"Woo!"

On the ninth day of the winter month of the seventeenth year of Yongle, accompanied by the sound of a whistle, a huge concrete building also appeared abruptly on this vast plain.

The building is 12 miles away from Beijing's East Chaoyang Gate, and the whole building consists of a large hall that runs vertically from north to south.

The main hall is four zhang high, half a mile long from north to south, 30 zhang wide from east to west, the palace wall pushes out the hugging building, the eaves are lifted in the air, the height of the palace top is commensurate, and the staggered fall is caused.

The roof of the hall is covered by green glazed tiles, and the two ends of the main ridge are entrenched with a pair of light blue sitting dragons, and the vertical ridge squats with dark green owl kisses.

The north and south corners of the side hall each stand a three-storey five-zhang four-corner attic, exquisitely clear, have a unique charm.

The main hall has two tall gates, one for the exit, one for the entrance, and the two are guarded by soldiers.

Zhu Di inserted the tube in his hand into the grain stack and poked into the bottom.

Seeing that Guo Yan said this, Zhu Gaoxu touched her hand and said comfortingly:

"Tomorrow, I will issue a decree so that Japan and Champa do not need to send palace maids and eunuchs, and in the future, North Korea will exclusively provide them."

It is only 5,000 miles from Beijing to the city of Jiaozhi, and at most it will take half a month to send tens of thousands of troops from Beijing to the local area, and even if any rebellion breaks out, it is estimated that it has been suppressed before it has time to expand.

Walking into it from the outside, the high ceiling space and the reserved glass windows make the whole hall appear bright.

But for those who have experienced it, the speed just now is just a little faster than the electric bicycle that was limited in the future.

"Brother Wei Zhe, I want to vomit ......"

"Woo-"

"Meng Ming, bear with me, it's time to ......"

Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui sat behind Zhu Di and them, and naturally heard their conversation with Huang Fu, as well as the conversation when they said that they were traveling at a speed of seventy miles per hour.

Zhu Gaochi was the first to react, Zhu Gaochu looked back, and saw that not only Zhu Gaochi, but even Zhu Gaosui had reacted, only Zhu Zhanji was fine.

When the ministers were still sighing at the steel body of the train, Huang Fu's words made everyone speechless.

Jilin...... Why wouldn't he want to see where he had started?

The first thing you will receive when you enter the room is baggage inspection, with four male and four female inspectors and eight checkpoints.

There are two railways between each of the three platforms, which lead to the north and south.

"Yes, Your Highness, there is no shortage of those two or three hundred miles, and it will be easier for us to go home."

"At present, this train can carry nearly 200 tons of goods, or carry 500 people to maintain a speed of 30 miles, if the cargo box is unloaded, just run at the head of the locomotive, the speed can reach 90 miles per hour, and it only takes two hours or more than a quarter of an hour to reach Yangfan and Baoding."

"Just go back and see, see things and think about people."

When Zhu Di and the others came out, the carriage was ready, Zhu Gaoxu got into a carriage alone, and Li Wei, Richard and others chose to ride horses to relieve the discomfort of motion sickness just now.

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Huang Fu asked people to start moving.

Zhu Zhanji was also "modest", and Zhu Gaoxu smiled embarrassedly when he heard this.

As far as the performance of the eldest nephew in history, let alone sixty or fifty, it is difficult......

After running around for a day, Zhu Gaochu didn't have time to go to the Qianqing Palace with Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi to eat, but hurried back to the Chunhe Palace to deal with the music.

They would rather die with an empty stomach than vomit in the car and lose face.

"Something like today's trip to Tongzhou, the train will be repaired in the future, you can experience it a few more times, and it's not good to be trapped in the palace all the time."

"The doctor at Suncheon Hospital said, let you move around more and more, look at your shoulders, they are getting stiffer and stiffer, but even I can't pinch them."

This section of the river is one mile wide, but because it is a canal dug by hand, it is only seven or eight feet deep.

"This Beijing East Railway Station can accommodate tens of thousands of passengers, the platform scale is three and four lines, and now it has been connected to the Northeast Railway and the Beijing Railway."

