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Wuchang, except for the governor's yamen, the governor's yamen and other yamen who had previously lived temporarily for the "heavenly king" and others, stained with a little "fairy energy" and escaped the burning of the city, the entire city was almost burned into a blank land, whether inside the city, or outside the city, the ruins and ruins all over the ground are all obvious to the ruin of the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, Wuchang Mansion, at this time, there is nothing else except a "house name". As a city, at least to some extent, Wuchang is no longer a city, and only the remnants of its walls remain.

For outsiders, Wuchang, which was almost burned to a white ground, was a burden with no people and no food, but in the hands of Zhu Yifeng, this empty city had a different meaning.

A blank piece of paper is easy to draw, this sentence is admittedly true. And this is also the benefit of the "blank paper", there will be no resistance on this "blank paper", which will stop Zhu Yifeng's footsteps. Even not only in Wuchang, but also in Hankou and Hanyang - the gentry fled when they should have fled, those who should have been killed were killed, and even the people were coerced.

At least for Zhu Yifeng, he can carry out "urban planning" according to his own ideas as he likes, such as the widening of roads inside and outside the city - in fact, the broken walls on both sides of the road are cleaned up, and the old bricks on the roadside are used to resurface the road.

It's just an area on the map, and that's it.

However, it is not necessarily the case, for example, in the arsenal near Wenchangmen, it is not just a plan, almost on the third day after the capture of the city, this arsenal was built on the ruins of Jiangxia County Ya in Dadu Sixiang, saying that a factory was built, in fact, a piece of white land was cleared, and then the blacksmith built an iron furnace here to make the weapons needed by the rebels. As for the raw materials used in the furnaces, it is very simple - there are a lot of scrap copper and rotten iron in the ruins, and even some of them are fine wrought iron.

In the corner of the arsenal, piles of rope tied up beam nails, these nails are obtained when cleaning the ruins outside the city, for the homeless people in the city, looking for some scrap iron among the ruins is the easiest livelihood, and the most expensive thing to sell is the nail for this nail beam - a two-pound nail can be sold for a few pennies, just pull a few times between the ruins, you can find a dozen nails.

"But every room, you have to use the beams, there are at least a dozen nails on a beam, this Wuchang was burned into a white ground, and the nails that fell are not millions, this million catties of wrought iron, look at it is a lot, but in fact, if you can pick it out, what's the matter, you can also pick out tens of millions of catties of iron......"

In the arsenal, Xi Zhimo pointed to the pile of nails like a hill and said, in the end, he still couldn't leave Huangzhou, not because he didn't want to go, but because he couldn't go - no boat!

The "Pacific" was retained by Zhu Yifeng, who was the owner of the ship, and the captain and sailors on board also accepted new positions one after another -- to serve as instructors and teach sailors how to operate ships.

Forced to Xi Zhimo can only stay in Wuchang temporarily, but he is not idle, because he has learned the relationship of machinery in the British apprenticeship school, in line with the principle of making the best use of people, Zhu Yifeng was forced into the arsenal, and managed this "arsenal" with only more than 200 blacksmiths and carpenters, but Xi Zhimo did not disappoint him, and at the beginning of his tenure, he began to reform the factory.

For example, the factory is divided into cast iron room, wrought iron room, chemical iron room and carpentry workshop, and so on, and so on, but the arsenal has begun to show a bit of factory atmosphere, although this factory is now just a grass platform. But there is a faint hint of a factory, at least here Xi Zhimo has found a use to show what he has learned, although he has only studied in the apprenticeship school in England for a year and a half.

"Not enough!"

Shaking his head, Zhu Yifeng pointed in the direction of Wenchangmen and said.

"I plan to build a shipyard outside Wenchang Gate, first build a stone dock to repair ships, and then buy back the ship from Shanghai or Hong Kong, so that there will be nowhere to repair the ship, after all, whether it is Wuchang or Hubei, it is always a place near the river."

In fact, the rise and fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a great deal to do with the change of water control over the Yangtze River. In several battles between the Taiping Army's water camp and the Hunan Army's water division, with the decline of the Taiping Army's water camp, the control of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River began to change hands.

