"I'm stupid, really, I'm stupid!"

Fan Xianfan, the eunuch of Nanjing Town, was a hot man in the past few years, and Cao Huachun, the great eunuch of Dongchang, was friendly with Yu Guozhen, the southern sea Bo Yu Guozhen. However, good flowers do not bloom often, good times do not always exist, with Cao Huachun going to work for the elderly, Yu Guozhen was full of suspicion, his front Yemen court was cold, and the various characters who used to run under the door disappeared in an instant.

At this time, he still had luck in his heart, feeling that he was still young and had a chance to turn over, and even Gonggong Cao secretly told him to be patient for the time being. But he didn't expect that he had waited for nearly two years, and what he was waiting for was not a turnaround, but such a mission.

Appease Nanhai Bo?

As soon as he thought of this mission, Fan Xian couldn't help but start muttering "I'm so stupid" again.

The court is sorry for Nanhaibo, the Son of Heaven is sorry for Nanhaibo, and the princes in the court are sorry for Nanhaibo, who is Fan Xian's godfather, and now Cao Huachun, who is going home to guard his brother's tomb, is also sorry Nanhaibo!

Others don't know, but Fan Xian understands that although Yu Guozhen is unruly, he has done a hundred things to the Ming Dynasty!

"This gang of bastards who bring disaster to the country and the people make things out of control, and every time they ask Nanhai Bo to clean up the mess, they still slander in front of the Son of Heaven - Gao Qiqian is a thousand knives, Tian Guoqin doesn't have a good daughter, he should have starved to death a long time ago!"

Fan Xian scolded twice in the carriage, but he only dared to scold in the carriage.

"Father-in-law, I've arrived in Qin' Prefecture."

Fan Xian didn't dare to take a boat, so he traveled all the way from Jinling by carriage, but he had a pretty good relationship with Xinxiang. Over the years, Yu Guozhen's light has been touched, and there is some silver money in his hands, and the eunuch has no real blood relatives, so he uses it for his own enjoyment. For example, this four-wheeled carriage has rubber tires and spring suspension, so that it can walk relatively smoothly on rough roads. Even so, it took more than twenty days to ride in a carriage. Fan Xian was so tired that his bones were about to fall apart.

Prefer a carriage rather than a boat, because he knows. The entire East China Sea is now Yu Guozhen's world, those officials of the DPRK and China who originally colluded with the Haikou. has begun to complain - because Yu Guozhen is not Zheng Zhilong, and he will receive two thousand taels of silver per ship to ensure his safety. Yu Guozhen's East China Sea Fleet levied taxes according to the value of the goods on board, and the tax on ships going to sea amounted to 20 percent and 5 percent, and the tax on ships entering the sea amounted to 30 percent.

They used to not levy taxes to the imperial court, and the imperial court occasionally increased it, so they roared and competed with the people for profit, but now it is better to pay taxes to Yu Guozhen!

Come to think of this. Fan Xian felt happy in his heart. In a sense, his interests are tied to Yu Guozhen, and if Yu Guozhen develops well, he will profit more from it, therefore. He prefers to think from Yu Guozhen's standpoint.

"If this situation continues, sooner or later Nanhai Bo will win the world......"

As soon as this thought floated up, Fan Xian suppressed it. He coughed: "Is the person who greeted the governor of Qin' Prefecture here?" ”

"Back to my father-in-law, I have already looked at the honor guard of Zhizhou."

Chen Zilong stood under the solemn and evasive guard of honor and waited for a long time, it was already the end of October, and the climate in Qin'zhou was suitable. Therefore, he wore an official robe and did not feel hot.

It's just that he was also muttering in his heart, he went up with a secret letter, but a eunuch was sent to the court, could it be that the court thought that a eunuch could take down Nanhai Bo by virtue of the holy decree?

Because he has been in Jinling City for a long time, he has also seen Fan Xian and both sides, but time has passed, and the circumstances of the two sides are different, and the other party may not take him, the governor of Qin' Prefecture, in his eyes.

However, Fan Xian was polite to him, this eunuch did not have the harsh arrogance of the inner eunuch, which made Chen Zilong feel a little relieved. But as soon as the two sides finished the noise, Fan Xian asked where Yu Guozhen was, and Chen Zilong could only frown and said: "This official sent someone to inform Nanhaibo, saying that an envoy from Qin came here, but Nanhaibo has not come here yet...... Something must have happened. ”

"How can I let Nanhai Bo come to welcome me!" Fan Xianyan shook his head and smiled when he heard this: "I'm going to see Nanhai Bo!" Although I am an envoy, I was sent to supervise Hepuzhu, but I can't put a score in front of Nanhaibo. ”

He said so in his mouth, but how Chen Zilong didn't understand that the imperial court had raised Hepuzhu in Hepu for five or six years, and had always sent a eunuch to sit in the town, when did he specifically appoint the eunuch as an envoy! However, Fan Xian is actually giving him a mouthful, as if although there are contradictions between the imperial court and Nanhaibo, it has not yet reached the point of tearing the skin, and the dignity of both sides must be maintained.

Since it was not to intensify the contradictions, Chen Zilong's hanging heart was relaxed.

