After Xiyi Province officially became the first colony of the Ming Dynasty in Western Europe, the Ming Dynasty began to develop and assimilate this area uninterruptedly.

Not only did it open its teeth and build schools, but as the empire intended to establish a foothold in Western Europe, the Ming Dynasty began to allow major domestic officials, merchants, and businessmen to settle in Xiyi, even including farmers, Taoist priests, monks, etc.

Gradually, the whole Xiyi Province became the most different region in Europe, almost no different here than in China.

There are gardens, Taoist temples and teahouses and restaurants, and in some high-end clubs, there will also be a sign that "Western fans and dogs are not allowed to enter".

Statues of Zheng He and Confucius even appear on the shores of Amsterdam.

Kunqu opera is also resounding on the shores of IJssellake.

In addition, the Daming Central Bank and the Daming Imperial Bank also began to settle here.

A branch of the Daming Stock Exchange was also established here, as well as domestic media and mining companies.

It soon became the richest area of the Ming Dynasty overseas, the economy and culture were very developed, the textile industry and chemical industry controlled the entire Western market, curbing the rise of capitalism in the Xiyi countries, and the culture was only Han culture, and spread to the surroundings, since the empire officially established the Chinese pronunciation standard, Xiyi Province as well as the country are all Mandarin as the official language.

Li Mingrui, the governor of Xiyi in the Ming Dynasty, became the most powerful and wealthy governor in the empire, and the number of Xiyi women owned by him exceeded 300 in a few years.

And the Daming Xiyi Company under his name also occupies the most wealth of the empire's commerce, from the Americas to Africa, half of the entire global colonial trade is controlled by him.

But most of this wealth is flowing into the Ming Empire, according to Zhu Youzhen and the cabinet of the division, one percent is his own internal money, so the current Ming Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen still has the most wealth in the world.

The cabinet is not poor now, and the treasury revenues have allowed the empire to implement nine years of compulsory education.

In addition to this, there has been a significant increase in capital invested in scientific research and development.

The first steam locomotive has now been built, thanks to the progress of the imperial steel industry and the progress of the steam industry.

The most fundamental reason is that the continuous investment of funds and the provision of new education talents have allowed the empire to form a complete scientific and technological industrial system.

Every year, most of the Mongolian children receive the most basic Chinese culture education, and most of the children are selected to receive various subjects of education in the new school, among which the main students will be selected to major in science and engineering, becoming the backbone of the empire's research and technology.

The Daming Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, as well as the Daming Industrial School, the Beijing Normal University and other research institutions and universities have their own set of scientific research systems, which are applied for by the researchers, and the relevant departments of the Cabinet allocate project funds, and each scientific research and technological invention has a special team in charge.

New disciplines are springing up all the time.

In terms of physics, the Ming Dynasty is no longer limited to the macroscopic aspect, after the emergence of the concept of elements guided by the Holy Study, the scientific researchers of the empire began to pay more attention to the microstructure of these elements, and even began to find ways to figure out the atomic weight of these elements.

Advances in microscope manufacturing technology have provided progress in scientific research, and researchers in the Ming Dynasty have indeed discovered that matter has a more subtle existence, but they see cells, and cannot find molecular structures through microscopes.

But this is also a big breakthrough, so that the entire Ming medical field and even the ideological field have been fluctuated, Wu Youke's plague transmission material in the air began to be thought to be some kind of subtle cellular organism, although in fact this result is wrong, but at least it proves that the scientists of the Ming Dynasty have been actively thinking and pioneering.

The development of experimental science has always allowed Daming to appear a lot of new theoretical things, throwing monkeys into a confined space that drains the air, and began to discover that organisms do die without air, smearing the secondary metabolites of Penicillium on a glass petri dish densely covered with bacteria, and began to find that penicillin does have an antibacterial effect.

In order to observe the more desirable structure of matter, the Ming Empire began to continuously improve the microscope, in order to calculate the atomic weight and scientific phenomena, it began to constantly promote arithmetic formulas and concepts, in order to realize the realization of flight, began to try to use the theory of mechanics to build flying machines, and even dreamed of one day seeing what was in the sky.

The steam locomotive was produced in such an environment, and the first-class citizens of the Ming Dynasty were too rich.

Wealthy people have a lot of time to do the profession they are interested in, in order to achieve free and fast driving without relying on horsepower, the entire Daming team to develop steam locomotives reached hundreds, but in the end it was a team of Daming Industrial School that succeeded.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen is also in a very good mood now, the Ming Empire can occupy a territory in Western Europe, and at the same time has its own colonies on various continents around the world, what he can see is that he can control more and more wealth, which makes him, the emperor, more interested in promoting the creation of new things in the empire.

Today's steam locomotives are still relatively large, and subject to the rubber industry and organic chemistry have not yet fully developed to the point of maturity, so they can only build railways by building rails, for steam locomotives to run on rails, and the reason why they can run on rails is that in addition to steam power, but also because the mechanics of Daming have been very developed, and the locomotive can bend and brake through the use of mechanics between rails and locomotives has become a reality.

The first section of the Ming Dynasty was a one-mile-long railway built outside the Xuanwu Gate, and before Zhu Youzhen and the imperial officials and people saw its true face, he had been improved thirty-four times, and finally it was basically formed until now, realizing that the steam locomotive could run freely on it.

The steam locomotive has also been improved many times, and when it finally takes shape, it has turned into a steel monster shaped like a dragon's head, and the steam smoke emitted can make the entire Xuanwu Gate area seem to be shrouded in a fairyland, and the noise is so harsh that people can't help but cover their ears.

But when the iron wheel of the locomotive began to roll, it also made countless people cheer.

The Ming Dynasty is no better than the Qing Dynasty in the original history, and no one regards this steel giant beast as a "spectator's horror".

Today's Daming scholars have begun to understand steam locomotives through paper media as early as ten years ago, and know that there are a group of people in Daming Industrial School who are developing locomotives that can burn coal without livestock.

At the time, it was still a joke, and some people even thought it was a whim, and there was even an imperial history to impeach the Imperial Cabinet and the Ministry of Industry for not investing money in such a project.

But the Ming Empire is rich, and the impeachment of the imperial history is just a small stone in the pool, which can't cause much waves, but with the spread of the media, there are more and more news about the steam engine, and there are more and more Ming technical controls who are curious about this.

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