Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly: "Nurse, I know." Don't worry, there will be a lot of children in the future, and you will have them when you bring them to annoyance, as for the concubine, forget it, no more, no less, three is just right. ”

Although he didn't have to be a professor, Zhu Youxiao still had to go to the Ordnance Bureau, he asked people to notify the cabinet and the six Shangshu, and then took Wei Zhongxian to the Ordnance Bureau.

The Ordnance Bureau was enlarged, and a large open space was carved out next to the original building, which was tightly fenced with two long parallel railroad tracks.

The coal from the Kaiping Coal Mine was transported along the Luanhe River to the Qian'an Iron and Steel Plant, where the iron ore was of good quality, and the steelmaking process of the Ordnance Bureau was used here, and a large amount of high-quality steel was quickly smelted.

In addition to the weapon production of the Weapons Bureau, Zhu Youxiao asked Sun Yuanhua to build two rails, although the current steel output is not enough to make a large number of rails, but first research, and when the output increases, it can be directly launched.

The distance between the two rails is four and a half feet, and the bottom is fixed with sleepers. And the carriages on the railroad tracks became four-wheeled carriages. The reason why there were no four-wheeled carriages in Chinese history. There are several main reasons.

One is because two-wheeled carriages are actually no worse than four-wheeled carriages in terms of pulling goods, and China has always been relatively short of horses, and four-wheeled carriages need more horses. The second is that China's roads are generally dirt roads, which are prone to ruts, and four-wheeled vehicles on such roads are actually more difficult to control the direction and more unstable than two-wheeled vehicles. Third, the rich officials feel that sitting in a sedan chair is a more face-saving and comfortable way to travel.

Of course, the most important reason is because of the lack of horses, as for the steering gear and other problems, it is actually a very simple matter, at least after Zhu Youxiao briefly described it, Sun Yuanhua quickly created a physical object.

In fact, the track appeared in the Qin Dynasty, but at that time it was a wooden track, and the horse-drawn car was moving on the track, which could greatly reduce the amount of horses and increase the number of goods, but according to Xu Guangqi, there was another horse track under the track, which was lower than the track, so it was more stable.

But Zhu Youxiao asked to use sleepers to pave under the rails, so that the horse could only walk on the road that was paved on the sleepers, but Sun Yuanhua also solved this problem, very simply, on the one hand, to make the wheels bigger, on the other hand, to add a device, so that the direction of the force is biased downward, increasing stability.

Sun Yuanhua has experimented several times, modifying while experimenting, and now it is the eighth time, Zhu Youxiao wanted to try it himself, but was stopped by Sun Yuanhua: "Holy Lord, it's better not to try this taste, it's very uncomfortable." ”

Wei Zhongxian volunteered and said: "Holy Lord, the slave maid come and try it, when the slave and maid are in their hometown, they have suffered all kinds of hardships, and they are not afraid." ”

Sun Yuanhua couldn't, so he had to let Wei Zhongxian sit in the coachman's seat. Wei Zhongxian picked up the horse whip and shook a beautiful whip flower, the crisp whip sounded, the two horses in front of him suddenly began to start, slowly running faster and faster, Wei Zhongxian kept trying to speed up, slow down and turn and other operations, the carriage turned a big circle along the track and stopped in the original place.

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "I can't see it, the factory minister still has a good skill in driving a car, he used to practice in his hometown?" ”

Wei Zhongxian jumped down and said, "Back to the saint, the slave maid once helped people drive the car for a while. This car is a little more stable than our previous two-wheeled vehicle, but it runs faster, and the person is a little bumpy, and if it is a long road with a seat, it will not be very comfortable. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "If you let the factory minister be a coachman, how long can you last?" ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "If the slave and maid are in a hurry, they should be able to continue after resting for two hours." ”

Sun Yuanhua said: "Our coachman said that he would have to rest for a while for an hour at most, and the factory man was really amazing." ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "You can change people and horses, so that you can improve efficiency, your steel production is insufficient, you can first build a railway from Beijing to Tianjin Port, so that our water transportation can be changed to sea transportation." ”

Xu Guangqi, who had been silent, said: "Your Majesty, the reason why we use Cao Yun instead of sea transportation is that the biggest problem is not the problem of transportation capacity, but because of pity for the hard work of Cao Min. ”

Ye Xianggao also stepped forward and said: "Caomin lives on the canal, if it is changed to sea transportation, it will have no food and clothing, please think twice, Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youxiao asked strangely: "When we use sea transportation, don't we also need porters?" Do they still have something to do? ”

Fang Congzhe said: "Your Majesty, the porters are only a part of it, in fact, the most are the slender men of the canal, these people are landless peasants, or escaped military households, if there is no livelihood, I am afraid that the people's hearts will be unstable." ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled: "Zhongqing, you have forgotten one thing." We are not afraid of more displaced people now, but we are afraid that there will be fewer displaced people, whether it is southern Liaoning, Jeju or Taiwan, as well as the Satsuma Domain that we are about to conquer, we need a large number of Han people to reclaim. ”

The ministers suddenly realized that they still used the original way of thinking to consider, if there were displaced people, it would make the country unstable, so they had been worried that there would be displaced people, and now the imperial court has a large amount of vacant land to be reclaimed, in fact, it just needs displaced people.

Zhong Yuzheng said: "Generally speaking, if you are not desperate, everyone is reluctant to leave your hometown. And the slender man on the canal is originally the one who has left his hometown, let them emigrate, there will be a lot less resistance in their hearts, so that those places can quickly become our territory. In case there are too many, we also need some people in the Ministry of Industry. ”

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him appreciatively and said: "Yes, the problem of the Yellow River is a big problem, although we have new construction machinery and cement, but migrant workers are absolutely indispensable, and these people can also go to control the Yellow River." ”

Ye Xianggao said with a smile: "If a canal is broken, the Yellow River will no longer be harmed, and Taiwan and Jeju can become the inherent territory of the Han family, it will be worth it." ”

Xu Guangqi said: "You don't have to break the canal, the canal can also be used to transport some other things or something, and it can even be used to transport passengers, which is much more comfortable than walking on land." ”

So in this armory bureau, everyone reached a consensus, even if the railway was not repaired to Tianjin, they could try to start transporting grain by sea boats, so that most of the slender men along the canal were in a state of nothing to do.

Then we started recruiting immigrants and migrant workers along the canal, and as long as the conditions are right, I believe that most people will choose to emigrate. Because in the minds of Chinese, they have a piece of their own land and a large amount of grain in their hands, so that they can not panic.

The expansion of the Qian'an Iron Mine and the exploration of other iron mines must be carried out now, and more steel can be produced in order to build more weapons and farm tools and build longer railways.

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