Liu Mingchuan was brought to Hong Tiangui, his face was full of gloom, and he saw Hong Tiangui kneeling down and saluting.

"You are a general, just see this king in the back and salute!" Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice. Hong Tiangui really didn't adapt to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's etiquette of kneeling when he saw him. The courtiers are just that, and it is also troublesome to get down on one knee in the army. A new style of military salute has been introduced in the Defence Force.

Liu Mingchuan stood up, looked at Hong Tiangui and said, "Your Majesty, the grass people are ignorant!" From now on, he will serve His Majesty. ”

"You have to understand, from today onwards you are a member of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, our Heavenly Kingdom rebelled against the Manchu Qing Dynasty not to fight the world and become the emperor, but to relieve the suffering Han nation, and this king hopes that you can realize this dream with this king." Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.

"Rescue the Han nation? Your Majesty is talking about opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty? ”

"Anti-Qing, but not Ming, the Manchu Dynasty has been used for hundreds of years, and this king doesn't think there is anything good about the Ming Dynasty. The king wants to establish an equal country in which the Han people are in power, everyone has food and clothing, there is no oppression by foreigners, there is no lease from foreigners, and Chinese people will be respected wherever they go in the world, and not be regarded as ignorant natives. ”

Liu Mingchuan listened quietly, and a flash of hope flashed in his originally gloomy eyes.

"Your Majesty, can this dream of yours really come true?" Liu Mingchuan asked, he felt that such a kingdom should only exist in dreams.

"Where there is a will, there is a way, as long as we recognize this goal and make unremitting efforts, one day China will become such a country." Hong Tiangui said firmly.

Liu Mingchuan looked at Hong Tiangui with a determined face, he originally surrendered when he was just cornered, and he had something else in his heart.

He had been stationed in Shanghai, so he naturally understood the situation in Shanghai, foreigners were expensive, and Chinese were not allowed to enter and leave at will in the concession. On the land of the Chinese, there is the land of foreigners, and even foreigners are higher than the Chinese in China. Although Liu Mingchuan was indignant in his heart before, he was powerless to change, but now he seems to see a glimmer of hope for change.

"From today onwards, you will serve as the deputy captain of the king's personal guards, and participate in the three-month intensive training of the National Defense Force, and I hope this training camp can help you." Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Liu Mingchuan is now very conscious of being a general, and he will not refute what Hong Tiangui says.

Seeing that Liu Mingchuan turned around to leave, Hong Tiangui suddenly spoke: "Your family has been picked up by this king's people, and it will be sent to Tianjing City in half a month at most, I hope you don't disappoint this king." ”

Liu Mingchuan's body stiffened, and his face was full of disbelief, as if he had heard the most incredible thing in the world.

He turned to look at Hong Tiangui, suddenly knelt down, and solemnly kowtowed three times.

This time, Hong Tiangui did not refuse, and waved his hand to signal him to leave.

After solving Liu Mingchuan's problem, Hong Tiangui walked non-stop with the six officials of the Ganwang to the head of Tianjing City. Turning around Tianjing City, in the incomprehensible eyes of everyone, Hong Tiangui chose the wasteland in the south of the city.

"This is it! Gan King, Gentlemen and Gentlemen, this king wants to expropriate this land, and the matter of relocating the people will be left to you! Hong Tiangui spoke, and everyone changed color.

"Heavenly King, what do you want this land for?" Here is located in the south of Tianjing City ten miles, there are mountains and water, water is a branch of the Yangtze River, not wide, can not travel a big boat.

"This king wants to build this area into the Tianjing Industrial Zone, and in the future, there will be factories all over here, and the military factories of the Heavenly Kingdom will also be built here." Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, there are a lot of vacant places in Tianjing City, and there are also many vacant houses, which can be converted into factories, and there is no need to spend manpower and material resources to build an industrial zone here." The Ganwang said in a deep voice. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have its own industry, and the folk capitalism was seriously damaged under the influence of the war, and the merchant ships on the once prosperous Yangtze River waterway were reduced by more than half, and the originally prosperous textile industry in Jiangnan shrank by more than half.

"This king has vacated the southern courtyard of the Tianwang Mansion as a temporary factory station, but Tianjing City is a place where the population lives, and it is not suitable to develop industry, this king chose this place to make this the most prosperous industrial center in the kingdom of heaven, and all the needs of the kingdom of heaven can be found in this industrial area." Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.

The crowd apparently did not believe that the so-called industrial zone could meet the needs of the entire kingdom of heaven. They didn't dare to disobey Hong Tiangui's order, so no one cared too much about this land, and as for the peasants working on these lands, they wouldn't be looked at by them.

"Ganwang, all the people in this land are registered, and they are compensated with three times the land in other places, and the construction of Tianjing Industrial Zone is for the development of the Kingdom of Heaven and for the benefit of the people of the Kingdom of Heaven. Hong Tiangui commanded in a deep voice.

