What's more, what's more, what's more, what's more...
The sound of train wheels rolling over the rails stunned the three well-informed big shots from Europe.
"This...is this a steam engine?!"
Macartney exclaimed.
Steam engines first appeared in England.
Macartney has also seen it.
But many newspapers in London laughed at the new steam engine.
This type of steam engine first appeared and was used to pump water from mines.
The result is not easy to use and consumes a lot of coal.
Many newspapers ridiculed that "this is a machine used to extract underground water from coal mines, but unfortunately, it may consume more coal than it is dug out of the mine..."
Therefore, many people are not very optimistic about the prospects of steam engines.
Macartney also knew that mechanical engineer Watt was poached to the East by King Zhu Ming.
But who would have thought.
Just over a year.
The steam engine turned into a steel behemoth in front of us.
The steam locomotive puffing out white smoke dragged a long row of trains rolling past the steel rails.
Although the speed is not very fast.
It's almost like a horse trotting.
But the carriage being towed behind it showed people the power contained in this steel behemoth.
"From Huizhou Prefecture to Guangzhou Prefecture, then to Nanxiong Prefecture..."
Macartney squinted his eyes and estimated the distance.
"For such a long distance, the number of rails required is an astronomical number!"
Bourblon added.
The two looked at each other.
They saw shock in their eyes.
Steel is very expensive in this day and age.
After all, the current steel production is here.
Although there are also tramcars in Europe.
But this is more used as a place similar to a mine.
Moreover, wooden rails are usually wrapped with steel skin, and the cost is relatively not that high.
As it is now, if it is used directly as road transportation, not many countries can afford the cost.
not to mention.
After several people waited for the train to rumble past, they still stood on the edge of the track to check.
"It's an all-steel track!"
Bulbulon gasped.
Macartney touched the warm rails.
"Perhaps Zhu Daohua obtained a cheap steel-making technology..."
This is the most likely guess.
Because both of them are sure.
The Qing Dynasty in the north.
The price of steel is several times more expensive than in Europe.
Even if Zhu Daohua can reduce the cost of smelting steel in the East to the same as in Europe.
Then it is impossible for him to afford a rail road with all steel rails.
Therefore, the most likely point is that the technology of steel smelting has improved.
Combined with a steam engine that has nearly unlimited power.
This technological innovation that took place in Guangdong was enough to shock a group of Europeans.
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Not far away at the mouth of the Pearl River, a steamboat emitting white smoke rumbled upstream.
The three of them turned to look.
What I saw was a black iron ship.
"This is an all-steel steamship."
Chen Tingxuan, reception official of the Ministry of Rites, said.
"It is a test ship belonging to the navy. The initial plan was to have a wooden hull covered with iron armor. Later, King Ming requested an all-steel hull ship."
Chen Tingxuan clicked his tongue and said.
This matter was mentioned in [Ta Kung Pao].
Everyone in Guangdong knows this.
There are no leaks or anything like that.
What's more, this doesn't reveal any secrets.
The open-hearth steelmaking method and the steam engine were both the best solutions found after thousands of experiments and trial and error.
This is the so-called first-mover advantage in industry.
Others want to imitate?
Unless you get technical assistance from Daming.
otherwise.
Want to try it out myself.
Then like Zhu Daohua, he would have to spend a lot of money and resources to conduct experiments - and the resources would definitely be more expensive than that of Ming Dynasty.
Because although Zhu Daohua didn't know the technical details, he at least knew the right direction.
most of the time.
Just finding a direction will cost a lot of money.
"Trains, ironclads..."
Macartney pondered.
"It's a steam engine!"
Kant said.
"A revolution is taking place in Guangdong!"
"A technological revolution!"
Kant took a deep breath.
"This revolution will profoundly affect the entire world!"
.........
"Mr. Kant, long time no see."
Inside the Mingwang Palace in Guangzhou.
Zhu Daohua first met with his old friend Kant.
"How's your expedition to the East going?"
Kant looked at Zhu Daohua with emotion.
"Honestly, Chris, if I hadn't seen the changes in Guangdong, my image of the East would have been very bad..."
Kant shook his head and said.
"Especially the Qing Empire. It was a decadent, degenerate empire full of deceit and poverty. It was completely different from the civilized Eastern Empire I imagined."
Before coming to the East.
Western scholars like Kant’s image of the East is actually full of beautifying imagination.
in their imagination.
This Eastern civilized country that has lasted for thousands of years will be a better utopia than European society, with a political system that can effectively govern territories larger than Europe, a civilized international social system, wealthy people, and full of wealth. A moral society and so on.
However.
Although Kant did not travel throughout the Qing Dynasty.
But it was an inspection of Tianjin, Beijing, and the surrounding areas of the two cities.
This made Kant extremely disappointed.
The situation in Beijing is simply shocking.
In this city, the center of the Qing Empire, sewage flowed across the streets, and feces and household garbage accumulated on both sides of the roads and at the entrances of residents' residences.
