want, and I don't believe that any army can resist it. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "That's natural, but it's still because of the problem of manpower, and now the Beijing-small railway has only just been built to the edge of the desert, and it will be more troublesome to build the railway in the desert, and more manpower will be needed." ”

Sun Chuanting's eyes rolled a few times and said, "Your Majesty, if we let people of other races come to build a railway for us, won't it solve the problem of insufficient manpower?" ”

Zhu Youxiao asked, "Where did the alien race come from?" ”

Sun Chuanting smiled: "Didn't the Portuguese hand over Goa to us last time?" Governor Zhang sent people to investigate the situation and sent the officials to Goa by the way. Agents from the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau in the fleet wrote reports that there were so many people in Goa. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "Ah San? ”

Sun Chuanting didn't understand and continued: "The people in Goa are very docile, but they are very poor. The minister thought, if you can hire people from there to build the railway, wouldn't it be beneficial to both sides? ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "This method is good." You ask Zhang Qianfang to send two ships and use grain and silver coins to recruit people there to build the railway. Let the officials there in Goa pay special attention to this matter, and for the rest, occasionally collect a little tax to show the rule of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Regarding hiring foreigners to work, Zhu Youxiao has no psychological burden. Because they were hired rather than forced, and because the Chinese were not as cruel as the Western colonizers, who could not abuse or even kill people at will, these Indians should be better off working in China than they were there.

This solved the problem of manpower for road construction, and everyone was very excited. As long as the railway is repaired, it can become the actual control area of the Ming Dynasty. Sun Chuanting said: "Directly repair to the border of that Rakshasa country, and then kill it, and see if they dare to grab a place with us." ”

Zhu Youxiao thought, they are not grabbing space with us, they are trying to rob our place. It's just that in this life, these guys can't be allowed to occupy an inch of Asia under any circumstances.

The iron and steel industry of the Ming Dynasty has been greatly ahead of the world, Zhu Youxiao stipulated that the iron ore is ten taxes and one is the fifteen taxes of the iron mills, which makes a large number of mines start to make iron, and then the iron and steel mills of the Ordnance Bureau purchase pig iron from the private iron factories to process, so that its output has increased significantly. Later, Sun Yuanhua suggested that the steel smelting technology be awarded to several large private steel mills, and then their steel products would be purchased at market prices.

The smelting technology of the Iron and Steel Plant of the Ordnance Bureau is a combination of the steel filling method of Suzhou Iron and Steel, the use of large piston blowers to provide air, the use of high-quality anthracite or pre-smelted coke to obtain a high temperature of more than 1,800 degrees, the iron is melted into molten iron, so as to remove excess carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon and other impurities.

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