"This is a model of a steam engine ship and a steam locomotive in the future, you see how it ......"

Standing in Taixue's research institute, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanyan looked at an empty room with great interest.

The room has a model of the project, as well as the content of the project, and it is not a large area, but it stores hundreds of topics of various sizes.

These topics range from agriculture to industry, covering almost everything Zhu Di imagined.

From simple soil fertilizer to urea, to phosphate fertilizer and potassium fertilizer, it is only a series of topics related to agriculture, once overcome step by step, it is very likely that Daming's grain yield per mu will increase by more than 30%.

Based on the current environment and land situation of the Ming Dynasty, under the premise that the cultivated land area does not grow, more than 650 million mu of cultivated land can feed about 130 million people at most.

If the grain yield per mu increases by 30 percent, then the current arable land can feed 40 million more people.

This is only the current cultivated land situation, if the Qing Dynasty Guannai and the Republic of China period in the northeast, Jiaozhi cultivated land, then the Ming Dynasty in this low temperature period can be cultivated will not be less than 2 billion mu, can feed 400 million people, and the growth of three achievements is to feed more than 100 million people.

Grain is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the best means for the Ming Dynasty to control most of the vassal states in the future.

"Can this tractor really reclaim dozens of acres of wasteland a year as you said?"

Standing in front of the model, Zhu Di picked up a model of a tractor, and the shape of this model was similar to most tractors during World War II in later generations.

Although Zhu Gaoxu could follow the path of a steam tractor, he had never seen a steam tractor, and steam power required fuel and water, which was very inconvenient for farmers.

Therefore, he did not leave the subject of steam tractors, but directly the subject of internal combustion engines and internal combustion tractors.

"If you can get it out, it will definitely be able to reclaim dozens or even hundreds of acres of wasteland, but with the technology of the imperial court, it is still not up to standard."

Zhu Gaoxu was not arrogant, many technical standards of the internal combustion engine were not attainable by the Ming Dynasty today, and they could not even understand the most basic thermal efficiency of the steam engine, so let them study the internal combustion engine, just like letting future generations study the aerospace aircraft carrier.

Although the times are different, the basic materials and theoretical knowledge that are limited by science and technology are roughly the same.

The quality of steel required for internal combustion engines can be achieved, but achieving it does not mean that it can be mass-produced.

The reason why the artillery of the Ming army did not have a special ballistics and chose to let the artillery explore it by themselves is not because the artillery standards are inconsistent, each artillery has a slight difference, and the ballistics of each artillery will also be different.

This is true of artillery, not to mention muskets and internal combustion engines.

"These many topics and models are prepared for tens of hundreds of years later, and now as long as we can make good use of the steam engine, we can make the Ming Dynasty's national strength reach the peak of ancient and modern times."

Zhu Gaoxu put the model tractor in Zhu Di's hand on the table, and then took Zhu Di to take a look.

In fact, most of the topics in the research institute are just a general description of Zhu Gaoxu's personal "whimsy", or a model of the corresponding appearance.

For the students of this era, although they have studied the ten-year education curriculum of primary and secondary school, such things as airplanes, trains, and ships are undoubtedly fantasy in their eyes.

If it weren't for the success of the steam locomotive research, it is estimated that they would have fallen into deep doubt about what they have learned.

The success of the steam train was an important step, which established the self-confidence of the Taixue Research Institute, and also allowed Zhu Di, Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Zhanqi, the three generations of current and future kings, to see the infinite possibilities of science.

For a king, the role of the train can be military, or people's livelihood, and even used for the emperor's patrol and play, and its advantages are placed there, which no one can resist.

Especially for people like Zhu Zhanyan, who have hardly left Yingtianfu since he was born until now, its attraction is undoubtedly fatal.

The father, son, grandson and grandson wandered around Taixue for an hour, and finally reluctantly left here.

The appearance of the steam engine has made Zhu Di realize that the future war may be completely changed.

Zhu Di has already seen the means of the current war, the train can replace the long supply manpower that has been thousands of miles, with it, the Ming army can even conquer the barren Western Regions, and can send hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from the Central Plains to the Quartet to quell the rebellion at any time.

