Chapter 881: A New Pattern of the World

Starting from cracking down on local tyrants to rectifying the rule of officials, we finally put pen to paper to govern the country according to law. The whole process was analyzed by people with a heart in a clear context, and the final conclusion was that it came naturally. There are too many stubborn diseases in the Ming Dynasty, and the most fundamental one is whether the law can be enforced. If any law is not effectively enforced, it is an ornament, and it is not a good look.

As the heavy industry base of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong has undergone great changes after decades of development. The symbol of industry in this era is the huge chimney, and the smoke is billowing and must be called for tea by the environmental protection department in modern times. But in this era, it is a symbol of the strength of the country. Historically, when the industrial revolution in the West represented Britain, which was still robbing and accumulating capital at sea, and was still busy dealing with civil strife, Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty had become a huge factory. The total annual output of steel produced here is 5 million tons, and the total steel output of the whole world is only a lot, not counting some small and medium-sized steel enterprises along the Yangtze River.

Whether the Ming Dynasty has completed industrialization or not, strictly speaking, cannot be regarded as the completion of industrialization, but can only be regarded as partially completed. Even if it is partial, it is enough to deal with the current world. Moreover, Chen Xie is not one of those black-hearted capitalists in the West, he thinks more about technological accumulation and industrial upgrading. For the invention and use of new technologies, Daming now has a clear legislative guarantee. This was the so-called Patent Protection Act, and after a series of blows, Congress passed the bill smoothly.

Chen Xie, who returned to Liaodong, was very low-key, and almost no one among the people knew about it, but he was a special train that looked inconspicuous three times and arrived in Liaodong one after another. Chen Xie sat on one of them, which was the result of the insistence of the security department, and ensured Chen Xie's safety to the greatest extent.

Because of industrial development, Shenyang has become a large city with a population of one million. It is not only the Han Chinese who live here, but also a large number of Mongolians, Koreans, and Dongying people, who can obtain local household registration as long as they have a house in Shenyang. At this time, the importance of urban planning is revealed, and the industrial zones around Shenyang. At least 20 kilometers from the city.

The railway station is undoubtedly the busiest area, a large number of goods are transported to Yingkou by rail every day, and in just 20 years, Yingkou has also become a port city with a population of 300,000. This is what the newspapers called the miracle of Liaodong, when Shenyang was conquered, the combined population of all ethnic groups was only 100,000. Because of the development of industry, the surrounding population is rapidly converging in the city.

To the north of Shenyang, an open field surrounded by barbed wire. The fact that such a large plot of land can be circled around this valuable city shows the importance of this place. This is a weapons test site, and several factories under Liaodong Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. produce weapons in this test site for performance testing.

What we are going to test today is not a great weapon, but a new rifle that looks very inconspicuous. This is a very ordinary bolt-action rifle, which belongs to the modified rifle in service. The point is to achieve metal cartridge shells, although it will consume a lot of copper, but now there is no shortage of copper in the Ming Dynasty. Colonies all over the world. There are many places where there are copper mines.

Bullet production is a very complex process, and it has always been a key project of Liaodong Heavy Industry for many years. The biggest difficulty of this rifle. It's the production process of bullets. With this problem solved, the other problems are not a problem.

Looking at a copper-shelled bullet on the table, Chen Xie listened to the introduction of the engineer next to him expressionlessly. Just such a bullet, studied for five years, Chen Xie did not have any urging, just hoped that this process could be improved. Finally, a leap forward is accumulated. Now it seems that the ability of Daming technicians is amazing, or rather amazingly intelligent. There was no need for Chen Xie's prompting, and after repeated trials more than 3,000 times, he finally came up with such a finished product of a new rifle and bullets.

History is such an amazing acquaintance. This rifle fell into Chen Xie's hand, and after dismantling it, he looked at each part unhurriedly, and slowly assembled it again. The skilled workers who were watching around were very surprised, while the older generation was more calm. Grandpa Chen, is there anything you can't do? It is highly familiar with the improved version of Hanyang-made, the warheads are all pointed, and the magazine feeds the ammunition. Looking at this rifle, Chen Xie's mood was extremely complicated. A person who opened the hanging, looked at another group of people who seemed to be hanging too.

