The significance brought by steam locomotives is definitely very, very great.
Daqian has truly entered the period of the first industrial revolution, far surpassing that of the entire world.
how to say.
This is like writing a letter at first, writing a letter for months, and then asking the postman to deliver it to your relatives far away.
Then suddenly, the government announced that a wired telephone had been developed.
Writing a letter is just a matter of words.
But the phone allows you to hear the other person's voice, instantly bringing intimacy and lovesickness closer.
But while you were still using your phone, the government announced that a smart phone had been built.
In the past, listening to audio was already behind the times, but now video can be used directly. You can see what the other person is doing thousands of miles away.
And the first people to feel this kind of reform are the rich.
It is estimated that it will take more than ten years, or even longer, before it falls on the hands of the common people. It is also possible that the money used has been used by rich people, and no one knows how many times it has been used.
There's nothing we can do about it.
When a steam locomotive is cast, the cost of money, manpower, material resources, etc. is already a very large number.
This steam locomotive wants to be put into practice and sold directly to build the first rolling stock factory in Daqian.
It is estimated that it will have to wait until the cement road is completely laid, and it will also have to wait until the steam engine continues to be developed and changed in size. The key is to improve the production line, saving more manpower, material resources, and financial resources. Not to mention mass production, 20 can be produced in a year. A car can be regarded as a commodity.
Otherwise, the court would be doing a loss-making business.
At the same time, another thing is a bit difficult to describe. Han Yu, the new minister, is still very reliable in his work. Xiao Yi is very satisfied. He is really suitable for dealing with those monks, and he has learned how to use ultimatums and blackmail without any teacher. people.
It can be regarded as easing the conflicts and grievances of the local people. He also wrote a memorial and put forward suggestions and strategies for supervision, which made the ministers praise him.
After all, he is a minister who is loyal to the king, patriotic and considerate of the people, so he is easy to use.
But just as Daqian had completed the autumn tax, the national treasury was finally full, and Daqian merchants also began to return to their voyages at the end of the year, bringing a lot of silver, which could be used to mint silver coins.
Things look great.
But still on December 20th, bad news came.
Isn't Dagan laying cement roads?
The first one to open is the main road in the southeast, so that after the southeast maritime merchants return at the end of the year, they can transport goods, money, etc. to the inland more quickly.
The second is the main road from the Daqian capital to the Anbei Protectorate, the third is the main road from the capital to the Andong Protectorate, the fourth is the main road from the capital to the Anxi Protectorate, and the fifth day is now The last one is the official road from Qiongzhou to Hanzhong.
There are a total of five main roads and cement roads, which are required to be wide official roads that can allow six carriages to travel at the same time.
It is of great significance and is also a project that benefits the country and the people.
However, on this day, bad news came.
Five cement roads.
Three were damaged.
The damage is quite serious.
The concrete road to the Anxi Protectorate, thirty miles away from Jincheng County, was intermittently damaged for several miles.
It was laid not long ago and is almost drying.
But I don’t know who dug and chipped it, and the smooth cement road turned into potholes.
The impact of this incident is naturally great.
All people in the world know that this cement road facilitates their travel and is a benefit to the country and the people.
Daqian's residence newspaper has long said that if you want to be rich, you must first build roads.
Among the people of Daqian today, who doesn’t want to be rich, who doesn’t want to live a better life, and who doesn’t want to be able to ride on a steam locomotive and travel hundreds of miles a day.
I don’t know who this person who suffered a thousand cuts actually destroyed the cement road.
After this happened.
The local people couldn't sleep.
During the day and night, we take turns to be on duty, one person every few miles, one person every few miles, guarding the cement road.
Worried about damage.
Xiao Yi was even furious in Xi Zheng Palace.
Directly ask the six ministers and others to immediately compile the Daqian Law, and add a crime of damaging public facilities, etc., and write down the destruction of Daqian cement roads, Daqian canals, reservoirs, etc.
