Coming out of the sales office, Second Uncle Chen looked at the contract in his hand and said with emotion: "The development of this era is too fast, and you young people are still courageous." ”

Speaking of this, he remembered that he was reluctant to take the train at the beginning, so he had to measure the Gao family in Yuzhou with his feet.

"Sometimes life choices have to be gained, the Gao family is reluctant to spend some money to take the train to Yuzhou, but when they go to Yuzhou, they find that the shops and fields in Yuzhou have basically been selected by the provincial management businesses, and they go to Yuzhou and can't even pick up good industries."

Chen Sihai also felt sorry for the Gao family in his heart, "Shopping malls are like battlefields, this sentence is not just talking. The train to Yuzhou is an opportunity for all businesses to seize business opportunities. And the Gao family is distressed about a little profit, but the gains outweigh the losses, which is really not worth it. ”

The opportunities in the business world are limited, and if you don't catch up with one step, you may be one step behind others.

For example, last time in Yuzhou, most people knew that they took the train to Yuzhou to buy industries.

However, the Gao family was a big step late for everyone because of saving, and when they arrived in Yuzhou, the good industry had been pocketed by everyone, and they could only pick up the leftovers of others.

These merchants, who arrived in Yuzhou early, managed to handle the industries in Yuzhou and rushed back to the capital from Yuzhou. It happened that the remaining building in the resettlement community outside the city was sold.

Whether they can buy these houses or not, but at least they have caught up with this opportunity, and the Gao family is still running around in Yuzhou at this time to buy properties, and they have not picked the shops or granges they want.

When the Gao family comes back, there is nothing left.

Nowadays, the resettlement community outside the city is something that the people around the capital have been talking about recently.

In the palace, Xia Jing is also having a headache for the sudden increase in coal consumption in the capital, as long as the coal dug out in the past is used for the war bureau, and now it has increased the use of coal for trains, coal for heating boilers, and coal for the people in the resettlement communities outside the capital, so as to drive the people in the city to buy coal to burn.

The amount of coal used was suddenly increased, and the amount of coal mining could be increased, but transportation became a problem.

In the past, it was pulled by a horse cart, but now the amount of use has increased, and the traditional horse cart is a bit in short supply.

Xia Jing thought of the kind of small train in the coal mine, which is very practical to transport coal, in the mountainous coal mine, there is no need for power, and the slightly steep slope can easily use a small train car to transport coal to the foot of the mountain.

The small train is controlled uphill and downhill by ropeway, and with the application of gears, even if it is manually shaken, it does not take much effort.

When the coal reaches the foot of the mountain, a mining railway is built to transport the coal out.

Steam locomotives can be said to be living fossils in the history of industrial development, and later generations did not appear until the beginning of the 19th century.

And in this era, Xia Jing made a comparison, probably the period of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in later generations.

The West is in the early stage of industrialization, and the East is lagging behind the West because of the change of dynasty and later the closure of the country.

If you want to surpass the West, she took out the mature steam train drawings in advance, which means that the East has far surpassed the West during this period, as long as the Yu Dynasty does not drop the chain, the basic framework has been built, steady development, the East has stood on the top of the world!

Therefore, the cultivation of talents is really important, ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, a person from birth to become a talent, to go a long way, not to mention to be a country in decline, the people's livelihood withered dynasty to re-accumulate national strength to stand on the top of the world, how difficult?

The wisdom of the ancients should never be underestimated, sometimes they just need someone to dial it and give them a thought, and they can do it well.

Otherwise, in the absence of external power, the ancients could have designed a pump that would pump water from below to the canal above with a drop of three meters?

Could it be that the steam engine was invented because of the principle of boiling water, and thus applied to transportation and production?

And the arquebuses and Franc cannons that have been made in this era?

It's cold and snowy outside, and you don't want to build a railway in this season, but you can barely maintain the amount of coal used in the capital before the snow melts.

Xia drove all the captives of Beidi last time to the mine, so that they could not work outside in the winter, and could go to the ground to work, which solved the problem of the captives eating white rice in winter.

In winter, not to mention the grasslands, even in the areas north of the Central Plains, the people are nesting at home for winter.

The South is different, especially the more southerly Nanyang.

After Li Dingguo returned to Luzon from Dayu, he has been paying more attention to the merchant ships of various countries coming and going from north to south, especially the plants and seeds they bring, as well as all kinds of strange things.

"General, I haven't found anything from the merchant ships that have stopped by me these few times, and I'm afraid that the task given to us by Niangniang will be difficult to complete."

Vice Admiral Mingshui said with a dejected face, the port has been the fifth fleet they have returned to receive in the past few days, and they still haven't found it.

Li Dingguo stood in front of the map, pointed to a continent and said: "If we don't find it again, we can only organize a fleet to go to this continent to pick up Niangniang's request to find it." ”

Mingshui poked his head curiously and asked, "General, is this the navigation map that Niangniang drew for you?" How can the world be so big, and there is so much land? ”

Li Dingguo endured the excitement in his heart, "Before this, Ben Jiang didn't know that the world was so vast, thank Niangniang for letting her minister see the size of the world." ”

Ming Shui's gaze swept the world map inch by inch, and after a long time, he pointed to the continent that Li Dingguo pointed to just now, "Is there something Niangniang is looking for here?" ”

Li Dingguo's gaze followed what he pointed and shook his head: "I don't know, according to Niangniang, this continent has a very wide area, there are a small number of primitive inhabitants, and the vegetation is even denser, of course, it is different from the vegetation here with us, and rubber trees grow on a continent." ”

Ming Shui didn't know why, scratched his head and stared at the world map and asked, "This rubber tree is very important?" What is it for? ”

The rubber tree first grew in South America, and from the perspective of the South Seas, this world is in a different time and space from the previous life, but history has changed.

"I heard from Niangniang that rubber is very versatile, it can be used in basically all aspects of our lives, and it is even more important than gold for us at the moment."

Li Dingguo is not very clear about what it is used for, but as long as he knows it is very important.

Mingshui: "."

He was shocked and couldn't come back to his senses, this rubber was so important that it was beyond his comprehension.

And

"How does the queen know about things thousands of miles away? And clearly know the map of the world, and also know what kind of trees are thousands of miles away? ”

It's weird to think about it.

As soon as he heard this, Li Dingguo looked at Mingshui seriously and warned: "As a qualified courtier, the most important thing is to speculate less about the master's mind and go to her bottom, if you accidentally touch her bottom line, it will be the time when your life should be destroyed!" (End of chapter)