"Bang, bang, bang, woo......"

With the sound of a train whistle, Zhuge Weidao, who was immersed in hard reading, raised his head, glanced out of the window, and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him. This time, what he saw was no longer an endless desolation, but one after another factories that seemed to be endless!

I don't know when the train has entered a heavy industrial city full of the power of the industrial era from the Monan prairie where the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep are low, and it also makes Zhuge Weidao's understanding of his new Ming motherland one step further!

This time, the railway line that sent Zhuge Weidao from Yining to Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was called the Saibei Railway, which started from Yining, the capital of Ili Frontier Province, first to the northwest, bypassing the remaining veins of the northwest foot of the Tianshan Mountains, entering the Junggar grassland, and then passing through the passage between the Tianshan Mountains and the Altai Mountains, entering the western part of the Monan grassland, and then going all the way to the east, going straight to the northern foot of Yanshan, and finally passing through the tunnel through Badaling into the territory of Shuntianfu in Beijing.

The total length of the trunk line alone is more than 3,800 kilometers, and many railway bridges and tunnels have to be erected along the way, and the problem of wind prevention and sand fixation has to be solved in the section west of the desert grassland....... It is no exaggeration to say that the Ming Empire was able to build such a railway, which already shows that she has strong national strength and industrialization strength.

However, the economic value of this railway does not seem to be high, at least to the west of the Yanshan section, the train is almost lonely in the mountains, deserts and grasslands, only occasionally you can see herdsmen, to be precise, the villages where the ranchers live - a glance at the appearance of these villages and the cattle pens and sheep pens outside the villages, as well as the small stations near the villages that are specially used to transport cattle and sheep, Zhuge Weidao can also imagine that the herdsmen on these grasslands live quite nourishingly.

The train sometimes stops at towns along the way to add water, coal and rations, and these towns between the grasslands, deserts and mountains are small and usually set up in fortresses that have been turned into monuments...... Looking at those ancient castles that have fallen into disrepair but still have lost their majesty, Zhuge Weidao can imagine how more than a hundred years ago, King Zhuge Wuzhong, who had already had to be gray, immediately stepped into the grassland, drew his sword and looked around, and the heroes tied their hands, and it was difficult to find defeat!

It's just that the ancestors are awesome, but the children and grandchildren are more cowardly from generation to generation......

However, the internal affairs of those cowardly ministers seem to be doing well, not only the herdsmen on the grassland look quite wealthy, but the small towns that rely on the grassland animal husbandry to survive also seem to be well governed.

When the train passed through every town, Zhuge Weidao would put down the "memory review materials" in his hand and observe them carefully. The buildings in these small towns look like a mix of Chinese and Western, two- and three-story buildings are common, and the greenery in the city is good, with tall trees everywhere, and it doesn't seem to be short of water.

In the vicinity of the station, there are usually many cattle and sheep pens waiting to be sent, and the merchants who sell cattle and sheep, the railway employees at the station, and some other passengers, all seem to be living well, and no one is dressed in rags.

Zhuge Weidao also saw schools flying the red flag of the sun and moon (the flag of the Ming Dynasty) and schoolchildren carrying schoolbags to school in several small cities - Guo Xiaobao told him that after the new Ming Dynasty completed the reform of the Juntian system, it began to promote compulsory education. After more than 100 years of development, the compulsory education period of Daming has reached nine years, and the adult literacy rate is infinitely close to 100 percent!

The role of high-level compulsory education in promoting the second industrial revolution cannot be overemphasized!

And the train that Zhuge Weidao is taking is now passing through a typical heavy industrial city in the era of the second industrial revolution!

Zhuge Weidao put down a copy of Daming Daily in his hand and began to carefully examine the city, which was full of chimneys and factories...... Suddenly, there was another whistle, followed by a heavily loaded freight train whizzing in, passing by the passenger car that Zhuge Weidao was riding. Zhuge Weidao observed the heavily loaded wagons and found that they were filled with pitch-black coal, and he didn't know if it was used for power generation or coking?

Thinking of this, he turned his head to He Tianran, who was sitting next to him reading a novel called "The New Golden Vase Plum", and asked, "Mu Ru, where is this?" What do these factories do? ”

He Tianran immediately put down "****" and introduced: "This is Xuanfu, and these factories are the industries of Xuanfu Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. of the Zhuge family...... This Xuanfu Iron and Steel Company was founded by King Wuzhong, and it has been passed down for more than 100 years! Up to now, it is still the end of the five major steel companies in Daming, and there is a good net profit every year, which is quite a reliable investment! However, among the many investments of the Zhuge Family Industry Association, Xuanfu Iron and Steel can only be regarded as a second-rate and third-rate asset. Borneo Petroleum, Jiangdong Heavy Industry, Datong Coal, Anben Iron and Steel Company, that is called the wealth of money! ”

Zhuge said for the Taoist heart: "Of course, the capitalists who can pinch and calculate are rolling in their wealth...... When it comes to buying and selling, it's also a choice greater than an effort! If you go in the wrong direction, no matter how hard you try, you will be blind. So a talent like me who 'can really pinch and calculate' must be the sweetheart in the eyes of those old cowards of the Zhuge family! ”

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao's heart settled a lot, and he picked up a copy of the "History Textbook for the Third Year of High School" bought in Yining City in his hand and continued to study on his own...... A high school history teacher wants to buy a 19th-century history textbook to teach himself, right?