Not to mention the steamship, which could greatly shorten the sailing time of the ship and help the Ming rule the South Seas.

In addition, Zhu Di also saw the chariot, although Zhu Gaoxu said that it was unlikely to be studied during the lifetime of their father and son, but Zhu Di knew very well that the internal combustion engine chariot and tank were nothing more than upgraded versions of the current chariot.

Today's chariots can be used to defend against artillery, but they need to be pushed by manpower, and the soldiers hide behind.

Then when the chariot can move on its own, the soldier can hide behind and use the chariot to fend off the cannonballs.

Thinking of these, Zhu Di, who was sitting in the big rut, couldn't help but sigh: "With these things, the children and grandchildren in the future will definitely be able to surpass you and me." ”

Zhu Di was talking about him and Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu smiled after hearing it and did not refute.

Zhu Zhanyan is ghostly, and it seems that for the first time, he is happy because of his age.

He had already heard from his father in the research institute that many things in the institute would take more than ten years, even decades, or hundreds of years to develop.

I can't wait for hundreds of years, but it's okay for decades.

He had already learned a brief introduction to human lifespan and genes in his middle school biology class, and if what was written in the book was true, then as long as he had no diseases, he might be able to live to the age of an emperor.

Seventy-one years old, this is a long life for anyone.

Even if you don't live to be seventy-one and live to be in your sixties, you can still witness the rapid changes after tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhanyan had already imagined the picture of himself cruising to the south and north of the world by ship and train in the future.

Grandpa and father are still there, and he has to pretend to be a grandson and a son, and when they are gone, he is the biggest.

Zhu Zhanyan was secretly happy in his heart, the twelve-year-old didn't know how uncomfortable it was to be separated from life and death, and he didn't know how heavy the burden was on his shoulders.

For the throne, he only has a general concept, only sees power, not responsibility.

Compared with him, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu pay attention to the situation outside the big rut.

Due to the opening of Jiangning and Shangyuan Middle Schools, Taixue has stopped recruiting students who have graduated from primary school, so although there are still tens of thousands of students in the outer city of Taixue, they may be the last few students of Taixue.

After they graduate, Taixue will become a place to concentrate on research, regardless of whether it is inside or outside the city.

"They're teaching in middle school after they graduate, right, how many are there now?"

Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu also looked at it and said: "There are more than 36,400 people in the school, only four sessions, and the number of graduates varies every year, and this year it is more than 6,700 people." ”

"After graduating, they will be sent to Qingzhou, Beijing, Shanxi, Xi'an, and Chengdu to teach in secondary schools."

"The temporary plan of the imperial court is to have one middle school in each province and one in the capital, and two directly under the government."

"According to the implementation of the new policy, the demand for secondary schools will set up secondary schools."

"In the above-mentioned provinces, a large number of students will graduate in the next one to two years, and there is a demand for secondary schools."

"Ninety and half of the 36,400 students in Aether Studies have graduated and become teachers, and they correspond to about 300,000 middle school students, and it is very likely that the enrollment is not satisfied."

Secondary schools are not mandatory, so it is unlikely that families with white bodies who do not have a sense of the overall situation will continue to choose to support their students, and Zhu Gaoxu is not prepared to force ten years of education.

In his opinion, five years of compulsory education in primary school is enough, and it is not that he doesn't want to, but that Daming can't afford so much educational pressure.

At present, the education expenditure has reached more than 12 million yuan, accounting for one-third of the total expenditure of the Ming Dynasty.

This is a tipping point, because there are so many civilians who have not read a book, so the pressure to recruit students must be high at first.

Zhu Gaoxu suspended the implementation of the new policy in Jiangxi, and he was also prepared to wait for one more year.

If he waits for one more year, the students enrolled in Liaodong, Shandong, and Sichuan will graduate, and the follow-up students will not be as many as at the beginning, and there will be more free teaching and learning.

These vacant educational resources can be transferred to Jiangxi, thereby reducing education expenditure.

At present, the number of teachers and students in the Ming Dynasty is more than 420,000, and the number of students is more than 6 million.

