With the complete defeat of the main army of Goryeo, Liang Eun also completed his mission to return to Beihae Island, but the day before he was about to leave, he unexpectedly received an order from the government office.

The order required Liang En to rush to Jijing within a month, and the reason for asking him to go to Jijing was also very simple - because the new technology and new varieties had been thoroughly confirmed after a year of verification, plus he had discovered a new continent and brought back detailed information, the imperial court decided to give Liang En a corresponding reward after discussion.

This practice can also be regarded as the fundamental principle of the founding of a country in the Great Song Dynasty - meritorious service must be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished. No matter how great the merit or how great the sin, there will be a reward or punishment accordingly.

"It's also a good thing to be able to go to Jijing, after all, I've never been there." Standing on the boat, Liang En said to Ao Lei with some excitement, "I heard them say that it is the closest city to a fairyland in the world. ”

"I've heard a lot of people say that I've always wanted to go before, but unfortunately there is a huge magic circle on top of that city, and if a cultivator approaches it without permission, it will be strongly suppressed, so I didn't go."

The magic circle that Ao Lei is talking about is called the Circle of National Fortune, which uses the luck of a country to carry out a comprehensive suppression of the capital and its surroundings, and can suppress all unauthorized supernatural forces.

Fortunately, they got the capital pass before they set off this time, although the pass is only a one-time time, but it can allow them to avoid being suppressed by the magic circle in the city during this trip to Jijing.

At the same time, this pass is also a symbol of their status, which can help them enter some places that ordinary people cannot enter under normal circumstances, and avoid wasting time by repeatedly verifying their identities.

After a few days of sailing, Liang En's ship successfully arrived at Haijin Port, located in the depths of the Bohai Sea, and Liang En finally saw for the first time what the world's largest and most prosperous port looked like.

It is a port that is somewhere between ancient and modern, with antique lighthouses, stone and wooden docks, arched buildings, but also white steam coming from the steam engines.

The steam engines were mainly mounted on a few tower cranes, which were obviously newly built, and Liang En clearly saw that with the operation of the steam engines, a large number of boxes packed in large nets were easily transported from the ship to the port.

"Those big guys are newly installed steam tower cranes." Seeing Liang En staring at the tower crane, the pilot of the offshore ship proudly introduced to Liang En, "This tower crane can be used as 100 best porters, but the cost is less than 20 porters." ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the tower crane operation is too complicated, the manufacturing cost is too high, the high requirements for operators and maintainers, and the inability to fit some ships and cargo, I don't think there are only seven tower cranes on the dock."

"yes, that's progress." Liang En nodded, and then changed the conversation. "What about the original porter? If these machines replace human labor, I think many people will lose their jobs. ”

"That's true, fortunately, the imperial court is prepared for this." The water pilot was a very talkative person, so he answered Liang En's question, "Recently, someone has found food that can be grown in the north, so there is a shortage of people in the north now." ”

"You see, these porters are porters simply because they don't have land or have so little land that they have to work as coolies to support their families."

"So on the premise that they can go to the north to get land first, these coolies don't mind losing their jobs – they can't wait to go to the north to get land."

"As for those who don't want to leave, there is also a good job, and several factories have been built outside the city recently to recruit people, and these able-bodied people who are also disciplined on the docks are the factory's favorite workers-"

"Factory?" After hearing this word, Liang En was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the imperial court to move so fast, and it seemed that an industrial zone had been built in just one year.

Since the factory is something new this year, many people don't know about it, so the pilot mistakenly thinks that Liang En is the kind of customer who doesn't know what the factory is recently, so he explained.

"There are a lot of steam engines that replace water, animal power, and human power to make all sorts of things. Seriously, it's the first time I've seen an average person produce all sorts of things at such a rapid rate—"

Just as the pilot praised the factory, Liang En's ship gradually approached the dock, and after paying the fee, Liang En and Ao Lei landed on land.

After contacting the officials, Liang En and the others were arranged to be in an inn, but because everyone was busy, they could only enter Beijing the day after tomorrow.

Obviously, the room service in the hotel here in the ancient world was almost zero, so after breakfast that morning, Liang En, who was obviously a little bored, took Ao Lei to the front desk and asked what fun places in the city were there.

"Master Liang, if it's you, you can visit the launching ceremony of the new cruiser, I heard from them that this is a test warship, which was built using the latest technology and with a lot of help from cultivators."

As the person in charge of the official inn, the shopkeeper naturally knows a lot of information that is not public, and he also knows what kind of information should be provided to different customers.

Obviously, he understood Liang En's academic level, and he also knew Liang En's general direction in terms of academics, so he said a place where he could enter.

So after changing into a blue robe with a shiguan dress, Liang En and Ao Lei, who also wore natal armor according to etiquette, rode on horses and went to the dock that was closed to the public.

"They really made this thing!" After verifying the order to enter the military dock, he was shocked by the behemoth docked on the edge of the dock.

Not far away, a warship with white and black paint on it was quietly parked there, and the rivets on it were obvious that it was a killing machine made of pure steel.

The ship had only two rudimentary-looking masts in the front and rear, but there were no sails on them, and two yellow-painted chimneys stood in the center of the ship, and wisps of white smoke drifted out of the chimneys.

The most conspicuous were the bow, stern and side guns, which were far more slender than today's guns, and were covered by shields that were also made of steel.

"Oh my God!"

"Battleships of steel—"

"Mazu is on top!"

The guests who saw this scene let out exclamations, and even Ao Lei, the dragon who was the darling of the sea, was shocked by the miracle created by humans.

After about half an hour, the exclamations from the nobles and ministers on the field gradually quieted down. It was at this time that a flamboyant carriage slowly drove in from the entrance to the docks, surrounded by hundreds of cavalrymen in two-color armor.

"It seems that this ship is more important than expected." Liang En recognized the identities of these people by looking at the patterns drawn on the carriages.

In addition to the emperor, the people who came included members of the political hall and cabinet members, and it can be said that almost all the people who could come from the upper echelons of the entire empire came, so it is no wonder that the brocade guards and the core forbidden army will be dispatched as protectors.