"Click, click."

Ryloga Shadhana rode the railway, and in his hand was a newspaper of the Ming Dynasty, which wrote about all kinds of evil deeds of Polondoraja, and even said that when Polondoraja was angry, he would cook people and eat them.

"The newspapers of the Ming Dynasty are talking nonsense."

Lyroga Shadhana threw away the newspaper speechlessly, and sitting next to him was a Ming man in a I-shaped suit who was closing his eyes and recuperating, seeing this, Lyroga Shadana gave up his desire to defend Polondoraja.

The railway passes through towns along the way.

Old towns, new towns, bustling bazaars.

Tile houses, earthen embryo houses, blue brick houses, large bungalows, courtyard houses, single-family buildings, townhouses, large water towers, and school bell towers board the train from the capital of Champa and arrive in the capital of Daming, which only takes seven or eight days.

I still remember the first time I took the train, the speed at that time was slower than now, and it took more than ten days for Leloga Shadhana to arrive in the capital of Daming, even so, it made Lailuo Gasadana incredible.

Nanning, Liuzhou, Changsha, Nanchang, Hangzhou, Beijing.

The train stopped in Hangzhou for half an hour.

Like many passengers, Lyroga Shadhana chose to get off the train and stroll around the platform, because the sign of Lyloga Shadhana was a second-class envoy of a vassal state, which was convenient for a lot, but only a first-class envoy was considered an official act, so Lailoga Sandana did not receive much preferential treatment.

And Leloga Sandana still has a lot of restrictions, he can't leave the platform, out of the train station. Ticket gates are required to enter and exit the train station, and the train tickets in the hands of Leloga Shadhana are specially made.

In the beginning, the size of the mission was very large, because there were many merchants in it, and with the opening of the Ming trade, the merchants no longer only had the way of the mission, they had more choices, most of them cooperated with the Ming merchants, plus the rest of the reasons, representing the Porondo Raja, Leloga Shadana, was only himself.

Another official fell ill in Cochin, and the entourage stayed behind to take care of each other, and the initial failure made Lelogashadhana show worry on his forehead.

Leloga Shadhana also saw lychees.

Hangzhou actually has lychees.

Lailuojia Sandana looked at it curiously, lychees are not sold by the pound, but by two, one or two lychees actually cost five cents, only a few, Lailuojia Sandana couldn't help but rise the impulse in his heart, what else to do, transport lychees to the Ming mainland to sell can make a fortune.

Their Siamese lychees are big, sweet, and cheap.

The worker in the I-shaped suit, seeing the lychee on the platform, hesitated for a while, and finally took out the money and bought three taels of lychees, looking at the lychees in the palm of his hand, the worker couldn't help but regret it.

When he was working at the construction site in Champong, the construction site would sometimes give them free lychees to eat, although it was not much, but he didn't need money, he was really crazy.

My father, who had been away from his hometown for a year, returned.

A few children who came home from school jumped up in surprise when they saw their father, and the workers also touched a few children with a smile, and the woman prepared a table of good meals.

My father brought back a lot of gifts, as well as lychees, which were rarely seen among the people.

After each of the children ate one or two pills, it was a taste, which made the woman very dissatisfied and complained that the man was wasting money.

"In the past, only the emperor could eat it, so what was it for the children to satisfy their hunger." The worker smiled generously and said that he finally came back and wanted to make the children happy.

Although the lychees arrived in Hangzhou from Guangdong through a cart loaded with ice cubes, they were still not fresh, and the children did not feel it, they were very happy and fell asleep until midnight.

The worker whispered to his wife about his work at several construction sites in Cochin and Champ. Most of the worker's weekday vacation was saved, and with the addition of annual leave, he could stay at home for two months this time.

"Baby, I want to move my home to Jiaozhi."

"Why?"

The woman was reluctant.

"The policy over there is good, the division of land and into the Ministry of Railway Engineering, with the selection of children, now the factory is not easy to enter, and only military households are eligible for land division, I see, our family has no reading materials, so it is better to pave the road as soon as possible."

