Chapter 382: The Western Regions Railway was officially completed
Mainly in the Ming world.
As the focus of development, as well as the source of technology and equipment, and as the breeding and source base of future high-tech, modern society will continue to be introduced into the Ming world, and strive to make the scientific and technological level of both sides reach the point where there is basically the same and no generation difference in 30 to 50 years.
Difficult.
It's hard to achieve this goal, not ordinary.
Because the modern society has a population of nearly 10 billion, and there are countless top talents, countless famous universities, countless research institutions and technology companies.
On the side of the Ming world, although the population controlled by Xujiazhuang exceeds 50 million, and nine years of free compulsory education has been fully implemented, and more than 100,000 senior talents have been cultivated over the years.
Fifty years.
Xu Yuan's personal conservative estimate is that it will take at least 50 years, and after the high-quality population increases to hundreds of millions of orders, it will be possible to barely catch up with the gap, so that the two worlds look similar, and there is no obvious generation difference.
And Xu Yuan is 38 years old this year, and in another fifty years, he will be an 88-year-old man, although at this age, he should still be alive in this world, and in a relatively healthy state, but in terms of energy, physical strength, mental power, etc., there will definitely be a significant decline, no longer the state of his youth, and even all kinds of diseases, may not be able to live for a long time.
This requires that in the field of longevity medicine, immediately increase investment, and do more human research experiments, and strive to obtain real-time research results, such as extending cell telomeres, such as stem cell therapy, and active enzyme to promote vitality, etc., in any case, we must also extend the life span of human beings to more than 150 years old and safe, only in this way, can we see a farther scenery and plan a better future.
Trillion.
After discussing with Song Jiayun, Xu Yuan plans to invest 1 trillion yuan in 20 years to strive for practical breakthroughs in the field of life extension, so as to extend his life.
This process may require millions of human beings to become research samples and participate in human trials with a higher risk factor, rather than experiments on rats and monkeys.
The price to be paid may be tens of thousands of lives, which is a serious violation of ethics and the law.
But for the sake of their own selfishness, Xu Yuan and Song Jiayun both thought that they should find a special island in the Ming world, and find people from various places to come over by spending money to recruit volunteers, act as test subjects, and observe the effect of life extension, it is best to find middle-aged and elderly people around forty or fifty years old, these groups are the most suitable.
As for the law, ethics, taboos and public opinion pressure, etc., on the side of the Ming world, there is obviously none, Xu Yuan can cover the sky with one hand, can ensure that the life extension project will not be disturbed in any way, and ensure that the test effect is real and useful.
As a matter of fact.
Western countries in modern society, although they advertise civilization every day, in fact, they have already started notorious human experiments, they don't care about any risks, they have killed and disabled countless people, and they like to smear the pot, compared with Xu Yuan, Xu Yuan is already very gentle, and he does not regard human life as a mustard, and will give enough compensation, so that the participants will willingly join the project, which is called real civilization.
Far from it.
And after visiting the Daming World, living and inspecting for five days.
Song Jiayun was reluctant after all, returned to modern society, continued to serve as the female president of her Tianfeng Company, responsible for the affairs of modern society, and became her domineering female president, still peerless, envied and worshiped by countless people, just thinking of the things in the Ming world, Song Jiayun felt a little boring, the unemployment she was originally very concerned about, and she began to be a little unconcerned, after all, she had seen such a big pattern, and learned that her husband controlled almost the entire world with capital and force and financial resources. Song Jiayun suddenly felt that her little career was nothing at all, just a small fight.
Only the power that controls tens of millions of people, hundreds of thousands of elite troops, countless resources and land, and the financial money printing machine can be regarded as well-deserved heroes, and can be regarded as truly standing at the top of the world, and can hold the whole world in their own hands.
Compare it to.
Tianfeng Company, which has a small market value of more than 500 billion, is nothing at all, and it does not bring much right to speak.
If you really want to live comfortably and comfortably, you still have to go to the Daming World, where the air is much sweeter.
