"Sell snail fruits, iced tea, sake, and melon seeds."

Guangxi Guilin Railway Station.

Many people take the train for the first time, sticking their heads out and looking around, for fear that they are going to the wrong place, and there are many errand clerks, as well as merchants and vendors, who are familiar with finding their seats.

On the platform.

Vendors from other places occupy the vendor area divided by the platform to sell small goods, food and drink.

That's the advantage of information.

The railways built from Beiping, the earliest people in Beiping, have been exposed to new ways of business.

In other places, when they are still familiar, there are already many smart people who have grasped this business opportunity.

Big businessmen do big business, small businessmen do small business, and ordinary people who don't have capital start with the smallest business.

Relying on inconspicuous small business, some people have become big bosses and rented shops in trade centers.

Clever vendors discovered local specialties and immediately purchased them and sold them at the station, creating their own supply chains.

"Borrowed, borrowed."

"Please."

There are small vendors carrying large bags and small bags, polite all the way, never contradicting people, and very polite.

The local specialties of Guangxi were transported to the flat and wealthy areas in the north of the capital to be sold, and the profits were not small.

The old man, who looks similar to the local, should be more capable, sit in his own place, and see all the scenery in his eyes.

"Has the last dynasty changed so much?"

"There are so many small vendors, they are very competitive, can they make money?"

The old man was a little worried.

In their Annam, only the capital, as well as the big Fucheng, have some small businesses, but they can't accommodate such a mode of transportation as the railway station.

The steam engine locomotive, which is semi-manual and semi-mechanical, has not a high output, but it has also come to the forefront of the industry.

Even if it is a combination of half-human and semi-machine production machines, there is an essential difference between making machines and using machines to make machines.

The old man didn't understand these principles, but when he saw the nine carriages and the goods and passengers transporting together, he was already shocked.

"Click, click."

The train started and made a rhythmic sound, which became faster and faster, and it did not feel noisy, but rather comfortable.

The carriage was full of people, people were sitting or standing, talking loudly.

The small vendors, who had toiled for days, piled up large bags of luggage, and they were reluctant to pay for the shipment.

The train station is currently not at full capacity, so there is no effort to manage it.

Most of these vendors come from one place, and everyone is a fellow villager, and the villager leads the villager to form a township gang.

Part of it is in the Beiping area, and more in the Huizhou area.

The tradition formed by Hui merchants since ancient times is that the villagers make a fortune and go home to lead more villagers out of the house, forming a gang.

In essence, it belongs to the concentration of funds and resources, anti-risk and profit maximization, and belongs to a more advanced business model than the traditional small-scale farmer thinking.

So even the street vendors in Peking have gradually fallen behind in the competition.

Patterns are always fundamental.

Although the vendors in Beiping can still make money, the effective utilization rate of funds is not as good as that of the vendors in Huizhou.

The street vendors in Huizhou have changed ten, ten to hundred, and they are united, and they have started very quickly.

The bottom Hui businessmen also occupy the first position in the wave of industrialization, or they will continue to monopolize various new industries in less than 20 years.

"Cheers!"

The villagers took turns to take care of the goods, and no one had to worry about losing their goods, and the rest of the people drank the cloudy wine they bought.

After the train starts, the running speed is about 60 miles per hour, and the unfamiliar scenery on both sides of the road makes people look novel.

The breeze blew in through the open windows, which made people feel cool again.

The comfortable environment makes the passengers who are tired of the journey full of desire to communicate.

The old man couldn't help but sigh.

"The people of the previous dynasty lived drunk and dreamed of death, but they did not know that danger was coming, just as the ancients said, born in peace and died in sorrow."

The old man couldn't help but be proud of what he had seen, but he was soon discouraged.

Didn't he just go to Beijing to file a complaint with the court?

From Guilin, Guangxi to Huguang and Changsha, the changes are not big, and the traditional rural appearance makes the old man sigh but not surprised.

Because it is a train to the capital, it does not pass through the Wuchang area and goes directly to Zhejiang Province.

Zhejiang Province is one of the most prosperous areas in the Ming Dynasty.

The old man was amazed when he saw it, and sure enough, it was the weather of the previous dynasty, and he did not pass through the city, and arrived all the way to Yingtianfu.

The old man was speechless.

Six days.

From Guilin, Guangxi to Zhejiang, from Zhejiang to Yingtianfu, it took only six short days, although it has not yet arrived in the capital, but the old man can not describe the inner mood.

It's not unusual.

But this train has a different meaning.

The army of the previous dynasty, starting from Yingtianfu, if they did not stop on the road and did not wait, it only took six days to reach Guilin, Guangxi.

That is to say, in six days, the forbidden army of the previous dynasty can reach most places, and the hinterland will not exceed five days.

What is the meaning of this.

The supply model has undergone earth-shaking changes, and supply is the lifeline of the army, and the supply problem has been solved, and the army seems to have broken through several layers of bottlenecks.

The train arrived in Chunhua New Town.

Many people got off the platform, and at first the carriages with large bags and small bags were mostly empty, and then some passengers came up.

More than a dozen floors, plus the water tower and bell tower on the roof, the old man saw the shadow of the building in the distance, and opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight or ninety buildings.

