Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 689: The Lively Jidu
Along the way, Zhuge Liang kept counting. He saw civilian workers working along the way, and then said to his teacher, Mr. Shui Jing, and his classmates: "Liang saw tens of thousands of civilian workers along the way, and it is said that there are tens of thousands of civilian workers along the way. Construction sites are spread all over Yuzhou. Yuzhou alone has mobilized millions of people to build roads and canals. The wealth of Daqian is beyond imagination, and the power of Daqian is astonishing from ancient times to the present. No wonder the general has the natural danger of the Yangtze River and an army of 300,000. It’s still vulnerable to Da Gan’s offensive!”
Pang Tong smiled bitterly and said: "Kong Ming, is it too late for you to still explore Daqian's strength? Now Daqian has no opponent. What's the use of knowing this now!"
It’s no wonder that Pang Tong is discouraged. Now Daqian doesn’t allow them to enter the officialdom of Daqian through the imperial examination. The skills he learned before and the officialdom knowledge passed down by his family are now useless. Now their best fate is actually the former Look down on the skilled man!
On the contrary, Mr. Shui Jing, who was sitting in the carriage, smiled and said: "It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. The skills you realize are your own, how can it be useless!"
Then he looked at his students and smiled and said: "And you don't need to be too discouraged. The world is so big and there is more than just one Daqian. Not to mention that Lei Gong has been immigrating overseas in recent years, and the original princes of the Han Dynasty have also moved to Daqian. To establish his own hegemony in other areas, General Liu also wants to recreate the Han Dynasty in Tianzhu. Now many people have gathered under his command. The world will be big in the future, enough for you to use your talents!"
Although Shui Jing said this, Pang Tong and the others did not have much confidence. Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei had all established their own forces in the wild lands outside Daqian, but those places were even more wild than Jiaozhou. If they had the choice, They don't want to go to these places!
They continued to go north in this way and came to Zhaiyang County. Here they boarded a rail carriage. The rail carriage has eight horses and three carriages. It can transport up to hundreds of people. Shui Jing and his students were the first two. There was a carriage, and the girl was sitting in the back.
Although this time it is said that they are going to Jidu to take the exam, it is also a family relocation. They will not go back after leaving Jingzhou, so this trip is a mobilization of the whole family.
The older people among them looked sad and sad, as they would never be able to return to their hometown. But the young people looked at the scenery outside the window with interest.
Although the status of women in the Han Dynasty was not as low as that in the Song and Ming Dynasties, it was not as high as that in the Celestial Dynasty. Scholars could also study abroad to increase their knowledge, while women like them could only stay in their hometowns. For them, It is rare to travel away from home like this. Among them was a very independent woman who was assembling a machine with a bunch of parts. Many children were looking at these things curiously.
Mrs. Huang said: "What are you doing with a bunch of parts? It makes this place a mess."
Huang Yueying smiled and said: "My daughter is making a machine that can quickly sew cloth. With this machine, half a day will be enough for my mother to sew clothes."
Mrs. Huang complained: "You are a girl who doesn't marry her husband and raise her children, but you are doing this kind of thing. If word spreads, people will say that the Huang family's daughter is uneducated."
Huang Yueying was unconvinced and said: "My mother was talking about the old Huangli in the Han Dynasty. The rulers said that women can hold up half the sky. In Daqian, Xu Juan can be the governor of a place, and Cai Qiao can also be the governor in charge of hundreds of thousands of people." The director of the textile factory, she can make millions of dollars every month by inventing a new type of textile machine. Now she has become the richest woman with a lot of money. She is a role model for women in the world to follow. Her daughter is asking Cai Qiao study.
There are more than a dozen other women who have become prefects and magistrates in Daqian. They can make great achievements, so why can’t their daughter? This time not only Kong Ming will be admitted to the University of Mechanical Engineering, but his daughter will also be admitted to the University of Mechanical Engineering! Maybe in the future The royal family and the Zhuge family will rely on their daughters to continue."
When the other female students heard Huang Yueying's words, they all expressed admiration. Only Mrs. Huang's face was ugly. It was still difficult for him to accept the fact that a woman came out to show her face.