......

Beijing, Forbidden City, Cining Palace.

There was a rush of footsteps, and I saw an elderly black eunuch and a short female official in white, flying in one after the other, and came to the Empress Dowager Zheng, who was drinking tea and talking with her brother Zheng Guozhong and another young man of twenty-four or five. The short white-clothed female official possessed the Empress Dowager Zheng's ear and whispered a few words. Then Empress Dowager Zheng actually showed a surprised expression, and muttered in a low voice: "How can it be ......?"

Zheng Guozhong and the young man both heard the words of the Empress Dowager Zheng, and they all turned their eyes to it.

Empress Dowager Zheng ignored them, but asked again: "Are you sure?" ”

The white-clothed lady replied, "Pretty sure! ”

"Zhongming!" The Queen Mother called the name of the black eunuch again.

The black eunuch immediately replied: "The old slave has been following her since Yining, and she has never been alone with anyone except for two maids along the way. ”

"I know," said the Queen Mother, "this matter is kept secret first!" ”

"Yes!"

The black eunuch and the female officer agreed.

"Queen Mother, then ...... she" the black eunuch asked again.

"Send all three of them to Yingtai to take care of them, but don't let them leave."

"Yes."

"Stand down, all stand down!"

"Yes!"

It is not only the black eunuch and the white-clothed female official who retreated, but also the other black eunuchs and small palace maids in the main hall - because the "Daming Covenant Law" passed by the Council in the era of King Wuzhong gave the Ming people inviolable personal freedom, so there are no eunuchs and palace maids with Ming nationality in the Daming Palace. The eunuchs in the Ming court are all imported from the Ottoman Empire, and the palace maids are made in Japan...... Of course, they all entered the palace since childhood, and they have long broken off contact with their mother country.

Zheng Guozhong and the young man did not retreat, but looked at the Empress Dowager Zheng with a curious expression.

Empress Dowager Zheng frowned and said: "Fourth brother, thirty-eighth brother, Zhuge One Hundred and Eight seems to have slept with the Archduchess Natalie!" ”

"What? How is this possible? How could Brother Daozi do such a thing? ”

Zheng Guozhong and Zheng Zhongtang were not doing much, but the young man who came with him, who was called "Thirty-eight Brothers" by Empress Dowager Zheng, opened his mouth first.

He is also a member of the Zheng family, named Guoxian, and the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Zheng. He called Zhuge the Tao and the Taoist brother, obviously the existence of Zhuge as the Taoist brother and the Taoist brother.

"Thirty-eighth brother," Zheng Guozhong pointed to his head, "It seems that the little fox of the Zhuge family is really out of trouble here!" ”

"Then ......," Zheng Guoxian frowned, "That's an opportunity to clean up Brother Daozi and divide the Zhuge family!" ”

Zheng Guozhong smiled and asked, "How do you clean it up?" And how to differentiate? ”

Empress Dowager Zheng said: "You can't clean up the Daozi too badly...... The mourning family will be heartbroken! ”

"Sister, don't worry," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile, "The younger brother will definitely let Zhuge Daozi be used by his sister." ”

"That's pretty much it," asked Empress Dowager Zheng, "Say, what do you want to do?" ”

"Let's borrow a knife to kill people first, and let the people of the Zhuge family clean up Zhuge Daozi by themselves," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile, "The status of Wuxiang Hou Yifang in the Zhuge family is second only to Wuwang Yifang, but now there is no military advisor in power, which is just an opportunity for each room to suppress them." Originally, there was a Zhuge eighty-eight who followed the old man Zhuge closely, and there was a Zhuge Daozi who everyone called a talent, and the status of the Marquis of Wuxiang was as stable as Mount Tai, and now it is good...... Without a way, there is only a fat man left, and he must not be able to hold the situation. When Zhuge Daozi is cleaned up, we will come forward to be a good person, exonerate him, and then give him the Archduchess Natalie, so that he can be used by us. ”

Zheng Guozhong said: "His brain is broken, how can he use it for us?" ”

"Eighteenth brother," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile, "Zhuge Daozi has only lost part of his memory, and his brain should still be quite useful...... Or he could bring Archduchess Natalie back? Can he snatch the order for the ironclad ship of the Rakshasa Kingdom? Emperor Daoguang and He Shen of the Jin Kingdom will give him such goods as Nalan Fairy as a furnace? These two are well-known old foxes.

In addition, we send charcoal in the snow. What did it cost to pull Zhuge for the Tao? What about Archduchess Natalie giving him his wife? If it weren't for Zhuge Youde's will, how could the saint marry a Rakshasa duke? Now the princesses of the Zheng clan of Siam are still waiting to marry the saint! Now Zhuge Daozi himself has broken his father's plan, and he is not in our hands? The price of Siam is not low!

And Zhuge Daozi's amnesia...... How long can it be lost? What if it was good? Then we've earned it! ”