Pull the bolt, load the bullet, aim, shoot, and then pull the bolt ......, after repeating it five times, Chen Xie stopped, didn't look at the target, and said lightly: "As soon as possible, with this bullet as the core, develop an automatic weapon that shoots continuously." Chen Xie's mind flashed naturally Makqin, I don't know what kind of surprise these craftsmen will give themselves?

An engineer on the side rubbed his hands and said, "Xiangye, the little one requests to enter the database." ”

Chen Xie looked at this guy in surprise, and the engineer hurriedly introduced himself: "Hui Xiangye, the little one is called Xu Sheng, the chief engineer of the research and development of this bullet." In fact, this bullet is not the work of a small person, but the mental study of hundreds of workers and designers up and down the group. I heard that Xiangye has a database, and I don't know if I can take a look. ”

"Bold!" Tang Renming, one of the managers of Liaodong Heavy Industry, said that although this guy has black hair, he has a pair of blue eyes, which is quite eye-catching in the crowd. Chen Xie glanced at him and said with a smile: "Your father is John Tang, right?" ”

"Hui Xiangye, exactly. Her mother is a local daughter of the Liu family. Tang Renming replied cautiously, for fear that Chen Xie would be angry. To know about the existence of this thing, there are very few people who know about it. John Tang knew that he had participated in the reverse research and development of the steam engine back then. I learned from others that Chen Xie had information in his hand, and even this rifle with metal bullets, Chen Xie also gave a sketch, which everyone knows.

Chen Xie smiled and didn't say anything more. After thinking about it for a while, I gave up the idea of taking out the information. The current military production of Daming is already very leading. As long as we increase investment in science and technology, everything will be there in the future. It is still necessary for them to carry out long-term research and development, and after many tests, to sum up various experiences and accumulate various technologies. It's not that you can't do anything, you can draw a sketch for them, just like you did with bullets before. At that time, I painted the pointed heads, I never thought that they really made them, I can't help but say that the people who are engaged in technology in the Ming Dynasty can often rely on their personal intelligence. Make amazing results.

Picking up a wooden stick, Chen Xie squatted on the ground, drew a schematic diagram with the wooden stick, and said: "Everyone, please see, these are the two simplest continuous firing weapons in my imagination, the former is water-cooled and uses canvas tape to feed ammunition. The latter is multi-tubed. Swing the handle to shoot. The principle of it, everyone go back and slowly explore, I am an idea, I hope you can realize it for me. ”

This "invention" will have a huge impact on the mode of warfare, and the traditional infantry platoon gun tactics is to die under automatic weapons. If it is really made out by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will not have an opponent in the next two hundred years, right?

When everyone looked at the sketch, Chen Xie said: "Please work hard, in order to commend this invention." In the future, if the arsenal does not produce a single new rifle, the main personnel involved in the research will collectively receive one yuan. And this right will last for 20 years. "A dollar doesn't seem like much, but when you think about it, it's going to be a huge bonus.

Chen Xie didn't know what kind of impact this weapon would have on the scientific and technological development of the whole world after it was created, but it was predictable. Technology was advanced by itself by two hundred years. At this time, the Ming Dynasty can be described as outstanding, but European countries will surely catch up in the future. The overall scientific and technological level of the world is definitely more than that of another time and space by a hundred years.

Five years passed quickly, and in the winter of 1680, a long winding dragon across North America finally advanced into Salt Lake City. After five years of hardship, Chen Pu, who stood at the celebration site, could not hide his excitement, and the black smoke of the train was still a kilometer away. The station was already boiling. Firecrackers, gongs and drums, lion dances, long dragons, stilts, and all kinds of entertainment have been taken out. Just to celebrate the arrival of this day. There is a difference between ordinary joy and Chen Pu's joy. In Chen Pu's view, the success of the construction of the railway means that he is about to return to Daming.

In the past five years, the North American colonies of the Ming Dynasty have continued to expand, occupying one-third of the North American continent. About half a million aborigines died in the battle to defend their homeland, and many more survived, and although the bones of hundreds of thousands of Indians were buried under the railway, many more survived and gradually integrated into the Ming living system.

It must be said that the integration of Chinese culture is very strong, and even the Indians, after passive acceptance, can be integrated in a relatively short period of time. Nearly one million Indians have obtained household registration such as Daming C. This is a North American specialty, the first-class household registration is the Ming people, the second-class household registration is Japanese and Korean, and the others are the third-class household registration.