This is still the result of the failure to implement the new policy in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Huguang, Fujian, Liangguang and Yunnan.

The combined population of these provinces is more than 34 million, and there are at least 4 million students, who need more than 200,000 teachers.

Daming could no longer recruit so many teachers, so he could only postpone the speed of the new policies in the provinces.

In the current basic education market, the number of students graduating from the two capitals and seven provinces is about 900,000 this year, and more than 1.2 million next year.

After that, it increased year by year, and the highest year was 1.36 million.

On the other hand, the enrollment is relatively stable, about 500,000 per year, and the required teaching needs to be maintained at 20,000 are sufficient.

With their graduation, the number of redundant teachers has increased from more than 20,000 this year to more than 30,000 next year.

When the first batch of students graduate, the number of students in the two capitals and seven provinces will basically be 3 million, and it will be enough to maintain 200,000 teaching and learning.

The remaining 220,000 teachers will be transferred to Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces in batches in the next five years.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's estimate, if we continue for another seven years, the most difficult stage of education will pass, and then the education expenditure will drop to less than 10 million yuan, and then the expenditure will increase as the population gradually increases.

However, correspondingly, the gradual increase in population also represented the continuous growth of the imperial court's tax revenue.

In order to do a good job in the new policy, Zhu Gaoxu will not use troops against other places in the next few years, except for the Tusi in Guangxi and Yunnan.

The old man's battle to the north had already crushed the Warat, and they had not been able to recuperate for ten years.

Ten years later, the Ming Dynasty is a unique and powerful Ming Dynasty.

Thinking about the future, Zhu Gaoxu's mood also changed from depressed to relaxed, and the big chariot they rode also drove to Miyagi......

"Goo... Goo ......"

Almost at the same time, when Zhu Gaoxu and the others returned to the palace in the afternoon, Zheng He, who was on the other side of the ocean, walked into the stone house tiredly.

Sitting on the bed, he could hear the cheers of the party in the distance, and he could faintly see the campfire in the distance.

This is the capital of the Eastern Kingdom, and Zheng He has just finished canonizing the Eastern King Ah Di during the day.

Wang Ren was right, several civilized countries on this continent were indeed very easy to speak, and after seeing the fleet and soldiers led by Zheng He, Ah Di promised to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time conduct tributary trade with the imperial court.

Footsteps sounded, Zheng He looked, and sure enough, he saw Yang Zhan and Wang Ren who had walked into the stone house one after another.

They walked in and sat down and closed the door, which was guarded by Ming soldiers who had not drunk.

"That Ah Di is just afraid of the strength of the imperial court, you stay in Dongzhou, you have to guard against it."

Seeing them sit down, Zheng He also opened his mouth to explain to Wang Ren, and Wang Ren also nodded:

"When I translated the matter of paying tribute to them today, I saw that their expressions were wrong, if it wasn't for the army you brought, it is estimated that they would not agree easily."

Wang Ren said, and the taciturn Yang Zhan spoke: "The soldiers and horses stationed in the Dongzhou Xuanwei Division are indispensable, and when Chen Xuan and them arrive, Chen Xuan and I will take a boat to the East Ocean and return to the imperial court, and make a suggestion to His Royal Highness." ”

"At least two guards must be stationed to maintain the deterrent power of the imperial court in Dongzhou and Beizhou, and no one is missing."

Yang Zhan's words won the recognition of Zheng He and Wang Ren, and Zheng He also set his sights on Wang Ren again.

"The eastern kingdom has been solved, and the northern country (Aztec) should be easy to solve according to the small population you said, and it is the southern kingdom (Inca) in the south that is not easy to solve now."

"Are you sure that there is gold in the southern country?" Zheng He asked the question he was most concerned about, and Wang Ren nodded without thinking:

"There must be, they have a lot of gold jewelry there, and the gold panning methods are rough, and if there is no large amount of gold, it is impossible to produce so many gold jewelry."

"In addition, I searched for silver mines according to the mine map given by His Highness, and found that there are indeed silver mines in the southern country, and they are easy to mine."

