Zhu Gaoying deliberately chose a sunny and warm noon, and led all the civil and military officials to the important place of the Ministry of Industry.
Because the subsequent maintenance and upkeep of the train required personnel from the Ministry of Works, Zhu Gaoyang had someone set up a station for the train inside the Ministry of Works.
Moreover, the design of this house is also very peculiar. The bottom is more than two feet high, which is about six or seven meters high.
Two train tracks run side by side, entering from one door and exiting from the other.
Parked in the middle is a huge black locomotive, and behind the locomotive, there are five train buckets hanging.
In addition to the coal and worker boxes at the front, there are two passenger boxes and two cargo boxes at the back.
Although including the locomotive, there are only six sections, which in modern times is even slightly larger than two semi-trailer heavy trucks, but in this era, it is already a behemoth that they have never seen on land!
"Your Majesty, what is this? Why is it so huge?"
"Is this the steam engine and train that Your Majesty has been secretly researching by the Ministry of Industry? Sure enough, seeing it is better than hearing it a hundred times!"
"I have long heard that the locomotives manufactured by the Ministry of Industry are extremely magical. Now, for a heavenly being, it is indeed better to see it than to hear it a hundred times!"
Seeing this huge creation, most officials were full of praise and praised the advanced technology of the Ministry of Industry and Ming Dynasty.
Seeing this train, Zhu Gaotian nodded with great satisfaction. He originally thought that he would only see one locomotive today, but unexpectedly, five carriages had already been built and even hung on it.
Zhang Qixin and Mr. Feng were extremely happy when they saw His Majesty's satisfied smile.
This is His Majesty’s highest recognition of their work!
It seems that their hard work during this time was not in vain, it was all worth it!
"Okay, okay, okay, with dead things, I will be like a god after the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is economy, agriculture, military, manufacturing, or other aspects, we will definitely usher in a qualitative leap!"
Such high-level praise has never been given by any emperor before!
And today's His Majesty is a rare wise king, and even a strange person. Even he gave such an evaluation, which is enough to show how important this steam engine and locomotive are to the Ming Dynasty.
It seems that the status of the Ministry of Industry will definitely rise. If nothing unexpected happens, in the next general election of cabinet members, many people from the Ministry of Industry will surely take office.
This made the people in the other departments extremely anxious, but they had no choice but to make them unhappy.
Look at the bright lights in the engineering department every day, and you wish you could use one day as three days. But in other departments, you go to work and get off work on time every day. There are too many things to do and you don’t want to do your own thing at all. You just can put it off again and again.
Put it off again.
"Zhang Qixin!"
"Wei Chen is here!"
Zhang Qixin ran to Zhu Gaoyang and knelt down on one knee.
"I will establish the Ministry of Industry today, and you, Zhang Qixin, will be the Minister of Industry. You will be the third-rank official. From today on, you will be in charge of the national industry, foundry, and production matters and integrate the entire Ministry of Industry!"
The Ministry of Industry directly replaced the Ministry of Industry?
Zhang Qixin went from being a boy with a crew cut to directly becoming the Minister of Industry. This is like a carp crossing the dragon's gate!
Zhang Qixin also suspected that he had heard him wrong, but how could he suddenly become a third-rank official because he was a guilty person?
"What's wrong, Mr. Zhang, what are you dissatisfied with?"
"How dare you, how dare you, common people... Oh, no, I thank you for your kindness, my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"
This is a great blessing.
It's just that Mr. Feng on the side looked a little ugly. He was the former Minister of the Ministry of Works and was in charge of the Ministry of Works. Why did the owner suddenly change now?
That's right, Your Majesty is the one who promised me to become the president of the bank, but he is in charge of the financial power of the world. Even if your Minister of Industry wants to raise funds to research or manufacture things, he still needs my consent!
Thinking of this, Mr. Feng felt much more balanced.
"Okay, don't kneel on the ground, and quickly introduce this train to me and the other ministers. They are all looking at it curiously, what is this big guy!"
"Wei Chen accepts the order!"
Zhang Qixin stood up, patted the dust on his knees, then walked to the huge locomotive, held his head high and introduced it to the people present with great pride.
"This train is the result of His Majesty's great design, the efforts of our Ministry of Industry, and the outstanding contributions of ordinary people all over the world, to create this extraordinary steel train!"
"The total weight has even exceeded 100,000 kilograms. It is entirely made of forged fine steel. Its texture is extremely hard. Even ordinary artillery can't even think of hurting him at all!"
One hundred thousand kilograms of steel. Hearing the huge cost of this quantity, everyone present took a breath of air-conditioning. What is the concept? One hundred thousand kilograms!
You know, a thin woman weighs only a hundred pounds, which is equivalent to the weight of a thousand people!
"With the increase in the number of cars behind, the total weight will even exceed one million kilograms, several million kilograms, and one day in the future, it may even reach tens of millions of kilograms!"
Ten million pounds?
This is probably the first time that the officials present have heard the weight of this level. Even one hundred thousand gold has only been heard in legendary myths and has never been seen in reality. As for tens of millions of kilograms, even in myths and legends
There is no record in it, but now they can create it?
"And the steam engine inside it can drive this huge body by burning coal. Its speed on this rail can even be twice that of a horse!"
So fast?
Although it sounds like twice the speed of a horse is not fast, but think about this huge body, if anyone dares to block it, won't they be directly crushed to death?
Who doesn't have a good eye and dares to block in front of this behemoth?
If we transport supplies and troops on this, we will definitely move forward unstoppably!
"I can't believe this is something that can be built in a month?"
They had always heard that the Ministry of Works was favored by His Majesty and valued him very much, but now that they saw this train, they realized that all the previous extremes and envy for the Ministry of Works no longer existed, and were replaced by sincere
of admiration and exclamation!
With this train here, why should they worry?
"We can even carry artillery, bows and arrows, and even spurs on it. As long as the place where the train passes is the battlefield, it is an invincible area!"
It’s so shocking, so powerful!
Previously, I thought that the strength of the Ming Dynasty could only be derived from the comparison of multiple data, but today just seeing this train was enough to make all the ministers present say that their Ming Dynasty was already invincible in the world!