Xianmen Pass, the residence of the Ming Mission.

"With Senior Brother, times have changed, our airship can fly three or four hundred miles in an hour, and three or four thousand miles a day, which is much faster than the railway. Although the transportation capacity is not large, the army of 8,000 can still be transported to Wuji Valley at any time! Therefore, if you don't build railways and official roads, you won't be able to stop foreign enemies, but you're trapping yourself. If you allow me to build a railway to the Rakshasa country through Dajin, Dajin's specialties and resources will be sold for money. With money, Daikin will be able to run industries well and stand tall among the world's great powers......"

is fooling Heshen, of course, it is Zhuge Weidao, the eighteenth candidate military division of the Zhuge family. When this airship reaches his mouth, it is about to become a large transport plane!

Although the transportation capacity of this thing will be improved, and the latest and largest model can also lift several tons of goods, but an army of 8,000 people with equipment and supplies, so it can't be transported by thousands of airships? It's a hydrogen boat! The requirements for maintenance are extremely high, and the number is small and you can do a good job of maintenance regardless of the cost, and there are really thousands of ...... How many ground crews do you have to match? If you don't bomb the boat every day, the loss will be great.

Although He Shen also knows the flammable characteristics of hydrogen (this is a He Shen who understands chemistry), ten airships that are so large are now parked on the grass outside the Xianmen Pass! The facts are there, and he can't believe it.

But "no roads are built outside Wuji Valley", that is the ancestral family law passed down by Kangxi! Where can you say that change will change? So Hezhongtang is also in a difficult situation now!

"Senior Brother Zhuge , you also know that 'no roads outside Wuji Valley' is an ancestral family law passed down by Kangxi!" He Shen said, "Our Dajin has been guarding for more than 100 years, where can we say that we can change it?" ”

Is this still the ancestral family law?

Zhuge frowned for the Dao, but it was not easy to criticize the ancestors' family law! This ancestral family law, the Dajin State has it, and the Zhuge family also has it! For more than 100 years, the Zhuge family has guarded the four red lines of "suppressing mergers", "doing a good job in compulsory education", "paying taxes in one place" and "discussing politics and co-governance", isn't it because of the ancestral family law handed down by King Zhuge Wuzhong? His old man's ancestral family law is more powerful than that of Emperor Kangxi's ancestral family law - he wrote it in every "Book of Heaven"!

Those military advisors of the Zhuge family relied on the knowledge and information in the Book of Heaven to be half-immortals and officials...... This book of heaven is so effective, how dare the military advisors of the Zhuge family break the red line drawn in the book of heaven?

And they have to stick to the bottom line, and other families and nobles can only follow suit!

After all, no one wants to be the enemy of a bunch of demi-immortals!

Moreover, King Zhuge Wuzhong also opened an opening for them to annex back then - they could carry out mergers in Siam, Burma, Annam, Chenla, Nanzhang and other Ming vassal countries, as well as in Java and Malacca under the rule of Westerners.

But the red line of the Ming Dynasty cannot be touched, otherwise it will be the enemy of the Zhuge family!

As for the red line of paying taxes, it is even tighter, and tax havens do not exist in the big tomorrow. Although Daming did not implement the tax law of paying more taxes for high incomes, but paid taxes in one fell swoop, no one should want to escape.

Even the sons and daughters of powerful people like Zhuge Weidao have to pay taxes like ordinary people!

Even when he inherited the old man's estate, he paid half of the inheritance tax - the tax amount is not high, but no one can escape unless he lives forever. Otherwise, even if you give up your Ming nationality, you won't be able to run away with a renunciation tax, and you will pay more!

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty, an empire controlled by nobles, was able to maintain stability more than 100 years after the founding of the country, and did not lose the most basic social fairness. I have to say that this "ancestral family law" is really going to be used in the right place, which is quite good.

The ancestral family law that Kangxi left to the descendants of Dajin actually ensured that Dajin and Taoism from China could gain a firm foothold in the Wuji Valley (Ferghana Basin) and develop and grow in Central Asia with it as the center.

