When the cabinet ministers in Nanjing were upset about the affairs of the Kong family, Zhu Guoqiang had already left Qufu with a group of people. The affairs of the Kong family had been dealt with. What should we do next?

Zhu Guoqiang had already made plans, and it was nothing more than "making holes with holes".

It is to use the southern Kong family of Quzhou to replace the northern Kong family of Kong family.

Compared with the Kong family Northern Sect, the Kong family Southern Sect in Quzhou was very miserable. Logically speaking, the Southern Sect was the strongest roots. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, when the Song Dynasty moved south, Confucius's 48th generation eldest grandson, Kong Duanyou, the first Yansheng Gong, moved to the south with a wooden statue of Confucius and his wife. The Jin Kingdom supported the pseudo-Qi regime in the Central Plains and asked Kong Duanyou's younger brother's second son to inherit the title of Yansheng Gong, thus forming a north-south confrontation between the two Yansheng Gongs of the Kong family.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan originally wanted the Southern Zong to inherit the title of Yansheng Duke, but because he was unwilling to accept the title of Mongolian Yuan, Kong Zhu gave up his title, which later formed a situation where the Northern Zong suppressed the Southern Zong.

Speaking of which, the Southern Sect was undoubtedly more righteous, but the Ming Dynasty regarded the Northern Sect as the main truth. The Ming Dynasty's suspicion of the Southern Sect of the Kong family was not even inferior to the suspicion of the vassal kings. Because of fear of the Southern Sect's competition for the Duke of Yansheng, they also set special rules: "It is not easy for Qufu Northern Sect to be founded for a thousand years, and it is like the Southern Sect's dispute... It is placed on a serious note and will never be recorded!"

Because the court intends to suppress, the decline of the Southern Sect could not even make a small official. It was not until the first year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty that the doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy was hereditary.

But...that's the past.

For Zhu Guoqiang, he needed to change his course and "correct the mistakes". The Kong family must keep it, otherwise not only scholars cannot accept it, but even "pacifying the barbarians" will have problems.

But the Northern Sect could not stay. As for the title of Yan Shenggong... it would be better to return to the Southern Sect.

Of course, even if it belongs to the Southern Sect, the Kong family must be manipulated in the court, rather than the "Kong family" who changes soup and does not change the medicine.

As for now, let’s wait until the Northern Sect is notorious before making a decision!

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With a few gorgeous maids and dozens of entourage guards, Zhu Guoqiang and his party looked no different from the wealthy families' travel.

Even when they arrived in Kaifeng, there were wealthy families who were even more pompous than him.

However, the reason why Zhu Guoqiang came to Kaifeng was not to compare the appearance with others, but to check the railway.

After several years of construction, the railway from Kaifeng to Xi'an has been completed!

Although the early plan was to build a railway from Pukou to Kaifeng, Kaifeng to Xi'an, in the end, due to various reasons, the Railway Department chose to build the section of the railway from Kaifeng to Xi'an first. After all, Kaifeng has the convenience of water transportation, and cargo from north to south can be transported to Kaifeng through the Yellow River and the Grand Canal, and even Nanyang rice can be transported all the way to Kaifeng through the Yellow River entrance in Nanzhili.

After the railway was built, the grain prices in Shaanxi fell in response to the news - the continuous Nanyang rice eased the grain shortage in Shaanxi and made countless people survive.

Moreover, after years of continuous improvement, the performance of the train has been greatly improved. It can pull 200 tons of cargo at a time and the speed is 40 miles per hour, which basically realizes the dream of Chinese people traveling thousands of miles a day for thousands of years.

It is also because of this that Shaanxi, which has not benefited from water transportation since ancient times, has finally connected with the mainland with this new means of transportation. Even compared to water transportation, it is faster. Of course, the freight of trains is also higher than that of water transportation.

The freight for transporting a ton of goods from Kaifeng to Xi'an is only six taels of silver.

This freight is equivalent to three times that of water transportation, but it is five times cheaper than animal transportation such as carriages!

The emergence of railways and trains completely changed the connection between Shaanxi and the mainland. A steady stream of goods can be transported to Shaanxi by railways or shipped from Shaanxi.