He introduced Fan Xian into Qin'zhou City, Fan Xian was here for the first time, and when he saw the appearance of this state city, he couldn't help but praise: "It is Jinling, in addition to having more people, it is not as beautiful as Qinzhou City - Chen Zhizhou is a talent." ”

Chen Lilong was suddenly ashamed, he was arrogant, how could he be willing to plunder the beauty of people, so he said: "The planning of this city is all done by the predecessor, since the official took office, he has only made small repairs and made up small repairs, and has not done anything, so he should not be praised by the envoy." ”

"Chen Zhizhou is a sincere person......" Fan Xian was silent for a while, and then lowered his voice: "I'm going to visit Nanhaibo, I wonder if Chen Zhizhou can arrange it?" ”

"The envoy is tired of traveling and driving, so let's take a break first, right?" Chen Zilong said.

Fan Xian also wanted to take a break, he was really tired all the way, but where did he dare to rest, if he stayed in Qin'zhou for a little longer, so that Yu Guozhen thought that he was plotting with Chen Zilong on how to deal with him, then wouldn't it be in vain!

"You can go to the rail station, this is the fastest." Chen Zilong said: "Since this is the case, this official will send someone to lead the way." ”

Qin'zhou Station is in the southwest of Qin'zhou City, but when Fan Xian arrived, it was full of people. Seeing so many people making noise, he frowned, so he summoned the guide sent by Chen Zilong: "Why don't you disperse these people, so as not to block the way." ”

"Back to my father-in-law, these people are all from Xinxiang, the people of Nanhaibo, who dares to disperse them, and there are tiger guards." The guide's face was full of bitterness: "Father-in-law, the villain doesn't have the courage to do this." ”

"What are the people of Nanhai Bo doing in Qin' Prefecture?" Fan was stunned.

That's when it happened. He heard a long "woo" in the distance, and then a rumbling sound like a galloping horse. The guide heard this voice and showed surprise: "Hey, could it be...... Could it really be? ”

"What is sincere, tell us about it, what is this rumbling...... Oh. Our family remembered, is that the ship, the steam engine ship that has been to Jinling? ”

The reason why the steam engine ship can alarm the court. As a result, all parties did not hesitate to use the secret agents lurking in Xinxiang to steal secrets, which is also related to the fact that it once sailed to Jinling. Fan Xian had seen this kind of unexpectedly noisy ship once in Jinling, but he didn't think about it for a while. But the guide shook his head: "No, no, it was the steam engine that was moved to the railcar!" ”

"How can that be done, and the ship can still travel on land?" Fan Xian was the first to believe it.

Whether he believed it or not, the rumbling thunder was approaching the Qinzhou station, and after a few minutes, he saw a long car like a dragon and a snake driving towards him. Those tiger guards in uniform blocked the people who couldn't help but approach on both sides of the road, and Fan Xian and his party were also lined up. But this time. Fan Xian couldn't care about the decency of his envoy, his eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he didn't even know that saliva slipped from the corners of his mouth.

He is just him, although the people of Qin's state have seen too many new things in recent years. Railcars, horse-drawn carriages, steamboats, steamboats...... And so on, but they were dumbfounded when they saw the new railcars with smoke and a long nose pull. The farmer threw down his hoe. The woman forgot the child, the merchant threw away his goods, and they all watched in a daze as the behemoth walked through the fields, across the bridges, and across the roads......

Whether they are aware of the role of this thing or not, they all feel as if there is a new door opening in front of them, and after this door, there is another era, another world.

"Good, good, pretty smooth ride!"

In the car, Yu Guozhen smiled and patted Jiang Youzhong on the shoulder, gave him a thumbs up, and praised him and his team for everything they had done.

"The petty officials have pointed out the way, and we are just doing more research on the road pointed out." Although Jiang Youzhong also smiled like a flower, he did not forget to be modest.

"Excessive modesty is pride, this is the beginning of an era, this is our Chinese double wheel! We in China are regarded as a country on the train, steam, electric steam, and high-speed rail......"

Yu Guozhen was a little incoherent, of course he knew the significance of the railway to China, the vast territory, the endless treasures, and the countless manpower, all of which depended on the train to connect them together. He could even say that where the train leads, it is the place where the territory of China is consolidated, and the appearance of this thing will give the Chinese nation a greater advantage over the nomads than machine guns and barbed wire!

The scourge of the barbarians that has plagued us for thousands of years will come to an end once and for all, and the great wisdom and wealth of China will begin to run with the wheels of the train, it will advance industrialization to wherever it can build a railway, and it will crush all the forces that may threaten the status of China!

The train emitted a long whistle and then began to slow down, and the journey from Xinxiang to Qinzhou took about an hour by bicycle, while the train took less than half an hour. The bicycle can only be pulled by one person at most, and although this train is only equipped with six carriages, it can carry at least fifty people in the line carriages, and this one is three hundred!

And that's not the limit of the train, the train is not running at full speed and is not fully loaded for safety reasons.

"The first railway track will be built from Shilu to Changhua, and then hundreds or even thousands of tons of ore will be transported from Shilu every day, and Xinxiang's steelmaking will have a leap. We can build more guns, trains and ships! Yu Guozhen hugged Jiang Youzhong's shoulders and breathed a long sigh of relief.

The development of the train is for some reason, it is much more difficult than the development of the steamer, the two projects were established almost at the same time, but the development of the train was a full year later than the steamer. But fortunately, now that it has finally been taken out, next, some engineers can be organized to study better locomotive heads, and Jiang Youzhong, a kid, can also turn to the research of internal combustion engines.

Out of the internal combustion engine, then the real plane can be put on the agenda again, if Fang Qiyi's side is smoother, the generator can also be used...... Twenty or thirty years later, Huaxia will be able to enter the era of electric vaporization!

(To be continued)