Chapter 85: Seeing King Yan Again

"Your Highness, don't come unharmed." This was He Xi's first sentence when he saw King Yan, and He Xi felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

He Xi didn't know what the demeanor of the Yongle Emperor in history looked like. But now in his opinion, King Yan is different from King Yan a few years ago.

After all, King Yan and He Xi were the same age a few years ago, although he was born in the royal family, received the best education in this era, and also had Zhu Yuanzhang's ear teaching, but he was always immature. Today's King Yan is different.

A big victory can bring great changes to people's mental outlook.

At least, although the historical King of Yan also had a record in the Hongwu Dynasty, he had never won such a big victory, and the benefits brought to King Yan by this battle were too many. It also has a great impact on King Yan himself. King Yan may not have noticed it himself, but he was actually very confident in his gestures. In the handling of many things, he has also become more arrogant.

Some people do things in an atmospheric way, and some people do things in a picky search, the development of this kind of character is often their own confidence, and King Yan at this moment is even more confident.

King Yan grabbed He Xi's hands that were about to salute, and laughed: "Brother He, you have also done a great thing, my Beiping City has become a ruined city, this is the real Beijing." ”

In fact, He Xi's own changes have also been great. It's just that He Xi didn't notice it.

He Xi said: "The new dynasty and the new capital, how can you use the old dynasty and the old capital, the Han has Chang'an, and the Sui has Daxing, which is just the new dynasty and the new atmosphere." ”

King Yan said: "It's a new dynasty and a new atmosphere, but in Gu's opinion, it's because you are far better than Xiao He's talent, and you can turn stones into gold, otherwise with such a big foundation, where is the money in the court." ”

Yan Wang's opinion cannot be said to be wrong.

Although some of He Xi's technological reforms have greatly promoted the development of the Ming Dynasty and greatly developed the productive forces of the Ming Dynasty, such a large project, under the auspices of He Xi, has not made the imperial court's finances difficult, in fact, it is also some of He Xi's financial means.

Finance itself is the art of resource allocation, and if it is done well, it can greatly mobilize the original resources and do things more efficiently. But if you don't do it well, just to make money, that's naturally the most effective harvesting tool.

It will have a negative effect on the development of productive forces.

The combination of these two has led to the magnificent project that is now possible.

He Xi said: "It's over, it's over." ”

Yan Wang said: "I passed through Beijing this time, and I could have traveled to Nanjing by sea. I just want to meet you, so don't talk nonsense. Let me see your foundation in Beijing. The most important thing is that those factories are not in Zunhua. Check it out now? ”

He Xi couldn't help but secretly complain about Lian Zining, he really betrayed the teacher if he was with someone else.

Lian Zining has no reputation now, and Huang Zicheng, who was with Lian Zining at that time, was already in a high position, and he was also a figure in the court. Lian Zining, who is as famous as Huang Zicheng, even if he is not as good as Lian Zining, is it useless at all?

Naturally not.

Lian Zining knows many of He Xi's ideas best. In this way, King Yan, who was influenced by Lian Zining, also attached great importance to the factory and industrialization itself, although he had not read the modern books brought by He Xi, but the importance of industry was also the most important among the kings.

Without him, pragmatic.

Any general who can win a battle is very pragmatic. After all, it is almost impossible to be pragmatic on the battlefield and want to win the battle. Civilian officials can fool the top and fool the bottom, but can the generals fool the enemy?

No one knows how far King Yan understands the truth or something. But for the results, Yanwang attaches great importance to it.

In other words, there can only be results, in fact, King Yan doesn't care too much about the so-called truth.

So as soon as he came to Beijing, Yanwang grasped the most important thing, not the vigorous Beijing City, but the Zunhua Industrial Zone that has been formed.

King Yan said that at this point, can He Xi still say that he can't go?

He Xi said: "Since Your Highness is interested, I will naturally accompany you." ”

He Xi was about to get on the horse, but King Yan grabbed He Xi and said, "I don't ride a horse, I'm already tired of riding a horse on the way." I'm going to sit on this. King Yan pointed to the thing next to him, it was nothing else, it was a horse-drawn wagon.

He Xi said: "Your Highness, this is not much use, it is all pulling goods, and it is also very messy, there are a lot of messy things, I am afraid that it will stain Your Highness's clothes." ”

King Yan said: "On the battlefield, it is common to lie down and sleep with corpses, what is this? It's just bricks and tiles, what kind of mess can it become, can't it be unloaded? Why don't you let me see it. ”

King Yan said this, what else can He Xi say? He could only say, "Then please wait a moment, Your Highness." ”

He Xi immediately went down to order, and after a while, a modified carriage came over.

He Xi naturally couldn't let Yan Wang use the truck.

This carriage of Hefu has replaced the wheels with iron wheels on the rails, and it can be driven on the rails.

King Yan sat on the carriage, lifted the curtains around him, felt the feeling on the carriage, and said for a moment: "Yes, fast and steady, how is your steam engine?" When will it be loaded on the railway. ”

Yan Wang's sentence is fast and steady, and it is not a lie.

Although in He Xi's opinion, this railway is not fast at all, not stable at all, at most a little faster than riding a horse. As for stability, let alone standing coins. Put a glass of water, not to mention water, the cup can break.

But in this day and age, it's actually good. Railroad tracks are better than being able to write dirt roads, dirt roads, and reduce friction. When the horse is pulled, it is also lighter, and if you keep changing horses, you can actually maintain the same speed as riding a horse.

Although this speed is not comparable to the speed of later bicycles. But it has already amazed King Yan.

After all, marching in this era, thirty miles a day, is not that people can't go further. Whereas, baggage transportation is slower. Thirty miles a day is already good. If you put down the baggage and light equipment, not to mention the cavalry, it is a foot soldier, fifty miles a day, or even more, it is not impossible.

He Xi said: "I don't know about this, I don't know if I can see it in my lifetime." ”

Although He Xi complained, Lian Zining said everything. But it's no wonder that Lian Zining, in fact, He Xi didn't keep many of his purposes secret, because many things can't be hidden. Bi Xi organized a lot of people to study the miniaturization of steam engines. You have to give a person a goal. You can't just say nothing.

Huang Zicheng and other students are He Xi's henchmen, and He Xi always wants them to know.

It's just that He Xi didn't do it with great fanfare, after all, He Xi didn't know when he could do it, if he said it, it would be a shame to not do it, just like now, in He Xi's original plan, he didn't expect that the miniaturization of the steam engine was so difficult?

Especially when it comes to materials, if you don't want to eject a few parts while the steam engine is running, it will be too much effort.

However, He Xi has the support of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he did not declare this and that to the outside world, there are not many people who know He Xi's plan, including King Yan, after all, with the status of King Yan, as long as he wants to know, there are really not many things that King Yan can't let know in the Ming Dynasty.

The same is true for other princes, but others don't have the desire to find out what He Xi has done in private.

It's just that as He Xi's status gets higher and higher, many things are hard to say.

He Xi said that he didn't know if he could see it in his lifetime, and he was not lying. Because he completely lost his judgment on the speed of miniaturization of the steam engine at the moment, on the one hand, it was a problem of talent, although Ge Tiangong, a scientific and technological leader under He Xi, had made a lot of contributions to He Xi, but in essence, Ge Tiangong was a craftsman who understood scientific knowledge. And not a scientist who understands the skills of craftsmen. There is an essential difference here.

The former is more about tinkering with existing problems, while the latter can put forward a theoretical framework from experimental data to solve the problem.

But talent development takes time.

He Xi has been in Daming for ten years, which is not short, but can ten years really cultivate a qualified scientist? He Xi didn't know.