These household registrations have one thing in common, if there is no record of illegal crimes within 10 years, they will be automatically upgraded. Their descendants automatically enjoy the results of the upgrade of the household registration. The difference in treatment of this household registration is reflected in the treatment of work, although it is very unfair, but the world itself is unfair.

While everyone was still cheering, Chen Pu quietly turned around and prepared to go downstairs, his luggage was ready, he would take the first train to the west back to Jinshan, and then take a boat back to his homeland. When he turned around, he saw a smiling face, Chen Pu opened his arms and hugged him, and Gu Shuang responded enthusiastically: "Everything is ready for you, I was going to hold a farewell banquet, but you are homesick, so I won't keep you." ”

"Do a good job, the position of Governor of Salt Lake City is worthy of your watchfulness for so many years." Chen Pu replied, Gu Shuang smiled, looked at Daming's direction and said, "The current North America is different from before." Governor of Gold Mountain, Governor of Los Angeles, Governor of Salt Lake City, Governor of Phoenix. After Dai Zhiyuan stepped down last year, there was no longer a military governor in North America. ”

Chen Pu nodded and said: "This is an inevitable trend, but at present, the governors everywhere are also iron-blooded, so don't worry about the sourness of the literati affecting the development of North America." At present, the population of Daming in North America is 5 million, and it is not the situation where there was a shortage of people everywhere back then. With Brother Gu's ambition, it is not a problem to make a big difference. ”

"Not necessarily, the migration rate of Europeans in the eastern part of the Americas has also accelerated a lot in recent years. Countries are competing with us for the Americas. When Gu Shuang mentioned this, he couldn't help but show a worried look. A few years ago, the Europeans engaged in a containment operation, which ultimately failed. The main reason was that the natives were too weak in combat power, and when the hopes of the Europeans were dashed, they had to give up. Instead, from its own perspective, it accelerated the pace of immigration on the East Coast.

Because the distance was too far, the Ming side did not have the intention of fighting back, but continued to increase the intensity of immigration and speed up the taming of the natives. In the current territory of the Ming Dynasty in North America, the indigenous population is close to one million, the Japanese have a million people, the Korean population is also one million, the Ming population is only 2 million, and there are other immigrants from Southeast Asian countries, there are more than 300,000, 100,000 Europeans, and 100,000 Africans. It's a complicated combination, and that's North America right now.

The celebration under the night continued, Chen Pu, who boarded the train, waved at Gu Shuang, put away his luggage, and lay on the bed and fell asleep. Early in the morning after a two-day, three-night journey, the train entered Jinshan Railway Station. It took three days to hand over, and Chen Pu was finally able to take a boat back to his homeland. Unexpectedly, this guy Shi arranged not a passenger ship, but a warship.

Boarding the warship in the morning, Chen Pu met an unexpected person, Ye Hai stood on the side of the ship, carrying the rank of colonel, smiling and saluting. "Uncle, why are you?" Ye Hai smiled and said: "In the whole of San Francisco, my boat is the fastest, who will send you if I don't send you?" But you're guilty, and it's not comfortable to ride on a warship. ”

Entering the captain's room, the two had a conversation and learned that Ye Hai was actually ordered to return to China. This time when he returned home, he was going to take over a new ship, a new semi-ironclad warship with a displacement of 5,000 tons. The so-called ironclad battleships, in this era, were still covered with a layer of armor on the outside of wood. What exactly it looks like is definitely different from the cruiser in front of you.

While Chen Puren was on the road, the Ming cabinet was engaged in a fierce debate over the world pattern. After returning from Liaodong, Chen Xie got a piece of information. The historical context of European countries has undergone astonishing changes, and after the expansion of France, Emperor Louis XIV carried out a series of reforms. Vigorously developing industry, although it was still a very primitive thing in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the French had already begun to act. Moreover, the state investment was carried out at the beginning, and Louis XIV's expansion of the periphery was not so crazy. After the end of the war with Spain, a new treaty was signed, followed by a treaty with the Netherlands. Then turn around the Holy Roman Empire while vigorously developing the American colonies.

This change in France is unprecedented in history. Another major change was that Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, after many consultations, signed a "Treaty of the American Alliance", which specifically stated that once the colonies of various countries in the Americas were invaded by foreign enemies, they would jointly meet the war, of course, with the focus on the Americas. (To be continued......)