"It's a pity that across the Great Ming Ocean, we can't bring enough people to mine locally, and we can't conflict with the south, so we can only rely on the power of the south to mine silver."

Due to the weakness of the southern country's armed forces, Wang Renman's mind was full of the idea of invading the southern country, but Zheng He knew that it would be difficult.

"It's better not to!" Zheng He explained: "At present, the center of gravity of the imperial court is in the southwest and Nanyang, and it cannot be distracted from Dongzhou. ”

"Besides, Dongzhou is too far away from the imperial court to be controlled, and even if you cultivate power, it is very easy to divide it."

"According to what His Highness said, use the power of the Three Kingdoms to mine gold, silver and copper mines within the territory of the Three Kingdoms to solve the problem of domestic money shortage."

"It doesn't matter if the southern means are rough, they have millions of people, and they are all interested in our goods, and that's enough."

In Zheng He's view, the Ming Dynasty was really too far away from Dongzhou and Beizhou, and these places were not like Nanyang, where Han people went south since the Two Song Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had at least 100,000 Han people in Nanyang as the basic disk, but there was nothing in Dongzhou.

Nanyang is close to the Ming Dynasty, but in the past seven or eight years, the Ming Dynasty has increased to less than 500,000 Han people on the basis of the original 100,000 Han people, not to mention Dongzhou and Beizhou, which are several times the distance from Nanyang.

Moreover, with the implementation of the New Deal, the domestic economy gradually stabilized, and even the migration of people in Nanyang and Cochin began to be difficult, and the number of people who migrated normally every year continued to decline.

In such an environment, it is too difficult to gain a firm foothold in Dongzhou and Beizhou.

Thinking so, Zheng He rubbed his eyebrows: "Okay, in the next few days, we will first trade with the various city-states in the eastern country, and then go to the northern country after the end, and then go south to the southern country." ”

"By the way, Yue Guogong ......" Zheng He looked at Yang Zhan with an apologetic expression:

"It is enough for me and Wang Ren to go to the southern country, Dongzhou City needs you to be stationed to receive the Dongyang Fleet."

"Leave it to me." Yang Zhan nodded without much words, and the young man who used to be chattering in the big teaching field had already "died" before the martyrdom.

Seeing that he responded, Zheng He gradually became relieved.

After a short time, the crowd dispersed, and the next morning began to organize trade, and a trade market was set up outside the eastern capital.

Due to the long distance, commodities such as brown sugar that were not easy to preserve had long been sold by Zheng He, and the main ones that could be transported to Dongzhou were porcelain and ready-to-wear.

For the Three Kingdoms of Dongzhou, Zhu Gaoxu made it clear that in order to let the local people accept the Ming culture, he did not sell cloth to them, but only sold the luxurious clothes of the Ming Dynasty.

The local area is hotter, so sell cool clothes, in short, let them wear Han clothes, use Han goods, and subtly change each other's culture.

It has to be said that porcelain and ready-to-wear have been greatly popular, after all, historically, Europeans were able to exchange goods with local city-states and tribes with the coarse linen clothes they worn, and there was no reason why more beautiful and comfortable Ming ready-to-wear could not be.

In addition to porcelain and garments, some iron-made agricultural tools and weapons were also popular.

For trade, Zheng He only received gold and silver, as well as crop seeds needed by the Ming Dynasty, as well as rubber, cinchona bark and other goods.

Time passed little by little, and in half a month, a lot of gold and silver in the eastern kingdom were earned by Zheng He, but Zheng He also used rubber and cinchona bark to trade back some back.

came and went like this, and in the end, the Dongguo people thought that Zheng He was stupid, and some bark could be exchanged for beautiful and decent clothes, while Zheng He pretended not to make money.

Of course, the nobles are not stupid, and their own gold that has been reduced with the naked eye can't hide it, but Zheng He said that he didn't make any money, and everyone couldn't do anything, after all, there were five thousand brightly armored sergeants standing behind him.

After seeing the bravery of Wang Ren and hundreds of others, Ah Di and the others clearly knew what these five thousand people represented, which was the power that could destroy the Eastern Kingdom.

In desperation, they could only enjoy the goods and complain about the passing of gold.

