And with the arrest of several vassal kings, almost instantly, everyone in the entire court and the opposition began to become well-behaved.

No more chaos.

The lessons from the past are here, and naturally no one will dare to mess around.

He didn't dare to let anyone pretend that he was Zhu Yunxi's elder, so he put on a score in front of him.

That's the benefit of rules.

Since ancient times, etiquette cannot be abolished!

Before, Lao Zhu was the first generation of founding emperors, and he fought with the same old brothers, so it was not easy to pay attention to these, but when he came to Zhu Yunxi, if he didn't correct it, the Ming Dynasty would really become a dynasty without rules.

However, the opposite is true.

The imperial power of the Ming Dynasty is extremely high!

The prime minister has been abolished, and the local power has been decentralized, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty naturally has more power.

It's just that there was a lack of etiquette before.

Zhu Yunxi corrected it and went straight on the right track.

And just half a month after Zhu Yunxi established the rules for the Ming Dynasty, a great news came.

The Bureau of Technology Research and Manufacturing is working hard.

Finally, the first iteration of the large steam engine was completed, and the carriage that was originally prepared was matched.

Now it has been assembled into the first train of Daming!

With fifteen horsepower, it can tow a train of hundreds of people!

This is undoubtedly great news for Zhu Yunxi! Almost immediately, Zhu Yunxi took the good news and went to inform Lao Zhu!

And Lao Zhu's reaction was naturally very excited.

The grandfather and grandson hurriedly set a date and prepared to go to see what the first train of the Ming Dynasty was like!

But just a train doesn't work.

There must be a supporting railway, otherwise this train will be a useless thing, fortunately, Zhu Yunxi has already arranged it, recruited laborers to lay the rails, and now it is only one step away from connecting the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge.

So Zhu Yunxi was not in a hurry to inspect the train.

Instead, wait for the railway to be a little longer, and then go for a test ride.

However, the specific time has also been set.

When the people of the Ministry of Engineering knew the date of Zhu Yunxi's inspection, they worked overtime almost overnight to complete the laying of the railroad tracks in Beijing.

It is connected to the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge.

Such a huge action naturally made the people of Beijing curious.

What the hell is this train?

Different from the horror of the people of China when they saw the train for the first time in history, this time, because of the many changes brought by Zhu Yunxi, the people of the Ming Dynasty have long had the ability to accept new things.

is even more because Zhu Yunxi abolished science before, which made the people a little more wise.

Moreover, this time the train is no longer from overseas, but from the Jinling Eighteen Squares of the Ming Dynasty!

Naturally, the people were no longer afraid.

Naturally, the officials of the Ming Dynasty will not reject it, let alone reprimand the train for causing trouble to the country and the people!

Completely different from the Manchus!

Today's Ming is the Ming of progress!

It is also a Ming that actively embraces the new era! Full of vitality, welcoming all changes, no one is conservative, or rejects new things!

Because almost all such people are physicists.

And a physicist like Fang Xiaoru has already been wiped out by Zhu Yunxi! Nowadays, science is simply untenable in Daming!

The minds of the people are not imprisoned.

The thoughts of the court are not corrupted!

How can Da Ming not prosper?

……

Seven days later.

It is rare that the Fengtian Temple is empty.

There is no pilgrimage today.

Zhu Yunxi first picked up Lao Zhu, and then took the civil and military officials and walked towards the Eighteen Squares of Jinling.

The starting point of the railway is on the bank of the Qinhuai River, in the eighteen squares of Jinling!

At the same time, it is also the real engine of Daming's development!

Zhu Yunxi spends at least tens of millions of taels of money in the Technology Research and Manufacturing Bureau every year! And this money is the military expenditure of the Ming Navy for five or even ten years!

Even if it is the new army of the Ming Dynasty, the silver taels spent a year are only five million taels!

Fortunately, the Technology Research and Manufacturing Bureau will not only spend money, but also make money for Zhu Yunxi, and the ordnance produced and the equipment of various factories alone are enough to support their independent operation.

After all, apart from the Eighteen Fangs of Jinling, there is no place where these things can be produced.

The position of Jinling Eighteen Fangs in the market can almost be said to be monopolistic!

