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A crudely built steam locomotive puffed out black smoke and passed through the dense forests of the northeast.
Most of the clattering train carriages are made of thick logs.
The forestry resources in Northeast China are too rich.
Moreover, the shipbuilding industry in the mainland is expanding rapidly, and the forestry industry in the Northeast has also developed greatly. These trees that have grown in the old forests of the Northeast for hundreds of years have been cut down in large numbers and moved south along the railway. Their destination is the new shipbuilding of the Ming Empire. The industrial center is located in Dalian Prefecture, the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.
Accompanied by the whine of the whistle.
The train slowly entered the railway station in Nanfen County, Liaoyang Prefecture, Liaodong Province.
Although Nanfen County is only a county seat.
But it seemed extremely prosperous.
There are a large number of trains parked at the railway station, and dense chimneys can be vaguely seen around the county.
The black smoke filled the entire Nanfen County with a choking smell.
If this is left to future generations.
Some reporters will definitely take the opportunity.
Writing books and criticism is definitely indispensable.
But people nowadays have no concept of "environmental protection".
The industrial pollution that permeates the air symbolizes the development direction of advanced productivity in this era.
"This is Nanfen!"
Got off the train that had just arrived at the station.
It's Chen Zhongliang, Tian Shanyue, and Xu Hongxia with a big belly.
"What a big train station!" Xu Hongxia looked at this little-known county train station in surprise. The scale of this train station was even larger than the Beidu Railway Station they saw when they went north!
Moreover, such a big train station.
There were not many people.
There are no bustling businessmen like those at the train stations in Beidu, Tianjin, Chengdu and Shanghai.
There are very few passengers at this railway station.
Most of them are coolies.
After the train entered the station, coolies waiting to load and unload goods began to queue up, and labor chants with a southern and northern accents rang out.
It seems.
The situation of Ming Dynasty's capitalist construction is not a small good, but a great one.
Chen Zhongliang, Xu Hongxia and Tian Shanyue took advantage of the train to stop at the station to replenish coal and boiler water.
We arrived at a restaurant next to the station and ordered a table of wine and meat.
Inside this store.
Most of them are red-robed officials who come and go.
Either those who went north to serve as officials, or those who received orders to go south.
It is not easy to be an official in the Ming Dynasty now.
Keep ordering.
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast Asia.
Even North America has to go.
A large number of foreign immigrants naturally require a large number of bureaucrats to travel to all directions.
And civil servants who have experienced a lot of fighting in a barbaric place like the Northeast are naturally more popular than civil servants who have never seen much blood in the mainland.
For example, go to California to be the governor.
It is impossible to transfer a prefect from somewhere like Jiangsu or Zhejiang.
You must be like Chen Zhongliang, a cadre who has experienced farming in Borneo and Northeast China, in order to suppress the gun-toting people who immigrated to California.
"California is thousands of miles south of the Golden State. It is said that there is a large amount of arable land that can accommodate tens of millions of people, but it is also closer to New Spain and may even border on it. Therefore, preparations for war are essential!"
Tian Shanyue said.
"Brother Chen is going to serve as governor of California, which shows how much the emperor trusts him!"
Chen Zhongliang smiled bitterly when he heard this: "When the emperor's heavy burden is lifted, I, as a minister, will have to go thousands of miles away. Once I go, I don't know when I can come back."
"Brother Chen is going to California. When he comes back, he will definitely be granted a title as a prince. This is also a great opportunity!"
"Let's not talk about this opportunity. Mr. Tianshan will travel thousands of miles to South America. What are your plans for this trip?"
"Japan is a small and narrow country. Thanks to the kindness of the emperor, we, the Japanese nation, have new opportunities in South America. That is a continent! That is where the future of Japan lies! When I go to South America, I, Tian Shanyue, will serve the Japanese nation. To open up a new living space, this time I will return to Japan first, recruit samurai, and then take a boat to the sea to reach New Yamato Castle."
"Just like the Ming Dynasty in North America?"
"Exactly!"
Chen Zhongliang nodded.
"Brother Chen, after seeing you for a thousand miles, we have to say goodbye eventually. I've arrived at the station too, let's say goodbye now!"
Tian Shanyue raised the wine glass with his left hand. A gust of wind blew, and the sleeve on his right arm fluttered with the wind.
His right hand has been amputated.
"I send you."
"Okay. I'll bother you then." Tian Shanyue did not delay.
His hands and feet are really not very convenient, except that his right arm was hit by a bullet and one of his hands was missing.
The calf bone was also shot once, causing some lameness.
He was going back to China this time, so naturally he couldn't bring a few high-priced Ming servants with him.
So I relied on my colleagues to take care of me along the way.
Chen Zhongliang picked up Tian Shanyue's luggage, told Xu Hongxia to wait in the station's tavern, and then helped carry the luggage out of the tavern.
"This time, many colleagues who once served in the Japanese Armed Forces Regiment have gathered together in Nanfen. When the time comes, everyone will take people to open up New Japan."
"Why are you gathering here? The environment here is not very good, it is dirty and messy, and the air is pungent."
Chen Zhongliang asked with a frown.
"Because Nanfen is a good place!"
Tian Shanyue said.
My eyes drifted past the trains coming from Fushun.
Coal transported from Fushun Railway Station will first be unloaded at Nanfen Railway Station, and then transported by horse-drawn carriage to the Nanfen Steel Plant run by Daming Iron and Steel Corporation in Nanfen, ten miles away.
This steel plant is currently the largest, most technologically advanced, and most productive steel plant in the world!
If this Nanfen Steel Plant were taken alone to calculate the steel output of a country.
In the world's steel production rankings, it ranks third in the world after the steel production in other regions of Ming Dynasty and the United Kingdom!
"The large-scale iron ore here in Nanfen is not only of very high quality, but it is also an open-pit mine that is very easy to mine. What's even more rare is that there is a large-scale coal mine just two hundred miles away in Fushun!"
"Coal and iron are the symbols of a powerful country in this era!"
Tian Shanyue said with emotion.
"Japan is short of iron and coal, so now people of insight in Japan realize that Japan's future can only be in New Japan!"
"Is it because coal and iron deposits were discovered in New Japan?"
"Exactly!" Tian Shanyue said.
There were also some words that he did not say in front of Chen Zhongliang.
Some knowledgeable people in Japan now believe that the Ming Dynasty is like the sun in East Asia.
Japan could only choose to integrate into it and become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, Japan's four islands are poor in resources and cannot support Japan's other ambitions.
Instead, it was in New Japan, thousands of miles away from the mainland of the Ming Empire.
That is Japan's future.
Many Japanese carrying Japanese swords came to Nanfen Railway Station in horse-drawn carriages.
The Japanese wore kimonos and looked very conspicuous.
But it's just conspicuous - this is the Northeast where everyone has a gun.
If they dare to pull out their knives and show off their power, they will be shot into a hornet's nest by the Northeastern men.
These Japanese were samurai who planned to go to New Japan.
They gathered in Nanfen and visited the "Foundation of Overlord" of the Ming Empire.
It's time to head to New Japan.
Fighting for the future of the Japanese nation. (End of chapter)
