That's right, it's a toy. A purely wooden hull could never become a carrier for a high-power steamship. After all, the steam used by the white crane was not when the steam engine was just invented in later generations, when the speed of the first steam ship was only five knots, which was a mature steam engine design, and the production zuò was no worse than the first steam engine in later generations.

Next, it's time for the train.

At dinner, Yu Qian arrived.

In this room, Wei Shaoqing stood at the door, and Wang Cheng stood by the window. The white crane was in a daze in the corner with a cigar that had been extinguished, and the Ming Emperor was constantly flipping through all the knowledge about the steam engine, each with a secret word written on it. It's just that in the Ming Dynasty, for the emperor, there are no secrets.

"Surrender to Yu Qian......" Yu Qian saluted, but he bent down for a long time, and he didn't hear a response.

Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty fell into the ocean of knowledge, the knowledge of the steam engine is too deep, there are many kinds of related knowledge, and arithmetic is only the foundation. Although I don't understand it very well, and a lot of knowledge will only make people more confused if it is not explained by a special person, but Zhu Qiyu still reads it word by word.

Read the part you can understand, and after scrutinizing it, you can't stop laughing.

And Yu Qian didn't see it, nor did he hear Yu Qian say goodbye to him, even if Yu Qian was only three steps away from him.

Yu Qian was helpless, and walked to Bai Minghe's side: "Bai Minghe, I heard that the boat is two hundred miles per hour?" ”

"The hull was cracked because the wooden boat wasn't strong enough, and I was thinking about whether to build a pure steel boat. Don't doubt it, I can make steel fly into the sky, and I can make steel float on the water. It's just that this steel ship is not easy to build, this can be as simple as an origami boat, and the craftsmen can't make it. ”

"I believe it, but I don't know how big you can build?"

"The 100,000-stone steel ship is relatively simple. Millions of stones require technical accumulation, and a ship of ten million stones will definitely be able to be built in my lifetime. At the moment, it is still the train that is the most important, of course, the multi-channel Tianyin machine is also important, and the food problem is also important. I'm thinking......"

Bai Minghe had a thoughtful look, and Yu Qian was also looking forward to what Bai Minghe would say next.

But Bai Minghe's tone changed: "I originally planned to go to White Beach for a vacation." It seems that this year it will be done again. If the train can't be repaired in the capital within two years, Banzai will definitely get angry. ”

What a mess, the white crane already has some words.

Yu Qian smiled bitterly and shook his head, the impact of the boat on him was too great, and there was no one in the entire Nanjing City who was not talking about the ship. It seems that the Ming Emperor exerted a lot of pressure on the white crane.

"Report!" There was a white crane guard at the door, and after Wei Shaoqing's permission, people came in, and after giving a salute, he said: "My lord, the stock market has a comprehensive limit." There are rumors in the stock market that steel production will increase tenfold this year, and foreign trade will double. Domestic trade tripled. The new means of transport will be officially put into operation later this year. ”

"Have you checked it?" Bai Minghe asked quietly and rhetorically.

"After checking, there are no rumors, but the businessmen are full of confidence. That thing was not leaked either, and it was thought that the new ships would bring more wealth. According to the speed of the ship, if you arrive at Tianjin Wei in one day and one night, many fresh goods can be considered to go north. "The guards have checked it in detail.

Yu Qian said to Bai Minghe at this time: "Announce the news of the train trial, and start breaking ground tomorrow?" ”

"Groundbreaking?" Emperor Zhu Qiyu reacted violently and said excitedly: "Okay." This groundbreaking is well said. I've made up my mind! With that, Zhu Qiyu got up and walked out.

Yu Qian didn't understand. Bai Minghe didn't understand either, but he had to ask the Ministry of Rites for his opinion when he broke ground tomorrow, so he had to choose a good day, and the train was not a trivial matter.

But who would have thought that Zhu Qiyu did not want to sit in a sedan chair, but rode a horse. From Xuanwu Lake, we galloped all the way to the old palace in Nanjing.

"Come on, get me a sledgehammer."

What the emperor wanted, he could only try his best to satisfy it. There was a sledgehammer in the old palace, and in the end, a blacksmith shop found a sledgehammer and brought it over.

The white crane is not good at equestrianism, and Yu Qian is not very good at horseback riding. When they arrived, they saw the Ming Emperor smashing a sledgehammer on the wall of the old palace. Yu Qian hurriedly persuaded: "Long live, if you want to expand the palace, wait for the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry to make an arrangement, even if the wall is demolished, there are craftsmen to do it, you are out of ceremony!" ”

"I want to tear down this wall, I think that the people of the Ming Dynasty are the real wall, I don't need the protection of the wall, I have the protection of the people of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Qiyu shouted, this set of theories is too weird, Yu Qian's first reaction was to go to see Bai Minghe, Bai Minghe was also stunned, he just said it half-jokingly.

But what Bai Minghe couldn't understand was that Zhu Qiyu was still working on the steam engine just now, why did he start tearing down the wall.

One stone stirs up thousands of waves.

The whole of Nanjing was shaken, and groups of officials rushed in, and waves of people poured in.