If it weren't for the Technology Research and Manufacturing Bureau controlled by Xu Miaojin, Zhu Yunxi would probably have split up the Eighteen Fangs of Jinling a long time ago.

After all, the profits are simply frighteningly high!

But fortunately, Xu Miaojin is in charge of everything, and Zhu Yunxi can rest assured, after all, Xu Miaojin will not be greedy for ink and silver.

There is no need to be greedy for ink.

Soon, Zhu Yunxi and his entourage came to the Eighteen Squares of Jinling.

Here, Xu Miaojin waited here early with a group of officials from the Technical Research and Manufacturing Bureau.

Behind the other party, there was a steel monster with a black body and two or three people tall standing quietly in place!

It looks extremely scary!

This is the first generation of trains in Daming!

Because of Zhu Yunxi's guidance, the first generation of trains in the Ming Dynasty has a very high degree of completion, and it does not look primitive and simple.

It is obvious that this is not a product of this era!

Although the civil and military officials present could not understand this, the feeling in their hearts was very clear and clear to them.

This train is extraordinary!

This appearance alone is enough to make people feel terrifying!

If you really start moving, what kind of power do you need to push it?

And the next few carriages are even more shocking.

Just by relying on a large machine with a black chimney at the front of the car, can it really drive something that is so long? Is this thing really that powerful?

The civil and military officials present couldn't help but doubt in their hearts!

Even if the people from the Technology Research and Manufacturing Bureau said it wildly and guaranteed it well, it was hard for them to believe it!

It's just because of Zhu Yunxi's presence.

The civil and military officials did not dare to express the doubts in their hearts.

After all, this is something made up by the Technology Research and Manufacturing Bureau, and who among the civil and military officials present does not know how much attention Zhu Yunxi attaches to this department?

Stand up and question the Bureau of Technology Research and Manufacturing.

It's almost no different from hitting His Royal Highness Taisun in the face in public!

Lao Zhu on the side did not have the slightest doubt in his heart, after all, Zhu Yunxi had brought too many changes to Daming, and the Technology Research and Manufacturing Bureau under Zhu Yunxi was Zhu Yunxi's most important helper.

Never went wrong!

If it is said to be done, then it must be done!

No one dares to risk killing their heads to deceive Zhu Yunxi, not to mention that this department is presided over by Xu Miaojin.

Absolutely 100% trusted.

Lao Zhu looked at the appearance of the train, and couldn't help but start to look at it, in front of him was a huge iron box, which seemed to contain something, and on top was a long chimney.

If that's right, this iron box should contain a full box of water.

Behind the tin box is a semi-open carriage, where workers are constantly adding coal to the furnace.

It seems that a fire is burning.

The scorching heat made the workers' heads covered with sweat, and they were only wearing a thin single coat even if it was not a hot day.

And behind the front of the car.

It is a connected carriage, and the entire carriage is enclosed, each with two doors and dozens of windows, and the inside is a space of its own.

Needless to say, this should be the same carriage as a horse-drawn carriage, with people in the back.

However, unlike the horse-drawn carriage, because of the rails, there is also a large steam engine, which has a strong power of fifteen horsepower.

There are as many as five cars attached to the back.

Each one is about ten meters long, and it looks like it can carry hundreds of people without any problems.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

At this moment, a burst of white mist suddenly emerged from the high chimney at the front of the car.

Let out a screaming roar!

"Your Highness, the train is ready to start at any time."

"Please also ask Your Highness to board the car."

Someone from the Technology Research and Manufacturing Bureau stepped forward and said.

Zhu Yunxi also had no ink.

Immediately said: "Get in the car!" ”

A group of civil and military officials, in a mood of curiosity and a little fear, boarded the back carriages, sorted according to their official positions and titles.

Only those with the official position in the former can ride in the carriage slightly ahead.

And Zhu Yunxi, Lao Zhu, Xu Miaojin and others naturally took the first carriage.

From the outside, the train is a whole piece of iron.

But there's a lot of space inside.

The interior was lavishly decorated, and the seats were so wide that only a few important ministers were able to follow them into the carriage.

"This is the train?"

