Time passed, and two months passed quickly.

The earth is springing, the sun is shining, and the season of growth has come.

This year, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Yanjing, Lushan, Wuhan and other big cities have fewer fireworks, but eating, drinking and having fun in the seemingly 'not lively' New Year festival has not decreased at all, because the data will tell you everything.

The population of Nanjing is increasing, and after the Lantern Festival, more and more young people gather here. The triennial scientific expedition is about to begin. Chen Han has a clear stipulation that the imperial examination will not be delayed because of the royal funeral, but will only increase the imperial examination because of the royal family's happy event.

The number of lifters who participated in the scientific examination officially broke through the 10,000 mark in the last subject, and most of these people will also carry servants and scholars with them. There will be no poor people in the Chen Han Dynasty, these people are all going to participate in government work, and now the salaries of officials are quite a lot, and many people are already comparable to the officials of the Chen Han Dynasty and the Two Song Dynasty.

Nanjing City is a metropolis again, and tens of thousands of people who are not engaged in production have poured in at once, and the prices of shops and restaurants in the streets and alleys have risen to the highest point almost instantly, and the whole city is so full of vitality as the weather!

The new cabinet is also in place. What is somewhat different from the previous discussions of the ministers of the underground organization is that Shen Guozhen actually succeeded in counterattacking.

He took Xie Hu's position. Poor Lord Xie, Xie Hu, who has more than 20 years of experience as a superintendent, should have been Xie Hu who was definitely going to enter the cabinet, and the bamboo basket was empty. was sent to the American continent by the emperor, and before the end of the second wave of partitions in the imperial court, he was optimistic about the territory of the Americas and became a good nanny.

Xie Hu was confused, Xie Hu was confused. He was very puzzled by how Shen Guozhen got to the throne. Many people who had no contact with Shen Guozhen at all suddenly changed their attitude and supported Shen Guozhen.

Could this really be the role of the Neo-Confucian Party? Is it that huge?

Xie Hu was saddened, but he could only lose his teeth and swallow blood. watched Shen Guozhen ascend to the position of the left second assistant of the cabinet.

Yes, Shen Guozhen has not won the position of the right secondary, but the position of the left secondary, which is higher than the first line.

In the end, Xie Hu is still because there is no Olympic aid above.

blame him for being in a high position early, and he is qualified to set up another mountain. Moreover, Xie Hu is in a high position at a young age, and he is arrogant in his heart, and the only big man he catches up with is King Song. Behind Zheng Wen, the right deputy assistant of the sixth cabinet, is strongly supported by the first and second assistants of the previous cabinet. So Shen Guozhen failed to push Zheng Wen, but smashed Xie Hu down.

The 'strange news' that happened on Tingtui once surprised the world, and even this year's scientific expedition couldn't suppress it. Soon, however, a new anecdote attracted the attention of the whole world.

First, the first thing the Trust Cabinet did when it came to power was to issue a second additional canal bond. There is even news that today's canal bonds may not be able to become canal stocks in a few years.

Over the next few years, the Cabinet will slowly prepare its own Suez Canal Company. Although the company did not control all the shares of the canal, nor did it fully control the right to operate the canal, which was unchanged a hundred years ago, the huge profits can be imagined.

Historically, when the Gallic rooster was developing the Panama Canal, he made a mistake in the construction plan - mistaking the Panama Canal for a sea-level canal like the Suez Canal, but in fact the sea level at the two ends of the Panama Canal was very different - a large number of workers died on the construction site, and the progress of the project was seriously inconsistent with the plan, etc. It wasn't until the Canal Company's funds were completely depleted and the 'Panama scandal' broke out that shocked the world that countless French people wept over their doomed bills.

And this incident can also be seen how eager the people are for the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal after their horizons have been broadened. Because such a world-class transportation throat and such a golden waterway are a 'cash cow' that can be seen and touched, and its stock is a truly incomparable hard currency, which will never depreciate or fall in value.

Unless someone defeated the imperial army there, occupied the Suez Canal area, but is this possible? No Chinese would believe such a possible outbreak, even if it was tens of thousands of miles away.

And the second thing is the construction of China's first railway, the Kaihai Railway, which arrived in Haizhou [Lianyungang] from Kaifeng.

The project was coordinated by the newly established General Administration of Railways, which is an absolutely independent functional department and is not subordinate to the Ministry of Communications.

In addition, there are steamships, and this new achievement has also been brought out by Chen Han openly.

The abacus of the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences was not achieved. The patents for the technology of ships and trains were handed over to two specialized research institutes, which were the basis for their development. If a research institute only relies on the financial allocation of the imperial court, it will not have a great future for development. They still have to be self-reliant!

Patents for trains and ships are the government's biggest support.

However, at this time, Chen Ming's heart was no longer at the cultural and educational event that was about to start in two months, nor did he look at the railroad and the steamer, and he did not look at the paddle steamer gunboat under construction on the dock!

Two iron-ribbed wood-hulled warships and four 2,000-ton transport ships were the orders placed by the wealthy sailors to the Jiangnan Shipyard and the Tiannan Shipyard, which had spent a lot of money to acquire the patent for the ship.

Each house is a warship and two transports. Although the sailors were very interested in the steamer, they also found it difficult to accept the very conspicuous appearance defects of the paddle steamer, and from the tactical point of view, the military opinion was more inclined to the propeller than the paddle wheel.

But the speed of the latter is also a shortcoming that makes the sailor unbearable. In this case, a sailboat is a good choice.

Therefore, in this era, the era of steamships has not yet officially come. The current steamships still need to continue to lurk under the wings of the sail warships until they can make up for all these shortcomings.

But what is certain is that these six 'warships' are also the first in the world.