Correspondingly, for Hubei, the right to control water in the Yangtze River is also related to the lifeline, it can be said that only by mastering the right to control water can it be possible to turn Hubei, which seems to be a place of four wars in the belly, into a land of four benefits. To the north of Weihe, Shaanxi, to the south can enter Hunan, Jiangxi, against the river can enter Sichuan.

"Whether it's repairing ships or building ships, they can't do without iron, and we have to use iron to build ships, and we have to use iron to cast cannons, so what?"

Turning his face to look at Xi Zhimo, Zhu Yifeng said with a smile.

"So, I want to build an iron factory in Hubei and an iron factory with a Western iron-making furnace, which can not only make iron, but also make cannons, and even more so guns."

"Build an iron plant?"

Widening his eyes in surprise, Xi Zhimo simply couldn't believe his ears.

Running an iron factory?

"Here?"

"That's right, right here! And it's a Western-style modern iron factory! It's not the kind of workshop we have now! ”

Nodding his head, if the memory of later generations taught Zhu Yifeng something, it is to let him know what industry means, industry means power, and for any traveler, as long as he grasps the word "industry", he will not be able to win the world, and this is entirely because of the power that industry can provide - can provide artillery, muskets, and even trains, ships and other such industrial products, of course, more importantly, the development of industry will drive economic development, Industrial power will eventually evolve into the hard power of the military.

"Zhilin, what? You don't believe it? ”

Smiling at Xi Zhimo, who seemed to have some unbelief, Zhu Yifeng continued.

"Others may not know the importance of this iron factory, Zhilin, you have been to the United Kingdom, don't you know, the world today, the first heavy industry, but all the countries of the European continent, do not pay attention to the development of industry, steam engines, iron works, railways, coal mines, all for the importance of all countries, and now China wants to become a strong country, must run railways, factories, industry, and this iron factory can be said to be the foundation of all industries, with iron, we can not only make guns and cannons, but also make steam engines, make trains, build railways, but also make machines, The industrial revolution in Britain began with iron, and it can be said that in the next few decades, this steel will be a country, no iron will not be rich, no steel will not be strong! This iron factory can be said to be the foundation of the country's strength! ”

At this time, Zhu Yifeng didn't care about Xi Zhimo's surprise, he just told him a fact, or showed him a blueprint, a blueprint that he had never imagined, sometimes, people always have a little ideal, especially for the person in front of him who has drunk foreign ink for a few years, even if he has only studied in a British church school for a few years, but after seeing the British industrial century, how can he not be moved?

Lobbying others is not just relying on interests, which are only one of them, but more importantly, letting others see the future and see the future of following themselves. Just like at this time, what Zhu Yifeng showed Xi Zhimo was a future, a future that he could see.

"Owner, I, I ......"

At this time, Xi Zhimo's whole person was completely stunned, and was stunned by Zhu Yifeng's "ambition", although he studied in a church school in the UK, it does not mean that the church school will blindfold him, in the UK he has witnessed the development of England, and has witnessed how the steam engine drives England, but when he returned to China, what did he witness? All he witnessed was a group of officials who were still arrogant and didn't know how to open their eyes to the world, and the British didn't wake them up more than ten years ago, so what could he do as an ordinary person? He once wanted to be a comprador like everyone else, but he was attracted by Zhu Yifeng's "trade dream", which made him willing to devote himself to trade, but now, he was attracted by a future that Zhu Yifeng showed him, and was "bewitched" by that future, because he understood that that was the real future.

Interrupting Xi Zhimo's words, Zhu Yifeng didn't even give him a chance to speak, but looked at him and said.

"Zhilin, after you listen to me, I know you want to go back to Shanghai, well, I am also going to let the "Pacific" return to Shanghai, but after returning to Shanghai, I hope you can help me do something, can you? ”

Looking at Xi Zhimo, Zhu Yifeng's expression seemed extremely sincere, perhaps, he did not have the "spirit of Wang Ba", but he knew very well that Xi Zhimo, as a young man, would never be willing to be a comprador, otherwise he would not have given up Jardine to choose himself, he is also a person with dreams, for people with dreams, the best choice is...... Give him a dream!

"Owner, I ......"

Without waiting for Xi Zhimo to refuse, Zhu Yifeng specially added.

"Zhilin, don't be in a hurry to reject me first, listen to me first, and after I finish speaking, you can think about it again! What do you think? ”