"If you bring two or three hundred guards, then you can reach Beijing or Kunming in eleven or twelve days at most, right?"

Since it was not fully loaded, the speed of the train could have been increased a little more, so Huang Ford asked.

These meals were all made by Zhu Gaoxu's instructive kitchen, but he didn't want Guo Yan to learn this craft.

"Drive to the fastest!" Zhu Di was afraid that the matter would not be big, but Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly interrupted when he heard this: "The highest speed is eighty percent." ”

In other words, if the grain in Jingcang is full, it will be enough for the people of the entire city of Beijing to eat for nearly 20 months.

Due to the early arrangement to come to Tongzhou, there are direct soldiers and horses to come here early in the morning to wait.

He led the group through the waiting area to the platform.

In the Beijing East Railway Station, Huang Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was introducing Zhu Di, Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaosui, Zhu Zhanji, Xia Yuanji, and other officials from the six ministries, six governments, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Chatting between husband and wife, Zhu Gaoxu also breathed a sigh of relief:

Tongzhou Jingcang was built by Zhu Gaoxu, there are five warehouses in the east, west, north and south, each warehouse can store millions of stone grain.

Guo Yan said as she massaged Zhu Gaoxu's stiff shoulder, but when it came to the back, she chuckled:

Yishiha sat aside, keeping a smile on his face: "Your Highness rest assured, slaves and maids often send people back, there are more than 50,000 households in Jilin Mansion, more than 320,000 people, and more than 3 million acres of cultivated land, and the people's lives are better than those of the people in the Guan." ”

Before returning, Zhu Di also asked the ministers if they wanted to eat, and the ministers hurriedly shook their heads like rattles when they heard this.

"I'm not at ease to leave things to the people below, even if they deal with it, I'll pick and choose to make changes, it's better to do it myself."

Guo Yan didn't say anything or do anything, just looked at him quietly, and it wasn't until he finished eating that Guo Yan started to clean up the table for him personally, and then pinched his stiff shoulders for him.

"I didn't eat it, the officials of the Sixth Department vomited all the way in the car, and the taste made me lose my appetite in front of me."

According to Huang Fu, once something happened in Nanjing, wouldn't Beijing be able to send troops to Nanjing within five days?

"Gross!!"

Yi Shuha explained, Zhu Gaoxu said: "Tell them that when the railway is completed, I will go back to see them at that time." ”

They opened the windows made of thick glass, and the view began to slowly recede.

Guo Yan's words are full of concern, others don't know, but she knows her Royal Highness's body too well.

"With the train, it will be much easier to do government affairs, and when the time comes, let them go, even if there is a problem, they can reflect it in time, and it will not be like before, and the policy will be implemented for several months before the news can be fed back."

As the two talked, the train began to climb higher, and they came to the top of the North Canal.

"However, at present, the two railways began to be built from Beijing East Railway Station, and only the three stations of Yongqing, Bazhou and Baoding of the two Beijing railways are connected at present, with a mileage of 160 miles."

At present, there are 12 stations written on the station signs, and the cost of each station is about 10 yuan.

"Your Majesty, since you have come to Tongzhou, why don't you check Jingcang?"

A plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and a plate of lamb stir-fried and chili beef foam, and a plate of three fresh soups.

"The palace eunuch is more convenient to use in North Korea, and the Japanese are a little short, and the skin in Siam and Champa is too dark, so I can't get used to it."

The ministers sighed, but Zhu Gaoxu felt average.

"Yes!" When the two saw that their goal had been achieved, they immediately laughed and slowed down their horses.

"That's eighty miles, isn't it?"

Thinking about it like this, the ministers were speechless, and they only felt that the local officials might not have a good time in the future.

In four years and five months at most, the Northeast Railway will be able to run through the entire line.

"But now that you've delivered it, I've got a lot more appetite."

Zhu Di couldn't help but feel a little regretful when he saw that they didn't eat, and he wanted to see the disgraced appearance of this group of old barbarians again.

Soon, the platform reappeared, but the sign hanging on the platform here was not Beijing East, but Tongzhou.