"The location is simply so much bigger than a horse-drawn carriage! I can't imagine it...... If these carriages are full of soldiers. ”

"How fast will Daming's army be transported by then!"

In the rear compartment.

A group of generals curiously touched the seats and shells of the train, and poked their heads out, curiously looking at the squealing front of the locomotive.

The white steam is still hot.

It's incredibly curious, how does this huge steel monster work?

How is it possible to move?

After all, there are more than 100 civil and military officials in the court!

But in everyone's surprised and puzzled eyes.

The train let out another screech, followed by a 'click' sound, and began to move slowly.

"It's moving! It's really moving! ”

The courtiers' faces were full of surprise.

shouted, "Look! It's really moving! We're really moving! ”

"It's just...... Isn't that too slow? ”

At the beginning, the speed was even slower than the speed of an ordinary person walking, if the speed of this train is only a little bit...... I'm afraid it won't be of much use at all!

At the front.

Lao Zhu also looked puzzled.

He asked, "Xi'er, why is this train so slow after it starts?" ”

"Didn't you say there were fifteen horsepower?"

Almost all of the people present were in contact with the train for the first time, so they naturally did not know that the train started so slowly.

The power of the train is different from that of the horse, which explodes extremely fast.

Power requires a process of conduction.

So Zhu Yunxi could only explain: "Grandpa Huang, the carriage of the train itself is extremely heavy, and the weight of hundreds of people is a huge load. ”

"If you change to fifteen horses and drag them ahead."

"I'm afraid it's hard to start, after all, the strength of these horses can't be used in one place, and the strength of the horses can't last."

"But the steam train is constantly energizing."

"Don't look at the current speed, it will slowly get faster later."

Zhu Yunxi naturally had a hard time explaining the problem of inertia to Lao Zhu.

can only let Lao Zhu wait patiently.

And sure enough.

After starting, the front of the train screams, exhaust fumes are emitted from the chimney, and the speed of the train gradually increases.

"It's time to get up!"

"It's noticeably faster!"

Lao Zhu's face was full of surprise.

The old man's face was full of joy, like a child who had just been given a toy.

It was joy from the heart!

And in the back carriage, I felt the speed of the train getting faster and faster.

It also directly broke the suspicions of everyone present!

The train was able to carry hundreds of them, and after only a while, it gradually increased, not much faster than a horse trot.

And the difference is.

What is needed to feed the horses is fine grain.

But this train only needs some 'black stones' that can be found everywhere.

This thing, Da Ming doesn't say it's all over the place.

But you can mine at will! One take it is a whole big basket! No money at all!

The cost and efficiency have increased countless times at once!

With the gradually speeding train, everyone's hearts began to gradually speed, if the entire Ming Dynasty laid this kind of track in the future.

If you take this kind of train again, wouldn't you be able to go wherever you want?

It can carry hundreds of people at a time, and it can carry a wagon of goods to various places in Daming!

How shocking is that?

Lao Zhu couldn't help but start thinking about the scene that Zhu Yunxi had depicted for him before.

Previously, just through Zhu Yunxi's description, Lao Zhu was still a little vague in his heart.

But now after seeing the train in action with your own eyes.

But there is a clear picture in my mind.

Trains with more powerful power than now are speeding through the Ming Dynasty covered with railroad tracks.

The entire land of Daming is connected because of this railroad track!

In the past, it often took several days, or even half a month, to get from the border of the Ming Dynasty!

And that's with the constant change of horses.

But if there is a train in the future.

Even ordinary people can rush from the border of the Ming Dynasty to the Beijing Division in a day or two!

And the decree of the imperial court.

It will also greatly improve efficiency!

The control of the place can also be greatly improved! You can know everything you do in the local area!

"Good!"

"That's a good thing!"

Old Zhu was overjoyed.

It seems that from this first train, I have seen the future of Daming!

An era of steel torrent is kicking off!

Zhu Yunxi smiled lightly, looking at the scenery in front of him, as the speed of the train became faster and faster, after stretching out his hand, he could gradually feel the slight breeze.

This was the first train of the Ming Dynasty.

But it is by no means the last one of the Ming Dynasty!

(End of chapter)