But just like what Huang Yueying said just now, Datian and Dahan are completely different. The Huang family has also been reduced to ordinary people. It may not be an opportunity for Huang Yueying to take the entrance examination to the University of Mechanical Engineering.
They traveled dozens of miles at such a fast speed, and it took them only a stick of incense to reach the outskirts of Zhaiyang County, and they were out of Yingchuan County in three days.
Everyone who took the rail carriage for the first time was extremely shocked. It was so efficient!
Xu Shu couldn't help but admire: "No wonder the Daqian Army can mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, and at most 800,000 troops, but the logistics are not overwhelmed. This rail carriage is of great help to logistics. If Jingzhou had The strength of the track carriage can be increased several times!"
Pang Tong on the side said quietly: "We can't go back to Jingzhou in the future, what's the use of talking about this!"
Zhuge Liang on the side smiled at the newspaper and said: "How could it be useless? The world of Daqian is changing with each passing day. Only by constantly increasing our knowledge, adapting to these new things, and joining in can we not only lag behind others."
Now we see that the rail carriage is an important weapon of the military, but everyone does not know that the government has developed a mechanism and rails called a steam train. It is said that this steam train is dozens of times more efficient than the rail carriage, and can carry up to The speed of Qianshi's cargo is also several times faster than that of a rail carriage. Now Daqian has begun to build rail tracks, and the wooden rails we see now will be eliminated soon!"
At this time, Pang Tong and Xu Shu came over to read the newspaper in Zhuge Liang's hand. It said that the Daqian court would decide to immigrate 200,000 households from the south of the Yangtze River to the Central Plains within three years.
Pang Tong’s face was ugly, including his family
Xu Shu didn't care about this. There were only two people in his family, and he could make money even if he divided a hundred acres of land.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The second page of the newspaper said that Daqian will use railway tracks instead of wooden tracks. Now, with Jidu as the center, the construction of the railway from Jidu to Quanzhou County and the railway from Jidu to Zhending has begun. , the railway from Jidu to Guangning, the total mileage of the three railways will exceed 2,000 miles!
Xu Shu couldn't believe it when he saw the news: "The price of wooden rails is already extremely high. Now Daqian has actually started to use rails. How much iron is needed? I'm afraid there won't be enough iron in the world!"
Zhuge Liang said: "There are three major steel centers in Daqian, namely Mayi Steel Plant, Jinyang Steel Plant and Yuyang Steel Plant. Each of these steel plants has an annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons, equivalent to hundreds of millions of kilograms of iron. So The large amount of steel production, if not used to cast weapons and armor, is barely enough to build these railways! Governance is to forge swords into plowshares, and Daqian's policies changed quickly."
Pang Tong couldn't help but shook his head and said: "Thunder Lord, this is too crazy. When the First Emperor built the Great Wall, he was not so exaggerated!"
What Da Qin did on the Great Wall was just to link together the Great Wall that had been built before, but now what Lei Gong did was to put iron on the ground. What is the difference between this and throwing money on the ground? You must know that the price of a pound of iron is also 10 About money.
Zhuge Liang disagreed and said: "This is a far-sighted decision by the government. Although the investment in the railway is huge, its eternal achievements, just like the Great Wall and Dujiangyan, can benefit future generations!"
"Liang has been collecting news about the Daqian Railway during this period, and found that there are railways in all states of Daqian, and most of them connect wealthy counties. A huge railway network has slowly begun to take shape in Daqian. The track network Everyone can see that the military role is huge, and the value of the track is not just the military role. Even in the current peacetime, the impact of the track on the economy has gradually emerged.
"Liang found that the towns around the track are particularly prosperous. Because of the convenient transportation, there will naturally be more caravans. And with more caravans, many small counties and towns will develop. We have already entered four counties and more than a dozen along the way. Small towns, I think everyone has discovered that even a small town on this road is more lively than the places where we don't have rail links."
"And this is the prosperity caused by the track carriage, and the railways and trains are more than ten times better than the track carriage. The railway will definitely make the place more prosperous, just like the railway from Jidu to Guangning. Why should Daqian build this railway? The railway is connected to the desert. The desert is a poor place. In recent years, the government has opened the pass so that herdsmen can freely enter the pass to sell livestock. This has made these herdsmen rich, and these herdsmen who have benefited have also It has become the most important foundation for Daqian to rule the desert!"