"I have decreed today that I am with all the peoples. Nanjing has a city wall, which is to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty from the invasion of foreign enemies, and I do not need the walls of the palace, because I believe that the hundreds of millions of people of the Ming Dynasty are the walls of the palace and the Great Wall of my Ming flesh and blood. From now on, non-sacrificial ceremonies will be deferred except for kneeling. ”

Except for kneeling? The officials and civilians who were about to kneel down were a little overwhelmed.

"Heaven and earth are the king's teachers, kneel down to heaven and earth, and kneel down to parents. I thought the source of the kneeling ceremony ......" Zhu Qiyu was speaking, Bai Minghe and Yu Qian both saw it, and Zhu Qiyu was holding a small sandalwood bookmark in his hand. Yu Qian didn't understand, but Bai Minghe understood that he had some bookmarks, and he was originally willing to find something to clip.

But later, Wan Xueer carved some with her own hands, and some of the words on them were outrageous for the Ming Dynasty.

For example, in later generations, there was a song with the lyrics of "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" and Bai Minghe himself wrote about kneeling, which is the reason why Bai Minghe explained to Wan Xueer why he hated kneeling. From the first kneeling at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, it is written about the negative effect of kneeling on the servility of the people, as well as the weakness of people's hearts in the face of strong enemies.

Especially one of them, how can a nation that doesn't even dare to straighten its waist be arrogant.

"Come, my people, help me tear down the walls of this palace." Zhu Qiyu shouted excitedly, while touching the bag of bookmarks he put away, these bookmarks were all taken out of the books on the principle of the steam engine, not only exquisite, but also the words on it can be said to be deviant, but it can be said to be thought-provoking.

Bai Minghe felt in his pocket, took out a piece of scratch paper, thought about it and handed it to Yu Qian.

This is what Shiramei Crane had prepared a few days earlier, about the question of the palace maid.

Yu Qian flipped through and looked at it, if it was put before, this thing would definitely not be used, not to mention how the emperor looked at the white crane, even the Ministry of Rites could embarrass the white crane, but now it seems to be an opportunity.

After Yu Qian thought about it, he took the piece of paper and walked to Zhu Qiyu's side: "Long live, Bai Minghe has something to add to the cake." The minister thinks that it can prevent the faint king from committing adultery in the future! ”

Zhu Qiyu just looked at it hastily, and didn't think much about it, thinking that this thing was just right to use at this time.

"Come on, the Ministry of Rites will issue a document now."

From this moment on, the palace maids were no longer all sold to the system, but most of them were changed to the employment system. The palace maid can marry, and she can marry and then come to the palace to work in the form of work, whether it is garment-making, craftsman, laundry, kitchen, etc., she can be a hired palace maid.

There are also rules in the palace that you are not allowed to bully the palace maids for no reason.

Why is Zhu Qiyu tempted, because there is a sentence on the white crane paper that he looks comfortable on. Bai Minghe wrote: A Ming monarch will make the people think that it is an honor to send his daughter to the palace on an errand, which is a noble profession, not a lowly slave.

Some impulsive, some crazy. But no matter what, Zhu Qiyu is still doing it, he wants to be a good emperor, a good emperor who will be famous through the ages, even if he already has other thoughts, but he hopes that he will have the face to face the ancestors and ancestors of the Ming Dynasty after death, and he can be a god.

Da Ming himself believed in the gods, and Bai Minghe's master was a Nanhua immortal, which made Zhu Qiyu believe that a god was watching him.

Really demolishing the wall, the wall of the old palace is nearly five zhang high, representing absolute authority. The people are all doing it, but when it is still eight feet high, it invariably stops, since it is a home, how can there not be a wall, there is no high wall, but the wall is indispensable.

At least the people of the Ming Dynasty still think that this is the home of Long Live and the home has no walls.

"Demolish, dismantle again!" Zhu Qiyu ordered loudly: "Demolish to five feet!" Zhu Qiyu said in his heart that it would be good to have a wall, just mean it, when there was a high wall in the past, no people dared to approach casually within ten zhang of the wall.

If you demolish it again, won't you be able to see the inside of the palace? This is Zhu Qiyu's idea, since he agrees that the palace maids have become a mercenary system, so that the people can see what they are doing, and they also seem to be above board, there are always various rumors in the palace in the world, and they are bad rumors.

Since you do it, you have to do it to the extreme.

The five-foot-high wall, there are people who know how to dig a trough, and then you can put some stone carvings or flowers and plants on it, this low wall will also become better-looking, in short, it must be at least eight feet, and it is not good-looking without a wall. Most of the people responded.

Yu Qian's groundbreaking for the train the next day was also yellow, and the matter of the old palace wall was troubled for five days.

The people are rich and powerful. This circle of walls from the house dismantling, bought from everywhere, the beast stone carvings around a circle, and then dig down in the center of the wall, and then add fertile soil, flowers and saplings around a circle, still more than eight feet high wall, but the lower part is masonry, the upper part is stone carvings and flowers.

There is no official overseer, no official silver tael.

In five days, the people cooperated tacitly and organized properly, and it took only five days to renovate the entire wall, and not a single piece of the wall bricks that were originally demolished were left, even the broken ones were taken away by the people, and a businessman who donated a lot of money got a cornerstone of the town, wrapped it in silk and carried it home. (To be continued......)