The only unpleasant thing is that Xu Yuan's guy has too many women, there are as many as five, six, seven or eight, and more than twenty children, he is a well-deserved super stallion, when she learned this information, Song Jiayun couldn't wait to slap Xu Yuan to death and beat this scumbag fiercely.
But after the anger, she still had no choice but to forgive, so she could only swallow her anger, after all, men are allowed to marry more than one woman in the Ming world, and it is useless for her to object.
Moreover, Song Jiayun is still relatively confident in her charm and ability, as long as she is given a big enough stage to play, the second Wu Zetian, she has the ability to do it, the future Xu Jiazhuang, she must come over to occupy a position, at least to take the position of the main mother, no one can rob her, otherwise it will only end up with a loss and retreat, she believes in her ability and wrist, and it must be easy and stress-free to solve a few women.
It's just that for Xu Yuan, after confessing to his wife Song Jiayun, he is now in an embarrassing situation, which means that there are a lot of risks and variables in the future, but it may also bring certain benefits, because Song Jiayun can better help and support himself in the future, and share some pressure, in short, there are good and bad, and the pros and cons are half.
Finally, there is a huge benefit, that is, Xu Yuan no longer has to be comfortable with family factors, he can allocate his time better and more reasonably, and he no longer has to pursue the so-called balance, if necessary, he will stay in the Ming world for a while longer, if it is not necessary, he can also stay in the real society for a while longer, accompany Hu Xuerong, of course, he doesn't have to spare too much time, one day a week is enough, after all, she is not Song Jiayun, she is just a small role, You don't have to spend too much energy to accompany you.
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Soon.
Daming World.
The fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the first month.
Major events of great significance have occurred for several years in succession.
For example, the economic growth rate of the Ming Dynasty last year was an exaggerated 35% growth rate, and no matter what it was, it has made very significant development, and its strength has been significantly enhanced.
Another example is the third batch of overseas colonization plans in Xujiazhuang, which has opened the purchase threshold of drugs this time, and those who are anti-malaria, anti-dysentery, and anti-virus. Miracle drug', no longer linked to gold, with ordinary silver dollars or paper money can be bought, the price is also a sharp drop, ordinary people can afford to rise, which greatly stimulates the motivation of ordinary people to colonize overseas, in the last year, to the development of the Ming Dynasty young and strong, reached a record-breaking 15 million, finally offset the population growth rate of the Ming Dynasty, so that the population of the Ming Dynasty, the first decline, but also the situation that the young and strong labor force is not enough.
This forces all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty to raise wage standards, improve work treatment, and find ways to retain valuable labor resources, after all, once the manpower is insufficient, it will seriously affect the wealth, compared with the opportunity to make a fortune, the salary is only a small head, normal people know how to choose, and those who are too stingy, can only face the situation that workers are seriously jumping jobs and losing all talents, so for the first time, human resources have been paid attention to, and the involution situation has been well improved.
There is another major event, that is, the Guanning Group, after adopting the means of force oppression, economic and material blockade, and threats and intimidation, finally forced Houjin to make concessions, withdrew from Liaoyang City, gave up more than 300,000 square kilometers of territory, and had to allow the Guanning Group's power tentacles to enter the land of Liaodong, allow them to occupy fertile land, open up farms and pastures, allow the Guanning Group, send people to prospect and mine all over Liaodong, as well as logging and hunting, do whatever you want, and all resources are open to the Guanning Group. The only requirement is that 1% of the income obtained by Guanning Group in Liaodong should be compensated to Houjin, and Xujiazhuang will referee in the middle as a guarantee.
That's right.
In the face of Guanning Group's desire to expand, Xu Jiazhuang stood on the side of Guanning Group this time, assisted in pressuring, and made Houjin make a compromise, so that Guanning Group realized its desire to expand, and is expected to immigrate to Liaodong for millions, and the annual profit will exceed hundreds of millions of silver dollars.
Houjin suffered heavy losses, and the high-level people were extremely dissatisfied, but they still had no choice but to compromise, so they had to agree to the infiltration of the Guanning Group and unscrupulously exploit and utilize all kinds of resources in Liaodong.