Of course.
The situation in the Forbidden City and the aristocratic residential areas was much better.
But this at least shows that the urban governance of the Qing Empire was very problematic.
The situation in rural areas is also shocking.
The land was full of sallow-looking peasants, and except for officials and wealthy landowners, he had never seen a fat man.
The extreme poverty is staggering.
"You do have a responsibility to get your country out of this numbness and pain."
Kant said.
Responsibility?
Zhu Daohua thought for a while and said: "In fact...my country was not like this one or two hundred years ago. This extreme degradation in governance capabilities is more due to the increase in the difficulty of governance brought about by the population explosion. "
Say it sincerely.
The Qing Dynasty was an empire that basically continued the local governance system of the Ming Dynasty.
That's why historians call this period the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The Qing Dynasty had the Eight Banners, and the Ming Dynasty also had the clan.
Don't talk about the eldest brother, the second brother.
In addition to the ethnic policies and extremely high-pressure cultural shackles that make the Han people very unhappy.
on local governance capabilities.
You can hardly say that the Qing Dynasty was worse than the Ming Dynasty.
What really makes governance more difficult... is the explosion of population.
The influx of high-yielding crops from the Americas and the end of the Little Ice Age.
As a result, China's population has skyrocketed from about 100 million to 400 million in just over a hundred years!
This population expansion is quite terrifying.
This almost completely summarized the experience and lessons of previous dynasties. It seemed that the Qing court, which had been in the Qing Dynasty for thousands of years, had no more experience in managing such a large population.
Coupled with the "illegality" of the Qing government itself, he had no more interest in organizing and managing so many Han people.
This has led to the mental outlook of the entire country and the appearance of the city becoming so unbearable.
"Mr. Kant, this is the Riverside Scene during the Qingming Festival. It depicts the city during the Song Dynasty... You see, there has been such a vibrant era in Chinese history."
Zhu Daohua pointed to a corner of the picture of Along the River During the Qingming Festival hanging in his office.
"What changed everything was the barbaric invasion of civilization."
"In those days...savagery often possessed greater violence than civilization."
Zhu Daohua said.
"But things are different now, Chris. You are leading a revolution that will completely affect China, the world, and change the entire world."
"Maybe my subjects won't be grateful to me for it."
Zhu Daohua smiled bitterly.
Change is painful.
Compared with the tenant farmers who work as tenant farmers for the landlords.
Will workers in Foshan's textile factories, Lantau's smelters, machinery factories, and gun factories be happier?
This is really not necessarily the case.
With the use of steam engines.
In factories such as the textile industry.
Workers basically work more than twelve hours a day.
Working overtime with whale oil candles burning from morning to night, and even at night.
Tenants are usually busy during busy farming periods.
And no matter how busy I am, I can go home and sleep at night.
The work intensity is much less than that of workers in factories in Foshan and Lantau Island.
"Any change will make some people feel painful, but on the whole, what you have done is changing the destiny of China and the destiny of history."
Kant said with certainty.
"Without you, the colonial countries in Europe would sooner or later discover the weakness of the Qing Empire. In fact, they now know the fragility of the Qing Empire, so they will now choose to support the Qing Empire to fight against your Ming Empire. "
"Let them come!"
Zhu Daohua said nonchalantly.
"Mr. Kant, in this era there is only one criterion for measuring a country's strength, and that is the degree of industrialization!"
"At this point...even if I only have Guangdong and Lanfang provinces, I will soon surpass France and the UK."
"The only thing that worries me is that the rise of the Ming Empire will lead to the unity of Europeans."
"Mr. Kant, do you think Europeans will unite?"
Zhu Daohua asked.
In fact, King Zhu Ming has another worry.
It is the rise of the United States.
But now the United States is only a small country with only 800,000 square kilometers and has just become independent from the United Kingdom.
Even though Zhu Daohua said that this country will dominate the world for a hundred years in the future.
I'm afraid not many people believe it now.
and....
Zhu Daohua will probably not give the United States this opportunity again.
For Zhu Daohua.
There were two key points in the foreign policy of the Ming Empire.
One is Europe and the other is North America.
In Europe, to maintain the division of Europe, things like the European Union must not appear in advance because of the rise of the Ming Empire.
In North America...
To suppress the United States.
We must seize as much territory in North America as possible.
Zhu Daohua kept these calculations in his heart and did not say them out.
Kant looked at Zhu Daohua.
After a long time, he said: "If you want Europeans to unite, unless your Ming Empire sends hundreds of thousands of troops to invade Europe now..."
"Otherwise, I don't see the possibility."
Even Germany cannot be united.
Europe?
What a joke.
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the latest chapter content, but the Xingxing Reading APP has updated the latest chapter content.
He took a big breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously observed his surroundings, and then became even more confused.
A single dormitory?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
The body and appearance have changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:? ? ?
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
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