The mountain-like buildings emerge from the horizon and appear as if they are connected to the sky and ascend to the sky.

"Dangdangdang."

The bell tower of the railway station, in the operation of the machinery, with the help of the mechanism to ring the bell, spread throughout the square.

The bell struck eleven times.

"Eleven hours." The man next to the old man said.

The old man made a mockery and humbly asked, "What does eleven bells mean?" ”

The man said politely.

"It's in the middle of the hour." The man smiled and said, "The old gentleman looks at the scale on the bell tower, it is more detailed than the hour, and one hour is equal to two bells." ”

The scale has been there since ancient times, people have long been accustomed to it, the old man understood it at a glance, and finally arched his hand to thank him.

Soon.

When the train went to the capital, the old man couldn't help but stick his head out of the window, looking at the mold of the new city farther and farther away, and finally knew that the previous dynasty was different.

Arrived in the capital.

The old man tidied up his appearance and walked in the steps of Chinese etiquette.

The body is straight, the head is elevated, the steps are gentle, not hurried or slow, and the limbs are not easy to shake, showing solemnity.

Come to the Ministry of Rites.

Gate.

Make a salute and take the lead with your right foot......

Pei Boqi, the general of Annam, came to the court to sue Li Jichen.

"Li Jichen, the auxiliary political master of the Annam Kingdom, rebelled, wantonly slaughtered the royal family and civil and military officials, and proclaimed himself king."

Detailed records of officials of the Ministry of Rites.

"Now the king of Annam is Li Jichen?"

"It's not."

"In order to deceive the court, he passed on the throne to his son."

"What does this mean?"

"Li Jichen's youngest son was born to the princess of the old king, royal blood."

The Ministry of Rites officials understood.

Last year, the envoy of Annan said that Annan's royal family is no heir, so the bloodline of the royal princess should be inherited.

"And the territory."

Pei Boqi pointed out the lawsuit between Huang Guangcheng, the prefect of Guangxi, and Annan, and the envoy sent by the sage to investigate the matter.

The territory was not extremely clear in ancient times.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the territorial scope of some areas was clear, while others were more vague.

For example, the junction of Guangxi and Annam.

Tusi Hu Guangcheng said that these areas belonged to him and should be attributed to the Ming Dynasty, while Annan Li Jichen said that these areas had always belonged to Annan, and it was Hu Guangcheng who wanted to expand his territory and fabricated disputes.

From the perspective of future generations, of course, what Hu Guangcheng said is the coolest.

But at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Tusi were not obedient, they were the actual controllers of the land, and they practiced the tribal system in their own territory, and there was no etiquette.

Tusi rebelled repeatedly, according to his own interests and ambitions, and did not really consider himself a Ming man.

The Ming Dynasty did not adopt the means of slaughter, unlike the Western methods, the Ming Dynasty used the productive forces of civilization to teach each other through production and culture, after two or three hundred years of efforts.

This land did not give birth to hatred, and it became one with the land of the Central Plains.

Even in the most dangerous moment of the later generations, it did not have many internal ambitions to split like Outer Mongolia, and it was not of the same mind as China.

Therefore, in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang did not blindly believe in Hu Guangcheng or Annan, but told them the truth.

First of all, he told Annan that if he really thinks he can, then try to go to war, and the Ming Dynasty will use 100,000 troops to advance by land and water, and justify his name to show the four yi.

Annan didn't dare to reply, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not raise troops in anger, and the most severe punishment was only to cut off the tribute.

Most people in Annan turned their hearts to Daming and scolded Chen Siming.

Therefore, Annan repeatedly sent missions to the court in the hope of understanding, which is also one of the reasons why Li Jichen's father-in-law, Chen Siming, the original ruler, seized the throne and abdicated.

It is the performance of Zhu Yuanzhang's love for the people.

He said: "All the four sides are limited to mountains and seas, and they are isolated in a corner, and their land is not enough to supply, and their people are not enough to give orders. If it does not disturb me with its own measure, it is ominous; He is not a problem for China, and it is ominous for me to raise troops and attack lightly. I am afraid that future generations will rely on China's prosperity and strength, be greedy for a moment of military achievements, raise troops for no reason, and cause injuries to people's lives. ”

The Ming Dynasty's expanded wrist mainly relied on the combination of education and big sticks, rather than blind war and conquest.

Although the effect is slow, it is deeply ingrained, and it is also the best way for the ancient people.

The Ming Dynasty's vassal system, if not destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, would have been much more valuable than the Western system in later generations.

It is also the reason for the accusation that later American officials accused China of trying to restore the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty.

Just like the comment of the Ming man Gao Dai, it reflects Zhu Yuanzhang's concept of governing the country.

"With the general of the bear and tiger at that time, the power of a hundred battles, it is difficult to overcome it in Xiaoyi? However, there are many in China. Since he is not enough for China, why should he scare my children and invite useless merits?"

"So what the hell is going on."

Zhu Gaochi received the investigation from the Ministry of Rites and said coldly.

Although he agrees with Zhu Yuanzhang's foreign policy, at this time and from time to time, the epoch-making mode of transportation of railways has changed the social model.

The official he sent to investigate earlier was deceived or deliberate, and what was his motive?

And Zhu Gaochi was more concerned about the safety of the mission he sent.

(End of chapter)