Li Chengxun quickly walked into Wang Yuan's office: "Zhang, eight thousand self-eunuchs gathered outside Dong'an Gate!"
"What does it have to do with our Rites Department?" Wang Yuan was too lazy to pay attention, "If the eunuchs don't be accepted, the Five Cities Army will expel them."
Li Chengxun said: "The palace will definitely not be able to accept them. They just accepted 3,000 eunuchs last year. Even if the military commanders of the five cities can expel them, I am afraid they will be separated and reunited. It will eventually be resolved. It can't be done. Kill them all, right?"
Wang Yuan asked: "Where is the cabinet?"
Li Chengxun said: "The cabinet asked the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to expel them."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Shilang Li, if you really do something for me, just tell me how you plan to deal with it."
Li Chengxun said: "In order not to disturb the people when building the railway, the Railway Department of the Ministry of Industry did not ask Shuntian Prefecture to collect corvee labor. It wanted to recruit disaster victims and refugees to work. Why not, let these eight thousand eunuchs be the laborers building the railway."
"Has the railway been built?" Wang Yuan asked.
Li Chengxun said: "Three railways are temporarily planned to be built. Due to manpower and material resources, it is impossible to build them at the same time. After building the first railway, let them continue to build the second railway. I am afraid that the commander will not be satisfied with these few railways. There will always be more in the future.
This is eunuch’s work.”
"Haha, whoever knows me is a minister," Wang Yuan laughed, "You can handle this matter."
Li Chengxun, courtesy name Liqing, was a Jinshi in the sixth year of Hongzhi.
At first, Wang Yuan wanted Wang Yangming to come to Beijing to be the Minister of Household Affairs. Wang Yangming wrote a letter saying that his lung disease had relapsed, so he recommended Li Chengxun, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishment in Nanjing.
Wang Zan, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Chengxun went to Beijing to become the left minister of the Ministry of Rites.
He was also a civil servant who could fight. When Lin Jun was suppressing bandits in Jiangxi, he rebelled not long after he left office. The rebels captured Zhao Shixian alive, who was participating in politics in Jiangxi, and killed Zhou Xian, the deputy inspector general.
As a result, all the officers and soldiers were afraid of the enemy. Li Chengxun, who was the prefect of Nanchang at the time, recruited local warriors to fight the rebels. Zhou Xian was defeated and died, and the army was routed. Li Chengxun rode to the battlefield alone and quickly gathered the defeated troops.
General Wang Qi pretended to surrender, but Li Chengxun treated him with sincerity. Wang Qi was convinced and sneaked into the rebel camp to respond. The officers and soldiers made a surprise attack at night and won a great victory.
This rebellion was actually secretly planned by King Ning, but was put down by Li Chengxun, the prefect of Nanchang. King Ning was furious and colluded with Li An, the eunuch guarding Jiangxi Province, to change the confession of the rebel leader and imprison Li Chengxun. Fortunately, Yan Zhong was in charge at the time.
Dali Temple? It was only then that Li Chengxun was saved - Yan Zhong was the Bole of Jin Lei and Chang Lun, and he promoted the two of them? Unfortunately, he died of illness due to overwork.
Wang Yangming was the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel in Nanjing, and Li Chengxun was the Left Minister of the Ministry of Justice in Nanjing. The two had a very good personal relationship, and Li Chengxun even became a disciple of Xinxue.
But he said that Li Chengxun left the Ministry of Rites and rode straight to Dong'an Gate? There was already a traffic jam there.
More than 8,000 self-eunuchs? They came from Hebei, Henan, and Shandong. They were all miserable people who couldn't survive the disaster. They chose to commit suicide in the palace to survive the bacterial infection. Those who survived went to the capital, hoping to be recruited into the palace.
Become a eunuch here.
What a pity that last spring? The palace recruited 3,000 self-eunuchs. How could there be any jobs for them?
Last winter, more than 10,000 eunuchs gathered in the capital. They didn't know each other. They could only make a living by begging in twos and threes. After they died of illness and starvation, only these 8,000 people were left. Seeing that the days were not going well, Yang Chun, the leader of the eunuchs, suddenly appeared.