Because Daqian insists on having laws to follow and governing the country according to the law, if these thieves who destroyed the cement road are caught, they will definitely be convicted.
How to convict someone?
Therefore, while investigating these thieves, we must also revise the Daqian Law and add a few more.
Jinyiwei was dispatched, Dongchang was dispatched, and spies from all over the place began to investigate.
If you want people not to know.
Unless you do nothing.
To be able to destroy three concrete roads in Daqian within a few days must have been organized and premeditated, and there must have been a lot of people involved.
With more people, secrets are not kept so tightly.
this matter.
By the thirteenth day of the first month of the twenty-eighth year of Zhenyuan, a clue had been found.
The person who does it.
It was not done by people from the Central Plains, but by the Dangxiang people, Mengyuan people and Beiyan people. It can be said that one family is responsible for one road.
Directly within the stipulated time, the cement road of Daqian was destroyed in one night.
At this time, all the officials in the capital, as well as the people in the government and the public, and the people of Daqian, were all dissatisfied with the foreigners, and almost turned Han and Tibetan against each other.
Now Xiao Yi became angry and cursed in front of a large number of people: "What the hell, it's not easy for the three Protectorate's Houses to settle down!"
"Gu is already very kind, adopting lenient policies towards these places, thinking of civilizing them, and thinking of releasing the prisoners of war, but some people are still thinking about the hard days before, insisting on making trouble, must Make a fuss!"
This is really angry.
After all, this has been stable for more than a year.
Many people have actually downplayed the hatred between Han and barbarians, and they all want to live a peaceful life, and even want to live a prosperous life.
But someone happened to provoke a conflict at this time.
The bachelors of the Hongwen Hall and the Imperial College, the students of the Prefecture College, and some common people in the capital all began to make trouble. They did not even buy cattle and sheep from the North and directly boycotted their goods.
Some northerners who have migrated to the interior are now being treated coldly.
For this reason, Xiao Yi could only write a newspaper for his residence.
Thirty-six ethnic groups, thirty-six flowers, and twenty million people are one family.
Only through the integration of nationalities can we have a better future. Our enemies are not the Central Plains people or the Yi people in the North.
We should not be enemies, but become a family.
Only by becoming a family can the lives of all of us get better and better, and our descendants can study together, become colleagues together, and explore overseas places together.
In short, today's public opinion is about promoting how to unite and how to achieve great harmony in the world.
As for tracking down the thieves who destroyed the cement road, we can't give up for a moment.
Until the second day of February.
Most of the thieves were caught and brought to justice.
The court directly conducted a simple interrogation and executed him.
Extremely fast.
Also to be able to quickly settle this matter.
In order to avoid the conflict between Han and Fan again, Xiao Yi also issued an order to release some prisoners of war who had performed well and let them go home.
As this happened.
The twenty-seventh year of Zhenyuan passed like this.
Zhenyuan has been here for twenty-eight years.
Xiao Yi also welcomed his little princess, his first daughter.
Cai Wenji and Yang Yuyao also became pregnant one after another.
Yue Hongling also withdrew from the border army. A few months later, at the beginning of spring, her pulse was checked by the imperial doctor and she was also pregnant.
Xiao Yi's harem also had another group of beautiful girls come in. Because Cai Wenji and Yang Yuyao were pregnant, they could not sleep with them. Yang Yuhuan had just given birth to the princess not long ago, so she could not sleep with them either. His Royal Highness couldn't be allowed to sleep alone on the big bed.
The birth rate has actually increased by almost eight times this year, and there are very few cases of infanticide in the southeast.
The population increased again, and in order to increase grain production in Daqian, Xiao Yi ordered the people of the North to migrate to Vietnam, and the herders on the grasslands of the North, who had money and the means, could migrate to the interior.
Vietnam is also a fertile land and cannot be wasted like this.
There... we can also build a large granary in Dagan, a place rich in rice.
There is no way to slowly integrate through immigration. Otherwise, if the Dangxiang people are still in Anxi and the Mengyuan people are still in Anbei, they will not forget some things.