The journey takes more than 1,000 miles, only more than 30 hours. This speed is unimaginable. Not to mention products with higher profits like cotton cloth, even products with low profits like rice and grain can be transported to Shaanxi by train.

Since the date of the completion of the railway, merchants have liked to take trains to transport freight merchants. Not only is the train running fast and the whole journey will not stop, but the freight is also cheap.

More importantly, safety!

After all, even though Tiqi inspected the country roads, the gangsters and black shops were almost extinct, the money was inevitably touching. On the way to business, they would inevitably encounter temporary guest appearances. Not only would they lose money, but they would even lose their lives.

The train is still safe!

I sat in the carriage, slept for a while, and I opened my eyes and arrived at the place. It was so convenient to pick up the goods with tickets, and the transportation was cheap!

However, convenience is convenient, because there are many vendors and limited vehicles, so every day in front of Kaifeng's railway station is filled with vendors queuing up to grab tickets. When we arrived at the station, looking at the people in front of the railway station even made Zhu Guoqiang feel a little illusioned of returning to another world.

However, he didn't need to queue up here. He Hongyong directly took the waist sign from the North Town Fushi and wrapped a carriage.

For the emergency task of the Beizhen Fushi, whether the tickets are sold out or not, a carriage must be given up.

Privileged everyone loves it.

Although many people in later generations opposed privilege, they opposed themselves that they could not enjoy privileges, not the privilege itself.

When the vendors learned that the tickets were sold out and complained, Zhu Guoqiang and his party had already boarded the train. Half an hour later, a steam locomotive spitted smoke, carrying hundreds of passengers and hundreds of tons of cargo, heading towards Xi'an at a speed of 40 miles per hour on the railway.

The rushing train kept spraying white clouds into the sky.

When he was on the train and felt the bumps in the car, Zhu Guoqiang's expression seemed a little strange.

This is the train from the Ming Dynasty!

The seventh year of Qiansheng!

It is only in 1651 AD. Europeans of this era are still struggling in the darkness, and the Ming Dynasty railway has been built for nearly two thousand miles - from Xi'an to the north, another railway is being built towards Yulin along the "Qin Straight Road". In the end, it will be built all the way to Ordos and on the bank of the Yellow River. Perhaps with the current Ming Dynasty technology, the Yellow River Railway Bridge cannot be built. However, that railway will sound the horn of the Ming Dynasty's conquering the grasslands.

Not only will it conquer the grassland, but it will also conquer it all the way. The railway will continue to be built westward, to the Western Regions, to Rakshasa, to Moscow, to... Well, there is no St. Petersburg yet, and it will not be available in the future. Perhaps, the Ming Dynasty can set up a new city there.

A large steel artery will connect it with the Ming Dynasty. It only takes a few days or nights to cross the Eurasian continent, and the Ming Dynasty's iron boots will also follow this railway all the way west.

west!

Conquer Europe!

When Zhu Guoqiang imagined the future of the Ming Dynasty heading west, Li Zhenli, Li Xiangjun and others were all curious about walking around the carriage. As for Anna and Jessica, the two girls who came from New Spain, they were even more shocked and unable to believe their eyes.

For people of this era, trains that do not need to be pulled by horses are a miracle in themselves. Faced with such miracles, sometimes people show curiosity far exceeds that later generations imagine.

When the train is running on the railway, many people will look around curiously. Even in the year after the railway construction is completed, this railway line will still attract many people.

The targets that attract countless people, they will even write poems and surprise them. Of course, there will be some people who overestimate themselves, driving tall horses and chasing the trains all the way, trying to compete with the trains.

Of course, this competition is not to prove that the horse is not slow, but is entirely out of curiosity and a game. Some people even set up bets there. In short, the emergence of railways and trains has brought too many changes to this land.

But more than two hundred years later, when the train first entered this land, people showed resistance. In this land, no one resisted them, and even looked forward to it continuing to expand in all directions, thereby changing people's lives.

But... not everyone thinks so. When the train roared through Tongguan, on the hillside near Tongguan, a middle-aged man with a businessman looked pale-faced staring at the train and murmured.

"The big success is over..."
Chapter completed!