Zhu Gaoxu instructed Yizhaha, and Yishaha immediately asked several soldiers to start distributing wooden barrels for vomiting for the ministers, and there were a lot of sawdust in them to cover up the smell.

Fortunately, vomiting was only for a while, but as a period of busyness passed, the ministers could no longer vomit anything, so they could only sit quietly and feel the regressing scenery outside the window.

"This is a train, although it is only a train that transports materials for road repair, but its speed can reach 360 miles a day with a full load, and 30 miles per hour."

Every other mile, the courtiers could see a post, which was the post of the railroad soldiers and horses that protected the railroad tracks.

The sound was quite infectious, and many people who didn't want to vomit couldn't help but vomit when they saw others vomiting.

"Slave and maid command!" Wang Yan and Yisha responded and immediately began to arrange a convoy to Jingcang.

Xia Yuanji's face was a little pale, he vomited a lot on the train just now, and now he felt a burst of collapse.

"That's more than thirty miles, isn't it?"

Because it is an experience, this locomotive only pulls one carriage, and one carriage is nine feet wide, and entering it, except for the two-foot-wide walkway in the middle, it occupies three and a half feet on the left and right and can seat two people.

When he took it out, he couldn't help nodding: "It's last year's grain, it's good." ”

Before everyone could get a good feeling, the train had already crossed the bridge and was slowly slowing down.

Although he still looks fierce, the disadvantages of not resting enough also make Zhu Gaoxu often have migraines when he is only thirty-seven years old.

In this way, she naturally remembered it deeply.

"If you live to be sixty, my nephew will be very satisfied."

If it weren't for Queen Xu's early death, she wouldn't have taken over the harem.

"Don't worry, something has been prepared for you, and it's lost!"

"There is a limit to what you can do yourself, you should pay attention, don't strain your body."

"Jilin has always responded to His Royal Highness's call, and many people have planted sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and peanuts for the promotion of new crops, and they have also enjoyed the benefits."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect that Jilin Mansion still maintained ten acres of cultivated land per capita, which shows that the local animal power is still developed, otherwise it is impossible to plant ten acres of land.

It's just pity for the soldiers, who keep going to and from the toilet with vomit without touching the ground.

A train on the railway that had been waiting for a long time was quietly stopping on the tracks, and Huang Fu led the team to visit the train first.

Nowadays, the mileage from Beijing to Nanjing is more than 1,600 miles, and even from Beijing East Railway Station to Jiangpu is only about 1,700 miles.

In the case of carrying 500 people, it can also run 360 miles a day, and the ministers are all officials who receive yamen and documents from all over the year round, so they naturally know the mileage of post stations in various places in the Ming Dynasty.

"Besides, you just take a carriage back, I'm afraid that the dozens of guards you brought with you will not be useful in the event of an incident."

"There are almost twenty show girls, more than 600 palace maids and more than 500 eunuchs, all over the world."

"Didn't eat it?"

"Twenty miles, so fast?"

After Huang Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, taught him how to wear a seat belt, he squatted down and asked Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting, "Your Highness, this speed ......."

Zhu Gaoxu chuckled and put down the pen, and Guo Yan also set the meal for him.

Perhaps because of his heart, Guo Yan seemed to know that he didn't eat, so he specially prepared a meal of three dishes and one soup for Zhu Gaoxu.

After he was satisfied, he continued to inspect in Jingcang, and after inspecting one after another, until all five inspections were completed, everyone returned to the railway station in Tongzhou.

With less than a tenth of the passengers on board, the speed of the train quickly increased.

"Of course I can, my eldest nephew is physically strong, and it will not be a problem to live to be sixty or seventy years old!"

For a while, the ministers were like a world away, and Huang Fu reappeared and taught them to unbuckle their seat belts.

"More than three million acres?"

Feeling the bridge quickly passing through the North Canal and looking at the ships in the distance, not only the ministers were shocked by this scene, but even the ships that came and went looked up at the speeding trains.

When I entered the waiting hall after the inspection, I saw rows of wooden benches, enough to seat five or six thousand people.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu was a little embarrassed, and the ministers were red-faced and excitedly discussed with their colleagues around them what the appearance of the train meant.