"Now that the railway is connected to the desert, it will be easier for herdsmen raising cattle and sheep to enter the customs. The desert may trigger a wave of immigrants. Because of the railway, the money they can make from herding may be several times more than before. Times, under the temptation of money, many people are willing to go even to a desolate place like the desert."
What Zhuge Liang said is also Xu Wei's idea of building this railway. The population of the prosperous desert in the interior will be smaller. Such a continuously decreasing population is not conducive to Daqian's guarding the desert. Therefore, how to increase the population of the desert has become Xu Wei's concern. .
But after Xu Wei clicked on the science and technology tree of steam engines and trains, he immediately thought of building a railway to connect the desert. Economic benefits can better guide people to enter. If the desert can make several times more money than in the pass, then many people Are you willing to endure desolation for money! And once the railway is connected, the freight for cattle and sheep to the inland can be reduced. After all, driving cattle and sheep out for hundreds or thousands of miles will cost far more than the railway charges.
Finally, Shui Jing said: "Everything is too much. If all the things Lei Gong does do not exceed Daqian's national power, this is a project that benefits the country and the people. But if it far exceeds what Daqian's national power can bear, If the scope is exceeded, it will become a project that is harmful to the present and beneficial to the future, just like the Great Wall!"
"All of this requires you to observe with your own eyes the situation among the people. Are these projects beyond what the people can bear?"
Along the way, Zhuge Liang and the others experienced the process of fragmentation and reorganization of the three views. They traveled thousands of miles along the way and saw too many wonders in Daqian. The track network connecting thousands of miles was the track they experienced. , the entire Daqian rail network actually has tens of thousands of miles. There are thousands of meters of steel bridges on the Yellow River, and there are endless lines of waterwheels beside the Yellow River.
There are also the elevated water channels in Jizhou that are like a rail network, and the fields are as neat and flat as soldiers. They enter Youzhou and take a train that can walk on their own. There is also the Jidu that appears in front of them now without city walls, but like a country of giants.
Shui Jing couldn't believe that these places used to be the territory of the Han Dynasty. When he was young, he went to these places for study tours and couldn't find any trace in his memory.
It was already shocking to see such a spectacle, and they actually saw several projects along the way. Each of them was not a project that the Han Dynasty could bear, but at this time Daqian had built several projects one after another, and Not to mention young people like Zhuge Liang, even well-informed Confucian scholars like Shui Jing could not understand the Daqian imperial court because they had not seen its national power decline.
However, after going deep into the interior of Daqian, he now admires people like Cao Cao and Liu Bei. They can actually persist for more than ten years fighting such a powerful enemy. These Han princes can be called heroes of their generation. !
June has just arrived and it’s starting to get hot.
Liu Bei, the last remnant of the Han Dynasty, also surrendered, Jiaozhou became the land of Daqian, and the world was officially unified under the court of Daqian. Ordinary people were relieved of the last trace of fear of the troubled times in their hearts, and began to enjoy Daqian with peace of mind. It's prosperous.
Now the people of Jidu are all attracted by the playground built in a square, which not only has their own fun facilities, but also a circular railway model and a model train for testing!
And this was specially built by Xu Wei in Jidu, so that everyone has enough knowledge about trains! Now the railway has begun to take Jidu as its starting point, and slowly but surely spreads across the land of Daqian.
But something happened that even Xu Wei had not thought of. The benefits of trains had not been revealed yet, but the disadvantages had already begun to appear. Many people had never seen a train and often played around the railway tracks. The most serious result was in one month. It killed three people, caused three traffic accidents, and even caused a train derailment.
Under this circumstance, Xu Wei built this amusement park and made this model train in order to popularize the understanding of trains and the dangers among the people in Daqian. Anyone can ride on it for one dollar. The model train goes around in a circle, and at the same time, a special commentator introduces everyone to the common sense of trains. This educational and entertaining method allows everyone to learn about trains and at the same time understand the dangers of playing around the railway tracks.
As a result, such an amusement park has become the favorite place for people in Jidu. Everyone likes to spend money to experience the fun of making a train.