Fortunately, Zheng He and they did not just do business, they also commanded the Dongguo people to build many water conservancy facilities in the local area, and gave the cattle that had been transported from the Middle East with great effort to Ah Di.

When giving away, they also showed the Ming farming tools, let the ploughing oxen plough the land, and taught them how to irrigate and grow crops.

I have to say that the new capital that Wang Ren helped them find is okay, at least they can grow wheat.

Zheng He's help to them, they also saw it, and gradually became less resistant to becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

Through Wang Ren's translation, Zheng He also promised that if there was a famine in the local area, as long as they spoke, the Ming would definitely find a way to bring food and try their best to solve their problems.

Of course, this kind of remark was just polite words, and Zheng He didn't think that he could cross the Ming Ocean with millions of stone grain and transport the grain to Dongzhou.

However, although food is not good, non-staple food can.

The new capital of the eastern kingdom is only less than a hundred miles away from the Great Ming Ocean, and you only need to open a post road to develop towards the Great Ming Ocean as much as possible.

With the fishing methods of the Ming Dynasty, if there is really a famine in Dongguo, then the Dongzhou Xuanwei Division can completely call boats to fish, and one boat can solve the problem of non-staple food for tens of thousands of people.

In addition, the oil produced by peanuts will also solve most of the problems, as long as the grains in the east are not all destroyed, then there are really a lot of means for the Ming to help the east country.

If the grain in the east dies, it is estimated that the Ming Dynasty will not be able to take care of itself, after all, the climate is global.

Under these promises, Ah Di gradually got closer to Zheng He and began to take the initiative to learn the official language, so that he could seek help from the Ming Dynasty in the future.

It is not surprising that they did so, after all, the previous alliance had only been dead for decades, and the cause was famine.

As long as Daming can help Dongguo survive the famine, then Dongguo's proximity to Daming will have more advantages than disadvantages.

It is precisely because of Adi's open-mindedness that the relationship between the two sides has risen sharply.

At the same time, Wang Ren and Yang Zhan also took the time to send an envoy to the northern country, for the northern country with a population of only a few hundred thousand, the five thousand Ming army was not an existence they could provoke, they naturally accepted the conditions of the Ming Dynasty, accepted the title of the northern country, and at the same time called the minister a tribute and carried out trade.

Time passed little by little, and soon turned from April to July, and during this period, Zheng He also failed to wait for Chen Xuan for a long time, and took the lead in leading 4,000 Ming troops and Wang Ren to the south.

For more than half a month after they left, Yang Zhan often traveled back and forth between Dongzhou City and Dongguo Capital.

Seeing that the Lower Oriental Fleet had not appeared for a long time, Yang Zhan couldn't help but worry about whether the fleet had encountered a hurricane at sea.

Fortunately, his worries were unnecessary, and as the time came to July 17, when the bell of Dongzhou City rang, Yang Zhan, who was still asleep, immediately got up and ran to the city in his middle coat.

Dongzhou City has been continuously strengthened by more than 1,000 people led by Yang Zhan, and at this moment it has the appearance of a city.

Yang Zhan ran out of the courtyard and saw the soldiers running towards the city on the street.

Without delay, he took the lead in running up the high city wall, snatching a telescope from one of the generals and looking at the sea level.

"You ......"

The robbed general just wanted to scold, but when he saw that it was his own father-in-law, he immediately shut up.

Yang Zhan didn't pay attention to this, just searched the sea for a while, and then saw several ships in the distance.

"Mother, I've been waiting for more than three months, and I'm finally waiting for you!"

Looking at the several ships that were gradually approaching, Yang Zhan had a smile on his face, he knew that this was the vanguard ship of the Oriental Fleet.

Since they appeared, it means that Chen Xuan is not far from here.

Their appearance also means that the mission to the East and West is half completed.

"Hit the bell, let them hurry!"

Leaving these words, Yang Zhan happily walked down the city wall, ready to go back to change his clothes, and quietly waited for Chen Xuan and them to arrive.

He can now think of the picture of old tears when Chen Xuan came ashore......

(End of chapter)