They actually gathered more than 8,000 people to kowtow outside Dong'an Gate.
The street outside Dong'an Gate has been blocked by eunuchs, and there are countless people watching the excitement.
When the soldiers from the Wucheng Army and Horse Division arrived, they only dared to stand guard with swords and guns, for fear that using force would lead to chaos.
Li Chengxun rushed over on horseback and shouted: "The idlers retreat!"
Seeing a high-ranking official coming, the onlookers ducked away, then gathered again to continue watching the fun.
Li Chengxun was too lazy to dismount and asked: "Who is in charge here?"
A military attache knelt down on one knee: "Han Yao, commander of the Central City Army and Horse Department, has seen..."
Li Chengxun said: "I am Li Chengxun, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites."
Han Yao quickly said: "I have met Li Shilang!"
Li Chengxun said: "It's none of your business. Let's go back and take the troops to guard."
Han Yao hesitated and said, "Shilang Li, there are so many eunuchs here, I'm afraid they might cause trouble."
Li Chengxun was too lazy to argue with this person and asked the eunuchs: "Who is the leader?"
A burly man came out: "Yang Chun meets Li Shilang!"
Li Chengxun said: "Take these people and follow me out of the city, and I will give you a bite to eat."
Yang Chun can gather more than 8,000 eunuchs to knock on the que, so naturally he is not easy to fool: "May I ask what Li Shilang has planned?"
Li Chengxun said: "From now on, you will be employees of the Railway Department of the Ministry of Industry. You will have food rations when you are free, and monthly food and wages when you are busy."
Yang Chun hesitated and said: "The common people have little education, please don't lie to me, Mr. Li."
Li Chengxun was so angry: "I am the left minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies, what are you doing to deceive you? This palace only recruited three thousand eunuchs last year, how can you survive, I can't bear you to starve to death, so I stand up. Whether you believe it or not, you decide for yourself
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Yang Chun immediately knelt down and said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Li Shilang, for your kindness!"
Yang Chun gave an order, and more than 8,000 eunuchs stood up in unison. Among them, more than ten people were responsible for organization and coordination, and they left together in an orderly manner.
Li Chengxun lamented: "It's a pity that you castrated yourself, otherwise you would have had some fighting skills."
Yang Chun smiled bitterly, he was originally a fugitive from the military, and he learned all these skills from the military.
In history, this happened. Emperor Jiajing felt that he was losing face, so he exiled Yang Chun and more than a dozen leaders. The remaining eunuchs were forcibly expelled from the capital, and those who dared to stay were directly arrested and convicted.
More than 8,000 shabby concubines followed Li Chengxun and marched toward the eastern suburbs.
More than a thousand refugees have been recruited there, and Jiang Xin is organizing the construction of a warehouse. In the future, materials from the Railway Department will be stored here.
Nie Bao is responsible for the relocation and resettlement of the railway land, and is currently dealing with various magistrates and counties. This matter involves many gentry and powerful people, and some people must be unwilling to do so. Nie Bao has his own means to make them surrender. After all, he is the founder of the Xinxue Guiji Sect.
One of the masters of the sect, Nie Bao could repair tens of thousands of canals as a county magistrate, and as a patrol censor, he directly overthrew the Fujian garrison eunuchs and the third division. How could he still be afraid of the rich and powerful in the suburbs of Beijing?
Xu Jie is responsible for logistics affairs, including the purchase of various materials such as stone and wood.
Wang Jiao is in charge of all paperwork and is also responsible for checking the accounts.
Wang Chong went to Zunhua, Jizhou, which later came under the jurisdiction of Tangshan. At this time, it was the largest iron smelting base in the north (Zunhua Iron Works). The main production method was to fry wrought iron with coal. Wang Yuan had already sent him to Zunhua for smelting.
Zunhua Iron Works was too lazy to reform the method of steel and continued to smelt iron according to the old method. It only built a few new furnaces to make steel. The steel produced was used to cast cannons, which made Zhu Houzhao very angry.
Zunhua Iron Works is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and has a dedicated department of the Ministry of Industry.
Wang Yuan sent several people to rectify it, but with little success, because everything was rotten from top to bottom, and the huge profits of the iron factory involved too many powerful people.