Liubu Shangshu's face was full of disappointment. They didn't understand the construction of the industrial zone, but they understood that Hong Tiangui brought all of them together to show the importance of the industrial zone, and this work fell to the cabinet, which made the six scholars helpless.

Hong Tiangui is to make the posture of a son of heaven and a courtier, so the conspiracy makes them have no way to deal with it for a while.

"Don't worry, the king of heaven will definitely handle this matter, but I don't know how many people need to be requisitioned to build this industrial zone?" Hong Renxuan asked in a deep voice.

"The king needs 10,000 people, and the wages will be personally distributed to the people, and there will be engineers to guide how to build. Ganwang, I think let Ma Chao be in charge of this matter! Hong Tiangui said. Ma Chao is the right-hand man of Hong Renxuan, and ranks seventh in Hong Renxuan's cabinet. Hong Tiangui had seen him a few times, and felt that this Manchu Xiucai in his thirties did not have the pedantic spirit of other Manchu scholars.

"Yes!" Seeing that Hong Tiangui had taken everything into account, Hong Renxuan naturally didn't say anything more.

At the same time, in the southern courtyard of the Heavenly King's Mansion, some foreigners were pointing, and a large group of workers who had just cut off their braids and looked like Reilly's head were carrying equipment one by one to the room designated by foreigners.

Some obstructive walls were knocked down, and some rockeries were smashed to fill in the small lake. Soon, a large amount of coal was delivered to the gate of the South Courtyard and pushed by some workers in small carts.

In the afternoon, there was a roar in the South Courtyard, which was the first steam-powered textile machine. The whole kingdom of heaven was shaken.

China is a cotton-producing country, and the original handmade textile has been hit by the British textile industry in India. And the snatching of the British steam loom in Shanghai was an opportunity for the entire textile industry of the kingdom of heaven. If the steam loom can be popularized in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it will be a huge leap for the textile industry of the Heavenly Kingdom.

Soon the second and third steam engines began to operate, driving the spinning machines to start spinning, and when the first batch of industrial cotton cloth was spun, all the family forces related to textiles in Tianjing City were shocked.

The whole Tianjing City was talking about the steam engine, and people came to watch it in the southern courtyard of the Tianwang Mansion almost every day. Almost all the officials of the court visited the makeshift textile mills, and they saw the unparalleled speed of the steam looms and the exquisite industrial products.

"It turns out that this is how foreigners produce cotton cloth, no wonder they are so rich." This is the exclamation of all those who have seen the steam loom.

Hong Tiangui took advantage of this opportunity to transfer craftsmen from the Kingdom of Heaven to set up a steam engine research and development center, and with a stroke of the pen, he allocated 100,000 taels of silver as start-up capital. At the same time, Hong Tiangui, in his capacity as the lord of heaven, negotiated with the engineers forcibly brought in from Shanghai, and after doubling the remuneration for his work, he extended the contract from three years to five years. And most of the engineers are sent to the R&D center, and it is stipulated that each person must bring three apprentices, and a qualified apprentice will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the foreign engineers who were originally looted were passively dealt with, but under Hong Tiangui's silver offensive, they quickly surrendered, and actively devoted themselves to the development of steam power in the kingdom of heaven with the imagination of wealth.

In addition to researching steam engines, Hong Tiangui also vigorously supported traditional industries, such as metallurgy, mining, tea making, silk and so on. Especially in the metallurgical industry, Hong Tiangui established the first ironmaking plant in the kingdom of heaven, but now it is only at the level of steelmaking and ironmaking by local methods.

Another heavy investment was in the arsenal, especially in the manufacture of firearms. Hong Tiangui took out some of the rifles and artillery he got from the British and sent them to the arsenal rebuilt by the Firearms Division, and Hong Tiangui's request was very simple: to master the technology of imitating these firearms in the shortest possible time.

Under Hong Tiangui's generous strokes like scattering wealth, the ancient Tianjing City glows with amazing vitality.

Hong Tiangui took out one million taels of white clothes to set up an innovation and technology award, and anyone who made innovative moves in the industry will receive a huge reward after being audited to improve the production process or save costs. At the same time, Hong Tiangui promulgated the Patent Law, giving inventors both economic and honorary rewards.

Under the promotion of Hong Tiangui's spare effort, the entire Tianjing City went crazy, even with the 60 counties of the five prefectures of Tianjing City, and every day there was a report that someone had invented something, and then there was an endless stream of people who came to Tianjing City to offer treasures.

Of course, some of these people are really capable, but the vast majority of them are still indiscriminate, or invent things that are of no use to the country or the people.

For those who were indiscriminate, Hong Tiangui showed great tolerance, he did not punish him severely, but just educated him and let him go. And under this tolerance, there are more and more people with real skills who come to Tianjing City Patent Division to offer treasures.

When an old blacksmith improved the smelting process and the steel smelted by the new method initially reached the level where it could make rifle barrels, Hong Tiangui rewarded him with a one-time reward of 100,000 taels of silver, and personally issued a decree to promote him to the baron of the heavenly kingdom and allow his title to be passed on for another generation.