The pressure on the Steamship Research Institute is very high, and the hybrid ship with sail + steam engine is what they hate, but now this is their best choice. It took a long time and a lot of effort to make up for the shortcomings on the ship.

Jiangnan Shipyard and Tiannan Shipyard did not give up civilian use while receiving military orders.

Small paddle steamers have great advantages in inland waterway transportation. The large number of small river paddle steamers can also accumulate a lot of experience in ship manufacturing for the two shipyards.

These two emerging things have largely captured the attention of the whole of China. This is the effect of the government's strong push.

Of course, there will be people in the people who are dissatisfied with ships and trains, but in front of the Chen Han government, their power is zero.

The logistics department has already placed orders for 10 500-ton small transport vessels to each of the two shipyards, and some powerful people and inland waterway transport companies with the participation of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce have also placed orders with the two shipyards.

The door for steamships in China's water transport has been quietly opened, and it can no longer be closed.

Chinese businessmen can only continue to earn the profits they expect only by keeping pace with the times; Stubborn conservatism, stubbornness, and even a stumbling block to history will only be eliminated by the waves of the commercial tide in the end.

Chen Ming hoped that when he was 60 years old, he would be able to see a real warship and warship, and in his lifetime, he would see China's ironclad ships proudly on the sea.

First wooden-hulled battleships, then ironclad ships.

Chen Ming knew that this still needed enough experience to accumulate, and he couldn't blindly start building a ship, but he had the patience to wait.

Even if it is a paddle steamer, with the range and accuracy of the hexagonal cannon, it can still become a top hunter on the ocean.

Of course, Europeans will not watch China stride forward and continue to sleep on their own. When news of ships and trains reached Europe, they themselves immediately preferred to devote resources to the study of both. But China can always be one step ahead!

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Hokkaido, Japan.

The Japanese flag is already flying in Hokkai Castle. Not only did China keep its promise to withdraw from Ezo, but it also taught it to the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo decades ahead of schedule. It should be clear that the treaty between China and the shogunate clearly stated that China would have the right to operate here for 50 years.

Fifty years later, the city will be Japanese. But in the last year of Liu's tenure, China handed over the city and the surrounding area to the Japanese shogunate. At least 50,000 Chinese and North Koreans withdrew from the North Sea to Sakhalin and North Korea.

Therefore, Hokkai, a city located at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Ishikari River, already belonged to the Tokugawa shogunate at this moment. The entire Ezo was officially incorporated into the Tokugawa shogunate's rule and renamed 'Hokkaido'.

It seems that the only constant in the entire North Sea is the Tang Clan.

Tang Department Store is like a behemoth, continuing its career as the No. 1 shopping mall in Beihai, just like its owner, Tang Feipeng, who lived a pompous, arrogant, and extravagant life in Edo, Kyoto, Osaka and other places.

Snowflakes were falling, and a cold wind was blowing down the open doors into the house. Mino Heibei sat cross-legged at the door, as if he didn't feel the cold, let the wind blow, and only had a small wine table in front of him, a pot of sake, and a wine glass in his eyes.

Sitting across from him was a middle-aged man who was nearly half a hundred years old - the current Prince Arisugawa Miyashi. He is a close confidant of the current Emperor Guangka, whose father was forced to commit suicide by the shogunate because he did something wrong, and Prince Orihito of Arisugawa Palace was his intermediary.

Although the prestige and interests of the Japanese imperial family have been suppressed by the Tokugawa shogunate in recent years, Prince Arisugawa Miyatorihito is a confidant of Emperor Guangge, and he still has a little sense of existence.

But now Prince Zhiren of Arisugawa Palace is consciously extremely cold, and the whole person seems to have fallen into an ice cave in the cold winter of Lajiu. No matter how cold the weather in Hokkaido, it can't be cold in his heart.

Freeze yourself to death, and you won't have so many troubles when you die.

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Mino Heibei's mouth, Prince Arisugawa Miyashi, who has a somewhat cowardly personality, is not a real samurai who regards the honor of the samurai as more important than his own life, and he can't break the iron chains he put on him. He was not willing to face death!

Yesterday was Prince Orihito of Arisugawa Palace's last chance. Prince Arisugawa Miyatorihito was well aware of this, but he knew that if he did the slightest 'undesirable' move, the person opposite him would definitely let himself be killed. So he chose life, cowardice prevailed over honor, and he was a coward through and through.

Yesterday, in the face of that man, he made a decision to nail himself forever in the history of Japanese shame. And now that he can't turn back, it seems that he can only obey Mino Pingbei's wishes, but this will definitely seriously damage the interests of the Japanese imperial family and the public family.

Mino Heibei seems to have returned to the time of the year, to the day when he acted as the wrong person for the second Prince of Kanin Miyahito. He himself represented the Japanese tradition and swung that sword. He was miserable because he knew that those things really weren't done by Naohito Kaninnomiya, but it didn't help. He was in great pain that day, but he was also very glorious.

Compared to that day, he was also in great pain yesterday and today, but Prince Orihito of Arisugawa Palace clearly saw that the honor that they cherished more than the cherry blossoms had gently fallen.

"Your Royal Highness, since you have already decided, let's go ahead firmly. Let history and the future determine what we are right with Kyoto. ”

"There can only be one voice in Japan. The wisdom of the Gong clan was far from being able to lead Japan's rise. ”

"We can only rely on the samurai, and Japan can only rely on the samurai."

Mino Pingbei has not 'revealed' his true colors until now. He waved his arms, uncontrollable with excitement, and the wind and snow melted away by his burst of passion. "What I do is despicable, but I'm for Japan."

"We can't turn back, not because of the survival and honor of the samurai, but also about the future of the Yamato nation." Mino Heibei behaved like a fanatical nationalist.