When the woman heard her husband's explanation, she felt a little relieved, but she was reluctant to go home.

"For the sake of the children, if a few children enter the factory, they will have a home for the rest of their lives, and we don't have to worry about it." The worker reassured.

In the end, it is a person who has left his hometown.

However, the worker has been working in Jiaozhi for more than ten years, and he has long been accustomed to the local area, and many of the workers around him have settled in the local area, and the worker's heart no longer hesitates, and he also understands his wife's concerns.

I'm used to being there, and my wife has never been there.

Early the next morning, the children went to school, and the workers and their wives visited their relatives, each bringing gifts, discussing the relocation of the workers' family, and coming up with their own ideas.

Some think they shouldn't, and some think they should go wherever they are doing well.

The development of industrialization, the convenience of transportation, and the guidance of the Ming Dynasty, migrating to a new place and getting a better life are no longer strange things for the people, which is different from the traditional migration.

After listening to a lot of opinions, the worker finally insisted on relocating his family, knowing that his family was an ordinary person, and it was more important than anything else to be able to implement the benefits he saw.

At the insistence of the workers, the family decided to move to Jiaozhi.

This is also the reason why the worker did not stay at the time of the Chinese New Year and went home, he wanted to rush to this opening, settle his family well, and worry that after this opening, he did not know when the next opportunity would be.

Capital.

Mandarin Palace.

"The narrow strip connecting the province of Jiaozhi and the capital division of Champa is less than 100 li at the narrowest point, and the longest is more than 3,000 li from north to south, and it enters Jiaozhi from Yunnan and Guangxi respectively, and finally arrives at the coast of the capital division of Champong, which is also the largest port in the southern section of the entire peninsula."

"Eighteen years have passed since Hongwu 31 years began to recover Annam, and after Hongwu 35 years have completely pacified the Jiaozhi rebels, the Jiaozhi Railway Construction Group established has been building railways in Jiaozhi and Zhancheng for 14 years."

"The Lao Xuanwei Division, which is adjacent to the west of Cochin Province, has also built railways for ten years, and the railway mileage of the entire Nanyang is more than 4,300 miles."

Xu Ning, the chief treasurer of the Ministry of Railway Engineering, led the treasurers of the Ministry of Railways to report on the situation of Nanyang Railway.

The rest of the officials listened carefully.

Zhu Gaochi was also pondering.

In the first two years of the construction of the Pacific Railway, because the construction conditions were extremely difficult, the people of many countries could not adapt to it, and in two years, only 160 miles of railroad were built.

In the end, the United States began to use Chinese laborers, originally planned for 14 years, but in the end it took only seven years, of which two years were only 160 miles built, which means that the Chinese were the main force in the construction of this railway, and it only took five years.

The mortality rate of Chinese workers is clearly recorded at 10 percent, so it is impossible to know how many will not be recorded. From another point of view, it can also be seen how strong the spirit of this nation is to endure hardships and stand hard work.

American companies use Chinese laborers and use them as slaves, and the harsh environment and unguaranteed logistics lead to a high mortality rate among Chinese workers, which is certainly not the case in the Ming Dynasty.

Daming railway workers are the mainstay, absorbing some of the local young and strong, combined with a small number of eunuchs, although the mortality rate has reached more than 3.0 percent, most of the deaths are eunuchs, although the price of eunuchs is not low, but eunuchs are not included in the system of social production and development cycle, and they are not counted as the population with consumption power, so it is not a pity.

And every Daming worker is regarded as the main consumer force, and every death is a loss. In order to build more than 4,000 miles of Nanyang Railway, thousands of eunuchs died.

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

If you want to build roads, you need a good environment.

Without a good environment, a place that could have been used as a charter office can become a supply place for migrant workers.

In the same way, the biggest obstacle to the construction of the railway is not actually the difficulty of the construction project, the historical Ming Dynasty, the agricultural society, can still build the magnificent Great Wall of 18,000 miles from the west to the east of Liaodong.

Is there any engineering difficulty at the moment, and is it more difficult than the environment there?