The bridge is eight feet above the water, and this bridge alone cost nearly 300,000 yuan.

Zhu Gaoxu always talks about some government affairs, and Guo Yan is only a listener and rarely puts forward his own opinions and opinions.

There are four public toilets in the station, 20 ticket gates, the ticket gates are separated from the outside by an iron fence, and the station signs are hung high in the ticket platform, recording the cost of going to each station.

Although their face has been lost, they can still be picked up with a cheeky face.

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di were the first to walk in, and the ministers cautiously followed into the belly of this "monster".

Jingcang will take the canal every month to transport hundreds of thousands of stone grain to the capital, and at the same time, the grain from the south will also arrive here to replenish.

Seventy miles in one hour, more than 800 miles in one day, at most four days can send Zhu Gaosui back to Changsha, and six days can send Zhu Gaochi back to Kunming.

"This ...... Isn't it too fast? ”

"In addition, you calculate how many eunuchs and palace maids are needed in this harem as early as possible, and send the palace maids who are over twenty-five years old to pay for the passage and be dismissed from the palace."

Although he can't eat at the desk, Zhu Gaoxu is used to dealing with music while eating, and others dare not talk about him.

"By the way, over there in the harem, North Korea, Japan, Siam and other countries each sent a lot of show girls and palace maids, I originally wanted to tell Your Majesty where these show girls went, but yesterday Your Majesty said that he would retire to the position of the Emperor Taishang soon, and his concubines and palace maids would be taken to Daming Palace at that time."

Not long after the train left the train station, the surrounding scenery began to go backwards frantically.

The ministers were still wondering how to slow down, but they saw that they had entered a place surrounded by a wall.

The length of the carriage is eight zhang, excluding the one zhang occupied by the passage and the toilet, the length of the seat and rest is seven zhang, and the spacing between each row is three feet, and a carriage has twenty-two rows and can seat eighty-eight people.

Zhu Zhanji suddenly spoke, and Zhu Gaoxu glanced at him, thinking of the age at which he died.

When she arrived, it was already dark, and Zhu Gaoxu lit the lamp to deal with the music, and it was not until the eunuch on duty sang that he looked up and saw Guo Yan who came over.

Soon, as the whistle sounded, a black train let out a shrill whistle and dragged the solid wood carriage to the railroad tracks in front of everyone.

"This ...... It doesn't seem like it's even half an hour, right? ”

Zhu Gaoxu struck a blow at the two brothers' thoughts, but Zhu Zhanji said:

After getting the wooden barrel, many of the seasick Wenchen vomited one after another, and for a while, the carriage was full of vomiting sounds one after another.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the scenery outside the window, and he didn't look back to ask.

Zhu Gaoxu said, picked up the rice bowl and began to eat.

Now looking at the embarrassment of the ministers, his face bloomed with joy.

"There are too many palace maids and eunuchs sent this time, so it's better to stay and take care of you when the time comes."

Zhu Gaochu opened his eyes and said nonsense, Zhu Gaochi was still grinning when he heard this, only Zhu Zhanji felt a little weird.

The chatter in the carriage continued, and all of them reached the ears of Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu.

"Second brother, that bunch of people who are too learned can actually study this thing."

"If there is such a thing, then wouldn't it be three or four days before I go back to Changsha?"

For a time, many officials looked at each other.

Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaochu curiously, and Zhu Gaochu also nodded: "Almost." ”

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu walked in front and got off the train first, and the ministers also followed their footsteps and got off the train.

Zhu Gaoxu is okay, he has been in the car for a long time, and he will not get motion sickness at all, although Zhu Di will get motion sickness, he often experiences it and gradually gets used to it.

"I wonder if my nephew will be able to see the train from Beijing to Kunming in the future?"

The number of officials who came to visit this time was about 30, so it was slightly sparse after sitting down.

"At the speed of this train, it only takes five hours to reach Yangfan and Baoding."

"Home?" Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the two of them and said with disgust: "You almost moved the six cities back to the gate." ”

Zhu Di also felt that it was very reasonable when he heard this, so he said: "Wang Yan, Yi Lost, set up in Jingcang." ”

Therefore, walking in the fence between the grains, you only need to reach out to grab the grain.

