Several people walked for a long time before Zhu Youzhen came to his senses.

It's a bunch of useless, and I didn't discuss where the road and railway were built.

Zhu Youzhen took out the map again and studied it around the capital.

The first railway, it can't be too far away. Human, material, and financial resources cannot keep up.

In the end, he fixed his eyes on one place.

Tianjin Wei.

Tianjin Wei was set up after Zhu Di moved the capital, with a total of three guards and more than 10,000 soldiers. Tianjin guards the sea route and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and its geographical location is very important. Even in later generations, in many ports. The throughput of Tianjin Port has also been in the top 10.

Although the location of Zhoushan, Shanghai, Qingdao and other places is very good. But at the moment, Tianjin has an advantage that no other place has, and that is the closest to the capital.

The construction of the more than 200-mile railway is much less difficult and stressful.

Zhu Youzhen drew a line on the map.

Beijing-Tongzhou-Wuqing-Tianjin

Then he called Fan Jingwen back and told him about his plans and thoughts.

"Your Majesty is wise."

Is this wise again?

"Fan Qing, this world is very big. The Franconians and Dutchlanders of Europa have crossed the ocean and come to the coast of our Ming Dynasty in warships. They are entrenched in Taiwan and are eyeing the Ming Dynasty. The muskets and artillery they produced were far more advanced than ours. If we don't think about forging ahead, I'm afraid that one day, they will sail their warships to our Ming port and open our gates with cannons. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was in danger. ”

"Fan Qing is my dynasty Zaifu, now the Ming Dynasty has reached the point of life and death, and is about to face a great change unseen in a thousand years, the Ming Dynasty must keep up with the times, surpass the times, and lead the times!"

"Fan Qing, would you like to accompany me to witness the arrival of that day?"

"Minister! Willing! ”

It was the first time since His Majesty succeeded to the throne that such heartfelt words had been spoken to him. His mood was a little surging.

Before Fan Jingwen left, Zhu Youzhen gave him a globe. It was meant to show him that the world was big.

When Fan Jingwen returned to the Wenhua Hall with the globe in his hand, the globe in his hand attracted everyone's attention.

Several people surrounded one after another.

"Gentleman, what are you holding here?" Bi Ziyan asked curiously.

"Your Majesty said, this thing is called a globe."

"Globes? It's a new name. ”

"Princess, where is Your Majesty going to build this first railway?" Lu Zhenfei asked a question that everyone was curious about.

"From the capital to Tianjin Wei."

The crowd listened and breathed a sigh of relief.

They are also a little worried that the repair will take too long, which will cost people and money, and cause turmoil.

"The train that Wang Zheng built is really useful, and you only need to burn coal to go. Just like last year's disaster relief in Shaanxi, if there is such a train, how much manpower and animal power will be saved, how many people on the road will be saved, and how many more victims can be saved. Although the cost of the railway is high, it is a one-time investment. I think this silver should be a flower. ”

Fan Jingwen's words caused everyone to ponder. The so-called tricks and tricks are just a means used by some people to attack. Whether a new thing is useful or not, everyone is still clear in their hearts, and their ability to accept it is still very strong. These are all due to the eastward movement of Western learning during the Wanli period.

Like Matteo Ricci's "The Complete Map of the World", they have all seen it. Xu Guangqi had a close personal relationship with Matteo Ricci and co-translated many books. To a certain extent, the spread of Western learning to the East has opened up an atmosphere of scholars and doctors learning from the West. It should be a process of learning, assimilating, and transcending. When it came to the Mantar Gate, everything came to an abrupt end.

Matteo Ricci said that the Chinese are very knowledgeable, and they are very proficient in medicine, natural sciences, mathematics, and astronomy. The country values reading and is interested in science, but it despises force.

Later, when the British Macartney came to China again, his evaluation of the Qing Dynasty was:

"Since the Manchurian-Tatar conquest, there has been no improvement, no advance, or rather, regression for at least the last hundred years; As we advance in the fields of art and science every day, they are actually becoming semi-savages. ”

At that time, it was the 58th year of Qianlong.