Now that the railway needs to be built, it is impossible to transport steel from Zhejiang. Wang Yuan decided to completely finish the Zunhua Iron Works. This time, Wang Chong took the Baofang soldiers there. Anyone who dared to mess around would be killed on the spot and just mess around.
Clean out all the moths!
Wang Yuan said he would only build three railways, but he has changed his plan to build four.
First, build a railway from Beijing to Zunhua. The rails manufactured by Zunhua Iron Works will be laid all the way to Beijing. From now on, the steel from Zunhua Iron Works can be continuously transported to the capital along the railway.
Moreover, from the capital to Daning Dusi, you have to pass through this road. From the capital to Liaodong, the official road also passes through Jizhou. Once this railway is completed, it will strengthen the connection between the capital and Daning and Liaodong, and have
It has a huge political and military role. When building a railway, there is no need to choose a terrain route, just build it along the official road. The whole journey is relatively flat, and the whole journey is only more than 300 miles.
Among the few officials in charge, Zhang Cong and Ling Xia remained.
Zhang Cong is responsible for taking charge of the overall situation and coordinating other yamen. He will be responsible for anything that happens. If he can't bear it anymore, he will go to Wang Yuan.
Ling Xia led a group of physics disciples to train railway workers, teach them how to build railways, and supervise and guide the entire process.
Arriving at the construction site in the eastern suburbs, Li Chengxun found Jiang Xin.
Jiang Xin was very surprised and asked: "Li Shilang, who are these people?"
"They are all self-eunuchs..." Li Chengxun explained the matter roughly.
Jiang Xin immediately said happily: "Great, I am short of manpower here. Mr. Wang Yuan is considerate of the people and is not willing to recruit civilian laborers for the construction of the railway. It is spring plowing now and he cannot recruit too many refugees. You eight thousand
There are so many people, so it’s a timely help.”
Li Chengxun clasped his fists and said, "They are all poor people. I hope Chief Chiang will treat them well."
"That's natural," Jiang Xin said with a smile, "I am also a disciple of Xinxue, and I know what conscience is."
Li Chengxun has become a disciple of Wang Yangming, and Jiang Xin has switched from Wang Yangming to Wang Yuan. The two of them are still brothers.
Li Chengxun glanced at the construction site and said in surprise: "The warehouses of the Railway Department are all built with Sanhe soil?"
Jiang Xin explained with a smile: "Instead of making Sanhe soil, they are mixing cement and building warehouses with cement and bricks."
At the beginning of his time travel, Wang Yuan was tinkering with cement by himself, but the furnace temperature was never enough, so he could only produce three-component clay. However, he was inspired to use combustion accelerants and fluxes when making steel, so Wang Yuan asked Lu Youzhen to continue research and development with his disciples.
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Lu Youzhen, the real name of the Taoist Zhizhen, invented the method of making gunpowder from urine, which greatly increased the output of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty. He worked on it for several years, constantly trying the method of firing cement, and after countless improvements,
Cement can be used by civilians, but it cannot be used to build dams. Because it is not strong enough, there is a fear that cement dams will collapse. On the contrary, Sanhe soil is very suitable for building dams.
The construction of the railway treasury room of the Ministry of Industry was the first civilian practice of cement.
As for the lime factory, it is on the side of Qianling Mountain, not far from the coal mining place. It can barely be considered as digging Zhu Houzhao's ancestral grave. But according to officials from Qintianjian, Qianling Mountain is not next to the Daming Dragon Vein, so there has always been official lime
The kilns existed and were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. Wang Yuan directly converted several lime kilns into cement plants with a stroke of his pen.
It is so easy to have a confidant in charge of the Ministry of Works. The official ironworks and lime kilns are all subordinate agencies of the Ministry of Works!
Li Chengxun walked around the construction site, observing how to use cement and bricks to build a house, and he didn't leave until it was almost evening.
As for the more than 8,000 eunuchs, all of whom have become long-term employees of the Railways, they were satisfied after eating their first meal. Because the sweet potato porridge of the Railways is very thick, and there is a lot of oily food floating on the surface of the vegetable soup, which is not good for them.