You can't stop it if you want to, and you can't stop it if you want to.
Because today's Houjin, although after several years of recuperation, but due to the poor living environment, the young and strong population, only recovered to the early 30,000s, the speed is very slow, it is difficult to break through 560,000, or even 80,000, although they are very hard to sow, but the environment in Liaodong is too bad after all, coupled with the attack and harassment of the Mongolian tribe and the wild Jurchen tribe, as well as the harassment of the Tsarist Russian pioneers across the river from time to time, it is not possible to eliminate and repel these forces, resulting in thousands of casualties of soldiers every year. It has offset most of the population increase, resulting in a difficult recovery and great pain.
The surrounding forces are developing rapidly.
Not to mention the capital monster Guanning Group.
It is the Korean Kingdom in the east, after the completion of the King's Manor, it has also entered a stage of rapid development in the past two years, with an average annual growth rate of more than 50%, and now it has recovered to its heyday.
Faced with such a situation.
Houjin couldn't do anything except give in and pretend to be his grandson, and even Daishan made a decision, asking the Jurchen Eight Banners to learn from Xujiazhuang in an all-round way, give up the language and writing of their own people, learn the language and writing of Xujiazhuang, abandon their own barbaric and backward inferior roots, and comprehensively study Xujiazhuang, so as to seek to successfully join Xujiazhuang one day in the future, even if it is as a vassal force, as a dog, it is much stronger than independent development, and it is called embracing civilization and continuing to rest on its laurels. There is only one dead end.
So today's Liaodong land, is basically a full of development opportunities 'shared land', many forces enjoy the right to develop, but there is no one, maybe one day in the future, Xujiazhuang in Liaodong, also established one or two king's manors, the situation will be clear, the real master, is called smooth in place.
At last!
There is another major event that has been concerned by the public opinion field of Daming last year, and at the beginning of this year, we finally saw gratifying results, which attracted the cheers of countless people of Daming.
It's fixed.
That is, the Western Regions Railway, which extends to the core area of the Western Regions, has finally been successfully repaired with the dedication of countless road repair workers, and can allow heavy-haul trains to start from Luoyang, pass through the Hexi Corridor, Yumen Pass and other places, and then cross thousands of miles of desert and desert areas, enter the Yinli River Valley, and go directly to the Andijan area, with a total length of more than 6,000 kilometers, and the freight capacity will be no less than one billion tons.
In order to build this railway.
The funds raised and consumed by all parties exceeded 800 million silver dollars, far exceeding the original budget.
At its peak, the number of road builders reached 3.5 million, and the time lasted for three and a half years, and the number of dead workers reached 2,416.
And the Tang kings Zhu Yujian and Hong Chengchou, who have entered the Western Regions and successfully established their rule, also put aside their contradictions and analysis, and jointly participated in the opening of the railway, published a long speech, sang praises, and praised the great significance of the railway, which also marks that after nearly a thousand years of separation, the Western Regions finally returned to the embrace of China, which means that China has risen again, got back what belongs to itself, and reached a new glory and peak, and after having the railway, the Western Regions can no longer be gained and lost, but to become a part of the Ming Dynasty forever, and will continue to expand and conquer the Western Regions in anticipation, until every land in this world is illuminated by the Ming Sun and Moon Banner.
As soon as these views were published in the "Oriental Times", they immediately caused quite a stir and repercussions, making countless readers proud and excited:
"Now our goal is not just the small Western Regions, but the whole world!"
"Barbarian Westerners are expanding in a barbaric way, and we must also use the expansion of civilization to stop their barbarism."
"Only by establishing a universal order can lasting peace be brought about, and this is the idea of global unity."
"There are not many resources in the Western Regions, and only by occupying all the territory and making reasonable use of the resources of this planet can we live a better life."
"The railroad is really an artifact of expansion, and it takes more railroads to be repaired!"
"Opportunities, opportunities everywhere, we are in a good era."
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