Macartney also brought Qianlong a unique birthday gift. Including microscopes, telescopes, books, flintlock pistols, air guns, mortars, industrial machines, European swords, European clocks, European vehicles, European ship models, etc.

Didn't he know that these things were advanced?

They know better than anyone else.

Kangqian's prosperous era is just a joke. It was by all nations after a few decades.

Of course, Fan Jingwen didn't know everything in the future, but Zhu Youzhen knew. Zhu Youzhen let him see the quality of things, and that's enough!

In the following days, the railway bureau made intensive preparations.

Zhu Youzhen also asked Song Yingxing to transfer some technicians who were familiar with steelmaking to set up a steelmaking plant in Tongzhou to supply railway construction.

At the beginning of July, Zhou Kangeng and Xu Zhi'an, who were repairing rivers in Shanxi, returned.

Zhu Youzhen summoned Zhou Kangeng and asked about the river repair. I saw Li Zicheng again.

This former Yinchuan post man, the sad green hat man, was radiant at this time, and the whole person was full of spirit, like an unsheathed sword, waiting for the master to use it.

In mid-July, the railway bureau conscripted 50,000 people.

The first railway in Daming:

Beijing-Tianjin Line.

Construction began.

The days seemed to have calmed down all of a sudden. Zhu Cihong is growing up day by day and becoming more and more cute.

Zhu Youzhen dealt with the twists and turns in the palace every day, and occasionally went out of the palace to visit the military academy, the Beijing camp, and the arsenal.

Ever since the development of the Migne rifle, he has been in a bottleneck, and his research direction is the needle-type breech rifle. Although Zhu Youzhen clearly told him that it would be difficult.

Sun Yuanhua is trying to improve the material of the cannon, and the improvement of steelmaking technology has given him confidence. He also had great ambitions, building a rear-loading spiral rifled gun.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen will not discourage their enthusiasm, but just let them bring out as many apprentices as possible while studying. In the future, the technology of the province will be lost, and it will be necessary to re-train talents.

For them, Zhu Youzhen's policy is to meet all your needs, as long as you put your heart into technology. At the moment, the effect is not bad. He was comfortable with the silver given to these craftsmen.

At the end of July, Zhu Youzhen received an unexpected letter.

From Wang Zunde, the governor of Liangguang.

In the recital, there was a burst of singing praises of merit, and after talking nonsense for most of the article, it entered the theme.

After reading it, Zhu Youzhen put the fold on the imperial case and pondered.

Wang Zunde's letter was written entirely for one person.

Liu Xiang

Since Zheng Zhilong got the privateer certificate and went back, the noisy one is called a Huan. He wandered around the nearby waters with his men all day long, and rushed forward as soon as he saw a smuggling ship. As long as you don't resist, you only grab goods and don't kill people. Later, as soon as his subordinates heard that they were going to sea, they were very excited. Inland smugglers, pirates, Portugal, Holland, Spain. As long as it is a merchant ship, there is nothing he does not dare to rob.

The robbed people will naturally resist, especially the former brothers who were taken care of by Zheng Zhilong.

Liu Xiang, Yang Liu, Yang Qi, and Zhong Bin have all tried to resist. If you rob my merchant ships, I will rob yours.

But Zheng Zhilong would not have expected this, every time a merchant ship goes to sea, dozens of warships are guarded at every turn, armed like a hedgehog, you say fight, if there are fewer people, you can't fight, and if there are more people, the loss is too big and it's not worth it.

The results have been successful very few times.

So angry that these people cursed in private, going to sea to do business with so many escort ships, and they are not afraid of losing money?

Zheng Zhilong is really not afraid, what kind of money are all stolen?

Until someone who dared to die appeared.

Li Kuiqi.

At the end of June, he led the army to attack Kinmen!