The Great Wall was no longer built, and the railroad was rebuilt.

The hardest thing is the human obstacle.

Therefore, no matter where the railway is, it needs to be stabilized and cleared of local resistance forces in order to build the railway smoothly.

This is the case in the northern part of the country, the province of Li, the province of the Western Regions, the seven provinces in the west, the same is true of Cochin, the same is true of Champong, and the same is true of Laos.

Could it be that Zhu Di's biggest purpose in going south this time, in Zhu Gaochi's plan, is to solve the local resistance forces in the construction of the Nanyang Railway for the future of the Ming Dynasty.

With the opening of the railways in Cochin and Champong, as well as the railway in Laos, the railways of the Ming Dynasty should continue to extend westward, entering Chenla, Siam, Eight Hundred Burma, Mubang, Burma, and Mengyang, and have been built into the Wuthorn and Punggar Thorn, and entered the scope of India in later generations.

This is a long-term project, not something that can be ended in a short time, and it is also the reason why Zhu Gaochi can't bear Zhu Di's southward this time.

Compared with the current Australia, the New World, and the subcontinent are what Zhu Gaochi values more.

If you can take the subcontinent, then the Ming will be complete.

The subcontinent has been ruled by foreign races for thousands of years, they are touched one by one, they can all touch it, why can't the Ming Dynasty touch it, with the thinking of the people of the subcontinent, there is no place in the world that is easier to rule than this land.

There is a population and fertile land, and if you invest a penny, you will soon pay back ten ten, and you will be able to buy and sell at a profit.

How to conquer the subcontinent.

Zhu Gaochi thought about it for a long time, from Zhu Di's recovery of Jiaozhi, to Zhu Di's development of the seven western provinces, and only after understanding the two places, Zhu Gaochi made a decision.

The conquest of the subcontinent through the seven western provinces was unfavorable to the Ming court, not only because of the difficulty of transportation and supplies, but also because of the complementarity with the domestic economic cycle, which was not as advantageous as entering the subcontinent through the South Seas.

Moreover, the seven western provinces are too far away from the imperial court, the terrain is barren, and now the Ming Dynasty still needs blood transfusion, with the limitations of the current history, in fact, it is not conducive to the long-term rule of the Ming Dynasty, but it is supported by the strong national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

So when the seven western provinces have a subcontinent, what else do they need? It has the foundation for the great development of industry, and more importantly, the imperial court's control over the seven western provinces is the weakest.

At present, the proportion of Ming people in the seven western provinces is not high, which is equivalent to transporting the mode of industrialization to the seven western provinces, and the seven western provinces have a subcontinent, food stability, and population base, Zhu Gaochi sees the danger.

Just as the Tang Dynasty brought the system and culture of the interior to the frontier, but the proportion of the population was not high, what was the final result, history has proven that it was not conducive to the development of civilization.

In Zhu Gaochi's plan, the population of the Ming Dynasty in the subcontinent should account for at least 60 percent of the subcontinent, so that Zhu Gaochi would not hinder the development of the subcontinent, otherwise both the seven western provinces and the productive forces of the subcontinent would have to be suppressed and hindered.

In the system of social resource distribution mode and industrial layout, an environment in which we cannot improve our own industrial system without the Central Plains is formed.

At least in the event of the collapse of the Ming economy, the division of the seven western provinces and the subcontinent will not pose a threat to the Ming mainland, so that the Ming still maintains a crushing advantageous base.

"The Ministry of Railway Engineering has done a very good job, very well, and its achievements in various regions are worthy of the recognition of the imperial court." Zhu Gaochi said, "The railway is not only the blood vessel of the Ming Dynasty, but also the core driving force of the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, which has led to the great development of the productive forces of the whole society." ”

The anatomical development of Jinzhou for many years, blood vessels have become a new discovery of traditional Chinese medicine, and are well known, the composition of the human body, the doctors of the Ming Dynasty have been very clear, what is lacking is the discovery of the micro-light layer, which can not be solved by the development of medicine alone, what is needed is the progress of more industries to feed each other.