The construction of the railway began at the beginning of last year, and the laying of the railroad track began in July this year, and now it has been completed in just over four months to cover 1560 miles in the north and south.

Aside from the fact that the steam was a little choking at the time of departure, the crowd quickly got used to the feeling.

And this is just one train, if there are ten, a hundred trains, then five thousand or fifty thousand troops can be sent to Nanjing.

"Decree of the Minister!"

"Yes!" They also arrived at Jingcang in Tongzhou.

After all, before he married Zhu Gaoxu, Guo Ying told her that the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, and after he became the crown princess, Guo Ying repeatedly explained to her.

Guo Yan took the dinner plate from the female officer's hand, and Yisha hurriedly cleaned up the table when he saw this.

"Vomit ......"

When their feet stepped on the platform of Tongzhou Station and looked at the people who were carrying grain and getting off the train, they believed that they had arrived at Tongzhou Station.

"Yes......" Huang Fu didn't dare to listen to Zhu Di, if something happened to the train, then he would be finished.

"The theory is that it is, but the imperial court doesn't have that much money to build a railway to the southwest."

If there is no speed limit, and the road conditions are a little better, then a person can even drive an e-bike to overtake the train they were just riding without looking back, and they can't even see the tail lights of the e-bike.

So when I walked into the carriage, I saw two positions on the left and right, and the chair was made of solid wood, with a sewn cushion and backrest, which were stuffed with cotton, and it was okay to sit on.

Soon after Huang Fu got up to leave, the whistle of the train began to sound, and most of the people frowned, obviously not very used to the harsh sound.

Seeing that the ministers were not in charge, he could only take a car back to Beijing with no interest.

"Okay, Huang Fu, let someone connect the locomotive to the passenger car and take us around for a while."

"What is the situation in Jilin Mansion now, are the people doing well?"

For those who have not experienced it, the speed of the train just now is completely to the extent of a thousand miles a day, and it is beyond the reach of horses.

The culture of the two is not good, and they use idioms at will, which caused Zhu Gaoxu to shake his head helplessly, but finally said:

"Don't worry, Jilin Shipyard is very important, and the railway to Jilin will definitely be built in the future, so you don't have to worry."

Watching them leave, Zhu Gaoxu also had a smile on his face.

"There are also four stations of the Northeast Railway, Tongzhou, Yingzhou, Jizhou, and Yangfan, with a mileage of one hundred and fifty miles."

Guo Yan said this, and Zhu Gaoxu asked after hearing it: "How much was sent?" ”

"Second child, I can't do it......"

Zhu Gaoxu got out of the car and followed Zhu Di's footsteps, and everyone walked into the Beijing warehouse after an investigation.

But even so, he dutifully reminded Zhu Di to go to Jingcang.

"Another ......"

This kind of projection power is so terrible that it can be said that wherever the railway is built, the local area will face the threat of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands of troops.

"It's all I like to eat."

"Arrived in Tongzhou?"

After walking for a distance, the two cheekily stepped forward and said with a smile: "Your Highness, can this Northeast Railway be repaired to the Six Cities and Jilin City?" ”

The Ministry of Works started building a high bridge here at the beginning of last year, and it was not completed until August this year.

"If you are worried that you will not be able to get married, find some good sons in the army to marry them."

The design of Jingcang was a design carried out by Zhu Gaoxu in imitation of later generations, and some materials that could not be found were replaced by inferior ones.

"The two railways are from Yingtianfu Jiangpu to Zhaozhou Songyuan, with a total length of 4,82 miles, and if you want to sit from Jiangpu to Songyuan, the fare is 820 wen per person."

"On the Korean side, you explain it well in the future, let them choose eunuchs over the age of ten, and palace maids over the age of thirteen to pay tribute, and those who are too young are not sensible."

After explaining, Zhu Gaoxu greeted Guo Yan for another quarter of an hour, and then reluctantly watched her leave, leaving her to deal with the music by herself, leaving only a sigh.

(End of chapter)