After all, under the condition that Dajin does not build roads and only maintains limited contact with the outside world, the local forces in Central Asia are simply unable to confront the disciples of Dajin's Eight Banners who "cultivate immortals in mathematics, physics and chemistry".

And with the "half-immortal" of the Zhuge family, it is enough to prove the correctness of the "immortal cultivation route". The weakness of Taoism's need for empirical evidence (most religions follow an unfalsifiable route) has been filled.

Therefore, Lin Zexu and Zhuge Weidao cannot force Dajin Guo to give up their ancestral family law, but they can reinterpret what a "road" is.

"And Senior Brother, we are not going to build roads, but to build railways." Zhuge is a serious way for the Tao, "The railway is not a road, just two rails laid on sleepers." ”

"This ......" He Shen was also stunned, there was no railway when Kangxi Ye died, so the "road" he said by the old man should not include the kind of thing that puts two iron bars on a row of sleepers.

Seeing that He Shen was silent, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "If there is an invasion by foreign enemies, as long as you send someone to remove the railroad tracks, and then use sleepers to set fire to them, the rails will be burned and deformed, and it will be useless." ”

He Shen also understands this truth, but he still has to guard against Da Ming and Rakshasa . So he thought about it and said, "Senior Brother Zhuge , if you want to build a railway to connect the rakshasas...... It's not non-negotiable, but this railway can't be within a thousand miles of Wuji Valley.

And when this railway is built, we have to use our craftsmen, and you just need to have some engineers. After it is repaired, it can't be managed by your Ming or Rakshasa countries, it has to be managed by our people. You Daming is waiting for dividends. ”

This Heshen is quite shrewd!

"Can your people manage the railroad?" Zhuge asked.

"Why not?" He Shen glared, "Senior Brother Zhuge won't think that the people of our Wuji Valley are all uncivilized barbarians, right?" Don't forget, we also have a university hall in Daikin, and my country's Xiandao University Hall also has a world-class mathematics department! Even if our people haven't been in charge of the railway, just send someone to Daming to learn! ”

Fortune telling...... This is also an "algorithm", and the "fortune tellers" of the Dajin Kingdom have studied the mathematics books handed down by King Zhuge Wuzhong for more than a hundred years, and the level is certainly not low.

In addition, the five elements of yin and yang, alchemy and alchemy, and qi refining and viewing the sky are all interpreted by King Zhuge Wuzhong in physical chemistry (he can't cultivate immortals seriously!). Therefore, Xiandao University in Dajin Country is actually "Xiuxian University of Technology", and the students who come out of it want to study railways and engineering, which is not too difficult.

And for Da Ming, it would be nice to have a railway connecting Rakshasa through the Jin Kingdom...... Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao turned his head to look at Lin Zexu, Lin Zexu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "That's it, let's lease materials in exchange for the right to build tracks, as for the number of leased materials and the valuation of road construction rights, let it be discussed by a professional officer like Zhuge Daozi and your commander of the Eight Banners."

Let's discuss in what name Dajin will send troops to India, right? ”

"Nominally?" He Shen thought for a moment, "How about this aid to the Mughals?" ”

"This ..... The goal is too big, right? Lin Zexu stroked his beard and said, "Is this to drive the British out of India?" ”

He Shen nodded, pondered and asked, "That...... What excuse should I make? ”

"Slice!" Zhuge Weidao suddenly interjected at this time, "You can claim compensation from the British and Indian authorities in the name of the British East India Company's illegal smuggling and trafficking of Ya pieces and poisoning the people of Dajin!" ”

"Good! That's a good excuse! When Lin Zexu heard the word "Ya Pian", there was a nameless fire in his heart, "The East India Company sells Ya Pian in India and the South Seas, causing countless harms, which is really hateful!" ”

Zhuge Youdao called the film Big Smoke before, but Lin Zexu didn't understand what it was? Because no one smokes Yapian now, Yapian in Daming is only used as a raw material for controlled drugs, and it has not been abused. However, in India, the South Seas, the Middle East, Western Europe, and some Central Asia, the abuse of Ya Pian is still very common, and all kinds of Ya Pian products (including Ya Pian cigarettes that are not smoked) are almost sold as daily necessities!