The two million railway workers in the Ming Dynasty are behind the population of tens of millions, because of the railway project, which has brought the consumption power of tens of millions of people, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty has today's height, and the railway has played half of the role.

Coupled with millions of prisoners of war and eunuchs, it is the reason why the Ming Dynasty has successfully built so many railways in the past 20 years. It not only satisfies the manpower and material resources needed for the construction of railways under the limited productivity, but also ensures the framework of economic circulation.

Behind the two million railway workers, there are millions of industrial chain workers, involving mining, iron smelting, etc., and tens of millions of consumption power has promoted the demand and prosperity of the industry.

It is also why the Ming merchants planted so many jute estates in Goryeo, but they still could not catch up with the growing demand of Da next year.

So why does Zhu Gaochi attach more importance to Nanyang.

Nanyang not only provided more food and fed more non-agricultural population, but also allowed the Ming Dynasty to conquer the subcontinent, integrate into the economic system of Chinese civilization, build more railways, and promote the development of stronger social productive forces.

Relying on this model, the Ming Dynasty can eat at least two or three generations of dividends in the development process of the South Seas and the subcontinent, Zhu Gaochi does not believe it, to such a point, under such a strong demand, the Ming Dynasty can not completely enter the second industrial revolution society?

"In order to create a smooth environment for the laying of the railway in the South Seas, so the Ming must remove this person, not because he hinders the Ming merchants from doing business, this is only one of them, the most important thing is that the existence of this person will become an obstacle to the construction of the railway, endangering the core national politics of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming must use all means to erase this person, in order to set an example, so that no one dares to hinder the construction of the Ming Railway and destroy it privately."

Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, completely understood His Royal Highness the Prince's thinking.

"The minister rejects Leloga Shadana."

Zhu Gaochi nodded.

Xu Ning's mouth moved, and finally stopped.

He thought that there was no need to refuse directly, he could talk to Leloga Shadanado, so that they would have a fluke mentality and would not make the strongest resistance, but thinking of His Royal Highness the Prince's example, Xu Ning had some understanding.

This time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to crush the past, let all the forces in Nanyang see what will happen against the Ming Dynasty.

Nanyang is too complicated.

There are countless forces in Myanmar alone, including the same is true of the Eight Hundred Great Burma, although the Ming Dynasty sealed the local Tusi, in fact, the Eight Hundred Faces are still the situation of the tribes, and countless tribes, the Ming Dynasty cannot cover everything, and each one has to communicate and negotiate.

Then a Ming who can't be offended is a good practice.

Leloga Shadhana did not expect to come back to Daming this time, and encountered such a tough attitude, no minister was willing to see him, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites came forward to tell him, leaving a word, Polondoraja had to fully accept the way out of Daming's request.

Helpless, Leloga Shadhana could only return to southern Siam and bring back the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

The speed of the steam engine train was sixty miles per hour at the beginning, in fact, the speed of the steam engine train could have been improved for a long time, and finally it was delayed for many years, and the speed was increased to an average of eighty miles per hour, that is, the speed of forty miles per hour.

The huge manpower and material resources required to expedite the eight-hundred-mile rush have long been popularized in today's Ming Dynasty.

It only takes four days to get from Guangdong to Beijing.

It only takes three and a half from Peking to the capital.

It only takes nine days to get from Yili to Lumu, the provincial government of Lixing Province, that is, Urumqi in later generations, to Nanjing. But the railway in Samarkand has not yet been built, and even if it is opened, it will take half a month.

The farthest west of the Ming Dynasty, the actual control of the Mashhad area, the railway has not yet started, even if it is completed, it will take nearly a month, and a round trip will take two months.

Sichuan.

Ma Dingguo's hometown.

More than 300 children arrived at the Wuchang Workers' Children's School in Hubei Province by railway, while the children from the Chongqing Workers' Children's School in Sichuan Province took the train to Hubei Province.

They go from a place they are familiar with to a place that others are familiar with, and others come to a place that they are familiar with.

"At that time, because of the lack of technology to build bridges, this section of the railway, up the hillside, and because of the lack of power of the steam engine, you see." The priests took their students to visit the steam engine room next to the abandoned railroad tracks.

"Through the action power of the steam engine fixed on the ground, the locomotive is connected with a hook to make up for the lack of power for the steam engine train, so that the train can climb the hill section by section."

The children curiously gathered around the abandoned pavilion, there was one such pavilion every eight or nine hundred steps, the railway would bend a section at the pavilion, and there were more than a dozen such pavilions on the whole mountain.

There is a hut next to the pavilion for the staff to rest.

Inside the abandoned hut, there are tables and chairs left behind by the workers, which are covered with dust and new grass grows.

"What if the hook breaks."

A student looked at the foot of the mountain, his eyes worried.

"There was such an accident, so the uncles of the Railway Engineering Department, after careful consideration, abandoned this section of the old railway, and you see that there is no short tunnel over there, it was blown up by the workers' uncles with gunpowder piece by piece."

"Ahh

The children exclaimed.

"But now there is a new technology, to solve the shortcomings of the steam engine horsepower, in order to get better power, the inventor uncles, in the tank of the original metal tubes, expanded to twenty-five, when the boiler is lit, the hot gas will be through the metal tube to heat the water inside to produce steam, steam to drive the piston movement, through the crank principle to drive the wheel."

"Do any of you remember the invention of the piston?"

"Me."

"Me."

The children raised their hands.

The teacher ordered the most enthusiastic child, and the child quickly said: "The piston used in the original pumping steam engine was improved by Grandpa Wan. ”

"Clever Grandpa Wan, he filled the piston leak with straw everywhere."

"Later, Uncle Han Youchang added a ring to the piston and invented the principle of capping, which is now the piston used in the locomotive of the steam engine, and is known as the inventor of the third generation of steam engines."

"The steam engine technology used in ships is also improved by Uncle Han Youchang, and it is called three and a half generations of steam engine technology, why is it called three and a half generations, because there has been no qualitative breakthrough in efficiency."

"Good."

Although the child said many answers beyond the questions, the teacher still gave praise.

The child looked up triumphantly.

The students' study tour is a school-to-school match.

Chongqing's workers' children's school, a few years ago, traveled to Guizhou, but this year it was changed to Hubei Province, and under the organization of the Ministry of Rites, it advocated expanding the scope of study tours to ensure that every child can go to more places before graduation.

After the visit, the children returned to the Chongqing Workers' Children's School, which has dormitories and canteens, which reduces the cost of study tours. Such a study tour process, with the exchange of resources of various schools and the convenience of the railway, did not exceed the capacity of the Ministry of Rites.

The teacher assigned homework in the classroom, and each child wrote a travelogue.

The kids were excited.

"Sir, it's hard work."

The children stood up neatly, bent down to send the teacher out of the classroom, and after the teacher returned the salute solemnly, Fang stepped out of the classroom, and when the figure of the teacher disappeared at the door, the children immediately became lively.

They saw more new things and broadened their horizons.

"Today's children are smarter than the children of the past."

The teachings left behind by the Chongqing Workers' Children's School chatted with the teachers from the Wuchang Workers' Children's School, lamenting the changes in the students, and they also enjoyed it.

Etiquette is the foundation of civilization.

The priest bowed in return in the classroom, and then returned to the public room, and when he heard the methods of his colleagues from other places, he nodded approvingly and joined in the discussion.

In the short tunnel of that hill.

A train passes by, and the carriages of the train are all transporting goods, and the carriages are full of bamboo pieces to transport to Hubei and Zhejiang and other regions.

"Click, click."

The apprentices were sweating profusely, and the coachman was staring ahead.

"Boom!"

The sound of explosions destroyed the railway.

The train derailed.

The goods were sprinkled all over the mountains.

The driver of the locomotive and several apprentices died on the spot, and Tusi took the young men of the tribe to see that all the bamboo pieces were scolded, and quickly fled back to the mountains. (End of chapter)